banky's Journal: Apparently you're all bad at math

Somehow it's a shocker (and not the pleasant "finger up the ass" kind) that a major news outlet has decided to start calling it a civil war.

How many fucking months has this "not-unlike-but-maybe-or-maybe-not-a-civil-war" hamsterdance been going on? My grossly imperfect recall says "at least since the ramp-up of the election season, maybe 3+ months".

So what kind of goddamn genius is at work to figure out, wow, eventually all the major news outlets will be jockeying (tastefully, of course) to be the first to label it a REAL civil war.

Independent of politics, "If it bleeds, it leads". So there's a political agenda, and there's a "we have to appease our shareholders agenda". Do a little math and there you go. NBC blinked and decided to go ahead. Either they'll get demonized, lose their White House Ass-Kissing credentials, OR they'll go down in history as the ones that "called it".

Everyone wants to be the person to predict the downfall of ... anything.

Not math

[Captain Splendid]

More like creative yeak poetry. Everybody was so damn gung-ho about the idea at the beginning, but the spark faded long ago, and nobody wants to be the first to speak up against it because they pimped it so hard in the first place.