(3/15/16)
At last, the sequel to 'Super
Tuesday I' has come, and I feel like a bookie on Superbowl day. The
press has been doing a round-robin of seizure-like apoplexy,
circle-jerking, pandering and painfully transparent narrative-weaving
(the intensity of which has gone supercritical). I can’t even begin to
fathom what the next 8 or 10 hours will be like, as poll results start
rolling in and things either go the way most of us expect them to go, or
spiral even further out of control Who even knows anymore?
Up is
down, left is right, Fox is sometimes too fucking LIBERAL for me to
stomach - you get all that? FOX, a network only a few months ago I
could hardly stand to look at, let alone actually watch for any length
of time, has become my shameful go-to network at this point, because
with a few exceptions (including the Silver Fox himself, A-Coops), CNN
has marked its territory squarely in the Hillary camp, with the
occasional smattering of “oh yeah, and that Bernie whatever-his-face is
guy, yeah, him too, I guess he’s running for something too, right?”
Now, increasingly, “That madman MUST be stopped!!" is emerging as well.
If I had a fucking dollar for every mention of Trump and every
utterance of “How do we / they stop Trump?”, I would be rich like a
mother-fucker. Trump rich, if you will.
Watching debates and
elections requires imbibing alcohol, and lots of it. I keep trying to
concoct some sort of awesome drinking game (for my super cool,
imaginary, internet-based friends and fans) to play during one of these
political WWE matches - I mean- primary voting days. I contemplate the
words, phrases, ideas and sentiments that have come into being and that
have gone viral across the zeitgeist. Each time I think I’ve come up
with a winning combination of words, speaker, sentiment, frequency or
deployment, I quickly realize that were I to actually base a drinking
game on any one of the aforementioned things, I would be fucking dead in
about an hour, and so would you, and that would be bad. Bad!
Perhaps a list of the words one shouldn’t
use in alcohol-fueled politically-minded antics would be more sensible.
Right off the bat, “win”, “stop”, “establishment” and “Trump” are out
of the running, as downing shots of booze at the frequency these words
are being used is a recipe for certain death, or at very least, an
instant and scorching case of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
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