Here. In the United States of America.
Sure, fine. But they have the right motives for their fascist behavior, namely, the Greater Good. And if individual Americans continue to presume they are free to break from the goodliness of the community and express their own thoughts, in direct defiance of the wishes of the benevolent State, should they not be called out for such a deliberate attempt at undermining the State’s greater glory?
Of course they should. You can’t have social justice without a little tyranny to enforce the right tolerances and punish the wrong ones. So suck it up. In the end, you’ll thank us, comrades!
(h/t Mark Levin)
Insurance executives are some tough bastards. They should get together and do a whistle-blowing piece and some public service announcements.
Intimidation tactics from The Man will not be tolerated.
This is why I screen my calls.
You can’t have social justice without a little tyranny to enforce the right tolerances and punish the wrong ones.
It’s not tyranny, it’s…guidance. Like a little nudge from a doting mother.
In a perfect world, there would be outrage. Instead, we have half the population getting “free” stuff and another chunk who so disconnected they couldn’t be bothered, plus, of course, the true believers. None of this will sink in until these people are lying on a cot in a dirty hospital waiting for an x-ray that had to be scheduled a year in advance–because, you know–fairness! Then it will be too late.
Someday an 80 year old man is going to drag himself into a near comatose Nancy Pelosi’s hospital room and pull her plug because the man’s wife was refused cancer treatment. The left/press will finally have their proof that the Tea Party was a danger and deserved to be nipped in the bud.
Someday an 80 year old man….
– I don’t have any family member thats been refused treatment, and I havn’t reached 80 years yet, but I can think of an almost endless list of reasons I’d be more than willing to volunteer for “Pull the plug on Pilosi duty.”
– I’d love to be there and watch as the life force drained from those black hearted lying eyes.
* DEATH THREAT *
– The Lefties need to get used to it, theres a lot of that in their futures.
yeah, I thought hmnisteve might appreciate a fantasy to add to his list.
Poor Drew better bend over and get ready for that IRS probe now.
Just watched the video, and it seems like 404Care is nothing more than the Broken Window Fallacy applied to health insurance (as distinguished from health care). “What? You lost your policy? Well, just think of how lucky you are to get to pick out a new policy with all the stuff you decided (in your ignorance, but Teh Won won’t hold that against you in His Beneficence) you really didn’t need, like maternity care for grandparents, and abortions for Catholic nuns!”
I actually heard James Carville say (in defending this) “You can call a bike a car, but if it doesn’t have four wheels and an engine, it ain’t really a car!”. Ignored the fact that there are a non-trivial portion of the populace who like bicycles, especially when they can’t afford the government-mandated car with gold-plated rims and Blaupunkt stereo, and the wheels that point in four different directions. But now that the government has confiscated their bicycles (in the name of “fairness”, because no one should be able to leave their house without paying gas taxes), the world is a great big fish!
New “glitch”: If you like your hospital, you might not be able to keep your hospital
I listened to that last night, Drum. Carville really liked his stupid analogy since he must have used it three times over two segments.
Repetition being the beating heart of functional propaganda, so no wonder.
Under totalitarian tyranny or aristocracy, a tiny group is free, powerful and wealthy while the overwhelming majority are oppressed and poor.
Under progressivism it’s the other way around. See, under progressivism, it’s the overwhelming majority which is oppressed and poor, while the tiny elite is free, powerful and wealthy.
“Under Capitalism, Man exploits his fellow Man. Under Communism, it’s exactly the other way around.” — J.K.Galbraith
heh, Jim.
Revealed: Number of Persons Enrolled In Obamacare on First Day? Six
if you don’t have anything nice to say about the obamacares you shouldn’t say nothing at all
food stamp has feelings you know
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>food stamp has feelings you know<
how much when he's all choomed
Trackbacks haven’t really been working lately, dammit.
Anyway…Quoted from and linked to at:
La Cosa Obama To Insurers: Nice Company Ya Got Dere…
I’d like the tea party candidates, but the TV says they want the government in my bedroom. So, I’m going to vote for the candidates who are destroying this country.
This government is going to want to be in your bedroom too.
They’re going to want to make sure you’re fornicating or intoxicating or x-boxing. Just so long as you’re not thinking, or worse yet, organizing.
right Jim, I am always reminded of some Brazilians I worked with delivering pizzas. They thought Brazil was more free because they could drink in public (on the street). OK, so why are you here delivering pizzas to a-hole college students?
If liberty does not refer to economic freedom, what the hell does it refer to?
The thing about analogies is they’re all false. Every last one.
But some are worse than others. An analogy between two cars is not so bad as an analogy between bicycles and cars with types of healthcare. It is so illogical, as you know, there is a word for the fallacy, the fallacy of the false analogy.
* There is no relevance between health insurance types and bicycles and cars. None.
* Both amount and variety differ greatly. One is a deeply intrusive and pervasive government intrusion and the other is not.
* The number of characteristics shared between the two sets is nil.
The comparison is ridiculous. The argument is ridiculous. The person who makes the argument is ridiculous. The thing being defended is ridiculous.
I had a minor epiphany while laying in bed trying to digest several dozen fun sized Twix bars.
I’ve been obsessing over the Insurance part and not the control part of Obama care.
The Steves of this country don’t give one shit whether anyone has healthcare or not. What is thrilling them is the complete control the left will have over the whole population of the country. After 2014 when just about everyone with a pulse will have to choose a policy, conditions are going to be put on eligibility. All of our behavior will be viewed through the lens of “healthcare” what kind of mileage does your car get? what is your thermostat set at? Are there any guns in the house? What kinds? Have you had an argument recently with your spouse? Children? Do you use public transportation?
You get the idea.
Single payer was never the issue. Total subjugation is.
Steve is right to be smug. We’re well on our way.
eligibility isn’t the right word……………………………..compliance.
what do ya want for 2:00Am
Mueller says November 1, 2013 at 12:56 am
True. True.
Two biggies you left out:
Are you obese? Are your children obese? That will be the big bludgeon.
I’ve always been more of a metaphor guy
Mueller, if you’d really like to make your lefty friends’ eyes bug out, hit them with this one simple little headline: “Congress confirms Secretary of Health and Human Services Rick Santorum.”
New Girl looked like she’d been punched when I laid that one on her yesterday.