tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post1107582292480602406..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Those Eyes! Those Cheekbones! Those Policy Positions!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-58708428706098962352018-06-29T13:43:51.346-04:002018-06-29T13:43:51.346-04:00Gotta well actually you here.
Actually, almost no...Gotta well actually you here.<br /><br />Actually, almost no one believes climate change is a hoax, or even a questionable hypothesis. Only in the US do conservatives even bother to pretend. And most American conservatives know climate change is real, but want to protect the economic well being of the fossil fuel industry, so they pretend to have doubts or worse. And from a social issues/class warfare standpoint, they find it beneficial to demonize 'environmentalists'.<br /><br />There are some that are so steeped in old testament American baptist fundamentalist theology that they can't accept certain kinds of science, but they are the rare ones, and it's kind of amazing how rarely that kind of theology ends up running counter to movement conservative policy goals...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-55173031220727192652018-06-28T18:53:09.206-04:002018-06-28T18:53:09.206-04:00I get the universal health care, but how, exactly,...<i>I get the universal health care, but how, exactly, can abolishing ICE and mitigating carbon pollution be described as 'socialist' policies?</i><br /><br />The Overton Window has been pushed so far to the right that even the 'market based' cap-and-trade approach to carbon has been portrayed as Bolshevism. Hell, anyone to the right of Chuck Schumer believes that global warming is a Chinese hoax to undermine American industry. Me? I'm just taking the piss. Ms Ocasio-Cortez would be a perfectly middle-of-the-road politician in a functional society.<br />Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-44752767245088377512018-06-28T12:42:23.131-04:002018-06-28T12:42:23.131-04:00Um, yeah, ok.
I get the universal health care, bu...Um, yeah, ok.<br /><br />I get the universal health care, but how, exactly, can abolishing ICE and mitigating carbon pollution be described as 'socialist' policies?<br /><br />I know it's just my personal hobbyhorse, but the way liberals throw around the term 'socialism' just makes them sound uneducated. As the oft-repeated line from 'The Princess Bride' goes, I do not believe that word means what you think it means...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-23954660657808318782018-06-28T03:09:14.978-04:002018-06-28T03:09:14.978-04:00Yeah, I felt kinda sleazy, but she really is incre...Yeah, I felt kinda sleazy, but she really is incredibly good-looking. I look forward to her troubling the dreams of authoritarians for decades to come.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-83115006388676847792018-06-28T00:22:53.965-04:002018-06-28T00:22:53.965-04:00I'm glad you said it.
In all of the excitemen...I'm glad you said it.<br /><br />In all of the excitement over her win over an establishment Democrat who outspent her 19-1, I felt too guilty to actually come out and say, "Wow, she is gorgeous." <br /><br />That's not to in any way minimize her message or her intelligence or anything else. It's just... yeah, bonus. Harry Hamidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176265571549991218noreply@blogger.com