Our country's biggest problem: Unserious people being taken seriously.

[Beastly Boy]

10. Oh they are serious allright!

They are fucking morons, or pretend to be ones, to get the votes of other morons, but they are serious. Being in power is serious business, and it is good business, whether you have a GED or a PhD. By hook or by crook, it propels you into the upper classes.

They couldn't care less whether to shoot it now, shoot it later, not shoot it at all. Their pronouncements are deliberately self-contradictory to cover all possible outcomes, so no matter the consequences, at the end of the day they are sure to have a video clip that shows them say whatever benefits them most at any particular moment, and play them again and again to their adoring fans, the real morons of any significance, glued to the screens of their TVs permanently stuck on the Fox channel. And all that the Fox watching morons want is the constant validation of their own stupidity as a supreme virtue.

And that's how Fox makes their shitloads of cash. Their business is to deliver gullible morons to their advertisers, not to be partisan or political. Fox will push what their morons demand, whether it's shoot it now, shoot it later, don't shoot it at all, or all three in rapid succession and in no particular order.

This does not necessarily prove absence of seriousness or intellect on the part of the actors who play their part in this shitshow. It's just that the two are irrelevant to how the shitshow is playing out. It's a closed feedback loop that gives something of value to every participant.