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talkpoliticsMy fellow Americans - the State of our Union is f@cked.
I bet I can figure out who you think f@cked it based on your zip code, too. Lots of you think it was f@cked by Georges Soros. You think it was f@cked by Michael Moore. You probably think the zombie corpse of Saul Alinsky has his and right up my ass and is making me speak. Lots of you think it was f@cked by the Koch brothers. You think it was f@cked by Rupert Murdoch. You think Ayn f@cking Rand gave a magic potion to half the Republicans in the country and is controlling them from the grave. Okay, that did happen to the Paul family, but still.
I'm going to ask you to do something right now. I'd like you to get a mirror. Got one? Good. Now take a long hard look in that mirror and repeat after me: "I f@cked up our Union."
That's right. YOU did it. You did it because none of you can make up your damned minds about a single f@cking thing.
You say you think we should have a social safety net in this country. But for the past 30 years you've screamed like stuck pigs if someone even suggests you pay 5 bucks more a week in taxes to pay for it.
You say you are concerned about the national debt. Fine -- name me ONE program that benefits you, that you'd be willing to see us spend 25% less a year on. Gone on. I'm waiting. Right.
You say you don't want us to be the world's policeman and that you don't want us sticking our nose into other people's business all the time. But any time some guy in a turban sneezes mad at us, you aren't happy unless we blow up at least two weddings in Pakistan and then drop another bomb on the funerals for good measure.
You say you don't want your government to spy on you, but your willingness to say anything about in public is directly related to whether or not the guy you voted for is in the White House or not.
For that matter, you say you are concerned about your privacy and then half of you go an Tweet about your lunch or how good a bowel movement you had today. And seriously, why do so many of you idiots keep posting your daily schedules and vacation plans on Facebook? Why don't you just put a big neon sign over your house reading "HEY, THIEVES, GULLIBLE TWIT LIVES HERE"?
While I'm on that, how many of you think you are customers on social media? I thought so. No, you dummies, YOU ARE MARK ZUCKERBERG'S PRODUCT. Get that through your head -- you've been monetized voluntarily and you are complaining about your privacy? Jesus Christ.
You say you are worried about the quality of education in this country, but how many of you don't believe in evolution again?
More of you like Nickelback, traffic jams and head lice than like Congress, but who is it who keeps sending back a Congress that can't do a f@cking thing anymore? How many of you even know what your House representative believes in or even what his f@cking name is? Maybe if you actually bothered voting for people who share your beliefs a little better, you'd have a government that can actually get a few things done every now and then. Oh wait, I forgot. You don't vote. It's considered a major Get Out the Vote victory when half of you jerks even show up for the election and then you whine and moan that you don't like your government. "But, Obama," you're whining now. "None of the people on the ballot represent me anyway." Oh, that's horrible. Hey, did you show up in the primary election and work to convince people to nominate someone who is better than the choices on election day? What? You didn't even know when primary day was? F@ck you.
You are concerned about how we are getting more and more divided as a nation. But can you tell me why Alex Jones and Glenn Beck have careers? Stop trying to avoid eye contact. They have careers because you keep making them money. If you are so concerned about being divided maybe you should stop listening to lunatics who make money out of dividing us. Sh@t, I used to think it was weird how many of you think George Bush personally ordered the Twin Towers to be attacked and then I saw how many of you still think I was born in Kenya.
I bet most of you wouldn't know what Socialism or Fascism was if Karl Marx and Benito Mussolini personally punched you in the yamsack.
You keep complaining that the culture is getting trashed, but I don't remember anyone putting a gun to your head and making you watch Miley Cyrus. Robert Pinsky has 1200 followers on Twitter. Snooki has over 6 million. When was the last time you spent more than five minutes looking for something good to listen to? Oh please. Stone Machine's "Better Days" has 10,000 views on Youtube. Justin Beiber and Nicki Minaj have over 341 million views. You people are the reason why Freaks and Geeks and Firefly only had one season each. If you want a good culture, you need to actually buy the good stuff.
So there it is, America. Our Union is f@cked and you're the ones who f@cked it. There's an election in November. Yes, another one. Why don't you try to actually vote in a way that lines up with what you SAY you believe? Or maybe you could try actually checking to see if you believe it at all?
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Date: 28/1/14 15:49 (UTC)And by the way, if I were female, I'd want your babies on the basis of this post.
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Date: 28/1/14 17:08 (UTC)But I suppose a chap can try.
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Date: 28/1/14 16:55 (UTC)I just read this aloud and everyone is laughing. "That sums it up".
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Date: 28/1/14 16:59 (UTC)Also, I wouldn't believe the president who fucked up "jedi mind trick" (the good ol "jedi mind meld" flub) to be throwing out references to Firefly. I just wouldn't buy it.
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Date: 28/1/14 17:42 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 28/1/14 17:45 (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KbSbh-8jE
No replace the song he plays, with Miley Cyrus--Can't Stop followed by Wrecking Ball, and then back to Can't Stop then Wrecking Ball....and on and on....
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Date: 30/1/14 03:24 (UTC)All hail the honest presidential speech!
(I disagree with some minor points, but all in all, great execution.)
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Date: 30/1/14 16:09 (UTC)Luv,
Reince Priebus
The Republican National
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Date: 30/1/14 22:27 (UTC)See, I do vote every primary, and have done so ever since I was old enough to vote. I even often help as a poll worker for everything from school board elections all the way up to the freakin' presidential election itself, and I can tell you that even on the primary ballot, the choices are equally piss poor. The parties guard the gates to their little clubs very well, and they write the rules to keep other parties from competing with them.
I do continue to do what I do in support of the vote as best I can, but I can honestly say that when I look at the primary ballot, and then look at the charge you're making against voters skipping it, I can still only at best, see a 50-50 split of the liability between the public and the polity.
Given that, I ask you: "Now what?"
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Date: 31/1/14 01:04 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 31/1/14 06:11 (UTC)Still, I am genuinely interested in an answer to my question. Now what? What recourse is left?
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Date: 31/1/14 14:57 (UTC)As for the question: at the risk of being reductionist, the answer is to start small. It takes time and involvement to begin to convince and turn a local constituency and without beginning with a local constituency, you do not develop a well of people with experience and talent to make the next steps to more significant offices. And while I agree that currently many offices are jealously guarded even at the primary level, I would find it hard to believe that at the local levels you say you've participated in, school board for example, that it is entirely shut off.
In my experience, however, the bigger problem is that activists get distracted by the shininess of higher offices too easily. In Hawai'i in 1996, the Green Party had a great candidate and legitimate shot at the mayor's office for Hawai'i County. It was perfect timing with a lot of water use issues being front and center in the county. But the party's best organizers got themselves enamored with Ralph Nader and that was the end of that.
The point is that building a constituency for candidates you CAN support is a laborious process at the local level, but as much as I hate to say it, that's a lesson the religious right figured out in the 1970s and it is why they are so deeply embedded in higher offices now.
Another answer is for voters to stop giving terrible candidates their votes over single issues and the letter next to the candidate's name. In 1990, I was given the choice between William Weld and John Silber for Massachusetts governor. I voted for Weld. I was stunned by how many Democrats obviously voted for a petty and hateful little tyrant instead of a sensible, moderate Republican just because of the "D" next to his name. If they didn't much care for Weld's version of Republicanism, then they could have written in, left that part of the ballot blank -- anything, but they voted with a knee jerk. I think that's probably why a place as usually sensible as Minnesota has sent Bachmann to Congress -- her district is conservative, but I highly doubt it is as crazy pants as she is. Most Minnesotans are middle of the road people. As for the response those voters would have that the Democrat was even worse in their view over some issues, my response is this: your vote is your endorsement. You give nutters a false sense of security to BE nuts when you don't do a write in candidate or votes against them. If the result is someone you don't like either winning, at least you've then cleaned the slate for your side to nominate a better candidate for whom you can vote with some dignity. Look at what happened in Indiana -- the nutball activists ousted a perfectly good statesman like Richard Lugar and nominated a jerk who was clearly out of step with most voters in the state. It made zero sense, but it is what happens when sensible people give over their parties to nutters.