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Jan 26, 2007

Berke Negri posted:

In the age of election predictive metrics, candidacies are set in stone years in advance.

China is a dictatorship of anti-Christian evil apparently. 10 WHOLE YEARS.

Although imagine 10 years of Bush Obama Bush Clinton Bush.

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Jan 26, 2007

If you are pretty wealthy, let's say making $500k+ a year, and you manage to own a home in the Bay Area, and this tech bubble pops, does the value of your impossibly expensive home suddenly drop, or does everything stay expensive, startups just disappear while Google headquarters in the Caymans?

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Jan 26, 2007

Everybody's 3 series is made in South Africa. BMW is only considering it here, and if they did it'd be in some shithole like my state.

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Jan 26, 2007

Even if Republican operatives run out of Benghazi steam, they won't, they're planning on making sure no matter what data between now and November arrives. The magic number is <1% GDP growth.

Benghazi gets the base out, because Democrats are heartless liberals who like when soldiers or rather those we'd like to claim are soldiers die overseas serving, because

Their economic messaging isn't even required, because everyday living under this corrupt AFRICAN man is a bad day in America.

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Jan 26, 2007

Sword of Chomsky posted:

Reading your posts is painful. I don't even know what you are trying to say.

Are you trying to say there will be less than 1% growth of GDP this year, and that the GOP will just repeat that over and over?

Do you honestly believe Benghazi is a winning strategy when it didn't even work in the 2012 elections?

No. I'm saying that's what they're doing in internet comments and opinion sites that they all read. They're full of it, and yet they're still going to take the Senate. This is not at all a controversial opinion.


Hope Republicans can clutch defeat from the jaws of victory, because I still feel it is possible. I was just commenting how utterly delusional GOP voters are right now.

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Jan 26, 2007

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

Or that, you know, different people have different positions.

No, Santorum acknowledged the GOP is the party of stupid people, and like a good stupid person, Santorum suggests socialism. He will never win, ever.

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Jan 26, 2007

The Warszawa posted:

Hey, there are parts of the south that are raising taxes on themselves to fund public services!


Oh.

Excuse me, but the very highly rated comment from a man forced by his evil liberal mother to send his white bigoted rear end to Malcom X Highschool ruined his life because he had no white friends to insult the loving n-

Liberals are evil.

Also every racist literally says, "Call me a racist, but it's the truth, and thus not racist!"

Nonsense fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 17, 2014

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Jan 26, 2007

A proletariat reminder that Rush Limbaugh once lived in a gilded French penthouse in the Liberal poo poo Wastes of NYC. Please think of that as you read him jokingly suggesting people eat from dumpsters.

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Jan 26, 2007

Caros posted:

I too wish the US government had decided to let effectiveky every major (and most minor by extension) US financial institution fail. I have always wanted to live in a bizarre road warrior like state.

Seriously do you even comprehend what this would have entailed? AIG the company that held pension funds for millions of America going bankrupt, and eventually giving back pennies on the dollar. Bank of America, one of the largest mortgage holders in the US disappearing over the course of a weekend.

Should we have nationalized them? Absolutely. Take them over, fire everyone in management etc. But the idea of just letting the US financial system completely collapse shows such a total lack of understanding that it's astonishing.

They call them too big to fail because if they'd been allowed to fail it wouldn't have been your happy little Austrian market correction. It would have made the great depression look like a jolly little walk through the park.

The result is they'll do it again, and never be punished for it. The alternative is depression, that leaves little room to feel anything good about our country's current trajectory if you ask me. Glad the whole depression thing didn't happen though, I thought it was loving insane when the House voted it down, and all those youtubes of crazy conservatives toasting to it.

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Jan 26, 2007

absolem posted:

You are overstating the negative effects of letting that group fail (although not by too much). The problem is, we haven't fixed the problem. Its still there, our economy is still massively weaker than it looks at first glance. We've also left in place all of the poo poo policy that helped cause this mess (read: regulation) and the people who caused it on the bank side are largely still around. The bailout just reset the timer. We'll hit another wall sooner or later, and I just pray we don't kick the can down the road again, because every time that happens the next one will be worse.

It will continue to be kicked down the road because no politician is going to let the financial institutions of the United States collapse from some inconvenient bullshit.

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Jan 26, 2007

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

Restricting "spending in support of or opposition to candidates" means that I can't so much as buy a political lawn sign without Congress' permission. hth

There's like only one company that makes all political signs anyway. Maybe this will free the market?

Open markets lead to open minds.

Also, this should pass and Ted Cruz should still eat Jim Crow.

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Jan 26, 2007

Mornacale posted:

I suspect you would see a lot of conservatives shift blame onto "politicians" as a class and take it as more evidence that we need to vote Republican to tear down the government.

This or, they'll say our nation has always dishonored our veterans, but especially that wily Democrat racist Wilson.

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Jan 26, 2007

Fried Chicken posted:

I thought that was a Freep quote not a goon quote

It was what a goon said word for word in like the first post of the Virginia Tech massacre.

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Jan 26, 2007

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

Thanks for clearing that up for us. I'm glad I know the Correct D&D Opinions now.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no...eview:1:Default

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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Jan 26, 2007


Nobody gives a poo poo if you don't like him, people are tired of these shootings, and want legislation, period.

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Jan 26, 2007

Cimber posted:

what legislation? Its already illegal for the mentally ill to own guns.

I've been informed he purchased these weapons himself, he didn't steal them from daddy.

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Jan 26, 2007

Accretionist posted:

What if Elliot Rodgers simply kicked in the sorority's door and stalked through the house killing a couple dozen attractive women, leaving a few dozens grieving parents calling for an end to liberal interference with law abiding citizen's ability to have the means to defend themselves?

Yeah man, that thing that didn't happen at all is why the scenario that did should not lead to further gun legislation.

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Jan 26, 2007

The Tea Party has been utterly smashed into dust in every state, but Texas, and now they command the most influential and powerful office in the state. Amazing.

Of the 80K+ registered voters in town, only 700 voted. :thumbsup:

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Jan 26, 2007

Reminder Ramirez continues to win Pulitzer Prizes for his lovely comics.

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Jan 26, 2007

Harry Reid will usher in the new Progressive era with his Fair And Balanced Campaign Money Amendment. Ted Cruz will be the best man at my wedding.

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Jan 26, 2007

USPOL June: This is not how to do it

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Jan 26, 2007

Amergin posted:

Is sodomy defined in Texas as "pee-pee anywhere 'xcept hoo-haw" like it is in SC (or GA, can't remember)?

Because then you get into all sorts of fun with oral sex and sodomy overlap.

"We wanted to make gay sex illegal! Not blowjobs!... Wait I mean not non-gay blowjobs!"

I was drunk and peed on the outside wall of a bowling alley here, and a random patron threatened to have me charged as a sexual predator.

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Jan 26, 2007

Amergin posted:

Not sure why but that made me think of this scene:



what happened in my mind as he was saying it, but I didn't turn around and just kept on keepin on

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Jan 26, 2007


Also there is a trend of putting bars inside indoor gun ranges, at least at the new indoor range in my town.

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