Kansas Crimson

Is it possible that President Eloon is a giant space ant? The rubes want chaos, and so it shall be.

Soon the orange brown husk that is called trumpty plumpty will crack open and out will crawl the offspring of Eloon known as, "X@1*$^$$?X$" who will reveal themselves to be the one true leader of the rubepublican party.

Yesterday’s chaos on Capitol Hill was primarily a story about Donald Trump and Elon Musk, these two unfit humans who will, more than anyone else, influence the fate of the world’s oldest democracy and only superpower over the next four years.

But let’s take a moment to note the other players on stage, the neglected players with minor roles, what one might call the extras. I’m speaking of course about our elected representatives—in particular our elected Republican representatives. They played their part in yesterday’s theater of the absurd, in which an agreement their own House leader had crafted to fund the government was blown up by Musk’s disapproval of it, and then Trump’s 11th-hour demand to add a debt ceiling hike to it.

Their capitulation was necessary to the success of Trump’s and Musk’s willful bullying.

One might note that these representatives actually hold current government office, unlike Trump and Musk. They have actual responsibilities, unlike Trump and Musk. Indeed they have sworn an oath to the Constitution that they will “well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office” they hold.

Yet, needless to say, their priority isn’t to well and faithfully discharge their duties. Their priority is to listen closely so that when Trump and Musk say, “Jump,” they promptly ask, “How high?”

They are the Kent Brockman Republicans. As you will recall, in a 1994 episode of The Simpsons, Brockman, the pompous local news anchor, was convinced that the Earth was about to be invaded and conquered by giant space ants. He fearfully announces his willingness, his eagerness, to submit to the invaders:

One thing is for certain: There is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

Brockman presumably feared for his life. Or feared the terrible torture of enraged ants. What do these Republican representatives fear?

Loss of office through primary challenges. That was Musk and Trump’s threat on social media: “Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this [support the continuing resolution to keep the government open] should, and will, be Primaried [sic].”

Is the prospect of a primary challenge as awful as being devoured by ants? Apparently so, judging from the behavior of our Republican representatives.

One could try to reason with those elected representatives, pointing out that any primaries are over a year away; that it’s unclear Trump would even follow through on this threat, let alone win scores of primaries against incumbent Republican members; that their voters may actually be more upset if they willingly shut down the government over the holidays at the behest of the world’s richest man. But making such arguments would be in vain. When fear has taken over, reason goes out the window.

The House Republicans fear their incoming insect overlords. So they capitulate to them before they’ve even taken office.

In recent years it’s become a Republican talking point, when attacking some reform that might strengthen our democracy, to say, But we’re a republic, not a democracy. It’s true that the Founders made the case for a representative republic as opposed to direct democracy. Part of that case, as explained in Federalist No. 10, is that “the delegation of the government to a small number of citizens elected by the rest” should have the effect:

"to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves."

Republicans once claimed to admire Madison and Hamilton. But the Founding Father for today’s Republicans is Kent Brockman.

As always, thank you for your debt service rubes.

As someone who would prefer not to live out his days in a hollowed-out techno-oligarchy that is a shitty, low-fi, fun-house-mirror simulation of a functioning democracy, I do quite like the idea of all of this happening sooner rather than later.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:35 am As someone who would prefer not to live out his days in a hollowed-out techno-oligarchy that is a shitty, low-fi, fun-house-mirror simulation of a functioning democracy, I do quite like the idea of all of this happening sooner rather than later.

It's all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.

The rubes are giddy watching Eloon shoot his pellet gun at everything his erratic mind decides to target. Their collateral eye damage will take some of the fun out of it. The Christian Chauvinist Nihilism movement isn't going to put food on their tables or pay for their retirement. Working dead end jobs until they die will build character though.

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:17 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:35 am As someone who would prefer not to live out his days in a hollowed-out techno-oligarchy that is a shitty, low-fi, fun-house-mirror simulation of a functioning democracy, I do quite like the idea of all of this happening sooner rather than later.

It's all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.

The rubes are giddy watching Eloon shoot his pellet gun at everything his erratic mind decides to target. Their collateral eye damage will take some of the fun out of it. The Christian Chauvinist Nihilism movement isn't going to put food on their tables or pay for their retirement. Working dead end jobs until they die will build character though.

I wonder when it'll set in.

How much new rent will people have to pay to their technocrat overlords, just for the privilege of going about their lives, before these lifted F-250 heroes realize they're the prey, not (despite what the sticker over their license plates say) the predator?

I am getting bumperstickers and t-shirts printed in China now before the tariffs set in. I will be selling them on etsy from my secret lair in the SLV.

Christian Chauvinist Nihilism

If white Christian men can't control it,
burn it to the ground and piss on the ashes!

I figure this will be popular for a couple of years and then there will be a spike on google of searching the term "who was FDR?".

....and speaking of lifted F250s, I did not realize how many of those and the F150 have been lifted. I may own the only unlifted F150 in the KC metro area. I see the difference when I park my truck in the vicinity of another at HyVee.

So I became aware of this lifted hysteria when I was looking for a tent rack for the back of my truck and looking at F150 owners websites. My attention was drawn to threads of truck owners who "need" their trucks to be "leveled" because it looks uncool for the truck to be nose down? With nothing in the bed the front is lower than the rear. Yesterday while filling the tank at QuikTrip I am next to a vehicle that had been leveled and had a bed full of firewood. I had to do a double take cause I thought the rear shocks were broken or there was a problem with the frame. I hope they got that shit off loaded quickly so they could get back to cool.

A fool and their money....how are they going to afford eggs?

Thank you for your debt service rubes.

We are enriched on the unceded finances of the roadkill rube peoples. I ask you to join me in acknowledging the roadkill rube community; their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. The Japhy Empire also acknowledges that it was founded upon the trickling up of their monies. This acknowledgement demonstrates a non-commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of trickle up economics; cuz the rubes likes it this way.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:21 am

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:17 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:35 am As someone who would prefer not to live out his days in a hollowed-out techno-oligarchy that is a shitty, low-fi, fun-house-mirror simulation of a functioning democracy, I do quite like the idea of all of this happening sooner rather than later.

It's all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.

The rubes are giddy watching Eloon shoot his pellet gun at everything his erratic mind decides to target. Their collateral eye damage will take some of the fun out of it. The Christian Chauvinist Nihilism movement isn't going to put food on their tables or pay for their retirement. Working dead end jobs until they die will build character though.

How much new rent will people have to pay to their technocrat overlords, just for the privilege of going about their lives, before these lifted F-250 heroes realize they're the prey, not (despite what the sticker over their license plates say) the predator?

POTD

Overlander wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:56 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:21 am

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:17 am

It's all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.

The rubes are giddy watching Eloon shoot his pellet gun at everything his erratic mind decides to target. Their collateral eye damage will take some of the fun out of it. The Christian Chauvinist Nihilism movement isn't going to put food on their tables or pay for their retirement. Working dead end jobs until they die will build character though.

How much new rent will people have to pay to their technocrat overlords, just for the privilege of going about their lives, before these lifted F-250 heroes realize they're the prey, not (despite what the sticker over their license plates say) the predator?

POTD

And of course, things like your new $8.99/mo postal service fee (payable to Bezos), $80.08/year telecommunications fee (payable to Elon) and $20/account online safety fee (payable to Zuck) will not, strictly speaking, be inflation.

Fart-brained studies of the price of eggs will not pick up these new cash sucks.

In a macroeconomic sense, you might actually expect these new cash sucks to cause the price of eggs to go down, because people will have less cash to spend.

And thus, will quality of life degrade, all while the Great American Rube perceives inflation to be easing.

God damn it.

speaking of rubes. your 10 person online flock.

makes you the david koresch of kcrim.

A beautiful illustration of the model.

Having lived in his FORMER district, I can affirm that Huffines is an idiot.

Funny, he acts like he is not "GOVERNMENT"

He complains about what he, Abbott and Paxton built?

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 6:49 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

JKLivin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 6:49 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

you’re an idiot

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:28 pm

JKLivin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 6:49 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

you’re an idiot

Speaking of "idiots", Psych must think you're one if he expects you, or anyone else with a brain to believe, it's the minority party's fault when a bill doesn't pass in the house.

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:55 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:28 pm

JKLivin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

you’re an idiot

Speaking of "idiots", Psych must think you're one if he expects you, or anyone else with a brain to believe, it's the minority party's fault when a bill doesn't pass in the house.

Deep State lackeys are members of both parties. Someone with a brain should know that.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:28 pm

JKLivin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 6:49 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

you’re an idiot

And clearly a badass. One hand on the trigger, just waiting on Faucci to make his move.

Overlander wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:08 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:28 pm

JKLivin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:21 pm

The Deep State lackeys hid provisions in it that would have allowed for martial law to be declared in the event of another plandemic. Since we already know they’ve got another one in the pipeline with Bird Flu, I’d say it’s prudent to prevent the gummint from doing a Chinese-style lockdown at gunpoint. Many of us won’t fall for it a second time.

you’re an idiot

And clearly a badass. One hand on the trigger, just waiting on Faucci to make his move.

That would be your bailiwick, not mine.

do you think using words like that make you look smart?