Governor Wooderson?

Matthew McConaughey considers a run for the Texas governorship

7 thoughts on “Governor Wooderson?

  1. “Conservative”* logic as exemplified by the CPAC Trumpapalooza seems to be “We must worship and obey our twice-impeached diselected Sewage on Legs lest we be destroyed by FAR LEFT SOCIALISM and our neighborhoods be colorized by BLM. Plenty of logic there, no emotion. Right?

    1. So right! Pure logic, no emotion. That’s why they wear those “Fock your feelings” T-shirts. They are just like that Dr. Spock from Star Wars!

  2. “Indy says:
    March 12, 2021 at 5:03 pm
    Your choice of regulation is selective though. Protective forces should be applied for consumers and citizens against those who are motivated by authoritarianism and greed in power. That doesn’t mean everything needs to be regulated to the point of absolute control, but how in your right mind could you claim that’s anywhere CLOSE to occurring? Anyone who wants to can get a gun and murder someone on a whim given the opportunity. We’re close to the first trillionaire in history – we have individuals making more that GDPs of entire COUNTRIES. Where is this alleged over-regulation? Individuals can and do kill whoever they want on a whim, and we allow individuals to hoard resources from society like minigods. What is this reality of regulation you live in?

    Go look up Minamata disease and see what unchecked convenient ‘laissez faire-ness’ is in reality. No one seems to have a problem with the FDA or water supply regulatory committees making sure we don’t get salmonella or methylmercury in our food or water, but it sure seems to be selective as to what benefits who, as to what ‘counts’ as regulation.

    That’s why I don’t like anti-regulation libertarians like yourself. Because the regulation is selective – if it benefits yourself, like the FDA or ‘regulating’ the actions of individuals to seize your property with force, then gee then it’s all fine. For everyone else, its Darwinism and the ‘invisible hand’ of the market.

    If you get to utilize the knowledge and toil of others freely, such as the infrastructure built by public funding, non-profits, or research facilities – then its great. The way we’re communicating right now was funded by alleged ‘big government’ and is regulated by several committees and funded by non-profits. From the Javascript this site was written in, to the Hypertext protocol Tim Berners Lee made to create the web, to the TCP/IP protocol funded by the government through DARPA – we ALL stand on the shoulders of others.

    And that’s what pisses me off, and why I don’t like people like you. You want true freedom? Go live in a commune and don’t touch anything anyone else has built. Or go live down with John McAfee in some lawless area where you’re not relying on public ‘regulation’ to protect your personal assets. Otherwise, you’re nothing but a hypocrite with your selective ‘freedom’ bullshit you libertarians like to promote. All is fair in personal benefit in taking from society or asking for selective protections, but the second that it’s about acting with humility and doing the same for others, then its the cold hard ‘invisible hand’ of the market or social Darwinism.

    I don’t disagree with anything you’ve written here. There has to be compromise. I’m not looking for the “libertarian utopia” I dream of, although it would be awesome. I’m looking for moderation. I like the push and pull of democracy. There are the ideals I believe in and then there are the ideals that make sense for a healthy, unified society. But when it comes to free speech, and cancel culture, I have zero tolerance. You may not like what someone is saying or you may find it offensive but they have the right to say it. You don’t have to listen.”

    B) And Roger I think anything other than lettered bullet formatting is beyond your abilities

    Finally, I would vote for Matthew mcconaughey in a heartbeat. That would be cool.

    1. Your reality is warped. In what part of the compromise isn’t it already skewed EXTREMELY to the wealthy and powerful already? Income inequity is getting WORSE not better. Bezos, Gates, Musk, and the rest made billions during the pandemic and gave none of it back.

      The Trump tax cuts to corporations went straight to executives to utilize their position to do stock buybacks, and then cashed out their personal compensation. And the rest went to M&A to buy out competition and eliminate jobs, so they can raise prices for consumers and create a monopoly. And not much different for the blank checks Trump gave to ‘small businesses’ that went to his buddies. But there’s never any stipulations or auditing attached to it to keep the corrupt from taking advantage, because that would be ‘regulation’ right?

      I’ve never seen a group of people with such a persecution complex on a total lie. There is no ‘anti free speech cancel culture.’ It’s not the fact that morons are out there with different opinions – its the fact that people are out there actively voting for THOSE THINGS TO BECOME LAW. Do you get the difference between someone saying ‘well I don’t like soccer so I don’t watch it’ and ‘I don’t like soccer therefore I’m going to take action against it.’? One is an opinion, one is an action.

      What the hell is the difficult part of that to understand? You say you don’t disagree, but this is the shit you’re voting for. And it’s pushing society towards collapse. Yes, maybe you smile through your teeth at the low wage earners who back your groceries, make your food, change your oil – and so on. But try telling them to their face your ‘opinions’ when they’re barely scraping to get back and that you think they don’t deserve a living wage and voted so they couldn’t have one.

      I’ve never seen a bigger dense group of people than the ‘free speechers.’ The version of ‘free speech’ that the right wing wants, is a consequence- free structure to spout bullshit and infringe on other individuals personal property to broadcast their bullshit. Which is ironically enough, as anti-libertarian as it gets. Essentially what the right wing wants is the equivalent of forcing a private citizen to advertise a message on the roof of their home and private property – and never have any consequences to what it is says.

      You get that all this internet space i someone’s property, right? Twitter pay for their servers, so does Amazon, so does all these internet providers who the right wing claims are preventing free speech. They have absolutely no obligation to host ANYONE’S material for any reason, any more so than I have a right to take a can of spray paint and graffiti your house. For someone as a supposed libertarian, you would think that simple concept wouldn’t get by you.

      The problem is, as it turns out, we live in a society and when the right wing can’t force people to do their hard word it turns out they can’t get it done themselves. Which is why platforms like Parler have collapsed – when a bunch of right wing morons right to run something on their own without being on someone elses back, it tends not work out great. Who would have thought that – it actually takes knowledge and effort off the backs of others, and humility and respect for all in society to get things done. Not the greedy authoritarians waving their arms as if they’re gods to get things done.

      You want free speech? Stand up your own server and learn how to do it, and host it yourself. But that requires knowledge and effort. You want to not hear flak about shitty actions? Then don’t do them, and stop pushing to rob hard working people of their labor with wage slavery. It’s really that simple.

      1. I’ve always ignored Steverino because I’ve always assumed that he was a troll.

        To be sure, virtually all right wingers these days use tropes like ‘liberals are emotional’… so you can’t judge a troll by use of tropes (all right wingers seem to be pretty much trolls these days in that their primary goal seems to be nothing more than ‘owning the libs’) but what sets Steverino apart is his constantly shifting positions. Anytime you challenge him on anything, he claims that what he said isn’t actually what he meant. So, it seems pretty clear to me his sole goal here is to try to get a rise out of people.

        1. Troll is a reasonable first guess sure, but don’t underestimate the power of stupid. Although just like at a bar, when a horse’s ass starts in, it hardly matters why.

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