Slouching Towards Idiocracy
“I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out.” —Herman Cain!, defending his Libya answer by arguing that a president’s job is to listen to “commanders on the ground”. [JSOnline, via Political Wire]
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know any foreign policy
Don’t know much about any books
Don’t know what Uzbeki beki bki stan took
But I do know that you’re my wife’s height and bra size
And I know that if you vote for me
What a wonderful right wing world this would be
Running a country isn’t the same as running a business. Just thought I’d throw that out. With his background his working definition of trusted advisors would be lobbyists.
For bonus points, note that Cain! is notoriously cagey about telling us just WHO those “advisors” are. I think that if he’s running as a ventriloquist dummy, we deserve to know just whose hand (or Koch) is going to be occupying his ass…
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MANCHUCANDIDATE • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! Can't that dumb motherfucker get anything right? Now he's trying to Drill Baby Drill Greenland…
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JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh shit. “ Cuban state media reported that 32 Cubans were killed in the U.S. attacks in…
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JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Welp Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, President Trump said that “Cuba looks like it is…
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 My mood courtesy of Rhiannon Giddens: https://youtu.be/M7PvWw97Cq0
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 A man who has his family and lackeys deeply embedded in every facet of our government is trying to…