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In reply to the discussion: I will tell you why Maddow's "Hubris" aired NOW and not back then. And you won't like it. [View all]jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)I viewed that little quote as a Mein Kampf moment. At the time people thought it was Cheney, was it confirmed as Rove? Same shit, different piles. But man, what a moment of clarity. This is what they believe, this is how they will act, and damned if they weren't telling the truth! No lie there, no sir! Shit, it's like the villain monologuing.
I think it's important only so much as for those of us in the reality-based community, communicating with people persuadable by facts. If we establish they lie, cannot be trusted, then future statements can be disregarded.
The question as whether the country at large can be persuaded by facts or are all bovine-eyed idiots waiting to be led by the nose into the next misadventure, visions of bread and circuses dancing in their heads.
So this raises a very dangerous question. Do we fight them on our terms of theirs? Do we fight fire with fact or fight fire with fire? At this point I'm of the opinion that the gloves should come off and we go to the mattresses, wage total war. Exterminate them. Find out every dirty secret and ruin them politically. Who are they fucking, who do they owe money to, who has markers to call in, every bit of dirt we can find and end them. Hound them from public life. Because if we don't, they come back like fungus. They need to have a reputation lower than Nazis, rapists and pedophile priests. They need to be branded as war criminals and enemies of civilization.
Republicans praised Ford's pardon of Nixon and this just meant that his henchmen were able to come back with the Iraq war.