"The United States WAS a Constitutional Republic. This monstrosity is in no way, shape or form a Republic, under the Constitution. It is a straight-up oligarchy. The country I was born in NO LONGER EXISTS. And since I am a person who ACTUALLY BELIEVES WHAT SHE BELIEVES, when you ask me, "Who do you support for President?", in order to be INTELLECTUALLY CONSISTENT, I can only respond with another question:"PRESIDENT OF WHAT???
"Further, as I have been screeching for going on eight years now, all of this political stuff, especially presidential politics, is totally, totally fake. It is Kabuki Theater. It is scripted theater designed to "entertain" and mollify the class of people whose IQs are 15-20 higher than the people watching Ballroom Dancing with Honey BooBoo or whatever the hell is on TeeVee these days. And to make enormous amounts of money for the oligarch players and their toadies.
"It occurred to me a couple of days ago what it all is. It's EXACTLY the same business model as Professional Wrestling. EXACTLY.
"It was all scripted. It was pure entertainment for children and low-IQ adults. In the adult category there were the adults who were smart enough to know it was fake, but enjoyed the spectacle and the soap-operaesque storylines. Then there were the adults who were so stupid that they truly believed it was real. And there were a BUNCH of those. I remember one of the Wrestlemanias filled the Pontiac Superdome. And I remember the reportage on how much money the then-nascent Pay-Per-View paradigm would rake in for the WWF as people would pay fifty bucks to watch Wrestlemania live on Pay-Per-View. It was a massively lucrative business model.
"So here’s a YouTube of a WWF wresting show from the 80s. I was struck by the similarity of the “news desk” set that Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon sit behind, with their fake, scripted antagonism and bickering (they were actually extremely close friends offstage). And then there are the segments where the Candidate, er, excuse me, Wrestler delivers a monologue, and then there are the debates, er, excuse me, I mean MATCHES, which are, again, 100% scripted and choreographed. I look at this and I think, “My gosh, they have templated all of this political entertainment off of the Pro Wresting model.”
Huh...
She has a point.
I still have hope - for now.
Lets see if the new President will address the four most pressing - and fatal - points:
1. Build the Wall
2. Filter out the illegals
3. Federal Deficit
4. Trade Deficit
(Because if these are not addressed soon, it truly is the end.)
Hoap!!!!
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Posted by: cond0011 at March 23, 2016 3:00 AMGurlz gonna pop a valve one of these daze.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 23, 2016 4:12 AMBarnhardt has gone off the Nihilist Deep End.
She was bad enough before...
(in her "bacon bookmark leader" days)
when she advised her followers to give up
their internet privacy/anonymity...
thereby endangering the welfare of others
who don't think things through fully.
NOW she's in her "Henny Penny/Abandon All Hope" phase.
Enjoy living under that bridge, Ann.
NOW GO AWAY.
Consider how correct she is, and yet, we still have to function.
Vote as if your future depended on it (which it does, to a degree), but I have little expectation that the Voting/democratic process will serve me further in the future. It is meant to serve another group of "clients".
In "The Dilbert Future", Scott Adams talks about voting, and remarks that with the declining intelligence of voters (generally), your single vote is worth less, and eventually will be worth nothing. And that was written 25 years ago.
The Oligarchs have read the demographic tea leaves, and know that we need millions of young and middle aged worker bodies to pay into Social Security and the like to keep it solvent, or at least the appearance of solvency. Roe v. Wade has killed 50 million potential young men and women, who could have been productive citizens. So now, we bring in the replacements for the children never born since 1972, and pretend this will make things right again. Well, the Oligarchs pretend this will make it right. And their public political hand maidens, and the Hairy Reasoners on News TV.
Posted by: David at March 23, 2016 9:16 AMI would have said "Professional Wrestling without the honesty."
Also, the tickets cost so much more and you are forced to buy them.
Posted by: KTWO at March 23, 2016 11:14 AM
"....declining intelligence of voters...."
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It has nothing to do with intelligence.
It has to do with morality.
You wouldn't have the balls to come in my house and steal my shit.
So you use votist anonymity to do the evil deed.
Ann it is prophetess of biblical proportions. Can't really disagree. But must continue to hope for the renewal. Even if in vain.
Posted by: Andy Texan at March 24, 2016 9:03 PM
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