A
Bug In The System
I have this recent proclivity
to correlate conservative politics
with illness
and disease but that's not bad-tempered
spite, that's biology. I
mean, if you're born a bird, you lay eggs.
If you're born a mouse, you die of myxomatosis.
But if you're born a conservative politician
you
seemingly spend
every waking moment
trying to fuck the poor out of their last
dime for
the benefit your masters, whose only discernable
goal is to win the Bigger Dick Contest
against
the oligarch with the next obscenely vast
accruance of blood money.
Have you heard the official reason why
the GOP is blocking additional funds to
fight Zika-bearing mosquitoes? The Hard
Right is all a-tremble that Mr. Obama would
"use it for other things". They didn't
specify
exactly what other
things but I kinda doubt it involves trading
drugs for arms to fund nun-killing rebels
in a secret South American war. I mean,
Reagan already been there, done that.
However, truth be told, the President DID
recently shuffle funds around in, I suppose,
a manner
that
will have you holding your breath in shock
and amazement...
The Prez took money from funds allocated
for Ebola and applied it towards Zika research. Remember
Ebola? How the conservative media scared
the fucking pants off low-information voters
right before the 2014 mid-terms, bellowing
night and day that an Ebola Apocalypse
was upon us and it was nobody's fault but
the damn Democrats? Yeah, that Ebola.
So when does the
GOP
plant to reconsider the Prez's request for new funding?
They're saying October at the earliest. You know, right
before
the elections and right after a summer of "OH MY GOD!
ZIKA'S COMING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! AND BLAME THE DEMOCRATS!!!!!"
"Now here's Ted with the weather."
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Since today is Memorial Day I'd like
to give a big friendly "Thanks, suckers!" to all the
men in uniform
who died for the benefit of our mighty corporations.
I know I sound like a total ass here but I'm tired
of young Americans dying for minimum wage and then
enduring
the endless propaganda that they be treated
like heroes when the
better description is "cannon fodder".
(Not
saying "Thank you for your service" is almost the current
equivalent of saying "Fuck Hitler!" in Berlin in 1939.)
Eventually
our young men and women will quit falling for this
fake patriotism stuff (especially once they learn the
difference between a building falling down and one
being blown to smithereens) and realize they can get
an education that doesn't involve digging
giant sand spiders out of your shorts each morning
or dying
from electrocution in Halliburton-designed showers.
In my defense I will say that
the moment that it ever becomes undeniably certain
that this country is
threatened
by imminent invasion I'll be as close as possible to
the fighting with something dangerous in
my
hands.
And if the enemy overwhelms our defenses and sets up
armed camps within our shores I'll be home quietly
making IEDs to warmly greet them on their morning patrols.
You know, just like the people of Iraq
did when we invaded them.
=Lefty=
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