Darn it, we must support the The White Romney (TWR) or … else the pro-baby-killer, pro-high, “Blackie”, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim will win. And then we will all lose our guns, our freedoms, and … well our “balls” as well (the madness). And if The Black Romney (TBR) wins, the liberals will start randomly killing babies (like they do now, but worse), force all our children to be high (thus easier to manipulate our children to kill babies, and steal from others), force everyone to join a union, attack those who love God (obviously our God and not his God), and give the country to immigrants and black people. Oh ya, we will no longer be exceptional. Or free.
It falls on us, as a great and honorable responsibility, to make sure The Black Romney wins again or … else the uber-capitalist, scary Mormon, anti-choice, anti-union, anti-immigrant, anti-99% will win. And then all of us will be slaves to the 1%, our children will serve their children, and … the next SC choice will tip fully in favor of corporations and we will lose our rights and only corporations will have rights. And if TWR wins, the conservatives will take over, convert us all to Xtianity (or Mormonism), deport or exterminate all immigrants (or any non-whites), destroy all unions and imprison all union members, and return us to feudalism and we will all have to scrape and bow before our new masters/lords. Oh ya, we will no longer be exceptional. Or free.
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Is this what we’ve come to in America’s life span? This delusional, psychotic, and irrational behavior and thought processes (can it even be called a thought process, or just the wild ravings of a mad man)? If this was a human being, I would say they were AMS (altered mental status), due to exogenous effectors (ex. alcohol intoxication, psychedelic drugs, or poison targeting the brain), TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), or some organic brain disorder (ex. Alzheimer’s) … ie. the person is senile or psychotic and needs to be hospitalized, medicated, and monitored closely. And this is where we are … we are so FUBARed!
So what’s the difference between TBR and TWR? Honestly, from my vantage point, I see, in their actions, very little.
1. Both work for “big money”, ie. Wall Street and corporations, and not for us. And boy is this list long and “distinguished”. If it’s not whoring for the the financial sector (“God’s work”, or they did nothing “illegal”, only “unethical”, or “Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are.”), then it’s the energy sector (all I gotta say is that after TBR’s performance in the gulf, BP should be giving him one fat paycheck … no worries, after the prez gig, it’s all waiting for him). And of course both loves thems some Reagan balls (slightly warmed till the hint, but not sight, of perspiration). Both want lower corporate tax rates. Both want to privatize SS and Medicare, … and frankly they both want to privatize everything (while the USPS gets gutted, TBR does nothing). Who’s the bigger corporate shill/pawn? TBR is doing a bang-up job or doing nothing while the corporations loot, pillage, burn, and rape (ACA, mortgage fraud, LIBOR, … the list goes on). And if TWR wins? Well he will meet TBR. But how will he surpass all that TBR has done? Is it even possible? Sure. But at this point, it’s hard to top that not one major player in the massive corruption … well everywhere, has been prosecuted (although “we” did get some low-hanging pawns, … booyah). I mean how do you beat that? What will TWR do, not only prevent prosecutions, … but then make the victims pay the fraudsters? Well stranger things have happened.
2. Wars, wars, and more wars. TBR has not only continued all our wars, and shoveled more money to the “defense” contractors, but he’s expanded war to a whole new level. Where are we fighting now? The better question, and easier and shorter to answer is where are we not fighting. We’re in Central America and South America. We’re in the middle east (duh), and up to our eyeballs there. Africa is ripe for the taking (or more accurately raping), and we’re there too. Asia? Oh ya. What else is left? Europe? We have our corporatist presence there and firmly entrenched (you’re welcome Europe, … but just remember, it’s your own fellow Europeans that sold you out for a few bucks, just like our fellow Americans, … welcome to the Getting-Screwed-By-Your-Own People club), so why bother there. BTW, we have military bases dotting that landscape in case the Europeans get any ideas of their own. I guess that leaves Antarctica. Let’s nuke it and teach those Antarctic-ans a lesson. It’s also a great lesson to the rest of the world: Obey or perish. How is TWR going to beat that? Attack the moon? Attack Mars and the Martians? Maybe nuke Venus? Random searches, attacks, imprisonment, torture of Americans, … what’s the next level? I ask as a rhetorical question but the truth is that I know in my bones that TWR will amaze us all with new heights of injustice and corruption. In ways we can’t imagine, although looking at TBR, I have an idea what their plan is. (Pure conjecture: TBR or TWR may plan to invade Greece after carpet bombing it to oblivion. Ie. we have to destroy Greece to save Greece from … well the Greeks, from their “socialist” take-care-of-their-own “handout” society. At some point we can start spinning the old lies: we’re going to bring them Democracy (ya I know where it started, thus the irony), we can win the hearts and minds of the Greeks, ie. those that are left after the carpet bombing, and lastly, but certainly not least, we will show them what freedom is, while they squirm under our jackboots.)
3. Both want to privatize everything, but with TBR, that’s an actual possibility. If TWR were to win, all the elderly that voted for him, would actually resist it. Whereas with TBR, their hatred of TBR will overpower all other thoughts. Clinton almost tried to privatize SS via his bosom buddy Newtie. I think he would have succeeded if other “issues”, ie. his penis, had not come up (pun intended). Why do I say that? Look at how he passed his welfare “reform” or repealing Glass-Steagal. Only a “Dem” can do it efficiently. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am. Now we will get SS “reform”. It’s coming. We all know it. And the best man for that job: TBR, aka killa-O (as in after SS “reform”, there be a lot of older folks on the streets and dying). Just like after welfare “reform”, killa-O be trying to match killa-C. Whereas Pasty-Shady, aka TWR, ain’t got the props to do what killa-O can do. He ain’t got the juice. But killa-O got juice, and maybe some gin as well, or is that with black-in-name-only Ms. killa-O.
The rant continues in my head, unabated, and mostly with unreasonable propositions for the magic genie in the sky. I will say that I believe TBR will win, liberals will cheer, as they will when he subsequently gets his table-crumbs committee (no more catfood, it’s too good for the likes of us, … all we get are the crumbs now, and the only reason they will give us those is because it’s too much work to clean up the rotting crumbs, and they will consider this act generosity and kindness for us, the unwashed masses) to do what killa-C could not. Booyah bitchez, let’s get this party, aka road to hell, started; my popcorn’s getting cold.
P.S. Libor May Be Manipulated, But Silver Is Not, CFTC To Conclude. Ya, I’ll buy that for a dollar (cause BS shouldn’t cost more than that).



16 Comments

Obama and the Democrats are clearly, empirically better than Rmoney and the Republicans. That isn’t to say that they can be defined as “good” or “benevolent” and I agree with your assessment that they are both corporate stooges. I’ve never sat out an election since I began voting in 1978 but I’m seriously thinking about sitting this one out but saying that Obama and Rmoney are no different is like saying that a cold is no different from pneumonia.
But, OTOH, Romney hasn’t murdered any American citizens.
(Yet, I grant you. But still.)
And there’s still the argument that the Romney policies, coming from Romney rather than Black Romney, would get more resistance from “Democrats” than they currently do from “Republicans”. Or that the only hope of progress is the election of a non-Romney, so it is important to eliminate/destroy/disgrace Obama asap, so that the Dems might run someone better in 2016, because the Rs certainly wouldn’t if he’s re-elected.
Re-elect Obama, and the 2016 election is someone running on “continuing the Obama legacy” versus an even-further-to-the-ultra-right (thank YOU, Overton Window!) Republican. Elect Romney, and 2016 is an embattled (I would assume) Mitt vs a Dem bent on distancing him/herself from the failed Obama. (Not sure the “I’m no Obama!” Dem would be an improvement, given the surge of pundits who will claim O failed because he was just Too Damn Libberul, but at least there’s a chance.)
Finally, as someone who’s been noting the similarity of Obama’s economic policies to Mitt’s since 2009, and who’s been promoting the “White Romney/Black Romney” formulation since mid-2010, may I just say…”yesssssss!”. Always fun to see one’s phrases spread. [/petty joy]
When the good shepherd is a wolf in disguise, you are much better off going up against the real thing.
Glen Ford at the BAR writes that Obama is the more effective evil: http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-barack-obama-more-effective-evil/
I agree. The triptych of Democrats: FDR to institute SS, Johnson to institute Medicare, Obama to eviscerate both. The Democratic and Republican parties are gangrenous.
I actually think we’d be better off under romney, I say this because I expect the dormant progressives/libs to come out of their obama coma.
Harry Truman once said, “When given a choice between a Republican and somebody who acts like a Republican, the people will pick the real Republican, every time” I believe that is true still but if given the choice between living with a dog with a bad temper or a dog with full blown, furious rabies, there is no choice at all. Look, everybody is going to have to do what they feel is right this election. Heck, I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet, just what I’m NOT going to do, and that is I’m not going to vote for Willard “Mitt” Rmoney, now or in the future. Another thing I’m not going to do is advocate for any Presidential candidate. That ship has sailed and none of them of worthy of my vote.
What good would that do? They came out of their self induced stupor long enough to fool themselves, (and a great many other people), into believing that Obama was their progressive savior, when it was clear from the start that he was one of the weakest “progressives” in that field. Rmoney will piss them off enough to put on their blinders for the DNC to foist the next corporate stooge in the bullpen. Remember “anybody but Bush”? McCain didn’t lose the election in 2008, George W Bush did. Why would 4 to 8 years of Willard change that paradigm?
If you want to vote for Rmoney, then by all means do so. But if you do, you may want to change your pseudonym from “Vote Socialist” to “Vote Superstitious Rich White Guy Who Will Crush the Last Vestiges of the Social Safety Net”. I’ll say it again because it bears repeating: I know people are disappointed with Obama, I get that. Hell, I’m disappointed and I never deluded myself into believing his bullshit. But even the disappointment notwithstanding, Obama and the Democrats are clearly and empirically better than the Republicans and Rmoney in every measurable way from a Progressive’s point of view. Granted there are far too many instances in which the margin is vanishingly small, but I’ll stand by that statement until somebody provides me with credible and verifiable evidence otherwise. Forget the theories about “waking people up” and “teaching them a lesson”. Those are just theories and they’ve been tried before and the result is yet another lurch rightward. I pointed this out on this very blog in 2010 and have the Democrats “learned a lesson”? Nope! And there is no evidence that there will be a different result this time. Thus, from a strictly scientific approach, the evidence strongly suggests that
A) Obama and the Democrats better than Rmoney and the teabaggers.
B) Electing Republicans will not “wake people up” or “force the Dems left”. There’s a word for doing that and it’s nihilism.
This isn’t meant to piss in anybody’s cereal or advocate for any candidate. The purpose of this comment is simply to point out the evidence based conclusion without any of the emotional investment. I KNEW Obama was a corporate stooge. I pointed it out. Right here. And got FLAMED for it. Sorry you guys were so hurt by his let down, seriously…but that’s what happens when one becomes emotionally invested.
Go (+6, +6)! Down with (+7, +6.5)!
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Obama is not even a weak “progressive,” so you are still fooling yourself.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/30/1079054/-What-if-Barack-Obama-weren-t-a-leftist
Or in the worst case “Vote Socialist” could change names to “Vote For A President Who Will Crush The Last Vestiges of the Social Safety Net While The Progressives Clap Louder”…
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10692-obamas-second-term-agenda-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-or-medicaid
I think the real hope here among those still paying attention to the election (a difficult thing to do) is that the “progressives” will stop clapping more loudly for the warfare state once Obama is out of office:
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/repulsive_progressive_hypocrisy/
But it’s possible that Obama cheerleaders suck so badly now that they will even cheer on a President Romney for doing what a President Obama would do anyway. So this hope may be badly misplaced.
Wherever in my post do you read ANY indication that I support voting for Romney? Or for the other Romney?
Unlike many Americans, I am under absolutely no delusion that my one vote makes the slightest difference in the outcome; I have no psychosis that requires me to invest in being on the “winning” team.
My vote is, in the end, simply a way of expressing what I want to see happen. That’s why i will vote for Stewart Alexander, as I have said for the entirety of my stay on this site. Not either Romney, nor Romneynomics-lite Rocky Anderson, nor even Jill Stein.
Calling one Romney “better” than the other is IMO a silly and facile game that perpetuates the duopoly and limits the perception of “choice” to the two flavors the Money Party deigns to offer us. It takes a certain amount of addiction to partisan goggles for someone to claim that my taking down the idea that Obama is “better” and that (even though you so generously note you’re not voting for the Drone King Serial Killer, either) his re-election is the desired outcome is in any way an ENDORSEMENT of the White Romney.
This country will suck if Romney is elected. It will suck more if Half-Black Romney is reelected, IMO. And any person who can for a second argue that anyone with a conscience should vote for either Romney is deluding themselves, I would say.
But please don’t put words in my mouth.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate (appreciate, appreciate, appreciate) the four-times-over defense. And I remain amused that anyone can fail to grasp my intentions; the username was intended to be as transparent as Obama’s healthcare-reform negotiations.
You know, the ones on C-SPAN…
Unfortunately, I am compelled to agree with you.
Call me a “flip flopper”; Margaret, my dear lady, if you were looking at someone, or something that’s real, I would agree with you; but you’re looking at an illusion. What you see, does not exist. They’re both working for the same money machine.
What we see, is about as real as “Saturday Night Wrestling”, pronounced “rasslin”. I’m sure you’re too young to remember that, but every Saturday night these two muscle bound men would come out and just about kill one another, but none of them ever required any medical treatment. Much later, I discovered they were all good friends, and it was just an act.