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Cognitive Dissonance
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” - William S. Burroughs
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Mitt Romney released his birth certificate
And it’s an obvious fake. First, it has “VOID” stamped down the side. Second, it’s a photocopy - I could forge that in 10 minutes. Third, it is a “certificate of live birth.” Hey, birther websites question documentation of Obama’s birth there because Hawaii provided a “certification of live birth” and not a birth certificate. Turnabout is fair play.
After all, as Mother Jones points out:
The President’s certificate of live birth, reported Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy, “is not the exact birth certificate.” Sarah Palin suggested that the certificate of live birth was insufficient proof of citizenship.
As one leading conservative activist put it, “A ‘birth certificate’ and a ‘certificate of live birth’ are in no way the same thing, even though in some cases they use some of the same words.” That was Donald Trump.
What about this documentation? Is he claiming Gateway is lying? Or was this before he decided to illegitimately seek the presidency? Until he releases the long-form birth certificate, AND meets these demands, I’m still saying he’s a robot. They may say we’re roboters and dismiss it as robotism, but I won’t let that discourage me.
After all, I’m only seeking the truth. What’s more patriotic than that?
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That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work!
Mitt Romney, detailing his plan for jobs in Craig, Colo.
Please tell me how firing 145,000 Americans would be good for the economy – not that Romney’s claim is correct. Under the Obama administration, public sector employment has dropped, but private sector employment has grown by 760,000 jobs since Obama signed the stimulus in February of 2009. Since then, public sector employment has dropped by 608,000. Even federal employment has a slower pace of growth than the private sector.
Anyhow, eliminating one job in the public sector does not automatically create a job in the private sector. That’s a ridiculous notion – if Romney is correct, for every teacher, police officer, or postal worker laid off in the public sector, their job became available in the private sector, right?
Right?
Romney’s hatred of the public sector is irrational. Romney supports public sector workers when he can use them as a prop for a photo op, like when he brought pizza to NYC firefighters. Obama may not be the #1 cheerleader for the public sector, but at least he’s not in favor of firing people in the name of job creation.
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Mitt Romney wins Texas, clinches Republican nomination
That’s all. I could put links and such in here, but meh. Wasn’t it a forgone conclusion? Well, except for the convention shenanigans planned by the Ron Paul acolytes…
I could spend several paragraphs dissecting this, but I’m too disappointed. The GOP primary promised to be bread and circuses, yet they’ve left us with the most boring clown in the ring.
So I’ll leave you with this:
“Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn’t say the newspapers misquoted him.” — Robert Elliott Gonzales, Poems and Paragraphs
And that, my friends, is Willard Mitt Romney.
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Twenty-seven GOP Congressional Candidates Refuse to Sign Anti-Tax Pledge
At least 27 Republican candidates promoted by the National Republican Congressional Committee have refused to sign the anti-tax pledge circulated by Americans for Tax Reform and its President, Grover Norquist, according to the Washington Post.
Well, I guess Grover doesn’t have all the power. So that’s a plus, I suppose.
Props to those who refuse to sign, though. Hopefully this becomes a trend.
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I don’t know why, but Mittens in a ball cap makes me laugh. I’m not sure what he’s watching though.
I leave it to you all to imagine what he’s watching and why he’s making that face.
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Mitt Romney is a robot. I’m making this a thing.
bulletinaweave replied to your post: ugh! obama can present his birth certificate a…
But the REAL question is what he did as an undergrad! Because, you know, after you’ve been to Ivy League schools, anyone ever gives a shit about your undergrad career…
Y’all are missing the real issue here. Barack Obama might be kicked off the ballot in Arizona because of birth certificate BS. But there’s a more insidious truth.
Supposedly, Mitt Romney is qualified to be president. But there’s no proof that he isn’t a robot. THINK ABOUT IT! He’s mechanical, gives inopportune/inappropriate reactions, appears to short out every now and again, lacks emotional depth, etc…
I demand Mitt’s birth certificate, testimony from his physician, and a complete physical exam — INCLUDING a full body wanding with a metal detector — at the very least. We don’t have a DNA test confirming him as an actual person — WHERE IS THE PROOF?! He should shave his head to demonstrate there is no serial number or bolts under his hair. Until then, who knows? Computers and science have come leaps and bounds with simulating humans. He could be a robot — AND A ROBOT CANNOT BE PRESIDENT.
Mitt’s father was born in Mexico and likely has ties there, plus, there’s Bain Capital and General Electric. Bear with me here…
Mitt is a robot assembled in Mexico at one of the maquiladoras, and that’s why elite conservatives rejected him — THEY KNOW THE TRUTH. After all, we have sent a lot of our U.S. factories just across the border, and Bain Capital has a financial stake in some of these companies. General Electric owns many of the factories along the border with Mexico, and has partnership financing with Bain Capital. Many of Bain Capital’s executives worked for GE. Mitt Romney played a leading role in Bain for years. WHAT ARE YOU REALLY BUILDING, GENERAL ELECTRIC? ROMNEYBOTS?!
We cannot place our future in the hands of a man who may not be a man at all, but instead, a heartless hunk of cold metal. It is imperative that we email Arizona’s Secretary of State Ken Bennett at kbennett@azsos.gov — 1200 emails got him to seek Obama’s birth certificate. There’s over 10,000 of you following this site.
Let’s do this. They may call us roboters, claim we’re subscribing to robotism, but it’s all a plot by the mainstream media to cover up who OR WHAT the real Mitt Romney is behind all that good hair and grinning. We must find the truth before it’s too late. Ever see the Terminator movies? SKYNET, Y’ALL!
WHO IS THE REAL MITT ROMNEY?
Now, how’s that for a conspiracy theory? Get on it, World Net Daily.
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My email to Ariz. Secretary of State Ken Bennett
You know the Secretary of State in Arizona who’s demanding Obama’s birth certificate to certify him for the ballot? I thought I’d give him some helpful suggestions via email:
[Image text pasted below]
[Image Text: Dear Mr. Bennett,
I imagine it can be difficult when you have constituents like Sheriff Joe Arpaio pressuring you to make sure that brown-skinned guy in the White House is really allowed to be president. And then when it appears he really is allowed to serve, well, I bet all hell breaks loose, right? I mean, Sheriff Joe makes a hullabaloo with his report a few weeks ago, stirs even more folks up, and I am sure you just thought, “Why not compromise? Why not send that $5 money order? It’ll make ‘em shut up.”
Well, you gave in to the fringes of this great country. They now own you - or at least they think they do. This is one of many requests I imagine the birther faction will make. Why not verify Mitt Romney? After all, folks just sued in California this March questioning Romney’s eligibility… his dad DID spend time in Mexico… Romney’s claimed several states as his home… Is that not suspicious enough? [Note: I’m being sarcastic, sir, but fair IS fair.]
May I make a suggestion?
Buy these in bulk: [Image of a coffee mug featuring a picture of Barack Obama, Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and the text ‘Made in the USA’]
You can purchase them here. I propose these mugs are a better use of taxpayer dollars in Arizona than kowtowing to the birthers who will likely demand further investigation.
It’s much simpler, too. One of them walks in to your office, your administrative assistant hands them a mug. One of them calls your office, your administrative assistant sends them a mug via USPS. One of them faxes you, well, you get the idea.
I cannot believe a man such as yourself is able to buy into the inherent racism of the birthers and would lack the spine to them no, the White House has already released Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and you can view it online. I pray this was only a momentary lapse of judgment. Right?
Sincerely,
Meg Lanker-Simons
Editor, Cognitive Dissonance
@meglanker
meglanker@gmail.com]
If you’d like to email Ken Bennett, his email is kbennett@azsos.gov. I’ll post a response if I get one.
I’m sick of this shit.
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Ariz. Sec. of State Wants to See Proof of Obama’s Citizenship
It never ends:
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett wants you to know that he is not a birther, but he says he wants proof of Barack Obama’s citizenship before putting his name on the Arizona ballot.
In a radio interview today, Bennett said he is just doing his job of making sure “that those people whose names are on the ballot have met the qualifications for the office they are seeking.” He says he has been trying for eight weeks to get documents from Hawaii.
So that means he’s requesting Mitt Romney’s birth certificate, right? Since it’s verifying everyone, right?
Matt Roberts, Bennett’s spokesman, said in an email that Bennett had not asked for Romney’s Michigan birth certificate because “This was simply in response to some constituents asking us to ask Hawaii,” he said.
In other words, they’re kowtowing to the birthers of Arizona, the most famous of which is Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This suggests something more troubling — instead of having the spine to tell the birther crowd no, it’s easier to waste time and taxpayer dollars placating them.
It’s not about eligibility. It’s about the persistent belief that a black man with a funny name cannot occupy the White House, couched in claims of eligibility.
Any Arizona followers want to start making some noise about Romney’s birth certificate? After all, folks just sued in California this March questioning Romney’s eligibility… his dad DID spend time in Mexico… Romney’s claimed several states as his home… I’M JUST SAYING IT’S WEIRD, OK?
Now go. Question Romney. See what the Arizona SoS has to say.
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I’m not familiar precisely with what I said, but I’ll stand by what I said whatever it was.
Mitt Romney, when asked about previous comments he’s made regarding President Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
Mitt Romney just made flip-flopping an Olympic sport. Or something.
For the record, here’s what he said on Sean Hannity’s radio show:
“I think again that the president takes his philosophical leanings in this regard, not from those who are ardent believers in various faiths but instead from those who would like America to be more secular. And I’m not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation.” [Hannity Radio, 2/7/12]
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Dropkick Murphys to WI GOP Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald: Using our music as your intro like "a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap"
Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald is running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wis.) for the U.S. Senate. Fitzgerald is BFFs with Gov. Scott Walker and used the Dropkick Murphys song “Shipping Up To Boston” at the GOP Convention this weekend. This is the same band who released “Take ‘Em Down” in support of Wisconsin’s unions and the protesters at the state capital, and have long been friends to organized labor.
Well, they found about Fitzgerald’s musical selection.
We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used “Shipping Up To Boston” as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.
The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!
Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can’t even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!
We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!
–DKM
Today, Fitzgerald replied:
Fitzgerald on Monday said he meant no harm, and has simply always liked the band and that song, which was featured in the Martin Scorcese film, “The Departed.” He said he doesn’t plan to play the song anymore, but doesn’t know what song he will chose next.
The Departed? Hey, way to burnish your image with a song featured in a movie about the Irish mob… if that’s your reasoning. “Ooh, that one song in that movie I like…”
I challenge Jeff Fitzgerald to name one other song by Dropkick Murphys he likes.
I’ll bet it’s not “Take ‘Em Down.” Or “Worker’s Song”…
Unfortunately, a lot of young folks haven’t had the opportunity to really understand how the economy works, and what it takes to put people to work in real jobs, and why we have banks, and what banks do. It’s a very understandable sentiment. If you don’t find a job, and you can’t see rising incomes. You’re going to be angry and looking at someone to blame.
Mitt Romney to WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., discussing the protests at Bank of America.
Oh, we young people don’t understand “real jobs” and “what banks do,” yeah?
I argue we do. There’s a lot of us working two and three minimum wage jobs, going to school, graduating, barely surviving, or some combination of the above.
We’re consistently screwed by people like you, Mitt, who gambled with our parents’ retirement, who ensured most of us can never retire, who foreclosed on our families, who laid us off in the name of savings, who pissed away bailouts in executive bonuses and back slaps, as you grin in your expensive suits and tell us repeatedly that we DON’T GET how it works, as you reach into our back pockets for yet another checking account usage fee because we can’t keep a minimum balance, let me tell you…
WE GET IT.
We are fully proletarianized, working ourselves to the bone, paying the same tax rate as you, and praying to whatever is sacred that we do not get sick or injured because we are one paycheck or missed unemployment check away from completed ruin, while you and your cronies line up for another spin at the roulette wheel, your wallets fat from the products of our intellectual and physical labor.
FUCK YOU and your patronizing condescension. Fuck you with the all the fucks my exhausted self has left to give.
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Just a brief PSA… GOP: Pro-life ‘til the birth canal ends.
(Image: Tracy Knauss)
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Boehner: Romney’s Wealth Won’t Hurt Him Because ‘The American People Don’t Want To Vote For A Loser’
I do believe he just called anyone who’s not successful a loser. Exactly what is your definition of success? Those in the top 20%? The top 1%? Those not benefiting from government programs?
If the last point is the case, I’d like to introduce John Boehner to one of the biggest welfare queens in existence:
Meet Willard Mitt “Mittens” Romney. He’s used government programs and loopholes to reduce his taxes for years.
But that’s okay, right? Because at least he’s NOT POOR! What losers. Side note: You just know Boehner spells it “loosers” </sarcasm>
In summary:
House GOP Would Kick 280,000 Children Off School Lunch Program To Protect Tax Cut For Millionaires
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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We all should thank Newt Gingrich
Not only was he entertaining as hell (moon colonies, y’all!), he’s celebrating May Day by suspending his campaign on May 1st.
It’s about time a GOP candidate thought of the working class </sarcasm>
We should all tweet him and thank him for bringing attention to May Day and participating in a General Strike.
That’s what he’s doing, right?
No?
Eh, fuck it. Thank him anyhow:
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
