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As seen on Atrios: I assume that "Newsmax" is some kind of influential far-right nuthouse organ. But in these times, the drool of self-marginalized lunatics bubbles in chunks from underneath the toilet seat cover and into our public commons too fucking often for my taste. To paraphrase one of the commenters in the linked piece on Media Matters: Judas Fucking Priest --- these people lost one single election, not even a year ago, and they're already halfway down the path toward advocating violent revolution. Wingnuts just need to get a grip on things, because they still control the Senate with the help of Democrat Copperheads, and the media are choked with projectile vomit from the neckholes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest. Meanwhile, genteel corporate media celebrity pundits are afraid to acknowledge the existence of this puke fountain, let alone suggest that it's an odious and disturbing nuisance.
Anyway, someone needs to let this John Perry guy know that coups actually are not permitted by the U.S. Constitution, whether by "patriotic general and flag officers" or racist asshole bloggers. But, then, maybe the Congress will decide to repeal all federal laws that prohibit insurrections (Article 8), and John Perry can then enjoy his "bloodless coup." John Perry claims that "[d]escribing what may be afoot is not to advocate it." Well, yes it is actually, John Perry. And if you have foreknowledge that a treasonous conspiracy by patriotic military men "may be afoot," I hope that some Secret Service agent won't have to beat it out of you too hard... especially not the 7 foot bald one with a gold grille and prison tats.
Update: I'm sure we all can look forward to indignant editorials festooning the op/ed pages across the land, plus salvos of sharply worded criticism by national TV news treasures like George S. and Chris Matthews, in response to the astonishing revelation that Newsmax is sponsored by the Republican National Committee. It Can't Happen Here Dunt Duhduh Dunnnnn! Yawn....
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crap like this has always existed but in the US (in the past), and in other successful countries currently, the idiots who do this are marginalized and ignored by the vast majority. They are harmless, but annoying, gnats.
ReplyDeleteStupidity in the US seems to be nearing (if it hasn't already reached) a critical mass. That threshold, once passed, will mark the end of this empire/country/culture/what-have-you.
When the Republicans regain some power in Congress (ie a big reward for their blatant, willful stupidity) we're done for. The inmates will be running the asylum. And the majority of Dems will be too polite, too affable, too comfortable, to resist this. We won't have a military coup-- don't need one. We'll have an imbecile coup, with some very dangerous consequences (the Cheney/Petraeus Morlocks are very good at controlling imbeciles).
I guess the answer for those who can't tolerate this coming attraction is similar to what happened in Russia in the 90s-- move somewhere that is more functional (Brazil? India? Dominican Republic?) and become a gardener, cab driver, or gangster.
BDO: I've backed away from my certainty (but haven't abandoned it, exactly) about Obama's super ninja mutant powers as a politician. I still think that *nobody* plays a game of Chicken (dope roping or whatever term one prefers) better than Obama. The first and only inviolable rule of strategy formation and execution is to keep everyone else from knowing what the strategy is. The guy these crackers have in their crosshairs happens to "own" the CIA, the FBI, and the Secret Service to name three, and he has all those bitchen Patriot Act tools at his disposal. So he's not without his own resources.
ReplyDeleteBeer-D might have some insights to share about how law enforcement personnel must necessarily, in certain types of cases at least, let a nefarious plot congeal and reach a fairly advanced level of development before arrests start being made. If I were BHO I'd certainly have a RICO file opened on a few of our finer civic organizations, such as the NRA and the RNC and that public relations outhouse that Roger Ailes runs. And I'd be warming up the hydrogen-fueled, earth-friendly black helicopters at this very moment.