Category Archives: Liberals and Conservative Americans

(Comic) Two Conservative Ladies #11

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Read the rest of the Two Conservative Ladies comics:

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TRANSCRIPT

 

Comic # 1

Lady #1: As a Conservative Christian woman I’m outraged that America is giving billions of dollars of aid to Israel to help them exterminate the Palestinians.

Lady #2: Don’t you mean you’re outraged that America is giving food stamps to workers who aren’t paid enough to survive?

Lady #1: Oh yeah. That’s what I meant.

 

Comic # 2

Lady #1: I absolutely love the idea of forcing people to pay for health insurance the same way we force people to buy car insurance. Mitt Romney was a genius for thinking of that. God, I wish he could have been president.

Lady #2: That’s exactly the same as Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Lady #1: Obama is a liberal Democrat, right?

Lady #2: That’s what he calls himself.

Lady #1: AAAGH! I hate forcing people to buy health insurance more than anything else in the world! …but I’m not going to complain about the care insurance thing.

 

Comic # 3

Lady #1: I hate the government and our political leaders so much I constantly advocate violently overthrowing them.

Lady #2: But do you support the troops who defend our government and political leaders you hate so much?

Lady #1: I’ll kick anyone in the balls who doesn’t support the troops. All praise be to them.

Lady #2: Okay, I’m not saying don’t support the troops, but yo do realize what a woefully confused hypocrite you are, right?

Lady #1: No. And I never will.

 

Comic # 4

Lady #1: I ride into the church parking lot every Sunday on a donkey just like Jesus would if he were alive today.

Lady #2: I didn’t know BMW made a car called “donkey.”

Lady #1: That’s what I call my 5-series model to make my husband feel guilty for not buying me a 7-series.

 

Comic # 5

Lady #1: I don’t support food stamps, accessible health care or raising the minimum wage.

Lady #2: So… how do you expect our workers to survive?

Lady #1: Hey, I didn’t make my fortune by giving a shit about the people who earned it for me.

 

Comic # 6

Lady #1: As a Christian I’m cringing at the upcoming war on Christmas we have every year nowadays.

Lady #2: I know I can’t believe how anyone couldn’t appreciate how the Catholic church lied about December 25th being Jesus’s birthday in a thinly veiled attempt at co-opting a Pagan holiday… or how Christmas is now one giant celebration of wasteful, selfish consumerism in direct contradiction of everything Jesus stood for.

Lady #1: God damnit. You’re not supposed to think about it that deeply.

Lady #2: Honey, that’s just scratching the surface. Don’t even get me started on Santa.

 

Comic # 7

Lady #1: We need to do something drastic about the single greatest cause of suffering and misery in this country!

Lady #2: You’re referring to unchecked economic inequality, right?

Lady #1: What? No. I’m talking about the gays.

Lady #2: Oh, yeah. I forgot about how they were making all those children go hungry.

Comic # 8

Lady #1: Since it’s Veteran’s Day I just have to ask, do you support the troops?

Lady #2: Fuck yeah!

Lady #1: Do you support the gays?

Lady #2: Fuck no!

Lady #1: So… what about the gay troops?

Lady #2: God damnit. Let me keep pretending they don’t exist and haven’t made countless sacrifices in my name while I deny them their freedom and dignity.

Lady #1 Okay.

 

Comic # 9

Lady #1: On this Veteran’s Day I’d just like to thank all the troops who protect our freedom.

Lady #2: And I’d like to thank all the police officers who beat the shit out of the Occupy Wallstreet protestors, locked people up with rapists and murders for smoking weed, fined them for not buying auto insurance, took away their property for not paying taxes, arrested them for drinking or peeing in public, frisked them at the airport and shot and killed unarmed civilians after breaking into the wrong house.

Lady #1: Are you being sarcastic?

Lady #2: …

 

Comic # 10

Lady #1: I just can’t stand how blatantly biased Fox News is and how it panders to the Conservative base promoting the Republican agenda.

Lady #2: Don’t you mean you hate how “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” often expresses a viewpoint you disagree with yet you overlook every instance where they criticize Democratic politicians?

Lady #1: Er, yeah. That’s what I meant.

Lady #2: That’s what I thought you meant.

Comic # 11

Lady #1: I can’t decide what I hate most about president Barack Hussein Obama…

Lady #2: Oh?

Lady #1: …whether he’s a commie socialist who wants to redistribute the wealth from the ultra-wealthy to the poorest of the poor or he wants to take away all of our guns.

Lady #2: Since he took office haven’t the rich gotten richer and the poor gotten poorer and nobody lost their guns?

Lady #1: Well, yeah. There’s that, but you still have to admit that he’s a poor-loving, gun-hating butt hole.

Lady #2: Uhhhh. I guess.

 

Comic # 12

Lady #1: I fucking hate how illegal Mexican immigrants can come to America and sit on their asses collecting welfare and enjoying free health care and being supported by hard working Americans’ tax dollars.

Lady #2: You mean the same illegal Mexican immigrants who work for 13 hours per day in scalding hot fruit farms for less than half of minimum wage and live in overheated conex trailers and can’t see a doctor for fear of being deported while paying sales tax on everything they buy?

Lady #1: Yeah, I’m talking about those entitled mooching ass holes.

Lady #2: Wow. If that’s your definition of an entitled moocher then what constitutes a justified hard worker?

Lady #1: Trophy wives like me.

 

Comic # 13

Lady #1: There are some people who don’t want science classes in public schools to teach that the first humans on earth appeared instantaneously in a magic garden in the Middle East guarded by a flying, flaming sword where they were tricked by a talking snake into eating a magic apple causing every subsequent human to have to slaughter animals to buy God’s forgiveness until God magically impregnated himself into a woman in order to come to earth to kill himself in order to forgive his children who he loves unconditionally. I mean, how arrogant and unscientific is it not to believe that?

Lady #2: Yeah, it’s just unbelievable that anyone wouldn’t accept all that as flat fact or want every child to e told that’s a realistic explanation of life.

Lady #1: I know, right? And since when did science have to be backed up by objective, peer-reviewed evidence?

Lady #2: It’s all part of Satan’s plan to keep us from giving all of our money to the church.

 


(Comic) Two Conservative Ladies #12

“Two Conservative Ladies” is a series of dark-humored, satirical, three-panel comic strips about two old fashioned women discussing modern Conservative talking points.

 

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Read the rest of the Two Conservative Ladies comics:

#1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Comic # 1

Lady #1: Oh my God. I hate what sheeple all liberals are. They just believe everything they’re told by the liberal media and hate on anyone who disagrees with them.

Lady #2: Oh yeah. No fan on conservative media would ever do that… ever.

Lady #1: Exactly. That just goes to prove why we’re better than everyone else and don’t have to listen to anyone.

 

Comic # 2

Lady #1: I hate how liberals are trying to make government bigger and interfere with our lives.

Lady #2: Oh, Lordy! Does that mean it’s morally wrong for us to use government to push our psuedo Christian beliefs on everyone else like we’ve been doing all these years?

Lady #1: No, dear. Because we’re the only people who’s beliefs matter in the entire world.

 

Comic # 3

Lady #1: I take it as a badge of honor that so many people on the internet disagree with me.

Lady #2: Have you ever considered that the reason so many people disagree with you is because you might in some way be wrong?

Lady #1: Not only no, but hell no.

Lady #2 Well, I suppose not listening to other people is a hallmark of intelligence.

Lady #1 Damn skippy.

 

Comic # 4

Lady #1: I believe in smaller government.

Lady #2: So you don’t believe the government should be allowed to say who can marry?

Lady #1: Obviously the government should have total control over that. I also believe in personal responsibility.

Lady #2 So you don’t believe in tax breaks for the rich or subsidies for big companies?

Lady #1 Hells yeah I believe in those things. I also believe in a strong military and police force… as long as they don’t try to take my guns.

Lady #2 So… you believe democracy means getting whatever you want and denying everyone else what they want.

 

Comic # 5

Lady #1: Unregulated capitalism is the only way the masses will ever have a chance at prosperity and happiness.

Lady #2: Yeah, but economic inequality is at an all time high in American society, and the resulting poverty is the greatest source of misery and hopelessness in the lives of the poor.

Lady #1: Bitch, don’t make me shout my premise louder until I drown out everything you have to say.

 

Comic # 6

Lady #1: If there’s one thing America stands for it’s freedom, and we shall fight against tyranny across the globe with our glorious military strength!

Lady #2: Did you know that with the help of the British, America stole the island of Diego Garcia from its inhabitants to build a U.S. military base on?

Lady #1: AAAAAAAAAAGGHH! Why don’t you support the troops, you Taliban-loving fuck wit!?

Lady #2 Jesus Christ, woman! I’m just pointing out…

Lady #1 What a freedom hating whore you are?

 

Comic # 7

Lady #1: There’s only one thing I hate worse than libtards, fags, niggers, atheists, Jews, Muslims, immigrants or protesters who aren’t members of the Tea Party?

Lady #2: What’s that, dear?

Lady #1: People who aren’t tolerant of my views.

Lady #2 How do you endure the pain of your oppression?

Lady #1 Shopping helps.

 

Comic # 8

Lady #1:  God, I hope New Gingrich runs for president again. He was such an inspiration.

Lady #2: That guy!? He was literally found guilty of corruption. He cheated on his third wife, who had cancer. And he ran for president on the platform that he was going to build a moon base. By what criteria was he a good person much less an inspiration?

Lady #1: By the only criteria that matters… He called himself a Republican and not a Democrat.

 

Comic # 9

Lady #1: You pretend to be President Obama, and I’ll pretend to be Congress.

Lady #2: Okay.

Lady #1: Do everything I say without exception or I swear to God I’ll shut down the fucking government! I don’t care how many people it hurts.

Lady #2 Uhhh. No.

Lady #1 AAAAAAAAAGH! You’re completely unwilling to compromise. It’s 100% your fault I shut down the government.

Lady #2 You keep using the word “compromise,” but I don’t think you know what it means.

 

Comic # 10

Lady #1: If we raise minimum wage then business owners like me will just raise prices, and nothing will change.

Lady #2: But letting rich people keep more money won’t raise inflation?

Lady #1: No, because when we have more money than we need we just horde it. Then it doesn’t go into circulation.

Lady #2 But doesn’t it stimulate the economy when more money is in circulation?

Lady #1 The only point of stimulating the economy is for me to make more money, and I keep it all as it is. That can’t happen if poor people can achieve financial independence and thus not be desperate enough to work themselves to death for pennies.

Lady #2 I’m sorry, dear. Explain to me again how you’re not just completely evil.

 

Comic # 11

Lady #1: America’s heroic military is committed to defending freedom and destroying tyranny wherever it rears its ugly head!

Lady #2: Oh, goody. So when do you think America will stop funding Israel’s extermination of the Palestinians and strong arming the rest of the world from stepping in and stopping the genocide?

Lady #1: …

Lady #2 Well?

Lady #1 I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention to what you were saying. I was thinking about this hilarious thing that happened on Duck Dynasty last night. Let’s talk about that.

Lady #2 *Sigh*

 

Comic # 12

Lady #1: You seem down. What’s the matter, dear?

Lady #2: Oh, I’ve just been feeling a bit guilty lately for hating immigrants so much.

Lady #1: Hey, no. Why would you ever feel bad about that?

Lady #2 Oh, I just feel a bit hypocritical since our ancestors were immigrants who came to this country and stole all the land and resources from the natives.

Lady #1 That’s completely different. Our ancestors conquered the natives in bloody warfare. See? They didn’t steal anything. They won it.

Lady #2 That’s why I love you, dear. You find the most creative ways to justify anything.

 

Comic # 13

Lady #1: I hate how Obama is using the N.S.A. to spy on us. Why can’t we go back to the way things were… when George Bush was using the N.S.A. to spy on us.

Lady #2: Ahhhh. Those were the days.

 

Comic # 14

Lady #1: What’s wrong, dear. You seem upset again.

Lady #2: It’s just that I heard that this guy, Edward Snowden, leaked a bunch of classified information about how the N.S.A. is spying on everyone. I mean, we’re talking dystopian level invasion of privacy here.

Lady #1: Uhhh. So what?

Lady #2 Well, I know Fox News told me to label him a hacker and a traitor instead of a whistle blower, but…. I don’t want to be spied on. And how can I love and respect my country when it doesn’t even respect my privacy?

Lady #1 Honey, you’re focusing on all the wrong things. All you need to take a way from all this is… Fuck Obama.


(Comic) Two Conservative Ladies #13

“Two Conservative Ladies” is a series of dark-humored, satirical, three-panel comic strips about two old fashioned women discussing modern Conservative talking points.

 

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Read the rest of the Two Conservative Ladies comics:

#1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Comic # 1

Lady #1: I watched an interview between Bill O’reilly and an atheist, and it got me thinking.

Lady #2: What did Bill say this time?

Lady #1: Well, the atheist pointed out how the first amendment says that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, but the American government clearly favors Christianity. So…

Lady #2: Aaaaagh! Christianity is a philosopy, not a religion. So the government is free to favor it.

Lady #1: Oh, so should churches not be tax-exempt, or should every philosophical organization be tax exempt?

Lady #2: Hold on. I’ll need a few minutes to think of a bullshit excuse to weasel my way around my blatant hypocrisy.

 

Comic # 2

Lady #1: I’m about to say something you might disagree with.

Lady #2: I’ve just labeled you a liberal. So anything you say is invalid.

Lady #1: That’s all it takes?

Lady #2: That’s all it takes.

 

Comic # 3

Lady #1: I heard these two homeless people complaining about how worried they were that the government may raise the minimum wage and lower taxes on the rich.

Lady #2: Really?

Lady #1: No. Not really. They were complaining about being homeless.

 

Comic # 4

Lady #1: I think Jesus would have wanted us to celebrate his birthday by buying our children piles of useless crap made in sweatshops and then lie to our children by saying that their gifts were delivered by a character from Pagan mythology.

Lady #2: Is that what Jesus said to do in the Bible?

Lady #1: Eh, who the hell has time to read that big book?

Lady #2: You know they made a version with pictures, right?

 

Comic # 5

Lady #1: You seem upset, dear. What’s the matter?

Lady #2: Oh, I was just thinking about how both Jesus and Yahweh resolutely approved of slavery.

Lady #1: Eh, that’s no big deal.

Lady #2: Isn’t it? I mean, what more proof do you need that the Bible is a work of primitive mythology that merely reflects the values of the culture that produced it and wasn’t in fact written by the creator of the universe?

Lady #1: From now on I’m going to make you put a quarter in a jar every time you think.

 

Comic # 6

Lady #1: Remind me again why we censor the reality of sex from children?

Lady #2: Because they can’t handle it. It would make their minds explode!

Lady #1: Is there any psychological research to back that up?

Lady #2: None.

Lady #1: We don’t really have any idea how to raise children, do we?

Lady #2: None.

 

Comic # 7

Lady #1: I just learned that it’s a recipe for economic inequality when corporations charge as much as possible for their products and pay their workers as little as possible.

Lady #2: Ugh, you sound like a college freshman.

Lady #1: Golly, it’s pretty sad that college freshmen are smarter than us.

Lady #2: Yeah, that’s not where I was going with that.

 

Comic # 8

Lady #1: It’s our duty to question the government and stand up against it when it becomes too big. Wait… do we have a president who calls himself a Democrat?

Lady #2: Yes, dear. For three more years.

Lady #1: Then I stand by my statement for three more years.

Lady #2: Your commitment to your principles is an inspiration to us all.

 

Comic # 9

Lady #1: I just hate how our government keeps redistributing wealth.

Lady #2: Really? You’re upset about how the rich keep getting bailouts, tax breaks and tax shelters while the poor keep losing social services? I thought you would have been happy to have the nation’s wealth redistributed upwards.

Lady #1: Hmmm. Would it be okay if I keep bitching about something happening when the opposite is actually happening?

Lady #2: Absolutely! I mean, it’ll only confuse people as to what’s actually happening.

 

Comic # 10

Lady #1: I’ve figured out how to reduce local city governments’ debts!

Lady #2: How’s that, dear?

Lady #1: By slashing public pensions!

Lady #2: What will the government spend the money they save on? Food tampss for the pensionless, starving elderly?

Lady #1: As Christ as my witness, one way or the other, that money will go to job creators!

Lady #2: Oh, so we’ll use that money to create jobs then, will we?

Lady #1: No. We’ll use it to line our already oversized golden parachutes.

 

Comic # 11

Lady #1: After a lifetime of watching our government screw up I’ve concluded that our two-party political system doesn’t work and is anathema to democracy.

Lady #2: What would you propose replacing it with?

Lady #1: A Republican hegemony.

 

Comic # 12

Lady #1: Minimum wage jobs were never meant to support adults financially. They’re really just for exploiting children.

Lady #2: What about the millions of cases where adults have no choice but to work dead end minimum wage jobs?

Lady #1: We ignore them.

Lady #2: That’s it? We just tell them, “Sorry you’re stuck at the bottom of an oppressive economic system. Sucks to be you?”

Lady #1: I don’t understand why you’re getting so worked up. They’re just poor people. It’s not like they’re human beings.

 

Comic # 13

Lady #1: Criminals don’t follow rules. So there’s no point making any gun control laws at all.

Lady #2: Don’t criminologists say that opportunity creates the criminal? And aren’t millions of gun deaths caused by otherwise good people who have been driven to unforeseeable desperation and just happen to have easy access to weapons of mass destruction?

Lady #1: Nothing you said is true. I should know, because I’m a gun expert.

Lady #2: Where did you learn so much about guns?

Lady #1: The N.R.A.

 

Comic # 14

Lady #1: I just hate that plaque on the Statue of Liberty that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore…”

Lady #2: What exactly do you hate about those words?

Lady #1: Have you seen our immigration requirements lately? The Statue of Liberty should read, “Give me your healthy, your educated and your rich. The rest of you can work in our outsourced sweatshops.” As it stands, the Statue of Liberty is one big, propagandist, hypocritical lie. If we’re going to be evil let’s be upfront about it.

Lady #2: My goodness. You actually have a good point there.

 

Comic # 15

Lady #1: I can’t believe the Pope is advocating fair wages. He must be the devil, because only devils hate capitalism.

Lady #2: I mean, didn’t Jesus himself go into the church and kick over all the beggar’s tables and redistributed their wealth to the tax collectors? He sure as hell advocated slavery. So according to God Himself, sweatshop workers have no room to complain.

Lady #1: The only thing you said that’s true is the bit about Jesus approving of slavery.

Lady #2: That’s enough to prove my point. The Pope is officially a piece of shit.

Lady #1: I’m going to have to start writing down a list of everyone we’re supposed to hate.

 

Comic # 16

Lady #1: America revolted against Britain because of taxation without representation. They just took our money, and we had no idea or say about what it was spent on.

Lady #2: …sort of like how America spends trillions of dollars on its top secret network that nobody knows anything about or can challenge?

Lady #1: Is a Democrat currently president?

Lady #2: Yes, dear.

Lady #1: Then, yes. Exactly like that.

 

Comic # 17

Lady #1: Black people tend to vote Democrat. So how can we make it harder for black people to vote?

Lady #2: What you’re suggesting is voter fraud!

Lady #1: That’s perfect! We’ll make them jump through unreasonable hoops under the guise of preventing voter fraud!

Lady #2: Firstly, don’t you feel any shame for being so Orwellianly hypocritical? And secondly, won’t it be blatantly obvious what we’re doing?

Lady #1: Firstly, I live for this shit. Secondly, we’re completely unaccountable. So it doesn’t matter how blatantly despicable we act.

 

Comic # 18

Lady #1: You seem melancholy, dear. What’s the matter?

Lady #2: Well, I went looking for Jesus like you said to, and I finally found him.

Lady #1: And that’s making you feel down?

Lady #2: It’s just that ever since I found him he won’t stop guilt tripping me into giving him more money.

Lady #1: Yeah, he does that.

 

Comic # 19

Lady #1: What should our number one priority be while there’s a Democrat in the White House?

Lady #2: To make sure he’s completely unable to help anyone in need.

Lady #1: Right. Now remind me again how that doesn’t make us bad guys.

Lady #2: Oh, it does, but we don’t have to worry about that.

Lady #1: And why is that, dear?

Lady #2: Because we have no conscience.

 

Comic # 20

Lady #1: You seem upset again. What’s got your panties in a bunch this time?

Lady #2: The other day I noticed that the long hours and high stress I submit my employees to is burning them out and breaking their bodies.

Lady #1: So what? They’re disposable. Just throw them out int the streets and get new ones to burn through.

Lady #2: That’s what I’ve been doing, but now I have to pay disability and welfare for the people I’ve broken to the point of being unable to work.

Lady #1: Well, let’s just cut as many social programs as possible. Problem solved.


(Comic) Two Conservative Ladies #14

“Two Conservative Ladies” is a series of dark-humored, satirical, three-panel comic strips about two old-fashioned women discussing modern Conservative talking points.

 

Lady #1: Raising the minimum wage will only cause job creators to create less jobs. Lady #2: Why is that, dear? Lady #1: Because we're greedy fucks who only care about ourselves and would gladly kill a baby if we got an extra lobster dinner out of it. Lady #2: I don't suppose there's any point trying to argue the value of human life with you, is there? Lady #1: Not one God damned bit, no.

Lady #1: Raising the minimum wage will cause job creators to fire workers and create less jobs. Lady #2: So... by not paying our workers enough to live on we're actually doing them a favor? Lady #1: Exactly! We're causing them inhumane and unnecessary levels of fear, degradation and suffering out of the goodness of our hearts. Lady #2: Oh, goody! Now I don't feel unbearable guilt for destroying any chance of them living meaningful lives. Lady #1: And I don't feel any guilt for selling them the euphoric substances that help them cope with their oppression.

Lady #1: AAAAGH! I hate how the liberal media is demonizing rich people for underpaying their workers and overcharging their customers! It's so unfair. It's like they're holding us accountable for the unconscionable economic inequality that we've blatantly caused by exploiting the poor. Lady #2: Just ignore them and hope there isn't a God who will hold you accountable for the untold misery you've inflicted on humanity. Lady #1: I am God.

Lady #1: What's the purpose of government? Lady #2: To provide for the needs of the people and help them succeed and make the most out of their lives, of course. Lady #1: Which people? Lady #2: The rich, of course. Lady #1: Of course.

Lady #1: Nothing makes me madder than government spending. We need to cut it at every corner possible! Lady #2: So should we eliminate all the government jobs in your home state? Lady #1: Heavens no! Our economy depends on those jobs. Lady #2: So how do we cut costs then? Lady #1: By eliminating pensions for all those government employees.

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Read the rest of the Two Conservative Ladies comics:

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TRANSCRIPT

 

Comic # 1

Lady #1: Raising the minimum wage will only cause job creators to create less jobs.

Lady #2: Why is that, dear?

Lady #1: Because we’re greedy fucks who only care about ourselves and would gladly kill a baby if we got an extra lobster dinner out of it.

Lady #2: I don’t suppose there’s any point trying to argue the value of human life with you, is there?

Lady #1: Not one God damned bit, no.

 

Comic # 2

Lady #1: I’ve got this book that conclusively proves how wrong libtards’ ideas are.

Lady #2: Oh yeah. I read that book. All it did was state your pre-conceived notions as fact.

Lady #1: Exactly. That’s how objective thought works, right?

Lady #2: No, not at all.

Lady #1: Booyaz! I win!

Lady #2: I honestly don’t know what the hell is going on inside your head.

 

Comic # 3

Lady #1: Raising the minimum wage will cause job creators to fire workers and create less jobs.

Lady #2: So… by not paying our workers enough to live on we’re actually doing them a favor?

Lady #1: Exactly! We’re causing them inhumane and unnecessary levels of fear, degradation and suffering out of the goodness of our hearts.

Lady #2: Oh, goody! Now I don’t feel unbearable guilt for destroying any chance of them living meaningful lives.

Lady #1: And I don’t feel any guilt for selling them the euphoric substances that help them cope with their oppression.

 

Comic # 4

Lady #1: AAAAGH! I hate how the liberal media is demonizing rich people for underpaying their workers and overcharging their customers! It’s so unfair. It’s like they’re holding us accountable for the unconscionable economic inequality that we’ve blatantly caused by exploiting the poor.

Lady #2: Just ignore them and hope there isn’t a God who will hold you accountable for the untold misery you’ve inflicted on humanity.

Lady #1: I am God.

 

Comic # 5

Lady #1: I’m so proud of my bumper sticker I put on my SUV. It says, “Don’t listen to the liberal media.”

Lady #2: Golly, what would you think if you saw a bumper sticker that said, “Don’t listen to the conservative media?”

Lady #1: I’d say the owner of that sticker is a socialist fascist who wants to censor my freedom of speech. Then I’d leave a passive aggressive note on their windshield telling them what a freedom hating piece of shit they are.

Lady #2: So how is what you did any different?

Lady #1: The difference is that since I’m good, anything I do is good. And since liberals are evil, everything they do is evil.

Lady #2: Yes, that kind of thinking is the cornerstone of every Utopian society.

 

Comic # 6

Lady #1: What’s the purpose of government?

Lady #2: To provide for the needs of the people and help them succeed and make the most out of their lives, of course.

Lady #1: Which people?

Lady #2: The rich, of course.

Lady #1: Of course.

 

Comic # 7

Lady #1: Nothing makes me madder than government spending. We need to cut it at every corner possible!

Lady #2: So should we eliminate all the government jobs in your home state?

Lady #1: Heavens no! Our economy depends on those jobs.

Lady #2: So how do we cut costs then?

Lady #1: By eliminating pensions for all those government employees.

 

Comic # 8

Lady #1: Companies like McDonalds and WalMart pay their full time employees so little that they have to rely on food stamps to survive. What do you think we should do about that?

Lady #2: Eliminate food stamps.

Lady #1: I suppose that’s what it’s going to take to motivate those lazy bums to work more than one or two full time jobs.

 

Comic # 9

Lady #1: Corporations are people, right?

Lady #2: Right!

Lady #1: And giving handouts to people is bad, right?

Lady #2: Right!

Lady #1: So isn’t giving subsidies to corporations equivalent to giving food stamps to people who work full time but don’t make enough money to survive?

Lady #2: Must I remind you again that some people are more equal than others?

 

Comic # 10

Lady #1: What would you say if I told you that I don’t believe it should be legal for black and white people to marry?

Lady #2: I would say that you’re a racist bigot with archaic ideas about marriage that are based solely on your personal biases as opposed to objective reasoning. Furthermore, I would make a categorical imperative out of others condemning your disdainable outlook.

Lady #1: What would you say if I told you that I don’t believe it should be legal for homosexuals to marry?

Lady #2: I would say that you’re standing up for your principles. You’re an inspiration to us all, and anyone who disagrees with you is a fascist who is trying to censor you, and they should be kicked out of America for being the freedom-hating butt hole that they are.

Lady #1: Funny how that works.

 

Comic # 11

Lady #1: I heard this guy, Glenn Greenwald, saying that both the Republican and Democrat parties are both controlled by the same financial contributors, which means that ultimately there’s really only one political party controlling the United States: the ultra wealthy.

Lady #2: AAAGH! Stuid libtards! Socialists! Fascists! Abortion! Homosexuals! Jesus!

Lady #1: So… that’s all you got?

Lady #2: That’s all I got.

 

Comic # 12

Lady #1: Socrates once said that to be a philosopher you need lots of leisure time.

Lady #2: Philosophy is like thinking, right?

Lady #1: Yes, dear.

Lady #2: Holy shit! We better never give our impoverished workers a moment’s rest!

Lady #1: That’s why I brought it up.

 

Comic # 13

Lady #1: I’m so glad I live in the land of the free. I’d never want to live in any of those oppressive countries where you can’t do what you want.

Lady #2: Speaking of freedom, remind me again why gays can’t marry in America.

Lady #1: Because I don’t want them to.

Lady #2: So that’s how freedom works? People are free to do whatever they want except for what you don’t want them to.

Lady #1: Yep.

Lady #2: That sounds more like the definition of…

Lady #1: Nope. It’s freedom.

 

Comic # 14

Lady #1: I’m building a new Statue of Liberty in Arizona that has a different plaque at the bottom.

Lady #2: What does the new plaque say?

Lady #1: I’ve replaced the inscription that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door…” with one that says, “You God damned, dirty immigrants aren’t welcome here, and if you’re not white you better carry your citizenship papers with you everywhere you go and be prepared to be harassed by the police at every corner.”

Lady #2: Well, it makes you sound a bit like a racist, xenophobic douche who has never read a history book, but I suppose it works.


Conservatives, Stop Talking About Overthrowing The Government

A sheriff in Lubbock Texas recently made a surprising comment “predicting” there would be a civil war in America if Obama were reelected. Not long after that a couple of American soldiers got caught plotting to assassinate President Obama. It didn’t surprise me at all that either of these events happened, and it worries me that I was so unsurprised.

The extreme conservative right has been beating the civil war drum since 2008, and what started out as a slow clap has finally worked itself up to a fevered pitch, and I blame conservative shock jocks and Fox News pundits almost entirely for this. They’ve been acting like fire and brimstone evangelical preachers this whole time. It’s just taken them this long to play enough hymns and preach enough sermons to get the conservative base worked up like a church revival.

I don’t know why they’re doing it, but I can see what the end result is. They’re poking a bear with a stick, and by “bear” I mean “millions of people who already own A LOT of guns and resent authority.” And by, “poking with a stick,” I mean, “feeding sensationalized disinformation to…” it was only a matter of time before a self-proclaimed Republican somewhere in America acted on what people had been thinking after watching Fox News.

The thing about that is, yeah, the American government is completely broken. That’s been front page news since we were born, but civil war won’t fix that. All it will do is make America turn its gargantuan war machine on itself and shoot itself in the foot. No group of Tea Part militia men could possibly defeat the U.S. military no matter how many shotguns and rifles they owned.

If a rogue group of battle-hardened veterans started attacking politicians, the American government would have to declare martial law on all of its citizens, which would needlessly inconvenience and infuriate an already stressed out, anxious, and fearful population. The worst consequence of even a small scale violent rebellion in the United States would be shutting down travel and business. That would stop people from working, getting paid, or buying goods. If roads were shut down or became unsafe to travel on, then consumer goods would stop reaching markets. Once grocery shelves ran dry, very few Americans living in suburbs or cities would have any way of getting more food except to fight their neighbors for it, and since there are so many guns in America, that’s a recipe for total collapse of civil order. Anything remotely resembling civil war in the United States is a lose/lose situation for everyone except America’s enemies. Anyone doing any saber-rattling is either completely detached from reality or wants America to lose.

The ironic thing about all of this is that there’s a perfectly sane, nonviolent solution to all of these problems built right into right-wing, conservative values. Conservatives, you want government out of your lives. You want to set the laws where you live. You don’t like handouts. You believe in hard work, fiscal responsibility, and fair compensation. And between the lot of you, you’ve also got a ton of money.

You could channel all of those strengths into butting heads with a bankrupt government that’s going through the death throes of an unsustainable empire while being bled dry by welfare queens and an unnecessarily huge and epically wasteful military… but you expect the American government to collapse if another Democrat gets elected anyway. So why not just let the government you hate so much die a natural death? Then you can be the first in line to pick up the pieces instead of being the first to drag yourself out of the rubble you went out of your way to create.

And let’s be honest here for a minute. If the Chick-Fil-A protest was any indicator of how prepared you are to put your money where your mouth is or endure hard times, then armed rebellion is not an option for you. You will fail, but if you know one way or another, America is heading towards its next great depression, then the most important thing you can be doing right now… is preparing for a great depression.

During Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, he raised over $500 million from conservatives, and all of that money got flushed down the toilet when he lost. Imagine how big of a trailer park you could build with $500 million. You could build a trailer park the size of Pecos County, and since Donald Trump is on your side he could Trump it up. With or without trailer houses, you could build your own conservative Utopia surprisingly easily in this day and age. Then all the godless liberals can go to hell inconspicuously outside your walls while you wait for the rapture securely inside.

If you build your own cities then you’ll get to do things your way there. If you design your city to be sustainable then you won’t be dependent on your government. The fewer people are dependent on the government, the fewer people the government can depend on in return. You can assert and enjoy your independence by simply living independently, but that means moving off the grid and building new infrastructure.

You might not want to move off the grid though. You might feel like you paid for the grid with your tax dollars and therefore it’s owed to you. Well, as true as that may be, that grid is broken and unsustainable. It’s a cash sieve. It’s a white elephant. The smartest thing anyone can do is move out of the suburbs and into sustainably designed, self-sufficient communities. If everyone did that then it wouldn’t be a problem when the old system finally dies from eating its own tail. Then we could all just pick up the pieces without having to fight each other over scraps.

On a final note, I just have to ask, was Jesus a builder or a fighter? If you want the world to be a better place then build a better world. That option is still on the table. In fact, the more violent and destitute America becomes the more you’ll wish you had built a sustainable world when you had the chance. If you ever get to thinking that you can bomb your way to a better world, just ask any Iraqi how well that works.

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An Open Letter To Conservative America

I’ve written a collection of comic strips called, “Two Conservative Ladies” that sort of pokes fun at conservative beliefs and behaviors. I say, “sort of” because the way I came up with all the comics was by visiting conservative internet forums and watching Fox News. Then I just transcribed what I saw there into comics that stripped away any pretense. If those comics come across as funny, it’s just because the behavior I witnessed conservatives doing is a joke in-and-of itself. Having said that, a lot of my “Two Conservative Ladies” comics aren’t funny. One person even told me that, far from being funny, they made him feel “disgusting.” I agree, the beliefs and behaviors those comics are transcribed from aren’t funny. In a lot of ways, they’re disgusting, even frightening, but the point of the comics isn’t just to be shocking. The point of making the comics is to raise the issue that conservative America is in dire need of an intervention.

It’s impossible to have that intervention without making some generalizations about conservative culture, but if you’ll allow me to make a few that are true enough to be worth saying, it’ll help you understand how the rest of the world sees you. Hopefully, you can use that information to take a critical look at yourself and recognize some areas you can improve in.

For what it’s worth, I should start by saying I was born and raised in the Bible Belt. I come from the deep, dirty South. I lived in a trailer. As a child, I believed country folk had more horse-sense than city slickers, and Atheists were evil. I was baptized in a Southern Baptist church when I was 17. I’m also a veteran. The point is I know where you’re coming from because you raised me.

I’ll be fair, I know your actions are motivated by good intentions, the best intentions. You believe Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, and on the third day after Jesus died he rose from the dead; His blood sacrifice atoned for the sins of mankind, and whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. Therefore, as Paul stated in the Great Commission, it’s every Christian’s duty to spread the word of the Gospel to redeem as many of God’s children from the broad path of wickedness that leads to the fiery pits of eternal Hell. Therefore, allowing homosexuality, Atheism, and every false religion to have an equal, protected (much less celebrated) place in society, would make you complicit in sin.

I get that. I also get why you’re so patriotic. I proudly stood up every morning in school, put my hand over my heart, and said the Pledge of Allegiance. My classmates and I even said prayers and thanked God that we lived in the greatest country on earth. I learned in school that the Founding Fathers forged the first nation in history built on the principles of truth, justice, freedom, and equality. Sure, America had a few blemishes in its history (like slavery), but we put our primitive ways behind us and evolved as a culture and a country because that’s what Americans do, and that’s part of why Americans tend to believe America is the best country in the world.

Americans do have a lot to be proud of. We did, in fact, build a world superpower from scratch. So in the small towns where I grew up we took it for granted that if the government would just let us have our freedom, we all formed strong families and didn’t complain when things got hard we could work our way through any difficulties life could throw at us; if every American just returned to their roots and embraced the beliefs and behaviors that built America in the first place then America could fulfill its potential once again.

When you lay out the reasons for conservative beliefs like that, it sounds so wonderful. It wraps up the whole world in a pretty package that gives you a sense of identity and purpose you can be proud of. It sounds so good, that anyone who disagrees with it must either be completely stupid or evil.

Unfortunately, as I grew older I came to realize this perception of reality is unrealistically oversimplified. Ultimately, it translates to the belief that whatever you’ve been doing is the only right way to do things, and whatever anyone else does is evil. This way of thinking isn’t the product of divine instruction or manifest destiny. It’s called being a cognitive miser; you just refuse to think about anything outside your preconceived beliefs. You reverse-engineer illogical excuses to dismiss evidence that conflicts with your biases, and the more your beliefs are challenged, the angrier you get.

I’m not saying this to be mean. It’s human nature. Everyone does it, but some cultures measure maturity by how little someone behaves this way; conservative America measures maturity by how much someone celebrates and defends this behavior. The reason some cultures view this kind of behavior as immature, is because it has objectively measurable negative consequences, and it’s immature to keep doing things that have negative consequences.

The best example of this is far-right wing conservative Republican Christian’s extreme hatred of liberals, or “libtards,” as they’re often called.  As proof conservatives hating liberals, tune into any Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly program. While those individuals only speak for themselves, they have a huge, loyal following. Conservatives tune into those charismatic personalities for the same reason liberals tune into “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:” to hear someone say the things they want to hear so they can have their biases reconfirmed. We can point fingers at both audiences and say they’re guilty of being cognitive misers, but that’s beside the point I’m trying to make just now. The point is there’s a huge population of conservative Americans who hate liberals, and you can prove that there’s some truth to this by looking at the ratings conservative shock jocks get for bashing liberals. Or you could visit any conservative internet chat forum.

The problem with bashing liberals is that liberals aren’t the problem; they’re a scapegoat. There’s no liberal agenda or conspiracy. There’s just a bunch of people in the world who don’t think the same as you, and that frightens you; and you respond to that fear with hatred, which is all you really wanted all along; you weren’t looking for logical solutions to the world’s problems. You were looking for an enemy to blame.

You can beat the liberal straw man to death for the rest of your life, and it’s not going to solve any of the real-world problems that are having real, negative effects on your life. If you go far enough down the path of blaming another group of people for all your problems you’re eventually going to end up gassing innocent people in death camps. That’s where that path leads, and I have no doubt that some of Fox News’ most loyal fans would love to repeat that failed solution to the world’s problems.

That’s not going to happen though, because the world is too small, and America is too diverse to let that happen. All liberal-bashing is actually going to accomplish is derailing all logical conversation about the world’s problems and thus enabling the continued existence and exacerbation of those problems. Even if that doesn’t lead to the collapse of modern civilization it’ll keep progress stagnated and trap millions (if not billions) of people in miserable poverty and oppression.

If you listen to your opponents, you’d realize you share the same hopes and values as most “liberals.” You’d also notice most Democratic politicians act the same as Republican politicians because all politicians only answer to their financial sponsors, and they all have the same financial sponsors. Indiscriminately hating politicians who call themselves Democrats and indiscriminately loving politicians who call themselves Republicans allow the overall political system to continue business as usual, and the businesses who sponsor politicians’ careers are in the business of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Your indiscriminate support of the upper class, aka “job creators,” as you’ve been told to refer to them as, isn’t making the world a better place. All you’re doing is indiscriminately supporting economic inequality. Indiscriminately opposing welfare, pensions, and social services isn’t making the world a better place. It’s making the poor poorer so that the rich can get richer, and that wealth isn’t trickling down. The only thing trickling down is the blood and tears of the poor who have to resort to more desperate measures to stay alive and enjoy a moderate standard of living. If you want to solve America’s problems you need to focus your energy towards fixing campaign contributions and lobbying that allows big businesses to buy a monopoly on political influence.

https://youtu.be/OpyHUnpRhjI

What’s not going to help solve America’s problems is oppressing everyone who doesn’t share the same values as you. If all sin were legalized tomorrow do you know what would happen? Nothing. Everyone would keep sinning at the exact same rate they’re currently sinning. The only difference is sinners wouldn’t have to live in fear of oppressive Christian laws. That… and we could actually focus on the real issues that are driving America to the brink of collapse.

Sure, in some ways allowing sin makes you complicit in it, but at the same time, punishing sinners puts you in God’s shoes. God didn’t make you judge, jury, and executioner. You were tasked with being God’s envoy’s not his right hand of judgment. To that end, your witness would carry more weight if you weren’t famous all around the world for dogmatically oppressing everyone within your borders who doesn’t think exactly like you while gleefully bombing people outside your borders who don’t think exactly like you. I encourage you to seek out people from other countries and ask them what they think about Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin and other conservative shock jocks. You may be surprised to learn that the entire world is either laughing at you, scared of you or they pity you. No outside, objective observers perceive you as the heroes you perceive yourselves to be.

It’s blatantly obvious to everyone but you that Fox News and all the celebrity conservative shock jocks who make a living off of bashing liberals are in it for the money and they’ll tell you any lie they can to make your blood boil, because the higher your blood pressure goes the higher their ratings go. The higher their ratings go, the more money they make. The conservative leaders you look up to treat you with complete and utter disrespect and contempt. They must hate you because you wouldn’t lie to someone you love and trick them into blaming all their problems on an innocent scapegoat while manipulating you into defending the real source of your problems with blind, dogmatic faith.

On one level, my heart goes out to conservative America. Sure, we have our differences, but we agree on far, far, far more than we disagree on. Plus, we’re all humans. We’re all stuck in this life together. We all have to share this world. We come from the same evolutionary tree. On every level, we’re brothers and sisters. It hurts me to watch selfish sociopaths manipulate you into hurting yourself and wasting your life fighting a phantom enemy.

 

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Right Wing Entertainment News Is Making America Worse

The 2016 Republican presidential candidate is Donald Trump, a racist, xenophobic, sexist billionaire with the maturity level of a child. His campaign slogan is “Make America Great Again,” and his plan to do that mostly involves blaming minorities for all of America’s problems. His platform is disunity, and his rhetoric takes this philosophy to a fascist level.

Republican voters chose Donald Trump over 21 other candidates because his message of race-blaming and fear mongering resonated with them, which has made the rest of the world ask themselves, “How can so many Americans be so naive?”

To be fair, Donald Trump took conservatives by surprise. His financial success and candor were a breath of fresh air from all the corrupt insider politicians they’ve come to distrust, but the more conservatives heard him talk, the more the educated ones distanced themselves from him and his message by labeling his most fanatical followers “the alt-right.”

Wikipedia defines the “Alt-Right” as: “A segment of right-wing ideologies presented as an alternative to mainstream conservatism in the United States. It has been described as a movement unified by support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as well as by opposition to multiculturalism and immigration. The Alt-Right has no official ideology, although various sources have said that it is associated with white nationalism, white supremacism, antisemitism, right-wing populism, nativism, and the neo-reactionary movement.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3B6L2fUA8

Look, everyone is a little racist. Our brains are wired to make generalizations and fear the unknown. Growing up in an isolated town in the middle of a giant country sets you up to hold onto your in-group and distrust outsiders even more. When you hear about outsiders doing bad things but you never meet any in person, it’s easy to blow their deeds out of proportion. These factors set Americans up to think like Trump, but the people who became the Alt-Right would never have drunk the Kool-Aid without coaching.

American conservatives have been indoctrinated with xenophobia by the right wing entertainment news industry. Its flagship is Fox News, where 47% of conservatives say they get their daily news. The next most popular conservative news sources include The Independent Journal Review, Breitbart, The Blaze, and The New York Post,  The most popular hosts conservatives tune into for news are Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage.

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There are thousands more outlets and personalities in the industry, and every one of them uses the same business model. They make their money selling merchandise, memberships, and advertisements, and the way they draw viewers in, is by appealing to their basest psychological instinct: fear. They inform the viewer there’s a major threat to their safety or way of life, and then dramatically blame the problem on a group of outsiders (including white liberals). At the same time, they appeal to the viewer’s desire for confirmation bias by celebrating and promoting conservative values like “personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense.”

These “news” organizations might claim they’re just giving their customer what they want, and it’s not their responsibility to censor their content. The problem is they go out of their way to construct a specific narrative and censor out information that contradicts it.

Creating the worldview they’re selling requires them to censor, bend and cherry pick facts, which they present using subjective and manipulative language. Presenting facts in a fair and balanced manner would be anathema to their business model. But by demonizing dissenting thought, they indoctrinate viewers to believe the in-group doctrine with cultish devotion.  By branding and selling ignorance as truth, they gradually and systematically warp the perception of their viewers until the Alt-Right narrative is so familiar to them they can’t see the world through any other lens.

No country has ever been made great through indoctrinating its population with ignorance. Right wing entertainment news has eroded America’s greatness by eroding the minds of impressionable Americans, and the popularity of Donald Trump just goes to show how they’ve succeeded at grooming the minds of America. As long as they’re steering the nation, it will remain on course to electing the next Hitler and/or igniting the next civil war.

America will never be great again until our information is great again.

 

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My Theory On Why Fox News Acts So Biased And Evil

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I recently posted a blog titled “My theory on just about every conspiracy theory,” which was twelve pages long. So I doubt many people read the whole thing. Towards the bottom of the list was my explanation of why Fox News is so crazy. The section is important enough that I decided to post it again here as a stand-alone blog.

The majority of conservative Americans get most of their news from Fox News, which claims to be fair and balanced, yet is bombastically pro-conservative, pro-Republican, pro-Capitalism and pro-American. It’s equally anti-liberal, anti-Democrat, anti-economic equality, anti-science, and anti-immigration. Fox’s news segments contain slander, logical fallacies, misdirection, false-flag scares, emotional hype, misdirection, and lies. This doesn’t happen because Fox is full of amateur journalists. Bullshit is the product Fox sells, and it has bullshit broken down to a science.

Fox news is so consistent in its agenda and dishonesty, it looks like there’ s a conspiracy among its leaders to create a civil war between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. It makes you wonder what’s really going on, and what’s the mastermind’s end game? The truth is easy to deduce if you look at the history of its founders Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.

Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia in 1931. He inherited a fortune from his father and spent the 1950’s and 60’s buying up tabloid newspapers in Australia, which he consolidated under a parent company, News Corp. In the early 70’s, he bought up the major tabloids in Britain and the United States, adding them to News Corp. roster of sensationalist, fake news magazines. News Corp. was convicted of criminal charges for corruption, hacking and stealing in all three countries.

Image showing all the tabloids owned by New Corp

Roger Ailes was born in America in 1940. He started as a production assistant at a local news station in Ohio, where he was promoted several times, earning him the credentials to produce a daytime television talk show. In 1968, Ailes became a professional political campaign manager. He managed Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns, and he advised George H. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

So Fox News was founded by an international tabloid kingpin who sells lies for a living, and the public relations manager of the Republican Party. When you put them together, you get sensationalist Republican propaganda with the journalistic integrity of a tabloid.

Basically, these two men pulled off a plan to create a television network that indoctrinates its viewers into basing their identity and beliefs on the Republican Party’s political agenda. This is corruption and treason at the highest level. It created a fake culture war that real people have died in. It’s driving the country to the brink of civil war. It orchestrated the launch of the longest war in America’s history. It’s the source of the war on science, which could destroy humanity, and it got Donald Trump elected president.

Why would two men do that? Are they trying to destroy the world? No. They’re just businessmen doing what they do. Rupert Murdoch wanted to sell newspapers and TV shows, and Roger Ailes wanted to produce TV shows. By teaming up with the Republican Party, Murdoch and Ailes got loyal customers, and the Republican Party got loyal voters. They all got a lot richer, and that’s what it’s all about.

 

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An Open Letter To Liberal America

I recently wrote a strongly worded letter to conservative America. So it’s only fair that I send one to liberal America too.

Unfortunately, as I pointed out in my previous letter, there’s no such thing as “liberal America.” It’s a catch-all term conservatives use to lump everyone they disagree with together so they’ll have someone to blame all their problems on. This makes it impossible to write a letter to liberals, but to be fair to conservatives, I really need to say something. So I’m going to hazard some generalizations. If you consider yourself a liberal, then all/some/or none of the things I say may apply to you. If something that doesn’t apply to you. then it doesn’t apply to you.

END OF DISCLAIMER

The first thing card-carrying liberals need to understand is, voting for Democrats will never make the world a better place. At best, it’s voting for the lesser of two evils, but neither Democrat or Republican politicians are accountable to their voters. They’re only accountable to their financial sponsors. Those are the only people whose interests are represented in the government. That’s why both Democrats and Republicans consistently pass legislation that helps make the rich richer and the poor poorer. That’s why if you write to your Congressman, your letter will get read by a young intern who will send you a meaningless form letter. Your political leaders don’t represent you. They just endure you. If you continue voting for Democrats because you think they’re going to change anything other than making the rich richer and the poor poorer, then you’re part of the problem.

This raises the question, “If voting doesn’t work then what can we do?” It’s been my experience that 99 times out of 100 when someone asks, “Yeah, but what can we do?” it’s not because they’re looking for actual solutions that they can put at the top of their priority list of things to spend their free time on. They’re saying it as an excuse to give themselves permission to throw their hands up in the air and quit thinking before they even started.

Let me ask you this, “What were you going to do?” Statistically speaking, you’ll probably spend less than 1% of your time or money on humanitarian or activism-related activities. You’re going to spend more time shopping, watching TV and looking for “the one” than you’re going to spend helping other people or trying to solve the world’s problems. You’re going to spend most of your time working for a business that makes the owner, C.E.O. and investors filthy rich while the rest of the employees drown in debt and worry.

Sure, you may volunteer at the recycling center on the weekends. You may plant a tree on Arbor Day. You might even have a recurring direct deposit to feed an African child. But you just punch your humanitarian time card enough to feel smug. The real guiding star in your life is chasing a higher paycheck so you can buy more shit you don’t need that was made in a sweatshop by a child laborer in India, Vietnam, China or any of the other countries America exploits for its human resources.

The 1% you hate so much are so fat because you’ve dedicated your life to feeding them. To the human beings who make all the cool stuff in your house that you don’t need, you’re the 1%. Your liberal beliefs don’t make you a part of the solution, because 99% of the time you don’t act on them. You spend that time being a part of the problem.

What can you do? Look around you. The American people are on autopilot. All they care about is eating, shopping and watching movies, and they’ll defend their arrogance to the death. America is Idiocracy. There’s no reasoning with these people. The best advice I can give you is to build a bunker and try to survive the apocalypse the American public is working so hard on bringing down on itself.

 

If you really want to do something productive with your life, here are a few other suggestions:

 

1. Donate to free online schools like the Khan Academy.

The world sucks because people are stupid. Enlightened, educated people translates into an enlightened society. If everyone in the world had free education they could all help themselves. Nothing will bring the world closer to utopia faster than free education.

 

2. Boycott the pop culture that’s making you dumber.

Turn off Jersey Shore and watch Stephen Hawking’s Universe. Turn off Lady Gaga and listen to an audiobook version of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” When you’re finished with that then ask yourself what the next most important thing you can possibly learn is. If you can’t figure that out then devote your free time to figuring it out. Keep learning the most important things in descending order until you die.

 

3. Educate others.

If you know something really important that other people don’t then devote your free time to telling people about it. The problem with the world isn’t that we’re talking too much and acting too little. We haven’t talked enough yet. If we’d talked enough about the most important issues then everybody would be on the same page and we’d all be ready to act in unison. We’re fractured because nobody knows what the hell is going on. If you’re not talking about the world’s problems, identifying their causes, figuring out solutions and advocating them then you’re part of the problem.

 

4. Don’t go into debt buying junk you don’t need.

Debt is slavery. If you’re a debt slave then you have no leverage to stand up for yourself. Spending your money responsible will free you. Of course, in a debt-driven, consumer economy we live in this will lower demand for products and thus lower demand for workers, and the whole system will break down. The solution to this problem isn’t to keep eating your own tail. It wouldn’t matter if there were no demand for products we don’t need if we lived in sustainable cities instead of unsustainable suburbs where everything is expensive as possible. Make your home and your city self-sufficient and you’ll free yourself from the fear of destitution that keeps you locked in a cubicle dying inside every day.

 

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What Should Republicans And Democrats Do About Trump?

Cartoon of a red and blue person fighting. Each person's body is made of red and blue states.

 

There are millions of Americans who identify as Republicans and Democrats so strongly they cover their cars with political bumper stickers and vote for their party in every election, regardless of who the candidates are.

The most extreme Republicans and Democrats effectively see life in America as a perpetual civil war between the left and the right. They’ve been stereotyping, slandering and blaming the other side for decades while acting like innocent victims after every round of mudslinging. Since the invention of the internet, the infighting has gone viral and grown more sensational and hypocritical every year.

It only took until 2016, for the far right and left to become so blinded by their hatred for each other, they voted for Godzilla and Lady Godzilla respectively. Both parties argued over which candidate was the lesser of two evils and then found ways to justify why their monster should be the leader of the most powerful country in history, but there’s no rational way to justify voting for a male or female Godzilla.

It’s illogical to blindly vote along your party line, make excuses for your candidates’ flaws, give your candidate the benefit of the doubt, obsess over your opponents’ flaws, or reflexively disagree with them. Yet these actions are par for the course in American political news coverage and voter behavior.

Americans want change, but they’re acting like street gangs who shoot anyone they see wearing red or blue. If you can see the absurdity in the feud between the Bloods and the Crips, you should be able to see the travesty in dividing American populace into two arbitrary groups that lump David Duke’s followers with Mother Theresa’s, and radical feminists with autistic atheist scientists, and then forcing those two groups to fight to the death for representation.. and then staffing the government with lawyers and CEOs regardless of the outcome of any battle.

Some Americans are so used to living in this dystopian bubble, it never occurred to them, the source of their country’s political drama is that the election/representation system is fundamentally broken. Others know it, and yet still vote anyway, hoping like a gambling addict, this time will be different.

Well, it’s official now. The 2016 election wasn’t a race, but the final breakdown of an obsolete vehicle. Every vote for Donald or Hillary amounted to nothing more than a vote to keep in place the system that nominates monsters. That’s all your vote means now, and unless you do something different, it won’t be worth any more in 2020.

The source of the problem is the existence of the RNC and DNC, but you’re not going to hear about that on television, because every major news network is owned by billionaires who lobby politicians and have insider relationships with the DNC and RNC. The TV and cable stations you’re watching now, are the same ones that normalized the 2016 election between Godzilla and Lady Godzilla, and have been profiting from selling all the conservative vs. liberal propaganda that has been dividing the nation since the invention of television. As long as Americans keep following these pied pipers, they’ll keep being led into nonsensical feuds against their neighbors. America can’t heal or think straight until it turns the television off.

As long as Americans’ lives revolve around getting screwed out of money by billionaires and complaining about politicians who work them, life will still fundamentally suck, whether or not there are guns, gays, Bibles, Confederate flags, abortions or American flags burning on every street corner.

Americans can go back to arguing over philosophy and religion anytime, but in times of life and death, you need to put abstract arguments aside and focus on survival, and 2016 is the year America handed Godzilla the keys to the economy.

The least Americans could do to prevent another Trumpocalypse is collaborate on the following goals:

  1. Boycott the RNC and DNC.
  2. Boycott major news organizations.
  3. Stop attacking the other side, and start asking each other what would work better than the current, broken election and representation process America has now.
  4. Find the smartest spokesmen from outside the DNC and RNC.
  5. Demand politicians be fired if they fail to meet performance benchmarks
  6. Demand political candidates have to pass an intelligence test.
  7. Demand political candidates have to pass a psychiatric evaluation.
  8. Demand the right to veto politicians out of office.
  9. Demand the right to veto any legislation or policy the government creates.
  10. Demand an end to superdelegates.
  11. Demand an end to the Electoral College.
  12. Demand an end to staged presidential debates.
  13. Demand mandatory drug testing for politicians.
  14. Demand an end to all lobbying and campaign financing.
  15. Demand to make corruption punishable as treason.
  16. Demand total and publicly available surveillance of all politicians’ finances and unclassified digital history for the rest of their lives.
  17. Demand the taxes you pay, be spent providing you the minimum housing, food, water, utilities and health care necessary to survive, before you fund anything else.
  18. Demand the right to dictate what your taxes are spent on

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