Let's Try It This Way...Under What Instances, Is It Okay To Praise The President On DU ???

[MADem]

377. "So you think" the POTUS is a right winger?

You know, those "So you think..." arguments are stale as last week's toast.

I guess all the help those terrible Democrats did in helping Liz Warren win her Senate seat, and vaulting her as a newcomer to the banking committee means nothing?

And when, pray tell, has "chained CPI" been IMPLEMENTED? Not tossed out like a crumb to get assholes to the table, but IMPLEMENTED?

And what "secret trade agreements?" Getting mad because you aren't "in" on the discussions that predate any actual agreements doesn't cut it. Did you want a seat at the table for the Berghdahl negotiations, too? Because it's your "right?"

As for "spying on citizens" you might have crabbed and cried about that a decade--or three--ago...and make sure you yell at your supermarket, drugstore, airline, and remember that every time you give up information to facebook, twitter, and every contest entry, that you are part of the problem. Get rid of that smart phone, too--it can track you, and that's no good (unless you're at the bottom of a ravine). Only drive an old car, the new ones have that ONSTAR thing in 'em that can be activated even if you don't pay for it (Obama didn't invent ONSTAR, either, just so you know). Oh, and let's take down every camera that records the average person a dozen or more times a day--in some urban environments, hundreds of times a day--yeah, that'll happen because you say so.

And, so long as we're complaining, let's tell the Russians, the Chinese, the Brits, the French, the Romanians, the Israelis, and every other nation with skin in the monitoring game to just STOP because we don't LIKE it! That'll convince 'em!

You know, Chicken Little learned that insisting that the sky is falling will persuade people to disregard you after a time. It's a good lesson.

The horse has left the barn. If you think you're going to stop surveillance with a foot stomp and a "That's outrageous" you'd better think again.

It's too late, baby! Even if we don't do it, someone else will. Welcome to the new world--if you don't want to be surveilled, you will have to take active measures to avoid it. Go on--start by getting off the net, and getting rid of that smartphone...it's the only way to be "sure" that no one sees what you're doing!