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trinityvixenI suppose I'm due for one.
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moonlightalice e-mailed this link to me. I read it and it hit me like a freight train full of elephants:
The current administration--and by extension the McCain group that is virtually the same in tenor--runs itself like its participating in a global reality TV show, and it doesn't matter how bad it screws the other guys because they'll get kicked off the show and it won't have to worry about them.
It's brilliant, if I do say so myself. Think about it. It's there in the lousy moves we pull on our "allies," the way we squandered international goodwill in the first episode by doing really dickish things to the other players who didn't necessarily deserve it even if they had really annoying, incompatible with co-sharing the house habits. As a result, we, America, are the drunk, slutty saboteur contestant that's a huge joke to the audience and the other contestants. As soon as our antics cease to amuse, when it becomes clear that our self-destructive behavior and stubbornness are intractible, the other housemates are going to band together and kick our asses out.
The guy we used to sleep with (Britain) is finding excuses to be elsewhere when we're horny for some "assistance." The ones we used to mentor, no matter their objections (Southeast Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan), have finally learned the most important lesson: those who can't play, coach. Only, we didn't count on all the innocent bystanders who got hurt by our slapping them around coming back. We thought they were gone. But in a surprise twist, they get to come back for a final tribal council.
We are so screwed.
moonlightalice e-mailed this link to me. I read it and it hit me like a freight train full of elephants:The current administration--and by extension the McCain group that is virtually the same in tenor--runs itself like its participating in a global reality TV show, and it doesn't matter how bad it screws the other guys because they'll get kicked off the show and it won't have to worry about them.
It's brilliant, if I do say so myself. Think about it. It's there in the lousy moves we pull on our "allies," the way we squandered international goodwill in the first episode by doing really dickish things to the other players who didn't necessarily deserve it even if they had really annoying, incompatible with co-sharing the house habits. As a result, we, America, are the drunk, slutty saboteur contestant that's a huge joke to the audience and the other contestants. As soon as our antics cease to amuse, when it becomes clear that our self-destructive behavior and stubbornness are intractible, the other housemates are going to band together and kick our asses out.
The guy we used to sleep with (Britain) is finding excuses to be elsewhere when we're horny for some "assistance." The ones we used to mentor, no matter their objections (Southeast Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan), have finally learned the most important lesson: those who can't play, coach. Only, we didn't count on all the innocent bystanders who got hurt by our slapping them around coming back. We thought they were gone. But in a surprise twist, they get to come back for a final tribal council.
We are so screwed.
