On the genius of The Bushies
Personally I think the Bushies are geniuses.
They have gotten everything they wanted without getting in trouble.
1. Stole an election.
2. Planned a huge terrorist attack, carried out. And even though idiots like myself who never got above 1500 biology figured out that a building on fire would never fall like that. the Zogby poll says 50% of America figured that out too. They are still avoiding any court hearing or guilt.
3. They got a war in Afghanistan to get a pipe line and mass supply of drugs. They were getting a pipe line, but now they are getting it cheaper. And now they have a military base on both sides of China, one in Japan and one in Afghanistan in case the Chinese wanna do a showdown for the last bits of oil.
If you look for what is the self-interest of the Bushies they have in fact gotten their Bin Laden, THAT PIPELINE!
4. They got a war in Iraq, they got more oil. They got billions of fucking dollars in contracts to Halliburton and other companies. The Bushies self-interest was to get contracts to their friends, not to find WMDs.
Bush has won HIS WAR.
As long as Bush can keep American soldiers in Iraq The Bushies can STILL KEEP giving contracts to huge companies.
5. The Bushies are not inept. It is just that THEIR GOALS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE GOALS WE HAVE BEEN TOLD.
Nietzsche said, "If a priest says it, it is a criterion for untruth."
I'm saying, "If the TV says it, it is a criterion for untruth."
You must understand that Bush in his eyes has won the war, billions of dollars have been made off this two wars. Bases have built all over those two countries. They had to pay privitized companies to make those bases.
They had to pay privitized companies to build the tanks, the guns, the bullets, the clothes the soldiers wear, etc.
A lot of money is being made.
We aren't making it, so we think we are losing.
But the people that are making it, have been the winners of the Superbowl for the last six fucking years.
posted by Noah Cicero @ 11:07 AM
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9 Comments:
I knew there was a reason I didn't like Nietzsche.
Madison,
you're adorable
I basically agree with your description of the neocons, Noah:
except for 9-11, which I believe fell into his lap and was subsequently exploited. I don't think any government is capable of orchestrating a cabal that intricate, not even Israel (and that's saying something: read about Mossad and how crafty they are--best spies in the world).
The only problem is, if you want to live in a civil society, then you can't prosecute criminals without hard proof, and there isn't much of that--yet.
In 30 years, people will start coming forward about what they knew; documentation will start emerging. The Bushies, in order to get what they wanted, have had to step on a lot of toes. They have so many enemies: 2/3rds of the politicians in America have their knives out for these guys.
Cheney will be dead by the time the record gets set straight, unfortunately.
My thoughts are that your characters look two dimensional. Not even in a comic book is the antagonist all evil yet my thinking leads me to see what you are saying as if it is written in that type of format.
Funny, I think, George Bush portrays characters in much the same way.
I think Pascal had something with the people get bored idea.
Oh yeah, one last thing (my favorite three words) I don't think I'm losing. Does that make me ignorant?
No, I'm not rolling around in large bills collected in a big pile on my bed, but I don't mind saying that what I've got is really, really, really good.
But then somewhere along the way I think something made me realize that having things really, really good had nothing to do with politics or the imagined evil around me. It had to do with me.
The good news is that the issue of Republican motivation is more complicated than "they're evil." The bad news-- well, go to http://slacktivist.typepad.com and read some of Fred Church's analyses of pre-millennial dispensationalism.
I'll try to sum it up: these powerful Christians believe in the literal truth of the Bible, including God's literal control of the universe. Though this by itself separates them from most other Christian denominations, which emphasize or de-emphasize the veracity of parts therein as they deem necessary, they go to a literally heretical extreme (you'll see why) with this. They believe in a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelations.
Here's where this gets really sociopathic.
Would your kids clean their room if they knew a maid would clean it up for them, so long as they could wait for a little while? If they knew they'd be forgiven, no questions asked, and given all the candy they could eat, would they keep from beating the crap out of some other kids that annoyed them? Worse yet, if you told them that it was objectively right to kill or enslave unbelievers, even if they were their own friends and family, and they'd be punished if they didn't, would you want them to commit murder?
A literal interpretation of Revelation makes all this behavior acceptable, or even laudable, under the correct circumstances. In the Book of Revelations, it's God vs. Satan, and anything's fair game. And the preparations for this grant its anticipators the religious license to do whatever they deem necessary to "get ready."
I'm not sure everything that comes from a clerical mouth is necessarily lies. I can imagine, and think of, experiences with priests and rabbis who were willing to say that, independent of the belief system, certain kinds of behavior are good whether or not one gets metaphysically or otherwise rewarded for them. But if someone of the cloth starts telling me that God's ending the world and I'd better get some guns and ammo, I'm going to envision them in a straitjacket. They may not be directly responsible for making my life worse-- yet-- but their kind of thinking has no place in the process of running a country that's supposed to benefit all its inhabitants.
I don't remember the priest telling me when I went to Confession when I was a kid, "Well, Lance, it was wrong of you to disobey your mom and talk back to her like that, but since you set the table every night and do your homework and sent your aunt a birthday card, what the heck! You're a good kid. Your sins are forgiven automatically. No need for you to do any penance." 文秘 心脑血管 糖尿病 高血压 高血脂 冠心病 心律失常 心肌病 心肌炎 中风 偏瘫 低血糖 And maybe it's happened a few times and I haven't heard about it but I can't recall a judge ever letting somebody walk on the grounds the crook was a good guy and his friends really like him.
And so I must wonder, what would an ubermensch do?
A dark souled genius would have not only pulled off all of the schemes, thefts, lies, etc. that you listed but would come out the other side of the deal with everybody thinking that their shit smelled like petunias.
These people are clever, they have access to this country's accumulated knowledge of applied "psych ops."
Mis-information,
mis-direction,
blame shifting,
alibi creating,
"spin" the truth on its head, black arts bible.
You would be amazed at how often that "clever" beats out "smart."
That is, until "clever" goes to the well one too many times, or in the case of these clowns, a few too many times.
The only two major things left, standing between them and accountability, are;
(1.) The natural reluctance of those that were duped to admit that they were dopes. (because they get to share in the culpability. For abrogating their responsibility to be the "checks and balances", to this here Dog and Pony show.)
(2.) That old tired,
(but still roasting) chestnut of;
"Doing further damage,
(like that's possible)
to the office of the presidency, and to our national security, (ditto)"
Also; There will be the American equivalent of a "purge" mostly bloodless, as they go from agency to agency and ferret out the ferrets, that have given ferrets a bad name.
The American press is still collectively peeing in their pants, and unwilling to ask the tough questions, (hell, they ain't even asking quasi meaningful ones as of yet)
The kind of "knock your lying ass out!" questions that twenty-five years ago, were flung at the presidents head like a metal chair, by the White House press corps.
Not just once or twice in history but anytime they even got a whiff of a disingenuous answer from the current propagandist, excuse me, White House press secratary.
They use to stand in solidarity when ever a president stonewalled on something.
No matter what the photo op was about, (like pre-schoolers in the Rose Garden, learning their first lesson in self govt.)
The entire White House press corps. would "bum rush" the prez.
Like a pack of starving dogs that had cornered a meat truck and its driver. Each and every one of them would ask the same question. Day after day. Week after week.
Until the bullshit stopped, and the answers were forthcoming. And God help you if your press hack tossed out another false scenario.
Halberstom just died.
If you get the chance, read 50 pages of his; "The best and brightest." Then try not to read the rest.
These journalists, not all that long ago, had an almost religous respect for the truth. And utter contempt for those that passed off lies as truths.
The press corps. at this stage is worthless. Although there are a few "malcontents" that have nothing to lose, and plenty to gain by gnawing on any administration bone that has meat on it.
Sooner or later, I hope to see a good old fashioned "feeding frenzy"
Man will that be sweet!
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