The idea of balancing a budget makes Vice President Biden so enraged he wants to strangle people — figure of speech, he says, though. I guess he and Spencer Ackerman are going to rhetorically strangle and put people through plate glass windows.
Anyway, don’t tell Biden about balancing the budget — it makes him angry. The Democrats know perfectly well how to balance the budget, but they just really don’t want to. Instead, they’d like to pointlessly spend trillions of dollars. So stop pestering them about it. Or they’ll murder you. Rhetorically.
So is violent speech now okay as long you add some qualifier to the end? If so, I have a bunch of great lines I want to use in the political arena.
“I will kidnap you and put you in the trunk of a car, drive it out into the desert, set it on fire, and watch as you scream and try to escape. Figure of speech.”
“I’m going to break into your house and murder your pets. Rhetorically.”
“I’m going to put my hands around your throat and squeeze until you stop moving forever. Not literally.”
“I’m going to drug you, tie you down, break all your limbs, and then drag you out so far into a forest that only the wolves will ever find you. Debate-wise, I mean.”
“I’ll tear you apart and put each of the bloody pieces in waterproof duffel bags. With words, of course.”
“I’m going to grab an ice pick and go to town on your face until the police wrestle me to the ground and drag me off to an insane asylum. And by ice pick, I mean facts. And by face, I mean your arguments. And by police wrestling me to the ground and dragging me off to the insane asylum, I mean… I’m not sure on that one.”
“I’m going to use logic and reason to counter the points you’ve been making. With sharp knives!”
Whoops. Got confused on that last one.