Sometimes I realize that my life is not good
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I feel crazy
Remember when Vicente Fox hired Giuliani as a "consultant"? Except, given the fact that 70% of Mexico's population lives in poverty, it made sense that the Giules would be the kind of consultant who gets paid a cool 4.2 million** to say "get those poor people out of the Zocalo" and "arrest anyone selling something without a permit", and then gets a ticker-tape* parade. So anyway, I wonder if he also might have given some advice about elections. We are a model for the world.
Actually, though, that bad-pizza segue is totally unfair. Rudy was never involved in electoral fraud; his popularity was all repressive desublimation and stockholm syndrome. Or little fascists getting out the vote. or whatever.
Coincidentally, another victory for fascists. Just in case you thought mass slaughter was punishable by law in any country in this hemisphere.
*what is ticker tape anyway and does it have to do with the Dow Jones?
**Check out dobrovolets's link in the comments.
EDIT- OK, help. A power-walking neighbor lady (wearing a hot pink golf shirt and resort-themed jamz) just tried to pick one of crazy neighbor lady's huge lilies, failed, pulled a knife out of her pocket and with spastic, aggro movements sawed it off the stem, right under the flower, and power-walked away. Yes, crazy neighbor lady does come over with petititons, written by her, to "leave the undeveloped parking lot alone!" and lawn signage for the upcoming primary and sundry extremely boring democratic party propaganda; and yes her face turns bright pink with excitement whenever she starts low-talking away about the next big candidate; but after all she is my crazy neighbor. This other lady is nothing to me. I feel like I should do something.
EDIT 2- check out Greg Palast's article in The Guardian (thak you, from_ashes!)