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Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

This shithead was just on MSNBC saying that the Democrats are going to win in 2020 because there are enough moderate Republicans "who lost respect for Trump" to vote Democrat.

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Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
On the campaign trail in 2019 Clinton will tell a crowd she takes a backseat to no one when it comes to being a leftist.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/Litzz11/status/881932888018751488

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Wow someone hates entrepreneurs writing the next great app.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

SardonicTyrant posted:

That's one way to solve unemployment. Can't worry about finding a job when you're literally unemployable.

And yet, I cling to the hope that someone will create something even worse. A goon can dream.

Republicans and Bad Dems are into bringing back 'apprenticeships' which will give everyone a very exploitable pool of slave labor.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Hillary takes a backseat to no one when it comes to her credentials as a mealymouthed supporter of the Pubic Option.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Bilirubin posted:

holy poo poo just write a blog post and then tweet a link to it

It's almost like a communication platform limited to 140 characters is a bad idea. Here's why: (1/84)

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

balkamizing the United States is stupid and we should wedgie anyone proposing it until they stop

I agree, let's begin by sending federal troops into the South to show them our mettle.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Scent of Worf posted:

anyone know what :abuela: had to say today on this great day of our crumbling nation?

She went to a play and received a standing ovation.

https://twitter.com/JoiseyJoh/status/881698436676014080

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Jeb! Repetition posted:

The funniest thing that's happened in human history was when the Obama white house watched a prototype of Hamilton show and they all laughed because they thought it was a comedy and Lin Manuel Miranda cried

I wish Hamilton was alive to smear Miranda's name via one of his many newspapers.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Thanks to Hamilton, 1776 is no longer the worst Founding Fathers-themed musical.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

FuriousxGeorge posted:

What's the best?

Probably some rough draft sitting in Mel Brooks's office right now.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Modus Pwnens posted:

1776 owns just for having a song about the triangle trade and hypocritical liberals.

There's a scene where Benjamin Franklin is in a deep sleep and they tell him they're going to New Brunswick for booze and whores and he immediately leaps up.

That historical accuracy :perfect:

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Someone at the New York Times screwed up and interviewed Noam Chomsky.

quote:

I don’t think things are quite that bleak. Take the success of the Bernie Sanders campaign, the most remarkable feature of the 2016 election. It is, after all, not all that surprising that a billionaire showman with extensive media backing (including the liberal media, entranced by his antics and the advertising revenue it afforded) should win the nomination of the ultra-reactionary Republican Party.

The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive (basically New Deal) programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There’s good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.

Activism spawned by the campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Hmm and yet she's married to a white man. :smugdog:

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
I still don't trust Matty Yglesias, he's going to stab Noble Bernard in the back.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
:siren: :tinfoil: Eric eBaum Bauman and California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman are the same person :tinfoil: :siren:

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Cyberpunk arcologies: coming soon

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Darkman Fanpage posted:

what the has hillary clinton done to these peoples' minds that makes them still cling to her after she's lost and (for now) stated she won't be getting back into politics. nobody did this poo poo for john kerry or al gore after they lost.

I'm trying to imagine a diehard cult of personality rising up around Gore and Kerry and it makes me laugh.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

SKULL.GIF posted:

I thought this was a joke the first like 8 times I scrolled past it

No, this actually did happen wow

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/883668579849297920

Mmm yes, America has never gone to war while embracing free trade.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

This violates every international convention on forbidding the militarization of space.

But exceptionalism!

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
FIRE advertisement and a Harry Potter quote. :abuela:

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

gradenko_2000 posted:

I used to do IT work for them. Didn't realize until a bit later that they were the bank that kept trying to collect on student loans long after the student had already died.

My aunt died from cancer because she didn't have any health insurance and by the time it was caught it had already spread all over her body. Even after my cousin faxed over the death certificate, banks kept calling my cousin trying to persuade her to pay off her mom's student loans because "it's what she would have wanted" and it would "have honored her memory".

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

SKULL.GIF posted:

death is too good for these parasites

They're complete garbage.

Oh Snapple! posted:

jesus loving christ

And I thought the mortgage company that would call up my mom's neighbors telling them she was behind on her house payments (note: my mom wasn't behind on poo poo; the house in question might have been financed in her name but it was my gambling-addict step-dad that wasn't making the payments on the house my mom no longer occupied causing the loving problem) because she wouldn't answer the phone when they called were scummy as poo poo.

When I took out loans for graduate school I had to provide a list of family member's telephone numbers and addresses apparently so they could also be harassed if I defaulted. Joke's on them, all my contacts have crippling student loan debt, too.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

do Democrats have any race car driver governors?
thought not
https://twitter.com/Jalopnik/status/883792863439532034

Democrats can't race cars because they never turn left.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Founding Fathers really don't agree on much as a whole but holy gently caress did they all hate the idea of a standing army, a professional soldiery, and it being used for anything except fighting off invaders.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

invaders, and people who won't pay their taxes

Insurrectionists that attacked harmless federal treasury agents :qq:

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Reagan is the neoliberal standard bearer, really. It's why Clinton and Obama both praised him as well.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Yep, he was the first neoliberal president and probably did more for the cause than even Bill Clinton (although Bill made up for it by having sex with a child).

Reagan made up the welfare queen story and repeated it despite the press telling him it was bogus; Clinton then referenced it when killing welfare.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

etalian posted:

Can we at least agree that crazed monk was the best character on the show?

Yoo-hoo, Captain!

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Frijolero posted:

It's Monster Mash OP, hth

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

AstheWorldWorlds posted:

I've got a masters and I don't think I'll ever see 8k a month jesus gently caress.

Probably depends on how they are calculating this as to whether its accurate or not.

I've got a masters and I didn't make $8k last year. It's terrible out there.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
I'm so old I remember when Cold Fusion and Hydrogen Fuel Cells were the utopian energy sources :(

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

oh, and new york dems are loving trash, in case y'all didn't already know that:

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/885357305268711424

Mmm that Social Darwinism is so hot right now.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

punk rebel ecks posted:

My favorite response was after I pointed out how Democrats have lost every branch of government, I got hit with, "this is the nature of politocs, throughout the past few decades both Republicans and Democrats had every branch. It doesn't mean the Democratic Party itself is incompetent."

Democrats held the House for almost 60 years thanks to the New Deal, what the hell are they talking about?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Agnosticnixie posted:

https://twitter.com/SupportFLOC/status/885581709529534464

After signing HB2 v2, the dem governor now signs this when it's far from veto proof, effectively giving the finger to the labor effort that got him there in the first place.

What are the dems even #resisting at this point?

Democrats like these who needs Republicans?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

docbeard posted:

A reminder that killing people is still wrong.

Uhh excuse me the guillotine is the most scientifically advanced method of humanely separating heads from spines.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Dairy Days posted:

am i the only one noticing the extreme irony in purchasing materials to construct a guillotine

Didn't Lenin say capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with?

But you're right, once the workers at the tractor factory seize the means of production they will construct us a mighty bulldozer-guillotine.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Baloogan posted:

lol yall are socialists, you aren't able to make a safe and reliable machine

Uhh mods?!?

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Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/886044544575430656

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