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The Don has a Math Problem
Question: Why does Don Poorelone throw ketchup on walls? Answer: So he can’t see what’s written there. The Stable Genius, Don Poorelone, has a math problem. Well, that’s one of several problems he has, but the math problem is the most significant of them all. The nature of the math problem is not enough Republicans are voting for him in the Primaries. Elections are won in the ranks of the undecided, it’s true. But when Republicans are wandering off the reservation before the main event even takes place, it does not bode well for the Republican nominee. If the Republican dyed in the wool faithful are jumping ship then you can bet the independents are not buying passage.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
Is There Really Life Beyond the MAGA Puddle of Perception?
We human beings are just captured way too often by our imaginations. I think it’s pretty easy to step into that puddle. You looking for where and how that happens? Just take a little peek into the goings on in Washington since Congress has returned. Nothing much has changed and they’re still swimming in the same puddle they were in when they went on break, which is not the least bit surprising. The reason they’re swimming in circles, though, looks like they’re being led in circles by two mental giants or maybe two otherworldly multiverse travelers. Whatever they are, they don’t do much unless you count swimming in circles as some kind of accomplishment.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
Republicans! Here’s a Hint, Eve Had a Point of View Too
Republicans just don’t know if they should shit or go blind. They’ve fought for years to establish the idea that abortion is wrong. The only problem with that stance is the problems women have when their lives are upended with a pregnancy. Well, those problems do not give a single fuck about laws that any state passes to insist that all the citizens of that state ignore reality. God just screwed up when he/she/it made women. Cripes, it’s right there in Genesis. Women are being punished for being more curious than men. Therefore, it’s clear, some 5000 years later, that Adam and Eve were evil through and through. Not only that but it was Eve who had to have some apple. She knew better and made poor Adam do something he really did not want to do. The only reason God was PO’ed with Adam was because he didn’t stand up for what God told him to do with his old lady. Apparently, Adam’s fig leaf prevented tanning in certain essential areas which support manly manliness, and poor Adam succumbed to the succubus Eve. Maybe it’s just me, but that story has some parts in it that answer a lot of my questions, but it surely does raise a bunch of questions I can’t answer, too.
By John Worthington2 years ago in The Swamp
Why American Voters Should Choose Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
As the 2024 presidential election looms, Americans confront a pivotal choice: support Kamala Harris, the sitting Vice President, or former President Donald Trump. Here are ten compelling reasons why Kamala Harris is the superior candidate for the presidency, especially as she aims to become the first female president of the United States.
By David Snam2 years ago in The Swamp
The Thinly Veiled Racism of the Republican Orange Boy Fantasy
My daddy told me one time when I was knee-high to a grasshopper–okay it was a really big grasshopper–that I would do well to look a man in the eye when he paid me. I was not to take my pay by reaching behind my back to get it. In time I learned that to do as he instructed, it was necessary to do my work as he had instructed me too. His only instruction about work was, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” Right meant that not only was work to be done to a standard higher than a client could reach himself and to be done efficiently and, obviously, so that it could not be done better in the same time by anyone. It could be done as well, but if someone could do it better, the job just wasn’t done yet. I’ve found in my brief sojourn here in this world that the old man knew what he was talking about.
By John Worthington2 years ago in The Swamp
Have We Become a Nation of Pig Beauty Apologists?
Not that it’s any of my business particularly, but I have a couple of thoughts about “woke” that I’d like to run by you for your esteemed consideration. I think there’s a good chance that underneath the Republican bullshit about the poor old unsuspecting word “woke,” there are some real nuggets of wisdom we shouldn’t ignore completely, merely because some often offensive Other thought smart thoughts. Besides, I suspect that the part of what those folks are calling “woke” is really a stupid part of the “We all be one big old feelings protected family. Kumbaya!” crowd and other equally challenged demographics on both sides of the great Left/Right divide. Maybe what the anti-woke wing of the Freedom Circus is trying to say (but lack the verbal mastery to spit out), is there are word salads which just do not make sense simply because they do not define reality but rather attempt to put lipstick on all their pigs. That is something that has gradually become all too real in our society. I fear we’ve advanced into a nation of pig beauty apologists.
By John Worthington2 years ago in The Swamp
6B vs 53 Years of Keeping the Country Safe
I’ve been watching news reports over the last few days of what I suppose to have been a hearing on something, but it turned out to be a bitch session for our long-time source of great material, 6B (Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body). I do so wish that girl understood the difference between knowing how you know anything at all and claiming knowledge of anything at all without knowing the source of that knowledge. 6B wouldn’t even acknowledge that Dr. Fauci was actually a doctor with decades of experience. She stated that he should be in jail because she didn’t like to have to wear a mask.
By John Worthington2 years ago in The Swamp
With Friends Like These You’d Crib Out in Court Too
Is Will Smith up for a new role? Men in Red Ties? What a spectacle, eh? Big Orange in court for a crime that got his fixer 3 years. His fixer was convicted for the same damned thing Big is in court for. Big and the fixer were in it together. There’s a little bit of a backstory here. Seems Big Orange is such a sensitive human being that he needs a mental health specialist, like his niece. I think she must have written a prescription for Big. If it wasn’t her, it must have been someone else close to him, like his mommy. I can’t pinpoint exactly who, but someone must have prescribed sleep therapy to counteract tense events in his life, like being nearly 80. I think the prescription must say something like–if an event is overly intense the best way to keep the heart from exploding from pride or something is to just zone out. Sleep is good for the inventive mind. Tesla, Franklin, Bell, Ford, Einstein and now Big Orange all endorse naps as a rejuvenating and creative activity which costs very little. Well, usually, I don’t know how much it costs to crib out in court.
By John Worthington2 years ago in The Swamp
