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Other People's Rants
Sifu Tweety:
"If there’s been one thing most galling about the Worst President Ever’s era, by the way, it’s been having to care about the opinions of rank idiots. That somebody jollily febrile enough to rationalize torture - torture! - or question evolution - evolution?! - is actually in a position to influence my own life one way or another is flat fucking offensive to my strong sense of idiot-free self-deterrmination (very libertarian democrat!)"
Read the whole thing. Though I don't agree with him about the "guilt" part, things really have gotten that stupid where we actually need to say things that should be blindingly obvious, like "Torture is bad, and the US shouldn't torture people," and it's somehow controversial.
And from Jennifer in the comments of that post: "One other thought - I found that the best thing to say to the Bush cultists in 2004 was that I have one simple rule for who I consider fit for the presidency: whoever it is has got to be at least as smart as I am, because I don’t hire people to do jobs for me that I could do better myself. And that George Bush was not a smart man, that there’s nothing he’s done that I couldn’t have done with much better result."
It's simple, and elegant, and utterly removes 90% of Republican candidates from consideration. Along with probably almost as many Democrats. But the Democrats at least seem to care some about competence.
"If there’s been one thing most galling about the Worst President Ever’s era, by the way, it’s been having to care about the opinions of rank idiots. That somebody jollily febrile enough to rationalize torture - torture! - or question evolution - evolution?! - is actually in a position to influence my own life one way or another is flat fucking offensive to my strong sense of idiot-free self-deterrmination (very libertarian democrat!)"
Read the whole thing. Though I don't agree with him about the "guilt" part, things really have gotten that stupid where we actually need to say things that should be blindingly obvious, like "Torture is bad, and the US shouldn't torture people," and it's somehow controversial.
And from Jennifer in the comments of that post: "One other thought - I found that the best thing to say to the Bush cultists in 2004 was that I have one simple rule for who I consider fit for the presidency: whoever it is has got to be at least as smart as I am, because I don’t hire people to do jobs for me that I could do better myself. And that George Bush was not a smart man, that there’s nothing he’s done that I couldn’t have done with much better result."
It's simple, and elegant, and utterly removes 90% of Republican candidates from consideration. Along with probably almost as many Democrats. But the Democrats at least seem to care some about competence.