But does it bother anyone else that a former Deputy Defense Secretary is now some crazy dude with a bullhorn and a trenchcoat shouting in the park?
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Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.
Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.
We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.
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Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.
Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”
Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.
This chaos was totally avoidable.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.
President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.
You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?
Hot air and ill-informed banter
That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.
“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.
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Radon Chong
I don’t know who this Anjem Choudary character is, but that’s some fine trolling he is doing.
gnomedad
I wonder if I could make a few buck selling anti-Sharia Law insurance?
General Stuck
Fucking Gaffney, certifiable.
JPL
Well..duh..he has always been a crazy dude so that part is not surprising.
The only positive thing that happened during the Bush years was your conversion. (now get rid of the trolls..lol)
Mnemosyne
Bother? Yes. Surprise? Not really.
Violet
Wow, I missed quite the day, didn’t I? Some epic-looking threads.
In other news, Republicans are crazy. I don’t know why I even call this news. It’s not new and it’s not news. It’s same old, same old.
Elia
Both sides do it!!!!
sidhra
Rumsfeld should try that.
MikeJ
@gnomedad: If you call it insurance you’ll probably run into a regulatory rat’s nest, but there really ought to be some way of separating the sheep from their fleece along those lines.
Cat Lady
I read that article twice, and that right there is the ground zero of the dense matter that is teatard Murka. That event may have triggered the Wingularity.
Anne
It’s not just you, John.
I also find it terribly quaint that these folks carrying signs objecting to the subjugation of women in the name of Allah are just chomping at the bit to crack down on women’s rights in the name of the baby Jesus. Freedom!!
ppcli
Yes, it is a bit troubling, but not anywhere near as unsettling as reading the latest Andrew McCarthy (not the actor) rant and realizing that he was once an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I prefer my loons to be openly raving with bullhorns, so as more easily to identify and avoid them.
dmbeaster
Funny how some crazy dude with a bullhorn also describes Bush’s alleged 9/11 moment at Ground Zero.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That’s Frank “Cakewalk” Gaffney, ain’t it? It only bothers me that he has, I’d be willing to bet, appeared and was treated with respect on a non-Fox political show in the last six months. I know he was long after his ‘cakewalk’ remark should have been offensive to the entire country.
But John “Sarah Palin” McCain will almost certainly be slobbered over by Candy or Dave this Sunday while calling for the no-fly-zone that Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs would say would be a military disaster, and which just about everybody concedes would be a huge boost to anti-reformers in the Arab world. There’s nothing right-wingers can do to lose face, other than cruise a men’s room.
TooManyJens
@gnomedad: I like the way you think.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
I take it as proof that WingNut Welfare isn’t limitless. I take it as a sign that if we’re good and say our prayers we’ll see former Bushites fighting to the death over a gig with Faux Snooze.
So, no. It doesn’t bother me. Not at all.
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I think agreeing with the Kenyan in Chief will get them cast out as Rinos. And disagreeing with Limbaugh will require a session of hard core groveling before they’re allowed back into the fold.
Joseph Nobles
Well, you’ve got Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, now a prominent 9/11 Truther. I think there’s another one of those rattling around that movement, but I can’t come up with his name right now. Plus, to be all “both sides do it,” 9/11 Truth’s also got Mike Gravel.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Joseph Nobles: There is, he was a Bushie, and I can’t recall his name. The only reason I know about him is because I saw him on TV calmly explaining the controlled explosion that brought down WTC 7.
mclaren
All people in positions of power in the United States military-industrial complex are crazy dudes with bullhorns and trenchcoats who are either now shouting gibberish in the park, or will be at some point in the near future.
The United States military-industrial complex is run by crazy people, using weapons designed by crazy people, employing strategies confected by crazy people, and manned by military officers who are certifiably insane.
The U.S. army has degenerated to completely that it couldn’t even win a battle against the Tijuana police force at this point. American geopolitical grand strategy is so demented that it now involves losing multiple wars simultaneously on the other side of the earth to barefooted teenagers who are armed with bolt-action rifles.
As a description of U.S. military policy, “crazy” represents a vast understatement, at this point.
bcinaz
I finally got around to googling “What is Sharia Law” and found this at wikipediea:
For some reason this just really cracks me up.
MattF
One explanation is that Gaffney has always been the ‘no enemies to my right’ guy, which you will find in any right-wing organization. Nowadays, that position is several miles past the ‘Look at me, I’m wearing underpants on my head’ line.
Pat
Not really, but the torture of Bradley Manning, with the blessings of the current president, bother me a whole lot.
Bobby Thomson
Shit, I was a lot more concerned when he was a Deputy Defense Secretary. At least he’s qualified for his current gig.
Barry
John, a lot of these guys have always been crazy con-men; they usually just have those sweet gigs where they can wear suits, and be interviewed in ‘serious’ shows.’
Gaffney was part of the 1970’s con about the USSR being far more powerful than it was (he was in the group which thought that the CIA’s estimates were too low, when they were actually too high).
AhabTRuler
@MikeJ: Call it a derivative and you can ditch the regulation. Innovation, ho!
Pug
The Bush administration was rife with nuts. The blonde lawyer from Regent U who had the high ranking position in the Justice Department with authority over all personnel decisions was another.
Wonder where Monica Goodling is these days?