Countdown: The World According to W
By Nicole Belle Thursday Feb 28, 2008 8:40am
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Welcome to BushWorld, an Orwellian nightmare of epic proportions. As has been so astutely pointed out, facts have a liberal bias, so the press conference that Bush held yesterday was completely devoid of any liberal bias. As Keith Olbermann says:
1984 had new-speak. We have Bush-speak. Rhetoric designed to obfuscate reality and to quell dissent. [..] The country was treated to a full 45 minute dosage of it this morning. The President holding a news conference to once again reiterate his own version of events: the surge in Iraq is working, the Iraqi government is making progress, America is not heading towards a recession, and of course, Democrats are trying to kill us all by not giving telecom companies immunity.
Watch how truly bizarre the press conference was to anyone who has two braincells to rub together. Note too that while Bill Plante and David Gregory asked the kind of questions we should see from a press corps, few--if any--media outlets took the time that Olbermann did to show how contradictory and without substance the President's words were.
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I'm surprised he didn't bring up Mr. Obama's lack of flag pin use.
Listening to Bush make a speech is like watching the aftermath of car wreck. You really don't want to watch, but you're compelled to do so. The fact Bush had no idea that gas prices could climb to $4 a gallon was pathetic. And don't forget the immunity for his telecom pals. Christ, I can't wait till he gets out of office.
WHY does the press still give this mentally-challenged fucktard the kid gloves treatment?
Just got done reading 1984 for the first time. Tough to make it through, acutally...
plus he criticized Obama for wanting to meet with "tyrants" when in fact Bush himself has met with and appeased more tyrants than anyone in history
quit calling him an idiot...it makes you an idiot. he is not an idiot...he is doing his job, which is to suppress democracy, promote never ending war, and torturing and and killing brown people.
anyone would want to be membered as a great president, a history maker. but that is not his role.
the cabal of corporate and military leaders that rule this world are very satisfied with him and they will be satisfied with barack, who will continue to kill and torture people and spend 500 billion a year on defense.
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Because they're a bunch of kiss asses scared of being told not to come back. Those people, with the exception of Helen Thimas, are only interested in status, not the best interests of the American people. If I was the next President I wouldn't allow any of these fucksticks back in the White House and tell them all to FUCK OFF for sucking off that reatrded fucking Chimp and never challenging him on ANYTHING!!!
ohdave @ 5:
The hell you talking about? Bush is a tyrant.
Why have there been no Vietnam-style demonstrations against wiretapping? What happened to our supposed collective love of freedom as a nation?
The thinking in the MSM appears to be: "If we pierce the bubble, the boy inside will cry."
Nobody wants to be the one to make to make the grown man-child cry.
lemmywinks @ 4:
it's a short simple beautiful work of art. i bet your loving you public high school education.
Doublethink is a form of trained, willful intellectual blindness to contradictions in a belief system. Doublethink differs from ordinary hypocrisy in that the "doublethinking" person deliberately had to forget the contradiction between his two opposing beliefs — and then deliberately forget that he had forgotten the contradiction. He then had to forget the forgetting of the forgetting, and so on; this intentional forgetting, once begun, continues indefinitely. In the novel's notes, Orwell describes it as "controlled insanity".
telco immunity=bushco immunity. Any questions? There will be a test next monday!
RueMorgue @ 8:
The demonstrators got side tracked at a McD's when they heard Bill C was in having a Big Mac attack. Then when done, they started marching but noticed Walmart had a gigantic sale on Chinese toys. True story.
P.D. @ 2:
My understanding was that this news conference was about the economy - yet most of it was about the Telecomm Companies having retroactive immunity. I was also stunned by his surprise about the $4.00 a gallon possibility. I doubt if he has any idea how the middle class is suffering at the moment.
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Do we really have to answer this? It's because if they ask him a hard question they don't get invited back into the press "corps". IE they are co-opted completely.
The only way we'd get real questions is if the press corps decided that they were all going to ask hard questions at the same time. And that won't happen because they're a bunch of losers.
RueMorgue @ 8:
Speaking of 'Nam demonstrations, I nominate this the theme for Mr. Bush's last year of presidency:
When the truth is found
To be lies
And all the joy
Within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You'd better find somebody to love...
RueMorgue @ 8:
as far as reality is concerned, Bush is absolutely clueless.
his legacy as the WORST President ever is locked in tight.
I haven't been able to watch this clown for years now. I just can't do it.I have to either change the channel,or leave the room.
Can anyone explain how this (insert insulting remark here) came to be President?
No, seriously I know about Jeb/Katharine, the supreme court,all the fiddles he and his cronies got up to, but how comes so many voted for him in the first place ie put his cabal in with the chance of stealing it?
Oh, and on Gasoline rising to $4 per gallon, are you people over there aware that here in the UK the price is the equivalent of $10 per gallon.
ConcernedCanuck @ 12:
Oh, come now. If the Filipinos can do it, then so can we, by God.
I saw a few seconds of Bush's press conference and then just turned the channel to something else. Why anyone can sit through even more of Bush's lies is beyond me. I can understand why Bush is doing what he is doing though. He is still trying to polish up the turds he has created during his terms and only a very few people are buying it. Only failed leaders do this.
What we are seeing now is the same thing we saw in 2003 with the run up to the Iraq war. We all remember the sense of urgency and the lies that followed to get us into that disaster. Now we are seeing Bush put Iraq in rosy terms. Make no mistake, nothing has changed in Iraq. Bush bought some time with money and cease fires (I.E. Al Sadr) but all the players remain in place and nothing is going to change that.
Bush will never understand what it is like to be middle class. He was a failed business man surrounded by political hacks whose only goal was to capture the White House. With thier Rovian tactics and Americans intellectual laziness, Bush and his cronies have basicly destroyed our countrys foundation. Now we have a quagmire it will take years, if not decades, to surpass. I hope for a better 2008.
Russ Mason UK @ 19:
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I got your answer. He bribed them to vote for him. He promised them tax cuts if he was elected and the greed factor made lots of people pull the lever for him. Now McCain is doing the same thing by promising to make the tax cuts permanent. Sadly, the greed factor is still hanging around in some parts of our country.
Awww...look how cute he is...standing there playing President.
What a nice BOY.
Good job Keith, your interjections are the only thing that make Bush speeches worth listening too.
Most Americans understand that to fight terrorism, our business communications need to be monitored by approved corporations, so that the Terrorists don't call the US and give people important information.
Isn't this obvious to anyone who's suffered brain damage from drug abuse?
George Bush = Herbert Hoover
I felt like I was watching some kind of parody from The Onion.
P.D. @ 22:
There's no hope for a better 2008. 2009, possibly.
Remember when the only viable government job that a chimp could hold was astronaut.
This President is way over his head when it comes to even the most rudimentary aspects of his job. Dubyah has completely failed at his job. The clown is only comfortable when he is hanging with the jocks laughing and joking on the White House lawn. He tries to bullshit us like a nine year old who thinks adults are stupid.
America will pay for her lack of vision!
RueMorgue @ 8:
People are too worried about they're pocketbooks. You know, the American people get what they fucking deserve for they're willfull ignorance. A nation of reatrds only interested in American Idol and the cost of gas. Most people don't give a shit unless it hits them in they're wallet.
You know what I'd love to see? Even if Barack Obama is wiping the floor with McCain he should just say "fuck you all, you want to see how bad things can get, here, I'll concede the Presidency to McCain and you can all have a nice life fucko's!".
Someone needs to check the batteries in that thingy on his back under his coat.
He was quick to say he wasn't going to get into talking about the republican candidates for president, but each time Obama's name was mentioned he was happy to chide whatever Obama was quoted to have said.
After he was shocked and awed by the possible future price of gas, he later said he hadn't had time to do something because he had been dealing with the price of gas. Can't have it both ways.
I complement the media on their decorum and self control. I mean...I couldn't start there and listen to this moron and keep a straight face.
stand, not start...sorry
She's no prize package...but really....Laura SLEEPS with this idiot?!?
fwffavvg @ 33:
Sadly, I agree. I almost want Bush to rig the election for McCain, just to see how bad things can really get before America wakes the fuck up. I have no doubt that Obama will be able to begin to heal the nation, but I fear that it might be nothing more than a band-aid over a wound where only a tourniquet will do. This nation needs to hit the bottom to crawl her way back up.
Is the Bush Presidential Library going to host puppet shows on Wednesdays?
After seven plus years...it's official...You really CAN'T fix stupid.
fwffavvg @ 33:
So your not happy with how horrible things are, you want them to get much worse? Are you one of the people that have some kind of fantasy that if things get so bad suddenly Americans will turn to some Green party candidate or maybe Ralph Nader? Give me a BREAK.
Weaseldog @ 26:
You are joking right? Or are you really that fucking stoopid?
RayC @ 42:
Then let me ask you this: how much more will it take to force Americans to the streets?
The ONLY bright spot is that Bush's dream of being vindicated by history is shot to hell due the fact that all these videos of him speaking will be around for a long time for everyone to see. I'm pretty sure the universal opinion is that he'll be seen as a dangerously incompetent man. His BEST hope is that some how miraculously everything suddenly turns out well, in which case he may be judged as 'lucky'
Note: Everything suddenly turning out well would include WMD's being found in Iraq, and the hundreds of thousands of innocents killed so far in Iraq, would have to come back to life.
Liberal AND Proud @ 38:
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Interestingly enough, about 10 years ago I had a college instructor that had an interesting theory that he laid out in one of his lectures that fits Laura and George. In it, he stated that all nations recruit, train, and then send off to war their most qualified, physically fit, and mentally capable men. Many end up getting killed and so what males are left for women to breed with back home? The only males left usually tend to be the rejects with a whole host of problems. Now this is obviously not always the case but it sure does look like Laura was stuck with one those males.
I was having trouble getting the video to play, but it finally did. I had to laugh when I saw that Keith caught what I was talking about in my comment number 35. Even bush doesn't listen to his own words.
Weaseldog @ 26:
No, what is obvious is that if you're willing to compromise American principals to 'attempt' to stop terrorists, then you're a coward that would sellout the ideals that made this country great in order to hopefully save your own worthless hide, and you've handed the terrorists the win.
Dr. Acula @ 3:
Because the president is not the first-among-equals but an elected monarch to whom God speaks. And the press is afraid to ask God the tough questions.
Liberal AND Proud @ 38:
She gets drunk and passes out before he goes to bed. His nightlight keeps her awake when he is colourin'.
pissed off patricia @ 35:
So true. Spoiled petulant child. We're all just props in this career failure's personal sand box.
RueMorgue @ 39:
I know everybody, and I do mean everybody, goes on and on about how much better the nation will be when the Dems truly are in power. I don't think so. I pity the next Prez, cuz in four years when the economy is still in the shitter, whoever is Prez is gonna get the biggest boot out of office, just like Carter. Carter had very little to do with how bad the economy was, but took the brunt of the hit. There is no magic policy to change this. None whatsoever. It's in the hands of the world traders.
Frybread @ 49:
Nah, probably because most of them were raised to treat 'special' people gently. Its ingrained in them.
We been Duped
Dr. Acula @ 3:
amen! rip this assclown a new one!
fwffavvg @ 43:
I've been trying to understand Bush's speeches.
He really has no fucking clue...about anything.
Here is an interesting little aside.
The FBI does not think Ricin found in a motel room in Las Vegas is related to terrorism.
Whew!
fwffavvg @ 43:
I think Weaseldog's comment was sarcasm. I think he was saying that anyone with brain damage from drug abuse would believe what bush is saying because bush suffers from brain damage due to his own drug abuse.
pissed off patricia @ 35:
He probably only just realized why is Bush family allowance went up again.
If this monument to boundless arrogance and unrepentant stupidity gets a Preznitshul library, the Federal Government should underwrite the entire cost of it - on one condition. That he spend the rest of his miserable life sitting in a plexiglassed diarama, holding a copy of "My Pet Goat" upside down, on the other side of the plexiglass. He wanted a bubble, he gets it forever.
lemmywinks @ 4:
Are you kidding? I read it for the first time about 4 years ago. Must have read it 3 times since then. Whats really sad is how much that book speaks to me and terrifies me. But the book practically jumps off the page at me.
RayC @ 42:
Ralph Nader is a piece of shit and you can GO FUCK YOURSELF, and YES, I want thing's to get soo fucking terrible that it will push people to get off they're fat asses and outright REVOLT against the corrupt political system we have. I see those protests in Washington DC where thousands of people stand around singing kumbya and talking about how bad thing's are rather then storming the White House and putting the heads of all those EVIL COCKSUCKERS on fucking pikes!
pissed off patricia @ 59:
You're still the sharpest commentator here Pop!
RueMorgue @ 44:
So you want bloodshed? Voting is not going to be enough for you? I have had it up to my eyeballs with the world wide conspiracy shifting power to the corporations, enslaving the masses, and Marshall law. The Democrats and Republicans are all the same and in on it. Its only the select few SUPER PROGRESSIVES that understand what is really going on. I support Obama so I am just another stupid fool having been brain washed by the corporate media. The United State needs to be burnt down and rebuilt from the ground up. The SUPER PROGRESSIVES will all delight in saying I told you so.
You are right about the media not doing it's job, but I would just write them off and not expect anything from them anymore. Alternative media outlets and websites like this are doing a better job.
Noam Chomsky's book from the 1990's, Manufacturing Consent, does a good job of explaining the problems of the media. It sets up a propaganda model for how the press operates and then gives examples. A related movie is available-google video, "manufacturing consent".
RayC @ 42:
I think that point is well taken. America and Americans don't act unless they are feeling pain. Pearl Harbor...they felt pain and reacted. Depression...they felt pain and reacted. 9/11 they felt pain and reacted.
The economic turndown isn't universal across the country. There are still enough pockets of prosperity to keep a lid on the country. Also, let's face facts...we simply do not, as a people, give a shit enough about one another. When we see poor people, we say...glad it's not me. Are we charitable? Yes, that is NOT what I'm talking about. Im not talking about dropping $5 in a Salvation Army bucket, I'm talking about motivated enough by injustice to get off our dead asses and DO something...like we did with civil rights and the Viet Nam war (which of course was also motivated by self interest...the draft. If the government enacted a draft TODAY...the war would end TOMORROW).
There is simply not enough pain. With the decline in property values, combined with the number of unemployed people who got by on their spouses salary and home equity but can no longer do it, NOW you will see people getting worried, agitated and MOTIVATED. Lump in $5 gas, flour prices tripled, honey prices no longer reachable by common people, eggs, milk...NECESSITIES of life. Yeah...I want to see it all. Only then will people understand just how fucked over they got by 25+ years of "deregulation", "tax cuts" and trickle down VOODOO economics. Greed...plain and simple...greed of rich white men in $2,000 suits who wrapped themselves in the flag. Labor unions are GOOD. Labor unions are responsible for the rising standard of living that we saw from the 1940s onward. Labor unions didn't destroy the auto industry...BAD MANAGEMENT DID...management that KNOWINGLY SIGNED bad deals with labor to avoid the nastiness of contract negotiation. The system only works when each side HAS LEVERAGE and uses it to come to a compromise that is good for ALL.
We are a nation of stupid people. We are going to pay for making the same mistakes that led to the last Depression. Glass Steagal and similar laws were put in place to stop the type of predatory finance that has occurred over the last 20 years. Uneducated morons are we, motivated only by nice slogans and flag waving. Arrogant know nothings who think they understand the world...when they don't know ANYTHING about the world...most of them can't even find Iraq on a map...and a good portion of the rest think Europe is a country.
Filthy Harry @ 48:
Hey, if you were bein snarky, sorry Weaseldog. But if anyone else thinks that way, my comment applies.
xoites defends Constitution @ 58:
The same thing popped up in the local papers here in Illinois about that mall explosion the other day - "This is not believed to be related to the War on Terror" or somesuch.
When will Americans cease being cowardly?
Weaseldog @ 56:
I see where you were going with your comment Weaseldog. Its hard to get into the mind of a brain damaged person like Bush. However, in his drug warped mind I bet that is exactly how he sees that telecom issue. Just about every other person though sees his actions as criminal and I am one of those people.
Wow, this sure is a long way from the deck of that aircraft carrier.
RayC @ 65:
Sorry, that doesn't change the fact that I fear that Obama is the best candidate we have. I wish there was someone in the lead that better represented the interest of America.
Obama has some great things going for them. But as one of his negatives, his war rhetoric scares me.
RayC @ 65:
Democracy needs a change of underwear every so many years. When corporations control every facet of your life, there will be no change just because there was an election. It is a sad, sad reality.
RayC @ 65:
No, dickstain, I'm not a goddamned Paulist. I'm a socialist. The ruling classes are not going to surrender their monopoly of power without at least a token show of real force from the lower classes.
chimpy is a first rate idiot.
he doesn't care about the US.
he's begging but not begging for the house to break the law.
Go Obama!
Filthy Harry @ 68:
Is all good. :)
You want to see a really good press conference with bush? Do ya? Okay, bring over members of the foreign press. They won't kiss his ass, not even once.
Weaseldog, #64, I'm smiling and you put that smile on my face.
RueMorgue @ 44:
It would take the DRAFT being reinstated, oh then you'd see Washington burn but untill then people will bend over and take it in the ass. That's why I want McCain to win, because I know he's stupid enough to bring back he draft and maybe that would motivate the people to show why the goverment should be afrid of it's people!!!
RueMorgue @ 69:
I read about that too, but they said it was a gas explosion. They do happen. Ricin does not just happen.
JohnW @ 66:
An excellent book. However, most Americans view Chomsky as a pompous socialist ass because he dares to show the truth to them in an unflattering way. It's unpatriotic, and well, that's basically all the US is when all is said and done. "We love our country cuz we has freedumbs"......not even smart enough to realize the only freedom they have is the choice every four years to choose a pre-selected candidate of Pepsi over Coke.
three little words. dumb - dumb - dumb!!
missmarple @ 13:
War in Iraq... Billions
Price of gasoline by summer... $4 a gallon
The president not having a clue... priceless
The really pathetic thing about all this is not that he is a compulsive liar who is completely out of touch with reality and doesn't give a damn, the REALLY pathetic thing is that there are so many idiots in America who actually believe the stream of bullshit that he is spouting, simply because he is "the president".
The press is owned by the same corporations who are making billions in profits. They are never gonna unleash their reporters to go after Bush. I bet Bush misses his buddy Jeff Gannon at these conferences.
RueMorgue @ 74:
So now I am a "dickstain" because dare to speak out to one of the select few who KNOWS what is really going on? All hail the Super Progressives. We grovel at your feet. I am soooo sorry I dared to have my own opinion.
I think we know who snagged "Karl Rove's playbook". Because that's the only place this Clinton ad could have come from.
George W. Bu$h... a colossal embarrassment for the people of the U.S. of A. who actually use their brain to think with. How can this fucktard get up there and lie his face off, then pretend like people are supposed to listen to him. It's totally beyond me. Put him out of our misery!!!
Weaseldog @ 64:
Yeah, sorry, I didn't see it because I was choking on my own rage and wanted to lash out at some Bush apologist.
RueMorgue @ 44:
As I understand it, many Americans are currently being forced into the streets - after the banks foreclose on their homes.
But, I really think there have been no mass demonstrations like during the Viet Nam war because there is no draft. There is only a small segment of the population bearing the major burden of this so-called war. If the sons and daughters of the majority of US households were being rounded up and shipped off to fight in the deserts of the ME, especially those of the uppermiddle class (those that still exist), there would be more of an outcry to do something to end the occupations.
There are two other issues that are still interfering: A) the mass media/corporate marketing folks have done a superb job of distracting and entertaining folks, and lying to them through their newscasts. If you just listen to the evening news (or, if you don't read or listen to news at all) you likely have no clue about what's really happening in the world, let alone in your own backyard; and, B) some people who would normally be inclined to be out marching may be just a little afraid of the consequences, i.e., they've seen the Balckwater tactics at other mass gatherings (WTO mtg. in Seattle) or they've seen taserings or footage of the FEMA camps and are somwhat leary of getting involved. That's my take....
fwffavvg @ 88:
I've done that too. Now worries. :)
McCain the Liar @ 84:
And I'm willing to bet that Karl Rove missed Gannon for "private meetings." (Ewwwww... I'm going to have too look at some porn now, to get that image out of my head. I apologize for any sickness, mental distress, that any imagery a Rove-Gannon coupling may surface from within the dark recesses of your soul or brain — for my agnostic friends.)
Renee in Ohio @ 86:
Nice.
pissed off patricia @ 77:
I'll tell ya though, it won't make a diff. The reason the press doesn't... er... press him, and the reason why the foreign press would be more entertaining, but no more successful is because whenever he's pressed on an issue he just snorts/snickers, looks exasperated and starts making non-sequitur comments along the lines of "You just don't get it"
Its kind of embarrassing for everyone in the room.
Bush is an ass.
Weaseldog @ 90:
Or no worries...
There's a persistant and nasty little song humming in his Commander in chief brain, he can't stop the humming,
YOU'RE SO FUCKED, AND I WILL NOT TELL YOU ABOUT IT, YOU'RE SO FUCKED, SO FUCKED!
HE THINKS; In 50 years you'll remember me as "THE PRESIDENT" who saved you all!
Then the humming continues.
RayC @ 65:
I want politician blood to run in the streets as an example to future generations that YOU DO NOT FUCK WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!
RayC @ 85:
Except you're trying your damndest to paint me as a conspiracy theorist, which I'm not. The events of recent years are all-too-natural, the outcome of the class interests of those who possess capital acting in their own interests and contrary to the interests of those who have none. There are no 'smoky rooms', only the bright and sunny movement of capital.
Oil tops $103 a barrel AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
How do we ream sheep? Let us count the ways.
I've disliked chimpy since he first went in, and I still have a hard time believeing that is idiot is really the President . What a waste of 7+ years. I could go on but I'm already getting sick just thinking about it.
conservatoire @ 94:
You don't mean that Biblically do you? Every donkey I've met speaks better english.
"The hell you talking about? Bush is a tyrant.
Why have there been no Vietnam-style demonstrations against wiretapping? What happened to our supposed collective love of freedom as a nation?"
That is because there is no draft, and Americans don't really give a shit about Freedom or Liberty as long as they are SAFE.
Liberal AND Proud @ 67:
AfuckingMEN.
Everything chimpy touches turns to dust.
EVERYTHING
capnmike @ 102:
And as long as we have cable, porn and drugs, we will be silent. (and happy)
Amitola @ 89:
But there are millions who know exactly what's going on. We're part of it, along with netroots groups like MoveOn and so forth. Why there's been no attempt to hold mass demonstrations on the scale of a hundred thousand people or more, I haven't the slightest; I'd like to see one before the end of this year.
I'm not advocating a revolution here. Demonstrations can be and of principle should be bloodless. But they ought to be awesome enough to belie the threat of future violence.
19% approval. Sweet revenge.
Alot of you probably don't realize that the telecoms haven't exactly been the ones pushing for their own immunity.
Ask the question, in who's interest is it really to have the telecoms gain immunity, and you'll have alot more questions but some answers.
Liberal AND Proud @ 30:
Hahahahahahaha!!! Thanks for the laughs! Amazing how far chimps have come, huh?
How to become fabulously wealthy beyond your wildest imagination
by George W. Bush.
Bonus Chapters.
Playing Dumb
Distracting stupid people
Things to do with your trillions.
danger @ 108:
Immunity means they don't have to turn over documents with signatures. So we don't know who needs to be housed in a Federal Penitentiary.
danger @ 108:
Yep, the telecoms know they don't need immunity. They've technically done nothing wrong. Under the FISA law the govt can demand the information and they have 3 days to provide the warrant. If the govt doesn't provide the warrant, the govt is liable, not the telcos. Its all about evidence that'd be gathered that could be used against the Admin.
I say the congress should come up with a bill that offers the telcos 'use immunity' meaning they cant be prosecuted but they got to testify. That should meet the 'stated' requirements of Bush & Co. Lets see em squirm outta that.
United States of Assholes
Bush actually has pulled it off! 8Years! Laughing all the way to the bank.
Man oh man
Our "sound economy" my butt. The DOW right now is down over 230 points for the day.
I just heard Sen. Dorgan say that companies (sorry didn't hear which ones) are buying oil storage places. Why? They buy barrels of oil and store it until the prices get higher, then they sell it.
Seems to me that something should be done about that.
Oblomov. @ 96:
Along with the song playing over and over in his head... Poopoopanana! You're not the boss of me!!! I'll do whatever I want. Just watch me! Petulant spoiled brat, totally unconcerned with the havoc he's wreaked on the world. Bar and GWH are pitiful parents! Their little pyschopath is a murderer.
RueMorgue @ 106:
These people don't respond to the "threat" of future violence, that's why we need ACTUAL violence NOW! Look, peaceful demonstrations are fine and dandy if you have an Administration that responds to the will of the people but it has been made clear, time and time again, that the Bush Administration DOES NOT CARE what you think so out only recourse is to smash they're heads in with fucking rocks.
Off-topic, please repost C&L:
BREAKING: Russia to falsify election of Mendvdev
Goddamit. This has got to fucking end.
01-20-2009
325 Days 13 hours away
RueMorgue @ 106:
Make sure you gather quietly in the "free speech zones".
We should all pray to our saviour du jour that when he made George W Bush, he made him an idiot. Do you have ANY idea what the USA would be like if he was smart and capable? Brrrr - I shiver just thinking about it. So, sure: Bush will continue to fumble and dodge and fuck things up. Luckily, the Pentagon has sat on him hard enough that bombing the crap out of Iran is pretty much off the table, and with the Democrats (if feeble) opposition, he really can't do too much more damage. He reminds me of an employee who has fucked up so many projects but is of such high status they can't fire him. So, they put him on "special projects" where he gets to sit at a desk and pretend he's doing something for a living.
We are extremely fortunate that Bush is a stupid incompetent boob. If he had any real skills at the job, we'd all be soooo utterly screwed. As it is, we're merely in excessively deep doo doo that will take a generation to undo. If he had an IQ over room temperature, we'd be facing a catastrophe of epic and historic proportions (on the level of the failure of Rome, or the genocide of Native America from smallpox, etc.) Instead, the Middle East is a disaster, but a localised one, and the USA is simply insolvent. (as of Feb 27trh, the nations non-borrowed reserves were at -17.259 billion dollars. Proof? Federal Reserve Aggregate Reserve Report.
If Bush was competent and smart, the gov't wouldn't be broke, but the 2004 election would have been suspended, the press wouldn't exist, and the USA would truly be the Orwellian nightmare that Bush wants it to be, but is too much of a fuck up to make happen.
so when you see news conferences like this, and Bush makes an ass of himself, as usual, rejoice. and count the days to his eviction.
)
L.A. Confidential @ 99:
I saw that as well. In addition, gold is at roughly $970 an ounce. In fact, all commodities are are record prices and increasing while the dollar falls. Its interesting that people do not see the relation. When commodities rise dramatically the costs of those goods that are used to produce other goods (I.E. wheat into bread) are passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices at the grocery or some other store.
This to along with all of Bush's policies are just another example of his legacy that we will all have to live with for a long time to come.
Tweakerbell @ 119:
I got news for you. Your owned.
Liberal AND Proud @ 118:
Not like those would be enforceable in a massive, meaningful demonstration without escalating into violence the police would want to avoid.
Anyone know where I can get a blueprint of George Bush's brain? I'm building an idiot.
Joe O. @ 120:
They don't care about legacy. It's about Power and Money. And they have been technically 100% successful at achieving their agenda.
The continual consolidation of money, wealth, assets and power into higher, tighter, and righter hands.
Mission Accomplished.
Joe O. @ 120:
Oh, and that is the part I left out in my other tirade. Even if your investment portfolio, including your home, were increasing in value...they are still backed by a declining asset. The U.S. dollar.
So, essentially...you're fucked on both ends.
And you didn't even get kissed.
I know...Let's all SIIIING!!!
GAWWWWWD Bless A..mericaaaa...Laaaand...that I loooooooove...
RueMorgue @ 122:
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Jeezus. This guy is RETARDED. He's a frikkin moron !
I mean, this is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and he doesnt know his ass from his elbow ! Can anyone say "Figurehead" ??
He is a good little rich boy who was set up to do as he was told so the real leaders of the GOP can get on with whatever they want.
Can our good friends please make sure the next ballot doesnt get hijacked this time so the real president (IE: a Democratic Party president) can actually win this time and bring the States back from the brink of fascism ??
Im not American, but when I was a kid in the 70's, we loved everything about the States, you were the GOOD GUYS....not any more....please please please undo all the damage these fascists have done these past 8 years so the rest of us can believe in you again..... no more bullshit wars, no more environmental ignorance, no more 1984 suspension of basic human rights, no more supporting of specialist interest groups (IE: the rich) at the expense of the common man, no more torture (!!!), no more abu ghraib, no more vote fixing, no more no more no more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you just know that RIAA and MPAA are soon gonna demand sovereign immunity too, for their own vast part in all of this and their own myriad crimes.
Liberal AND Proud @ 125:
The Blog O' Matic revolution!
And did you notice that in a diferent moment he said he wasn;t too familiar with that new Russion fella because he was spending all his time concentrating on other problems, like the price of gas.
OIL HITS $103 A BARREL!!!
Sigh @ 130:
He just spews shit out...cause no one calls him on it. He has found the perfect job. He's gotten to the top of the mountain, so since there's no other place for his family friends to put him...he's just left there and allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants. I mean...he ain't hurtin' their investments...so they don't care. They certainly don't give a shit if the average American gets fucked over.
I don't know why, but this post made me think that W is starting to remind me more and more of Bagdad Bob.
All Hail American Idol!
fwffavvg @ 131:
$200 a barrel within a year and half is no longer unreasonable.
Hell...pick a freakin' number...you'd probably be right.
RueMorgue @ 122:
I think there are enough examples in recent history (though not all in the US) that
"police" are not all that interested in avoiding violence. I believe there was an instance in Canada in which "undercover police" marched with the masses and were the ones who actually started the violence by throwing rocks - and lots of citizens who were peacefully marching to protest the government were injured or jailed.
I cannot see how a peaceful march of millions would be possible - as I previously mentioned - Blackwater and other "police" shock troops would find a way to instigate.
Rocks don't work too well against automatic weapons, tasers, water cannons, gas, etc.
I'm not diasgreeing that a massive demonstration might be a good thing, I just don;t see it happening. But of course, you would be free to organize and lead one. Let me know where and when.
L.A. Confidential @ 134:
If you mean George Bush...then I think you mean...the American Idle.
Amitola @ 136:
It's a cliche...but the fact is...it is true. Freedom isn't FREE. Freedom costs. Democracy costs. It requires vigilance, particpation and FUCKING PAYING ATTENTION.
Ooops, sorry, I got sooooo confused by his dazzling rhetoric, it was the library that he wasn't paying attention to so he could fix gas prices.
Cheney smiles. His puppet dances and distracts the public while he and his PNAC buddies count their money.
Mission Accomplished.
(while clicking heels together): "not a resheshun . . not a resheshun . . not a resheshun"
fwffavvg @ 63:
Right, sure -- all the protests in the late '60s REALLY changed this country, didn't they? All the riots in '68. We got 2 terms of NIXON. We finally got out of Vietnam in '75. Then we got EDSEL, er, FORD -- who pardoned the DICK. Then Carter was blamed for everything which led to RayGun...and look at where we are now!
RueMorgue @ 117:
How's that domino theory of democracy working out for ya George?
I think they made a mistake casting Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump. George Bush is a much better actor and plays a much more convincing retard.
They need to give academy awards for speeches like this. It should be a category next year.
curtilingus @ 144:
Dude, he's NOT acting.
IMPEACH THE BASTARD, PLEASE!
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
George Bush = F*cking Idiot
BTW -- he looked like a total chimp when the suck-up press wasn't sucking up to him anymore. That spooky evil laugh. Now the press is asking relevent questions? Both are pathetic.
I will be the first one to condemn the press if they overboard on President Obama.
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