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It's pornography

Which, as the Supreme Court ruled, you can't judge by content. But you can recognize it by its utility to addicts, who obsessively dose themselves with particular kinds of story-telling that induce a particular desired state of emotional arousal.

Rightists seem to be connoisseurs of this kind of porn. They have a large body of outrage porn constantly circulating in emails and tv and radio to arouse them; and Frank has presented an example of the "money shot" porn by which they get their emotional release. His was a comparatively genteel compendium of rightwing orgasmic violence; I've seen more brutal examples in the form of lovingly-detailed descriptions of some liberal icon dying a particularly horrible and painful death. I'll leave to the reader the psycho sexual analysis of all the rightwing porn that depicted Hillary Clinton being thrown from airplanes, blown up, and even fed to a wood-chipper. Hard to believe but the Michelle Obama porn seems to be even worse. For another kind of money shot rightwing porn, see the revolutionary fantasies e.g. The Turner Diaries.

It's just one more thing that confirms my belief that conservatism is not a political philosophy but a state of mind.

So yeah, podrock, they do think it's funny. It's their way.

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