Talk about the president’s economic speech. Failure to do so will prove that this blog, like the Democratic party, is in disarray.
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Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
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Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
No one could have predicted…
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
How stupid are these people?
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.
I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.
“Alexa, change the president.”
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.
People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.
They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
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Bokonon
This blog is in disarray.
This blog is in disarray.
This blog is in disarray.
See! Everyone is saying that this blog is in disarray. It is all that anyone can talk about! Look at that controversy! Some say it is true, others say it is not! People can draw their own conclusions – I am just reporting on the perceptions.
Next up – Obama is a socialist, Obama is a soc….
rlrr
@Bokonon:
You can say socialist now? This blog really is in disarray…
comrade scott's agenda of rage
SPLITTERS!
Next up: Circular Firing Squad Theater.
randiego
Jonathan Alter says it was long winded, so it must’ve been a total disaster eh?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Let me check twitter to see what Cory Booker thinks I should think, or Ed Rendell, or maybe somebody whispered anonymous nothings into Karen Tumulty’s ear
Linda Featheringill
The speech was longer than some but it felt good right down to the last syllable.
middlewest
Some people say this blog is in disarray. It may or may not be true; what’s important is that the story is out there.
Piratedan
it’s painfully obvious to me that the Democratic Party needs to have Obama driving a mid-size hybrid sedan honking his horn behind them so they will finally go home and be safe in their own yard.
Hunter Gathers
I loved the little stunt Mittens’ asshole staffers pulled with the campaign bus. As if anyone needed more proof that Mitt Romney is a classless asshole. And a coward to boot.
Lev
I hear Mitt Romney’s bus got lost and needed some directions to their own event, but those nasty libs just ignored them and didn’t help, even though the driver honked at them for a long time.
Man, that Hannity, he can really get the old blood boiling!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
I haven’t seen it, and since I don’t feel like acting like a journalist today, I’m not going to comment on it.
Tractarian
I think Obama won the morning with this speech.
I know it’s 3 pm in Cleveland. Who cares?
Hunter Gathers
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Please give Rendell a break. He hasn’t seen his dick in the shower since the 1st Bush administration.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Hunter Gathers:
Has anyone ever met a classy asshole?
Linda Featheringill
You know, that man [Obama] is dangerous. Every time I hear him speak, I start thinking “Maybe we could do this” or “Perhaps we could accomplish that” or even “Hey! Let’s try to do this!”
Yes, I’m an incorrigible, incurable Obot.
Roger Moore
Everyone who reads this blog can see it’s in disarray. That’s the way we like it.
Lev
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: William F. Buckley?
Ben Franklin
Piratedan Says:
it’s painfully obvious to me that the Democratic Party needs to have Obama
driving a mid-size hybrid sedan honking his horn behind them so they will finally go home and be safe in their own yard.speaking only in soft, measurable tones, so they can sleep at night, confident we are the touchy-feely Partyfux-ed.
Tractarian
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
George F. Will?
ericblair
@Hunter Gathers:
In the next five months, I think we may actually see new vistas of campaign incompetence out of the Rombot. It’s like he’s completely unacquainted with the human race. Maybe this year we’ll get the first computer to pass the Turing test and the first presidential candidate to fail it.
wesindc
I thought it was one of his better speech’s in sometime. He hit all the talking/gaffe points as well as the Repubs exactly where they need to be called out.
Shinobi
I really enjoyed the part where he said something along the lines of “Well if you ACTUALLY want to fix the deficit, not just act like you want to fix the deficit when the other party is in power and then spend when you’re in charge, you need to raise taxes on the rich.”
I think it would be nice to see some anti republican ads highlighting that hypocrisy.
redshirt
Protip: Recalibrate your deflector array to a multiband harmonic frequency using a phased pulse wavelength.
Cap'n Magic
Obama fiddeled with healthcare as the financial industry bruned (continues to burn.)
None Of the Above for 2012!
ericblair
@redshirt:
Amateur. Everyone knows you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow! Oh yeah, and change the color of your shirt: phasers are attracted to red for some reason. Maybe you should reverse the polarity of your shirt too, just to be on the safe side.
ETA: Does FYWP now bugger up URL references? Is this a new feature? I’m trying to waste everyone’s afternoon productivity and link to tvtropes.
RaflW
Wonkerific WaPo WonderWhiz sez
Yeah, because Obama wanted to unleash a devastating commentary on his own campaign.
#AssHat
Hunter Gathers
@Cap’n Magic: My sister, who was able to get back on my parents health insurance to help with her heart problems thanks to the health care bill, wants me to tell you to go fuck yourself.
Piratedan
@Ben Franklin: awww man, you ruined my Obama herding Dems like JC herding Tunchy reference a few threads back…. (kicks at a rock in disgust)
Citizen_X
@ericblair:
As are flying knives, deadly flowers, salt-sucking monsters, ruthless superaliens, etc, etc.
Martin
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Steve Jobs.
But I don’t consider asshole to be an automatic negative. In fact, I’d prefer if Obama went a bit more asshole.
Tobie
I liked it when he said that his opponents will run ads with a scary voice saying, “Obama thinks everything is just fine.” It made last week’s Republican attack on him look oh so petty. Now I just wish Obama and the Democrats would tout the success of the stimulus which saved us from a depression rather than let the Republicans define it as a failure.
RaflW
@Cap’n Magic:
If you don’t already live there, please move to Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi. Should suit you mighty fine.
RaflW
@Tobie:
It sucks but it is politically very difficult to prove a counterfactual.
I’m taking Zinc for a cold, started the moment I woke up yesterday morning w/ post-nasal drip. I think it’s saving me from a whopper. But I don’t know, and I never will. Because the next cold I’ll have to decide to Zinc or not and will only know it’s symptoms as they happen. Each cold/recession is discrete and the cures either work or don’t and have to be analyzed later as to whether the duration or severity were helped.
Maybe a convoluted example, but 10,000 economists can all say “Stimulus worked!” (or homeopaths can say “Zinc works”) and we either trust or distrust the claim. Most voters distrust economists and only know the recession has sucked for them.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Obama talking about the economy? Well, that’s just peachy when the murrican sky is full of drones and government wifi reading our thoughts. Not only worse than Bush, but his supporters like him a nun rapin’ all the day and nights, also too.
cintibud
@Piratedan: FTW!
Cap'n Magic
@Hunter Gathers:
I’m happy that your sister has healthcare coverage (for now.) Pray that you or anybody else you know isn’t late just one time on your mortgage (if you have one). Also, pray that the Euro breakup won’t cause a global financial contagion that results in a 5,000 point drop in the Dow. There’s a lot of folks who will not vote for President this go round-and nothing that Obama is saying right now (nor his past statements on ‘what the banks did was legal’) will get me to vote for him.
Obama’s victory may indeed become a pyrrhic victory, especially if SCOTUS shreds it. If that does indeed happen, Obama is toast, and the return of the robber barons will be complete by 2015.
Mnemosyne
@Martin:
I will always remember Steve Jobs in the documentary “Triumph of the Nerds”:
I think the key to being an asshole with some class is to adopt that more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone Jobs manages.
Mnemosyne
@Cap’n Magic:
Great. Enjoy President Romney removing all consumer protections from your health insurance. That’ll show Obama for daring to try to fix things.
And, yes, unfortunately, the banks spent over a decade buying off members of Congress and writing legislation to their liking to make sure that everything they did was perfectly legal. You can hate that they did it and be pissed off at the legislators and presidents who signed off on those changes, but that doesn’t magically turn their perfectly legal actions into crimes.
T. Scheisskopf
Frank Sinatra?
Johnny Bon Jovi? Worked for him, and if there was a Nobel prize for world-class assholery, he would be a shoe-in.But he dressed expensively.
Please DO notice the Eastern NJ commonality here.
Vernon Bush
Missing is the realization, by either party, that the economy will not heal until fundamental changes are made and there has been a “Reset”. Neither party can fix the economy.
rgds
nonrev
Elizabelle
@Cap’n Magic:
You are tiresome.
Cap'n Magic
@Mnemosyne: Actually, crimes were indeed comitted across the board, but they wern’t prosecuted-why else the lame-ass consent decree on robosigning?
The healtcare system, as borked as it is right now, isn’t even close to teetering on the abyss should another financial system shock happen. Those people who have lost a sense of history are going to have to relive it themselves. Sadly, with retention spans measured in attoseconds, it’ll happen again-if you thought 2008 was a bloodbath, the next event will look like a garden party.
Yutsano
@Cap’n Magic: So your reaction is…both sides do it?
Mnemosyne
@Cap’n Magic:
Learn the difference between a criminal prosecution and a civil lawsuit and then get back to me if you’re still confused.
I’m sure the healthcare system will survive if PPACA is repealed and insurance companies can go back to canceling a patient’s insurance halfway through chemotherapy because she was once diagnosed with acne.
Sure, actual people will suffer and die, but who cares as long as the healthcare system still goes on, amirite?
Tobie
@RaflW: Well, yeah, but what about saying we created this many jobs thanks to the stimulus and, you know what, every penny we spent on infrastructure ended up paying for itself, because the more workers getting paychecks meant the more revenue for businesses and ultimately for Uncle Sam at the end of the year. He sort of said this but didn’t tie it to the stimulus, which the GOP has defined as a failure. Low-information voters don’t connect private sector job growth with the stimulus, and they don’t connect the decimation of public payrolls with Republican policies.
lacp
I didn’t hear his speech, so I’m going with the fallback position of being completely OUTRAGED! about…something.
FlipYrWhig
@lacp: I bet he totally didn’t say anything about the public option.
Cap'n Magic
@Mnemosyne:
So when forged documents are presented in a civil lawsuit, that’s not a criminal act prepretrated by a business (and even if its subcontracted out, liability for a subcontarctor’s actions flows back to the hiring business.) Right. Gotcha.
And if you think PPACA will solve that, you’re dreaming. We’ve already seen where off-patent chemotherapy drugs have gone through the roof price-wise due to lack of vendors, but more likely, due to profit (or maybe the FDA was doing their job and shutting down drug fraudsters.) Until you provide transparent pricing on medical products and services (on non-emergency conditions) like in other industries and allow re-importation of drugs you will never fix healthcare in the United States. Tell me, how does PPACA fix what happened to a friend of mine-whose brother, out of work over a year and no COBRA, burned through over a million of dollars of costs at a university hospital with a arterial blockage of his liver?
Cap'n Magic
@RaflW:
Too damn hot, too many tornadoes and too many power outages for my liking. Perhaps that explains while being Detroit (where the weak are killed and eaten/I’so tough I vacation in Detroit/Sign at Metro: “wecome to Detroit-now go home”) born and raised, I’ve settled in quite nicely in another midwest state, being driven insane by a rescued Persian named Ozzie (who has missed making the cut in the last two BJ calendars-such is life.)
Cap'n Magic
@Yutsano: Sadly, they do, as Gore Vidal has opined. As for the proof, I offer you this.
S. Holland
@Linda Featheringill: Amen!