Sunday, October 7, 2012

The Catastrophe


The Obama Debate Disaster

"The worst thing that ever happened anywhere."


Like the Arab-Israel Conflict. Yeah, that bad.
Known in Arabic as al-Nakba (Arabicالنكبة‎, "The Catastrophe") 



The doggie bites back.
Few experiences in life are more unsettling than to see your deepest beliefs shaken like a Rottie with a Beanie Baby between its teeth. Immediately one is struck by how insubstantial and vulnerable our beliefs can be: how effortlessly reduced to bits of fluff and sprinkled velour when they impact reality and are shredded as lies. The realization brings the catastrophic, crashing question: what NOW?

Yes, kittens, what now?

Watching Obama's performance on Tuesday night has understandably sent out seismic waves of shock and existential despair through the liberal community. For people who invest not just their intellectual principles, but their MORAL CHARACTER in politics, discovering that your man is truly not just an empty suit, but an empty chair, has to be one of the most epiphanous experiences possible.

So what now? There is no "what now." Sorry.

The very question, "what now?" is predicated on the notion (I love using that word. It's Obama's favorite.) that there is a possible response to the event that allows you to maintain your original assumptions. "What now?" assumes that there is still a way to save your man, your beliefs, your own moral character, your view of the world and its possible future.

There isn't.

Obama is an empty chair because his ideas are empty. Leftist ideas are not just wrong - they are false. They are lies. History has allowed it to fall to the hapless Obama to show the world just how empty and devoid of intellectual substance leftist ideas really are. Until now, the ideas of leftism -- at least in this country -- had had the bountiful good fortune of the world's most robust economy on which to parasitically posture their moral superiority. All the promises of utopian egalitarianism seemed rather harmless amid the rough and tumble vibrancy of a country that had set men free of the demands that one's uniqueness be subordinated to another's equality.

Okay. Lets. Shall we?


Not likely to be a Tea Partier.
The left loves to insist that they "celebrate diversity". It's a central tenet to their moral view of tolerance and acceptance. But the honest celebration of diversity creates something anathema to the left. Economic inequality. So the left does not celebrate TRUE diversity. The left celebrates individual deviancy. 

The left defiantly holds up a mirror to the values of the right. The right embraces moral and cultural unity to foster an environment in which individuals can pursue their individual dreams without society descending into dysfunction and dependency. The left, in contrast, defies and destroys cultural unity, allowing people to engage in behaviors that are destructive, dysfunctional, idiosyncratic, and which often result in economic and emotional dependency. 


The right celebrates cultural unity and economic diversity. The left celebrates economic unity and cultural diversity. The lefts' view of the world is not just backwards, it's upside down as well. In order to believe in leftism, one must first believe that the business of life is not business, that cultural activity and economic activity are unrelated. To the left, life is not production and creation, but indulgence and immediacy. In their world the need to produce is recrafted into servitude and slavery; the idea of PROFIT, the excess of production, becomes synonymous with greed and brutal, immoral self-interest. This belief forces one to be in conflict not only with the "business" of business, but with the business of life itself.


It is not really a surprise, then, that when faced with a man like Romney, who understands what you create is a measure of who you are, Obama looked like an empty chair. A leftist discussing economic policy with a businessman is in dangerous territory to begin with, but a leftist with no demonstrable understanding, appreciation or RESPECT for the individual diversity of free people acting in their own self-interest is reduced to posturing and petulant smirks. Obama's contempt on that stage was not just for Romney or his tax plan. It was for America and freedom. Obama's lack of answers was not because he is stupid, it was because his ideas are stupid. Obama, like all those on the left, does not believe in creation. He believes in redistribution. He does not believe in production; he believes in confiscation. This is to believe in nothing. Theft is an empty promise.

What we saw on stage Wednesday was simply the absolute truth of what leftism is. It is an empty chair.

UPDATED!

Wow. I took all this time writing this crap and Roger L. Simon said pretty much the same thing, only better.

I should just quit. I ain't getting paid anyway.  HAHA!

28 comments:

  1. Wow. I took all this time writing this crap and Roger L. Simon said pretty much the same thing, only better.

    Nope, similar theme but this was a really excellent post. Bravo!

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  2. Thanks, RG. You're sweet. Bu I spent all day writing it and it wasn't FIVE MINUTES after I posted it that Simon's article came into my email box and I read it and just said, "Well, shit. I'll never have an original idea in my life! I can't even have my idea a day or two apart from someone else."

    HAHAHAHA! I'd like to think it's a "great minds think alike" thing, but it's more like "remards never come up with anything new" thing.

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    1. Sweet I may be, it's a curse, but I'm also right. I'm confident that when some other commenters show up they'll say the same thing, hopefully with greater eloquence.

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    2. Buttercup, hon, the Calculus was invented by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebnitz independent of each other. They were both original thinkers. You and Roger Simon both had the same idea independent of each other. Just as there are some differences between Newton's and Liebnitz's methods of calculation and notation, there are differences in your and Simon's articles. They both are correct. It is, indeed, a matter of "great minds think alike." Don't sell yourself short. Although you and Simon and a large number of other folks all see that Il Douche is an empty suit with an empty mind, aptly represented by an empty chair, we all see it just a bit differently. I would much rather you did not quit blogging, as you are much cuter than Mr. Simon. ;-)

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    3. you are much cuter than Mr. Simon. ;-)

      Yes...well...seems I can't help it.

      tee hee

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  3. I agree with RG. Simon's theme was similar, but he overstated his case: "Liberalism, his ideology, is economically indefensible. It doesn’t work. He had, in reality, no response when confronted by Romney’s positions. ... If Obama and/or his minions begin to think or realize that, they are really doomed. This will not be a normal election. Their world will be upended. But if they do continue and win, it will be even worse, because the country, and even Western civilization, will unravel quite quickly thereafter."

    There's not going to be an apocalypse if the empty chair is re-elected. It would continue to put a lot of pressure on our fragile economy, but it won't be the end of the world. The corollary is that Romney truly will inherit an economic mess. I'm sure the libs will try to hang the recession around his neck. You speak wisdom, Buttercup, the liberal/socialist/marxist theory is pure crap.

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  4. I wasn't even going to read the other article becasue I read YOU. If you say they are the same, well that is one less blog I would have to read, right? Because of the commentary, I did go read the other and my sentiments mirror the other commentors. Simon's was not just overstated, it focused on a single topic, yours is more pervasive and realistic. I think I will just continue with the blogs I read now, thanks.

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    1. Never let it be said that I want my best online buddies to abandon me! All you guys --- THANKS!

      It was just freaking weird that I had the same feeling as I watched that debate. That what we were really witnessing was the death of liberalism. For decades now it has postured and preened on the stage of history as the "smart guys' philosophy", and it could get away with it because it never had to answer for its failures. There was just so damn much money and latitude in this country that people could just get on with life and business, even when liberalism failed spectacularly, so, of course, liberalism never admitted to its failures. But we've run out of money and time and Obama is the schmuck when the music stopped. It stopped on stage Tuesday. HAHAHA! And the whole world got to see it.

      Empty suit. Empty chair. Empty ideas. Sweeeeeet.

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  5. Are you planning to live blog the VP debate, or did you arrange to be snarkily gravitasy elsewhere?

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    1. I can not believe how unlucky/stupid I am. I am flying that night I will be in the air. I am so ticked off I don't even want to go into it. Just freaking perfect.

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    2. Well, damn. Maybe next debate.

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  6. I think you did a great job, BC. Your post is free of hyperbole, and is merely a matter-of-fact statement that lays it pretty bare.

    I like to thing that in another, parallel universe, the absolute drubbing of Obama in that debate would cause many people to realize the error of their ways and wake up. Sadly, in THIS universe, far too many will continue to try and "polish the turd," and find any excuse to continue to support Teh One.

    Instead of "universe," maybe we should call this ours a uni-TARD. Hah! See what I did there!? I slay me.

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  7. 'history has allowed it to fall to the hapless Obama to show the world just how empty and devoid of intellectual substance leftist ideas really are.'


    Really? If the history of the twentieth century hasn't taught us that already; how will the hapless Obama? They'll just keep on going and next time back a more competent fascist.

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  8. Don't you dare quit!

    BY THE WAY and totally offtopic but I'm posting it so if others have iPads and read this, they might have input too, but: let me know if you can comment on your blog (from the public interface like readers have to use) with your new Precious. The reason I haven't commented here in a few weeks is because my Precious won't let me and I didn't have my laptop while traveling. Boo! I can type in a comment but then when I need to put in my name, etc, the windows lay over the comment and are all wonky and won't take any input.

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    1. Seems to be working for me. I was only sorta wondering where u were. Not really as I knew you were living it up state side maybe the browser you are using isn't capable with blogger? I can't read the comments on your blog from my iPhone. :( I can only comment from my computer on your blog as well. Weird.

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    2. Crap! I am even sloppier with this iPad keyboard than usual. Things could go straight into the toilet from here on out. Everyone better brush up on my deciphering skills!

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    3. Shit! Not MY deciphering! Their I give up.

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  9. Hahaha! This is why I love you.

    Okay well if you can comment from your precious, then I should be able to, too. I only tried it from the Dolphin for iPad browser - I don't think I tried from Safari yet. Duh. Probably shoulda done that first. Also it took me a good week to get good at typing on Precious. I thought it'd be easier because it's bigger but I was so used to mini-Precious (iPhone) that I freaked out with the big keyboard and spazzed all over the place. Anyway - over next 8 days while I'm on the road again, if I still can't comment, I'm just gonna tweet my rantings to you instead. You can't wait! I don't stalk you enough already do I? hahahaaa

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  10. OT, but, what would be the best way for Romney to deal with Obamacare? Solution 1: issue an EO that extends Obamacare Waivers to every man, woman, and child now living in the US, or to be born in the US. Solution 2: issue an EO that rescinds all of the previous Obamacare Waivers. When Obama's donors, when SEIU, UAW, and the other unions are informed that they will have to obey the law like everyone else, I expect the squalling will shatter windows in every major metropolitan area, and the Senate will no longer oppose repeal.
    I would like y'all's opinion on this matter.

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    1. Rescind the existing waivers issued by HHS. Probably can't do anything about any waivers that are actually written into the law. I think you can make a reasonable case that the criteria for obtaining one weren't clear so they're revoked pending the development of clear and consistent rules. Issuing a waiver to everyone would be a little too much like what Obama does with the President solely deciding which laws he will or won't enforce. Plus waiving for everybody would reduce the pressure to repeal the entire law and I'm not sure how much rot from other areas would be left behind if the law isn't actually repealed. Restoration of the rule of law is absolutely critical if we're going to have a healthy economy and non-tyrannical government.

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  11. Obama wasn't expecting to have to debate a leftist.

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  12. Re: Biden calling Ryan his "friend". Ryan should have used a line from the movie Zorro - The Gay Blade: "For me to be your friend, I would have to be not only careless, but stupid."

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    1. Bahahaha! Nice find, RG.

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    2. Isn't that the BEST? I showed that to my husband and he BUSTED out laughing --- and he's the silent type. Most I usually get is a little grin.

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