All I can do is shake my head and wonder when the Republican Party will wake up.
I refer a course to the now standard performance of the media moderators in political debates. The allusion is to the Charles Schulz comic strip, “Peanuts. In at least an annual event, Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown to kick. The first year as he came full speed to kick the ball she simply jerked it out of the way. The second year she promised not to do it again. She jerked it out of the way. Then we have a steady progression of every year Charlie Brown acting like he has learned his lesson and refusing to kick the ball while Lucy cons him into it.
If you are over 25 you’ve probably seen this cartoon somewhere. You would think that the Republicans had seen it. Is it just hubris where they think they are so smart, they can overcome a stacked deck? Debate after debate, we have “moderators who have promised to be fair and unbiased”. Debate after debate, we have moderators jerk the football out of the way. Debate after debate the Republicans fall for the same nonsense.
You saw it again a few nights ago. Softball set ups to the Democrat candidate with no answer given to the question and lies layered upon lies. No fact check for Tim Of the Bathroom Dispenser fame. Then they turn to the Republican candidate, gave a long speech full of lies themselves, such as the overwhelming number of scientists saying that global warming is real, and then proceed to ask a question, which is totally different from what they ask the other side. I thought the point was that one candidate would receive the question and have two minutes to answer, and then the other candidate would answer the same question for two minutes, and then you would go back to one minute responses. Maybe I misunderstood the rules. Maybe the rules were ignored. Maybe the rules were just a football jerked out of the way.
It makes you believe that wisdom which says, “Republicans are the stupid party.” Unfortunately, it is still the only alternative we have to the evil party.
homo unius libri
Friday, October 4, 2024
Opus 2024-310: Lucy Lives
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