It’s an adjective with ambiguous connotations. There is Drunken Chicken which I have heard is tasty. And Drunken Boxing which was popularized in the movies by Jackie Chan and others. Then there are Drunken Drivers who deserve a suspension of their licenses and perhaps jail time as well. You can probably think of other contexts for this word.
This evening, I am thinking of people who have become drunk on power – people like MTG, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Kyrstin Sinema, Joe Manchin, Kevin McCarthy, and their ilk. I think of them as drunken politicians because drunkenness, inebriation, causes impaired judgement. For one, I offer as evidence of their drunkenness, their threatening to crater the economy in a bid to own the libs by taking the debt ceiling hostage. For another, their move to interfere in the Manhattan DA’s investigation of Trump’s hush money payment to Stormy Daniels – clearly violating the separation of powers as well as meddling in State powers in an unconstitutional power grab.
I have to say that this is the absolute dumbest fucking sack of dildos that I have ever seen come together in either house of Congress. I never imagined that I would live this long.
History will be a harsh judge of these assholes.
I have been following American politics closely since I moved here in 1960, I’ve seen some fucked up crap along the way but the outrage we have been forced to endure these past seven years is, without a doubt, the most politically obscene exhibition of hypocrisy and amorality I could ever have imagined. We may have to live in these “Dark Ages” for a few more years but I guarantee you that the forces of falsehood and autocracy will eventually self destruct. We can only hope that a new, respectable, Republican Party will arise from the ruins of its depraved past.
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