December 08, 2016 By: El Jefe Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Um, we needed a survey to tell us that?
1I agree. Who is surprised?
2Course we did, maggie, but, doncha know the results are rigged against Drumpf?
3Thank God. I was thinking 90% – 95%.
4I think the survey scoring was tilted so as to get a number lower then 99%.
5Over and over you’ve heard me say this, it’s the con job
Back when I was a semi-professional political operative, I had a mentor (In Chicago, we call that a “chinaman”) and he taught me that individuals are smart, but people are stupid.
Political pros use that to execute a con on the voter. Like any good con, the mark’s own prejudice and vice is used against him. He willfully participates in getting conned out of his vote. Operatives spend BILLIONS AND BILLIONS, all of which goes to themselves and other politicoes, to separate you from your vote.
Sounds cynical? Sounds evil? Sounds anti-American? Wondering what happened to our country? Let me tell you a story:
In 1755, George Washington lost his first election (for the Virginia House of Burgesses) because his opponent provided more booze to the electorate on voting day. He never made that mistake again, eventually becoming the biggest distiller in America. And President.
OK, he became the biggest distiller AFTER he was President, but the point is, for 300 years in this country, the politicoes, including the Father of His Country, have been buying votes, with the enthusiastic connivance of the voter. At least back then you got a buzz. Now, all you get is the hangover.
6Primo, I live just down the way from the rebuilt distillery! They even have wee airline type bottles of the brew for the tourists. Its one of the best tourist draws around here and people go away happy inasmuch as there dis a “gift” shop. Distilling whiskey allowed The General to die out of debt of for the first time in his existence.
7My pipes, in nw iowa, were frozen this morning and the temps haven’t gotten below zero yet. How stoopid is that? We have had dangerous windchills for a couple days. Why can’t they freeze the mango Mengele?
8Washington’s disillusionment with the Articles of Confederation as a businessman trying to negotiate contested waterways, differing currencies, the odd tariff here and there, etc was one of – I say ONE of – the reasons he got the old band back together to agitate for a stronger centralized government. So they were sent to Philadelphia to “fix” the Articles, and wrote a Constitution instead.
As to the dumbness of the electorate – Chris Hayes featured the wonderful author Michael Lewis (think Moneyball) last night, and he has a new book that’s immediately going into my next e-mail to Santa: The Undoing Project
From the NPR write-up: “In his new book, The Undoing Project, Lewis tells the story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists who made some surprising discoveries about the way people make decisions. Along the way, they also founded an entire branch of psychology called behavioral economics.”
Short answer: even when they think they are acting rationally, people react to how a choice is presented, not the choice itself. And when they are faced with “tragedy” they undo a single step leading to the tragedy (usually the last step) and think fixing that fixes everything.
9I’ve been caught out on these fake things a couple of times until some eagle-eyed Facebook friends nailed me on them (which is incredibly embarrassing), but often it’s me researching the stuff and calling them out. It’s pretty hard sometimes to tell the bullshit from the bull, but there’s a big percentage of really obvious stuff that is easy to spot.
All of this is making me really tired, but I have at least recovered enough to come out from under the covers, and I have stopped sucking my thumb. So there’s that.
10Snopes helps sift thru the bs and rather quickly as well.
The problem now is how falsehoods are perceived by right wing nut jobs. They tend to believe falsehoods are true even in the face of irrefutable evidence. So everything Drumpf sez is, to them, gospel.
11Primo Encarnación, as a semi-professional political operative would you say that there is a chance for @KellyannePolls to redeem herself after foisting BLOTUS upon us? Or, is she condemned forever like in a Dante or Faustian novel to circle the alleys of Dee Cee air starting winos in an attempt to regain her self respect?
“It was only a job.” or “I was ‘only’ following orders” didn’t work out so well for Adolf Eichmann and others.
12@AKLynne … every day I come out from under the covers, but every day what I read or hear via the new — which I generally get on NPR — I want to crawl back under there. My thumb is raw now, so letting it heal up. I find I’m listening a lot more to music radio these days because the news is just so horrifying. There was a good article in Rolling Stone in October about living in the Age of Fear. The author cited a case of how listening to conservative talk radio, Fox News and the like turned one woman’s even-tempered liberal father into a raving lunatic. And then after he (I forget why) was forced to disconnect from all that for some period of time, he turned back into the mild-mannered man he was before. It’s a good article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-were-living-in-the-age-of-fear-w443554
13J&PKM I wonder if I have even redeemed myself for the relatively obscure Republicans I helped elect.
Conway, though, ya know? The way that right eye twitches, I think she’s possessed – kinda like Steve Martin in All of Me –
14and can only telegraph “help me [stop]” Morse code with her right eye.
Said it before, wingnuts know they are liars, they know we know they are liars and they don’t care that we know they lie. If jumped up christ on a crutch showed up and told them they were going to hell for lying they would accuse him of being a Drumpf hater.
15Some possible good news- http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/famed-holocaust-attorney-sues-over-fbi
Someone finally has the balls to sue the FBI and get answers why they meddled in the election for Drumpf.
16Possibly more good news- CNN Politics ✔ @CNNPolitics
17Sen. Lindsey Graham says he plans to lead an investigation into the alleged Russian hacking in US elections
11:58 AM – 7 Dec 2016
Bad news- John Glenn has passed away. Hero astronaut- as a senator-not so much.
18RIP, Mr. Glenn. I guess you found a way to get out of Dodge before the shootin’ starts. Good move.
If you read between the lines in these stats: people were giving their opinions on whar they “felt”, not what they knew. When your perceptions rule your thinking and not your knowing, then El Jefe is correct. WE. ARE. DOOMED.
19e platypus onion,
20Ms. Lindsey G versus Vlad Putin, the SVR RF/GRU/FSB, and hordes of Russki black ops?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…