Aftermath and repercussions of Obama victory

[TitoFan]

You know.... a woman running over her husband because he didn't vote against Obama is one thing.
But this talk of secession by some butthurt states?? It's freaking ridiculous.
And YET..... secession talk is child's play compared to THIS:



Coal company fires 150 workers in response to Obama re-election - Business on NBCNews.com



You have GOT to be fucking KIDDING ME!!!

[TitoFan]

The reaction to Obama's reelection has been unprecedented. States talking of recession... companies laying off employees in some sort of sick, twisted, vengeful manner... etc, etc, etc.

Seriously, how is a President supposed to get a fair shake in an attempt to direct the country on the path to prosperity? The President is calling for unity, and he's got half the country trying to defect. WTF is wrong with people nowadays?

Lyle, I'm sure you'll have some witty response as to why all of this is ok... but it still reeks to the rest of us. WTF is this?
Seriously.

Whatever happened to the democratic process? You have elections... the people vote for their candidate... the candidate with the most electoral votes wins... the country MOVES ON. It's been this way since the Stone Age. Why the epic butthurt... to paraphrase @Youngblood ?

Is any of this supposed to help fix the country? I thought the U.S. was bigger than that. You know that TV commercial where the white guy named Michael Jordan gets a bunch of disappointed "oh"s from pizza delivery guys, restaurantiers, limo drivers... who were expecting the "real" Michael?

Well.... that's about the same reaction the rest of the world must be having to these silly, stupid antics by the butthurt rightists.

"Oh."

[Gandalf]

It's all quite tragic.

America is a messed up place and rather than uniting on the issues that matter you have a bunch of muppets making the most oddball proclamations and acting in quite bizarre ways.

It just makes me laugh really, but I know I shouldn't.

[generalbulldog]

Only a few thousand signatures? Get back to me when it's a few million and it's seriously being discussed by those state's legislatures. This is chicken little the sky is falling stuff.

[Beanz]

Lightpole? :-)

[El Kabong]

You know.... a woman running over her husband because he didn't vote against Obama is one thing.
But this talk of secession by some butthurt states?? It's freaking ridiculous.
And YET..... secession talk is child's play compared to THIS:



Coal company fires 150 workers in response to Obama re-election - Business on NBCNews.com



You have GOT to be fucking KIDDING ME!!!

Obama said he was going to bankrupt the coal industry. "If someone wants to build a coal powered plant they can, but it will bankrupt them" his own words, his own policies.....don't act surprised when he told everyone what he was going to do and the coal company is just preparing for Obama to make good on his promises.

[TitoFan]

You know.... a woman running over her husband because he didn't vote against Obama is one thing.
But this talk of secession by some butthurt states?? It's freaking ridiculous.
And YET..... secession talk is child's play compared to THIS:



Coal company fires 150 workers in response to Obama re-election - Business on NBCNews.com



You have GOT to be fucking KIDDING ME!!!

Obama said he was going to bankrupt the coal industry. "If someone wants to build a coal powered plant they can, but it will bankrupt them" his own words, his own policies.....don't act surprised when he told everyone what he was going to do and the coal company is just preparing for Obama to make good on his promises.

So chief exec Murray decided to do a preemptive strike on the poor bastards that worked for him?
Sounds like a sound, business, humanitarian move to me.

Never mind trying to outplace these people. Never mind their needs. I'm fucking pissed off that Obama won... so I'll show HIM... I'll just fire all my own people.


"The hurricane is coming and it may damage my house... so I'll just blow the fucking thing up and not give the hurricane the satisfaction of blowing it down".

Give it up, Lyle. You know this is a bullshit move, just like all the bullshit secession talk that's going on.
Just like @Youngblood said...... epic butthurt.

[El Kabong]

So chief exec Murray decided to do a preemptive strike on the poor bastards that worked for him?
Sounds like a sound, business, humanitarian move to me.

Never mind trying to outplace these people. Never mind their needs. I'm fucking pissed off that Obama won... so I'll show HIM... I'll just fire all my own people.


"The hurricane is coming and it may damage my house... so I'll just blow the fucking thing up and not give the hurricane the satisfaction of blowing it down".

Give it up, Lyle. You know this is a bullshit move, just like all the bullshit secession talk that's going on.
Just like @Youngblood said...... epic butthurt.

LOL, you don't get it do you? As the owner of the business that is directly in the crosshairs of the President he probably tightened the belt in order to prepare his company to survive for the next 4 years. You don't run a business do you? I've met with friends and they had deals that were surefire things go belly up after the election....is it because the people are racist? Are they bitter? Well they might be bitter at the thought of a lost opportunity but they wouldn't cut off their nose to spite their face because at the end of the day their job as owner of a business is to MAKE MONEY.


But hey, I'm glad you liberals think it's all just a case of "butthurt", if that makes you feel better and keeps you feeling all warm & fuzzy on the inside as the economy slows to a grinding halt then that's fine. You call me out for generalizing when I show the guy gaming the welfare system but you're telling me that this guy who owns the Coal company and everyone else not making deals after the election is just on account of "butthurt".....that's rich man, quite funny.

[TitoFan]

So chief exec Murray decided to do a preemptive strike on the poor bastards that worked for him?
Sounds like a sound, business, humanitarian move to me.

Never mind trying to outplace these people. Never mind their needs. I'm fucking pissed off that Obama won... so I'll show HIM... I'll just fire all my own people.


"The hurricane is coming and it may damage my house... so I'll just blow the fucking thing up and not give the hurricane the satisfaction of blowing it down".

Give it up, Lyle. You know this is a bullshit move, just like all the bullshit secession talk that's going on.
Just like @Youngblood said...... epic butthurt.

LOL, you don't get it do you? As the owner of the business that is directly in the crosshairs of the President he probably tightened the belt in order to prepare his company to survive for the next 4 years. You don't run a business do you? I've met with friends and they had deals that were surefire things go belly up after the election....is it because the people are racist? Are they bitter? Well they might be bitter at the thought of a lost opportunity but they wouldn't cut off their nose to spite their face because at the end of the day their job as owner of a business is to MAKE MONEY.


But hey, I'm glad you liberals think it's all just a case of "butthurt", if that makes you feel better and keeps you feeling all warm & fuzzy on the inside as the economy slows to a grinding halt then that's fine. You call me out for generalizing when I show the guy gaming the welfare system but you're telling me that this guy who owns the Coal company and everyone else not making deals after the election is just on account of "butthurt".....that's rich man, quite funny.

No Lyle. What's funny is your notion that President Obama's first order of business on his very busy agenda is to single out and close all coal companies, regardless of what he may have said. Yes... I imagine him sitting with his Cabinet first thing in the morning after his re-election, saying: "Well boys... first things first. We need to close down all these damn coal companies. Starting with that shitty one in Ohio, what's it called..... Murray Energy?"

But you're the consumate businessman, Lyle. If you think the immediate firing of over 150 workers from a coal company is sound business practice, and has nothing to do with butthurt over Obama's re-election... then by golly, you must be right.

[El Kabong]

No Lyle. What's funny is your notion that President Obama's first order of business on his very busy agenda is to single out and close all coal companies, regardless of what he may have said. Yes... I imagine him sitting with his Cabinet first thing in the morning after his re-election, saying: "Well boys... first things first. We need to close down all these damn coal companies. Starting with that shitty one in Ohio, what's it called..... Murray Energy?"

But you're the consumate businessman, Lyle. If you think the immediate firing of over 150 workers from a coal company is sound business practice, and has nothing to do with butthurt over Obama's re-election... then by golly, you must be right.

Well you're a liberal so obviously you can't be wrong

[TitoFan]

No Lyle. What's funny is your notion that President Obama's first order of business on his very busy agenda is to single out and close all coal companies, regardless of what he may have said. Yes... I imagine him sitting with his Cabinet first thing in the morning after his re-election, saying: "Well boys... first things first. We need to close down all these damn coal companies. Starting with that shitty one in Ohio, what's it called..... Murray Energy?"

But you're the consumate businessman, Lyle. If you think the immediate firing of over 150 workers from a coal company is sound business practice, and has nothing to do with butthurt over Obama's re-election... then by golly, you must be right.

Well you're a liberal so obviously you can't be wrong

Never mind how the article goes on to say how Murray Energy has incurred in environmental atrocities in the past, specifically by spilling coal slurry into nearby creeks... and how the company has donated over $1 million to Republican candidates in the last 5 years. So this had nothing to do with Obama's re-election, except that maybe under Obama, Murray's company will be held accountable for any further environmental "mishaps". Not to mention the fact that Obama will of course emphasize the maximization of natural gas, a cheaper, cleaner fuel.

So fuck it. Rather than restructure or adapt, like other companies do... let's just fire all these bastards. After all, that is what sound business practices would dictate. Right Lyle?

[Beanz]

There is too much gray in the world. Not enough Grey though.

[El Kabong]

Intent So Obama means to follow through on his promises after 4 years of not worrying at all about the economy and forcing Obamacare down our throats? Hahaha....you are such a phoney you'd never vote Republican at least I'm honest when I say I'll never vote Democrat.

[TitoFan]

There is too much gray in the world. Not enough Grey though.

[Kirkland Laing]

So chief exec Murray decided to do a preemptive strike on the poor bastards that worked for him?
Sounds like a sound, business, humanitarian move to me.

Never mind trying to outplace these people. Never mind their needs. I'm fucking pissed off that Obama won... so I'll show HIM... I'll just fire all my own people.


"The hurricane is coming and it may damage my house... so I'll just blow the fucking thing up and not give the hurricane the satisfaction of blowing it down".

Give it up, Lyle. You know this is a bullshit move, just like all the bullshit secession talk that's going on.
Just like @Youngblood said...... epic butthurt.

LOL, you don't get it do you? As the owner of the business that is directly in the crosshairs of the President he probably tightened the belt in order to prepare his company to survive for the next 4 years. You don't run a business do you? I've met with friends and they had deals that were surefire things go belly up after the election....is it because the people are racist? Are they bitter? Well they might be bitter at the thought of a lost opportunity but they wouldn't cut off their nose to spite their face because at the end of the day their job as owner of a business is to MAKE MONEY.


But hey, I'm glad you liberals think it's all just a case of "butthurt", if that makes you feel better and keeps you feeling all warm & fuzzy on the inside as the economy slows to a grinding halt then that's fine. You call me out for generalizing when I show the guy gaming the welfare system but you're telling me that this guy who owns the Coal company and everyone else not making deals after the election is just on account of "butthurt".....that's rich man, quite funny.

It isn't Obama who fucked the coal industry, it's natural gas and supply and demand. Coal can't compete with natural gas anymore. I could post graphs of both prices going back a few years but you can go and look and learn.