The Second Of November
For reasons known only to them, according to Digby the Republican Governors Conference has decided to adopt Guy Fawkes, a religious fanatic who attempted to blow up a government building, as their symbol. I guess it was too soon for them to use Der Reichstagsbrand [Reichstag fire].
Would anyone care to compare and contrast Guy Fawkes and Osama bin Laden?
So, on November 2nd when you enter the voting booth, do you want to elect those who are apparently OK with blowing up the US Capitol?
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OK. Well, that proves that US politicians are f****** insane!!
Geez.
I think they are channeling the movie “V for Vendetta”. Ya know where V dares to stand up to the government while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and is labeled as a terrorist.
I seriously doubt their target audience knows who the real Guy Fawkes was or what he stood for. They probably watched that move though.
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Kryten, they are Republicans, calling them insane is redundant. Were the Liberals under Howard sane?
Good thing I wasn’t the target audience, Lady Min, because I know about Guy Fawkes, but was not familiar with the movie. Based on the Wikipedia article I’m not sure that their base would understand why anyone would oppose a government that threw non-whites and non-straight people in prison. Actually the government sounds a lot like the US under the Hedgemony, but then irony rusts in Republican hands.
Only two kinds of people become Politicians. The criminals or the insane. 🙂
*shrug*
With Howard and Bush we got cross-breeding.
Well… I was going to add “criminally insane”. 😆 And Blair… But I suspect he was just a plain old fool. 😉 I could be wrong about that but. 😀
Blair is a religious fundamentalist and actually thought that Bush was too. The “true believers” tend to accept the most absurd things if they are presented in the “prophetic” voice.
A sane person might have thought that when Bush was caught in a yarmulke praying at the wailing wall that he wasn’t really a christo fundi! 😈
I don’t think the Bushmoron really believed in anything. I think he was basically a coward who was only interested in his own skin.
Howard was once a *true believer*, but when he became PM, he was just in it for whatever he could get out of it for himself and his *friends* (which was pretty much anyone who would kiss his ass constantly). I think the main differences between Bushmoron And Howard are that Shrub really, really wanted to be admired for *something* (and to ensure a lifetime of comfort for himself), and Howard was just a clever, but ultimately an unimaginative, bastard. 🙂
Blair would bend over for anyone who threw him a bone and said he was a *good boy*! 😈 (OK… There was more to Blair than that, but I’m not in a very kind mood right now) 😛
I’ve always thought of the evangelicals as wannabe Jews, i.e. they like all of the strum und drang of the Old Testament, but they lack the guts to be circumcised. The US version are true-blue Likudniks. It deals with their obsession with the Apocalypse and belief that the old borders of Israel are necessary before it can happen.
The Shrubbery had “Daddy issues” and the world paid the price.
You have a point about the faux-christo fundies being wannabe jews. 🙂 The fact that the Jews have a lot of the money (no matter how much they want everyone to believe otherwise) would be a MAJOR attraction to the greedy fundie *wolves in shepherd clothing* types who run most of the fundie religion con’s. 😈
Funny thing about shrub’s daddy issues… Daddy really didn’t *appear* to like Jews much (and *his* daddy tried to help Hitler wipe them out). The two often seemed to be at odds over the 8 years the busmoron ruled. I often wondered about that… Of course, appearances can be deceiving! 😉
I don’t think the fundies really believe in anything other than power and money. (Of course, the fleeced flocks will believe whatever their master’s tell them).
Given the laws of the Middle Ages that pretty much forced Jews to be the bankers in Europe, as the “real money” was in real estate and Jews weren’t allowed to buy it, so they put their money in movable assets like precious metals and jewels. Since the merchants in Asia wouldn’t accept French villages for spices and silks, the Jews got tapped for ready cash. The Jewish reform of Richard I in Britain that “improved the status of Jews” was actually a law that made Richard the only one who could borrow from them. It was a lot simpler than trying to collect taxes and the terms were good – or else.
In the Orthodox areas the monasteries became the bankers as the Jewish population wasn’t really allowed to make money and the monasteries had extra cash from donations of the “faithful”. Money and religion have very old and close ties.
The Shrubbery was always trying to “best” his father, and never took any advice from him. Essentially the whole point of the Hedgemony was to prove he was better than his Daddy.