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The GOP hate reactor has lost its liquid Bobo coolant
The fact that the plutocracy has lost control of its wingnut fuel rods does not fill me with calm.
Ten years ago I explained to my then-tiny readership how the GOP works using a cutaway diagram of a nuclear reactor.
The GOP was (and is) powered by it's radioactive base. A...
The tricky part about this arrangement was never getting the nutjobs heated up: they come out of the ground bitter and paranoid and looking to take it out on somebody. The tricky bit has always been modulating their rage and directing it where the Party Elites wanted it to go while at the same time continuously lying to the rest of the world about the existence of the party's Radioactive Base or their means by which they contain and target the crazies:
For that they needed a coolant system:
And that is what has now broken down. The humiliating public failures and disintegration of the Bush regime turned the Base into a bomb, and the election of a black Democrat lit the fuse. Reactor temperature spiked up and stayed up as the party base were encouraged to hurl themselves even deeper into the black hole of delusion and denial by putting on funny hats, waving funny flags and start pretending en masse that they had never even heard of George W. Bush.
And then along came a spider. A glitch in the matrix. Along came Donald Trump, who was willing to go where the Party Elite was not. Who could not be bought or outshouted and who, most importantly , understood the psychology of conservative chumps better that the Party Elite that manufactured them...
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2016/01/reactionary-ii-bridge-we-have-coolant.html
The GOP was (and is) powered by it's radioactive base. A...
...three-dimensional array of the ignorant, the hateful, the insane and the Christopath Right.
Individually, these samples of Enlightenment’s backwash make a persuasive argument that the good of our common humanity would be better served if the hatecults that fester in the wounds of our Democracy were gathered together for an All Ratfuckers Tribal Council at the Trinity Site and spontaneously Raptured into the stratosphere in a single, thermonuclear flash.
Collectively, they are the Modern GOP, and by putting every last species of botched American citizenship and knuckledragging bigot in harness together under one whip, the Republican Party has clawed its way to power.
The tricky part about this arrangement was never getting the nutjobs heated up: they come out of the ground bitter and paranoid and looking to take it out on somebody. The tricky bit has always been modulating their rage and directing it where the Party Elites wanted it to go while at the same time continuously lying to the rest of the world about the existence of the party's Radioactive Base or their means by which they contain and target the crazies:
For that they needed a coolant system:
The Koolant system that keeps it all from blowing apart at the seams and melting itself back into the masturbatory fever dreams of every wannabe Jefferson Davis circulate a viscous Koolaid-based composite goo made up of 43% David Brooks, 27% Tom Friedman, 23% Tim Russert, 12% Joe Klein and 10% David Broder....
And that is what has now broken down. The humiliating public failures and disintegration of the Bush regime turned the Base into a bomb, and the election of a black Democrat lit the fuse. Reactor temperature spiked up and stayed up as the party base were encouraged to hurl themselves even deeper into the black hole of delusion and denial by putting on funny hats, waving funny flags and start pretending en masse that they had never even heard of George W. Bush.
And then along came a spider. A glitch in the matrix. Along came Donald Trump, who was willing to go where the Party Elite was not. Who could not be bought or outshouted and who, most importantly , understood the psychology of conservative chumps better that the Party Elite that manufactured them...
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2016/01/reactionary-ii-bridge-we-have-coolant.html
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They will not now be heard to complain about it tearing the castle down on top of them. Sucks to be them.
but the fuel has mutated, and the coolant can no longer control it.
Mostly I wanted to type "liquid Bobo coolant'", which is one of the funniest phrases ever.
