Hot damn, I am in A Mood and I have to rant, because Thursday.
/pulls out soapbox, hops on.
DUDE! You cannot tell me, or anyone else, that Republican actions in the past few weeks have not been unprecedented. You cannot tell me that. Well, I mean, you can, but then you just sound stupid and ignorant.
In our nation's history, this has never happened before! As a 239-year-old country, we have never witnessed the kind of brazen, craven, and ruthless type of power grab currently playing out in the media and the global world at large. The Speaker of the House invited a foreign leader (from a nation we essentially fund) to speak before Congress without so much as consulting the Executive Branch, breaking protocol and giving the President the middle finger.
That was unprecedented. It has never happened before.
What's worse is that John Boehner invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in our legislative chamber because they both want to go to war with Iran, and our President is actively trying to make sure we don't go to war with Iran. Barack Obama is currently involved in intense negotiations with Iran, and several other nations, to make the fuck sure that doesn't happen.
Again, unprecedented.
Even better is that Benjamin Netanyahu is presently fighting for his political life in Israel, what with Israel's election coming up next week and shit. It would have been inappropriate to ask any foreign leader to speak to Congress in the midst of such an election. Because, ya know, we probably shouldn't be fucking with their elections and stuff.
UNFUCKINGPRECEDENTED! NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED BEFORE!
Nary a week after Netanyahu's craptastic speech to himself and his masturbatory pals in the States, 47 senators embarked on a journey of universal embarrassment and political humiliation, which we are all still directly enjoying. (I know I am, anyway. It's so delicious!)
47 United States senators sent a condescending letter to the leaders of Iran, on United States Senate letterhead, informing them that we have a lame-duck (black) President they don't like, and that we (as a country) will essentially rip off Iran's head and shit down their neck in due time.
HELLO, UNPRECEDENTED! MEET YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND, ILLEGAL!
I don't give a FUCK! what you want to call this heinous illegal activity. Treason (that's way too harsh), sedition, subversion, whatever the hell. We have tons of goddamned laws, and this illegal and highly immoral behavior has got to fit at least one of them.
I don't care. It doesn't matter to me anymore, because this kind of crap simply has to stop. If it doesn't, this behavior will become the "new normal" in the American political landscape, and people will use it and abuse it at will. There is nothing beneath Republicans now: they will do and say whatever they want, whenever they want, and at whatever cost. It will get uglier and uglier, and we will all suffer for it. Our kids will suffer for it. The world will suffer for it.
This is why Democrats consistently lose elections now. We don't STAND for anything in 2015. We let Republicans get away with ... well, everything.
Something as serious as this happens, and you honestly want to tell me that it's unimportant? That is was just a stunt, a stupid political ploy? THEY ARE SCREWING AROUND WITH WAR, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
Find a goddamned law and charge those assholes with it, because they deserve it. Because it's the right thing to do. Because the global community will thank us, and they will clap, and give us a standing ovation.
No more. No more of this. We've had ENOUGH.
/steps down from soapbox.