It always amazes me how voters can continue to re-elect incumbents who serve jail time, are convicted felons, sexual perverts and cheat on their families. For some reason they think their guy can be trusted in office. Make you wonder about human intelligence.
It is interesting that Medicare fraud is such a small issue in a state which has so many Medicare recipients as voters. Further proof that most voters either allow others to do their thinking for them, or vote straight party.
It is too much to ask the voting electorate to do their homework and use their brains before voting, evidently. No matter how badly our elected representatives act, the blame truly falls on the people who put them there in the first place.
Politicians of all stripes infuriate me, and should do the same for everyone. But someone put them there, and it’s time we as a society take a good hard look in the mirror and act responsibly for a change.
In a town I used to live in, a member of City Council was re-elected. He was petty, vindictive, and often showed disdain for the people he was supposed to be representing. I read an article where they asked people why they voted for the candidates they voted for. One person’s response stuck out: she was a law student (to be sure, the school was unaccredited, but she was evidently smart enough to handle graduate school). She stated she voted for him because she “recognized the name”. Sheesh.
sat·ire/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA noun 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
Origin: 1500–10; < Latin satira, variant of satura medley, perhaps feminine derivative of satur sated (see saturate)
SKJAM! Premium Member about 10 years ago
Perhaps this will be one of the non-Disneyfied fairy tales that ends with the main character being eaten by an alligator.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Sounds like SOP for the GOP. Can’t take your qualifications for office seriously unless you see at least one felony indictment.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 10 years ago
It always amazes me how voters can continue to re-elect incumbents who serve jail time, are convicted felons, sexual perverts and cheat on their families. For some reason they think their guy can be trusted in office. Make you wonder about human intelligence.
Enoki about 10 years ago
It’s a book of short tales written by a Democrat…
I Play One On TV about 10 years ago
It is interesting that Medicare fraud is such a small issue in a state which has so many Medicare recipients as voters. Further proof that most voters either allow others to do their thinking for them, or vote straight party.
It is too much to ask the voting electorate to do their homework and use their brains before voting, evidently. No matter how badly our elected representatives act, the blame truly falls on the people who put them there in the first place.
Politicians of all stripes infuriate me, and should do the same for everyone. But someone put them there, and it’s time we as a society take a good hard look in the mirror and act responsibly for a change.
In a town I used to live in, a member of City Council was re-elected. He was petty, vindictive, and often showed disdain for the people he was supposed to be representing. I read an article where they asked people why they voted for the candidates they voted for. One person’s response stuck out: she was a law student (to be sure, the school was unaccredited, but she was evidently smart enough to handle graduate school). She stated she voted for him because she “recognized the name”. Sheesh.
Enoki about 10 years ago
sat·ire/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA noun 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
Origin: 1500–10; < Latin satira, variant of satura medley, perhaps feminine derivative of satur sated (see saturate)
I Play One On TV about 10 years ago
“The corporation – not Scott – was fined.”
That’s the beauty of being a corporation: no individual responsibility.
Do you really believe that Mr. Scott had no knowledge? And if he didn’t, how was he qualified to be CEO?
David Riedel Premium Member about 10 years ago
Wan’t he president?
LumFan about 10 years ago
I’ll believe that a corporation is a person when Texas executes a corporation for wrong-doing.
pirate227 about 10 years ago
More like a nightmare.