Obama Must Go!, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #238
August 29, 2011 Mike Gold 17 Comments
Fighting three wars simultaneously while our economy is in the toilet is bad enough. Forcing a socialist heath care system down our throats is even worse. Lying about his heritage – “I did not have birth with that nation” – is tantamount to treason. Denying tax breaks and loopholes to the incredibly wealthy is simple jealousy. Becoming the pet monkey to murderous revolutionaries while disguising himself as a Christian is criminal. But now, Barack Obama has gone beyond the pale.
While the rest of us were trying to celebrate Senator McCain’s great victory in Libya, Obama maliciously distracted us with a devastating earthquake centered south of Washington DC and – as Muslims would do – caused significant damage to the National Cathedral. When that didn’t knock his personal failure to capture and kill Muammar Gaddafi off the front pages, he sent Hurricane Irene up the right coast to distract us.
Yes, that’s the right coast.
How much more are we going to tolerate from this Islammunist dictator? What is it going to take for us to take our nation back? Locusts? Floozies turning into pillars of salt? A national outbreak of health?
When is our national great white whale, Christopher Chris Christie, governor of America’s best-smelling state, going to step up to the plate and save our national soul? More important, if he does step up to the plate, will we still be able to see it?
Yes, it’s time for us all to put aside our petty differences and unite behind the 21st Century Fat Fury, Chris-Chris Christie, so that he can fight the good fight and end economic oblivion, destroy the evil unions, end health care, shutter the public schools, bring an end to hurricanes and earthquakes and return America back to its constitutional roots where black people know their place – which is an attractive 3/5’s of a white person’s place – and send Hispanic-Americans back to Hispania where they belong.
And if the Great White Whale cannot be convinced to take up the challenge, we must turn to the Great American Christian Rick Perry to save us from the evil black Moslem menace.
As real Americans, we must bring an end to Obamaism now! All Power To The White Righteous People!
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Media metaphysician Mike Gold does some sort of Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind rock’n’blues show that streams four times a week on www.getthepointradio.com and is also available at that same venue on demand for those who simply can’t wait. He also joins Martha Thomases and Michael Davis as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com, where he also holds the ethereal title of editor-in-chief.
Rick Oliver
September 2, 2011 - 11:25 am
The house may be on fire, but the inmates have no idea how to put it out. We could disband the federal government entirely and the economy would still suck because multinational corporations want us to compete with third world countries for sub-poverty level wages in toxic conditions.
Deficit spending may be a problem, but it is not THE problem. The problem is that we no longer have an industrial base because “free trade” agreements shipped all those jobs to places you wouldn’t want to live. And the bar is getting lower. Corporations are already looking for cheaper alternatives to China.
Reinstate trade tariffs. No one could claim the founders were opposed to that, since it was the first form of taxation they embraced.
R. Maheras
September 2, 2011 - 12:09 pm
I don’t share your pessimism. There are people who can put out the fire, it’s just that those currently in power want nothing to do with them.
Rick Oliver
September 2, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Sure there are people that can put out the fire, but they’re not in the tea party. The only context in which they address our negative trade deficit — which is a HUGE contributor to government deficit — is in terms of removing government regulations. Get rid of the minimum wage. Get rid of the EPA. Get rid of OSHA. Then we can really compete! For the same crappy wages and deadly conditions in third world countries! Hooray!
R. Maheras
September 2, 2011 - 1:04 pm
I don’t know about that. Herman Cain has Tea Party support, and I really like his 9-9-9 plan. It’s smart, simple, and it would give the business community something it’s been craving for several years now: Stability and certainty.
Regarding the EPA and OSHA, as someone who spent nearly 20 years in technical/manufacturing positions very much affected by both of those agencies, I think you’re wrong. Existing companies have enough trouble trying to comply with the thousands and thousands of rules both agencies force them to comply with, but for a new start-up? Forget it.
If I had a pile of money to invest, the last thing I’d do is try and start a new company where the EPA and OSHA were looming over me. I’d take that money and invest in overseas where I’d have at least a reasonable chance at actually making money. Because, after all, what is the point of starting a business if one cannot make a profit doing so?
Rick Oliver
September 2, 2011 - 1:32 pm
Like I said. Get rid of the EPA. Get rid of OSHA. Give us the freedom to let people live and work in intolerable conditions. Remember the good old days of the 19th century. Hooray!
Rene
September 2, 2011 - 4:46 pm
Nah, deregulating everything will lead to a Randian paradise, obviously.
Rene
September 2, 2011 - 5:02 pm
R. Maheras: “You think the Tea Party was formed because it wants to police your bedroom? That all of its complaints and indignation about the economy are just a smokescreen to mask their REAL agenda.”
Not exactly. I think it was formed to champion a aggressive Conservative agenda, that includes both aggressive Christianity and aggressive Economic Deregulation and Fiscal Austerity, among other things. And I think downplaying the social aspects of their agenda is a tactic to make them appear nicer and/or saner.
R. Maheras
September 2, 2011 - 5:35 pm
I guess we’ll just have to disagree, because I don’t think the Tea Party formed due to any social agenda. And while there are inevitably spinoff clusters of Tea Party members who raise social issues, the driving force of the movement was the economy, out-of-control government spending, and jobs.
I still think that’s the case.
Mike Gold
September 2, 2011 - 6:02 pm
I think the origin of the movement is as you state, Russ. But it quickly evolved into what it was not supposed to be at the outset, one that reflects (and often mirrors) that which Rick and Rene observe. The influence of Ailes, who immediately cooped them, the Christian fundamentalists, the big business interests, the Koch Brothers and other interests is obvious and, to my thinking, in contrast to its leaderless, for-the-people grass movement roots.
Happens all the time — left, right, Republican, Democratic. In this case it just happened really, really fast. Chalk that up to the Internet and our faster-than-the-speed-of-thought worldview..
Reg
September 3, 2011 - 9:37 pm
Mike said: “Rick, when you say fundamentalists are either stupid or crazy, you are doing many of them a disservice.
They could be both.”
Reg said: Or they could be neither.
Fundamentalism defined: The term usually has a religious connotation indicating unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.
Yep. I resemble that remark.
MOTU
September 3, 2011 - 10:35 pm
I must admit-I’ve gone from hating the Tea Party with the sort of passion reserved for someone who’s only child was killed by a sick bastard who took pictures to share on line with other sicko’s…to disagreeing with many of their beliefs.
I know, that’s a giant swing but it turns out I have a few REAL good friends who are members. I once also believed (with good reason) the Tea Party was formed mainly because it wants to police my bedroom, police my God and send me back to Africa.
I’m still convinced their are some extreme members who DO want to do that but the rank and file, not so much.
Also-for those on the extreme right who DO want to send me back to Africa, guess what?
I’m from Queens motherfuckers my ancestors are from Africa.
MOTU
September 3, 2011 - 10:37 pm
One more thing extreme Tea Party people…white woman LOVE me.
Bill Mulligan
September 4, 2011 - 6:41 am
yeah, there’s nothing like finding out a few of your friends belong to something to make you see it in a whole new light. I think that why we are seeing such a rapid evolution in attitudes toward gay people. As more gays live their lives openly it forces people to see them as friends and family, not some weird “others”. So they start to re-evaluate their prejudices, which makes it easier for more gays to come out and the cycle continues.
Mike Gold
September 4, 2011 - 7:54 am
Reg, I haven’t seen it. But I think this is a semantic argument.
Mike Gold
September 4, 2011 - 7:56 am
MOTU- When were you in Africa? And hell, I’d like to see you sent back to Queens. Manhattan would be better, but I’d settle.
You get to go “back” to Africa only when you start dressing like Marcus Garvey.
Again.
Mike Gold
September 4, 2011 - 7:57 am
Bill – How true. The day Iowa legalized same-sex marriage was a day of ENORMOUS liberation. Iowa before California? Right on!