Posted on 02/11/2020 3:40:35 PM PST by dynachrome
Sometimes, life really does imitate art. Recent actions by certain members of the Democratic Party remind me of scenes in Ayn Rand’s most famous novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”
Take the impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives two months ago. It was as blatantly a kangaroo court as Hank Rearden’s trial in “Atlas.” Rearden had zero chance of being found “not guilty.” Same with President Donald Trump.
I mean, what chance did he have of not being impeached when the Democrats refused to identify the accuser, denied the accused’s right to have counsel cross-examine prosecution witnesses, and didn’t allow any witnesses to testify for the defendant? The good news is that Trump, like Rearden, gained public sympathy, because fair-minded people could see that the whole thing was rigged.
Then there was Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s petulant, childish gesture of ripping up her copy of the State of the Union address on national television. It reminded me of when Mr. Thompson, the head of state in “Atlas Shrugged,” said after hearing John Galt’s three-hour radio address to the nation, “It wasn’t real, was it?”
Like Thompson, Pelosi had a desperate desire to deny reality.
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“A FReeper wrote that any time he walks by a chain-link fence and youngsters are around, he grabs it and shakes it and yells AVENGE MEEEE!!
I like the sentiment, but that’ll get you locked up nowadayze”.
That’s an idiotic thing to do. And I do not like the sentiment when it is applied to children in such a way. It’s idiotic.
Again, in a vacuum it's cool but a) it's a jail sentence today and b) if someone did that around my kids....
You’re right. It makes no sense to do something like that and it accomplishes nothing. Little children would be scared but most teenagers would say “That guy’s a goof ball making an ass out of himself”.
When we were teenagers we’d pull stunts like that.
Most of the harmless things many of us did as youths - like lighting off fire crackers, making fun of the Ayatollah, riding a bike without a helmet, and hanging out at the mall - are illegal or hate crimes.
Go Galt.
You must be much younger than me if you made fun of the
the Ayatollah when you were a youth.
HA
Don't know the origin but pretty funny and accurate.
That’s a question for the ages...
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