The Play-offs

As a life-long Chicago Cub fan, I know that losing can be very relaxing. One can enjoy the play-offs and World Series without any serious angst. You can pick a favorite and be kinda happy if they win and sorta sad if they lose. There's no real pressure, just good baseball.

Now, presidential elections, on the other hand...

It's crossed my mind to just say: "Fuck it!" Let these assholes have their fucking Rmoney and eat it too!" Let US be the divisive assholes who complain about everything he does! Let us hang on his every other word like they do with Obama. It'll be fun- and different- because Willard Mittens Rmoney is a stiff-walking, stiff-talking idiot so, it will be true and honest instead of Junior League Al Queda  stuff that we see from them now.

But, alas, if I were them- if we were them- we'd already be assholes. Being an asshole is nothing to aspire to anyway. It may seem like fun at first but, as a lifetime commitment, it's not a good career goal. Imagine your poor behavior in a public setting while drinking a bit too much. Now imagine that behavior being you for the rest of your life. Yikes! Hopefully, that makes you re-think your commitment to any teaparty aspirations or teabangelical-like behavior.

Still, proving these idiots wrong and saying, "I told you so..." could be fun. However, a Rmoney victory would bring four more years of blaming Barack Obama for all of America's ills. Note I said 'four MORE years'. They started blaming Obama for EVERYTHING on election day in '08. This time around they'd give no grace period either. They would disavow any notion of "Obama Derangement Syndrome" citing "Bush Derangement Syndrome" which was invoked also the moment Obama was elected and supposedly somehow inherited not only the worst recession since The Great Depression but, all responsibility FOR it. How the fuck does that happen?

But, I digress. Or do I? I know these people. I see them on TV and read them on the threads and other venues on the internet. They are not going to stop being crazy just because *they* won. Was Hitler satisfied with a fake war with Poland? Cheney with Weapons of Mass Distraction? Nope.

These people would be empowered by a Rmoney presidency, seeing it as a mandate from the people to run screaming ahead with every little thing he may have promised them and some that they might have imagined while masturbating.

I understand billionaires wanting to hire a millionaire to impose their will. I don't understand the not-so rich doing this, however. The pecking order is all askew here. You making $50k a year is maybe a day in the life of a Mitt Rmoney who is retired and living off of stock dividends like when he and Ann were first married and "struggling"... He's actually done better since then. You might too, IF you win Mega Millions.

But, you won't do better under Mittens. You may not be the 47% that he doesn't care about but, you likely fall into the net of the 98% he doesn't care about either. He's got you covered. You just may not know it. These folks don't. They said all along: "ANYBODY but Obama..." and, indeed, Rmoney is "anybody". He's just not an anybody that cares about all Americans.

In a straight up, honest vote, Rmoney DOES NOT win this election. Voter suppression hasn't worked out like they planned but, it might have been a diversion from the fact that, the electronic voting machines used in many states are owned and operated by white men who have contributed HEAVILY to the Rmoney campaign. So, yes, via cheating, he could *prevail*...

It's a frightening thought. A good man does not do this. Not in the wonderful America we all imagine that we live in. Look at the last several elections. There was electoral shenanigans when Bush *beat* Kerry. It took a USSC decision to put him in office in 2000. Going back to daddy Bush is maybe the last time a republican was popularly elected. They're not on a winning streak even when we seem to be taking turns. What does this tell you?

It tells me they might be going all in for their very survival as a party. They act as if it's for the very survival of the country though. Can you imagine suppressing voting (of one party) as a viable practice in the greatest country in the world?!

I can. It's only been in my lifetime that Black Americans have been guaranteed the right to vote. It took an act of Congress to force half the country to allow them to vote. That is obscene. We have a history of this... It isn't pretty. We have as much nationalistic pride as the next nation and we overlook our faults far better than most, to that end. Are their any full-blooded Native Americans in your neighborhood? There's a reason for that and it's very, very ugly.

Sigh. It's possible that a Rmoney presidency could be comical, fun and business as usual. I doubt it. In the poker game of life, the republicans and their fans are tipping their hand. Yeah they've got nothing but, if a pair of threes can beat a full house of freedom, we're fucked. It could happen...

They've shown their intention to go all in. If Rmoney were to *win*, this might be the last election we have. A few new justices on the Supreme Court could take care of that. Imagine that plus Rmoney AND a republican House and Senate. What wouldn't they do? What couldn't they do?

Ask any asshole what they would do. They'll tell you. Right now they have that First Amendment right to do so. Right now, that is...