My post last evening inspired some truly nice work from several readers — so much so that I’ve determined to simply reprise the concentrated lies of the pro-Obama commenter, then let the links I’ll place on his words do the rest of the work for us.
This kind of literal deconstruction of a false, manufactured reality by way of binary code riding around the ether just kind of speaks to my sense of irony.
Obama has doubled the stock market to 11-year highs, taken employment from 760,000 per month of job LOSSES to 150,000 per month GAINS; (4.9 million new jobs in the last 30 months, 1 million this year so far) Obama ended the Iraq War and is getting us OUT of Afghanistan; captured and killed Osama Bin Laden and Khadaffi and 23 of the top 30 Arab terrorist leaders, saved GM and Chrysler,* took us from the Bush Depression to positive economic growth with 2-3% real growth projected for this year, gotten us to be an OIL EXPORTER for the first time in 60 years; turned housing around from its Bush Crash, has gotten MANUFACTURING on the upswing, reduced the deficit in every year since Bush’s last deficit, and has been in charge while business profits and cash go to record highs, and has more Mexicans LEAVING than entering the USA. And he has made us an OIL EXPORTER!
There. Have fun passing it around.
Oh, we sort of skipped one:
On Qaddafi: How Libya Got Off the List
So, how’s that whole thing working out?
“Oh, we sort of skipped one”
Dang, y’know, that reminds me — so did ablublud!
He forgot to mention how Obama closed the Guantanamo Bay War Prisoner detention camp, and put Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other 9-11 terrorists on trial in New York City, bringing the murdering bastards to trial and conviction through the most perfect civil justice system the world has ever seen.
To debunk the statists, you can pretty much just quote whole websites these days. Here’s Mike “Mish” Shedlock:
Unemployment Up in 44 States; New York Unemployment Highest Since 1983; No Improvement Nationally in 2012; Looking Ahead: What’s Next?
Labor Department $100 Million Giveaway to Stop State Layoffs
Retail Sales Rise? Not in California Where Sales Tax Collections Plunge Amazing 40% Year-Over-Year
Gary Shilling: US in Recession Now or Within 3 Months, Deleveraging Will Take 5-7 More Years
Zero Hedge:
Economic Outlook Drops To Lowest Of The Year As Inflation Expectations Surge
US Treasury Admits It Conducted A Circular Ponzi Scheme For Years
And so on and so on and so on. You can do this all day — the legacy media is stone corrupt and stone apathetic, what with the car crashes, celeb breakups, cat videos, and perpetual left-fluffing.
The deal is this:
All markets are rigged. Paper money is the biggest fraud in history. It, Keynesian “economics”, and socialism are perfect bedfellows. The Fed is run by the Exchange Stabilization Fund, which is to say the US Treasury. Global central banking and your friendly neighborhood central government are prepping to own and run damn near everything. Politics are the opiate of the masses. Cloward-Piven works.
Passed around as suggested. Fantastic summary of threadbare lies. Yet this is the rancid pablum you hear in my detested Clownifornia from otherwise “sane” people.
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It’s after the Ryan pick, and things look pretty good for choosing such a “controversial” figure. It appears the doomsayers have been denied their collapse of the campaign on account of promoting someone who -gasp- actually talks about entitlement reform, even if it’s too little.
So I was behind on a couple of podcasts, released before the Ryan pick, and I thought I would see just what the wizards of smart were advising. On a Ricochet podcast, the clowns respectfully queried Haley Barbour about what a wise choice would be. After stating a few bromides, Barbour declared that we don’t need to “jazz up” the ticket with an ideological figure. This wizard of smart thought, among others, that a great choice would be… Tom Ridge.
On a 3 Martini Lunch, Jim Geraghty mused that a possible Ryan pick would be exciting but -gasp- talking about entitlement reform is a loser, hence Ryan made him reluctant and nervous. How to address entitlement reform without discussing it was a question left not only unanswered but unasked by this wizard of smart.
Okay. Snap back to the present and how Ryan is playing. These GOP and elite media establishment types have proven one thing yet again: Their only purpose is to stab liberty in the back at every chance. Play it “safe,” don’t ask for too much change back to freedom and limited government. The last thing most Republicans and their friends with high profile media careers want is a return to classical liberalism and liberty. The only thing these leeches care about consistently is their careers. In a time when it has never been more needful and propitious to agitate for liberty, they want to avoid the hard work of selling liberty through persuasion and instead play the game of public relations and brand marketing.
Shorter version: Fuck you, Republican establishment. Insert Churchill anecdote about whores and prices.
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[…] Over at Jeff’s, and it truly is a thing of beauty. Personally, I rarely even bother to argue with them anymore; any time I read something as full of stark, raving bullshit as that comment was, I just suddenly feel so tired, y’know? […]
To be fair to the Ricochet guys, they like the Ryan pick. Some of their guests, not so much.
“The only thing these leeches care about consistently is their careers.”
The appeal of public choice theory (at least in the simple fashion I grasp what it holds — a very simple and probably incomplete fashion indeed) is that it recognizes this proposition as a kind of universal condition, and therefore one of which a full account must be given, and measures in mitigation taken.
Two words about Geraghty:
Security Moms
Yeah, some of the Ricochet guys like Ryan, this is true. But I have been avoiding listening to the latest Ricochet podcast featuring noted RINO enabler Mike Murphy, because this mealy-mouthed prick will probably not admit he was flat out wrong when he predicted on a previous podcast some months ago that the pick would be Rubio. He flatly said it was a done deal. Mike Murphy, consultant responsible for helping noted politicians like
nationally prominent Republicans as John McCain, Rick Lazio, Jeb Bush, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Spencer Abraham, Christie Whitman, Lamar Alexander, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was, until January 2006, an adviser to Mitt Romney
Forgive me if this lineup is less than reassuring to a conservative.
“2 1/4 hours before Ryan arrives and the line winds all the way around deep rings and out to the street.”
Right. Okay. A guy whose main way of being distinguished at a distance from Romney would be the fact he can look over Romney’s hair without standing on tiptoe.
Paul Ryan’s speech in Virginia.
While it’s mere velleity on my part, I think Ryan’s missing an awful lot of rhetorical opportunities when campaigning in Va. He mentions and cites Thomas Jefferson, but the list of men of the founding generation of Virginians and their many rhetorical flights on behalf of liberty can hardly be bested.
Mike Murphy is an answer in search of a question. He is part of the old thinking.
Tom Ridge
Just what?
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Joe Biden was right. This Administration HAS knocked us back into the 20th century. It’s 1978 again only this time with better computers and porn, movies, and TV shows you can watch at home, and little color-screen “phones” you can play angry birds or jawbreaker on.
Those are our “Nationally Prominent Republicans”?
The GOP needs never send me emails begging donations. I just don’t do well with potted plants.
If Tom Ridge is the answer you’ve got to wonder what kind of stupid-assed question was asked.
Damn you Outlaws and your pesky facts!
So, could somebody tell me why anyone is interested in a sequel to this?
– Well Danger, maybe it’s because they’re looking forward to the coming of the great and glorious Utopia.
Lefties are currently attempting to lambast Ryan for supporting Wisconsin efforts to offer grants to companies that eventually got stimulus funds, while claiming to have opposed the stimulus. I am getting a brain cramp just trying to follow the pretzel-squared logic.
They are trying to tilt the playing field.
They can just make crap up and post it, but if we research it and provide the corrections, we spend a hundred times as much on each lie as they do.
That’s why they seem so tireless, they’re not actually doing any work.