Depends on the party:Will the Obama-era hypocrisy continue when the next president takes office?
h/t EBD
25 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”
Republican or Democrat, nothing will change.
US debt will grow, money will print, more on welfare, and more on yachts with an escape plan.
US “at best” will imperceptibly decline to a Mexico, South American banana republic status, with huge well armed gated communities surrounded by plenty of shanty towns and gang warfare.
If it goes fast, cities will burn while private jets and yachts flow out of the country like swarms of locusts abandoning a burning field.
What difference will it make anyway.. Concocting or overlooking transgressions.. Delivered so a 5 year old can understand it.. To much plastic surgery and bad hair every last one of them.. Open pit mining on Americas last area of growth, welfare..
Where do these people think they are gonna go that the angry masses wont be able to find them? How are they going to survive when they cant make anything and have no poor people to borrow against? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo
Oh, there will be a change: if a Republican becomes POTUS the press will once more “speak truth to power;” we’ll have endless diatribes about “the dark night of fascism” that once more is always just poised to descend on America whenever there’s a GOP in the Oval Office; and Hollywood will again churn out movies about brave vigilantes taking down the corrupt regime in the White House instead of movies about home-grown, domestic militia groups trying to take down a noble, peace-loving, intellectual President . . .
It is with a heavy heart that I must timidly and tentatively disagree with EBD that this is a must read. Pace EBD, I think VDH is in danger of some lefty “column generator” fun on the internet such as has been done to the pathetic Tom Friedman.
FOR, this is nothing but a long shopping list built atop a silly rhetorical question: will the Dem-Media complex give the same passes to a Republican administration. I find these, If a Republican Did This memes to be trite.
That said, it’s a good, if pointless, summary of a rogue hard left marxist administration.
We now live in a dystopian society/culture where medicine destroys our health, judges/lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys truth and information, religious groups oppose morality, and our banks destroy the economy.
Voting, in this dystopia, making choices between 2 or more political cabals which represent the small minority which really runs the whole system, has become like slaves dropping their choice of new masters into a suggestion box every 4 years, this system does not make you free – it only gives you the illusion you are free and that representative democracy is still intact. As Joseph Goebbels said: “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated feel they are acting on their own free will”.
The Roman patrician class knew that slavery worked best when slaves believe themselves to be free – they were in fact still slaves with special privileges. Self-imposed slavery to a dystopic manipulative system has been apparent for some generations now in western so-called “free democracies”. Any objective, critical thinker/observer comes to this conclusion after they have learned/observed how the system really works and who it works for – as opposed to the mythical idealism of how it works propagated by the system’s narrators and sloganeers. From my perspective there have been only a handful of people worthy of our trust on a ballot in the past 3 decades and most of those were either neutered by or absorbed into the “system”. It is the system which needs changing, not the players in it.
Given that objective critical thinking makes you unfit to be a slave of free will, the only thing you can do to keep your equilibrium and not become bitter or angry is become detached from it – become a detached observer with no stake in the outcome of these fallacious partisan battles between tribes of essentially the same ruling force. The system is about one group controlling/exploiting other groups using the hammer of state at the force. It is pointless to be cheerleader for some brand name partisan in this diversionary theater while the real plunder of resources and private wealth continues unabated under any of their watch. You must exit Plato’s cave. You must ignore the shadows on the cave wall and gravitate to the reality of life outside this controlled environment.
If more of us ignored the diversionary posturing of the political class, ignore the manipulative narrative of special interests which feed on public obfuscation and ignore the media pimping of self-imposed subordination to this dystopia , those who run this pathological system would have no power to control our thinking and thus our self determination. Life/freedom/liberty/opportunity exists outside this dysfunctional system, that is where you must go to topple its power over you. When enough of us effuse to take part in this dystopia and become detached observers of this freak show, the system will collapse – I’m convinced this has to happen before any positive change comes to return individual freedom and collective control of a government which is responcive to the individual.
I see no reason the Republicans will make a “comeback” in ’17, unless most of the old guard are replaced in that Party.The Republicans beat each other up badly in their run up, then chose the least objectionable candidate in Mild Mitt Romney,whose unspoken motto was ,”business as usual”.
The Republicans needed an attack dog, they got a well domesticated lapdog.
Mitt was comforting to the 1950’s Republicans, but had a snowball’s chance in Hell against the corrupt and well-oiled Democrat machine.
Nope, in the eyes of the MSM and the LIV’s Obama’s doing a pretty good job,with the only bumps in the road being those awful Republicans in the House who have delayed Obama’s miracles.
Barring the Second Coming, it’s Hillary or some other Democrat liar in the President’s chair,and if there IS a second coming, Christ himself will probably vote Democrat anyway.
“next president takes office”. We are being a bit optimistic here aren’t we?
Since the question is what will the media do or do differently, the answer is that they will remain servants of the progressive left. Incompetent and corrupt democrats will be lionized and any republican or republican initiative will become the object of their scorn.
The media are happy to destroy anything that smacks of American integrity or success.
Here’s another one – Hilary will be the same age as Reagan was when he ran for his first term. Will the commie media question her ability to serve based on age?
Me No Dhimmi, you wrote my comment for me. The hypocrisy will continue under a DemocRat, Bush Derangement Syndrome will return under any Republican.
UNLESS the main stream media outlets go bankrupt, or the fear of bankruptcy forces a change in management. Exhibit A, yesterday it was announced that Duck Dynasty will be back at A&E, entirely due to public pressure. Somebody who can count finally got to the morons in the corner office at A&E, and impressed upon them that their paychecks depended on Phil Robertson, not the other way ’round.
That’s what will make a difference in news coverage.
All the people who ran out to Cracker Barrel and bought a Duck Commander duck call for Christmas are the same people who showed for those Tea Party demonstrations, and for Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day, and who are turning off their television sets by the -millions-.
So in reply to Occam’s comment, (which is excellent by the way) individual freedom and public control of government returns as more and more people wake up the the fact that they are being fleeced like sheep.
Most powerful thing you can do is STOP PARTICIPATING in the media puppet show, and start going direct to the puppeteers. A&E just chose money over DemocRat policy. That’s a big deal. Start making that happen all over the place, and these paper tigers will fall.
The three greatest movements for freedom in modern politics are the tax cut movement, the pro-gun movement, and the free speech movement. There’s the gravel that’s going to get you some traction in the fight against the elites. If you can keep your own earnings, shout back and shoot back, there’s not much the banksters can do to you is there?
Step One, turn off the TV. Cancel the cable. Remove the radio. Deprogram your bean. Step Two, be the inappropriate @$$h0le who calls a spade a f-ing shovel at dinner parties, points out that the Emperor has no clothes at every opportunity, and never apologizes to the professionally aggrieved.
Deb, and the plight of the homeless will once again grace the front pages of the New York Times.
Occam, your reference to slavery reminds me of the Nazi “Arbeit macht Frei”, and the Soviet freedom through re-education in the labour camps.
Good article, almost gentle mockery of the press.
Central question, will the MSM stop lying?
Answer, NO.
What is happening is they will fade away as they become ever more shrill and irrelevant, the internet is their doom.
All they ever had to sell was trust and entertainment, trust they could not keep, they lie even to themselves.
Their entertainment value has fallen off dramatically, silly animals on Youtube have more success, than tired,preachy libtards and their young blond sycophants.
Now we get more amusement watching the consequences of their mendacity coming home to roost.
The slow death of CBC in Canada is both funny and sickening, their counterparts in the US are going the same way, viewers? Where did all the viewers go?
The advertisers are frantically tracking these viewers and they are not watching the limp lying regurgitation that is still standard MSM fare.
When the worm fully turns the Presstitute will be the modern equivalent of the vile witch of the past.
Once the tale spinner and later the “free press” had a privileged place in society, they betrayed that trust and favour, ha ha.
Any organization that thought they had something going for them
by fielding McCain and Romney or any of the also rans has some
very serious blind spots to contend with.
Ah yes, forgot about that, Ken. The plight of the homeless is always so much worse when a Republican sits in the Oval Office. “The fierce urgency of now” becomes suddenly so much more urgent.
Me No Dhimmi (12:11 PM), Hanson pretty much states outright that his questions about how the media will behave if a Republican wins the presidency are rhetorical ones when he says, quote, “the predictable answer, of course, to all these questions, is, again, ‘it depends.'” In the context of the whole essay, and it’s conclusions, the barrage of thoughtful, salient, and highly detailed questions preceding this answer is a highly effective rhetorical device, IMO.
I find the unusually dyspeptic (for Hansen) column to be a prescient bellwether about societal cynicism regarding the devaluation of important institutions, including the presidency and the press, the latter of which he pays particular attention to.
The most cynical and easiest reaction (easiest for us, because the other side denies it) is to say that it’s always been thus, i.e. that the media have always been water-carriers for the Dem/left. While there’s more than a kernel of truth in this, Hanson is entirely right that during the last seven years under Obama this tendency has turned into a condition, a different and entirely more menacing beast. The institutional/constitutional damage to the country perpetrated by this administration, with the full help of a complicit media to advance the agenda rather than report on the scandals and violations of the constitution, is unprecedentedly destructive and dangerous.
Regarding the commonly-held (and cynical, IMO) “Meh, it’s always been like that” reaction, it’s important to remember that a certain observable similarity between two events/conditions, or the recognition of the existence of a pattern, or having a name for this tendency, doesn’t mean that one particular condition isn’t different/worse/more dangerous than the others. Slapping someone in the face, or tying him to a tree and executing him, for example, both fall under the broad rubric of violence, but the meaning, intent, and consequences are different by orders of magnitude — they’re two completely different actions, in effect.
The same thing kinda applies here. Obama’s presidency has been precedent-setting in a lot of very serious ways, and this is the possibility/fear that Hanson gives voice to. It’s not just the administration itself that’s changed the country, it’s also the hitherto unseen extent of the legacy media’s (non)-coverage of The One’s “extra-constitutional prerogatives.” This new (at least for the US) cultural condition – it’s a virtual re-write — will be hard to recover from, especially if the next president is another liberal Democrat like Hillary Clinton.
EBD, when mnd is bettered by an opinion that is eloquently grounded in more insight and intellect that he can muster, he just attacks the poster, we saw that in his exchanges with ET, who happens to be far better versed than him in most discussions she participated in.
As to VHD’s excellent article, would it not be considered anti-semetic, with all the Joos that reside within the LMS world
NME666,
I didn’t attack EBD or VDH here. I merely opined that VDH’s long catalogue of all the abuses that MSM has given Obama a pass on, is pointless.
As mentioned on numerous occasions here, I find these If a Republican Had Done This ….. complaints trite and tedious.
Re-read my comment: I did however acknowledge that it was a good summary.
Nor did I attack ET when she posted here. I merely proved her wrong about a few topics such as Israel, the Arab Spring and Obama’s Marxism. Events, I believe, have borne me out. I believe I displayed ample respect for her superior intellect and learning but, unlike many here, was not intimidated by it. I’ve never been much of a sycophant.
You should also have been able to infer from the beginning of my comment that I have enormous respect for EBD.
I didn’t feel attacked or insulted at all by the fact that Me No Dhimmi politely disagreed with my assessment of the article; I always enjoy his contributions here.
Also: VDH’s article obviously wasn’t anti-Semitic in any way whatsoever – I would condemn, not recommend, any article that’s even vaguely anti-Semitic.
On that note, what does “LMS” mean? I Googled the acronym and couldn’t find any definition that could even conceivably apply to what you typed. Learning Management System? Loudspeaker Measurement System?
“Step Two, be the inappropriate @$$h0le who calls a spade a f-ing shovel at dinner parties, points out that the Emperor has no clothes”
The kids were over for Christmas and a son-in-law happened to mention badly designed web-sites – which allowed me to show him a ‘Covered California’ Obamacare website with mislabelled buttons and even the word ‘button’ misspelled in two different ways.
When I mentioned the vast cost and the amateurish result, he replied “Well, you should be happy. You wanted it to fail”. My response was that it wasn’t that I wanted it to fail, but that I UNDERSTOOD it would fail and that the website was only the outward manifestation of that failure.
He believes it will be the best thing ever because “it’s the right thing to do”, while I believe it will be an economic and social disaster. Only one of us can be right, so if the evidence suggests it’s me, why should I shut up in order to salve his intellectual discomfort?
The sooner liberals realize they’re wrong, the better off we’ll all be. Don’t be afraid to let them know you’re not going to shy away from pointing out the error of their ways.
No Guff that reminded me of the Irish rocker Bob Geldof who, with respect to some hopeless third world charitable effort, said “We must do something, even if it doesn’t work”.
After all, it’s the right thing to do.
As johnbrooks said, its a bit of a leap of faith to assume there will be a “next” president. President/golfer for life would be a fitting title.
I don’t suspect the double standard of the popular press will change with the incoming president. Assuming the next president will be Republican, he will be blamed for Obama’s messes. One would hope that the public remembers who shilled for the @$$hole who put them all into debt in the first place.
One can hope.
The website didn’t cancel all of those individual insurance policies, the Affordable Care ACT did.
When all those group insurance policies get canceled next year, it will also be the Affordable Care ACT which forces them to be canceled.
Don’t let the discussion be about the websites, that’s what they want it to be about.
The Affordable Care Act is forcing people into the exchanges by killing their insurance plans and jacking up their monthly fees, the website has nothing to do with the real problem.
Don’t let it be about the botched delivery, …make it about the Sh!T Sandwich that the Dems are delivering and forcing people to eat every-single-month-for-the-rest-of-your-lives.
Good advice. Well put together by the way.
Well said Occam. As Phantom noted in response, the start of the solution is to detach oneself from the system as much as possible. It’s been years since I’ve watched any broadcast TV or read a newspaper (except for when excerpts of truly atrocious reporting are posted on SDA). I’m far more likely now to immediately disagree with BS when I hear people mention it in conversation. What has amazed me is the number of people who will make a statement in support of some statist policy “because it was on TV” but have zero knowledge of the issue other than what the MSM wants them to know. Asking probing questions is the best way to make people doubt what they’re being told as the material I’m asking about wasn’t in the official propaganda.
Most statist and institutional regulations are a target rich environment when it comes to unintended consequences. By pointing this out, some people are forced to think more deeply and that is the last thing that statists want. The biggest problem is to try to get people to realize the immense size of the watermelon kleptocracy which is the overfed elephant in the middle of the room that people studiously try to ignore. One of the biggest problems is dealing with a nation of sheeple who prefer comfort and freedom from conflict rather than taking on the statists directly. The window to make changes is very small given the new generations of sheeple being produced by the “educational” system.
Republican or Democrat, nothing will change.
US debt will grow, money will print, more on welfare, and more on yachts with an escape plan.
US “at best” will imperceptibly decline to a Mexico, South American banana republic status, with huge well armed gated communities surrounded by plenty of shanty towns and gang warfare.
If it goes fast, cities will burn while private jets and yachts flow out of the country like swarms of locusts abandoning a burning field.
What difference will it make anyway.. Concocting or overlooking transgressions.. Delivered so a 5 year old can understand it.. To much plastic surgery and bad hair every last one of them.. Open pit mining on Americas last area of growth, welfare..
Where do these people think they are gonna go that the angry masses wont be able to find them? How are they going to survive when they cant make anything and have no poor people to borrow against?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo
Oh, there will be a change: if a Republican becomes POTUS the press will once more “speak truth to power;” we’ll have endless diatribes about “the dark night of fascism” that once more is always just poised to descend on America whenever there’s a GOP in the Oval Office; and Hollywood will again churn out movies about brave vigilantes taking down the corrupt regime in the White House instead of movies about home-grown, domestic militia groups trying to take down a noble, peace-loving, intellectual President . . .
It is with a heavy heart that I must timidly and tentatively disagree with EBD that this is a must read.
Pace EBD, I think VDH is in danger of some lefty “column generator” fun on the internet such as has been done to the pathetic Tom Friedman.
FOR, this is nothing but a long shopping list built atop a silly rhetorical question: will the Dem-Media complex give the same passes to a Republican administration. I find these, If a Republican Did This memes to be trite.
That said, it’s a good, if pointless, summary of a rogue hard left marxist administration.
We now live in a dystopian society/culture where medicine destroys our health, judges/lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys truth and information, religious groups oppose morality, and our banks destroy the economy.
Voting, in this dystopia, making choices between 2 or more political cabals which represent the small minority which really runs the whole system, has become like slaves dropping their choice of new masters into a suggestion box every 4 years, this system does not make you free – it only gives you the illusion you are free and that representative democracy is still intact. As Joseph Goebbels said: “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated feel they are acting on their own free will”.
The Roman patrician class knew that slavery worked best when slaves believe themselves to be free – they were in fact still slaves with special privileges. Self-imposed slavery to a dystopic manipulative system has been apparent for some generations now in western so-called “free democracies”. Any objective, critical thinker/observer comes to this conclusion after they have learned/observed how the system really works and who it works for – as opposed to the mythical idealism of how it works propagated by the system’s narrators and sloganeers. From my perspective there have been only a handful of people worthy of our trust on a ballot in the past 3 decades and most of those were either neutered by or absorbed into the “system”. It is the system which needs changing, not the players in it.
Given that objective critical thinking makes you unfit to be a slave of free will, the only thing you can do to keep your equilibrium and not become bitter or angry is become detached from it – become a detached observer with no stake in the outcome of these fallacious partisan battles between tribes of essentially the same ruling force. The system is about one group controlling/exploiting other groups using the hammer of state at the force. It is pointless to be cheerleader for some brand name partisan in this diversionary theater while the real plunder of resources and private wealth continues unabated under any of their watch. You must exit Plato’s cave. You must ignore the shadows on the cave wall and gravitate to the reality of life outside this controlled environment.
If more of us ignored the diversionary posturing of the political class, ignore the manipulative narrative of special interests which feed on public obfuscation and ignore the media pimping of self-imposed subordination to this dystopia , those who run this pathological system would have no power to control our thinking and thus our self determination. Life/freedom/liberty/opportunity exists outside this dysfunctional system, that is where you must go to topple its power over you. When enough of us effuse to take part in this dystopia and become detached observers of this freak show, the system will collapse – I’m convinced this has to happen before any positive change comes to return individual freedom and collective control of a government which is responcive to the individual.
I see no reason the Republicans will make a “comeback” in ’17, unless most of the old guard are replaced in that Party.The Republicans beat each other up badly in their run up, then chose the least objectionable candidate in Mild Mitt Romney,whose unspoken motto was ,”business as usual”.
The Republicans needed an attack dog, they got a well domesticated lapdog.
Mitt was comforting to the 1950’s Republicans, but had a snowball’s chance in Hell against the corrupt and well-oiled Democrat machine.
Nope, in the eyes of the MSM and the LIV’s Obama’s doing a pretty good job,with the only bumps in the road being those awful Republicans in the House who have delayed Obama’s miracles.
Barring the Second Coming, it’s Hillary or some other Democrat liar in the President’s chair,and if there IS a second coming, Christ himself will probably vote Democrat anyway.
“next president takes office”. We are being a bit optimistic here aren’t we?
Since the question is what will the media do or do differently, the answer is that they will remain servants of the progressive left. Incompetent and corrupt democrats will be lionized and any republican or republican initiative will become the object of their scorn.
The media are happy to destroy anything that smacks of American integrity or success.
Here’s another one – Hilary will be the same age as Reagan was when he ran for his first term. Will the commie media question her ability to serve based on age?
Me No Dhimmi, you wrote my comment for me. The hypocrisy will continue under a DemocRat, Bush Derangement Syndrome will return under any Republican.
UNLESS the main stream media outlets go bankrupt, or the fear of bankruptcy forces a change in management. Exhibit A, yesterday it was announced that Duck Dynasty will be back at A&E, entirely due to public pressure. Somebody who can count finally got to the morons in the corner office at A&E, and impressed upon them that their paychecks depended on Phil Robertson, not the other way ’round.
That’s what will make a difference in news coverage.
All the people who ran out to Cracker Barrel and bought a Duck Commander duck call for Christmas are the same people who showed for those Tea Party demonstrations, and for Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day, and who are turning off their television sets by the -millions-.
So in reply to Occam’s comment, (which is excellent by the way) individual freedom and public control of government returns as more and more people wake up the the fact that they are being fleeced like sheep.
Most powerful thing you can do is STOP PARTICIPATING in the media puppet show, and start going direct to the puppeteers. A&E just chose money over DemocRat policy. That’s a big deal. Start making that happen all over the place, and these paper tigers will fall.
The three greatest movements for freedom in modern politics are the tax cut movement, the pro-gun movement, and the free speech movement. There’s the gravel that’s going to get you some traction in the fight against the elites. If you can keep your own earnings, shout back and shoot back, there’s not much the banksters can do to you is there?
Step One, turn off the TV. Cancel the cable. Remove the radio. Deprogram your bean. Step Two, be the inappropriate @$$h0le who calls a spade a f-ing shovel at dinner parties, points out that the Emperor has no clothes at every opportunity, and never apologizes to the professionally aggrieved.
Deb, and the plight of the homeless will once again grace the front pages of the New York Times.
Occam, your reference to slavery reminds me of the Nazi “Arbeit macht Frei”, and the Soviet freedom through re-education in the labour camps.
Good article, almost gentle mockery of the press.
Central question, will the MSM stop lying?
Answer, NO.
What is happening is they will fade away as they become ever more shrill and irrelevant, the internet is their doom.
All they ever had to sell was trust and entertainment, trust they could not keep, they lie even to themselves.
Their entertainment value has fallen off dramatically, silly animals on Youtube have more success, than tired,preachy libtards and their young blond sycophants.
Now we get more amusement watching the consequences of their mendacity coming home to roost.
The slow death of CBC in Canada is both funny and sickening, their counterparts in the US are going the same way, viewers? Where did all the viewers go?
The advertisers are frantically tracking these viewers and they are not watching the limp lying regurgitation that is still standard MSM fare.
When the worm fully turns the Presstitute will be the modern equivalent of the vile witch of the past.
Once the tale spinner and later the “free press” had a privileged place in society, they betrayed that trust and favour, ha ha.
Any organization that thought they had something going for them
by fielding McCain and Romney or any of the also rans has some
very serious blind spots to contend with.
Ah yes, forgot about that, Ken. The plight of the homeless is always so much worse when a Republican sits in the Oval Office. “The fierce urgency of now” becomes suddenly so much more urgent.
Me No Dhimmi (12:11 PM), Hanson pretty much states outright that his questions about how the media will behave if a Republican wins the presidency are rhetorical ones when he says, quote, “the predictable answer, of course, to all these questions, is, again, ‘it depends.'” In the context of the whole essay, and it’s conclusions, the barrage of thoughtful, salient, and highly detailed questions preceding this answer is a highly effective rhetorical device, IMO.
I find the unusually dyspeptic (for Hansen) column to be a prescient bellwether about societal cynicism regarding the devaluation of important institutions, including the presidency and the press, the latter of which he pays particular attention to.
The most cynical and easiest reaction (easiest for us, because the other side denies it) is to say that it’s always been thus, i.e. that the media have always been water-carriers for the Dem/left. While there’s more than a kernel of truth in this, Hanson is entirely right that during the last seven years under Obama this tendency has turned into a condition, a different and entirely more menacing beast. The institutional/constitutional damage to the country perpetrated by this administration, with the full help of a complicit media to advance the agenda rather than report on the scandals and violations of the constitution, is unprecedentedly destructive and dangerous.
Regarding the commonly-held (and cynical, IMO) “Meh, it’s always been like that” reaction, it’s important to remember that a certain observable similarity between two events/conditions, or the recognition of the existence of a pattern, or having a name for this tendency, doesn’t mean that one particular condition isn’t different/worse/more dangerous than the others. Slapping someone in the face, or tying him to a tree and executing him, for example, both fall under the broad rubric of violence, but the meaning, intent, and consequences are different by orders of magnitude — they’re two completely different actions, in effect.
The same thing kinda applies here. Obama’s presidency has been precedent-setting in a lot of very serious ways, and this is the possibility/fear that Hanson gives voice to. It’s not just the administration itself that’s changed the country, it’s also the hitherto unseen extent of the legacy media’s (non)-coverage of The One’s “extra-constitutional prerogatives.” This new (at least for the US) cultural condition – it’s a virtual re-write — will be hard to recover from, especially if the next president is another liberal Democrat like Hillary Clinton.
EBD, when mnd is bettered by an opinion that is eloquently grounded in more insight and intellect that he can muster, he just attacks the poster, we saw that in his exchanges with ET, who happens to be far better versed than him in most discussions she participated in.
As to VHD’s excellent article, would it not be considered anti-semetic, with all the Joos that reside within the LMS world
NME666,
I didn’t attack EBD or VDH here. I merely opined that VDH’s long catalogue of all the abuses that MSM has given Obama a pass on, is pointless.
As mentioned on numerous occasions here, I find these If a Republican Had Done This ….. complaints trite and tedious.
Re-read my comment: I did however acknowledge that it was a good summary.
Nor did I attack ET when she posted here. I merely proved her wrong about a few topics such as Israel, the Arab Spring and Obama’s Marxism. Events, I believe, have borne me out. I believe I displayed ample respect for her superior intellect and learning but, unlike many here, was not intimidated by it. I’ve never been much of a sycophant.
You should also have been able to infer from the beginning of my comment that I have enormous respect for EBD.
I didn’t feel attacked or insulted at all by the fact that Me No Dhimmi politely disagreed with my assessment of the article; I always enjoy his contributions here.
Also: VDH’s article obviously wasn’t anti-Semitic in any way whatsoever – I would condemn, not recommend, any article that’s even vaguely anti-Semitic.
On that note, what does “LMS” mean? I Googled the acronym and couldn’t find any definition that could even conceivably apply to what you typed. Learning Management System? Loudspeaker Measurement System?
“Step Two, be the inappropriate @$$h0le who calls a spade a f-ing shovel at dinner parties, points out that the Emperor has no clothes”
The kids were over for Christmas and a son-in-law happened to mention badly designed web-sites – which allowed me to show him a ‘Covered California’ Obamacare website with mislabelled buttons and even the word ‘button’ misspelled in two different ways.
When I mentioned the vast cost and the amateurish result, he replied “Well, you should be happy. You wanted it to fail”. My response was that it wasn’t that I wanted it to fail, but that I UNDERSTOOD it would fail and that the website was only the outward manifestation of that failure.
He believes it will be the best thing ever because “it’s the right thing to do”, while I believe it will be an economic and social disaster. Only one of us can be right, so if the evidence suggests it’s me, why should I shut up in order to salve his intellectual discomfort?
The sooner liberals realize they’re wrong, the better off we’ll all be. Don’t be afraid to let them know you’re not going to shy away from pointing out the error of their ways.
No Guff that reminded me of the Irish rocker Bob Geldof who, with respect to some hopeless third world charitable effort, said “We must do something, even if it doesn’t work”.
After all, it’s the right thing to do.
As johnbrooks said, its a bit of a leap of faith to assume there will be a “next” president. President/golfer for life would be a fitting title.
I don’t suspect the double standard of the popular press will change with the incoming president. Assuming the next president will be Republican, he will be blamed for Obama’s messes. One would hope that the public remembers who shilled for the @$$hole who put them all into debt in the first place.
One can hope.
The website didn’t cancel all of those individual insurance policies, the Affordable Care ACT did.
When all those group insurance policies get canceled next year, it will also be the Affordable Care ACT which forces them to be canceled.
Don’t let the discussion be about the websites, that’s what they want it to be about.
The Affordable Care Act is forcing people into the exchanges by killing their insurance plans and jacking up their monthly fees, the website has nothing to do with the real problem.
Don’t let it be about the botched delivery, …make it about the Sh!T Sandwich that the Dems are delivering and forcing people to eat every-single-month-for-the-rest-of-your-lives.
Good advice. Well put together by the way.
Well said Occam. As Phantom noted in response, the start of the solution is to detach oneself from the system as much as possible. It’s been years since I’ve watched any broadcast TV or read a newspaper (except for when excerpts of truly atrocious reporting are posted on SDA). I’m far more likely now to immediately disagree with BS when I hear people mention it in conversation. What has amazed me is the number of people who will make a statement in support of some statist policy “because it was on TV” but have zero knowledge of the issue other than what the MSM wants them to know. Asking probing questions is the best way to make people doubt what they’re being told as the material I’m asking about wasn’t in the official propaganda.
Most statist and institutional regulations are a target rich environment when it comes to unintended consequences. By pointing this out, some people are forced to think more deeply and that is the last thing that statists want. The biggest problem is to try to get people to realize the immense size of the watermelon kleptocracy which is the overfed elephant in the middle of the room that people studiously try to ignore. One of the biggest problems is dealing with a nation of sheeple who prefer comfort and freedom from conflict rather than taking on the statists directly. The window to make changes is very small given the new generations of sheeple being produced by the “educational” system.