Imagine how much money was invested in making people believe the New Deal wasn’t a success.
Imagine how much it took to get all these Americans to believe The Civil War wasn’t about Slavery. I just knock old people out with facts like the preacher who touches parishioners and they pass out with facts they don’t see coming, because they have none.
“If The Civil War was not about Slavery how did the County that novelist William Faulkner grow up in have an economic reality in which the slaves were worth more than all the property in the county itself?”
Mouth opens but no words…
“And now you see why all those slaves were insured and unless the paperwork was purposefully destroyed, the value and identity of each of those slaves was painstakingly recorded. So when discussing reparations…”
These Questions Socrates knew are the best weapons because people without original thoughts will just drown in their own saliva trying to speak.
They occassionally get apoplectic, but it’s mostly just like flipping over a shark and letting them go to sleep.
It’s not like I’m Goodwill Hunting. This is just what happens when you read instead of plant your face in the freeze dried mashpatatoes that is 24 hour news that you can eat with spork.
Food stamps.
I body these fools all day and walk away. I tell the true story of Republicans and Democrats wiping out starvation (but not hunger) after an embarrassing Life Magazine article, which is why we have a situation where millions are both fat and malnourished, and farmers are basically in the closet Socialists in denial.
It was food stamps. Major success.
So was fortifying bread with Riboflavin. God damn Government intervention never works…except when it does.
Oh and those weird old dudes who think Hitler was a genius. I take the gloves off and break down how terrible a writer and military strategist Hitler truly was.
“Ok give me one famous Hitler quote. He is one of the worst bestselling authors of all time. Obama could actually write. MLK could improvise speeches we memorize today. Hitler was trash now let’s get into how stupid his decision making was battle by battle, such as the dog sh☆t ordered not retreat.
Then I hit them with an airtight example…
“The order to retreat actually helped Germany at the Battle of the Bulge, because defied their fictitiously intelligent Fuhrer. Houston crushed Santa Anna after a retreat.”
The look of surprise on the faces of such men, when they try to counter that they were a veteran.
“I thank you for your service but you clearly were not a general, because that is text book military history and the Art of War.”
The greatest thing about debating in real life is that nobody ever sees me coming, and you can’t block me, or just call me a libtard. Because this is real life and I’m standing there.
…and I’m funny. That’s the weapon that is lost online. If I make you crack up here in some of these rants, real life debates can be peppered with every manner of comedic devices.
When I went to England I sharpened my wit with the best of them and came out with a few cuts but was generally unscathed because while the English are generally better educated, that isn’t saying much and like Americans they have this blind spot with their own history that we too experience with Empire, because the rest of the world knows where the bombs dropped, because it dropped on them.
Even with these Oxford political science types you can stun them with talk of Anthony Eden’s grave mistakes with The Suez Canal and then trick them into the folly of believing we could not have gone into The Iraq War without them, then hit them with a Tory Blair.
That’s like hitting them in the head by dropping the hood of car. Sip pint and walk away. Dead.
But the English did teach me the English way. It’s how you cut someone, and they don’t even know it. They just feel their shirt and it’s wet.
Rhetorically speaking.
I wish there were real debates in real life. Facebook and 24 hour news punditry is an obomination.
We have to be getting dumber.
And in regards to the New Deal, look it up yourself. Bernie is just playing FDR. How many terms did the New Deal win him? All of them. He left office an elected official in a body bag with World War 2 all but decided.
FDR stopped a Communist revolution round 1933 by going a little bit pink with some policies we take for granted today like Social Security. Had the Government not been raiding it all these years, it would probably be fine.
The Revolution FDR actually had to stop was The Industrialists trying to con a general into a Coup.
Eisenhower’s taxes were so high your eyes will pop out, and these Republicans talk about going back to 1950s values. Let’s do it and start with the tax rate. And let’s roll out the National Guard on these White Supremacists like Dwight did. Let’s go!
Next let’s talk about who may have whacked Stalin. I’m not saying it’s a fact because History is pretty hazy and hits are hits. Those facts are fuzzy and I don’t do Rabbit Holes. I do libraries. Never seen a Public Library I didn’t like.
And that’s that Socialism again. That New Deal. Everyone is free to not check out books and stay dumb.
They probably buried Jimmy Hoffa in a Library, so nobody would ever find him. That’s the best place to keep a secret. In a book mate.
Here’s a fun secret you can look up your damn self…
Stalin was probably poisoned by ______ after he sent Stalin the most bad ass letter of all time.
“Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
Stay thirsty my friends. But arguing on the internet is futile. In person it’s quite magical. Because it’s easier to unfriend someone than it is to walk out the door knowing you completely underestimated some fellow you can’t call an idiot.
I have been underestimated my whole life. Then again, it’s probably better than being overestimated. I think old people are just kind of distracted trying to figure out “my nationality”.
It’s American. Traveling made that clear. And it fueled my passion to not be the dumb one.
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