A Wonderful Idea From William Rivers Pitt

[Duckfan]

In a season as bizarre as this has been, the fact that I found myself having a grudging respect for Ted Cruz is certainly the strangest part of all. Make no mistake: I consider Cruz dropping out of the presidential race to be the equivalent of an extinction-level-event meteor narrowly missing the planet. Trump is genuinely dangerous, but he is at the end of the day a carnival barker with a flat head. He is a certain menace, but Cruz means what he says, and his gift for rhetoric could have delivered us into a new Dark Age. Trump is ridiculous, but Cruz is a truly frightening Dominionist demagogue who has no business even looking at the White House, much less residing in it. He is not a monster, but he would become one if given the chance.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35904-election-2016-let-s-drop-acid-and-have-a-presidential-race

[Skittles]

1. I really miss William

all the assholes on DU who ran him off can FUCK THEMSELVES

[grasswire]

3. Skittles, I used your reputation to scare him the other day

He was getting mopey about Bernie's chances on facebook and I warned that I would call you to schedule him a you-know-what.

[Skittles]

6. *HEH*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Skittles!

He still has an active account here and occasionally posts.

I see him regularly on Facebook.

[Skittles]

5. AW cool - I miss most daytime stuff

I am always up all night

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Ah yes...the inveterate Night Owl!

[BeanMusical]

15. +1000

[BillZBubb]

2. I totally agree with WRP on this.

trump would be a bad president. cruz would be a disaster, even worse than w bush.

[Skink]

8. Ok anyone got a number?

I'll leave a message. Someone that cares like that. Yeah this is where we are.

[shadowmayor]

9. Monkey fucking a football

This campaign has been beyond weird. I remember folks saying it couldn't be worse than the 2012 goatfuckfest with Romney finally emerging like a slug. And then this happened. Anybody remember Scott Walker? And Carly came back for almost a whole week? Que WTF? And it wouldn't have been possible without our fawning corporate media who gladly reported on the monkey fucking a football story endlessly. And the scariest part of bigly Drumpf? I hear a lot of folks who are so fed up with the good folks of our country that they say - Fuck it - we probably deserve the Donald. Unfrigginbuhleevable!!!

[Bangbangdem]

10. I agree.

Now on with the real congame. The one where we get screwed over.

[Kalidurga]

11. That was depressing

Very good writing, very true. And I feel like part of me is in that burning car with William Rivers Pitt.

[JDPriestly]

12. Very true. I still wonder whether in the end, Cruz will be the

Republican candidate. I hope not, but we shall see.

The Republican establishment is not pro-Trump. They hate Cruz too, but we shall see.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

13. Nice icosohohedren.

[BeanMusical]

14. "Trump is ridiculous, but Cruz... has no business even looking at the White House, much less residi"

This reminds me of something I've read on FB today (paraphrasing): "Trump could paint the White House gold."

Wouldn't surprise me, and plastic pink flamingos, tons of them everywhere.