What’s your point? Instead of one shithead, we get four shitheads? Our situation has not improved.
what an embarrassment. And from a Democrat no less.
On March 9, 1933, FDR proclaimed a state of national emergency that granted him (presumably temporary) powers that superseded the Constitution. I’ve seen numerous sources–e.g. this one–allege that this proclamation has never officially been lifted.
These sources are crank sites run and written by paranoiacs who fear that one world government is on the horizon. Nevertheless, behind many tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, there tends to be a kernel of truth. Perhaps, like a program running in the background on your computer, this state of emergency has been left running in the background of the country. That would make the recent attempts to expand the government’s legal license over things like indefinite detention and freedom of expression over the Internet all the more chilling.
The thing that gets me about the cranks is that wouldn’t we as a planet, given enough year, progress towards a world government anyway?
It’s amazing to what extent many Americans have become ignorant and allow someone to say one thing and do completely something else without calling him out on it.
What’s even more sad is that Obama might get another term.
See, this is why I want Palin for 2012. If we are going to put up with bullshit, why not make it funny bullshit?
Edit: Let this sink in, I have a friend that thinks Julian Assange should be executed as a traitor…
so essentially what we’re looking at is Obama getting re-elected, USA getting in worse shape, and then after 4 years, you guys are fucked cuz neither party has a strong runner, and it’s just gonna be 4 more years of dismal failure that I doubt the American public will be able to tolerate.
If my calculations are correct, everything has been an abysmal failure since Reagan. It just so happens that we didn’t know at the time that the general public was getting the dick.
Does anyone here watch Keiser report, is the show legit or is it russian propaganda mainly US and every other country outside of it? Sometimes its really interesting, if half of that show is true it doesn’t matter who you vote for because banks and corporations run the world. George Carlin said it best in that video above when does that dude not make sense.
I will be honest, from a world wide perspective things seem to have changed since then. The economy went to shit, corporate hate took off,and that trust that America had for it’s leaders (overall, with the exception of Nixon and a few others, your leaders have generally been trusted and somewhat popular) went away. With each election, you hear people asking for change, and promised that very change, with little or no results. it used to be you’d only hear a few people speak out against the government. Sure, everybody had an opinion, but it never went further than that. Now, all you see is websites and t-shirts and news programs flat out telling you which corporations are bribing officials and all this shit the government is hiding from us. We’ve evolved as a society, and yet our government is still the same several hundred year old lumbering oaf of a behemoth that it’s always been. We ask for transparancy, and equal rights, and WE are told by the people WE elect that no, WE dont need or want that. We stand up as a society and say NO, and we’re told TOO BAD. Look how hard we ALL had to work to basically finally get SOPA shot down, only for like 8 or 9 different bills all pop up in its place.
I really see it getting worse each and every year. Sure you’re not landsliding into hell, but gradually, bit by bit, your rights are taken away, the gaps between rich and poor get worse, medicine and health care gets a little more out of reach, copyright laws are enacted that give more and more power to the holders, your education gets worse and worse, jobs flow overseas, wages get frozen, and all this little shit builds up bit by bit until it’s no longer just LITTLE shit.
I remember when I looked at my own country, and saw that it was going somewhere bad. Somewhere DARK. I remember every little detail about the day. Government announced it was changing overtime laws. No longer was working over 40 hours a week considered overtime. Now it was going to be 44 hours a week. For two weeks. So thats 88 hours was now overtime. Because businesses bitched. Then even that changed, and it became 88 hours over 2 weeks, no matter how much you work per week. Work 60 hours one week, and 28 the next? Thats not overtime, why you whine about that 60 hour week?
And the government and the businesses decreed that it would help the economy, and create MORE jobs. And I laughed, mainly due to the fact that overtime was a way for students to make extra money, or anybody. And now they took that away. And I knew this would KILL economy.
Every so often, I hear about an election promise or a bill, and it always promises the exact same thing. Jobs will come, this will benefit us, nothing but happy thoughts and pudding drops. But deep down, every one of us knows the real truth. These laws or bills always promise to help us, but just puts more money into the owners of the businesses. You NEVER really hear of them taking something away from a business and telling them “this will help the workers for awhile”. Its AALLWWAAYYSS something that helps out the owners only, but COULD potentially help the workers, if the owners do the right thing.
I’ve truthfully stated it for about 10 years now, we’re due for a revolution. The last ten or so years of my life, I have seen the world I love be DESTROYED. I’ve seen basic foods I bought double in price, as they try to nickel and dime us to death. I’ve seen taxes go up on everything I enjoy. For 10 dollars I could get a can of pop, a pack of smokes, and a half a gram of weed. Seriously, every day I would get off work and grab a can of pop, some smokes (the good shit too, not the no name brands), and a little bud off my dealer. Now with 10 bucks, I am lucky to get the pack of smokes, let alone a half G to go with it. I’ve seen my pay cheques get stretched thinner and thinner. I’ve seen my rent go nowhere but up, while the rest of my bills climb up to join it.
I’m sorry but at some point in time things will have to change. You can’t keep charging me more for food, entertainment, and travel (ie gas, bus tickets, etc, ALL gone up in $$$), rent, and then add more in bills (we pay way too much for internet and phone bills in North America, especially compared to the rest of the world), and expect all of us to be able to keep up no problem. Eventually SOMETHING has to give, and that something is going to be the rich fucks who’ve put us all in this place.
sorry for this wall of text
People’s votes > Money. That’s why they want Americans to stay dumb and why they’re trying to change the rules as much as possible to punish innocent Americans so they can easier manipulate them via fear.
Unless people wake the **** up, America is done. Other countries should be alarmed because when America goes down, these big guys are like parasites and will just find a new host, which might be your country. Putin sees this, the dude is mad smart, that’s why he’s trying to get a stronger control over Russia. Every time America has tried to play Russia, like with the missile base, Putin has been like parry-I’m Diago *****-lol-nope. Russia has even been aware of the intelligence equipment in the rocks for years and has been intentionally feeding false information and after trolling for years decided to let people know. They’re even aware of the radical Islam strategy to grow in number and to conquer politically from within or to turn to violence if that fails.
America remains divided. Americans remain hating other Americans. Until people here in the US wake the **** up and starting working together, helping each other, and not standing up for ******** within their community and exposing and solving ******** within their community, this country will remain to be a mess for those non-one percent. Being that one percent isn’t that great either, since the more you have, the more you have to lose. I wonder how long all of our United States can stay united. For now, we’re a mess and we will continue to get tossed around like a basketball by countries like China. China vs America in video form: [media=youtube]KWRA5v2bS1I[/media]
Votes > Money only true until the politician in question is given an incentive to no longer give a fuck about the votes, i.e. a cushy job offer. If they know damn well they have a BETTER paying job lined up if/when they don’t get re-elected for doing things in that employers interest instead of the voting public, do you think that person is going to give a damn about votes anymore? No, that politician has been bought and paid for.
The problem with that is that humans have technologically progressed too far. Decades ago, humans were more equal. Nowadays, some entities are so technologically advanced that a revolution might just evolve into a dictatorship or cause severe losses of human life due to bio, nuclear, cyber, etc, weapons and prepared wars such as starvation of resources such as water. There are already entities that are not only prepared for a revolution but want it to occur as well. A revolution would put the US into an extremely dangerous state where we could easily be exploited by other countries.
Instead of completely destroying the country from within and losing decades of hard work and starting from scratch, try fixing the country from within.
That’s why, like I said, Americans need to educate themselves and all Americans need to do this. It’s not limited to government, it’s not limited to corporations/organizations, it’s not limited to some little kid delivering the news paper, everyone needs to wake up. You have to deal with it from all sides. Yes, don’t vote for corrupt politicians but if my organization is not corrupt, when that politician tries to push that revolving door, I’m going to close it. If he tries to break in, then the politician will be held responsible for his actions and face the consequences. These guys are parasites and we have to identify them and get them off our back.
Yes, a revolution would put you into a dangerous state. Generally, revolutions occur when that is already in effect. If more and more rights keep eroding, what’s worse? Being exploited by China, or being exploited by your OWN GOVERNMENT?
The whole point of a revolution is to change the government. If you guys revolt, it will be more against corporations than government itself. A lot of people still believe in what America used to stand for, and think that it can go back to that way, rather than do the right thing and move forward towards a better tomorrow. Too many companies are able to tell the government NO because something will cost them money. Look at environmental issues, health care, and copyright issues. People today don’t have that right. Too many old people remember how things were, and they sure as fuck won’t fight or revolt. But the youth of today, who are being denied a future? How long until they start mobbing to the streets. Oh wait, they did that last year.
And it will only get worse. Occupy Wall Street was relatively tame. The next rallies and protests won’t be, because the issues that were at hand last time will still be an issue, and the government doing nothing will force the American people to do something in its stead.
Occupy Wall Street is the actual problem, not the solution. I’ll offer another personal example: for about a month I was part of a group that was organizing a protest about the drug war in Mexico. Sounds good, right? Minor problems with it: 1) They did not want to take a stance towards a solution because they were afraid of alienating some people, 2) EVERYBODY wanted to have a fucking opinion, Everybody (nobody was willing to shut the fuck up and follow as needed), 3) They were afraid of simple civil disobedience (things like putting up a poster and walking away from it because it would be “taken down”), 4) they spent a half hour arguing over t-shirt colors.
After one meeting where they were finally going to start working with the even like 3 weeks to happen, they decided to split into committees and somehow came up with 13 of these. At this point I said fuck it.
Kids today don’t understand what it means to get their ass kicked for something. In Puerto Rico we have protests all the time. Everybody there knows that if you really give a fuck, you’re going to protest and odds are good that you might get your ass kicked for it. People way too happy and comfy to do that type of stuff.
Elder God is right. How can people today actually pose a threat to a technologically advanced monster. The only thing this government will respond to is violence, but acting in such a manner will give the government an excuse to behave like a bigger dick.
What to do, when the powers to be are not willing to give up power, laugh at civil disobedience, have the people at each others throat, are training law enforcement in military tactics, training the military to engage civilians at home, and are purposely forcing people to eventually behave violently so they can justify it all rule.
Go on with it?
ive been saying this from the get go. We’re fucked. Have as much sex as possible, save your money, and enjoy your lives. We are surrounded by idiots (Im one too.) and things wont get any better until everyone wakes up to this illusion at the same time.
America=Greece 2.0-----its just like Greece. Alpha->Omega
Both sides were fucked and full of idiots to begin with.
Elections are always decided long before they happen. We are allowed to vote so we get the illusion of actually having a say in who our new ‘beloved leader’ is.
We should elect the comedians instead of these fuckwads that are our current choices.