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Hours After Hinting At Mandatory Voting, Obama Talks Down "Suggestion" Following Backlash
A few days ago, we showed just which "democracy" in the free world provides the best bang for one corporation's individual's buck. The answer: the United State of America, where "for every dollar spent influencing politics, corporations get $760 back."
We doubt the above glaring example of terminal capture of the three branches of government by moneyed corporate interests is what drove it, but yesterday Obama, seen here with America's crony capitalist #1...
... suggested that if American voters want to "counteract" the role of money in politics, it may be worth making voting mandatory.
"It would be transformative if everybody voted," Obama said during a town hall event in Cleveland, Ohio. "That would counteract (campaign) money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country."
Obama also added that the people who tend not to vote are "young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily toward immigrant groups and minorities ... There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls."
He's right, however there is another far bigger reason why those young, immigrant "folks" stay away from the polls: their completely disillusionment with the "most transparent administration in history" and a mendacious president whose promises of "hope and change" only envisioned the richest 1% even as nearly 50 million Americans continue to subsist daily on foodstamps.
Oh and the whole, "illegal immigrants don't pay taxes so they can't vote" thing. Although Obama is already aggressively working on making sure (tens of) millions of immigrants who are in the US illegal can also vote if they so desire.
Apparently this brazen attempt to pander to the current and future generations of democrat voters was not lost on everyone, and earlier today the White House walked back President Obama’s comments in favor of mandatory voting in the U.S.
AS reported by the Washington Times, “The president was not making a specific policy prescription for the United States,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
At a town-hall event in Cleveland on Wednesday, Mr. Obama described compulsory voting as “a better strategy” in the short term than pushing for a Constitutional amendment to counter increased campaign spending in the U.S. since the Supreme Court’s ruling in the “Citizens United” case.
Mr. Earnest said Mr. Obama was giving “a pretty open-ended answer” in response to a question about the impact of money in elections.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, slammed the notion of mandatory voting, noting the decision to skip an election is a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment.
One thing is unclear: whether it is funnier that someone still believes the amendments to the constitution, or even the constitution itself, have any relevance in a nation which is turning more authoritarian and klepto-fascist by the day, that somehow illegal immigrant voting will make any dent on the 26,000% IRR that Goldman Sachs gets from purchasing Congress (and controlling the world's central banks), or that someone even pretends to care what happens to future generations in a nation which will have $20 trillion (and over $100 trillion in other forms) in public debt.
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Callz d ballz- remember obama is acting on the people who didn't vote in the last election but he knows what they want.
This guy is a grade AAA asshole.
In our last election, many people did not vote. I know how they would have voted, if they had voted. Using my pen and phone, I will vote for all of them and nullify the election results.
Well that sucks, I thought we didn't have to do that whole kabuki theater of elections anymore thanks to Citizens United vs. FEC. I was *really* looking forward to watching my favorite soaps without all those darn election ads.
All your votes are belong to ME !
Mandatory voting proves only what you should already know - voting (and democracy, no matter its actual implementation) - changes nothing. It doesn't matter if 5%, 50%, or 100% vote. Do people really think Athenian politics was any different just because only about 5% of the adult population was enfranchised rather than 99%?
It's one thing to have believed in democracy before anyone had tried it, quite another after century on century of utter failure following utter failure. Or am I misinformed and, due in part large or small to democracy, everything is going fine in the democracies of the world?
It's the worst form of government in the world, except for all the rest.
No. It's the worst form of government in the world. There's a reason the globalist fascists are (ostensibly) based in the United States.
However, we're NOT a democracy, we're a republic. And theoretically we vote for psychopaths to represent us (because, who other than psycopaths would even participate in this shitshow?)
I thought about public office (before NSAGUY and FBIGUY) and would honestly go bat-shit crazy sitting next to Nancy Pelosi/Maxine Waters and not strangling them within minutes. So I don't run for office, mind my own shit, and endure the next visit from our cowardly government for the previous sentence.
We really need a congress (small 'c' intentional) similar to the Phillipines or Florida Town Councils where actual fist-fights break out routinely and, eventually, live-fire duals are customary. At least it culls the psycopaths.
This was actually a slip on his part, because he was thinking about a soviet state.
Thomas Jefferson and the boys would have shot someone by now. And George Washington would be talking to generals about defecting from the military and creating a militia to support the people in a revolution against DC and the Fed. That's what I'd like to think.
Damn from the Revolutionary War to the Currency War. The mighty have fallen and still has far to go before hitting that floor.
If he keeps it up and I have no doubt he will a revolt is going to happen. I think that's his desire as well so he can declare martial law and nullify subsequent elections for a period.
Of course! He has discovered AF1 will not be available after Jan 2017.
And, he has no frequent flier miles, either.
"There has to be a way to keep flying free, Reggie."
"I like the food on that plane, Munchkins. Why not suspend elections?"
Affirmative action at it's best. Knowing the sheer idiocy of society, it will take 2-3 failures, before the rebuilding starts.
My "dead pool" date is 2035.
He looks like Il Duce' in that last photo...
I am not for having everyone vote. I would be for having voting more restrictive in fact.
If I could wave a majic wand and make it so, I'd:
1. Allow only English speaking individuals that own real property to vote ( include the spouse)
2. Allow only natural born Americans to vote. Full voter ID required w/proof of citizenship and English proficeincy.
3. Require a competency test on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and the 3 distinct branches of government.
4. Mandate all ballots and any election related banners, flyers, signs, etc. be English only.
5. Must not be the President, US Senator, US Congressman, Cabinet member, or Supreme Court judge.
Buster- don't forget to make sure that they are a gun owner. That right there would eliminate many unwanted mentalities from voting just because they are to stupid to understand the purpose of self defense!
<<1. Allow only English speaking individuals that own real property to vote ( include the spouse)>>
In order to do what you are suggesting, you'd need to remove the ability of the government to tax property and income. You know, so that you really did OWN your property, and your assets. Right now, with the government de facto owning everything, 'voting' holds a lot more relevance to the bread-and-circus crowd than to would-be capitalists.
That said, a republican form of government is a pretty good idea. Maybe someday some of us will try it.
I do not think he weighs as much as Benito did. Should take less partisans to do the hoist when the time comes.
haha.
you know what happened to Il Dulce.....he was caught by the resistance in Rome....strung up by his heels on a street light post and his throat was cut....
funny how things like happen happen to a lot of populus fascist leaders......
An excellent thing to think about.
We are not sure today if Mericans have the rage, but there must be another side to all this Fiscal Piracy, Fiscal Privatization, Corruption, Racketeering, or Bribery:
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- Money Rules all Men's lives.
- Bailouts are Corruption
- People that want to help you are taking your money or country or sovereignty
- US Bankruptcy Rate is 50% if you live to 85 years old
- Most Federal Activity is an Intelligence Operation against citizens
- We don't need Federal Secrets except for about Weapons
- Money & Gift Giving in Politics, Universities, Justices is Hugely Corruptive
- There is a Free-For-All Fight going on for Federal Money, it is all going to the Elite, except for Welfare Programs
- Federal .gov is self perpetuating Machine, build small empires
- Loss of Justice, No Bench Marks, No Simplification, No Streamlining, In Court, the Wealthy win with money and resources, We need Laws that are indelible, permanent, and affordable to the common people, the poor must stand a Chance against the Wealthy, Benchmarks in Court Judgements is the Way to preserve the Poor and Middle Class in Civil Cases
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Bail-Outs are Corruption -
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All bailouts benefit the corporations that were bad Capitalists.
Kapitalismus Totet oder Toten.
Capitalism where Corporations and Banks are Protected is probably an old Europe thing that just came to the USA in 2009. But it is not Capitalism.
It is Fascism, Inverted Totalitarianism, or Corporate Socialism.
Bailouts are for the Elites. Start a business you are a target of the Banks and Wall Street. You don't get a Bailout.
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Bail-Outs are Corruption -
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ah, I go to sleep with that thought in mind, and happy dreams ahead...until the metamucil kicks in.
(as the arugula fascist republic falls...partisans catch an army truck near the Canadian border)
Sir! Look in the back! It's Bath House and his woman, Reggie!
Don't shoot! I am Bath House, Premier of the Arugula Republic!
What should we do, sir?
Cuff them and take them to that lake house. I'll notify Command.
I'm scared, Munchkins.
Mandatory voting...
To protect your freedom of choice.
Get all the suffragists, all the civil rights leaders from history together. Put em in a time machine. Bring them to right now. Explain to them that while they are FIGHTING for the right to vote in their time, here in the everbright future, it will become MANDATORY to vote. Even UNLAWFUL to fail to cast a vote. Watch the hilarity of head scratching that ensues (popcorn is not MANDATORY, but can be used at will.).
All Hail political JUDO
JK. THIS SHIT IS WHY I LEFT THE US.
Get all the suffragists, all the civil rights leaders from history together. Put em in a time machine. Bring them to right now. Explain to them that while they are FIGHTING for the right to vote in their time, here in the everbright future, it will become MANDATORY to vote. Even UNLAWFUL to fail to cast a vote. Watch the hilarity of head scratching that ensues (popcorn is not MANDATORY, but can be used at will.).
All Hail political JUDO
JK. THIS SHIT IS WHY I LEFT THE US.
Science by consensus: fuck you!
Government by propagandized and brainwashed consensus by the ignorant and immigrant: fuck you!
Forcing Conversatives to vote would be wrong. They hate mandates and would complain to themselves that communists would be thwarted in efforts.
Here is an undeniable fact. The easier something is, the more stupid lazy people will do it.
Here's what the left really wants. Automatic registration and automatic voting once you are registered. Just register as a democrat and you don't even have to get off of your fat lazy ass and go to the polls. Your vote will automatically be assigned to the democratic ticket every election until you tell them otherwise.
One party rule just like all demonic despots.
Big deal, just because you have to vote doesnt mean you have to pick someone.
Just write in Vlad V Putin on your ballot and go home.
You are correct. You have the right to "spoil" your ballot. All you need to do is just check off every single box on the ballot. Well within your rights.
Holy shit. P diddy was prescient
"Vote or Die"
Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSh0VAVYn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthMHjoNyjA
The impeachment of this mf'er can't come soon enough. I don't give a crap if he's white or black either because he is trying to destroy the very fabric of our country which simply put is our freedom and liberty. If someone does not stop this man now he's only going to push his Marxist ideology further.
"I don't give a crap if he's white or black either"
Oddly, he's both.
Mr. President, do you really think we're that dumb?
Q.E.D.
We forced some folks to vote.
You fucked it up...
It's
We voted some folks...
(fucking newbies)
No it's it we
Forced some folks to vote. That's the way I wanted it. And calling me a newbie is a pure canard. When will people learn that one in service doesn't mean shit?
Proposal makes sense.....after all the Soviet Union several years before its demise made exactly the same proposal because their citizens stopped voting in sham elections with only one party.......just like here. And pres oboma in an eerie paralell has a much covered up and never disccussed communist background. Will the DC/NYC regime suffer the fate of the Soviet Union?
If we had a long, hardened tradition of putting the option "No Confidence" on the ballot, in which case if the majority vote "No Confidence" the election is thrown and new candidates must be found, and if we didn't also have a tradition of vote fraud, and if the use of force to coerce people to do things against their will wasn't tyranny,...
I like your thinking.
Much as it disgusts me, I'm going to the White House Petition Drive to list that and see what it drums up.
"Make the voting option "No Confidence" mandatory on every federal election ballot and that a majority vote results in a new election with new candidates and all in Federal Office, Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court are removed from office."
Fuck, holding my nose to go to whorehouse.gov.
Fuck me...
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-voting-option-no-confidence-mandatory-every-federal-election-ballot/LsrN90FT
Everyone on Zero Hedge, please feel free to share this piece of shit where ever you like.
The purge is coming. The wrong people will be executed. Same as every time. Stepping up to bedo the America Dream.
If you aren't ready to die, you'll lose. Be smarter.
That nigga be cray cray.
They want to force me to vote? Ok! I vote to cut your fucking head off and shit down your neck!
Get out the vote muthafucka!
too many stupid posts here
The JewSA is going to throw everybody in jail sooner or later, might as well be for not voting.
Whatever the dumb black muslim says .... NO
What is the penalty for not voting?
This and could get weird...
Maybe a "tax credit" to get folks that don't have to file returns to do it...
Somehow I think this is a way to get to the pocketbooks of poor people who live in a cash society....
Obummer you suck and are the poor's worst enemy...
Please just quit and go home to Chicago or Kenya or Hawawii or where ever the fuk and let us have our country back.
Bush suked but you suk 10x more and I voted for you once...
What a looser leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama did not "hint at" making voting mandatory. Nor did he "suggest" that "it may be worth making voting mandatory". The point of the post is patently false.
the only point to any of this is the whole world is a stage with ancillary side shows and popcorn stands.
We forced some folks to vote.
the only thing that would change anything in the usa is the fragmentation of the two party system into a million parts by allowing anyone to register a political party with a simple cheap application fee.
voting under the present system is futile. the only good thing about 100% forced participation is some anime character has a chance to win.
"It would be transformative if everybody voted,"
Fu.king liar!!
The bankers are running the United States.
You are just a prop!
The only people who should be allowed to vote are property owners {legal citizens of course}. Being a property owner gives you "skin in the game". if you are a welfare recipient of any kind, you should forfeit your vote, simple as that. welfare recipients should not be allowed to vote for access to other people's money.
They're going to have to pay the MS13 gang members they've bringing into the country a lot more than what their giving them if they expect to get them to vote. My rate is about $35,000 plus healthcare and education but I'm about to up that this election.
Presidente Most transparent Evah!
Though, true, in the sense that his self serving grab for Lo to no information warm bodies to vote themselves more govt. freebies is the most transparently shameless ever.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark twain
My mom always tried to make sure I read as much Twain as possible when I was a kid. Pudd'nhead Wilson has always been one of my favorites. Fingerprint uniqueness was introduced as a reliable tool in the legal / law enforcement profession in this tale which struck me as Twain being incredibly way before his time.
Your reference here makes me realize he was even further ahead of his time than I imagined. (spoiler alert) I almost forgot the main thread of the story which put the "freeman" in shackles and the "slave" in the big house. Gotta love Twain!
Follow Mother Jones
Sure that it will be executive actioned soon. No worries, move along.
If she has long wide hard sticky colas i'll vote for her!
LOLZZZZZZZ!!!!
All the dumb people here saying they "widthdrawl their consent" by not voting!!
They (your masters) DON"T GIVE A FUCK if you vote or not!!
There is ONLY ONE WAY to widthdrawl consent, and this is to NOT PAY TAXES
If you are PAYING TAXES, you are CONSENTING, period, end of story.
Widthdrawl consent, don't pay taxes!!!
I understand and agree with you about the effect of not paying taxes. How does one do that with out being imprisoned? Please! Explain!
I don't vote. It only encourages them.
Mandatory voting would be good but who the fuck are they going to vote for. the rebublicans are a write off Hillary likewise The only hope for USA is Ron Paul and he is not standing so that leaves Eliizabeth Warren, I will emigrate to China if Donald trump becomes the leader of the free world
For years I have been telling people that this would happen. All tyrannical governments do this, as the psychopaths that control things need an occasional ego boost, no matter how contrived.
The banksters need to repay us.
I've already voted in Sheeple Census 2016, as I did the exact same thing today that I will be doing on so-called "election day."
from "one nation under God" to this? what a piece of garbage...
It really doesn't matter how many or few vote when the candidates are chosen for you, does it?
Of course it would despite the ridiculous claims here to the contrary but it also heavily depends and arguably more important on how voting districts are drawn up & the primary process is structured.
if Obozo wants more voters pay $10 at the polling booth per voter.
Incentive works wonders and places some of printed paper into the hands of the real economy.
Mandatory voting suggests fines, just another way of taxing the masses.
Come on clown use your brain!
It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.
Don't I get to vote 10 times by #800 number, 10 times by text, and 10 times when I log onto the website?
Those are the rules on The Voice. Didn't they replace the Constitution back during the 2013 season?
Strange--I'm older, have multiple degrees and make a good income and I don't vote for what is essentially Mutt or Jeff...
Perhaps we should just put the most influential (richest) lobbyist directly into office.
Americans biggest problem is monetary policy, which they dont understand and don't see it as a problem.
All the planks in the platform that actually bring the sheep to the polls dont matter much compared to unbacked fiat currency and fractional reserve lending and the treasury not sole setter of monetary policy.
They dont even know the real reasons why our gov has an interest in Syria or why gov demonises Russia and Iran.
The issues that matter most are never discussed by avg ignorant people.
The problem is not the electorate its the parties.
Who are you going to vote for?
1) Wall Street with a hint of Republican
2) Wall Street with a hint of Democrat
What a choice!
From mandatory voting to we cast your vote for you. Awfully damn close if you ask me. Darkie is showing his true colors now.
This matters a lot
He knows the less educated are more easily bought
Both parties fear the people waking to what is happening and reacting
Look for bipatisan initiative to glide through
does paying my mandatory health ins company qualify? I thought that was my vote. vote for ins co profits cause it is the right thing to do..we are so fucked But I want my voting ballot in pushtan with SA spanish sub titles before I vote.
Really?.....Voting is already manditory as far as I am concerned, if your going to vote you will select one of the career criminals put forth by the "Two party" Machine.
Select
A. Bush
or
B. Clinton
Thanks for playing along.
"Obama also added that the people who tend not to vote are "young, they're lower income,"
Young and stupid. They haven't lived long enough to realize that voting does no good whatsoever. They are only choosing a master.
i am not going to say nasty things about the pres, maybe he will invite me to that Magnum PI estate he just picked up for 8 mil and change..right on the water and plenty of space for a helo pad. holding breath.
Can I get some flair next to my name for never registering to vote?
If you like your vote, you can keep it.
unless you voted for the other guy. in which case there will be a penalty, uh tax, no wait - PENALTY.
he seems to take for granted that the statists would receive all those votes.
"There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls."
You racist uber-douche. Take your teleprompter and get the hell out of my country. Leaving the planet might be even better.
Assuming that dystopic statement got an uproar of applause. There is an evolutionary splitting, cladogenesis, in the human species. Those that are consumer idiot animals that cannot process an original thought and those that feel like they are watching a B movie as extras.
"When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid"
There needs to be restrictions on non-intellectuals voting.
I guest Obama is overlooking we are a Republic.
I should be able to enter my social security number and a password and vote right from my computer like I post here.
I like mandetory voting but I want it for every living breathing person no matter where he is especially prisons.