I was looking at a “YouTube” video and on the side panel it displayed all the responses to Trump winning the presidency the night of the election. I looked at the one for “The Young Turks” and listened to the comments that were compiled in a 14-minute video.
If you are a Democrat, please look at it (just Google: Young Turks Election Night) – this is your party in a nutshell. I never heard as much vile filth in my life concerning comments about the outcome during election night – from one of utmost optimism early in the night but as returns came in as polls were closing – to when it became abundantly clear Donald J. Trump would become our new president.
“The Young Turks” panel members were laughing and joking the election should be a landslide for former First Lady/Senator/Secretary Hillary Clinton. As they started it was a 98% certainty, according to polls, that Hillary Clinton would be the next president. Then it slowly eroded as the actual vote returns came in. When it was down into the 60% level, you could see the mood change from a jovial and joking atmosphere to one of concern and frequent outbursts of not believing what returns they were viewing.
Once a state was turned “red” for Trump, the vile words spewed from the panel. Speaking of how voters were so stupid, how the Democrat party put up such a poor candidate, to the Democrat Party is so over that everyone should resign from the Democrat leadership team of the party. That is putting it mildly; the actual words cannot be printed on this website.
If the tables were turned and it was all Hillary all the time, as it usually is on most news outlets of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN (Clinton News Network (all the time)), PBS, and others, they would be overjoyed and jumping up and down and snapping their underwear. I must admit, I loved the outcome, if only to show the media for the political hack jackwagons they are for the Democrat party.
When another state would be declared a win for Trump, members of The Young Turks panel would call the voters names, inciting hateful rhetoric, and swearing at the viewing audience. For a conservative, it was hilarious watching the meltdown of the Democrats. You know when states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Michigan vote Republican it is a clear repudiation of the last eight years and Democrat ideas. They are bereft of ideas and programs other than tax, tax, tax and spend, spend, spend.
The liberal cause is more than “progressive.” You notice any time a name such as “liberal” strikes up negative connotations, they just change the descriptor word for Democrat to another word (now “progressive”). It has changed from being for the little guy and working man to programs that achieve nothing. They are out of their minds in both ideas and movement, from the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy, to that of Marx and Stalin – out of control elitists, statists, and propagandists.
I don’t know why they just don’t take away the progressive curtain and just call it what it is – socialism bordering on communism. The nutjobs have overtaken the Democrat Party. Now, John F. Kennedy wouldn’t have a chance becoming a presidential candidate, nor would he even be elected as a lowly senator, based on his conservative views (lowering taxes raises more revenue for the treasury resulting in lowering of tax avoidance and more business activity).
We went through eight years of no growth, no jobs, and no progress. Obamacare, voted in completely on Democrat votes (not one Republican vote), has almost fallen under its own weight of a program the Republicans warned would happen because of the way it was structured and the illogical and outlandish predictions of success. Based on what?
The number of 8 to 14% of the U.S. population was said to be the amount of people without health insurance, depending on what news organization reported the numbers. If that was the case, it would have been much cheaper and more efficient if the government would have created a health insurance program for those uninsured. Instead, everyone had to be involved and suffer.
This is the Democrat way. Why go small when larger is better (especially when you’re spending other people’s money)? And let’s make sure it is so huge and all-encompassing that another huge bureaucracy is created and more tax money is sucked up to provide jobs, retirements, and insurance (of course, not Obamacare, the feds have their own insurance that YOU pay for). I would be all for Obamacare if all federal employees from the president on down would be on it too. But they know what a debacle it is, they don’t want it, but smile and say “trust us, you’ll love it.”
The rotting of America from within continues, but help is on the way. Hold on until Jan. 20!
Drain the swamp, eh? Why don’t you write about that, Ranger Rick, instead of hanging on an election that’s more than two months past. Yes, the national Democratic Party lost big due to their unpopular neoliberal policies, but your false dichotomy strawman generalizations are simply empty hot air rhetoric. The liberal progressives will restructure for the better, and the primary reason the right holds power in this state and nation at the moment is due to our gerrymandered districts. Michigan voted even more heavily for Democrats than Republicans in this election than in the previous, yet Republicans were still undemocratically able to grow their hold on our state legislature. Hillary Clinton is long gone–which to be honest moving forward, Republicans should fear and which liberals can celebrate–so stop writing about it. If you want to rehash the past, please inform us of the specific, itemized ways by which your life was directly negatively impacted over these past eight years by Obama’s presidency, and more pertinently, how Trump will rectify these specific wrongs. Lose the vapid rhetoric, and maybe lose the pseudonym too–pseudonyms are safe spots for snowflakes.
From one snowflake to another, I’m curious. As you state “The liberal progressives will restructure for the better”. So they will go from unhinged nutjobs (as Ranger Rick so aptly named them), to what…. Marxist/Communist nutjobs?. Come on Jake, you can do it, be a man and fess up, you are a Marxist and follower of Marx. If you loved Obama and his thoughts and policies, I can’t wait to see what they come up with for the next election in the next 4 years.
Here are just fifty that happened over the past eight years. If you would like more just ask. I understand the copy and paste method is acceptable as a former local educator uses it often. I am hopeful that President Trump (man that sounds good) will be able to reverse so many wrongs that were committed over the last eight years.
1) Because of Obama’s policies since he became President, 11,472,000 Americans have left the work force.
2) “Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.” — Mortimer Zuckerman
3) The number of Americans on welfare has hit record highs.
4) A record 20% of Americans were on food stamps in 2013.
5) The almost 11 million Americans getting disability payments is now approaching the population of Cuba
6) Our nation lost its AAA credit rating because Obama is spending so much money.
7) Not only was Cash for Clunkers a wasteful government program that “cost $1.4 million for every job it created and did little to reduce carbon emissions,” destroying the “clunkers” helped dramatically jack up the cost of used cars for the rest of the country.
8) After BP had a huge oil spill in the Gulf, Obama not only bungled the clean-up process, he slowed oil production from other companies that had done nothing wrong which led to higher oil prices.
9) Obama has helped drive up the cost of gas by blocking the Keystone Pipeline.
10) When he was running for office in 2008, Obama claimed that, “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” He lied.
11) Through 2013, the Obama Administration had imposed new regulations on businesses that cost 46 billion dollars a year.
12) Taxpayers lost 25 billion dollars on Obama’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. Chrysler isn’t even an American company any more. It’s now owned by an Italian company, Fiat.
13) When he was running for office, Obama called Bush “unpatriotic” for adding so much to the debt and promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Yet, the national debt is up 7 trillion dollars since Obama became President. That’s more debt than all U.S. Presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined.
14) Obama’s administration gave guns to Mexican cartels that were used to murder hundreds of Mexicans and border agent Brian Terry. The Obama Administration has refused to cooperate with the investigation or hold anyone accountable for that illegal behavior.
15) The NSA has spied on Americans under Obama.
16) Under Obama, the CIA spied on the Senate.
17) Obama’s campaign contributors at Solyndra were handed 535 million dollars of taxpayer money that the Obama Administration knew they would never be able to pay back before they gave it to them.
18) The IRS targeted Obama’s political enemies including Christian groups, pro-Israel groups, and most prominently, Tea Party groups. The Obama Administration has refused to cooperate with the investigation or hold anyone accountable for the illegal behavior.
19) Numerous donors to Mitt Romney were audited by the IRS after giving him large contributions.
20) When the EPA and IRS were asked to provide emails requested by Congress as part of an investigation into their illegal activities, they’ve claimed over and over again to have lost the information because of “hard drive crashes.” Given that it’s quite easy to back up a hard drive and that they’re required by law to retain that information, it seems likely that they’re habitually destroying evidence to hide their illegal activities.
21) Veterans received poor health care and even died because of the incompetence and cover-ups of Obama’s VA.
22) Even Barney Frank admits Barack Obama shamelessly lied to the American people to get Obamacare passed – and lie, he did. He promised that Americans could keep their insurance plans, that they could keep their doctors, and that Obamacare would save the average family $2500 per year. Not only were all of those lies, Obama knew they were lies when he made those promises.
23) Barack Obama has broken the law repeatedly by making at least 23 unilateral changes to Obamacare.
24) Obama has been illegally trying to force Christians to pay for abortifacients via Obamacare.
25) Obamacare has been a disaster that cost millions their insurance and sent health care costs spiraling into the stratosphere.
26) Obama is taking 700 billion dollars out of Medicare to put into Obamacare.
27) The website portion of Obamacare, healthcare.gov, was a non-functional disaster for months when it rolled out and Obama claimed he was completely unaware that there was anything wrong with it.
28) Instead of calming people down, Obama helped to turn Americans against each other racially be inserting himself into the Trayvon Martin case.
29) Obama created so much racial animosity by attacking the police when they had done nothing wrong in the Henry Louis Gates case that he had to have a ridiculous “beer summit” to try to undo the damage.
30) The Department of Justice failed to pursue a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panthers because they were black and liberal. Former DOJ official J. Christian Adams quit over the case and “accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.”
31) George W. Bush quit playing golf in 2003 because he didn’t want the mother of some fallen soldier to see the Commander-in-Chief out playing golf. He also said he thought playing golf during a war sent the wrong signal to the American people. Through June of 2014, Obama was up to 177 rounds and is on pace to play twice as much in his second term as his first term.
32) Obama chose tax cheat Tim Geithner to be his Secretary of the Treasury and then has had the audacity to spend his whole presidency pushing for higher taxes.
33) After promising to unite America when he was running for office in 2008, Obama has been the most hyper-partisan President in decades.
34) Despite the fact that Barack Obama claimed to believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman when he was running for President in 2008, his Department of Justice asked states attorney general to refuse to defend their states’ bans on gay marriage in court.
35) The Department of Justice has worked overtime to help increase voter fraud by fighting against voter ID. This is despite the fact that you need ID to buy alcohol, drive a car, fly on a plane or even to use Obamacare.
36) He’s the reason why countless Americans have been groped, molested and harassed by the TSA, even though agents never caught a terrorist sticking their hand down anyone’s pants.
37) He’s responsible for the dumbing down of our education system with Common Core.
38) We first landed on the moon in 1969, but because of Obama, we’re no longer even capable of going into space.
39) His servile bowing to other world leaders is embarrassing and un-American.
40) Barack Obama engaged in an illegal war in Libya without the permission of Congress that helped turn that country into an unstable basket case run by radical Islamists. How bad is it? America, Libyans and the rest of the world were better off with Muammar Gaddafi in charge. That’s how bad it is.
41) Radical Islamist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan “described himself as mujahedeen” and yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he murdered 13 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. The Obama Administration labeled that as “workplace violence” rather than admitting there was a terrorist attack on his watch.
42) He released 5 Taliban terrorists In exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
43) Americans died at Benghazi because Obama’s administration didn’t take their repeated requests for additional security seriously.
44) Russia annexed Crimea while Obama did nothing of consequence to discourage it from invading. That’s not a surprise for a President who is fond of throwing out “red lines” that don’t mean anything.
45) Obama’s premature pull-out in Iraq and foolish refusal to get a status of forces agreement in Iraq left the country vulnerable and led to the terrorists in ISIS taking over a large portion of that country.
46) Barack Obama unilaterally implemented the DREAM Act that Congress didn’t pass and illegally handed out work permits to illegal aliens.
47) Obama is threatening to bypass Congress and simply “legalize” millions more of illegal immigrants even though it’s illegal and unconstitutional and it hurts the American people and will further encourage even more illegal aliens to surge across the border.
48) The fence on our southern border was supposed to be completed by 2009. The Obama Administration has made it clear that it doesn’t intend to finish it during his presidency.
49) Barack Obama is deliberately creating a crisis on the southern border by refusing to deport illegal aliens crossing into our country.
50) For all practical purposes, Barack Obama has already unilaterally implemented amnesty in America because “at least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records” aren’t being deported.
Mr. Wilkins
John,
Very well stated, best outline of the 8 years of President Obama I ever read. President Obama is a socialist who ran the economy in the same way other socialist leaders like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao and the like. Give folks free stuff and they will love you. The problem with the Robin Hood philosophy of government is sooner or later you need to pay the bills and you have run out of the rich to take from.
President Trump now must pay the bills President Obama ran up. It is easy indeed sometimes fun to run up the credit cards hard to pay them off.
Again well said, thanks.
Where did Jake go? He wants wants facts, facts presented and he vanishes……….
C’mon now, there’s not exactly anything going on in this peanut gallery that could be recognized as critical thought, and I don’t think you posters are here to engage in any constructive dialogue. I had asked about how Obama’s presidency had specifically been detrimental *your* life personally. Your unsourced copy-and-paste point dump might make for an effective high school debate strategy, John, but again, it’s mostly hot air and conjecture–not many facts. I’m not sure any of you even read this list, and if you had, the level of cognitive disconnect is alarming. Without a doubt, Trump’s rhetoric and actions will make most of these “complaints” exponentially worse. I will respond to one thing: Obama was not racially divisive. If anyone found him or herself increasingly disliking different American cultures and pigments over these past eight years, that’s entirely on you as an individual. It’s not even worth anyone’s time to acknowledge you guys. If you had any integrity, you’d be moaning about Trump playing golf today and every day from here on out. Can’t wait to read about it in the next Army Bob / Ranger Rick piece, right after you guys chime in on that whole swamp draining thing. Army Bob, maybe you can also expound on your empty soundbite Robin Hood economic theory, and enlighten us all how the poor eventually end up with all of the rich’s money, since that’s literally what you claim. Maybe you can include some charts and graphs–you know, facts–that show the trends of economic inequality in the US over the past forty years, courtesy of those voodoo Reaganomics. (I hear Trump’s a big fan of the trickle-down.) Oh, and one last thing: Newsflash, the Cold War’s over. Thanks for the McCarthyism, though–the senility makes for a good chuckle.