Bush Family Fishing Trip

Ordinarily, Bush-bashing bores me. But this is the funnest Photoshop fakery I’ve seen in a while:

[via Rhea’s Journal]

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3 Reader Responses

1. JK Says:
   September 12th, 2005 at 2:38 am

   The authorities cannot compete with the open-source, entity of living information that is the Internet — at least in real time they can’t. Incrementally their plans hatched in the 70’s and 80’s are competing in a much more fair fight than they’ve ever faced with this tool we use day in and day out. They are trapped and it is going to be brutal as they try to lash and brutalize their way out of it. Which is why they will fizzle out. The Bush family with their endless litany of crimes will become the laughing stock and the butt of every joke come a decade from now. We will laugh at the police state and will work around its heniously obese proportions. People are already calling the Katrina concentration camps “Bushvilles”. And yeah I said concentration camps. The whole group mentality of this country is a concentration camp.

   I agree, it’s funny shit. But the systemic right’s masterminds have to be shittin’ bricks. 38% approval rating, hello? They’re developing quite a vacuum there. What are they gonna do, fill it in with a dystopia nobody can deny? In the end, sure we’re all doomed. But for christ’s sake, this game ain’t even close to over. The American populous while inherently racist is less racist than it ever has been — well at least towards African Americans and Asians etc. — We have great, great men and women, albeit probably assassinated, from our past who still reach out to us and convince many that what is being told to them now is untrue. We are coming upon a movement of minds that is beginning to define the structure of today’s reality, independent of the system yet freely existing within it. We are designing relatively long-shot escape hatches as we speak. We are finding answers within what appears to everybody else as a void. And most of us are doing it because we don’t want to see anything more be hurt.

   We have no time for the propaganda and the circus it rides in on. We just don’t care anymore about YOU! We care about ourselves and ourselves being the emotional overlay that is where I end and you begin. We aren’t talking about unity or togetherness, we’re talking aloneness in this vast universe and what we’re going to do about it. And it’s going to happen one absurdity at a time until its membrane becomes so thin it ruptures.

2. alistair Says:
   September 12th, 2005 at 10:00 am

   people in survival mode forget politics completely and behave in different ways. things were no better for anyone during clinton`s terms either. pockets weren`t fuller. people weren` t joyous and dancing in the streets. it is corporate feudalism. always has been and as long as we`re able to type on the military communications net,it always will be. bush hating is a passtime of the disenfranchised. go and franchise. you`ll feel better and be more likely to be able to feed your kids.
   the problems we are witnessing are the problems of humans trying to solve problems in power structures. you can never make all the people happy all the time. it is a miracle that the street lights come on and the hot water comes out of the red tap. when they don`t people panic. toronto went through it in the blackout. even though it only lasted for a day or so, i saw the look of panic on suv drivers faces when they couldn`t get the food they wanted in the grocery store, for one day. no plan B. nor a better way of living plan A.
   the buddhist view is non-attatchment. that means everything that the ego rides on. including what the consciousness believes is an injustice. it`s an illusion. a mere flicker.(i can hear deepak choprah`s voice in my head right now.)
   the anger people feel toward leaders is resonating with something inside themselves.

3. Mike Caro Says:
   September 13th, 2005 at 8:01 am

   Try googling “failure”

   now, was that photoshopped? is that poker without cards? or, just plain fair?