Comments on: Visiting the southern border

By: om

om — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:20:36 +0000

Same thing except the actual mechanisms of the different nations, Great Britain, Zimbabwe, CCP, and the USA. All the same, yet how profound, this dude from Can Do! If only he were the Dear Leader, then all would be well. Take your ()xycontin or your 0xycontin beeblebrox.

By: om

om — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:53:07 +0000

Zaphod craves 0xycontin or just attention? 🙂

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:19:17 +0000

@FOAF:

Be a good fellow now and go pop an O xy Con Tin.

(Good Readers: Ask yourselves why I can type Fentanyl as one word, but if I remove the artificial spacing from the word above then my posts get auto-censored and don’t appear.)

@Damon:

Having spent many of my formative years in a parliamentary democracy nation, trust me when I say that all you get is slightly different expressions of the same old whoring and incompetence.

Besides, in both, Government is run by the permanent bureaucracy, the commentariat, political donors, etc.

Some Trump Demagoguery shines light in a few dark places and might make some Normies see things more clearly, but there is no such thing as a Loyal Opposition in a Parliamentary Democracy — you always end up with the UniParty Punch and Judy Show. Same as USA has now.

There is no voting or constitutional tweaking your way out of this.

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:03:14 +0000

It seems to me that Trump’s acting a bit like the “Leader of the Opposition” in a parliamentary-style system.
In this system, the out-of-power party maintains a “shadow” leadership and cabinet, (Shadow Ministers for…, Spokesman for …) to criticize the government, and offer an alternative to the voters.
When (if…) they get back in power, they have a ready-made team to take on the senior positions of government.
I’ve often thought that the US should adopt something like that. I know that US cabinet-members are not members of congress, but having various candidates “practice” for these positions must surely help.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:46:06 +0000

Talk about projection.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:51:38 +0000

J.J., don’t forget the Fentanyl explosion together with the human trafficking (as well as the increased power, prestige and money that is being granted to Mexico’s entrepreneurial “class”).

Remember: the worse it gets the better it gets (for anyone who thought that the Democrats were original…).

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:19:57 +0000

Yes. Don’t forget that Maximising Attention is Trump’s Personal Utility Function Prime Directive. Any benefit to the people of the USA is a side-effect. Nice when you can get it. That is all.

By: John Guilfoyle

John Guilfoyle — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:09:11 +0000

For a guy who’s shut out of the social media & most major media streams…that POTUS 45 gets a ton of press & free rent in other peoples’ heads.

But until there’s a minefield & machine gun nests along the Rio Grande…that border’s open.

By: Eva Marie

Eva Marie — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 04:06:20 +0000

I live in the Phoenix area. This week I saw 2 cars (different days, locations) with Trump stickers. That’s more then I saw during the last election season. And these were not past election stickers. The natives are restless.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 01:35:13 +0000

@GB:

True.

But whilst you were meditating upon the finer points of soteriology, your neighbour slit your throat.

The trick is to slit his throat first, give him a decent burial, express a heartfelt contrition for acting in self-defence, and then proceed with a light heart to further studies in the Queen of the Sciences.