cross-posted from ePluribus Media Community
Future Headline: American People Convicted of Negligent Genocide. International Driver-license Revoked.
I have some failing hope that we'll turn the Titanic at the last second but my dark-moment fears are resurgent.
We Americans fell for the greatest conjob of modern history just three years ago. I felt that had to be the 2x4-magnitude blow to the head that can wake the comatose.
I should have known better.
We should know better (but jump anyhow)
Our favorite TV show should be renamed
American Idle Mind because it looks as though we're lined up by the millions to audition for rerun of the greatest conjob.
This Is the Way It Ends: Attack on Iran May Be Imminent (by areophany).
What other evidence would the world need than to watch no rebellion or coup d'etat play out as The World's Only Superpower is fooled a SECOND time by The World's Greatest Idiot? Instead, even the supposed political opposition prepares to align itself with the stupidest President.
Bits and pieces of the appropriate aphorism are strewn across the cultural landscape but whatever those little bits say, we are living in absentia the reasons for our future indictment.
Lightning Doesn't Strike Twice.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again
Jesus: "Watch out that you are not deceived." (Luke 21:8)
George: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." (At a Washington dinner, March 2001)
- from A Thousand Reasons
Does anyone remember Wag the Dog (1997)?