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To be fair, if someone tells you over and over they don't want to do something and you force them to do it anyway, you have only yourself to blame when it all inevitably goes to poo poo. Why would that person have a vested interest in doing a good job? More than likely they'll fail to get out of it.
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nine-gear crow posted:He also basically tripped into the job of Speaker in late 2015 after John Boehner got fed up with dealing with what a bunch of crazy dipshits House Republicans has become even then and pulled the ripcord. There were at least two people in line in front of him, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy (who collectively made up the “YOUNG GUNNNNNNZ” with Ryan). But Cantor got primaried in hilarious fashion by an even crazier dude, so he was out of the running. And then McCarthy stepped up to the plate and then did the verbal equivalent of puking and making GBS threads himself at the same time during his “I want to be Speaker” press conference, so he was laughed out of contention. that and he wasn't liked before hand. i mean the dudes sole ambition was to gut peoples social security nets plus other stupid horrible poo poo. plus he has no charisma.
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nine-gear crow posted:He also basically tripped into the job of Speaker in late 2015 after John Boehner got fed up with dealing with what a bunch of crazy dipshits House Republicans has become even then and pulled the ripcord. There were at least two people in line in front of him, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy (who collectively made up the “YOUNG GUNNNNNNZ” with Ryan). But Cantor got primaried in hilarious fashion by an even crazier dude, so he was out of the running. And then McCarthy stepped up to the plate and then did the verbal equivalent of puking and making GBS threads himself at the same time during his “I want to be Speaker” press conference, so he was laughed out of contention. McCarthy was also allegedly in an affair with another Republican representative that is gone now and Ryan also attached a bunch of conditions to accepting the speakership that everyone immediately ignored.
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What is that caller "-1" supposed to be in the call record?
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actionjackson posted:What is that caller "-1" supposed to be in the call record? Trump's phone number.
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buglord posted:Alright, I’ll bite. What makes Paul Ryan so uniquely ineffectual?
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GOP didn't even try that hard. Paul Ryan only ever had that reputation because centrist bothsiders were desperate for a Republican Wonk to fit their narratives. And since one didn't exist they just pretended that Paul Ryan was that man.
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FilthyImp posted:I also want to add that this is one of those rare cases where the GOP spin just did not land. He was touted as some kind of magic wonderkid policy wonk, got shredded to bits by Biden during the VP debates, and then his wonk-based bills and statements were just terribly shallow. this. it was also bad that he was extreamly bad at hiding the dumb bad parts of his ideas. the dude was a super objectivist and was really bad at sugarcoating his toxic bullshit.
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Paul Ryan also clearly skips leg day
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whydirt posted:Paul Ryan also clearly skips leg day 
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actionjackson posted:What is that caller "-1" supposed to be in the call record? Minus World.
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Also Paul Ryan has two first names. Never trust anyone with a two first name name.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Also Paul Ryan has two first names. Never trust anyone with a two first name name. ron paul benedict arnold clarence thomas wow, checks out
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Blurred posted:ron paul It really does work, James Earl Ray had three first names. The potential for evil rises exponentially with each name. Sirhan Sirhan has the same first name, twice.
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Blurred posted:ron paul you left out Jim Jordan 
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Paul Ryan was also really unusually incompetent and unlikable and had never done any work in his life aside from a brief stint driving the weinermobile (I poo poo you not). Then, to explain his huge loving dweeb-energy consultants clearly told him to sell himself as a policy/numbers wonk, except he very definitely knew jackshit about either policy or math so it fell really flat, too. Then, on top of that, the only things he really seemed to care about were loving over the american middle class, who he clearly had zero sympathy for, having, again, never had to work in his life. dudes a perfect storm of just boring transparent ambition with zero interesting spark. He was the kind of dude who would spice up his life by telling his barber to buzz the sides with a #3 instead of a #2 E: plus the house R caucus then was like 500 jim jordans and matt gaetzs and gohmerts and so on. Even experience driving the weiner mobile doesn't teach you how to drive that clown car
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Paul Ryan was also really unusually incompetent and unlikable and had never done any work in his life aside from a brief stint driving the weinermobile (I poo poo you not). Then, to explain his huge loving dweeb-energy consultants clearly told him to sell himself as a policy/numbers wonk, except he very definitely knew jackshit about either policy or math so it fell really flat, too. Then, on top of that, the only things he really seemed to care about were loving over the american middle class, who he clearly had zero sympathy for, having, again, never had to work in his life. great post, i think another point you touch on is that he is too idk "moderate" in weird way. he is too extreme for the average person and transparently lovely BUT he is also way to "liberal" for the tea party assholes who wanted to basicaly burn everything down instead of just privatizing it. added to the fact that he has jack poo poo for charisma.
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SchrodingersCat posted:It really does work, James Earl Ray had three first names. The potential for evil rises exponentially with each name. John Roberts, the biggest threat to the country right now, has arbitrarily many first names since one is an indefinite plural
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Dapper_Swindler posted:that and he wasn't liked before hand. i mean the dudes sole ambition was to gut peoples social security nets plus other stupid horrible poo poo. plus he has no charisma. My fav Paul Ryan anecdote is when he said he stood around the keg at parties with friends dreaming of destroying the social safety net.
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empty whippet box posted:My fav Paul Ryan anecdote is when he said he stood around the keg at parties with friends dreaming of destroying the social safety net. All the big "celebrity" conservatives had the most boring lives and ambitions before their careers. It's amazing.
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empty whippet box posted:My fav Paul Ryan anecdote is when he said he stood around the keg at parties with friends dreaming of destroying the social safety net. Taking down food stamps won't make us forget you used them, dude.
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haveblue posted:John Roberts, the biggest threat to the country right now, has arbitrarily many first names since one is an indefinite plural holy poo poo
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Counterpoint: John Williams is awesome, and so was Robin Williams. James Avery was the greatest actor of our times.
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Angry_Ed posted:you left out Jim Jordan Jimmy Carter
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empty whippet box posted:My fav Paul Ryan anecdote is when he said he stood around the keg at parties with friends dreaming of destroying the social safety net. I've always had a particular disdain for Ryan, Like him my father died when I was young and SSI was the difference between too poor to have cool poo poo and too poor to actually loving eat when being raised by a single mom, and that sorry fucker's primary goal was to make sure people who were in that same position ended up in the second category, honestly resigning in disgrace was better than he deserved.
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Rust Martialis posted:Jimmy Carter Carter Page. 
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SchrodingersCat posted:Counterpoint: John Williams is awesome, and so was Robin Williams. Hank Williams, too.
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SchrodingersCat posted:Counterpoint: John Williams is awesome, and so was Robin Williams. James Avery was the greatest actor of our times. Ah, but their last names are pluralized, which negates the two first name rule. Nobody names their kid Williams.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Hank Williams, too. Hank Williams, Jr, on the other hand....
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Dapper_Swindler posted:that and he wasn't liked before hand. i mean the dudes sole ambition was to gut peoples social security nets plus other stupid horrible poo poo. plus he has no charisma. I still cant believe no one bothered to bring up that he was Romney's VP pick so everyone got to know him in 2012 and excoriated him for it
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James. Earl. Jones.
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Retrowave Joe posted:Ah, but their last names are pluralized, which negates the two first name rule. Nobody names their kid Williams. Nobody names their kid Roberts, either. We're already through the looking glass.
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ummel posted:Hank Williams, Jr, on the other hand.... Hank the Third more than makes up for his old man's horseshit.
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What do Paul Ryan and Hank Williams have to do with the impeachment inquiry?
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Yes, dont trust John Stewart. He is riddled with disease.
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Papercut posted:What do Paul Ryan and Hank Williams have to do with the impeachment inquiry? We'll never know because Shifty Schiff hasn't let them testify!
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Papercut posted:What do Paul Ryan and Hank Williams have to do with the impeachment inquiry? All of Hank's rowdy friends were there on Monday night.
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This impeachment hearings have really shown how terrible the media has gotten where whatever side the view is skewed to, is so crazy amplified that it in no way is close to the actual reality of the situation.
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vincentpricesboner posted:This impeachment hearings have really shown how terrible the media has gotten where whatever side the view is skewed to, is so crazy amplified that it in no way is close to the actual reality of the situation. If you mean they're all right-aligned and are underselling it or flat out ignoring it, then I agree with you.
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