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Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. It's an unacceptable premise that would never fly for any other threat to American lives.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. More to the point, he doubled down on the quote later. If it was out of context, he should have clarified, not doubled down.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:06
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Popular Thug Drink posted:nine americans murdered by american: "oh well, stuff happens, what can you do" Imagine Hillary saying "Stuff happens" at a Benghazi hearing.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:07
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-gun-laws_560ee5fde4b0768127020a88?utm_hp_ref=politicsquote:“I said what I said,” he said. Is is this real? This can't be real. 
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Oct 2, 2015 22:08
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You realize this guy is running for the GOP nomination right? A firm rejection of the "nanny state" mentality is going to make him more popular.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:10
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Iron Twinkie posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-gun-laws_560ee5fde4b0768127020a88?utm_hp_ref=politics That sounds perfectly consistent with Republican thinking and I don't see how its a gaff among his base. He's arguing against government overreaction in their minds.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:10
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Trabisnikof posted:That sounds perfectly consistent with Republican thinking and I don't see how its a gaff among his base. that's the funny part, they have to win so they can lose. you have to make yourself toxic enough to capture enough of the republican base so that you can become too odious to convince the rest of the country to vote for you. the strange part is that none/few of the republicans so far have the balls to be publicly sane
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Oct 2, 2015 22:12
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Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:15
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. Well he didn't necessarily say we should do nothing. His solution seems to be mandating praying in schools.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:15
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. old school four loko, not the baby kind they tried remaking, the kind that you drink one and you die
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Oct 2, 2015 22:15
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. lol you're right "A child drowns in a pool and the impulse is to pass a law that puts fencing around pools," he continued. "Well, it may not change it. Or you have a car accident and the impulse is to pass a law that deals with that unique event, and the cumulative effect of this is in some cases -- you don’t solve the problem by passing the law, and you’re imposing on large numbers of people, burdens that make it harder for our economy to grow, make it harder for people to protect liberty, and that is, the whole conversation today was exactly about that. That as we shift power up to Washington, D.C." so jeb bush is in favor of full drug legalization?
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Oct 2, 2015 22:16
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Popular Thug Drink posted:lol you're right I presume he'd give the traditional "since we already have pools, cars and guns we can't add weed on top of it."
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Oct 2, 2015 22:18
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I'm glad we all collective said "poo poo Happens" after 9/11.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:19
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SedanChair posted:You realize this guy is running for the GOP nomination right? A firm rejection of the "nanny state" mentality is going to make him more popular. Yep. No one on the right gives a poo poo. SirPablo posted:I'm glad we all collective said "poo poo Happens" after 9/11. Probably should have. Less people would have died.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:20
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. Four Loko still exists, they've been pre-rolling their lovely ads all over videos on the internet. Also it's a godawful beverage for any purpose, including getting drunk for cheap because OE800 exists as do Steel Reserve tallboys. It's like the Axe to Smirnoff Ice's Curve.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:21
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Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:21
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Popular Thug Drink posted:so jeb bush is in favor of full drug legalization? If he's okay with mass shootings and drowned children, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything he wouldn't be okay with.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:21
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DaveWoo posted:If he's okay with mass shootings and drowned children, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything he wouldn't be okay with. See, that's what great is conservatives will hold up comments like yours as proof that liberals don't understand the real world and want to institute thought controls. While liberals decry Bush and those that will support his comment as unfeeling pro-drowning children monsters. Both sides win... America loses
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Oct 2, 2015 22:23
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Stuff happens and they get an abortion.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:23
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FAUXTON posted:Four Loko still exists, they've been pre-rolling their lovely ads all over videos on the internet. Also it's a godawful beverage for any purpose, including getting drunk for cheap because OE800 exists as do Steel Reserve tallboys. It's like the Axe to Smirnoff Ice's Curve. It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:24
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What does a fence around a pool, seat belts, airbags, and gas tanks that do not spontaneously explode all have in common? They are all job-killing Washington regulations. As President, I promise a dead kid in every pool and a human body through every windshield.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:24
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit. Brew coffee with redbull and pour in a few shots of cheap vodka.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:25
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Literally The Worst posted:old school four loko, not the baby kind they tried remaking, the kind that you drink one and you die Four Loko doesn't kill people. People who drink Four Loko kill people.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:26
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. Welcome to the Libertarian Party!
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Oct 2, 2015 22:26
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. Google Ron Paul
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Oct 2, 2015 22:26
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko.  I don't think it's the government's job to protect people from making dumb decisions. ComradeCosmobot posted:Welcome to the Libertarian Party! I used to consider myself a libertarian because I support that stuff but then I found out that 99% of libertarians don't give a gently caress about those issues, they just want low taxes and no business regulations.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:27
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MaxxBot posted:
Don't forget the marijuana!
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Oct 2, 2015 22:29
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MaxxBot posted:I used to consider myself a libertarian because I support that stuff but then I found out that 99% of libertarians don't give a gently caress about those issues, they just want low taxes and no business regulations.  The problem is that government regulations are good when it comes to actually keeping us safe from predatory business practices and negative economic externalities. Libertarians refuse to acknowledge this distinction.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:30
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. There'd better be a good reason for hostility to that one besides "I drive better when I've had a few."
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Oct 2, 2015 22:30
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It's like he couldn't have picked a worse analogy. Look, I can play republican better than Jeb here. "HEY WE GET THAT CRAZY GUY WHO CRASHED HIS RV ON CRUISE CONTROL AND NOW THERE'S A WARNING SAYING CRUISE CONTROL WON'T DRIVE ITSELF, WE DON'T NEED THAT KIND OF NANNY STATE" Instead he says "man, what's next, keeping kids from drowning in fukken pools? i've got a pool boy for that dammit."
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Oct 2, 2015 22:32
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I remember that. A million parents saw a story on CNN about Four Loko as the greatest new threat to college students, and immediately put down their rum and coke to call their senators to make sure something was DONE about the dangers of caffeinated alcohol. It's a pretty great model of crisis response, we should definitely follow it.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:33
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DemeaninDemon posted:Brew coffee with redbull and pour in a few shots of cheap vodka. That sounds loving disgusting.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:34
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Rhesus Pieces posted:There'd better be a good reason for hostility to that one besides "I drive better when I've had a few." You shouldn't be able to pull someone over without evidence that they actually did anything wrong. It's not a pro-drunk driving position to not want people pulled over at random to check their BAC.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:35
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MaxxBot posted:You shouldn't be able to pull someone over without evidence that they actually did anything wrong. It's not a pro-drunk driving position to not want people pulled over at random to check their BAC. There's nothing very random about pulling everybody over, drinky.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:38
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Rhesus Pieces posted:That sounds loving disgusting. It's better if you toss in a few ground up adderall.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:38
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Rhesus Pieces posted:That sounds loving disgusting. Just like Four Loko.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:39
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I don't think mandatory pool fences are how one gets the middle class vote
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Oct 2, 2015 22:42
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Antti posted:Imagine Hillary saying "Stuff happens" at a Benghazi hearing. She said something like "at this point what difference does it make?" during a Benghazi hearing, and they trotted that line out for years trying to make her seem callous and indifferent.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:45
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Arresting everyone with an above ground pool would probably be extremely effective from a crime control point of view.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:46
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Nintendo Kid posted:There's nothing very random about pulling everybody over, drinky. They ought to have probable cause though.
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