Thank You, Hillary.

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40. ALL of these, above.

And with all the casual, tweet-y, nuking-up talk (AND the spinning and excuse-making of the Steve Cortes/Jodyanne Jerkmeoff crowd) now is confirming some of my worst fears.

I remember when we had an army of spinmeisters jumping onstage at every turn, "interpreting" what the so-called President said - "what I think he's saying" or "I think what he really meant was..." Shit. We had that with both the fucking dim-bulbs reagan and dubya. And I'm not fully convinced that either of them fully knew or understood what THEY were saying. Maybe reagan a little bit, but he came from the "Real" World of Pretend, Hollywood. He'd been brought up in an environment where the guy in the white hat always won. As for dubya, he was just hopeless. And he had cheney's hand up his back, moving the levers of his mouth so he'd say whatever cheney wanted.

This one was a test for America. Do you vote with your head, or with your gut? Your reasoning or your mad-on. You lead with cool rationality or hot-headed reactivity? Do you know anything about thinking before you speak, or looking before you leap? Or do you just lash out and figure everything will somehow magically, incredibly, simply sort-itself-out-somehow?

And this was an EPIC fail, America. You led with your anger. The only head-over-heart decision you made was with your lizard-brain.You threw a real good temper tantrum there. Broke everything on Aisle 5. And Aisle 4. And Aisle 6. Actually, you left the entire store in shambles. Oh - but NOW you're starting to get hungry and you barely even realize that you just ruined everything in the supermarket, and all the foodstuffs are rotting or covered with fly larvae, or they're in smears all over the floor amidst a lot of broken glass jars - that is, whatever the looters and other opportunists didn't already steal. Happy NOW?

Oh, but just wait! He's not even "president" yet. The "best" is yet to come! Cuz only HE can fix it, remember?

Oh, and one more thing. Plunging the United States into a nuclear arms race costs obscene bundles of billions of dollars. Even a trillion or two (or TWENTY-two. Or MORE). A very convenient way to plead poverty on all the social programs (and have to cut 'em way back or eliminate them entirely cuz they cost too much), 'eh? And, um, weren't you the ones sitting out there at the teabagger protests holding up signs saying "Don't Touch My Medicare"?