Stegosauri

The stegosaurus.  An animal with a brain so small (about half the size of Scrappy's, despite outweighing him by a factor of 226) that he had to have a nerve cluster in its back hips some 20 times bigger to run his ass end.


And we have a lot of people in politics that are just like this.  Certainly Congresswomen Frederica Wilson and Maxine Waters have proved that they could use a brain pacemaker in their back pockets.  Wilson isn't on the stupid list because of her creative editing of what the President said to the fallen soldier's wife- that makes her a liar, not stupid.  But calling herself a "rock star" and wearing that ridiculous outfit, with the cowboy hat?  That nudges her over.  Maxine Waters has a litany too long to go in depth in right now.

And what about said President?  His latest Twitter gaffe may get Bo Bergdahl's trial (and well deserved sentence for desertion) thrown out  because he was stupid enough to tweet ANYTHING about it.  Certainly I could make a whole file on him alone, if he wasn't so easily overshadowed by Dems tripping over themselves to join the club.

And Hillary?  I see today she decided on the FDR model of crutches for an appearance.  Are we trying to wrap ourselves in a man who, despite whatever failings he had, was courageous enough to fight polio to a draw?  Every day seems to bring us another layer in the "I lost because" story, each one worse than the last.


How about Rachel Maddow, and her conspiracy theory about the US deaths in Niger (a theory so bad even the HuffPost, who would gleefully go along with her if the story made the least bit of sense, asked WTH she was doing)?  And on that subject, let's throw in the previously mentioned Ms Waters, who said this event was "Trump's Benghazi".  Except that the deceased in THIS case were trained warriors who were attacked in the performance of their job, where the fallen in Benghazi were unarmed diplomats whom the Obama administration under SecState "Crutches" Clinton put in the line of fire without protection.  Not often you can have one story exposes three stegosauri, eh?

But let's look a little deeper.  A member of Laurie's family, obediently commenting without questioning the story, reposted the already-exposed CNN story about Ms Wilson and her fictitious rendition of the facts, then told myself and Laurie's brother "maybe you don't know the whole story" (Whereupon Laurie's brother thoroughly disproved the story and demonstrated why you don't simply swallow the narrative.)  I think she decided to ignore us afterwards- her current "crowd" is, shall we say, the "kneel at the national anthem" crowd.  And to keep her membership, she has to forgo common sense and thinking for herself as a general rule.  And there are a million dozen like her out there.  And they vote.


And that is how we get persons like Waters and Wilson in Congress in the first place.  This person represents "our" culture, "our" way of thinking (which has worked out SO well), and as long as she's "one of us", we'll keep right on voting for her no matter what anyone tells us ('cause we ain't gonna listen).  And, it's how we get our Boehners, Pelosis, Pauls, and Ryans as well.

And people that keep voting these same people in year after year?  Well, that's how we end up getting our Trumps.  Go ask the Austrians about the crew they just put in, or the French about the one that just missed.

In 2008, Hillary was poised to win the Dem nomination.  But... I think the good ol' boys decided to give Obama the shot first.  Just settle down, Hillary, you'll get your shot afterwards if you behave.  And when it was "her shot," I believe they said, "Well, if she wins, we put in the first black AND the first woman.  And if she don't, at least we still own the media and the colleges, we can make the other guy look bad and still win overall."

BUT... I also think Romney got told the same thing by the good ol' boys in '08, and he lost on his turn too.  And Trump was the outrider, the guy unbeholden to the good ol boys, who could make a REAL change...

...or was he just the one let in to prove to Mr and Mrs America, you really don't WANT all that change... just let us tell you who to vote for, because we'll weed out the CRAZIES...?


Maybe so, maybe no.  But it is plausible.  And with all the stegosauri out there, it's possible.

Just a reminder, though.  The stegosaurus is EXTINCT.