An update to The Stories Write Themselves:
First there’s this: Powerline posted a video of folks denouncing Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as racist, hateful, and all around evil. The fun part is this video was made before the nominee was announced. The extra fun part was the people responding didn’t fucking know there was no nominee they just mouthed whatever platitudes they’ve been trained to say. I can hold up a treat for a dog and get it to “speak”; which is more or less what these nitwits were doing.
Next, everyone loves Lefty Lucy from Stilton’s Place:
Finally, there’s this from Theo:
Remember folks, this soon to be announced nominee is loathed and hated and called racist before the name is even known. (Watch the video.) That’s not rational thought, it’s a programmed response. There’s no reason to take folks seriously if they’re pissed before there’s a reason to be so. Don’t let negativity get to you.
To be charitable, there is a list of people he is likely to choose from, and I guarantee every one has been put under the microscope by both liberals and conservatives, so it’s not totally unreasonable to form some preliminary judgments at this point. Whether or not this applies to any of the people in the video I leave as an exercise for the individual.
They didn’t earn charity. They’re uninformed and faking it. Obviously the people in the video didn’t consult the list of 25 +/- options, form a solid opinion of all 25, and then find themselves in an interview where they suddenly didn’t know that nobody had yet been chosen. They don’t know Jack and are just barking like a trained seal. This is what a lifetime of short answer essay question where you just spew whatever you suspect the prof wants to hear does to your head.
I’ll admit the “Lefty Lucy” cartoon is a low blow. So far (and the nominee hasn’t yet been announced!) nobody’s called the nominee “Literally Hitler”. Either folks have learned that the “Hitler hammer” is losing it’s mojo or the countdown clock for the Hitler comparison in 3. 2. 1…