I saw this earlier today.
Michelle Fiore is running for governor of Nevada.
Her platform such as it is, appears to be Boobs, Guns, Trucks, love for Donald Trump and hate for the media.
In other words she's hoping that she gives enough idiot white dudes a boner and enough other people don't take her seriously that she can climb the resulting giant phallus to higher office like the people in the Old Testament who built the Tower of Babel.
But this one's made of dicks.
Seriously?
Part of who I used to be died inside, seeing this.
I used to be a conservative Republican.
One of the main reasons I'm not is Sarah Palin.
It bothers me that the Palin routine, vapid gun bunny/religious nut combo has become a...if not the...winning move for female Republicans.
And if people like Lauren Blowbert and MTG are any indication nobody who's doing this really cares about government or public service, let alone doing a good job. They just want to get famous and make money.
And conservative internet morons are happy to let them.
None of these people have anything but contempt for the common person, let alone anybody who needs anything.
People who play to your base impulses and try to make you think with your dicks ain't your friends.
Politics isn't an action movie, let alone the kind that used to be on Showtime after 1 A.M. that features some hot model with big boobs in a starring role with some character actor dude to drool along behind her, stereotype villains and improbable fight scenes.
It's not Trump and his followers trying to turn the presidency into WWE.
It's not all this Tijuana donkey show bullshit that Republicans have embraced.
Good government is boring. Good government is people like Joe Biden, or hell Al Gore, George Bush (technically either of them) Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, hell even John McCain before he lost his damn mind after losing the election.
Good government isn't what Republicans or their donors or the corporations currently want. They want bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted while they rob us blind for a couple decades before the world and the situation we're all in gets bad enough that they have to behave. But by then there won't be anything else left to steal.
And maybe they can get people to accept slavery in return for a loaf of bread and some distracting political show filled with vapid wannabe celebrities without anybody seeing the sociopathic political handlers who nobody voted for. You know, the people really running things.
This is already the state of things within the Republican party and people are all too willing to support it for the chimerical illusion of "Owning the Libs " whatever that means. Meanwhile life gets worse.
Doesn't this seem fucked up to you yet?
This shit isn't what I was taught.
The old country club Republicans my Grandpa and I used to cut the grass for and fix their houses? They made fun of the people who dominate their movement today. They sought to take advantage. They thought that the people who are the current Republican base and younger Republican politicians of today were stupid. Eventually those guys got crowded out of their own party or they died off.
The stupid people took over.
The next generation gave in, bitterness was easier than even pretended high ideals.
There's nothing left of the old Republicans, even the brand is dead. .
The culture war remains but it's a dystopian parody of what it once was. They couldn't stop social change so now they just want to imagine getting revenge for it.
But the impulse towards contempt remains and it's getting worse.
Even to the point of killing their own voters with lies.
At least the old WASP-y shits that I used to know were pragmatic and knew that they couldn't fuck shit up too badly.
Nothing about Michelle Fiore says she's that smart.
If you want a better country then you have to be a better citizen.
And this ain't it.
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