Man! Dude! Session #213

(M)an: Dude! New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie is the temperature gauge for the Tea Party GOP, winning the gubernatorial race in the 2009 elections and assuming office on January 19, 2010. 

(D)ude: Man! This is around the time the incoming class of Tea Party congressional candidates were being groomed for the 2010 takeover of the House of Representatives. There were secretive meetings being held around the D.C. area as President Obama’s inauguration was being celebrated.

M: Dude! After starting off at a law firm in 1987, Christie managed to become an elected official for Morris County, New Jersey, but that too fizzed out when again and again Christie was sued for defamation,  substituting “investigation” for “inquiry” in one matter while negotiating 7 controversial deferred prosecution agreements as federal prosecutor that favored his former boss John Ashcroft’s consulting firm in one instance and his alma mater in another instance concerning Bristol Myers, the drug company, handing over $5 million to Seton Hall University School of Law.

D: Man! Chris Christie is infamous for misstating points and then bailing out of the accusations he’s made at the last minute. That is very much like the tactics of the Tea Party membership. Remember when, in 2010, Chris Christie was caught with his hand in the cookie jar of $400 million worth of federal education grants to New Jersey?

M: Dude! Christie’s Education Commissioner Bret Schundler was the one with the cookie dough all over his mouth and the chocolate syrup all over his hands, but still managed to get what he wanted: to be fired in order to be able to receive unemployment coverage.  

D: Man! I think we’re getting closer and closer to Wikipedia and Online News becoming heavily right-winged. There are 3 really greedy Microsoft shareholders who are demanding Bill Gates step down this year, despite the fact that the iconic businessman inventor is already scheduled to financially ease out of the company he cofounded by 2018 anyways.

M: Dude! Corporations like Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson place 60 to 70% of free cash they attain as a result of phenomenal sales back into the system as dividends for their shareholders to collect. Microsoft, however, only allocates 40% of its free cash flow to shareholders to collect as dividends. However, I agree with you, Bill Gates is a great capitol allocator otherwise. We have to remember that Bill Gates is that honest genuine friend who gave Paul Allen his share in shares despite Allen having to detour out of the journeying to wealth due to Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1982.  

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! It takes an immaterial courageous mind and heart to do what Bill Gates did. I think Bill Gates is the last of the class acts in the computer industry. I miss Steve Jobs, but I will become resentful of Microsoft if its shareholders oust Bill Gates for being an inefficient capitol allocator. Yeah, the shareholders might attain the $40 plus values of their stock, but will have gutted the soul and generosity that Bill Gates and Melinda French embody.

D: Man! Talking about gutting the principles of soul and generosity in one’s company, the Tea Party GOP and Chris Christie are, as you said, testing the temperature of the water in terms of how to manipulate and cheat themselves to a newfound power with assistance from one of the most constituent offensive Supreme Courts to date. Look at the blatant disregard its Shelby County decision has fostered in districts’ voting registration methodology. Otherwise very relaxed and easygoing, but brutally questioning hawk eyes about a certain minority constituent’s need for an interpreter or assistance in the voting booth itself or anywhere in the vicinity of the court complex at election time.

M: Dude! That’s been happening in small towns and rural communities from the start!

D: Man! But it’s going to start happening in the cities and urban districts!

M: Dude! I was looking at the New Jersey Voter Registration Application form and was thinking why it asks for party affiliation.

D: Man! Why? Do they cheat in the tallying of votes when an election is too close to call? Sounds likely, but I always answer differently every time.

M: Dude! Have you actually reduced yourself to a Republican in the new millennium?

D: Man! I have an underlying anxiety about signing myself off as a Democrat! I sincerely think the vote I cast did not make a difference in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

M: Dude! I wouldn’t be surprised if the recounts in both cases were not altered purposefully for the election and reelection of George W. Bush  and Dick Cheney.

D: Man! I honestly think they play with voter registrations. Have you ever looked into the eyes of an elections clerk? A certain light goes off in the eyes of the right winged clerks. They prod too while you’re in the voting booth with someone needing assistance.

M: Dude! You’re making the voting booth in the cities and urban areas very questionable. Just as questionable as the rural White Flight townships.

D: Man! I don’t get how a liberal leaning and an affiliation for the Democratic Party are wrong. Why? Aren’t a conservative leaning and an affiliation for the Republican Party wrong?

M: Dude! Those 3 shareholders at Microsoft are going to be dictating everything if Bill Gates is let go. The Koch Brothers will have an avenue, that through the avarice at Microsoft, to come in and take over the presence of joviality and breadth and depth that is the Internet. The Internet will not be a freedom fighting revolutionist as it has been until now. We are at the mercy of Citizens United and the corporations that consider themselves people too are mongering hooligans.

D: Man! The price of stock at Microsoft is $33.40; but aren’t we in middle of a federal government shutdown anyways? Shouldn’t we be concerned for the furloughed and the frantic that are at the mercy of the Congressional Republicans?

M: Dude! Is it really too liberal for the major news networks to televise the facts as they exist on the government websites?  Can’t anyone look up usa.gov and check the status of services? Do they even know that the Republican-led Shutdown is preventing permits and reviews for the planned energy and transportations projects will stop, preventing companies from working on the projects. Loans to rural communities will be halted?

D: Man! The midterm examinations are upon students everywhere, but how dare we put our veterans through the hellishness of having their compensation, pension, education, and multiple other benefits cut off in the dire situation of an extended Republican-led shutdown?

M: Dude! Remember that song from The Smiths? The one entitled “Hooligan”?

D: Man! I gotcha! Hooligan, hooligan, you’ll never ever do it again! Not until the next time! I wouldn’t provide the GOP any reprieve for their self-made strategies of Sequestration and now the Shutdown. I’m totally for the Republican Party to self-annihilate. But they’re bogeymen and bogeywomen, I tell you! They’re like those weeds that keep coming back, whack after whack of treatments.