sotomayor: racist sexist extremist imperialist

i don't know, man. i don't know what to think, anymore. i hate republicans, just as i've always hated republicans. all conservatisms everywhere have, at their basis, the sanctity of selfishness. all arguments fielded by all conservative ideologies at all points in human history have always held as their motivation the protection of selfish instincts in human beings. in a way, conservatism is axiomatically selfish: in seeking to preserve what is already in its possession, a group based around a conservative doctrine must be against redistributive justice, whether that justice be the redistribution of property or authority. everything other cause that has been championed by the great conservatisms is no more than artifice for keeping the biggest slice of the pie.

of course, by holding this view, i don't correspondingly believe that progressive or left-radical ideologies must, by their anti-conservative nature, be altruistic. my point is perfectly unitary; i don't mean to point out any black by what highlight in white.

anyway, there was a point to all of this when i began, and i'd best get back to making it. the response to sotomayor's nomination by the republicans is what in polite society is called 'a barnyard fuckfest.' take this quote, from g. gordon liddy, a man who i genuinely hope has his ballsack bitten clean off by a very sick wolverine:

"Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when [Sotomayor]'s menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."

ok, yeah, i know, gordon liddy is a conservative radio talkshow host, and it's his job to be offensive. unluckily enough, it's a job he shares with almost every high-profile republican these days. this is newt gingrich's take, for instance:

"If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything, we cannot accept that conclusion," [Gingrich] writes. "It is simply un-American. There is no room on the bench of the United States Supreme Court for this worldview."

'this worldview' is apparently that associated with being a racist, which, of course, republicans, who have referred to the spanish language as "illegal alien talk" while discussing the nomination, have nothing to do with. they are not racists, they're just instructively pointing out that having a dull-eyed, slobber-lipped, beans-and-rice-smelling wetback in the supreme court of the united states--one who joins organizations for other wetbacks, spics, beaners and border monkeys--would go against the corest of our core values: tolerance. don't you get it? or maybe you're some kind of platano-chomping greaseball, yourself?

i really don't have anything deep to say. none of this bullshit deserves a penetrating analysis, as there's not an ounce of profundity to be drawn from any of this michigas. tpm and other sites have already noticed the divide between moderate and extremist republicans that the sotomayor nomination is exacerbating. for my part, i have to say that people like liddy and gingrich are real, honest-to-god shit, barely deserving of the honorific 'human.' every time they open their mouths, they puke greasy bile all over any issue, and the public debate that should otherwise surround it is poisoned. we are stuck, so long as they have any influence whatsoever. what's truly heartbreaking is that they do command such influence, and not a marginal amount, either. there's some significant portion of the american public that thinks exactly like they do, and is willing to be, on a daily basis, just as larcenous, self-serving and downright vile to their fellow men. i find myself once more wishing for divine intervention, a second flood, maybe, one to wipe out all the jackassery. and if people complain that this thought is too explicitly genocidal, we can still follow noah's lead: save two of the filthiest conservative fuckers, keep them in a pen, allow them to mate and preserve their vitriol-vomiting offspring as a curiosity for future generations to marvel at, and, of course, take heed from.