Whitewing said:I see community organizing in OT's future. :lol:
Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government
By Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—With just one week to go until the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that billionaires are likely to retain control of the United States government.
The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, shows that the proxy candidates of billionaires are likely to win ninety-eight per cent of next Tuesday’s races, with the remaining two per cent leaning billionaire.
Although the poll indicates that some races are still “too close to call,” the fact that billionaires funded candidates on both sides puts the races safely in their column.
Davis Logsdon, who supervised the poll for the University of Minnesota, said that next Tuesday should be “a big night for oligarchs” and that both houses of Congress can be expected to grovel at the feet of their money-gushing paymasters for at least the next two years.
Calling the billionaires’ upcoming electoral romp “historic,” Logsdon said, “We have not seen the super-rich maintain such a vise-like grip on the government since the days immediately preceding the French Revolution.”
Andy Borowitz
The US is the only nation on Earth where it costs $4 billion to elect people with a 9 percent approval rating.
Oldtimer said:Andy Borowitz
The US is the only nation on Earth where it costs $4 billion to elect people with a 9 percent approval rating.
Oldtimer said:Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government
By Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—With just one week to go until the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that billionaires are likely to retain control of the United States government.
The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, shows that the proxy candidates of billionaires are likely to win ninety-eight per cent of next Tuesday’s races, with the remaining two per cent leaning billionaire.
Although the poll indicates that some races are still “too close to call,” the fact that billionaires funded candidates on both sides puts the races safely in their column.
Davis Logsdon, who supervised the poll for the University of Minnesota, said that next Tuesday should be “a big night for oligarchs” and that both houses of Congress can be expected to grovel at the feet of their money-gushing paymasters for at least the next two years.
Calling the billionaires’ upcoming electoral romp “historic,” Logsdon said, “We have not seen the super-rich maintain such a vise-like grip on the government since the days immediately preceding the French Revolution.”
I will admit it has rained more under Republican administrations, that was partially because they have had more administrations than Democrats. There is no less sickness, no less earthquakes, no less progress, no less inventions, no less morality, no less Christianity under one than the other. They are all the same. It won't make 50 cents difference to a one of you. Unless you're foolish enough to bet on it.
WILL ROGERS
As a young boy, I didn't know a Republican from a Democrat, only in one way: If some man or bunch of men rode up to the ranch to sit or stay all night, and my Father set me to watching 'em all the time they was there -- what they did and what they carried off -- I learned they were Republicans.
WILL ROGERS
The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year. A voter don't expect much. If you give him one good year he is satisfied.
WILL ROGERS
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
Will Rogers never met Oldtimer.
Whitewing
loomixguy said:You really think that if Will was alive today that he would have voted for a community organizer?
I have my doubts that the guy who puts urinal cakes in the urinals and mops up the splooge where they waller for a dollar at Wet Willy's would be stupid enough to vote for a community organizer.
Oldtimer said:loomixguy said:You really think that if Will was alive today that he would have voted for a community organizer?
I have my doubts that the guy who puts urinal cakes in the urinals and mops up the splooge where they waller for a dollar at Wet Willy's would be stupid enough to vote for a community organizer.
I thought rightwingers thought FDR was the epitome of socialist evil :???: Has Obama passed him now?
Will Rogers loved FDR- and even campaigned for him... And FDR's election was much like Obama's- they both were elected after a Republican President led the country into a Depression...
It would be interesting if Rogers would have been around long enough to see all of FDR's time in office- and what he would have thought after several years....
Brad S said:You clearly have insufficient capacity for the truth, OT, how did Hoover cause the depression or bush this mild recession?