Back to BushWorld: April Fool's every day

[Peace Patriot]

I was amused by an Autorank (Michael Collins) thread* yesterday that attacked wild-eyed conspiracy theorists, and used the official version of 9/11 as its prime example. I'd never had an April 1st joke do that to me before--make me end up believing that the April Fool's lie was actually, really and truly the truth (that the official version of 9/11 is wacko).

So-o-o-o-o-o, I started thinking about how it is so often the case, that news about BushCons and Bushvillian activities seem like April Fool's jokes. Somebody is pulling my leg, right?

April 2, circa: end of the century: The Supreme Court, in a ruling that was so unusual that Supreme Court clerks ran weeping from the building, and that the Justices themselves were so embarrassed about that they tacked on a provision that it could not be used as a precedent for any other case, today overruled the state of Florida's Constitutional power to control its elections, and appointed George Bush, who lost the popular vote**, President of the United States.

It gets funnier from there.

My next favorite April 2nd joke is that, soon after this Supreme Court appointment, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (with no US Air Force/NORAD activation--which people didn't grok right away), George Bush's popularity soared to 90%, for a brief period, and everyone in America and everywhere in the world, practically, would have done whatever he suggested, nearly the first words out of his mouth were "Get Saddam!," and, despite the fact that a lot of people, inside and outside the White House, said, "Who?", the Supreme Court appointee proceeded to push two bills in Congress, 1) to give him sole power to decide to "get Saddam" (despite the fact that the Constitution gives that sole power to Congress); and 2) to give some pals of his at Diebold and ES&S electronic voting corporate headquarters private property rights over U.S. vote counting, so that, come the 2004 election, they could "count" everybody's votes using "trade secret," proprietary code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it--with virtually no audit/recount controls (despite the fact that democracy's most fundamental premise is transparent vote counting). And while 156 brave Democrats voted against Bush "getting Saddam" (i.e., slaughtering a half a million people), nobody seemed to care about the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" of 2002. Not a peep out of the Democratic leadership for two years (or even today), as $3.9 billion trickled through everybody's fingers to the states, for a fast-track conversion to extremely insecure and insider hackable, Bushite controlled election theft machines.

I laughed out loud at every one of these April Fool's jokes. No way they could be true, right?

What's your favorite April 2nd joke? (Be brief.)


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*(Autorank's April 1st thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x153135 )

**(--according to a consortium of news organizations in a study published on 9/12/01) (April Fool's!)