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Morons, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 8 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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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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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 3 months ago
    Another great essay, Robert. I will will have upload your book "Prime Deceit" to my Kindle.
    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.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 3 months ago
    Good article SLL.

    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.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A local twin city news anchor Dave Moore had a good sense of humor and late night on Sunday they gave him a half hour show to satirize events it was titled
    Moore on Sunday.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We need liberty to win. Just kicking people has almost no benefit except for those who feel like they have no power in life getting to experience vicariously being mean.

    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.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I want to live my life in freedom. It is hardly schadenfreude to hope that those who will not permit it come to a bad end, especially when they maintain that they're entitled to do so, and anyone who resists their self-evident intellectual superiority and control is benighted. That group, of course, is not exclusively one party, but I wanted to kick the Democrats while they're down, knowing they'll never be entirely out and will undoubtedly come back. There's always some slime looking for something for nothing. Do I enjoy it? Perhaps not the correct word, but I desperately want to see anybody, whatever their political affiliation, who claims a right to run my life fail, and fail completely.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "When [the Democratic] party has played such a large part running this country into the ground"
    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.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That 'un goes way-ay back to when I was peddling a bike to school with books up front before a handlebars basket.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 3 months ago
    Love it! Yes, Yes, Yes!!! it was a pleasure to see the demoncraps go down in flames.
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  • Posted by fosterj717 8 years, 3 months ago
    All donkeys and most elephants are clueless! Drain the swamp.....
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 3 months ago
    To call a Dem moron a moron is not PC and a Dem moron may call you a racist for doing that.
    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...
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  • Posted by Zeek 8 years, 3 months ago
    I think ol' Will went on to say something about sound and fury, signifying nothing. Morons. The less they know, the more eager they are to tell everyone all about it.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, the next billionaire President (and first woman President) could be Ivanka Trump.

    Bonus: That would certainly make Hillary's day. :-)
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 3 months ago
    Re: "One would think somebody in the Democratic party would skate to where the puck is going and reorient it, or at least its rhetoric and tactics, to capitalize on anti-establishment fervor as it reaches full boil."

    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.
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