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Hazo posted:On the drive home I heard both Hannity and Master Shake talk about Obama embarrassing himself at the press conference today. I just watched the CNN clips and I'm not sure if I'm missing something. Did something specific happen or are they just mad about the usual state of - Is president/- Is black/- Does not want to send more Americans to die/- Did not execute Muslim children with his bare hands on camera? Michael Savage basically repeated what the president said "These are not humans, they're nazis in headscarves" in his opening rant. Not once did he call them Muslim but when Obama does it AHHRHRGHRGRH
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Radbot posted:So do people advocating "boots on the ground" not know what happened last time we did that, or which party was in power for the vast majority of that time? I mean, I get it, "kill the darkies" resonates with a lot of folks but we just don't seem that good at it? Conservatism can't fail. It can only be failed. 
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Nov 17, 2015 18:00
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Cythereal posted:It's not. The War on Christmas is an arbitrary invention of right wing media as another manufactured controversy they can stoke for viewers and money. I said a few years ago if there was a war on Christmas then Christmas won. Cemetry Gator posted:You know, I want to live in these people's world where the thing that I can be most angry about is someone saying "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." That's got to be a loving amazing world. They worry about everything and they're loving miserable.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Harper truly is Canada's Bush. He even has the idiotic "Miss me yet?" meme squawked by morons? He is literally the product of the neocon/religious conservative Reform and provincial parties taking over the Progressive Conservatives (usually socially neutral, sometimes progressive, but always economically conservative) in the early 2000s. gently caress them.
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Nov 17, 2015 18:32
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Hazo posted:On the drive home I heard both Hannity and Master Shake talk about Obama embarrassing himself at the press conference today. I just watched the CNN clips and I'm not sure if I'm missing something. Did something specific happen or are they just mad about the usual state of - Is president/- Is black/- Does not want to send more Americans to die/- Did not execute Muslim children with his bare hands on camera? People were kinda egging him on about him not taking ISIS seriously and he was getting visibly aggravated.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:06
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McGlockenshire posted:This is the proclickiest of proclicks and the entire western world is hosed. That atlantic article is unbelievable trash, they literally talked to one scholar of Islam, Princeton's Bernard Haykel, who (a) is an rear end in a top hat and (b) doesn't even really agree with the conclusions of the article he was quoted so extensively to support. Mehdi Hassan did a way more thorough piece on the same subject that everyone should read. People buying ISIS's religious rhetoric at face value are getting loving played.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:11
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How dare a sporting goods store not use the word Christmas! Jesus loved sporting goods! And Jesus loved J. Crew, because it fit with his traditional sensibilities while offering a modern palette and cut. Also, Jesus is a basic bitch. How could Dick's and J. Crew betray Jesus and America like this?!?
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El Anansi posted:That atlantic article is unbelievable trash, they literally talked to one scholar of Islam, Princeton's Bernard Haykel, who (a) is an rear end in a top hat and (b) doesn't even really agree with the conclusions of the article he was quoted so extensively to support. How important is fighting specifically in the Middle East considered to ISIS? I'm still trying to resolve how the refugees, who are leaving for kuffar, are all ISIS combatants to these right wing hacks and idiots on Facebook. Dead Cosmonaut fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 20:53
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:How important is fighting specifically in the Middle East considered to ISIS? I'm still trying to resolve how the refugees, who are leaving for kuffar, are all ISIS combatants to these right wing hacks and idiots on Facebook. Well to start I can tell you it doesn't have much to do with geography
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Nov 17, 2015 20:57
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Radbot posted:So do people advocating "boots on the ground" not know what happened last time we did that, or which party was in power for the vast majority of that time? I mean, I get it, "kill the darkies" resonates with a lot of folks but we just don't seem that good at it?
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Nov 17, 2015 21:00
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One would assume that most folks who want to kill Muslims want to do it because they think it'd actually make them safer, not because they're crazed, murderous lunatics. That is a big assumption though.
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I don't think it's a stretch to call the idea that our current actions in the ME make us safer on the whole a crazed idea. From what I can tell we're doing a few obviously neccessary things, and a whole lot more that I can't rationally explain besides the insanity of the military industrial complex meeting up with the new lazy American war stance where we want impossible things, we want them now, and we don't want any of ours to die while we do it.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:08
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Just read about a new poll where the vast majority of Americans DON'T want a new ground war, but gosh you wouldn't think that watching the "journalism" on the tee vee. i think reporters and commentators are actually more bloodthirsty than regular Americans this time around.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:13
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They are like weathermen that get excited when a huge blizzard or hurricane is coming.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:14
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Lmao, I'm just getting around to this "Rubio bought an 80k speedboat while in debt", is the response of "its not a luxury speedboat, its a fishing boat" an actual campaign approved retort? That seems like the sort of thing you say right before you explain yourself....not an actual explanation. That's the theme of this primary though. All of these people are either in a death spiral of trying to be the most unhinged or they all still truly believe in Mitt Romney's etch a sketch. And this isn't half as bad as REASONABLE SMART GUY JEB! BUSH saying maybe we should screen refugees by what religion they are. If this thing breaks into the general and the nominee keeps getting a pass anything like this I'm not sure I could take it. I assume they won't and it's just like this right now because there's hosed up lunacy flying in every direction and no one wants to stop and read why hosed up thing number 4,278 is a campaign breaker.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:27
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Like...if Rubio gets through, am I unreasonable in expecting the press to ask him why he declared verifiable expense records figments of liberal imaginations in that debate? As in, besides any sparring he or the media want to do over the actual financials...would he get through the general without anyone asking about THAT specifically? Or should I expect that he'll get away with it and paul krugman will just blog about it in agony?
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Nov 17, 2015 21:30
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Of course after the nomination the GOP candidate will transparently moderate to the center and the press will ignore past lunatic statements because it's natural for things to change in the general campaign you see, and candidates "evolve" and we musn't judge them too harshly for it.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:31
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beatlegs posted:Just read about a new poll where the vast majority of Americans DON'T want a new ground war, but gosh you wouldn't think that watching the "journalism" on the tee vee. i think reporters and commentators are actually more bloodthirsty than regular Americans this time around.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:42
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Nov 17, 2015 23:18
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Yes, and perhaps monkeys might fly out of my butt.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:
"ISIS is right." - An actual war criminal
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:
We have an entire state that bills itself as the land of prostitution and vice. But somehow one man contracting HIV is what sent us over the edge.
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Acquilae posted:Is there any task Allen West can do where he isn't a disgraceful piece of poo poo? "What a world we live in when actually help people treat their illnesses instead of letting them die in a ditch. loving pussies." Rick_Hunter fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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I thought CNN was Fox on Sirius today. They are working really hard at laying the groundwork for the US invading Syria. It was a literal parade of "experts" testifying that we can do nothing to protect ourselves from ISIS attacks across the US and that regular attacks on our soft targets will be "the new normal" unless we do everything possible to stop ISIS immediately.
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A War Criminal posted:Perhaps that’s the reason Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz lead in the polls. They lead in polls over other crazy people. Unless I've missed some fairly dramatic swings, all three of those get crushed in the general by Hillary according to any polling that happens outside of Karl Rove's head.
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Helen Highwater posted:They lead in polls over other crazy people. Unless I've missed some fairly dramatic swings, all three of those get crushed in the general by Hillary according to any polling that happens outside of Karl Rove's head. It's all math that makes idiots feel better.
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Helen Highwater posted:They lead in polls over other crazy people. Unless I've missed some fairly dramatic swings, all three of those get crushed in the general by Hillary according to any polling that happens outside of Karl Rove's head. Karl Rove, the master of neocon strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLV7nqD3CA
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Bait and Swatch posted:I thought CNN was Fox on Sirius today. They are working really hard at laying the groundwork for the US invading Syria. It was a literal parade of "experts" testifying that we can do nothing to protect ourselves from ISIS attacks across the US and that regular attacks on our soft targets will be "the new normal" unless we do everything possible to stop ISIS immediately. The incredible cynic in me thinks they just want the ratings that a ground war would inevitably bring. Cable news is becoming increasingly irrelevant and that last time people actually watched CNN is 2003. The more likely answer is that the talking heads need to seem Serious and that means Hard Decisions about sacrificing civil liberties and kids that aren't yours.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:56
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Like...if Rubio gets through, am I unreasonable in expecting the press to ask him why he declared verifiable expense records figments of liberal imaginations in that debate? He made a comment about how he and his family had humble origins and he just sold a house where he lived that was 6 blocks from where he grew up to show that he remembered the struggle of having a poor upbringing. He didnt mention that house was sold for 600k. And he LOST money on the deal. So he has and will continue to get away with it.
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I cant even figure out how to joke about Allen West accusing anyone of being a hapless terrorist recruitment posterboy. I love this country.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:
Oh god, he is literally blaming Charlie Sheen for terrorism. I mean... I am just.... Are there no depths to which they won't sink or stupidities they won't pander to? If I went to Roger Ailes today and said "Hey Rog, I got a great new bit for a segment. We blame watermelon in the darkies diet for their laziness/stealing/gang raping/abusing SNAP. It'll be great." He'd say no? Right? RIGHT??? PLEASE!
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OxySnake posted:He made a comment about how he and his family had humble origins and he just sold a house where he lived that was 6 blocks from where he grew up to show that he remembered the struggle of having a poor upbringing. Even if we grant him his "poor upbringing" argument, you would think he would appreciate how difficult the struggles of poverty and make him more willing to offer help and assistance not less. What is it about conservative blowhards that make them believe in this radical individualism in America. No one makes it on there own. Everyone has a parent, a mentor, a good friend, a professor, a teacher, a boss, someone who gave them a hand along the way. I just don't understand this obsession with "self-made, rugged individualistic man" concept. It's not just a woefully ignorant conception of humanity, it's also pretty loving dangerous.
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So this is what the conservative movement has come to. http://journal.ijreview.com/2015/11/250238-what-defeating-isis-would-look-like/
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:
Guys I realize West is an rear end in a top hat but it was posted by the editor in chief.
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beatlegs posted:So this is what the conservative movement has come to. Look at this tag line. JUST LOOK "Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, California. A retired U.S. Army infantry colonel, he is the author of Conservative Insurgency:The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041." He has to be self-aware of how ironic that tag line is with that article right?
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Doctor Butts posted:Guys I realize West is an rear end in a top hat but it was posted by the editor in chief. Fine: Michele Hickford, Employee of Noted War Criminal Allen West
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beatlegs posted:So this is what the conservative movement has come to. Haha holy  How the gently caress does this  poo poo get published??
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I do sort of appreciate how there's a bit of pushback about the GOP's openly racist anti-refugee stance. Levin was whining on his show about people (rightfully) calling conservatives anti-American for the whole thing about "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... except for ones from certain religions or from certain countries, cause gently caress those guys."
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El Anansi posted:That atlantic article is unbelievable trash, they literally talked to one scholar of Islam, Princeton's Bernard Haykel, who (a) is an rear end in a top hat and (b) doesn't even really agree with the conclusions of the article he was quoted so extensively to support. Thank you for those two followup articles. The original is now even more scary.
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