November 7, 2012 - 1:54 pm
President Obama won reelection over Governor Mitt Romney, but Obama didn’t build that reelection strategy. Hear who did on this edition of PJ News Break.
President Obama won reelection over Governor Mitt Romney, but Obama didn’t build that reelection strategy. Hear who did on this edition of PJ News Break.
And Caligula only insisted that his horse be enrolled in the Senate. How is it that an unbridled democracy has managed to surpass a Roman emperor in depravity?
That epicene Roman, although now only a shadow in the deepest pit of Hell, will exult in private ecstasy once the vicious tyrant adds two or three more sophists to the Supreme Court.
As I have said elsewhere, the OWS immature navel-gazers wouldn’t have stirred themselves to come out except for the ballot issues of pot, abortion, and gay marriage that were up for votes in many states. Even if the measures were defeated, it was a big win for the Democraps, because it got more people to the polls to vote for their despicable socialist.
I weep for my country today, as I will weep for myself and the rest who attempted to head off the now-inevitable end of the constitutional republic known for 236 years as the United States of America.
I wish with all my heart that I had the means to go Galt, but I don’t, so I am going to have to soldier on, working at anything I can find, which isn’t much up here in the north, just to survive, and hope I still have anything left after the government gets through confiscating and redistributing whatever it decrees I don’t need or someone else – the poor, the lazy, or just the greedy – needs more.
I feel today a most visceral form of hatred for the b^stard in the WH, and for the entire breed of parasites who ensured that he will finish the job of fundamentally changing America by destroying it. The only promise he ever kept.
My hatred is cooled by my old age; it has become a vast sadness. This may not mean much to you, elephant, but for a Hegelian, the power of the negative has just made itself abundantly clear. Or, to ring with John Milton, the majority align with Satan: they would rather rule in hell (the pit of deficit, “free” abortion, and fascistic cronyism) than serve in Heaven (under the guidance of the rule of law).
What this power means for a man who neither sings hosannas with the traditionalists nor prances with Voltaire among the atheists is this: there comes the recognition that even a cherished heritage must run the course of decay.
Oddly enough, even as I tremble over Tuesday’s election, my dreams are full of images of conciliation: I enter scenes wherein I make peace with old enemies, among them Marxists whom I had known in my youth. This is good for me, but for the republic?
Looking at the electoral map, I see two “countries.” The more traditional/conservative finds its center in Texas. Interestingly, Texas was an independent republic for nine years or so. A division among the present United States would certainly be painful; it is not to be advocated trivially; but if a division must occur, a new nation might gather around Texas. Such a country might, if our present soldiers resolve upon freedom and patriotism, attract strong men and women.
This projection need not involve harsh insurrection. Nobody need attack Fort Sumpter; officers need not anguish over conflicting loyalties. The “beautiful people” who adulate Obama as though he were a Gransci-ite saviour need only agree to let the “reactionaries” go. In the last twenty years, a number of peaceful devolutions have occurred, especially in Eastern Europe. I ask both contemporary American progressives and conservatives thoughtfully to consider whether a peaceful divorce might not benefit both partisans.
Now I expect that at first the progressives will object; after all, there would remain on their demesne far too few real producers whom they could fleece (er, tax into giving their fair shares). But they should consider how much more easily they could win at their local ballot boxes. They could raise taxes in excelsis, and nobody (for the time) would be the wiser.
This line of thinking could go on, but my conjectures snuggle in a blanket of fantasy–until Southern patriots gather together to begin talking in earnest.
Sad day. 50% of the electorate is either willfully ignorant or mad. Nothing during this freaks four years deserved a pass and had the public a shred of brains he would not have been elected the first time. In spite of the collapse of the country they dance in the streets at the passing of two more ‘vices’ in certain states. Homosex weddings and dope smoking! This is what is important to these loons?
You might be surprised at how many Republicans smoke dope and are tired of having to hide it. That IS one prohibition that needs to go.
That & how many actually support gay marriage.
The Republican party needs to get out of the Religious Right’s bed & finally get back to work!
I’m actually for legalizing marijuana. No one ever died from it and its not addictive. Ever had a drink? Its about the same thing. Save the resources, court costs and jail cells for the cocaine & heroin that are addictive and wreak havoc on everyone around the consumer.
I am though very sad about the continuing glorification of murder of the unborn and the legitimization of homosexual lifestyle. These two moral issues make us Rome, or perhaps Sodom and Gomorrah, and look what happened to them.
I find the Republican party’s negativity towards same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization backwards and a prime example of the party’s weakness in pandering to the Tea Party extremists. The most fundamental cornerstone of the GOP is supposed to be small government/states’ rights, and yet you are upset that some states legalized marijuana and same-sex marriage? How do either of these issues directly impact your life? If you’re not gay, marry someone of the other gender. If you don’t like weed, who’s to stop you? Your personal belief that these are “vices” should have no impact on the millions of Americans around you. The most common argument I’ve heard against same-sex marriage is that it’s forbidden in the Bible, and our country was specifically intended to establish laws ignorant of religion. To hold the entire nation hostage to laws established on your religious beliefs is to piss on the ideal established in the same Constitution that you hold dear. Furthermore, Leviticus, the same book in the bible that states that gay men should be stoned to death, includes multiple other rules that nobody pays attention to because they are clearly outdated (ie on the kinds of fabric it is acceptable to wear.) The religious argument is therefore invalid.
Secondly, the clanging of the death knell from reactionary conservatives nationwide is appalling. I don’t know how our nation became so divided, but the idea that four years of the opponent party’s rule will descend the entire country into third-world poverty governed by morals resembling Gomorrah is ridiculous. Obama’s economic recovery has been slow, true, but there has been recovery. Most of his policies (besides healthcare, which I fully understand the argument against) have been fairly moderate. He extended Bush tax cuts; the bailouts he gave were first proposed by the Bush Administration, he has been anything but liberal in his frequent lethal action drone strikes on terrorist targets’ he didn’t shut down Guantanamo Bay (angering his liberal constituency); he has never done anything to infringe on the right to bear arms; he has been much easier on domestic oil than the Romney campaign led us to believe (factcheckers show that the only time he reduced permits for drilling was in response to the BP Oil Spill); and he handled almost all foreign policy initiatives in the same way most politicians, regardless of party, would have (evidenced by Romney’s inability to point out differences in their foreign policy during the debates other than “Obama apologizes for the United States” which is simply not true.)
The truth is that most of America should be perfectly fine with Obama’s re-election. The Tea Partiers have a right to be upset because they will be forced to live with the rights of everyone rather than just the rights that they preach, and the far left has a right to be upset because they never actually had a candidate that represented their irrational, socialist beliefs. It should be clear that both of the parties’ extremes are politically undesirable, and yet somehow it is the ends of the spectrum that define us. The 2008 election should have been a terrific moment for the United States — we were choosing between a moderate liberal and a conservative who held his own values as more and more of his party fell victim to the war cry of the Tea Party — yet it somehow became a battle between “the opposite of Bush” and “Sarah Palin and her all-American, yet fundamentally unsound conservatism”. That spin, to me, bodes worse for our nation than the outcome of any individual election.
And I used to use “Bong hits for Barack” as a label to mock OccupyWallStreet. Little did I know that bong hits would LITERALLY put The Worst President In Living Memory back in the WH.
BTW, does anybody seriously think same-s3x “marriage” is the endgame? After all, there is a limit to how many people there are of that orientation (a recent CDC study found about 4% homo-and bisexuals total, plus some heterosexuals with isolated homosexual [mostly lesbian] experiments in the past): expect polygamous marriages as the next frontier.