A disaster. Obama's policies have been a dis-ASTER! says one millionaire to the other like some kind of a club password or secret society handshake. How so? I ask and just what policies do you mean? Things get quiet really quick and I can almost hear the unspoken malediction: "y'ain't from aroun' here, arya?"
No I'm not, I'm from a place called reality and it can be a lonesome place for sure. Fact is, the only disaster since Cheney and the Chimp left Washington has been the president's inability to perform even one duty of office without all-time filibuster records and total obfuscation. The guy couldn't order a hamburger from a drive-in window without the Jack-in-the Box Republicans trying to stop him, but the "Obama Disaster" is still one of the tent poles that holds up the GOP circus tent. No, he would be a tyrant and would be "trashing the constitution" by appointing cabinet members, but the constitutional mandate for the Senate to discuss his SCOTUS appointment? Don't ask because you'll have to hold your nose for the answer.
Seems not too long ago that the Dow Jones was at 6,400. after an 8 year stretch of Bush's policies of borrow, spend, and cut revenue. Today was a bit of a disaster for my portfolio but it's still over 18,000, just off some all-time market highs. Disaster.
Today's Census Bureau figures show US household incomes up 5.2% -- the fastest increase since the end of the Bush Recession, Strange because wage stagnation is another one of the tent poles and yes unemployment is near record lows too, but you know it's magic tent. It really doesn't need poles, it's held up by faith: faith that "Hillary's agenda" and her "policies" will be just as bad as her husbands and Obama's. We can only hope they are.
My next blog post: Governor Deplorable and his Basketful of Bigots
ReplyDeleteLet’s start with Governor Matt Blevin (R) of Kentucky who recently played the ‘Second Amendment Remedy Card’ when he said:
“Somebody asked me yesterday, I did an interview, “Do you think it’s possible, if Hillary Clinton were to win the election, do you think it’s possible that we’ll be able to survive, that we’d ever be able to recover as a nation?” And while there are people who have stood on this stage and said we would not, I would beg to differ. I do think it would be possible, but at what price? At what price? The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood of who? The tyrants, to be sure, but who else? The patriots.”
This offends me on so many levels. Beginning with that stupid uber-patriot card. Yup, these Tea Party assholes think they are bigger and better patriots, more morally superior, and more politically entitled than the the rest of us. How insulting! And threatening!
About that stinking “Second Amendment Remedy Card’ first played by that ignorant and miserable POS, Sharon Angel. The gall of thinking they so entitled to the White House and other positions of power that they would hint of insurrection if they don’t have their way.
I consider his statement as tantamount to the rape of democracy and an affront to my rights. Now you know why I’d like to bash in the brains of every Quick Draw McGraw who disrespects and threatens my freedom!
And invariably there's no mention of why the country would die if she were president. I's just assumed, like the existence of some God.
ReplyDeleteThey are skirting so close to 18 U.S. Code § 2385 - "Advocating overthrow of Government" that it reminds me of those Manhattan Project experiments involving getting arbitrarily close to a critical mass. The question is whether the government has the guts to lock up one of these bastards. Somehow I think they'd have to step pretty far over the line.
Even teaching the "propriety" of revolution is punishable but they're within millimeters of doing that by suggesting Jefferson would have approved. They're walking a tightrope and even an expert can slip. But of course these people are playing with the emotions of the emotionally disturbed and delusional and furious and such people cannot be predicted. Keep your door locked, your gas tank full, your passport up to date - and maybe your powder dry.
The key phrases are “projection” and “victim blame,” as in projecting blame upon an innocent person for the misdeeds or indiscretions of the person who actually did the deed. In this case, the blamed victim is Hillary Clinton and the heap of scorn leveled against her by political hacks.
ReplyDeleteFactoid: Hillary did not commit infidelity She was the victim of infidelity; humiliated in public by the actions of her husband; yet subsequently scorned for something she did not do. This is the very essence of “victim blame” — a grave injustice. It is also an example of a sexist double standard in our culture.
Short form: Men get off scot-free while women take the heat.
The fact that Hillary chose to salvage her marriage is a credit in her favor. The same cannot be said for Messrs. Gingrich, Giuliani, McCain, former Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and Donald Trump — all of whom have been notorious adulterers (and stalwart Republicans).
Cheap shots and projection, the rank hypocrisy is galling. How does the pachyderm pack-of-shit party get away with it?
Example of which was the first thing to pop up on my TV screen this morning. The ad where that Wicked Hillary is "viciously demonizing" half of America. Only a country comprised of neurotic idiots can equate 30 years of character assassination and relentless investigations of the same things over and over with saying half or Trump's supporters are in a basket of deplorables. She's the victim of a "stupid witch hunt" of enormous proportions. But it's America -- facts don't matter. Ignorant savages, raving lunatics and liars.
ReplyDeleteAsked a bigwig from JP Morgan last night if I should sell everything, buy Gold Bullion and automatic weapons and bury them in the back yard. He said yes.