"If you cheat on me, it's OK, I won't leave you" UPDATED

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 6:29 PM PST

2009/12/18 · 18:29

I'm not gonna name names, because there are too many to mention, but I keep seeing comments that often start with "I'll vote for Obama in 2012 no matter what ___________"

Why would you say such a thing?

Do you understand the ramifications of that?

Obama is already President. He already got your vote. He knows you're not going to vote for a Republican.

You have almost ZERO power. Almost zero. You have no money, you have no lobbyists, you have no "friends" and "esteemed colleagues" on either side of the aisle. You are almost completely irrelevant.

So putting these words in writing -- "I will support Obama in 2012" just means that they can take you for granted. 100%. And they will.

You have just handed over to them what tiny political power you still have.

MightyMole

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 12:44 AM PST

2009/12/17 · 00:44

File this under "insult to injury": Our beloved politicians just passed the largest military bill in the history of planet earth. If you add together all the military spending on the planet, we're spending half of it.

We have two completely unnecessary and illegal wars going on, we have bases all around the world, and we're building a billion dollar embassy in Pakistan to match the one in Baghdad that's bigger than the Vatican.

These things are creating such an enormous budget defecit that the dollar is tanking, and the entire world is losing faith in it.

So what's next for Barack Obama Incorporated? How about studying how he can raise your taxes, and cut social security and medicare to help close the budget gap?

Yeah, that Obama. Fighting for the common man.

MightyMole

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 12:13 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 12:13

Obama will do nothing we want unless we force his hand. And if we can't force his hand, we need to replace him.

How do we do that? We challenge him in 2012, and we start now.

It's a win-win for us. We pressure him and he has to cave .... and if he still beats Dean in the primary, at least we've forced the guy to pay attention to us.

Better yet, we win, and we replace him with someone who is OBVIOUSLY better and actually might represent us: Howard Dean.

MightyMole

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 11:36 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 23:36

Okay, I'm tired of this nonsense. All the excuses, the people saying "why, why oh but why are the Democrats so weak?"

They're not weak. They're doing their job. They're playing their role.

And their job is to lose.

They play "good cop" to the Republican's "bad cop". It's theater. Our entire political system has been bought by corporate money and now works for them. Being a Congressman of a Senator is just an entry-level job to the Lucrative World of Lobbying.

Even the President has about as much power to run the country as the Student Body President of your high school had to run the damn school. I.e. none. The people who run things hedged their bets a long time ago and they run both parties. Why wouldn't they? Why, if you were a corporate Master of the Universe, would you take a chance with only supporting one party? Well, you wouldn't. You buy both and let them play their game, so you win either way. And that's exactly what they did.

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 1:17 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 13:17

So now the Pentagon wants to turn us into even worse war criminals, and bomb a Pakistani city of 850,000.

This is supposedly to get "Al Queda". Who, upon hearing this news, have undoubtedly already left said city and are hiding somewhere else. All ten of them.

Warmongers rejoice! We're gonna slaughter more civilians in the name of "The Obama Doctrine".

I'm so happy I think I'll buy myself an extra Christmas present.

MightyMole

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 1:16 AM PST

2009/12/13 · 01:16

This is actually an old story (this article is from January), it's been out before, but it flew largely under the radar.

But now it's back, and it's got a little more traction. Why? Good question. The source is the same: The U.N.

Yes, that U.N.

MightyMole

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 10:45 PM PST

2009/12/11 · 22:45

In yet another example of how actual professional journalism is almost completely dead in this country (save for a few brave souls like Mat Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill) a blogger, presumably in his underwear and in his parent's basement, has discovered that the Pentagon likes to tell us stories.

Gosh, how could that be so? Don't "reputable" news sites like the NY (Judith Miller) Times and the Washington Post act as official stenographers for the Pentagon? Doesn't that make the Pentagon's stories legit? I mean, these people fact-check, right?

I probably wouldn't even post this here, but I actually exchanged comments today with a diarist who seemed convinced that if the NY Times and the WaPo quote it, even though it's from the Pentagon, then it must be true! Unbelievable.

Anyway, this blogger has discovered that whenever the Pentagon claims to have bombed and killed a bunch of Taliban, the number killed is always 30. Not 29. Not 31. Thirty.

How can this be? Are our bombs that smart that we can program them to "kill just 30 enemy, no more, no less"?

MightyMole

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 2:04 PM PST

2009/12/11 · 14:04

Okay, one thing I've never understood about our current culture is how, when someone tells the truth, they're called "too liberal". You see it all the time. You really see it with someone like Dennis Kucinich:

MightyMole

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Thursday December 10, 2009 · 8:44 PM PST

2009/12/10 · 20:44

Well "the banks own the place" is certainly turning out to be true.

That's the only explanation for what just happened. Our beloved House of Representatives, where we have a Democratic majority led by a popular Democratic President, just handed Wall Street a nice little Christmas present at the expense of the American people and the World Economy:

House eases restrictions on derivatives trades

What's almost damn funny about this is that they're supposed to be making things more difficult for Wall Street to destroy the economy of the world rather than easier.

MightyMole

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Tuesday December 08, 2009 · 12:26 AM PST

2009/12/08 · 00:26

I've lately become a fan of this site which has quickly turned into a daily stopping point for me. The information and analysis available at this site is some of the best I've ever found.

And here's the latest post there:

Woman Who Invented Credit Default Swaps is One of the Key Architects of Carbon Derivatives, Which Would Be at the Very CENTER of Cap and Trade

Gosh, how pleasing is this news! Pleasing indeed.

MightyMole

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Sunday December 06, 2009 · 2:55 PM PST

2009/12/06 · 14:55

Well, people here seem to think that Obama told us we'd be out of Afghanistan in 2011. That there was an exit strategy.

Not so fast.

Gates and Clinton are telling us something completely different.

MightyMole

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Saturday December 05, 2009 · 5:39 PM PST

2009/12/05 · 17:39

I don't really care how the NY Times has decided how Obama made his decision to continue a losing war in Afghanistan.

I really sorta doubt that he, or Gates, or Hillary Clinton watched this video:

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Did Obama watch this video?