So McCain hires a vagina for his running mate in the hopes of being able to go up against a black man in November’s election. Cuz when you get down to it, that’s how the Republicans seem to be thinking. A black man on the ballot is historic enough that he may get elected based solely on that. Never mind the fact that he’s intelligent and charismatic, to the Republicans he is only a thing. A Black Man. OOooooooo, scary! How to combat that? Well, let’s get an equally Historic Thing as a running mate and fight fire with fire. You guys have a Black Man on your ticket? So what! We’re gonna get a Vagina on ours and guess what? Maybe some of your people will vote for our Vagina, because you guys had a Vagina running against your Black Man a few months ago! So THERE!
Whatever happened to Merit? You know, get somebody who can do the best job possible so as to fortify your position of being able to lead this country into the Bright and Wonderful Future? No, we don’t have time for that shit here in ‘Murika. Here we slander the competition as vigorously as we can because it’s much easier to point out other’s failings (real or fabricated) than it is to point out one’s own merits.
So what happens? Quotas get filled and people who aren’t qualified get promoted into positions that they have no business being in. (I’m not even referring to Palin in this case, because that particular shitstorm is raging all over the internet right now and doesn’t look like it’s going to subside any time soon. I’ll provide as many links as I can at the end of this post.) Zeno’s dad, George, once put this into perfect perspective for me one time back when I was in high school. He was dealing with Equal Opportunity in his job and the end result was that quotas of minorities were being put into jobs that they were unqualified for. Mind you, this isn’t a racist view. If you are a person who is unable to think, you might see this as being a case of, “Minorities aren’t qualified to do the same job that a white person can.” Again, this is not the case that George was making all those years ago. But, what he said to me one time was, “You know what Equal Opportunity means to me? Equal opportunity to fail. Show me that you can fail at your job and I don’t care what color your skin is, you’re outta here! Black, white, red, brown, purple, yellow, whatever…if you show me you can fail, then you don’t get to have the job anymore.” Those weren’t his ABSOLUTELY EXACT words, but it was close enough that I put quotes around it. Sorry George, if you didn’t want to be quoted on the Intergooglewebs…
So what does this all mean? It means that, as far as I can tell, the GOP is bringing a woman onto the ballot simply because she’s a woman. And they expect you to be dumb enough that you’ll just jump on board if you were a Hillary supporter because clearly all women are alike right? They’re just women, right? Their job is in the kitchen and so just to have one transcend that station to the office of Vice President of the United States of America, well…geez, I’d vote for that! Wouldn’t you?
Holy shit!
I was at a friend’s house last Weds night and 5 of us were watching Palin make her speech and we were talking politics and whatnot, handing the laptop back and forth and generally getting worked up because our once-fine country is about to capsize, I believe. Think Roman Empire 300CE…sure there’s a couple hundred years left, but the decline is happening. America is running purely on inertia at this point. And as that inertia winds down, it’s not going to be oil or Iraq or the Fed or any of that shit that America is going to have to worry about. By America, I mean those with money who are in charge of and/or okay with the horrible foreign policy that is in place at this time. Manifest Destiny and all that. Anyway, what’s it going to look like in 100 years? 200? Oil will be over by then, theoretically, and we will have moved on to something else, hopefully sustainable, but maybe not, in which case somebody else in charge of resources will have you and me by the balls and it just continues. However…that’s not my point here. In 100 years, or maybe more, there will be over a billion Chinese and over a billion Indians and, as there are already a billion Muslims in the world, there will be over a billion of them too. Guess what, whitey? YOU’RE a minority! OH, THE HORROR!!!
Whoa, I meandered a bit. But I guess it comes full circle, because the GOP, the party of good ol’ boys and their secret club that only rich dudes can get into, is making silly waves right now and it’s both hilarious and scary to watch. I understand that they’ve put Palin through Press Boot Camp, and nobody will have access to her for two weeks. Believe me, I’ve never really given a crap before, but I’ll be watching the hell out of the VP debates when they happen, and I’m sure as shit making certain that I’m registered at my current address so I can another big Fuck You to the Republicans on election day. Not that it mattered in the past two elections. Holy shit, if they steal it again, I don’t know if I’m gonna go postal, or if I’m moving to Finland for real.
I’m gonna shut up and go to bed, but before I do, I’ll leave you with some Zappa lyrics that fit the mood right now. The song is called “What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?”.
What’s the ugliest
Part of your body?
What’s the ugliest
Part of your body?
Some say your nose
Some say your toes
But i think it’s your mind…
I think it’s your mind
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