The People's Cube - Political Satire

Today Peter King appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe to continue his just denunciation of rogue senator Ted Cruz. When asked about the phone calls he'd been receiving, King said, “It's out of control. The calls were absolutely the most vile things I've ever heard in my life, and I'm from New York! Call after call kept coming through, and I hesitate to quote them on the air, but many of them used offensive and threatening terms like ‘Constitution' and ‘limited government' – I'm not kidding, I was shocked.”

Reiterating just what it is that mainstream, rational Republican moderates stand for, King instructed the general public, “Our constituents just don't get it. The mission of the Republican Party is to cooperate and compromise, and that's why we love to stay in second place. And along comes this contemptible upstart from a former Rebel state, and he's going on about keeping the government out of people's lives. I mean, what's next? Secession? Slavery? Lynchings? Quoting the Declaration of Independence? Once these extremists get started, where does it stop? Where could this end up if somebody doesn't stand in the way of Cruz's fraudulent leadership?"

King warned America, “Here's the problem: if this hate-filled rhetoric doesn't stop, citizens will start thinking we actually work for them!”

The pronouncement was received by indignant guffaws from the rest of the panel.

However, the interview ended on a lighter note. Everybody got a chuckle out of King's comment that well-meaning Republicans often tell him that all they need to do is defund Obamacare, which would be a horrible thing to do.

Komissar Blogunov wrote:The mission of the Republican Party is to cooperate and compromise...

According to the science of Game Theory this may be a very good strategy, one that mirrors the classic Prisoner's Dilemma. From the Wikipedia page:

Two members of a criminal gang † are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of speaking to or exchanging messages with the other. The police admit they don't have enough evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge. They plan to sentence both to a year in prison on a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the police offer each prisoner a Faustian bargain. Here's how it goes:


If A and B both confess the crime, each of them serves 2 years in prison
If A confesses but B denies the crime, A will be set free whereas B will serve 3 years in prison (and vice versa)
If A and B both deny the crime, both of them will only serve 1 year in prison


Because betraying your partner (by confessing) always rewards more than cooperating with them, all purely rational self-interested prisoners would betray the other, and so the only possible outcome for two purely rational prisoners is for them both to betray each other. The interesting part of this result is that pursuing individual reward logically leads both of the prisoners to betray, but they would get a better reward if they both cooperated.

† Also valid for two criminal gangs, such as the Democrat and Republican Parties.

We are most fortunate that the Elite Inside the Belt Way Repubicks are nastier, more hateful.... just as faithful as Democrats. Staying in Office is the goal and no Conservative will get in their way of being milk toasting, wimps.

Unfortunately for the Socialist Democratics, the radical commie, there are few to get in our way of taking over Amerikkka.

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