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Send in the Clowns. Don't bother, they're here. [1]
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Date: 2025-02-19
JD “Pennywise” Vance just last week sermonized to his European hosts, “I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most sure-fire way to destroy democracy. Speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference.”
Hmm. Sounds like he’s arguing for Diversity of views, doesn’t it, just a little? For Equity in the treatment of all views, and the Inclusion of varied points of view.
As necessary conditions of democracy. Speaking as though he has an idea in hell what that means.
And JD, when he speaks he does so as the (nominally) second-in-command of a nation—that is, if we still are a nation by the time you read this—a nation whose official government position is that those same three words, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, are so dangerous to democracy as to be, yes, shut out of all federal documents. Up to and including mention of potential ‘inequity’ in holding on to a taxpayer’s money and ‘inclusion’ of a taxpayer identification number on a form.
Words seem to have a strange immense frightening power for clowns. They believe if you change the name of something it becomes a different thing (see “Gulf of Mexico”). If the right to speak about a problem is denied, it ceases to be a problem (see “climate change”).
And back in the Oval Office the kid is wiping his boogers on the desk.
The ketamine was kicking in hard when the word was sent down that in a perfect world no federal work should be done, and therefore if we wish to have a perfect world, that work must come to an utter halt, the ax to be wielded by Ayn-Rand-addled techno-lads with haircuts that looked like they came with a lollipop.
Logic does not hold sway in Clown-Cuckoo world, needless to say.
From their funhouse hall of mirrors it was announced that in order to stave off fiscal collapse brought on by the deficit’s size, we must have $2 trillion in spending cuts, and $4.5 trillion dollars in reduced revenue from tax cuts. After that, the only arithmatically consistent thing was to request a $4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling, to prove their unwavering devotion to controlling federal borrowing.
Did you know that serial killer John Wayne Gacy volunteered in hospitals as Pogo the Clown?
Employing a patented Ready-Shoot-Aim technique, the clowns fulfilled 70 years of Republican administrative policy, the very ideal state of fascism American-style. Government is introduced at once as the dishonestly unqualified enemy of the polis, and also its reliable and capable savior.
What the clowns believe we need is a government that simultaneously slashes itself to nothing and also authorizes itself to rule over everything. Out of statistical thin air they conjure a mandate, inform the poor ignorant voters of the imaginary parameters of its underpinnings, and legislate to enact what they then hilariously refer to as the voters’ will.
After which they will insist on compulsory compliance of citizens to their invented will, against their actual will. And with that, the American Eagle shall fly in ever-decreasing concentric circles until it disappears up its own fundament.
The clowns will see to it.
They say that clown whose desk wears the boogers is transactional. I’ll say. You want freedom of the press? The price you pay is you are free to call it the Gulf of America. You are free to refer to those people as terrorists. You are free never to mention the wrds Diversity Equity or Inclusion ever again.
You want to be secure in your person, house, your papers, and effects? Then play ball. By which we mean don’t complain about anything we do. Nice Social Security payments you got there. Pity something should happen to it.
We are led to regard the toilet training of these clowns as problematic.
But do not despair.
Even though the tail-wagging clowns in Congress surrender the responsibilities of their job so they can gut the country and then look shocked—shocked!—and not at all responsible, at the irresponsibility when the bill finally arrives.
Even though the morally malleable cabinet clowns do not know how, exactly, to do much of anything beyond mugging for the cameras, spewing line after line of bullshit, and yelling at their subordinates to hurry up and do what they have incompetently detailed.
Even though the agencies are staffed with angry managers whose talents lie not in fixing problems but fixing blame.
Even though the remaining poor government knowledge workers are demoralized and only numbly performing their duties. Increasingly they adopt a Stalinist mentality toward their bosses: the boss pretends to give a shit about public service, and we pretend to give a shit about the work.
Do not despair.
Because these are precisely the kind of clowns who say, “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” For their culture, fear is the cancer that feeds it and likewise that it feeds upon.
Such a culture is always an enemy to any joy, and its products inevitably crap, and eventually round the decay of their colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sands will stretch away.
But of course, before that, the kids will get to wipe their boogers all over everything.
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