The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 6/7/12

When I saw this week’s title, I immediately wondered whether you meant Arnold Schwarzenegger or Arnold the Pig from Green Acres. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I have a weird brain.

Chez, 18th Century English was a whole lot different than 21st Century English. “More perfect” was gramatically perfectly acceptable (and not in a “perfectly cromulent” sort of way).

Ah-nuld wasn’t the choice of the Republican establishment in California to run in the recall election (he wasn’t nearly far-right enough for them). The rest of the Rs running were the ones who’d gotten stomped flat in the regular election cycle. Schwarzenegger was more or less freelancing (and I still to this day do not understand how he got elected and reelected).

Greenwald and Sirota are self-important twits who deserve to be severely ignored, but there are a lot of people who think the two of them are brilliant—mostly, I think, because they get buffaloed by the careful use of language. (In the same vein, I used to like and admire Robert Scheer—who was a skilled reporter and who could be counted on to have all his facts straight before he sat down to type an opinion piece—but he’s been trying for three years to one-up Greenwald and Sirota in attacking Obama from the Left. He’s still a good writer, but he’s become completely unhinged from reality.)

It is possible for Mitt Romney to win in November, but Barack Obama has a lot more paths to a win than Romney does (because of the Electoral College). Romney is a dreadful candidate who should get crushed, but he’s white, which makes up for his lack of empathy and lack of charisma and lack of humanity.

What scares me most about Romney is that his big-deal foreign policy adviser is John Bolton—you know, the guy who hates the UN and wants to start wars with Iran and North Korea because, well, just because. No one who takes the Mustache of Doom seriously should be allowed anywhere near the White House, not even as part of a tour group.

Chez, in the event of another major terrorist attack, my sense is that the country wouldn’t fall in line behind The Black Guy (or The Democratic President generally) but would do so behind The Republican President because of all the national security/strength/America fuck yeah!/kill ‘em right back malarkey the country has internalized over the past forty or fifty years.

If zombie Andrew Breitbart does attack, I know just the guy to stand beside.

Rachel Maddow is effective because she’s very very smart and because she relies on facts instead of rhetorical tricks or screechiness. It’s also why Republicans and conservatives in general won’t go on her show.

And Karl Rove is a lying liar who lies. In other news, water is wet.

The Republicans as The Village People. Brilliant. And disturbing. Very disturbing. The image of Mitch McConnell in a feather headdress is going to haunt my dreams for a very long time. You bastards.

My word, I do bang on don’t I?

–alopecia

EDITED because I screwed up the URL in the linky.

I really liked Chez’s analogy of the two Venn Diagrams of reality that no longer connect; whereas before they were mostly the same base from which you could draw two seperate opinions from, now there’s no reason from someone who rejects reality to try to find common ground with us.

I really do think that for all intents and purposes we are living in a Cold Civil War.