Plan B Forum

The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end.

In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it.

It will go down someday as the greatest reality show ever conceived. The concept is ingenious. Take a combustible mix of the most depraved and filterless half-wits, scam artists and asylum Napoleons America has to offer, give them all piles of money and tell them to run for president. Add Donald Trump. And to give the whole thing a perverse gravitas, make the presidency really at stake.

It's Western civilization's very own car wreck. Even if you don't want to watch it, you will. It's that awesome of a spectacle.

But what does it mean? Or to put it another way, since we know it can't mean anything good: Is this enough of a disaster that we shouldn't laugh?

I went to Iowa to see for myself.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... z3itTFmrG8

...and now I really want to watch 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England.

The guy writes like a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe...

And he writes for Rolling Stone, how appropriate...

Dr. Thompson taught a lot of us about writing and journalism. There's no shame in cribbing some of his style.

Lord Jim wrote:The guy writes like a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe...

And he writes for Rolling Stone, how appropriate...

Yes, of course.

Sue U wrote:Dr. Thompson taught a lot of us about writing and journalism. There's no shame in cribbing some of his style.

Again: Yes, of course.

why would anyone want to read more?

Econoline wrote: It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England.

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I'd pay to watch that

wesw wrote:why would anyone want to read more?

To find out more about the platypuses?

I knew *YOU* wouldn't want to, Wes, which is why I used a link instead of a quote. (You're welcome.)

geez, it s just that any idiot can insult people. it s all sauce and no meat

Kasich picked up a couple of nice endorsements recently.

the gov of Alabama gave an intelligent and persuasive endorsement to Kasich. he was interviewed on MSNBC I think, and that was the version I saw. I don t know what the guys politics are, but he was impressive in that interview....

also, Charles barkley. barkley, didn t know how to pronounce his name correctly yet, but he likes him. Elizabeth warren was his first choice, but Kasich is his man right now.....

oops..., wrong thread.

even trump likes Kasich

trump for sec state! (we gotta give him something, he always asks for more than he really wants anyway)

vote Kasich!!!!!!