Morons, by Robert Gore
There is no greater earthly pleasure than seeing people who pose as intellectually superior revealed as morons. Hillary Clinton was wretched, but Democrats have bought off half the electorate; there was no way they should have lost to a man who had never held office. Her defeat was a glorious culmination of delirious delusion that connoisseurs of the moronic will forever cherish. Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” When you don’t know at whom the audience is laughing , it’s you. Last week, Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide, a book of 266 blank pages, was number one on Amazon’s bestseller list (a few notches above Prime Deceit). Still, the donkeys don’t get the joke.
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The next Democratic candidate could well be another billionaire "outsider", possibly from Silicon Valley, who may not even be a Democrat at the moment. Trump's playbook worked for him this time, but it's no longer a secret.
http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-m...
So is Mark Zuckerberg:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
Bonus: That would certainly make Hillary's day. :-)
Me,too.
Why a racist? Why not coming from morons.
Old dino is suddenly recalling the "little moron jokes" I heard as a child during the mid-50s if not a tad earlier.
Here's a sampling I just looked up~
http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Misce...
Moore on Sunday.
And all the men and women merely players"
This Shakespeare quote underscores for me the question of why anyone outside this industry should care about this topic.
I understood why Peter Keating cared what the Banner printed. Even if it was an act, he was getting rich, and that could allow him to enjoy whatever earthly pleasures he wanted. But when he worried about putting on a show for the janitor, it became clear that all the world was a stage for him. There was no earthly pleasure at the end of the machinations. A show for an audience was the end in itself.
"There is no greater earthly pleasure than seeing people who pose as intellectually superior revealed as morons."
I don't get this, at least not from anyone not involved with putting on the show. It's a stereotype for teenage girls going through an identity crisis. But eventually people grow up either philosophically or just get too busy with their own show to focus on the topic other people falling into or out of favor for its own sake.
When it comes to policy, it's what I call the what's this all about? question. Obviously people involved have an interest in getting people fired up, but I don't get what's in it for people on the outside. This article suggests it's pure teenage identity crisis behavior with a fig leaf justification of serious policy matters. Is it that simple?
If you're right, I'll take earthly pleasure in the prosperity that comes from shrinking deficits, gov't outlays, and decreasing gov't intrusiveness. The indirect pleasure of decreased drone strikes, closing extra-judicial prisons and prosecuting any abusive treatment of suspects, decreased drug war, decreased surveillance without warrants will be more than the benefits of the prosperity.
I have not looked into the Rorscharch blot and seen this desired outcome. I expect you're wrong and well see the opposite of all of that, a V-shaped curve as decreasing deficits of the past five years turn to increasing, increasing gov't intrusiveness, the opposite of liberty in all areas.
If you're right that this will lead to a fiscal and monetary crisis that the recession of 08-09 look like nothing, maybe I better learn to take earthly pleasure from schadenfreude, enjoying that policy makers were wrong. If I could get to that point, the more the gov't intrudes and messes things up, paradoxically more pleasure I'd get. Unfortunately this won't work for me because I want prosperity for its own sake, for the ability to have more and work less.
Everything you say will make sense if gov't decreases, and what I'm saying will be completely wrong. Republicans control both branches of gov't and attempt to politicize the judicial branch. If deficits decrease at the same rate or faster than during the past five years, kick whoever's for more borrowing. If federal outlays just stay constant (slightly shrinking percentage of GDP), that will be huge. The same thing with the drug war, extrajudicial prisoners, gov't interference in healthcare, warrantless surveillance, drone strikes; if even half of them decrease what you're saying makes sense. If they actually increase, we get the earthly pleasure of kicking people at the expense of the earthly pleasure of liberty.
The Republicans could be in trouble too if they don't get their act together. There are some re-elected long term Republican "Morons" in Congress that will pose a problem for them as well.
They are still busy throwing every thing they can think of hoping something sticks.
The media has become the monkey house. They include the monkeys and the cage and are busily flinging poo in every direction.