tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1222032895469585106..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Disloyal OppositionStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65379936613653117442017-01-24T23:48:25.944-08:002017-01-24T23:48:25.944-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887372890243032537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25680398672028708002017-01-19T21:44:58.613-08:002017-01-19T21:44:58.613-08:00Just how did this happen?
https://www.facebook.c...Just how did this happen? <br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/R29Wellness/videos/1150511958380007/<br /><br />Karl Marx: "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."<br /><br />Political Marxism: Tragedy<br /><br />Cultural Marxism: Farce. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65352067484846004162017-01-19T13:21:38.140-08:002017-01-19T13:21:38.140-08:00In fairness, West criticizes Obama for not being s...<em>In fairness, West criticizes Obama for not being sufficiently leftist.</em><br /><br />And he's quite right. Obama isn't even remotely leftist. He was the most right-wing President in living memory.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8796749282521294942017-01-19T10:53:05.264-08:002017-01-19T10:53:05.264-08:00What's become of America?
https://www.facebo...What's become of America? <br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/fox5dc/videos/10155112306712494/<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10154460014006939/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9796273620227877262017-01-19T09:39:50.639-08:002017-01-19T09:39:50.639-08:00Don't forget, Ares, that Obama is responsible ...Don't forget, Ares, that Obama is responsible for the last 8 years in Iraq. Also, I haven't noticed much in the way Of Obama derangement syndrome.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57761340090872641942017-01-19T08:24:24.013-08:002017-01-19T08:24:24.013-08:00This is what comic Scott Adams has said for months...This is what comic Scott Adams has said for months, basically all the Obama derangement syndrome of the Right has now been released, and a new Trump derangement syndrome has replaced it. So before Obama used to be a Kenyan born Muslim married to a black man, trying to make us all bake cakes for gay couples, and now Trump is the bully bullshitting maniac he presented himself to be during 18 months of campaigning in front of frothing crowds.<br /><br />And I admit I don't understand the hype over the Russian interference while whatever it was, there was no evidence of election fraud, except of course for the 3 million illegals who voted for Clinton but now Trump doesn't care about those illegal votes since he won. So those 3 million are free to vote again at midterm elections, since we're not going to spend any resources to catch them.<br /><br />And for my own well-being, I don't feel any particular fear that I'll end up any worse off than anyone else for whatever Trump or the republicans do. <br /><br />And course we know what they're liking to do - cut taxes hugely for billionaires (I mean job creators), and raise spending on pork projects in their congressional districts, and cutting programs that seem to support democratic leaning districts, and make some patriotic military moves like parades and fly overs and drop just a few more bombs than President Obama and maybe a few more troops on the ground in various token battles that we can't lose. And the deficits will fly back up near 1 trillion dollars per year, but it'll because we're "creating jobs" by giving money to billionaires. Oh, and maybe we'll reduce the deficit like selling off federal lands and assets to states for $1 whom will then sell off the same lands and assets to private companies who will upkeep them, and ask for subsidizes to develop them for private gain, and add tolls and fees for the public to have access to them. Oh, and cut "job killing regulation" and allow markets to regulate themselves. That's the real secret to an efficient economy.<br /><br />So it all looks good, except when the economic crisis happens, and deficits explode from $800 billion to say $3 trillion a year, and again, the Republicans will make the same sorts of "stimulus" as a Democratic president would make, and they'll say they're just fixing Obama's bad economy, and keep up that argument as long as it works.<br /><br />And then people will slowly get tired of that, tired of all the crony capitalism at work, and the scandals that will come out in the next 2-8 years, and the Demcrats will win a landslide victory of the presidency and the House and the Senate majorities by 2024, no matter how incompetent they are in the next 8 years at being the disloyal opposition.<br /><br />I admit economic crisis is my real fear, since it is real and unavoidable, but war is the tougher one. I wonder how many years of health care subsidies we could have offered to the middle class for the $2 trillions wasted in Iraq?<br /><br />What I'm sure about is Trump loves to find scapegoats, so calling people pigs and stuff is no problem, but starting "easy wars" that'll be done in 6 weeks often becomes 50 year occupations, if we really want to fix another country. And we may not be "broke" for having 19 trillion in federal debt, but any war an American president starts now better have a 6 month escape plan.<br /><br />On the other hand, fear is so powerful, as the freaking out liberal now show, that surely even a modest terrorist attack in an American city, that'll enable a president to do almost anything.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm just glad I have no responsiblity for outcomes. I knew GWB was trouble, but sometimes people just need to see what happens when you pay for two major wars on a tax cut. It's hard to predict, so we have to run experiments forward, just in case magical thinking works.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-73829768452574571612017-01-19T08:02:15.126-08:002017-01-19T08:02:15.126-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com