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Paul Ryan is also a randian obsessed with eliminating parasites (like hungry elementary school children) despite going to college using social security survivor payments and spending nearly the entirety of his adult life working in the same government he wants to destroy. His family's lucrative construction business largely serves government contracts. He has spent his life suckling at society's breast and now wants to make sure no one else can have any. His "wonkishness" is a media fiction, he's as dense and boorish as any self-obsessed libertarian. His math was made up and didn't withstand the most casual of scrutiny. His "favorite band" are staunch anti-fascists whose politics are diametrically opposed to his but he was too much of a knob to pay attention to the lyrics.  loving bicep curls. moller fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Biden destroying Paul Ryan in the debates was a thing of beauty.
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'A bunch of stuff'.
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moller posted:loving bicep curls. Concentration curls! done poorly  It's how you know he's SERIOUS about starving grannies and curling in the squat rack
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Wally Joyner posted:North Minneapolis has been plagued for years by severe inequality, and this isn't the first time charges of brutality or racism were made toward the MPD. I believe Harteau made the push for body-cameras (against the Police union) and increasing the relationship with the community, so it will be interesting to see how the investigation is handled. MPR reported that they've asked for the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to do the investigation and they're holding a community meeting at the Urban League to talk about it with residents, so at least they're taking some correct steps.
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moller posted:Paul Ryan is also a randian obsessed with eliminating parasites (like hungry elementary school children) despite going to college using social security survivor payments and spending nearly the entirety of his adult life working in the same government he wants to destroy. His family's lucrative construction business largely serves government contracts. He has spent his life suckling at society's breast and now wants to make sure no one else can have any.   "The debt just keeps going up, UP, UP! Now here's how (read: by privatizing/eliminating social security and public healthcare) I'll literally cut all government expenditures to zero!  "[e]: Basically this: 
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:
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What I love is how, in Paul Ryan's view, reaching 90% of debt:GDP will grind the economy to a halt and stagnation while dramatically cutting the debt:GDP to 20% would boost the economy instead of... you know, severely loving up the economy. Food stamps tend to be one of the biggest drivers/most efficient returns on economic growth while upper percentile tax cuts tend to have a negative return on economic growth. Even in Econ 101/102, one of the most basic formulas you learn is C+I+G+Net Ex = GDP. C being consumer spending, I being investment, G being government expenditure, and Net Ex being net exports (exports - imports). Severely cutting government expenditures tends to, uh, hurt GDP. But nothing like a little willful ignorance will help that!
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:What I love is how, in Paul Ryan's view, reaching 90% of debt:GDP will grind the economy to a halt and stagnation while dramatically cutting the debt:GDP to 20% would boost the economy instead of... you know, severely loving up the economy. Food stamps tend to be one of the biggest drivers/most efficient returns on economic growth while upper percentile tax cuts tend to have a negative return on economic growth. Laffer curve! Low inflation! Trickle down! Job creators! Austerity! The western political economy has been captured by charlatans who tell political leaders what they want to hear, and what they want to hear is morality tales on the evils of spending beyond your means and the benefits of flagellation.
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Apparently I am going to meet O'Malley Thursday night. What should I ask him?
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GalacticAcid posted:Apparently I am going to meet O'Malley Thursday night. What should I ask him? If he has stairs in his house, of course.
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GalacticAcid posted:Apparently I am going to meet O'Malley Thursday night. What should I ask him? fosborb posted:Why? Also, be sure to mention Tommy Carcetti to him. I'm sure he never get's tired of the similarities.
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fosborb posted:Why? I received an email about the event while in the throes of a deep alcoholic bender so I sent the $25 contribution. gradenko_2000 posted:If he has stairs in his house, of course. Nice.
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Thump! posted:Also, be sure to mention Tommy Carcetti to him. I'm sure he never get's tired of the similarities. "Former Governor O'Malley, could you explain what factors led you to abandon your tough-on-blacks policy record?"
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gradenko_2000 posted:If he has stairs in his house, of course. This. Also, ask what possessed him to endorse something with such horrible optics as the "Rain Tax."
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GalacticAcid posted:Apparently I am going to meet O'Malley Thursday night. What should I ask him? Ask him about the War of 1812. He's a reenactor and knows a lot about it. You'll learn something interesting from the answer, unlike if you ask him what he'd do if he becomes President, since that'll never happen.
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Joementum posted:Ask him about the War of 1812. He's a reenactor and knows a lot about it. You'll learn something interesting from the answer, unlike if you ask him what he'd do if he becomes President, since that'll never happen. I forgot that was him. Doesn't he have those pictures of him in uniform on a horse?
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Joementum posted:Ask him about the War of 1812. He's a reenactor and knows a lot about it. You'll learn something interesting from the answer, unlike if you ask him what he'd do if he becomes President, since that'll never happen. Never say never, Sanders and Clinton could die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
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WampaLord posted:Never say never, Sanders and Clinton could die in a freak gasoline fight accident. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Police-Man-soaks-stranger-at-Federal-Way-gas-6616038.php
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the_paradigm_shift posted:I forgot that was him. Doesn't he have those pictures of him in uniform on a horse? Yeah, it's actually kinda cool  
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Thump! posted:Yeah, it's actually kinda cool - Shots from the set of "Washington" starring Kevin Spacey.
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Thump! posted:Yeah, it's actually kinda cool If he started showing up to the debates dressed like that his campaign might start gaining some traction.
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smg77 posted:If he started showing up to the debates dressed like that his campaign might start gaining some traction. I don't know, it didn't work for Sky Marshal Bachmann.
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Probably for every one touching tribute is ten of thesequote:"Dallas is not going to be Paris,” he said. “We are not going to have an environment where people can murder 150-plus people because the public is not armed. At least Alabama is taking the right lessons from this. quote:“After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. As your governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way,” Bentley said. zoux fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Robert Bentley(Alabama governor) just went through a messy divorce where everyone knows he had an affair with his highest paid political consultant, and his strategy of simply hiding from the media completely worked, as they got bored and moved on to other stories.
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zoux posted:Probably for every one touching tribute is ten of these Because if it's one thing Alabama doesn't like, it's relocating immigrants from formerly hostile nations who given any other circumstances would likely have been tried for war crimes. Wait... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redstone_Arsenal#Huntsville_Arsenal
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Talmonis posted:This. Also, ask what possessed him to endorse something with such horrible optics as the "Rain Tax." "Rain Tax" was a Republican rebranding like "Death Tax" so people wouldn't associate it with Chesapeake Bay cleanup. And it worked. 
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After The War posted:"Rain Tax" was a Republican rebranding like "Death Tax" so people wouldn't associate it with Chesapeake Bay cleanup. When they signed the tax into law that day Martin O Malley was waiting in Chesapeake bay. How did they know that the plan would work? They had a spy on the inside, that's right! loving Republicans!
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greatn posted:When they signed the tax into law that day Martin O Malley was waiting in Chesapeake bay. How did they know that the plan would work? They had a spy on the inside, that's right! loving Republicans! Sure as hell wasn't Hogan.
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Speaking of Alabama's refusal to take in Refugee's in fear of future attacks, I never got a good response to this line of inquiry in the French attack thread before it closed. For context, keep in mind that folks prior were advocating mass immigration to europe as a good thing (not just of refugees) to solve the problem of Islamist terrorism. Pohl posted:
Talmonis posted:If and when they do, what is the solution according to those who want Europe and the U.S. to take any and all immigrants, regardless of skillset or employment prospects? I'm just not seeing a clean solution.
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Oh before we have a multi page thing about how racist and dumb the south is: Michigan is doing it too.
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zoux posted:Oh before we have a multi page thing about how racist and dumb the south is: Michigan is doing it too. Michigan outside of Detroit and Ann Arbor basically is the south.
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Cool we'll just talk about Republicans being dumb and racist.
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Our Team would never do anything like that. Go Team!
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Litany Unheard posted:Cool we'll just talk about Republicans being dumb and racist. Is this not US Pol?
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Does anyone else honestly go "yes, go team" when someone says that? I mean, politics are inherently tribal, so why the hell shouldn't I root for the good guys? People would be a lot more invested in the welfare of our government if people didn't constantly roll their eyes and moan about every little bullshit stunt. Imagine if the federal government could draw a crowd like John Cena  e: And what's more, so many of us are/were SAS regulars (luigithirty, otf, so on)... I revel in the fact that the Democrats are unequivocally the less morally dubious faction. Damning with faint praise, I know, but hey! You gotta start somewhere. MODS CURE JOKES fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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