Global House Cleaning

Jonah Goldberg has a column about whether it’s okay for the U.S. president to mark people for assassination. I can see how that makes people queasy, but killing bad people gets things done. Here’s my idea though: Normally, the president isn’t allowed to assassinate anyone. But, once every ten years — just like the census — we’ll have what we call “The Global House Cleaning.” On that day, the president gives a list to the military of all the people around the world Americans don’t like — all the dictators we’re tired about hearing in the news and what not — and then the military just goes assassination crazy and hunts down and kills them all.

Now, some people will say it’s wrong for America to assassinate that many people — especially foreign heads of state — but that’s because people would be afraid we’d abuse our power. But we’re not abusing our power if we moderate ourselves and only do it once a decade. Then, if someone times it right, he can still have a pretty decent run as evil dictator uninterrupted. Just people have to know that all evil things come to an end. We are a super powerful country who can easily kill lots of evil people, so probably best we just let that out every once in a while and be done with it. The world will adjust.

Read This Post Or I’ll Smash Your Head Apart Like a Watermelon – Figure of Speech

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.

Random Thoughts

It’s always an exaggeration to say someone is worse than Hitler unless you’re talking about Cyborg Hitler.

If I hear one more liberal use a violent figure of speech, I will break in his home and murder his pets… rhetorically.

So how old do children have to be before they understand sarcasm?

As someone who closely follows politics, I feel disqualified from commenting on the effectiveness of a campaign ad.

I really hate trees; it’s like they think they own the planet.

It does seem like Arrested Development and Running Wilde are related.

Man is bureaucrat hard to spell; takes me a couple tries to even get the spellcheck to realize what I’m going for. Probably all a scheme by bureaucrats to keep us from complaining about them.