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Monday, September 27, 2010
Is it racism... or just stupidity?
Conservatives love to claim that any criticism of Obama or “his policies” ("quotes" because so many of them are carried over from Bush) results in the immediate cry of “racism” from liberals. The implication, of course, being that we use this tactic as a way to be dismissive of their supposedly legitimate concerns. And quite frankly, I was tired of hearing this nonsense form these whiny little bitches long before Jimmy Carter finally got around to calling out their actual racist elements. I was sick of it by then, and I remain sick of it. A few things to consider…
1) It doesn’t really happen all that often.
It almost seems like Conservatives start their arguments out that way because it will somehow give legitimacy to the rest of what they have to say. Of course, when we point out how utterly absurd whatever they have to say is, THEY go on to accuse us of loving Obama, and (if there really riled up) maybe accuse Obama of racism, just to get those extra points.
2) When it does happen, we present evidence.
Putting aside that anyone with an internet connection can google “racist tea party signs” and get more images than they can handle, it’s gotten so bad that even Glenn Beck and other high profile Tea Party leaders have asked their supporters to tone down the signs! So it’s no longer the liberals that are calling these fools racists… it’s GLENN BECK!
3) Actually? ‘Racist’ gives them the benefit of the doubt.
This is a tough one for them to wrap their heads around; because they’re 100% convinced they have a point. But they don’t. See, calling them ‘racists’ is a far more kind an explanation of why they are advocating for the policies that they do. Because the alternatives, assuming that most of them don’t make well over $250K per year, are: STUPIDITY and PSYCOPATHY.
Because their “points” aren't reasonable: they are logically contradictory. And they aren’t rational: they run contrary to the interests that the tea party and the average ‘angry voter’ claim to be concerned about!
How many times have you heard something this: “I’m out of a job, and we’re losing our home, and yet the Government just keeps spending our money!”
Translation: I’m concerned about the economy, so I want to cut spending.
And as I’m sure no one needs to be told anymore that the “T-E-A” Party stands for “Taxed Enough Already.” Yet what does their number one concern seem to be? The deficit!
Translation: I’m concerned about the deficit, so I want to cut taxes.
Now… take those two statements together, and try to explain to me how someone might believe these are good ideas? See… these statements are so completely insane that “racism” is a far more forgiving explanation that the level of stupidity and ignorance (or outright insanity) that we'd have to assume in the speaker if they really thought that cutting spending will bolster the economy, or that cutting taxes will reduce the deficit!
And it’s far from just the Tea Party… Have you seen the Republican’s overwhelmingly vapid “Pledge to America?”
They’ll cut taxes – even though the only difference between what they’re proposing and what Obama is proposing is a benefit for the top 2% of earners.
They’ll cut spending – even though the economy is still weak. And of course what the really mean is: We’ll gut social security, Medicare, etc… See it’s the same old charade: Cut taxes for the Rich, cut spending on the poor, working and middle class. Why the hell do people fall for this? Again – You’d think “racism” is preferable to the level of “stupidity” required. At least the person ends appearing the least bit rational that way!
But in the end they won’t really cut spending, because they’re pledging increases to defense spending. Check this out. Pick an income and put it in that graph. Look at how much we spend on defense compared to how little we spend on the Republicans’ favorite targets, entitlements and earmarks. These are overwhelmed by defense spending. We could eliminate everything else and even a small uptick, percent-wise, in defense spending would end up increasing spending overall.
And the kicker? They say they’ll do all of this while ELIMINATING THE DEFICIT. And the best criticism our lame-stream media can come up with? “They don’t really tell us how they’ll accomplish this.” What the…? They may as well tell us how they’re going to accomplish time travel and cold fusion. What they’re proposing is IMPOSSIBLE. You cannot cut overall spending if you increase defense spending in any significant way. And it would have to be significant, because Obama already increased it! And you can’t reduce, let alone eliminate, the deficit by cutting taxes, unless you reduce spending by all that PLUS… the amount of the deficit! That's just 1st-grade arithmatic!
They’re either lying, stupid or insane.
And the only reasons for someone to vote for them? (Aside from the top 1-2% of earners?) The person doing so would have to be either STUPID or INSANE.
Or… (you know…) RACIST.
(I fail to see why they would be so quick to accept the alternative.)
And until either the Republicans start proposing ANYTHING that makes any damned sense, or people stop voting for them, there IS no other explanation for their current popularity. We’re not in the current economic mess because of taxes, and we’re not here because of the deficit or the national debt. And cutting SPENDING is the exact OPPOSITE of what you should do in you’re concerned about the economy. (And TAXES should be the least of your worries if you don’t have a job!) And my hat’s off to anyone who’s concerned about the deficit. But realize that the only way you can fix that is to raise taxes back to a level that they were back when we HAD a balanced budget.
I look at it this way…
The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans right now is like the difference between a Doctor and a Prostitute. One is telling you to exercise more, lose weight, quit smoking, quite drinking, let them perform all manners of uncomfortable examinations, stick you with needles, etc… And the other is saying that they’ll bring the beer and cigarettes and have sex with you all night long. One off these obviously comes off the more tempting offer, but it’s pretty clear what choice the person who’s more interested in their long-term well being will make.
Cutting the safety nets for 98% of the country while giving more money to the multi-millionaires in the top 2% is NOT the path to National Fiscal and Economic Health, long term. Neither is continuing to ignore Global Warming or continuing to let manufacturing jobs go to developing countries or continuing to think we can badger the rest of the World into doing our bidding.
The Right just ain’t right… on ANYTHING.
Finally I want to leave you with this gem from the great gastropod, Rush Limbaugh, because I really think that THIS shows what passes for “reason” on the Right::
A guy who makes $35 Million a year who wants a tax cut to help him generate some wealth for himself is principled.
Buy the government collecting taxes so that the Government can provdei basic services, defend the country and created some semblance of a social safety net for the other 99.9% of the country... That's 'tyrannical greed.'
Glad we got that straitened out.
BTW... the highest paid Goverment Employee is, unless I'm much mistaken, the Presdient. He makes $400K per year. Which, BTW, would represent a 98.8% pay cut for Limbaugh. (But remember: It's the GOVERNMENT who's greedy!)
Who else gets paid through taxes? Teachers, Police, the Military, Firefighters... Glad to know this guy who sits on his @$$ and blathers for a living feels these people, who make closer to $50K per year, (which would be a 99.9% pay cut for Rush) are "greedy."
We are so screwed right now.
1) It doesn’t really happen all that often.
It almost seems like Conservatives start their arguments out that way because it will somehow give legitimacy to the rest of what they have to say. Of course, when we point out how utterly absurd whatever they have to say is, THEY go on to accuse us of loving Obama, and (if there really riled up) maybe accuse Obama of racism, just to get those extra points.
2) When it does happen, we present evidence.
Putting aside that anyone with an internet connection can google “racist tea party signs” and get more images than they can handle, it’s gotten so bad that even Glenn Beck and other high profile Tea Party leaders have asked their supporters to tone down the signs! So it’s no longer the liberals that are calling these fools racists… it’s GLENN BECK!
3) Actually? ‘Racist’ gives them the benefit of the doubt.
This is a tough one for them to wrap their heads around; because they’re 100% convinced they have a point. But they don’t. See, calling them ‘racists’ is a far more kind an explanation of why they are advocating for the policies that they do. Because the alternatives, assuming that most of them don’t make well over $250K per year, are: STUPIDITY and PSYCOPATHY.
Because their “points” aren't reasonable: they are logically contradictory. And they aren’t rational: they run contrary to the interests that the tea party and the average ‘angry voter’ claim to be concerned about!
How many times have you heard something this: “I’m out of a job, and we’re losing our home, and yet the Government just keeps spending our money!”
Translation: I’m concerned about the economy, so I want to cut spending.
And as I’m sure no one needs to be told anymore that the “T-E-A” Party stands for “Taxed Enough Already.” Yet what does their number one concern seem to be? The deficit!
Translation: I’m concerned about the deficit, so I want to cut taxes.
Now… take those two statements together, and try to explain to me how someone might believe these are good ideas? See… these statements are so completely insane that “racism” is a far more forgiving explanation that the level of stupidity and ignorance (or outright insanity) that we'd have to assume in the speaker if they really thought that cutting spending will bolster the economy, or that cutting taxes will reduce the deficit!
And it’s far from just the Tea Party… Have you seen the Republican’s overwhelmingly vapid “Pledge to America?”
They’ll cut taxes – even though the only difference between what they’re proposing and what Obama is proposing is a benefit for the top 2% of earners.
They’ll cut spending – even though the economy is still weak. And of course what the really mean is: We’ll gut social security, Medicare, etc… See it’s the same old charade: Cut taxes for the Rich, cut spending on the poor, working and middle class. Why the hell do people fall for this? Again – You’d think “racism” is preferable to the level of “stupidity” required. At least the person ends appearing the least bit rational that way!
But in the end they won’t really cut spending, because they’re pledging increases to defense spending. Check this out. Pick an income and put it in that graph. Look at how much we spend on defense compared to how little we spend on the Republicans’ favorite targets, entitlements and earmarks. These are overwhelmed by defense spending. We could eliminate everything else and even a small uptick, percent-wise, in defense spending would end up increasing spending overall.
And the kicker? They say they’ll do all of this while ELIMINATING THE DEFICIT. And the best criticism our lame-stream media can come up with? “They don’t really tell us how they’ll accomplish this.” What the…? They may as well tell us how they’re going to accomplish time travel and cold fusion. What they’re proposing is IMPOSSIBLE. You cannot cut overall spending if you increase defense spending in any significant way. And it would have to be significant, because Obama already increased it! And you can’t reduce, let alone eliminate, the deficit by cutting taxes, unless you reduce spending by all that PLUS… the amount of the deficit! That's just 1st-grade arithmatic!
They’re either lying, stupid or insane.
And the only reasons for someone to vote for them? (Aside from the top 1-2% of earners?) The person doing so would have to be either STUPID or INSANE.
Or… (you know…) RACIST.
(I fail to see why they would be so quick to accept the alternative.)
And until either the Republicans start proposing ANYTHING that makes any damned sense, or people stop voting for them, there IS no other explanation for their current popularity. We’re not in the current economic mess because of taxes, and we’re not here because of the deficit or the national debt. And cutting SPENDING is the exact OPPOSITE of what you should do in you’re concerned about the economy. (And TAXES should be the least of your worries if you don’t have a job!) And my hat’s off to anyone who’s concerned about the deficit. But realize that the only way you can fix that is to raise taxes back to a level that they were back when we HAD a balanced budget.
I look at it this way…
The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans right now is like the difference between a Doctor and a Prostitute. One is telling you to exercise more, lose weight, quit smoking, quite drinking, let them perform all manners of uncomfortable examinations, stick you with needles, etc… And the other is saying that they’ll bring the beer and cigarettes and have sex with you all night long. One off these obviously comes off the more tempting offer, but it’s pretty clear what choice the person who’s more interested in their long-term well being will make.
Cutting the safety nets for 98% of the country while giving more money to the multi-millionaires in the top 2% is NOT the path to National Fiscal and Economic Health, long term. Neither is continuing to ignore Global Warming or continuing to let manufacturing jobs go to developing countries or continuing to think we can badger the rest of the World into doing our bidding.
The Right just ain’t right… on ANYTHING.
Finally I want to leave you with this gem from the great gastropod, Rush Limbaugh, because I really think that THIS shows what passes for “reason” on the Right::
The whole notion of paying for tax cuts has always offended me, as though government is first, last, and always, and whatever happens -- they are the single greatest repository of greed in the world, Washington, DC, including even all the tyrannical dictators around the world. [...] "You don't pay for tax cuts. Tax cuts generate wealth creation.Limbuagh logic:
A guy who makes $35 Million a year who wants a tax cut to help him generate some wealth for himself is principled.
Buy the government collecting taxes so that the Government can provdei basic services, defend the country and created some semblance of a social safety net for the other 99.9% of the country... That's 'tyrannical greed.'
Glad we got that straitened out.
BTW... the highest paid Goverment Employee is, unless I'm much mistaken, the Presdient. He makes $400K per year. Which, BTW, would represent a 98.8% pay cut for Limbaugh. (But remember: It's the GOVERNMENT who's greedy!)
Who else gets paid through taxes? Teachers, Police, the Military, Firefighters... Glad to know this guy who sits on his @$$ and blathers for a living feels these people, who make closer to $50K per year, (which would be a 99.9% pay cut for Rush) are "greedy."
We are so screwed right now.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Republican Propaganda Video that shows how STUPID Repubicans really are!
(Warning: The following contains some course language, even for this blog.)
(But read it anyway! LOL)
I'd like you all to see something. You may have already caught it (like syphilis) on YouTube. It was emailed to me but a *ahem* close relative. The email simply said "New Republican Video - Wow." I might say the same thing, although where he meant it to be complimentary, I would mean it like, "WOW, now isn't THAT a load of horseshit?!" Or, "WOW, you Republicans sure are stupid! I can't believe you buy into this tripe!"
So please... Take a look... and then humor me, as I destroy it.
Now right off the bat, I;'d like to say that I'd agree 100% with the first 1:18 of it... Assuming it had been put together by a LIBERAL that is.
First of all who's this "we?" WTF is with this "we elected you" shit, seeing as this nothing but is Republican / Conservative / Tea Party / Right Wing Propaganda?! Um, no, sorry Conservatives, but WE elected Obama. You lot voted for the Crusty old White Guy and Caribou Barbie. And it's a bit late to jump on the bandwagon.
And as for being disappointed? Yeah, you;re god damned right we are! Because the guy we elected and the Congress we elected has done everything humanly possible bar picking you up and carrying you into the room, to include you in every conference and every negotiation and has made concession after concession to you fools. I'd almost say "short of letting you write the legislation" but between the absurd and unnecessary (and unpopular) compromises and the actual (formerly) Republican proposals and the stuff that your former lobbyists - now Democratic lobbyists only because they saw which way the wind was blowing before you did - wrote? You assholes HAVE WRITTEN a disproportionate amount of the ACTUAL legislation! You just oppose it now because the other party might benefit if they pass... ANYTHING AT ALL. So stuff this "we elected you crap." No one involved with this video voted anything but a strait Republican ticket and YOU KNOW IT.
(Note: I truly though this at this point, but by the end I wasn't sure sure...)
It goes on to say that, in 2010, "You will lose." OK fine, rally the troops. It IS Republican Propaganda after all. Um... You DO know that President Obama isn't RUNNING in 2010 though, right? Well, whatever. You'll get back some seats back fine. Let's see what you'll do with them:
NO MORE TAXES.
Wow. And they say we're fiscally irresponsible! Oh my God.... Not "No NEW taxes" (they tried that one once, didn't they?) or "No HIGHER taxes" but "NO MORE TAXES." There people sure know how to over-promise don't they? I mean, if the promise THAT to get elected in 2010, don't they think their base might be a wee bit disappointed come 2012? Trust me, the Democrats are seeing right now what happens when you run on one thing and then deliver something else. Beside how will you pay for...
NO MORE SPENDING.
Oh.
I see.
Hmmm... No taxes... No Spending... Sounds like there's no goddamned government at all! Don't you people even want to "support the troops" or something? Hasn't all your concern about the deficit and social security and Medicare and Medicaid been because they'll "bankrupt the government?" Well... i guess you solved that. NO MORE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Great. Nice job.
NO.
MORE.
SOCIALISM.
This one may be a lot tougher than it sounds. See... at the moment? There's absolutely NONE. So... ANY AT ALL would constitute a failure here. 0 for 3 methinks. Three up, three down. And we're through the first inning. (Maybe what they lack in "socialism" they'll make up for in Anarchy?)
Moving on...
So scary stuff gets shown REALLY QUICKLY with hammers and sickles, followed by:
We tried to warn you.
Of... WHAT, exactly? Communism? A Soviet takeover of America? WHAT? I mean... how often can you predict the end of the world before everyone realizes, "Hey, they've been 'warning us' for, like, YEARS now, and the world is totally still here! These people are nut-bags!"?
But we "Wouldn't listen" so now "We'll pay."
Wait... I thought there wouldn't be any more taxes? Actually this "We tried to warn you" and "You wouldn't listen" so now "You'll Pay" stuff? Would play GREAT as something a LIBERAL might send to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. After they take they licks in November maybe? We should spam Sec. Gibbs in-box with that, no? Maybe they'll get the message. As for Conservatives... I haven't been exactly sure what world they've been living in since about 1992.
And WHY will "we pay?"
FREEDOM
Oh my God! You mean... You're going to protect abortion rights, allow gay marriage, legalize marijuana and guarantee everyone's freedom to practice our religion as we choose or to not practice at all and to keep our children free from other people, like teachers, forcing their religion on them?
You're a THREAT.
Oh... I see. You mean, "FREEDOM" as in "Freedom to live the way we let you." Sorry. My mistake. Please continue.
To our economy.
Wait... What about Freedom? What are they threatening again? What do you think will happen to "the economy" when there's "No more spending?" Don't you think some of those millions of people who will now be out of a job might be a bit of a drag on the economy? Especially with "no more taxes" being collected to pay unemployment benefits? In the words of Lando Calirssian, "This deal is getting worse all the time!"
(BTW... Democrats do a better job with the economy.)
To our health care.
Well, yeah... I mean, without the public option, the Health Care bill amounted to little more than massive corporate welfare for the insurance companies. But then... Oh wait... That was taken our to please you people... And yet you STILL couldn't get on boar!. Even though... mandatory insurance (for example) was a Republican idea. (Governor Mitt Romney-R, MA, IIRC) So... What the hell are you talking about? You people and you former lobbyists wrote almost the whole damned thing! So.. you might be right here... But, again, only if a LIBERAL made this video!
To.
our.
individual.
liberties.
Like... The liberty to not bear all the children God "blesses" you with? Of the Liberty to marry someone of the same gender? Or the liberty to smoke... Ah, never mind. We've been over this. You people better make sure none of your constituents (1) really take this seriously and (2) own a dictionary. Or you're in trouble!
You bet the farm.
When?
Government takeovers
Huh? Of what? General Motors? WTF are these people talking about? When Hugo Chavez performed a "Government takeover" of Chevron, do you think HE gave them $70 Billion? Buuuuulllshit! He just said, "it's mine now, fuck you." Now THAT'S a "government takeover." This? This was buying stock and guaranteeing loans in order to save about 30 Million jobs. And do you know what? It fuckin' WORKED. And GM will be making their IPO in just a few weeks. After which the Government will start seeing a return on their investment, after getting their money back. So... THANK GOD they bet the farm I guess, huh?
Bailouts
Um... the Bank bailouts were all Bush.
Liberal Policies
I've said it before and I'll say I'll say it again: WHAT FUCKING LIBERAL POLICIES?! NAME ONE!!!
Wait... Maybe there's some coming up... I'm pretty curious to see exactly what Obama HAS done for Liberals myself, so let's watch:
TARP
$700 Billion
That was Bush.
Federal Stimulus
$1.2 Trillion
That was Bush.
Sure Obama had his too but... is it REALLY better to just let the economy collapse? Oh wait... yeah, that's right... according to your "No taxes / No spending" platform, apparently it IS. Wait a sec... Wasn't that the total cost of Bush's two wars? Or was that Bush's final budget Deficit? Because I though Obama's first budget deficit was something like $1.3 Trillion. Oh well.
Federal Reserve Rescue
$6.4 Trillion
THAT was Bush.
Holy shit. Maybe a liberal DID put this together!
Tax.
Spend.
Redistribute.
Riiiight. Because taxing the middle class and giving money to bankers, and multinational corporations is really LIBERAL policy. You know it's bad when just TALKING about STOPPING the UPWARD redistribution of wealth (and not really even DOING anything about it) is met with howls and cries of "COMMUNISM!" And you KNOW someone's really drinkin' the Vodka when BLUE COLLAR AMERICA keeps BUYING IT year after year!!!
We're BROKE.
News to me. We've been dancing to this tune for that past 30 years, save for two years under Bill Clinton. And there's been a Republican in the White House for 20 of them. (More on that coming up...)
Or did you mean the Republican National Committee?
Now... I almost spit my coffee out at the graph that came up next, from 2:11 to 2:16.
Pause it there for a second, because this is important. In fact... THIS, more than anything else, actually made me believe that a Liberal DID put this together, just to see how stupid Conservatives were. You see how it starts in 1980? The year RONALD REGAN WAS elected? And you see how the deficits pretty much just get bigger and bigger right up until about... 1992? When BILL CLINTON was elected? Then they start getting smaller and smaller until there's a surplus for several years? Yeah. And according to this very graph THAT gravy train ends... IN 2002! The VERY FIRST YEAR that GEORGE W. BUSH BUDGET was in effect!!! And after that we see some REALLY BIG DEFICITS! And the last bar on the graph? 2009? Yeah, you see THAT was ALSO a Bush Budget! Obama was ELECTED in 2008. He didn't take office until 2009, and at that time the BUSH Budget was still in effect! It doesn't include a SINGLE YEAR of Obama deficits! NOT ONE! That graph? It's DEMOCRATIC propaganda! And they don't even realize it!
Who's the fool here? Are Conservatives REALLY this stupid, or am I just slow to get our side's little prank? In any case, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you're concerned about the deficit, for fucksake don't vote REPUBLICAN!
+10% Unemployment
Man. That's pretty bad, huh? Imagine what it might have been without all that stimulus money, huh? George W. Bush sure did leave under a pretty big shit-pile to dig out of, didn't he?
and now you want...
our health care?
I'll assume that this came out, like, a year ago, but how does stopping insurance companies from capriciously screwing over the customer to protect their own profits even as people literally DIE from lack of health care - and this in the most prosperous nation in the world- constitute, "wanting our health care." I'm not even sure I really know what that means. Because, yeah I "want our health care." As in: I want us to HAVE SOME. Oh well, moving on...
(Great picture of Harry Reid coming up at 2:27, BTW. I wish it was a little higher resolution. I'd blow it up, make it into a poster and hang it on my wall. Maybe I'll stick in the blog somewhere. LOL)
I'm sorry if I missed the joke, but the more I watch this, the more I think that a Liberal really DID make it, just to see if the Conservtaives would fall for it.
Backroom deals.
That was Cheney.
Payoffs.
That was Abramoff. (and Bush, and Cheney, etc...)
Blatant and Shameless Bribes
Well, yeah, you've got us there. But we had to do SOMETHING to get a Republican or two on board for the health care bill. So...
We've had enough.
I've had enough of this video. And of Conservative lies and of America's totally fucking ignorance and naivety regarding you people.
We're taking our country back.
To 1860?
From Radicals
Like the TEA PARTY?
Leftists
Name one. (OK, yeah, but no one really takes Dennis Kucinich seriously!)
And Liberals
[Up], [Up], [Up], [Up], [Home], [End], [Ctrl-C], [Down], [Down], [Down], [Down], [Ctrl-V]
We're coming after you
Well, you did LOSE, so you couldn't have possibly come BEFORE us. If you'd WON, we'd be coming after you. Inspiring stuff though. Love the music. Very "Hollywood trailer." All they needed was Don LaFontaine to narrate.
AMERICAN RISING
Well... here's hoping the Democrats finally wake the fuck up anyway. I'm not sure where they've been for the past two years. As for America? Probably more likely to take a nap for the next two years. They'll probably "wake up" sometime in late 2012.
November 2, 2010
(In case those senior citizens at the Tea Party rallies who want to keep Government out of Medicare forget the date.)
Now... the next part, from 3:06 to 3:11, I think, finally shows what the Republicans are REALLY offering, what they REALLY stand for. Don't you agree?
I'm sorry.
Did I miss the point of this? Or are Republican voters REALLY this fucking stupid?
(But read it anyway! LOL)
I'd like you all to see something. You may have already caught it (like syphilis) on YouTube. It was emailed to me but a *ahem* close relative. The email simply said "New Republican Video - Wow." I might say the same thing, although where he meant it to be complimentary, I would mean it like, "WOW, now isn't THAT a load of horseshit?!" Or, "WOW, you Republicans sure are stupid! I can't believe you buy into this tripe!"
So please... Take a look... and then humor me, as I destroy it.
Now right off the bat, I;'d like to say that I'd agree 100% with the first 1:18 of it... Assuming it had been put together by a LIBERAL that is.
First of all who's this "we?" WTF is with this "we elected you" shit, seeing as this nothing but is Republican / Conservative / Tea Party / Right Wing Propaganda?! Um, no, sorry Conservatives, but WE elected Obama. You lot voted for the Crusty old White Guy and Caribou Barbie. And it's a bit late to jump on the bandwagon.
And as for being disappointed? Yeah, you;re god damned right we are! Because the guy we elected and the Congress we elected has done everything humanly possible bar picking you up and carrying you into the room, to include you in every conference and every negotiation and has made concession after concession to you fools. I'd almost say "short of letting you write the legislation" but between the absurd and unnecessary (and unpopular) compromises and the actual (formerly) Republican proposals and the stuff that your former lobbyists - now Democratic lobbyists only because they saw which way the wind was blowing before you did - wrote? You assholes HAVE WRITTEN a disproportionate amount of the ACTUAL legislation! You just oppose it now because the other party might benefit if they pass... ANYTHING AT ALL. So stuff this "we elected you crap." No one involved with this video voted anything but a strait Republican ticket and YOU KNOW IT.
(Note: I truly though this at this point, but by the end I wasn't sure sure...)
It goes on to say that, in 2010, "You will lose." OK fine, rally the troops. It IS Republican Propaganda after all. Um... You DO know that President Obama isn't RUNNING in 2010 though, right? Well, whatever. You'll get back some seats back fine. Let's see what you'll do with them:
NO MORE TAXES.
Wow. And they say we're fiscally irresponsible! Oh my God.... Not "No NEW taxes" (they tried that one once, didn't they?) or "No HIGHER taxes" but "NO MORE TAXES." There people sure know how to over-promise don't they? I mean, if the promise THAT to get elected in 2010, don't they think their base might be a wee bit disappointed come 2012? Trust me, the Democrats are seeing right now what happens when you run on one thing and then deliver something else. Beside how will you pay for...
NO MORE SPENDING.
Oh.
I see.
Hmmm... No taxes... No Spending... Sounds like there's no goddamned government at all! Don't you people even want to "support the troops" or something? Hasn't all your concern about the deficit and social security and Medicare and Medicaid been because they'll "bankrupt the government?" Well... i guess you solved that. NO MORE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Great. Nice job.
NO.
MORE.
SOCIALISM.
This one may be a lot tougher than it sounds. See... at the moment? There's absolutely NONE. So... ANY AT ALL would constitute a failure here. 0 for 3 methinks. Three up, three down. And we're through the first inning. (Maybe what they lack in "socialism" they'll make up for in Anarchy?)
Moving on...
So scary stuff gets shown REALLY QUICKLY with hammers and sickles, followed by:
We tried to warn you.
Of... WHAT, exactly? Communism? A Soviet takeover of America? WHAT? I mean... how often can you predict the end of the world before everyone realizes, "Hey, they've been 'warning us' for, like, YEARS now, and the world is totally still here! These people are nut-bags!"?
But we "Wouldn't listen" so now "We'll pay."
Wait... I thought there wouldn't be any more taxes? Actually this "We tried to warn you" and "You wouldn't listen" so now "You'll Pay" stuff? Would play GREAT as something a LIBERAL might send to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. After they take they licks in November maybe? We should spam Sec. Gibbs in-box with that, no? Maybe they'll get the message. As for Conservatives... I haven't been exactly sure what world they've been living in since about 1992.
And WHY will "we pay?"
FREEDOM
Oh my God! You mean... You're going to protect abortion rights, allow gay marriage, legalize marijuana and guarantee everyone's freedom to practice our religion as we choose or to not practice at all and to keep our children free from other people, like teachers, forcing their religion on them?
You're a THREAT.
Oh... I see. You mean, "FREEDOM" as in "Freedom to live the way we let you." Sorry. My mistake. Please continue.
To our economy.
Wait... What about Freedom? What are they threatening again? What do you think will happen to "the economy" when there's "No more spending?" Don't you think some of those millions of people who will now be out of a job might be a bit of a drag on the economy? Especially with "no more taxes" being collected to pay unemployment benefits? In the words of Lando Calirssian, "This deal is getting worse all the time!"
(BTW... Democrats do a better job with the economy.)
To our health care.
Well, yeah... I mean, without the public option, the Health Care bill amounted to little more than massive corporate welfare for the insurance companies. But then... Oh wait... That was taken our to please you people... And yet you STILL couldn't get on boar!. Even though... mandatory insurance (for example) was a Republican idea. (Governor Mitt Romney-R, MA, IIRC) So... What the hell are you talking about? You people and you former lobbyists wrote almost the whole damned thing! So.. you might be right here... But, again, only if a LIBERAL made this video!
To.
our.
individual.
liberties.
Like... The liberty to not bear all the children God "blesses" you with? Of the Liberty to marry someone of the same gender? Or the liberty to smoke... Ah, never mind. We've been over this. You people better make sure none of your constituents (1) really take this seriously and (2) own a dictionary. Or you're in trouble!
You bet the farm.
When?
Government takeovers
Huh? Of what? General Motors? WTF are these people talking about? When Hugo Chavez performed a "Government takeover" of Chevron, do you think HE gave them $70 Billion? Buuuuulllshit! He just said, "it's mine now, fuck you." Now THAT'S a "government takeover." This? This was buying stock and guaranteeing loans in order to save about 30 Million jobs. And do you know what? It fuckin' WORKED. And GM will be making their IPO in just a few weeks. After which the Government will start seeing a return on their investment, after getting their money back. So... THANK GOD they bet the farm I guess, huh?
Bailouts
Um... the Bank bailouts were all Bush.
Liberal Policies
I've said it before and I'll say I'll say it again: WHAT FUCKING LIBERAL POLICIES?! NAME ONE!!!
Wait... Maybe there's some coming up... I'm pretty curious to see exactly what Obama HAS done for Liberals myself, so let's watch:
TARP
$700 Billion
That was Bush.
Federal Stimulus
$1.2 Trillion
That was Bush.
Sure Obama had his too but... is it REALLY better to just let the economy collapse? Oh wait... yeah, that's right... according to your "No taxes / No spending" platform, apparently it IS. Wait a sec... Wasn't that the total cost of Bush's two wars? Or was that Bush's final budget Deficit? Because I though Obama's first budget deficit was something like $1.3 Trillion. Oh well.
Federal Reserve Rescue
$6.4 Trillion
THAT was Bush.
Holy shit. Maybe a liberal DID put this together!
Tax.
Spend.
Redistribute.
Riiiight. Because taxing the middle class and giving money to bankers, and multinational corporations is really LIBERAL policy. You know it's bad when just TALKING about STOPPING the UPWARD redistribution of wealth (and not really even DOING anything about it) is met with howls and cries of "COMMUNISM!" And you KNOW someone's really drinkin' the Vodka when BLUE COLLAR AMERICA keeps BUYING IT year after year!!!
We're BROKE.
News to me. We've been dancing to this tune for that past 30 years, save for two years under Bill Clinton. And there's been a Republican in the White House for 20 of them. (More on that coming up...)
Or did you mean the Republican National Committee?
Now... I almost spit my coffee out at the graph that came up next, from 2:11 to 2:16.
Pause it there for a second, because this is important. In fact... THIS, more than anything else, actually made me believe that a Liberal DID put this together, just to see how stupid Conservatives were. You see how it starts in 1980? The year RONALD REGAN WAS elected? And you see how the deficits pretty much just get bigger and bigger right up until about... 1992? When BILL CLINTON was elected? Then they start getting smaller and smaller until there's a surplus for several years? Yeah. And according to this very graph THAT gravy train ends... IN 2002! The VERY FIRST YEAR that GEORGE W. BUSH BUDGET was in effect!!! And after that we see some REALLY BIG DEFICITS! And the last bar on the graph? 2009? Yeah, you see THAT was ALSO a Bush Budget! Obama was ELECTED in 2008. He didn't take office until 2009, and at that time the BUSH Budget was still in effect! It doesn't include a SINGLE YEAR of Obama deficits! NOT ONE! That graph? It's DEMOCRATIC propaganda! And they don't even realize it!
Who's the fool here? Are Conservatives REALLY this stupid, or am I just slow to get our side's little prank? In any case, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you're concerned about the deficit, for fucksake don't vote REPUBLICAN!
+10% Unemployment
Man. That's pretty bad, huh? Imagine what it might have been without all that stimulus money, huh? George W. Bush sure did leave under a pretty big shit-pile to dig out of, didn't he?
and now you want...
our health care?
I'll assume that this came out, like, a year ago, but how does stopping insurance companies from capriciously screwing over the customer to protect their own profits even as people literally DIE from lack of health care - and this in the most prosperous nation in the world- constitute, "wanting our health care." I'm not even sure I really know what that means. Because, yeah I "want our health care." As in: I want us to HAVE SOME. Oh well, moving on...
(Great picture of Harry Reid coming up at 2:27, BTW. I wish it was a little higher resolution. I'd blow it up, make it into a poster and hang it on my wall. Maybe I'll stick in the blog somewhere. LOL)
I'm sorry if I missed the joke, but the more I watch this, the more I think that a Liberal really DID make it, just to see if the Conservtaives would fall for it.
Backroom deals.
That was Cheney.
Payoffs.
That was Abramoff. (and Bush, and Cheney, etc...)
Blatant and Shameless Bribes
Well, yeah, you've got us there. But we had to do SOMETHING to get a Republican or two on board for the health care bill. So...
We've had enough.
I've had enough of this video. And of Conservative lies and of America's totally fucking ignorance and naivety regarding you people.
We're taking our country back.
To 1860?
From Radicals
Like the TEA PARTY?
Leftists
Name one. (OK, yeah, but no one really takes Dennis Kucinich seriously!)
And Liberals
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We're coming after you
Well, you did LOSE, so you couldn't have possibly come BEFORE us. If you'd WON, we'd be coming after you. Inspiring stuff though. Love the music. Very "Hollywood trailer." All they needed was Don LaFontaine to narrate.
AMERICAN RISING
Well... here's hoping the Democrats finally wake the fuck up anyway. I'm not sure where they've been for the past two years. As for America? Probably more likely to take a nap for the next two years. They'll probably "wake up" sometime in late 2012.
November 2, 2010
(In case those senior citizens at the Tea Party rallies who want to keep Government out of Medicare forget the date.)
Now... the next part, from 3:06 to 3:11, I think, finally shows what the Republicans are REALLY offering, what they REALLY stand for. Don't you agree?
I'm sorry.
Did I miss the point of this? Or are Republican voters REALLY this fucking stupid?
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