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In reply to the discussion: I'm curious...who here thinks they or anyone else, could have accomplished more than PBO [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)Ya gets yourself elected by talking tough. That's all ya gots ta do, because the people wants it straight. Ya just has ta tell 'em the Republicans are a bunch of lousy capitalist pigs and yer in.
Then once ya gets yourself inside a' 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, ya calls in the big guns from CongressHarry, Mitch, and the Bones manand ya tells em: this is how we're gonna play it boys (there aren't any girls, except maybe Patty Murray and Nancy Pelosi, so ya don't has ta says 'girls'). And if they don't wanna talk turkey wid ya, ya tells 'em: okay boys, ya wanna play tough? Boom, yer gone. We don't need any lousy Congress.
So the first thing ya does is put all the banksters in the slammer. It's easy. Ya don't need six, eight years of trials and appeals and ya don't need no lousy so-called legal basis either. Ya just calls up yer newly anointed AG (remember, you've gotten rid of the lousy Congress problem, so it's easy, see?) and he prosecutes 'em. That's it. Attica, Sing Sing, wherever. Boom. Problem solved. Wall Street's over, ya lousy bums. And stop the vetching about all the pension funds that were invested there. Just pay the damned teachers and firemen. Anoint Bernie as Treasury Secretary. Keeping the economy going is just like tappin' sap in Vermont each spring. It'll flow, believe me.
So that's about it. Once the corporate whores are all in prison we can all sit back and have some medical marijuana and reminisce about FDR and the good ol' days. Oh, and tell someone to do somethin' about climate change. Just tell everyone to stop emitting carbon. That should do it. And then stop all this worrying about foreigners cause they're far away and we don't need to think about them. We just need to get rid of all the corporations. And then ... I don't know. Everyone can plant their own vegetable garden. Yeah, that's the ticket. Hey, don't bogart that joint.