Eventually, we have to stop talking about these things like they don't mean anything:
But the president’s tone of being the only adult in Washington, everyone else is a child, that he’s going to summon people to the White House as if they are kindergartners, well, even if you agree with them on the substance, it’s kind of hard to go along with someone who is insulting you all the time.
Look. There are people who agree with me on important things, who I wouldn't swerve to miss if they walked in front of my car. Part of living in the world in which we have not yet found a way to implement Dickhead Control involves learning when it is critical to important functions to suck it up, realize you have to deal with this fucking garden weasel to get stuff done, and not let it bother you so much that he or she is a total jerk.
To which end, are we REALLY SERIOUSLY ARE WE discussing whether Republicans are justified in blowing up the economy because the president was mean? Because last I checked out here in grown-up-ville, it's not really okay to not do your job and/or actually set your place of employment on fire because one of your colleagues is a total dillhole. Get the fuck over it. Land hard, roll left, and get on with your day. Therefore, if the president is in fact mean, and rude, and insulting you, possibly you should decided that eh, there will be a new president possibly next year and certainly in four years and in the meantime I'd like to get to that lunch date I have so here, let's raise the debt cieling and not fuck the dog any harder than it is currently being fucked. Maybe this is not the hill to die on.
This is not a theoretical debate. A default would actually hurt people in their real actual lives. And here we have Bobo, talking about how even though the president has the important things right, he's got them right in the wrong tone of voice. It's the eternal goddamn hippie argument, like we're having the war debate all over again: I agree with you that the case against WMD is probably bullshit, and Bush couldn't pour water outta boot if the instruction was on the heel, and we have no earthly way of paying for it, but those anti-war folks had a mean sign so I'm all for killinating the FUCK out of Iraq. I do not understand this, out here in the world where facts matter.
I do not understand where we get off, morally, talking about the tone of somebody's voice as if it's a real thing. I do not understand how we can do this and survive as a species. Even the "we should default because it'll teach those filthy poor people a lesson" Freepi are making a better argument than this, and when the Freepi have one over on the columnists at the New York Times it is time to consider whether to redirect one's talents toward digging a bomb shelter. I mean, somebody please tell me they have seeds stockpiled somewhere. I am starting to root for the asteroid scientists keep telling us is coming, just so that one day can pass without having to be reminded that in some quarters it is more important to suck David Brooks' rich white cock than it is to run the free world without doing so.
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Rich Eisen was not
Ray Allen did not
Carmelo Anthony did not
Will Hill did not and does not
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