A friend reminded me of this 2010 Mother Jones story, about the wingnutty conservative who was replaced by Trey Gowdy, the even more batshit insane T-bagger who will be chairing the next Benghazi hearings. You really should read the whole thing, because it’s enlightening, but here’s my favorite part:
During his primary campaign, Inglis repeatedly encountered enraged conservatives whom he couldn’t—or wouldn’t—satisfy. Shortly before the runoff primary election, Inglis met with about a dozen tea party activists at the modest ranch-style home of one of them. Here’s what took place:
I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there’s a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life’s earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, “What the heck are you talking about?” I’m trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, “You don’t know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don’t know this?!” And I said, “Please forgive me. I’m just ignorant of these things.” And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.
Later, Inglis mentioned this meeting to another House member: “He said, ‘You mean you sat there for more than 10 minutes?’ I said, ‘Well, I had to. We were between primary and runoff.’ I had a two-week runoff. Oh my goodness. How do you…” Inglis trails off, shaking his head.
Since it’s now been PROVEN that I’m “collateral for the banks,” I’m going to go ahead and make myself into a CDO and get all, y’know, leveraged up. The way I figure it, by this time next week, I should be able to buy Manhattan outright. It’s gonna be great.
As for Trey Gowdy? Whenever I see that guy, I immediately cue the banjo music from “Deliverance.” In fact, I say we make that tune the permanent theme song for the “hearings” he’s pretending to conduct.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” Which is the real problem with the T-baggers and others. They know a bit about this and a bit about that, but not enough about anything to not go completely off the rails. As a consequence they string lots of credible information together until it all sounds like a lot of nonsense. Do statisticians project gross future earnings for entire populations? Absolutely. Does the Federal Reserve control monetary policy? Certainly. Does the Bilderberger Group conduct its business in secret? They meet every year at a secure location with plenty of armed guards and never release a public report on what went on. Is the entire Jewish population worldwide no more than 1%? It is. To jam all of that information together into one giant conspiracy is just what the oligarchy is hoping we’ll do. What they don’t want us to do is to focus on each thing separately.
Crazy! Republicans are just fucking crazy! Demented, insane! Deluded is a kind word meant to soften the blow, but we all know, even Rethugs themselves. They have the 1% money-cock so far down their throats, their gagging- tears blind them to anything not spit at them by their masters. Sorry for ranting, but I’m just sick of the crazy.
Separates. Going to make a wild guess and say that somewhere in a report is a footnoted section wherein it is stated that we now have the capacity to frame up anyone we don’t like in a way that makes obsolete any Furman-esque detectable bungling. (Unless, of course, you know better.)
Further, we are probably in the test phase of determining that when the village decides it can no longer stand the framed person(s), we can just vote them off the island.
FMI, play (backwards of course) the title tracks on Fiddler on the Roof and Toys in the Attic. Also, look up the name of the person who did the graphics for Max Headroom on Want My MTV. Always thought the falsetto sung by Sting was no-contest impressive. But (again) I digress 🙂 It was so hi-contrast hi-definition there was absolutely no ambiguity in the lesson. Totally clear. Until of course, we find out we’ve all been duped and it’s quite possibly already too too.
Just a guess.
zm, it’s never “too too.” But the longer it goes on the more difficult it is to reverse. That reversal is under way. Obama isn’t helping. To be “framed up,” isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s an age old device used to “work one’s will.” Isn’t “voting them off the island” far superior to beheading them? Those who have been banished can always be reintroduced at some point. But once you’re dead, you’re dead forever. To clarify, “There’s something going on here and you don’t know what it is. Do you Mr. Jones?” That doesn’t need to be played backwards.
Imhotep, thanks for the dialogue. How refreshing. Bravo.
OT1H, you say, “It’s never too too,” unless of course, as you also say, ‘When you’re dead, you’re dead forever.” To reiterate, one Qn of the day being, “What do you expect?”
WRT the balance of the convo, I believe I did spell subtle with the ‘t’ even if you didn’t make note of it.
Agreed the reversal is underway. Good of it. Hostile takeovers are definitively anti-competitive. Perhaps the point is, those in the trenches know just as much about holes left in the net as do the architects. Perhaps more so. Be advised, if you will.
Dark is the Con of Man or somesuch, wasn’t it? Absolutely nonetheless, the advantage of the empaths is knowing that incongruities among levels of Inception always unravel even the most carefully woven threads. Super-symmetry is so bad-arsed that way.