They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Here is a true fact.
Once it became perfectly clear that the Bush Administration would pay no price whatsoever for lying us into the wrong war and then botching that war --
-- the rise of a Republican monster like Trump became highly likely.
Here is another true fact.
Once it became perfectly clear that the Republican base would pay no price whatsoever for giddily supporting the Bush Administration -- that the media would simply let them lie en masse and pretend they were "independents" and "Tea Partiers" who had never heard of George W. Bush, but were also somehow all suddenly politically-active and hysterical with fear over the Kenyan Commie Usurper and his Death Panels and Sekrit Plan To Seize Our Guns -- the rise of a Republican monster like Trump became inevitable.
Right now, literally the only thing sustaining the Republican party is a fragile, interlocking, co-dependent flotilla of massive, ridiculous lies. President Stupid and his goons lie incessantly about everything. GOP Congressional leadership lies about basic math, about what "The Murrican People" do and do not want and about the obvious raving, racist incompetence of President Stupid. The Republican base lies to itself about itself, about its belligerent ignorance, about its racism, about its own party's leadership and about its complicity in all that has gone before, all that it happening now, and all that is to come.
And the mainstream media? Our Fourth Estate? Our last line of defense against tyranny? By and large they lie about all of it. Little lies of omission. Big lies of commission. A full orchestra of straw men keeping the beat under the baton of the Last True Scotsman. Reflexive "Yeah, but..." deflections and pretty much every fallacy of relevance in the book, from argumentum ad populum to argumentum ad verecundium. Random, drive-by hippie punchings and David Brooks or one of his clammy, overpriced clones dealing from the bottom of the "Both Sides Do It" deck every fucking day.
No institutions have failed us more lethally and comprehensively than the Republican party and the mainstream media.
And no class of people have been allotted more immunity from the consequences of the vast, systemic damage they have done to the rest of us than brain caste Republican party and the moguls and celebrities of the mainstream media.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
