Maybe Half True
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For your entertainment, running down the latest adventures of the politicians and prosaic people who make America great, presented with plenty of firsthand perspective—this is National Riposte.
Where the truth ends and the dream begins, only you can decide.
NATIONAL RIPOSTE is to the journalistic world what the outhouse was to the settlers in the Wild West: a supreme repository of shit, more shit, and nothing but bullshit.
Everything you never heard about but wish you had…you’ll find it here, at National Riposte.
From uncensored first person political exposés and opinions to the rollicking adventures of politicians and peripheral people, National Riposte is the new standard for the free press.
“Gripping and salacious.” — Jake Tapper
“[National Riposte] offers a window of insight into the political world that, until now, didn’t exist.” — CNN
“A scandal of proportional magnitude ten or twelve that’s sure to make you go, ‘Where is censorship when we need it?'” — Chuck Schumer
What is Politics?
We at National Riposte believe that politics is a twenty dollar Las Vegas slot machine that politicians play with our taxes. And every pull is a jackpot.
Seeking ever-greater altruism, politicians graciously and courteously gift the winnings to us in the form of yearly tax returns and endless tax-funded public benefits.
Politics is, therefore, a goldmine.
Our politicians are on the adventure of a lifetime, using and being used, victimizing and being victimized, deceiving and being deceived. They are gaming the system and being gamed by it. Actors and those acted upon. Movers and shakers, they are the most moved movers and mostly shaken.
The site is full of words, both true and false. Consider the following:
- Politics in our day isn’t a matter of truth; it’s a matter of words leading to feelings leading to actions.
- The great politicians of our day can attest that what matters isn’t whether the words are true, but like a sensitive virgin on her wedding night, whether it feels right.
- Give a skillful politician fifteen minutes on any topic of interest, and while she probably won’t illuminate the audience with facts and logic, she will make them feel one way or another.
- Illumination and expertise are ancillary to politics.
- No politician aspires to be informative or illuminating.
- Politicians aspire to be not merely heard, but felt: which is why they are so fond of sex with both bipeds and quadrupeds.