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JT Jag posted:Basically someone willing to vote the Democratic party line regardless of the situation, to the point where they'd vote for a yellow dog instead of a Republican if the dog was running as a Dem. Well yeah, I'd vote Democrat no matter what. Its your goddamn civic duty, why aren't you a Strong D in the vote DBs with a strong record of turnout in the databases? Its also the duty of a good Democrat to take heart from 9/11 and oppose anything that could result in another 2002 shellacking, even if it means pre-emptive war. Its the primaries where you're allowed to show your flavor of Democraticism. And, frankly, that flavor should be more Rahm and less Warren, if you want the party to have the capital necessary to win national office.
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zoux posted:
There's no "I" in "commu"-- in "team."
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Hollismason posted:I was thinking more in terms of how badly and non chalantly Ted Cruz has no problem at all selling out his party for his own personal goals. Thankfully I don't even think John loving Kerry could lose to him.
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I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you still happen to be an avowed flat Earther? *or really just anything related to being a Republican in general
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Mr Interweb posted:I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you happen to be a flat Earther? You make the mistake of assuming education is equal to intelligence or credibility. Like 40% of the PhD students from my class are tea partiers.
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Mr Interweb posted:I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you happen to be still be an avowed flat Earther? Means you know which way the political winds blow to acquire power.
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Mr Interweb posted:I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you still happen to be an avowed flat Earther? Plenty of morons that can memorize text books and answer test questions.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:25
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Gravel Gravy posted:You make the mistake of assuming education is equal to intelligence or credibility. I'm guessing STEM.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:26
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CommieGIR posted:Plenty of morons that can memorize text books and answer test questions. See also, the Chinese and southern educational systems.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:27
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16:42 watch this and you'll get a idea of what he's going to say at the Debates. http://www.c-span.org/video/?306739-1/texas-senate-republican-runoff-debate Here's him and Lt. Governor Dewhurst and Ted Cruz. 19:29 is very awesome. This is where they ask questions of each others. Cruz just straight up calls him out on a payroll tax and then is like " Well, I'm not calling you a liar on that answer but these 20 newspapers are". Hollismason fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Apr 6, 2015 |
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Apr 6, 2015 20:29
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My Imaginary GF posted:See also, the Chinese and southern educational systems. The South has some of the worst test scores in the country, but the South also spends a significant amount of time sabotaging their Public Education to 'prove' that the government is bloated and push for investments into private education (often Christian private schools).
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Apr 6, 2015 20:30
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shrike82 posted:I'm guessing STEM. Nope, International Relations. Seriously one of these fuckers advocated nuking Hanoi when a Vietnamese exchange student was sitting behind him. And threatened the president over the internet.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:31
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My Imaginary GF posted:Well yeah, I'd vote Democrat no matter what. Its your goddamn civic duty, why aren't you a Strong D in the vote DBs with a strong record of turnout in the databases? Nah, I prefer to have a bit less cash and a platform that actually gets the base excited.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:32
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zoux posted:
Campagn.
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CaptainCarrot posted:Nah, I prefer to have a bit less cash and a platform that actually gets the base excited. Excitement doesn't win elections. Money wins elections. Excitement doesn't plaster your face all over TV, it gets you a wikipedia article as a has-been Presidential primary challenger for 1988.
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Mr Interweb posted:I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you still happen to be an avowed flat Earther? Paul Wolfowitz went to Cornell. Rumsfeld went to Princeton. Paul Bremer went to Harvard and Yale. I'm not sure what an Ivy Leage education actually means but it sure doesn't mean that the person is in any way competent.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Nope, International Relations.  Who teaches the class? MacArthur? Kissinger?
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Campagn. The Continental...
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CommieGIR posted:
The professors are competent but somehow they admitted Rush Limbaugh Jr. into the PhD program. GreyjoyBastard posted:Campagn. It's pronounced champagne.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Excitement doesn't win elections.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:39
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CommieGIR posted:
Yeah no poo poo. My IR classes were pretty much +90% liberals. What kind of idiot teabagger gets a PhD in IR anyway? Where the gently caress do they think they'll be working?
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JT Jag posted:The Democrats cannot out-shill the Republicans. To do so only leads to inevitable compromising and betrayal of their own platform. The best alternative is left populism. Money can buy you a shill from any place. When you want your money to purchase some sanity, you give to Democrats.
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Unzip and Attack posted:Yeah no poo poo. My IR classes were pretty much +90% liberals. What kind of idiot teabagger gets a PhD in IR anyway? Where the gently caress do they think they'll be working? John Bolton's campaign?
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Unzip and Attack posted:Yeah no poo poo. My IR classes were pretty much +90% liberals. What kind of idiot teabagger gets a PhD in IR anyway? Where the gently caress do they think they'll be working? CATO, probably.
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Radish posted:Kill all dogs.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:It's always possible that he could come off totally smug and unlikable in those debates, right? Depends. Is he going to come out and set a Birthday Cake on the podium and answer each question by shoveling it into his mouth while keeping eye contact with the camera?
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My Imaginary GF posted:Excitement doesn't win elections.
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Hollismason posted:16:42 watch this and you'll get a idea of what he's going to say at the Debates.
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Anyway , if want a idea of what Cruz is going to be saying in the future watch the debate because he's going to keep this rhetoric of being a defender of the constitution. 49:00 , issue Groping by the TSA Ted Cruz " WE do a body Cavity Search of a 90 Year old Nun and Obama allows that". Oh and then the whole Obamacare thing Cruz basically states what he's going to do in 2013. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Apr 6, 2015 |
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Unzip and Attack posted:Yeah no poo poo. My IR classes were pretty much +90% liberals. What kind of idiot teabagger gets a PhD in IR anyway? Where the gently caress do they think they'll be working? One of them actually was State Dept. at one point though who knows how the hell that relationship was severed though to be fair the guy was kind of decent. Except he was pretty racist and had some deplorable opinions. The other is just balls to the wall nuts however, and regularly would shout down anyone who disagreed with him and often caught poo poo for swearing and yelling at people in academic discussions. I honestly have no idea. For the most part the program comprises of a lot of international students and otherwise sane people though.
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zoux posted:
Well, it comes from the French campagne and only officially got the 'i' in English usage with Samuel Johnson's dictionary in 1755. For example, Samuel Pepys in his diary of June 28, 1667: quote:At table, my Lady and Sir Philip Carteret have great and good discourse of the greatness of the present King of France--what great things he hath done, that a man may pass, at any hour in the night, all over that wild city [Paris], with a purse in his hand and no danger: that there is not a beggar to be seen in it, nor dirt lying in it; that he hath married two of Colbert's daughters to two of the greatest princes of France, and given them portions--bought the greatest dukedom in France, and given it to Colbert; and ne'er a prince in France dare whisper against it, whereas here our King cannot do any such thing, but everybody's mouth is open against him for it, and the man that hath the favour also. That to several commanders that had not money to set them out to the present campagne, he did of his own accord--send them L1000 sterling a-piece, to equip themselves.
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Unzip and Attack posted:Where the gently caress do they think they'll be working? At some think tank making more money than the rest of the class.
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Joementum posted:Well, it comes from the French campagne and only officially got the 'i' in English usage with Samuel Johnson's dictionary in 1755. Oh god it's John Kerry all over again.
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zoux posted:Oh god it's John Kerry all over again. Or another famous Presidential candidate from Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjgzXFLcrE
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Gravel Gravy posted:Ir people
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Joementum posted:Or another famous Presidential candidate from Massachusetts. Mon dieu  'E is, 'ow you say, une fille 'omme...a ah...."little girly man", n'cest pas?
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zoux posted:Oh god it's John Kerry all over again. Hillary Clinton did such a bang-up job as Secretary of State that she left with all her emails in order to make room for John Kerry
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hobbesmaster posted:At some think tank making more money than the rest of the class. Everyone says this but that's bullshit. CATO and the like aren't just money factories where Teabaggers party and live it up like some nerdy Studio 54. Those places don't hire en masse so I'm thinking Panera Bread is a safer prediction.
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CommieGIR posted:
No lie, I'd take a class on international relations taught by Henry Kissinger.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Excitement doesn't win elections. Yup, just ask President Romney.
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