A bunch of pranksters have skinned the republican party and are wearing it as a hat.
And I am in serious danger of running out of popcorn.
They understand something that actual republican politicians never did.
Ridicule is the best weapon against the ridiculous.
Jokes move the Overton window, you see.
Because to move the Overton window, you have to say something outside its current location. That's literally what jokes are for.
The republicans didn't know how to move the Overton window, because they didn't have any interest in figuring that out.
The old GOP has been the controlled opposition for decades. Not that they were literally taking orders, of course. The old GOP simply figured out that they can make more money by losing.
It since before most of you were born, it's gone like this. The democrats targeted a new piece of civilization to tear down and loot, the republicans collected money and voted from everyone who saw where this would lead, then made just enough of a token effort to appear as if they had fought and lost.
And this effort needed for this was less and less, as time wore on and they were the only game in town.
So when people started noticing that republicans not only weren't winning, but weren't trying very hard to win, not much changed.
The republicans just shrugged and said to themselves "What are they going to do, start their own political party?" as if this were some sort of knee-slapper.
They probably thought it was, until Donald Trump said "Actually, I don't think I will. I'll just take yours."
And he did.
Republicans don't exist anymore. Not really. We all just inherited the name, and there's no real reason to change it.
It's on all the stationary.
But the people are different, the methods are different, and the goals are different.
Republicanism was about making money by pretending to resist the reduction of nationality culture to globally homogenized serfdom.
It was carried out by people whose job was "hold political office".
What we voted for this time is about feeling good about who are again, and unapologetically standing up for our own interests.
And it's carried out by people who had other shit to do, and only got involved in politics because neoMarxist bullshit was getting in the way of launching rockets and whatnot.
Because politics goes in cycles.
Everything important, like infrastructure, and technology, and real estate, and art, happens outside politics.
That means that mid-IQ theater kid grifters slowly accumulate political power, because the rest of humanity is busy doing real shit.
Except eventually, the politics get the way of doing real shit, and people with better things to do have to stop what they're doing, and get involved, and point out just how ridiculous the theater kids have gotten.
By trolling and mocking them.
Then they huff, and shake their jowls, and make starchy noises about "dividing us" and "spreading hate" and "our sacred democracy" and other hypocritical shit that only people with serious theatrical training can say with a straight face.
Well, so long as we're all getting into politics just because it's getting in the way of launching rockets, I'd like to suggest we design a very special rocket for these characters.
Just a little idea I had.
I call it "Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B".
And I am in serious danger of running out of popcorn.
They understand something that actual republican politicians never did.
Ridicule is the best weapon against the ridiculous.
Jokes move the Overton window, you see.
Because to move the Overton window, you have to say something outside its current location. That's literally what jokes are for.
The republicans didn't know how to move the Overton window, because they didn't have any interest in figuring that out.
The old GOP has been the controlled opposition for decades. Not that they were literally taking orders, of course. The old GOP simply figured out that they can make more money by losing.
It since before most of you were born, it's gone like this. The democrats targeted a new piece of civilization to tear down and loot, the republicans collected money and voted from everyone who saw where this would lead, then made just enough of a token effort to appear as if they had fought and lost.
And this effort needed for this was less and less, as time wore on and they were the only game in town.
So when people started noticing that republicans not only weren't winning, but weren't trying very hard to win, not much changed.
The republicans just shrugged and said to themselves "What are they going to do, start their own political party?" as if this were some sort of knee-slapper.
They probably thought it was, until Donald Trump said "Actually, I don't think I will. I'll just take yours."
And he did.
Republicans don't exist anymore. Not really. We all just inherited the name, and there's no real reason to change it.
It's on all the stationary.
But the people are different, the methods are different, and the goals are different.
Republicanism was about making money by pretending to resist the reduction of nationality culture to globally homogenized serfdom.
It was carried out by people whose job was "hold political office".
What we voted for this time is about feeling good about who are again, and unapologetically standing up for our own interests.
And it's carried out by people who had other shit to do, and only got involved in politics because neoMarxist bullshit was getting in the way of launching rockets and whatnot.
Because politics goes in cycles.
Everything important, like infrastructure, and technology, and real estate, and art, happens outside politics.
That means that mid-IQ theater kid grifters slowly accumulate political power, because the rest of humanity is busy doing real shit.
Except eventually, the politics get the way of doing real shit, and people with better things to do have to stop what they're doing, and get involved, and point out just how ridiculous the theater kids have gotten.
By trolling and mocking them.
Then they huff, and shake their jowls, and make starchy noises about "dividing us" and "spreading hate" and "our sacred democracy" and other hypocritical shit that only people with serious theatrical training can say with a straight face.
Well, so long as we're all getting into politics just because it's getting in the way of launching rockets, I'd like to suggest we design a very special rocket for these characters.
Just a little idea I had.
I call it "Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B".
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