tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post1144031990737103733..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Hey hey hey, goodbyeBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-37468599775338136272011-05-17T18:37:38.439-07:002011-05-17T18:37:38.439-07:00Oh, and I've said it before...
Before I'd...Oh, and I've said it before...<br /><br /><i>Before I'd vote for Huckabee,<br />I think I'd sooner fuckabee.<br /></i>Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-72410589974760534242011-05-17T15:20:09.390-07:002011-05-17T15:20:09.390-07:00The Republican Party is the party of "If only...<i>The Republican Party is the party of "If only I had a heart" and "If only I had a brain". Obama's Democratic Party is more the party of, "If only I had a spine." They oughtta rename themselves The Invertebrate Party and be done with it. - BadTux</i><br /><br />If I still had a place for a banner quote, that would be in it today.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-12631423175629077552011-05-17T07:55:39.952-07:002011-05-17T07:55:39.952-07:00This isn't about what the corporate powers wan...This isn't about what the corporate powers want, Bukko. This is about a Republican base which has been driven into a froth by the notion of a black man in the White House, and which has completely jumped the shark in an attempt to deny the fact that they're as racist as a KKK klavern. All that stuff about birth certificates (and yes, the afterbirfers are *still* at it) is shorthand for "all black men are liars", for example, and the stuff about "socialist take-over" is shorthand for "all black men are thieves." It's racism, pure and simple, but racism is no longer fashionable so they latch upon anything, no matter how crazy and devoid of any basis in fact, to explain why they hate Obama. When the real reason is simple: He's black. <br /><br />Which is a pity. There is room in America for a real policy-based discussion about what the best way forward is. But you can't have a discussion with a party of frothing racist madmen who aren't interested in discussion, just demonization. That, more than anything, is why the corporate powers want Hopey to remain in charge and are going to open their coffers to him and to Democrats starting in November. The whole debt limit thing, for example , has scared them shitless -- the Republicans have gone so far over the top in their attempts to destroy Obama (because he's a scary black man, yo) that the Republicans are willing to destroy the good faith and credit of the United States of America -- which they rely on implicitly for their own wealth. So they've turned their focus towards subverting Obama -- and largely succeeded. Not that they had to work hard. Lest we forget, Obama's grandfather, who did much of the work of raising him, was a banker.<br /><br />- Badtux the WASF PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-24587429703491233162011-05-17T01:38:27.087-07:002011-05-17T01:38:27.087-07:00The corporate powers want Hopey to remain in charg...The corporate powers want Hopey to remain in charge. So they'll allow some crypto-fascist idiot to be the "R" nominee in order to throw some meat to the mouth-breathers and frighten all the sane people into voting to re-elect President Hindenberg. That will keep the proles fighting amongst themselves for another four years while the hollowing-out and selling-off continues. The collapse should be fully underway by 2016, so any election then won't matter.<br /><br />What never ceases to amaze me is how much focus there is in the meeja about an election for one man that won't happen for a year and a half. Part of it's the media manipulation, but there's also human psychology at work. We're all so fixated on who's going to be our daddy, or the leader of the tribe. We havem't progressed that far from being silly, screeching monkeys in the trees...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-23151170061406310132011-05-16T21:08:42.956-07:002011-05-16T21:08:42.956-07:00Yeah, it's a choice between hopeless and "...Yeah, it's a choice between hopeless and "Oh shit!"... sigh. WASF.<br /><br />- Badtux the Waddling PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-90313333576127845852011-05-16T21:07:49.169-07:002011-05-16T21:07:49.169-07:00The next Presidential election scares the hell out...The next Presidential election scares the hell out of me. Do we re-elect Hopey-Changey, who isn't? Or do we elect Abandon-Hope-All-Ye-Who-Elect-Me?<br /><br />I'm soooo disappointed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com