Tag: politics

I’m not entirely sure why this is a surprise to anyone

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Long story short: White people run Gwinnett County, despite it being “the most diverse county in the (American) Southeast.”  Apparently, this is perceived as problematic to many.

When I worked for ScumTrust, ScumTrust really wanted to get their foot in the door with the mythical untapped wealth that was contained within Hispanic-American communities all across their foothold.  It was believed that Hispanics had a very limited number of financial institutions that they could reliably trust, and that there were thousands of Hispanics that alternatively, sacked cash away in pillowcases or plastic barrels buried on their properties.

Eventually, ScumTrust acquired a reputable Hispanic bank chain, and it was my department’s job to produce Spanish-language versions of just about everything we already had in order to market to the wealth of Hispanic customers that they wanted.

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I wonder what’s going to happen to ISIS on Archer?

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Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the situation in Iraq; how coincidentally after U.S. troops have been gradually withdrawn from the country, an Islamic extremist group has emerged and is taking over territories with threats that they’re going to take over Baghdad soon.  A real Charlie Wilson’s War kind of story, where American presence leaves, and shit hits the fan, or something like that.

Naturally, there are large contingents of people quickly blaming Obama for it, because it’s just so easy to blame Obama for everything wrong with the entire world much less the United States, but, if I may get political for one rare second, I don’t.  I don’t blame Obama, I don’t blame Republicans, nor do I blame Democrats or anything.  This is just one of those scenarios, where, and I help but feel that I can’t be the only one who feels this way, is to simply think “fuck Iraq, let them deal with their own bullshit.”

I mean seriously, it’s a country, a region that’s beyond trying to help, and I’m long past thinking that it shouldn’t be America’s responsibility to try and rehabilitate an entire country that simply does not want to be changed from what they are.  Changing them just garners more resentment and more resistance, and it escalates into more and more violence and death.

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Ozymandias, you’re our only hope

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You won’t find a lot of political speak on my brog, primarily because I simply do not care about politics.  Typically, this ambivalence remains in place until it actually begins to directly affect my bottom line.  I’m not going to pretend like I know the facts behind it, but after tomorrow, it actually will be doing such, and that’s all I really know.  Due to whatever Obamacare or what name it has/will have, it appears that I’ll have to re-configure my health insurance coverage to be kosher with the guidelines in place with Obamacare, lest I be fined.

It’s funny, because I put a great deal of work into trying to keep myself physically well-conditioned and exercise on a regular basis, so that I don’t have to rely on the need for excessive medical coverage.  And it seems like that’s kind of becoming irrelevant, due to the fact that it’s becoming mandatory that all people are supposed to be covered, or else they’re monetarily penalized.

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What political enthusiasm really is

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I don’t think I really became that cognitive about presidential elections until 2004, when it was John Kerry versus George W. Bush. I never really cared, nor do I really have that much care today about politicians, but it’s safe to say that when I turned 18 in 2000, I was still in a state of not giving a shit about the world, and didn’t bother voting then.

I didn’t vote in 2004 when it was John Kerry versus George W. Bush, because I drug my feet after moving down to Atlanta and didn’t bother registering to vote in the state of Georgia. I didn’t vote in 2008 when it was Barack Obama versus Sarah PalinJohn McCain, because I was just plain negligent, and I was working freelance, and honestly the two hours of wages I would have lost out on to take time to vote were more important to me than voting in a state that would win red pretty much no matter what.

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Political irony explained by marketing

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Typically, when it comes to the topic of politics, I tend to keep my opinions to myself.  For the most part, I’m pretty ambivalent about politics, but I have recently been accused of “looking like a liberal,” whatever that means.  But truthfully, I don’t really care that much; if that makes me an irresponsible American, then I’m an irresponsible American.

But anyway, I saw this sticker on a pickup truck (naturally), and it really got me thinking: why would a sticker bother to show the President Obama logo at all in a piece of attempted smear paraphernalia?  It doesn’t mention at all, what would be taking Obama’s place on January 20, 2013.  It is going to be Mitt Romney?  Ross Perot?  Predators?  Cthulhu?

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