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October 12, 2013

Teabag Dittohead Re-pub Scum

The blogger is out of patience with America’s internal enemies, and suggests that the entire federal government be hauled before a grand jury

After being all too reasonable for most of my adult life I’m through with coddling these nasty freaks. Like they say, I’m done. These so-called “Republicans” are nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats who whine and complain, bluster and threaten and throw tantrums if the rest of us don’t serve their whims. I say that we patriotic Americans have coddled these immature traitorous scum for way too long, and it’s time we subjected them to some of the discipline that they secretly crave.

Because reasonable people have continuously yielded to these brats and not held them personally accountable for their actions, these Teabag Dittohead Re-pubs think the world owes them everything and that they can get away with anything. Look at the Democrats, how they follow behind these snotty children and concede and compromise until they appear almost indistinguishable from them. Typical Re-pub politicos are so uncompromisingly bratty, that they make that extreme right-wing radical corporatist Barack Obama look like a reasonable defender of the Bill of Rights. Which he most certainly is not.

It’s time to stop being reasonable with unreasonable children. If we let these irresponsible babies continue to dictate to us then we will continue to lose everything, our security, our livelihoods and eventually our very lives. The rest of us need to get together and agree on a way to hold these Re-pubs personally responsible for their anti-American behavior, and if necessary we need to administer harsh discipline or at the very least kick them out of this country so they can enjoy the government of a place like China.

House Speaker John Boehner
House Speaker John Boehner

Let’s be honest and straightforward. The ultimate goal of the so-called “Republican” Party is to overthrow our elected government and establish a corporate dictatorship. That is what they mean when they say, “We want to drown the government in a bathtub.” And according to available observable evidence, the disorder that precedes dictatorship is the purpose of this current Re-pub shutdown of the government, supposedly over the Affordable Care Act.

Like all spoiled brats, deep down inside these Re-pubs desperately want someone, anyone to assume a fatherly demeanor and spank their fat bottoms until they cry. They are perpetual 8 year olds who are too immature to handle freedom. That is why they crave the discipline of dictatorship, that is why they are constantly obstructing progress and trying to shut down our Constitutional elected government.

It did not surprise me one bit to hear reports that these radical right wing corporate Teabag Dittohead America-haters have found a new hero in the virtual dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Of course, Putin is exactly the kind of stern dominant father-figure that these perpetual eight year olds desperately crave. Actually he’s just another self-serving dictator and kleptocrat who enjoys no accountability, but these Re-pubs only care about image and have little use for reality. Besides, these selfish babies admire kleptocrats.

Teabagger Role Model And Hero Vladimir Putin
Teabagger Role Model And Hero Vladimir Putin

Now, if these Re-pub brats were accustomed to doing things for themselves then they would all pack up and move to Russia or China or some other country controlled by a monopoly corporation. Those corporate societies, if you follow the Teabagger “philosophy,” are paradises. But because these brats only know how to complain, they spend their time trying to shut down our government and destroy our economy. Why make for yourself and do something useful when you can make problems for everybody by manipulating other people to do for you?

But because deep down all that these Re-pub brats want is for someone to slap their snotty faces and tell them to shut up, they want to bring Vladimir Putin to America. They want Stern Father to micromanage their lives, tell them what to think, where to live and even who they should sleep with. Ask them to make a choice and they throw a tantrum, give them an opportunity that involves work and they demand that someone else make the effort for them.

These Re-pubs don’t understand democracy and representative government, how could they? Whether they are conscious of it or not, and the biggest and loudest of them most certainly are, the desired end-result of all their activities, their imagined utopia, is the establishment of a corporate dictatorship over the United States. Make no mistake about it, Re-pubs want to overthrow the Constitution and above all obliterate the Bill of Rights from human memory.

In other words, Re-pubs are traitors, their agenda is to transform our entire country into a vast outdoor prison. Republicans are a social cancer, a potentially fatal disease that must be treated aggressively if our nation wants to survive. And BTW, Democrats who behave like Re-pubs are part of the same cancer.

That's Pretty Much What Happened
That's Pretty Much What Happened

The Constitution, or rather respect for the document, is the reason why our nation has prospered spectacularly. What makes the Constitution so effective is that it is powered by the Bill of Rights. It is no exaggeration to say that our wealth and power as well as our freedom rests entirely upon the Bill of Rights.

When it is respected and adhered to, the Bill of Rights guarantees that the leaders of our society are answerable to the wants and needs of The People whom they serve. When it is not respected the leaders quickly turn into privileged parasites who look down their noses and consider The People to be nothing more than sources of income. From that point of view it is only natural that these elite parasites would want to control and micromanage these sources of income, The People.

That is the motivation behind government oppression. That is why our nation’s borders have been militarized, that is why we have armed checkpoints at the entrances of public buildings and in airports, that is why civil police have been turning into paramilitary assault squads. This is the reason why federal courts and judges are no longer independent, why judicial decisions are made in secret by bureaucrats just like such things are done routinely in North Korea.

Teabagger's Imagined Paradise
Teabagger's Imagined Paradise

Our elected leaders, both Re-pubs and their obedient Democrats, are discarding the Bill of Rights so that they can protect profits, but for whom? On whose behalf? It’s not like the old days when politicians both petty and fat accepted envelopes stuffed with bills under the table from local fat cats. They don’t have to accept bribes from Little People like you and me anymore, that was always a risky thing to do.

Today’s politicians still accept bribes alright, perhaps more than ever before. But now the bribes come from the billionaire owners of corporations who have no loyalty for or respect for the Constitution. They issue paychecks to those politicians who in turn do as they are told. Meanwhile the handful of politicians who don’t take orders from corporatist billionaires are condemned to fight to hold on to their positions.

As far as the billionaire owners of these corporations are concerned, the Bill of Rights allows the source of their income to compete with them. And that, from their point of view, is absurd. Understand that point. The persons who run corporations consider the American People to be competition. Freedom cuts into their profits. Therefore the competition’s ability to compete must be eliminated. Therefore, the Bill of Rights must be destroyed.

 "If Elected I Promise To Defend The 4th Amendment, Protect The Middle Class And Close Guantanamo."
"If Elected I Promise To Defend The 4th Amendment, Protect The Middle Class And Close Guantanamo."

Today’s elected officials, at best, act as buffers between the billionaire corporate owners and the despised American Citizens. These Buffering Officials are divided into two main factions, each reflecting a difference of opinion among their owners about how best to manage the despised citizens. This difference of opinion guides and rules both the Democratic and Radical Re-pub Parties.

The first faction, which is most of the Democrats and includes Barack Obama, believes that it is important to keep the despised citizens relatively healthy and happy so that they can continue to provide income for the owners and not raise much of a fuss. But not too healthy and happy, not so that We The People can have enough money and political power to become competitive again with the billionaires. And they certainly don’t want any of us to feel secure, if they can keep us isolated and feeling nervous then it’s a lot easier to manage us.

The other faction, identified with the Teabag Dittohead Re-pubs, does not think about preserving the future at all. Unlike the relatively conservative Democrats, the radical Gop politicos want to immediately destroy the US economy, overthrow the government and cause widespread chaos and impoverishment across the nation as quickly as possible. This, these scumballs believe, will rapidly deliver maximum profits to the billionaires by allowing their corporations to loot and pillage the American landscape until there is nothing left worth stealing.

Charles And David Koch Hate America
Charles And David Koch Hate America

If you are naive enough to consider that to be untrue, consider the plain fact that this current Government Shutdown has been planned by these traitors for months. From the Boston Globe:

To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of “conservatives” show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law since its passage in 2010 — waged by a galaxy of “conservative” groups with more money, organized tactics, and interconnections than is commonly known... The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million in 2012 to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight.

The quote marks are mine. Yes yes, I know, corporate media outfits like FOX and NPR are claiming this “conservative” fringe group hijacking is a popular uprising. That’s their job, to tell us lies. And of course the Koch Boys (who inherited their money) are denying involvement, and the corporate media is supporting them. Such typical Baby Boomers these Koches, incapable of taking responsibility for their actions. They are very clever at self-aggrandizement, astonishingly stupid when it comes to seeing consequences.

A Patriotic American On Wall Street
A Patriotic American On Wall Street

When you listen to a politician stake out a position or make promises, understand that this is what is going on. When they pretend to debate with each other, they are arguing about how best to serve their corporate masters, that is, how best to extract wealth from you and me. The driving dissension between our elected leaders is whether or not the American People are an expendable market.

Forget about Left, Right and Center. That’s a lie and an illusion perpetuated by the corporate media. Once upon a time this set of designations referred to how to interpret the Constitution and how best to apply the Bill of Rights. After the middle of the 20th Century the “Far Left” came to represent “communist” tendencies, the “Far Right” indicated a tendency toward corporate fascism, while the Center meant upholding the status quo, which was a lingering respect for the Constitution.

Today, when almost all of our elected officials are extreme far right radical corporatists or worse, this left/right stuff has become completely meaningless. For example, if one respects the Constitution and believes in the primacy of the Bill of Rights, then one is labeled a “radical leftist” and a “terrorist.” I’ve certainly found that out for myself.

 Radical Right-Wing Corporatist Barack Obama At Work: Re-pubs Quietly Approve
Radical Right-Wing Corporatist Barack Obama At Work: Re-pubs Quietly Approve

The Bill of Rights has become politically incorrect, if one supports it then one risks rejection. Both factions, the Democrats and the Teabag Dittohead Re-pubs, agree that the Bill of Rights must be eliminated. Their corporate bosses are in adamant agreement on this point. The only point of contention is how quickly and how violently.

Look how Barack Obama has used his smarts and political skills to gut the Fourth Amendment and how he continuously works to shut down freedom of speech on the internet. Look at how he promotes endless global war, look at his devotion to concentrating power in his own executive bureaucracy. He is far and away the most secretive president this country has ever seen, unleashing the secret police to harass and destroy any American who dares to so much as protest against corporatization.

And look how Obama consistently transfers judicial and legislative power to the corporations. The latest is this Trans-Pacific Partnership, called “NAFTA On Steroids.” This anti-American horror is not about constructing a trade treaty between us and other countries. It’s all about transferring power from the US Constitution to corporations and the billionaires that own them. In my book, that’s a terroristic act of sedition.

The Book Title Is "Unemployment For Dummies" (Ted Rall)
The Book Title Is "Unemployment For Dummies" (Ted Rall)

But I’ll bet you’ve never heard the Teabag Dittohead Gops object to any of that, so much as once. Have you noticed that? Mostly they quietly support Obama’s war against the American People, and vigorously support the transfer of power to the corporations. If the Re-pub Babies object at all, it is that Obama is moving against us too slowly.

What gets the Re-pubs angry at Obama (besides his skin color) is that he insists on occasionally feeding the animals in the pen. This is why they rabidly object to the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. They represent those corporate billionaires (such as the Koch Boys) who want to starve us animals and wreck the farm today. They don’t represent those billionaires who want to keep us healthy enough so we can continue to provide them income.

Now, if Obama had been working for the American People, then he would have proposed and promoted a clean, simple single-payer system for health care just like almost every other First World country has. (Imagine the USA becoming a First World country again, like Bahrain or Japan.) But it appears that he was under strict orders to preserve the useless parasitic Big Health corporations, and to preserve the ability of corporations to extract health profits.

Certainly Hope This Is True
Certainly Hope This Is True

But despite my criticisms, Obamacare has indeed been driving down the costs of health care for us taxpaying consumers. Reports are coming in that big corporate retailers are now offering their part time employees full-time status for the first time so that those employees can become eligible for Obamacare. The other day a fellow in my neighborhood who works for a regional supermarket told me that suddenly he’s been offered a 40 hour week by his employers, that is so he can get the new benefits.

The reason? These big retailers have always been under a mandate to provide health benefits to full time employees, but not to part timers. So they’ve been hiring more and more part timers to save money. But the way Obamacare is constructed, it is now cheaper for the big retailers to go with full time employees. Thus we can see that the Affordable Care Act is constructed so that it functions as a corporate subsidy.

The Re-pub Point Of View
The Re-pub Point Of View

Those folks who follow such things have been baffled by the objections to the Affordable Care Act by the Re-pub Teabaggers, if it functions as a massive corporate subsidy then why are they whining? A likely explanation is that most of the Gops represent those particular corporate billionaires who are making heavy profits from keeping health care expensive and who are delighted to condemn many Americans to suffer and die unnecessarily. Also, these particular billionaires (such as the Koch Boys) apparently are the ones who want to destroy the middle class so they can grab more control of our society’s remaining wealth.

There is another interesting explanation for the Teabagger eagerness to create economic chaos. There are reports that certain billionaires are buying up bonds, which right now are dirt cheap. But if the economy crashes again (like it did in 2008) and people are looted of their savings, then there is a strong possibility that interest rates will skyrocket and bonds will rise accordingly. Perhaps there will be a repeat of the early 1980s when T-Bills peaked at 17 percent yield, which today might truly bankrupt the federal government.

Patriots Protest Obama's Corporate Giveaways, 2011
Patriots Protest Obama's Corporate Giveaways, 2011

So for us regular folks today, the real dividing line is over how we should be governed. There are those of us that believe in the elected government regulated by the Constitution and powered by the Bill of Rights, we are the silenced majority. Then there are the loud, whiny opponents of democracy who take orders from their TV sets and who wish to replace our elected government with a corporate dictatorship, they are the amplified fringe.

This is not a scale, there is no in between. You either support our system of liberal elected government or you want to overthrow it. You either support giving ourselves the benefit of Natural Rights or you want to make us slaves to a dictatorial corporate bureaucracy. There can be no in-between.

That’s pretty obvious. But because they are confused by misinformation, the vast majority of the American People currently flutter between these two extremes, mentally living in a region of fuzzy political thinking where they expect democracy and civil protections but profess an admiration for corporate fascism. The source of this self-defeating uncertainty is clear, the corporate owned media has been filling our heads with corporatist propaganda nonstop for decades.

Nobel Prize Winning Author And Soviet Dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, 1975
Nobel Prize Winning Author And Soviet Dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, 1975

The corporate media is the voice of the corporations and ultimately of the billionaires that own them. The point of their relentless propaganda is to convince us to act against our own interests and convince us to impose upon ourselves a corporate dictatorship. That is what the billionaires want, that is the neocon corporate agenda.

They want the United States to adopt a version of the system that rules the People’s Republic of China, they want us to adopt Communism without the Marxism. After all, it’s not the promises of a better life that makes Communism such a bad thing, a system that we Americans have been trained to reject. If Communism provided security and full bellies, then no one would have any reason to raise objections to it.

The fatal flaw of Communism is how they want to deliver these promises. The proscribed method is the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” an all-embracing corporate government that presumes to represent the will of The People. There is no Bill of Rights in China, there is no independent judiciary, there is no way for The People to exert influence on the governmental elites. The Communist Party in China is just another monopoly corporation.

It Can't Happen Here: Police Checkpoint In China
It Can't Happen Here: Police Checkpoint In China

This is what the corporate billionaires want for us here in the United States. They look with envy upon the top-down system in China, their all-powerful secretive bureaucracy, their board of directors (Politburo) which issues edicts that must be obeyed. They dream of themselves becoming the dictators of the proletariat, and imagine that they themselves will be the elite in this new order.

This is just plain stupid. These corporate billionaires are all terribly clever when it comes to collecting money, but when it comes to protecting their own interests over the long term they haven’t got a clue. You see, cleverness does not equate with intelligence. If that were true then chimpanzees would be teaching particle physics at the university. My pet cat, a rather clever animal if I say so myself, would belong to Mensa.

Greed breeds stupidity. Oh sure, some of these billionaires display the ability to look ahead, but the vast majority of them seem to have no understanding that their own wealth is directly dependent upon the wealth of the nation that sponsors them. Certainly not the ones I’ve been listening to. They appear to assume that if they destroy their own nation in pursuit of more wealth then somehow magically they will be able to live in perfect security and continue to enjoy their wealth.

Fall Of Constantinople, 1204 (Illustration From The 1300s)
Fall Of Constantinople, 1204 (Illustration From The 1300s)

This is hardly a new phenomenon. The surface of the Earth is littered with the remains of fallen empires that were looted to death by their own elites. Our empire is no exception. If we want to survive as a society and as a nation, We The People need to reign in these out of control clueless billionaires. But first we need to strip them of their influence by taking control of their paid minions in the government and the media.

How? Well, first we patriotic Americans must agree that Something Must Be Done to preserve the Constitution and restore the Bill of Rights. Then we must then agree that the people who are trying to overthrow our government are enemy traitors and must be dealt with. We must deal with these people in a fair and legal manner consistent with the Constitution, adhering strictly to the Bill of Rights and in particular respect the 14th Amendment.

I propose the convening of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in front of which each and every elected member of Congress, the chief officials of the Executive branch and the members of the Supreme Court must pass. Eventually his Commission should acquire the authority to summon extraordinary traitors, such as the Koch Boys.

A Baby Boomer Finally Grows Up
A Baby Boomer Finally Grows Up

We have this Commission already outlined in the 5th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. It’s called a Grand Jury. This body has the power to recommend that individuals be remanded to prison and undergo a jury trial, wherein evidence is presented in an open courtroom that can be examined by the public. Those found guilty of treason will be stripped of their public offices and punished in a manner that is appropriate for traitorous enemies.

In this way we can reestablish the power of the Constitution. Basically, if you are an elected or appointed official with management responsibilities, and you have initiated nothing meant to destroy the Bill of Rights or overthrow the Constitution, then you have nothing to fear. If have upheld your oath to defend the Constitution you’re clear, if you have violated it then you will be held accountable.

But if you have tried to destroy the very basis of Americas’s strength and prosperity, then you will be classified as an adult and thus will be taught the meaning of personal responsibility. You will be punished in proportion of your crimes.

The Only Solution
The Only Solution

But who exactly will call this Grand Jury? There’s the question. We can’t even consider the answer until We The People, those of us in the majority who remain loyal to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, straighten ourselves out and become clear about our priorities. We must all agree that respect for the law as enshrined in the Bill of Rights must be reestablished and enforced.

And of course this cannot happen overnight. A commission composed of pro-constitutional Americans must define (with popular consent, of course) what constitutes a subverting of Constitutional procedure, and what constitutes merely the disputes of partisan politics. That’s what the Supreme Court is supposed to do, but they are very much part of the problem. These are decisions that must be made by We The People.

We must all agree to reject corporatism, to shake out of our heads the corporate media propaganda that we’ve been fed for so many decades. If we want to be free we must agree to be free. And if we want to preserve our freedom then we need to eliminate those enemies who want to destroy our freedom. That is how we reestablish democracy.


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Posted by:Roger Green
Posted on:10/15/2013
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Could the Koch brothers make a profit in the North Korean model? If so, your analysis would be dead on.


Posted by:Joe A
Posted on:10/21/2013
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The problem may be that the US is not set up as a democracy, but as a republic, like it or not.


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