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Somebody with not-much to lose is going to step in, I suppose. It's less that nobody is acceptable and more that candidates fear one of the job responsibilities is to appease the Sun God and the only way he can be appeased is with blood of people with jobs like yours.
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OAquinas posted:They won't be happy until she commits Sudoku on stage. Not exactly riveting television but I'd watch it. Some of them things are really hard.
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pangstrom posted:Somebody with not-much to lose is going to step in, I suppose. It's less that nobody is acceptable and more that candidates fear one of the job responsibilities is to appease the Sun God and the only way he can be appeased is with blood of people with jobs like yours. I suspect nobody can do the job. If you're moderate enough for mainstream support you're disqualified from fringe support and vice versa. The Republicans have split into two parties and are refusing to admit it.
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pangstrom posted:Somebody with not-much to lose is going to step in, I suppose. It's less that nobody is acceptable and more that candidates fear one of the job responsibilities is to appease the Sun God and the only way he can be appeased is with blood of people with jobs like yours. This analogy isn't very apt considering it was an honor to be sacrificed to the sun god (guaranteed chance of heaven or reincarnation and whatnot) and in this case taking the speaker position is a guaranteed chance at hell and political damnation.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:47
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DemeaninDemon posted:The decaying corpse of Ronald Reagan. That west coast elitist tax hiker who granted amnesty to illegals?
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Is John Boehner on suicide watch yet can he escape the horror
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I suspect nobody can do the job. If you're moderate enough for mainstream support you're disqualified from fringe support and vice versa. The Republicans have split into two parties and are refusing to admit it. Also not the first to say it obv. but I think the most likely alternative to the "somebody with not-much to lose" scenario is that Boehner gradually settles back in.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Ron Fornier is such a shill. Amazing how you knew exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote that  he blocked me on Twitter after one (profanity free) tweet where I mentioned him, and I was quite pleased
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:That west coast elitist tax hiker who granted amnesty to illegals? Don't forget that he supplied arms to Iran and was pretty chummy with Saddam.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The decaying corpse of Ronald Reagan. Everyone should read Raise The Gipper by John Barnes
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Monkey Fracas posted:Is John Boehner on suicide watch yet They would just put his corpse back in the speaker seat ala the Golden Throne.
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Thump! posted:This thread is SA's version of the GOP. Just ripping itself apart over petty bullshit. Then let us put aside our differences and come together to hate this: https://liberty.me For just $5 a month you too can be a member of the libertarian community ... In the cloud!
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Gravel Gravy posted:Don't forget that he supplied arms to Iran and was pretty chummy with Saddam. Stop using facts.
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Venom Snake posted:This analogy isn't very apt considering it was an honor to be sacrificed to the sun god (guaranteed chance of heaven or reincarnation and whatnot) and in this case taking the speaker position is a guaranteed chance at hell and political damnation.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ornstein-gop-meltdownquote:The modern Republican Party had been careening toward this kind of wheels-off-the-track moment for a long time [...] But you knew that already if you read the 2012 book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism." While not predicting the current GOP leadership crisis, it sounded the alarm that the party was on a dangerous course and taking the country with it. The book argued that responsible governance had been severely crippled by the Republican Party's push to the right and its adoption of take-no-prisoners politicking. drat Norman, tell us how you REALLY feel
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So Planned Parenthood has announced they'll stop taking the minor recompense to cover shipping and packing for fetal tissue donations. Not sure if I like the optics on that, I'm sure the Catholic cavemen are going to be crowing about this as a huge victory and it's going to open up even more investigations.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The Republicans have split into two parties and are refusing to admit it. No doubt. Hell, in the last kiddy table debate, Jindal said the true conservatives should split because Republicans just aren't conservative enough.
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pangstrom posted:Somebody with not-much to lose is going to step in, I suppose. It's less that nobody is acceptable and more that candidates fear one of the job responsibilities is to appease the Sun God and the only way he can be appeased is with blood of people with jobs like yours. Paging Sol Invictus?
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DemeaninDemon posted:The decaying corpse of Ronald Reagan. Did the team that was tasked with staking him through the heart not succeed?   or is it, That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. 
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Monkey Fracas posted:Is John Boehner on suicide watch yet Somebody rewrite "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" as a political thriller starring Boehner as Ted. Who could fill in for the other 4? AM is clearly the Raiders of the Tortilla Coast.
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pathetic little tramp posted:So Planned Parenthood has announced they'll stop taking the minor recompense to cover shipping and packing for fetal tissue donations. Not sure if I like the optics on that, I'm sure the Catholic cavemen are going to be crowing about this as a huge victory and it's going to open up even more investigations. Yeah, the conservatives don't actually care about the substance of the issue, so ceding ground won't make them shut up at all. It only vindicates them and encourages more bullshit. Bad move. The cons will interpret it as a tacit admission that PP was selling baby parts after all, so they must be hiding something even worse.
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Schizotek posted:Somebody rewrite "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" as a political thriller starring Boehner as Ted. Who could fill in for the other 4? AM is clearly the Raiders of the Tortilla Coast. Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy would be 2 of the four, and we can't include Romney since AM might learn the meaning of friendship and change the whole story.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Yeah, the conservatives don't actually care about the substance of the issue, so ceding ground won't make them shut up at all. It only vindicates them and encourages more bullshit. Bad move. The cons will interpret it as a tacit admission that PP was selling baby parts after all, so they must be hiding something even worse. If they are spending $1M to prove they aren't being nefarious to recover $200k in actual costs, then it makes perfect sense to stop trying to recover it. The victory is that conservatives haven't stopped the research.
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Fried Chicken posted:Then let us put aside our differences and come together to hate this: https://liberty.me Is this...Conservative Twitter?
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Kro-Bar posted:Is this...Conservative Twitter? It was bad (and hilarious) enough when they did the Conservative Facebook. This is both horrible and hilarious. Dark comedy.
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CommieGIR posted:It was bad (and hilarious) enough when they did the Conservative Facebook. is social justice just a strawman? concerned libertarians want to know! quote:Often, my left-libertarian counterparts state that their attempts to politely discuss, for instance, “social justice” (and other leftist concepts) with me inevitably prove fruitless.
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Fried Chicken posted:Clinton hasn't release a criminal justice position paper yet while Bernie has, but don't let that get in the way of claiming she has firm positions on it and he doesn't Clinton had given speeches focusing on the topic. Since not personally seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist I can't say betnie hasn't, just that what I have seen of him speaking on the subject were terrible positions. Something Else posted:In that video, he says police departments should have SWAT-caliber weaponry to combat drug dealers, presumably he means people who can fight back with automatic weapons and the like. He also says the equipment should not be used against protestors as it was in Ferguson. He supports cutting the budgets for that kind of equipment and putting the money into a jobs program instead. Exactly. He said it's ok for them to have the weapons, just they shouldn't use them that way, I say they shouldn't have the weapons. Clinton also says they shouldn't have the weapons. This is a clear policy difference. We all agree they shouldn't use the weapons the way they are using them. Just some of us also think that they shouldn't even have them in the first place as having them is the temptation to mis-use them.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Don't forget that he supplied arms to Iran and was pretty chummy with Saddam. Also pushed for gun control for the same reason a lot of people these days are against it.
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Fried Chicken posted:Amazing how you knew exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote that Yeah, like I can respect Bob Costas, but gently caress Ron. He's an rear end in a top hat shill.
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Trabisnikof posted:is social justice just a strawman? concerned libertarians want to know! Libertarians can show concern? I thought it was purposefully being misleading to hide their vampire tendencies
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A Winner is Jew posted:Did the team that was tasked with staking him through the heart not succeed? Hard to jam a spike into something that didn't exist in the first place. Or was that his lucid thought? I forget.
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Venom Snake posted:This analogy isn't very apt considering it was an honor to be sacrificed to the sun god (guaranteed chance of heaven or reincarnation and whatnot) and in this case taking the speaker position is a guaranteed chance at hell and political damnation. Might be good on a resume if you don't care about such things? Also, why isn't Issa making aplay for it? These kind of power plays are right up his alley.
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McAlister posted:Clinton had given speeches focusing on the topic. Since not personally seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist I can't say betnie hasn't, just that what I have seen of him speaking on the subject were terrible positions. Will it appears his position is they should have at least less of those weapons if he wants to cut the budget for them.
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showbiz_liz posted:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ornstein-gop-meltdown He has every right to be pissed. He and Mann were respected beltway sages until they finally called out the GOP back in 2012 for being insane and unreasonable, at which point they became radioactive to the Sunday talk shows. You have to be willing to "play the game" and handicap the national debate enough to make the right and left look equally balanced when they're anything but. If you admit that this isn't the case, you're "biased" and aren't allowed to be heard or taken seriously. After all, if the press actually admits that one side of the political aisle is completely unhinged and should not be elected, the horse race might become uncompetitive, and the networks couldn't charge as much as they do for advertising space.
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I usually try to keep boring horse race stuff out of here, in deference to RSF, but I couldn't pass up passing along the fact that the wonderful tabloid-worthy Trump/Jeb slap fight continues... 
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greatn posted:They just announced Trump will host SNL. If only SNL was still funny. 
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I usually try to keep boring horse race stuff out of here, in deference to RSF, but I couldn't pass up passing along the fact that the wonderful tabloid-worthy Donald "Stay and we keep the oil" Trump/Jeb slap fight continues... These people are loving idiots
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showbiz_liz posted:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ornstein-gop-meltdown Similar strong language from conservative NYTimes columnist David Brooks: quote:The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus Even if this trouble finding a new Speaker is the last straw that leads to the few remaining serious conservative intellectuals leaving the party or criticizing the roots of its failure (See also, the recent Ben Bernake talk about how he stopped considering himself a Republican after constant confrontation with demonstrably false and damaging economic policy during his tenure as Fed Chairman), I can't see what effect it has. How many Republican voters will be swayed by this?
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