{"id":1126,"date":"2006-03-24T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/general-zod-for-president-2008\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T06:25:33","slug":"general-zod-for-president-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/general-zod-for-president-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"General Zod For President, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are hilarious over at Zod2008.com<\/a>. A sampling: <\/p>\n

\t\"General<\/a>Eliminate the Iraq War<\/strong>. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put the money into your own schools and health care, so that I may have intelligent, healthy servants. I will indulge your wishes if you all want a Westernized, unpopular regime in Iraq, and I too shall gloat in its troubles, but it will not be done at my expense.
Universal health care<\/strong>. Even a criminal like myself is shocked that millions are not able to get health insurance and cannot pay for basic surgery. Who are these power brokers that allow the pigpen to become wormy and filthy? I demand your very lives, but I am not such an imbecile as to institutionalize suffering and poverty. You have my assurance that this shall change swiftly.
Corporate reform<\/strong>. You people have become disgusting minions to these things you call "corporations". These things take your money and your land, put you into debt, send your jobs overseas, provide you with unsafe foods, and sue you when you say anything bad about them. Yet you people fatten them up at the ballot box. You give them free land, name your stadiums after them, allow them to telemarket you, and even sacrifice your own bankruptcy protections. Quite frankly it astonishes me. I will break this sickly codependency. It is I who shall be your ruler. I shall empower you with wealth to give me as tribute. A corporation cannot bow to me or give me tribute that comes from the heart.
You will buy U.S. made items<\/strong>. Why do you buy Chinese-made items when you know that it sells out the jobs of your family and friends? How will you buy those cheap things when you have no job? You are sending my wealth and tribute to foreign lands. I will not tolerate this.\t<\/p>\n

\t \t\t…Kneel before Zod!!!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are hilarious over at Zod2008.com. A sampling: Eliminate the Iraq War. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-ia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/americans-favor-bushs-impeachment-if-he-lied-about-iraq\/","url_meta":{"origin":1126,"position":0},"title":"Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq…","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...which we know he did. 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