Hands down the best political ad I’ve ever seen
If I was the RNC, I would run this ad 40x a day everywhere. Seriously. Chills.
Apologies for not linking to source, I honestly don’t remember where I found it.
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Precisely. A hard truth wih a hard message that must be seen.
Very well-spoken
What really astounds me is how people cant’ see what is happening right now in Greece and Spain and link that to the kinds of policies they are advocating.
Rick- I noticed where you came from….. How’s Bruiser Ball looking for this year?
I’d like to see that run on the major networks every time there’s a break in the news.
Concur.
Sharing on FB.
It seems lately the people who understand the American dream the best are people who came from another country to capture that dream for themselves….
We really are raising a generation of coddled idiots who, like the rat choosing cocaine over food in the lab, will continue to press the button that brings their demise.
VOV, you’re absolutely right.
If these children had to struggle for the things that they take for granted, the way my parents did (Grt. Depression/WWIi generation, not immigrants), they might have a better appreciation of what they do have, starting with the freedom to be who they want to be.
Oh hell yes. +1000.
This is good however, the Obama Occupiers will only howl louder and bury their heads in the sand when they research who Mr. Peterffy is. Even though he came from a Socialist country with practically nothing and worked to be where he is (he’s in the top 100 richest people in the country), he will always be one of those supposed evil 1%’ers. Their blinders keep them from seeing anything more.
Yeah, it’s a great ad, except for the fact that comparing 1956 Hungary with 2012 America is like comparing apples to watermelons. Just another republican fear-based ad.
My dad came to the US from Dublin in 1947 (my mom later in 1956). As a child, in Dublin, my dad sold butter, eggs, and milk to the occasional U-Boad that entered Dublin for petty provisions during WW-II and shoveled manure and sold it as fertilizer to the ladies of Baggot Street and the like. When he came to the US he was successful in everything he did business and family (because of hard work), including his military service in Korea. Mr. Peterffy and my father share the same notions. The only difference is Mr. Peterffy has produced an outstanding ad … and my dear departed father is spinning in his grave.
“America’s wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success”. I wonder if the fact that the Europeans murdered their way across the continent, killing tens of millions of its original inhabitants, and inheriting a continent with vast natural resources and protected by two oceans had anything to do with it?
@13, There was plenty of genocide, human sacrafice, tribal warfare, canabalism, land theft, etc long before the first European set foot in North America. It wasn’t all peaches and cream. You need to turn off “Dances With Wolves” and join the real world.
Joe, I got to see plenty of Democrat fear-based ads last night while watching the Syfy channel. In one hour there were 5 Democrat fear-based ads. That is one every 12 minutes.
@ 13 “Europeans murdered their way across the continent, killing tens of millions of its original inhabitants”.
Like who? The fu*king cavemen?
Where are you from … friggin’ Assatonian?
Apex predators dominate their landscape. It has always been thus, and will always be thus pretending otherwise is an attempt to place a brightly colored pre-fabricated veneer over reality.
Civilization id not supposed to mirror, “natue, red in tooth and claw”, it’s supposed to be better than that. You’re all fat and happy as a self-appointed “apex predator” Veritas, until a bigger one comes along.
@15
Clearly they’re a proud descendant from Douchebagistan.
They bought into the idea that those in the Americas before us were butterfly-chasing peace-pipe givers of love and sunshine. Pegasi flew across the sky shitting rainbows and light and nary a harsh word was spoken. Then the white man came and jacked the place up.
Bullshit.
Native Americans fought, pillaged and raped each other thoroughly and well before “we” showed up. We were just better at it.
I’m not saying atrocities weren’t committed. Clearly there were some truly horrific things done. But they were pretty damn good at abusing each other before we showed up.
Sorry, I missed spelled the hamlet of Assatonia earlier in post # 15.
The hamlet of Assatonia (where # 13 resides) is located 40 miles north of quaint little village of Assaholia (where his in laws live).
MCPO: “Anonymous” in comment 13 above is posting from a machine associated with the Durango School District 9R, Durango, CO.
The IP address is also associated with another persona who posts here fairly regularly. It appears to be an aberration, though, so I’m not certain if it was an intentional “sock puppet” in this discussion or not.
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Joe: Nice to see you still believe in unicorns. But that’s never been the case, not even in your favorite “Socialist paradises” like the USSR, Mao’s China, Cambodia, North Vietnam, and North Korea.
In fact, you might want to check out RJ Rummel’s take on just how well those “Socialist paradises” above have done when it comes to taking care of their own people. You might just be surprised.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Bottom line: all the deaths attributable to colonialism WORLDWIDE during the 20th Century don’t even reach 81% of the murders of it’s own citizens committed by the USSR between 1917 and 1987. And the USSR is #2 on the list.
@17 We can tell ourselves whatever lies we like to sleep easier at night….”we are supposed to be better than this, we are created to build a unity of man”….nice dreams for sure but history is on my side Joe for most of the history of mankind life has been ugly, brutish, and short for the vast unwashed majority of humanity. The strong have always preyed on the weak. Only recently in a mere blink of an eye in the history of man has a nation decided that a state created on the basis of laws to protect the individual from the majority was a natural god-given right. But even those men didn’t mean every man on the continent, they meant other men like themselves, not their black slaves or their red-skinned enemies. We can think we have evolved tremendously in the last 100 years or so, but the statistics of the world just don’t back that up. Happy as an Apex predator? Happy is not part of nature, it is always wise to be wary and prepared. There are new predators on the horizon, it remains to be seen what lasting effect they will have on the world.
@ Joe
I’m sorry you didn’t “get” the ad, but I’m sure there’s a lot of things you don’t get.
America is on the path to socialism, anyone who has lived under it sees it, as well as anyone who doesn’t have their head buried in the sand.
Pegasi, Nik? Post a spew alert next time.
Hondo, would that persona be a rock climber?
Anyway, leave it to Joe to disregard the experiences of a man who lived under a system he sees being foisted on the citizens of his adopted country.
Melony is all over this one like a Rat on a Cheeto….HEHE!
Wonderful! Great video…sharing!!!
***erf*** 25 is me…not ‘melon’.
comparing apples to watermelons
He said “WATERMELONS”, that racist!!!
Our neighbors, who grew up in Poland, have said the same thing as Mr Peterffy, and very passionately too. My daughter’s ballet teacher grew up in the Soviet Union and says the same thing, as do all of the other teachers and dancers from the Soviet Union.
They know first hand what socialism is like and are very frightened at what they’re seeing in the US. We should listen to them.
I’m surprised Olga, who came here from the USSR, hasn’t weighed in yet.
My skating teacher, when I was skating, came here from Poland as soon as it left the USSR with Lech Walesa’s triumph. She said for her, the opportunities were endless. In the USSR, the state determined what opportunities people got. She’d rather be here.
Oh, and Joe? I’d take the word of a guy who has seen first-hand a socialist society over yours. I’m guessing he sees us going down the road to that “paradise” you so want, but I’m getting the nagging feeling that if in fact we ever got there you wouldn’t be so fucking smug.
CJCS GEN Martin Weasel Dempsey wants to know where this Mr. Thomas Peterffy lives – so he can pay him a visit.
Hayek would have loved this. So would Milton Friedman. And Reagan. I do also, not that I am in their league, but I do love America and freedom.
NHSparky: while I never lived in a socialist country, I did have the chance to see a bit of former East Germany about 6 months after the wall fell. I visited in May 1990 – while TDY to Germany. If I recall correctly, the visit included seeing the town of Eisenach. I believe Eisenach was the equivalent of a US county seat in former East Germany, but I could be wrong.
Crossing the former IGB was like going back in time 30 or 40 years. Precious little seemed to be modern. Many buildings seem to be (from a German POV) in piss-poor state of maintenance – except for the Communist party HQ, of course. And it was the only time in my limited travels in Germany I ever saw bad roads.
We ate lunch of bratwurst am brochen purchased from a street vendor. They barely had enough coins to make change – and we had to help by paying with as close to exact cost as possible.
East Germany was the most developed and most modern part of the Soviet Block. I shudder to think of what the Soviet Russia or the Ukraine must have looked like.
Hell, yes!