… because I’m more normal, and have a shmushy finger.
Here are some highlights of the recent inauguration, presented as a public service for those who were unable to attend — the way it really happened before it was overdubbed and made respectable by the rabidly liberal media, which, as we all know, is irretrievably in the tank for the Satanic black guy.
I listened to the first bit, that was enough. Don’t think i could get through the whole video. I think i’m done with politics again, too depressing. Back to art and music for me. Carry on.
Amy,
Don’t go! It’s far worse than depressing, but we’re all in this festering village together – every last stupid, entitled one of us… The Sickness Unto Death, without recourse to some paltry Kierkegaardian comfort.
This really is meant to be encouraging, but I totally get it. As I used to say on Cif, there is something dull, narrow and repetitive about the political mind, which means it can be distressing to become a part of that mind. I always knew, for instance, that Tomasky was a perfectly fine and worthy human being, but class, interests and limitations (we all have them, but some are more scattered than others) are so appallingly evident (in others and ourselves, if we pay any sort of attention). I have never excluded myself from these judgments…
Me I find those bad lip reading videos a refreshing relief from politics. Aren’t they just surrealist nihilism of a gentle sort? Far as I can tell they don’t have much bias. they make fun of both sides in more or less equal measure.
On the other hand I always laugh at Zippy the Pinhead. Which may be a sign of illness or worse.
Yeah, I find them a refreshing relief too.
They’re not cruel, but yet they lampoon exactly the kind of people (not just in politics either) who tend to get bent out of shape when you refuse to take them at their own evaluation of themselves.
Watching the nods and smiles of the attendees in the background, in concert with the very well synchronized gibberish being “said”, just totally cracks me up. It’s really good craftsmanship, and I’m always a sucker for that.
And hey look!
I find it encouraging when a place which produces the likes of Rick Perry also turns out the likes of whoever the hell this guy is — it sort of reinforces my threadbare faith in the idea of balance;
That’s my kind of American ingenuity, right there.
When Texas secedes, I say we run down and rescue this guy, whoever he is.
Years ago I found myself in Paris with a bunch of French friends out no French. I resolved to learn it, and tried hard, and succeeded to a (not very elevated) point. But in the year it took me to grasp what my friends, and strangers of course, were talking about, I sat silent through many thousands of hours of conversation, thinking I was beginning to understand at least the gist of what was being said. What I discovered, to my great sadness, was the more I understood the less interesting the conversations became. At first my brain was filling in all the fuzzy and blank spots with what, I suppose, I hoped they were saying. My mind leapt immediately to all sorts of topics and esoteric subjects -things which interested me, of course, but also just weird random shit, like the weird lip-reading guy obviously does- and then, having got a toe-hold as it were, I would just run with that, while in truth my rather conventional French friends were mostly talking about real estate prices and who of their friends was having an affair with whom, etc. When the fuzziness resolved, and the actual words started forming reliably in my brain, and I discovered that I’d lived for a year in a bubble of fantasy, I moved to Italy.
Bluthner:
It’s rather like meeting someone who looks intelligent and interesting and then when you start to talk to them expecting an exhilarating conversation, you realise they’re close minded and basically thick.
I had to slot this one in somewhere . . .The NRA has published this amazing long list of its ‘enemies’. (Thanks to LGF for link.)
Surely they’ve rather shot themselves in the foot? Since their ‘enemies’ include boy scouts, paediatricians, nurses, the Methodists, Rabbis (in fact they appear to have included practically every religious sect there is apart from Muslims and Zarathustrians), Patrick Stewart and Catherine Zeta-Jones? Oh, and two that obviously caught the squirrel eye: the National Organization on Disability and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.
One does worry what sort of people their friends are . . .But I must say I hadn’t realised how widespread support for gun control in the US really was. Looked at that way that list’s quite impressive .
Red,
That’s a fascinating list. Lots of Christian Churches and groups. Disney. Hallmark Cards. Every kind of medical organization, insurance company, Two professional sports teams…
And there are yet lots of public figures and journos who didn’t make the cut despite taking fairly high profile stands against them.
All that said, everything Obama & Biden have proposed will do next to zero nothing to make mass shootings less likely. Or to get any guns off the streets of the country in any meaningful way.
I spoke last week to a friend of mine who works for a manufacturing company that makes -usually as an obscure and not very voluminous sideline- an object that is crucial to large capacity magazines. Since the school shooting in Connecticut they have been running their machines day and night, including Sundays on triple time, to fill orders, and still the backlog increases. All of which magazines, if they get completed and into the warehouses soon enough, will be grandfathered in as pre-ban, if a ban ever comes, and so still eligible for sale. I think we can be pretty sure of that. And their story must be repeating itself across the country. Thus there will be enough high capacity mags for sale, legally, to keep NRA nutters happy for decades to come. And it’s not as if these happy objects are single use, or wear out quickly.
So in a way, this entire exercise is really just a way to create lists: who is on the side of light and who on darkness (and who sees which as which).
Last week U.K. border agents found and seized FIVE handguns and SEVENTY ONE bullets for same, that some ex-soldiers were trying to smuggle into the country from the continent to sell to drug dealers in London. And the seizure made the national news. On all the channels. With photos.
I can’t imagine the seizure of a mere five handguns and seventy one bullets making the afternoon news in any American city big enough to have its own Walmart.