May 30, 2022

May 30, 2022: You Know This Man, Only A Jackass, Own Best Interests

 

“You know this man, you’ve always known this man,” intoned Keith Olbermann in one of his many podcasts for Gentleman’s Quarterly, about our disgraceful Caesar Disgustus: “he’s the used car salesman, the priest who molests your child, the loan sharker.  You know this man; you’ve always known this man.  He’s the industrialist who pollutes your air and water, the businessman who cheats you, the drug dealer on the corner, the carnival barker hawking snake oil…you know this man, you’ve always known this man…”

Olbermann, enlisted by the magazine to do the podcasts began his commentary a few months before the 2016 election first under the title “The Closer” and then, for about a year after the swine snuck into the oval office, under the heading “Resistance”.   

Olbermann, of course, made MSNBC joining a ‘network’ struggling to find its niche to compete with CNN and Fox.  In the process he not only raised the profile of the ‘network’ but introduced such personalities as Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell—basically the prime-time lineup that subsequently replaced him. 

In the tradition of Edward R. Murrow, Olbermann rose to prominence hosting his Countdown program in which he regularly featured a “special comments” segment in which he excoriated Dubya, as George Bush was then derisively known, for his incompetence, mendacity, and corruption.  That, of course when he wasn’t spanking Bill O’Reilly on his nightly “worse, worser and worst person of the world” segment where “Billo” would regularly perform the ‘hat trick’. [1]

Olbermann’s genius is his ability to recognize and unmistakably expose political mendacity, malfeasance, and corruption. For instance, in one podcast he listed the 100 or so crimes committed by our now disgraced, twice impeached ‘president’ in a long segment describing his unfitness for the office. 

In this vein, Olbermann described our breathtakingly incompetent ‘president’ as a jackass.  Only a jackass would order an air strike against Syrian targets after he had warned them it was coming, only a jackass would explain the failure of the one hundred or so cruise missiles fired at the target to hit the runways.  Only a jackass…Olbermann would go on this for several minutes in a granular treatment of tRUMP’s manifest criminality, incompetence, and buffoonery.

And only a jackass would, as a young schoolboy encourage his companions “let’s make the baby cry”. To that end they would throw rocks at a baby in its playpen.[2] You know this man, you’ve always known this man; you know he’s been this way, you’ve always known he’s always been this way. 

His cruelty and mendacity have always been on display.  It was his signature statement on The Apprentice, the “You’re fired”, that won him the national and international recognition that his malignant narcissism demanded.  It was his cruel mendacity that attracted the great unwashed like so many iron filings to a magnet.  The pain is the point.  Damn sound public policy, we will take a serrated knife and slit our own throats if it means that the people we hate will be made to suffer. So what if he’s taking children from their parents and putting them in cages?  So what if he’s cutting school lunch programs?  So what if he’s gutting the environmental protection agency, waging war on the CDC, the courts, the press, on governance itself?  So what if the king hell rat is gnawing at the foundation of the republic?   Hatred is the common denominator.  Hatred like religious zeal now animates the ReSCUMlickan Party. A herd of swine led by a jackass.  

Against this Biden and the Democrats are deluding themselves if they think they can negotiate a compromise; that they can fashion a consensus.  The ReSCUMlickans are not interested in compromise. Biden must have realized by now that he will meet the same response as Clinton and Obama when it comes time to reach across the aisle.  And no amount of federal largesse is going to sway the great unwashed to vote in their own best interests.  You don’t compromise when god is on your side or when you worship a golden jackass. 

An' Br’er Putin he jus’ laugh and laugh

Indict, Convict, Imprison

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[1] A term used in the sport of hockey in which a player scores three goals in one game, here meaning that ‘Billo’ on this given evening won the award for “worse person in the world”, “worser person in the world” and “worst person in the world” for three egregiously stupid, ignorant, mendacious, or malignant actions taken. 

 

2. Johnston, David Kay. The Making of Donald Trump. Johnston is the first major Trump biographer.

 



 

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