Posted on 04/24/2016 7:44:23 PM PDT by huckfillary
Ask a hundred U.S. citizens what the country needs more than anything and you’re likely to get a hundred answers. An end to poverty, an end to racism, an end to terrorism, free college, an end to liberals, an end to conservatives, an end to climate change, a balanced budget, and on and on. Most responses would be likely be well-meaning, pie-in-the-sky fantasies with little forethought as nearly all of us are inclined to do now and again. Including me. I know it’s hard to believe that the Artful Dilettante himself engages in such flights of fancy, with outcomes devoid of any realistic chance of their actually happening. But I do, and I’m going to share one such flight of fancy. Years ago, long before any of us were born, there was a cool, popular little slogan, “What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.” Perhaps. But what this country really needs now more than anything is one fundamentally and openly anti-statist, anti-establishment, pro-liberty news and information network. As big as PMSNBC and FOX. A 24-hour nonstop frontal assault on the welfare-warfare state and everyone who plays a role in it. With facts, reason, and heepin’ helpin’ of ridicule and sarcasm. It has been said that ridicule is the greatest weapon against the powerful, that the former Soviet Union was destroyed by ridicule. Once the establishment becomes the national joke, it’s toast.
This country desperately needs an antidote to the stale, statist pablum endlessly touted by the lamestream media, including talk-radio. Every major network supports either the Democrats or the GOP, liberals or conservatives. But none of them supports “none of the above.” All of them miss, or likely choose to ignore, the fundamental problem---it’s not the Democrats or the Republicans, it’s Democrats and Republicans. It isn’t liberals or conservatives, it’s liberals and conservatives. You see folks, the problem is statism. The solution is liberty.
NOTA would excoriate the welfare-warfare state, and identify the true cause of nearly everything that ails us---the government. There would be no sacred cows—be it the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, or the War on Poverty. NOTA would daily trash and expose the crimes of the Fed, the CIA, the FBI, Congress, the President, the bureaucracy, the major parties, and heap generous helpings of ridicule and scorn upon those responsible.
Among other things, NOTA would daily:
• Expose every known and suspected crime of the United States government including the creation of the Fed, the assassinations of JFK and MLK, the 9/11 cover-up, and the Bush, Clinton, and Obama Family Crime syndicates;
• Challenge the very legitimacy of the federal government laying out a point-by-point indictment of its having grossly exceeded the Constitutional limitations specified in Article 1, Section 8, and the Tenth Amendment;
• Discuss secession as a rational (and quite reasonable) solution to this problem;
• Expose the welfare state as a legacy of failure and the decades of misery and poverty to which it has subjected the poor and unfortunate;
• Expose the War on Terror as multi-trillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded wet kiss to the military/intelligence/security complex and world banking consortium;
• Support privatization as the only solution to our failed, dysfunctional government-run education system. I lived in the Washington, D.C. metro area for many years. I listened to the WMAL morning show on my way to work every day. Some time ago, the show dedicated a whole week to education reform. The most radical idea discussed was whether or not to add 15 minutes to the school day;
• Tell the American people about the financially and morally bankrupt Social Security System. Tell them how Congress has completely bankrupted the so-called Social Security Trust Fund and replaced it with worthless government IOUs to the tune of $24 trillion;
• Expose the conspiracy of perpetual debt and how the government condemns us to life of debt slavery;
• Expose the surveillance/monitoring state and how the government is turning us into a nation of informants rather than citizens, how we are monitored 24/7—our financial transactions, our web searches, our e-mails—all justified by the bogus War on Terror.
I don’t want to hear that NOTA isn’t needed or wanted. It’s needed and wanted. Every major network and all the so-called “alternative media” are statist, pro-establishment sock-puppets. Every one of them supports one or another major party, or either the phony liberal or conservative positions. An anti-statist, anti-establishment network is desperately needed. And wanted. There are millions of Americans who yearn for a major news and information source that speaks truth to power and gives voice to our reflexive distrust of government.
And I don’t want to hear that it isn’t possible. As author/philosopher Paul Rosenberg so poignantly articulated in his novel The Breaking Dawn, “You can win every battle in life so long as you’re not afraid to die. If you go into any struggle with that attitude, you’ll win and live to talk about it.”
What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
We need a laser bread slicer for home baked bread.
What we really need, is someone that can tell us what we really need.
Well, then change federal regulations so cable is required to offer ala carte programming.
Sounds too simple.
BUT...
present regulation requires advertiser-determined programming- which won’t support such a channel.
Ala carte programming reduces the need for advertiser income to a level that allows viewer demand to predominate.
What we really need is more ammo, free ammo.
Everybody else wants free stuff, why not more ammo for me?
TRUST ME, I will share.
(maybe, snicker).
Flying cars.
I want to live like the Jetsons, by golly. It’s time! Forward!
Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
Bump! For starters ... ;-)
Something tells me that voting for “None Of The Above” will give us the candidate who gets even just one legitimate vote.
This is a bad idea.
Oh, for an antidote for the-sudden-unstoppable-need-to-start-a-thread syndrome.
I hate these bloody slow news days...
Definitely some good points, also some not so good ones.
I think Trump is as close to NOTA, as we can get at this point.
I thought this clown was a semi-rational person articulating common sense concerns, until I got to that sentence.
I don't have time for another Sanders type clown spouting Sanders type nonsense psychobabble.
I posted to an earlier article with as many cliches as I could fit in a simple sentence. It was hard on just one cup of coffee.
This is either by a gifted writer on satire overdrive, or a person driven by mental illness.
Either way, it was fun.
What we really need, is someone that can tell us what we really need.<<<<<<<
Pick me! Pick me! ;7)
All existing elected criminals of both parties need to experience at the least jail time--- The only exception is Donald Trump.
He is the only candidate who does not have a proven record of duplicity against the American citizen/taxpayer.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
Go Trump!
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