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Got hope? Nope.

by Don Nash, Unknown News      December 31, 2007

How does any soul maintain even the dimmest glimmer of hope in a hopelessly insane world? Is such a foolish notion even possible? 2007 is in the record books and let's put that hopeless sucker to bed and leave the horror for the historians of some future time.

Remember as George 'The Insane' foretold, "America does not torture!" Yeah, whatever, scum-bag. Bush is about as ruthless a scum-bag as American politics has ever produced. Just take a look at Bush's evil mentor and puppet-master, Dick 'Shotgun' Cheney. No hope there and that's a given.

The whiz-bang American presidential election farce is under full sway, and if ever there was a reason to feel utter hopeless despair, now's the time. You've got the Republicons on one side and the Democraps
on the other and either/or are as useless as teats on a boar hog. Well, the R's and the D's are useful to the warmongers and the war profiteers and those nasty Israel-first types and your run-of-the-mill psychopathic genocidal types, and "regular" Americans are simply ass out and shit out of luck. Hope be not to proud to beg for mercy.

How about Mitt 'The Snit' Romney? I can call old Rom 'The Snit' as I know the man personally. He is sort of like that "uncle" that any American family keeps in the family closet. 'The Snit' is a creepy sort of vulgar pedophile, and he gives an entirely new dimension to the term "demagogue." Pedophiliac/demagoguery is Romney's stock in trade. 'The Snit' likes to champion the Boy Scouts, and where else would the old Snitster get his fresh meat? Fresh fascist meat! All blond
and Aryan and "patriotic" and ready for the "scoutmasters" command to "drop those trousers!" Yeah, there's a dose of good old-fashioned American hope. Get those boys ready to take one up the chute for "God and country." I kid the old Snitster, but maybe not so much.

How about the Clinton/Obama Democrapic candidacy? Aren't Hill 'the Shill' and old Bare-ax about the same Medusa? Both speak in that "traditionally" American 'out-both-sides-of-their-ass' manner, voting for more Iraq war funding and war on Iran funding and then, when in front of that great American electorate, both would deny their warmongering like tomorrow was a mere afterthought. Gosh, maybe the Clinton/Obama Medusa figured that we the people weren't paying any attention. Probably most Americans weren't. Isn't that a sign of "hope" for the tomorrow? Why of course it is. NOT!

The single and most important failure of the Democraps is that they're worse than the Republicons. The Democraps are supposed to know better, but they've taken to pandering to the lowest common denominator, and that's repulsive and reprehensible. Democraps have appropriated "appeasement" and made the concept their slogan for a new and darker America. Mercy, if you thought that the Bush regime was giving America a police state, just you wait to see what the Democraps unleash. Hope be not so proud to undergo a little waterboarding. Maybe we could get Nancy Pelosi to test drive some the ol' board and bucket of water? Yeah, that'd be fun to watch.

Then there's the McCain-Lieberman candidacy, and seeing as how both are murderers in the old traditional sense, their appeal to America won't be worth the price of a campaign contribution. McCain seems to think that bombing Iran is a grand idea and Lieberman salivates like Pavlov's dog at the slightest mention of Iranian slaughter. Lieberman is adamant in maintaining that Iran should take a nuke for Israel. I'll bet there's a handful of Americans who thought Lieberman was just a liberal pussy. Well, he's as bloodthirsty as the bloodthirsty come. Especially when it isn't his own that should bleed.

Now I'll readily admit that none of this is politically correct. Politically correct is cowardice and morally repugnant. Innocent men, women, and children are being brutally slaughtered by ranting soulless reprobates, and those who champion political correctness are fools of an offensive order. The politically correct would deny torture and genocide and ethnic cleansing and illegal wars of naked aggression and as long as they get to see that Wal-Mart happy face each and every day, life is sanguine and chipper for the politically correct.

So America is torturing children and murdering the innocent and outsourcing the future of our great experiment in democracy, and I for one have about had all I can stomach. I'm sick to death of Republicons and Democraps and mainstream media that have whored themselves out to the highest paying pimp. Hey, Gwen Ifill, got your new house paid for yet? Hey, Brian Williams, how does driving to work every day with that mattress strapped to your back work for you? I see it as craven and disgusting. But, that's just me. I don't work or play very well with others.

Yeah, malcontent and dissident. You see, there just isn't much to be hopeful about and with the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto, what little there was to remain hopeful about sort of died with her. Yeah, she martyred herself and why not? Maybe death is the only remaining hope. Wow, isn't that just New Year's cheery?

We've got about one more year of the Bush regime. Scary as the thought might be, the pending presidential election is even more scary. America is offered little choice for leadership. Clinton? McCain? Obama? Romney? Huckabee? Oh, mommy!

We the people are screwed and we weren't even given a fair choice for whom we might elect as our next imperial grand potentate. So would hope be the war profiteering of Dianne Feinstein? Would hope be the slaughter of Pakistanis? Iranians? More Iraqis? Afghans? Would more rendition and more torture and even more nauseating political correctness bring hope? Would hope be Arianna Huff 'n' Puff, or the Daily Kos posturing for more CIA covert slaughter? Yeah, that Kos chump likes playing CIA. The Kos envies those who can torture and kill without recrimination. Hope is dying the death by a thousand cuts. Bleeding slowly bound and gagged in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Hope becomes a scripted Shakespearean tragedy and all the world its players. Hope then becomes our next chapter in the Bush regime's War of Terror, and what a rancid work of psychopathic fiction that's become. Israel farts in Bush's general direction and the world can sense an overall dreaded death of hope. Bhutto's been martyred and that's pretty damn hopeless, and here comes 2008 and wow-oh-wow-whee, this ought to be some fun.

Hope? Hardly. Helpless horror and more just over the horizon.

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Scary as the thought might be, the pending presidential election is even more scary. America is offered little choice for leadership.

Clinton? McCain? Obama? Romney? Huckabee? Oh, mommy!




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