01.25.12
Posted in America, Big Media, Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2012, History, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, personal, stupidity at 21:45 by Toby Petzold
[...] this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.
Even after it happened, I could not believe that the American people would elect someone like Obama: an untested and media-created Marxist ideologue posing as a centrist. Right: a Chicago Democrat as the “post-racial” (whatever that term hopes to mean) Third Way. He is indisputably the Democratic Party’s revenge on the Union —this contemptuous liar with Lincolnian pretensions— in the form of a literal embarrassment of the country’s electorate as the ignorant partisans they are. How did it ever happen? Americans who love their country must work to deny this man another term in which to show his contempt for what makes us prosperous and free.
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01.23.12
Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2008, Election of 2012, History, Republicans, stupidity at 23:36 by Toby Petzold
I’m glad Romney stepped it up on Gingrich tonight with the influence-peddling charge, but he probably didn’t gain a lot of ground from it. Still, Romney needs to stay mean and on the offense even if that’s playing against type.
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09.08.11
Posted in America, Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2012, History, New Economy, Obama Administration, stupidity at 23:54 by Toby Petzold
The President had no need of such a venue tonight as a joint session of the Congress except to provide himself with the props of authority. His narcissism is boundless, as well as a decidedly un-republican menace to our society.
What did he say tonight that he hasn’t said in dozens of other equally insipid speeches? To insist on such a setting for such an unremarkable campaign spiel verges on an abuse of the privilege. This is Son of Stimulus with the usual horseshit narration.
Our nation’s economy will begin to recover once this Marxist bastard is out of office. Just as his nomination by the DNC in the summer of 2008 precipitated the Great Recession, his departure will surely mark the beginning of real hope and change.
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10.11.10
Posted in Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2010, Obama Administration, Republicans, Unexplained Mysteries, stupidity at 11:59 by Toby Petzold
David Axelrod and his boss are a goddamned disgrace. Obama’s suggestion that the Republicans and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove are stealing our democracy is based on lies and is stupid and wrong. This incredible Marxist thug that the Democrats put in the White House has some nerve to lie about where his political opponents are getting their money when it’s a virtual certainty that Obama’s own fundraising in 2008 was full of fraudulent donations from abroad.
Maybe Chairman Issa can look into how and why all of those millions of dollars in credit card donations to Obama’s campaign originated from untraced and untraceable sources. That was a deliberate choice and it’s time that the real thieves of our democracy are held to account.
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05.16.09
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2008, History, Islamofascism, Obama Administration, moonbats, stupidity, treason at 11:59 by Toby Petzold
The basic problem facing the Democratic Party elites with regard to torture is that they don’t know what to do with it now that it’s served its purpose in fundraising and in vilifying the former Administration. To go as far as they have with hyperbole and self-righteousness against Bush the Younger is to leave them deeply vulnerable. After all, these people have hitched their wagon to a narcissistic liar who makes Bill Clinton seem a model of partisan fidelity and personal loyalty. If they’re stupid enough to do that, then they’re stupid enough to persist with their moral preening and untenable hypocrisy.
I don’t care what happens to Pelosi or what these truth and reconciliation committees do about anything. I don’t care about so-called “torture” because I don’t believe that waterboarding or sleep deprivation or any humiliation inflicted on criminals defines American Civilization as these filthy rodents in the Democratic Party would like you to believe it does. To them, History exists to be abused and to serve self-abuse. Let’s talk about scalping Indians and lynching negroes. Let’s talk about pandemics and genocide, deliberately caused or not. Let’s live in a perpetual fog of self-loathing nonsense and never take stock of what this civilization has done to improve the lot of all mankind.
Incidentally, it’s important to remember that when Democrats talk about how evil and un-American waterboarding is, they’re actually defending mass murderers from the fear of death by drowning. They’d like to leave it as a more abstract accusation, but we’re talking about actual Islamofascist murderers, including Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Mohammed. Yes, we did make those men fear for their lives. And what of it? The moral perversity of Americans apologizing for these murderers at the expense of our national security and the dignity of those who have chosen to defend us is disgusting.
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03.25.09
Posted in America, Election of 2008, History, Obama Administration at 16:00 by Toby Petzold
Until two months ago, it was always possible to refer to the President of the United States by the old Cold War title of the “leader of the free world.” It was something to remind us that we were different from the Soviets and Red China and all the other wretched peoples struggling under Communism. One could have even used it to refer to Jimmy Carter. Good God! Think of that! But today it sounds ridiculous when applied to someone whose greatest desire is to diminish and devalue our place in the world. Today it is a dead term.
What a great tragedy the American People have brought onto themselves. I still sometimes cannot believe it’s happening.
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03.22.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, moonbats, racism, stupidity, treason at 21:33 by Toby Petzold
If you watched Steve Kroft’s interview with the President tonight on 60 Minutes, it should be clear to you that The One knows as well as anyone that the excise tax passed by the House on bonuses paid to executives with AIG or the other bail-out recipients is un-Constitutional and ridiculously unfair. He wouldn’t come right out and say it, but you know he knows it is against America’s legal principles.
Of course the bonuses are bullshit —but they are contractually obligatory. And who tried to protect those bonuses? Chris Dodd. The White House. Other hypocritical assholes who had no idea that a pittance of $165 million would even get noticed in this wholesale rush to state ownership of the financial industry. Now they know different.
Even more bullshit still is Obama’s suggestion that there should be compensation caps on Wall Street executives —and that they should be glad that they aren’t like the poor schmucks elsewhere in the country who would be glad to have a salary of even “$75,000.” You can just tell that this man has no faith in the free market —but infinite faith in the power of class warfare.
After all, he’s a Marxist.
The people who elected Barack Obama President are ignorant assholes who should apologize. That is the bottom line and I will insist on it from here on in.
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03.18.09
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, stupidity at 15:32 by Toby Petzold
President TelePrompTer’s got some nerve to say anything about AIG when he is second only to the even dirtier Senator Dodd on the list of politicians who took campaign money from that company:
AIG executives gave more than $630,000 during the 2008 political cycle even as the company was falling apart
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance reports, more than $120,000 of that money was donated after AIG received its first $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September. The company has since received a total of $170 billion in taxpayer cash to prevent its collapse.
Their generosity included more than $23,000 to Obama’s campaign.
Both Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain raked in much larger sums from AIG earlier in the year. Obama collected a total of $130,000 from AIG in 2008, while McCain accepted a total of $59,499.
These fucking dumbasses are corrupt to their very cores —and now they want to confiscate these ridiculous ”retention” bonuses that they signed off on?! How are you idiots going to do that? By trying to enact a bill of attainder against these losers (who, BTW, went mostly “unretained”)? Good luck with that! Try not to destroy several centuries of common law and contract law while you’re at it!
Miserable sacks of shit —the whole lot of them. And now they say that Freddie’s and Fannie’s executives are gonna get huge bonuses, too? For what? Destroying this country’s housing market? Good Christ!
Shit, meet fan.
Can’t wait for 2010.
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03.11.09
Posted in America, Election of 2008, Election of 2010, Eminently Occidental, History, New Economy, Obama Administration, Republicans, religion at 19:34 by Toby Petzold
to Obama’s Neo-Socialism (need it be “Neo-”? I think it may just be “Retro-”) is Libertarianism. You know: “This land is my land”? “I’ll do what I cotton-pickin’ please”? “An honest day’s wages for an honest day’s work?” Well, it is only through embracing this old friend and natural partner that the GOP will succeed in the near electoral future.
This means getting well beyond just passing muster with the so-called Evangelical base. That shit needs to stop mattering now, brothers and sisters. Every good Christian knows that it is his or her duty to render unto Caesar, as well as to God. That’s because we are political animals and because we must live with the consequences of not only our own actions but even those of people we dislike and disrespect. That is the reality of politics in human society. You will not get above it. You will not get your way on every issue and you will never convince enough women that they have no choice over their bodies and you will not change enough souls, schools, or bus stops with your proselytizing and you will never be happy until you recognize that the genius of Protestant Christianity is in its fractiousness and in its frustrations with modernity and with what they used to call “the permissive society.” Y’all need the friction! You wouldn’t know what to do with your whitebread mega-churches if it came to running the real show, so just shut up and be grateful to God for easy Sunday mornings and the ladies who always wear their finest and the good lunch to be had after the ordeal is endured.
So now that you know that your theocracy will have to wait and that Darwin’s made it through to the next round and that Baby Jesus still loves him some tax cuts even in the depths of the Second Great Depression, start thinking of ways that you can work within the new identity of the Republican Party. No one is saying to abandon your principles or to abandon God and all the good things he’s made possible for you and yours, but when them carbon taxes start eating your ass out every workweek of driving the truck and hauling the kids around and y’alls pension plans are staying thin and Junior can’t get started on the schooling he’s gonna need after high school because you’ve got nothing extra put away, then you’ll remember how you let the Socialism of others replace the Opportunity that you’ve always worked for —and have just about always had.
There’s no doubt that Barack Obama lied his way into the Presidency and that a lot of people who thought they were doing the right thing have found themselves deceived into a lifetime of new taxes and burdens. Maybe even some moderate or “progressive” Republicans felt like the paradigm needed some shifting and, so, shifted. But with this bunch of shit the Democrats have dreamed up to impose on your business and your employment and your home? Are you kidding me? This Administration is intent on breaking the back of small business because the owning class represents the final frontier against which Obama’s Socialism is threatening.
The only way to move a majority of Americans back into the Republican column is to appeal to social moderates who choose small government, limited taxation, and strong national defense (that means securing our borders, too). No more legislating morality. Find out what states’ rights are really all about and start recognizing that only in a fair free market will we get our energy policies right, keep inflation low, and have real choices in education.
Pure Libertarianism is practically unattainable and logically incoherent in human society, but certain of its principles are quintessentially American. That force can be married to a fiscally sound Republican Party if only the Evangelical community will reconceive the importance of its beliefs in pluralistic terms.
Perhaps that, above all else, is a lesson we can take away from Barack Obama’s election: demography may be destiny, but a country’s character is also its fate. Let us embrace change for the right reasons and let us deliver ourselves from the Socialist catastrophe now staring us in the face.
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03.03.09
Posted in America, Election of 2008, Obama Administration at 16:59 by Toby Petzold
This country was founded by brave people who took calculated risks. They let their security fret a while as they made something of themselves —however grand or modest they would be in the eyes of society History. Part of that calculation was the knowledge of their own integrity and will and how the whole of their character would answer to the question of their success and that of their family and allies. They knew that discipline —just showing up— was essential to their success. Perseverance, honesty, thrift: it is possible to rise above the moral degeneracy of dependency.
This country is now apparently dominated by people who take careless risks because they are unburdened by a sense of shame or seriousness. That’s why what is routinely called a “center-right” country just inflicted upon itself four years of Leftist corruption and warlordism. The majority of those who voted in the Election of 2008 traded their autonomy and potential for Big Government and welfare dependency. I am amazed and disgusted still.
Maybe a year ago, I think Washington saw an inevitability arising from the policies of greedheads and social progressives alike. And Washington said to itself that it could either let banking and mortgages and insurance melt down as it did nothing but sit by and watch the new robber barons concentrate wealth in private hands in the cut-rate aftermath of such a well-prophesied disaster —or it could begin taking the reins of the free market and capital into its own dirty hands and make what was once a republic of calculated risk-takers into a land of well-fed and fooled serfs living within a dysfunctional federation of wretched dependencies (formerly called States).
Are we supposed to be grateful that Washington has grown so incredibly more powerful? I’m not. I think it was Washington’s policies that made such a disaster of our economy in the first place. And now we’re supposed to rejoice at the thought of these Neo-Socialist bastards controlling our economy, as well as our justice system, schools, hospitals, and personal lives?
I want the old America back.
UPDATE: Changed a word in the first paragraph on a subsequent reading.
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