Hey, Old Man Savastano, where have your long-winded political
rants been this presidential election cycle?! I know, I know, but to be honest
with you, dear reader, after seeing the presidency go to The Messiah again back
in 2012, I was exhausted with the whole process. I must admit, however, while I
may have been more quiet than usual this time around, the volume of political
press I consume on a daily basis has not subsided, nor have my opinions on what
I have been reading.
I must also readily admit, my friends, that while I happily
sent in my annual donation to the Grand Ol’ Party as recently as 2011, in the
years since, I have become more disillusioned than anything else with party
politics, overly-entitled American non-taxpayers, paying a butt load in taxes,
and the general direction of the country as a whole as we move from praising
and rewarding hard work to condoning then glorifying sloth. I feel that, as a
nation, we are moving from hard-working, proud superpower to sitting on our
asses with our hand out, whining, and making sure nothing we say ever offends a
single solitary soul somewhere else in the world, including our enemies who
would like to kill us.
So, why am I so disillusioned? What is the source of my
silence? I think it should be obvious to anyone even remotely following
American politics today. I am just so exhausted by the divisiveness, the unintelligible
rhetoric, and above all, the lack of integrity, reasonability, and personal
responsibility. While I may be looking back through vintage 1984 Reagan-colored
glasses, I think folks on both sides of the aisle would agree, there was a time
when there seemed to be a lot more reaching across that aisle going on. I know
all you libs say we conservatives always remember things as more positive than
they actually were and that, in fact, everyone has always triple-bolted their
front doors, has always had alarms on their homes, and slept with a shotgun
under their bed, but I find it hard to believe that American society has always
been this divisive, especially since I seem to remember it differently
firsthand.
But, beyond just an increased divide, we are living in a
strange time where each side has grown so accustomed to combating the other
that even when there is a chance for common ground, our politicians find a way
to disagree. They seem to disagree, no matter what, even when it seems to go
against their core principles. It’s like that friend you have that likes to argue
so much that even when you agree with them, they flip and take the other side,
just so they can argue with you. Granted, that argumentative friend is usually
a screaming liberal, but in today’s political scene, this is happening on both
sides.
Want proof? How about the fact that we have a
Republican-controlled congress that has increased spending by passing a budget
that is larger than the last Democrat-controlled congress. Come again? Yes,
that is the Twilight Zone theme song you hear.
Or how about the fact that all of you anti-war,
peace-loving, negotiate at any cost instead of dropping bombs, man, liberals
out there sure seem to tolerate HisHighness Barack Obama using drones to kill U.S.
citizens and a whole mess of civilians in other countries without uttering a peep.
While I am sure you still cling tightly to your angst for that warmonger Bush,
I really hope you aren’t still blaming him for the collateral damage that
happens during the airstrikes authorized by your Messiah. I’m just saying that
if you were out there protesting Bush and the killing of innocent civilians,
you should still be out there right now, protesting against your Nobel Peace
Prize-winning love-of-your-life that has a kill now ask questions later list of
people who get vaporized the second they come into the crosshairs.
So, when you have a Republican-controlled congress
increasing spending and a liberal Democrat President with a Nobel Peace Prize that
has a standing order to rain death from above, even on U.S. citizens, I think
it may be time for all of us to pause and to take a look at just what politics
in America has become today; divisive, and quite frankly, insane.
When The Messiah does something I disagree with, all I hear
is that I am a racist for not agreeing with him. Once Hillar-ious is in office
and I disagree with something she does, I will immediately be labeled as a sexist.
When I complain about having too much of my money stolen in taxes, I am labeled
as an elitist and a racist. When I
believe that we should enforce the laws of the land, including our immigration
laws, I am labeled as a xenophobe and
a racist. And when I try to explain to all of you liberals out there that the
word “free” always comes with a cost somewhere down the line, whether the
“free” is referring to healthcare, childcare, college, food, or cell phones, I
am labeled as a classicist who hates the poor. Oh, and a racist.
So, maybe, I’ve been quieter this time around because I am
tired of every single time I oppose any little thing that any liberal does, I
am immediately labeled with some form of –ism and told that my deplorable beliefs
do not have a right to exist.
Or, perhaps, my silence has to do with the fact that while
Trump is still getting my vote, it now has much more to do with voting against
Hillar-ious and the perpetual liberal spending machine than voting for him. It’s
not like you are going to see me spewing out article after article in which I
proclaim Taco Bowls is the greatest thing to happen to America. About the best
I could muster would be to say that he is still a better choice than Crooked
Hillary and the rest of the liberal political machine that has us spending
towards oblivion. Either way, it is still very much a Giant Douche vs. Turd
Sandwich election.
Nonetheless, I will say I am still desperately wanting to
see if an actual businessman can get us out of this $20 trillion mess, or at
worst, try a little something different in Washington for once other than
politics as usual. I’d have preferred a Romney or Forbes, but at this point,
I’ll take what I can get.
Then again, maybe I am sitting silent, not wanting to rock
the boat too much as I dare to dream that we have a chance of electing a president
whose tax plan will reduce my income tax bill by about $7,000 a year, as opposed
to a president whose tax plan is going to add insult to injury by adding $189 a
year to the already 27 cents of every dollar I earn that I don’t get to take
home.
Then again, maybe my silence stems from the fact that it’s
now been about five years or so since I began referring to myself as a fiscal
conservative instead of a Republican. Either way, nothing has made me feel more
like an independent or third party sympathizer than this damned election. And to
quote Lieutenant Commander Cole, Virgil Cole, “Frankly, sir, I think we’re
going to lose this one.”
And it’s not that I am sore loser. It’s more so that I
simply cannot see how, given well over two years time, the Republican party
could not come up with viable enough candidate to give Hillar-ious a run for her
money.
The GOP, and its members, knew exactly what needed to happen
to win the 2016 election the second the 2012 election was officially declared
over and lost. The party needed to produce an experienced candidate with just
the right combination of political insider-ship and anti-establishment
credentials that appealed not only to conservatives, but also to independents
and the soon-to-not-be-a-minority-anymore voter. It needed someone who could
provide the necessary experience and fortitude to address the concerns of those
who believe social safety nets are direly necessary as well as those who are
sick and tired of paying vast amounts of their hard-earned money to pay for
social safety nets they themselves seem to never use despite suffering their
own financial hardships from time to time. It needed to offer up a candidate
that made the right people feel secure in their government programs and the
right people feel secure in their optimism about capitalism and
entrepreneurship.
Above all, the GOP needed to produce someone that a majority
of America felt was a reasonable person who could compromise when needed, but
could also be stern when it was time to stand up for what was right. It needed to
run someone who we all felt would do better on transparency and hypocrisy and
misleading or misjudging on the facts than the current Oval Office occupant. The
Party needed to produce someone who was more willing to work with those on the
other side of the political spectrum, and more willing to listen to the needs and
wants of the America people.
For a party that seems to not go thirty seconds without
praising Ronald Reagan and his electability during the 1980 race, the GOP sure
seems to not have much of an understanding of just what made Uncle Ronnie
electable to vast amounts of Americans that year, and again in 1984. Because
when I look at the establishment candidates that were ultimately produced this
election cycle, I sure don’t see that Reagan-style mass appeal. Little Marco
was probably the closest, but it is obvious the GOP could not produce a single
person who appealed to its base as well as the boarder American audience.
And because the party could not produce a viable candidate
for the base, the base went out and found its own candidate. And while the
party is quick to stand up and point fingers at the actual voters, and not the
party itself for the reason conservatives ended up with such an unpopular
nominee in the end, I would argue that it is, in fact, the party’s inability to
produce a single stellar presidential candidate that is the reason Republican
primary voters revolted against every single establishment candidate.
But, at the same time, primary voters themselves still bear
some responsibility. When voting in a party primary, you should not only be considering
a vote for someone you like, but should also be considering a vote for someone
who stands an actual chance of winning the general election. It is quite clear
that far too many Republican primary voters were not taking this into
consideration during this election.
Every conservative, especially those who consider themselves
Republicans, should know at this point that one of the most important
influences on American politics and elections moving forward will be the Hispanic
vote. Yet, primary voters really could not have picked a person more reviled by
that group of people than Taco Bowls. Some of these folks may ultimately still
vote against Hillar-ious because of their more conservative or religious views,
but a nominee calling their family members still in Mexico murderers and
rapists in blanket statements sure isn’t going to sway those voters to vote
against Hillar-ious.
And while religious rhetoric might play well throughout the
heartland and in select homes, it sure does not have mass appeal any longer to
the independent voters that sway elections. As a party, the GOP really needs to
learn this. Everyone has a right to his or her religious views and I’d never
fault someone for sharing them, but candidates must understand that a shift in
religious values has occurred, and their religious beliefs must be soft enough
to appeal to the growing population of non-religious people in this country.
All of these reasons combined, regardless of how Taco Bowls
ends up fairing, or regardless of whatever other skeletons jump out of his
closet between now and the election, are why the GOP is destined to lose yet another
presidential election. And unless the party makes some serious changes in the
candidates it produces, it’s going to lose in 2020, too.
Now, before you paint me as a bleeding heart liberal turning
his back on his values, I am more conservative than most on a lot of things,
but I also know that you can’t win an election without appealing to a broad
swath of the American public on a broad array of issues. Sadly, it seems that
neither the GOP nor Republican primary voters, however, were able to wrap their
heads around that. And that lack of foresight in electing a nominee that could
actually win the general election, was the last puzzle piece needed in
Hillar-ious finally realizing her goal of becoming the most powerful person on
the planet.
All of that being said, there are very few things I have
seen in life that make me roll my eyes and shake my head in disbelief more than
the fact that our next U.S. President is going to be that woman, Ms. Rodham.
Not because she is a Democrat, but because she is a liar, schemer, conspirator,
opportunist, hypocrite, and even worse, probably cannot legitimately understand
why half of the country can’t stand her. There is nothing worse than a horrible
person who thinks everyone hates them because of everything else besides their own
actions.
If you had asked me back in the 1990s why Hillar-ious stuck
with Willy Jeff through all his womanizing and sexual assault allegations, I
would have told you it was because it was her road to the Presidency. Mark my words;
I have no problem whatsoever with a woman being the President of the United
States of America. I just wish it wasn’t going to be that woman.
Where do I begin when it comes to Hillar-ious and what is
wrong with her being the President? Well, for starters, unlike our next
Commander-in-Chief, I do think Benghazi was a big deal – for many reasons. The
clandestine nature of the covert arms mission in Libya, which was funneling
Libyan weapons stockpiled by Gaddafi to anti-Assad Syrian rebels without the knowledge
or consent of the American people, is one. The fact that our government left
its citizens who were either knowingly or unknowingly supporting that arms
mission to their own devices when their lives were in danger, despite the fact
that we have this unbelievably huge and costly military, is another. The fact
that for hours upon hours, our people over there sought help from their
government and without a doubt, all of the phones in Washington, D.C. went
unanswered “at three in the morning” that night is yet another. And of course,
the fact that our Secretary of State not only lied to the American people about
the nature of the deaths in Benghazi, but turned around and told that same lie
directly to the faces of the family members of the Americans who died on her watch,
is one of the biggest ones. But perhaps my biggest issue with Benghazi is the
fact that despite us all knowing what happened, and who is at fault, it is not
a big enough deal to the American people to keep the person in charge of the
entire fiasco from becoming President.
Spend a little time reading about the actual facts
surrounding the email scandal, and what is more troubling than a private email
server in the basement of a home being used to handle national security
information, classified or not, or the deleting of tens of thousands of
government emails, are the tenets of what the FBI jokingly called an
investigation. Who else in America besides a Clinton gets investigated by the
FBI then has every key member of the investigation granted immunity, and to top
it off, gets to dictate to the FBI what evidence can be reviewed, when it can
be reviewed, as well as the point at which that evidence is to be destroyed so
it can no longer be used when new facts come to light at a later time. Also,
there is no doubt that Crooked Hillary lied to save her skin on this one. Even that
weasel Comey admitted that. And it’s already coming out that key members of the
investigation were shocked when no charges were filed.
Anyone else who had perpetrated the same actions as Ms.
Rodham did throughout the use of the server and the ensuing cover-up would have
landed in jail. There are members of our military who sit in jail right now for
far less. So, when Taco Bowls says that Hillar-ious oughtta be in jail, he’s
not being a misogynist, he’s basically stating that if any one of us commoners
had committed the same acts, we’d be behind bars. He is also referencing the
fact that if he were President, unlike HisHighness did with Eric Holder and the
Fast and Furious fiasco, people who committed crimes would go to jail, not end
up running for higher office instead. I must say that I agree with that stance.
And if this all was not enough to keep that woman, Ms.
Rodham, out of the Oval Office, take into consideration the fact that while
serving as Secretary of State, even though she promised otherwise, Crooked
Hillary had people on-staff at both the State Department and the Clinton
Foundation at the same time. You definitely don’t get interests more conflicted
than that! Now, take into consideration that it is apparently clear that
donations to the Clinton Foundation got donors access to the State Department,
as well as favors from that State Department. Also, take into consideration the
hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation that came
from nations that condone the stoning of women for adultery, don’t consider
rape to be rape, and will happily toss gays, lesbians, and everyone in-between
off the roofs of buildings, all the while, with the Clintons barking about how
they are the ones who care about these people, not their deplorable opponent
and his supporters.
Finally, take into consideration that the Saudi government
has been providing support to ISIS, as the latest round of WikiLeaks emails
suggest, and that the Clinton and Obama camps knew this full well, but
obviously, kept it from us. All things mentioned here considered, it really
makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with the American people that they would
allow this type of behavior from someone they are about to elect as President.
Especially, while criticizing every move the other candidate has ever made,
ever.
Then, to top this all off, you have the entities and
professionals in this country who still somehow manage to call themselves news
agencies and journalists while so blatantly favoring one party and one
candidate, even during the debates. It seems that while every single past
incident in Taco Bowls’ life has come under close scrutiny by the media, that
same media seems to pretend that the entire Willy Jeff presidency, of which
Hillar-ious was heavily involved, never even happened. Well, at least any of
the negative aspects of it, that is.
The Clinton presidency was filled with things like the Clinton
Healthcare Plan of 1993, also known as Hillarycare, which led to litigation
surrounding secret backroom meetings and cost taxpayers untold millions, but
luckily never came to fruition; as well as TravelGate,
the scandal in which Hillar-ious wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to
Clinton friend Harry Thompson, which resulted in her reporting members of the
White House Travel Office to the FBI and getting them fired when they refused
to comply with her wishes. As Wikipedia states, “Hillary Clinton gradually came
under scrutiny for allegedly having played a central role in the firings and
making false statements about her role in it.”
And we cannot forget about FileGate
during which close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, who was long accused of
not being qualified for his position as Director of White House security, was
accused of improperly accessing the FBI files of folks who were obviously
political enemies of the Clintons. Naturally, everyone involved was acquitted
and it was brushed under the rug.
And, of course, let’s not forget about the granddaddy of
Clinton scandals, Whitewater.
Special Prosecutor Ken Starr was appointed because Hillar-ious was refusing to
release documents surrounding Whitewater, a real estate venture during which
Willy Jeff supposedly forced an illegal loan to be made to his business
partners while he was governor of Arkansas. It was this investigation, at a
cost of $80 million, that led to the discovery of the Oval Office intern blow
jobs, that infamous blue dress, and a sitting President, who was also a lawyer,
lying under oath in a deposition and, even worse, directly to the American
people. Hillar-ious avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice
during the Starr investigation by repeating, “I do not recall,” “I have no
recollection,” and “I don’t know” a total of 56 times while under oath.
And yet, here we are, ready to put these people back in the
White House for presumably another eight years.
Consider, also, the fact that from 1988 to 2024, a span of
36 years, for 28 of those years, or over 77%, one member of two families will
have occupied the Oval Office if Hillar-ious gets her way and serves for eight
years. While we can debate all day long the intentions of the Founding Fathers
on things like guns and religion, it is obvious that our entire system of
government was designed to prevent the likes of this two-sided oligarchy from
happening, yet here we are.
So, while this election is a contest between what the
American people have obviously deemed to be the lesser of two evils, it is also
still very much a contest between the two party establishments that seek to
give us yet another eight years of oligarchy. On the Democratic side, the
oligarchy is firmly in place, but on the Republican side, you at least have a
candidate that has definitely proven that he does not answer to the
establishment.
But, ultimately, in the end, I would argue that all of these
things I have presented so far do not matter one bit when we boil the situation
down to the true reason why people actually vote for a candidate. And that is…what’s
in it for them. If I vote for Taco Bowls and he wins, over the next four years,
I get to keep $28,000 of my money that will otherwise be sucked up into the
wasteful, fraud-ridden welfare machine that our country has become. If I vote
for Taco Bowls and he loses, not only do I not get to keep that $28,000,
Hillar-ious is going to want me to pay an additional $756 over that same
four-year period. Given that scenario, whom would you vote for? If you didn’t
say Taco Bowls, then I admire your convictions, though I think you’re nuts!
And this, my friends, is what we can boil all of politics in
America down to today. What’s in it for me? If your parents came here
illegally, you’re voting for Hillar-ious. If you or your family relies on those
checks from the government, you’re voting for Hillar-ious. If you’re making
less than $15 an hour, you’re voting for Hillar-ious. If you can’t afford
health insurance, and I don’t mean you’ve just been raked over the coals with
increased premiums by Obamacare, but genuinely are deciding between health
insurance and food, you’re voting for Hillar-ious. If you can’t afford, or
simply don’t want to pay for college, you’re voting for Hillar-ious. If you
feel it is the government’s job to take care of those who do not want to take
care of themselves, you are voting for Hillar-ious. And, if none of these
things apply to you, you are voting for Taco Bowls because more likely than
not, you’re one of the dumbasses going to work everyday so you can pay for all
of these free things for other people while still having to pay for them yourself,
or you are one of the crazy bastards who would rather be working instead of
living off the government.
So, like so many other Americans, I am going to vote for the
candidate that is going make the most sense for me financially. I believe that
is what most of us are going to do anyway. For me, that’s Taco Bowls because I
am a producer and a taxpayer, and sadly, no matter what comes out about him
between now and the election, it still couldn’t possibly be any worse than the things Ms. Hillar-ious Rodham has done while already in office.
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