To de victor, despoiled.
Nov. 3rd, 2004 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauI knew this was going to happen.
I knew that if He didn't win honestly (as he appears to have done), He would win legally through the courts, and if He couldn't win legally, He would win illegally (like finding some rabid pro-lifer trained sniper patsy to put a .223 calibre round through President-elect Kerry's frontal lobes).
I'm glad I was wrong about a violent and nasty October surprise to suspend the elections and cement Them in power in a contrived coup d'etat, but I still find it significant that a large number of people apparently would not put it past the present and future Administration.
But that wasn't necessary. The system worked, just the way everything worked the way it was supposed to in Dr. Strangelove.
I wonder if they'll finally get rid of the two-term limit this time, and install Him for life? There was an effort to do this when Reagan was in power.
Remember that Nixon won in 1972, and flamed out the following year. And even he's looking good these days - the good Doctor, Hunter S. Thompson, had this to say in a piece on Rolling Stone, posted on October 20:
"Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
Nixon hated running for president during football season, but he did it anyway. Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
You bet. Richard Nixon would be my Man. He was a crook and a creep and a gin-sot, but on some nights, when he would get hammered and wander around in the streets, he was fun to hang out with. He would wear a silk sweat suit and pull a stocking over his face so nobody would recognize him. Then we would get in a cab and cruise down to the Watergate Hotel, just for laughs."
I hope this plunge to the bottom will at any rate be interesting.
As Uncle Mac used to say on the BBC: "Goodnight, children - everywhere."
I knew that if He didn't win honestly (as he appears to have done), He would win legally through the courts, and if He couldn't win legally, He would win illegally (like finding some rabid pro-lifer trained sniper patsy to put a .223 calibre round through President-elect Kerry's frontal lobes).
I'm glad I was wrong about a violent and nasty October surprise to suspend the elections and cement Them in power in a contrived coup d'etat, but I still find it significant that a large number of people apparently would not put it past the present and future Administration.
But that wasn't necessary. The system worked, just the way everything worked the way it was supposed to in Dr. Strangelove.
I wonder if they'll finally get rid of the two-term limit this time, and install Him for life? There was an effort to do this when Reagan was in power.
Remember that Nixon won in 1972, and flamed out the following year. And even he's looking good these days - the good Doctor, Hunter S. Thompson, had this to say in a piece on Rolling Stone, posted on October 20:
"Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
Nixon hated running for president during football season, but he did it anyway. Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
You bet. Richard Nixon would be my Man. He was a crook and a creep and a gin-sot, but on some nights, when he would get hammered and wander around in the streets, he was fun to hang out with. He would wear a silk sweat suit and pull a stocking over his face so nobody would recognize him. Then we would get in a cab and cruise down to the Watergate Hotel, just for laughs."
I hope this plunge to the bottom will at any rate be interesting.
As Uncle Mac used to say on the BBC: "Goodnight, children - everywhere."
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Date: 2004-11-03 10:59 am (UTC)I posed this same question in my LJ.
"Twin brains" strikes again.
He may not do that, but he'll try to get the law overturned that says an American Presidential candidate has to been born on US soil, to facilitate Arnie's slid into office.
(Shades of that Stallone film....)
And ya know, folks will vote for Arnie 'cause they are just THAT moronic. Look what happened in my own home state.
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Date: 2004-11-03 11:07 am (UTC)But give me time.