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Conservatives also hate it because Exceptional America is King poo poo of Turd Mountain, and any kind of concession or compromise on our part is nothing more than a sign that spineless, gutless, freedom-haters are in charge. (This is also the GOP-led Congress' strategy for dealing with Obama).
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Hot take coming through: http://thewilderness.me/the-boy-on-the-beach/ quote:Flash back to 2011, and far as presidencies are concerned, it feels like a millennium ago. Barack Obama was basking in the fullness of the Arab Spring, posing as the personal midwife to a New Birth of Freedom as he polished his Peace Prize in front of the world. Truly this was a man who could not lose: it seemed like all he had to do was demand some former ally steeped in domestic conflict bow to his diplomatic omnipotence and boom: Instant Democracy. The media tactfully aided Obama by moving on from covering these international hotspots almost immediately after President Santa had finished gifting them with new regimes, so we wouldn’t have to trouble ourselves with any messy details about their aftermaths (until Ambassador Stevens found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time a year later, that is). The afterglow was unfaded. Barack Obama was still the fresh-faced President Hope and Change. Oprah was still crying. But as it all fell to pieces, Obama received a brutal education in the truth that community organizing on the South Side of Chicago is light years away from an attempt to community organize the Middle East.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 16:59 |
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StandardVC10 posted:3. Little old lady from Go granny, go granny, go granny go! ZobarStyl posted:That's the quintessential issue with having campaigns start earlier and earlier each cycle: there's not actually anywhere else Ted Cruz is needed (or frankly wanted) that would be newsworthy. Getting a photo opp in with Davis might have at least bumped him out of the polling dead zone, but now he'll have say something extra hateful to break into the wall to wall Trump coverage. The thing that amuses me the most was how quickly the interest in Cruz burned out. It was practically overnight. He went from "gently caress ALL OF YOU I'M GOING TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT EVEN IF I HAVE TO EAT A BABY TO DO IT!" He polled well for a while but then everybody lost interest when it became apparent that he was alienating literally everybody bit by bit, had no loving clue how politics actually works, and was perfectly willing to burn the entire country down if he didn't get his way. He seriously acts like a toddler and now only a few die hards are sticking to him. Mostly it's just "let's just pretend this never happened, OK?" Yet Cruz is still assuming he's going to be the next president. It's obvious that he very desperately wants it for no reason other than to stroke his own ego.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I caught that and also where a caller was complaining that she couldn't talk to her Democrat friends about the Iran deal because "they'd already made up their minds to agree with Obama just because they're Democrats." Which I'm sure was totally different from her completely nuanced views that surely weren't just regurgitated AM radio paraphrasings. It's really hilarious how openly hostile he is to his callers but they're so desperate and brain-dead they keep calling in seeking validation. Spite posted:I've yet to hear anyone give actual specifics of why the Iran deal is so bad. So far I've heard "It OBVIOUSLY is! Can't you see it?!?" and either something about sanctions or if we really have to, invading.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 17:52 |
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turnip kid posted:Hot take coming through: What the Christ am I looking at. It says counter culture but reads like a description of George Bush the second's presidency. I seriously am having trouble separating satire from serious articles these days.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 18:24 |
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 18:47 |
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Satire shouldn't be posted in a thread about a movement literally beyond satire. We're the satirists, let others get a tv show if they want to be bigger poo poo than goons.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 18:53 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yet Cruz is still assuming he's going to be the next president. It's obvious that he very desperately wants it for no reason other than to stroke his own ego. I really want him to lose his license to practice in front of the Supreme Court for advocating that their judgments are not the law of the land.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 18:57 |
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I'm super into Cruz realizing he's completely hosed his master plan up. Cruz' entire life goal here was to ride the teabagger wave into senate, do some grandstanding and whip his base up, then run for president. It was a hilarious plan because hey gently caress those bridges you burn on the way up, you're the boss now. Now it's even worse, though, when it's become crystal clear he's not even the teaparty choice for this, and he's just sadly watching other crazies do their thing as he realizes he has no friends left.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 19:09 |
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I'm super into Cruz realizing he's completely hosed his master plan up. He internalized the narrative that the tea party is all powerful without realizing how thoroughly Obama and even his own party shut them down. Hard. They can win primaries and state lege's but they have no clout without national victories beyond being mentioned in the news at all.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 19:12 |
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For effect here is the personification of the end of Ted Cruz's bid. (in case anyone missed it from Primary thread) Montasque posted:Video of Ted Cruz being blocked at Kim Davis Rally: UFOTacoMan fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Nonsense posted:He internalized the narrative that the tea party is all powerful without realizing how thoroughly Obama and even his own party shut them down. Hard. Not only that but he branded himself as a young rising star, an amazing newcomer underdog that was going to remake Washington, even if he killed it in the process, by sheer force of will. Forgetting silly concepts like "votes" and "democracy." It turned out that it's kind of hard to get several hundred people to agree to "do whatever Ted Cruz wants or burn the whole thing down." This is especially true when "what Ted Cruz wants" is a bunch of stuff that the Democrats would probably never vote for, ever, and the rest of the GOP likes the machine as it is but would like it to kindly turn off for a while until a
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For his entire life people have been telling Cruz he's the smartest guy in the room and when he gets to the big leagues he doesn't realize everyone there doesn't give a poo poo about his college debate record or Ivy League exclusive study group.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 19:35 |
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Radish posted:For his entire life people have been telling Cruz he's the smartest guy in the room and when he gets to the big leagues he doesn't realize everyone there doesn't give a poo poo about his college debate record. He's the result of one of those dark enlightenment/no-reactionary types escaping into serious politics then?
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 19:37 |
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Klaus88 posted:What the Christ am I looking at. It says counter culture but reads like a description of George Bush the second's presidency. I seriously am having trouble separating satire from serious articles these days. it isn't satire. it's some massive #tcot shithead's website. http://thewilderness.me/youth-revolt/ quote:YOUTH REVOLT: The Rise of the Counterculture Conservative
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 20:31 |
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The face of young conservatism is r/MRA and gamergaters and people who make a living toeing the line between what is and isn't rape and the like, and they're welcome to give them a national stage as the face of Republicanism as far as I am concerned. It'll be like a room full of Trump/legitimate rape guys except even louder
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:06 |
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Hazo posted:If you believe Hannity (who will helpfully repeat his same speeches every time he touches on a subject), the problem is that it's merely a postponement. We're handing them trillions of dollars as a bribe so they can keep enriching uranium and spinning centrifuges so that as soon as the deal ends they'll have a nuclear bomb, which they'll immediately attach to ICBMs and nuke Israel and America. UN inspections will be announced and the UN is a bunch of ineffectual pussies anyway so the Iranians will just hide the evidence and continue after they leave. It makes a whole lot of sense as long as you accept the story he's telling and sincerely believe all middle eastern people are bloodthirsty terrorists. Here's what I've heard: - It is a deal with Iran and we should not deal with Iran.
- The deal won't stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
- The deal is probably bad because Obama supports it.
- The US shouldn't conduct multilateral diplomacy, because we are the world leader and should negotiate from a position of strength. No carrot, just a stick. The nation of Iran is basically a cartoon villain, whose evil scheme is to develop a nuclear bomb and use it on the US and Israel. They'd never have agreed to the deal if it didn't help them do that.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:07 |
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James Garfield posted:
Insert BibiandhisBombDiagram.jpg here
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:10 |
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Surprise surprise, Huckabee's own educational materials directly contradict everything he has been saying about the SCOTUS since the Obergefell ruling came down.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:14 |
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Iran's belief that we will leave them entirely alone if they have nukes is 100% correct though. Given our history in the middle east they'd be idiots not to be rushing to develop one. poo poo, just read the news and it's drat near a for-sure thing that if a Republican wins this election it means they're getting invaded if they so much as move a muscle. If they really wanted Israel dead so bad why not just hit every one of their major cities with a chemical agent that can be manufactured much easier and doesn't leave any scorched earth?
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:14 |
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Epic High Five posted:Iran's belief that we will leave them entirely alone if they have nukes is 100% correct though. Given our history in the middle east they'd be idiots not to be rushing to develop one. But do they believe Israel wouldn't act unilaterally? Cause I mean, it's not like Mecca is in Iran if they felt like glassing the place...
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:18 |
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Epic High Five posted:Iran's belief that we will leave them entirely alone if they have nukes is 100% correct though. Given our history in the middle east they'd be idiots not to be rushing to develop one. If memory serves, Iran left the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty about a month after Bush's "Axis of Evil" speach.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:25 |
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Keeshhound posted:If memory serves, Iran left the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty about a month after Bush's "Axis of Evil" speach. Yeah, this got pointed out by Fox News of all people, when Cheney was talking about how Iran spun up their centrifuges when Obama became president, only for Fox to point out it actually happened under their watch.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:34 |
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Imagine if Trump and Cruz ran together.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:47 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Imagine if Trump and Cruz ran together. Cruz is done. Trump would never be caught dead with someone who looked as weak as he did in that Kim Davis video.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:53 |
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Jesusquote:Palin began by thanking the crowd for coming out in opposition to the deal, but then she thought of another group she wanted to thank. http://www.mediaite.com/online/palin-calls-blacklivesmatter-protesters-dogs-at-anti-iran-deal-rally/
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 21:55 |
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Epic High Five posted:The face of young conservatism is r/MRA and gamergaters and people who make a living toeing the line between what is and isn't rape and the like, and they're welcome to give them a national stage as the face of Republicanism as far as I am concerned. It'll be like a room full of Trump/legitimate rape guys except even louder Republicans attempted to convince themselves that they're rebelling against the machine will always be funny in the laughing at others immense delusions sort of way. Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Jesus Sarah Palin is a colossal bitch. There are very few women I would call a bitch but I definitely fell she has earned the term.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 22:03 |
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I don't know where to start with that. Obama is black so I guess he speaks for all black people? Obama started #BlackLivesMatter? Unarmed citizens are no longer being killed by police for no reason?
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 22:06 |
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beatlegs posted:Say, who's that sad li'l fella in the back corner? i want to go back to this photo for a moment. You're going to a rally where your wife is getting out of jail and you know that TV cameras, reporters and dozen's of photographers are going to be on hand to see Huckabee and Cruz and now your wife also and this is what you choose to wear?
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 22:19 |
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Wow, so much happened today. Glenn Beck talked about an email he received from Louis Gohmert, in which, according to Beck, Gohmert promised to not run for re-election if the Iran deal went through. quote:Beck read the email on air during his radio show. Also, have a video of half-term Gov. Palin at the Iran Rally talking while a protester is being led away. At the end is her "fairy dust and unicorn " quote which is priceless. You have to scroll down in the article a bit to get to the video. radical meme fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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radical meme posted:Wow, so much happened today. Thanks Obama
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 22:59 |
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Magres posted:Thanks Obama Sincerely!
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 23:11 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Jesus quote:This afternoon, on my way to Alaska, I called Kathleen Goforth, the widow of Harris County Deputy Sheriff Darren Goforth - a veteran law enforcement officer who was contemptibly shot and killed over the weekend. On behalf of the American people, I offered Mrs. Goforth my condolences, and told her that Michelle and I would keep her and her family in our prayers. I also promised that I would continue to highlight the uncommon bravery that police officers show in our communities every single day. They put their lives on the line for our safety. Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable - an affront to civilized society. As I said in my State of the Union Address, we've got to be able to put ourselves in the shoes of the wife who won't rest until the police officer she married walks through the door at the end of his shift. That comfort has been taken from Mrs. Goforth. So we must offer her our comfort - and continue to stand up for the safety of police officers wherever they serve. (Mediaite, 8/31/15) Go gently caress Yourself Palin http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/barack-obama-statement-nypd-officers-killed-113724 Go die in a fire, Palin.
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# ? Sep 9, 2015 23:45 |
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I always love the rights inability to understand nuance. You can say Black Lives Matter, and cops should stop gunning them down for looking at them funny, and also say its a shame and a tragedy when a policeman is killing the line of duty. Nope, to idiots like Palin, if you say Black Lives Matter, it means that white people's lives don't matter and you want to kill all cops.
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# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:23 |
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I have to say, Trump really is the gift that never stops giving. Watching Jonah Goldberg being eaten alive by commenters at NRO for failing to embrace the Trumpvolution is a feast. And it seems that even human wasteland Mark Steyn is also catching flak and being called politically correct (the direst of insults!) by former fans for not getting on with the pogrom.
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# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:23 |
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radical meme posted:i want to go back to this photo for a moment. You're going to a rally where your wife is getting out of jail and you know that TV cameras, reporters and dozen's of photographers are going to be on hand to see Huckabee and Cruz and now your wife also and this is what you choose to wear? It's totemic. He's wearing it to show he's a good, humble, christian white guy from the Real America. Not some communist metrosexual from the big city. He knows exactly what he looks like and that's why he's wearing it.
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twistedmentat posted:I always love the rights inability to understand nuance. You can say Black Lives Matter, and cops should stop gunning them down for looking at them funny, and also say its a shame and a tragedy when a policeman is killing the line of duty. What if I think white lives matter, but I also want to kill all cops?
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# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:32 |
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Klaus88 posted:Republicans attempted to convince themselves that they're rebelling against the machine will always be funny in the laughing at others immense delusions sort of way. I don't understand why you would, though.
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# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:46 |
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Chantilly Say posted:I don't understand why you would, though. Do you mean I shouldn't call Palin names or I shouldn't use gendered insults against her? If its the later- you're right and I'm sorry about that.
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Klaus88 posted:Do you mean I shouldn't call Palin names or I shouldn't use gendered insults against her? Palin's a oval office.
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