modern-day-rome asked: You do realize that the impeach-mint thing was a joke right?? That maybe every president since Hebert Hoover is a financial criminal. FDR should be tried. Nixon and Truman. The fact is you can't create a defense for any of these 'men' because they're the ones who make sure that nobody can get a job. All of these people make sure that the economy wont grow. God Bless the USSA right?
Yes, sir. I do believe we’re saying similar things. I definitely was not creating a defense for these ‘men’, as you put it. I was merely stating the fact that you cannot solve the problem of corruption and/or incompetence at the top through the process of impeachment…it would be like asking Al-Qaeda back in the day to turn in bin Laden to international court, then sit in as a jury on the hearings. All the people that would be involved in the impeachment proceedings are just as useless and as much at fault as our supreme leader. To condemn him, they would probably shed light on all the fraud and scandal that they themselves have been involved in.
Also, it’s probably not that those individuals at the decision-making levels of government want to purposely hold down Americans and keep them from getting jobs and making a living. It is that there is no back bone and no moral integrity anywhere in sight in the Oval Office and the majority of Congress. Extreme statement, perhaps. But what do Americans expect? If people paid attention in high school US History, they’d understand that the underlying problem is Democracy and Capitalism has the kind of love story that only exists in relationships like Rihanna and Chris Brown’s.
Education is now a consumer commodity. I know this because I participated. I basically bought my Master’s degree effortlessly. Landed me a job I love, so that’s cool; but it doesn’t change the facts of the matter.
America! Fuck yeah!
(Source: thinksquad, via child-of-the-universe)
Shut up, Rand Paul. Nobody trusts you. I don’t, at least.
Just because GEICO makes good commercials, doesn’t mean it’s not slimy for being in the dirty business of insurance.
(Source: tacticalconscience)
The problem with this (this being the idea of calling for impeachment, not the meme itself, which is actually kinda cute) is this: you’re following a trend and “Every single ‘popular’ president has been called to be impeached” would be the dismissing statement (35 out of 44 presidents have been subject to attempted impeachment). Also, the idea of impeachment follows standardized procedures involving congressional hearings, judicial procedures, etc. Can we trust these procedures when Bill Clinton was impeached for crimes like obstruction of justice and perjury in cases relating to his personal sexual indiscretion, and the infamous lying, cheating, thieving Dick Nixon was able to get away with a public resignation?
(Source: modern-day-rome)
realizations
I’m not overly pleased with or teeming with confidence in myself. I am just happy. I know I’m going to get where I’m going. That is truth which is self-evident.
(Source: swurdin, via child-of-the-universe)
things i haven’t learned in high school
- how to pay bills
- how to buy a house
- how to buy a car
- how to apply for loans for college
but thank jesus i can graph a polynomial function
This post should be titled “things I can just ask my parents”.
this^^
**Unless your parents are immigrants who brought you to America in hopes of better opportunities, but had no idea how to navigate the system themselves and were scammed by manipulative persons left and right, and through the process lost all their savings. My parents taught me to be responsible, and warned me to stay out of debt, but how could they know how to apply for school loans, shop for the best mortgage rates, or how to negotiate on cars, when the English they knew barely helped them get by at the grocery store? This is my personal story; there are other circumstances to consider.
“…remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” ~F. Scott Fitzgeral, The Great Gatsby
BUT, I have come to figure these things out. And these will be things I will teach my children. Rather, I will teach them how to save money to buy a house, buy used cars that they can afford, or not use a car at all; I will teach them to fix their cars themselves, and educate themselves beyond the college classroom, because no amount of paper - whether they confer degrees or have “legal tender” printed on them - can measure their worth.
People Over Politics has some goodness on their Facebook page if you’re ever around that way
If you want something to say fml about, this would be it. Not traffic in the morning. Not a split nail.
(via thinksquad)
…what!? This gonna piss alot of hardworking people off.
Yes, I did fucking know this!!! It has already happened to me.
Yes, I know this. This goes out to 1099 individuals and part-time employees as well. You might start to notice that the rate of unemployment might go down while the rate of uninsured will go up, while number of man hours paid out by companies will remain the same. Why? Naturally, some companies will take advantage of this new policy, demote a lot of their employees to part time workers, and hire on more people to make up for the manhours.
You have BOBama to thank for that.
Oh, and if you’re a smoker, Obamacare specifically states that insurance companies may charge you up to 50% as much in premiums. Somehow that seems contradictory to the idea of removing preexisting conditions clauses. As a smoker myself, I am offended and feel discriminated against. I think it’s unfair that I will have to pay more in insurance premiums, when I most likely will visit the doctor maybe once every 3-5 years; but I’m afraid to go uninsured because I like to participate in adrenaline sports, and don’t want to get stuck with a ridiculous unexpected e-room bill.
Personal freedom is dead. Welcome to America.
(via thinksquad)
The sad thing is, this is what the education system has become and I applaud him for speaking his mind.. I wish more people saw this video
Did not see it going that way but damn. Cheers kid.
Somebody give this kid a seat on the state board of education.
Cuz this guy UNDERSTANDS!Everything this young man just pointed out is the very reason I pulled my children out of school and decided to home school them.
My kids are going to be home schooled. Fuck the brick production machine.
(Source: waylie)
"My heart is like a war drum."
— Mac Lethal
“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It’s an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that’s not the most important thing. It’s the work itself.”
~ Alan Moore
writer of the Watchmen, V for Vendetta and overall fucking genius.
War Drum - Mac Lethal
*Note: these lyrics are not completely accurate. I took them from here.
And I remember back when I was twenty-five
When I was still young, still tender,
Still passionate with sunny vibes
Before the rain before the tragedies and bloody skies
Before my memories were massacred to mummified
Sippin on a rox glass warm scotch cold ice
I like relaxin don’t mistake that for a gold life
My whole life it’s been really hard to breathe
I’ve been waitin on a person that will finally put my heart to ease
I weave through the carbon freeze
Wind blows through the scarlet trees
It’s been years since I’ve felt jealousy
Since I’ve felt this pressure
Hell bent for leather shedding felt tip letters
So down spill your beer
You turned thirty just to realize everything is down hill from here
Say good bye to having party time amongst friends
And say hello to single mothers that don’t trust men
…
Me and my ex girl Israel and Palestine
Same thing it’s never too early for a glass of wine
The shutters go bang
you feeling predator you’ve gone bloodied those fangs
It’s so strange
Some times I’m such a grumpy old thing
That I take a little bump of cocaine
Just to lubricate me socially
Hate is not the opposite of love no it isn’t
The opposite of love is indifference
And it’s suppose to be
I feel and unadulterated adulation for the people are close to me
I mean for the people I abuse
It’s never been a secret that I go from hot to freezing with my moods
So here’s a ghost for free
you spend your whole life rejecting
Who your parents told you you were suppose to be
But I guess it doesn’t feel like it’s your life
Till you grow up an you realize they were right
…
So I’m quilting the seasons together
Guilty to thinking forever
Will be the reason I wanna settle it down
I think I’m building it evenly
Roof and ceiling is keeping me
From the millions of evil people meddlesome clowns(get down)
Just because I’m atheist don’t mean the devil is around
Just means the faith you spit to me was letting me down
I don’t find human beings supreme
I don’t think privileged to know what life means
This is the life where you could make a hundred million dollars
Selling Christ if you work the angles right
Polish them and shine them till you turn the halos bright
Add a sense of urgency and surely they gonna bite
You know who else would do that
A certain angel might but I don’t believe in Satan
Don’t believe in wrong or right
Nope I just believe in protect those that need it
And if you make a fuck up don’t repeat it Jesus Christ
Live Your Life - T.I.
I’m the opposite of moderate. Immaculately polished, with the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid.
