I realise that it’s the Grauniad and they have their own axe to grind. They clearly picked and chose the interviewees to generate as much outrage as possible and I guess my post is proof that this sort of thing works.
The thing is though, even if they interviewed a thousand people and only quoted the ten or twelve fuckwits in this article, the scary thing is that not only do these fuckwits exist, they will continue to lap up horseshit for as long as it is fed to them.
To the extent that Trump understands the willful self-delusion of his core voters, he’s a masterful politician. In every other aspect, he’s literally the worst thing since Mussolini. How am I supposed to engage with people who think “Mussolini made the trains run on time and it’s just left-wing bias that says he was a colossal piece of shit”? Fuck those guys, seriously.
No one has time for the Randian psychopathic bullshit. I’m not even convinced they themselves believe it. It’s like the mating cry of the bullshit warbler. They are trying to find out if you are one of them or one of us. If you agree then you say one thing, if you disagree you say what any sensible adult says. Or at least you give that blank look that says “I’m on the clock, so I can’t speak my mind, but you’re an asshole.”
“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president’s official duties,” the Starr office memo concludes.
"I get it, nobody wants to be told what they don’t want to hear,” Parker says. “People want there to be a more innocent explanation, about jobs or trade or something. But sorry, everyone — it just isn’t there. My plea to people is we ought to start focusing on what’s real.”
We’re gonna dig a great hole, believe me. The deepest hole. CNN doesn’t know anything about holes, but all the senators said they can’t believe how much I know about digging a hole. We’re going to dig a hole and Pellucidar is going to pay for it.
