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politicartoonsI'm no cartoonist, but I am a writer, and since I see some writing in this community, I hope it's okay if I post a little something about all the tactics the current powers-that-be in the U.S. have borrowed from Oceania and the other totalitarian regimes of the great dystopian novels:
http://jill-rg.livejournal.com/20193.html
http://jill-rg.livejournal.com/20193.html
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-07 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 12:47 am (UTC)Note the def. It is income from investments, purchases, etc. Generally, given 401k's have their own tax category, people are talking about stock market revenue. Now, once you have a crap ton of money enough that you are living off that revenue, you quit your job like Mittens did, you pay a heck of a lot less taxes on the revenue from your stocks. Thus how Warren Buffet is paying a lower percentage then his secretary, and Mittens is paying an unknown percentage, given half his investments are stashed out of the US.
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Date: 2012-10-07 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 06:59 am (UTC)They said the same Thing about George W. Bush, and it turned out to be false.
No, he did have massive tax cuts for the wealthy and then started a war of choice and forgot to pay for it.
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:34 pm (UTC)"2008: It becomes racist to criticize or disapprove of the President of the United States or his policies, actions, or statements in any way because of his minority status."
This is the political equivalent of "I CAN'T BE RACIST MY BEST FRIENDS ARE BLACK YOU GUYS."
Also: "The Obama Administration cheers on the Occupy movement as its members rally and riot in the streets, trashing and destroying both private and public property, and unleash their hate at evil capitalists (whom the Party of Oceania eradicated long ago, while still constantly reminding its people how evil and oppressive they were, and they can always trust the word of the Party!)."
I really wish the straw-man Obama you have in your head was real. Us lefties would LOVE for Obama to embrace the Occupy Movement, which he never ever did, ever.
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:56 pm (UTC)Remember what John Stewart said, tho. The GOP hasn't been arguing with the real Obama... they've been arguing the invisible Obama that's in their head, that only they can see! Clearly the OP is thinking of THAT Obama, not the centrist, business-oriented Obama that actually exists in the real world.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:31 pm (UTC)Generally that leads to a bunch of redefining morality to suit ones own beliefs, and I'm not in the mood for bullshit.
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Date: 2012-10-08 07:36 pm (UTC)Interestingly enough, when I think Republicans I also think pre-Revolution France...
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Date: 2012-10-08 09:06 pm (UTC)Means nothing that they used the word "republican;" the word "intercourse" also once meant "interaction." Meanings change.
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