...part ∞
Seems like politicians never stop campaigning. Well, guess what - it seems that way because it is that way. People get riled up during a political campaign, so campaigning is a good way to keep 'em riled up enough to get 'em to send you lots and lotsa money. The more riled up they are, the bigger the fuckloads of money they send in, and you have practically no obligation to account to them for any of it. You can fail over and over again, and they'll still pony up the next time you ask.
It's an astounding racket - and it's one of the big objections most people have when it comes to griping about "the system", but we've become almost completely conditioned to hate The Gubmint, so even when the IRS (eg) tries to get to some simple truth about who's buying our elections this time around, we lose our shit and start screaming about tyranny.
(yes, Dub, I know - using the IRS as an attack dog against your political opponents is a rotten thing to do. I don't think that's exactly what happened in Cincinnati, but if there really was an element of intimidation to it, then it was low-level and weak. Remember now, these are The Democrats we're talkin' about; the very same Librul Bureaucrats that you claim can't find their own asses with GPS and a bloodhound at noon on a clear day. If you can't bring yourself to read any history, at least try to remember some of the shit that fell outa your own gob yesterday - you deliberately ignorant puke)
But take a peek here:
I haven't done much research on it, so please, can somebody point me to a "growth industry" in America that's done a lot better than this?
And if you took this graph and added the growth curves of the campaign contributions of Big Corp, along with the growth curves of the profitabilities of Big Corp - what do you think that might look like?
Cutting to the chase - this stinks of Government-as-Private-Enterprise. We make a lot of noise about what a great thing The American Revolution was; and about the great sacrifice our uniformed services continue to make to ensure the life and health of our little experiment in democratic self-governance - especially on Memorial Day. So, in addition to planting flags and going to parades and bowing our heads between the 3rd and 4th Budweisers at the neighbors' BBQ, and generally trying to "Out-Patriotic" each other the whole fucking day, maybe we could best honor those heroes by pushing back against the small minds with the big ambitions of returning us to the glories of the 18th century.
Just sayin'.
hat tip = MoJo
Seems like politicians never stop campaigning. Well, guess what - it seems that way because it is that way. People get riled up during a political campaign, so campaigning is a good way to keep 'em riled up enough to get 'em to send you lots and lotsa money. The more riled up they are, the bigger the fuckloads of money they send in, and you have practically no obligation to account to them for any of it. You can fail over and over again, and they'll still pony up the next time you ask.
It's an astounding racket - and it's one of the big objections most people have when it comes to griping about "the system", but we've become almost completely conditioned to hate The Gubmint, so even when the IRS (eg) tries to get to some simple truth about who's buying our elections this time around, we lose our shit and start screaming about tyranny.
(yes, Dub, I know - using the IRS as an attack dog against your political opponents is a rotten thing to do. I don't think that's exactly what happened in Cincinnati, but if there really was an element of intimidation to it, then it was low-level and weak. Remember now, these are The Democrats we're talkin' about; the very same Librul Bureaucrats that you claim can't find their own asses with GPS and a bloodhound at noon on a clear day. If you can't bring yourself to read any history, at least try to remember some of the shit that fell outa your own gob yesterday - you deliberately ignorant puke)
But take a peek here:
I haven't done much research on it, so please, can somebody point me to a "growth industry" in America that's done a lot better than this?
And if you took this graph and added the growth curves of the campaign contributions of Big Corp, along with the growth curves of the profitabilities of Big Corp - what do you think that might look like?
Cutting to the chase - this stinks of Government-as-Private-Enterprise. We make a lot of noise about what a great thing The American Revolution was; and about the great sacrifice our uniformed services continue to make to ensure the life and health of our little experiment in democratic self-governance - especially on Memorial Day. So, in addition to planting flags and going to parades and bowing our heads between the 3rd and 4th Budweisers at the neighbors' BBQ, and generally trying to "Out-Patriotic" each other the whole fucking day, maybe we could best honor those heroes by pushing back against the small minds with the big ambitions of returning us to the glories of the 18th century.
Just sayin'.
hat tip = MoJo
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