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triple sulk posted:dressage is v complicated so is replacing a burst 6" main under a slab foundation but I don't see anybody voting for mexican plumbers
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a friend's daughter just started doing dressage. they've finally made a plutocrat out of me.
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Mar 30, 2015 18:25
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Jonny 290 posted:LF had a "the governor of alaska is kind of a milf" years before palin looked at veep, you dumb motherfucker yea that thread gettin necroed was hilarious
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Jonny 290 posted:so is replacing a burst 6" main under a slab foundation but I don't see anybody voting for mexican plumbers pipe bursting is what you want here
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Mar 30, 2015 18:29
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Jonny 290 posted:LF had a "the governor of alaska is kind of a milf" years before palin looked at veep, you dumb motherfucker yes, i'm aware and that proves my point it was resurrected when palin was chosen, and the media ultimately did the same thing discussing about her attractiveness even before a hint of discussion about her policies she went from being the governor of alaska (who was attractive) to being a vice presidential candidate (who was attractive) when the narrative about her attractiveness wasn't enough, it shifted to how the silly, silly woman was out of her depth, unlike suave (but flawed) joe biden
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Mar 30, 2015 18:42
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PCjr sidecar posted:my favorite moment of the campaign season to date has been romney putting out feelers to run again, funny for the obvious reason but also because apparently motivated by big-money people unhappy with jeb as the presumptive nominee i predict at some low point next year there will be a 'draft mitt' movement
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Stymie posted:yes, i'm aware and that proves my point yeah this is sexist as hell but it's not like it was going to be easy going. palin was an inexperienced politician with no policy chops whatsoever does anyone remember how things went for dan quayle? the media crucified that guy for being an idiot. there were no gendered slurs, implied or otherwise, but having an empty head as a VP candidate makes the ticket look bad.
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FMguru posted:the guy the big money people really wanted was chris christie and he imploded messily before he could even waddle to the starting line. jeb was an unimpressive governor who last held office in 2006 and has spent the last decade cashing in and buckraking, oh and then theres the matter of his last name let's not forget that jeb bush is crazier than hell he's the converted catholic fanatic who threatened to use state police to seize terry schiavo by force
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FMguru posted:the guy the big money people really wanted was chris christie and he imploded messily before he could even waddle to the starting line. jeb was an unimpressive governor who last held office in 2006 and has spent the last decade cashing in and buckraking, oh and then theres the matter of his last name he explicitly left the door open to it, too, i can't wait 
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why are people quoting stymie on the original topic no one should quote stymie about?
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Stymie posted:yes, i'm aware and that proves my point Her policies never got discussed up front because we already knew them. She was an idiot republican gunslinger, your average Alaska resident. The ONLY reason she was considered at all was b/c the GOP was losing momvotes because theyve been sending their babies to go get cut in half by IEDs for over a decade.
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Stymie posted:when the narrative about her attractiveness wasn't enough, it shifted to how the silly, silly woman was out of her depth, unlike suave (but flawed) joe biden i think you're confusing the diamond joe biden character we all know and love (from the onion) with the actual public perception of joe biden back then
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born on a buy you posted:why are people quoting stymie on the original topic no one should quote stymie about? gently caress if i know
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Jonny 290 posted:Her policies never got discussed up front because we already knew them. She was an idiot republican gunslinger, your average Alaska resident. The ONLY reason she was considered at all was b/c the GOP was losing momvotes because theyve been sending their babies to go get cut in half by IEDs for over a decade. ah, so she was chosen strictly because she was a woman, policies are irrelevant a sexist narrative, or the sexist-ist narrative?
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that definitely played into it but even years later i still have no clue what the gently caress the mccain campaign was huffing by nominating her
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Mar 30, 2015 19:24
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Necc0 posted:that definitely played into it but even years later i still have no clue what the gently caress the mccain campaign was huffing by nominating her they were trying to appeal to PUMAs who were mad that hillary lost the nomination, not realising that "woman" isn't enough to get the female vote
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Mar 30, 2015 19:27
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whatever it was they were huffing, it paid off in spades because it really exposed to the average voter that democrats can be just as sexist as republicans, if not moreso so 2016 is going to be a cavalcade of oblivious sexism and i stand by my assertion that the democrats will the most sexist, while the republicans will produce the most absurd sexism
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Mar 30, 2015 19:27
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more like most sexiest op
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Hillary is 45
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Necc0 posted:that definitely played into it but even years later i still have no clue what the gently caress the mccain campaign was huffing by nominating her 1) it was almost the republican convention and they needed a nominee and mccain was adamant about putting his buddy joe lieberman on the ticket and the rest of the party was all no, you cant do that, hes pro choice and oh yeah was a democrat up until 15 minutes ago and mccain said but i really want him and they said no and back and forth until it was just before the convention and a choice had to be made and they had no time to do a proper search or vetting process 2) it was obvious that they were on the path to losing in the fall. obama had built this enormous money machine and was filling arenas and stadiums for his speeches. he was ahead in the polls and the small fortune the gop spent on a series of negative attacks during the summer had barely scratched his numbers. they figured that if they did the safe thing and nomated some boring midwestern governor like pawlenty they would go down to quiet defeat. so they cast around for a candidate who had the potential to shake up the race, a "game changer" who could reboot the race and inject some excitement and give them a chance. and you know what? it worked for a couple of weeks - the dems were rocked back on their heels, palin became a media darling, and the race tightened. and then palins true record and capability for thinking on her feet came to the fore and she turned into an albatross. there was also a weird belief that there were huge numbers of disaffected hillary supporters in play after obama beat their gal, and that palin would appeal to them im inclined to think that her pick was a defensible gamble. they were going to lose so why not take a hail mary shot downfield? unfortunately, most long shots do not pay off, most roulette spins end up losing money for the bettor, and most hail mary throws end up incomplete or intercepted. still it was a better move than simply putting a bowl of oatmeal like pawlenty on the ticket and hoping for the best
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what are PUMAs?
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Mar 30, 2015 19:40
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Subjunctive posted:what are PUMAs? it stands for "party unity my rear end" and was used as a shorthand for imaginary women who would refuse to vote for obama because he beat hillary. they were discussed as a serious thing in the summer/fall of 2008.
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it is a not at all sexist thing where women past college age are divided into divided into groups and there is a strong connotation of men wanting to gently caress them puma is the youngest category, so young professional women oh yeah and that poo poo
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palin didn't have any coherent policies to communicate. see what happens when an interviewer tried to get her to articulate one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMhQBlAsLmI
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FMguru posted:two things it just blows me away that a political party vying for control of the world's most powerful force can be that disorganized and gently caress themselves by procrastination of all things. that's for the better though, i guess
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Subjunctive posted:what are PUMAs? got a lot of media attention (because "democrats in disarray!" is always and forever the story in play) but had no real effect, except to tilt the mccain campaign towards picking palin lol
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Necc0 posted:that definitely played into it but even years later i still have no clue what the gently caress the mccain campaign was huffing by nominating her the far right nuts that later became the tea party were starting to get grumbly and cause trouble because bush 2 wasn't conservative enough for them, and mccain was keen to avoid that perception of being too liberal, since he'd been burned by something similar previously. at the same time, the dem frontrunners were a woman and a minority, and the republicans were already having trouble with non white male demographics, so the attack ads would practically write themselves if the gop ticket was "two old rich white men" again so for his vp he picked a far-right hick who honestly believed the arch-conservative garbage and was willing to come out and say it, but was too dumb to have the political ability to put it into practice, and who was also not an old rich white male. with that, plus his own sudden swing rightward, he hoped he could get the crazies into line while not scaring off too many women and minorities unfortunately for him, it backfired totally. palin scared off the moderates and centrists, and although the far-right crazies absolutely loved palin, they just ended up hating mccain even more for being a centrist drag who they thought was holding back their glorious conservative hero from the victory she should have been assured
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republicans were quite surprised when they lost by a landslide twice in a row chris rock, white person loving up so hard, etc
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Main Paineframe posted:the republicans were already having trouble with non white male demographics, so the attack ads would practically write themselves if the gop ticket was "two old rich white men" again apparently jindal has been on the shortlist for the past two republican runs that's gonna be a scary day if it ever happens (lol it won't)
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whatever dude, you've never heard of the Luck of the Piyush
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i'm grateful for liberals who insist on calling bobby jindal "piyush" because it makes it clear who the liberal racists are
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Mar 30, 2015 20:30
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Respecting somebody's cultural heritage is "racism." Got it.
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you should call people what they want to be called, calling him a name he hasn't used since he was six is some dog whistle "he ain't like us" bullshit i guess you can take the boy out of arkansas, but you can't take the arkansas out of the boy Pinterest Mom fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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I'd accept your argument if he had changed his legal name in those 37 years. But he hasn't. So you're wrong. oh gently caress you, this conversation is over
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naw names and identities should be respected, even when im doing lowercase i try to respect names
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Boxturret posted:why are you people talking like the presidential election isn't a giant act orchestrated by the artificial intelligence that secretly runs the world? 
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Jonny 290 posted:I'd accept your argument if he had changed his legal name in those 37 years. But he hasn't. So you're wrong. there's also a rumor that they had a weirdo half-catholic half-hindu wedding which would be enough to get him excommunicated
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JawnV6 posted:i try to respect names one time i called a guy Joe Salami (their last name was v similar) and ive never seen anyone loving flip out as hard as he did
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Pinterest Mom posted:it stands for "party unity my rear end" and was used as a shorthand for imaginary women who would refuse to vote for obama because he beat hillary. they were discussed as a serious thing in the summer/fall of 2008. lol one of the best things about the old LF was the hillaryis44.org thread. hoooolllyyy poo poo. the ant queen with ten thousand cunts
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