September 10, 2010
The Rude Guy is the poison mushroom on the pizza of corporate culture. The arrow in the ass of the institutions of our time.
And you have stumbled upon the blog page that posts his podcasts, and the text versions of his podcasts, every two weeks or so.
There’re plenty of laughs, and something to offend everybody.
Podcast 71: Dump the Dems … September 10, 2010
Podcast 70: Wikileaks Vietnamistan … August 11, 2010
Podcast 69: BP and the CIA … July 8, 2010
Podcast 68: Obama’s Oil Spill … June 1, 2010
Podcast 67: Conservative vs Liberal freedom … April 16, 2010
Podcast 66: Stop Paying Your Credit Cards … March 3, 2010
Podcast 65: Barack Obama’s Flying Pigs … January 1, 2010
Podcast 64: Nationalize the Fed … December 19, 2009
Dump Obama: Obama claims Afghanistan is not Vietnam … December 2, 2009
Podcast 63: Butterfly Barack … November 26, 2009
Podcast 62: Barack Obama: Our First Female President … October 13, 2009
I Choose Therefore I Am: Quantum Physics and Free Will… October 5, 2009
Podcast 61: Healthcare or die: people vs.corporations … August 15, 2009
Podcast 60: Live in your car … August 1, 2009
Podcast 59: Get out of Afghanistan … July 15, 2009
Podcast 58: Health Care and Wall Street … July 1, 2009
Podcast 57: The Problem with Rent … June 15, 2009
Podcast 56: How the World Works: Intro … June 1, 2009
Podcast 55: CIA lies and Banksters … May 15, 2009
Podcast 54: Capitalism with a Human Face … May 1, 2009
Podcast 53: Eat the Rich … April 15, 2009
Rerun of Podcast 19: NAFTA and immigration … June 26, 2006 [rerun April 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 18: Peruvian Jungle Adventure … June 12, 2006 [rerun March 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 17: Time for a National Strike? … May 29, 2006 [rerun March 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 16: What Men Know That Women Don’t … May 15, 2006 [rerun February 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 15: What’s REAL and what’s not? … May 1, 2006 [rerun February 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 14: Are corporations tapeworms? … April 17, 2006 [rerun January 15, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 13: Does female greed feed corporate greed? … April 3, 2006 [rerun January 1, 2009]
Rerun of Podcast 12: Are men the oppressors of women, or are women the oppressors of men? … April 3, 2006 [rerun December 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 11: Why do rents and mortgages cost so much? … March 27, 2006 [rerun December 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 10: Are corporations vampires? … March 20, 2006 [rerun November 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 9: Memes: What makes fanatics fanatics? … March 13, 2006 [rerun November 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 8: Christian Communists and Corporate Communism? … March 6, 2006 [rerun October 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 7: What is science good for? … February 27, 2006 [rerun October 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 6: Does God exist? … February 20, 2006 [rerun September 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 5: Populism and the fight against corporations … Feb 13, 2006 [rerun September 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 4: What IS it with the Fragile FEMALE Ego? … Februrary 6, 2006 [rerun August 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 3: Does the Democratic Party understand the difference between white men and RICH white men? … January 30, 2006 [rerun August 1, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 2: Should we tax stock market transactions to pay for national health care, like England does? … January 23, 2006 [rerun July 15, 2008]
Rerun of Podcast 1: Are U.S. corporations directly to blame for the attacks of 911? … January 16, 2006 [rerun July 1, 2008]
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Podcast 20: Bush Family Fuckups and Rush Limbaugh cab drivers … July 2006
Podcast 21: Things Conservatives Believe … July 2006
Podcast 22: How do we get rid of fear? … August 2006
Podcast 23:What do women want? … August 2006
Podcast 24: Fantasies: Americans have free and fair elections and live in a democracy; and 19 Arabs with plastic knives brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon … September 2006
Podcast 25: Should socialism be called Peoplism? President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela says: I follow the teachings of the first socialist. Jesus Christ … September 2006
Podcast 26: Rich Zubaty holds forth on polite, charming, witty, clever Assholes; taking back the government, the value of being RUDE, how your mom fucked up your brain, his jackass siren, and who’s really taking away our freedoms anyway? … October 2006
Podcast 27: The Corporate Vampires DVD sound track … October 2006
Podcast 28: Rich Zubaty reads vignettes from Romance, his autobiography, about life on the lam in 25 different countries … November 2006
Podcast 29: Guided Buddhist Meditation from Thailand …November 2006
Podcast 30: Rich Zubaty rants about living in his truck, Homeless in Hawaii, homeless shelters that don’t provide housing, and Female Aristocrats who ignore the plight of poor people …December 2006
Podcast 31: Impeach Bush, and Part One of Rich’s South Pacific adventures. Lost and found …December 2006
Podcast 32: Part Two of Rich’s South Pacific adventures. Fabulous fishing and a mysterious visitor…January 2007
Podcast 33: One year anniversary show. A recap of the first 32 shows …January 2007
Podcast 34: Nascar Politicians, cheeseburgers for Darfur, how our own soldiers enslave us, what is evolution good for?; and an excerpt about talking plants from Rich Zubaty’s novel: Your Brain Is Not Your Own …February 2007
Podcast 35: Grandfathering, plus: betting on presidents, the Jewish lesbian Republican governor of Hawaii, and outsource Dick Cheney …February 2007
Podcast 36: Pilgrimmage to Singapore and India …March 1, 2007
Podcast 37: Why I hate women, and the importance of ideas …March 15, 2007
Podcast 38: Soul, Soulfulness, Things I Want My Kids to Know …April 1, 2007
Podcast 39: Reinventing Learning; more excerpts from Rich Zubaty’s book: The Corporate Cult …April 15, 2007
Podcast 40: The last show for a couple months:…The mind of Robert Crumb; plus previews of upcoming shows: prosecute Cheney and Rove, how our soldiers don’t protect us – but enslave us to massive debt, how George W. Bush is like Josef Stalin, biographies of defense attorney Clarence Darrow, political novelist George Orwell, and populist Huey Long; ban depleted uranium, Teddy Roosevelt on malefactors of great wealth, male initiation, and male menopause …May 2007
Podcast 41: Rich Zubaty in France, reading from his Wisdom Booklet, the spiritual travelogue of his world travels …July 1, 2007
Podcast 42: Male Initiation, turning boys into men …August 1, 2007
Podcast 43: Huey Long, C.I.A. operative Gloria Steinem, and a goofy political Odyssey featuring the amazing human and animal impersonations of Dan Burgevin …September 1, 2007
Podcast 44: Unsung American heroes Abbie Hoffman, and Franklin Roosevelt, and Bad Words that are Really Good …October 1, 2007
Podcast 45: Evolution: Science or Religion? …November 1, 2007
Podcast 46: How fishing is like praying …December 1, 2007
Podcast 47: Synthetic Terrorism, Shadow Government, Oligarchy, False Flag Operations, Webster Tarpley book …January 1, 2008
Podcast 48: What’s wrong with American woman by author Nancy Levant …February 1, 2008
Podcast 49: Report from a Mexican village on Latin American anti-globalization …March 1, 2008
Podcast 50: Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism …April 1, 2008
Podcast 51: Quantum Physics and God …May 1, 2008
Podcast 52: Male versus Female Brain biology …June 1, 2008
The Rude Guy Podcast #71 September 10, 2010
[Dump the Dems; Dump the Bad Mortgages]
Rich Zubaty here.
Look, I’m happy the war in Iraq is wrapping up. Even though we’re leaving behind 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 mercenary soldiers deceitfully called: military “contractors”. Our, kind-of departure shows the world that we came not to conquer. And even if we DID come to conquer, if you, the peons, complain long enough and loud enough, our next president will reverse course and withdraw our soldiers. That said, I’m furious that the war in Afghanistan is being ramped up. It’s a shell game. Moving men and money from one place to another. And it’s a shell game being perpetrated by a president who took the national stage as an anti-war candidate. Listen to what Ariana Huffington had to say about it:
Quote: Being against the war in Iraq from the beginning was in many ways the reason Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination. It singled him out on an issue Dems really cared about. However, it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to say that had Obama been in the Senate in October of 2002, he would have voted with Hillary Clinton on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, Resolution, and thus there never would have been a President Obama — at least not in 2008. unquote. Very well-said Ariana.
We covered this in one of my recent podcasts. Obama is a great one for proclaiming LOUDLY AND OPENLY that he is deeply disturbed by something, and then voting in favor of it. He told us he did not become president to help fat cat bankers, but when the time came to push legislation to break them up, he went on vacation. Presidential candidate Obama told us repeatedly everyone should have a public health insurance option, but then he threw that away as a bargaining chip with the insurance companies before the health care debate even began.
And if you think the last U.S. soldier has died in Iraq, or the last innocent Iraqi civilian has been murdered by our troops, think again.
[hawk]
Here’s what’s strange to me.
The American left is being led by people who used to be conservatives. Conservatives who got so disgusted with the Republicans they switched over. Supposedly. Ariana Huffington – long time conservative who married an oil tycoon. Bill Maher – Mr. Politically Incorrect himself, the self-proclaimed compassionate conservative. Ed Schultz, who in the early 1990s was hosting a conservative radio talk show, and as recently as 2000, Schultz was still cheerleading on the air for far right candidates and causes. He says he had a change of heart, abandoning his conservative outlook, after his girlfriend (now his second wife), who volunteered in a Salvation Army soup kitchen, challenged him to stop by and actually meet some of quote “the bums” he had routinely castigated on his radio show. Dylan Ratigan worked for Bloomberg financial news and CNBC. Keith Olbermann supported the invasion of Iraq. Cenk Uygur, new kid on the block, is a former Rockefeller Republican who wants to be a liberal. Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to have all of them on our side. But this really reveals how absolutely devoid of visionaries and risk-takers the Democratic Party has become. It’s as if the party had a deadly plague epidemic, that killed off all the leftist activists. It’s stark evidence for how stupid and shattered, and in my opinion “feminized”, the Left has become, by supporting social issues like abortion and gay marriage, and ignoring economic issues like Wall Street abuses and living wages for workers. It now takes conservatives to oppose conservatives because Obama and his Democratic party lemmings are too busy learning how to be conservatives.
Now hear this: The only way to get the Dems to pay attention to the Left, is for us to boot them out of office. Then they’ll sit up and take notice and advocate for us again. The longer they stay in office, the more deals they’ll make with the corporations and banks. Obama has shown the way. Obama’s politically to the right of Bill Clinton, who ran an embarrassingly conservative administration that kissed the asses of Wall Street bankers. How else do you think Hillary, from Chicago and Arkansas, got to be a New York Senator? There is NO CHANCE the Dems are gonna enact leftist programs while they are in the White House. Our only chance is to affix leftist riders, hitch-hiking on Republican legislation. Insane but true. Leftists are better off with Republicans in power because then we have a clear enemy.
So…outrageous as it sounds…especially coming from someone who has never voted Republican in his life, I am going to encourage you to vote against the Dems this November. Or like me, just don’t vote. Yes, things will get worse, but they’re already worse. And later, as the Dems come up to bat against the Republicans, there will be chances to change things. For instance, on a bill for cutting taxes for the rich, the Dems could attach a rider to introduce a pubic health insurance option for the poor. Or something like that. Obama isn’t gonna do that. He’s a useless president. Richard Nixon, who gave us food stamps, fully anticipated signing a public health insurance plan in the 1970s, but the Dems dropped the ball by not pushing it, so we ended up with the newly licensed, for profit, HMOs. Outrageous. We right were on the goal line for public health care forty years ago and the Democrats fumbled the ball!
Also…Housing prices have to be allowed to crash, instead of propping them up to make the banks happy by supporting “bond prices”? So says Dylan Ratigan. These bonds are the infamous mortgage backed securities, and they are still causing problems. Let ‘em crash. Let the market find the price of housing. If your house is under water let the banks eat it. Walk away from it. The only reason your house cost as much as it did is because banks rigged the securities markets, and drove the prices up. Your house was NEVER worth that much. What Obama is doing by propping up mortgages, trying to rescue mortgages, is artificially keeping the price of housing high. Which is why no one is buying houses. It’s a disastrous asinine Democratic policy designed to help banks. Fuck banks.
Here…Listen to the mortgage packagers online pitch: quote; “Mortgage-backed securities can offer you monthly income, a fixed interest rate and even government backing. Yes folks: Profit From Mortgage Debt With Mortgage Backed Securities. Call us. Assholes Anonymous. 1 800 asshole. I made up the last part, but not the first part. These guys are in the business of helping you PROFIT from someone else’s debt. Except they ran the debt up too high, and now the whole thing has to come down.
Dylan Ratigan also says the stimulus was just an attempt to make up for lost tax revenue because of the crashed economy. The stimulus money went to keep local and state employees working. What bullshit. Everyone else gets laid off but not government employees? When there are less houses being built we need fewer building inspectors. Fewer new cars being bought, we need fewer DMV employees. And don’t even get me started on teachers. They live in some kind of self-righteous fantasy bubble. They really believe society cannot survive without them filling kids heads with touchy feely bullshit about whales and the four food groups and patriotic wars.
OK, I’m wandering off the path. Let’s bear down on the housing mess. Housing prices are too high. They have to crash. (more…)
August 11, 2010
The Rude Guy Podcast #70 August 11, 2010
[Wikileaks Vietnamistan]
Rich Zubaty the Rude Guy, having a great day, because I finally have some new heroes to admire. They’re not giants like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr, but, in a depressing era of posers and frauds, they are true heroes. To me a hero has to be both smart and brave. Smart without brave and you get Barack Obama, or Dick Cheney. Brave without smart and you get just about every U.S. soldier who is on the ground in Afghanistan. If you’re so smart, what’re ya doin’ there soldier? Quit before you die. We need you back home… But my new heroes are both smart and brave. And one of them IS a soldier.
My new heroes are Julian Assange, who founded Wikileaks. And Bradley Manning, the soldier who allegedly leaked, to Wikileaks, the video of the Apache helicopter cannon fire murder, by high tech video game, of two Reuters reporters and 18 innocent bystanders. Plus severely wounding two young kids.
Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, has been moved from a military jail in Kuwait, to the Marine Corps Base Brig, in Quantico, Virginia. Here’s what I got off his web site:
www.bradleymanning.Org
Manning remains in pretrial confinement pending an Article 32 investigation into the charges lodged against him on July 5. Manning was transferred because of the potential for lengthy continued pretrial confinement, given the complexity of the charges, and the ongoing investigation… And so forth.
Bradley Manning is facing decades in prison for doing the right goddam thing, and even me, with my ridiculous financial situation, sent his legal defense fund ten bucks off a credit card. It made me feel good to do that. Much better than buying a pizza. I recommend it to everybody.
www.bradleymanning.Org
And then there’s Julian Assange…who’s a hunted man! Living underground…somewhere. Nobody knows where. If the U.S. government could figure out some way to destroy him, and his organization, without creating an international outcry, they would do it in a second. Which is why it’s important that his name is known, and his work is known. As Abbie Hoffman said during the anti-Vietnam police riots, at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, more or less: “as long as the cameras are on you, you’re OK. It’s the people who are off camera who the cops’ll beat up. But when the cameras get turned off…look out.”
This guy Assange is brave. Really really brave. Even Seymour Hersh, the New York Times reporter who broke the My Lai massacre story, told Assange, quote, “watch…your…back”. Assange is finally getting some safe harbor in Iceland and Sweden, but he has been living on the run, on the constant move, for a year or more. “Watch your back bro.”
Last week he released 76,000 documents which are mostly U.S. military field reports from Afghanistan. What I now call: Vietnamistan. Vietnamistan. (more…)
July 8, 2010
The Rude Guy Podcast #69 July 8, 2010
[BP and the CIA, The Cost of War, and Grow Your Own]
Rich Zubaty here. Cranking out another podcast for no reason other than I’m turning 62 and have no good idea what else I’m supposed to be doing with my life.
Old age sucks. My memory is going the way of the giant bluefin tuna, I have bone spurs in my neck so I can’t lift heavy suitcases, if I get five hours a day where my attention span is greater than that of a hummingbird I feel like throwing a party. I can’t sensibly go on one of my famous invigorating, therapeutic, traveling expeditions, to Brazil, or Bali, or somewhere, to clear the cobwebs out of my brain, unless I somehow recruit a younger stronger traveling companion.
On top of that, Kathleen Parker from the Washington Post just seemingly ripped off one of my podcasts, and gave me no credit whatsoever. On June 30, 2010, she came out with an opinion piece called: Obama: our first female president. In October 2009 I made a podcast called: Barack Obama: our first female president. How about that? She even segued into it like I did by saying…if Bill Clinton was our first black president, then Barack Obama is our first female president. Then she echoed me again, this time from last month’s Podcast 68, noting Obama’s cautious feminine, management style…in the face of the gulf oil gusher, that cried out for decisive leadership…saying, as I had said…what was he doing delivering jokes to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, when he should have been on Air Force One flying to the Louisiana coast. Three coincidences in a row? It looked like flat out plagarism to me.
So I emailed her and the Washington Post Ombudsman. She said she’d never heard of me, and that anyway she doesn’t write the titles to her pieces, someone else does. After a few more emails back and forth I concluded that she did not go to my podcast, listen to it or read it, and rip it off. I am not accusing her of that. However I still believe some combination of summer interns at the paper, clever quipping at Washington cocktail parties, by trendy eavesdroppers, and maybe even some precipitation from the…Overmind, [RG voice: the Overmind] conspired to materialize my ideas in her head. That’s kind of how memes work, spreading like a virus from mind to mind. And it happens to me a lot. Which is why I do not think it is entirely accidental. For instance, I do a podcast bit about how being born a poor white guy in America does not confer any great advantage, and three weeks later presidential candidate Obama is saying that being born a poor white guy in America is like arriving here as an immigrant. Someone out there is listening. And repackaging my stuff.
Years ago Bill Maher lifted material right out of What Men Know That Women Don’t, but in that instance I had sent him the book, so I know it got across his drawbridge. Yes, I’m delighted they steal my stuff, I just wish they would mention my name and send a few dozen more people to my podcast and web site. But I’m sure they learned years ago, from their media attorneys, never to admit to anyone that they stole your idea, because that admission might mean they legally owe you something. Said Lionel Trilling: “Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” By and large mainstream media types are thieves. That’s how they got there and that’s how they stay there. What could it hurt to say: here’s an idea I got from Joe Blow, or Rich Zubaty.
[donkey]
And then, of course, as you know, I’m demoralized by the job Barack Obama is NOT doing, running our government. We voted for Martin Luther King Junior and got Redd Foxx. He fired McChrystal but didn’t fire the war. The only word for that is…stupid. He got handed an opportunity to pull out and blame it on the generals, but instead he’s doubling down. On track to spend more money on war than any president since World War Two.
The man is too gullible to be president. He BELIEVES in things, that are not worthy of being believed.
His first mistake was believing Tom Dashle – that he was the perfect Washington insider to spearhead healthcare reform. But Senator Daschle had neglected to pay his taxes on a free limousine service that had been provided to him for years, by a billionaire patron, so the Republicans ate him alive, and fucked health care reform right out of the gate.
Second Obama mistake was believing that the health insurance companies really wanted healthcare reform. Is he soft in the head, or what? Then he believed the generals who told him they could wrap up this Afghan war lickety split, if Obama would just give them more troops so they could have a surge, like in Iraq. Problem is, our surge in Iraq had nothing to do with decreasing the violence. The Shiites beat the crap out of the Sunnis and the Sunnis made peace with them. At the same time, we gave up our insane plan to have our oil corporations run the Iraq oil industry by finally resurrecting the Iraqi government Oil Ministry. The surge won’t work in Afghanistan because it didn’t work in Iraq. It’s irrelevant. It’s stupid. It just makes them hate us more.
Next Obama made a total ass out of himself, telling us offshore drilling is safe, because he had believed in the oil industry’s reassuring propaganda, on oil-spill containment. From that he moved right along to believing Wall Street’s opinion that America needs mammoth, too-big-to-fail, banks, in order to compete globally, right…and that capping credit card interest rates would quote “hurt small business”, right…and that fantasy synthetic derivatives, like betting on movie box office receipts — that bleed capital out of the nuts and bolts REAL economy — will NOT be regulated as the Las Vegas style casino gambling they really are, but will get allll dressed up in the thin-lipped arrogance of Wall Street securities…right. And there’s no need to discuss putting a tax on all stock market transactions, like England has, to raise money to put our people back to work rebuilding bridges and roads. The people saved the markets, but we have no right to expect the markets to save the people. Right…So much for banking reform. Over and over again Obama’s employed the same guys who made the mess, to clean up the mess. You do that with plumbers and auto mechanics. Not with bankers and oil companies.
I just read a column in Huffington Post by John Hari, from the London Independent, who said, in 2006 speculators like Goldman Sachs saw the housing market start to collapse, so they pulled their money out of that and started speculating in the worldwide food market, driving up the price of wheat 80% and rice 320%. 200 million people starved, there were food riots in 30 countries and one government was violently overthrown. But bizarrely, more food had been produced that year than the year before, but the year before the real market had set the prices of food, and in 2006 the market speculators had set the prices. The greedheads and banksters took their hundreds of billions in profit out of the housing mess, and had nowhere to stick ‘em, so they stuck ‘em in food. And starved and murdered people worldwide. Barbarians in $2000 suits.
And these are the people Obama believes.
Does anyone see a pattern here? (more…)
June 1, 2010
[The Rude Guy Podcast #68 June 1, 2010]
[Obama’s Oil Spill]
[clip of FDR speech: I welcome their hatred!]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The president of presidents. A real man’s man. Even though he was crippled with polio and couldn’t walk.
This is Rich Zubaty the Rude Guy. I don’t know why I still make these shows, but a couple hundred people still download ‘em, so I guess that’s something. Though they never email, and never donate anything, so it’s hard to know why they download ‘em. Or if they even listen.
Once upon a time I thought that this show could exert some populist pressure to push President Obama further to the political left. But I’ve given up on that. He’s too ignorant. He’s too conservative. He’s too slow of a learner and I am tired of being caught up in his learning curve. He still thinks corporations are his friends, even as this BP disaster mires his presidency waste deep in petroleum muck. Even as the health care industry turned health care reform into a joke. Even as Wall Street turned banking reform into a joke. Even Donna Brazille, big black mama of the Democratic National Committee, said that the problem with the Obama administration is, that it’s not tough enough.
Anyone who read my book What Men Know That Women Don’t knows that this feminized, I’m OK you’re OK, touchy feely consensus management style is exactly what produces catastrophes like the gulf oil spill. The woman Obama appointed to head the Mineral Management Service that was supposed to be overseeing drilling regulation just resigned. But that’s not good enough. The buck doesn’t stop there. Obama is harping about “the cozy relationship” between petroleum companies and regulators when he should be ranting about fraud and bribes and corruption. But he won’t do that. Because he’s not tough enough. Becasue he doens’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Because he’s the first female president of the United States. And frankly, most women I’ve ever met would do a better, tougher job of running this country.
Moreover…Someone besides me finally said it. Barack Obama is, scary. Chris Mathews from Hardball said Obama’s reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is, Quote “scary. He’s acting more like a Vatican observer than president of the United States.” Unquote. Then Dan Froomkin on Huffington Post echoed Mathews saying that Obama’s oil disaster behavior is scary.
The New York Times said it’s well past time for Obama to do something, even if it IS risky. But that’s his Achille’s heel. Isn’t it? He’s a school teacher. He’s a risk adverse president. Which is almost a contradiction in terms. Presidents have to be willing to take on risk. But here a momentous crisis explodes in his face, and Obama sits down on a rock to analyze it.
The man is pathetically incompetent, and he is NOT a fast learner. The BP oil spill IS going to be his Katrina. He’s making jokes at the Washington Press Club Dinner, and eating gourmet molé at a trendy Mexican state dinner, while the marine resources for the southern half of the country are being destroyed. When the globs of goop reach Long Island, his presidency will be over.
I just hope Borgs don’t arrive from another galaxy, far far away, while he’s still president, or he’ll start giving speeches about how, resistance is futile, and we’re all in this together, and how there are no American machines, and no American people, but just American machine-people.
I’m sure glad he wasn’t president when Joseph Stalin was around, or France would be speaking Russian. And I’m glad we had Franklin Delano Roosevelt and not Barack Obama to point the way after the great Depression, or the rural electric program and the union movement and the Federal Highway system would not have existed.
I voted for this silver-tongued coward and I feel betrayed. He was an establishment whore from the moment he walked on the national stage, and started babbling about how there was only one America, and it was both black and white. No, there was only one Barack Obama, and he was both black and white.
A former poker player companion of his said, Obama is the worst kind of guy to play poker with. He antes up and takes his cards. If he doesn’t like them he drops out immediately. If he likes them he places bets, and everyone else drops out, and he wins a small pot. Boring. Like watching a turtle run a race.
He’s only had two visions in his life I can think of. One was to marry Michelle. And the other was to become president. But beyond that – nothing. No idea that corporations are too powerful and have to be cut down to size. No idea that we cannot control Asian oil and gas by occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, in obedience to long-disproved cold war geopolitical fantasies. The man got the Nobel Peace prize and sent more troops to Afghanistan the next fucking week. He has NO vision.
He is a tinkerer and a technocrat, jamming political alliances together like they were legos. Let’s see: take this funnel and stick it on the end of that hose, then electrify the hose and jam it up an elephant’s ass, and then, when I talk into the funnel my voice will come out of the mouth of the elephant sounding just like…Hamid Karzai…and the Taliban will be defeated. This is how he thinks! That an incremental patchwork of half-solutions is going to add up to an unprecedented policy victory. Well…it always worked for him before. When he was a school teacher. Duh.
The man never managed anything more complicated than a classroom full of greedy law students, and then he bullshit his way into becoming CEO of the largest corporation on earth. The U.S. Government. How did this happen? We were riding on a national tidal wave demanding something wildly different than we were getting from George W. Bush, and all we got is different skin color. We got a healthcare bill that helps big medical corporations, and a banking reform bill that helps big banks.
We voted for Martin Luther King Jr. and we got Redd Foxx, from Sanford and son.
Barack Obama is a one term president, (more…)
April 16, 2010
[The Rude Guy Podcast #67 April 16, 2010]
[The Two Kinds of Freedom; Conservative versus Liberal freedom]
I’m Rich Zubaty The Rude Guy…We all love freedom right? We’re just a bunch of freedom lovin’ fools. But that’s how politicians fool us. Because there are two kinds of freedom.
Conservative freedom and Liberal freedom
Conservative freedom is the freedom of Thomas Jefferson. Often called Liberty. The – I’m a huge plantation owner with hundreds of slaves and I don’t want the government to fuck with me – kind of freedom. Fuck Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the first neocon. An aristocrat in democrats clothing who thought voting was for rich people only, and who didn’t want any politically potent church wagging a finger at his slave holdings… A world built entirely on conservative freedoms would be a dangerous hell, where nobody would stop at red lights, and corporations would pollute every river, and fresh water fishing would be an extinct pastime, right up there with teepee building. Think Afghanistan, or Mexico. Liberty is basically anarchy, commerce without responsibility, rule of the jungle. Republicans are free market anarchists, blowing up everything in their way, to make millions.
Liberal Freedom is Equality of Opportunity. The Martin Luther King Jr kind of freedom, where a person will be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. It’s the opposite of… the don’t fuck with me because I’m rich, freedom. It’s the, don’t fuck with me because I’m poor freedom. It’s the freedom, the RIGHT, to equal treatment before the law in government, school, jobs, everything. It’s the authority to demand that:… I want my kids to have the same opportunities your kids have…kind of freedom.
I’m bored to death with health care talk and so are you. But stay with me here. Precisely because we were immersed in that insane debate for over a year, we’ve all absorbed some complex information, that will help us understand the two kinds of freedom. Conservative freedom and liberal freedom.
The Obama health care bill serves up BOTH kinds of freedom, and even demonstrates absolutely clearly why they cannot coexist. So let’s have a look at what we got with Obamacare. Which is really just Richard Nixon’s health care proposal 40 years late.
The main thing I love about the new healthcare bill is that it reverses the demented Ronald Reagan philosophy, that government is always wrong. Always the enemy and always the problem. That the worst thing you can ever hear is a knock at your door, with a guy standing there saying: we’re from the government and we’re here to help. That’s what we’re supposed to be afraid of? Fuck Ronald Reagan. GE TV puppet.
The liberal freedom Obamacare provides is the freedom for everybody to have health care. Not to be free FROM having health care, but to actually have it. Everyone is good enough and equal enough and qualified enough to get health care. And if you don’t have enough money then we’ll figure out some way to help you.
The conservative freedom Obamacare offers, is the freedom from government competition for insurance companies, hospitals and drug companies. Freedom from competition is the exact opposite of capitalism, but never mind. This is the healthcare industry we’re talking about. It OWNS the Congress and the courts and the president.
So, under Obamacare, the Insurance companies will not have to compete against a public option. Despite the fact that we are always being told how efficient corporations are, and how inefficient the government is, in back room deals Obama torpedoed the public option, that vile form of government INTERFERENCE — that could cut our national healthcare costs by one third or more. So, we will all pay one third more for healthcare, to preserve a fundamental conservative freedom. The freedom to make money from sick people. That makes about as much sense as closing down all interstate highways and forcing us all to drive on corporate-owned toll roads. Thank you Ronald Reagan you cockroach in the cupboards of history.
Also…drug companies will not have to compete against foreign drug imports. Our sold-out government actually PREVENTS imports, as if importing a drug is a risky behavior, but importing uninspected beef and pork from Costa Rica and Brazil is not.
Also…rest assured, there are no brand new public hospitals on the architects drawing tables. When I grew up all hospitals were in some sense public. Supported by local government. Ever since Nixon gave us private HMOs, as a substitute for his original comprehensive health care proposal, hospitals have been for-profit businesses, not, not-for-profit, public facilities.
This is why health industry stocks shot up the day after Obamacare was passed. It’s a multi-billion dollar corporate welfare giveway to the healthcare industry.
And then…there’s the GIANT disconnect. The reason this new healthcare bill will never work, is, of course, the mandate requiring all Americans to buy health insurance. Forcing Americans to buy anything IS against the constitution. I really hope this gets overturned in court or we will have all kinds of weird mandates coming down the road at us from this insane precedent. (more…)
March 3, 2010
[The Rude Guy Podcast #66 March 03, 2010]
Stop Paying Your Credit Cards
I’m Rich Zubaty. Welcome to the Truth Police. This is the place where we’re serious as hell about telling the truth. No posturing. No spin. No fantasies. Just truth. No matter WHO gets hurt. Any entertainment you get from this will be purely accidental.
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The Democratic Party has been running the City of Chicago since before there was a Santa Claus…and that’s the problem with having Chicago Democrats run the White House. They’re accustomed to being the Ruling Party, and they don’t know any different. They are the party of labor and business, unions and corporations, waitresses, janitors, commodities brokers, carpenters, Sears and Boeing. It’s a party run like a third world dictatorship by way of bribes and payoffs and back room deals. I grew up there, and I know.
But that’s not how the rest of the country runs, and that’s not how the people in the rest of the country WANT it to run. We want two parties, with different ideas, that take a stand and fight it out. We try things for a little while the Republican way, then a little while the Democrat way, and which ever way is best prevails over time. Or that’s the way it’s supposed to work. But we don’t want one big party deciding everything. That’s Corporate Communism. Government and business in bed with each other. Also known as fascism.
Barack Obama is Bill Clinton with rockets in his pockets. I warned months ago that Obama was poised to take triangulation, what Clinton called The Third Way, to unimagined heights of selling out. Within nine months in office he drove my bullshit meter right off the scale. And now he’s just announced $8 billion dollars for clean energy – formerly known as nuclear power, the filthiest nastiest energy ever invented. Ugh.
The Republicans hate both Clinton and Obama, and for the same reason. These are the kind of Dems who conquer Republican turf. Republicans have sold their souls for a century to make the insurance companies THEIRS, to make Wall Street THEIRS, to make huge corporations THEIRS, and all of a sudden here’s this conniving squirt Rahm Emanuel, making back room deals. Sucking up to the big money. Doing the bidding of the very people the Dems were elected to oppose. They don’t know any better. They’re the Ruling Party in Chicago and they expect to operate that way in Washington.
Time for Rahm Emanuel to take a subway to hell.
[bird]
Here’s some breaking news: I finally found out why people have to die. I just figured it out. It’s for our own good. After 70 years of watching the good fishing places get poisoned and fished out. Of watching the pheasants disappear and the purple martins fail to come back in spring. Of watching god-like politicians replaced by technocratic cowards, and even god-like gangsters replaced by Wall Street quants – after 70 years of that, we’ve just had enough. It’s time to die. Our teen idols are gone…the Marlon Brandos and Jim Morrisons, replaced by grumpy, nihilist rappers, wearing gold chains, and airhead songstresses cloaked in dyed chicken feathers. Martin Luther King Junior replaced by Condoleeza Rice! Walter Cronkite replaced by Glen Beck for God sakes. Vine ripened tomatoes replaced by tasteless bio-engineered cardboard sludge-balls. It’s for our own good, death is. How many good things can you lose over 70 or 80 years before you become constantly depressed, and just live in the past anyway?
I’ve made the mistake of returning to the old fishing holes and the old girlfriends and the old politics, and I am instantly struck by how stupid I was, not to have let them live on as wonderful old memories, instead of revisiting them in all their degenerate horror. So don’t be sad about death. It really is for the best.
But before I die I figured out one good way to jam my boot up the ass of Wall Street. I’m going to stop paying my credit cards. Just flat out stop paying them. I’ve never missed a credit card payment in my life, but I’m gonna stop paying and stick Bank of America with $7000 dollars. Well…not really. I’ve been paying out a thousand dollars a year since 2001, and that makes $9000 dollars I’ve paid out, on $7000 dollars worth of credit. So that’s plenty. That’s enough. They made their money back on me. That’s how I see it. That’s not how they see it. But I don’t care anymore how they see it. What I have to say to them is: fuck you you greedy bastards, I’ve had enough.
And what pushed me over the brink of finally having had enough, is this: Bank of America can go to the Federal Reserve and borrow the $7000 I owe them, at one quarter of one percent interest. The FED makes this money up out of thin air, and lends it to Bank of America, at one QUARTER of one percent. Then they turn around and lend that to me at 14%. That’s 60 TIMES more. 6000% more. For every dollar they pay on interest for the funny money they borrowed from the Fed, they get 60 dollars back from me. And they don’t think they should be regulated?
I agree, they should be lined up against a wall and shot! They should be doused with red paint and rolled through the streets. They should be put to work growing onions and cabbages in Alaska. They should be given brooms and forced to sweep up the slums. How would you like to be some unemployed janitor, looking down from the ninth floor of your tenement, watching a banker sweeping up the broken glass in the street. Wouldn’t that make your day? Wouldn’t that make you feel like America is working again? The entire economy would bounce back in a few weeks if people saw that happening. Bankers actually working. How unique. How special.
The key to this is, if we ALL stop paying, the bankers are really gonna freak out. If we won’t borrow money from them at 6000% profit, what’ll they do? Lower it to 5000%. 4000?
That’s how we stopped the Vietnam War. It’s not covered in the history books, but that’s how we stopped that war. When we ALL said we weren’t gonna fight, the soldiers, the draftees, the students, the workers…everyone…the war stopped. But I’m not waiting on anyone else. I’m just gonna stop right now. And urge you to do the same. (more…)
January 17, 2010
[The Rude Guy Podcast #65 January 17, 2010]
[FDR: "I welcome their hatred" speech.]
Rich Zubaty here. Welcoming you to the Reality Cult. The show that’s about reality…not fantasy. Not Rush Limbaugh talking points, not the Democratic Party platform, not Barack Obama’s to-do list, not fantasy. Reality.
This just in. Natives of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu recently held a, quote “conciliation ceremony”, with the great great grandson of the British missionary, the Reverend John Williams, whom the islanders ATE when he came ashore in 1839. They claim their forefathers had eaten him to, quote, “absorb the power of their enemy”. Nonetheless, 160 years later they still feel “guilt” over killing and eating the famous Christian missionary, and therefore presented great great grandson, Charles Milner-Williams with…a SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL…I shit you not… a SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL, who will NOT be eaten. But whose education will be paid for by the British aristocratic family. Win win for the natives. First they eat the great great grandfather, then get his family to pay for their daughter’s private education in the best English schools.
See what I mean about reality.
[bird]
I’ve actually begun to think that one big reason President Obama is in no hurry to end the wars, is because he’s afraid to throw a couple million more people out of their jobs, making guns and bombs, in this rotten economy – as if they couldn’t be reassigned to repairing falling bridges and crumbling schools. But staying the maddening course, set by George W Bush, is the safe way to handle it. And that’s the way our pragmatic president does things. The safe way. The easy way. The convenient way. The way that makes the fewest waves and fewest enemies. The CONSERVATIVE way. We now have a populist leader who has convinced us that War is Peace, Conformity is Creativity and No Change is Change. Someday soon, in order to avoid mass insanity, we’re gonna have to go back to using the dictionary definitions of things, not just whatever sounds good in a sound bite.
It’s gotten to the point where I cannot stand the sound of Barack Obama’s voice. As soon as I hear it I change the channel, just like I did with George W Bush. It just plain annoys me listening to him serving up vinegar and calling it champagne. It makes me angry.
My shrink tells me that I’m angry because I am fearful. That anger is always caused by fear. Oh really? That’s like telling me that pigs can’t fly because they don’t have wings. There’s a whole lot more to the story. Pigs can’t fly because they don’t have hollow bones and streamlined bodies and proper wing muscles. Like so many things in clinical psychology, what my shrink tells me is true as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.
I’m angry because Barack Obama lied. To me and to the nation. And in lying to us he fucked up an enormous opportunity for change. Fucked up a historical swing of the pendulum from conservatism back to liberalism. No, fuck liberalism. Way past liberalism…to Progressivism. Maybe even socialism. Once again, the Democrats came out in full blown support of bullshit social issues – electing a black man or a white woman for president – and tiptoed away from supporting no bullshit economic issues – like halting the thirty-year destruction of the middle class by banks and insurance companies. And today. One year after the economic collapse directly caused by Wall Street greed, the capitalist pigs are openly saying: boy oh boy, if we didn’t start a stampede to socialism after that fuck up, it’s NEVER gonna happen. And they’re greedier and more brazen than ever. Because Barack Obama dithered and compromised and sermonized from the sidelines, instead of jumping into the game and grabbing the ball, and making the moves he told us he’d make, to straighten out the economy and the wars and insurance company parasites…which means, he lied.
Never have I seen a human being talk so much, and do so little. If you think that this guy is smart, then I’ve got a flying pig to sell you. (more…)
December 19, 2009
Tom Hayden said its time to peel the Obama sticker off his car. And I know why. Barack Obama distorts the truth.
In response to those of us who oppose his Afghani military build up Obama said:
“They argue that [Afghanistan] cannot be stabilized, and we are better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. Yet this argument depends upon a false reading of history. (more…)
[The Rude Guy Podcast #64 December 19, 2009]
Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy here. I had to laugh when Barack Obama gave himself a “solid B plus” for his first year in office. In my last podcast I gave him a solid D plus. Obama’s cautious plodding conservative do-nothing style, makes it look like the white guys who have been running the place for the past two hundred years, were a bunch of gung ho activists, doing a whale of a job. I’m a WHITE guy and I don’t even believe that. For progressive activists like me, the bad news is: Barack Obama is a bigger threat to us than George W. Bush ever was. If George Bush had got up before the Nobel Prize Committee and told us: “make no mistake about it, evil exists,” we would have hooted and cat-called, and shouted, “Yeah right George, and you’re it. The evil is you.” If Bush had sent another 50,000 troops into Afghanistan and told us “don’t worry, they’re gonna start coming home in a year and a half,” this is, right after the midterm elections, there would have been protests from coast to coast, and in dozens of European cities. But when Obama says it there’s one single protest demonstration in Bozeman Montana. Good for you Bozeman. If Bush had told us he was gonna fix the demolished economy, and then did everything he could to help Wall Street and nothing to help main street, for ONE SOLID YEAR, leftists would be having “die-ins” on Wall Street, and on the runways of major airports, to shut them down and get the government’s attention, like Thailand did last year.
“Change we can believe in” huh? The Politics of Hope always was bullshit. Obama’s self-centered ambition, repackaged as a populist dream. “Change we can believe in” was a slogan invented by David Axelrod, chief strategist and media advisor for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The job of media advisers is to come up with snappy slogans. Axelrod, a former Chicago Tribune reporter who makes $1.5 million dollars a year as a political media consultant, had already worked for—Mayor Richard M. Daley, senatorial candidate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, and Tom Vilsack — and had run John Edwards failed 2004 presidential campaign. Indeed, Axelrod had a long time friendship with Hillary, through her work for an epilepsy foundation, co-founded by Axelrod’s mother and wife, but…friendships be damned. This was politics. If opinion polls had said that “a peanut butter sandwich on every plate” or a “wrecked car for every homeless person to sleep in” were the winningest campaign slogans, then instead of “change you can believe in” we would have been hearing about peanut butter and junk cars for two years. That’s how deep “change” went with these guys.
Yes, folks, unlike any other candidate in history, Barack Obama ran for president for two years. He never did shit as an Illinois Senator. Didn’t even oppose the war that he had so heartily opposed to get onto the national stage. Where I live shi-shi Obama house parties for the wine and cheese liberals, started in 2006. There were even bogus anti-Kucinich emails, accusing Dennis of being a racist, flooding our inboxes, because they knew Dennis Kucinich had won the 2004 Democratic primary against John Kerry, in this county.
As I’ve said before, I voted for Obama. I was proud of America for electing a brown-skinned president. The entire world was ready to march to his drum, and bring about systemic change, particularly Europe. Even some African and Muslim countries. And now I am appalled, at what a do-nothing conservative sell-out he really is. He’s taking the generals advice, instead of the grunt’s advice, to fight an international terrorist organization that operates under fifty different names, in fifty different countries…by putting 100,000 troops into Afghanistan.
His economic advisers are all understudies and former employees of Bob Rubin, the free trade pirate himself, who wrecked the entire economy by abolishing the Glass-Steagall act as Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, then went over to the freshly deregulated Citigroup to make 120 million dollars before his deregulatory schemes poisoned the entire world economy. Wonder why there are no serious attempts to reinstate Glass-Steagall right now, the firewall between commercial and investment banks? Bob Rubin, the guy who smashed that firewall, is still behind the curtain, pulling the levers to run the U.S. economy.
As Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone said: it would have cost us 1.4 trillion dollars to bail out every subprime mortgage in America, but instead taxpayers ended up paying FOURTEEN trillion dollars to pay off all the bad BETS, on the subprime mortgages, placed by Wall Street banks. And President Obama wants to give us $70 billion to stimulate jobs. Whoopee do. The man lives in a shoe. And the shoe is owned by the big banks.
And that’s what this show is gonna be about. The big banks that own the American economy, and thereby own the American government, including its water boy in chief, Barack Hussein Obama. (more…)
