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September 14, 2018

I Can't Believe Anyone Would Ever Vote Democrat

It amazes me that Americans actually vote for democrats. I can't understand it. Here are most of my reasons:

  • They hate our electoral system when it doesn't work in their favor: First they threw mud on Trump saying they didn't believe he would honor the results of the election (being sure Hillary would win). Then they lost and claimed Hillary should be president because she won the popular vote. Stop sniveling. Grow-up. Be aware of the example you set. It's that way for a reason and you know it.
  • When they don't get their way, they throw tantrums and decide to do nothing. Apologies for being redundant. They were already doing nothing. They just put a name on it. "Resist." It's when the spoiled brats decided to stay in their own sandbox with the rest of the democrats and do nothing since that big meany doo-doo head was in charge. People around the world then looked at the inhabitants of Dysfunction Junction (Washington DC) and said "look, half of the politicians just said they weren't going to do their jobs," followed by "yep, only in the U.S can you declare you're not going to work and keep that job." It's embarrassing. They're embarrassing. They're the example of what not to do. Sometimes democracy is 51% of the people denying the rights of the other 49%. Yeah, I get it. This isn't it. This is the spoiled rotten, arrogant, pedantic, professional political class not getting their way. During the State of the Union address (seen around the world), democrat leaders stopped other democrats from applauding patriotism, the military, or any other example of American success. It was sad...and disgusting. I won't even go into Maxine Waters. I think the people that vote for her scare me worse than she ever could. Plus, you can't talk to a democrat; the only opinion that matters to them is their own. If you opinion differs, to them, you're an idiot.
  • Democrat politicians think you're stupid: The queen herself, Hillary Clinton, said democrat voters were stupid. Yep, she did, no matter what Snopes or all the other sycophants tell you. And she's right. They are. They prove it every election. You have to be stupid to vote democrat. They convince young people Socialism is like a warm cup of cocoa at a Starbucks while you sit on Facebook, but they do it to make you forget they screwed you by forcing you to fund Obamacare. They scheme against their own voters. Barack Obama poured taxpayer money into the fire and ran up more debt than all the presidents before him combined, yet he will stand there and proudly proclaim he fixed the economy and created jobs. Yep, he did, millions of government jobs funded by citizens. That's not how an economy is fixed. It's how democrats lie and think you're so stupid you believe them. Diane Feinstein thinks the government should take away all our guns. She thinks we're too stupid to own them. Diane Feinstein carried a gun while she was on the city council in San Francisco. So it's okay for her to be armed, but not you. They convince you guns are the reason people kill, so when some teenager with the "thousand yard stare" of the obviously mentally ill shoots up a school, the solution is take everyone's guns away. In keeping with that, pens and pencils will now be taken away when someone misspells a word. Razors will be taken when someone cuts himself shaving. Dems don't heed the advice of Elanor Roosevelt, who said the party should be led by young people. These octogenarians just won't go away. 
  • They are the party of dumb ideas: Remember New York dems working on giving drug addicts safe places to shoot-up drugs? Can't shoot a gun anywhere, but go ahead and shoot-up that heroin. It doesn't matter that the gun is legal and the drugs are not. Wait! Democrats want to take that gun from you too. You can't handle it. How about "Net Neutrality?" Someone called that "Socialism for the internet" (Socialism is a bad thing. We'll get to that in a minute). How about Schumer's internet price controls? Dumb. Obamacare; Hey, when they all voted themselves exempt from it, you should have seen that coming. When Pelosi said "we have to pass it to know what's in it," should have been another clue. Dumb. If it was so good, why do democrats still run on health care? They told us it was the cure for what ails you. Dumb. It was just pulling the wool over the eyes of democrat voters. It's just a scheme to have the young pay for the old that were too lazy to save for their own health care. Plus, if it's such a great thing, why are all the democrats pledging to massively increase Medicare to deal with the health care "crisis? They never run out of someone else's money to spend. Like the $15 dollar minimum wage. Yep, that's working out great. Soon it will be all robots at fast food stores and none of those jobs will exist. Democrats believe that pointing out how different people are will somehow make the rest of us feel like including them. Muslims, LGBTQ, etc. I think pointing out our differences is counter to what we really want. I think the goal is really to point out our similarities. Then we will get along. Stop the "look, I'm different so give me preferential treatment" nonsense. Democrats also need to pick better heroes. Look at who ran for president last time; a corrupt old woman, a socialist, and the Prince of Baltimore. O'Malley screwed-up Baltimore so bad, in traditional democrat "reward cowardice and failure" style, they decided to make him the governor. Then he ran for president! Bad idea. Democrats keep pushing the idea that rich people are bad. People are smart enough to understand the top 1% of people in the U.S. pay 50% of the taxes, and only 50% of Americans pay any taxes at all, so pissing off the 1% is probably a bad idea. Democrat lack of vision pushes them to demonize the 1% and call for more of their money, instead of improving the lives of those that don't pay any, and reigning-in the huge amounts we simply waste. 
  • Democrats are the party of hypocrites. Bernie Sanders talks about socialism from behind the wheel of his $200,000 car. Charles Schumer talks about "regular Americans." After graduating from Harvard then Harvard law, he went immediately into politics. What would he know about a regular American?  Elizabeth Warren claims to be an American Indian. Since she's a democrat, no one in the liberal press calls bullshit on her. Hillary took millions from Saudi, Qatar, and Russia, Podesta had dealings with Russia, but the press only talks about a possible Trump-Russia connection. In 2006, Obama supported a secure border. Ten years later, he mocked republicans that wanted the same. He even said "good luck with that." Obama brow-beat Mitt Romney during the 2012 elections saying "the 1980's want their foreign policy back" after Romney said the Russians were the biggest threat to national security. Now look what the dems are doing about Russia. They tell you that Trump isn't doing anything good for the economy, yet have Barack Obama out trying to take credit for how well the economy is doing. They talk about how Trump shouldn't be talking to Russia, yet Obama is on video telling the Russian foreign minister on the "down-low" that he'd have more flexibility to kowtow to the Russians after the 2012 election. No evidence of collusion has been found by the Special Counsel, but they just won't give it up. All the people on the special counsel are Clinton donors. They determined the secret dossier was paid for by Hillary. They know it's fake. They used it to get a special warrant to spy against Americans. They know it's the fruit of the poison tree, but the government (FBI, DOJ, and the political class) are so corrupt and hypocritical they wouldn't dream of doing the right thing and dropping the case. No, they will use propaganda and false information until they get that they want, hoping the end justifies the means. Democrats could care less about immigrant families. They make an absurd case for open borders because they simply want more democrat voters. ANTIFA. Democrats are the definition of fascists (advocating an authoritarian government characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy) yet Antifa is a bunch of democrats claiming they're anti-fascist, attacking those that are actually anti-fascist. Democrats who claim to be "feminist" support the right to kill a fetus, but not the right to NOT kill a fetus as shown by their support for Roe v Wade, but not the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Dems hated John McCain until he voted with democrats against the repeal of the Affordable (misnomer) Care Act, then he was their hero and they gave him a presidential send-off. Hypocrites. 
  • Democrat politicians hate America. They never served (I know, some did, yeah, yeah) yet seem to feel the need to apologize for our patriotism, our pride, and our record of success. Don't do that. I didn't need some fascist apologizing for me to countries we helped in wars spilling American blood in the process. Obama never served. Schumer and Clinton and Pelosi and Warren and all those idiots NEVER SERVED. They don't have the right to speak for me. They don't have my permission.  Democrats hate veterans and favor illegal aliens. Twenty-one veterans commit suicide ever day, and do they care? No. If twenty-one illegals did, they would be screaming from the roof tops. Democrats don't want the U.S. to be a sovereign nation. We spend billions each year helping other nations defend their borders, but when it comes to ours, the dems want no part in it. Pelosi thinks it's violating a human right to not let illegals pour over the border. Bullcrap. Democrats argue for safe spaces for college kids where they can pet puppies and color instead of teaching them how to be mature adults. Regular Americans got a tax cut last year, but democrats hate that. Why? Because it wasn't them? Okay, take your tax cut and send it in to cover Obama's wild spending. The president is finally putting some fairness into international trade and dems hate it. Why? Would you rather have a pro-China trade policy? Why? Tell me why! The president finally told NATO to pay their fair share and dems hate it. Why? Do we have to pay all the bills and get nothing in return?
  • Democrats are the party of racism. Bold statement? I think not. Here's why. When you prefer giving welfare handouts to people (who are predominately in the minority) as democrats do, giving them only enough to survive but not enough to get out of poverty, you guarantee their dependence on you in perpetuity, and guarantee their vote. How is that not enslaving an entire group of people? Remember the "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" story? Democrats just want to hand out fishes. Republicans want to give people the skills and set the conditions for people on welfare to get themselves out of it. John Lewis is apparently a "civil rights icon." Well, if lying to citizens by telling them democrats freed the slaves (Lincoln was a republican) and getting beat-up on March 7, 1965 by other democrats makes you an icon, so be it. Ever see a conservative pull the "race card?"  No, you don't. Nor will you. That's reserved for feeble-minded liberals that have no character, integrity, vision, or clue. The president calls the Hispanic gang MS-13 thugs and murderers. Liberals call him racist. They are thugs and murderers. The president calls the NFL protesters "un-American." Democrats, noting that all the sniveling privileged millionaire pro-athletes inappropriately kneeling in disgraceful disrespect against the country, its veterans, law enforcement, and military members are black, call him racist. Sure, let's make it look like all the black men on the field want to infer they have problems breaking the law. Let's further the stereotype that blacks are lawless. It wasn't enough that Eric Holder said it was "our time now," meaning black Americans, and refused to prosecute crimes committed by blacks, thus setting civil rights back 50 years, but hey, "counter-productivity" is something completely unknown to democrats that don't even know what "productivity" means. I say democrats are racist, constantly throwing the race card at things that are obviously not racial. If a minority wakes-up to the nonsense in the democratic party and wants to become a republican, he or she is branded a racist. The president wants a secure border. Dems call him racist. Trump wants to make sure trade is fair; Trump's a racist. Hurricane response to Puerto Rico seems a bit slow; Trump's a racist. President tries to keep 9-11 from happening again, limiting people from known terrorist and anti-American countries from coming here; Trump's a racist. He calls a couple places "shithole countries;" he's a racist. Or not. Ever been there? I have. They are shit holes. Blades on Marine One turn clockwise; Trump's a racist. Is he a racist when he's in a picture with his arm over Al Sharpton's shoulder? Investors Business Daily says "Joe Biden, Dems, and the Race Card; they don't leave home without it." The New York Post said "democrats addiction to the race card is suicidal." USA Today said "The path to Trump 2020 is paved with Democrats racist allegations." The National Review said "Democrats play the race card against DeSantis," and further, "the Left speciously calls a common expression racist." So don't just take my word that dems are the party of racism.
  • Socialism in America is absurd. Any democrat advocating this is an ignorant jackass. It goes against the very idea of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It goes directly against the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States for those of you who skipped that class). True socialists advocate a completely classless society, where the government controls all means of production and distribution of goods. Socialists believe this control is necessary to eliminate competition among the people and put everyone on a level playing field. Socialism is also characterized by the absence of private property. The idea is that if everyone works, everyone will reap the same benefits and prosper equally. Therefore, everyone receives equal earnings, medical care and other necessities. (from HowStuffWorks). Do you hear this? No private property. To me that means homes, land, boats, cars, businesses, intellectual  property, smart phones, inventions, patents, etc. Bernie Sanders is talking out his ass. You can't have your $200,000 Audi as a socialist, so go feel your own Bern. Jim Carrey needs to shut his face. It's easy for someone in the lap of luxury with no money issues to think of socialism with a "warm and fuzzy." Try going to Venezuela, where the government takes everything you own, makes you stand in line for a stick of butter, and while they live in palaces you're outside eating their lawn. Or Nazi Germany, where the socialist authoritarians decided who mattered and who didn't and crammed the unfortunate onto trains that led to their eventual mass murder. Yeah. Like I said, it is definitely not cocoa at the Starbucks. Socialism is such a bad idea only four countries on the planet are still officially socialist; China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam, and the last one is in some serious denial about it's push into capitalism. Everybody earns the same? So where's the motivation to better yourself, or become a doctor as opposed to a ditch-digger? My son the doctor can't have a bigger house or a boat because the government says so? Screw that.  Socialism also means uniformity. If the four countries I mentioned are any indication, it's also uniformity in thought, word, and deed. No personal opinions. No non-conformity. No individuality. No dissent or disagreement. No right to free speech or protest. No right to advocate your own opinion or position. Yep. That'll work. Orwellian society. Dems can keep it. Not me. I like my freedoms. After serving for 25 years, I like to express myself. To say what I want. To go and do where and what I want. Besides, try and tell today's teens or twenty-somethings what to do. See what happens. No sir, Socialism is not for me. Democrats are not for me. Thomas Jefferson said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." If only that was possible. Or legal. I definitely know some tyrants. 

September 11, 2018

#OBAMACARE IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM!!! Rant of the Day!

Here I am looking for a student health plan for my son. Typical young adult, fit, non-smoker, no physical ailments, no medical issues. I apply as if I'm him. I plug in male, 24 years old, living where the school is, and I include he makes about $10k a year with his college job. They reply "Based on the information provided, members of this household don't appear to be eligible for a premium tax credit or other savings on health insurance. But you can use the Health Insurance "Marketplace" to shop for a health plan at full price." Gee, thanks, I can pay full price. So I look at the costs on their "marketplace." Lowest is $312 per month, highest is $716." Gee, thanks Mr. Obama, I only have to shell out thousands a year. Yep, great plan. These premiums are higher than other plans I've seen outside the government. Who's making millions off this fiasco? So I go back, change the $10,000 to $5,000 and guess what happened? "Based on the information provided, members of this household don't appear to be eligible for a premium tax credit or other savings on health insurance. But you can use the Health Insurance Marketplace to shop for a health plan at full price." Gee, thanks again. So I go to the "marketplace" and guess what...no changes to the costs. I go back, put zero in the income amount. Yep, a big, fat $0. Guess what happened; "Based on the information provided, members of this household don't appear to be eligible for a premium tax credit or other savings on health insurance. But you can use the Health Insurance Marketplace to shop for a health plan at full price." Now how does a 24 year-old man, non-smoker, who goes on the website and says he has no income (which might be true of a college student) not qualify for a discount or any sort of benefit other than "go ahead and pay full price?" So I go back, change the info to say I'm a hypothetical 74 year-old man,and make 22,000 per year, and guess what it says; Based on the information you provided, it looks like your household qualifies for a premium tax credit of $953 per monthA premium tax credit is how much you can save on your premium each month. It's not the amount of your premium itself. When you view plans, the premiums will be reduced by this amount. So I go to the "marketplace" and what's the first plan I see? $0 per month but a $7500 deductible. What? No way is that good. I go forward to the first plan with a monthly payment and there it is...$197 per month and a $750 deductible. The plan my son should have, but no. Obamacare is based on putting the cost on the backs of the young. Or on their parents. At one point the "individual mandate" meant people were fined or taxed if they didn't pay their tribute to O-care. The republicans removed that, and what happened? The democrats shit all over them. Obamacare is a scam. It's made everything more expensive and and made insurance companies wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. It's a failure. Want proof? In Florida, the democrat for governor is running on the platform that he'll increase medicare by 750,000. Yep, he wants more of a welfare state than Obama made the country. There's also a Medicare-for-all bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders (thought up as he drove around in his $200,000 car), a Medicare buy-in bill from Sens. Tim Kaine and Michael Bennet, a Medicare buy-in bill from Sen. Brian Schatz, a Medicare "extra" proposal from the Center for American Progress (people strongly allies with all things Clintonian), and a number of other measures aimed at making Medicare the cure-all for the failures of the incredibly misnamed "Affordable Care Act. I heard a statistic on the radio the other day that the government spends $200,000 in overhead for every person enrolled in the program. That's ludicrous. It's waste, fraud, and abuse in epic, monumental, no-word-is-adequate proportions. Democrats don't believe they will ever run out of other people's money. But we had to "pass it to know what was in it"  Moron. Pelosi should jump off a bridge.

September 7, 2018

What if the New York Times is Orchestrating a #Coup?

Just think about it. Take a "Noos" organization that believes in the Saul Alinsky doctrine and the Orwellian utopia. Find a disloyal un-elected civil servant on the White House staff. Or don't. Make the person up. Why not? Who's gonna know? You'll hide behind the Constitution you hate so much anyway. Give that person or persons reward for turning on the president and backing your plan. You know, the plan all the "let me tell you how big a threat the president is to the country" corrupt hypocrite treasonous idiots tell you is "for the people." Yeah, right. Then that "newz" organization publishes a fake news story about how the White House is in turmoil and they're thinking of invoking the 25th Amendment. You know, the same anti-constitution haters using the constitution for their own ends. Well, at least the parts they like. The White House isn't actually in turmoil, but tell gullible Americans and yourselves something enough times and they'll believe it. So will you. Then, in order to counter all the people calling bullshit on you, put out how "respected" of a "neuzz" organization you are . Say "how dare you question us!" You know, that sort of arrogant shit. Disregard the fact that after insulting the president over his assertions that a deep-state exists in government and they are out to get him, YOU JUST PROVED HIM RIGHT! You also proved him right when it comes to the bias and complicity in anti-constitutional activities by the mainstream media. Yep. Congratulations! You just outed yourselves for the seditious tools of liberals you actually are!!! You just proved all of our assertions that the media is Anti-American, anti-Constitution, pro-liberal, and about as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Boom! Knuckleheads! For all your arrogant bloviating about the credibility of the "fourth Estate" and the value of a "free press," you just showed us how you are Bought and Paid-For. There might be a free press somewhere, but it sure as hell isn't around here. Acts of treason and sedition are now supported by the liberal press. Further evidence of this is in the following: Why the New York Times? Why not the Washington Post? Why not the Chicago Tribune? You know Obama's behind some of this so why not? Is it because Woodward and Bernstein are slinging their bullshit while the New Yorker is pushing Bernstein's new book and the Times is hocking Woodward's anti-Trump book on the best seller list? Again, why the New York Times? Trump's hometown newspaper, right? You corrupt, immoral, seditious fools. What do you get for ruining Trump and quite possibly the country? Still snake-bit after the election? Are you of such low character you can't accept the results of the election? Why are you such staunch supporters and such rabid defenders of Hillary Clinton?  Afraid she'll "suicide" you? I say one of your goals is the continued deflection of the spotlight off your liberal allies (who have something over you or promise you some reward I will never figure out). Obama interfered with the German elections, but you bury that along with John Podesta's dealings with the Russians. The deep-state democrats and the news media supported an illegal dossier leading to an illegal FISA warrant and fruit-of-the-poison-tree prosecutions of Paul Manafort and others for things they did that had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump, then somehow managed to get that stink on the president. They know it's wrong. They know guilt by association is bad, but they let it happen. Then the democrat-led corrupt special counsel (supported by the corrupt media) does their dirty work on Trump's attorney, effectively ending attorney-client privilege, and the media keeps their mouths shut. If it was happening to a democrat, they would be screaming from the rooftops, but ironically, the ACLU ignored that one. The media was all over David Petraeus and supported his prosecution for three confidential emails found in a locked desk drawer, but thousands of secret and top-secret emails on a server in Hillary Clinton's bathroom and the media down-plays it and calls it a republican witch hunt. Corruption and graft. Someone was getting rewarded for their support. You know it. I know it. An army private doing such things would have gone straight to jail. The media ignores how democrats promise to rapidly expand medicare after the next election. What happened to Obamacare? Wasn't that the democrats great solution to all our problems? Wasn't it so vital we had to "vote it in so we could figure out what's in it" according to Nancy "I love illegals more than Americans" Pelosi? Isn't that why they suddenly loved John McCain? Where's the news on this one? Making sure they never cast any dirt on Barack Obama, that's where. I think the New York Times is complicit and actively engaged in a Coup against the President of the United States. Back in July, the publisher met with the President and later said  "I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous. I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence." Maybe this is their further response?  He apparently never acknowledged the perpetual media  animus directed at the president and how that could lead to violence against Mr. Trump. He probably could care less. In Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, he states "Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage." The New York Times is using either an anonymous contact inside the White House or a fictitious contact they claim to be in the White House to continue their incessant ridicule of the duly elected president of the United States. It's a means to an end desired by the NYT. They want to orchestrate the successful removal of our sitting president through misinformation, propaganda, coercion, and trickery. Problem is, even though it's obvious to me, the news media will deny it...until they finish it. Along the way they will ruin every conservative politician who ever said a good word about Trump, and the drones that vote democrat will ensure the ruination of this country. Yep, I said it. Now watch it happen. This country is a car speeding toward a brick wall. A car not driven by Trump, but by the liberals and their lap-dog media.

February 26, 2010

Obamacare Ponzi Scheme makes Madoff Blush. How to really do it.

The "health care summit" looked to me like a bunch of frogs trying to fornicate a football. Down the rabbit hole they're in, no one has the presence of mind to realize what they're trying to do.

Democrats talk of "premium discrimination" and elimination of pre-existing conditions. Non-starter. If you treat a healthy, athletic 21 year-old kid the same as a 55 year old man with diabetes and three prior heart attacks, the system will be unsustainable.

By treating all people alike and disregarding pre-existing conditions, you eliminate the risk rating that lies at the heart of all insurance, and you tell people that for every dollar they put in, they're guaranteed to receive multiples of that dollar in benefits, thus the ponzi scheme.

Here's the fix:
-assign each person risk based on their health. This would require a preventive maintenance health checkup. At that time, you establish a preventative program. Hey, and ounce of prevention, right?
-place high-risk people in a high-risk pool in order to spread the risk among a mass group, thus lowering the premium for all in the group. The lower the risk, the lower the cost. THAT'S FAIR.
-Require the high-risk group to practice preventative measures like exercise, weight loss, etc. They give some effort toward the program that covers them. THAT'S FAIR.
-Reduce or eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. Use the recovered money to pay for those unable to pay for their insurance. It's still taking money from Peter to pay for Paul, but much more palatable because of the trade off. Funny how we never expect the government to run a program free of waste, fraud, and abuse.
-establish a baseline medical benefit used as a COBRA for people on unemployment.
-require welfare recipients and those who simply refuse to work to perform some sort of labor for their medical benefit. Consider it community service.
-If a state establishes a better system, allow them to opt-out of the federal system.
-make insurance portability a law.
-eliminate medical conditions discovered at birth being considered pre-existing.
-establish a grace period for people to try and get into a lower risk group. For example, if someone is diabetic because of their weight, allow them time to drop weight. If they don't do it, then they go into the higher group. Put the responsibility on the citizen. THAT'S FAIR.
-Lay off union health care plans. If a union member pays for something, they should get it. If the unions can negotiate better plans than the government, don't penalize them. (Unbelievable I said that since I don't like unions)
-extend scholarships to more medical students and put them to work in the system after graduation. Same for nurses. The whole system will fail if they're aren't enough medical professionals.
-tort reform
-take the insurance company lobbyists out of DC and throw them in the Potomac.

The other option to these ideas is ask Bernie Madoff how to do it. You know what he'll say...