1 Happy birthday Andy

2 I want to be a dirty 1%'er.

3 If there is a plan to pool all of our money together, and buy two or three dozen million acres in Africa, DDT bomb the whole place and then start from scratch, please let me know.

My two adult children voted straight Democrat tickets in Massachusetts.

I still have hope that I can save Elizabeth and our daughter.

4 Agree 100%

I'm shrugging.

5 Watch out, Andy...interest is not a worry, but the IRS penalties could kill you.

6 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

7 Oh, and happy birthday. Mine was Monday. I had to go see the shrink at the VA, so I think we both had birthdays about the same.

8 I said it earlier:  Dear Socialists: I want a divorce.

9 Pining for some good news today. Still waiting.

10
I'll be investigating the offshore banking opportunities as well.  Right after I deal with this brain cloud.

11 >> Watch out, Andy...interest is not a worry, but the IRS penalties could kill you.

Covered.

But thanks.

12 Enjoy the Sandy Thunderdome. You parasites voted to extort money from us, you don't get any voluntarily given.

Next, impeachment for the Traitor in Chief.

13 Im still sick to my stomach over this. All I can do is prepare for the inevitable downfall....and that saddens me deeply. I truly wish it was only the property holders (tax payers) that were able to cast a vote. I suppose what I really feels..... victimized

14 feels = feel is

15

 

The left acuse the "right " of hoping the econpmy crashes. Well, I don't hope - there  is  no  hope.  THE EOCNOMY WILL CRASH.

We are looking at a sure thing  double dip recession.

 

16 What sort of offshore tax havens are still around?
(Hypothetically. . .for pure informational purposes, of course).

17 Right there with you Andy.

18 Need more ammo.  Stilll crying.

19 The market will fall at least 30% before year end. Everyone will sell to avoid the upcoming tax increases. Get out of your mutual funds now and stand on the sidelines.

20 According to the numbers, democrats didn't re-elect Obama, Republicans were just...missing.

3.5 million fewer votes than 2008.
Assuming normal voter growth, 23 million missing voters overall.

Where are they?

21 The Takers and Fakers can die off like they do in other Third World countries. You get what you deserve.

22 As conservatives we need to take a step back from the economy. Stop spending money, don't go out to eat, don't go out to the movies, don't do business with people you know are Democrats. If you own your business fire any one who is a Democrat that works for you and be sure to blame Obamacare as you show them the door.

23 I don't know what to do. I need some advice. I have a low-six-figure salary, my husband a high-five. I figure by the time the tax hammer is dropped, it's gonna fall at more like $200k because that's where the money is. I have no savings and a couple of meager 401(k) and IRAs. One kid is college and one hopefully going as soon as he is done. How can someone like me go Galt?

24 I disagree with those who say the GOP needs to find a way to appeal to Latinos and such. This is code for 'we need to move to the left on immigration.' Fuck that noise.

25 If there is a plan to pool all of our money together, and buy two or three dozen million acres in Africa, DDT bomb the whole place and then start from scratch, please let me know.

I'm in.

Also - compared to 2008 numbers, Obama lost 10 million votes, while Romney lost 3 million.  WTF?  I thought turnout was our advantage?

26 Where are they? Posted by: Bill Mitchell at November 07, 2012 08:27 AM (hlUJY) I assume a large chunk is the disenfranchised military

27 There can be only one explanation.

Barack Obama is the ANTICHRIST.

He is down by 7 points and a freak hurricane hits the home state of Romney's biggest supporter who then gives a national blowjob to the POTUS a week before the election?

28

Either R's didn't show up - or the d's did what they could to make them not count.

 

29 The leftward slide is nearly complete. Obama will get to name at least 3 supreme court judges during.g his term. America just flushed itself down the toilet folks. Andy you better get that money out quick because the first EO is to tighten rules for those sorts of transfers. We are well and truly fucked

30 +1

31 In all seriousness, I am a small business owner, and yes, not only will we probably be firing people before years end, the lucky ones that remain will have their health care benefits cut in half.  

This is also probably our last year for a Christmas bonus (ever).

32 100% agreement from me,  Andy.

Blue states,  dead to me.

33 I am SO BLOODY FED UP WITH LOSING THE IMPORTANT ONES.

Fuck this imbecile electorate.  Fuck 'em.  They deserve slavery.  They'll have their fucking Obamaphones.  America has become a bunch of simpering little pussies who want someone else to buy their Cheerios and pay for their rubbers.  I'm with you Michelle baby; I am truly ashamed of my country.

34 If I was rich I'd be packing my shit today and moving.  And I'm not talking 1%'er rich, I'm talking just a couple million stashed away.  They're going to hammer you, and they're already looking at ways to grab that offshore money.  It's just a matter of time before they charge you an "exit tax" going out the door.  I'd GTFO now and take everything with you.

35 What the fuck do we do now?

36 Low icome people who pay little to no tax now, will their taxes go up? Or will the increase taxes all be on the middle class/high income earners? 

37 OT:  How long until Israel hits Iran?

38

You know when Billy Bob Thorton says, in Bad Santa, "I beat the shit outta some kids today, made me feel good about myself"...?

Well, I just cancelled my child sponsorship of an 8-year old Kenyan girl.Your countryman wants to fuck me?  I'll fuck you right back.

Go back to selling onions in your shack.  My unemployed ass needs the $30 a month now and you're not worth the tax deduction.

P.S.  Fuck New York - I hope you have a cholera outbreak.  My ass moved to Houston.

39 It's all over... We are finished... How can we compete against the Nanny State/Freeloaders any longer?

40 So you sell your equities and now they are in dollars, but the dollars are going to be confetti, so where is the wisdom in that?

You can buy physical gold, but try carrying it around.

Yep, well fucked are we.

41 Purchase a  mattress  store, because that's where  all   the money is going to be.

42 And I appreciate Gabe's optimism, but it just doesn't seem like he's seeing the big picture.  We are OVER the threshold.  We are now outnumbered (productive class vs. mooches) and we won't get those numbers back.  With another 4 years of Obama, their numbers will only increase. 

43 We're at the other end of the spectrum, so have nothing to move off-shore. It's tough for you folks at the high-end. I can't begin to understand my very wealthy family members who voted FOR Obama.

For the rest of us, deep 99%'ers(thanks to Obama's first term)? No change, no hope. Life goes on as simply as possible, with the wood stove and keeping the lights off and making and stretching lots of soup.

We're used to not having much, so I guess we're already acclimatized to the 'new ' normal. Mentally, it would have been good to have Romney win for some glimmer of sanity in the country. Oh well.

44 Where are y'all moving money to? Seriously, I need ideas to consider.

45 What's the D/R/I of this election? Because I don't believe it.

46 Going Greece. Americans traditionally pay their taxes, but when government is nothing more than thieves stealing from you to give your money to more politically connected people, I suspect that attitude is about to have a major change. Just remember that they are going to make it so the IRS can confiscate your passport administratively if they have a dispute with you.

47 I have no financial acumen whatsoever,  I don't know how to do all the neat accounting tricks people use to hide their cash and we're basically living paycheck to paycheck anyway, so we don't have anything extra to invest even if I wanted to.

I've tried to live an honest life and be a good man.  I'm beginning to understand that "good man" isn't what the world wants anymore.

48 I suppose I should say that here in NC we have a silver lining in tat we have a Republican Governor and a Republican Legislature for the first time in generations, but what the fuck does it matter? There are no States' rights considerations in Obama's'edicts. The Supreme Court will still fuck us. There's no good news, anywhere.

49

Lot of rich people in MA, NY, Connecticut, CA - these rich people voted for Obama.  The democrat party is the party of the rich. many of these rich people are super-rich. They don't care about tax hikes. Meanwhile, the working rich - the job creating rich - they are gutted economically... All for Obma's grand waste.

 

50 Rockmom start using cash for everything you can. Don't do business with Democrat owned businesses. Don't support anything that earns money for the Dems that means no movies. Don't engage in any economic activity. That is a start anyway.

51 And to make my day better just heard on the radio that the CO legislature turned blue from red.  I'm out. 

52 #23

You probably can't.
I work in healthcare, and there is just no way to hide income.

The only thing I can say is, that if you work for a small company. . .or you're a professional and have the ability to self-incorporate, look into a cash-balance retirement plan.  This lets you sock away a huge amount of money in a tax-advantaged pension plan that works a bit like an IRA.

So, you squirrel the money away now pre-tax, and hope to take it out later at a better tax bracket.

53 Yesterday, I was wondering how historians would compare Obama to Jimmy Carter. Today, I am   wondering how they are going to compare him to Jefferson Davis.

54 It's worse than Greece.  Greece doesn't have race politics that I'm aware of.

55

I hope John Roberts is eating poo this AM.

 

56 Low icome people who pay little to no tax now, will their taxes go up? Or will the increase taxes all be on the middle class/high income earners?

Low-income:  Their nominal taxes will (probably) not go up.  But watch for inflation, which is the "hidden tax" and actually hits the entitled classes (from welfare to those on SS Retirement and Medicare the worst.  All in all, those with low incomes have less "wiggle room" to make ends meet, and they'll be the first to enter Thunderdome.

Middle Class/High income: Their nominal taxes are going up.  It's going to suck.  However, most of these people (not all- and I'm one of the "not all) have more wiggle room.  The ability, as Andy says, to Go Galt.

57 I don't know what kind of games the Dems will play with the AMT, but it wont be pretty. Also, will they bring back the AGI threshold computation which cheats higher income people out of their Schedule A deductions? The sell-off of assets to avoid higher taxes wont help the economy, but if its good enough for George Lucas then what the hell.

58

I feel like Pickett on the evening of July 3rd 1863.

 

"General, I have no Division..."

59

Preach it brother.

 

I'll post what I just posted in the last thread:

 

Seriously considering closing my business. I have only a small amount of money left I can use to finish off payroll, pay some of my back taxes which won't be discharged in my impending bankruptcy, and then pay the bankruptcy lawyer and file.

I can't imagine I'm the only small business owner feeling this way this morning. These motherfuckers are about to understand consequences in a very painful way.

 

Keep fucking over the makers assholes.  You're only fucking yourselves and the little guy you purport to defend.

60 "Low icome people who pay little to no tax now, will their taxes go up? Or will the increase taxes all be on the middle class/high income earners?" The D's will scream "tax the rich", while quietly putting a VAT into place.

61 I'm tired of being passive.  I'm tired of thinking things will work out if I just do my part, others will do theirs and somehow we'll muddle through.

Don't let it burn.

Burn it.

62 [Update] Apologies if this is too ranty. I'm just pissed at the idiots that are stealing my hard-earned money. That wasn't ranty. It was perfect.

63 Since 1968:

8 years conservative
4 years wackjob
12 years conservative
8 years wackjob
8 years conservative
8 years wackjob

So, in the past 48 years, we've held office 28 of them. We win. 

64

I really am forced to re-evaulate everything this morning

I am strongly considering adopting the European model for tipping - since 50+% are so quick to desire it for our governance they might as well get used to all the benefits.

Also, charitable donations are going to be nixed going forward. The state is there to take care of them, why should I help.

65

; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal">I knew the US economy would have to be a disaster before people would take it seriously.  I was hoping Obama's first term would be enough.  Unfortunately I think it's going to have to completely implode first.

66

The Free Shit Army has won. 

 

If you don't give them what they want, they will take it.  If you resist, eventually they will use force.  If you resist that...well...

 

Our future is not Greece.  Not Spain.

 

It is Zimbabwe.

 

Well done, America.  Well done.

 

 

67 Who knew I would be able to pop a schadenboner so quickly after last night? I just informed a friend's 21 yr old daughter, (after she made a few choice pro-JEF comments), that I wouldn't be able to give her a ride to Houston from Ft. worth this weekend. She complained that she couldn't afford the gas. I reminded her that it WAS a $1.89/gal BEFORE teh JEF took office and that he hadn't done shit in four years. I reminded her that election have consequences. I also suggested that she contact teh JEF for help with her gas. Told her that we'd miss her this weekend. Yeah, it's going to put us in a bind for a day and a half not having her there. But that PALES in comparison to the hurt she has visited on me and mine for the next four years, thanks to her & people like her.

68 Morning, As a not a 1 "percenter" may I say I never wanted, asked, or voted for your money. I prefer to take care of myself. I completely understand your point of view, just wondering myself how to deal with the new reality. I want out of the health insurance mandate. Good luck to all you morons and 'ettes. Now or in the near future might be good to have some "localish" moron meet ups.

69 50. We need to enjoy that while we can before more New Yorkers move here with their Dem voting skills.

70 I'm retired. When the feds start bailing out the bankrupt blue states, that is my line in the sand. I'll switch my withholding to get it to $0 and never file another tax form again. Fuck 'em. They can't put us all in prison.

71 BTW, have we remembered to thank John Roberts for being a fair "call 'em as he seems 'em" umpire?

72 RE SCOTUS why is everyone so convinced that Scalia and Kennedy will retire in the next 4 years?

73 And I'm going to pay a lot more attention to where the things I buy come from. I'd rather buy something manufactured in North Korea than something manufactured in Ohio. Vote for Barry Hussein Peron, and accept the consequences.

74 23 I don't know what to do. I need some advice. I have a low-six-figure salary, my husband a high-five. I figure by the time the tax hammer is dropped, it's gonna fall at more like $200k because that's where the money is. I have no savings and a couple of meager 401(k) and IRAs. One kid is college and one hopefully going as soon as he is done.

How can someone like me go Galt?

Posted by: rockmom at November 07, 2012 08:28 AM (qe2/V)

Didn't your husband vote for Obama?

75

52- I agree. No more movies. it's long past time to do what we can to starve the hollywood propaganda machine. The movies suck anyway.

No more business with any democrat supporting anything.

Get rid of your pro-democrat newspaper.

 

 

76 >>>The D's will scream "tax the rich", while quietly putting a VAT into place.
Posted by: Bread And Circuses

With prices soaring due to horrible energy policies, a VAT on top of it will really hurt the poor.

77

I feel sorry for those of us who didn't vote for this nightmare, but are unfortunately going to feel the effects. 

For the libs who brought this down on all of us, I feel NO sympathy.  $8.00 gasoline?  YOU voted for it.  Lost your job?  YOU voted for it.  Can't get a doctor appointment?  YOU voted for it.     They're so fucking stupid, they'll probably still blame Bush.

 

78 Israel is all alone.

79 If you think the US gummint can't punitively claw back that money you (think you are) clicking to tax havens, you are not even a quarter as smart as you think you are...

80 5 Watch out, Andy...interest is not a worry, but the IRS penalties could kill you. 5 Watch out, Andy...interest is not a worry, but the IRS could kill you. FIFY

81 "They can't put us all in prison."
There are a lot of FEMA camps out there...

82

Happy birthday, Andy.  And amen to all you said.  We are cutting our spending to the bone and saying a hearty "FU, you're on your own" to anyone who comes asking for help.  Well, other than conservative family members and the Salvation Army. 

 

I feel sorry for my husband and others who have to go to work today and face the smug lefties.  I'm fortunate in that I can just stay home and rant at the dog. 

83

It's not just tax hikes folks.   ALL that money will be wasted. Something the left refuse to see.

 

84 There we go.  American is screwed, and some Ziombie starts whining about Israel.

85 I think we all have to do as Democrats would do and just pretend it didn't happen.

Democracy isn't working for us anymore and has often been said, the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.

If you don't want to be the North American Venezuela, you have to resist the progressive tide. You have to use their own tactics against them. They weren't always the majority, but by being ruthless and aggressive, they seem to have become so. That's because so many are weak and follow whoever seems strong and reassuring.

We lost the election, but elections are not the only tactic of politics. If we give in to despair now, they will use this moment of weakness to usurp even more power.

They ran on "vote with your lady parts."

Don't be pussy-whipped.

Resist. Resist like a Viking.

86 >>>74 RE SCOTUS why is everyone so convinced that Scalia and Kennedy will retire in the next 4 years? Posted by: teebone

Considering their ages, God may retire them. 

87 Okay, it's my understanding that there is some sweet, sweet government cheese for farmers.  My family happens to own a (Currently non-functional) farm in Eastland, TX.

Can anyone advise me on how to get that farm functional and start getting some of said sweet, sweet government cheese?

88 Good job rickb223. One at a time if that's what it takes. They need to feel the pain of givers not giving. Suck it up, dumb ass and get to Houston on your own.

89 Hope people like their new 29 hour a week jobs, if they are lucky enough to get them - employers across the country are going to keep you under 30 hours a week so they don't have to pay for your ObamaCare.

90 Number 32 make sure the first people you fire are Obama supporters.

91 And whatever is wrong with the spacing / editing function of this comment engine says everything you need to know about how "good enough" is killing the nonleft portion of the electorate...

92 I like Israel.

93 Amen Andy, I've got to go layoff some guys who I was carrying in case things broke loose after the election. They know it's coming, but it will still suck. Getting too good at this, didn't even need to prep much, had all the paperwork handy from the last round. Really wanted to keep these two as they will be next to impossible to replace, but my wife has had it with me paying them out of my pocket and personal savings. She allowed me to hold onto the hope of a sea change, but this morning was rough when she woke up. Can the tax boys put a lien on a pre-paid credit card?

94 Oh- that farm fed a family through the Great Depression by raising cows and chickens.  We can probably make it do that again.

And, yes, I'll be accepting applications for those who want to move in.

95

To all those people who didn't go out and vote Romney because he wasn't "perfect" - wtf?

96 I'm glad my neighborhood True Value Hardware store is conservative.  And fuck
Bill Bennett on the radio.  that is all.

97

"I've tried to live an honest life and be a good man. I'm beginning to understand that "good man" isn't what the world wants anymore."

 

Yup.  We are suckers.  You and I both.

 

Burn it down.

98 This is going to happen all over the country, and the echoes of this are going to resonate like a shockwave.

Andy is NOT alone.

The people around Obama and the left wing junta that seized the Democratic Party have little understanding of how to create wealth, but they do know how to loot it. All that Obama and his acolytes have ever done is to have received their cut of the swag from taxpayers.

When the money stops coming, they will try to unleash the IRS on small businesses.

But what if there are fewer small businesses around to unleash the IRS on? Eventually, the statist runs out of money to loot.

I have always believed that the racialist component of the Democratic coalition depended on a steady supply of looted money to keep it going. When the loot stops coming in, and the checks stop showing up, and Atlas finally Shrugs, that coalition will collapse.

99 Conservatism? Dead. The Tea Party? Dead. America? Dead. Last night proved that 56 million people hate America. Welcome to The United Socialist States of America.

100 thx for that story at post 69...never too soon to learn that actions have consequences.  I defriended the first gloater on FB. 

101 "I like Israel." Israel is the Western democratic canary in the coal mine. First the Islamicists strike at them, and then they strike at us.

102 "I'm just pissed at the idiots that are stealing my hard-earned money."

I'm not even pissed that they're stealing my hard-earned money.  They're not really stealing it - they're just spending it recklessly.    With the approval of half of America it seems.

No, I'm pissed that they're also borrowing on my future income at an unsustainable rate, and over half of Americans seem to be ok with that as well!  WTF?  Are Americans truly as stupid as others believe?  Do we truly not realize what Obama [bernanke] printing money will do?

I'm pissed that Obama will devalue our currency, and I'm even more pissed that he has the ability to write executive orders to hamper businesses from making profits even more than he has already done.  And he will continue to use the EPA to destroy other companies and distort energy prices.

I'm pissed because we're fucked.

103 Chicago Way for all Americans; Identify businesses that voted Romney and give them your custom. Do not buy from those who support the Left.

104 Any charity that has solicited donations the past four years, told them until Obama is out of office, all charitable contributions are on hold.  Anyone would be insane to donate to the Teamster Red Cross.

Great uncle who is typical IBEW union "vote democrat" mentality, has son still without power in NJ..  Oh the irony  since union turned help away due to being non union.



 

105 I've been paying AMT for, oh, five years now: 28% marginal on a lower base plus a state rate of 5.3%


Hell Andy, I am paying 7.1% rate in SC.

106 I have no financial acumen whatsoever, I don't know how to do all the neat accounting tricks people use to hide their cash and we're basically living paycheck to paycheck anyway, so we don't have anything extra to invest even if I wanted to.

I've tried to live an honest life and be a good man. I'm beginning to understand that "good man" isn't what the world wants anymore.

Posted by: apotheosis at November 07, 2012 08:33 AM (xWk3U)

I'm coming to the same realization.  My folks are both JFKennedy-type Democrats.  They brought me up to be polite, hard-working, respectful, and not to ask for or take anything I can't earn myself.  They taught me that real work has intrinsic value, and that being proud of and happy with yourself is one of the most important things in the world.

The world, and certainly the left, isn't like that anymore.  Taking from someone else is now something to be lauded, desired.

For all intents and purposes, I'm paycheck to paycheck.  I don't live extravagantly, I have only a few vices (good scotch, for example), and don't live beyond my means.

For that, I've been punished by the American electorate, and it makes me fucking furious. 

And after last night, I no longer have any recourse. 

Thoughts from the horde?

107 Although my home turf of SE Rhode Island is the most beautiful place on Earth, I hereby allow any and all carpet bombing to proceed.

108 Ayn Rand was right... unlease the Crakenshrug!

109 I expect my net worth  to go to hell today as the dow tanks.

Thanks you 47%ers.  And yes, I am going to cash and going somewhere.

110 BTW, if you absolutely MUST lay people off, find out who voted for the SCOAMF and let them collect unemployment first. Let's have a little fun with Cloward and Piven, shall we?

111

Lets all lobby for Hollywood Tax Hikes.

It's long past time for Hollywood to pay their fair share.

 

channeling gr - but he's right.

 

112 You START by moving the money offshore, you FINISH by realizing that an American citizenship is not a good value.

113 Nice try, but the rich (the ones with triple-digit IQs) have had four years - it's only going to be harder as tax-havens are disappearing.

114 When I heard that Allen West lost, I thought fuck this country. I'm going Galt in every way I can

115 Given the supposed enthusiasm, Romney should have FAR out performed McCain in votes, but he did not. Yes America has changed, but don't give Romney a pass. He let Obama off the hook on Obamacare and a host of other issues.

116 "Instead of spending it happily effing off, I'll spend it moving money."

Know what I don't need?  Steaks, liquor, bartenders, waitresses, new clothes, new electronics, a new car, new music, movies, professional sports and gasoline. 

Know what I do need?  My money.

Starting with marginal employees, pink slips on Friday.  Enjoy your government checks fellas. 

Let's give them the economy they voted for.

117 My attitude towards Obama supporters is: "You broke it, you bought it."

118 Preach it.

119 I'm tired of being passive. I'm tired of thinking things will work out if I just do my part, others will do theirs and somehow we'll muddle through. Don't let it burn. Burn it. Posted by: apotheosis at November 07, 2012 08:35 AM (xWk3U) 64 [Update] Apologies if this is too ranty. I'm just pissed at the idiots that are stealing my hard-earned money. That wasn't ranty. It was perfect. All of the above. Also, what rickb223 said.

120 Barky and the left will quickly move beyond mere income taxes. Look at ObamaCare. A 2% tax on house sales - a WEALTH tax on something that the feral government has not had a hand in, traditionally. These destructive, America-hating leftists will move towards the wealth of America pretty quickly as they borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow (because we all know that the House won't put their foot down on these debt-limit raises any more than they did since 2011). It will all have to come crashing down. Not by our participation, or lack thereof, but because this nation is being run into a wall by the historically insane dipshit leftists - and the race-mongers who make up Barky's support. It will not be long before the Fed loses control of interest rates and when they start rising to normal levels ... and then to levels they need to be at, which is far above normal, that will be it. Service on the $20 trillion of debt (as we will have in a couple of years) will be it. Unservicable. There is no escape from this monetary reality. It is the leftist sub-prime disaster times 10000.

121 Dear Media:  Fuck you.  I plan to pirate my ass off to make sure that you don't get another hard-earned dollar from me, you syphilitic inbred bunch of Obama knob-gobblers.

Dear Chris Christie:  Fuck you.  I'm going to have fun watching Super Corey Booker clean your clock next year, with his homeboy the Big O backing him up while you stand there wondering where all your support has gone.  Have another donut and thanks in advance for handing New Jersey back to the Democrats.

Dear 47%:  Fuck you, except if you're actually trying to get a job and move up to where you can pay some taxes and contribute to society.  See if the Kenyan Messiah can make some manna fall from Heaven for you, because you ain't getting any of mine.

122 Its not "Hollywood tax hikes" - it's the elimination of the multi-billion dollar TAX BREAKS that Hollywood gets.

Anyway, ain't gonna happen with a Phlegm 'n Crap Senate.

123 Oh, if any of you morons have serious money, this is the last year to transfer $5 mill to someone without a tax.  Drops to one mill in Jan. 

Just saying, if you got it, pass it now to your kids, or your Uncle Sam is going to take it.

124

96  And, yes, I'll be accepting applications for those who want to move in.
--------------------

Is there fishing?  Because I love fishing.  And my husband is a pro at chopping wood and felling trees. 

 

In all seriousness, I would not be in the least bit surprised to see people starting communes -- not the usual hippy-dippy crazy cult or survivalist  types -- but independent outposts of conservative, like-minded individuals.   I think they used to be called the suburbs or Virginia.  Not anymore.

125 I went back to school to advance my degree, thinking that Romney was about to be elected and some fresh skills would be useful. Well, fuck all of you that voted this douchebag in and threw my money down the fucking toilet. I have a nice job, $170 under the 90K IRS threshold in Colombia, so screw you, I will not pay ONE CENT in US taxes, or this silly health scam, and let the "motor of the world" stop like JG said.
EVERY fucking person that has the capability needs to stop contributing to this farce, and rip off the band aid. This death by a thousand cuts is still a death. I will not contribute, or do business with, or contribute to the income of, or pay taxes to, anyone not dedicated to toppling this farce of a government.
Chile is also nice.

126 yep. Let the libs pay for all of it. Small businesses are going to be falling like dominoes this year, starting today. The libs that feel so giddy today? They have no idea. You cannot make up tens of millions of jobs in the government. Today's headlines should be: China Now Owns Us

127 >> You START by moving the money offshore, you FINISH by realizing that an American citizenship is not a good value.

Bingo!

128 Merry Christmas. I'm not going shopping.

129 Shiit, not well off by any means, doing our little retirement accounts monthly, paying the mortgage on time and all the bills.  WTF does the little guy do? 

130 America has had a good run - but unfortunately, 51% of the population has figured out that they can use get political process to grab "free stuff" from the other 49%. Game over.

131 @124 My Paypal account is DeservingDude@we.are.screwed.usa

132 Too ranty? Please, Andy. You speak for us all.

133 50% of the people pay no federal income tax. That needs to change.



But if the Bush tax rates expire a lot of people are going back in the tax pool and we are not talking about just the rich.

134

125 - well ok -  either way - Hollywood should have to pay their fair share.

I thought Obama was all for the "fair share" thing?

135 Oh, and I forgot:

Dear leftist-supporting businesses:  Fuck you.  You get no more of my money.  I don't care if you're the greatest little ice cream shop or bookstore or whatever in town, you support the Democrats and Obama, you get jack shit from me.  Sorry, I can't spend any money with you, I have to buy Chinese-made crap at Wally World because your Savior in the White Hut takes too much of my paycheck.  Sucks to be you.

136 Why not just rename this place the United States of Chicagoland and get it over with.

Already, I can see our family doctor moving to New Zealand -- he's threatened to, and I think this election will send him over the edge.

137 Happy birthday Andy.
already cut loose from society, just gonna stand back and watch it burn from a safe distance.

138 I'm moving to CO to grow weed.

139 I'm with you Andy.

I might need to consider liquidating my portfolio and shifting to precious metals.  I most hold blue chips on the assumption that company value is largely fixed do to assets, and isn't subject to currency fluctuations.  But if they are going to tax the investors, then the money is better put someplace they can't tax it.

It's not a huge position, maybe $15K at the moment.  Most of my money is in my 401K which I can't touch, until they seize it.  Anyone have suggestions?

140 "119 My attitude towards Obama supporters is: "You broke it, you bought it." Posted by: Bread And Circuses at November 07, 2012 08:47 AM (Hu/Da)" We are on our way to becoming a new Zimbabwe.

141
Ace called it with the akin bullshit.

Why does the GOP do such fucking stupid things!!!

142 How log before the real unemployment and inflation numbers come out now?

143 As bad as it is losing an election with economic conditions that shouldn't have even been close mostly because single female voters hate Republicans, it is even worse because the social conservatives are losing their big ticket issues as well. Instead of looking principled on abortion, we look like hateful idiots. (see Akin, Mourdock). CHANGE HEARTS...abortion is never going to be illegal again, so it isn't worth losing elections over. 2 years ago, the sale for civil unions could have been made and the marriage issue would have been moved to the fringe...now traditional marriage is on an unstoppable downhill slide. There was a chance to save it but we blew that too. So, abortion...loss, marriage...loss, and they lost us the election too.

144 you FINISH by realizing that an American citizenship is not a good value.
----
But a green go card is still a good value. It's free.

145 I think we should press and keep pressing the Obamaphone Cult on how exactly they intend to sustain their unsustainable Culture of Entitlement.

146 79 I feel sorry for those of us who didn't vote for this nightmare, but are unfortunately going to feel the effects. For the libs who brought this down on all of us, I feel NO sympathy. $8.00 gasoline? YOU voted for it. Lost your job? YOU voted for it. Can't get a doctor appointment? YOU voted for it. They're so fucking stupid, they'll probably still blame Bush. I, for one, will NEVER let them forget it. The newest, over-used word in my vocabulary: AWKWARD! Because I'll remind them of the above regardless of where we are. Let the chips fall where they may. They OWN it.

147 As for taxes?  Fortunately, being in a low tax state, AMT doesn't hit me right now.  But I will be much more aggressive going forward regarding deductions.

148 Let's give them the economy they voted for.
Posted by: Shirley

Bingo.

I cut off blue states from my business dealings as much as I could during Clinton.  Called a guitar shop and was ordering something and asked where they were located.  Arkansas.  Never mind,  cancel that order.

149 I stay cool as a rule, but sometimes bad is bad.

150 I keep hearing more and more people saying they will never talk to their lib friends again. People are more divided than ever before, and the libs think this is a good thing. The sheer number tweets of death threats towards Romney supporters should have woken up America. If you have children, or grandchildren. Good luck.

151 So far, this thread is troll free. What a relief!

152 Time for me to reverse the flow of money from me to the government. If you continue to pay into a system that rewards folks for taking instead of making that makes you a chump. I've been a chump my entire adult life but it stops today. Good luck to everyone here, Ace, Cob-loggers, and Morons. Thanks. Goodbye.

153 I fear the county will become India where half of all the money is off the books so the government can not get it.

Thieving governments turn their citizens into thieves.

154 And every time he says the rich should pay more, the counter needs to be "Your right, and we are starting with Spielberg". It's unbelievable that the Republicans are so goddamned incompetent that they couldn't have figured out this bit of extremely effective in-your-face theater by now.

155 Preach it, brother!

156 Andy,
The problem (or difficulty) is that it is extremely hard now to get a bank account outside the US in the last few years, as FATCA has scared most big banks away from US citizens. BUT it still can be done. This is only going to get worse now. Small banks, dollar deposits, plus gold my friends.
Your biggest liability now is your US passport. I am not a doomsday prepper, just a realist. I am keeping my money, thanks, as I will never see a dollar of the $225,7722,02 that the SS admin has taken from me since I was 14.

157 Can anyone advise me on how to get that farm functional and start getting some of said sweet, sweet government cheese?

Allen, I understand where you're coming from but that isn't helping.

And rock on, Andy.  I say burn this fucker down to the ground.  We've just passed over the tip of the roller coaster ride and we're all on the way down now.  Burn it down.  Hopefully we're going to be still alive at the end of it.

158 For all you enervated Loyalist Remnant in the effin' Northeast, here you go: http://preview.tinyurl.com/a5fyy76. Take your kids out of public school if you haven't already!

159 people that I weep for are the younger generations & kids who have NO IDEA what burden is already on their Backs & the Freight Train of Baby Boomers retiring & them paying for our SS

160 And young female Obama supporters - I'm glad that you are getting free contraception, since you're not going to be able to get a job. (Well, at least not the sort of job that allows you to keep your clothes on - and even the other kind of job is going to be less lucrative, given the huge supply of available "talent".) An amazing number of people in 2016 are going to be in their late 20's, living with their parents, having never had a real job in their lives. They will be utterly reliable Democratic voters, since everything they have, they got from the government.

161 Ace called it with the akin bullshit. Why does the GOP do such fucking stupid things!!! And by "fucking stupid things" do you mean 1. Have open primaries that let Democrats choose the weakest link to run against their candidate. 2. Nominate candidates who are too stupid to anticipate the abortion-rape question and have a bulletproof answer for it.

162 No snark question for the horde:  I'm VERY interested in an AR, or similar variant.  I don't have a ton of disposable income, and don't need much past the basics. 


Any places, models etc that would be worth it?


The left believed in their souls Romney would come after abortion.  I KNOW Obama's coming after guns. 

163 The idiot American Voter last night: "Obama has promised me lots of free stuff, and I should probably question him on HOW he intends to procure all this supposedly 'free' stuff for me. But then, that sounds...hard."

164 I didn't realize I could be any angrier than I am, until I read Andy's post and realized I also don't have any money.

165 Re: missing votes I was not on the voter rolls where I have voted for years, took several phone calls from poll worker who knows me to get my name on and me able to vote.

166 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 07, 2012 08:45 AM (u0MHM)

Well said and I'm in the same situation. I have two neighbors who work seasonal jobs in the spring, summer, and fall, and then collect unemployment in the winter. The problem is that they work under the table jobs in the winter and do snow removal and cut firewood. Of course they are big Obama supporters and cannot be reasoned with in respects to being honorable and honest citizens. They feel entitled to cheat because they view the "rich" as somehow unfairly keeping them from becoming rich themselves. Unsurprisingly they cannot explain how someone else becoming rich keeps them down.

Well, my plan is to hold tight to the family, my values, and begin to stock up on food and the means to defend myself from my neighbors when the $hit hits the fan and they are looking to take from me.

167 Very proud of Tammy Baldwin - the first lesbian Senator ever!

(unless you count Lindy Graham)

168 Hear fucking hear

169 I can close the doors and walk any time. The lease? Who cares?  I started preparing for Plan B in 2005. They can't tax what I don't make and I don't need a lot. They are going have to find some other sucker to pay for the free shit for the lazy fucks.

170 Herman Cain was on WLS AM (Chicago) this morning with Bruce Wolf. He said, we've reached a tipping point that more of the country is taken in with popularity and pandering that looking at the substance of the issues. Add to that a media that hides news and promotes propaganda for one party. Things that we see as silly like the war on womyn enough people bought into. He said when the exited polls showed that people still blame Bush and thought that Barry look presidential during his photo op after Sandy and that's why they voted him meant they don't know what's going on. Bruce Wolf said, that just means they're DUMB

171 So far, this thread is troll free. What a relief!

I think I am willing to pay out of my own pocket for ace to completely upgrade his blog software to something that will come with working italics and bold tags, and the ability to instantly ban/squash and troll posts.

Oh and auto-linking to boobehs.

172 About time you producers see the light.

173 Posted by: Bostonpat at November 07, 2012 08:56 AM (lejgy) Romney had the 47% bulit in vote right I will give him that

174 I don't want to get biblical here, but if Israel falls, the US falls too, because the Khomeinists are expansionist and without Israel to check them, they'll eventually have a lock on Middle Eastern oil.  Energy prices go up, our economy goes down in parallel.

Sure as s@$t the current administration isn't going to do anything about it.

175 So, whatever happened to that "The mainstream media is dead post"?

176 > Last night proved that 56 million people hate America.

And a bunch more just don't give a shit or were convinced by the media it didn't matter.

It looks as though fewer people showed up for Romney than for John F'n McCain.

177 Know what I don't need? Steaks, liquor, bartenders

Woah, there cowboy.  Let's not go overboard.

178 32 In all seriousness, I am a small business owner, and yes, not only will we probably be firing people before years end, the lucky ones that remain will have their health care benefits cut in half. .............. Same exact situation for us. And other business owners I know are in the same boat. Get ready for a major rise in unemployment.

179 I am in shock this morning. Union thuggery has been approved by America and its unsustainable costs along with it. Fuck you, democrat voters. Fuck you.

180 I'm heading for the hills (actually I'm already there) and I'm going to suggest my son take a long look at moving to Texas. I figure it's in Texas that liberty's last breath will be taken.

181 On a small farm here in NH, plenty of food put up, kinda late in the year but thinking about a couple of pigs. Company has as much as said my health care will go away. Cheaper to pay the fine. All my pay will go to property taxes and health care. Maybe a few rabbits cheap to keep and good eating.

182 Morons, we can still provide a great resource for each other.  I'm relatively new here, but I've learned so much from everyone.  If Ace keeps up this blog (and I beg that he does) we can be the difference between sinking under the coming wave of 'adjustments'/fees/regulations etc., or keeping our families above water and ourselves poised to move quickly when we can accomplish something politically.  We have people all over the country. We can keep everyone appraised of ways to circumvent penalties, work around business regs, know where/how to invest, heck, even how to expatriate yourself if you feel you must.  We're already fantastic at code words, so I'm sure we can communicate without giving ourselves away.  Let them try to nail us for talking about pudding!

Someday there will be a point where we can pick up the pieces.  I would like to be both alive and solvent when that day comes.

183 what's the practicality of civilly divorcing my wife having her still live with like we were married, raise our kids, have more kids etc, and get her on the public dole? I've been thinking about this for a while. For me the church marriage is all that mattered anyway, so why bother with the civil side of it?

184 The most beautifully written after the election piece I have read so far. Thank you.

185 I think early voting hurt us here.

This lets less motivated (ie stupid) voters vote at their convenience, instead of having to schedule time to vote.
 
Of course this was part of the administration strategy.

186 So far, this thread is troll free. What a relief!

 Yes. Last night I wanted to wrap my hands around any given troll's neck and squeeze until I heard a *snap*. Something about gloating about condemning the country to four more years of the same shit makes me physically angry.

187 >>>36 What the fuck do we do now? Boycott ABC, CBS and NBC.

188 It may be a good time to learn Spanish and move to Mexico.  Could the cartels really be any worse than the Obama Administration and his horde of parasite zombies?

189 I figure it's in Texas that liberty's last breath will be taken.

Posted by: phil-inn at November 07, 2012 08:58 AM (3dAId)

Oklahoma is uber red isnt it? 

190 83 "They can't put us all in prison." There are a lotof FEMA camps out there... WOLVERINES! At that point, it's game on. CWII.

191 Not enough. Every time the JEF mentions the rich paying more, it is time for the GOP to start introducing bills stripping away every tax break Hollywood gets. And every time he says the rich should pay more, the counter needs to be "Your right, and we are starting with Spielberg".

This, a million times.  If you have a GOP Rep or Senator, send them copies of Glenn Reynolds' column on killing the Hollywood tax breaks.

192 ...
Fuck this ... I want mine now. Ive played by the rules and payed into this for so long now its time me or mine benefit. I am gonna have my son who can only find part time work apply for his obama pho ... then apply for every school load he can to run up his education debt, then let the gubmint eat it .... Im tired of playing by the rules and being responsible ....

193 Yes, Israel is doing such a magnificent job of forcing those Moslem countries to sell oil against their will.

Will you Ziombies give it a rest?

194 "So, whatever happened to that "The mainstream media is dead post"?" Obama will prop up the mainstream media with Federal subsidies. You don't think he is going to let them die, do you?

195 Pay as little tax as you possibly can. The government is foolish with its money. Dollar-denominated assets will necessarily be devalued in dollars (tho' they may still outperform the devaluation). Don't have any truck with Commies. They've been doing it to us for decades. (The mother of my dearest non-wife ex-lover told me that my dad had to be a Democrat or else his business wouldn't grow in Minneapolis. That was 1972. And she would've known.) For all you gold bugs, you may not want to admit that gold is a commodity, but at least consider that ammo can be considered a commodity under certain scenarios.

196 144 How log before the real unemployment and inflation numbers come out now? Posted by: Vic at November 07, 2012 08:52 AM (YdQQY) I know, Vic. They won't. But, people will feel it.

197 ...and if you have a Dem Rep or Senator, do it too, but add that since Hollywood is mostly white it's only fair.

198 How many times must we say "open primaries" are not the fault of the Republican Party?  The State legislators control that and every time the Republicans have sued to get it undone the courts have ruled in favor of the State.


The Republican Primary rules are crap, but that part is beyond their control.

199

America is dead. It didn't die last night. It passed away on election eve 2008. We just didn't know it then, though many of us suspected it. Election eve 2012 was just the wake up call for those of us in denial. Those of us grasping at the last fading glimmers of hope that this country could be righted one last time. Just as those in Great Britain killed their empire just after  WWII by voting for socialism, we in America killed liberty by voting for Marxism in 2008.

Mitt Romney was correct. But it wasn't 47%, it was 50%. Or as de Tocqueville or somebody once said, when the majority learns that it can enrich itself by voting to take the property of the minority, then democracy dies. The Marxists in America have finally achieved their 50% solution.

Repent your sins, my fellow believers, and return to church and your God.

200 I've been thinking about this for a while. For me the church marriage is all that mattered anyway, so why bother with the civil side of it?

Posted by: dr. shatterhand at November 07, 2012 08:59 AM (n/ogz)

I think I have read there are some wellfare queens pulling in 80k not doing a damn thing

201 Should convert my remaining machine tools to hogging out receivers.

202 Any charity that has solicited donations the past four years, told them until Obama is out of office, all charitable contributions are on hold. Anyone would be insane to donate to the Teamster Red Cross. That's good info to have; didn't know the Red Cross used Teamsters.... thanks, DeliLama. (Great nic!)

203

"No snark question for the horde: I'm VERY interested in an AR, or similar variant. I don't have a ton of disposable income, and don't need much past the basics. "

 

IMO, the Smith and Wesson M&P line is the best value going right now. The "Sport" model started at around $650 yesterday.  God only knows what it is today.

 

 

204 No snark question for the horde: I'm VERY interested in an AR, or similar variant. I don't have a ton of disposable income, and don't need much past the basics.

I'm going luxury.  Maybe a SCAR-L or H or a SIG553.

205 Boycott ABC, CBS and NBC. Posted by: El Kabong

And their advertisers.  You support that shit?  Fuck you.

206 1 Samuel 8

207 1) starve the beast
2) Go John Gault

208 I think the best off shore account would an Iranian bank branch in Hong Kong...yes they exist, I looked it up. They will never report your money to the IRS. Everyone else will. Eventually. My suggestion is to instead help the Tea Party, which seems fired up by the comments, to make sure the GOP house makes the correct moves here. The moves they have to make have more to do with the media than anything else. 1) Announce that from now on, there will be no bills passed without an annual budget passed first. And this budget must be from the president and approved by the Senate before the House will consider it, in an up and down vote, i.e. a veto. Frame this as "Due to Obama's re-election, we have decided to wait for leadership from him and his party before acting on anything." They could also put out their benchmarks...where they will not go, and what they will not accept, for example, no budget trickery. 2) All negotiations for all bills will be open. "We'll put it on C-Span" use those exact words. No more reneged deals where we get blamed. That's about it. Make them spell out their taxes. Make them spell everything out. Also, for every executive order he creates, make the same exact bill and vote on it. Make those public. Make them CBO scored.

209 Well, the USA is Pennsylvania now. We all get dragged down by the city sinkholes. How does it feel? Sucky, right? I didn't sleep a wink. All I can say is, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my gender. I'm sorry for my state of idiots. I'm sorry about Christie. I'm sorry I thought this was going to go our way. I'm just so, so sorry.

210 It looks as though fewer people showed up for Romney than for John F'n McCain.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at November 07, 2012 08:57 AM (WbGW2)

WTF happened to all of that alleged Republican enthusiasm? Fuck anyone with a chainsaw who didn't show up to vote Barry out

211 "I have two neighbors who work seasonal jobs in the spring, summer, and fall, and then collect unemployment in the winter. The problem is that they work under the table jobs in the winter and do snow removal and cut firewood. Of course they are big Obama supporters" Anonymously denounce them to the tax authorities. They deserve it.

212 So what's the betting odds on the 'conservative' commentator flipping this time around? I'm gonna go with Matt K. Lewis, S.E. Cupp and as a wild card...Ann Coulter. Because you keep making fun of her fat fetish.

213 Can someone take that Mitt Romney The Moment pic and link out of the sidebar?

214 Oklahoma is uber red isnt it?

Yes, but Texas has more resources (space, access to open water, etc.)

215 Happy birthday, Andy.


I'm in the let it burn camp.   Fuck it.   I've already taken on over 60% paycut to move down to be close to my parents to take care of them.  If the fucking parasites want their hands in my pockets, they can rot in hell. 

216 For those who like to play "blame-game", I have a candidate for you:  Chief Justice John Roberts.

Conservatism was on a roll.  ObamaCare was rejected in the 2010 elections.  Scott Walker beat the recall rap.  Jan Brewer gave Obama the bird.  And SCOTUS was about to hand Obama his signature piece, [ i]sans[ /i] head, on a platter.

And Roberts caved.  It took the wind out of our sails, and make Lord Zero into a major deity.  I don't have Andy's money, but he has the right idea.

RIP America.

217 1% is now considered anyone who works, anyone who has a job or creates jobs.

"Let is burn", "starve the beast".  Sounds like a good plan. Wait until the middle class is considered "rich", its gonna happen, no way around it, not enough rich people in America.

218 Hayday, Andy

A horse would rather eat hay than graze all day for the same amount of feed.

It's your birthday. Have your cake and eat it, too.

219 p.s. who makes the CBO rules? Change them so no more 14 years of taxes for 10years of outlays are possible.

220 Mallamutt, they're just going to keep running the printing presses (easing) they can't get anyone to buy our debt anymore anyway

221
Dave in Fla @ 141:

Most of my money is in my 401K which I can't touch, until they seize it. Anyone have suggestions?

The democraps have already made a lot of noise about 'nationalizing' 401k's. Now that JEF has free reign to do pretty much anything he, and the left want....I don't think it will be very long until they bring this idea up again. They'll sell the idea as the govt assuming the role of managing those funds, and providing guarantees to contributors. The money will be taken, spent on the people that demand their monthly quotas of free shit, and the 401k 'lock box' will fill up with federal IOU's. Just like SS is today.

222 I didn't sleep a wink. All I can say is, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my gender. I'm sorry for my state of idiots. I'm sorry about Christie. I'm sorry I thought this was going to go our way.

I'm just so, so sorry.

Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at November 07, 2012 09:02 AM (J6kXj)

I slept like hell as well...

223 Screw the whole damned thing. I have been working on the American Dream for over 35 years now, and I have not one damned thing to show for it. Now these assholes are going to destroy what's left of that dream, stomp it into the ground. Why in hell bother? The house is gone, the dream of owning property is gone, the car is on it's last wire, unemployment ran out two years ago, the safety net is for those of a different skin tone than I have, and I'm falling hard and taking my family with me. Screw it right into the ground.


And if one more person tells me they voted for that fuck I will personally kick them to death. At least in prison there is a roof over your head and three square a day.

224 116 When I heard that Allen West lost, I thought fuck this country. I'm going Galt in every way I can Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 07, 2012 08:47 AM (1Jaio) He was re-districted out.

225 this is, overall, a huge phyrric victory. Obama is still a massive failure, and all of the stupidity and problems from his first term (and the D's control of Congress from before) glossed over in this election is still here, wreaking havoc on our economy and future. The SCOAMF will continue to generate weak or no growth. the ME will go up in flames. The tax deal will mean no true deficit reducing revenue growth without hitting the middle class, which where capturable revenue is (the 47% that freeload, knowingly or not, will find they've suddenly got a tax bill again...further tax increases on the top earners will generate less revenue as more and more go Galt, invest offshore, or consume instead of working). The military will be decimated. When its needed, there will be hell to pay, and the Ds will pay it. In a very real way, this is still the Bush II hangover. His tax cuts only got through by freeing too many from the cost of government, so now they think they can freeload. Reality says not so fast - the Obama years will undo their fantasies. Too bad R&R did not highlight that fact... Get ready for even more costly energy, even more corruption, and even more crimes (F & F, Benghazi, etc) - by the time Obama is done, no one will ever admit they voted for him. Obama simply cannot blame Bush anymore (that was always BS, but now its farce). But the Illinois, California and NY bail-out is still off the table - since it cant survive the House and the continued economic decline Obama's victory guarantees will only hasten that event. But this should have been a blowout R victory, given the precipitous USdecline in living standards and corruption of the Obama years. That it was not shows the play it safe, run on being a more competent less corrupt executive is a losing proposition. Why did'nt the base show up? How do we punish the DMM for their obvious corruption? Its going to be a wild ride, but at the end of this term, conservative principles will be vindicated again, and things will be so bad that no D has a chance, or the country breaks up. Either way, that's fine with me. But whenever we win again, we must practice Chicago politics and punish our enemies like the Ds do. After this, there can be no quarter with the DMM, public sector parasites, big academia (more parasites), big environmentalism, etc.

226 Several times during the primary, using username Random before I adopted this much cooler one, I said things such as below: >>> Legal Insurrection and Jonathan Last have some sobering observations about Mitt's vaunted electability. Others have linked this today. >>> http://legalinsurrection.com/?p=12789 >>> Mitt isn't electable nor is Huntsman. No way 2 Mormons get the right wing Christian base's support en masse. >>> That's how I see it. I hope I'm wrong. As I said then, I'll repeat today: I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think so. Not with Romney's turnout down vs. McCain's and half the GOP wondering where our expected turnout went. The above is my guess. That's part why I supported Newt. But later Romney sold me, and I came to love him as a decent man and inspired leader, so it sucks that he didn't pull it out. He ran a campaign that was classy and energized.

227 #178

It's pretty obvious our economy will do a "1929" no matter what happens on the Middle East.

Prepare for it.

228 Posted by: dr. shatterhand at November 07, 2012 08:59 AM (n/ogz) DO it. If I had kids, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but I'd get no benefit from it.

229 But, people will feel it. Posted by: THE day after


That's what's coming.  Hard.

Cry me a river.

230 and those of us in our 20's are fucking screwed. I've been at literally the same shitty salary or less since I started in the workplace 4 yrs ago. I've worked for small businesses who couldn't give raises bc they weren't sure they could keep their doors open, I've even taken pay cuts just to continue having a fucking job. The past 4 years has already crippled my future earnings potential in a way I won't ever be able to recover from. Another 4 years, and it just makes me want to cry. Fucking baby boomers fucking voting for their own fucking selves and screwing over everyone who comes after them. Fuck them.

231 185 re: Maybe a few rabbits cheap to keep and good eating.

If you're not already familiar there is an excellent yahoo group that's all about raising rabbits for meat. http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meatrabbits/?yguid=2061601

232 #213

Iranian bank in Hong Kong?
I wouldn't trust them with my money.
What's to stop them from just stealing all of it?

233 Oh...and off damn stinky liberal sock.

234 I like Andy's message better than Gabe's.

235 <For those who like to play "blame-game">

http://tinyurl.com/nq4p

Black Box Voting, Let IT Burn

236 #233

Congress is now jut a figurehead.  They will be ignored.

237 It's just sinking in for me that we live in a society where we cannot have a serious, adult conversation about the costs of social security and medicare and entitlement reform, or the effects of taxes on economic growth, yet discussions of "binders full of women" and free condoms and birth control pills carried the day.
 
We haven't just become an unserious nation. We've become a ridiculous one.

At any rate, I'm all in on student loan forgiveness. Might as well get my piece of the pie. Sure, it would cost another trillion to do so, but so what? That's going to seem like pocket change in a few years.

238

I envy those of you who have the means to chuck it all and leave.  Some of us are already ruined, unfortunately, and we're stuck here.  Left active duty in 2006, sunk most of our savings into a house.  Couldn't afford it after we both lost our jobs in 2008 and ended up working far shittier jobs for less money, and oh yeah added two mouths to feed along the way.  Had to short-sell the house since its value absolutely cratered in the 4 years we owned it, losing our entire $20K down payment as well as being saddled with $10K to pay to the fucking PMI company. Living paycheck to paycheck, just barely keeping our heads above water.  Had to cash out 401ks long ago, have only a couple of grand remaining in IRAs.  Have a decent, secure, but not lucrative job with little hope for any significant salary increases in the forseeable future. Still paying off the ol' student loans.  Feels like we're left with nothing, and now with the reelection of the miserable Marxist failure no hope of a revived economy to lift us out of the pit we're sinking into.  It's getting harder and harder to drag myself out of bed in the morning.  Much as I love my children I curse myself for ever wanting to bring them into this world.  They will not have the wonderful childhood I had, and their future looks bleaker by the day.  I'd give anything to be able to scrape together enough to escape, but that ain't happening - I can barely afford our rent and other bills, let alone save anything.

 

We're.  So.  Fucked.

239 Rant away, bruh. I'm with you.

240 And by "fucking stupid things" do you mean

1. Have open primaries that let Democrats choose the weakest link to run against their candidate.

2. Nominate candidates who are too stupid to anticipate the abortion-rape question and have a bulletproof answer for it.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at November 07, 2012 08:55 AM (QXlbZ)


Answering the abortion-rape question at all is fucking stupid.

241 Good post Andy. Let it fucking burn. At this point I'm looking at ways to hasten the decline so that it crashes hard under O. There's no point in this slow bleeding bullshit. Open a main artery and gut the beast. I'm thinking about applying for food stamps and any other govt free shit I can get my hands on.

242 If the Party isn't going to stand up for us ! then we have to take a stand against the Party & walk away ! that is what I am doing. "If don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" I am Done with the FUCKERS !!!

243 Fewer Republicans showed up - why, oh why?

Could it just possibly have something to do with those potential voters who thought that replacing the patron of ZeroCare with the patron of RomneyCare wasn't worth the bother?

244 The democraps have already made a lot of noise about 'nationalizing' 401k's. Now that JEF has free reign to do pretty much anything he, and the left want....I don't think it will be very long until they bring this idea up again.


That will be the trigger to a hot Civil War.   I truly believe that. 

245 @208 you might, but I wouldn't tell BATF about it for a while. In a related note: http://preview.tinyurl.com/argezae So then the issue shifts from receivers to barrels. Just sayin', is all.

246 "Iranian bank in Hong Kong? I wouldn't trust them with my money. What's to stop them from just stealing all of it?" OK, keep in the USA then. I looked into it as a joke. Not serious. all foreign banks will tell the IRS what you have. Taiwan is another choice, but I'm not sure about if they report, they probably do now.

247 Fuck it, I cancelled two long driving trips to see family at Thanks and Christmas. Let my Libshit in-laws ask why they don't get to see their precious daughter, and I'll tell them we're saving the gas money to have a huge fucking Obama Impeachment Party.

248 Who assumes the GOP/conservative leadership mantle at this point?

249 So when we turn into Spain or Greece and there are no jobs and the country is swirling the drain what will all of these "independents" aka drooling retards do? I'm hoping suicide.

250 Good post, and basically the same talk we had in our home last night watching the great debacle. As an evil 1%er paying a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year in taxes, I have been simply amazed to watch people who have never worked an honest day in their lives tell me that the $40-50K I pay in taxes every quarter (for which I get basically no return) isn't enough, and that I am somehow getting over on the system in some way and need to "pay my fair share" like a good little "economic patriot." Through it all my wife and I have tried to maintain the attitude that, well, the money is a blessing, and the reason that blessing has been given to us is so we can be responsible stewards and help as many struggling people as we possibly can. So I've tithed, I've given to vet foundations, a couple of animal protection agencies, and so on, along with showing more people than I can count including every person on either side of our extended family a good time on my dime, even while listening to their immature, sophomoric rants about the greed and basically dickheaded nature of conservatives generally and Republicans in particular. Well, no more. You think I'm a selfish, greedy, money grubbing prick of a Mr. Burns in the making? You ain't see nothing yet you freeloading cocksuckers. That first group -- vets & pets -- God bless 'em, that's where I should have been directing more of my efforts in the first place. But my Obama loving parish and community groups, and free loading tax collection instruments of the law, etc.? Catch me if you can motherfuckers, my money is, as Andy suggests above, getting point-and-clicked out of the U.S. starting my next day off. Anything legal is on the table; the ethics of the situation no longer concern me. I will not feel guilty for the fifteen-hour days and nine years of college and professional school I put in all those years ago to make it, nor will I willingly hand over money to imbeciles like Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren for their ongoing efforts to destroy America. Nor will I any longer just sit there and say nothing while people who don't know jack shit about what they're talking about spew their abuse; a lot of people who have said some pretty obnoxious things to me over the past four years better bring some good psychological body armor with them the next time they think about rolling up on me like that. So yeah, you lazy, illiterate, under-performing beggars of the left, it's true, I'm rich. But guess what else I am? I'm proud of that fact, and I'm proud of what I've accomplished without any help whatsoever from you freeloaders, and I'm seriously pissed off. Royally pissed off in fact, and my patience, my goodwill and my money are now officially off the table. It is said that we get the government we deserve, and I guess in the end that's true. But if last night is reflective of what the electorate things we deserve (which is basically that they deserve more of my hard earned spoils), well, I've just turned my back on them. The left, the entitled, the perpetual victim groups, and this Administration can suck my dick.

251 According to the numbers, democrats didn't re-elect Obama, Republicans were just...missing. ---------------------------------------- Yep! 10 MILLION fewer voted for Obama this time around BUT 3 MILLION fewer voted for Romney than voted for McCain. John Fuckin McCain! With everything that was at stake in this election.........I just can't wrap my brain around that.

252 Much as I love my children I curse myself for ever wanting to bring them into this world. They will not have the wonderful childhood I had, and their future looks bleaker by the day. I'd give anything to be able to scrape together enough to escape, but that ain't happening - I can barely afford our rent and other bills, let alone save anything.

We're. So. Fucked.

Goddamn, radar.  I'm sorry.

All I can say is teach your children well.  Teach them this is not how it is supposed to be, and the reasons why.

253 Does anyone really believe Obama gives two shits what congress does or thinks now? C'mon. He never has and never will. Congress is now irrelevant.

254 >>>255 Who assumes the GOP/conservativeleadership mantle at this point? Ryan?

255 "Answering the abortion-rape question at all is fucking stupid." If Catholic, say "I am Catholic, ask the church." If evenagelical, I heard some awesome answers from felllow morons. Its not hard. But these guys have a hard on to show how Christian they are and educate us all.

256 I thought for sure ace would have a post up by now.  I'm worried about the furry little guy.

257 What is this  "money" you all keep referring to?

258 "While $6 billion was spent by both parties getting their message out during the election cycle, they ignored the most pressing issue facing Americans-- a coming financial crisis, brought on by the Federal Reserve printing $85 billion every month. This open-ended currency creation will lead to a U.S. bond market collapse, and a massive interest rate spike that will wreck the economy."

MSM Ignored Real Issues
http://tinyurl.com/cqmx5ft
Greg Hunter, USAWatchdog

259 Nobody is going to do anything radical.  Because nobody wants to do with less.  This all a bunch of blustery bullshit and everybody on this board knows it.

We'll all keep getting up and doing what we do.  Will we adjust some things?  Of course.  That's prudent and practical.

But talking about picking up and moving is awesome if you have a paid-for house that you can sell quickly, or live in an apartment with an expired lease.  Or if you have a job to go to or a bunch of cash to sit on until you get a new job.  Or no kids.

And good luck firing all your employees if you plan on living in the same town, or going to the same church every Sunday, or going to the same grocery store every week.  People who you just kicked to the curb out of spite are great neighbors.  Hope you like toilet paper in your trees every day and your car keyed every other day and your kids beat up when they walk down the street.

Everybody can't live in Switzerland. 

Grow up.  The Dems through everything they had into saving this man and a Senate majority.  They got their wish.  Barely.

The math is the math.  We won almost everything else from the House on down.  Obama has two choices.  Do something useful or watch is all burn around him.

Gratuitously being a dick to the people in your immediate community, who in all likelihood if you live as I do in a conservative area, feel just like you, and voted just like you, doesn't help that process.

It just makes you out to be no more of an adult than the Occupy douches.

260 165, do you have the tools and skills to put one together yourself, what are your effective ranges (a combination of your situation and ability), and ballpark budget. Why an AR, are you ex-mil and trained in its use and maintenance? For example, if your range is 100yrd, a Rossi .357 lever gun might be a better choice.

261 147 I think we should press and keep pressing the Obamaphone Cult on how exactly they intend to sustain their unsustainable Culture of Entitlement.

Posted by:at November 07, 2012 08:52 AM (QXlbZ)

That is a joke right?  Go to England, see what our future is.  You aren't going to get these people to work when they don't have to.

Why should they?

262 148 Every time the JEF mentions the rich paying more, it is time for the GOP to start introducing bills stripping away every tax break Hollywood gets. And every time he says the rich should pay more, the counter needs to be "Your right, and we are starting with Spielberg".
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Correct.

263 255 Who assumes the GOP/conservative leadership mantle at this point?

Posted by: Honey Badger at November 07, 2012 09:09 AM (GvYeG)

You forgot the /sarc tag.

264 193 re: Oklahoma is uber red isnt it?

Yes but only Texas has the right to suscede from the union.

265 laura i doing the classic take down beck talking American history

266

236 Damn straight. Right there with you, exact parallel.

 

I was told the other day by a boomer: You're worried about Medicare problems just like people used to worry about SS, but it turned out fine.

267 I am in the process of writing a check to support my deadbeat sister, who I am sure voted for JEF.

Not a good day for this.

268 You and me both, radar.

269 Oh, and happy birthday Andy.

270 Great Alignment?  Nope.

The old "Obama 53%" majority" is now 50%
Two 2008 Obama states flipped Red:  NC and Indiana.
Republicans have at least 30 governorships
NC elected its third GOP governor since Reconstruction.  Pat McCrory won with 55% of the vote.  Flip eked out a 50% victory in NC.
The Red States got redder.

Don't blame the Tea Party.

271 Posted by: KristenS at November 07, 2012 09:06 AM (t6c3b)

You nailed it. 


I'm 32.  I will NEVER see a dime that's been taken from me under the guise of 'paying into my own retirement.'  I will not see as much of my 401k as I've put away, and there is empirically NOTHING that can be done about it. 


Please - anyone - explain why the fuck I should continue going to work, hitting the clock, and being a hard charger.  I'm a climber.  I WANT to advance myself.  I WANT to provide nice things for my family when they show up.

And all these lefty fucks are making that impossible.

So why should I keep working to earn taxes for you to raise and waste?

272 >>>258 According to the numbers, democrats didn't re-elect Obama, Republicans were just...missing. ---------------------------------------- Yep! 10 MILLION fewer voted for Obama this time around BUT 3 MILLION fewer voted for Romney than voted for McCain. John Fuckin McCain! With everything that was at stake in this election.........I just can't wrap my brain around that. Normally, I hate the 'FRAUD!' conspiracy theories because it detracts from the real problems we face...but that does seem majorly effing weird.

273 >>> 3 MILLION fewer voted for Romney than voted for McCain. >>> John Fuckin McCain! >>> With everything that was at stake in this election.........I just can't wrap my brain around that. Mitch and Murray, start here and tell me what you think. I welcome your feedback: http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=334735#c19631650

274 Happy birthday, Andy. I'm in full agreement with you. I no longer choose to associate with Democrats in any way, shape or form.

275 #248

Overload the system till it crashes.  Olinsky.

276 SurferDoc,

This vote is the end of American medicine as a profession. Anyone thinking about medical school is a chump.
I'm glad they still churn out enough Nigerian docs to staff all the national health services around the globe. They gonna need them in your local WalMart soon.

277 He ran a campaign that was classy and energized. Posted by: Samwise Gamgee the 3rd

Romney was too much of a puss.

278 My suggestion is to instead help the Tea Party, which seems fired up by the comments, to make sure the GOP house makes the correct moves here.

------


Bullshit.

Give O what he wants,  give it all.  
Tax increases?  Check.  
Card check? Check. 
20 trillion in debt?  Check.
Gun control.  Check.
Abortion on Demand.... pass that sucker thru.

I.DO.NOT.CARE......

We can no longer win.... we cant even really tinker at the edges.   We are the party of "eat your peas and clean your room."   The electorate has moved on to "here's your free shit and you can stay up til 2:00am on a school night'.

But reality hasnt changed.  There are consequences.   The ONLY way to change this paradigm is to stop being the Dutch boy with the finger in the dam..... walk away...... hasten the consequences of bad decisions.

You won.  Fine.  You own it.  You get everything you want, including the goddamned consequences.

279 Answering the abortion-rape question at all is fucking stupid.

Posted by: schizoid at November 07, 2012 09:08 AM (mnpQF)

All they should have said was, I'm pro-life but the real issues of this campaign are the economy so let's move to the next question

280 All I can say is teach your children well. Teach them this is not how it is supposed to be, and the reasons why.

Posted by: EC at November 07, 2012 09:10 AM (GQ8sn)

  And teach them to do stuff, skills, as much as you can.  Most yooths today dont know how to cook or clean or fix anything

281 Personally, I think we should totally cave on "taxing the rich".

Let that percolate for 4 years.

282 And WRT the update - you don't realize the people in charge do not consider it to be YOUR MONEY in the first place?  Sorry, I was generous.  You are 1/8 to 1/16 as intelligent as you think you are...

283 I think Romney fought, Dang. I don't think everyone who should have fought for him. That said, I do think Romney should have brought up Benghazi more.

284 We will ,we will TAX YOU!

285 @245 Thank you for your service to our country! An earlier thread saw this mention by a poster: Psalm 146,3 "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help." (King James Version)

286 Let's get the impeachment rules out.

287 181 Know what I don't need? Steaks, liquor, bartenders

Woah, there cowboy. Let's not go overboard.

Granted, cow blood and Maker's I cannot live without.  But I can damn sure cook and serve myself.

288 Posted by: Wild Ride Ahead, eventual victory but is it worth it? at November 07, 2012 09:05 AM (bT79U) I hear what you're saying, but they will ALWAYS blame Bush. Or those bastard Republicans in the House. The main issue here is that enough people, voters, are now stupid enough to believe it. Years of socialist, liberal thinking (with a heaping-helping of never accept responsibility for your own actions on the side) being taught from Kindergarten has given the left their goal. Despite the fact that Wal-Mart, out-of-state non-union linemen, and Kirstie Ally got help to Sandy victims quicker than the govt, people still think govt is their savior.

289 Trumpetdaddy, I've been paying their salaries out of pocket for months, I bring guy who need work back in under the table all the time, I've also dropped about $7500 this year covering critical bills for guy I had to lay off. No one is keying my old cars, the youngest of which is over ten years old. Reality isn't spite

290 3 MILLION fewer voted for Romney than voted for McCain.

John Fuckin McCain!

With everything that was at stake in this election.........I just can't wrap my brain around that.

Posted by: Mitch & Murray at November 07, 2012 09:10 AM (AzwZn)

That's what I kept asking last night when too many states were too close. Where in the fuck is the Republican turn out? All these people who sat out 2008 were supposed to be fired up to vote Barry out ended up sitting at home. Fuck them

291 Grab  your  ankles,  America!  Welcome  to  IDIOCRACY  NOW! 

292

>>>Israel is all alone.

 

Read your Scripture, whichever one: That was always going to happen, sooner or later. No more spoilers from me, though.

293 Iron Horse's for everybody!

Thanks Wheatie, now I know what's coming!

294 Another thing I have seen many people starting to do, is up your deductions, so you keep more of your money initially, its front ended. But enough people do this, the revenues to the govt go down as the year progresses until April 15th.

295 Where in the fuck is the Republican turn out? ugh was it the Mormon thing? I wonder. quietly protestants were uncomfy with the Mormon and the Catholic

296 WTF happened to all of that alleged Republican enthusiasm? Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 07, 2012 09:03 AM (1Jaio) The Weeping Boner and Bitch McConnell beat the enthusiasm out of the Tea Party by taking the power they were handed to fight Barky and the America-haters and, instead, allying with the pieces of shit. Too many people saw the work they did up to 2010 go up in a puff of shithead GOP smoke with nothing changing in any way, whatsoever, and got to thinking that their efforts were not only useless, but just contributing to the problem by supporting asswipes like Boner. The Weeping Boner hated the Tea Party and worked to paint us as crazy every chance he could, but he "understood" the Occupoopers as he worked with Barky and the dems to pass continuing resolution after continuing resolution without getting anything at all in return - NOTHING - and he never did anything to try and stop Barky and his criminal junta as they carried out one assault after another on America, our citizenry and our Constitution. Then we had Romney, who played a coward's game and ran pretending that barky and his junta were just "guys in the neighborhood" who weren't the biggest enemies America has ever faced (or even anything threatening to our nation, at all). Mitt couldn't even talk about what a colossal failure Barky was at absolutely everything (putting his America-hating treason aside). He had to spend much of the debates claiming that he agreed with Barky. Too many people were beaten down by this and didn't see that their votes were going to have any great impact, anyway, so they just stayed away from the most important election in history. They saw the cowards who were the recipients of the 2010 votes and how it was all wasted and figured, "It doesn't matter." But, as we all know, it did matter. Too late, now. This deal is sealed. America is dining with the devil and is sporting a very short spoon.

297 >>> That's what I kept asking last night when too many states were too close. Where in the fuck is the Republican turn out? All these people who sat out 2008 were supposed to be fired up to vote Barry out ended up sitting at home. TheQuietMan, Did you see my post here? http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=334735#c19631650 What are your thoughts?

298 Who assumes the GOP/conservativeleadership mantle at this point? Beavis & Butthead ?? Who the fuck cares RINOS In D.C. Run & RUIN everything

299 Obama is not a fucking failure you fucking idiots! By any measure, he is stunningly successful. This shit is not accidental. Weakening the U.S. is a feature not a bug. Regarding the vote numbers, two words: Sarah.

300 First grinning Obamabot that says One Word to me gets a hearty "fuck off and die, and have a nice day" from me. 

I'm heartbroken for my country.  What a stupid bunch of cattle re-elected this SCOAMF.  Hope they run out of government cheese and their damned Obama phones give them brain cancer.

301
  All of the pieces are in place now, save one. The last part of realizing the dream is disarming the populace.

   I cannot fathom how this can be done.

302 Do what you gotta, Andy (and other well-to-do members of Ye Olde Moron Horde). Me, I just go back to working for the day that boys once again grown up to be men. Someone's gotta fight that, y'know. Since, y'know, making the economic case ain't working. May as well fight on the ground we should have been the whole blasted time.

303 301 Another thing I have seen many people starting to do, is up your deductions, so you keep more of your money initially, its front ended. But enough people do this, the revenues to the govt go down as the year progresses until April 15th.

Posted by: johnc_ex-dem at November 07, 2012 09:16 AM (3Kxux)

WHAT?  And lost my sweet sweet 8k check every april!  CRAZY TALK!

304 I still don't understand the vote totals... I just don't get it...

305 But reality hasnt changed. There are consequences. The ONLY way to change this paradigm is to stop being the Dutch boy with the finger in the dam..... walk away...... hasten the consequences of bad decisions.

You won. Fine. You own it. You get everything you want, including the goddamned consequences.


This.  ^

306 Anyone else think Mitt was blindsided by this? I have a feeling he went to bed Monday night thinking it is in the bag. Turnout blindsided him.

307 Mornin',

Hey boys and girls Gen. George Washington didn't give up when he lost a battle, don't you!

308 What I learned last night:

Democrats are better fear-mongerers than Republicans.

Much better.

309 You won. Fine. You own it. You get everything you want, including the goddamned consequences.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 07, 2012 09:12 AM (yzX2R)

But they never except responsibility for anything. It's always our fault no matter what and enough drooling retards who vote believe that. Look at Illinois, Democrats rule from top to bottom and it's a disaster and they keep voting them in.

310 Glenn Beck is bringing me to tears.

311 Hope they run out of government cheese and their damned Obama phones give them brain cancer. A river of blood to free them, and they sell themselves for a Secion 8 voucher, gov't check, and cheap cell phone. Makes you wonder if it was worth it, sometimes.

312 Let's get the impeachment rules out. hahahaha The PUSSIES in House Leadership Impeach ??? hahahahaha Funny Guy

313 Let the crash happen sooner.

314 @292 - Our late country, you mean.  The country whose uniform I so proudly wore no longer exists.

315 Might I suggest that the co-bloggers make today a NO TROLL zone. I'm not going to be in the mood for gerg and other troll dickheads

316 I hope Boehner grows some serious stones and tells O that he will let ALL the Bush Tax Cuts expires. Let everyone feel the pain of Obama. Same with sequestration. Let it happen. The sooner the whole thing goes in the toilet, the sooner we can start rebuilding it. Let's get it over with and not drag it out.

317 "What is this "money" you all keep referring to?" Yes, I had some but spent it all keeping my business going, employees in jobs, and family okay. I probably should have not done that and got a state job. I hurt my family by being stubborn.

318 "Answering the abortion-rape question at all is fucking stupid." How you answer it is to turn it into a statement about planned parenthood's non reporting o statutory rape to the police. Com

319 Here is what I was told six months ago by some economist at a little meeting.

Expect China's economy to blow up and have serious problems, SOON.


Expect us to continue to kick the can down the street and do nothing about the coming SS and Medicare explosion.  We can only print money if someone will buy our bonds.  China will stop buying them when their economy goes to hell, cause they won't have any money to buy them.

The defense sequester will happen.  We can not afford to let Europe live off us without their contributions to NATO, which no country but us is fulfilling.  That leaves us weak.  Guess where that leads?

Five year before it all goes to hell.  Remember the Weimar Republic?


Oh, have a nice day.

320

I'm inclined to agree, Andy.

 

If America wants more debt, less freedom, and to be weaken, then let the country collapse in on itself.  It's time for the producers to go Galt - for real, this time.  Let the welfare addicts pick up the pieces when it crashes down around them.

321 I'm keeping my word.

One of you bloggers is going to get the message some day.

DO NOT BUY INTO ZEROCARE.

322 It's weird after Barry won the first time I as calm. I figured everyone bought the Hope and Change and we'd ride it out. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. BUT IT WAS TERRIBLE and THIS election, he ran on punishing producers and TAKING from those who are responsible ... and WON WITH THAT! that's the bottom line. all the women's issues and gay rights issues things are a smokescreen. rationalization. they are lazy and want more entitlements. they want YOU to take care of them. the single women do. the young people want their loans forgiven. etc THAT is what kept me up last night. It's not Obama that is the problem. It's our neighbors.

323 Another thing I have seen many people starting to do, is up your
deductions, so you keep more of your money initially, its front ended.

You can only do that so much.  I know, I've tried.  The IRS will gladly come after you for quarterly installments after the first multi-thousand dollar return they give you.  It only works for 1 year!  If you fail to comply with the quarterlies, they will penalize you like they did me.

There really is no escape from them.

324 Silver lining: Candidate talked about serious entitlement reform, and only lost by 2%.

Other than that, I'm DOOM!-esque in general. Upping my DOOM! quotient in my name.

Going to convince the wife to think about what would need to be done in case of a slow collapse of order.

The Leviathan can not be stopped.

Probably.

325 Sexy pig, your not my wife, had that same argument screamed at me at 5am

326 The media won it for teh one.

327 Like post #22, I feel the burning desire to do something about this.

A new way of conducting myself.

The prospect of Der Fuhrer winning was something I Would Not Consider, but now I have to.

328 I hope Boehner grows some serious stones and tells O...

Funniest shit I've read this morning!

329 @296 That may very well be.  Kudos to you for doing the right thing.  But all this blustery, "just fuck 'em" talk is just that - talk.

Nobody is just going to abandon a going concern out of political pique.  Nobody who was smart enough and disciplined enough to create a going concern in the first place.

Will things be fudged and corners cut?  Of course.  But, for the very reasons you cited, nobody with any morality is going to just shut it down to be a dick for political reasons.

And any talk to that end is nothing but blustering bullshit.  Cathartic, but bullshit.

Most people got over Ayn Rand by junior year of college.

330 "But reality hasnt changed. There are consequences. The ONLY way to
change this paradigm is to stop being the Dutch boy with the finger in
the dam..... walk away...... hasten the consequences of bad decisions.

You won. Fine. You own it. You get everything you want, including the goddamned consequences."

Yep, 100% accurate. I hope all productive people just go john gault, in even the smallest way they can. Giving to charities? forward the requests from the Red Cross to Barry, opening a business? don't bother, hiring people? don't bother. Firing people? get rid of the obots first. thinking of buying a home? don't, the real crash hasn't happened yet. Go John Gault in any small way people can.

331 Gun Control Agenda "under the radar"?

Heh, heh heh heh heh. 4 more years.

 

332 deleted Facebook account for starters.

333 I seriously think about moving to Switzerland. They are not perfect, but reasonable (Im not sure that I would say that about my fellow citizens any longer). My only worry is that they let themselves be bullied by the EU to impliment insane policies.

334 HESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

335 What to say to our son, who just survived Afghanistan?  He is angry as hell and sick to his stomach.  His hipster, clueless older cousins are celebrating.

I hate the Obama voters with every fiber of my being.  God help me.

336 "Look! A Samwise!" STFU and STFD. You're already trying to pull away from the Tea Party. Christians = values voters. Unless you're calling a significant portion of us hypocrites. Are you? And don't try the "Demographics" line, either. You just bend over and get what Christie got for your troubles. "But, but, REALITY means every red-blooded American must eat more mescaline, just as I do!" Yeah, w/e, bitch. Go away.

337 I am in the process of writing a check to support my deadbeat sister, who I am sure voted for JEF. Why write her the check then? I'm sorry, and it's tough, but at some point we've got to stop enabling these parasites, even if they are family. If your sister was a drunk, would you buy her booze? Explain to her that you don't have the money to give her any more; that the consequences of her electoral choices mean you've got to take care of #1 first from now on.

338
Jane D'oh @ 307:

Hope they run out of government cheese and their damned Obama phones give them brain cancer.

The funny thing....not in the 'ha ha' sense of the word though....is that it's statistically likely that some obama-phone free-shitters are going to get cancer. They'll find greasy lawyers. Large class action suits will be filed. They'll win, and the large companies that are providing that program with phones, and service, will be on the hook for billions and billions of dollars in damages. Those costs will be passed on to actual paying customers....who are the ones forced by the federal govt to fund that program.

339 258 According to the numbers, democrats didn't re-elect Obama, Republicans were just...missing.
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The Republican Party gets 90% of its votes from Whites. What did Romney and Ryan specifically offer Whites? Relief from mass immigration? Relief from Affirmative action? An end to flash mobs, polar bear hunts and beat Whitey nights? Nothing?

How about nothing.

Obama ran as specifically anti-White campaign aimed at precise demographics. He put up an argument that he was best for each specific target group. Even if it was based on lies, it was an offer.

His supporters showed up.

Romney and Ryan did not offer anything. And do not talk about economic wonkery. This election shows that a single-focus economic platform is a loser.

340

@164 "Nominate candidates who are too stupid to anticipate the abortion-rape question and have a bulletproof answer for it."

Still on this?  Sorry, but you can't blame this for Mack losing, Allen losing, Brown losing, Mandel losing, etc. 

 

341 Romney was too much of a puss.

Posted by: Dang at November 07, 2012 09:12 AM (R18D0)

BINGO. 

342 Boycot hollywood and all media make them suffer.

343 He is angry as hell and sick to his stomach. His hipster, clueless older cousins are celebrating.

Tell him he should go up to them and say, "Let me answer that with a head-but."

344 The Weeping Boner hated the Tea Party and worked to paint us as crazy every chance he could, but he "understood" the Occupoopers as he worked with Barky and the dems to pass continuing resolution after continuing resolution without getting anything at all in return - NOTHING - and he never did anything to try and stop Barky and his criminal junta as they carried out one assault after another on America, our citizenry and our Constitution. 

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 07, 2012 09:16 AM (X3lox)

Betrayal by GOP. They hugged media when it was attacking the tea party.

345 Never say 'Democrat' as they hate democracy...  call them Looters for that is all they are...

346 John Galt - You aren't, by any chance, taking applications are you?  I'm a vet, trainable, and work like a motherfucker. 

Posted by: Jean at November 07, 2012 09:11 AM (tmzN0)

Yes, I'm prior service.  I like the AR.  I like the flatter trajectory of the .556 and the lower recoil.  It's personal preference more than anything else.  I could do just as well with an AK, but I'd like a weapon I'm familiar with.

Ballpark price range for me is $800-1,000.

347 You know what?  I don't want to hear shit about how demoralized anyone was by Mitch McConnell or John Boehner, and if it comes out that the God squad stayed home because Mitt is Mormon, I swear my head is going to explode in rage.  If you don't like Obama but you stayed home because you don't get enough warm fuzzies from the GOP, GO FUCK YOURSELF.  This was an ANTI- election.  I don't like the goddamned Republican leadership either.  So what?  You've saddled us with four more years of the Marxist.  You've made it a very real possibility that in 2016 our nation will be unrecognizable, and we will NEVER come back.  I don't vote FOR Republicans, I vote AGAINST Democrats, the slime of humanity.

348 "You can only do that so much. I know, I've tried."

Its harder with businesses, but for individuals, its not that hard. And IRS will come arrest people for not buying health insurance too, so whatever, the confrontation was going to happen at some point, for individuals this is one of the few things they can do.

349 I think this is worse than 2008. In 2008, Barry was mostly an unknown and riding a wave of anti-Republican fervor but after 4 years of his shit enough people either voted for him again or didn't vote at all to get rid of him. There was no excuse this time

350 327 Five years before it goes all to hell. Five? I don't give it two. Compounding is a bitch.

351 349 Romney was too much of a puss.


Posted by: Dang at November 07, 2012 09:12 AM (R18D0)

BINGO.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 07, 2012 09:22 AM (wR+pz)

When he won the first debate I thought he had a solid plan to play the media.

352 350 Boycot hollywood and all media make them suffer.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at November 07, 2012 09:22 AM (8Hnjw)

  What are these theaters you speak of?

353

Two young guys at work are yukking it up about multiple voting, I guess they are thrilled to pieces over the election.

 

Both of them are leveraged to the max. They have no idea what they have done to themselves. They really think they can get mo rich people money. They don't "get" that THEY are the ones with the target on their backs. Plus, our industry would have greatly benefited from a Romney win.

Dumb and dumber.

354 Did anyone catch Romney in the last day or so when he said/implied he would KEEP Obamacare, but with some tweaks?

355 "355 You know what? I don't want to hear shit about how demoralized anyone was by Mitch McConnell or John Boehner" I want to hear from the people who said John Boehner guaranteed us Electoral victory with the Grand Bargain in 2011. Bear that in mind as we defund the military to buy Obama's voters phones.

356 I'm on let it burn, too. This is what we as a country have chosen. Republicans just need to sit and vote present. We are an unserious people. We sent Alan Grayson back to the Congress, and Allen West back home. We get what we deserve.

357 What are these theaters you speak of?
Posted by: Mr. Torrent

Damn straight.  No more buying or renting, just downloading.

358 I am totally with you on letting NY/NJ burn.  I withdrew my contribution to the Sandy relief fund here at the office.

Our version of going Galt is cutting off discretionary spending. Too bad Skyfall didn't come out last weekend.  I won't be seeing it now.  Closing the wallet.  No TV, no movies, no new CD's, we're shutting it down. 

359 354 Any feedback on an AR10? (AR15 platform in .30

360 Survive. No pity, no apologies, no handouts. You're descended from those that did the same.

LET THEM STARVE

361 Fact: if/when we hit a recession, businesses stop hiring, the Obama voter will not register that they did something stupid...they will say "see these rich, greedy guys won't spend their money." They are mistaking us for Solyndra investors or something. I sell nothing to the government. I have never tried. I made a mistake. My family pays the price.

362 Oh boy, more ridiculous calls for impeachment.

363 I'm not a 1%er.  I live alone and my annual income is in the 70s (it can fluctuate year-to-year).

So I have to go to my "financial adviser" (he's attached to my credit union) and figure out how to mitigate taxmageddon with my meager retirement savings.  If I'm even allowed to keep it.

Lots of people like me and couples who basically make double my salary will be hosed royally.

364 357 I think this is worse than 2008. In 2008, Barry was mostly an unknown and riding a wave of anti-Republican fervor but after 4 years of his shit enough people either voted for him again or didn't vote at all to get rid of him. There was no excuse this time

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 07, 2012 09:24 AM (1Jaio)

True , this is like giving the now known wife beater a second chance . He really mean it this time.

365 367 Should be 7.62x51. Three oh eight. Damn smilies.

366 "Romney and Ryan did not offer anything. And do not talk about economic wonkery. This election shows that a single-focus economic platform is a loser." This is true. Fiscons, it's time to own up to the truth - social moderation with fiscal conservatism is a proven loser.

367 Boycot hollywood and all media make them suffer.


Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at November 07, 2012 09:22 AM (8Hnjw)

Damn straight. No more buying or renting, just downloading.

Posted by: EC at November 07, 2012 09:26 AM (GQ8sn)

Starve the beast and all of its creatures

368 23 I don't know what to do. I need some advice. I have a low-six-figure salary, my husband a high-five. I figure by the time the tax hammer is dropped, it's gonna fall at more like $200k because that's where the money is. I have no savings and a couple of meager 401(k) and IRAs. One kid is college and one hopefully going as soon as he is done. How can someone like me go Galt? Posted by: rockmom at November 07, 2012 08:28 AM (qe2/V) Darling, many of us are in the same situation - we have some savings, but not enough to build a life elsewhere. Wealthy people will just move, but the rest of us are stuck with the leechers and takers. Folks, the country is lost. The voters have figured out that they can vote themselves riches from other people and they've decided they want to be safe and secure in the blanket of government control from cradle to grave. It isn't a matter of if. it is now a matter of 'when'. Paul Ryan said 2027 is when the economy collapses. I think he was optimistic by 5 years; there is nothing we can do to prevent it now, but we'll be blamed when it happens. I'm sad for my children. I tried to save the country as did all of us - we tried to save it for the people who died and worked hard to build and protect and for our kids, but there are too many takers. The next step is collapse and chaos; followed always by dictatorship.

369

We're headed for the cliff, anyway. It can't be stopped. It can't be avoided. The good news now is...that the Democrats and Obama own it. If a Republican had been elected last night, the Republicans would catch all of the blame.

 Yeah, yeah, the left will blame you anyway...or try to. History will write a different story.

 Being on the right side of history is never a bad thing.

 Now, get through the all of the post traumatic bullshit, take a long hard look at your premises, re-think your strategy and tactics and get moving.

 We've got a nation to save. We've got our own freedom and liberty to save, as well as that of generations to come.

370

America has just re-elected the most unqualified, incompetent, and dishonest President in her history. It won't get better from here on out. It will get worse, much worse. You can't spend 1trillion$ more than you have every year and last much longer. Socialized medecine doesn't work. Just look as all the examples in Europe and the Canuckistani's coming down here for treatments and operations. Socialism doesn't work. It never has and never will. They won't get it right "next time" or ever. Just name me one country it has been tried in that prospered. Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Castro's Cuba, Mao's China, the killing fields of SE Asia? Even the soft socialism of Western Europe has failed and the bill is coming due before our eyes.  Maggie Thatcher was right, you do eventually run out of other people's money.

The American people will learn a difficult lesson soon. As the Instapundit says, things that can't be sustained, won't be. In the next few years our financial system will collapse, seeing massive inflation and the dollar devalued. Huge tax increases in January 2013 and the now inoperable cancer that is Obamacare will just accelerate the process. Not only will the dream that is America perish, but with her Western Civilization.

You may think I am being too cynical. I say, go ahead and be a Dagny Taggart and slog away and help prop up a wicked, doomed system. I won't help. I will never vote again. I will not support financially those that brought down human kinds last, best hope. America. I will no longer support Hollywood, Broadway, GE, Viacom, HBO, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, the MSM etc etc. I hope they fail. 

Those on the left gloating today should enjoy the triumph of their success to its maximum extent. We in the outerlands will suffer greatly in the future but so will the Obamanation's. They have not secured the paradise they envision in their minds. They have just created a new, fresh hell that they will discover firsthand.They have doomed their children,as well as ours, to a future of pain, suffering, and evil.  I weep for America. 

371 I probably won't do anything much different than I have done, except at the margins. I still have bills to pay and a young son to take care of. But, I'll probably cut back on things that aren't necessary, and try to save more money than I spend (which will lead to many fights with my wife, who seems to believe that any money that is not immediately spent will disappear). I'll probably be a bit less charitable, since I don't feel particularly sympathetic at this point toward any person who is unemployed, or will be soon, who voted for Obama. I think this country needs to get what it voted for. Good and hard. I'll save that money for my son. And I'll probably avoid giving any business to companies that openly support Obama or Democrats. None of these things will probably make much of a difference in the end, but at least I'll have some peace of mind.

372 Don't be angry at Mitt not "handling the media." Its hard. Harder than we know. See Cindy Sheehan vs. the SEAL's dad and mom. That is not something that being "smarter" can solve.

373 Any Republican who stayed home yesterday deserves what's gonna happen to them the next four years.

374 1st of all we can't impeach anyone without the Senate so stop saying that, just don't buy their papers or watch their stupid TV!

375 The problem was not Romney. He was the best candidate we can hope for - the ticket really a dream team. But they are serious people and we are not a serious country. I am not going to say that people are stupid and all that - people are what they are. And they vote for what they want. And we decided that free birth controls pills was what was important. That is unserious.

376 Andy,

Actually, not ranty enough.

Would appreciate more rant -- especially rant with some specific and practical suggestions on surviving and even maybe doing well in the coming financial Obamapocalypse.

How does one offshore assets? Is it possible for those with assets in 401ks and IRAs in the > $200k range?

What is going to pay well in the next two months? the next four years?

Can we use the idiots who voted for Bronco Bama as buffers/shields from the economic deluge?

377 "We get what we deserve." My son doesn't deserve this.

378 >>>Our version of going Galt is cutting off discretionary spending. Too bad Skyfall didn't come out last weekend. I won't be seeing it now. Closing the wallet. No TV, no movies, no new CD's, we're shutting it down.
Posted by: New to New Orleans 

As soo as it is released on DVD, it will be all over the internet.  Don't give the fuckers a dime.

379

I think in the end we lost, because we tried to be civilized. We took that "having an adult coversation" crap seriously. If Republicans wanna win again, this must stop. No more honorable, polite losers. The next nominee should swiftboat his way into the Oval Office. Demagoguery and negative  campaigning works. If you cant make the case that your opponent is evil and vice incarnate, you have no case at all.

380 I applaud Andy and caution any who think it mere sour grapes to realize we have in fact been pushed too far. I started off in my 43 year old life voting Democrat, but realized by 1994 they valued nothing I did. Well they of the left own the culture, and academia, and the Executive agencies, but only half the population. My side owns little. Nuts to this. I will not comply with the state when the state doesn't comply with its own laws, and we will not ge doing things together.

381 I am in the process of writing a check to support my deadbeat sister, who I am sure voted for JEF.

Why in the fuck would you do that?  Seriously.  And if you do,  then fuck you too.  Don't be a goddamned enabler.

382

"Did anyone catch Romney in the last day or so when he said/implied he would KEEP Obamacare, but with some tweaks?"

 

This is nothing really new coming from him and was one of the problems baked into his cake.

 

We did our duty.  We supported him.  He did his best, we did ours.  Now it's time to start getting some people from outside the Establishment.  They have failed us for the last time.

383 If you are not a very rich person...buy gold and silver with cash. From a store. Not on-line.

384 #257

"John", I'm with you.

I'm just sick and tired of the people who pay ZERO income tax saying that its not fair that the rich 1% "only" pay 42%+ of our gross income in taxes.

385 Fiscons, it's time to own up to the truth - social moderation with fiscal conservatism is a proven loser.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 07, 2012 09:27 AM (IyKYr)

 

And what is the winner?

386 Andy

I don't speak arbitrage. How do I learn it?

The posts at ZeroHedge go right over my head...Any suggestions for resources to learn these mysterious ways?

387 And yeah, fuck the Northeast.  Fuck em all.  I hope this next storm slams the shit out of them, so long as my grandfather (a rock of a man who unfortunately could never bring himself to leave NY as it's the only home he's ever had and where my grandmother is buried) makes it out of LI alive.  The rest of em can drown for all I care.  They won't get one fucking nickel from me, and someday when another 9/11 attack hits NYC I'll view it with the same kind of emotion I have when I see a story like "One injured in three car pileup on I-64" : read about it briefly and shrug my shoulders.

388 340 deleted Facebook account for starters.

Posted by: separate at November 07, 2012 09:21 AM (xXyme)

Ha I did the same thing. A liberal friend posted a picture of Obama riding a unicorn with rainbows coming out of his hands.

I posted "I sure hope that magical unicorn is shitting jobs, a budget and deficient  reduction plan. Cause rainbows are nice and all but they don't pay the bills."

Then I closed facebook. I am tired and the wind is already picking up. That Nor'easter is coming sooner rather later.

389 I really wanted RR to talk about Benghazi....instead they ignored it like the MSM did. To me, and I'm no expert....leaving that out was a huge deal. DId this have anything to do with the low turn out? I dunno...but it could have put a fire in the belly of folks who ...seriously...did not know thanks to a full media black out

390 Guys, lets not pretend Romney was going to shrink the government and end the madness.  He was going to fund it by taxing the rich, remember?  We all let that slide during the debates.  The good news is that in a few years half-measures won't be an option anymore.

391 Romney and Ryan did not get the turnout from their own side! The inventor of Obamacare on the state level was never going to increase enthusiasm. Hate them all you want but lots of people threw their hands up and stayed home it appears because they fell into the "there is no difference between romney and obama" camp. Obama underperformed 2008 by a good margin and he still won. The ENTHUSIASM for GOP talked about on Fox News was total BS. The GOP dispirited the tea party/base after it did nothing with the gains of 2010.

392 As soo as it is released on DVD, it will be all over the internet. Don't give the fuckers a dime.

Posted by: walkers! at November 07, 2012 09:29 AM (C4dFv)

  Good chance the day after its released, you could find something pretty decent as well.

393 384 The problem was not Romney. He was the best candidate we can hope for - the ticket really a dream team. But they are serious people and we are not a serious country.

I am not going to say that people are stupid and all that - people are what they are. And they vote for what they want. And we decided that free birth controls pills was what was important.

That is unserious.

Posted by: Golan Globus at November 07, 2012 09:29 AM (7vSU0)

my FB post this morning:

Up early, checking election results.
Colorado decided it needs to fund schools with drug money.
The Fed has decided that printing more free money is a good idea.
Illinois retained their congressman who campaigned from the psych ward.
Celebrities still generically consider me cruel and unusually stupid.
Gay people can continue breeding because that's very important socially.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

394 I'm ok with your plan.  I just hope many, many others do the same.  This election is a naked attempt at crushing your will to persevere.  Don't lose the faith.  Hopefully next time the repubicans will run a candidate capable of being elected.  We did our best to get Mittens over the top but in the end it was a mistake to even give him the chance.  Newt, Santorum and Perry were right; Willard was unelectable.

395 @383 The House impeaches, the Senate tries. That's how it went with Clinton. And he got disbarred eventually. It'll be tougher sledding for Senate Dem.-Commiesthis time if the facts of Benghazi come out like they seem they will. Even if they won't convict on the facts, We The People might. Of course, by then all that will be between our pitchforks and L'il Barry will be the Pacific Ocean.

396 2008 Presidential election

Obama 69,498,215 (52.93%)  McCain 59,948,240 (45.66)


2012 election


Obama 59,633,456 (50.33%)  Romney  57,003,614 (48.11%)

Note; not all votes counted yet.


Note that the Dem turnout was much lower as expected, but Republican turnout is also much lower which was NOT expected.

397

I was married to America and loved her more than life itself.  Yeah we had our fights but we always made up.  Now I find out she cheated on me.  I regretfully now have to refer to her as my ex-wife and no longer support anything she does in the future.  I am officially on my own.  I will always love her deep down but I don't like her very much anymore. 

398 The more things change, the more they stay the same. Posted by: jwb7605 at November 07, 2012 09:32 AM (Qxe/p) and don't forget Fauxcahontas!

399 380 Don't be angry at Mitt not "handling the media."

Its hard. Harder than we know. See Cindy Sheehan vs. the SEAL's dad and mom.

That is not something that being "smarter" can solve.

Posted by: Sexypig at November 07, 2012 09:28 AM (NV30n)

He has been running for president for more than 20 years. I expected more from him in studying the beast media is.

400 What your missing trumpet is that without the hope of a sea change in DC, the combination of regulatory costs and inflation/devaluation makes it very difficult to justify staying business. Most of us have been holding on for five years now, we don't get unemployment, or disability, the tax guys are going to rape me for doing the right thing - my accountant says I should have given the money to my priest first, and let him pay my guys when they needed help. I have customers who can't pay, if I punch out - the they never will, thats close 300k right there, plus close to quarter a million in capital equipment, not to mention walking away from a decade of work is emotionally difficult. My wife father shot himself last year as his world collapsed, I've got kidney stones and psoriasis outbreaks that bleed from the stress. Do you have any idea how hard it is to explain to your kids why all the desks are empty at work and where all your "friends" are? Your not hearing spite.

401 It would be interesting to see the House get out of the way and give Obama just about everything he wants, at least economically. When it all comes crashing down, and it will, there won't be any displacing blame. That, and ditch the social conservatives. They're a weight around a drowning man's neck.

402 Should have went with Trump.  An obnoxious attention grabber probably would have had better luck, unfortunately.

403 Pete Stark lost last night????????????????????

404 I keep going back to POV's story on Olver North's run for Senate. It was called a Perfect Candidate. The key bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KweT34C5i-k Yes, negative campaigning works, because we are not serious. We give attention to Occupy and Cindy Sheehan, but Benghazi? Old news.

405

"371 I'm not a 1%er. I live alone and my annual income is in the 70s (it can fluctuate year-to-year)."

 

Count yourself lucky.  I gross $49K and have a family of four.

406 You know, I think Mitt is probably a good guy, in the sense that if I knew him, I would like him.  For me, this was about voting against Obama. I voted for Romney, but was not energized for him. I just assumed Mormons were the ones who were, and maybe ditzy GOP'ers that support the party above all. In the end, maybe Mitt needed to hit HARD in ads, and not act like a nice guy. Maybe he needed to scare our side, like Obama scared lesbians and whomever. Demagogues win.

407 "And what is the winner?" Well, we gotta try different things, not do the northeastern Republican thing over and over. Perhaps Old-time religion? Minorities are socially conservative and more apt to be religious than whites. Appealing to atheist singles isn't a winner. They will pay higher taxes to keep God away from themselves. They ain't voting with us as a bloc.

408 Our version of going Galt is cutting off
discretionary spending. Too bad Skyfall didn't come out last weekend. I
won't be seeing it now. Closing the wallet. No TV, no movies, no new
CD's, we're shutting it down.


Posted by: New to New Orleans

As soo as it is released on DVD, it will be all over the internet. Don't give the fuckers a dime.

Posted by: walkers! at November 07, 2012 09:29 AM (C4dFv)

There are sites where you can watch TV shows for free with no commercials.  Unfortunately all of the free music file sharing sites I've used have been shut down. I still won't buy a CD and haven't for years

409 I used to give to charity not anymore, because I see who gets what I give. I'll help my sons if I can but it stops there!

410 and don't forget Fauxcahontas!

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 07, 2012 09:33 AM (JWLqy)

  Laugh riot of the election right there....Holy Stupid electorate batman, caught in a lie before she is even elected....A fine senator she will be.

411
that's the bottom line. all the women's issues and gay rights issues things are a smokescreen. rationalization. they are lazy and want more entitlements.
-----
I think these issues are important in and of themselves. Many hispanics view attacks on illegal immigration as an attack on their precious culture. Many gheys view ANY expression of disapproval of any aspect of their 'choices' as a personal attack on them. Calls for 'revenge' gets out the minority votes as many see the need to 'cut the majority down to size.'

No need to learn Spanish and move to Mexico. Just learn Spanish. Latin America will move to you. And they will not be adopting the economic theory of some Russian nutcase.

412 You guys aren't really counting on the House GOP to fight are you? They're going to compromise their way to defeat in 2014. It's time to abandon politics and prepare for the worst.

413 House should lay out their stipultations...very basic. 3% GDP deficit budget or NO GO. Then tell Obama when he and the Senate has passed that, they will consider the budget. Watch the middle class realize that what Obama wants will require middle class taxes.

414

Posted by: TrueNorthist at November 07, 2012 09:32 AM (3Aixx)

 

And fuck people like you too.  You whiny little bitch.

415

I personally  know of a few anecdotes involving  hardcore conservatives  who refused to vote for Romney because of his record and "moderateness".  

 

I guess I should have given more weight to the idea that the sentiment was out there on our side and it wasn't insignificant.

416 There will be no impeachment on Benghazi, so don't even try.  Instead, hang Obama out to dry.  Learn from Clinton.  Monica was killing him until impeachment started.

The worst scandal for a POTUS is one that never gets resolved.

417

"Nobody is going to do anything radical. Because nobody wants to do with less. This all a bunch of blustery bullshit and everybody on this board knows it."

 

So more of the same then?  It seems to have worked out quite well so far, why not double down?

 

At some point, any man worth his salt will cross over into feeling less like a taxpayer and more of a slave.  At that point, he has little to lose.

418 Social moderation with fiscal conservatism is a proven loser

Social conservatism with strong prolife positions is a proven loser

National security and being a hawk is a proven loser

Fiscal competence and reigning in debt and the entitlements is a proven loser

Hell, I might as well become a Dem.  I hear the parties are better.

419 353 Never say 'Democrat' as they hate democracy... call them Looters for that is all they are...

Posted by: DANEgerus at November 07, 2012 09:23 AM (NhcG5)

The only time we say democrat in my house is when my son says.

Dad, I need to take a democrat.  OK son, be sure to flush.

420 The GOP dispirited the tea party/base after it did nothing with the gains of 2010.

Posted by: Dan at November 07, 2012 09:31 AM (/7gN/)

This is unforgivable, and the GOP must suffer from it. Give the crying boner something to cry for losing his perks.

421 Is it bad for me to want to read about Leftists dying in fires, etc? Because the thing I wanted to find was a blog or aggregator that just showed leftwingers being in terrible positions. I just want to see them screaming in a twisted pile of metal, or staring blankly into a fire that devours their entire lives. In short, I want to read about them suffering. Anyone have any good links? Or should I make my own, call it something like, "Watch Leftists Suffer 2.3" and see if I can make a living off it?

422 Republican turnout is also much lower which was NOT expected.

Posted by: Vic at November 07, 2012 09:32 AM (YdQQY)

This is really surprising. All have is sample size of is me and few republican friends here on Long Island. No Republican I knew was sitting this out. We live in deep blue New York and some still without power. No one considered sitting home.

423 "I think these issues are important in and of themselves. Many hispanics view attacks on illegal immigration as an attack on their precious culture. Many gheys view ANY expression of disapproval of any aspect of their 'choices' as a personal attack on them. Calls for 'revenge' gets out the minority votes as many see the need to 'cut the majority down to size.' No need to learn Spanish and move to Mexico. Just learn Spanish. Latin America will move to you. And they will not be adopting the economic theory of some Russian nutcase." The key to this problem is not to freak out about hispanics but to find Hispanic businessmen and have them run for office. They can explain stuff to their people in Spanish. See NM governor Martinez. Its natural for them to fear a white rich guy who says he will help them via the market - they don't get that. They need a guy who owns a lawn service and who worked his ass off to tell them that. We'll see.

424 It wouldn't have mattered if Jesus himself were on the R ticket. Remember the God denial at the convention?

425 Also remember - there are quite a few outfits that sell complete AR kits ( less the 'lower receiver' ) that you can buy and have shipped to your door. Purchase a 'lower' from a local FFL for between $90 - $150 (therabouts), and you can assemble an AR for a lot less than those pre-assembled and taxed firearms on the wall. They are quite simple to put together, some roll pins, springs and detents. Get extra takedown detent springs, and detent pins - you will lose those tiny fuckers! Buy more than 1 lower. Good to have spares for future needs or bartering.

Model 1 Sales, and M and A Parts are 2 suppliers I have used.

Long Live the Fighters, and God Bless the Republic.

426 For clarity, I meant news items about Blue Staters - home fires, car wrecks, the like. 'Cause, fuck em.

427 Laugh riot of the election right there....Holy Stupid electorate batman, caught in a lie before she is even elected....A fine senator she will be.

Posted by: Red Shirt at November 07, 2012 09:35 AM (FIDMq)

She'll do just fine!

428 427 Posted by: AmishDude at November 07, 2012 09:36 AM (T0NGe)________ Brilliant post. Don't create a VICTIM IN OBAMA by impeaching him. Let him dig his own hole.

429 But, for the very reasons you cited, nobody with any morality is going to just shut it down to be a dick for political reasons. Watch me.

430 eventually, something radical is going to happen. This shit can't continue.  You cannot "govern" (god I use that term loosely) as Obama will for his 8 years and not see things like massive inflation, economic ruin and a rapid breakdown of society. I used to snicker at people who predicted widespread civil unrest.  Not anymore.  I can see secession movements arising too.  Nothing big enough to be truly seriously, but enough to get noticed.

431 Social moderation with fiscal conservatism is a proven loser

Social conservatism with strong prolife positions is a proven loser

National security and being a hawk is a proven loser

Fiscal competence and reigning in debt and the entitlements is a proven loser

Hell, I might as well become a Dem. I hear the parties are better.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 07, 2012 09:36 AM (JxIkO)

That's pretty much what Herman Cain said on the radio this morning. We've reached a point where more people don't care about the substance of the issues and are more into popularity and pandering

432 No apologies at all, Andy.  I'm a lower class person but I make no claim to your money and fuck those who do.  All I want is my own and to be left alone.  Apparently, that's too much. 

433 @412 You have someone blowing pot smoke up your ghey ass, bitch. Your stoopid prejudices are what's wrong with this country. "Abortion is life!" Fool.

434 Ok.  Let's compare Obama's 2008 and 2012 national popular vote totals:

2008:  69, 456, 897
2012:  59, 633, 456  (to  date)

That's a 10, million vote drop.

435 Now that I'm feeling a little less like shit...

Cable provider will be getting a call this week. TV package canceled.

Live in Milwaukee County and the wife and I are looking immediately to the north (Ozaukee) to find a new home for the family. If I can pull it off before the end of the year new tax rates kick into effect. Now its just a question of how far north we move.

Between the two of us I guess we're considered the filthy rich ($200K) but her business is reliant on people with disposable income frequenting higher end restaurants...we're assuming this will be the last year of true success.

Take this for what its worth. I'm not nearly as devout as my wife and get a little squeamish when she talks about harbingers and the trials. She is a very conservative catholic with very close friends within the Church...we were in St. Louis last month for a day of prayer with a close friend who is a priest and his order. He is a visionary and explained to everyone there that bad trouble is coming our way...the good thing is when it happens it will be quick, but the bad is it will be bloody. Waking up this AM I gotta say our further discussion about it spooked me.

Probably buying one more gun and lots more ammo...when the government starts stiffing the takers they'll simply cut out the middleman and come to us directly for their Obama money.

Good thing is I guess that all these cases of pudding I got will actually be needed for food...

436 Jerry Doyle tagged the Republican Party correctly for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) the last time they asked him to speak: too white, too far right, too uptight.

It's STILL the economy, stupid. Ignoring the fiscal cliff doesn't erase it. "Let the Dollar Burn" isn't my choice.

Romney and the RNC did not and will not campaign for any bill that will provide oversight to thoroughly audit the Federal Reserve, let alone to constrict or remove the corrupt Fed.

Bush and the Republicans sold Americans TARP, the first of every corrupt bailout that ONLY benefits the so-called 1%. Bush executive ordered not simply Paulson's complete autonomy to prevent prosecution for COMPLETE FRAUD, but the autonomy of the Treasury Secretary.

Too many Republicans ramrod more authoritarian dictatorship and abuses of power and Democrats augment that corruption. Neither party campaigned to renew our Constitutional Republic, a pox on both parties. Given no transparency, "In God We Trust" nails our predicament -- God isn't the only entity recognizing how thoroughly corrupt our government is.

The Republican National Leadership refuse to support Constitutional Governance, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of We The People. Both parties function as parasites of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Ground Zero: Ban the Box
http://tinyurl.com/nq4p

437 I think the GOP should run Biz Markie next time.

438 I have no financial acumen whatsoever, I don't know how to do all the neat accounting tricks people use to hide their cash and we're basically living paycheck to paycheck anyway, so we don't have anything extra to invest even if I wanted to.

I've tried to live an honest life and be a good man. I'm beginning to understand that "good man" isn't what the world wants anymore.

Posted by: apotheosis at November 07, 2012 08:33 AM (xWk3U)

 

This.  The problem is that Mrs P is too godly and honest to scam the system.  Frankly, I suspect she probably voted for Obama, too, since she told me she didn't trust Romney (she gets her mind poisoned by her idiot Facebook friends).  So if we're going to suffer - and we will - I'm damned sure going to remind her that this is all Obastard's fault.

 

We have two cars (one paid for) and a house (not yet paid for).  We have a small amount of savings, but still live paycheck to paycheck.  But I guarantee you the parasites on the left would call us "rich" just for the house alone.

 

I've got to get back to work now.  I can barely keep from crying, and God knows screaming isn't going to help me keep this job.  I'll see you all tomorrow morning.  I just can't stand it anymore.

439 413 Should have went with Trump. An obnoxious attention grabber probably would have had better luck, unfortunately.

Posted by: yinzer at November 07, 2012 09:33 AM (/Mla1)

Probably.

440 @429 - and that's why I'm rapidly losing all hope.  The plain fact is that everything other than leftism is becoming a proven loser because the parasites have realized that they can vote themselves into permanent dependency.

441 Real Americans generally aren't selfish but as of today I will be the most selfish person I can be, not going to give stupid people anything.

442 House has 3 options: 1) Cave 2) Negotiate 3) Stand firm I suggest do #3 but in a way that the Dems have to show their cards. No one seems to like this option. Is it because # 1 is so obvious or they think #2 will look good in the media when its twisted around?

443 435 It wouldn't have mattered if Jesus himself were on the R ticket.

Remember the God denial at the convention?

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 07, 2012 09:38 AM (JWLqy)

I think you may have captured the essence of it.

444 This is really surprising. All have is sample size of is me and few republican friends here on Long Island. No Republican I knew was sitting this out. We live in deep blue New York and some still without power. No one considered sitting home. Posted by: Long Island at November 07, 2012 09:37 AM (EsJl1) This has me puzzled, as well. I don't know anyone who stayed home. I know people who voted for Romney in fear for their mortal souls for voting for a Mormon, but still they voted for him. My tin foil hat is on this morning. I think there was some fraud involved. Maybe not enough to have completely stolen it, but there is no way fewer voted for Romney than McCain, unless McCain got more of the marijuana crowd than Romney did. It was on the ballot in several states. That's the only thing that makes any sense to me, that and maybe Ron Paul write-ins?

445 Can I ask a question?  I've read here that my U.S. passport is my biggest liability, and that being a U.S. citizen is not a good value.  Why do you say that?  Seriously?  And what happens if your renounce citizenship?  Is it permanent?  Clearly you have to get another passport to travel, right?  And what is a go-green card?  I've been living abroad for 13 of the past 15 years, with 2-3 years more coming, so it's not like it would change a whole lot for me.  I would appreciate any real information about this. 

446 "426 I personally know of a few anecdotes involving hardcore conservatives who refused to vote for Romney because of his record and "moderateness". I guess I should have given more weight to the idea that the sentiment was out there on our side and it wasn't insignificant." I do 't believe it. All the bible belt states went red. My bet - Independents are who stayed home, because they didn't care to participate. They didn't see a point.

447 "Nobody is going to do anything radical. Because nobody wants to do with less. This all a bunch of blustery bullshit and everybody on this board knows it." Really...I'm like a flipping doomsday prepper. I have NEVER in my life been that way. I'm the average mom who is concerned about where this country is heading and want to keep my family safe. If you saw me on the street you would never know I have a years worth of food stored away. Supplies and money and guns. Let me repeat...I have NEVER been this way before. Bluster my ass.

448
Barry's Stinky Britches @ 436:

Purchase a 'lower' from a local FFL for between $90 - $150 (therabouts), and you can assemble an AR for a lot less than those pre-assembled and taxed firearms on the wall.

For those with access to a drill press, and with a little skill in using it, you can purchase an incomplete lower....completely non FFL, completely legal. It will be shipped straight to your door. You'll have to mill out the trigger group slot, drill a couple holes, and they even sell the tool kits to complete the receiver.

449 Oh, it's going to burn.

Israel and Iran in a nuclear war...

Gog and Magog are rising.

Watch the skies, friends, He is returning soon.

450 @427 Call me old-fashioned, but when else should I let political calculation prevent me from doing the right thing? Should it have been more dead SEALs? Two dead ambassadors?

451 Posted by: Sexypig at November 07, 2012 09:42 AM (NV30n)

I recommended #1 in my 288.
My other preferred option is #3.

I have this really nasty trait about being blamed unfairly.
If they're going to do that, give them a damn good reason.

452 I used to give to charity not anymore, because I see who gets what I give. I'll help my sons if I can but it stops there!
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt

That's the first responsibility, to your own so that they don't need donations from strangers.

But I still will give to the Salvation Army that 'does the most good'. My donation may well shrink proportionately to income, but 'the widow's mite' still works.

453 Andy, happy birthday. Wish to heck that there were a better celebration going on. As to your rant, I couldn't agree more. We're high income, though not 1%ers, with no debt other than a mortgage that is less than equivalent rents. They can try to destroy us, but like the sycophantic sidekick of Dean Pritchard in "Old School," I'd just like to say I may *look* stupid, but I'm pretty good at paperwork. And no matter how much money I make in the next four years, I'm not going to hire anyone other than fellow independent contractors.

454 This election was stolen. The progressives have won. The United States, as we once knew it, is deceased.

455 Call me old-fashioned, but when else should I let political calculation prevent me from doing the right thing? Should it have been more dead SEALs? Two dead ambassadors? Why do you worry about some dead old ambassadors anyway? FREE BIRTH CONTROL!!!! See, don't you feel better?

456 speaking of which, the kids have the day off and are coming over for lunch.

457

Unelectable?

Romney was unelectable?

Turnout was DOWN.  As Vic showed above.

 

Regardless of what was said, turnout was down. In Ohio, only 53% of the registered voters showed up.  There was supposed to be a record of 66% show up yesterday.  Didn't happen.

 

My polling place was not as busy as other years, and I chalked it up to "early voting" yesterday.  Nope. People just didn't show, they didn't care.  And I live in a pretty Republican suburban area of Columbus. People did not show up. Period. Full stop.

 

The country is screwed by the apathy of millions who will bitch about the results but just don't care to show up.

 

 

And the demographics and geography of elections is screwed for Republicans. When California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York are OFF THE TABLE before the campaign even starts (not to mention Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticutt, Vermont and Maine), then what can we expect?

Yeah, the Social Cons "killed us".  If the Social Cons stay home in the next Presidential election, the Republicans might win ten states.

 

Vote buying by the New Deal/Square Deal/New Frontier/Great Society history of the last 90 years has killed us.  To win, the Republicans have to get in a bidding war for goodies for every faction in America, and the Democrats are past masters at promising to give stuff away to buy votes.

458 I think these issues are important in and of themselves. Many hispanics view attacks on illegal immigration as an attack on their precious culture.

How many Hispanics do you think are anti-illegals but will vote against Republicans because they're against illegal immigration?

Because, if you're against illegal immigration, you must be against Hispanics, right?

Yeah, the big, bad inflexible racist Republican bible-thumpers who nominated a Mormon and a Catholic and were the biggest cheerleaders of Mia Love and Allen West.

It's a bigoted cultural stereotype.

459 Andy's right! right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebodyÂ’s part!

460 "And what happens if your renounce citizenship? Is it permanent? "

First, you have pay a good amount in taxes, all countries do this so that renouncing citizenship isn't so easy. Yes, its permanent, unless you want to reapply to become a US citizen, but I imagine you will have a hard time even getting a green card if they see you've given up your citizenship one time prior.

one of the co-founders of youtube, gave up his US citizenship, became a Singaporean citizen, that country is very strict in who it lets in, no riff raff.

461 *not the galt thing, I agree with that.  I meant something else stupid and futile.

462

A someone still in their 20s trying to get into that phase of my life where I start earning money, I'm sufficiently fucked.

This economic contraction is going to be a disaster for me.  I can only hope my wife holds on to her job, because I'm fairly certain when I finish up my advanced degree I won't be employable by anybody.

:sigh: The wife and I were supposed to discuss moving forward with having a family later this month, I'm not sure I want to bring any kids into this world because a) it blows and b) I can't afford it anyway.

463 For those with access to a drill press, and with a little skill in using it, you can purchase an incomplete lower....completely non FFL, completely legal. It will be shipped straight to your door. You'll have to mill out the trigger group slot, drill a couple holes, and they even sell the tool kits to complete the receiver.

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464 If the tax rates all reset in January, Bank of America can have my fucking house. It's backed by Fannie anyway. I'll stop paying my mortgage, run up my credit cards, and declare bankruptcy and move to South Carolina. They want this shit. They can fucking pay for it.

465 Andy, thank you for this thread.   My niece is reading a book about the Dust Bowl and she read me a passage about a woman who would go into the kitchen of her ever-dirt-filled farmhouse and sit at the table with her best white gloves on, as "an act of defiance and bravery".    Men may not get this, but the moronettes will understand why this symbolic act was important.

I'm not getting any younger, but I swear I'm going to wear my white gloves until I return to the dust.  And I will every thing I can to starve the beast.

466 I am lost. Have no idea what to do. In my life, God, for the most part, has rewarded the evil doers and hypocrites. My biggest mistake, marrying one of the former at 20 yrs of age. 10 yrs later, divorced in a state with no joint custody and the courts used to break me mentally and financially and run me out of my child's life.(btw miss Marple, both live very close to you) I've been bumped out of a job where I was the best they had in all phases. Could pay off my vehicle with what I have in savings and have 7k left in checking and 4 mo left of ue benefits. Job prospects slim. @57 and the thing I'm best at I have no degree in. Always tried to do things the "right" way. Put others first. Be a real boy scout. It has all turned to ashes in my mouth. It's like this election was my last hope. From now on, my answer to any question asked of me will be "I don't know."

467 Honest question - Am I being crazy for worrying this is all likely to devolve into an exchange of gunfire in the not-too-distant future?

Am I further being crazy for believing Obama and the left want to make a real move against guns?

I'm so overwhelmed by the election results that I truly can't decide if I'm being rational as I compare weapons to each other.

468 @469 Works for me. Matter of fact, I wouldn't merely refuse to talk to them, I'd flip them off. And give them a frightful grimace, to boot! Then I'd hire a biplane to go low and slow to drop thousands of little slips of paper with my URL on it. "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind."

469 I keep forgetting to say Happy Birthday, Andy!

470 For those with access to a drill press, and with a little skill in using
it, you can purchase an incomplete lower....completely non FFL,
completely legal. It will be shipped straight to your door. You'll have
to mill out the trigger group slot, drill a couple holes, and they even
sell the tool kits to complete the receiver.

What is required to learn this skill?  Do you do clinics? 

471

I am very far from being in the 1% but I don't blame Andy one bit. At the other end, I'm tempted to go in the other direction - hey, I'm really depressed right now! Really, really depressed! Can I go on disability and stop working and get free shit from the government too? I know a woman, a big Obamabot, who stopped working 3 years ago. She's bi-polar (and a hypochondric - she's in to see some f'ing doctor about something just about every week). Now I understand that manic-depression is serious - but she's not great about taking her meds. And she is 53 and isn't even trying to get better or hoping to return to work. No, she's on food stamps, and lives in a very nice government subsized 1 bedroom apartment - for $275 a month. I live 2 blocks away - and pay $895 for a two bedroom. And it's a deal in this neighborhood. We were friendly at one point, but the last straw was when I ran into her in Whole Foods a few months ago. I work FT, only go into WF to buy bulk stuff like beans and flour, and she had a cartful of crap. Which she paid for with her EBT card. So, hey, what kind of fool am I, worrying about bills and rent and cutting coupons? Damn, maybe I should go on the dole and raise my standard of living too! Yeah, the money will run out, but shouldn't I get a nice big slice of that tasty government cheese too before it does?

 

I'm tired of being a sucker. Maybe I should play by their rules instead of mine.

472 The market is tanking. The drooling retard undecideds (who have a job) who see their 401ks collapse can take solace in knowing that it's all Bush's fault

473 A someone still in their 20s trying to get into that phase of my life where I start earning money, I'm sufficiently fucked.

Oh, yes you are. I saw on twitter that R^2 won 30+ voters by 1.5 mil or so and OB won 30- voters by 5.1 mil.

Total imbeciles.

474 In the summer of 2009, in obama's first 8 or 9 months in office, a friend of mine had a problem with the condensing unit for his air conditioner.  He called some local yokel service tech to come take a look at it.  The service guy pulls up in a truck with an obama sticker on it.  My friend sees the sticker and immediately tells the guy "forget it, I think it's working now."

The guy tells my friend "I still have to charge you for the trip out here", to which my friend simply replies "nope, not paying it, send the bill to obama" and shuts the door.

I laughed then, but I'm not laughing now. 

In my personal life, If I have ever seen an obama sticker on your car or in your window, I'm done with you.  If you owe me money, which incidentally I have been lending you interest-free out of the goodness of my heart, it just came due.  I've got enough friends.  I don't have it in me to be polite anymore.  I no longer have the capacity to bite my tongue and quietly stare at the ice cubes in my empty glass while you go off on one of your statist rants.  Those days are over.

And my small business?  If I know you are an obama supporter, I'll still take your money.  But rest assured I will do the absolute bare minimum that is humanly possible to avoid a lawsuit.  I don't give extra effort for free anymore, that company policy just expired.  You just told me loud and clear last night what taking pride in my craft is really worth to you.

You just voted for a class war last night, and by God you are going to get one.

475

Not ranty, Andy.  Not ranty at all.

Things went well for me recently and I'm waiting on an offer, hopefully getting signed off on today, to join your tax bracket.  It's been a long damn hike after getting out of grad school a few years ago with massive debt, required to join my once-lucrative niche if you're not a special person.

And I wonder:  Why bother?  I've busted my ass, and it's about to get much, much harder.  If I can't keep the reward; if I'm going to be excluding myself from the freebie lines; if I'm going to pay down my student loans responsibly just so I can keep paying someone else's; if my wife an I live meticulously to facilitate the recklessness of others... why?

Outside of academia, I am a ground combat genius.  I can run an infantry unit with the best of them.  The hyperbolist in me thinks I should say "Fuck earning," go to 40 hour weeks, disregard my 8 years of university, and spend the balance in the gym.  You can try to stay a step ahead, but nobody outruns the fire forever. 

It might not be 2016, but by 2016 the path will likely be unavoidable.  This system will fail, and you need an exit strategy, or at least a survival strategy, when it does.  Dividend-bearing stocks will probably be irrelevant around the time that our public sector saviors take to the streets because their pension funds are empty or worthless.

476 Is there a "Black Market for Dummies" book somewhere where chumps like me who have earned everything they have can learn how to game the system?

477

Here is something. CA is RETROACTIVELY increasiing taxes on "The Rich" going back 7 years. The boning and the burning have begun. Now please send them fuel for the fire.

Its passage increases the statewide sales tax by a quarter cent for four years, starting in January, while people who make more than $250,000 a year will pay higher taxes for seven years retroactive to the beginning of 2012.

Bwaaahaa. It BEGINS.

478 It's a bigoted cultural stereotype.

Nevertheless, it is a stereotype and they believe it.

Conservatives have three options.

1) Cave- let it all burn.
2) Pander- Learn to play to the minorities' prejudices and pander to them.  Then do what Democrats do- ignore them once you're in power and shove your policies through anyway.
3) File for Divorce- as many Conservatives as possible move to Texas and our surrounding states, and then secede (probably at a high cost in blood) from the Socialists.

Personally, I'm all for #3.  That said, if you want to win elections, #2 is your short term answer.

479 I know some of you folks think we blue state New Yorkers deserve this but shit its blowing a near gale and snowing. Weather guy just said how unusual these snow amounts are this early in the season. Couldn't we have had a little of that global warming this week. Thanks Al Gore for nothing.

480
EC @ 475:

Here's a link to one manufacturer:

http://tinyurl.com/7kt6rdk

481 All the bad chit they taped together and held together, lied about, is soon going to be unleashed. Home values are soon going down more, unemployment is going to shoot up more. ZeroHedge's latest article.
(One piece of the best pieces of advise one of my relatives gave, he predicted Soetero would eek it out, pay off anything and everything that you can, home not withstanding, the car, take no new debt, this country's going into a depression, the fake money printing isn't going to cut it anymore)

http://tinyurl.com/9wgzzb5

482 Posted by: teej says go K-State at November 07, 2012 09:50 AM (3R0Zs) Deep breath, teej, deep breath. Your God will not forsake you. This is where faith comes in. The only way you can have real faith, true faith, is to not know, right? Because if you had all the answers, you wouldn't NEED faith. Don't give in to the despair. Just know everything will be okay. I am running on faith and faith alone this morning.

483

@485

 

I hated young people when I was young.  I hate them more now.  Aside from some smart, sensible buddies under 30 (I'm 35) of like mind, I hope they all suffer unimaginably and I can't wait to laugh my ass off at the next round of Occutard bleating about how there are no jobs for them and they can't afford to repay their student loans.  Reap it, motherfuckers.

484 478 I am lost. Have no idea what to do. In my life, God, for the most part, has rewarded the evil doers and hypocrites. My biggest mistake, marrying one of the former at 20 yrs of age. 10 yrs later, divorced in a state with no joint custody and the courts used to break me mentally and financially and run me out of my child's life.(btw miss Marple, both live very close to you)
I've been bumped out of a job where I was the best they had in all phases.
Could pay off my vehicle with what I have in savings and have 7k left in checking and 4 mo left of ue benefits. Job prospects slim. @57 and the thing I'm best at I have no degree in.
Always tried to do things the "right" way. Put others first. Be a real boy scout.
It has all turned to ashes in my mouth. It's like this election was my last hope.
From now on, my answer to any question asked of me will be "I don't know."

Posted by: teej says go K-State at November 07, 2012 09:50 AM (3R0Zs)

I guess I feel better being 7+ years older than you.
Couldn't find employment at age 63.

I had to "retire early", and now my income is government-limited to $28K total for the next year and a half.

I frequently feel derision because I'm apparently living off "someone else's money".  I usually point out that that's not true, and won't be for another 12 years until I get what I donated back.
The derisive comments, for what it's worth, are coming from 2 Boy Scouts I helped make Eagle while I was a Scoutmaster.

485 Oh and y'all who think you're moving to other countries need to check their immigration policies. I believe we're the only country on Earth that still lets people in.

486 I say good for you, Andy.  If you can survive, do it. 

The USA is dead, now.  No hyperbole.  No screaming headlines.  Just dead.  Just awaiting a shovelful of dirt.

As Stephen King once wrote, "Death is when the monsters get you."  Well, the monsters got us.

487

@491

 

As a Long Island native myself, I can only urge you to do what my parents did when I was a kid - get out of there as quickly as possible.  My mom was one of 9 kids and my dad was one of 4, all of them Long Island born and raised in the '50s and '60s.  Know how many of those 13 still live on LI?  ONE.  One aunt never left.  The rest of them all got the hell out of there over the years.

488 ...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!"...

...and I'll look down and whisper "no."

489 I hope they all suffer unimaginably and I can't wait to laugh my ass off at the next round of Occutard bleating about how there are no jobs for them and they can't afford to repay their student loans. Reap it, motherfuckers.

That would be sweet, except you know damn well that the next step in the Grand Statist Plan is to absolve everyone of any and all student loan debt.  Wish I hadn't paid mine off by age 30 like the sucker that I apparently am.

490 Bear that in mind as we defund the military to buy Obama's voters phones. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 07, 2012 09:25 AM (IyKYr) My cousin's husband is USN for 17 years. And an Obama voter. He thinks this is wonderful. Here's hoping he is discharged soon and discovers exactly how 'wonderful' Obama has treated our military vets. I'll be sure to tell him 'hey, you got what you voted for'

491 And speaking of my dad - at age 62, having seen his business declining dramatically over the past few years, I'm afraid for him and mom, too.  They don't have much saved up (bad investments, unfortunately) and neither my sister nor I will be in much of a position to help them other than sharing a house.

492 Can I go on disability and stop working and get free shit from the government too?

Posted by: Donna V. at November 07, 2012 09:54 AM (7OHl

A couple years back, my father-in-law, a left-wing Obama supporter, stopped working and "lost" his house. And by "lost" I mean he stopped paying for it but lived there a good year and a half before they kicked him out. Then, he lived with us for a year. He then cashed in his life insurance policy for a pittance (which probably means that when he dies, we'll get to pay for all of his funeral expenses out of pocket) and moved out. Then, because of smoking, he got a lung infection that nearly killed him. Didn't quit smoking though. Now gets disability and other benefits to the tune of $1200 a month (this was his big goal in life - to get on disability. I wish I were kidding). Not a ton of money, but enough for him to live off of (although with the price of cigarettes, I'm not sure how). Oh, and I should mention that he also had two sons, my wife's older half-brothers, that he played no part in raising and paid little or no child support.

This is what we're up against. It's not a simple issue of winning elections; it's getting people like this to get off their asses and quit sponging off of others. And for many, it's a losing battle. I think there's more people like this than ever before in this country.

493 Right on on Andy. I AM DONE. I have paid and paid and paid. I worked hard and now pay more in taxes every year than I actually grossed only 15 years ago. And that's not enough? Well, fuck them. House went on the market last month, I'm getting liquid and getting out. I am not buying shit any more beyond my basic needs. Not one damn thing. I am not tipping, not giving to charity, not being nice. You want more from me? Well, the check is in the mail sweetheart. Let them have the economy and the lives they so desperately deserve. I have a escape plan that is well into the implementation stage and in less than 6 months I won't even be tied to America any more, and more importantly, neither will my money.

494 ... The rest of them all got the hell out of there over the years.

Posted by: radar at November 07, 2012 10:04 AM (zmlwq)

I think that's what turned Colorado blue from the opposite coast.

Californians move here to escape California.
Then they support Democrats and expect different results.

You don't sound like a liberal, but I will make the same assessment regarding people who've moved here from the East Coast, as well.  They're better drivers in the winter though, so they're harder to spot.

495 I've taken to reminding my sister how difficult things are for actual people in Obamaland.  Facts seem to be raining on her parade a bit. 

496 Amen.  And apologies for my over-confidence on winning VA.  I'm completely stunned.  He didn't even win Loudoun County. But I knew that if VA wasn't going Romney, we were screwed all the way down the line.

497 Dow now down ~200.

498

@501

 

I wish I could say the same - I'm still $20K in the hole on my pretty piece of paper in a nice frame, but unlike some people I have integrity and don't try to foist my debts on other people.  I'd benefit quite a bit from student loan forgiveness, but I sure as hell hope it doesn't happen.

499

H Badger : I'm thinking about Ozaukee too. I'm on the East Side now, surrounded by dolts. If I were a younger woman I'd start looking at jobs in a red state, but I'm not. My family is here - half conservative and half lib. Believe me, I will certainly be the first to rub their noses in it when things go to shit. Last spring, right before the recall, I expressed my fears about the state and the country to a very conservative young priest. He said the country and culture are too far gone, terrible times are coming. But the results of the recall gave me hope that America was waking up. Nope.

500 Alright, a lot of commenters saying they are going Galt or some variation thereof.  Been hearing that for the last four years.  Put up, or shut the fuck up. 

501 495  I can't wait to laugh my ass off at the next round of Occutard bleating about how there are no jobs for them and they can't afford to repay their student loans.

Posted by: radar at November 07, 2012 10:00 AM (zmlwq)

One positive out of this entire debacle is that their is going to be some fun left-on-left fighting over the next few years. Think Rahm Emanuel vs. Chicago teacher's unions, for starters, and expand that across the country. Meanwhile, I'll be laughing my ass off and reaching for the popcorn.

502 Radar,

Rock on buddy.  You and I will be decent people who own up to our commitments, even if we're the last people to do so.  I don't know about you, but I could have done just as well (or perhaps better) if I hadn't bought into all that hype about having the pretty piece of paper.  But I was 18 and stupid...sigh. 

503 That would be sweet, except you know damn well that the next step in the Grand Statist Plan is to absolve everyone of any and all student loan debt. Wish I hadn't paid mine off by age 30 like the sucker that I apparently am.

Posted by: Killface at November 07, 2012 10:05 AM (dr0xf)

The beauty of it is that we'll print money to help banks out with defaulted loans, encourage colleges to raise tuition, and nobody will even notice what's happening.

504 Posted by: radar at November 07, 2012 10:04 AM (zmlwq)

I am not even a native but I fear we are stuck here. My husband's job is not one of those pick up and go anywhere jobs (seniority) and the housing market still sucks. Shit writing that out has further depressed me and did I mention its snowing here and the lights just flickered. When is it socially acceptable for Mornettes to start drinking?

505 Mullaney: How much is your FIL's rent and utilities?

506 so, should I cash out my 401K, lets big government decide a "national pension" or investment in treasuries is a fair option

507 When is it socially acceptable for Mornettes to start drinking?

Posted by: Long Island at November 07, 2012 10:15 AM (EsJl1)

Now.  There's no judging here. 

508 I'm going to close up my business and go galt for a few years at least. No income, no taxes. F you all, libs. Enjoy paying for the welfare state yourselves. But the real problem here is worse than that. Our liberties are destroyed when the government run by corrupt politicians, kept in place by corrupt election officials, and protected from consequences by corrupt "justice" officials. It is now a permanent fascist state. You just don't know it yet. People are already being prosecuted for political differences, and thrown in prison for using their rights to free speech. It's already happening. Today. I despair for this nation, and thus for the entire world, which is going down in the flames of tyrrany. There is no other side to come out on.

509

Posted by: jwb7605 at November 07, 2012 10:08 AM (Qxe/p)

 

Nope, no lib here.  Both sides of my family were oddballs, as very Catholic Irish and Italian NY families who somehow ended up as staunch Republicans.  I can remember my mom's father (the Irish side) telling me how he quit the KofC because he couldn't stand the way they all worshipped JFK, who he loathed and my dad's father (the Italian side) still spitting mad 40 and 50 years later because his neighborhood paisans kept voting for the communist Vito Marcantonio just because he was Italian.  "Italian?  Who cares, the son of a bitch was a Communist!!!" as he told me.

 

Out of the 12 that fled, only two uncles, one on each side, are Donks.  One was corrupted by moving to California and the other is a political science professor, so both are easily explained.

510 Any entrepreneur who puts up money now to start a business or to hire additional people doesn't have the sense to run a business. It's over, man.

511 When is it socially acceptable for Mornettes to start drinking?

I don't know what the rules are for alcohol, but if you are in Colorado might I suggest a wake 'n bake?  If you can't beat 'em...

512 Tammy, I thank you for the kind words and encouragement. Truly I do. My few friends are all Christians from the middle of the "living it scale" on up. They understand what I've been through. They watched my step son destroy my second marriage to the "perfect wife" who turned 180degrees when her son did so she wouldn't "lose him". All the prayers in the world didn't help. 8 years of total emptiness now just going through the motions. Can't thank go for my friends out of fear he'll take them from me. Can't ask him to bless them out of fear he'll trash their lives too. Now, I have to get cleaned up and go get on a computer and look at all the jobs that wont work for one reason or another. Love each other fellow babies.

513 517 Mullaney: How much is your FIL's rent and utilities?

Posted by: Walkers! at November 07, 2012 10:15 AM (C4dFv)

Don't know. He lives in a small cabin. I can't imagine that his rent and utilities amount to much more than $500 a month, so he does have plenty to live on after that. And he does do some work here and there; he just has no intention of being a full-time employee. He's waiting until he can claim social security so that he can achieve his life-long goal of doing nothing.

514 Jane, I feel you. What to say to your son that begged us to get rid of this POS as he left for his 9th friggin tour. He's deployed now, and I can't quit crying. And his clueless cousins, the same. I'm ashamed of what we became. I don't buy the "christians" didn't show up because I am one, and have been a democrat over 35 years. But I saw my daughters friends on FB crying about the "thought of losing Planned Parenthood" oh the humanity. My daughter fought and fought with them, we gave the good fight. I'm at a loss what to do because I already know I just lost my job. My employer is a doctor who's been practicing over 39 years and was waiting, against hope, that he could continue with the POS out of office. He won't be! And I'm too old to find another and too young to retire. And right now, much to angry to think. I don't know where my son is, don't know what the hell he'll have to go through now and I'm tired.

515 519 When is it socially acceptable for Mornettes to start drinking?


Posted by: Long Island at November 07, 2012 10:15 AM (EsJl1)

Now. There's no judging here.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 07, 2012 10:16 AM (u0MHM)

Well then its bourbon in my oatmeal! That might not be so bad. I just made some with maple syrup, cinnamon and dried cranberries.

516 Looking closely: What sort of offshore tax havens are still around?
(Hypothetically. . .for pure informational purposes, of course).

Get a Canadian citizenship. Renounce your US citizenship.

Then invest off-shore, and move out of Canada, but keep your Candian  citizenship.

Canada still has sane tax laws. The rate is higher, but they don't tax you if you are not currently living in Canada, unlike the US where the IRS thinks you are still on the hook if you live abroad.

But do not move any cash until you are no longer a US citizen, otherwise the IRS will declare you a tax cheat and still a citizen, even if you have renounced.

517 My cousin's husband is USN for 17 years. And an Obama voter. He thinks this is wonderful. Man, I just cannot wrap my mind around that...

518 Well then its bourbon in my oatmeal! That might not be so bad. I just made some with maple syrup, cinnamon and dried cranberries.

Posted by: Long Island at November 07, 2012 10:22 AM (EsJl1)

I've got a Manhattan in my hand as we speak.  I had to good sense to schedule today as a telework day.

519 Aaron, oh my god dude, you wouldn't believe how much I regret going to college.  If I hadn't gone I'd be right where I am today, only without the debt.

520 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 07, 2012 10:25 AM (u0MHM)

Well then ... Cheers!

521 It completely blew my mind that VA went blue, especially since people have been complaining for years about the state's ridiculously high taxes. The weird thing is this: when it came to farms, (most) wineries, and local businesses (you know, the kinds of people who actually work for a living) there were very large Romney, Allen, and Wolf signs as far as the eye could see. It was either run-down shacks of the dependent class and the hyper-expensive McMansions or trendy townhomes of the latté leftists that sported Obama/Kaine/whoever was running against Wolf signs. I think the latté leftists fleeing DC's taxes and urban decay has driven them off, so now they move out to the hinterlands but try to "civilize" it...by turning it into yet another expensive leftist hellhole and wonder what went wrong by repeating their mistakes elsewhere. It would be awful nice if they just moved to Europe. They'd clearly rather be there anyway.

522 The beauty of it is that we'll print money to help banks out with defaulted loans, encourage colleges to raise tuition, and nobody will even notice what's happening.

Posted by: Ben Bernanke at November 07, 2012 10:15 AM (Qxe/p)

 

One of the things I can't figure out about the left is why they have trouble with the idea that increased government funding for higher education along with guaranteed student loans have fueled the increases in tuition. Sure, it's a bit counter-intuitive (but not really that much when you think about), but what alternative theory do they have? That a bunch of greedy left-wing university administrators and faculty members are fleecing the students (there may be some truth to that, but I wouldn't expect lefties to believe that). Apparently, to the party of science and reason, tuition is just magically getting more expensive. Not much can be done, I guess, but have government pay even more.

523 Oh boy, the egg is on my face. Finally save up enough to get a first house, meeting with the realtors tomorrow in fact.

TFG wins. Figures, right?

524
   I refuse to be ashamed of my country--the shame rests on those who have done such harm to her.

   I feel sorrow for those who selflessly serve her yet, despite all that has happened.  Know that at least one  will never desert you.

  And I will continue as always, doing my best for this land and my family. 

   There is no other course open to me, because I AM an American.

525 Yea, capital strike writ large. Bread and circuses. Overall we have the American Idol political system.

526 Well then ... Cheers!

Posted by: Long Island at November 07, 2012 10:27 AM (EsJl1)

*clink

527 Donna: I hope you're able to get out of that part of the city...its the part I want to go up in flames first

528 F. the evangelicals if they were the ones sitting this one out. Lets see how their divine inspiration has worked out for the country: - Romney's a mormon and Ryan's a catholic, so I'm sitting this one out - result - Obama re-elected, and every radical leftist prescription you detested from the last 4 years is now set in stone - what will the next 4 years bring? - Akin's a bible thumper, so I'm pushing for him to remain the nominee after he manifested his IQ of 40 and blew up his campaign (that complete asshole Huckabee carries this stain forever, he pushed Akin to stay). Result - senate stays in D hands, prospect of limiting the damage from another Obama term reduced significantly as Reid again allows Obama to circumvent the House; - Mourdock's another clueless dick, after witnessing Akin's self-immolation, decides that it looks pretty good to him. Another lost senate seat... I see dumb people everywhere. This was a totally avoidable loss. America deserves what is coming, and hard. (don't get me started on that Jersey Judas, or Senator Cornhole's super awesome NRSC plans, or Boner's wasting of the tea party momentum...)

529 So we wait till the dividends are paid before we sell?

At any rate, we sell before 12/31 as TFG is going to increase the taxes on capital gains. It won't bring in any more revenue, but it's "fair."

530 we'll get to pay for all of his funeral expenses out of pocket No, you really don't. This is the kind of thinking I don't understand. Why pay for his funeral??? If you're too soft to leave his body unclaimed, cremate him or go bare minimum. No embalming, and there is a casket about the consistency of an egg carton that is very cheap. But I'd cremate him. Graves are expensive. Then again, like I said, no way in hell I'd pay a dime towards his funeral.

531

Wild Ride Ahead: while I agree that Akin is a fool and Mourdock stepped in it, the bigger fools by far are the women who voted with their ladyparts. Planned Parenthood and abortion matters more to people than the fiscal cliff we're headed off.

Well, the youngsters will really need those abortions and BC, because it's not like they're going to be able to afford having children. Maybe that's good - they won't pass their stupid on to another generation.

 I've regretted not having children. I don't now.

532

As the "Steward of Gondor" once said: "...RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

 

To Do List 11/7/2012:

1. Order more ammo for existing guns

2. Buy more guns

3. Move additional funds offshore

4. Take down two ads for additional help in my business

5. Cancel Blue Cross Health Plan for remaining employees - send 'em into the Obama-care abyss. The savings will go to my heirs right now.

 

You can tell I am frustrated and angry - but I had this list made out weeks ago just in case. It's a matter of click click click....

 

533

Lessons learned in this election:

1. Keep social issues out of the discussion and off the table.  How'd that work out for Akin, Mourdock and the dozens of state initiatives? They all went down in a heap of rubble.  If a candidate mentions one social issue, drop 'em with no explanation and no apology.

2. 2014 Mid-terms Campaigning strategy = go negative, go nasty, go early.  Shock the media with how blatantly nasty you can be. Rub their noses in every gaffe, every vote, every decision, and every 'Benghazi'. And when they scream 'foul', smile and kick 'em in the groin. Don't bring a gun - bring a bazooka to the knife fight.  

534 What will a balanced budget look like if the House refuses to vote a higher debt limit? What gets cut?

535 the bigger fools by far are the women who voted with their ladyparts. Planned Parenthood and abortion matters more to people than the fiscal cliff we're headed off.

I tweeted about this a bit this morning. Obamacare is going to lead to forced abortions: the whole concept is "don't waste community resources on the undeserving", and who deserves less than babies who are born imperfect, since they can't work in the gulag and support the collective? 

After mandatory amniocentesis ("free prevenative care"!), the "right" to abort will become "encouraged" to abort; will become "all right-thinking women abort" will become law.  It's the trajectory of the smoking bans, and same justification--your selfish insistence on exercising your non-existent "right" to give birth harms the collective, so they get to choose for you.

At some point, you watch the government kill the grandbaby your daughter *wanted* to mother...and you brought it on yourself, because you wanted free birth control.

536 [Update] Apologies if this is too ranty. I'm just pissed at the idiots that are stealing my hard-earned money.


Not ranty enough. Moar, please.


I have another message.

Fuck. You.

And fuck you. Not because I dislike you, or anything, but because I need to say 'fuck' a lot. Fuck.

537

Turning this into a stampede of people heading for the last lifeboat on the Titanic is not going to help.

Yes, we got punched in the teeth and kicked in the balls last night. This happens.

I assume few of you are Civil War historians, but I'm thinking of the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Probably one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Western Hemisphere since Cortez took Tenochtitlan, but only surpassed that fall by Antietam in the Eastern Theater.

It was a bloody meatgrinder for the Federals that first day. Sherman went to find Grant that night. He found him standing out in the dark, under the shadow of the river bluff, smoking one of his ever-present cigars out in the rain.

Imagine that. Thousands of your men are wounded and dying within earshot over in the field hospital. It's dark and raining. You aren't sure where the rest of the enemy army is, or know if you have enough left to win the next day.

Sherman, usually a man of few words, said "Tough day today, Grant..."

The equally taciturn Grant puffed his cigar, then said "Yeah. Lick 'em tomorrow though."

We smeared the other side in '84, edged them out in '00 and '04. And the fuckers keep coming back. Pull it together. We'll lick 'em tomorrow. There's always a way.

Does this mean I don't suggest laying a few supplies by? No. Do I mean you should have some plans and training? Yes. Do I mean you should network with your friends for more than just vague ramblings about "the zombies?" Yes.

But we'll lick 'em tomorrow.

538 544
As the "Steward of Gondor" once said: "...RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

To Do List 11/7/2012:
1. Order more ammo for existing guns
2. Buy more guns
3. Move additional funds offshore
4. Take down two ads for additional help in my business
5. Cancel Blue Cross Health Plan for remaining employees - send 'em into the Obama-care abyss. The savings will go to my heirs right now.

You can tell I am frustrated and angry - but I had this list made out weeks ago just in case. It's a matter of click click click....

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 07, 2012 11:06 AM (EGPJQ)

Well, #'s 1 & 2 FOR SURE!
#3 - Let it burn...

539 This post expresses how I feel.  I'll be damned if I'm going to work harder and donate more so that the other half of the country gets its free stuff.

540 Well, in a bit of bright news, I hear the IRS is hiring.....
 

541 Yeah - I'm there.

I'm a fan of history.  History demonstrates time and again that nations will rise, become dominant and then ultimately go into decline.  The arc of a nation...  I've wondered on and off over the last 20 years or so where we were on that arc.  I believe that last night we blew past the inflection point and are now on the decline.  And we, the American people, made the conscious decision to do so.

I did not ever believe I would see it in my lifetime.

There are now more of them than there are of us.

542 I'm with you. I said last night that all of a sudden, things I would have considered out of bounds are no longer out of bounds. I'm done with the stealing. I will take measures to protect what I've earned. This feeling of lawlessness is new to me. I hope the other side enjoys what they've started. The whirlwind, bitches. Reap it.

543 I just deleted friends that I have had a long time, that I love from FB. They're txting like crazy saying Im so hateful. What about the hate they supported? the misery coming our way? Smiles, kindness....and a knife in the friggin back. Am I wrong? I can't deal with it anymore.

544

Andy,

 

I might consider divorcing Mr. Coyote just to keep Uncle Sugar out of our pockets. That's how much I hate the "free shit" generation.

 

When all you hipsters out there want to know how to grow a garden, dig a well, or pluck a chicken, I will gladly tell you to kiss my ass.

 

The Wisconsin senate race sums it up for me. Vote for an openly gay woman with zero qualifications over a former governor who wants to rein in out of control spending? Fuck you Wisconsin, and the horse you rode in on.

545 burning is no longer a choice. I wish I had assets to leave with. If you've ever talked to a second generation american, half the time you'll hear this: my dad came over, became a janitor, saved every penny, now he owns 3 homes. If people leave to start over, that's what they'll have to do. Now, where is the new america? Where can I be free?

546 no longer a choice because it's gonna happen.

547

 

Andy:

I heard comments like this from other person this AM.  The productive class will not be made Chumps by greedy citizens and power hungry political types.   They will change their habits and efforts.  Capital will flee or stand down.

For myself:  If I going to be poor, it'l be because I'm sitting in my backyard enjoying my life.  Not because I'm working hard only to have the money I earned taken by greedy neighbors & politictians.    I'm not the Work Horse in Animal Farm.  I am not a slave. 

I DID build what I have.  And I do NOT 'belong' to government.  What odious people these Democrats are.

 

 

 

548

 "  I have another message.  Fuck. You."

 

Yep, I'm there too.   Hey Dems:  You hate me, and disrespect me - well, back attcha.   You've earned my contempt, and you have it.  Fully.

 

 

 

549

"I might consider divorcingMr. Coyotejust to keep Uncle Sugar out of our pockets."

 

If Obamacare is going to turn us into a nation of part-time workers, maybe the coming tax policy will turn us into a nation of divorcees.

 

 

550 They voted for $400 worth of food stamps instead of $80K Keystone Pipeline jobs. Fuck'em is right. I was hiring, now I'm hunkering.

551 Happy Birthday Andy! Kids, I am one of those incredibly energetic women who belong to every committee, volunteer my time and my money to causes and organizations that I believe in. THAT ends. Effective immediately. I have no mortgage. Paid in full. Drive a 10 year old car.Paid for. I have savings..everyone can now go to Hell. I am done.

552 "I'm just pissed at the idiots that are stealing my hard-earned money."

And you have every right to be.

553 52, 77 Exactly, Disney (ABC) & GE (NBC) are dead to me. I dropped Comcast cable (Warner, Universal and NBC) this morning and stopped Hulu+ (NBC) Viacom (CBS) owns Westinghouse, Simon & Schuster, Showtime, MTV, Paramount pictures and amusement parks. Our public libraries are full of excellent material that doesn't earn the entertainment industry residuals., and we've already paid for it. They have DVDs, games, audiobooks, CDs, magazines and of course; books. I've dumped all our magazine subscriptions too. Fuck 'em.

554 I'm late here, but good to see you Mortis! [wave]

555 It is time to choose sides!

I have been on the side that got up and went in to work, remained lawful, paid my taxes, and gave to charity.     I must now modify that.

Realize that taxes are not money.  Taxes are in reality are hours out of my life.  The receivers of the dole are stealing my life.  The receivers of free stuff are stealing my life.  It is not about dollars, it is about hours out of my life........ So, until each and every adult in this country is getting up in the morning and contributing hours out of their life, we have 2 teams.  Those that get their lives stolen and those that steal the lives. 

My plan:
No longer buy products from blue states.  Foreign if necessary but not blue.
No longer buy union made products. 
No longer willingly socialize with libtards.
No longer give to any charities except maybe directly to those on my team that need it.
No longer subscribe to any media populated with libtards. (movies, NPR, news channels, etc)
No longer purchase products that are anti-american in deed. (I am making a list, any assistance will be appreciated).....maybe Ace can post it.

As we go over the cliff it is get serious time.  It is time to choose sides.

556

I am angrier than I have ever been and I am determined to do all I can to never give Obama or his idiot voters one thin dime. No more spending on clothes, movies, restaurants, Starbucks coffee. No money to any charity that might give to Obama idiots. Pirating whatever I can to make sure leftist companies do not prosper. No more friendships with Obama idiots. They will reap what they have sown 100 times. I pursued the Hollywood dream for a while. Now I can't stand Hollywood and will do everything I can to destroy it.

With that said, i would love to see someone start a blog on how to go Galt, how to remove our money from the system and prepare to ride out the fall of our nation. Anybody know of one or willing to start one?

557 I agree with the "let it all fall down" philosophy.  I'm tired of working to have them take so much of it and it impacts my quality of life.  Worked hard for a long time, very hard.  Earned everything on my own.  Now Lizzie Borden Warren and Barack "you didn't build that" Obama feel it is their right to redistribute my hard earned money and savings.    Have always gladly paid "my fair share"....never ever ever did anything even loop holey....now going to hire a tax lawyer and an accountant and I'm going to make sure they know I won't pay one penny I don't have to pay. 

The Church didn't stand up, no more money to them.  No more money to the Red Cross, learned they come with chocolate and cookies and a tent that says red cross.  No more money to the salvation army, where were they?  They should also consider where the FEMA money goes.  Where were they?  Almost feel like these "organizations" are ways to redistribute money to send to the political party in power and to give major huge salaries to their executives.  No more being nice to teachers or government workers (except cops, firemen and the military)  I'm giving them a hardy FU anytime I am forced to deal with them.

We should as a country take away all "non profit" status.  You're a business, you profit, you pay.  Even churches and religious institutions

Oh, and since this is my first post having been cold and in the freakin dark for 9 days, FU Chris Christie, you'll never ever, never ever, have my vote ever.  Paul Ryan was a rising star. Not anymore.  Romney ruined that.  He'll be forever tainted by this election.  .          

558 I have been refining my ideas in what I feel I need to do. There are still some worthy causes to support. Local, very by our bootstraps charities. Just my time. NO more riding to the rescue with a check. Let others do that, I am saving every dime. I am not buying anything that I do not have to for The next 4 years. NOT so much as a pair of socks. SCREW IT. I have enough stuff. Clothes, books, movies, music.....I can think of things I want....but nothing I NEED. No more gifts. No more $150 on flowers when someone dies. Notes. Handwritten andfrom the heart for congratulations or condolences and everything in between. THIS the America my friends on the left want? THEY GOT IT. It will suck at times, but that is the way it is going to be.

559 The fire rises, brother!