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ReidRansom posted:Unfortunately, they're a step above libertarians in that they're smart enough to know that a completely electronic internet-based currency would be totally useless when the SHTF. When bitcoin first sort of exploded out onto the scene it was laughed out of freep just as surely as it was here. what if I called them FREEDOMcoins?
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Pixelboy posted:what if I called them FREEDOMcoins? FWD: FWD: FWD: OBAMA wants FREEDOMcoins off the net, he says The people have to use his FEDERAL MONEY! Sorry Mr president the PATRIOTS have SPOKEN FREEDOMcoins! Show the TRAITOR IN CHIEF just what you THINK og him!!!!!
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ReidRansom posted:Unfortunately, they're a step above libertarians in that they're smart enough to know that a completely electronic internet-based currency would be totally useless when the SHTF. When bitcoin first sort of exploded out onto the scene it was laughed out of freep just as surely as it was here. Even some of the crazier/dumber libertarians I know are convinced bitcoins are an FBI/CIA plot to keep tabs on enemies of the New World Order.
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Pixelboy posted:I am anxiously awaiting the first AM radio ads trying to sell me bitcoins, instead of GOLD AND SILVER. If you listen to Alex Jones you'll hear them. Granted, they're ads basically asking you to buy in on some groups mining operation, but still.
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Ray and Shirley posted:If you listen to Alex Jones you'll hear them. Granted, they're ads basically asking you to buy in on some groups mining operation, but still. Some of those libertarian movement shows based out of New Hampshire have BitCoins ads as well.
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In case you need any last minute Kwanzaa gift ideas, you can now get one of these 1oz coins for the low price of $2400. I should note that gold is currently valued at ~$1250 an ounce.
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Joementum posted:In case you need any last minute Kwanzaa gift ideas, you can now get one of these 1oz coins for the low price of $2400. Yeah, but these are going to be worth so much more when she gets elected to the presidency and then is crowned Queen Esther I of America oh God my insides are trying to escape my body Majorian fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Joementum posted:In case you need any last minute Kwanzaa gift ideas, you can now get one of these 1oz coins for the low price of $2400. All I can see is Peggy from King of the Hill.
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CommieGIR posted:All I can see is Peggy from King of the Hill. Nailin Palin for me, but yeah, not a good likeness.
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Gozinbulx posted:Whats with the insistance they were flirting? Is any pleasant conversation between a man and a woman who are smiling have to be flirting? Between two heads of state no less. Women are supposed to be somber and respectful of their male superiors, and only speak when spoken to, unless to offer refreshments. Only exception is when they're being courted. This is like rule #1. quiggy stardust posted:I am legitimately surprised that I haven't seen anyone suggest that Obama and the prime minister actually did gently caress. Just straight-up flirting feels so middle school. A lifetime of culturally ingrained sexual repression can leave you with the attitudes of the average middle schooler, yes. icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Joementum posted:I should note that gold is currently valued at ~$1250 an ounce.  I was in Las Vegas for a wedding and we visited the Golden Nugget where you could buy 1oz. of gold and it was about a 15% markup from the spot price. $2400 vs. the price in a city that overcharges up the rear end is absurd! Acquilae fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Lycus posted:Gold prices already peaked, right? So they're in a rush to unload? Haven't you heard? North Korea is selling its gold, meaning world revolution is upon us.
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Pixelboy posted:I am anxiously awaiting the first AM radio ads trying to sell me bitcoins, instead of GOLD AND SILVER. They actually ran a bitcoin ad on our local station, I only heard it one single time though so I don't think they had much success.
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Wow, christmas came early in the form of Mark Levin's two segment set with Glenn Beck on his show tonight. It was a conservative dream come true. They kicked off the segment lamenting how evil progressives have tried to rewrite our glorious American history and how the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age were just truly great men who had been slimed by the same evil progressives. This of course led right into the true reason Beck was on the show; to hawk his new book, "Miracles and Massacres", something about the untold heroic stories of American history. After reflecting on how they needed to teach all the little children how to stand up to evil progressives like Van Jones, Beck shared some of the marvelous stories from his book and then they jerked each other off while proclaiming how much they admired each other and their ideas. Beck then stated his disgust and hatred for Boehner and McConnell and all other RINOs saying that they were worse than progressives because they claimed to be conservatives but were really just progressives in disguise. What a wonderful show. Have I missed the memo somewhere? When did "progressive" replace "liberal" as the new slur?
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radical meme posted:Have I missed the memo somewhere? When did "progressive" replace "liberal" as the new slur? It's just one of Glenn's (many) dumb ideas. Thing's that are "progressive" according to Glenn: 1. War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SILdDYqAtKQ 2. George W. Bush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TMMj5yD4aY 3. The Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner (and Herbert Hoover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTZ_HFj-lM8 In the last video he reveals the progressive conspiracy to force you to arrange the stars on the flag in a single pattern.
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radical meme posted:Wow, christmas came early in the form of Mark Levin's two segment set with Glenn Beck on his show tonight. It was a conservative dream come true. They kicked off the segment lamenting how evil progressives have tried to rewrite our glorious American history and how the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age were just truly great men who had been slimed by the same evil progressives. This of course led right into the true reason Beck was on the show; to hawk his new book, "Miracles and Massacres", something about the untold heroic stories of American history. After reflecting on how they needed to teach all the little children how to stand up to evil progressives like Van Jones, Beck shared some of the marvelous stories from his book and then they jerked each other off while proclaiming how much they admired each other and their ideas. Beck then stated his disgust and hatred for Boehner and McConnell and all other RINOs saying that they were worse than progressives because they claimed to be conservatives but were really just progressives in disguise. What a wonderful show. About when all the liberals realized "liberal" was a slur and started calling themselves progressives. Its a moving target.
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radical meme posted:Have I missed the memo somewhere? When did "progressive" replace "liberal" as the new slur? They already successfully made "liberal" into a pejorative to the point where most Democrats won't even identify with the word, it worked once why not do it again?
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Joementum posted:In case you need any last minute Kwanzaa gift ideas, you can now get one of these 1oz coins for the low price of $2400. Looks like she just let go a sneaky fart
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radical meme posted:Have I missed the memo somewhere? When did "progressive" replace "liberal" as the new slur? The left has been branding themselves as progressives lately, because the word liberal is basically radioactive at this point after 40 years of angry bigots making it a scapegoat to rally against. They have sensed this and are shifting the rhetorical war to the word progressive.
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I still have no idea why Greg Gutfield is so Anti-University/College. He'll literally go on the air to "The Five", and use it as an excuse to trash Millenials/College Student than proceed to show them as pot smoking leftists who work at Starbucks and rock Che Guerva t-shirts. http://video.foxnews.com/v/2916210856001/the-five-marcus-luttrell-the-lone-survivor/ at 4:47 "And not to appease the ACADEMICS CRITICS OF THE WORLD" "Here's my point..why is it that Education on campus is viewed as superior as an education in the millitary? If you listen to that man it seems he's gained more wisdom and knowledge in his time and service. Than a HUNDRED Ivy League graduates." ... Look, I admire this solider. He did an incredible thing, and survived an incredible thing. But to use it as an excuse to attack the average college student is loving nuts. Not to mention that Gutfield went to CAL loving BERKLEY of all places, and never served a second of combat in his loving life. Also, who the hell are these people being  about College Education over Military Service? Hell, I have classmates who did MILLITARY SERVICE so they could go to college in the first place.Did Greg get picked on for being a libetarian dweeb or something? Jesus.
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Lycus posted:So after socialist, liberal, and progressive are all unusable, where will the left go next? Im sticking with socialist. Refuge in audacity, etc. And its funny when they accuse you of being a socialist and you go "yup". Ive had people get up and walk away after that.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I still have no idea why Greg Gutfield is so Anti-University/College. He claims on his wikipedia page that he was so disgusted by all the filthy brainless hippies at Berkeley that he was made into a conservative as a result. Then he decided conservatives aren't good enough, and now describes himself as a mugglewump libertarian or something really silly sounding.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:and now describes himself as a mugglewump libertarian or something really silly sounding.
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NPR has written the greatest sentence about this weird GOP reversal on the conservative think tanks and Tea Party"NPR posted:We may be witnessing the new Boehner, the fed-up Boehner, the Boehner who's done with having his leadership and even his manhood questioned.  u suck Heritage Has Rush or any of the other personalities talked about this on their shows?
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Laminator posted:Has Rush or any of the other personalities talked about this on their shows? I got to listen to a little bit of Hannity today also and he had a guy on that's a regular on his show, I think his name is Jamie Dupree but not sure. Dupree always seems like a middle of the road, but leans conservative type of D.C. journalist. Anyway, Hannity was arguing that Boehner has to know that this stuff might mean the end of his Speakership and maybe even the end of his career and Dupree was saying not at all; in fact the word in Washington was that Behner wouldn't be doing this unless he knew that he could kick these guys in the nuts and walk away without a scratch on him, and a big part of it was because the rank and file in the House really trusted Ryan. Go figure.
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Dupree is correct about the rank-and-file in the House trusting Ryan. That's Ryan's biggest strength and why he remains budget chairman despite a total lack of ability at creating workable budgets. But for all the sturm und drang around Boehner's statements yesterday and today remember that he's in a much stronger position now than he was at the collapse of the shutdown, and even then Tea Partiers like Raul Labrador were saying they supported Boehner totally. Heritage and its ilk are a strong voice in the conservative movement, but they're not the only voice and they're far from the only source of funding. There were rumors that Boehner was going to bow out and retire in 2014. I believe the Ohio filing deadline is in February, so watch for him to make a move after the holiday break. My guess is still that he's going to stick around.
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Joementum posted:That's Ryan's biggest strength and why he remains budget chairman despite a total lack of ability at creating workable budgets. It makes sense since Conservatives are all about confidence games (a culture going from Washington all the way down to the MLMs and Used Car Lots on Main Street) - Ryan is the young, true believer numbers guy.  Look at all the numbers. It all adds up. We need to voucherize everything. When John Boehner rides off into the sunset I guess we can count on Speaker Ryan? A fully polarized and anthropomorphized government in crisis - Ryan will be out for revenge from that VP debate.
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The mention of Greg Gutfeld compelled me to go looking for that hilarious screenshot of him with the 90s boy band hair, which sadly is only available in miniature, but that in turn led me to this, which seems to be some weird lark of an otherwise normal artist:  Intentionally or not, captured the horror pretty accurately, I'd say.
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LowellDND posted:Im sticking with socialist. Refuge in audacity, etc. And its funny when they accuse you of being a socialist and you go "yup". They didn't stick around for the free stuff? Awwwwww, they missed out in the best part!
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Politifact gets an accusation of being an equivocator in this thread. I would like to know what you think about their just-announced lie of the year: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/ Some posters saw this coming. I feel that Politifact is right about the impossibility of keeping the promise. EDIT: Certainly it was the most widespread of the finalist-untrue-statements-by-politicians. List here. William Bear fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Politifact is the smug kid in class who says "BUT TECHNICALLY I'm right" all the time. Like, yea, it was a lie, but in the context of political lies 'AHA this motherfucker said we could keep plans we like BUT I LIKED THIS SCAM PLAN WHAT NOW OBUMMER' is hardly anything. It's the same way that TECHNICALLY 'Republicans will destroy medicare' was a lie because whatever half dead corpse Republicans would have left behind would still be called medicare. edit: Also reminder that 'congress is exempt' was the lie Ted and his boys used to hold up every single government shutdown debate so yea that was a pretty huge lie, but if they picked that one they'd be called commie lib lovers, whereas no democrat will call them out on this bullshit, so it's obvious what they pick.
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ReidRansom posted:Not surprising, but also it was chosen via online poll, so there's that. Not true. The online poll and the Politifact determination are made separately. William Bear fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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