Dear Republicans: remember when you spent years investigating HRC's role in Benghazi for some fucking reason? Where did that earnest dedication to Getting To The Bottom Of Things go?
Was talking with one of my contractors a few weeks back. He was extremely incensed that the Seahawks weren't in the Superbowl because "the refs cheated us." When I observed that perhaps Seattle wasn't in the Superbowl because Atlanta played significantly better ball in the playoffs, he said "yeah... but the refs still cheated us out of a lot of plays."
Principled Republicans have long since been swept to the margins while the opportunists and shrillspeakers take over. It's all a game and any error in your favor isn't an error and any excuse as to why you aren't perfect is a good excuse. Of course Clinton is going to be investigated. She's the antichrist. And of course the Trump administration isn't. They're the home team.
Welcome back, by the way. Don't be such a stranger.
Thanks. I've been lurking, but I have very little to say this year.
Now that I'm in Kentucky, I know a lot of people who cheer the President's every move. And I've found myself totally gobsmacked that we can have such different takes on the same circumstances. And then an acquaintance here quoted the old "3 million illegal voters" spiel and I thought "aha. I need to compare the nouvaeu Right's information sources to my own so that I can better understand why they see things the way they do, and maybe gain some perspective."
So for the past few days I've made a point of checking Fox News and Breitbart every time something breaks on NPR and NYTimes. Besides getting used to the taste of throw-up, I'm coming to learn that "cognitive dissonance" isn't strong enough a term to apply to the situation. There's a level of denial/willful ignorance- not to mention a total lack of irony- going on here that doesn't just bother me, it deeply worries me.
I recommend that everybody read both sides of every news item. It's illuminating.
In talking to my buddy's dad right before the election, a man who watches Fox news religiously, I realized he had no idea who Steve Bannon was. Bannon, the Antichrist of liberal media, apparently just wasn't a topic that was if interest to the average Fox viewer. That's how different our news is.
Oh, I'm sure there's a list of liberal operatives totally unknown to me that any conservative could spout off like an Old Testament lineage. That I could halfway understand. It's when "FLYNN RESIGNS" is (rightfully) front page news on WaPo and co., but it doesn't show up until halfway down the Fox feed and then only in small print and then only in the context of it underscoring the threat of leakers within the inner circle. That's not even counter-propaganda, that's ignoring really really big stuff that should matter to everyone.