Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Easiest prophecy ever.

In a little over twenty one days and two hours from now, countless Catholics will cease caring about the words and actions of the President of the United States, no matter what the body count.

The message: cloak your actions in polite euphemisms and speak of compromise and these gentle folk will be satisfied.

No matter that your executive orders and legislative proposals are larded with culture war IEDs that should offend their sensibilities.

Resume regular outsourcing to China, drone the hell out of the Middle East and keep imperial outposts all over the globe for no reason: snooze bar.

And the corporate subsidiary media will be a great help in that regard, too.

The pattern of the third Obama term is already set.

Sleep well!

10 comments:

  1. I think many of us will care about different things coming from a presidential mouth or keystroke. I found much to be critical of in the Obama administration. Just not the same things conservatives complained about.

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    1. With Obama there is what conservatives ACTUALLY complained about, and what the news media said they complained about. And they usually had as much in common as any other item the news media reports on. (That is: extremely little.)

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  2. That's assuming Biden get's away with stealing the election.

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  3. I note today the return of Tom "Mr. Monsanto" Vilsack to Secretary of Agriculture.

    Because nothing says "I care about the planet" more than corporate cronyism.

    Third Obama term indeed!

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  4. And that won't get %.0001 of the outrage that Betsy DeVos's appointment did. And Lord knows she was a bad pick.

    The important thing for neoliberals is to be on record saying that they care about the planet, the working class, #MeToo, human rights, etc.

    But the jealous god Shareholder is always uppermost in what passes for their souls.

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