Seriously, fuck the Democratic National Convention. Fuck it. Fuck democrats for the matter. Fuck Nancy Pelosi. Fuck Barack Obama.
I'm not sure why these people think it's cool to swarm together and talk about how tight they are. It makes sense. Kinda. I guess. Like it must feel good to stand in a huge crowd of like minded-people and chant little quips and catch phrases. I don't know. Doesn't that sound kinda good? Right?
So, honestly, i didn't even finish this shit. I watched for a few minutes, learned some shit about Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and John McCain. Pelosi is the first Italian American speaker of the house. She's also a woman. Incidentally, she's a great speaker and kinda charismatic, but fuck, is she annoying. I've never heard so much goddamn talk about modern patriotism and coalitions.
I mean, i really don't know what it is that irks me so goddamn much about politics. i think it's all really foolish and iritating on this superficial level; but in this whole other, more complex way i thinks it's kind of malevolent or something. I think, for sure, that these people, almost categorically, are snakes. i think no congress person ought to speak to passingly about right and wrong when it comes to political ideas; at least not by saying 'this person is right this one is wrong blah blah blah.' It's stupid. It's stupid talk. Especially when a room full of flag-waving dummies chant along with her, "When it comes to health care! Obama's right, McCain's wrong!" Seriously? Seriously, that's what where doing?
Also, I don't know what's good for our country. I don't. More abstractly or fundamentally, however, I don't think simply bringing diametric positions to the table is the best way of solving a problem. In politics, though, It's even worse then that. It's not like Barack Obama and John McCain have opposite ideas; it's not even that 'democrats' and 'republicans' have opposite ideas. In fact, i'm not entirely convinced, after this little shindig, that either have any real ideas at all. Instead, two dudes who probably believe a lot of the same things are encouraged to say silly things by silly people. I think that's where the whole evil part of politics comes from. It's all about winning, but not in healthy american sense, but in the conniving, i'll-say/do-anything kind of way. Like, if a politician was in a western, he/she almost undoubtedly would be a bad guy, a coward, or a wretch.
Jesus this blog is bad. Whatever. I seriously felt a little sick watching that shit. it made me feel a little hopeless and sad for our country. i'm not sure if it was the conspicuous splicing of political rhetoric and MLK themes or what, but it makes me sick that Obama is black. It makes me feel sad a little; like maybe we all feel a little too good about him being black.
Plus, the way people at this convention where talking about how he's going to save us made me hope he fuck it up. Like, fucks everything up: health care, economy, the war. I know this is stupid and maybe not even cool, but part of me wants to see what would happen. i know it wouldn't be tight, but maybe it would be good for us to realize that these fuckin guys are just suits with big, white teeth.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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I think the worst thing about the Convention is that you watched it and then wrote this fucking blog instead of going to Tropic Thunder like a real American.
"YOUR blog is inexcusable"
Let me be the first (should be third... you're dropping the ball guys) to say, Trey: Shut. The. FUCK. Up.
You're so comically cynical sometimes I can't tell if you're just being facetious. In the interest of publicly dressing you down on your website I'm going to assume you are whining with sincerity because, frankly, the shit you just dribbled into my eyeballs via your 'blog' pissed me off.
Not all politicians are snakes. Not all politicians say anything in order to win. The people like yourself who assume this by default are the reason politics sucks. Typically the hand-wringers like yourself are also smart and could help elect better officials. But they don't because they can't bear to be counted amongst the masses of cheering idiot children, gleefully marching along lockstep in a thinly veiled cult of personality. Get the fuck over yourself. You do not represent the average American. You are not the target audience for the Democratic National Convention, and if you were, they would lose every election ever held until the end of time.
I feel your pain, Trey. Convention speeches suck because they have to boil everything down into little soundbytes so that the impatient philistines they're targeting don't flip the channel. It's fucking obnoxious. I'm not saying you should force yourself to watch the convention as I have done, since much of it is extraneous at best. This political nihilism you’re espousing is much, much more obnoxious.
You know why? Because you don’t know shit. Though in your defense, you aren’t pretending that you do. Yet you have no hesitation in proudly stating that Obama and McCain have no differences between them except those that are superficial. You don’t know that John McCain and Barack Obama have discrete policy differences or approaches to how they plan to run the country. You don’t know because you are willfully ignorant. Rather than educate yourself on whose tax plan makes more sense, or who has a better approach to foreign policy, you imagine them as winners of the “Most Likely To Be a Bad Guy in Tombstone” award in their high school yearbook and then you write them off as pandering snakes.
As intellectually strong as you are, you take the same intellectually lazy approach as the guy that the Democratic National Convention is terrified will turn off the TV and remark that those Democrats sure talk like a bunch of faggots.
Love,
Neil
http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=179
also, here is my impression of Neil watching youtube videos of the moment Ted Kennedy shocked us all by coming back from the dead to say words about things:
"OMG!!!!!11!!!!!!1!IZ MAZING!!!!1! ... omgomgomgomg*faint*"
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