The 2024 Republican Debacle: Go Police State!

The Hateful Eight.

Live from Fisery forum.  

The damn thing is really starting with a country song. I don’t hate what the song says, what’s funny about it is that politicians, the very rich men the song is hating on, are pimping it. That Fox News is pimping it. These myopic twats gloss over the fact that the singer of said song isn’t just talking about the Biden Administration, he’s generalizing politicians. That means them. I hope the politicians are glossing the blanket insult over for propaganda purposes only because if they believe that song is speaking for republican interests, they’re stupider than I think they are. But maybe it's neither of those. Maybe they’re pimping it because they want that guy on their side so he can sing a song about what awesome messiahs the Republicans are in the face of our current 'Satanic' democrats. If the Elephants open those pocketbooks, it's over with…that's why I laugh when folk singers dis the rich. Especially when they themselves get rich and famous off the disrespect. It's very Carnegie. Can't fool 'em? If they have talent, recruit 'em!"

It's sound advice.

 Here are a couple of links to the debate if you want to watch it for yourself. I watched two versions of it, one from David Pakman and this one from Nikki Haley. Kudos to her that I didn’t have to watch Pakman’s again to bring you this. I'm not sure how I feel about that guy. He had his moments of being okay, I guess.

Vivek: He Knows When to Nixon.

  

Vivek Ramaswamy (Big Pharm, Ohio) leads with his business acumen. Billion-dollar businesses (Roivant Sciences, 2014), he’s founded. Oh. And he intends to cut taxes for the rich even more which means yours are going to go up. I don’t understand why it goes over people’s heads that when these assholes say they’re going to cut taxes, they don’t mean for you. I can’t say it enough. People need to understand that pols are talking about loopholes for businesses when they spit promised tax cuts. They give not a single damn about the bite that’s taken out of your paycheck. 

This son of a bitch is fucked up on speed. Adderal or Vyvanse, maybe the blue speckle meth pills they sell legally in Mexico. He doesn’t talk, he raps. He flails, he interrupts. He’s aggressive. “This isn’t that complicated guys.” Nice and chummy like a fatback should be. “Unlock American energy. Frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear.” Audience cheering, smell of spittle. “Put people back to work by no longer paying them more to stay at home.” So, essentially, kill the poor. “Destabilize the Fed, stabilize the US Dollar. And go to WAR.”  But he’s talking about the border war with Mexico, He doesn't say it like that but that’s what it’ll wind up being. Now, to be fair even the neocons who love the idea of WW3 want to see that same war. But he's not tying himself to them. 

He says his opponents are all bought and paid for old folks who had a big hand in fucking up the country, so it’s time for a new generation to step in and regulate. The audience didn’t like that, but they cheered when he called for a new American "Revolution". He wants nothing to do with funding Ukraine in their war against Russia. Big ups again from the burgher crowd but not from his constituents. He goes on to claim that he’s the only non-neocon on the stage. Misleading: he hasn’t been around long enough to join their club. That’s okay. He figures he’ll just bring war home. Best thing of all: he wants a legal system like the Israelis have. You know, checkpoints. Show your work papers. Businessmen love that most. That way, it’s illegal for you not to work and they can require you to work endlessly for shit pay under pain of not having work papers. It's like that in some countries, see. Guess what happens when you don't produce them? You get detained. Car towed. No call. No lawyer. Just fucked. Imagine how loyal employes would be under such a system? At any rate, I feel like he summarized himself close to the end with a bang. Oh! He wants to shut down the Department of Education, the “head of the snake” in his words. And then give the money that generates to the parents, eighty million dollars. Excuse me while I laugh to death. What is that, maybe a few hundred bucks a mom?

There’s little as amusing as a politician when he pretends to be generous. Especially when he's a shill for Big Pharm.

The woman in the group doesn’t make that pretense at all. Nikki Haley sounds off with a desire to do away with food stamps. She did almost score points with me when she said the problem was the current republicans. But not for their tax cuts to the rich or tyrannical war policies, oh no. It’s their leniency on welfare. Too much spending. That’s ludicrous. Food Stamps don’t pay for shit. They pay for about one week of food every month and then everything else is spent money. And! The prices of food go up thanks to the greedheads that run the food companies, not the shmucks on food stamps. Why is this so difficult for people to understand? They're low-key jealous of people they think are lazy, and of course they can't get food stamps, so you know, fuck anyone who can. Okay, get rid of food stamps. Do it. As much as I know many of you would throw a second birthday party for yourselves if that happened, it’s not going to work if it comes down the pike. You think you’ve seen rioting? You haven’t. Trust me. This isn’t me promoting riotous behavior, I don’t. Rioting is the most logical outcome to taking food stamps away from the millions of people in poverty who need them. The ensuing riot’s severity would require a military response.

Dripping Karen Energy. Is that a thing?

But judging by the rhetoric in the debate, that’s what everyone seems to want, a larger military presence at home. Haley flashes her neocon badge when it comes time to talk about the Ukraine. More garbage about knowing good vs. evil. Just thinking about this argument gives me a headache. Truth is, the neocons have their wish for WW3 unless RFK JR gets into office, and even in such a case they still may. I don’t think there’s a way away from WW3. Putin has, after all, said he was going to go into the Baltic States once he’s done with the Ukraine, and of course that’s just terrifying. He sounds a bit like Hitler with that. But we saw this argument against Russia (and Marxism) from the Nazis before WW2 and supported them...you know, until England fell under fire. That’s when they became assholes, not before. Still, I agree with RFK JR, we should take into consideration why and not leave Putin be, not give him leniency, but depose the fucker and then consider maybe no longer bitch slapping other world leaders by shoving our military and business interests up the asses of them and their neighbors. Vivek, who acts like he feels the same way, accuses her of vying for a place on the Board of Lockheed. Sadly, he has a leg to stand on with that shot. Haley rebuts by saying he has no foreign policy experience, which is true.

Ron Dion DeSantis (Fascist, FL) is on his usual trip, our country is in decline, Biden in the basement. He has a real hard-on for this basement shit. Like Vivek, he seeks to instill a military police state on the pretense of a border crisis. I believe we’re going to see that soon. My only hope is that our fascism remains polite (it's the best we'll ever get), but it won’t. Get ready for the abolition of the 3^rd Amendment, especially if you’re brown and live near the border. I expect a military presence at the border to leak into to middle class suburbia a la Cheney’s Wiretapping sooner rather than later. And then these two will have their justice system that mirrors those in autocratic countries.

Even seen a two-headed serpent?

When speaking on the lockdowns Dion shows his desire to turn Anthony Fauci over his knee and introduce the errant doctor to Gramma’s Switch. “Sit him down in a chair and say ‘Anthony Fauci, YOU ARE FIRED.’” There is something incredibly not ferocious about his pantomime; it's a sternness you'd expect he'd show one of his children for leaving toys all over the living room carpet.

When it’s time to talk abortion, he spins the tale of Penny, a friend of his who [sic,ffs] “…survived multiple abortion attempts. She (Penny) was left discarded in a pan, fortunately her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital.” How vile, the reptilian liberals who would throw a newborn baby in a trash can! Cunt. That’s the biggest pile of fearmongering horseshit I think I’ve ever heard. Dion’s tragic tale sounds like something that might happen in the deepest ghetto of Houston and he’s painting it like it went on at a city hospital. That’s not feasible. There are a hundred plus cameras in every hospital and an act like that would have been seen and fucked someone up for life. If I was a security guard and I saw that playing out, fuck my job, I’d report the shit out of it. Another thing—he says nothing about busting those responsible for the criminal act. Nice. What’s that portend, Dion? One of two things: that you look the other way when pernicious doctors throw helpless babies in the trash OR like you’re talking about something that happened to a woman your age, thus it happened way before the democrats had today's power and thus has no place in your rhetoric. Was it during Clinton, or Obama? If so, why didn’t you say that? Maybe it happened under W. In any case, it's irrelevant unless it happened recently. Unless, of course, you're trying to make yourself look like a tyrannical asshole who would strip away Women's Rights to please the cock-wielding reptiles of the red party.

DeSantis called the debate "A disaster." Sobs. "No one cheered for me and 
some jerk kept calling me Dion." He was later spotted at McDonald's
doing his best Hamburgler impersonation.

Later, he gets around to telling us that he intends to declare a state of national emergency at the border. We all know how that’s going to end. It’s not going to end with the cartels seeing our military and running with their little tails between their legs. That’s what he seems to think will happen. That shows me that Dion doesn’t know anything about cartels that he hasn’t seen in the media. They don’t run from shit. Get ready for that war, Texas.

TOMORROW: PART 2! It's already written, but I've kept you guys long enough. Thanks for reading, always. Or Now and Forever, if you're a fan of Cats.

Oh, and take heart! I'm going to rip the blues the same new asshole when it's their turn. I know a lot of you are reds! That's okay. Let's get along.