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DNC Video: “The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To”

Talk about your political tone deafness. We belong to the government? And here I thought it belonged to us.

Oh, well. I guess when the personal is the political, the only legitimate opt out from a voracious centralized government that claims for itself increasing control of every aspect of your life is death.

— And which point you vote Democrat, anyway.

May as well just lie back and think of England.

(h/t Drew M, via nr)

108 Replies to “DNC Video: “The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To””

  1. sdferr says:

    So the human species isn’t a thing. Nor is the earth on which the human species has developed. Nor is the sun which warms our bones, nor the vast universe beyond the sun.

  2. geoffb says:

    Sorry, I don’t “belong” to the State. We own them as was said somewhere.

  3. BigBangHunter says:

    Reposted: (Because we all know how much better off we are in spite of our lying eyes.)

    – Along with the Deficit clock that passed the 16 trillion mark just as the opening gavel fell at the DNC, here’s something else you won’t see flashed on the jumbo TV screens at the DNC.

  4. newrouter says:

    repost from last night

    The Obsolete Man

    video

    link

  5. Pablo says:

    If DC is my Daddy, then I’m the third Menendez twin.

  6. alppuccino says:

    What about those of us who don’t belong anywhere and like it that way.

    What if unique were a turn on? (h/t Albert Brooks)

    That really is the crux, isn’t it? “You are nothing by yourself.”

  7. Abe Froman says:

    It’s pretty much inevitable that one day we’ll have to club all these fuckers like baby seals.

  8. Jim in KC says:

    Your federal family is all you need.

  9. BigBangHunter says:

    – If people are still confused about what America will look like should Obama win term just think of us as “Big Greese”.

    – Greese is only staying afloat by the handouts of the Euro bloc, mainly Germany. By the time of the elections in November it will peobably be over the cliff in all out civil war.

    – That is not a path I will go down without a fight.

  10. newrouter says:

    let’s have a group hug!!

  11. BigBangHunter says:

    – Two minorities walk into a club…..

  12. McGehee says:

    It’s pretty much inevitable that one day we’ll have to club all these fuckers like baby seals.

    Can I laugh more maniacally for them than I do for the baby seals?

    I just think they’d appreciate it more than the little furballs do.

  13. @PurpAv says:

    Leave it to the Demtards to conflate nation and regime. Regimes come and go, the people remain after regimes fall.

  14. sdferr says:

    “I’m from the Government and I’m here to club you with the only thing you all belong to.”

  15. newrouter says:

    Mitt Romney

    @MittRomney

    We don’t belong to government, the government belongs to us.

    link

  16. Abe Froman says:

    It really is like they’re on a mission to turn Jonah Goldberg into a prophet. I get Liberal Fascism douchechills more and more every day from these creeps.

  17. BigBangHunter says:

    – Not that I generally give a damn what foreigners think about anything, but I’ve heard it said that all of the other contries that are non-Socialist see whats been going on here for the last 4 years and think America has officially lost its mind.

  18. Abe Froman says:

    I can see how people from various formerly-oppressed nations would think that. I mean, here you have a party which has literally nothing to run on save for their projections of how conservatives think, yet their own social scientists have produced mountains of research indicating that we have an infinitely stronger grasp of our opposition than they do. All this crap about dog whistles and our being anti-woman while calling every accusation about Obama a lie makes you wonder why they hate social science so much?

  19. newrouter says:

    baracky be doubling down on the stupid

  20. BigBangHunter says:

    – The new definition of “lie” is any fact the Left hates.

  21. […] -Jeff Goldstein: May as well just lie back and think of England. […]

  22. OCBill says:

    So I guess Reagan had it exactly backwards. No wonder he was so unpopular.

  23. JimK says:

    I think this year it’s “go for broke” or as it is commonly referred to as “going for Baroke”. Let it all hang out for the country to see that the Dems truly are the party of Communism and socialism and that fascism is the wave of the future. We are all Julia. Geeez.

  24. Merovign says:

    They’re just trying to get their “boot that stamps on a human face forever” on, to shore up the base.

  25. StrangernFiction says:

    Nah, there not commies.

  26. StrangernFiction says:

    *they’re not commies

    sheesh

  27. OCBill says:

    Sometimes you just have to force people to understand. For their own good. And the children.

  28. Abe Froman says:

    They’re too stupid to know whether or not they’re commies. The left is just a gassy plume of emotive bullshit. Commies are just liberals in a hurry, and it’s hard to not notice that they’ve been especially frenzied since the advent of Obama. Who ever thought they’d see the day when publications like Newsweek would suddenly have the balls to assert that we’re all socialists now? Now that’s suddenly inconvenient again, so the turtle is back in its shell for the moment.

  29. BigBangHunter says:

    – No, they’re really not, They’re just confused children that don’t recognize they’re being played out onto pleasure island.

    – But they’ll know when their ears and tails begin to grow, just how much the koolaide of dependency has cost them their civil linerties.

    – They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they’ll listen now.

  30. Abe Froman says:

    I’m more inclined to agree with Goldberg that something resembling totalitarianism here would better resemble a Huxleyan vision than an Orwellian one, but we really don’t have a clue about the depths to which they’ll fall. I wish I had a dollar for everything that my liberal friends and I agreed were asinine 10-15 years ago, yet they now believe are perfectly normal. It’s hard to have much generosity of spirit for people who think it’s anything but lunacy to operate on people to change their sex.

  31. “They gonna put y’all in chains!” — Joe Biden

    Kind of reminds me of Brian telling everyone that they are all individuals and everyone in the crowd says in unison, “We are all individuals.” And then one guy says, “I’m not.”

  32. sdferr, I changed that aphorism years ago to, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help… myself.”

  33. It takes a village, in the same way that it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

  34. sdferr says:

    heh, apt.

  35. One more, apparently it is the government saying, “All your (insert noun) belong to us!”

  36. Abe Froman says:

    It takes a village, in the same way that it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

    Stealing that.

  37. “If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams

    Yeah, this one has me quite annoyed.

  38. BigBangHunter says:

    – The total lack of any meaningful demonstartions at either the RNC, or at least so far at the DNC, might at first glance seem dissapointing.

    – But it might also underscore the general lack of interest in the Dem base. You know, that thing they’re busy denying while they’re out doing fund raisers every day of the campaign, and having to bus in moonbats to fill empty seats.

  39. palaeomerus says:

    A lot of us “individuals” are doing pretty shitty and in almost four years it has stayed that way and it’s about to get worse as 2nd term consequences of “affordable health care” start to hit and probably cost more of us jobs and simultaneously raise some of our “taxes”. The government is doing great though! They’ve never flown quite so high! So vote for the party of more government! Or vote for the guy who invented Romneycare. Your choice. For the moment. We’ll probably have that taxed away from us too eventually.

  40. rjacobse says:

    Dear DNC,

    Get stuffed.

  41. BigBangHunter says:

    – I hope they’re all deleriously happy, because whether they know it or not the Democratic party just signed its own death warrent.

  42. newrouter says:

    mrs. o is going to luv that house in hawaii

  43. newrouter says:

    i see white peeps

  44. Ernst Schreiber says:

    It’s like they’re just daring us to turn them out of office, isn’t it?

  45. leigh says:

    M’chelle is lying her ass off in this speech.

    And that’s a lot of ass.

  46. newrouter says:

    does it sound better with the audio on

  47. palaeomerus says:

    Good paying IMAGINARY government jobs! Union jobs! And an IOU for a chicken in every pot. Well, a half chicken because you’re fat. And why are you cooking that chicken in a pot? Don’t you know that roasted or baked chicken is healthier.

  48. newrouter says:

    what no fried chicken in every pot?

  49. Ernst Schreiber says:

    The people who dreamed this one up must be the same people who came up with the United Ways “Diversity, it’s what we have in common!” message.

    Gotta be.

  50. newrouter says:

    an ivy league education on display

  51. palaeomerus says:

    Michelle Obama: Barack knows that it means when a family struggles. That’s why he dumped a shit load of public money into failing solar energy companies and told you to deal with high gas prices with a tire gauge. That’s why we aren’t drilling for our own oil and paying Brazil to do it instead! And that’s why we need a cap and trade energy tax!

    Joe Biden: Whoo! I like this cheese! Have you guys TRIED this cheese? Mmm. You guys are lucky as heck to have a government that makes cheese this good! I swear!

    Shepards Crook comes out and jerks Joe off stage.

    Michelle Obama: America LOVES smaller more efficient cars! And Organic arugula! Barack loves the middle class! He knows their pain! And he’s the same man I loved back when I was a marxist doofus who had never been proud of this country! And he doesn’t care if you’re a democrat and a republican and there’s no “us and them” with them!

  52. newrouter says:

    i’m watching the feed on fox. i like the ping pong of black-white- black -aisan -black- hispanic

  53. palaeomerus says:

    “what no fried chicken in every pot?”

    You wanna denounce yourself or do you want me to do it for you? BTW your campaign for the Missouri senate is over. Not even if you were tied!

  54. palaeomerus says:

    Meh. Banana pudding is more of a barbecue side or endless salad bar thing.

  55. palaeomerus says:

    She’s doing that “almost crying” voice that you see a lot in televangelist shows.

  56. palaeomerus says:

    Okay I’m voting for Romney now. I just am. I’ve chosen my samurai executioner and it ain’t Obama.

  57. palaeomerus says:

    Joe Biden: ” María Eva Duarte de Perón everybody! Isn’t she great? Nobody loves hercountry like she can! Give it up of her! I wanna see you ladies throwin’ panties up on the stage alright? Ha Haah! Oh, wait! I mean Michelle. Michelle Obama. What was I thinking huh? Eva Perón Sheesh! O’l Hoe foot in his mouth Biden does it again huh? Heh Heh! “

  58. newrouter says:

    i denounce kfc

  59. newrouter says:

    white guy too

  60. Alright, another true SCOTS fan.

  61. geoffb says:

    A new poster should be out any day now.

    Uncle Barry sez [pointing straight at you] “I Want You – to belong to – The Government!

  62. palaeomerus says:

    I remember their pointy-boots oatmeal pie song being on the radio. I was always more of a Rev. Horton Heat fan though, probably because I saw his band live a few times. And he mixed up with novelty country-swing songs like “There ain’t no Saguaro in Texas.”

  63. sdferr says:

    Or mebbe some Tequila with a Rock Candy chaser?

  64. Ernst Schreiber says:

    For the children geoff.

    Do it [blink blink] for the children [sniff].

  65. palaeomerus says:

    Merle in 2009 and me now a ‘days. Except I don’t sing so good and my beard looks like crap.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv61zBZacpo&feature=related

  66. leigh says:

    Pala, that’s a pretty dead-on imitation of Biden. I’m scared.

  67. sdferr says:

    How long since you had a steamin’ bowl a Voodoo Chile?

  68. palaeomerus says:

    It’s easy Leigh. I just hold my breath and just as I start to grey out I start typing.

  69. geoffb says:

    OT: Stacy McCain and the ever so adorable Barrett B.

  70. newrouter says:

    twilight zone ep

    two

    vid

    link

  71. palaeomerus says:

    Texas just ain’t got ’em. It’s a bummer but they ain’t. Trust me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pnBG7XJQw

    Bonus dietary advice:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQynViAF6Ds&feature=related

  72. BigBangHunter says:

    – So what I got from that was she loves her husband, because, like her, he gamed the AA system for all it was worth, and so we all, including the 23 million Americans whose job’s he didn’t save so he could save the GM unions 1 million jobs, and the 46.7 million on foodstamps, the 13 million whose homes are under water, and gawd knows how many that are on permenant welfare, shou;d all love him tooooooo. (she’s got the Obama ‘I must be authentic because I stutter so well for effect’ stutter down to an art, and yeh, i-i-it’s the Baptist minister dealio.)

    – But then again, I’m probably just not used to my new government issued ‘freedom suit’ in orange.

  73. newrouter says:

    foodstamps = racist for the physics challenged

  74. newrouter says:

    funny to watch two grifters in the “white” house

  75. sdferr says:

    “. . . we are playing a long game here.”

    She can say that again, as if we didn’t know? At least make it interesting and call it what it is: The Long Con.

  76. sdferr says:

    “Obama’s Favorable Rating Now Underwater” says the headline.

    Yep, right along with Mary Jo Kopechne.

  77. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Underwater with the all important (to Democrats) women voters too. Down 9 points from 57 to 48.

    But that’s still 2 points higher than Mitt Romney’s favorable rating. So, there’s that.

    Never mind the margin of error.

  78. Jeff G. says:

    Some shit going down between Barrett Brown and Stacy McCain that evidently I’m supposed to be interested in. Not sure what the deal is. Brown’s Twitter feed is BarrettBrownLOL or some such. You all probably already follow Stacy.

    I’m drinking beer and watching TV with my wife. So let me know what happens, you who might be interested in such stuff.

  79. BigBangHunter says:

    – Doesn’t matter. If Massive ears isn’t able to carry everyone of the percentages in demographics he did last time out it will be a blood bath.

    – And don’t think they don’t know that.

  80. palaeomerus says:

    If Obama gets a big bounce from this I will throw up and keep the vomit in a shoe box as a valuable artifact of these troubled times.

    In 2022 I will ask my nervous dinner guests if they want to see my 2nd term Obama-vomit from ten years ago and I’ll say something like “Don’t worry, it’s all dried out and odorless. It looks kind of like Sanka and Tang had a chemical engineering baby only it came out of my mouth and nose. “

  81. Darleen says:

    I’m so happy I was on soccer-practice duty for the twins tonight. Great excuse to sit outside and listen to a gaggle of 9 year olds yelling at each other to “kick it! kick it!” Tons more entertaining then the cranks and inmates at the asylum called DNC2012.

    I’m wondering if any one here was taken with El-Lay’s own Mayor Tony V … didn’t you love his bumbling fumbling mispronunciations? His rambling, never get to the point and Oh Look SQUIRREL stuff?

    Hey boys and girls, that’s not schtick. That’s the most failed mayor evah.

    There’s a reason he tried to pass the bar four times and never made it.

    If ever there was an affirmative-action politico, a pawn of the labor unions that have shoved him down the throats of constituents, it’s the lovely Tony V.

  82. Darleen says:

    I did listen to some clips of earlier DNC speakers

    Harry Reid blaming everything on Tea Party people who MUST BE STOPPED!

    Some chick extolling the virtues of tax payer abortion on demand, cuz Barry supports ALL mothers & daughters (just not the aborted ones or the ones left in a closet to die)

    … and oh, Sandra Fluke was SO BRAVE!

    argh

  83. Ernst Schreiber says:

    If ever there was an affirmative-action politico, a pawn of the labor unions that have shoved him down the throats of constituents, it’s the lovely Tony V.

    Then he’s a lock for first hispanic president.

  84. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Some chick extolling the virtues of tax payer abortion on demand, cuz Barry supports ALL mothers & daughters

    What about the mothers who aborted their daughters?

  85. BigBangHunter says:

    – While we’re on the subject there’s a kerfluffle over at Huff’n’Poop. They tried running a rumor to counter the removal of Isreal from the platform, and the Jewish AIPAC group is calling it total lies.

    – Comments are really not what the crystal star chamber was looking for, so they’ll undoubtedly pull it down fast.

  86. palaeomerus says:

    “I’m drinking beer and watching TV with my wife. So let me know what happens, you who might be interested in such stuff.”

    I’m sure Stacy McCain will be fine.

    He’s got that whole nifty “Akin sucks and anyone who supports him is stupid and it’s his fault we won’t gain the senate ’cause he won’t roll up and play ball when commanded to by his team inevitable betters who need to him to take one for the team while they shoot flames and angry bees at him.” cantrip to protect him from harm and misfortune.

    Nothing bad can happen if you are repeating that over and over again. Everyone knows that but the bottom 20% of visigoths and hobbits who can’t be helped. (The fabled ‘Omega quintile’ of the right built to hold Birchers, Buchannonites, Paulites, and their unhelpful ilk apart from the acceptable GOP population. It’s like Yucca mountain for those who can’t abandon non-pragmatic concepts the party has discarded after their lack of current utility has been recognized by the K street wizards of smart.)

    And Anonymous is mostly DOS-script kiddies anyway.

  87. BigBangHunter says:

    ‘Akin – The conservative zombie that just wouldn’t die.’

  88. palaeomerus says:

    and their unhelpful ilk = Reaganites, Goldwaterists, Tea Party aligned, so-cons…so far.

  89. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I think nailing BB to the wall like that forgives a lot of debts.

  90. newrouter says:

    you know if “we” win big time there must be an all out push to put the fed gov’t back to 1996 levels.

    to the clinton levels

  91. BigBangHunter says:

    “….that asks the question….How in the hell do you lose 585 million dollars in a start up? What the hell were they doing, equiping the bathrooms with gold toilet paper.”

    – The mind just reels.

  92. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Between the executive compensation and the bloated managerial payroll, the baksheesh for the locals and the campaign contributions to national Democrats, you’d be surprised, BBH, how little half a billion dollars is these days.

  93. BigBangHunter says:

    – Well yes, our money is next to useless already in some ways, but damn. I’ve been involved in startups in higher tech, much higher tech than solar panels, where test equipment could run a quarter million at a crack but damn, that’s just unbelievable.

  94. BigBangHunter says:

    – Anyway, heres some DNC cockroach scattering.

  95. Car in says:

    Did I miss Sandra Fluke?

  96. […] Jeff says: “We belong to the government? And here I thought it belonged to us.” Yeah, it was […]

  97. Honest to God, it does look like they are going to double, triple down, no – go all in on “you didn’t build that”. This really could get sickening.

  98. leigh says:

    No, Carin. I believe she and the Big Dawg are up tonight.

  99. Mikey NTH says:

    So ‘1984’ was a how-to manual?

    Things I was never taught in high school…

  100. leigh says:

    That’s funny Mikey. I was thinking it’s more like “Brave New World” with all the sex and no babies.

  101. sdferr says:

    “Honest to God, it does look like they are going to double, triple down, no – go all in on “you didn’t build that”. This really could get sickening.”

    Which is part and parcel of the difficulty of reading the leftists for intention.

    Is it the case on the one hand that in order to preach “you didn’t build that” they would have had to have “gone all in” from the get go, believing they actually had hold of a truth, which, if premised, would necessitate that as a truth it would run through the relations of all things at all times? (And given the commonplace stupidity of many a leftist, this doesn’t seem too far fetched.)

    Or, on the other hand, is the contention of “you didn’t build that” so stupid, so askew with the everyday world — which world we think no-one can avoid — that the leftist can’t be supposed to be so dumb as to believe the premise (ever), hence, the “you didn’t build that” premise is and can only be from their view an efficient means to an end quite apart from the “social” message they pretend to hold (the end being, namely, power).

    Maybe on second thought, it isn’t so hard to distinguish as at first it might appear?

  102. McGehee says:

    Which is part and parcel of the difficulty of reading the leftists for intention.

    For leftists, “intentions” are what they put into their disastrous policies to protect themselves from the negative political consequences thereof.

    Intending anything coherent in their messages is beyond their ken. They don’t think before they speak, lest they give up the element of surprise.

    Which is why they love Biden so much.

  103. sdferr says:

    Heh.

    Maybe the simplest thing is to revert to the ancient distinction: deeds vs. words.

  104. Swen says:

    No, No, NO! This is the Obama administration. It’s “two chickens and some pot!”

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