Here's what Karl Rove had to say in 2002:
[Rove] said that guys like [the reporter, Ron Suskind] were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
Huh.
Well.
And -
- speaking of "creating our own reality," oddly enough - here's what Karl Rove had to say Tuesday night:
That Reality, she is a bitch. And a fuckin' Mexican. And a ni**er. And a slut. And a Taker. And in all probability a Moozlim. Certainly a liberal. I'm quite sure She votes early. And often.
And Reality, like Nature, bats last.
But you Republicans - you still refuse to believe that. And where does that leave you? You guys have been through the whole lineup, twice, and all you have to show for it is three men left on and a big goose egg by that "R."
You guys all were "shellshocked" on Tuesday night. It seems Reality - not particularly our Reality, because we're not arrogant and stupid and sociopathic enough to claim that we fucking created it - but anyway, Reality came up against your Cloud Cuckoo Land Built On Lies, Fears And Prejudices, and Reality steamrolled that motherfucker, it crushed that fairy tale you all were living in while the rest of the world was working hard to deal with, you know, The REAL World.
And now half of you are STILL running around the internets, spewing certainty - CERTAINTY - that the polls were skewed, that Nate Silver is without a doubt in league with Osama bin Laden and that What We All Saw Actually Happen, In Real Time And On National Television, Didn't Actually Happen.
Holy shit. What will it take?
See, this is why you Republicans can't have nice things - like a planet, say, or a government: You can't fucking deal with Reality. You have NO IDEA WHAT REALITY IS. You want to blame your loss on Hurricane Sandy? Sounds great to me: the biggest dose of Reality the entire Northeast has ever received at once, and your idiot candidate loses because of it? Perfect. Sounds great to me.
See, Tuesday night? Yeah - that was about the majority of Americans - and, ohbytheway we are ALL Americans, you stupid bigoted fear-filled throwbacks - telling you that, Hell to the NO, we are NOT going to let you drive this country, the way you did for eight years. We are not even going to let you try to give us directions. WE have the steering wheel, WE will drive. You just sit in the back seat and be quiet because everything you have done and said up to this point bears no relation to what is going on in the Real World, and we do NOT want to drive over that cliff again.
(Side note: And oh, yeah: let's have that conversation four years from now, and see how terrible everything is. Unlike you, I'm 100% certain we will not be having that conversation in whispered tones within the four barbed-wire walls of a UN/FEMA/ACORN/Planned Parenthood/New Black Panther detention camp built in secret somewhere in Texas, after all of our guns and Bibles have been taken away and burned.)
But see, Rachel Maddow is right: for the good of our country - see what I did there?: OUR country? - you guys have got to get your shit together, you have GOT to come to grips with Reality. The country NEEDS you. Please, please rejoin the Real World. We need your (Reality-based) ideas and input - that exchange of (Reality-based) ideas is what has made and kept this country great.
And as long as you still believe that man-made climate change is a scam, as long as you believe the earth is 6,000 years old, as long as you believe that legitimately raped lady parts have a way of shutting that whole thing down, as long as you disparage book larnin', as long as you believe that tax cuts for the wealthiest means more prosperity for everyone - in other words, as long as you continue to deny what all of the evidence demonstrates, as long as you continue to deny REALITY - you are OF NO USE TO THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
Your worldview lost Tuesday night. Your worldview includes believing a whole lot of Things That Ain't So. If you want to continue subscribing to that worldview, knock yourselves out - just don't expect to be trusted with running our country.
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