Sunday, March 16, 2014

CNN Seems To Be Keeping Boobus Americanus Occupied...No Problems There

By, Chris Rossini


Is it possible to conduct a more useless poll?

Rock the Vote America....Rock the Vote


Chris Rossini is on Twitter

4 comments:

  1. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ✿ H. L. Mencken

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  2. Where's the

    "Is a useless, power-grasping piece of shit"

    category?

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  3. There is no meritocracy: It's just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged The game is rigged: We elected Obama to hold the 1 percent accountable. So why are they still running everything?

    Let me explain. A meritocracy requires more than simply making it possible for people at the bottom to climb the ladder of opportunity. It also involves chutes of accountability for those at the top. These are two sides of the same coin: the skilled must be able to rise, but grandees caught with their snouts in the trough must also come tumbling down. “We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of the forgiveness to the powerful,” writes Chris Hayes in his sweeping meditation on meritocracy, “Twilight of the Elites.” And yet: “This is the America in which we currently reside.”

    I confess here that believing Obama would act in this way was one of my reasons for supporting him back in 2008—the hope that this thoughtful and talented man would bring a completely new crowd to D.C. and break the grip of the Clinton-era centrists on the Democratic Party.

    I will also confess that Obama’s subsequent failure to follow these meritocratic rules astonished me in a way that we cynical types don’t like to be astonished. When Obama won, I figured it was opportunity time—let’s see who climbs the ladder. Instead, he brought Clinton Administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers back as his chief economic adviser. Clinton enforcer Rahm Emanuel became Obama’s Chief of Staff. Timothy Geithner, architect of the disastrous AIG bailout, became the new Treasury Secretary. Clinton veteran Jack Lew eventually succeeded him. Gene Sperling came back too, to run the National Economic Council.

    Five years later, I am now quite convinced that it doesn’t matter what the needs of the moment are; the personnel in this town will always be the same. Change the subject to inequality, or to poverty, even, and still—thanks to the magic of D.C.—the same crowd of former bankers and arch deregulators will emerge as the go-to guys. You’ll get Larry Summers, again! Robert Rubin—one more time! Hell, you could even announce an initiative on getting new people and new ideas into the federal government and when the music stopped it would turn out to be their protégés sitting in the distinguished chairs.

    http://www.salon.com/2014/03/16/there_is_no_meritocracy_its_just_the_1_percent_and_the_game_is_rigged/

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  4. See how stupid people are? This is why we can't be perfectionists, we gotta realize the limitations of our environment. There's not going to be anarcho-capitalism EVER. Not in our lifetimes and probably not for many to come if at all.

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