wow. Speechless. This is a keeper. A perfectly woven story telling it more or less like it is. It needs to be read a couple times to let the substance of what’s been written sink in.
Not much has changed since H. L. Mencken published his “Notes on Democracy” in 1926:
“What [the masses] want principally are safety and security. They want to be delivered from the bugaboos that ride them. They want to be soothed with mellifluous words. They want heroes to worship. They want the rough entertainment suitable to their simple minds. All of these things they want so badly that they are willing to sacrifice everything else in order to get them. The science of politics under democracy consists in trading with them, i. e., in hoodwinking and swindling them. In return for what they want, or for the mere appearance of what they want, they yield up what the politician wants, and what the enterprising minorities behind him want. The bargaining is conducted to the tune of affecting rhetoric, with music by the choir, but it is as simple and sordid at bottom as the sale of a mule. It lies quite outside the bounds of honour, and even of common decency. It is a combat between jackals and jackasses. It is the master transaction of democratic states.”
And just a few pages later:
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself. Every man who seeks elective office under democracy has to be either the one thing or the other, and most men have to be both. The whole process is one of false pretences and ignoble concealments. No educated man, stating plainly the elementary notions that every educated man holds about the matters that principally concern government, could be elected to office in a democratic state, save perhaps by a miracle. His frankness would arouse fears, and those fears would run against him; it is his business to arouse fears that will run in favour of him. Worse, he must not only consider the weaknesses of the mob, but also the prejudices of the minorities that prey upon it. Some of these minorities have developed a highly efficient technique of intimidation. They not only know how to arouse the fears of the mob; they also know how to awaken its envy, its dislike of privilege, its hatred of its betters.”
Though it's difficult to argue with Mencken's observations, I would just point out, as I do often, that the system of government our Founders brilliantly designed for this country was a total and complete rejection of "democracy". Over the centuries, some clever and I would say "evil" politicians hijacked the language and the public education and media institutions obediently goose stepped such that the populace today is as stupid as it is ignorant (many BPR subscribers and commenters excluded-lol).
No, this not supposed to be a "democracy" and what it is becoming in reality just might be even worse. It's interesting that Mencken was both born and died in Baltimore, Maryland. It appears that he and our Editor have much in common.
Mencken devoted quite a few pages to the distinction you allude to between a representative republic and a “direct” democracy. In the end, he found the distinction no longer of much value—at least in the realm of practical politics. Here, for example, is the opening paragraph of his discussion, which, I think, gives a fair indication of what was to follow:
“The lowly Christian I have limned is not only the glory of democratic states, but also their boss. Sovereignty is in him, sometimes both actually and legally, but always actually. Whatever he wants badly enough, he can get. If he is misled by mountebanks and swindled by scoundrels it is only because his credulity and imbecility cover a wider area than his simple desires. The precise form of the government he suffers under is of small importance. Whether it be called a constitutional monarchy, as in England, or a representative republic, as in France, or a pure democracy, as in some of the cantons of Switzerland, it is always essentially the same. There is, first, the mob, theoretically and in fact the ultimate judge of all ideas and the source of all power. There is, second, the camorra of self-seeking minorities, each seeking to inflame, delude and victimize it. The political process thus becomes a mere battle of rival rogues. But the mob remains quite free to decide between them. It may even, under the hand of God, decide for a minority that happens, by some miracle, to be relatively honest and enlightened. If, in common practice, it sticks to the thieves, it is only because their words are words it understands and their ideas are ideas it cherishes. It has the power to throw them off at will, and even at whim, and it also has the means.”
In the early 1930s Mencken’s attack on "mobocracy" was given a stupendous boost by the publication of Ortega y Gasset’s “The Revolt of the Masses.”
That was germane and quite edifying as to Mencken, I appreciate it. I confess, I have not read him much.
It's amazing that he "found the distinction no longer much value"--in 1926. I can't imagine what he would think and write about what this country has done and is doing now to itself. I can just picture Bill Bonner conducting a modern day guided tour of downtown Baltimore for Mencken-lol.
I advocate for returning to a "representative republic", "originalist" jurists, and "first principles" as the Framers laid them out. It's a big mistake to throw out the baby with the bathwater when the problem is the bathwater.
I think the most necessary, important first step is to remove McConnell from his current post at the top of the senate for the Republicans. There needs to be legitimately "loyal opposition", not a faux con game. It is and will be a long and arduous process, but I'm not sure there is enough time left to exhibit Ratzinger's restraint and patience.
We are lucky that few people agree with your views. Never heard of freedom of the press I assume. Only elected jerks have a right to an opinion is truly imbecilic! And so say you!
Typical of politics and politicians: They only lose popularity when they tell the truth. Doesn't matter if its voluntary or involuntary. Truth is the enemy of the state.
This should be the dictionary under the definition of a politician!
I would suggest an accompanying photograph with the politician wearing a NASCAR style jumpsuit showing the 'sponsors' that are their real constituents.
Few enter the billionaire category without selling their souls. I'm not a Trump supporter, I haven't voted in 20 years, not even in local elections. I got my fill supporting a good friend into County office. I asked of him one favor, "Don't become a political hack". His first week in office he grants a marriage license to a gay couple. This was not his idea, it was the Democratic machines idea, he'd simply become a political hack.
He avoided me for a couple of months, then called offering, "I wanted to be on the right side of history". I replied: Bullshit you've a political hack. I added, the people of Pennsylvania elected a legislature to decide such things, you've circumvented the democratic process set up to protect the interests of the people.
My personal opinion on the definition of marriage and who can be so joined is purely libertarian. For what reason is government issuing marriage licenses and defining marriage in the first place? Rights to inherit property are easily created with a trust.
If elected office turns a moral and life long friend into liar, what does it to an immoral person?
We 537 people representing the people in Washington, DC. since 1789, in 233 years, we've gone from a very limited constitutional republic, to a government that now regulates what kind of light bulbs we can buy. A government that has redefined what money is and who can have and who can not have money.
Let that sink in... Do you really think more voting is going to solve anything, or that by voting we could turn it all around? The best course of events is to speed up the process, let the SHTF tomorrow, when the smoke clears those left behind will be a lot wiser.
Dennis, your story about the friend who became a political hack reminds me of a passage from Albert Nock’s famous essay “Anarchist’s Progress,” first published in 1927:
“It was once quite seriously suggested to me by some neighbours that I should go to Congress. I asked them why they wished me to do that, and they replied with some complimentary phrases about the satisfaction of having some one of a somewhat different type ‘amongst those damned rascals down there.’ ‘Yes, but,’ I said, ‘don’t you see that it would be only a matter of a month or so—a very short time, anyway—before I should be a damned rascal, too?’ No, they did not see this; they were rather taken aback; would I explain? ‘Suppose,’ I said, ‘that you put in a Sunday-school superintendent or a Y.M.C.A. secretary to run an assignation-house on Broadway. He might trim off some of the coarser fringes of the job, such as the badger game and the panel game, and put things in what Mayor Gaynor used to call a state of ‘outward order and decency,’ but he must run an assignation-house, or he would promptly hear from the owners.’ This was a new view to them, and they went away thoughtful.”
I was also asked to help another friend with his campaign to run for school board in the next town over. He would tip the scale to the Republicans. As a banker his campaign promise was to bring fiscal order to the school. He won handily.
After 4 months of trying to right the wrongs he resigned. Something we both learned, it really doesn't matter what party is in charge the system was created to be dysfunctional. Parents want low real estate taxes, but not if little Johnny does not receive all they perceive he is due.
His resignation, a bridge too far moment came during a school board meeting. He had proposed firing the janitorial staff mostly because old Charlie slept more than he cleaned. Charlie would be replaced with Marriott Corp, at a 30% savings while the school would be clean.
His second proposal was to scrap purchasing of a Risograph copy machine at the cost of 3 times a standard machine.
Shouting issued, the kids and staff loved old Charlie (Salary with benefits at $120k), the Risograph allowed the children to make hand puppets on small paper bags (what happened to drawing on the bags).
His resignation was assured when his son became the target the next day in school.
What the voting populace does not understand, the system was designed to be dysfunctional and wasteful. The status quo with a cup of tea is really all anyone wants in the end.
We all know what it's going to take to right the wrongs. Cessation of all public monies going into private hands. Your 2 million dollar beach house blows out to sea, too bad that's the risk of owning such. Your elected school board signs an insane contract with the teachers, there's no State or Federal stymie to bail you out. The steel plant goes out of business, the town dies.
A nation on the other side of the planet gets invaded, we wish them well.
One tax dollar gifted to anyone in the private sector, and government grows to the peoples destruction.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that in his short essay “Pearls Before Swine,” which appeared 101 years ago in the January 4, 1922, issue of “The Freeman,” the illustrious magazine he then edited, Albert Jay Nock wrote perhaps the best concise summary of his political philosophy, a view of the matter to which I have become over the past fifty years especially partial:
“The objection to politics and politicians, the primary indictment against all their works and ways, is that they spoil life. Human life is naturally a lovely, enjoyable, attractive thing. We are all conscious that if we could only be let alone, life would be glorious and desirable and we could do almost anything with it. But the politicians never let us alone; and while we are all busily trying to do our poor best with our lives under such throttling conditions as they put upon us, they are as busily trying to thwart us.”
The prescient Nock wrote those lines long before government became the suffocating omnipresence that oppresses us today. An aside: a recent book that tries to increase the oxygen we’re allowed to breathe is Timothy Sandefur’s “The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It” (2016).
Dorothy. Remember, you did asked me to show you proof of a drag show at the White House? I sent several times I believe it was the Washington free beacon bragging about the drag show. Oh, I know you to be a very honorable person or shall you say. so you did ask me for proof and I did post the proof. Do you approve of drag shows in the White House? Google it. You complain to me that some men call you names like a little girl. Not responding to me is the act of a little girl. The pervert in the White House has drag shows. I know, TDS.
WFE: Name calling doesn't really bother me. I just consider the source. I did not see your proof you said you posted. About the drag show at the White house that was to show that Biden signed in the Defense of Marriage Act(DOMA) into law on 12-13-22. The whole of which has been going on since September 1996. It was a U. S. federal law passed by the 104 U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Clinton. But on 6-26-13 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that section three of the "Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and that the federal govnt cannot discriminate against married lesbian and gay couples for the purposes of determining federal benefits and protections. So what's your big gripe? At least Biden isn't a womanizer like Trump nor is he a pervert. By the way when did I ever say that some men call me "a little girl"?
Doc. My group is you said I was a liar. There was never a drag show at the White House. And we both know there was both there and all over the country. And I’m out my dear again I feel very sorry for your husband.
Joe Biden is lecher, probably not the first to be president. The problem with most political folks is they tend to stick to their candidate thick or thin, no matter how irrational or counterproductive the person might be. Trump is a lecher as well, however he at least is mentally acute enough to play the role of great moral leader. Trump very handily derailed the Tea Party, taking over and redirecting their agenda. Trump read the Tea Party playbook back in his speeches, and even went as far as to bend a knee Rose Garden forJesus.
I don't blame folks for voting for Trump, or Biden, elections are all rigged. The two party system controls who runs for office. The media is told who to attack, who too praise, or who to ignore.
If I did vote, Trump would get my vote only because Washington, DC is less boring with Trump in office. God knows we need some new memes featuring Woke folks crying in the streets.
Some of the truly irrational took to Twitter, scribing their irrational rants on the internet.
DT: You know once in a while Trump can do something good. I never said he didn't, but he is only for Trump and his buddies. His desire for becoming a dictator is overwhelming. Why you sent the https to me doesn't make sense. Did you even read it?? Why do you think Biden is a lecher? that would be Trump. I have stated in the past that I have voted for both parties. Guess you forgot that. Anyway, have a great day.
Well for one, you really don't know about me only what you think. After reading some of your responses I wouldn't care to be in your family. I'm not sure what you last response means.??? I'm not on Twitter and never have been or plan to.
This makes me think of the saying, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Our current political system nurtures, encourages and rewards this type of behavior.
That is a VERY true saying and I agree with your post. I would only add that in today's Reality, MANY of the "players" have proven themselves more than worthy of our hatred as well...
The GOP need to expel Santos from their political party, and quickly. They have to make clear that mountebanks, charlatans and pathological liars have no place in their political party. If they don't, then like the proverbial bad apple in the barrel, Santos will spoil the remaining good ones. He will become the face of the Republican Party; the constant topic of TV Talking Heads and a seed of noxious doubt in undecided voters throughout the nation.
It doesn't matter what the Republicans do with Santos (or any other of their party members). The "TV Talking Heads" and the broader corporate media are going to sow the seeds of noxious doubt about Republicans regardless of what they do or don't do with Santos. It's a very rich irony that if the media did it's job and told the truth about democrat politicians, Santos would look like a choir boy.
Great post Bill, very funny. It is the serious ones on here who don't get the entertainment value of your writings. I look forward to a good laugh every day! And from the comments especially.
Unfortunately, as is typical with BPR, VIABLE solutions are not part of the offering. Beyond the great "Hunker Down" strategy, which assuredly we all appreciate.
Yes, I too read Bill's recent "How To Fix Things/What Would I Do With A Magic Wand" offering. Several great ideas in that article, outnumbered by implausible wishes. While many (most?) of us likely agreed with most of the points made, few if any were feasible - or "deliverable" as the kids say today.
I'm finding more and more that reading these missives is rather like eating Chinese food. Maybe that is one key to BB's literary success...
Churchill is quoted as saying, "our form of government is the worst in the world except for all of the others". Since Shakespeare, who has had a better way with words?
wow. Speechless. This is a keeper. A perfectly woven story telling it more or less like it is. It needs to be read a couple times to let the substance of what’s been written sink in.
And I need to Google who this santos is...
Very typical in our banana republic, when given the choice between a bad guy and a bad guy, for some reason, we always choose the bad guy 🤔
Fair point
Came here to say this. Bill, this is gold.
Loic. Just another lying politician.
No, definitely a plant who got past the vetting process 🤔…a true liberal in his life, a true fraud in his words, a true democrat in his behavior
Not much has changed since H. L. Mencken published his “Notes on Democracy” in 1926:
“What [the masses] want principally are safety and security. They want to be delivered from the bugaboos that ride them. They want to be soothed with mellifluous words. They want heroes to worship. They want the rough entertainment suitable to their simple minds. All of these things they want so badly that they are willing to sacrifice everything else in order to get them. The science of politics under democracy consists in trading with them, i. e., in hoodwinking and swindling them. In return for what they want, or for the mere appearance of what they want, they yield up what the politician wants, and what the enterprising minorities behind him want. The bargaining is conducted to the tune of affecting rhetoric, with music by the choir, but it is as simple and sordid at bottom as the sale of a mule. It lies quite outside the bounds of honour, and even of common decency. It is a combat between jackals and jackasses. It is the master transaction of democratic states.”
And just a few pages later:
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself. Every man who seeks elective office under democracy has to be either the one thing or the other, and most men have to be both. The whole process is one of false pretences and ignoble concealments. No educated man, stating plainly the elementary notions that every educated man holds about the matters that principally concern government, could be elected to office in a democratic state, save perhaps by a miracle. His frankness would arouse fears, and those fears would run against him; it is his business to arouse fears that will run in favour of him. Worse, he must not only consider the weaknesses of the mob, but also the prejudices of the minorities that prey upon it. Some of these minorities have developed a highly efficient technique of intimidation. They not only know how to arouse the fears of the mob; they also know how to awaken its envy, its dislike of privilege, its hatred of its betters.”
Though it's difficult to argue with Mencken's observations, I would just point out, as I do often, that the system of government our Founders brilliantly designed for this country was a total and complete rejection of "democracy". Over the centuries, some clever and I would say "evil" politicians hijacked the language and the public education and media institutions obediently goose stepped such that the populace today is as stupid as it is ignorant (many BPR subscribers and commenters excluded-lol).
No, this not supposed to be a "democracy" and what it is becoming in reality just might be even worse. It's interesting that Mencken was both born and died in Baltimore, Maryland. It appears that he and our Editor have much in common.
Mencken devoted quite a few pages to the distinction you allude to between a representative republic and a “direct” democracy. In the end, he found the distinction no longer of much value—at least in the realm of practical politics. Here, for example, is the opening paragraph of his discussion, which, I think, gives a fair indication of what was to follow:
“The lowly Christian I have limned is not only the glory of democratic states, but also their boss. Sovereignty is in him, sometimes both actually and legally, but always actually. Whatever he wants badly enough, he can get. If he is misled by mountebanks and swindled by scoundrels it is only because his credulity and imbecility cover a wider area than his simple desires. The precise form of the government he suffers under is of small importance. Whether it be called a constitutional monarchy, as in England, or a representative republic, as in France, or a pure democracy, as in some of the cantons of Switzerland, it is always essentially the same. There is, first, the mob, theoretically and in fact the ultimate judge of all ideas and the source of all power. There is, second, the camorra of self-seeking minorities, each seeking to inflame, delude and victimize it. The political process thus becomes a mere battle of rival rogues. But the mob remains quite free to decide between them. It may even, under the hand of God, decide for a minority that happens, by some miracle, to be relatively honest and enlightened. If, in common practice, it sticks to the thieves, it is only because their words are words it understands and their ideas are ideas it cherishes. It has the power to throw them off at will, and even at whim, and it also has the means.”
In the early 1930s Mencken’s attack on "mobocracy" was given a stupendous boost by the publication of Ortega y Gasset’s “The Revolt of the Masses.”
That was germane and quite edifying as to Mencken, I appreciate it. I confess, I have not read him much.
It's amazing that he "found the distinction no longer much value"--in 1926. I can't imagine what he would think and write about what this country has done and is doing now to itself. I can just picture Bill Bonner conducting a modern day guided tour of downtown Baltimore for Mencken-lol.
I advocate for returning to a "representative republic", "originalist" jurists, and "first principles" as the Framers laid them out. It's a big mistake to throw out the baby with the bathwater when the problem is the bathwater.
I think the most necessary, important first step is to remove McConnell from his current post at the top of the senate for the Republicans. There needs to be legitimately "loyal opposition", not a faux con game. It is and will be a long and arduous process, but I'm not sure there is enough time left to exhibit Ratzinger's restraint and patience.
We are lucky that few people agree with your views. Never heard of freedom of the press I assume. Only elected jerks have a right to an opinion is truly imbecilic! And so say you!
I sure hope you're not addressing this comment to me, because if so, you have a reading comprehension problem.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Rather odd all the way around as I don't see a previous post that Mr. Spencer's remarks could pertain to.
Maybe it's you and I that have the reading comprehension issues Mr. Dave...
Beautiful!
Typical of politics and politicians: They only lose popularity when they tell the truth. Doesn't matter if its voluntary or involuntary. Truth is the enemy of the state.
One of the best columns in all of the years I have been reading them.
Imagine if every American voter could read this one! Telling it like it is, and entertaining at the same time.
Was thinking the same
This should be the dictionary under the definition of a politician!
I would suggest an accompanying photograph with the politician wearing a NASCAR style jumpsuit showing the 'sponsors' that are their real constituents.
Truly a man for all seasons. but hey lying has worked forJoe Biden all his political life.
DT:
Try reading all about Trump and Biden will look like a church boy.
Few enter the billionaire category without selling their souls. I'm not a Trump supporter, I haven't voted in 20 years, not even in local elections. I got my fill supporting a good friend into County office. I asked of him one favor, "Don't become a political hack". His first week in office he grants a marriage license to a gay couple. This was not his idea, it was the Democratic machines idea, he'd simply become a political hack.
He avoided me for a couple of months, then called offering, "I wanted to be on the right side of history". I replied: Bullshit you've a political hack. I added, the people of Pennsylvania elected a legislature to decide such things, you've circumvented the democratic process set up to protect the interests of the people.
My personal opinion on the definition of marriage and who can be so joined is purely libertarian. For what reason is government issuing marriage licenses and defining marriage in the first place? Rights to inherit property are easily created with a trust.
If elected office turns a moral and life long friend into liar, what does it to an immoral person?
We 537 people representing the people in Washington, DC. since 1789, in 233 years, we've gone from a very limited constitutional republic, to a government that now regulates what kind of light bulbs we can buy. A government that has redefined what money is and who can have and who can not have money.
Let that sink in... Do you really think more voting is going to solve anything, or that by voting we could turn it all around? The best course of events is to speed up the process, let the SHTF tomorrow, when the smoke clears those left behind will be a lot wiser.
Dennis, your story about the friend who became a political hack reminds me of a passage from Albert Nock’s famous essay “Anarchist’s Progress,” first published in 1927:
“It was once quite seriously suggested to me by some neighbours that I should go to Congress. I asked them why they wished me to do that, and they replied with some complimentary phrases about the satisfaction of having some one of a somewhat different type ‘amongst those damned rascals down there.’ ‘Yes, but,’ I said, ‘don’t you see that it would be only a matter of a month or so—a very short time, anyway—before I should be a damned rascal, too?’ No, they did not see this; they were rather taken aback; would I explain? ‘Suppose,’ I said, ‘that you put in a Sunday-school superintendent or a Y.M.C.A. secretary to run an assignation-house on Broadway. He might trim off some of the coarser fringes of the job, such as the badger game and the panel game, and put things in what Mayor Gaynor used to call a state of ‘outward order and decency,’ but he must run an assignation-house, or he would promptly hear from the owners.’ This was a new view to them, and they went away thoughtful.”
I was also asked to help another friend with his campaign to run for school board in the next town over. He would tip the scale to the Republicans. As a banker his campaign promise was to bring fiscal order to the school. He won handily.
After 4 months of trying to right the wrongs he resigned. Something we both learned, it really doesn't matter what party is in charge the system was created to be dysfunctional. Parents want low real estate taxes, but not if little Johnny does not receive all they perceive he is due.
His resignation, a bridge too far moment came during a school board meeting. He had proposed firing the janitorial staff mostly because old Charlie slept more than he cleaned. Charlie would be replaced with Marriott Corp, at a 30% savings while the school would be clean.
His second proposal was to scrap purchasing of a Risograph copy machine at the cost of 3 times a standard machine.
Shouting issued, the kids and staff loved old Charlie (Salary with benefits at $120k), the Risograph allowed the children to make hand puppets on small paper bags (what happened to drawing on the bags).
His resignation was assured when his son became the target the next day in school.
What the voting populace does not understand, the system was designed to be dysfunctional and wasteful. The status quo with a cup of tea is really all anyone wants in the end.
We all know what it's going to take to right the wrongs. Cessation of all public monies going into private hands. Your 2 million dollar beach house blows out to sea, too bad that's the risk of owning such. Your elected school board signs an insane contract with the teachers, there's no State or Federal stymie to bail you out. The steel plant goes out of business, the town dies.
A nation on the other side of the planet gets invaded, we wish them well.
One tax dollar gifted to anyone in the private sector, and government grows to the peoples destruction.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that in his short essay “Pearls Before Swine,” which appeared 101 years ago in the January 4, 1922, issue of “The Freeman,” the illustrious magazine he then edited, Albert Jay Nock wrote perhaps the best concise summary of his political philosophy, a view of the matter to which I have become over the past fifty years especially partial:
“The objection to politics and politicians, the primary indictment against all their works and ways, is that they spoil life. Human life is naturally a lovely, enjoyable, attractive thing. We are all conscious that if we could only be let alone, life would be glorious and desirable and we could do almost anything with it. But the politicians never let us alone; and while we are all busily trying to do our poor best with our lives under such throttling conditions as they put upon us, they are as busily trying to thwart us.”
The prescient Nock wrote those lines long before government became the suffocating omnipresence that oppresses us today. An aside: a recent book that tries to increase the oxygen we’re allowed to breathe is Timothy Sandefur’s “The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It” (2016).
Why the lecture? I simply made one short comment???
I wanted to be thorough
Hi Dot -
TLDR may well lead to the downfall of our Civilization.
Just sayin'...
(Apologies to Mr. Harrel)
Dorothy. Remember, you did asked me to show you proof of a drag show at the White House? I sent several times I believe it was the Washington free beacon bragging about the drag show. Oh, I know you to be a very honorable person or shall you say. so you did ask me for proof and I did post the proof. Do you approve of drag shows in the White House? Google it. You complain to me that some men call you names like a little girl. Not responding to me is the act of a little girl. The pervert in the White House has drag shows. I know, TDS.
WFE: Name calling doesn't really bother me. I just consider the source. I did not see your proof you said you posted. About the drag show at the White house that was to show that Biden signed in the Defense of Marriage Act(DOMA) into law on 12-13-22. The whole of which has been going on since September 1996. It was a U. S. federal law passed by the 104 U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Clinton. But on 6-26-13 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that section three of the "Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and that the federal govnt cannot discriminate against married lesbian and gay couples for the purposes of determining federal benefits and protections. So what's your big gripe? At least Biden isn't a womanizer like Trump nor is he a pervert. By the way when did I ever say that some men call me "a little girl"?
Doc. My group is you said I was a liar. There was never a drag show at the White House. And we both know there was both there and all over the country. And I’m out my dear again I feel very sorry for your husband.
I never said you were a liar. And just for your info my husband died a few years ago from cancer.
Your statement above isn't making sense. What does "And I'm out my dear again?"
Dot. I am very sorry about your husband. I just meant to say I am ending the conversation. Nor will I disturb you again.
Joe Biden is lecher, probably not the first to be president. The problem with most political folks is they tend to stick to their candidate thick or thin, no matter how irrational or counterproductive the person might be. Trump is a lecher as well, however he at least is mentally acute enough to play the role of great moral leader. Trump very handily derailed the Tea Party, taking over and redirecting their agenda. Trump read the Tea Party playbook back in his speeches, and even went as far as to bend a knee Rose Garden forJesus.
I don't blame folks for voting for Trump, or Biden, elections are all rigged. The two party system controls who runs for office. The media is told who to attack, who too praise, or who to ignore.
If I did vote, Trump would get my vote only because Washington, DC is less boring with Trump in office. God knows we need some new memes featuring Woke folks crying in the streets.
Some of the truly irrational took to Twitter, scribing their irrational rants on the internet.
https://twitter.com/KiraChats/status/1307103243953152005?s=20&t=ekTogUx6sJFtJMr4e9fjFQ
DT: You know once in a while Trump can do something good. I never said he didn't, but he is only for Trump and his buddies. His desire for becoming a dictator is overwhelming. Why you sent the https to me doesn't make sense. Did you even read it?? Why do you think Biden is a lecher? that would be Trump. I have stated in the past that I have voted for both parties. Guess you forgot that. Anyway, have a great day.
Well, the girl on Twitter seems like a girl. I am glad my sons did not marry.
Well for one, you really don't know about me only what you think. After reading some of your responses I wouldn't care to be in your family. I'm not sure what you last response means.??? I'm not on Twitter and never have been or plan to.
This makes me think of the saying, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Our current political system nurtures, encourages and rewards this type of behavior.
Hi Mr. Young,
That is a VERY true saying and I agree with your post. I would only add that in today's Reality, MANY of the "players" have proven themselves more than worthy of our hatred as well...
The GOP need to expel Santos from their political party, and quickly. They have to make clear that mountebanks, charlatans and pathological liars have no place in their political party. If they don't, then like the proverbial bad apple in the barrel, Santos will spoil the remaining good ones. He will become the face of the Republican Party; the constant topic of TV Talking Heads and a seed of noxious doubt in undecided voters throughout the nation.
Hi Mr. Roberts -
"..., Santos will spoil the remaining good ones."
Problem is, we can count the "good" Rs on one hand, and that's AFTER the accident with the fireworks...
It doesn't matter what the Republicans do with Santos (or any other of their party members). The "TV Talking Heads" and the broader corporate media are going to sow the seeds of noxious doubt about Republicans regardless of what they do or don't do with Santos. It's a very rich irony that if the media did it's job and told the truth about democrat politicians, Santos would look like a choir boy.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
-Walt Whitman
Great post Bill, very funny. It is the serious ones on here who don't get the entertainment value of your writings. I look forward to a good laugh every day! And from the comments especially.
And the masses who just dont get it
where do we go from here?
Excellent question.
Unfortunately, as is typical with BPR, VIABLE solutions are not part of the offering. Beyond the great "Hunker Down" strategy, which assuredly we all appreciate.
Yes, I too read Bill's recent "How To Fix Things/What Would I Do With A Magic Wand" offering. Several great ideas in that article, outnumbered by implausible wishes. While many (most?) of us likely agreed with most of the points made, few if any were feasible - or "deliverable" as the kids say today.
I'm finding more and more that reading these missives is rather like eating Chinese food. Maybe that is one key to BB's literary success...
Hahahaha, I find myself returning to the fridge for a late night snack every time I eat that stuff.
I feel like you read my mind and put my thought into words.
Santos is from NY! What more did you expect?
Churchill is quoted as saying, "our form of government is the worst in the world except for all of the others". Since Shakespeare, who has had a better way with words?