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Rexicon1 posted:Very very very few people who believe in bootstrapping actually bootstrapped themselves. Usually the ones who pull themselves up know its a loving nightmare to actually do it and try to help others You can't actually lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. It is literally impossible, so of course the people who believe that they have done so are wrong. They are morons who believe sincerely in a joke made at their expense.
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My fav was when she dropped a "you people" when being asked why her husband wasn't holding himself to his dads (and most subsequent candidates) standards for releasing their tax returns.
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FMguru posted:Ann managed to run up a wonderful collection of quotes in 2012 before she was pulled from the trail, mostly of her being upset and not able to believe she has to explain to you morons why her husband was the obvious choice to be president. She was so loving mad that there were people out there who dared to prevent Mitt and her from assuming their destined palce in the White House. Every line out of her mouth made her sound exactly like a rich housewife berating The Help for putting out the wrong tablecloths for the summer cotillion. It was awesome. Wasn't the story that she wanted to be First Lady kind of a lot more than Mitt actually wanted to be President?
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 01:01 |
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ErIog posted:Wasn't the story that she wanted to be First Lady kind of a lot more than Mitt actually wanted to be President? That's certainly the impression I got from that Netflix doc. Mitt never seemed like his heart was in it, but everyone around him was constantly pushing him.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 01:10 |
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I remember Limbaugh being on Leno(?) and the host asking him to say just one nice thing about Bill Clinton, and he flat out refused like a goddamn baby. Everyone was seriously uncomfortable and it was awkward as hell.
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moths posted:I remember Limbaugh being on Leno(?) and the host asking him to say just one nice thing about Bill Clinton, and he flat out refused like a goddamn baby. Everyone was seriously uncomfortable and it was awkward as hell. To be fair to Limbaugh he's smart enough to know that the second he does that he would be seen as weak by his hateful audience and abandoned for the next guy.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 01:30 |
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But he'd also be seen as human by potential fans, who might tune in and ...realize he's a monster and never make that mistake again. So yeah I guess he didn't really have a choice there.
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radical meme posted:This article in Glenn Beck's rag sheet The Blaze is amazing for its pretty much even handed treatment of some startling facts about the Nevada almost range war this weekend. Some organizers of the militia showdown were going to ask the women folk to be the first to get shot, if the shooting started; dead women on international news would look the best for their purposes. Militiamen, your Taliban is showing.
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My favorite part of Limbaugh's program intersected nicely with my other favorite past time: making fun of freepersquote:To: mylife quote:RUSH: I understand, ladies and gentlemen, that my occasional usage of the word "concomitant" and "concomitantly" is irritating Freepers at FreeRepublic.com. "Yes, and if I hear that word and his pronunciation one more time, I will scream!" I guess some prefer "con-com-i-TANT-ly." At any rate, I was watching a show, a BBC show -- a fascinating show, by the way. I hope it's made available in America. It's from the BBC, about Kim Philby. It's a two-parter. I think it's an hour and 45 minutes each, whatever. It's an hour, hour and a half, maybe it's two hours. There is always more and it is always worse Ahh yes, and he touched on the subject of the shooting in Kansas by that Nazi rear end in a top hat quote:RUSH: Folks, this takes me to this incident in Kansas City, where this wacko former KKK or current KKK member stabbed three Jewish people. And it has been fascinating to collect information on this and to find out exactly who it was, who inspired this guy. In fact, there's a piece here at PJMedia.com by a man named Ron Radosh: "Who Inspired the Nazi-Klan Leader’s Actions in Kansas?" And they've got the answers simply by reading this guy's own words. The Democrats always try to tie hate crimes to the Tea Party. Now let me tell you how all Democrats are, and always have been, KKK members and how patriotic the rancher in Nevada is who literally wants to wage war against the Federal government.
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Interesting that he says the guy stabbed twice when it was a shooting.
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kik2dagroin posted:The Democrats always try to tie hate crimes to the Tea Party. Now let me tell you how all Democrats are, and always have been, KKK members and how patriotic the rancher in Nevada is who literally wants to wage war against the Federal government. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
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Intel&Sebastian posted:My fav was when she dropped a "you people" when being asked why her husband wasn't holding himself to his dads (and most subsequent candidates) standards for releasing their tax returns. I think the media top dogs (and the Dem campaign honchos) felt that hitting hard on an old lady suffering from MS could backfire in a bad way. But yes, Ann was/is the kind of person that grows exponentially more callous the more exposure she gets.
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The thing is with the KKK being Democrat...that wouldn't make much sense to me at this point. I mean, it'd be voting against their own self interests. I mean has he even seen their propaganda? Every time it's about the evils of welfare, and about how the "COMMIES" are taking over the US backed by the "JEWS". It's bizarre because most of it reads Tea Party-like, except it happens to go one step further. Where as the Tea Party stuff seems to stop before it implies that Hell even the antisemitism has popped up among the Alex Jones faithful lately.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 04:32 |
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It's not hard to trace the movement of white supremacists over the years....they used to be mostly Democrats before the 60's, then after LBJ signed the civil rights act, correctly predicting it would lose the Democrats the South, all those racists abandoned the Dem party and were welcomed by the GOP with open arms via Nixon's "southern strategy". What happened is pretty cut and dried.
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beatlegs posted:It's not hard to trace the movement of white supremacists over the years....they used to be mostly Democrats before the 60's, then after LBJ signed the civil rights act, correctly predicting it would lose the Democrats the South, all those racists abandoned the Dem party and were welcomed by the GOP with open arms via Nixon's "southern strategy". What happened is pretty cut and dried. Interesting tidbit: A larger percentage of republicans (by % of party members) voted against the CRA than Democrats, in both the north AND the south. So even BEFORE they absorbed all the dixiecrats they were still racist shitheads.
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Edit: Possible parody article I fell for, checking now. Edit2: Yep, I'm dumb. Ignore this. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Judeo-Christian Moors, yo. Eat cheese or die. ED: Well I thought it was a riot in any case, even if it was only a parody. Reality has outstripped parody so far with my friends on the R- side of the aisle that I just laugh and sometimes wish I hadn't quit drinking. SnakePlissken fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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I don't know, Spacedad, I think you may be biased here.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 06:24 |
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Biased towards not checking articles that David Pakman puts up without checking to see if they're parody. This is the second time I've seen him fall for it, though I didn't fall for it the last time. Here's the vid anyway, since the satire site is getting errors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8_OfXg05U
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Spacedad posted:Biased towards not checking articles that David Pakman puts up without checking to see if they're parody. This is the second time I've seen him fall for it, though I didn't fall for it the last time. No, see, the joke is that it's a show about space and you have the word space in your username, clearly indicating that you are in favour of space and space-related things. Also it's funny that the site follows up on an older Onion story, in the "fate of brain dead Wisconsin teen who can only roll eyes, text."
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I do favor the great starry expanse, yes.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 06:45 |
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Edit: a little old, but man, the pure crazy stream-of-consciousness http://beforeitsnews.com/chemtrails/2014/04/revolution-now-in-nevada-to-save-cliven-bundy-2445186.html quote:
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 10:17 |
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Holy poo poo, that smilie seem crazy out of place in that helpful guide to murdering federal agents. Some psychiatrist should do a study on the link between inconsistent capitalization and mental illness, because there seems like some kind of link has to exist.
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 10:41 |
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Okay, they've gotten to the point where they're literally advocating armed rebellion against the United States. Are the feds ever going to step in or does the right wing get a pass until people are dead?
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 10:52 |
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Survivalists have always been around, and the biggest terrorist threat in the U.S. and Europe have always been white people on the far right.
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Grapplejack posted:Okay, they've gotten to the point where they're literally advocating armed rebellion against the United States. Are the feds ever going to step in or does the right wing get a pass until people are dead?
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# ? Apr 15, 2014 13:12 |
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The guy's literally saying to shoot cops in the back, which is a slightly different thing maybe.
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Grapplejack posted:does the right wing get a pass until people are dead? Yes, and after.
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My favorite part is that he got so caught up in being a Caps Lock Commando he failed to realize he typed out Agenda 2!.
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Grapplejack posted:Okay, they've gotten to the point where they're literally advocating armed rebellion against the United States. Are the feds ever going to step in or does the right wing get a pass until people are dead? The Militias have always been all about that poo poo, the only new element here is that enough of them piled into their minivans and showed up that the Fed didn't want to deal with the body clean up and press releases. If they really wanted to play ball two things would have happened, Federal agents would have moved back to a reasonable range, revolutionary campers would have heard an odd noise and spotted a few strange looking little white airplanes in the distance, then no more survivalists. Its just cheaper and easier to pull back, take photos and make visits later. They would be depressed if they actually understood that logistically they aren't even worth a standoff but they're too busy fellating themselves to realize what happened.
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Omi-Polari posted:It's not illegal to advocate armed rebellion, only if your advocacy is going to likely and imminently lead to it. That might be true in this case. But then again you're only talking about a single blogger. Yeah that sort of detailed planning looks pretty imminent to me. I mean, it's got a specific date and a specific place, detailed plans for organizing on that date in that place, etc.
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FMguru posted:Ann managed to run up a wonderful collection of quotes in 2012 before she was pulled from the trail, mostly of her being upset and not able to believe she has to explain to you morons why her husband was the obvious choice to be president. She was so loving mad that there were people out there who dared to prevent Mitt and her from assuming their destined palce in the White House. Every line out of her mouth made her sound exactly like a rich housewife berating The Help for putting out the wrong tablecloths for the summer cotillion. It was awesome.
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Look guys, nobody could have seen it coming. Besides, it was just a lone crazy.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah that sort of detailed planning looks pretty imminent to me. I mean, it's got a specific date and a specific place, detailed plans for organizing on that date in that place, etc. moths posted:The guy's literally saying to shoot cops in the back, which is a slightly different thing maybe. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:The thing is with the KKK being Democrat...that wouldn't make much sense to me at this point. I mean, it'd be voting against their own self interests. We're actually getting close to another big realignment with the Republicans courting the tea party types. It's going to tear their party in half, and either will result in the next Deomcrat-Republican party, or the implementation of a PR system.
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FuzzySkinner posted:The thing is with the KKK being Democrat...that wouldn't make much sense to me at this point. I mean, it'd be voting against their own self interests. Words change meanings and associations. This is a foreign concept to Republicans who believe North Korea is the most democratic country because it's right there in the name.
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You can't even escape Right Wing Media on the holidays it seems. At Passover seder, the Rabbi had passed out an additional handout along with the haggada - titled "The 10 Plagues Of Modern Life." Part of the seder was a discussion, when the topic of immigration and assimilation came up...and the elderly woman across from me drops the phrase "BORDERS...LANGUAGE...CULTURE" when talking about how signs in anything but English are just awful After dessert, I asked her what she listened to...and of course, she just loves talk radio and Michael Savage. At least the brisket was good.
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FlamingLiberal posted:She's resumed doing this, it's come up a lot in the GOP thread the last 6 months or so. I mean isn't that why they made that terrible Mitt documentary? And Ann has been saying lovely, classless things about Obama like clockwork since the second inaugural. quote:Ann Romney: 'The Country Lost' By Re-Electing Obama
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Omi-Polari posted:I didn't see a specific date. And is it likely? In order to punish the blogger, the government has to effectively prove that the blog post would likely lead to imminent violence against the state. He gives a specific place and says it's NOW. And then gives some murder tips like forming teams, zeroing sights, leaving ID in your car, and fighting in the daytime. If this guy had even a slightly Islamic sounding name he'd be getting interviewed so hard right now.
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I think it's especially important with Beck to remember that his long con is to become the dumpy, goatee'd, middle-aged white-man's Oprah. Unlike other hucksters like Alex Jones, Beck is smart enough to understand that siding with radicals - while lucrative - is small change.
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