You don't remember that when the Nazis marched in the Ukrainians
welcomed them as liberators? Threw roses at them and declared that they
were Nazis too, and were very helpful in turning in their Jews? Well
not all the Ukrainians, but not all the Arabs are jihadists.
The caliph is sort of like, as you say, the pope of the muslims. Way
back the descendents of Mohammed were the Caliph, but at some point the
guys who would become the Sunnis assassinated that caliph. The Shiites
are still mad about that. For a long time the Turks installed a caliph,
rather the way the Chinese commies install a Lama for Tibet. I don't
think there has been one for awhile, certainly none that have many
followers.
You know what? ISIS is not going to take over the world. I don't know
why some folks get all trembly in their boots when they hear that some
gang of crackpots in a faraway country full of other gangs of crackpots
wants to take over the world. How about those guys, who usually live in
some rural or southern part of the country where there are hardly any
muslims, and think somehow that Sharia law is going to be imposed on
them. Well they probably think Common Core is part of Sharia Law.
And you know I live in Chicago, it's no New York, but it's pretty big,
and I live downtown where if you were some terrorist cell and were going
to set off a bomb it would be a good place to do it. And you know I
don't fear it at all. Oh I suppose something could happen, but it's
more likely that I will get killed by some car jumping the sidewalk. I
don't fear it at all. I don't know how this country has become filled
with quaking cowards. Oh that's right talk radio and the Foxies.
I don't know if it's fair to call George Wallace a democrat. Alright
back in the day we did have the southern democrats, who were solidly in
control on account of the republicans being on the other side during the
civil war. But those guys were worse even than any republicans ruling
there now. Well that's largely the product of changing times. Anyway
we dems don't like to claim them like every now and then the reps try to
claim Abraham Lincoln who would be appalled by the current party, hell
even Ronnie Reagan would be appalled by the current Republican party,
but let's not go there for now.
The way I see it you have one primary vote for a dubious dem and one
very local one for a local favorite. I have two regular votes for a rep
in a statewide election. So I believe that makes you more of a
republican than I am a democrat.
I looked up the Iowa caucus and you do have to be a registered member of
the party to attend, but you can register when you arrive, so all you
have to be is a registered voter. I believe the only thing belonging to
a party anymore is being on their list for asking for money.
Of course there is some truth to multinational corporations running the
country. I'm surprised that you, as a card carrying paranoid who thinks
the rest of the world is acting in tandem to fuck with you, would doubt
that for a minute. Just look at all those PACs. Where do you think
they are getting their money from? Joe Sixpack slipping in a few
dollars from his paycheck to help make this a better world?
The difference is, it's not like they are all assembled in some nice
boardroom like in the movie Network (did you ever see it? It's at the
top of my Netflix queue and I will be viewing it Saturday night), they
are more like the Greek Gods, always fighting with each other and like
you say making alliances from time to time, but breaking them just as
often.
Have you noticed that Trump has passed a milestone in fibbing? It's
time honored for a politician to twist the truth, but a bald faced lie
is something new. Well it happens sometimes but up till now the
politician has always claimed he was misquoted or something and has
walked back his lie.
But Trump, with this claim of thousands cheering 911 from the rooftops
of New Jersey is not backing down. There is absolutely no proof for
this, but he claims that he remembers seeing it somewhere and so do
thousands of his twitter followers. Here we enter into the strange
world of truthiness (Steven Colbert) where it doesn't matter if
something is actually true, as long as it feels like it's true. It's
like if we were wondering whether or not there was a tree in my front
yard we don't walk over to my house to see, we just ask the people in
the comfortable bar if they think I have a tree in my front yard and if
they think there is then there must be.
You know I am a big fan of objective reality and I just had to say that.
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