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Intel&Sebastian posted:I'd be concerned if someone dedicated their gravy train ride to a sport and still sucked rear end at it. To be fair to the guy, he has been doing it since 1993. Well before Sarah Palin was even a thing.
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Kelfeftaf posted:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/09/11/stretch-hummers-a-bloody-brawl-and-sarah-palin/ Snow-machine
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I just got home from work and saw this article on TPM about Ted Cruz being booed right the gently caress off stage and getting indignant at an "In Defense of Christians" summit for leaders in the Arab Christian set:Talking Points Memo posted:
The article goes on to say that there were people there who had ties to Hezbollah and Ted Cruz knew that going in but still condemned them in the same breath with ISIS. The whole thing looks embarrassing on the surface but Ted Cruz seems like he doesn't interface with shame on a human level. It seems plausible that he intentionally provoked the crowd so he could grandstand about Israel. But why?
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Sep 11, 2014 22:09
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Because video of Ted Cruz getting booed by a group full of Arabs for boosting Israel will play really well among his base. It doesn't matter that they're Christian Arabs, or that him bringing up Israel had nothing to do with anything. The takeaway for the target audience will be "Ted Cruz booed by brown people for telling them not to hate Israel."
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Sep 11, 2014 22:13
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Hulk Krogan posted:Because video of Ted Cruz getting booed by a group full of Arabs for boosting Israel will play really well among his base. http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?194867-Ted-Cruz-booed-off-stage-while-defending-Israel-by-Christians
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Sep 11, 2014 22:19
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Holy poo poo is it depressing when I'm right.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:25
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put a kettle on posted:The article goes on to say that there were people there who had ties to Hezbollah and Ted Cruz knew that going in but still condemned them in the same breath with ISIS. The whole thing looks embarrassing on the surface but Ted Cruz seems like he doesn't interface with shame on a human level. It seems plausible that he intentionally provoked the crowd so he could grandstand about Israel. But why? To garner support from nutbags. Why does he do anything? To get money from scum like this: 
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WoodrowSkillson posted:http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?194867-Ted-Cruz-booed-off-stage-while-defending-Israel-by-Christians Don't touch the poop, don't touch the poop, don't touch the poop... quote:Ted Cruz seems to be a good man. I wouldn't mind it a bit if he were our next President.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:31
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SedanChair posted:To garner support from nutbags. Why does he do anything? He knows that most people who support the GOP can not comprehend that anyone of Arab descent could possibly be Christian.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:57
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radical meme posted:He knows that most people who support the GOP can not comprehend that anyone of Arab descent could possibly be Christian. I think that GOPers know there are Arab Christians; they get trotted out when they want to say that Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world when some get killed in the Middle East. However like most things their racism trumps religious camaraderie.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:00
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Don't touch the poop, don't touch the poop, don't touch the poop... That poo poo depresses me. I am pretty sure ted is a sociopath on some level and its depressing that these people are so deep into their religion that they cant see they are being played. but this brings up another question. do you think legit believes any of the hard social right poo poo, i only ask because it obvious his dad is big social conservative nut and it makes me wonder how much rubbed off on him.
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pengun101 posted:Its depressing that these people are so deep into their religion that they cant see they are being played. You say that like it's not a trait that shysters, televangelists, and revival preachers bank on. Quite procreating all over my culture!
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Sep 11, 2014 23:39
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pengun101 posted:That poo poo depresses me. I am pretty sure ted is a sociopath on some level and its depressing that these people are so deep into their religion that they cant see they are being played. but this brings up another question. do you think legit believes any of the hard social right poo poo, i only ask because it obvious his dad is big social conservative nut and it makes me wonder how much rubbed off on him. Cruz cares a lot more about power and fame than he does about anything else, I reckon.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:44
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Why is Reagan praised for an unemployment rate of 7% five and a half years into his presidency, but Obama is castigated for an unemployment rate of 6.1% five and a half years into his presidency?
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Sep 11, 2014 23:50
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Because we are in a post fact society.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:53
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Why is Reagan praised for an unemployment rate of 7% five and a half years into his presidency, but Obama is castigated for an unemployment rate of 6.1% five and a half years into his presidency? Democrat bad?
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Sep 11, 2014 23:55
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Why is Reagan
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Sep 11, 2014 23:57
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Because no senior official of the United States government will ever have to worry about facing jail time, let alone the death sentence, no matter what crime they commit.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:59
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VitalSigns posted:You say that like it's not a trait that shysters, televangelists, and revival preachers bank on. And walking all over my beloved corps!
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Sep 12, 2014 00:10
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Ninjasaurus posted:Because no senior official of the United States government will ever have to worry about facing jail time, let alone the death sentence, no matter what crime they commit. I've sometimes wondered how far they'll take that. It's clear that doing traitorous or illegal things won't get you in trouble but that can often be spun as "making hard choices for the good of the country" or whatever and the next guy doesn't want to deal with the flak of not pardoning that. However what if someone just straight up murdered a guy in plain sight? I think it would be 50/50 considering Cheney almost committed manslaughter and the other guy apologized to him.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:15
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Just let Obama get caught with a young white intern, then you'll see some justice brought down on a high ranking official.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:31
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As a senator he was caught blowing a white dude and that didn't sink his career.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:52
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[quote="VitalSigns" post="434763820"] I can't help it but all I see is Chris Chan whenever this photo pops up.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:59
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My favorite Ted Cruz thing is still the article about his college days: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/ted-cruz-at-princeton-creepy-sometimes-well-liked-and-exactly-the-same.htmlquote:In addition to Mazin and Leitch, several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like “abrasive,” "intense," “strident,” “crank,” and “arrogant." Four independently offered the word “creepy,” with some pointing to Cruz’s habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorm’s hallway where the female students lived.
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Why is Reagan praised? There you go.
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http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/04/16/sinclair-i-performed-oral-sex-and-smoked-coke-with-obama/ Educate yourself!
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I suspect part of the reason for Reagan worship is that you have to all the way back to Eisenhower to find another Republican president that wasn't single term, (Ford, Bush 41) or disgraced somehow (Nixon, Bush 43). And by modern standards Eisenhower is a RINO, so you'd have to go back to Hoover... He is really the only option for deification.
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Shbobdb posted:http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/04/16/sinclair-i-performed-oral-sex-and-smoked-coke-with-obama/ what the gently caress? why do these people lie about this poo poo. its not even getting mainstream attention. i assume its just to jerk off the base.
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Sep 12, 2014 01:40
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The best part happens when you follow the link to the original story.
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Ninjasaurus posted:Cruz cares a lot more about power and fame than he does about anything else, I reckon. I still don't think you can go for it as hard as he does without being a True Believer.
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deoju posted:I suspect part of the reason for Reagan worship is that you have to all the way back to Eisenhower to find another Republican president that wasn't single term, (Ford, Bush 41) or disgraced somehow (Nixon, Bush 43). And by modern standards Eisenhower is a RINO, so you'd have to go back to Hoover... He is really the only option for deification. Reagan was something of a god figure for conservatives before he even became President, too. The deification of W was a work in progress as well but the recession was such a catastrophic end note that it isn't feasible currently.
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pengun101 posted:what the gently caress? why do these people lie about this poo poo. its not even getting mainstream attention. i assume its just to jerk off the base. You don't think it's plausible Obama carries a crackpipe around everywhere he goes?
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Shbobdb posted:http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/04/16/sinclair-i-performed-oral-sex-and-smoked-coke-with-obama/ Man, if I was Obama I'd be all over Sinclair. Just look at those muscles.  
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Xibanya posted:My question is, why aren't big money lobbyists from insurance buying off right-wingers? The ACA is just a big funnel of money right to them. Or is it that big pharma or whatever has deeper pockets? This is a little bit of a derail but insurance companies have absolutely been lobbying since the beginning. Remember when Rick Scott was considered a leading figure among governors against the Medicaid expansion until suddenly he supported it?
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Chantilly Say posted:Not entirely. The cockpit door is now armored, and locked during flight. The folks on the DEN-CLT US Airways flight certainly won't.
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pengun101 posted:what the gently caress? why do these people lie about this poo poo. its not even getting mainstream attention. i assume its just to jerk off the base. You don't have a lucky crack pipe? moller fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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Radish posted:I think that GOPers know there are Arab Christians; they get trotted out when they want to say that Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world when some get killed in the Middle East. However like most things their racism trumps religious camaraderie. I'll play devils advocate (sort of) and say it's more religious than racial. When they say "Christian" they mean "ultra-zealous, ultra-protestant nut". Orthodox Arab Christians who dislike Israel for its treatment of their Arab compatriots are pretty much 100% alien to people like Cruz. I think he would have the same reaction to most European Catholics Now, ultra-protestant nutjob foreigners get along very well with people like Cruz. Christians in a lot of the world who were converted by protestant/mormon missionaries fit in that category. Places like Africa, Asia, etc
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That Cruz is Southern Baptist, which is weird, it is probably safe to say that liturgical Christianity, let alone Middle Eastern Christianity, might as well be aliens from another planet to him.
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