I have thought about this long and hard, and decided to ultimately cast lot with the Democrats this year. Cain Hammond Thaler will be voting for Obama.
I do not do this because I feel in any way that Obama will be good for the country, the planet, or yourselves. Actually, quite to the contrary:
I’m voting for Obama because I hate you.
Sitting here in my 9th floor office, I’ve watched and seethed for the last four years. And I confess myself rather a bitter man. More so because I called Obama’s fall from favor between some friends not the day after he won.
I said, “This guy’s not moderate at all. He’s gonna overreach and Republicans will sweep the mid-terms.” That’s as about verbatim as a non-recorded conversation can go.
You see folks – you bastards asked for this.
If I liked you; if I wanted to help; I would vote to get this clown out of office, because he’s hamstringing our economy by putting his hair-brained college buddies in charge of remaking the world in the image of a Harvard lounge room and neo-militant environmentalists in charge of policing the source of our heat and power.
But you see, looking out for someone is what you do when you care about them.
I saw this child dancing on a brick wall, and I said “hey, get down from there.”
And the child taunted back, “make me.”
So I warned, “you’re going to fall and hurt yourself.”
To which it retorted, “you are mean and a big bully. And you deserve to be hated by everyone.”
Fine, you know what you little degenerate? You’re not my kid, and your mother’s a whore. Dance 10 feet off the ground. Here are some fucking scissors to hold onto while you do it.
And you know what else? It’s too late.
I’ve seen the bond game the US is playing, and it’s all over. We’re toast. Shy of a technological revolution the likes to rival the industrial revolution, we’re not growing out of this issue. We’re defaulting. And then, all these precious little programs you lot think are as easy to manage as “voting for them” will go bye bye.
Away for fifty years – your Social Security savings are rather precariously being handled by con artists. You can pretend like the problems are small and can be papered over if you like.
But when the bond market finally rejects our auctions (look at the last two we held) and our favored “debt hiddy-holes” of China and Europe finally start trying to renationalize the paper…well folks, you’re going to see quite the spectacle here in the old US of A.
And when that sixty year old habitual smoker of a trailer trash wife has to start picking 2 out of 3 to spend her $200 SS checks on – milk, eggs, and smokes – (or worse, they just start defaulting on the program)…well I’ll tell you one thing I know.
I don’t want a Republican in office.
You see, I’d like to believe you’re smart enough to recognize that the last forty years of raw malinvestment and overpromising is the cause of this (it is dipshits, no one event whether war or housing busts caused this).
I’d like to believe that. But I know better.
Once things get hard, the 20-30% of you – I’m talking about those in Middle School who couldn’t point to Egypt on a map and, when looking for the state of New York on a globe, started by turning to the side with Western Russia – the same who are now preaching hope and love of mankind and being kind to the poor…you’ll be the first ones to turn on people.
And whichever political party is unfortunate enough to be in the command chair when that happens is going to get lambasted. We’re talking Roosevelt-sucker-punches-Hoover part II, and 20 years of political obscurity for the poor sons of bitches who get stuck with the bill.
Yeah, no thanks.
I’m guessing the fireworks get started in 2015-2016. I don’t want to have my ideology’s fingerprints anywhere on government when that happens. Because I love capitalism and don’t want an angry, flesh craving mob to take her down.
My only concern is that somehow Obama is able to take the Supreme Court in a second term. But I have to trust that the old men who currently keep us safe from manic liberals have the fortitude to keep on living. So that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
So I will be voting for Obama this November. Because you and he deserve one another. And because I’m not thinking about the next four years. I’m thinking about the next 40.
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Too worried about the Supreme Court to vote for Obama (and yes, I understand the point you are making here).
I understand fully. This is a calculated risk – if you don’t like it, you’ll get no lecture from me.
John Roberts was put in by a Bush. Your choice is no risk
IMO. This Nov is the very last chance for the US. If Obama somehow wins this fall, you will see conservatives of all inclinations do an Atlas Shrug on all future voting. In this Obama wins scenario, those next mid terms will sweep dems into both houses via the shrug. Then they get everything they ever wanted. The US is then California. Your envisioned scenario then takes place sooner rather than later.
Outstanding post….I equate this with getting on with it and flushing the turd that’s been circling the bowl for years.
I’m often curious as to why so many refuse to acknoweldge the logic AND arithmetic involved here. Yes, the game is drawing to a rapid conclusion. My timeline for the meltdown varies somewhat from yours, culminating in a 2014 debt-infused Ponzi top and concluding several decades later. Again, great post.
And guess who the nominee for Justice will be? Holder. Don’t laugh, the US Attorney General position is the stepping stone to the court.
there are 2 committee’s that are seeking to prosecute eric holder, and that “demerit” could prevent it. i say ,ha ha
2004 deja vu. My smug neighbor had a favorite quip back then: “I wanna see that devil Bush finish what he started! By the time he’s through, everyone will be a Democrat! Four more years!” Different sides of the same coin.
Yeah, but the difference is that, with the bonds, the game actually ends.
Very interesting thinking; I can’t really disagree with you.
Read the AARP publications- SS and Medicare just need a “tune-up”. The issues are fairly minor and can be corrected by proper voting. Are people really that dumb?
I will not be voting this year. I can’t support either candidate in good conscience. You would think that out of 300+ million people we could do better than the two that are running.
… when it becomes JUST YOU … alone in that voting booth …
… you will no more vote for Obama/Biden than I will vote Romney/Ryan !!!
YOU know it !
I know it !
Bob Dole knows it !
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Nice rant though !
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I will smuggle pictures of me voting for Obama out of the voting booth. Video if I can muster.
… please include in those pictures your Voter ID card …
and a copy of your Long-Form Birth Certificate !
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I’m good. How about just a video of me filling out the form, then sticking it in the box.
Yes, you “ain’t seen nothin” until all this comes home to roost with the middle and lower class masses.
I echo Jenkins here…too much at risk here to plunge deeper into Obama socialism, esp w the age/health issues of some of the justices. Don’t forget, this is our last chance at being rid of obamacare…
It’s a controlled detonation Caine. The President means nothing.
I agree up to a point, but here’s where I don’t:
The president is the fall guy.
… you would think the “boss” could at least spell your name correctly !
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“And whichever political party is unfortunate enough to be in the command chair when that happens is going to get lambasted. ”
Like FDR was as he deepened the great depression?
I thought about this, but recently I considered that FDR’s confiscation of all possible sources of wealth was pretty radical. And it deepened the recession. The depression was much different than the one in 1920 after the market fell 50%… and it fell even more… And everyone started hoarding cash so a force major was declared on gold…. FDR was rewarded with 3 terms and cursed with polio and the history books still love him.
It’s a liberal media. The journalists go to liberal arts schools…Doesn’t matter who is in office, republicans will still get the blame. Don’t worry though, ultimately the pendulum will swing back and forth between republicans and democrats until the whole system is scrapped and what we call money is nothing more than a digital encoding linked to your thumb print. Theft will not be the stealing of the wallet but the sample glasses of wine will be given by conartist who then will get your thumb print and identity, or else they will cut off your thumbs
People blamed the uninterrupted three GOP presidents. FDR got the endless benefit of the doubt. You can’t pull that when your guy’s in office before the big blow up.
Mind that I’m very focused here on the independents and their view of the world. I don’t need a plurality – just a 60% majority that can hold for a few decades.
Obama is re-elected and
1) he probably gets to fill 2 slots on Supreme Court
2) grants amnesty to all 10 million plus illegal immigrants who then vote Dem for a generation
Game over. We’re screwed.
Better to vote for Romney and see if he can do something to stop us from going off the cliff.
No way, most of the illegal immigrants here are the GOP’s natural allies. Strong fiscal and social conservatives, but who fled places like Venezuala and and Mexico and are scared as hell of getting sent back. The only thing holding them to Dems is fear of deportation.
Amnesty would be the worst thing Dems could possibly pull. Then they couldn’t dangle the threat over the heads of people not here legally.
Great Post!
For me the usual question is:
Has the incumbent shoved the rudder hard enough in their desired direction, that the barge will run ashore if they are given another term? I expect destructive nonsense from both parties, but would like the vessel to remain more or less in the channel, chugging along in the long run.
The concept is amusing, but more entertaining is the idea that obama’s cabinet has any “militant environmentalists” in it, considering the latest actions from the blm around here have been “oh, you want to preserve desolation canyon? Fuck you, there’s gas there” and “oh, you want water for irrigation and to keep a dust bowl from forming in Eastern NV / Western UT? Fuck you, vegas needs fountains.”
And whichever political party is unfortunate enough to be in the command chair when that happens is going to get lambasted.
How do you think Obama got elected in the first place? If everything was just Jim Dandy back in November 2008 then McCain would have wiped the floor with him. Provided of course McCain had picked a running mate that didn’t fall under your previous description of people that couldn’t find Egypt on a map.
Oh absolutely. But 2008 was like, a lifetime ago…
And the checks kept coming. Whoever is in office when the money stops flowing…that’s it man. Game over for them.
The children’s children will remember what “they did.”
… sorry to break it to you, Cain …
but … by then “the children’s children” will be solely focused on … the upcoming 50th Anniversary Season of “The Bachelorette” !!!
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I think I actually read that in the “Nostradamus Quatrains” !!! fwiw
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Classic Cain Thaler. Fuck it, you live in Michigan(democrat stronghold) the homeless of Detroit will be bused to the polls. I like the sarcasm but you know your vote is meaningless. Agree with the patsy angle. But the timing is key. The Japanese have been playing the ponzi for decades. They still are.
In true stare at the sun fashion there is a hope trade. Paul Ryan just may wake the fuck up the old of these united states what their grandkids future looks like. It is an incredibly small chance but a chance none the less. The boomers could kick the community organizer to the curb.This is still America. The one thing that has made it so is not being anything but.
Romney violated one of the cardinal rules of politics. Don’t choose someone as a running mate that could kick your own ass straight up in an election.
Doubt it, Po. A fucking old man and a retard are not running this time for the GOP. America is the RR ticket on a numbers basis. America is not Chicago.
Don’t expect Hope Poop to have any reading comp. on what you wrote fellow Mennonite.
i.e. the Ryan-romney ticket.
With bile in my stomach, churning its way up my throat, I have to say I agree with you. Obama has built a house of cards and when it falls, whoever is in charge will get blamed. Sadly, I believe it won’t fall in the next 4 years. The same strategies that got us here will be deployed endlessly until he retires safely.
I think we’re looking at a 10 year timeframe before it all topples. You’re vision of the future, knowing the truth has you agitated into believing it will happen sooner.
The housing bubble built from the credit law changes was a 10 year cycle. This stuff can run a long time.
Regardless, the Supreme Court issue and my complete disdain of the last 4 years won’t let me let it ride. He’s got to go. The future is already damned anyway.
Thinking the same thing Cain. If O wins 2nd term and the great collapse happens, it will be the end of dimocratic party. Consolation prize if R loses.