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SnowblindFatal posted:As a newcomer, I find it hilarious that the whole first page of USA politics thread is just full of booze talk. You guys really have lost hope, haven't you?  It's so much loosing hope, it's just liquid shelter from the storm. But really, everything is hosed, emphasis on everything.  e: Oh, and someone was asking about rum in the last thread. I'm not much of a rum drinker besides a rum & coke every now and then, but I've heard good things about the kraken. A Winner is Jew fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 7, 2014 |
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computer parts posted:You're really ignorant of history if you believe this to be true. Yeah, there's never been a bad time to get wasted.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Drink chat: I've been loving Dark and Stormy recently, dark rum (though I've been using Sailor Jerry's), ginger beer and a slice of lime. Smooth and perfect for summer political protection. I know it's cliche, but I for real love whiskey sours and it's my go to drink when it's over 70 out and scotch is what I drink the rest of the time.
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May 7, 2014 17:58
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Magres posted:More drinkchat - scotch and coke works really well if you want something less harsh but still scotch-y. My roommate loves them and they're pretty good  It's whiskey or even bourbon with coke. Scotch should be enjoyed with a splash of water at the most unless it's garbage scotch... which then begs the question why the gently caress aren't you drinking decent scotch.
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May 7, 2014 21:41
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Fried Chicken posted:http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2548253/ Requesting a Sanders version of this gif.
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May 9, 2014 00:01
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Aurubin posted:This got kinda lost since I posted it at 1 in the morning via my phone, but Pando was digging through campaign finance records and found that Charles Baker, the current Republican nominee for the governor of Massachusetts, after giving the New Jersey RNC 10,000 dollars, his firm was awarded 25,000,000 in Jersey pension money. This is a no no to both state and federal quid pro quo laws. Baker's also running on a promise to clean up corruption in Massachusetts, which is hilarious. The story is by David Sirota, who's not crazy like most people at Pando. But wait a minute, I thought the SCOTUS said that along with racism being dead money doesn't influence politics?
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May 9, 2014 20:28
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/09/florida-towns-choice-violate-supreme-court-ruling-or-open-meeting-with-satanic-prayer/ quote:Chaz Stevens — who made headlines last December when he forced Florida Governor Rick Scott to allow him to erect an 8-foot-tall Festivus pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans next to Deerfield Beach’s nativity manger This guy owns so hard.
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May 9, 2014 21:10
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Evil Sagan posted:What's the most right-wing thing you've done? I voted for Bob Dole in a school-sponsored mock election in 1996. I unironically defended the boy scouts stance on homosexuality up until 2005. On the bright side, I don't have to say that I ever voted for Bush... even though he was the candidate I would have voted for in those two elections. Apathy sometimes pays off I guess.
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May 10, 2014 02:01
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:He dissented in Brown v. EMA (would have let California restrict video games to ~protect the children~), was in the majority in Maryland v. King (DNA testing after all arrests are legal), and dissented in Florida v. Jardines (would have let drug dogs sniff the grounds of a home without warrant or probable cause). There's a bunch of those in the same vein. Breyer is absolutely the worst of the liberal judges especially when it comes to criminal justice, but that still makes him better than at least 5 other judges on the court. Also, unlike some elected officials he actually appreciates Dr. Seuss 
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May 11, 2014 17:03
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Hobologist posted:And ironically, Scalia is pretty good about criminal justice as far as I recall On the other hand, recorded history. Scalia posted:"[T]his court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent."
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May 11, 2014 18:13
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ChipNDip posted:Depends on what age range you mean by "Millenials". People born in the early and mid-80s did now grow up in an era of fear and lack, actually quite the opposite. I was born in 81  and that's generally seen as the definitive line between gen x and millennials, although I'll admit to being amongst the oldest of what people consider to be millennials even though I have no doubt that there are a few people even 10 years younger than I am that identify with gen x. On the other hand, my brother is only 3 years older than me yet I would never associate him with being a millennial since his political views are literally "gently caress you, got mine". No really, I asking him point blank if his view was "gently caress you, got mine" when it comes to helping people who are in need and his exact answer was "yeah, so?".
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May 11, 2014 23:29
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I'm seriously ashamed of you all over the last 3 pages of depression and suicide over the steady systematic decline of civilization as we know it. Not because it happened, but because not one of you assholes thought to post this very relevant song.
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May 12, 2014 18:00
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JT Jag posted:I'm not sure what's worse: that Rick Perry is being this much of a dick about child rape, or that a 16-year old kid that burned a trash can, causing 500 dollars worth of damage, was sentenced to 8 years of jail in an adult prison in the first place. Well clearly the child wasn't suffering from affluence so they threw the book at him.
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May 12, 2014 18:37
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Prester John posted:I'm glad that after CannonFodder made this post many people suggested getting help. Let me add my own voice to that, CannonFodder please reach out for help. It doesn't matter what form help ultimately takes but it is important that you reach out for it. No one is ever too much a burden, and in my experience, the kindness of strangers can be astonishing. Please seek help. Holy poo poo! I haven't seen you post since you disappeared from the A/T about your situation and thought you relapsed or something. Not to derail the thread but I take it things have improved for you over the last several months?
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May 12, 2014 19:48
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Dapper Dan posted:I'm talking soup lines around the block, a reported unemployment of 25%, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. Clearly it needs to get worse for Americans to get serious about doing something other than blaming people who take government assistance. Not that I want it to, mind. I'd rather everything get better. I'm just talking something that would get the majority of people to wake the gently caress up. Jesus loving christ! Is that really what it's like out there? I mean even in 2008 when there were literally no jobs in my industry (engineering construction with no degree) at the most it would only be like 90 days between being laid off because a project was put on hold / canceled and finding a new one. Yeah every one of those jobs was at least a 15%-30% pay cut over what I should have been / was making at the time but god drat that's just pathetic.
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May 13, 2014 20:43
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zoux posted:This is anecdotal but when I went into college in 1998 the economy was balling, it was the peak of the dotcom bubble, and we all had the understanding that when we graduated in four years we would be able to fall backwards into a cushy six figure job and be set for ever. Then the bubble burst and 9/11 happened I attempted college in 99 (maybe completed a year total in 3) and by the time I was old enough to drink I was making decent money so I just stopped going all together. Now I got massively lucky since I started doing this stuff while I was still in HS and now have over 15 years experience so I make what people fresh out of college make right now in my industry which is $60k. School is for suckers ya'll, I've been a slacker all my life and still made it.* *I also know I won the loving lottery to get where I am today.
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May 13, 2014 20:58
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Cabbit posted:The gently caress kind of industry are you in where you make $60k fresh out of college? Architecture / Mechanical / Electrical engineering in CA which means they pay a premium because of the cost of living here. I'm a drafter which means I take all the horse poo poo that incompetent engineers design and actually make it work. I also teach those same people who are fresh out of school how to actually use the $2-$6k programs they'll be required to work on.
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May 13, 2014 21:04
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The Warszawa posted:"Work hard and hustle like a motherfucker" is individually commendable and societally contemptible (it's not a fix for any socially reinforced inequality or unacceptably shifts burdens away from institutions better equipped to shoulder them) and I suspect some of the hostility you've gotten is the impression - right or wrong - that you're arguing for hard work as a society-level solution, whereas I think most people (including myself) would agree with SedanChair's statement or behead him to gain his power. This is the exact loving reason I'm a socialist. Not everyone can be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer (and for that last one I've been cleaning up their messes for the last 15 years, they aren't smart at all) and it's loving idiotic to think that anyone can make it with enough hard work. Sure I made it by working hard, and by working hard I mean I was raised in an upper middle class household, went to amazing public & private schools, am a white male, my parents (especially my dad) insisted me and my brothers knew computers better than most, and if I decided to actually attend a drafting class I skipped about 1/2 the time anyway the day a firm asked for some kid to file drawings for them part time after school for minimum wage I would not have been even started on the successful road I'm now on.
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May 13, 2014 21:20
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BiggerBoat posted:Hahaha. You dick. No, I honestly seemed to remember him mentioning it but your post was funny. I also always think his avatar is Al Pacino (although I'm pretty sure it's not). None of this is here nor there really but I'm not even sure what this thread is even about anymore so what the gently caress. I'm neither a lawyer... or a jew*. My father-in-law is both however. *This is questionable since my grandmother was adopted (possibly illegally) from a poor family in New York and she was really good with money. Magres posted:His avatar is from the movie 'The Hebrew Hammer,' I believe. Also this.
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May 14, 2014 00:56
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Mo_Steel posted:Restart the Space Race and multiply our current space funding by 10x. We must control asteroids before those drat Ruskies get their hands on them! Oh please please please please please please please please please please. 
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May 14, 2014 22:58
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SedanChair posted:Maybe you wouldn't feel so powerless if you knew how to shoot real guns instead of digital ones. What really needs to happen is a group of left wing radicals with guns needs to get to gather and start filming themselves shooting up mannequins dressed in a blue button down shirt or barn jackets. Now, this won't actually be implying anything mind you, and you'd be a fool to think that when these people who after shooting talk about dismantling the state are doing anything but practicing their first and second amendments. This is probably not a good idea
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May 16, 2014 17:32
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Nessus posted:I recall hearing that what got the NRA of the '60s on board with gun control regulations wasn't the shooting of the Kennedys or MLK, it was all those Black Panthers on courthouse steps with their perfectly legal openly carried long guns. I am fairly sure that if this thing goes anywhere beyond "I guess the Democrats are organizing a shooters' group" it would instill panic, terror, and a LEO response gently caress it. After watching the Chris Hedges presentation I think an organization who's mission was giving food to protesters, providing help to the homeless, and target practice might be the scariest thing in the world to those in power.
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May 16, 2014 17:44
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Not sure if this is the right thread for it. But is putting pictures of Hitler on buses a new thing? I just noticed three of them today in DC. It was for ads telling us to stop giving money to Palestine. Googling it I think it's from the AFDI, and they have a history of being complete and utter shitheads. 
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May 16, 2014 17:51
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Mystic_Shadow posted:They're the opposite of cold, dead eyes. It's like they're piercing your body and staring right into your soul. It really does look like she just crawled out of a well doesn't it.
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May 16, 2014 18:05
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Joementum posted:That's a false flag within a false flag. An inception of false flags.
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May 16, 2014 20:41
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Blindeye posted:Meanwhile, this is what DC area magazines are often on the racks (because mid-Atlantic/border of the Confederacy + high military vet concentration (saw this grocery shopping today): This is the stupidest thing. You only really need 4 guns max. A semi-auto shotgun because gently caress going trap shooing with a pump. A 10-22 as a target practice rifle because ammo for them is comically cheep. A high caliber rifle for hunting / long range shooting. A black power rifle because they're loving awesome. And if you really want, a hand gun or two. Everything else is literally a waste of money, especially all the "tacticool" poo poo.
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May 18, 2014 03:11
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Miltank posted:John McCain was refused life saving medical care until it was known that he was the son of an admiral. He was given the option to be released early due to his family connections and refused to leave sooner than any man captured before him. It's perfectly find to say that John McCain is a horrible two faced piece of poo poo that has repeatedly sold his soul for political and financial gain, and that John McCain while a lovely pilot that was only still flying because of his family connections was not a horrible two faced piece of poo poo when he was a POW in Vietnam. Also, that picture makes him look like Frankenstein's monster more than anything else.
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May 18, 2014 17:54
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nutranurse posted:Alright, I envy kids for getting such robust and varied coursework from such an early age. This is why I'm voting republican from now on. If I didn't get a robust and varied education growing up then I'll be damned if these lazy kids with pants around their ankles should get one. 
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May 21, 2014 23:25
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tbp posted:I laugh a bit when I read posts like this, it makes me feel as if the people that say it are following the political flavor of the moment. I hope your ideals are more properly secure than that, considering the amount of vitriol and all. It's more that libertarianism are like power chords. When you suck at playing you think they make you sound cool. Once you actually know how to play you want to throttle anyone that plays one.
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May 23, 2014 02:35
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:That's pretty much just the very first members of our generation then, right? So few of us were old enough to vote in large numbers until 2004, apparently: Man, I'm so loving glad I was super lazy until after I turned socialist. Had I actually been motivated to vote I would have pulled the lever for republicans 4 times before I wizened the hell up.
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Gorilla Desperado posted:Allen West continues to be complete, utter poo poo: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/west-questions-duckworths-loyalties Excuse me, that's War Criminal Allen West. He didn't hold a mock execution on an innocent Iraqi just to be called Allen West thank you very much.
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joeburz posted:Thomas Friedman gave my commencement address The next 6 months after commencement is crucial
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May 28, 2014 21:29
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ThirdPartyView posted:Henry Kissinger for perpetual Nobel Peace Prize-winning war criminal commencement speaker! He wasn't a Peace Prize winner, but out of all the war criminals I would only invite Robert McNamara to give a speech. I mean at least he's expressed remorse for being one, plus his time at Ford would be really interesting. e: poo poo, I just realized he died like 5 years ago. A Winner is Jew fucked around with this message at 22:39 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 22:36
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SALT CURES HAM posted:It sure didn't impact her willingness to be part of probably the third worst administration in the entire breadth of US history! So Buchanan is obviously #1, and you;re including W Bush at #2 which leaves Hoover, Johnson, or Hayes for #3?
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May 29, 2014 05:52
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whitey delenda est posted:Let's all flip out and draw conclusions from statistics we don't understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLV7nqD3CA This will never get old.
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May 29, 2014 19:22
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LorneReams posted:The 50 cent one cracks me up everytime I see it. For me it's the Michael Jordan one. The man played AAA baseball FFS. Nolan Ryan's is just depressing.
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zoux posted:Ugh FTFY Also, Holy poo poo that is the best rebuttal to his insanity.
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Fried Chicken posted:Anyways, June drink of the month and thread title suggestions? I'm leaning towards US Politics June - I Need A Drink but I'm not fixed to it The Benghazi committee is scheduled to kick off soon, so Republicans keep loving a Benghazi chicken 
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