I actually went to bed at 9PM last night. Didn’t want to deal with the blow-by-blow bullshit. So, I just found out a few moments ago that Obama won a 2nd term. Un-fucking-believable.
Was surprised to not see any new topics about the win. Maybe everybody is too depressed to post. Maybe no one truly gives a shit … but I kinda find that hard to believe.
Anyway ……. let’s GO!! Say something, goddammit. So, ….
1) This vote was as much about WE THE PEOPLE as it was about the Presidency. WE, the people, voted for failure and more free shit. The values of the original republic are officially dead.
2) Exit polls show that the majority of Obama voters STILL blame George Bush for their economic malaise. Stupid stupid motherfuckers.
3) Romney won the real estate. Obama won the cities. Thank you, Negroes, for giving us four more years of your Free Shit Messiah.
4) Start PREPPING!!! Make sure you buy guns and bullets first.
5) We’re fucked six ways to Sunday. The next four years …. I am afraid.
Stuck
You pricks in NJ cost Romney the election. We’re a photo op nation. This photo won Obama a 2nd term.
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My mini 30 is loaded and I’m ready to go, We need to wake up and take our country back.
Damn!! How fat is Christie gonna get??
Anyway, we are in good hands with Obama. He was the best choice by a long shot.
I ain’t a queer and this might sound queer for a man to say about another man but I love barack Obama. I just love the guy and I wish him many years of success
Fuck Stuck, what else is there to say? Obama was a virtual tie as far as the popular vote, but we know the people don’t vote in the president.
Yes we are fucked, most of us knew this, but when you are standing there looking at the headlights of reality you are a bit frozen. You are correct again, as usual, keep prepping, keep your mouth shut to others about what you are doing, let the zombies come. Goddamn goddamn goddamn, this is really happening.
I’m too stunned to do much. Just woke up to a bad moon rising. If that incompetent imbecile can be president, AGAIN, after all the shit he pulled the last four years, we are truly beyond hope. The 47%, plus the union government employees put him over the top. Still, I can’t believe it. The sooner we collapse the better. Another $4-6 trillion on the debt. All hope is gone that we might save ourselves.
It’s like that feeling you get, when you’re fighting cancer (not that I’ve fought cancer), the grief and anger, and then one day, you finally accept. Now I/we have to accept that we really are doomed. The FSA rewarded Obama for the free shit, free phones, housing, welfare, disability, and he’ll be handing out more free shit than ever before.
Obamacare will not be repealed. We are doomed. The people that actually have jobs, work, and pay taxes are shitting themselves right now. Taxes, government drone pensions and salaries are going up, up, up. If you thought we had socialism before, just wait. Unrestrained Obama will reshape this country into a socialist/communist dream-state, a nightmare for people who work and try to make a living. Don’t think he can fuck it up any worse than it is now? Guess again. The show is just getting started. Holy shit, God, please protect us.
The time for prepping is over, NOW is the time to act, prepping isn’t going to take this country back, Think of where we would be If we stood around and just prepped for the British. FIGHT NOW!!!!
Stan
I gave you a thumbs up because I do THINK you are being sarcastic. Right??
AWD
It’s ok man. It will be ok.
Lol
Who is John Galt?
OK, so I’m reading all these articles and blogs on why Romney lost / Obama won. Endless fucking analysis and naval gazing. Lemme sum it up for yeew …
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90% plus —– Blacks voted for Obama
75% ———– Hispanics voted for Obama
60% ———– Millennials voted for Obama
47% ———– Americans who get Free Shit voted for Obama (which includes a shitload of Crackas)
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That is ALL there is to it. No further need to read, think, analyze, or pontificate.
I think it’s a very dangerous time right now for the President. I didn’t vote for him, and I don’t like much about him, but I don’t wish him personal harm…and I don’t think it would be good for the country if harm came to him.
There are bound to be some nutjobs coming out of the woodwork. I just hope the secret service guys do their job.
And I hope there’s no race violence..or any other kind of violence. That would make the situation worse. Way worse.
Fuckeme. I’m looking at it all wrong! I feel better now …..
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“NEW YORK — President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition.
The Republican Party, by contrast, has been reduced to a rump parliament of Caucasian traditionalism: white, married, church-going — to oversimplify only slightly.”
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If you haven’t puked yet, but want to, then you can read the rest here;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/barack-obama-reelection_n_2085819.html
if you have a serviceable firearm you should be buying ammo not guns, they will never ban guns but the government will try to skyrocket the prices on ammo through taxes and other tricks, buy ammo now, it will be the lowest price you will pay in your lifetime
To Flash,
Our forefathers had it right succession is really the only solution; the differences between the entitlement mentality and the independent self made individual are giant chasm that no bridge built by human hands can span.
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I cannot understand this woman’s point of view, I cannot align myself with her political beliefs, we have absolutely nothing in common, she is a foreigner to me as much as someone who lives on the other side of the world and speaks a different language. I am also sure she would feel the same way towards me.
There’s no common ground for us to stand under the same flag and I am good with that.
sensetti
Stucky
Confucius say, He who cannot beat them must join them!
I can’t believe there are 17 comments and nobody hit this. You all must be shell-shocked.
“Something goddammit”
Happy now?
Advocating violence on this web site is NOT a good idea. Big Brother is EVERYWHERE, and we don’t need to have TBP shut down.
That being said, every one of you knows that a violent end to all this shit is very much in the cards. Otherwise, why do so many of you have guns?
From the Constitution ………….
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,…”
Does that allow for violence, or not?
“These guys are not even in charge of the farts coming from their rectums.”
——– Hanif Kureishi (British playwright)
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“Promise everything to everybody. Except in the most extreme cases, candidates should say whatever the particular crowd of the day wants to hear. Tell traditionalists you have consistently supported conservative values. Tell progressives you have always been on their side. After the election you can explain to everyone that you would love to help them, but unfortunately circumstances beyond your control have intervened…”
——– Quintus Tullius Cicero
Now that I’ve gotten the smartass out, all I can say is, “no shit.”
1. If I believe that elections are corrupted – which I do, the powers that be needed Obama in office because of his uncanny ability to feed the masses shit yet convince them it tastes good. The Republicans have NEVER had it so good. Think of the 24/7 critical coverage of Bushie, while O has followed his plans, increased them, the press went dark and the liberal rabblerousers (Cindy Sheehan, War is good under a Dem, evil under a Rep) went home.
2. The seniors, Jews, unions, welfare moms, college students, cops, teachers, city planners, city inspectors, green energy, tax abated, financial, etc, were NEVER going to vote to change the status quo. O has been the KING of kicking the can, and printing $$$$, to benefit the status quo.
We weren’t even given (or didn’t choose, depending on your belief in the system) a freaking choice. Mittens and McCain were RINOs at best.
I’m sad, but I would’ve been sad if Romney won too.
As long as we the people adhere to the spectacle and refuse to look beyond our “choice” to the truth (the PTB decided for us), ain’t nothing fixing us.
I am truly at a loss as to how we can plan and go forward. What the hell do I tell my kids to strive for? Is there anything truly left to strive for? Job at the politburo or DHS?
Just WTF America, WTF?
Oh, and gov troll, enjoy your paycheck. How do you people sleep knowing that your entire existence is a mockery of the very basic laws that made our country the greatest on earth? Oh, that’s right, you don’t care, you believe your inept bosses, their inept bosses and their corrupted by elite bosses, are doing the right thing while breaking the simplest of freedoms down. Enjoy.
Good advice Stuck.
We know about your gas station incident. Inciting violence during a state emergency is punishable by drone extermination.
We’re watching.
The article below states that America is fucked as long as the two-party —- err, one party — system stays in place.
He discusses the Articles of Confederation. He also talks about the Swiss model — initiative and referendum — an idea someone here mentioned a while ago …. which I initially thought would never work, but I am at a loss now so, why the fuck not try it?
Unless the system changes, we will be just as fucked in 2016 (the most important election ever!! lol) regardless who the candidates are.
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Obama Wins A Second Term: Now What?
November 07, 2012 – by Ron Holland
I’m certainly glad the election is finally over. While I have loved politics my entire life, this presidential election has gone on for over three years, including the GOP primaries, and I’ve had my fill of meaningless slogans and counter-slogans, lies and counter-lies. I had to quit watching political news the last few weeks, as I thought I would become physically sick if I watched any more establishment political “experts” give their required opinions and propaganda bites.
The 2012 presidential election has been like a ballgame hyped and built up over three years. We are programed to cheer and act out our sheep-like roles in partisan politics when, like the game, unless we have money bet on the outcome the actual winner will have absolutely no impact on our lives.
This was destined to be a close, statistically tied election, as get out the vote efforts included repetitive harping on its life-changing importance and the evils of the opposition candidates and party. The bottom line is that voting percentages generate credibility for the failed American political system.
“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.” George Wallace, 1966 Alabama governor and presidential candidate.
Note it now takes 71 cents to equal the purchasing power of a dime in 1966 – if you believe the false inflation statistics out of Washington. Actually, I could buy a soft drink for a dime in 1966 whereas today it is closer to $1.50. Check house prices even with the pullback or college tuition if you want an accurate inflation estimate.
It is reasonable to expect from Obama’s second term more of the same as the first four years. The two main US political parties promote nearly identical policies; nothing will change from earlier Bush and Clinton administration policies. Of course, there will be a burst of optimism from Democrats and the usual rallying cries for everybody to come together to meet the challenges of the moment. This is just the usual garbage fed to the voting public after every presidential election.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but both presidents and the representatives we reelect to Congress only represent the powerful banking and economic interests that control the federal government and use it to further their power elite agenda. Real, productive citizens can only look to their government representatives to solve minor bureaucratic issues on lost checks, eligibility for this program or that or to listen only to their complaints and agenda.
In reality, the Senate and House of Representatives by necessity – except in the case of those few with actual philosophical convictions on the right or the left – only represent and govern based on the financial handouts and doors opened by powerful interests. This is the only way they can be reelected.
Why Romney Lost
Romney lost for two main reasons: First, as he correctly noted during the campaign, 47 percent of American families are dependent on government handouts and they voted for what was in their own best interests. Democracy is mob rule and the 47 percent, although with the best of intentions, are still only a mob out to get what they can from others who have earned or produced the wealth in the private sector.
“There are 47 percent who are with [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.” – Mitt Romney
Still, there is a positive outcome with this depressing statistic. First, many government employees and those on the dole understand the problems of bureaucracy far better than Americans in the private sector because they are caught in the government trap themselves. They often have the courage to even vote against their best interests because they see what it has done to them personally.
Every TSA agent and government employee in non-essential services outside of the armed forces, real police and fire protection and real teachers – not the hundreds of thousands of unionized, make-work employees who use the system – are simply parasites.
Second, the GOP leadership antagonized the 10 percent of the Republican Party electorate who supported Ron Paul for President. Of course, the establishment is still deathly scared of the Ron Paul movement and their harsh treatment and the subsequent blowback on November 6 guarantees any discussion here will be verboten and seldom mentioned for obvious reasons. While some voted for Romney, a few – as the returns show – voted third-party and many like me just sat home on election day disgusted at the entire political charade. Romney lost because he needed a majority of this 10 percent to win yet those controlling his campaign simply threw this voting block away because it threatened powerful central banking, neocon and moneyed interests supporting the GOP.
While Romney would have made a better president than Obama in at least his rhetoric, as he pays lip service to conservative Republican values, in reality his neocon controllers would probably have made him a disaster in foreign policy.
And so over the next four years the people will be provoked and buy more guns they will never have the courage to use to defend themselves against an all-powerful government. The GOP will raise more money using faux social issues and an agenda they never really have any interest in standing up for. Obama will be painted as an evil, Muslim-born in God-knows-where socialist when in actuality he has no more power than Romney would have had to restore the America we loved and respected.
The game will go on until the time is up for our nation. In the meantime, austerity measures will dramatically increase, benefits and promises will be lost by the poor and remaining middle class citizens who really need them and taxes will rise, as will the risk of gold and wealth confiscation. Obama will be blamed, just as Romney would have been blamed had he been elected president, for this is how our regulatory/debt democracy works today in the 21st century. A failed system of central bank control leading a failed economy, a failing currency and a controlled system totally divorced from control or limitation by the citizens of America.
The Solution is to Change the Political Structure
The solution is a return to a limited, decentralized confederation form of government like our first legitimate American government, the Articles of Confederation. One that is responsible to the people and ultimately controlled by the voters with the iron-clad political tools of initiative and referendum like exists in Switzerland today, where voters have the right to reject legislation and laws or enact laws outside the power of controlled legislative, judiciary and executive branches of government. Until we return to the Articles of Confederation, America and our liberties are doomed to extinction by the hidden control of international banking and economic elites.
After the election you can expect appeals from “so-called” conservatives or libertarians wanting your hard-earned money to support this or that cause. They will claim time is running out, the next election is the most important in your lifetime, etc. Time is not running out; it ran out long ago, and voting for either party or most candidates is just an exercise in futility supporting the corrupt system that rules over you. We are serfs and mere subjects to a system and few understand or even recognize the control over us.
If you want to be a free people again educate yourself on the Swiss system of government and work for a return to the government for which our patriot founding fathers risked their lives and property, the Articles of Confederation. Supporting anything less is just deceiving ourselves and screwing our posterity. We may deserve the kind of government we have allowed to take over our country but our posterity deserve better.
The GOP Ron Paul for President campaigns in 2008 and 2012 clearly showed how the controlled, two-party system in the United States will allow no real opposition to its approved candidates in either party. You can bet your worthless vote that new Republican Party rules at the 2012 GOP convention and at the state level in the future will control any viable opposition candidates. The only current outlets for alternative political action are in doomed-to-fail third-party activities that are little more than allowed but controlled political opposition.
To restore the original American Republic, we must change the controlled monopoly political system of government that controls and destroys internally or externally all opposition. New candidates or even attempts at party control accomplish little when the same powerful interests control the political structure. We must work to remove the system in place and restore the limited government of our founding fathers, for they had devised a system that would work well today with our ease of transportation and communication.
Remember, our children and grandchildren deserve a better, more prosperous world and nation than we have left them at this point. It is time we as a generation man up for liberty to redeem ourselves in the tear-filled eyes of future generations. The American people must work peacefully to restore the Articles of Confederation now or else suffer the permanent consequences of the fall of America.
No longer Uncle Sam’s bitch (government troll)
I can imagine, now that Obama has once again been handed the keys to the Kingdom, that the surveillance and crushing of dissent will begin in earnest. I think we can expect small traps, like this idiot, and then full-on provocation, after which TBP will be shut down. I can’t imagine Emperor Obama will have any remorse in fully utilizing NDAA and all the other laws and edicts he put into place the last term. Hell, he’s been vindicated and supported in these efforts.
So, it’s back to socialism as usual. I don’t care much anymore, I’m going to enjoy the last few days at sea and my vacation. People are going to get what they voted for. The Republicans are a joke, worse than a joke, and they’ll get what they deserve. Romney was a shame, barely electable, matched against an incompetent, golf-playing rube who he still couldn’t beat. The power-brokers are at a loss. Romney still has $400 million, poor guy. Will probably vacation for a year.
We are going to see taxes, the likes of which have never been seen before. Obamacare will see to that, plus every other scheme the democrats can come up with. The bumbling idiot Obama is really going to make a permanent mess of things, tens of thousands more businesses going bankrupt, millions more people unemployed, more and more government control, regulation, and spending.
Well, it’s about 85 degrees outside on my veranda, overlooking the Caribbean sea. A light breeze, a few clouds in the sky. No worries, mate. A great book to read, a fine cigar, excellent coffee and chow, and all is well, at least for now. It’s going to be fun to ream Obama’s ass for another four years. I can’t begin to imagine all the things he’s going to fuck up, and how badly, but I’m very confident it will be many, just about everything.
This is a new low point for our country, but I’m sure it will go much lower. Just looking at the people on this ship proves that. Our population is depraved consumers, overconsumers. There will be a price to be paid some day, but not now. Have a great day, I will try; to shrug off the miserable news of Obama, and all that will come in the next four years. $20 trillion in debt. Will it get that high? or do we collapse first? So many questions. Ah, maybe later, seize and enjoy the day!
Obama’s winning strategy was (1) to buy as many votes as possible and (2) claim the economy is slowly improving. This was accepted by enough of the public to win the election.
The massive federal deficit spending has slowed the economic slide we are in, but when real market forces(if they even exist anymore) overwhelm government efforts, look out below.
Fuck all that. Where was the other choice. A dude who has magic underpants? Romney? Give me a fucking break. Obama won because the powers that be gave us a douchebags to vote for. The same reason he got to be president in the first place. He beat two unbelievable jerk offs in McCain then Romney.
Both Republican candidates offered zero inspiration, zero change, they both made Bob Dole look dynamic. The system is rigged, so sit back, get some popcorn and watch the decline of the empire.
Its not that I wanted Obama to win, its that I didn’t want Romney to win. So at least I have something to be happy about. We are still screwed, which was the case no matter who won. Oh happy day …
AWD
Your addiction to TBP …. posting while on a fucking cruise ship!!!! …. actually exceeds my own use of precious generator-gas to post. Well done, good and faithful servant!!
I’ve been trying lately to wrap my mind around the imminent collapse of Western Civ. Mr. Fineman helps us understand that its quaint notions (you know, Ike marriage and church), are relics to be discarded for the glorious new multicutural, multiracial world that awaits. What better evidence could there be than observing a disparate group of people plan a Springsteen concert! Woo woo!
Little did I know that Barack Obama is the promised Messiah who will unite all the tribes in peace and prosperity. Here I’ve had it wrong all these years (ignorance borne from lifetime exposure to church no doubt). I thought the Messiah was that other guy. Ah well, I will await while Obama charms us into complete catastrophe. Better hunker down.
I was stunned when Slick Willie was first elected, and in total denial for 2 years after he was re-elected. This time, not so much. 2 days ago most of us agreed it did not matter which of the two clowns won the election. I still think it matters little.
Personally, I would have preferred Romney in the short run (I think). In the big picture, I think the presidency is like a hot potato, whoever ends up holding it when the shit hits the fan will wish they weren’t “it”. Unless they take us into a V/The Wall-like totalitarian state. Now there’s a cheery thought.
Violence is not going to have to be advocated here or anywhere else; it’s coming regardless. Whether it comes from economic collapse, excessive taxation, excessive govt. intrusion, stomping on of civil and constitutional rights, institution of a police state either implied or unimplied — violence is coming.
And the sooner the better. Like cancer, the sooner it’s cut out and removed the better the chances of treatment and survival for the patient.
If Romney would have won, nothing much would have changed except he MIGHT have slowed down the march to socialism/communism. I don’t think that he would have put liberal/progressive.socialist judges on the Supreme Court, but who in the hell knows. Anyway, it is what it is and we had best prepare as best possible. That includes the mental adjustment for many that we’ve just been taken And let’s not overlook the fact tha Congress has been complicit in all of this. If we’re headed down this path it’s because that’s the way THEY want it.
OUTTAHERE
Excellent thoughts.
Here is my bottom bottom-line on this; if Obama’s reelection doesn’t convince a person to PREPARE …. then nothing will.
And, I do pity those poor fools who don’t prep. They will be like my next-door neighbor (three kids under the age of 10) who begged me if it was OK to run just one extension cord to their house for the fridge ….. which I did, but I can’t guarantee I’ll do so when TSHTF, cuz it may very well come down to ‘every man for themselves’.
Well, we were fucked either way….The difference is we will continue to be fucked with shards of glass instead of sand.
Fear(the only message the repubs got) lost; the people won.
If there’s hope for rebuilding the republic, it could only come from Obama. The 100% sure path to financial, social and societal collapse, romney, is no more – limbaugh and the rest of the right wing crazies are now irrelevant.
I put the chances for renewal at 50%. Either way, it’s likely to be resolved in the next 4 years. So, to all you doomsters out there, you’ll not have long to wait…
Stucky, you must still have been clinging to some hope. Not me. Hope is a barrier to acceptance.
I’m not upset about Obama’s re-election because I no longer think it matters. We’re screwed, and that’s been baked into the cake for several decades. Acknowledging and accepting this doesn’t mean I like the situation – I’m just being truthful and realistic to recognize that there isn’t much I can do about it.
I don’t know what’s going to happen next – probably nothing dramatic, just a long, drawn-out decline. Someday that may change but not while I’m still alive. But oh well, in the grand scheme of things I still have First World problems compared to most of humanity.
I did not vote for either candidate, but I did vote. However, one thing is for sure; that is the last presidential election I take part in under the current format. Whether it’s the D or R’s leading it does not matter, the entire fucking race and it’s winner comes down to a few wishy-washy geriatric bunko playing dumbshit mother fuckers in Florida and Ohio and brainwashed asshole 18 to 20 somethings who use the word “like” a minimum of 3 times per sentence and draw inspiration from snooki and the kardashians…….
The republican party is doomed and will continue hemorrhaging voters until they stop nominating half retarded geriatric war hero’s or abundantly wealthy silver spoon mother fuckers with a charming smile that run on the same platform as the opposition.
My guns are to defend my family from criminals and people who dont have any food and want mine.
I really dont have that much,but i have figured out that most people i meet have almost no extra food in theyre homes.I never did see myself fighting soldiers in any way.If anything i picture them protecting our rights.
I like pump shotguns,i feel very well armed with my 870 in my hands.
Jeebus Effin Krist. I just now saw Romney’s concession speech. OMG. I got just one word to say ’bout that.
Figure it out.
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We were 100% fucked by Nov. 5th, 2012, we’re still 100% fucked on Nov. 7th.
The difference now is clarity. The people who voted Obama in 2008 could maybe be forgiven because the media sold them a false “bill of goods.” 2012 Obama voters knew what they were voting for and they want socialism. We now know with certainty that the republic is dead – not because of Obama, but because a populace that would elect a blatant Marxist is depraved and beyond redemption.
The two burning questions now are (1) what kind of abomination will replace the republic and (2) when does the stuff start hitting the fan.
My guess is that trouble really begins when Obamacare starts crushing our phoney-baloney economy. I think that could happen as soon as Jan. 2013, but I’m always way too early with these projections. Depends on how long money printing continues to work (it can’t work forever). The tipping point is the same – when the rest of the world decides it no longer wants any more of our phoney-baloney dollars.
What replaces the republic is true fascism (the combination of the public and private sectors – not nazism) and the emergence of a new aristocracy.
The decision we all face: fight the inevitable or join them.
SEVEN MILLION WILL DIE!!!
Your pick of whether they die from health care rationing, EBT failure, riots, drone strikes, or getting trampled to death by the remainder of the FSA when someone yells “free food!” in a crowded campaign rally.
2016 prediction: A son of Romney or another Bush will lose to Hillary Clinton who will announce she is a lesbian in 2015. Bonus prediction: Broward county in Florida will still suck ass.
Im still trying to figure out how bailing out the FIRE sector thru tens of trillions of loans, here and abroad, buying up toxic assets and now 40 billion a month for more MBS. How is subsidizing energy and agriculture and Walmart
Maybe it is for the 10%. But its not spreading the wealth it places it in fewer and fewer hand. More like Privatism.
*s/b: How is subsidizing energy and agriculture and Walmart is socialism?
Subsidizing energy, agriculture and Walmart (though I fail to see how we are subsidizing Walmart – please explain) is technically fascism, not socialism.
Fascism and socialism are both marxist cancers and are both HOV lanes on the road to serfdom.
Our socialism is Obamacare, Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, social security, SSI/SSDI, AIDC, earned income credit, free cell phones, 50% of population paying no taxes, “urban” programs up the wazoo – and on and on and on and on.
It’s all enforced at the barrel of a gun. Try not paying your taxes if you doubt it.
Dan – Hilary will marry Tammy Baldwin in the White House.
Im trying to find a way or something to like And or trust him .i would like to hAve a reson like the people who votted him in again and i know it not because hes black ,so help me see the same things that You do .i got laid off off and i cant get the goverment help so that do i do to like him the way every one else that does
My advice for the republican party is to drum up an ancient actor who’s face has more wrinkles than Clintons ball sack (u be the judge of which Clinton I mean) and put him on stage to interview an empty chair……oh crap, they tried that, well I’m at a loss then.
Hillary and her Wrinkled Vagina
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Mostly I’m planning…..and thinking.
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In or b4 4 more year under Obama aka terrores best keep secret .. méxico will be trying to keep amaric ans out !!!!! 4 MORE YEARS THERE WILL BE MORE WORK AND JOBS IN ELSALVADOR THAN HERE IN THE USA BUT HEY O WELL I DIDNT VOTE 4 HIM !!!!! I VOTED FOR COAL,OIL ,AND AMERICAN ENERGY INDAPENDEN
Fred, as usual, tells it like it is.
I epecially liked; ———- “The genius of the American political system is that it is not necessary to suppress inconvenient information, but only to keep it off television”
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A Surrender of Sorts– Relaxing in the Handbaket
November 2, 2012
We are doomed, saith the preacher, and should accommodate ourselves to it. In times of growing governmental power, protestation at some point becomes futile. Little is served by standing in front of a charging Mongol army and shouting, “No! You should reconsider! Perhaps some other course would be advisable. Let’s parley….”
Complaint is useless. It is too late. It booteth not. We are done. The Mongols ride. America comes apart at the seams. The country turns into something altogether new, new for America.
In high school, I read Shirer, first Berlin Diary and then The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I had little idea what I was reading. A naval base in rural Virginia is not a hotbed of historical understanding, or any understanding. I knew nothing of Weimar or the Spartacists or the Treaty of Versailles. Still, I dimly grasped that a theretofore civilized country with great rapidity turned into something horrible. It was not an evolutionary change, like the Industrial Revolution. Brahms to Goebbels in a decade.
Something alike happens in America, and one wonders—I wonder, anyway—how can this be? In little more than a decade, the Constitution has died, the economy welters in irreversible decline, we have perpetual war, all power lies in the hands of the executive, the police are supreme, and a surveillance beyond Orwell’s imaginings falls into place.
These observations are now commonplace. It is almost boring to read of them—yet they proceed apace. Where we go, we go fast. Already against the authorities there is no recourse. Should you talk back to the police, you will spend the night in jail.
I sometimes wonder whether there is not some malign force in play, some diabolical miasma with a sense of humor that, having brought the Soviet Union down, amuses itself by turning the United States into the same thing. Or maybe it is just that if any state that can become totalitarian, it will.
Or maybe it was just a chance simultaneity of enabling events. Communism died in China and thus ceased to protect America from the withering competition of a populous, intelligent, and industrious race. The internet and easy transportation allowed American companies to abandon ship and head for cheaper climes. They did. Huge countries unexpectedly began a meteoric rise (if meteors rise), chiefly the BRICs. Big once-American corporations became free-floating transnational beings, loyal only to themselves. Open an apparently American laptop and you find that the screen and memory come from Korea, the hard drive from Malaya, the CPU from an Intel fab in Ireland, the whole thing assembled in Taiwan. America cannot stanch the bleeding. Corporations rule the country, and go whither they will.
Have you ever thrown a stick for a dog, which loves to chase it but, when he comes back with it, cannot bring himself to give it to you to throw again, although that is what he wants? The United States cannot let go of its empire. It fights war after war, constantly losing, bleeding money it doesn’t have, because—because it can’t let go. The military itself, an upgraded WWII force, badly unsuited to modern war, cannot let go of its glorious carriers and obsolescent combat aircraft. Governments too can suffer from arteriosclerosis.
And now the Pentagon growls fiercely at China, like an aging terrier at a Rottweiler pup. The world changes. Minds do not. Some minds do not.
Domestically, the storm likewise approaches. Desperation encourages desperate measures, a hard line, and invites the notorious Man on a Horse.
Economically, the country has trapped itself. It is bankrupt in all but admission, but it cannot spend more prudently. If it cuts welfare in the cities, riots will ensure and elections be lost. If it cuts the bloated federal bureaucracy, a form of welfare, the dismissed will add to an already dangerously high number of the unemployed. And elections will be lost.
Cut the military? It and its parasitic industries are so large, so deeply embedded in the fabric of the country, so rife with influential people with families to feed, that reductions are not possible. The suggestion of even minor and usually fraudulent cuts is greeted by predictions of dire but unspecified consequences. Minor cuts are not what are needed.
The dog cannot let go.
It is said that democracy depends on an informed public. This is to say that democracy is impossible. In the American case, blank ignorance of anything outside the borders leaves people easily manipulable. The genius of the American political system is that it is not necessary to suppress inconvenient information, but only to keep it off television. So few people will encounter it as not to matter.
Giving people the choice between Candidate A and Candidate A, neither of whom addresses the real problems of the nation, is to grant them the influence they would have had in the Habsburg Empire. But it keeps them quiet.
It would be interesting to ask the general public: “Which of the following Arab countries is suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons? (1) Turkey (2) Pakistan (3) Iran (4) Afghanistan (5) None of the above.”
Nonsense is ever a firm basis for politics. The American public believes itself to be free, to have a spirit of rugged individualism, to live in a democracy admired by the world. In fact Americans are not particularly free and becoming less so by the minute, are not individualists but herd consumers formed by a controlled press, and do not live in a democracy.
And totalitarianism comes. This is no longer the assertion of those dropped on their heads as children. Daily we read of more weaponry for the police, more surveillance authorized by courts, more unlegislated powers for Homeland Security. Currency controls fall into place to prevent people from fleeing the country with their assets.
In this direction, I think, lies the future. It is perfectly possible to store every email sent, every purchase made except by cash, every withdrawal of cash; to institute airport-style “security” for trains and buses; to monitor any conversation by telephone; automatically to track cell phones and read license plates and store it all. We are close. We are very close.
Protesting is pointless. No governmental mechanism prevents the headlong progress of things that would have sickened Thomas Jefferson. In the presidential debates neither Candidate A nor Candidate A has said, so far as I know, a word about the tightening watchfulness.
The only reasonable approach is to lie down and enjoy it. Which I shall do