I award you no points

"We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are the same. Like somehow the rich will eventually get so full that they’ll explode. And the candy will rain down on the rest of us. Like there’s some kind of pinata of benevolence. But here’s the thing about a pinata: it doesn’t open on it’s own. You have to beat it with a stick."

Bill Maher (via sonofbaldwin)

Many Americans are convinced that they one day too will be rich. Unfortunately, this is not the case for an overwhelming amount of people. But, that doesn’t stop them from favoring the rich, or supporting legislation that does. After all, if you’re to one day be rich, you want to make sure you don’t pay too much in taxes. 

Unfortunately though, this view smacks of wishful thinking. There’s nothing wrong with being rich, or wanting to be rich. The problem is, the policies the rich favor are specifically designed to make them richer, and make it harder for anyone who is not already rich to become rich. After all, why would they want more rich people? That means less money for them.

I wouldn’t mind being rich myself. I admit it. But, at the same time, it is not my life goal, nor do I measure my worth as a human being based upon whether I am rich or not. All I want (and I suspect all most people want) is to have a chance to support my family, live in a decent place, and have a little money to do the things I would like to do. This doesn’t require that I am rich, but it does require that I do not struggle simply to pay the necessities. The economic policies the richest Americans and their puppets in Washington have in place and want to enact make this all but impossible.

This is not going to end well if something doesn’t change soon. Mark my words.

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"Unfortunately, a lot of young folks haven’t had the opportunity to really understand how the economy works, and what it takes to put people to work in real jobs, and why we have banks, and what banks do. It’s a very understandable sentiment. If you don’t find a job, and you can’t see rising incomes. You’re going to be angry and looking at someone to blame."

Mitt Romney to WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., discussing the protests at Bank of America.

Oh, we young people don’t understand “real jobs” and “what banks do,” yeah?

I argue we do. There’s a lot of us working two and three minimum wage jobs, going to school, graduating, barely surviving, or some combination of the above.

We’re consistently screwed by people like you, Mitt, who gambled with our parents’ retirement, who ensured most of us can never retire, who foreclosed on our families, who laid us off in the name of savings, who pissed away bailouts in executive bonuses and back slaps, as you grin in your expensive suits and tell us repeatedly that we DON’T GET how it works, as you reach into our back pockets for yet another checking account usage fee because we can’t keep a minimum balance, let me tell you…

WE GET IT.

We are fully proletarianized, working ourselves to the bone, paying the same tax rate as you, and praying to whatever is sacred that we do not get sick or injured because we are one paycheck or missed unemployment check away from completed ruin, while you and your cronies line up for another spin at the roulette wheel, your wallets fat from the products of our intellectual and physical labor.

FUCK YOU and your patronizing condescension. Fuck you with the all the fucks my exhausted self has left to give.

(via cognitivedissonance)

Also, some of us aren’t that young. I’m 37 myself, and I wish our current banking system would DIAF.

(Source: drinkthe-koolaid)

theworldisconfused:

pragmatic-realist:

theworldisconfused:

pragmatic-realist:

socialistictendencies:

pragmatic-realist:

socialistictendencies:

occupyallstreets:

pragmatic-realist:

I support gay marriage, legalized abortion, and a mixed economic system. The fact that I can be considered conservative shows just how far into fantasy land you…

Not to be nitpicky, but I didn’t say I was A conservative. Nevertheless, I’d love to be a meme. But how about scumbag socialists. Thinks they’re relevant. They’re not.

If you listen to conservative politicians and pundits, you would think that socialism is supremely relevant since everyone to the left of Ronald Reagan is a socialist (perhaps even Reagan himself by some measures!) and President Obama is principally motivated by a desire to implement a top-down Marxist transformation of American society.

Personally, I don’t have quite so much pretense.

The word socialism is unfortunately used as a criticism against moderate/reformist left policies. But real socialism, unfortunately for you, has no place in the future of any successful nation-state or international system.

Why are you assuming that I’m a socialist? Simply because I’m on the left? You seem to be engaging in the same kind of assumptions which you are complaining about.

I’m a socialist. If you have any questions about socialism or socialists, you can ask me. Please do keep in mind though that socialism is a spectrum, and socialists are far from a monolithic group.

"Who knows what else he [Andrew Breitbart] could have done. It’s like John Lennon dying, what other music might he have produced."

Ann Coulter (via brooklynmutt)

LOL OKAY

(Source: brooklynmutt)

notesonascandal:

ethiopienne:

absurdlakefront:

corycorybobory:

Oklahoma Senator Proposes Making It Illegal For Men To Ejaculate Except Into A Woman’s Sexual Organs

Life imitating art aka Legally Blonde:

Don’t worry, she’s joking. But she’s joking to make a really good point.

The controversial Senate Bill 1433, which is one of the “personhood laws” cropping up in conservative states is seeking to define life as begining at conception, and that “the unborn child at every stage of development (has) all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.”

That makes it really hard to get an abortion.

Perhaps inspired by the Virgina State senator who proposed a mandatory rectal exam for men looking to recieve erectile dysfunction drugs, if women had to have an ultrasound to receive an abortion,  Oklahoma Senator Constance Johnson– our new hero – added an “Every Sperm Is Sacred” amendment claiming that:

Any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.

High five, lady.

Satirical law is fun.

I love satire. I love people who use it to protect uterus-bearing individuals’ rights. I love black women. I love black women using satire to protect uterus bearing individuals’ rights. There is nothing not to love about this.

Amazing Black Lady is Amazing. 

Shit I’m a murderer. A mass murderer, in fact.

mohandasgandhi:

lovehustle:

note-a-bear:

[Gif 1: “The pundits have asked ‘Is this all some joke?’ I say if they are calling being allowed to form a Super PAC and collecting unlimited, untraceable amounts of money from individuals, unions and corporations and spend[sic] that money on political ads and for person[sic] enrichment and then surrender that Super PAC to one of my closest friends while I explore a run for office.

Gif 2: If that is a joke, then they are saying our entire campaign finance system is a joke]

When Colbert is on point he is always really on point.

BWAAHAHA

Say what you will about Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart but they’re doing a damn good job of educating those who wouldn’t otherwise know about our out of control campaign finance system.

We will not see comprehensive healthcare, financial, energy, education, etc. reform until we pass comprehensive campaign finance reform, overturn Citizens United, and potentially amend the Constitution to stipulate that corporations do not constitute as persons.

Well done, gentlemen. Keep bringing this issue to the masses.

This entire SuperPAC thing has been sheer genius. I wonder sometimes though if the satire goes over a lot of people’s heads…

That being said, Robert Reich has started up a website and campaign called Amend 2012 with just this in mind: a constitutional amendment forever putting to rest the idea that the 14th amendment can somehow be used to apply to corporations.

Check it out.

"I’m an amateur paleontologist, so I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the earth’s temperature over a very long time, I’m a lot harder to convince than just by looking at a computer model."

Newt Gingrich (via anticapitalist)

lolling 4EVARRRR

(via mohandasgandhi)

coketalk:

Look at this gerbil faced molester. His name is Nelson Warfield, and he’s the GOP strategist who wrote and produced Rick Perry’s anti-gay, pro-Jesus, shit-kicking shit-storm of a campaign ad.

This is the asshole who needs to be getting a little more attention right now.

Let’s face it, Rick Perry is nothing but a squinty-eyed muppet made out of the same thick felt as George W. Bush. It takes an evil Jim Henson to make the candidate’s lips move, and this is the secret handshake motherfucker who puts the words in Rick’s mouth.

I guess it’s a good thing that Captain Bumblefuck McWingnut here doesn’t have a clue how painfully out of touch he is with the prevailing sentiments of American culture. There was a time when his flavor of small-minded, ultra-religious bullshit would have stuck to the side of the barn, but now even the rednecks can smell what he’s shoveling.

I suppose I should be glad that he’ll be the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head of Rick Perry’s campaign, but still, fuck this guy. I hope he wakes up tomorrow with a tweed allergy, and may his teeth forever match his tie.

(Source: coketalk)

brooklynmutt:

George Clooney’s response when asked why he will not seek political office.

Whenever someone asks me why I don’t run for some political office, I refer them to this quote.

(Source: brooklynmutt)

People complain about class warfare? Well this is what it looks like. 30+ years of unrelenting assault on the everyday American gets you here.

(via slaughterhousefive)

"Chris Christie has given you his answer, so stop grinding up against him and asking if you can just put the tip in."

jasencomstock:

muppetpants:

markyd:

muppetpants:

That’s a negative percent for every hundred pages of legislation they passed attempting to stop this from happening!

“The Kaiser survey’s researchers estimated that only around 1.5 percentage points of the 9 percent increase was tied to provisions of the federal health care overhaul, which mandated changes to plans, including the addition of children up to the age of 26 to their parents’ plans and an end to out-of-pocket costs for certain preventive-care benefits,” writes The Journal.”

Yes, only one percent of the rise was directly due to Obamacare, but every ounce of it was in spite of Obamacare.

Also, like most of Obombercare isn’t in place yet? no one knows anything.

So muppetface or whatever your name is, you’re implying that the 9% increase in healthcare premiums is somehow worse than the double-digit percentage increases they usually have? That’s a fascinating, if ultimately stupid, argument.

(Source: fungazi)