RE: Americans: How much do you approve of the Obama administration?
July 29, 2013 at 6:13 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2013 at 6:17 am by Creed of Heresy.)
I once approved of Obama. I thought he was a charismatic man, demure, humble, calm, patient, and efficient.
That was four years ago.
Nowadays I'm getting sick of the failed promises, promises that aren't that difficult to uphold. I'm getting real sick of where his rhetoric and political agendas are going. His second inaugural speech went from having me smiling to having me blankfacing to frowning in concern in a hurry. The moments where he began extolling the strength of America "coming from our military" immediately put me off; no, America did NOT rise to the status of a superpower because of our military, we rose to superpower status through economic liberty and power, our ever-adapting, ever-evolving cosmopolitan society, and our frontiersman spirit that drove us across the ocean, then across the plains, then the mountains, and to the west coast...and when we had nowhere on land to explore, we turned our gazes upwards and powered onwards into space, becoming the first country to land a man on the moon. Our space program was enormous and from it came a downpour, an absolute torrent of new ideas, new technological innovations, new ways of thinking about ourselves, our place in the universe, and our planet. Ultimately, I could say that NASA made us who we are today. NASA, the frontiersman spirit, our cosmopolitanism, and our economy.
Our military is NOT the reason for our success. We haven't had a real military victory since WWII. We've done nothing but fuck up over and over again. Even the 1991 Gulf War wasn't a victory; it was an intervention and the long-term repercussions are with us to this day. Our economy has been in the shitter ever since Reagan sent us spiraling into an uncontrolled debt crisis on both the administrative and private levels. Our space program, once the most vaunted in the world, has been completely deprived of any meaningful relevance, funding, and goals. Our education system, once one of the most advanced in the world, has fallen by the wayside as cut after cut after cut is made to fund more fucking useless military projects that will NEVER benefit the American people or anyone else for that matter. Our infrastructure, also the most advanced of its kind, has fallen into neglect. Our rail system, once the most expansive in the world, is now a barely-used joke. Our economy, once ever-growing, ever-expanding, has fallen to absolute stagnation as we ship factory after factory overseas with nothing new to replace it because, again, we're no longer innovating because our fucking space program is completely fucking grounded. Our government is in a budgetary freefall, but instead of cutting military spending and pork projects like that FUCKING USELESS F-35 JSF PIECE OF SHIT, we're cutting EVERYTHING ELSE!!
And now, instead of dealing with our economic, technological, infrastructural, and prospective concerns, Obama finds time to pose for a dozen photos ops a day and grandstands on issues that DO NOT FUCKING CONCERN HIM, like his bullshit with the media circus that's known as the Zimmerman trial. He continues to leave Gitmo open, he stands by and defends the most un-fucking-constitutional nationwide privacy invasion in US history, to such an extent that even the fucking Patriot Act was less invasive. He quietly signs the NDAA act that allows him and any future president to INDEFINITELY jail any citizen without warrant, parole, or legal aid on a mere CLAIM, and tries to sweep it under the rug (which he has largely succeeded in doing). He has authorized drone flyovers of US airspace, and for what fucking reason I have no clue. He refuses to acknowledge states rights when it comes to the trivial matter of marijuana, for fuck's sake, and continues to state that it deserves its place as being equal to heroin and meth in damage despite mountains of studies showing that is nowhere near as dangerous! He refuses to take any action that would hold Wall Street and the banking "industry" accountable for their borderline fraudulent practices and economy-devastating actions! He refuses to do anything at all besides smile pretty for the cameras.
I am sick of his administration. I want him out of power. I want someone like Senator Warren or Congressman Grayson to take charge of this country; they get shit done, and have plans, GOOD plans, for the country, plans that this grandstanding politicking moron we have in power simply does not have. He keeps trying to talk up renewable energy as our next technogical innovation angle. There's no demand for it, dude! But you know what WOULD drive up demand for, say, photovoltaic cells? GOING INTO SPACE. Yeah, start slapping them sumbitches on space-born craft as solar sails. Build a damn space elevator so we can build more fuel-efficient, nuclear-powered rockets and construct and launch them in orbit without worrying about enormous amounts of pollution! Get astronauts to Mars and start establishing a presence for research purposes, maybe even colonization of the moon and Mars! Peep that shit over on Titan and Deimos and Phobos! Increase the budget of Nasa by raising the budget by a penny on the dollar for every tax dollar spent! ENOUGH, Obama, with these half-assed feeble gestures that are hollow, meaningless, and in fact detrimental to our national health!
...That answer your question?
That was four years ago.
Nowadays I'm getting sick of the failed promises, promises that aren't that difficult to uphold. I'm getting real sick of where his rhetoric and political agendas are going. His second inaugural speech went from having me smiling to having me blankfacing to frowning in concern in a hurry. The moments where he began extolling the strength of America "coming from our military" immediately put me off; no, America did NOT rise to the status of a superpower because of our military, we rose to superpower status through economic liberty and power, our ever-adapting, ever-evolving cosmopolitan society, and our frontiersman spirit that drove us across the ocean, then across the plains, then the mountains, and to the west coast...and when we had nowhere on land to explore, we turned our gazes upwards and powered onwards into space, becoming the first country to land a man on the moon. Our space program was enormous and from it came a downpour, an absolute torrent of new ideas, new technological innovations, new ways of thinking about ourselves, our place in the universe, and our planet. Ultimately, I could say that NASA made us who we are today. NASA, the frontiersman spirit, our cosmopolitanism, and our economy.
Our military is NOT the reason for our success. We haven't had a real military victory since WWII. We've done nothing but fuck up over and over again. Even the 1991 Gulf War wasn't a victory; it was an intervention and the long-term repercussions are with us to this day. Our economy has been in the shitter ever since Reagan sent us spiraling into an uncontrolled debt crisis on both the administrative and private levels. Our space program, once the most vaunted in the world, has been completely deprived of any meaningful relevance, funding, and goals. Our education system, once one of the most advanced in the world, has fallen by the wayside as cut after cut after cut is made to fund more fucking useless military projects that will NEVER benefit the American people or anyone else for that matter. Our infrastructure, also the most advanced of its kind, has fallen into neglect. Our rail system, once the most expansive in the world, is now a barely-used joke. Our economy, once ever-growing, ever-expanding, has fallen to absolute stagnation as we ship factory after factory overseas with nothing new to replace it because, again, we're no longer innovating because our fucking space program is completely fucking grounded. Our government is in a budgetary freefall, but instead of cutting military spending and pork projects like that FUCKING USELESS F-35 JSF PIECE OF SHIT, we're cutting EVERYTHING ELSE!!
And now, instead of dealing with our economic, technological, infrastructural, and prospective concerns, Obama finds time to pose for a dozen photos ops a day and grandstands on issues that DO NOT FUCKING CONCERN HIM, like his bullshit with the media circus that's known as the Zimmerman trial. He continues to leave Gitmo open, he stands by and defends the most un-fucking-constitutional nationwide privacy invasion in US history, to such an extent that even the fucking Patriot Act was less invasive. He quietly signs the NDAA act that allows him and any future president to INDEFINITELY jail any citizen without warrant, parole, or legal aid on a mere CLAIM, and tries to sweep it under the rug (which he has largely succeeded in doing). He has authorized drone flyovers of US airspace, and for what fucking reason I have no clue. He refuses to acknowledge states rights when it comes to the trivial matter of marijuana, for fuck's sake, and continues to state that it deserves its place as being equal to heroin and meth in damage despite mountains of studies showing that is nowhere near as dangerous! He refuses to take any action that would hold Wall Street and the banking "industry" accountable for their borderline fraudulent practices and economy-devastating actions! He refuses to do anything at all besides smile pretty for the cameras.
I am sick of his administration. I want him out of power. I want someone like Senator Warren or Congressman Grayson to take charge of this country; they get shit done, and have plans, GOOD plans, for the country, plans that this grandstanding politicking moron we have in power simply does not have. He keeps trying to talk up renewable energy as our next technogical innovation angle. There's no demand for it, dude! But you know what WOULD drive up demand for, say, photovoltaic cells? GOING INTO SPACE. Yeah, start slapping them sumbitches on space-born craft as solar sails. Build a damn space elevator so we can build more fuel-efficient, nuclear-powered rockets and construct and launch them in orbit without worrying about enormous amounts of pollution! Get astronauts to Mars and start establishing a presence for research purposes, maybe even colonization of the moon and Mars! Peep that shit over on Titan and Deimos and Phobos! Increase the budget of Nasa by raising the budget by a penny on the dollar for every tax dollar spent! ENOUGH, Obama, with these half-assed feeble gestures that are hollow, meaningless, and in fact detrimental to our national health!
...That answer your question?
