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Excuse me, Allen West is a "Noted War Criminal", not just a war criminal!
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Ninjasaurus posted:Would Christie be the fattest President since William Howard Taft? Abraham Lincoln, by his own admission. Sources say that he had a kind of animated craggy charisma despite that, though.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Well, its true. Deficits don't matter so long as you have a stable political order and continue to make debt servicing obligations. Hell, the larger the deficit, the greater the economic growth, with inflation naturally balancing out your debt. If more Democrats like the people you are posting as a caricature of actually paid attention to it then perhaps the Democrats could provide an alternate coherent economic vision to "like the way the Republicans manage it, but less bad". Edit: However good luck getting Democrats united on something like that without the ghost of LBJ sticking his nose in their faces. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 06:28
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computer parts posted:Literally all Obama has been harping on for like 3 years now has been about raising the minimum wage and putting lots of money into rebuilding infrastructure. Yes, you can argue that he's only doing this because he doesn't have the means to, but to say that there's not an alternative plan proposed is absurd. Obama has been doing so and progressives in general have been doing so but there's not really a broad consensus (unless there were a Democratic majority in both houses, in which case their differences would be ironed out quickly on those issues) among Democratic politicians on those issues. Additionally, while those ideas are important and valuable and need to be implemented, they are not indicative of a different economic theory from the current mainstream, which is a worldview in which revenue and spending must be related and balanced and the government must remain relatively small and act through contractors and stimulus packages if interacting with the economy. These are artificial limitations which do not conform to the reality of the nature of sovereign debt, which is something that MMT explains particularly well.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:39
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Gyges posted:Unlike any of the other potential candidates Mitt already has access to more than enough money to run. Plus he's the only candidate with guaranteed no possibility of having unknown skeletons(Though I hear he once drank coffee before a swim meet.) coming to destroy everything. Which, given the field, is a significant leg up on everyone. I am genuinely looking forward to finding out if  has had a human behavior module upgrade since 2012. Has his small talk repertoire been expanded beyond the height of trees?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Missed this Huckabee jewel Ah, the good old shark attack fallacy.
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Jan 26, 2015 13:22
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:The news this morning are all saying Chris Christie is finished and needs to go home. This guy always seems to bounce back, so how true a statement is that? This has been true for the last two years and three months. He never actually bounced back, he is just campaigning as though he did and he is facing ever-spiraling federal investigations.
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Feb 8, 2015 18:09
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AGirlWonder posted:What the hell are "black credentials"? That'd be his James Brown pass.
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Feb 19, 2015 00:31
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Deptfordx posted:Is this some wierd American thing, not understanding graduated taxation that is. I've heard accounts of people saying this sort of thing in America here and in other sites on numerous occasions. Books, TV, and 95% of the people around you either never discuss it or believe the misconception instead, so no, you're never going to learn that if your only interaction with your taxes is paying H&R Block every year to do them for you or filling in your tax form without analyzing the math behind your tax liability.
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Mar 12, 2015 20:33
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Series DD Funding posted:Yeah I'm sure a billionaire is going to commit easily-detectable federal felonies for whatever pittance dumb people donate. Trump isn't actually a billionaire and literally every campaign above county dog catcher is filled with graft 
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Mar 18, 2015 03:17
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Has Andy Borowitz ever written anything remotely funny in his life? 
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Mar 26, 2015 14:14
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DaveWoo posted:POLITICO, two days ago: Wall Street Not Worried About Hillary She said something nice about Elizabeth Warren.
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Apr 17, 2015 23:04
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:Honestly, I hope MIGF is kind of right about her. We've had 8 years (well, 6 years) of collaborationist attempts and it's so obvious the other side's not playing that even Obama's not trying for bipartisanship now. I want Hillary to be the political murder machine she's made out to be, because gently caress this Congress forever. Hillary is the LBJ to Obama's Kennedy. That's a good thing. LBJ got momentous poo poo done that a man with a lesser spine, balls, or volume of blackmail could not have accomplished.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:53
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Fulchrum posted:But can you be LBJ without literally cockslapping your opponents into line? Well, the First Laddy's got to have something to do.
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Apr 18, 2015 15:43
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Orkin Mang posted:why is ted cruzs the american flag on fire Truth in advertising.
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Apr 20, 2015 12:07
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EvanSchenck posted:As to the establishment being Jack Bauer fans, that didn't save his career but it did get him placed in a new one. He got a lot of positive press in the conservative media for what he did, and how it got him fired (durn liberal pussies). He parlayed that buzz into his political career. Straight up, people voted for him because he tortured an Arab for no good reason. 9/11 is a hell of a drug  
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Apr 24, 2015 01:34
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Paolomania posted:Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything. https://youtu.be/UlEFqR4SaVA?t=38 A 30-second encapsulation of 1980s American paranoia about Japan.
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Apr 25, 2015 15:21
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Cliff Racer posted:Well they sure got the part about the faxes right. Seriously, they still send stuff by fax in Japan. The subtlest "Japan will own America" set dressing detail in that scene is that Fujitsu is five years younger than Marty.
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Apr 27, 2015 02:17
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Requesting itshappening.gif with Bernie instead of 
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What is it about Santorum that puts his floor in polls and elections so abnormally low for a Republican? Sweater-vest hatred? "PAPISTS  "?
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A sentient toupee posted:“Mexico? The worst. What they’re doing to us on the border is incredible. It’s incredible. People coming over like a sieve, and they’re taking our jobs.” The audience cheered as Trump promised to slap a 35 percent tax on cars made in Mexico: “We’re not gonna let you come across with the illegals, the cars. We got everything coming across: We got illegals, we got free cars ...” He concluded: “I would build the greatest wall you have ever seen. The greatest. You know who’s gonna pay for the wall? Mexico.” The crowd roared. The yoogest wall. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 11:36 on May 12, 2015 |
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May 12, 2015 10:34
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Walker 2016: "At least I'm not Voldemort"
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This is about the time Romney is going to ride in on a white horse and end up the establishment candidate by default again, right?
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Jun 17, 2015 00:26
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DaveWoo posted:Nah, Jeb already has the "establishment candidate by default" slot locked up. Not if his campaign continues to be "My Brother's
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Jun 17, 2015 00:58
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Dolash posted:I'm going to predict Trump to be the first to peak and burn out. A few more polls showing him hovering around second and the media glare will turn up, and if ever there was a candidate ready to say something dumb enough to sink their campaign it's Trump - his bar's just higher than usual, is all. Trump's demographic is the section of the population that views dumb statements as a positive. Edit: You can tell mostly because Donald Trump saying "I would be a great president" is so self-evidently dumb that this must be the case. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Jun 25, 2015 01:08
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Voyager I posted:I'm pretty sure we Americans would have much more pressing concerns under President Trump, such as his plan to solve the national debt by having the US declare bankruptcy and then selling the assets in a private auction to a shell country owned by him. Trump only offers the full package of the classiest, most luxurious rights possible to his citizens.
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Jun 30, 2015 05:49
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DaveWoo posted:I hope Trump does run as a third-party candidate, mainly because it'd be hilarious to once again see an eccentric billionaire split the vote and help hand the presidency to a Clinton. I eagerly await the formation of the Bull-Duck Party.
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Jul 12, 2015 08:17
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Joementum posted:So glad you asked. He's counting every hair in his wig as a patriot.
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Jul 12, 2015 19:38
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greatn posted:I don't see any shift at all caused by Sanders so far. If there is it will come later than this. Sanders intending to enter the race and the recent popularity of progressive rhetoric from people like him and Warren caused Hillary to come into the race significantly to the left of Obama, whereas without that she might well be vying for maximum centrism against O'Malley.
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Jul 12, 2015 20:31
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Vox Nihili posted:Check out the comment section here to see how Trump's base is responding to his latest hosed up gaffe (is there a word/reference that means "ultra-gaffe?" gaffe doesn't really seem to go far enough here): A gaffe is when you mismatch your statements to your audience and look foolish or offensive because of it. They're unintentional. Trump's statements are the opposite. He has matched them with his audience so perfectly that he is immune to criticism. He is immune to gaffing because he is running as 100% unadulterated The Donald, and anything he says, he meant to say.
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Solid Poopsnake posted:So after Trump crosses the Rubicon, who will be the American Augustus? Donald J. Trump, Jr.
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Jul 26, 2015 00:40
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Mrit posted:Its both. Colleges have become wasteful and full of flashy gimmick crap to pull in students. And states need to better fund colleges so that the cost is minimal to students. Operations and construction are two separate pools of money in most colleges and construction money cannot be spent on operations. Starfleet Academy dorms, climbing walls, etc., beyond their maintenance costs, can't actually impact the operations budget - and state support for operations has fallen dramatically basically everywhere.
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The Trump Cross is obviously gold, not black 
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Nov 23, 2015 01:44
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H5N1 posted:I don't care what's been said over the last few pages -- I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign! High...energy?
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Nov 24, 2015 00:30
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Prof. Lurker posted:Cruz mathematically eliminated from 1237 (on ballot 1 at least)  
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Montasque posted:Sean Hannity update: He's happy about Harriet Tubman getting the honor of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. A Pence endorsement would be toxic and the only people in Indiana who know who Scott Walker is are the union types, who consider him to be the devil.
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Apr 20, 2016 21:11
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Three Olives posted:Trump's hispanic outreach continues to do well. Look, he said being Mexican was fine, okay? What more do you out of control liberals want?
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May 28, 2016 02:25
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fade5 posted:lol, no. I thought this one was particularly telling: slavatuvs posted:You know how you can tell it was an organized tactical retreat? They left their camps behind.
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Jun 28, 2016 03:09
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Thunderbro posted:Bill Clinton was not impeached because his political connections threw weight in the Senate. It is legal history now that he committed perjury concerning his very real and very well-documented affair with Monica Lewinski and under all legal rights should have been impeached. Almost like how the Clinton dynasty is now throwing weight to prevent another one from being brought to justice on very-well documented breaches of national security. The difference here is that hackers and foreign interests are now serving the evidence straight to the public and political opponents. Ah yes, reliable foreign interests such as Mr. Benjamin Ghazi
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2016 GOP Collapse: waterboarding? I like it a lot
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