posted by richzubaty on Jun 1
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posted by richzubaty on Jun 1
[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, Read the rest of this entry »
posted by richzubaty on Apr 16
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posted by richzubaty on Apr 16
[The Rude Guy Podcast #67 April 16, 2010]
[The Two Kinds of 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. Read the rest of this entry »
posted by richzubaty on Jan 17
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posted by richzubaty on Jan 17
[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. Read the rest of this entry »
posted by richzubaty on Oct 12
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posted by richzubaty on Oct 12
[The Rude Guy Podcast #62 October 13, 2009]
Barack Obama: Our First Female President
Rich Zubaty here, The Rude Guy once more. I voted for Barack Obama and I want him to succeed. But I don’t think he has a chance in hell of success unless he starts doing things much much differently. I’m glad he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe now he’ll start making some peace. So far he’s listened to the military assholes and sent more troops to Afghanistan and got more Americans killed there, than in any other year of this eight year war…and now, and only now, are he and Rahm Emmanuel reading books about Vietnam, trying to get up to speed on the American style of losing wars. This is not what you call smart. It’s what you call plodding, and overly dependent on advisors, and behind the eight ball. The Left was telling him a year ago to get out of Afghanistan because that war is unwinnable. Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires. The war’s just a running toilet of cost/plus dollars for our fucking defense contractors. Obama’s got blood on his hands now, and it’s time to change course. We should do exactly what Russia did. Pack everything up and leave. And that’s it. Hail to the Chief for getting the Nobel Peace prize. Now let’s have some peace! Henry Kissinger got it too. And all he did is prolong the war in Vietnam and give the go ahead for death squads in Argentina and to overthrow the government in Chile. Some peacenik Henry.
But there is some good news: President Obama is NOT going to put antimissile missiles in Eastern Europe. I’m thrilled. I really am. It’s the first thing he’s done right. 70% of the Czech people didn’t want the missiles. Russia viewed that Bush era plan, as belligerent saber rattling in their back yard, as if they suddenly decided to put missiles in Cuba – again. And…our antimissile missile system doesn’t even work. The technology is not there. I’m beginning to see what it takes for Barack Obama to make a decision. He needs a boulder on one side of the scale and a pebble on the other to decide anything. This man does not take chances. I’m sick of this already. He’s one of these guys who makes passionate arguments in favor of things everybody already agrees with. He’s against feeling bad and for feeling good and wants everybody to be happy. He’s all for puppies and sunshine and green energy. It’s feminized cowshit.
And therein lies the bad news. Barack Obama is our first female president. Our first female president. He governs just like a woman. That’s because he’s spent his whole life surrounded by women. Trying to please women. That’s his way. He was raised by a single mom. Truth of the matter is, if his dad had stuck around, Barack would probably be teaching computer science in Nairobi Kenya instead of being president of the United States. So he’s lucky his dad split.
When his mom died he was raised by his grandma. A bank vice president. His grandpa was a salesman. When he gave some drinking buddy a discount on furniture the guy helped get Barack into Punahou high school. Punahou is the most elite private high school west of Boston. Really. It’s where colonial captains of government and industry have been raised, together, in the same classrooms and on the same ball fields, for the past two hundred years. A bastion of conservativism. Just like Harvard, his other school.
Then Barack married a powerful lawyer and had two daughters. The man is surrounded by women. He knows how to “approach” women. How to appeal to women. He’s a woman’s man, not a man’s man. I would much rather have a beer with talk show host Ed Schultz than I would with Barack Obama. I’d rather talk about walleye fishing and bird hunting and unabashed leftist politics than about running some fucking community organization which, as far as I can tell, is the only thing Obama ever ran, before he became president of the biggest corporation in history.
Barack Obama is an attractive, charismatic, feminized man, who has no qualms about changing his mind. I voted for him, I own a piece of him and here are my questions for him. Are we getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo? Or not? Are we gonna have universal health care? Or not? Are we gonna investigate Bush era torture and assassination squads. Or not? Are we gonna end domestic spying? Or not. Are we gonna stop renditioning political enemies to be interrogated in other countries? Or not? Are we gonna regulate the piss out of Wall Street, or not?
George W Bush was an asshole from the get go. I was never fooled by him. But I feel more lied to by Barack Obama than any politician in my lifetime.
Obama holds his wet finger in the wind and says whatever he thinks people want to hear, this week. Clintonian opinion-poll politics. The worst. He’s a technocrat. Trying to patch up our country with a screwdriver, and some super glue, and a pretty speech.
Like a woman, his principal talent is talking. Not doing. Talking. Talking in that wonderful resonant seductive voice of his, while reading from a teleprompter.
Like a woman he wants to be all things to all people. He wants everybody to like him. He wants to throw his arms around the congressmen and women, and steer the government by consensus. Consensus is how women do things. That’s how you organize bake sales and pool parties. Not how you be president of the United States. The president walks point. He’s out in front. Not hanging back.
Obama’s feminized inclination to try and make everyone like him is self-defeating. When FDR revved up to pass Social Security he said, “The forces arrayed against me hate me, and I welcome their hatred!” I welcome their hatred! That’s leadership. That’s manliness. Here’s a cripple in a wheel chair with more balls than Barack Obama.
Obama was elected a year ago and what has he accomplished? Cash for Clunkers.
What a fucking clunker that was. Read the rest of this entry »
