WATCH: Hilarious Video Of QAnon Anonymous Meeting

“Sounds pretty normal to me!”-MTG

Australian comedy at it’s best. And a reminder why the rest of the world follows US politics, because all the crazy ideas end up exported overseas.

Well what Lyndon B Johnson said was go out and make a statement even if it isn’t true. They will spend at least two news cycles explaining while you are thinking of a good next move.

It’s nuts to be sure. The sad thing is that such a large portion of people have not only accepted the ludicrous concept of “supply side” economics, but done so THREE times. Reagan got a huge tax cut for the rich pushed through, then Bush 43 and then most recently Trump. At least Trump’s wasn’t as big (despite his claims) as the first two but I can’t help but wonder if that was only because the top few percent already possess so much of the wealth that there simply wasn’t enough left over to suck MORE out of the hands of the masses to hand over to the uber rich. That’s not the worst part. The worst part is that not only does well over forty percent of the country accept this dumbass theory, they enthusiastically support it! They actually believe it each time the GOP decides to do a major snake oil sale.

I was born and raised in a country where we, and by we I mean average middle class down to poor folks had it pounded into us (by parents that had lived through the Great Depression and WWII) that if we did what we should we could have a better life. What we should meant applying ourselves in school and reaping the benefits of a good quality public education, and then working hard. We weren’t promised that it would be easy, or that we just needed “one break” but that if we did the things we should do over time when we got to their age we’d be better off. Maybe even a LOT better off but the point is that it would take many years, if not decades of steady effort and work. We were specifically taught NOT to count on the “lucky break” or to fall for the allure of short-cuts and to be wary of promises that seemed to offer an easy path.

It was hardly an idyllic country I grew up in. Riven by the fight for racial justice and a war we should never have engaged in there were certainly problems BUT the evidence was there that if our own parents hadn’t quite made it to the good life, that comfortable solid middles class or even upper middle class existence we could look around and see plenty of people who had. The possibility, especially if you were WHITE was real and you could see it. That all went away when Reagan sold even working class folks on the whole trickle down economics bullshit.

I recall that from the beginning I found the whole trickle down thing (and that’s how it was usually referred to even in the news) to be an offensive idea. To me at least the whole concept was basically to take a table at which only the very well off were allowed to sit and was already full of food to be piled so high with MORE food that more scraps and crumbs would fall off for the rest of us. That we’d be the equivalent of the dog sitting by the table and instead of hoping their masters would toss them a scrap that there’d be so much food up there the masters would inadvertently knock off enough scraps to make for a nice meal. Maybe. If you were lucky enough that the scraps fell directly into YOUR mouth because otherwise you’d have to fight with others to get just a part of them!

I think it was a good analogy then and think it still is. The only difference is that we, the doggies hoping for our scraps have been beaten down by the masters for so long that many of us actually have been conditioned to feel “grateful” we are even allowed near the table! To be sure, I don’t think that’s true of most of the people who will read this. WE know we aren’t doggies but rather human beings and that we deserve a seat at that table and that EVERYONE else does too. If that means the “masters” don’t get to gorge themselves quite so much so that the rest of us can have a good, or at least decent meal the masters can just get the hell over it! Alas, one thing we know is that a handful of the cultists who would rather starve than admit they have been suckered do in fact read this and some similar sites. I keep saying that human nature is such that virtually all of us hate admitting when we’ve made a mistake, and that the bigger the mistake the more we tend to resist admitting it. Even to ourselves, much less others!

Hey, I had a good laugh at that video. But I also know, and I think that was the point that there are tens of millions of people (not just in this country – take a look around the world at other supposedly enlightened democracies) who eagerly swallow the same shit sandwiches!

I’ve always thought “trickle down economics” sounded too much like “tinkle down economics.” So, it never sounded like a good deal to me/

The video is made by a group not-americans. Goes to show you what a laughing stock we have become in the world.