Do I get a cookie for telling you repeatedly that all the crazies in the primary will be defeated?
Do I get a cookie for telling you repeatedly that all the crazies in the primary will be defeated?
Hope is the denial of reality
How did Obama win his then?
Brevior saltare cum deformibus viris est vita
Originally Posted by Loki
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Marvelous.
Of the race or the closet?
So
How come motherfuckers whose idealogies are all, like, hurf durf personal responsibility are the first to blame it on TEH MEDIA when no bugger votes for them.
Please explain this conundrum.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Because they're also delusional and can't believe that they would lose a fair race.
Hope is the denial of reality
Kinda true for the general case too, though... vast right-wing conspiracy and all that, after all.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
There is quite a heavy case of selection bias for anyone who runs for the presidency.
Hope is the denial of reality
No doubt... but what else is a narcissist to do?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Reality TV?No doubt... but what else is a narcissist to do?
Film, television, music.. Possibly academia?
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Loki and Kane perhaps come off as not being serious but they really are accurate. You can't be a politician on the national stage if you aren't an egomaniac and probably narcissistic to boot. The constant attention and pressure select against other traits and almost every politician who has gotten that high is a veteran electioneer, a successful one, which means they know tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of voters really do like them, love them, prefer them to anyone else. Successful American politicians expect to charm and win over pretty much anyone they encounter and when they don't they assume something else must be to blame.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Successful politicians know how not to come across as a whiny little bitch, even in America. To keep the example from the same party and the same country to avoid accusations of bias I don't recall McCain's concession speech being full of "a blooo blooo the media was against me otherwise i would totally have won right". In fact, I remember it being rather gracious and humble.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
If Santorum was successful, he wouldn't have lost his Senate seat by 18%; if Gingrich was successful, he wouldn't be in political wilderness for nearly a decade and a half. In contrast, McCain regularly wins reelection to his Senate seat.
Hope is the denial of reality
You don't actually take political speeches at face value, do you?Successful politicians know how not to come across as a whiny little bitch, even in America. To keep the example from the same party and the same country to avoid accusations of bias I don't recall McCain's concession speech being full of "a blooo blooo the media was against me otherwise i would totally have won right
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Cain, right, this entire conversation is about political speech.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Oh, I thought it was about the nature of politicians, not about the particular lie they tell in a given circumstance. My bad, I guess.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
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