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EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot

Haha seriously, what is this from?

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awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug

Willie Tomg posted:

Thank god, its official.

Oficial.

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

EngineerSean posted:

Haha seriously, what is this from?

A Public Policy Polling Louisiana Poll from August 2013, apparently

If it helps, 37% of them may have all had alzheimers

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
if it's so easy to get on welfare and be taken care of for life on the government dime without working, why doesn't everybody just go ahead and do so? let's be honest working kind of sucks compared to just about anything you would do with that time of your own volition, so if you work for a living you are a lot stupider than those illegals living the high life on benefits

FADEtoBLACK
Jan 26, 2007
Most Americans think that it's a good thing they don't even look into what those benefits are actually. All they hear is free food and free healthcare and they think the person is making enough outside of food and healthcare that they can afford basically anything at all. The people who have these opinions and also work the jobs that the benefits are set up for generally have massive pride issues.

It's kind of like how we cut NASA's budget or people say that we are spending money "up there". They have no idea that the percentage everyone pays to NASA is less than 1% and there are so many spinoffs every year from NASA doing things they actually publish an encyclopedia for it called "spin-offs".

FADEtoBLACK fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jul 4, 2014

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

*record scratch*

*lifts sunglasses*

Say whaaaaaaaaat?!

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.
Ya know I think I know a solution to this here immigrant problem. Now these immigrants want our jobs, right? An they want to just get the american way of life for FREE, while not giving up their burrito-eating, drug-dealing, godless catholicism and their fake language in which they just scramble English words around an then attach vowels at the end? Well, if they want jobs we'll give em, but they have to earn our freedoms by working for free (because freedom ain't free) and by going to special, segregated (to protect ourselves, of course) areas where they are forced to adopt the ways of american life or be deported (of course after serving out their labor). Give em any kind of work, picking fruit, treating sewage, medical and military experiments, whatever. I think that's a reasonable, final solution to the mexican question.

-Spokesman for Newt Gingrich for President 2016

America Inc. fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jul 4, 2014

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Hang on, I'm confused. Are immigrants here for our jobs or for our welfare?

FADEtoBLACK
Jan 26, 2007

Negative Entropy posted:

Ya know I think I know a solution to this here immigrant problem. Now these immigrants want our jobs, right? An they want to just get the american way of life for FREE, while not giving up their burrito-eating, drug-dealing, godless catholicism and their fake language in which they just scramble English words around an then attach vowels at the end? Well, if they want jobs we'll give em, but they have to earn our freedoms by working for free (because freedom ain't free) and by going to special, segregated (to protect ourselves, of course) areas where they are forced to adopt the ways of american life or be deported (of course after serving out their labor). Give em any kind of work, picking fruit, treating sewage, medical and military experiments, whatever. I think that's a reasonable, final solution to the mexican question.

We should also just invade Mexico for "breathing room".

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

FADEtoBLACK posted:

We should also just invade Mexico for "breathing room".

I don't know if the smog would be conducive to that, at least in Mexico City.

FADEtoBLACK
Jan 26, 2007
Smog? That's the tangible form of freedom hatred.

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Pope Guilty posted:

Hang on, I'm confused. Are immigrants here for our jobs or for our welfare?

Can't they have both?

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Smog is just the free air of a place safe from the EPA's reign of terror.

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

Pornographic Memory posted:

Smog is just the free air of a place safe from the EPA's reign of terror.

I am inhaling a tank of sulfur dioxide right now, just to teach them a lesson.

Edgar Quintero
Oct 5, 2004

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
DO NOT GIVE HEROIN
So putting aside the obvious racism of the OP for a moment, I'm pretty sure Obama actually is "securing your borders."
http://online.wsj.com/articles/on-immigration-obama-to-move-to-bolster-border-security-1404153935

quote:

Mr. Obama is asking Congress to act on a separate immigration proposal meant to stem the recent surge in children and families from Central America crossing the southern border, which on Monday the president called an "urgent humanitarian challenge.'' He plans to request more than $2 billion to detain families and bolster border security, and he wants a change in law so that the administration can return certain children more quickly to their home countries.

"I mean he wants to grant work permits to some of those dirty mexicans who are already here AND he's only spending $2 billon more on border security? He's practically leaving the gates wide open."

Hilarious how even the most minor of suggested reforms that STILL involve dumping tons of funds into the Glorious Seperation Barrier get called out as leaving the borders unguarded.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Feel-good thread of the year.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

FADEtoBLACK posted:

We should also just invade Mexico for "breathing room".
It would be for the mexican's own good. As benevolent caretakers of the mexican people, we will act as civilizing forces that will, as a father does to his son, teach proper moral value with a firm, judicious hand. For the good of the mexican people we will seize those assets we find them most incompetent at handling, and ensure that Mexico's political and economic systems are under wise control for some time to come. In time the Mexicans will appreciate our liberating them from the darkness.

FADEtoBLACK
Jan 26, 2007
Then we can proceed with the Americanization of South America! We will have to have good followers of the light form into bands that can enforce this new ideal. Surely for the sake of identification we will have to make them wear some sort of uniform color on their shirts. I vote brown.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

FADEtoBLACK posted:

Then we can proceed with the Americanization of South America! We will have to have good followers of the light form into bands that can enforce this new ideal. Surely for the sake of identification we will have to make them wear some sort of uniform color on their shirts. I vote brown.
In honor of the place where we founded our moral crusade, we will give these, hm, "brownshirts" the initials of Something Awful. However, I distrust the liberal elements of this site, and I fear a purge will be needed in the future. As Jefferson said, from time to time the Tree of Liberty needs to be refreshed by the blood of tyrants and patriots. May we forever ensure that the Tree of Liberty is engorged....

SkySteak
Sep 9, 2010
I'd honestly be curious to see this sort of poll in 6-10 years. It is easy to blame and hate Obama as the current embodiment of policies and ideology you hate (real or otherwise), but time heals. Even for someone has bad as GWB it seems (though that rating, even after all this time is still amazing).

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
by the way obama can't be a bad president because he made everyone pay for my healthcare

wheez the roux
Aug 2, 2004
THEY SHOULD'VE GIVEN IT TO LYNCH

Death to the Seahawks. Death to Seahawks posters.

Willie Tomg posted:

Yeah I've been to Chicago a couple times. It was alright.

eat at Bavette's, it's heaven on earth

FADEtoBLACK
Jan 26, 2007

SkySteak posted:

I'd honestly be curious to see this sort of poll in 6-10 years. It is easy to blame and hate Obama as the current embodiment of policies and ideology you hate (real or otherwise), but time heals. Even for someone has bad as GWB it seems (though that rating, even after all this time is still amazing).

Yeah after Hillary is inevitably elected not because of who she is but because of who her opponent is we will see everyone who hated Obama shift to sexist comments instead of racist ones and that poll will just shift to compensate. Watch her get blamed for 9/11.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

FADEtoBLACK posted:

I'm a Socialist and don't condemn Bush. Why? Because he believed in things before rationally thinking them out. Much like everyone else in his administration. I really enjoy how the article states he has no interest in foreign policy but somehow manages to do a better job of it than Bush.

This article, and much of everything else Americans like to debate over, is incredibly stupid at what it asserts. So Americans are unhappy with Obama? Why specifically? Are you prepared to admit that some of the reasons Americans are unhappy with him is because he didn't go far enough on some liberal/socialist agendas? I seriously doubt you would be prepared to admit there are large sums of Americans who think this way.

FOUR days into Obamas presidency there were Republicans declaring him a failure, FOUR DAYS.
Republicans were calling him a failure and saying he was terrible at foreign policy six hours after the news broke that he had Bin Laden killed. Republicans would despise him no matter what, so I really don't see the point of approval ratings that sample them anymore.

Rollofthedice posted:

For some reason, it's harder for people to blame faces that are dead or retired. I think it's because doing so comes with the implication that humanity's actions have long-term consequences, and that can be uncomfortable in a lot of ways. Like other posters are saying, the fact that GWB is still so reviled even after six years is very telling.

I think you're over thinking it. Humans just don't like to speak ill of the dead, with a few exceptions. THe number of Republicans who will scream bile about Carter and Clinton does prove this forgiveness isn't automatic on retirement. Or that Republicans just have no sense of shame. Both works, really.

Pope Guilty posted:

Hang on, I'm confused. Are immigrants here for our jobs or for our welfare?

Neither. Its our white women.

SkySteak posted:

I'd honestly be curious to see this sort of poll in 6-10 years. It is easy to blame and hate Obama as the current embodiment of policies and ideology you hate (real or otherwise), but time heals. Even for someone has bad as GWB it seems (though that rating, even after all this time is still amazing).

I'll be curious if Clinton gets more runoff hate from his wife.

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

N. Senada posted:

He apparently liked Sealab 2021, so he can't be all bad.

Reagan did? History absolves him.

Axetrain
Sep 14, 2007

Here is an article on that poll.

The only thing this poll tells us is that in the minds of Republicans Ronald Reagan is Jesus and Barack Obama is Satan. They will hate him intensely forever and for any and no reason. That racist quip about Hispanics is laughable as well considering it's a business's decision to advertise in Spanish in order to try and get business from them. What's the matter, you hate free markets? Basically what I'm trying to say is that your a real piece of poo poo OP.

Axetrain fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jul 4, 2014

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

Frostwerks posted:

Reagan did? History absolves him.

The fact that Archer literally did the Iran Contra scandal in the last season only proves how awesome Adam Reed is.

Also, Reagan would have cut funding to sealab and given it to those jerks in pod 6, or worse, the jerks in mars lab.

fantastic in plastic
Jun 15, 2007

The Socialist Workers Party's newspaper proved to be a tough sell to downtown businessmen.
I agree. We need some kind of government regulation about what businesses can put on their advertisements and signage.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
The plan is in motion and Obama is our ally. Soon we'll have you gringos pressing *2* for English.

les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
Yay an Obama thread finally SOMEONE'S talking about this crazy president.

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
Please comeback op and address some of the points made in this thread.

Lord_Ventnor
Mar 30, 2010

The Worldwide Deadly Gangster Communist President
Isn't comparing a man to a period of history like comparing apples to calendars?

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Willie Tomg posted:

Yeah I've been to Chicago a couple times. It was alright.

This post in conjunction to the one it is responding to is solid loving gold. I applaud you

AshB
Sep 16, 2007

Ankle-biter posted:

With Mr. Obama deploying troops to Iraq, failing to find compromise with Congress and seeing major defeats in the Supreme Court, voters continue to sour on him.

So two-thirds of your rationale is literally things the President cannot control or reasonably be expected to. :frogout:

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Willie Tomg posted:

With the help of the OP I'm now prepared to admit it on the somethingawful forums. I do *not* support the political triangulation or ideology of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Hussein Obama. Thank you for giving hope those of us who have struggled for so long to find our voice.

O-oh you fucker!!

thehustler
Apr 17, 2004

I am very curious about this little crescendo
Hello, I am not from America but it certainly seemed that the Republican congress have been trying to stall everything Obama has been trying to do but then says he's not achieved anything. It's typical short-term thinking in order to win the next election rather than trying to actually change your country for the better.

Is that a fair assessment?

Pedro De Heredia
May 30, 2006

Ankle-biter posted:

I feel he welcomes Central Americans.

Good.

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
countdown to OP coming back to thread then having a melt down.

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Medium Chungus
Feb 19, 2012

thehustler posted:

Hello, I am not from America but it certainly seemed that the Republican congress have been trying to stall everything Obama has been trying to do but then says he's not achieved anything. It's typical short-term thinking in order to win the next election rather than trying to actually change your country for the better.

Is that a fair assessment?

Yes. Couple this with the op and you start to see some depth to the shittiness and utter incoherency of his argument.

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