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Isn't it like 110şF in Dallas these days? How is that one guy completely covered in clothes? Like even a balaclava.
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Who had some Greenwich Village monthly newspaper as the first media entity to drop an n-bomb with regards to Obama? It's supposed to be a piece about how right-wingers hate Obama because he's black, but did they really have to use that headline?
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Jul 7, 2014 03:25
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It's provocative. The story below it kinda reads like the whole thing should be from The Onion.
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Jul 7, 2014 03:43
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Abel Wingnut posted:Isn't it like 110şF in Dallas these days? How is that one guy completely covered in clothes? Like even a balaclava. I've been seeing a lot of people outside in jeans lately and it's very worrying to me.
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Jul 7, 2014 03:58
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I am on my phone and finding a link is hard but my brother in law just told me that a guy is going to run against Lindsey Graham as an independent. The guy used to be the South Carolina state treasurer and he just got out of jail after 10 months because he bought cocaine for his friends and himself. I talked about it in the mid-terms thread. His name Thomas Ravenel, he got out of jail about 6 years ago or so. Other fun fact about him is that he was in a reality show called "Southern Charm" last year. The show is about some Southern aristocrats here in Charleston, while on the show he had a child out of wedlock with a 22 or something year old, they are now married (he is about 50). His family is old money and he will be self funding the campaign for the most part. Should make for an interesting race!
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Jul 7, 2014 04:03
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Abel Wingnut posted:Isn't it like 110şF in Dallas these days? How is that one guy completely covered in clothes? Like even a balaclava. Not yet, low 90's. The 100+ days will be here in a couple weeks, though.
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Jul 7, 2014 04:05
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Sir Tonk posted:Bigger college vocabulary, combined with never having a real job and/or having to support yourself, is ideal for developing libertarian beliefs. an extended magazine on an AK that holds what 50 rounds? and the other rifle has a Beta C mag that holds 100, what a loving tool
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Jul 7, 2014 05:07
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Al Harrington posted:an extended magazine on an AK that holds what 50 rounds? and the other rifle has a Beta C mag that holds 100, what a loving tool Man, when he runs into 151 bad guys while he's out buying another case of Monster Energy from the grocery store his face is going to be so red.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:14
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Shageletic posted:Well this was bound to happen. So this poo poo is going to go nowhere right? Because I can maybe pallet the hobby lobby decision but if it actually morphs into full on faith-based discrimination then it's time to [insert invective directed at Supreme Court that will get Lowtax a visit from the FBI]
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Jul 7, 2014 05:16
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Maneuvering an AK with that long of a mag is silly. How many UN shock troops is he planning to kill? Did he just go to the gun show and ask for the biggest mags available? Does he drive a jacked up F250 as well? Zeroisanumber posted:Man, when he runs into 151 bad guys while he's out buying another case of Monster Energy from the grocery store his face is going to be so red. It'll be more red after the thing mis-feeds on the eighth round.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:16
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Abel Wingnut posted:Isn't it like 110şF in Dallas these days? How is that one guy completely covered in clothes? Like even a balaclava. You do get used to it, especially if you live there, and the extra cloth does protect against the sun. Drink lots of water and don't do anything too strenuous and you should be fine as long as you're not wearing something outlandish like a winter coat. The people in the pictures aren't doing anything worse than going for a walk and playing music, and probably downing lots and lots of water. And, as people mentioned, the 100+ F days aren't generally until late July and August.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:20
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Sir Tonk posted:Maneuvering an AK with that long of a mag is silly. How many UN shock troops is he planning to kill? It's Texas. An F-250 is like a compact car.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:21
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fade5 posted:All this talk of John Brown and no one's posted the greatest picture of him that was ever painted? I swear he looks almost exactly like a history prof I had. Cool guy, didn't pull any punches. I distinctly recall a very Southern Baptist kid sitting next to me squirming in his chair when the prof talked about Jahweh being the hebrew war god out of their original pantheon. His beard was shorter, though. The prof, not Jahweh.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:29
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ShadowCatboy posted:Welp, I touched the poop and started up a couple facebook debates with some libertarians. I pointed out that part of the reason health care costs were so high was because the underutilized primary care in the US meant higher costs when catastrophic medical consequences result. His response? They are incredibly stupid, and they believe cloaking their stupidity in pseudo academic lingo and nonsensical theory (the Austrian school, praxology, objectivisim) makes them intelligent, and they convince others, using these tools, that they are intelligent. It's all just morons endlessly justifying FYGMism. Put them all in a boat and float it into the middle of the Pacific and sink it halfway; the last man standing is John Galt.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:32
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Dystram posted:They are incredibly stupid, and they believe cloaking their stupidity in pseudo academic lingo and nonsensical theory (the Austrian school, praxology, objectivisim) makes them intelligent, and they convince others, using these tools, that they are intelligent. It's all just morons endlessly justifying FYGMism. Put them all in a boat and float it into the middle of the Pacific and sink it halfway; the last man standing is John Galt. Man, this would make a great reality TV show. Just grab a bunch of Libertarians and "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" types and lock them in a room/island with only a set amount of supplies and challenge them to become the next John Galt. Just stand back, have your producers regularly goad them on like in any other reality TV show and only do the minimum intervention necessary to please your insurance (in order to create a proper "free market simulation") and watch as they try to rip out each other's throats and become the captain of industry on their own little island. Basically, Survivor without even the pretense of people getting along.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:39
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Alkydere posted:Man, this would make a great reality TV show. Just grab a bunch of Libertarians and "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" types and lock them in a room/island with only a set amount of supplies and challenge them to become the next John Galt. That would make a great reality TV show. I think I'd call it "Actual 21st Century Reality: Neoliberal Capitalists Competing in a Winner Take All Real Life Game of Monopoly - Global Devastation Oblivion Edition" Ye best start belivin' in capitalist dystopias, laddy. Yer in one! 
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Jul 7, 2014 05:47
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Dystram posted:That would make a great reality TV show. I think I'd call it "Actual 21st Century Reality: Neoliberal Capitalists Competing in a Winner Take All Real Life Game of Monopoly - Global Devastation Oblivion Edition" Too long. Just call it "Who is John Galt?" Or "Who is the next John Galt?" for simplicity sake. Easier to sell that way. Your title is better suited for the research paper you write off of it (while still raking in the money from the reality TV show). But yeah, basically, just toss the idiots on an island with a film crew. Every time the people look like they're about to get along have a producer start insinuating "well that's what a moocher would do". Only take people off the island when they lose all of whatever arbitrary points are given to them, are suffering from malnutrition due to fighting over the limited but more than adequate resources they mis-manage, or they start begging to be let off. You can't be voted off, you can either lose or admit on national TV that you are not a Libertarian Ubermensch. Even better, as the latest Atlas Shrugged movie proves, Libertarians have no sense of irony and you could probably get them to eagerly crowdfund this idea if you had the film company able to produce it. Alkydere fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 05:56
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Alkydere posted:Too long. Just call it "Who is John Galt?" Or "Who is the next John Galt?" for simplicity sake. Easier to sell that way. Your title is better suited for the research paper you write off of it (while still raking in the money from the reality TV show). The joke was that an idiotic, selfish group of capitalists short-sightedly competing to out-Galt each other while the rest of us are destroyed in the crossfire is actual real life.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:01
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Dystram posted:The joke was that an idiotic, selfish group of capitalists short-sightedly competing to out-Galt each other while the rest of us are destroyed in the crossfire is actual real life. Oh, sorry for missing it. I was just wishing I had the resources to make some money off of the suckers.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:19
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Alkydere posted:Oh, sorry for missing it. I was just wishing I had the resources to make some money off of the suckers. The show would be fairly hilarious. I'm sure that, on the way from out current dystopia to a Mad Max level dystopia, we'll hit a Running Man level dystopia, and maybe we'll see your TV show then.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:27
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Alkydere posted:Too long. Just call it "Who is John Galt?" Or "Who is the next John Galt?" for simplicity sake. Easier to sell that way. Your title is better suited for the research paper you write off of it (while still raking in the money from the reality TV show). Why take any of them off the island? Keep them all there for the entire length of the show. See who volunteers for indentured servitude so they can eat. Discovery Channel did two seasons of a show called The Colony, where they dropped a pretty diverse and somewhat skilled group of people into a "post-apocalyptic wasteland" after a "nuclear flu" to survive. I didn't see the first season, but the second season set in a deserted part of New Orleans post-Katrina was incredible. Highlights follow: They managed to rig a windmill for power to their shelter, which was a magnet for looters who kidnapped one of them and demanded most of their resources for ransom. They all sucked so badly at all aspects of survival the producers dropped in a "guardian angel" to provide them food. They still managed to lose when a scouting group found a viable house on the bayou, but when they all went to move in it was occupied by armed marauders who would've just killed them all.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:31
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Colony stuff The guardian angel was *also* one of those "diverse" people, though - he was dropped off on the same exact day everyone else was, he was simply told to hang out on his own for a while and actually had skills relevant to the situation. All of that food he had? That was all stuff he'd accumulated under the *same exact situation* as the rest of the 'survivors'! It was actually pretty awesome. "This is how you guys could be living as well if you weren't such goddamn screw-ups." Well, ostensibly, anyway. I got the feeling the show faked a lot of stuff, even beyond what it admitted it was faking, and as enjoyable as it was it was hard to be sure what and how much was actually genuine.
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Jul 7, 2014 06:35
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radical meme posted:In the June thread, I posted an article about a Dallas musician, Barry Kooda, promoting an "Open Guitar Rally" in response to the open carry nonsense. Because this is SA and everything can have a cartoon linked to it: Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law had a great episode featuring 'guitar control' using QuickDraw McGraw as a Charleston Heston caricature. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0597339/
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Jul 7, 2014 07:21
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Shbobdb posted:It is easy to think that based on the book, but Rand was a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and Usonian design. So while Roark is hating on linear lines and greek columns, he isn't making Chthulu-structures. It's erotic fanfiction, where FLW thinks all sex is rape (and that is sexy as hell). FLW was his own special kind of dipshit; the man built a freakish cult of personality, had zero tolerance for dissent or disagreement, was a serial adulterer, treated his employees so poorly Galt would be proud, and was an absolute motherfucker in terms of his personality. gently caress that guy, even on tours of his more famous projects (Taliesin, Taliesin West) the guides have a very, very hard time finding any way to make the man sound likable in even the smallest of ways.
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Jul 7, 2014 07:27
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wheez the roux posted:FLW was his own special kind of dipshit; the man built a freakish cult of personality, had zero tolerance for dissent or disagreement, was a serial adulterer, treated his employees so poorly Galt would be proud, and was an absolute motherfucker in terms of his personality. gently caress that guy, even on tours of his more famous projects (Taliesin, Taliesin West) the guides have a very, very hard time finding any way to make the man sound likable in even the smallest of ways. I was visiting a museum that had an exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright some months ago, and among the items on display was a model proposed by Wright for an ideal city. That place had everything: zoos, factories, farms, rivers, ponds, rec centers, you name it. Additionally, there was a hill where only the most respected and affluent members of society lived. And who lived on top of that hill, in the nicest houses? The architects, of course. Because they are naturally the ones taht contribute most to society. (Nothing against architects, mind. But seriously, Frank? Seriously?)
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Jul 7, 2014 07:50
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Wright was a genius and architectural innovator, one of the best- but I can attest that Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture school, is continuing the cult format. Among other things, they make a habit of having students build structures that they then live in- because that's a meaningful substitute for studying, for example, structural engineering or substance thermodynamics. Listen to this utter wank:Taliesin website posted:The shelter program originated in the late 30s with the construction of Taliesin West. During the first years of residency apprentices lived in small shepherd’s tents that were made of canvas, set on metal frames attached to a 10-foot square masonry base. As simple variations of tetrahedrons and pyramids these structures not only provided apprentices with housing, but also helped them understand the nature of the vast Sonoran desert in which they lived. Although the Shelter Construction Program has evolved since its founding to include more design choices, all shelters have been built by students living closely with the natural environment, thereby better understanding what Wright envisioned when he wrote in his autobiography: All students are encouraged to participate in the Shelter Construction Program to improve their architectural skills, gain a deeper appreciation of the design/build process in relationship to nature, and to participate in a team effort that is remarkably fulfilling. Despite Wright's significant contributions to the field, his main influence has been to increase the degree to which architectural artistry is prioritized over safety or client needs. Like Whistler's Peacock Room, except it costs ten times as much and might collapse and kill people. Now James Stirling, he knew what was what. Then again, he was British. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 08:01
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Dystram posted:That would make a great reality TV show. I think I'd call it "Actual 21st Century Reality: Neoliberal Capitalists Competing in a Winner Take All Real Life Game of Monopoly - Global Devastation Oblivion Edition" I figure this will end up same way- http://utopiatvcasting.com/
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Jul 7, 2014 11:47
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Good news people, a bunch of millionaries have decided that no one cares about income inequalityquote:With Democrats split on inequality issues, Obama shifts talk away from income gap For those who forget, Third Way isn't a "centrist Democratic think tank", it is a Wall Street lobbying group (primarily JP Morgan Chase) whose goals are cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs (because that is a very responsible, very serious, very centrist position), and has been going after Elizabeth Warren since she was talking about the CFPB (and she kicked their rear end last December, resulting in a lot of muckreads on Third Way). http://littlesis.org/org/35880/Third_Way Anyways, god loving drat it. I know it is a rhetorical style in an election year (the House will stop anything from getting done in terms of policy), but that poo poo does matter for setting up the expectations you politicians will be held to and for closing off the path for the opposition.
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Jul 7, 2014 12:29
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Rand may have liked Wright's architecture, but I'm guessing she was oblivious to his land use policy prescriptions:Emily Washington posted:Wright called his urban development vision Broadacres because he thought that population density should be less than one person per acre...
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Jul 7, 2014 13:33
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Warcabbit posted:I think my favorite is the one guy with a cymbal. Drummers... 
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Jul 7, 2014 14:31
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Fried Chicken posted:Good news people, a bunch of millionaries have decided that no one cares about income inequality Get ready to hear more from these clowns as Hillary Clinton is in bed with pretty much every one of these "centristy" groups.
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Jul 7, 2014 14:36
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mcmagic posted:Get ready to hear more from these clowns as Hillary Clinton is in bed with pretty much every one of these "centristy" groups. I get the feeling this kind of thing is the way Hillary could blow the election. Republicans are going to vote so hard their election machines will catch fire after eight years of Obama with the thought of their great enemy Hillary in the Presidency. If she spends her time making stupid "Hey I can understand how poor you guys are since I was broke" statements while cozying up to Wall Street types that not only want more money, but to reduce social services it's not going to be a compelling campaign. We can talk about how important it is that we get a Democrat to nominate RBG's scotus replacement but that isn't going to drive non-political types to the polls on election day. If the GOP can keep their misogyny in check and only infer that the younger, unmarried types are the "bad ones" they won't have to worry too much about middle class, white, married women leaving their party in droves.
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Jul 7, 2014 14:54
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Radish posted:If the GOP can keep their misogyny in check I don't mean to be glib, but, um, ha ha?
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Jul 7, 2014 15:05
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Radish posted:If the GOP can keep their misogyny in check... You already know that they can't. Ask any recent female Democratic candidate how she thinks the GOP will respond to Hillary Clinton on a national ticket -- I bet the responses would be golden. But I take your larger point about HRC 3rd-waying herself into a corner. In the meantime, we can console ourselves with toy math about white married women, because whether one likes it or not, identity politics is going to be worth at least a couple of percentage points in an election with the first female presidential candidate. But can we keep enough men? I worry about Bradley-effect misogyny because I think it's way more ingrained in 18yr-40yr white men (at this point in history) than racism was during the Obama elections.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:07
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The broadly effect.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:13
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As terrible as Atlas Shrugged is, I glanced at the contents and saw a chapter entitled "This is John Galt Speaking." It's like a punchline to a joke I've heard set up for years, and I'm going to get to see it unfold. This had better loving deliver.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:21
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Two Finger posted:As terrible as Atlas Shrugged is, I glanced at the contents and saw a chapter entitled "This is John Galt Speaking." Manure trucks deliver, too.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:23
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On the last campaign Clinton announced she wanted to for s Secretary for Poverty, something along those lines. I remember reading something in the office about that. What I can't recall is if she announced it before or after Super Tuesday. I was at her last or second-to-last campaign speech in New York, I remember supporters saying they would NEVER vote for Obama because he was going to destroy the nation!! I was one of the only people of color working out of her Midtown Manhattan office, me and a couple other latinos. I remember when the white guys were saying that me and the other minorities side-eyed each other, probably all thinking "Yeah, okay buddy." There was a ton of vitriol from the white people I knew that Obama won the nomination, I guess it all must have died down because hey, he won the election. That long rambling recollection was by way of saying that Clinton seemed invincible then too, but she's 6 years older and making the same god damned stupid, unforced errors. I mean, remember, Terry loving McAuliffe ran that campaign. No one made him pick her, and that kind of dumbass poo poo ran down the line. The advantages she had 6 years ago are the same advantages people are touting now, the only thing she's done in the meantime was be Secretary of State, and who the hell even knows what the SecState does besides political junkies? The only problem I see is no one on the horizon to take her down, but that was true in 2008 too. Maybe Reid will pull another rabbit out of his hat and stop the juggernaut again.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:32
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Alkydere posted:Man, this would make a great reality TV show. Just grab a bunch of Libertarians and "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" types and lock them in a room/island with only a set amount of supplies and challenge them to become the next John Galt. 
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The GOP isn't going to have Obama's campaign/ground game which is why they're most likely not going to win, but the part that makes me apprehensive is that Hillary might not have it either.
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