Let's put all our cards on the table!
Oh hell. The minefields surrounding politics and political beliefs are so extreme right now it is basically impossible to dance. Anything and everything can be construed in some sort of anti-this or pro-that light and I am very proud of BeachGrit for remaining, more or less, untainted.
You don’t come here for partisan screeds, the rest of the media is doing a fantastic job filling that bucket. You come here, I’d imagine, for a few laughs, a few comments and to get away from partisan screeds for one God blessed moment.
But we also need to be able to step without exploding in leftist or righty rage.
Today’s Failure of Morality made me realize that politics are ever present and ever more present around the most interesting stories. That there is no escaping and so would you mind if I came all the way clean?
Wanna know what I believe, not that it matters?
O-fucking-K.
I got kicked off my high school newspaper for publishing articles that would make Breitbart blush including, but not limited to, “People who have AIDs deserve it!” (which I was appropriately fired for.)
When it was actually time to register to vote, I registered with the Green Party because my 18-year-old self found it hilarious that a political party was named after a color.
I’m still registered Green but only because my 40-odd self finds it hilarious that a political party is named after a color.
I think that Republicans are power-mad liars.
I think that Democrats are weak-willed liars.
I think the WSL is trying to sell a product that its ownership/upper level management doesn’t understand/doesn’t really want to understand.
Wanna go surfing tomorrow?
SO STOKED to hear your next book is on the middle east – can’t wait! Just please do me a favor and don’t write it in the present tense – I find those books exhausting. Incidentally – another great book I loved “Swell” was sadly written in that way – really it’s only flaw
For fuck’s sake Ben, just leave your comments on the board.
If you’re going to be bothered writing these little novels, why erase them?
I was hopeful you’d be brave enough to tell us if you vote pro-environment for Democrats or against the environment for Republicans. The whole they’re both bad argument is nonsense – that would be like calling both an arsonist and a fire fighter to your house – they cancel each other out because they are polar opposites. HOPE YOU MAN UP on BEACHGRIT and tell us WTF is up.
Ha ha slick Willy grabbing ass….color me not surprised. Interesting the folk who get so upset over Trumps alleged infidelities but gave Bill Clinton a pass for sexual assaults and affairs with 19 year old interns in the oval office. And very credible accusation of rape which the victim reported to at least 6 people right after it happened, unlike this farce we saw the last couple weeks. But Trump with ‘stormy’ 15 years ago…string him up!
One random last thing. The 8 years of Obama were 8 years of failure after failure, truly an awful president…the worst really (of course I know you things completely different…vive la differance).
Let me ask you this: Why did Obama and his justice dept. do nothing in terms of prosecution of high level financial guys for financial malfeasance which contributed to the crash (I say contributed because the genesis of it all was the Dems\left insistence starting in the 70’s of forcing banks to lend $ to people who weren’t credit worthy but were of a certain color. Learn about the community re-investment act. The private sector effectively poured gas on a situation that was created by government)?
During the great depression many went to jail for financial crimes. Obama did nothing at all…they all skated. And then he consolidated the biggest NY banks and let others fall. This is why Chase is on the west coast and prior to the crash had no presence here. Like all dems (perhaps Bernie different) he was totally in the back pocket of the banks. Funny how libs never bring this up. Obama was the best friend of big banks.
what an incestious look at the past.
Obama inherited the worst economy possible , when Bush handed the keys to the USA presidency , the economy was completely fucked ,10% unemployment, banks needed to be given $700B to survive , USA spending a $trillion pa on Iraq and Afghanistan ….
8 years later the economy is onfire , unemployment was at 4.8% when Obama left office and dropping , Bush/Republicans created the economic meltdown mess , Democrats fixed it……now tax cuts for the rich , and Trump ripping off the poor /disadvantaged and ethnic groups that are not white..in the name of a great Merika….
You sure are an ungrateful lot , and just reading headlines does not qualify you to be an expert!
Pale Māori
The longer I’m here, the more I am seeing it as a kleptocracy. Yet the populace seem not to really care. Little political fire here for real change. Voting is mandatory and there’s dozens of parties on offer. Murdoch ultimately controls things, as in the UK. Populist opinions controlled and spoon fed to the unthinking. Base-instincts, dog-whistles, religion etc.
Humanity can go fuck itself.
I hate it, honestly.
We’re alright in small groups but as societies, we are absolutely off our ass. What I’m saying is that a giant meteor used to scare me as a kid but now I honestly think it might be the reset button Earth needs. And we can all surf that last wave together to Oblivion!
So massacre people means …….is that just the merrycan way or humanity?
You wonder why 09/11 happened , with all the masacaring done in the name of being a War winner , and there was payback…..
what does Maori look like? Enlighten us.
I think that Ruplicans are lying fascist racists who don’t GAF about the American government’s historic dedication to freedom of choice, freedom of religion, and laws dedicated to equality, etc. They just want money, and they dont GAF about education, workers, the environment, health care, etc. They are dictators in red white and blue clothing.
I think that the Democrats are decent, open minded people who do GAF about the American government’s dedication to freedom of choice, freedom of religion, and laws dedicated to equality, etc. They also want money, but they do GAF about education, workers, the environment, health care, etc. Unfortunately they are too nice, and they have let themselves be defined as the Gay, anti-family, anti-religion, socialist party by the lying fascist racist Repupublicans. Democrats are truly patriotic and generally represent what is best about being an American:
Free public schools, social security, clean air and water, racial freedom, worker’s rights, and more affordable health care are all Democratic achievements.
The Green Party is cool, but smoke too much pot to be relevant.
As it stands, the world is about to be divided into 3 Mafia territories:
> Putin wants Europe and part of the Middle-East
> Xi Jinpin wants Asia and allot of Africa
> Trump wants North and South America, and part of the Middle East and allot of Africa.
Trump will turn his back on our EU Allies, because he is (allegedly) in deep with Russia.
People need to reject the greedy ambitions of Putin, Trump, Xi Jinpin, and dictators everywhere.
People need to get realistic here fast, and stop believing the GOP lies against the Democrats. We need to start voting for Democrats, get control of everything, and then start pushing the Dems agenda towards increasingly more progressive, environmentally woke agendas. Otherwise the world will be oppressed to levels that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were aspiring to, globally.
Did you know that in China, private citizens cannot own land?
Think about it: they are eternally slaves of the Chinese Mafia state. Russians are submissive cowards so deeply under the thumb of mafiosos they are afraid to ever change anything. Trump admires that kind of totalitarianism.
As for the WSL?
A great concept undermined by a misguided vision, an unqualified CEO, and a pathetic Judging staff. Done.
Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all anti-gun socialists. Careful what you wish for there guy..
I wish them Hell…
And I’m 100% certain that my wish has been granted.
Hades is stacked with murderers.
BRAVO! These are the substantive words I was hoping to hear from Chas
600’000 iraqi civilians , and there have been more suicides in the military than actual deaths in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan …….so the USA is still losing military men everyday!
How did uncle Sam go in Vietnam or against the Taliban ?
Do you think Trump merits the same ending as Saddam?
You’re a full left wing kook. I read one of your fist posts so I thought otherwise….must have mixed you up with a different poster.
I’ll just offer, Fox is it for Trump. EVERY other media outlet hates him and disses him non stop.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10…
You slay me with your 200 books (none half finished no doubt); clearly I have no business offering rebuttals to one who’s so read, but I’m hard headed….
Yeah Obama said “Fuck it” to a lot more than just the middle east.
I gave you NTY link which I figured you’d accept that as they loved Obama and his speeches like you. Which reminds me, you actually think he was the right guy because he was smooth and likable ( and ‘clean’ like plugs Joe Biden said)…a good speaker. That’s your qualifications for a fit leader? Wow. Yeah people like him because people are easily fooled. ‘He speaks so well he must be the man for the job…’ Don’t notice that he has never run a thing or held a job (flipped a burger, laid a brick) but traveled in left wing circles and ‘community organized’ and spent four years in the Senate. Those things should be disqualifying.
Your vitriol for your president speaks poorly of you as you come across as just another emotional crazed unhinged left wing academic type. Me? I don’t get emotional over your insults. Shoot, much of it’s (Trump’s past shenanigans) true….at least it was at some points during his life. But, unlike you, I don’t let emotion or love for past presidents cloud my vision. So I see clearly that this guy is doing a bang up job which is patently obvious to any fair minded person.
Know: N. Korea is denuclearizing this we’ve proven with my New York Times link
Know: Obama is responsible for ISIS (which Trump has mopped up).
Know: Trump will be re-elected in a route despite a fifth column media that knocks 10 points off his support.
N Korea , is just finishing their new Nuclear facility as the other one collapsed , Trump has been conned!
Trump has dragged the brand of the USA into the gutter , who could trust and/or respect a man who has been bankrupt x 4 , treats women like second class pussy’s , (including his wife) , has shown no loyalty to any of his staff, loves Putin.Kim Jong, Saudi dictators , made tax cuts for the rich , is homophobic , but the again the greed of the merrycan people want more , more greatness , more money , more better…we all know how this will end up!!!
Are they Speaker’s personal roses??
Those four lives mattered. Go fuck yourself Ben Marcus!
O and his buddies Geitner, Paulson and the Fed effectively doubled the national debt. It was 10 Trillion when he started and when he left just short of 20, biggest increase by a president ever.
Obama was the only president ever to never have a quarter > 3% GDP.
You applaud Obama’s handling of the middle east? You’re joking right? I was in Egypt last year and let me tell you nothing improved by allowing Mubarek to be taken out and Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) to take over. Current leader Sisi is better but they still haven’t fully recovered economically mainly as tourism took a major hit (they thank the Chinese tourists who kept coming). Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq effectively allowed ISIS to form and become a major world threat. Trump has cleaned up that mess as well.
N. Korea: https://www.nytimes.com/201…
He was a senator who served only 4 years of his 6 year term. Never ran a business or a lemon aid stand or even held a real job. How the fuck did he ever get elected? That’s right he was the right shade at the right time (you know what I’m saying is true). Dude was way over his head, wrong man at the wrong time….should never have been elected. But considering the competition (McCain) not altogether a shock either.
The opposite is the case; Trump is hated by the elite (financiers, Hollywood, media) and adored by the common folk. This is why he won. Consider this: Trump literally gets no good press (they hate him!) outside of one network. They don’t even report objective success (unemployment, stock market, etc.) it’s all Russia Russia ad nauseum. If Trump would just get mildly biased treatment (not even asking for fair) his approval rating would be in the 60’s. The non stop negativity from the media probably costs him between 10 and 15 points of support easy. Nevertheless, half the country knows this and just tunes out the press. He will be re-elected in a walk.
Yes.
And you hiring Hillary Clinton as your Secretary of State was a horrible fucking idea. Real bang-up job she pulled in Benghazi!!! First she sets up a US Ambassador to be assassinated by putting Ambassador Stevens in a “Diplomatic Outpost”, not subject to hard target security like a US Embassy, i.e. car bomb barricades, US Marines etc.. Then when shit hits the fan, she orders a US Air Force QRF Squadron less than 18 min. away to stand down. And when I say “she ordered”, I mean she ordered the Commander-in-Chief to make that order.
And yet record stock market, lowest unemployment numbers in memory. Companies coming back to the US in droves because of DT reducing stupid regs and threat of tariffs. Peace in N. Korea (yes they’re really de denuclearizing). This country was truly circling the drain under 8 years of Obama. Things are better now. He might be everything you said and more, but he knows now to run shit. And guaranteed he’ll win re-election in a landslide.