Inside the GOP Clown Car
BY MATT TAIBBI
The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end.
In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it.
It will go down someday as the greatest reality show ever conceived. The concept is ingenious. Take a combustible mix of the most depraved and filterless half-wits, scam artists and asylum Napoleons America has to offer, give them all piles of money and tell them to run for president. Add Donald Trump. And to give the whole thing a perverse gravitas, make the presidency really at stake.
It's Western civilization's very own car wreck. Even if you don't want to watch it, you will. It's that awesome of a spectacle.
But what does it mean? Or to put it another way, since we know it can't mean anything good: Is this enough of a disaster that we shouldn't laugh?
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Oh, that's golden. 
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
Will somebody please roll down the windows!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. The thought of all of them locked in a car together.
I've been looking at this more as a combination of Survivor and American Idol. Either way its a sign of the end times.
just because it is so perfect.
with evil clowns. That is not funny now, nor will it get any funnier.
Thanks for posting this n2doc
