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...about how disingenuous the Republicans are with respect to Donald Trump and all the terrible bullshit he says. Taken partially from a NYT article. First seen (by me) via Facebook.
Pretty much, yeah. Politics as usual, fucking bull/horse/dog/whatever-shit that it is. This shit has been going on for years now, decades now. And now that the whole thing is reaching its logical extreme via the histrionics of Donald Trump, some of the (ever so slightly) less crazy elements of the GOP don't seem to like the smell of it too awfully much. Well, this is the bed they made, so...
Anyway, in response, I'll simply quote George Washington again:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
-- George Washington - excerpted from his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
(This, of course, applies to all political parties, mind you, not just the Republicans. It's just that the Republicans are by far the most egregious of the lot, these days.)
Pretty much, yeah. Politics as usual, fucking bull/horse/dog/whatever-shit that it is. This shit has been going on for years now, decades now. And now that the whole thing is reaching its logical extreme via the histrionics of Donald Trump, some of the (ever so slightly) less crazy elements of the GOP don't seem to like the smell of it too awfully much. Well, this is the bed they made, so...
Anyway, in response, I'll simply quote George Washington again:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
-- George Washington - excerpted from his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
(This, of course, applies to all political parties, mind you, not just the Republicans. It's just that the Republicans are by far the most egregious of the lot, these days.)
