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All you doubters better shut up now, or don’t blame me when you end up against the wall.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Actually, Obummer is sort of correct. The Unaffordable Act was planned to be a colossal failure, to wreck what was left of the pitiful American “medical system” and to pave the way for “the people” to demand single payer, socialist pseudo medicine in every way.
But that last doesn’t seem to be happening. Somebody miscalculated…
I agree with MamaLiberty… in part.
Actually, it’s working exactly the way it *should*, the way it deserves to work, the way all socialistic policies have worked for years: a total failure.
Waiting for the next “Five Year” policy is like waiting for the second shoe to drop. What will they think up next?
“working the way it should”
Well, sure. If the plan is to smother a huge portion of the (remaining) economy, pit peasant against peasant in pointless squabbles about the precise shape and configuration of the tyranny (since nobody seems to care about the fact of the tyranny anymore), and further engender both “patriotic” alliance and absolute dependency to the Total State…well, it does seem to be going quite swimmingly, dunnit?
I still think Arthur Silber said it best, back when he first called Obamacare The Fuck You To Death Act.. It is a rather endearing leitmotif with Silber to state directly that “disasters” like Obamacare are not in fact broken or faulty at all, but instead are exactly, precisely what they were designed to be–and that the politicians who defend them are ironically not lying when they reassure us that all will be well.
The interviewers, sre they sitting so far away because of the smell of BS or to avoid being collateral damage?
I’m handling O’care the same as I do when I get sick. Ignore it or if that doesn’t work, down a scotch and go to bed till it goes away.