This is the start of your new life, Brian. A life without worry or pain or loneliness. A life filled instead with colors and music and euphoria. A life of light and pleasure.
Brain Damage (1988) dir. Frank Henenlotter
Imagine Chamberlain giving his “Peace For Our Time” speech in June of 1940.
That’s the level of Cluelessness and Bad At Messaging currently being embodied by the Democrat Party calling for negotiations as Republicans threaten to wreck the US economy and cause a global financial catastrophe by defaulting on the federal government’s debt. If the debt limit is not either raised or eliminated, Social Security and Medicare payments are going to start drying up sooner rather than later, which means life is going to get real bad real quick for the elderly and disabled Americans who rely on those monthly checks to survive, and guess how old and decrepit most of the Republican voting base are. If Democrat leadership had more than one brain cell to pass around at a time, they would have been airing ads on every televised baseball and football and basketball game for the last month pointing out that Republicans have been attacking Social Security and Medicare for decades and those will be the first federal programs on the chopping block if they’re allowed to run us out of money. “Do you rely on Social Security to get by? Do your parents, or grandparents? The current Republican Party hostage-taking strategy of refusing to raise the federal debt ceiling will have an immediate and severe effect on those payments beginning June 1st. Write or call your representatives to demand that they follow the Constitution by preventing a default on federal debt, and let them know that affecting your ability to survive the Summer will affect their ability to survive re-election.” But no, this has never occurred to The Party Of Making Concerned Faces And Whining Noises Instead Of Governing. Neo-nazis are gearing up to destroy this country, and the only response from the Neo-Chamberlainists is to devote their full efforts to finding a way to compromise and negotiate and capitulate that will work this time.
[ID: An image of the Earth, centered on Africa; slightly more than half of the surface has been reduced to molten rock and jets of lava. Top text reads “DEMOCRATS BE LIKE” and bottom text reads “‘WE ARE MONITORING THE SITUATION’“. End ID]
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