He Announces, I React
Mar. 23rd, 2015 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm trying to tone down the politics on this blog, but sometimes, I just have to get a comment or two off my chest.
Right now, I've got to at least note at least a few of the burning tone-deaf hypocrisies in Ted Cruz running for President. Like how one can "Take back the Constitution" by announcing a Presidential campaign at a religious college in defiance of the First Amendment. Like how shutting the government down apparently makes you qualified to lead it. Like going on record saying only "corageous conservatives" "love liberty" and assuming that the non-conservatives won't take massive offense come time to pull the voting lever. We remember these things come the general election, Teddy darlin'.
In a way, I do look forward to this campaign, for two reasons. First, the faster he crashes and burns out of politics, the healthier the country will be. Even Gingrich knew better than to try to halt the government a second time, but Cruz seems ever eager to throw more people out of work to prove how much he appreciates the common workers.
But more than that, second, I intend to make a LOT of popcorn and find out how it is that a man born in Canada totally counts as a natural-born citizen because his mother's American, while another man born on American soil to an American mother remains a commie fascist muslim ringer. I do SO hope that the Daily Show gets a few shots in about that before Jon Stewart leaves.
Right now, I've got to at least note at least a few of the burning tone-deaf hypocrisies in Ted Cruz running for President. Like how one can "Take back the Constitution" by announcing a Presidential campaign at a religious college in defiance of the First Amendment. Like how shutting the government down apparently makes you qualified to lead it. Like going on record saying only "corageous conservatives" "love liberty" and assuming that the non-conservatives won't take massive offense come time to pull the voting lever. We remember these things come the general election, Teddy darlin'.
In a way, I do look forward to this campaign, for two reasons. First, the faster he crashes and burns out of politics, the healthier the country will be. Even Gingrich knew better than to try to halt the government a second time, but Cruz seems ever eager to throw more people out of work to prove how much he appreciates the common workers.
But more than that, second, I intend to make a LOT of popcorn and find out how it is that a man born in Canada totally counts as a natural-born citizen because his mother's American, while another man born on American soil to an American mother remains a commie fascist muslim ringer. I do SO hope that the Daily Show gets a few shots in about that before Jon Stewart leaves.
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Date: 2015-03-24 05:05 am (UTC)Anyone who purposely throws a temper tantrum that costs his own country 24 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS just to spite the President should automatically be disqualified from ever holding any office. Ever.
And we laugh - as we should - but at the same time we should be scared, because this piece of crap is coming right out and saying he wants to turn this country into a goddamn theocracy - he announced his candidacy in one of the worst evangelical places, after all - and you can be assured that this theocracy would have none of Christ's compassion and all of Old Testament God's vengeful, vicious fury. The Bible-bangers may not quite have enough muscle to rule yet, but they're working on it, and given that the Rethugs have rigged and gerrymandered the shit out of previous elections, well...it's not faith-inspiring, to say the least (pun intended).
Oh, and the reason why a Canadian born on Canadian ground to an American mommy is ok while an American born on American soil to an American mother is a commie pinko fascist Moozlim? One is black, and we all know who it is.
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Date: 2015-03-24 09:31 am (UTC)Not only that, but spends all that money for nothing *in the name of fiscal responsibility!*
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Date: 2015-03-25 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-25 04:27 pm (UTC)