The US has been in recession since at least 2005, but the media and the government papered it over.
The point at which I knew they could not cover it up anymore was when stories began to appear in the mainstream media about how healthy it was to walk more and eat less, and that thus "Recession" had an upside.
Got that.
Now let me point out the next sign: when the mainstream media has a good word to say about cannibalism, jeje.
Actually, Zugzwang means you have to move even if you don't want to...it's a German word, incidentally pronounced "tsuhgtsvang".
Anyway, I would say the opposite principle applies to the current POTUS, there are too many messes to fix and not enough time, even if the political will can be mustered by his administration, to say nothing about Congress.
Satire is a dying art-form, my friend. Although, I must admit, I love it, because it is probably the only SANE response to all the insanity around us. Google 'Kurt Tucholsky' and you will see what I mean...
*sigh* I so drank the koolaid on this guy - but I give up, what we each do doesn't seem to matter much anyway. Humankind follows the money and ego - so has it been since we first walked erect, so it will continue until the whole bloody thing blows up in our faces. But the universe, she'll keep on spinning and we'll merely be a speck of historical dust.
actually, we've only been following the money since we invented agriculture, and that's when large-scale suffering started, since we didn't evolve into that environment. But we did thrive, and we still do. Only now we have to deal with our demons in a big way...
Fair enuff - was being melodramatically snarky to be honest. But it sure does feel hopeless (and helpless) at times... I'm so deflated - I really did buy into the whole "hope and change" shtick, and of course now I'm beginning to feel like a "shmuck". My bad I guess. :(
Oh, and by the way, I hope I"VE Long since dropped dead before the guano really starts to hit the fan...its going to be awfully ugly. :( (And ironically, ppl still think that life in our very near future is going to be business as usual)
Don't feel too bad. I wasn't a huge fan of Obama to begin with, and I'm not now, but he's not a fraud, and he is probably gonna do some good. The question is will it be enough and the answer is probably no, however. Though I haven't really defined enough "for what". Maybe for making America better off than it was before Bush...
Really? I'd have guessed it to go at least back to the early Egyptian or Babylonian empires...at any rate, once we were farming the land, we set ourselves up for unreasonable sufffering.
V. Gordon Childe invented the term "Neolithic Revolution", but he was very naive. Ralph Linton's "The Tree of Culture", particularly the essay on agriculture, is brilliant antidote.
Childe was enthusiastically positive--only recently have some traced the consequences of monoculture.
There was exchange of "goods", naturally, long before any "currency", i. e. "money."
One way to read the Old Testament, that few know enough to do, is as primitive tribe's entrance into a monetary economy.
Yeah...I'm reading a book by Wolf Schneider which deals with human evolution...one thing to notice is how much the people of Israel, originally nomads, hated the cities of their time...especially Babylon.
Don't forget the head writer, Brzeznski. It's important to give props where due. His rise started in 2004 when the Democrat Gods grabbed an unknown Illinois State Senator and blessed him with Holy McDonald's special sauce and 11 herbs and spices.
He became the keynote speaker at the National Convention, won the US Senate race with 70% of the vote, the highest in Illinois history, and went on virtually unopposed through the shark-infested Straits of Hillary to the White House.
He flew from Kenya to Mexico . He purchased a fake ID, and hiked the Appalachian trail to the Senate while our hero, Bush, was pulling waterlogged negroes from the waters of New Orleans.
It's been pretty obvious to me from day 1 Obama is a stooge of the corporate fascist empire. Everyone in the government is a fall guy while the decision are made by the richest fool on the planet. They'll carry out his orders because it pays well, knowing they're setting themselves up for hell when justice comes about. Obama's a stooge just like whoever is the next prez will be a stooge too. Direct democracy is the ONLY way to ensure justice and peace.
...the fuck? Your attacks on Obama are just ad-hominem. Maybe... criticize him for turning his back on the auto unions? increasing the number of troops to Afghanistan? Whether or not you agree with those policies, they should be the things to attack, not weird pseudo-propaganda against his character. I expected better, Dennis. (Now all you trolls, rate my comment low and censor me.)
No he hasn't. He promised a single-payer system and an end to the Iraq war. He's scaling down troops, and for that I salute him... but he's doing it a lot different than he said he would. And a single payer system? Forget about it. He's got 58 democrats and Sanders and Lieberman in the senate, and they still let the republicans make policy. Harry Reid, and Dick Durbin aughta be kicked out. Take it from a Canuck: a single payer system works. Good luck to you guys.
The only thing he got wrong in this video was saying that he was the first African American president; he was actually the second. Warren Harding was 1/8 African American making him the first African American president and as "black" as the children of Sally Hemmings.
Salient points. Davis puts out some interesting stuff but he ain't perfect by a long shot. I think his channel is enriched by intelligent comments like yours. Good on you.
"...this combined with 150 years of built up white guilt ensured victory." -couldnt have said it better.
GreazyMuhfoh 2 years ago
Rush reference!
And by the way, Geddy might have sung those lyrics but Neil Peart penned them.
andyhoov 2 years ago
When is Obama going to give Angela Davis the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Get serious, Barack baby, or your ass is grass.
mopsius 2 years ago
RIPOFF RIPOFFS:
LIBERATE THE US!
mopsius 2 years ago
Workers owning their own factories--hmmmm.
mopsius 2 years ago
Hey, Fleetwood--got a new one for you:
"GET A JOB--LIBERATE A FACTORY".
mopsius 2 years ago
So why DID the Democrat Fascists attack Yugoslavia under Clinton?
Three guesses.
mopsius 2 years ago
The US has been in recession since at least 2005, but the media and the government papered it over.
The point at which I knew they could not cover it up anymore was when stories began to appear in the mainstream media about how healthy it was to walk more and eat less, and that thus "Recession" had an upside.
Got that.
Now let me point out the next sign: when the mainstream media has a good word to say about cannibalism, jeje.
mopsius 2 years ago
The all new revolutionary Libertarian Titoism, hehehehe.
mopsius 2 years ago
What his country needs is a good five cent New Socialist Overground.
Peace and Love--hand over the fucking bread.
I have tendencies toward Titoism myself, but, hey, collective leadership is collective leadership.
Liberating a few bubblegum factories might be interesting.
mopsius 2 years ago
Stupid. Another dumbass with way too much time on his hands. Get a job, loser.
RAWSPOON 2 years ago
"Get a job"--HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Do you do comedy routines at Sam's while you are checking membership ID's?
mopsius 2 years ago
LIke I said... a dumbass. And with dumb jokes.
RAWSPOON 2 years ago
This is hilarious!! But it's beginning to look like some of the battles in the comment section could get even funnier.
anmoose 2 years ago
This is just the beginning, current events are only the grease for the 2010 slide...
PeaceProfit 2 years ago
Limelight was written by Neil Peart not Geddy Lee, or Getty Lee even.
Bocbo 2 years ago
A judge is finally going to hear the case against Obama's eligibility.
ccgraphics20 2 years ago
"Some critics = Ralph Nader and, like, 2 other dudes" :))
Yeah, the Lincoln hat would actually fit quite well...!
Tressco 2 years ago
And by 2012, Our nation becomes the movie Road Warrior. I can't wait.
btigtime2 2 years ago
Scandalous Clintonites are they?
jdrizd2 2 years ago
BO also is Bachelor of Oration.
jdrizd2 2 years ago
Actually, Zugzwang means you have to move even if you don't want to...it's a German word, incidentally pronounced "tsuhgtsvang".
Anyway, I would say the opposite principle applies to the current POTUS, there are too many messes to fix and not enough time, even if the political will can be mustered by his administration, to say nothing about Congress.
Brandt761 2 years ago
Satire is a dying art-form, my friend. Although, I must admit, I love it, because it is probably the only SANE response to all the insanity around us. Google 'Kurt Tucholsky' and you will see what I mean...
55ella2007k 2 years ago
nice one !....
tepstolog 2 years ago
we've had lots of black presidents before but you had to look at their hearts to see it.
tyrbolo 2 years ago
*sigh* I so drank the koolaid on this guy - but I give up, what we each do doesn't seem to matter much anyway. Humankind follows the money and ego - so has it been since we first walked erect, so it will continue until the whole bloody thing blows up in our faces. But the universe, she'll keep on spinning and we'll merely be a speck of historical dust.
AriLyrMerSir 2 years ago
actually, we've only been following the money since we invented agriculture, and that's when large-scale suffering started, since we didn't evolve into that environment. But we did thrive, and we still do. Only now we have to deal with our demons in a big way...
Brandt761 2 years ago 2
Fair enuff - was being melodramatically snarky to be honest. But it sure does feel hopeless (and helpless) at times... I'm so deflated - I really did buy into the whole "hope and change" shtick, and of course now I'm beginning to feel like a "shmuck". My bad I guess. :(
AriLyrMerSir 2 years ago
Oh, and by the way, I hope I"VE Long since dropped dead before the guano really starts to hit the fan...its going to be awfully ugly. :( (And ironically, ppl still think that life in our very near future is going to be business as usual)
AriLyrMerSir 2 years ago
Don't feel too bad. I wasn't a huge fan of Obama to begin with, and I'm not now, but he's not a fraud, and he is probably gonna do some good. The question is will it be enough and the answer is probably no, however. Though I haven't really defined enough "for what". Maybe for making America better off than it was before Bush...
Brandt761 2 years ago
Agriculture preceded "money" by long millennia.
mopsius 2 years ago
Are you sure? By how long? And I mean organized agriculture. At any rate, the evils represented by money all have their roots in farming.
Brandt761 2 years ago
"Money" is very late--first millenium B.C.
mopsius 2 years ago
Really? I'd have guessed it to go at least back to the early Egyptian or Babylonian empires...at any rate, once we were farming the land, we set ourselves up for unreasonable sufffering.
Brandt761 2 years ago
V. Gordon Childe invented the term "Neolithic Revolution", but he was very naive. Ralph Linton's "The Tree of Culture", particularly the essay on agriculture, is brilliant antidote.
Childe was enthusiastically positive--only recently have some traced the consequences of monoculture.
There was exchange of "goods", naturally, long before any "currency", i. e. "money."
One way to read the Old Testament, that few know enough to do, is as primitive tribe's entrance into a monetary economy.
mopsius 2 years ago
Yeah...I'm reading a book by Wolf Schneider which deals with human evolution...one thing to notice is how much the people of Israel, originally nomads, hated the cities of their time...especially Babylon.
Brandt761 2 years ago
The Book of Job is a barrel of monkeys from that point of view.
The real work to be done remains Mohenjo-Daro, where there seems even to be writing but which cannot be read.
The question of "property" and seal rings is also fascinating.
mopsius 2 years ago
"The Capitalists" always read the archaeological findings of "seal rings" as a clear sign of private property early.
Which, of course, is completely absurd.
mopsius 2 years ago
Youtube is certainly not the place for any extensive discussion, Brandt761, unfortunately.
What is known is vast and scattered, and increases every day.
And of course there is even more unknown--as always.
mopsius 2 years ago
Always entertaining. I enjoy those on the left who are willing to take aim at the so-deserved Messiah of our times, BHO.
girlyoudontknow2 2 years ago
The correct spelling of his name is Geddy Lee, not Getty
dgb1022 2 years ago
A nice piece of satire. Yes, his is a cult of personality.
citizenkong 2 years ago 2
Don't forget the head writer, Brzeznski. It's important to give props where due. His rise started in 2004 when the Democrat Gods grabbed an unknown Illinois State Senator and blessed him with Holy McDonald's special sauce and 11 herbs and spices.
He became the keynote speaker at the National Convention, won the US Senate race with 70% of the vote, the highest in Illinois history, and went on virtually unopposed through the shark-infested Straits of Hillary to the White House.
toeg1 2 years ago
I wouldn't call that "nearly unopposed". More like he won...
Brandt761 2 years ago
He flew from Kenya to Mexico . He purchased a fake ID, and hiked the Appalachian trail to the Senate while our hero, Bush, was pulling waterlogged negroes from the waters of New Orleans.
ndvuncle 2 years ago
Maya Angelou wrote some really memorable poetry:
Rise!
Rise!
Rise!
Rise....
Sorry, that's all I can remember.
mopsius 2 years ago
Maya Angelou called Clinton the first black president.
Does that make Obama's presidency the first black Bush in the White House?
mopsius 2 years ago
By the way, Kennedy was fiction too, and Reagan, and the two Bushes, and Clinton...
mopsius 2 years ago 3
Yep, times they are a-changng, yassuh.
Like Kennedy was CATHOLIC, oooooooooo.
How about an interview with Rahm Emmanuel's proctologist?
Don't forget the curling iron.
Peace and Love--hand over the bread.
mopsius 2 years ago
It's been pretty obvious to me from day 1 Obama is a stooge of the corporate fascist empire. Everyone in the government is a fall guy while the decision are made by the richest fool on the planet. They'll carry out his orders because it pays well, knowing they're setting themselves up for hell when justice comes about. Obama's a stooge just like whoever is the next prez will be a stooge too. Direct democracy is the ONLY way to ensure justice and peace.
danielvincentkelley 2 years ago 2
Getty Lee is spelled Geddy Lee.
If you go to Rush's Wikipedia page for your info that is.
I thought that was funny after going there from here.
You got it right Davis.
Wiki got it wrong.
dunskie 2 years ago
So is this your way of telling us you are a talking head? (Jk) :o)
imjustagirl776 2 years ago
Oh, and I meant to also comment that Snarkipedia is perfect!
imjustagirl776 2 years ago
how did I get here?
marniespeaks 2 years ago
...the fuck canadians tell us about our politicos?maybe they should reign in that bitch of a master they share in common with us,
rblwoaclu 2 years ago
...the fuck? Your attacks on Obama are just ad-hominem. Maybe... criticize him for turning his back on the auto unions? increasing the number of troops to Afghanistan? Whether or not you agree with those policies, they should be the things to attack, not weird pseudo-propaganda against his character. I expected better, Dennis. (Now all you trolls, rate my comment low and censor me.)
notscooter952 2 years ago 4
Well said.
hahayouarefunny 2 years ago
I prefer to attack the idiots who voted for him. Obama has been honest all along. Why attack him?
davisfleetwood 2 years ago
No he hasn't. He promised a single-payer system and an end to the Iraq war. He's scaling down troops, and for that I salute him... but he's doing it a lot different than he said he would. And a single payer system? Forget about it. He's got 58 democrats and Sanders and Lieberman in the senate, and they still let the republicans make policy. Harry Reid, and Dick Durbin aughta be kicked out. Take it from a Canuck: a single payer system works. Good luck to you guys.
notscooter952 2 years ago 2
DUDE - he promised single payer when he was STATE senator from Illinois- about the same as working in Target.
As a candidate he NEVER promised single Payer. The liberals projected their wished onto him.
And out of IRAQ, he has always been very careful about his words......
He got elected exactly because he promised NOTHING but an amorphous idea- CHANGE....
Chump Change that is.
davisfleetwood 2 years ago
I thought he was sending more troops into Afghanistan?
If a single payer system works so well why do the Canucks come down here in droves for treatment.
Because we have some ass good treatment..
The best, I hear.
Nationalize it and we're both F*cked.
If your not to keen on Obamas policies he's into population control.
Just hired a pop control czar too.
Grandma is old and sick?
F*ck her.
Give her some pain pills and say goodbye grandma son.
Americanluvunit 2 years ago
Because you're a dumbass. See notscooter952's post. Ad-hominem attacks aren't convincing me of anything.
RazorShultzor 2 years ago
The only thing he got wrong in this video was saying that he was the first African American president; he was actually the second. Warren Harding was 1/8 African American making him the first African American president and as "black" as the children of Sally Hemmings.
ArcticSlicer 2 years ago
Salient points. Davis puts out some interesting stuff but he ain't perfect by a long shot. I think his channel is enriched by intelligent comments like yours. Good on you.
seamoremonster 2 years ago
Great stuff, keep up the great work. :)
LordDirk 2 years ago