Stuff about things.
Does anybody understand

that introducing socialism/progressive-ism to a capitalist/free market country like the USA is a bad idea?

Because that’s what Obama’s tried to do for the last four years. The only reason he failed is because he has a chronic case of moron, with a side of inherent waffling. Luckily, some people caught on to the fact that every time he opens his trap, he’s lying. 

How do you think we got to be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, nation in the world? Because of our capitalism. I should not have to pay for everybody else’s shit, and neither should you. 

SEE WHAT I’M SAYING HERE? 

rarity-is-best-pony: mohandasgandhi: of-praxis: dmyheadphonesb: thenoobyorker: of-praxis states, this is the stupidest painting i’ve ever seen. to think that someone took time out of their damn day to make this ugly and dumb piece of shit. also pictured: the most oppressed person in the universe, a White Male Is that President Obama stepping on the Constitution of the United States of America/ Declaration of Independence with former presidents Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson cheering him on?  I think this is actually pretty awesome. Thinking its racist is making you racist, dumbass. silly me, i forgot thats how racism works Suddenly, the sole Black president who has governed like so many other white presidents is destroying our nation, bringing the white man down. Right. This is the epitome of racism. What about that poor sad white boy? What about his feelings? /sarcasm HAAAAAA. Oh my GOD, you brainless idiots make me laugh so much. Let me first start by saying that the man on the bench is a middle-class, blue collar, working man. Who has been forgotten in the wake of Obama’s policies, while the president sets his foot on the Constitution of the United States, and some of our best presidents are like WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU SNOT-NOSED ASS WIPE. It is true that Obama is the only black man to ever be elected as president, and as such, you people would think that seeing him in the crowd of our past white presidents is racism.  And yes, Clinton, Woodrow, and the Roosevelts are cheering him on because they, in essence, belong in the same political party. Liberal/progressive/socialist. Did any of you bother to research this painting? Anybody?  No, didn’t think so. Good thing I already knew all of this shit.  Goddamn, you people really are that stupid, aren’t you? Why am I not surprised? Fuck.

rarity-is-best-pony:

mohandasgandhi:

of-praxis:

dmyheadphonesb:

thenoobyorker:

of-praxis states,

this is the stupidest painting i’ve ever seen. to think that someone took time out of their damn day to make this ugly and dumb piece of shit.

also pictured: the most oppressed person in the universe, a White Male

Is that President Obama stepping on the Constitution of the United States of America/ Declaration of Independence with former presidents Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson cheering him on? 

I think this is actually pretty awesome. Thinking its racist is making you racist, dumbass.

silly me, i forgot thats how racism works

Suddenly, the sole Black president who has governed like so many other white presidents is destroying our nation, bringing the white man down. Right.

This is the epitome of racism.

What about that poor sad white boy? What about his feelings? /sarcasm

HAAAAAA. Oh my GOD, you brainless idiots make me laugh so much.

Let me first start by saying that the man on the bench is a middle-class, blue collar, working man. Who has been forgotten in the wake of Obama’s policies, while the president sets his foot on the Constitution of the United States, and some of our best presidents are like WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU SNOT-NOSED ASS WIPE. It is true that Obama is the only black man to ever be elected as president, and as such, you people would think that seeing him in the crowd of our past white presidents is racism. 

And yes, Clinton, Woodrow, and the Roosevelts are cheering him on because they, in essence, belong in the same political party. Liberal/progressive/socialist.

Did any of you bother to research this painting? Anybody? 

No, didn’t think so. Good thing I already knew all of this shit. 

Goddamn, you people really are that stupid, aren’t you? Why am I not surprised? Fuck.

(Source: cosmopolitan-fascist, via metal-serbian-lady)

stfuconservatives: radioinactivity: kiddblink: le-me-in-a-hat: Real http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/31/396018/breaking-obama-signs-defense-authorization-bill/ TL;DR The President’s opponents played the electorate like a fiddle and will get away with it because people don’t seem to realize they’ve been tricked into being angry at the wrong person. He signed it because if he didn’t, defense spending including benefits to veterans and their families would not have been authorized. The sections of NDAA that many people here seem to have a problem with are sections that were added into the document by primarily Republican legislators and which the President adamantly opposes but was powerless to stop. I’ll repeat that: the parts of this bill that many people here hate were included against the President’s wishes and in a way that he is powerless to stop. The only way he could have stopped these sections from being included would have been to try to veto the bill in its entirety, a move that would have been both political suicide as well as being futile, as Congress would simply have overridden him. He is explicit in his opposition to exactly the parts of the bill everyone here hates, going so far as to detail exactly which sections he opposes and why. You’ll notice that the bill also restricts his ability to close Guantanamo Bay; this isn’t coincidence. These sections are openly hostile to the President’s stated mandate - they are effectively a giant ‘fuck you’ to the President, as well as a nasty way of eroding the President’s support with his own base. Observe: Draft legislation that is almost guaranteed to piss of the President but more importantly piss of his base. Attach said legislation to another piece of larger, more important legislation like, say, the Defense Spending budget for the entire year so that any attempt to dislodge the offensive legislation will result in a political shitstorm, as well as place the larger legislation in jeopardy. Once attached, begin a PR campaign that highlights the offending legislation and brings it to the attention of as many media outlets as possible - not just the traditional media, but alternative media outlets as well (Fox news, MSNBC, Media Matters, Huff-Po, Infowars, etc.) Here’s where it gets tricky: Simultaneously, speak to both your party’s base and the opposition’s. To your base, argue that the legislation is necessary to ‘Keep America safe’ and that the President, by opposing it, is clearly soft of terrorism and endangering the military by trying to strip the legislation out. At the same time, sit back and watch your opponent’s liberal supporters tear into the offending legislation as being dangerous, anti-democratic, and a threat to civil liberties. You know they will; that’s what they care about most. You’ve designed legislation that will make them froth at the mouth. You don’t even have to keep flogging the message; one look at the legislation will be enough to convince most people that it is anathema to everything they hold dear. Because it is. Pass the ‘parent’ legislation. Doing so forces the President to sign it or attempt to veto it. Since the legislation in question just so happens to be the military’s operating budget, a veto is out of the question. The President must sign the bill, you get the legislation you wanted, but you also practically guarantee that your opponent’s base will be furious at him for passing a bill they see as evil. Even if he tries to explain in detail why he had to sign it and what he hates about it, it won’t matter; ignorance of the American political process, coupled with an almost militant indifference to subtle explanations will almost ensure that most people will only remember that the President passed a bill they hate. Profit. you get the legislation you want, while the President has to contend with a furious base that feels he betrayed them - even though he agrees with their position but simply lacked the legislative tools to stop this from happening. It’s a classic piece of misdirection that needs only two things to work: A lack of principles (or a partisan ideology that is willing to say anything - do anything - to win), and an electorate that is easy to fool. This is pretty basic political maneuvering and the biggest problem is that it almost always works because most people either don’t know or don’t care how their political system actually functions. The President was saddled with a lose-lose situation where he either seriously harmed American defense policy (political suicide), or passed offensive legislation knowing that it would cost him political capital. To all of you here lamenting that you ever voted for this ‘corporate shill’, congratulations: you are the result the Republicans were hoping for. They get the law they want, they get the weakened Presidential candidate they want. And many of you just don’t seem to see that. You don’t have to like your country’s two-party system, but it pays to be able to understand it so that you can recognize when it’s being used like this. EDIT: thanks to Reddit user Mauve_Cubedweller for this post Agreed, that’s the thing with this whole bill, it’s way more complicated than what the alarmists are making it out to be. The NDAA is not a singular “indefinite detainment” bill, that single article is a huge thing that the Republicans got in to put the President’s back against the wall and ensure that he could never close Guantanamo (which is its own fuck off lose-lose situation). It’s just one of those shitty things where you ask yourself what you would do? No answer you give is free from fucking over lots and lots of people. -Joe Yeah, it must have been so difficult for our socialist leader to put pen to paper and sign it. He probably didn’t even read it.  The poster is right; they stuff the weirdest crap into these big mandates, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a paragraph in there about funding this much money for genetic research on peas or something. However, the best way to approach this would be to veto it, and ask for a separate legislation for the military funding. He did not do this. He has proven time and time again that he is a liar, and a blithering idiot.  Which is why we need to vote him out of office.

stfuconservatives:

radioinactivity:

kiddblink:

le-me-in-a-hat:

Real

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/31/396018/breaking-obama-signs-defense-authorization-bill/

TL;DR The President’s opponents played the electorate like a fiddle and will get away with it because people don’t seem to realize they’ve been tricked into being angry at the wrong person.

He signed it because if he didn’t, defense spending including benefits to veterans and their families would not have been authorized. The sections of NDAA that many people here seem to have a problem with are sections that were added into the document by primarily Republican legislators and which the President adamantly opposes but was powerless to stop. I’ll repeat that: the parts of this bill that many people here hate were included against the President’s wishes and in a way that he is powerless to stop. The only way he could have stopped these sections from being included would have been to try to veto the bill in its entirety, a move that would have been both political suicide as well as being futile, as Congress would simply have overridden him. He is explicit in his opposition to exactly the parts of the bill everyone here hates, going so far as to detail exactly which sections he opposes and why.

You’ll notice that the bill also restricts his ability to close Guantanamo Bay; this isn’t coincidence. These sections are openly hostile to the President’s stated mandate - they are effectively a giant ‘fuck you’ to the President, as well as a nasty way of eroding the President’s support with his own base. Observe:

  1. Draft legislation that is almost guaranteed to piss of the President but more importantly piss of his base.

  2. Attach said legislation to another piece of larger, more important legislation like, say, the Defense Spending budget for the entire year so that any attempt to dislodge the offensive legislation will result in a political shitstorm, as well as place the larger legislation in jeopardy.

  3. Once attached, begin a PR campaign that highlights the offending legislation and brings it to the attention of as many media outlets as possible - not just the traditional media, but alternative media outlets as well (Fox news, MSNBC, Media Matters, Huff-Po, Infowars, etc.)

  4. Here’s where it gets tricky: Simultaneously, speak to both your party’s base and the opposition’s. To your base, argue that the legislation is necessary to ‘Keep America safe’ and that the President, by opposing it, is clearly soft of terrorism and endangering the military by trying to strip the legislation out. At the same time, sit back and watch your opponent’s liberal supporters tear into the offending legislation as being dangerous, anti-democratic, and a threat to civil liberties. You know they will; that’s what they care about most. You’ve designed legislation that will make them froth at the mouth. You don’t even have to keep flogging the message; one look at the legislation will be enough to convince most people that it is anathema to everything they hold dear. Because it is.

  5. Pass the ‘parent’ legislation. Doing so forces the President to sign it or attempt to veto it. Since the legislation in question just so happens to be the military’s operating budget, a veto is out of the question. The President must sign the bill, you get the legislation you wanted, but you also practically guarantee that your opponent’s base will be furious at him for passing a bill they see as evil. Even if he tries to explain in detail why he had to sign it and what he hates about it, it won’t matter; ignorance of the American political process, coupled with an almost militant indifference to subtle explanations will almost ensure that most people will only remember that the President passed a bill they hate.

  6. Profit. you get the legislation you want, while the President has to contend with a furious base that feels he betrayed them - even though he agrees with their position but simply lacked the legislative tools to stop this from happening. It’s a classic piece of misdirection that needs only two things to work: A lack of principles (or a partisan ideology that is willing to say anything - do anything - to win), and an electorate that is easy to fool.

This is pretty basic political maneuvering and the biggest problem is that it almost always works because most people either don’t know or don’t care how their political system actually functions. The President was saddled with a lose-lose situation where he either seriously harmed American defense policy (political suicide), or passed offensive legislation knowing that it would cost him political capital. To all of you here lamenting that you ever voted for this ‘corporate shill’, congratulations: you are the result the Republicans were hoping for. They get the law they want, they get the weakened Presidential candidate they want. And many of you just don’t seem to see that. You don’t have to like your country’s two-party system, but it pays to be able to understand it so that you can recognize when it’s being used like this.

EDIT: thanks to Reddit user Mauve_Cubedweller for this post

Agreed, that’s the thing with this whole bill, it’s way more complicated than what the alarmists are making it out to be. The NDAA is not a singular “indefinite detainment” bill, that single article is a huge thing that the Republicans got in to put the President’s back against the wall and ensure that he could never close Guantanamo (which is its own fuck off lose-lose situation).

It’s just one of those shitty things where you ask yourself what you would do? No answer you give is free from fucking over lots and lots of people.

-Joe

Yeah, it must have been so difficult for our socialist leader to put pen to paper and sign it. He probably didn’t even read it. 

The poster is right; they stuff the weirdest crap into these big mandates, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a paragraph in there about funding this much money for genetic research on peas or something. However, the best way to approach this would be to veto it, and ask for a separate legislation for the military funding. He did not do this. He has proven time and time again that he is a liar, and a blithering idiot. 

Which is why we need to vote him out of office.

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