So multiple times tonight rich white millionaires have appeared beaming on the public airwaves, talking about the man date that voters gave them today. I have just one question: If they wanted a man date that badly, why didn’t they just use Craigslist?
And also, all across the nation, the most corrupt candidate won — the candidate who bribed the most television personalities to endorse him, who catapulted the most dishonest lies into everybody’s households via radio and television and mailers and so forth. You’d expect Americans would wake up and realize that electing wolves to office is not in the best interests of sheep, but that would be expecting the sheep to look up. They rarely do, you know. They spend most of their time with their head down munching on the grass. They don’t ever seem to notice that the wolves are herding them closer and closer to a precipice over which sheep are dropping one at a time in order for the wolves to get free mutton dinners. Funny, that, huh?
Uhm, no election results here, because really, all you need to know is that we’re fucked, we’re fucked badly, and there’s going to be a lot of mutton for dinner on the part of wolves over the next couple of years.
– Badtux the Elections Penguin
I hope that some of them realize this is probably their last big victory, over-extend themselves & give their constituents just what they want, good & hard.
I’ve pretty much run out of sympathy for the sheep.
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Ah, but we are sheep too. Intelligent sheep that understand that voting for mutton for dinner is bad for sheep, but if we were wolves, we’d be rapacious billionaires rather than bitter bloggers snarking from the sidelines. Just sayin’.
Yes, that song of yours definitely was on my mind the past couple of days :).
– Badtux the Sheep Penguin
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Just woke to the news from my little corner of the country. Worse than I thought for the folks in this state, but like M. Bouffant, I think the folks around here are going to get what they want (but didn’t know it) good and hard.
The corporation commission (which sets utility rules for public utilities) just had the two members heavily $upported by the utilities win. The sheep and I are going to pay for the next four years (and pay, and pay, and pay…).
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All we have to do is look at Kansas to see what will happen across the US.
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Not happening here in California though. We had *very* good election results here in California. Since we elected Democrats as a super-majority in our legislature and as governor, we’ve entered an era of good government and good feelings, where government does what it’s supposed to do without all that drama that happens in flyover country. Too bad we can’t secede. Sigh.
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If you want to see the difference between a Democratic run government and a Republican run one simply look at California and Kansas.
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Too bad we can’t secede.
They might just let you.
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The smug SOB GOPers in my state were beaming like jackals about to dig in to a fried carrion (apt description of the dem party here) sandwich on the corporate media sites. If I didn’t have a spouse with no sense of adventure, I’d be headed north to Canada.
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I think Arizona is going to out do Kansas over the next two years. We’ve a 500+ million dollar budget short fall, a education funding case in the court which would tack on another 1.3 billion dollars (over time) to the budget hole, and a projected 1 billion dollar shortfall for 2016. The Governor-elect wants to eliminate income taxes, which would wipe another 4.3 billion dollars out of the budget, and promises to veto any tax increases.
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Wouldn’t the sheep be too busy to notice anything because they are constantly searching for food because some jackass wolves came through with a lawnmower?
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We’ve seen this movie before. We lived through that viewing, we’ll live through this one too. The Democratic party can’t seem to get enough younger people to vote in years that aren’t evenly divisible by 4, and the GOP doesn’t really have that problem. That’s one thing.
Another thing is, for the most part, leopards don’t change their spots. This is especially true when it comes to the so-called mainstream media. For example, I caught Wolf Blitzer on the TV at the pizza place I had lunch at today, talking about how Obama has no choice but to work with Republicans now — as if he had done nothing but sign executive orders for the last six years. He’s the classic media whore case now, he was when I took up blogging ten years ago, and if he’s still around ten years from now, he’ll still be the classic media whore case. Leopards don’t change their spots.
And there’s a third thing. You and I can get up on our soapboxes and scream our heads off. If someone isn’t willing to listen, we’re wasting our breath. But if he is, chances are good that his mind is already made up. Most of the folks who bothered to vote yesterday had their minds made up way in advance, including me. Unless the two major parties somehow switch platforns, I’ll be voting straight Democratic for a long time to come.
The best we can do is try to maintain some order in our own lives and keep on moving. There’ll be another election next November. Enjoy the film…
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Everybody else beat me to it with the Mencken quote: “America is going to get what it deserves — get it good and hard.” Except for maybe California. Maybe I will live long enough to move back there in my retirement, after The Collapse and the Dissolution, when it reverts to being like Mexico is now, only almost half of the residents will be able to speak English.
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Massachusetts ain’t so bad even if we did elect a “Massachusetts Republican” governor.
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