7 October 2019 — Nobody “suffers” from Stockholm Syndrome… except those of us who don’t have it. Stockholm Syndrome isn’t the affliction. It’s the hostages’ relief, a palliative, their cure for despair. Those who enjoy its benefits are more at ease. They feel more secure as they align their fates with their abusers’. At its most ardent Stockholm Syndrome manifests itself in concentration camp capo, Soviet era stukashi, and timeless schoolyard snitches. It’s all around us, from the abused spouse to the faithful Demoblican voter, and they will identify themselves for you by saying such things as:
“I am Negan.”
“It’s for your own good.”
“They brought it on themselves.”
“In America, We the People are the government.”
18 October 2019 — Could there be a more wholesome or endearing endorsement of a President’s foreign policy than a Bipartisan Rebuke? For decades Demoblicans and Repucrats have been hard pressed to find a hot spot on Earth they didn’t wish to extinguish with floods of American blood or to bury under mountains of native corpses.
And it’s all worked out so well, this regime change paradigm of theirs! Chased the Commies out of Korea and Vietnam. Got rid of Iran’s troublesome Mossadegh and installed that steady satrap Reza Pahlavi. Today Iran remains America’s staunchest ally. Secular despots were toppled in Iraq and Libya and now those states are Models of Democracy.
And things were going just swimmingly in Syria, too, until that peacenik American rabble got wind of it and elected Mr Trump. In other news, NATO ally signals intent to murder Kurds. Following Ronald (“Ol’ Cut’n’Run”) Reagan’s valiant example of retreat from Beirut, Trump declines to assist NATO ally or Kurds.
It may be a pretty thin non-intervention, but I’ll take it over
Lady MacBubba’s “We came. We saw. He died. Ha ha ha!”
“The Identity Defense” (28 October 2019) — What if, instead of blaming an imaginary car-jacker, Susan Smith had simply “identified” as childless? Leftie orthodoxy puts those penis packing proto patriarchs in the backseat in the Wrong and Saintly Susan, in search of her Best Self, in the Right. Clearly, they were never her allies, and they did nothing to help her in her Quest for Actualization.