What happens when you want to live in an alternative universe?
Just ask Andrew Bolt. Who else to turn to when you want an informed insight into American politics?
Barack Obama should not have been re-elected president.
Yes, naughty Americans, you got it wrong, you need a good hard smacking.
Talk of the Übermensch:
The turn away from the earth is prompted, he (Nietzsche) says, by a dissatisfaction with life, a dissatisfaction that causes one to create another world in which those who made one unhappy in this life are tormented. The Übermensch is not driven into other worlds away from this one.
Speaking of Nietzsche and the Bolter in the same voice always seems just right and so and thus.
Anyhoo you can get the rest of the Bolter's deepest thoughts here at the Adelaidenow rag, thereby subverting the HUN paywall and the notion that anyone would be stupid enough to actually pay to read the Bolter.
Naturally it's a conspiracy.
This election confirms the suspicion that the politics of seeming is trumping that of achieving.
That what counts most in politicians is how voters "identify" with them, rather than what they do.
It also suggests that a culture of entitlement is eating at a culture of achievement.
Yes, like the many and varied achievements of George W. Bush. And the joys of Romneycare. But sssh, there are dark implications for Australia.
At this point Opposition Leader Tony Abbott should start to worry, since even here a Prime Minister's vicious speech on alleged misogyny counts for more among many women than the waste of billions of their dollars.
Indeed. Why worry about legitimate rape when billions are being looted?
But for the real Bolt spotter, the more interesting reaction came in an earlier posting, which linked to a story:
With first post-racial president reelected, 'Fuck white people' trends.
The Bolter supplied asterisks, a thoughtful touch because if you follow the link you end in a stew of bigotry and prejudice. It shows the Bolter loves to get down in the gutter, and once there, draw apocalyptic conclusions:
... welcome to the new age of identity politics - a time when seeming trumps doing, identity trumps performance and receiving beats giving. Ominous signs for Tony Abbott. And the West.
Blacks, women and Hispanics. The curse and the ruin of the West. Poor whitey ...
For poor Tim Blair, it was just an unnerving and wretched process, full of unhappiness and suffering:
The biases of Australian reporters are more pronounced when covering foreign elections. Perhaps they feel less constrained. Seven’s US election coverage, for example, has featured Chris Reason asking in astonished tones why Americans don’t adore Obamacare and continued Democrat cheerleading from US correspondent Angela Cox, who at one point sneeringly wondered if any Republicans had ever heard of the singer Rihanna.
Rihanna? What a cruel socialist Marxist thrust. What a jibe. How unbalanced. How wretched. How biased.
But Blair sees a ray of hope, which is that everything will be so totally stuffed by 2016 that a new George Bush will be installed to really fix everything:
By then, the cost of Big Government, entitlements, micro-regulation and Obamacare may be clear even to the government-dependent. (here)
Fancy expecting health care. Let them die in the streets. It'll be time for a couple of new wars perhaps, but what to do if Big Government wages them, when it really should be Big Warring Business ...
Naturally when there's heat in the kitchen Blair takes to parroting Mark Steyn (what else is a parrot to do, except parrot and link, link and parrot?)
It turns out that all Steyn has got to offer is a bit of expunged parroting, copying the wise words of Sir Richard Mottram. Let's remove the asterisks. What is it with conservatives and asterisks?
“We’re all fucked. I’m fucked. You’re fucked. The whole department’s fucked. It’s been the biggest cock-up ever and we’re all completely fucked.”
The apocalyptic conservative mind at work. Some loop that insists that being moderate and just letting the world float by fails to understand the way we're all completely fucked ...
Naturally Piers "Akker Dakker" Akerman was completely distraught, because All Obama offers is more hope.
Obama's first term was such a shocker that it's a mysterious, mystical wonder that he voted to get back in.
The division is basic – it is essentially the divide between socialism and capitalism.
Obama is the socialist, Romney was arch-capitalist.
Yes and he was born in Kenya too. And it gets worse:
The issue which most divided voters was not the extravagantly expensive healthcare system but wealth redistribution.
Wealth redistribution. Shocking. Would that be the wealth redistribution that has gathered pace in recent years, more so under Obama, such that income concentration has now returned to the boom years of the 1920s?
As Figure 3 shows, the share of before-tax income that the richest 1 percent of households receive has been rising since the late 1970s, and in the past decade has climbed to levels not seen since the 1920s. The vast majority of the increase is accounted for by the rising share of before-tax income going to the top 0.5 percent of households. (here for the graph and more)
Of course not. The country clubs and golf courses of America are under threat from blacks, women and Hispanics.
All that's left is hope, which is of course Akker Dakker code ... for complete and utter despair.
If Obama offers hope, then Akker Dakker is happy to offer you a chance to slit your wrists now, before it's too late ...
Naturally The Australian knew how to herald the result:
Markets tumble. Head for the hills. Four more years of an atheist Muslim born in Kenya.
And four more years of Donald Trump.
It seems Trump had second thoughts about some of his twitter tirade and deleted some of his remarks, but here's a few as the frenzied thumb hit the button (click to enlarge):
Four more years of Birther conspiracies and paranoia and never mind a second result going Obama's way. But here's the thing.
The commentariat makes its bread and butter from telling us all how dire things are and how the world is rooned and how we need to march on Washington (or Canberra, in a convoy of clowns).
They should be celebrating, they should be dancing in the streets. In four years, they'll be able to point to the complete devastation of the west, the utter gutting of the world and everything noble white men have stood for, and turn and point the fickle finger of indignation, and drawl at the empty chair, "See, I told you so".
What's that you say? What about Paul Sheehan? What's he got to say? Well Sheehan is off with the sexist pixies, still reliving the Melbourne Cup in Why Seven needs this beauty with the beasts.
Beauty and the beasts? Yep, for simple-minded reductionist asinine stupidity, you can't go past Sheehan, though he probably thinks he's being feminist:
The trigger was Channel Seven's coverage of Cup Week, anchored by three roughies and a thoroughbred. The thoroughbred was the only women on the anchor panel, an English import, Francesca Cumani, who floated elegantly above the fray, intimately involved and yet apart.
Cumani may have a dark side, but on camera she betrays no self-absorption or vacuity. At 29, she has left no trail of scandal, controversy, conflict or fodder for the prurient.
On race day, with so much bogan chic on parade, Cumani opted for simple elegance. Advertisement Beauty is commonplace, but beauty plus intelligence, lucidity, courage and loyalty is a more rarefied combination. It can be found in men, but its highest expression is in women.
At about this moment, a wave of nausea swept over the pond.
Sheehan brooding on the fillies.
It's too much, and it leads to Sheehan thinking about serving at stud:
Women have greater physical capacity for pleasure than men. This is nature's scheme. Because in nature, procreation is paramount. So women have to take greater risks than men for passion.
Passion? The greatest risk to sanity that women take is when they read Paul Sheehan. But it says one thing. He likes to take the day off on Thursday. He probably filed this column yesterday and couldn't be bothered rounding up anything on Obama.
Does four more years of Obama mean four more years of vacuous Sheehan?
There was only one real upside in the world of the commentariat. The twittering Rupert Murdoch fell silent on 6th November and hasn't tweeted a twittish tweet since:
Everybody searching for any scrap of news about election tomorrow. plenty of straws to grasp for
Romney, probably not enough.
Presumably the punters were searching for a scrap of believable, credible news, by looking outside Fox News and News Ltd.
But the even bigger joke tweet?
Monolithic media will spend next three days pushing Obama, but final outcome far from certain ...
Monolithic media?
The owner of of one of the United States' largest media conglomerates (it came in at number 6 in 2011, behind Amazon, Comcast, Disney, Apple and GE here) talking about monolithic media?
When he'll be making out like a bandit for the next four years explaining how that atheist Muslim socialist from Kenya is ruining the country? How the country's ruined and everything is fucked ... (without the asterisks please)
What else? Well surely the pond should reserve a special prize for Fran Kelly this morning asking the question that is on everybody's lips.
Hillary Clinton for 2016? Perhaps up against Gov. "Chris" Christie ...
Yep, the champagne bottles haven't been recycled, the digital ink barely dry on the 2012 results, a whole four years to live, and already the chattering classes are chattering about 2016.
There's no simply no end to the madness and the incessant chattering and the swilling and sipping of the chardonnay ... and whether it's Paul Sheehan on proud passionate fillies, or the Bolter on blacks and women, it's an endurance race for all ...
If Our Romney, Mal Turnbull, sniffs the breeze and decides to put out feelers, who could be his Trump? Barnaby, perhaps, or someone who can successfully straddle the cognitive dissonance when the "breeder" card is deployed.
ReplyDeleteLike, how else to fan the fears about the unters, but by fainting at their fecundity? Then, it becomes completely reasonable to urge battlers to have another for the State.
So, how long before some goon gets stuck in, again, on women's rights to control their own fertility? Not long.
I wondered if the Bolter's reference to Abbott and the Evil Queen was merely token in an article constituting a job application for the States. Carpe Diem after all.
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