Of course she does. I mean, Pol Pot? There’s a man who could “get things done”! And Samantha Power values a powerful, imperial Executive — and is unafraid to express her appreciation for those who fought for such a thing. Dissent being the highest form of patriotism, unless you happen to be one of those fucking teabaggers.
It isn’t even hidden any longer: these people openly pine for Chinese-style authoritarian government, hang posters of cowardly child killer Che Guevara in their government offices, carry around copies of Mao’s little red book, and are far more familiar with the writings of Marx or Foucault or some Gramscian clone writing about critical race theory and the economic injustice of a free market capitalist system, then they are with our own country’s history, free from the filter of Howard Zinn.
Yet to call them what they are — Marxists, Stalinists, Leninists, Troskyites, communists, socialists, soft-socialists, European-style socialists, progressives (as an import of Fabian socialism) — is the sign of your being a Visigoth, a Hobbit, an unhelpful arsonist and filthy extremist who is losing “us” the great and mighty independent vote (which Cuccinelli won in Virginia, somehow, which must mean that they’re just too stupid to know how extreme he is, and how he couldn’t possibly win!) and preventing “us” from regaining power, from winning, which evidently has become an end in and of itself. Because of the PURITY TESTS!
(h/t Terry H)
Jeff, I think you’re missing the great thing about authoritarian government. “I was just following orders” is the ultimate avoidance of responsibility. Nothing says “freedom” quite like the phrase “I was just following orders.”
BECAUSE OF THE PURITY TESTS is the new BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY.
Well given her boss got his political start in the salon of Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, supporting Jane Fonda hardly seems an issue.
Unless you are a H8T H8er!
I need to vomit but cannot because nothing is down there to chuck. Is that pathetic or what? At the first sentence. That’s the vomity part, they so often do give it all away the very first sentence. I’m seeing more and more of that. Articles mailed to me. Snail mail even. Bloomberg articles that give away the underlying conceit the very first sentence.
“You know life has changed when you’re hanging out with Jane Fonda backstage.
Yes. Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. Very ugly people. Ugly up and down inside and out through and through utterly saturated with ugly. That’s Washington. And she gives it away the fist sentence.
UN, New York, I know that, but she is a product of Washington.
She is dazzled by celebrity and imagines herself among them. It’s the first thing out of her mouth. Simply not a serious woman, or else she would be struggling instead to refrain from.
“I was waiting backstage in the same room with an actress, talk about bathos, but I’ll try not hold that against anybody, mere oversight I suppose. Such is life in America. Ha! You never do know who you’re going be sitting next to.”
“Top” used to have a different meaning which was synonymous to best. With this rainbow colored administration it has taken on a more gay context as meaning the one who is doing the fucking of us all.
Power praises Fonda, whereas in a beautiful demonstration (unknowingly) making use of himself, Jay Leno shows exactly how Orwellian doublethink is done, and in the process (in which of course, adhering to the Orwellian principle, Leno does not regard himself in the least, but in the extreme), has no praise at all for Sen. Ted Cruz. If a hated figure must have the gall to appear on his show, a show of some kind must be made.
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