{"id":36202,"date":"2018-07-26T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36202"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:48:56","slug":"when-worse-is-the-enemy-of-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36202","title":{"rendered":"When Worse is the Enemy of Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/26\/when-worse-is-the-enemy-of-bad\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When Worse is the Enemy of Bad<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104042\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/7176928416_a75a5d3775_z.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/7176928416_a75a5d3775_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/7176928416_a75a5d3775_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source davitydave | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There comes a time in the decline of an empire when\u2013in its hubris, its arrogance\u2013it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance\u00a0of stupidity.\u00a0 To paraphrase Walter Cronkite\u2013we are there.<\/p>\n<p>Trump makes his one positive, even useful, gesture as President, and the decayed corpse of the Democratic Party bursts its cerements with a stinking roar of horror.<\/p>\n<p>The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.<\/p>\n<p>The MSM\u2013the PR arm of the War Machine Complex that owns us\u2013has so infected the national mind with the sleazy fiction concocted by the Democrat\u2019s Geezer Politburo\u2013the DNC slugs, Schumer, Pelosi and their geriatric myrmidons\u2013that Trumpophobe Automatons rage at Putin and howl for a war, the horror of which they can\u2019t begin to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Because hostility, provocation and resultant war is exactly what is comprehended in this national insanity.\u00a0 Blaming their election loss on Russia, after decades impoverishing working people for the obscene enrichment of the War Machine and its megacorporate monsters, would just be ridiculous if it weren\u2019t so foolishly, desperately dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>As vile, as odious as he is, Democrat honchos know they can\u2019 t beat Trump by shell-gaming Americans for their Wall Street donors any more\u2013hey, it worked fine for ages\u2013so they slime him as a traitor in bed with that monster we\u2019ve been made to fear most: Putin and the Evil Empire Redux.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Worse is the Enemy of Bad Photo source davitydave | CC BY 2.0 There comes a time in the decline of an empire when\u2013in its hubris, its arrogance\u2013it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance\u00a0of stupidity.\u00a0 To paraphrase Walter Cronkite\u2013we are there. 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