"Here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition. They put people in a terrible position. I don’t even like to think about it. Well, sometimes I like to think about it." R. Newman
You know you're at rock bottom when Ted Nugent considers you a "soulless fool".
"Here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition. They put people in a terrible position. I don’t even like to think about it. Well, sometimes I like to think about it." R. Newman
I love the way Nugent points a finger at the "supremely intellectually vacuous punk(s)" among us. And, wraps the flag and his big mouth around veterans, when he avoided the draft* during the Vietnam war.
Well, he has about 6 months to live up to his words. What a tough guy.
*A copy of Nugent's Selective Service record shows that he had at separate times both a 1-Y medical deferment and 2-S student deferment, "... if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd kill all the hippies in the foxholes ... I would have killed everybody," he told the Detroit Free Press in an interview published July 15, 1990.
I love the way Nugent points a finger at the "supremely intellectually vacuous punk(s)" among us. And, wraps the flag and his big mouth around veterans, when he avoided the draft* during the Vietnam war.
Well, he has about 6 months to live up to his words. What a tough guy.
*A copy of Nugent's Selective Service record shows that he had at separate times both a 1-Y medical deferment and 2-S student deferment, "... if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd kill all the hippies in the foxholes ... I would have killed everybody," he told the Detroit Free Press in an interview published July 15, 1990.
All part of what David Frum refers to as the Alternative Knowledge System.
And the thing is, no matter how hard reality comes up against it, the AKS is here to stay. It's how they roll. As I've posted elsewhere, the situation is like Sherman's in Georgia. It is not enough to just defeat these crazies; they have to be humiliated. Karl Rove will never shut up until he's tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. (I'm sorry about this, Wozzie. In the absence of the AKS, you might want to consider taking up new interests more suited to you. Fantasy Baseball, perhaps?)
“America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now pay me my fucking money.”
And the thing is, no matter how hard reality comes up against it, the AKS is here to stay. It's how they roll. As I've posted elsewhere, the situation is like Sherman's in Georgia. It is not enough to just defeat these crazies; they have to be humiliated. Karl Rove will never shut up until he's tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. (I'm sorry about this, Wozzie. In the absence of the AKS, you might want to consider taking up new interests more suited to you. Fantasy Baseball, perhaps?)
Except many of these opportunists and/or whackjobs will recede further into Crazytown the more humiliated and disproven they become. Witness Dean Chambers going from faith/hunch-based unskewed polling to his new click-hit venture Barack O'Fraudo. Like cult leaders moving their compound to a desert or Guyana, he'll certainly lose a few followers but the devoted crazier ones will go right along. The more they reduce the sauce, the more concentrated it becomes.
But, I guess the upside being they become even more marginalized. Perhaps they'll be like cancer leaving the body and more "sensible" Republicans like the Rubio's and the Jindal's will fill the void. Christie already seems to be the heir apparent and, relatively speaking of course, he'd be an absolute breath of fresh air based upon where that party has gone in recent years. The neocons have been completely discredited and have faded back into the woodwork. Now if they can sideline the religious nutters, they might recover something from the ashes. Not saying they'll become a moderate party, but at this point simply returning to conservative status would be a monstrous leap to the left...
"A crucial task is to perceive how our compassion is channeled towards some and away from others. It's the foundation of all mass violence."
But, I guess the upside being they become even more marginalized. Perhaps they'll be like cancer leaving the body and more "sensible" Republicans like the Rubio's and the Jindal's will fill the void. Christie already seems to be the heir apparent and, relatively speaking of course, he'd be an absolute breath of fresh air based upon where that party has gone in recent years. The neocons have been completely discredited and have faded back into the woodwork. Now if they can sideline the religious nutters, they might recover something from the ashes. Not saying they'll become a moderate party, but at this point simply returning to conservative status would be a monstrous leap to the left...
The question then becomes "What constitutes 'marginalized'?" If you get airtime on Fox, you're not marginal.
“America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now pay me my fucking money.”
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Wozniak
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