Just What We Need - More Billionaires F*cking With Us
The Corporatocracy have perceived a need, the Democratic Party needs to be more centrist and billionaire friendly, apparently they are jealous of Republican billionaires having all the fun in Washington DC these days. Hillary Clinton would be their ideal candidate and like Trump only super wealthy people would be allowed in the administration, poor folks are such losers.
Our aristocracy are trying to sell us a 'new' product with the hilarious acronym of WTF, oh gosh, I laughed so hard my sides nearly split.
As the last Presidential election cycle ably demonstrated the is nothing the Democratic Party enjoys more than kicking Progressives and socialists to the curb, then the sheer joy they have in blaming us for their losses afterwards.
These billionaires seem to think that the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left; sure that is why they lost large swathes of their traditional base over the decades, too damn left. Nothing to do with supporting warmongers and billionaires tax cuts. War for oil, no problem, count us in. Privatised health care, we will protect that until the end. Banks and the mega-rich, we will bail em out when they fuck up. Too left I say.
The one thing these billionaires are correct in assuming is that the Democratic Party will welcome them in with arms and bank accounts wide open, punching any too vocal a hippy along the way. We will have an ultra modern and glossy campaign run on social media with all the 'bestest' intentions. That will negate actually talking to any of those worthless people in fly over country. If a progressive gets too bolshie? Delete their fucking account. Job done.
We already have seen what money in politics has done to once upon a time 'progressive' blogs
on a small scale with the developing internet, imagine what a serious dose of cash can do in insta-neediness of social media.
If one time anti-war 'progressive' sites can become pro-war sites when their candidate is in power. Then the same sites justify bombing when their next presidential candidate helped lead the charge is anything to go by; then an obvious billionaire takeover of Party policy is not going to be even remotely inconvenienced.
Hell, we already know money does most of the talking in the Democratic Party with the odd bone promised if not actually given. This will allow them to fit earplugs and hence be able to ignore poor folks completely.
It's good to know the billionaires care enough about us to save 'our' Party. [It ceased to be our party decades ago]
What The Fuck Next.
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Is there a recipe
For the rich?
Would they be tasty with a red or white whine? Blood pudding comes to mind.
We know they're not tough. In fact, I'd bet they're well marbled.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
It may be time to bring out the fine Chiantis
Don't forget...
the fava beans.
I want a Pony!
marbled
Yeah, but the chemicals they carry -- eeuuuwww!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
@thanatokephaloides
They can afford organic. And avoid industrial toxins far better than the rest of us.
Perhaps the rich should be a part of every healthy diet?
Edited for the obligatory letter-typo.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Money likes a stable center,
the middle road, the status quo of NIRP (easy credit) so it can work its magic and multiply. Uncertainty is anathema, volatility means more hedging, more work. This makes total sense to these tech moguls. You can't blame them. They are the new rich that benefitted from the current regime of money printing. In their case shares and stock options created out of nothing. The status quo has been very good to them. They see that there are problems but they don't understand what really happening. Paradigm shift. But not the techno revolution that made them rich. No something far more sinister. The dark side of credit creation and diminishing returns on complexity. They saw it unfold before their own eyes, all the money in the world could not get Hillary elected. All the money in the world won't hold the center. No we are in the widening gyre, spinning out of orbit, to the realm of ice nine, sloughing towards Bethlehem, like some rough beast, shedding his new coat of immiseration.
I dont blame them, but they hardly need protecting
and they certainly don't merit obeying.
I do blame them.
How much is enough? How much? They don't live forever, their kids won't live forever, and they cannot take it with them no matter how fervently they believe they can. They see exactly what's going on, how could they not? Can all of these guys be that damned stupid or even willfully dumb? I don't think so. Its just like when I used to ask myself how the bastards who unleashed the Tea Party could not see what they were doing, they knew, they knew good and well what that does for them and as for the rest of us, we don't matter. We matter only as customers for their latest product and if we can't afford it, we can fuck off.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
There is never enough all that matters is the score and
to assuage the gapping fear that one day they will wake up and have nothing at all.
like the rest of us
Oh, you mean like the rest of us!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Stop . . .
trying to cheer me up.
Did you say "Ice Nine"?
Did you mean this Ice Nine?
LOL
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Everyone knows that if you just
shovel enough money at a candidate, you'll win. Look at how well it worked for Jeb, or Ossoff. This cutting edge strategy confirms my suspicions, that in spite of the powerful example of 2016, they've learned nothing.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
It's plain sad, money and triangulation
How much did Her out spend Trump by?
How much did Her outspend Bernie by, and she still needed two hands, a foot and a (T)rump on the scales to put Her over the top!
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Well that's their excuse
for supporting Obama despite the record gains made by Republicans during his tenure. After all, it couldn't be his fault, right, so it's got to be "Republican money" to blame. And Clinton? She's pulling in twice what Trump was getting, so she's inevitably going to win, right?
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
Jeebus Christ. These folks are out of touch.
How do they even manage?
Have you seen the "new" slogan contest?
Scroll down to Maple Cocaine's suggested slogans too.
These folks are bad at their job. Really bad.
I'm 50/50 on the chance that they are that stupid or that they would rather just lose and keep shaking that money tree.
Or maybe both.
funny responses to horrid slogans...
wtf...schumer created them?
Seriously the original sticker ideas sucked so bad.
I can't believe the second choice on that list
She Persisted. We Resisted.
Seriously? I made a meme a few months ago with that exact same slogan. Here's how it turned out.
If that's a real serious choice and not a joke, then Hillary and the rest of the Establishment Democrats all need to go to the same place.
The mental institution.
Repubs pay Dem
strategists probably twice as much as Dems do, most likely.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
@peachcreek
So what was wrong with 'Who else are they going to vote for - Republicans?' Oh, wait...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
WTF?
WTF???
Beware the bullshit factories.
Absolutely WTF - OMFG amirite?
These cretins know that they're living
In a dumbed down country where money is all that counts. The Zuckerburg/Bezos troops are betting on there being enough people who think that because they have theirs they must KNOW what the country needs. Didn't work before but hey, they wrote an article about it , so we'll see if they find enough Kardashian/Clooney/Streisand donors to bring the Dims back being to even being relevant.
I have a feeling that those hateful, racist, kuckledragging working-class people who are watching the quality of their lives going to Hell while these DINOs rattle off their new mantra "Go Right Lefty" might not go for it. Again.
EDIT: luving/living
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
WTF billionaires will allow some liberal opinions
"Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights." Sounds like rehashed libertarianism.
Neo-neoliberalism
@MrWebster
That'll mean civil rights only for the most successful capitalists, then utterly free to poison human and environmental health, food, air and water in the production of shoddy/hazardous products with no criticism or non-industry science permitted and no 'burdensome' public/worker/consumer protections of any kind.
They're close now to their ideal, but a few ragged shreds of democratic pretense still impede Those Who Matter from actually having all of the money and everything else all to themselves and this really isn't fair at all.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Social media replaces governance why not
Their inclusive plan is for social media users to "vote" and thus make amerika great again? Wonder if they know how insulated and stupid that sounds to those outside of their bubble. Don't say hidden algorithms, that would be bad.
peace
A More Compassionate Makin Murika Grate Agin
Agin and agin.
thanks, in funky coincidence I just wrote this yesterday after watching a certain leader preach how revolutionary the Ds will become, sounded much like a born again christian to me. Don't say dark money, say Unity Commission.
@eyo
Perhaps that'll replace electoral voting and prevent the hassle of pretending to have two Corporate Parties in America?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
New Shimmer Democrats...
...they are a floor wax AND and dessert topping!!!
This aptly named WTF effort is just another in a long line of
Centrism Re-Brands.
In my Marketing lectures I remember the chicken or egg discussion. Should Marketers create
demand or just respond to it? In the case of the well paid but totally amoral Democratic Technocrats, the question answers itself. Because these are the kind of folks who deep down inside think Joe Camel was a brilliant campaign.
In their world the DLC becomes the New Democrats who become the Third Way then New Blue and now WTF. Along the way they launch complimentary brands like the New Democratic Coalition and No Labels.
I'm waiting for DLC IV, Son of Centrism, starring Cory Booker, Kamala Harris. Bernie Sanders as the villian. Hillary as the battle scarred Rocky-like figure mentoring her young proteges.
Unfortunately for them, we've caught on to their technocratic techniques and Mind Fucks. Accordingly, Floor Wax ain't tastin' so good these days.
Thanks LF for putting this forward. It is important to mock the living crap out of these losers.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPO8PqHGWFU]
Rebranding, branding a little further to the right each time
@LaFeminista 'Incremental change'.
'Incremental change'.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@jobu
Lol, Turd Way providing both rich fertilizers for donors and pesticides for that nasty non-billionaire public.
(It's OK, they seriously don't need voters - they can make up their own votes as they go along, in accordance with the Psychopaths That Be's wishes and now with the aid of their very own Homeland Security Top Secret Electoral Infrastructure Control.)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Move Right: The mantra since at least 2000.
It seems like I've been hearing since 2000 (probably earlier, if I think about it) that the Democrats are just too lefty and need to move right to win. Well, they have moved farther and farther to the right, to the point where they're starting to make Reagan look progressive, and it's accomplished nothing positive. Evidence isn't with them, but here we go again.
WTF Democrats, indeed.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
I'm at 'The Kissinger Democrats' Hillary just loved that old
War Criminal.
1992 "New Democrats" DLC
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
@Dr. John Carpenter
That's because the purpose has nothing to do with democratic governance; it's a hostile corporate take-over and the world is their corporation to drain and destroy before moving onto... nothing else remaining. Not even adequate global oxygen production to support life, possibly within the decade, if they are allowed to continue their multitudinous destructive ways as they please, with military/nuclear backing.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Boycott the duopoly.
Am I the only one on here that was never a democrat?
My family were East Coast Republicans who basically became
Democrats by default during the 70s and 80s. Most of my family haven't really connected with the Party designations over at least the last 30 years. I used to have some sympathy with/for the Democrats although more historical than actual. I had had enough of the not as bad as around 1999/2000.
I'm convinced this two party political system is the problem
and until it's replaced we'll remain slaves, as Chris Hedges and Paul Craig Roberts among others have described those of us not in the upper classes.
An argument I have made for years, I used to mention
it often on the other place to the inevitable accompanying screams of outrage
My mom campaigned for Adlai Stevenson
but her dad worked for Hiram Johnson, when California Ds were called Rs. Was raised my whole life on electoral politics in California, brother worked on every McCarthy campaign, and later became and AIDS activist in SF. Fat lot of good it did, the asset stripping did never slow and the wars got bigger.
I quite admire people who never bought the lies and remain consistent, when I read the sht I wrote last year and before it's embarrassing. A "teaching moment" indeed. Thanks y'all, I think.
peace
My Dad campaigned for Adlai Stevenson
He still thinks he would have been a great President. Instead we got Eisenhower, who I would prefer over any of today's Corpodemocratlicans.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Me
Nope, never a Democrat.
I'm one of those wily youths, one of those lazy millennial kids, you know?
2008 I was 17, so no Pres. election for me. I didn't pay too much attention to politics to be honest.
2012, first time able to vote, voted Green. I live in MN, and I don't recall having registered for any party or anything, so not really certain what my label is here. Unaffiliated? Independent? Not certain.
2016, voted Green again. So not the only one Al.
No Party Affiliation For Life!
You are not alone.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
@Big Al I've never been
I've never been registered with any political party. It isn't required in Minnesota, so I never bothered.
I know that makes me an unforgivable traitor, to many.
Oh, and hi everybody.
Highly recommended
and totally true. Our overlords have been punching us hippies since Nixon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEZoY-TMG4
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
My 70 year old hippy landlords
Put a new bumper sticker over their old Bernie 2016 a few months ago. Whaddya think? Too far Left?
"Bring the Guillotine Back
It worked for the French"
I think I'll ask them where they got it.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
WTF indeed
I also laughed at that acronym, even more than I laughed when you called Bernie's efforts on the Democratic platform the "Democratic Reacharound."
I can hardly wait for these billionaire vampire lords to show up on DailyKos and tell me to "check my privilege," and me the mere peon who can't afford their trendy $4000 rents to live in blue state heaven.
Isn't Facebook founder whats-his-name running for president in 2020? WTF indeed.
Well we need new billionaires --
because the Kochs are too powerful.
Or at least that's the argument.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
Excitement, y'know.
From the WTF link:
Wait a minute! I didn't choose a government that promotes capitalism!
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.