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What America Got From The Budget Deal (In One Cartoon)
Presented with nothing but a sad "no comment"...
As Santelli and Stockman exclaimed ...the budget deal is a "betrayal and a joke" and "the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to beltway politics. They've not only kicked the can down the road, but kicked it into low-earth orbit."
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We got screwed.
have been for some time and now should be perfectly clear to all those "if we just elect the other team" fuckers
Those fuckers are the vast majority of the population. I clicked on a Drudge story today about a guy who smoked a bunch of meth and masturbated in a restaurant. The first several comments literally blamed Obama, called him an Obama voter and/or blamed liberals. Not to single out that Team. Huffington comments show similar "it's Republicans' fault" about almost anything. The People bought what the oligarchs are selling. We're screwed.
It's the Culture Wars.
The Forager Culture vs. Pharaonic Culture - The 10,000 Year Culture War.
If I had a drudge report story for every time I masturbated in arestaurant I'd be famous.
Yowza, no more ordering the 'secret sauce' at restaurants from now on for this cowboy...
> If I had a drudge report story for every time I masturbated in arestaurant ...
Keep it up and you just might.
I did not buy what the oligarchs were selling. And worse, they did not buy what I was selling.
Yet.
M'Fers are no match for technology. The days of the oligarchs are numbered.
you better hope you did because it costed enough money...
yet again...
Black chicken "We got screwed" so what you going to do about it , thats right NOTHING.
+1000. Although it's entertaining to read such posts, it's just a bunch of keyboard cowboys here. Might as well be commenting on a sports forum.
+1000 huh? Who is the keyboard cowboy?
The title asked a question, and I gave a simple answer. We did get screwed, there is no accountability and/or responsibility in DC.
So tough guys ( you and abitdoggie), what exactly are you doing about it?
Running for office.
That might have impact, I wish you the best.
I have on map on how to get to Wyoming in my Bugout Bag.
I started a business. I just decided that I wasn't going to let anybody's boogeymen stop me from trying. If successful I expect to simply purchase the world that I want to live in just like the oligarchs do now.
It also provides plenty of fodder for political satirists.
Funds Obamacare.
Thanks Republicrats! Get the rope ready...
The lamp posts are waiting...
Funds Obamacare.
Yep.
They're also responsible for all the wars since Bush I, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, and a whole host of crap I can't remember right now.
Given enough rope they'd disarm you too.
For the chiiiiiiiildren, of course.
Could somebody please explain why my asshole is aching?
You just returned from the doctor for your prostate exam.......
your colonoscopy.......
you signed up for Obamacare and saw your new monthly premium...
(as you can tell, the tool used in your ass raping increases in girth with each new choice)
Yeah, but no prostate exam, no colonoscopy, and I sure as hell ain't signing up for Obamacare. If I need a colonoscopy while not being on Obamacare (or even if I were on it, I'd still have to pay for being procto-scoped,) I'll just take the 3-4 hour drive down to Deming. Its like congress had DARPA develop a phantom cock to use on us.
You sat down in Joe Bucks seat before he got up from the Packer game and he got stuck?
Troy Aikman reached in and pulled his little buddy out?
Nope, don't follow football. I find it to be, well, a circus that goes well with EBT. I didn't even know who Joe Buck was until just now when I ran a google search on his name.
So your ass hurts and you don't watch football?
Sounds like you're gay.
he walked right into that one. lol
backed into that one...
I've been called worse by better people;)
Most of the guys I know who follow football couldn't play it without dying of a heart attack. Sports are tailor made distractions for men to feel some semblance of still being alive. Sad really. Hunters today are the last breed of dying men. ;-)
Miffed;-)
That's because you are in California. I do know a couple of hunters out there, one being biologist, and the other, well, lets just say that he's not somebody you'd expect to be a hunter. But if everybody out there hunted, there wouldn't be any wildlife left. Out my way, hunting is alive and well.
My farrier is a bow hunter. My butcher bow hunts. These are the only men I know who are serious hunters. Most of my male friends and professional associates wouldn't dream of hunting. Believe me, the deer here are quite safe and plentiful. If it weren't for the mountain lions we'd be elbow deep in them. If McDonalds quit dispensing food, I'm not sure there are any out here that could survive on the land. I'm challenged in this and I have worked 10 years trying.
Miffed;-)
It took me being too busy to watch sports, to come to an understanding of what a complete waste of time being a spectator really is. Sports, tv, news...throw it all in the garbage.
I actually logged in for the first time in a month to +1 you. Simply funny.
its probably from the repeated use of a 14" bladed dildo with no lube.....
What I got is a growing lack of incentive to work hard and provide for my family. I am just getting so sick of this bullshit.
That's too bad, hang in there man. I feel for you. I am pretty demoralized myself, but fortunately have that last of my 4 kids halfway through college. The "light at the end of the tunnel" is visible ( a train, right?). These past 28 years of being a family man have been a real grind for the most part. Waiting for the upside...
I think that's why they call it the American (Aussie) Dream .... you have to be asleep to believe it. My money is on it being a Train for sure.
Absolutely nothing wrong with grinding through the life as a family man. That's what it's all about. The family stuff is the good stuff. The light at the end of the tunnel is called a dirt nap.
Sweet, sweet slumber.
28 years... assuming you started at 18 gives us 46, round up to an even 50. Bad news, you don't get to die for another 25-35 years if not longer. Enjoy the grind.
Lebanese National News Agency
"Israel bombs Lebanese border villages"
"The Israeli enemy violently bombed Sunday morning the area between Rashayya, Rashayya el-Fokhar, al-Mery, Ibl al-Saki, Wazzani, Kfarchouba hills, Wata el-Khiam and Serda, reported NNA correspondent."
"Over 20 shells hit these areas."
Israel fires shells on number of villages in southern Lebanon
"In a new violation of Lebanon's sovereignty, the Israeli forces on Sunday launched new attacks on a number of villages in southern Lebanon."
"For his part, al-Manar TV reporter said that the Israeli enemy artillery fired 24 shells at al-Kheyam area in southern Lebanon, indicating to the fall of two rockets in one of the groves of Qadaa Marjeyoun."
"A unit of the Lebanese Army cordoned off the area to inspect the damage caused by the new Israeli attacks. The Israeli occupation forces confessed to carrying out these attacks and targeting towns of al-Khraijeh, al-Mari in al-Kheyam area and al-Arkoub in southern Lebanon."
Not a peep from the propaganda media, but if someone just farts in Israel's general direction, we here about it like there's no tomorrow.
"What color should I paint my guillotine?"
Pink. And I want to see rainbow sprinkles too, for it will be a joyful day indeed when it is ready for operation......
Pleeze follow the directions carefully!
Yup.
Hezbollezers were just minding their own business feeding the duckies and ...Blam.
Nigga Puleeze.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/29/us-lebanon-israel-rockets-idUS...
The jews were "just minding their own business feeding the duckies" when they assassinated Mohamad Chatah one week after announcing that they were going to wage an aggressive war against Lebanon.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/29/us-lebanon-israel-rockets-idUS...
"The cross-border fire, which caused no injuries on either side, coincided with heightened political tension in Beirut following the assassination on Friday of a former Lebanese government minister."
"The strike, to which Israel said it responded with a barrage of shelling, came two days after a bomb blast in Beirut killed Mohamad Chatah, a former minister and leading adviser to Sunni Muslim former prime minister Saad al-Hariri."
"Hezbollah condemned Chatah's killing as a 'horrible crime'."
"A Reuters witness in the Lebanon frontier area said 33 Israeli shells hit near two southern border towns."
Payback for Lebanon shooting at Syrian planes? Oh wait... huh?
Trillions for criminal banks that are purposefully suppressing credit.
Trillions for a security police state and military complex that creates the very problems it is then funded to "solve."
Trillions to support a morally bankrupt medical insurance schadenfreude called Obamacare.
No Fucks given to the working poor, the destroyed middle class, the underemployed, etc.
No Fucks given to disabled combat vets and their families.
(If anyone really cared, then stop sending troopers into these forgotten bush wars.)
I don't care what your political stripes are.
Facts are facts and the money speaks for itself.
You and your family might as well be squatting in a Taliban cave, because that is what this Amerikan regime and its red coated jack booted moron squad thinks of you.
The Fed and its shareholders killed America.
They most certainly did get Fucks and most certainly will continue to do so.
No one has the right to send anyone else to fight their battle for them - that's what people need to get.
No one has the right to tell another person what to do, as long as they are damaging nobody but themselves.
Accept responsibility for your own actions and live your own life.
Work is for stupid people who don't know how to game the system.
I sat down... looked at all my silver and gold...
and I decided..l that the US budgetdeal... is a good thing.
KEEP IT UP OBO BRO !!
YOUR ECONOMIC WISDOM SOUNDS LIKE A SILVER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TO MY EARS!
I am so fucking disgusted with this country right now. Nobody will take their gaze away from their igadgets long enough to even notice the collapse of everything sacred around them. I will not lift one finger to help them in their hour of need...
the irony here is I read your comment on my igadget...
The real irony is that the NSA read his comment on your igadget too.
Look on the bright side.......................uh...........my dog is still hanging with me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
Yet another cave by Boehner, Cantor and Ryan. Once they blinked the first time, Obama knew that the Republicans did not have the backbone to hold out for anything - hence the Obama mantra of not negotiating or giving in on anything. Republicans have had no leadership since Newt left the House.
Nobody caved. It was scripted from the beginning. It's all scripted, and what's worse, we play along and pay along bitching, moaning, then dying with nothing gained but a lifetime of toil and torment........
I think that it's fair to characterize this as a tactical retreat. Anything that takes Obamacare out of the headlines, is a long-term win for the FSA.
Get off of the grid.
Get off my lawn.......
Hey did you hear the joke about the lunatic tock tick tock.
Say do you have the time?
Some of us are trying desperately but lacking the funds. In the younger crowd we never even had time to make a career of it and are left trying to use what tiny savings we have to do it.
Same boat here. At least we know that careers won't save us...
Bankers take heed.
If you take a life do know what you'll give?
Odds are you won't like what it is
When the storm arrives would you be seen with me
By the merciless eyes you've deceived?
I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
But you yourself are nothing so divine
Just next in line
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you and I will replace you
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you, are you willing to die?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
You know my name
If you come inside things will not be the same
When you return to the night
And if you think you've won you never saw me change
The game that we have been playing
I've seen diamonds cut through harder men
Than you yourself but if you must pretend
You may meet your end
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you and I will replace you
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you, are you willing to die?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
Try to hide your hand, forget how to feel
(Forget how to feel)
Life is gone with just a spin of the wheel
(Spin of the wheel)
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you and I will replace you
You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you, are you willin' to die?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
You know my name
(You know my name)
You know my name
(You know my name)
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name
Why we sure do. You're Ranger_Will. It says so at the top of your post.
they missed adding one more check box
___ willing to use K-Y to make acceptance less painful
Come on they're "saving" 23 billion over 10 years. Now that's funny!
Amerika FUCK YA!!
Sunday night PM smackdown under way. First stop $1180, then $1050, then back to $1180, then the down escalator to double digits...
$99 !!!!
Yes... in 10 to 20 years time.
The paper price will be there. The physical price will have separated long before. You push paper. Go push your fuckin paper. Wipe the bankster cum from your lips when finished bitch.
You mean everyone with physical gold is getting robed again, I dont hear any gun shots, thats right they are taking like good little bitches as the bankers fuck them again way to go Goldcoin.
The only people getting hosed are the ones selling gold. People buying gold are getting the discounts.
This is sort of the opposite of what we saw recently with bitcoin where everyone jumped in and BTATFH. How'd that feel?
Blue Light special to 849.99 / oz, before Yellen starts smellin' Moar....
Do you promise? Pretty please, may I have some more?
It's spending more this and next year than with the sequester. They promise to make larger reductions within ten years. Next, they'll add more spending beginning with an unemployment extension and then add a few other spending extras they forgot in the budget. Let's get drunk now. We'll go into AA in two years.
*sigh* Godamn we are SO FUCKED.
As a younger man in my late 20s, my "awakening" 2 years back during was both a painful and yet liberating experience for someone with what they thought was a life ahead of them. Now instead I find that the last generations going back a good 100 years have been passing this debt/slavery system forward until it had reached the epic porportions which it has today.
I would blame those who came before me, but frankly they were just as duped as I'm sure many in my age group have been by the Deciver in Chief. The main thing I hold against them is the fact that many of them have had an entire lifetime to prepare for whatever type of shit that goes down...I never stood a chance as soon as I left the gate. Gimped at birth by the banking cartel...
You should be fine young man as you will have time to rebuild. Count your blessings and stay away from debt. Feel sorry for us in our 40's who have built something and if we don't bob, weave or duck at the right time we may lose it all. And we won't have the time to rebuild. Be pissed that the Fed has kept this charade going since it will all fall harder and deeper. You could have been working on the rebuild from the ashes already. Good luck.
I do appriciate the sympathy Fred and I can assure you I don't hold a grudge for the older generation. One of the greatest things about ZH has been the amazing fount of knowledge that I can glean from the "old and wiser" crowd. I have a very strong feeling that some of the worst intellectual enemies of tyranny frequent this site and I hope that they continue to keep of the fight for a good long time: we need you.
In terms of debt, well thank God I had smart folks that have never had any debt (aside from their mortage which was just payed off in the last couple of years). I learned from their examples and sit before you a freer man than most with no debt. I just wish I had a permanent job with benies. At my age I expected to be making mortage payments with a wife and a kid by now instead of being a man that travels seasonally in order to find employment.
Your circumstance reminds me a little of my oldest child. What kinds or work are you doing and what skills do you have? Sounds like you are resourceful and adaptive, which are great attributes. I am a manager and have a staff of 15. I feel for a couple of the guys in my group who just got married, one of who just bought a house. They have good pay and benefits, but my sense is that you might be better set than them when it all comes tumbling down. There is also a guy in my group that has his second child on the way. I do not talk to them about my doom/gloom thinking/outlook out of a fear of being seen as crazy. One guy is in his late 50's and just got an inheritance. He might be OK depending on how fast or slow things play out. Don't waste time on envy especially for a way of life that may not be as attainable today or in the near future. If the SHTF soon, these young guys with the good jobs, benefits and houses in the burbs will be shitting their pants worried about how to maintain it all. Many of the people in trouble today I suspect were the ones who tried to hang onto a house, car, boat, etc. and drained their life savings in the process. They should of just cut their losses and moved on instead of waiting for the rays of sunshine that never came to them.
Don't sweat over debt anymore, gave up this year. Own nothing, not even a car. No stocks/bonds etc. Walk to work. The countrys in debt with alot of debt to go around. I don't care anymore, period. Never again. If lenders are throwing offers in mail boxes across US, then they got it coming. Food/shelter and health. Their scum bags and they know it but could care less.
Dude, after going through what I went through with banks and then learning how banking works, I now openly advocate that people start defaulting on a good portion of their debts, then fight, even if a loosing fight, in court when they get sued. That would bring a bunch of shit to its knees. If all of the people getting sued over CC debt right now actually fought, it would bring the court systems to a grinding halt. It would force the issue. In my state, roughly 70% of all civil cases that are in the courts and not at the small claims level, but the full blown trial court level, are debt related. Most of those are filed by probably 30 or so attorneys, give or take. But the people getting sued cannot afford an attorney, so they don't even respond to the complaint and get a default judgment against them. Many are embarrased, and almost all don't have a fucking clue what they are doing. Only 5% or 10% actually fight, and the courts are already overloaded, and I'm in a state where the judges are better than what I hear coming out of other states. This includes a guy winning against Citibank on appeal Pro Se.
If you want to see something funny, look up "The Credit Terrorist," aka Steven Katz. He and his wife got fucked over by the banks, so he took out huge lines of credit, maxed them out, then moved to China and gave them the bird. That's not something that I care to do, even the running up new debt part, but it is kind of funny none the less.
(I do have a vehicle, but it's paid for and maintained by me. Insurance on it is $20/mo. I don't put a ton of miles on it either. Craigslist and mechanical knowledge and sometimes youtube are your friend here.)
"Own nothing, not even a car. No stocks/bonds etc. Walk to work."
Where the phuck do you work? Walmart, McDonanlds or selling dope on the corner?
Geez, what about those of us that actually have a real job still?
now i know ur pulling my chain. not Ranger Will but Ranger with a Will
Nawww.... just learn to shoot straight.
The few investments I have made have been in that line: bought my first rifle (lovely lil' 10/22 takedown), got a handgun and a CCW permit, built an AR from scratch, and collected a couple thousand rounds of ammo. I also made my first hunt, shot, skinned, and ate my game...very rewarding experiance learning to shoot and hunt. I plan to keep at it.
If you live in Connecticut learn how to regester your guns like good slaves , if I ever hear anyone from Connecticut quoteing the Constitution agian i think I will shoot them , what a bunch of turncoats.
I actually worked at a Revolutionary war battlefield and gave tours. At the end the Yankees would always give themselves a pat on their back for what their ancestors had accomplished. I had to bite my toungue HARD not to go round' and slap them upside the head. Massachusettians for one...may the Adams stop spinning in their graves.
I left in August for this very reason. I live in rural Ohio now where the sound of guns echoes on Sunday afternoons like sweet thunder. Yes. We are fucked.
Please never start a post with "sigh". Or , if you must, just hang out on the HuffingtonPost.
Fair enough.
HuffPost needs "the horror" as an into.
I can't understand why they call the budget a budget when it's consistently in deficit.
After paying for the basics they should be publishing a list of those items that have been paid for by credit and which will be reflected in higher taxes and broken promises in the future.
Bend over again boy's the debt ceiling will be raised again in just a couple of months.
One commentator suggests we tie the increase to a bill not allowing for a bail out of the health insurance companies.
The ACA bill nobody read has a provision for bailing them out. Never in their wildest dreams did these morons think these enrollment numbers would be this low. Can't believe these insurance companies stocks haven't collapsed yet.
El Vaquero It's the new "militarized" police...
truth is this budget deal does help. but those smart, cynical, duck dynasty ZH'ers wud hv nothing to lock n load
about. all three ticked boxes equal the fourth. Better than everyone else ZH cant accept
the good when not perfect