Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them.
The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government.
As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda.
Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.”
I think he’s joking, but it’s not clear.
“I’m amazing at them,” Obama continues hours later. “You can be, too, if you use the helpful tools found at IRS.gov.”
But that’s just silly. It’s so complex that millions of us pay to get help.
Obama’s series is hosted by silly comedian Adam Conover. Conover, correctly, calls himself “an idiot.”
He uses his time with the former president of the United States to make lame jokes and, at one point, to make sandwiches. He compliments Obama on how well he cuts the bread. It’s not funny.
The series occasionally covers some serious issues — meat inspection, for example. But instead of honest reporting, actors do a skit suggesting that, without government, meat companies would sell us dead poisoned rats.
“Food regulation was unbelievably successful,” concludes Conover.
But food is largely safe today mostly because slaughterhouses cleaned themselves up way beyond what government requires. Companies don’t want bad reputations.
One company executive showed me how they voluntarily do extra things like treat beef carcasses “with rinses and a 185-degree steam vacuum.” Also, “equipment is routinely taken completely apart to be swab-tested.”
By contrast, for 90 years, the U.S. Agriculture Department inspected meat with a crude process called “poke and sniff.” Inspectors stuck spikes into carcasses and smelled them. They kept using the same spikes, so they sometimes spread disease. The government only stopped poke and sniff in the 1990s.
A few times, Obama’s series admits that government agencies mess things up. Conover mocks FEMA, “not a name you normally hear after the words ‘did a great job.'”
No, but he then claims FEMA fails because it’s underfunded, saying, “How many lives could have been saved if FEMA had had the resources they needed?”
That’s ridiculous. FEMA doesn’t fail because it lacks resources. U.S. disaster relief funds have increased by billions. FEMA fails because it’s a government bureaucracy, and bureaucracies do wasteful things, like bring bottles of water to hurricane victims but then leave them at an airport.
The private sector is more efficient.
“The G Word” sneers at what it calls, “this philosophy that the free market should be trusted over the government.” But Walmart donates supplies much more efficiently than FEMA. They employ sophisticated weather tracking that helps them determine what assets are needed where. They get things to people because they lose money if they don’t.
Obama’s series smears those of us who are skeptical of government handouts.
“In the wake of the civil rights movement,” claims Conover, “some Americans began to resent the fact that the government was now providing assistance to black and brown citizens.”
What? We didn’t resent welfare because we’re racists. We objected because it created a new permanent underclass.
Handouts, President Ronald Reagan explained correctly, “discourage work.”
So Obama’s documentary depicts Reagan as a vicious surgeon cutting valuable government agencies, throwing them into a bucket labeled “free market.”
But government wasn’t cut under Reagan. Federal spending went up during his terms. It always goes up. At one point, the excesses were so grotesque that President Bill Clinton said, “The era of big government is over.”
But it wasn’t. It only grows. Today it’s bigger than ever.
That’s fine, says Conover, because Washington rescued us during the COVID shutdowns with “stimulus checks, small business loans and corporate tax breaks!”
They don’t mention how much of that money was stolen or that their spending orgy brought 8% inflation.
For three hours, Obama and his sidekick say government should do more. Whatever the problem, their answer is always more government and more money.
Maybe someday a president will point out that government has no money of its own and that spending more than you have is a road to ruin.
Government gets its money from the taxes of hard-working citizens. It thinks that it can just keep printing money, but eventually they will bankrupt themselves into oblivion and we’ll be catapulted back into the Dark Ages. The Federal Reserve needs to go. Andrew Jackson was dead right when it came to national banks.
Couldn’t watch that without bringing up my dinner!
Obama always said the Constitution was a document of negative liberties. Meaning, restraints on governments liberty to turn us into serfs.
Question will anyone be throwing Tomato Soup or Mashed Potatoes on that portrait of Obama?
Hear, hear! 🍻
(Perhaps some of the fecal matter & urine that’s continually thrown at Marine guards in Gitmo could be tossed at Jug-eared Barry’s image.)
Just whiz on it.
No. Tomato soup and mashed potatoes cost money and are good to eat. Why waste them?
Reagan increased defense spending by $100 billion and won the Cold War. Social spending increased by $600 billion yet according to the dems themselves every problem got worse.
When you subsidize poverty, you get more poverty. He’s the dumbest “intellectual” on the planet. By the way, he’s gay. MO’s a tranny. Is there anyone any where who doesn’t know this?
Obama sounds pretty low IQ.
The welfare issue is huge. It’s horrible how many people take advantage of and happily live within the system. They are just slugs. NYC is such an unequal place because of it. Millions of people mooch off the government for free housing, food, everything while the rest have to complete for super high cost housing– and work all the time. It’s such a crock but no one calls it out. Instead politicians vilify the wealthy who pay for it all while those who contribute nothing or even commit violent crimes, complain. And no one calls them.out.
Bingo!
my comment is too short but you know
I cancelled my netflix THE DAY that they announces their unholy alliance with the obamas! I posted the reason WHY I was cancelling and informed them to NEVER contact me! I told them that when the segment of excrement was President I had no choice to turn over a good portion of my money to support our Nation, but I would NOT allow ONE CENT to be used for their illicit and immoral support! I don’t miss it at all and don’t miss Fox News either!
I never trusted or believed anything from Obama so I didn’t ever vote for him. He has the look of a con man and I suspect that many who voted for him, did so to make themselves feel good and somehow more culturally evolved by casting their vote on the basis of skin color. Then again elections too often become popularity contests. It’s unfortunate that the GOP didn’t capitalize more on Obama’s negatives such as his Sunday morning visits to Jeremiah Wright’s hate America community meetings disguised as church services.
Many people still don’t see the destructive concepts Obama forced into our country, resulting in loss of individual freedoms and invasive government interference in our personal lives.
OK I’ll shut up now.
All of that information was available before he was elected the first time. We ordered two books and read them…..and were horrified. I saw photos online of Obama dining with Islamic radical anti-Semites.
While I was amazed he was elected and concerned. I should have been ten times as concerned. When he was re elected, I was devastated. I had no idea about the extent of vote fraud at that time. To think, I mourned Romney losing!
His actions, proven actions, trying to oust an elected president and his current suspected continued reign…. Wow! Just Wow! As juvenile as he is, intellectually and emotionally, this is no 1960’s take over of the college administration building. This is the destruction of the beloved home of more than 300 million people.
I hate to quote pop culture but “What a long strange trip its been….. “
Please Do Not Ever Shut UP. Thank You! I agree 100%
When you subsidize poverty, you get more poverty. He’s the dumbest “intellectual” on the planet. By the way, he’s gay. MO’s a tranny. Is there anyone any where who doesn’t know this?
I don’t care what they pay them. Netflix was gone from this house the day after they hired them. I no longer care what Netflix does. Or professional sport either, for that matter. With today’s selections, I’ve never missed any of them.
Speaking of Obama, I wonder why Michael won’t come out as a trans?
“Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration.” PATRICIA McCARTHY… presumably Biden is not noted because he was out bribes sucking!
“That phase of the takeover was started in 2008 by President Barack Obama. Throughout his eight years in office, Obama practiced divisiveness and hammered away at the Second Amendment while pouring gallons of fuel on the fire of the “Black Lives Matter” lie. His administration was rampant with corruption, pushing the envelope with every new scandal.” RICK HAYES
He’s still doing it. Jobama is his 3rd term.
George Soros with his Open Society money plus the Chicago Marxist contingency of Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Penny Pritzker, and Barack Obama are five people I’m inclined to group as the Biden puppet masters. Is there a pecking order among them? Does it matter? I suppose it matters to these individual megalomaniacs, but to anyone else? No. Just get that totalitarian state up and running. Maybe it will matter when all nations are under someone’s thumb and one of those thumbs wants to be the one-world Big Thumb. Not to worry — I’m positive the Big Thumb will be chosen by consensus. SPRUCE FONTAINE.
You know the video fireplace sort of fakery you can see on YouTube? Netflix could have saved money by offering a video of a manure spreader in action on a farm. It would produce the same result as Mr. & Mrs. BO Plenty, but at a tiny fraction of the cost.
Their movie about The Obamas Southside with You was a total Bomb in the Box Office
Will Obama still go to rally with Fetterman? I know Joe doesn’t know the difference, but Obama should.
I understand that people who urinate on graves are arrested. I wonder if that will deter those who feel strongly about Mr. Obama once he goes to his reward.
It might be of interest to a few people that during the summer month of August in the year of 2010 I had attended a lecture in a church about the subject of Islam. The guest speaker was a man who in times past was a Muslim and a Hezbollah member as well as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s Christian and an American citizen. After the lecture, during the question-and-answer part, he was asked “Is Obama a Muslim?” The speaker replied that “I don’t know if he is a Muslim, but his deception is Islamic.” Then he added about Obama “Whenever he talks, he sounds just like a Muslim.” Moreover, the guest speaker further said about Obama “He is going to hurt this country.” As just keyboarded above that lecture was hold in the year 2010 and since then Obama had, indeed, hurt America by and through his words, actions, politics and polices.
When Obama was President he was terrible, in many very treasonous ways.
As has been revealed in the book by Jamie Glazov which had the title JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH , for on pages 38,39 the reader is informed about the subversion of the United States of America by reckless unchecked mass immigration that “By importing so many masses of people who hate America and seek to destroy its way of life, the Left succeeds in severely damaging the United State and making it more vulnerable to attack This explains why President Obama worked so hard to flood the US with Muslim refugees and why the Left is now fighting Trump’s efforts to protect America from refugees who hail from terror –infested nations.”
When Obama was in the White House, he had, the enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, advising Americans and formulating their policy on how to promote their cause.”
This is an absurdly of madness. This reveals the Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House.
Therefore, the former President Obama in his Islamic subversion of America is not even limited to being a traitor to The USA but in his insidious he way and is dangerous to all the other nations of the West.
Some of us believe he is the last anti-christ.
I don’t believe Barack Obama earned a law degree or an undergraduate degree at Columbia University.
The sad and tragic reality is that Obama still has much insidious and subversive power in the White House .and therefore in the American government. For he has his useful idiot, Joe Biden to use as his tool to use to subvert the US Constitution and impose Sharia law, and socialism in America.
Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House.
Therefore, the former President Obama in his Islamic subversion of America is not even limited to being a traitor to The USA but in his insidious he way and is dangerous to all the other nations of the West.
Regarding the awfulness of Obama when he was president of the USA, some of it had been exposed by a former Revolutionary Guard of Iran who defected to America. For in his book TIME TO BETRAY its author, Reza Kahlili gives his first hand and testimony and observation when he had revealed to his readers, on page 335, that at first he was a bit naive about Obama for “I had high hopes that the Obama administration would be tougher on the Islamic government of Iran, especially given what they knew about the regime’s nuclear activities. However, his first overture to the mullahs disappointed me. He sent greetings for the Persian New Year in which he urged better relations between American and Iran. He then repeated this in letters to Ayatollah Khamenei. To me, this was a sad case of not learning from history. Once again American politicians refused to see that the mullahs were not men of reason, and that their animosity toward America was rooted in the interpretation of a prophecy that called for the annihilation of the West and all non-Muslims. I knew the regime would see Obama’s entreaties as assign of weakness, and that this would embolden them to take radical steps.”
Obama may accurately be seen as the personification of the twenty –first century phenomena known as the “Red/Green Alliance.”
An erosion of violence the likes of which have never been seen is now at hand in Europe. This is the tribulation.
He’s the final anti-christ and the Beast of Revelation.