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The Democrats' Duty: Bring the GOP Back from Crazy
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Republican party, root and branch, from its deepest grass roots to its highest levels, has become completely demented.
INTO THE WILDERNESS /// Both parties have spent time in exile, and both parties have deserved it. But this year, with the GOP nominating process having devolved into a heresy trial, there's a moral obligation to cast the Republicans out until they come to their senses.
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I miss the GOP. Anyone who argues that today's mob of wannabe populists are anything but a shell of the GOP is not being honest. If you weren't actually alive and voting during the rise of Reagan then you don't understand. Lots of historical revisionism about him. I still remember his first debate when he scolded Democrats for diverging from the greatness of FDR -- a man Reagan revered as a true American hero. Shit, today, the mouth frothing republican mosh pit acts as if FDR was some sort of communist. Were Reagan alive today, I have no doubt he'd waltz into the GOP convention and scold the crowd as if they were a bunch of bickering toadies.
OK, said my peace. Back to ignoring politcs for the utter crap it has become in our era of permanent culture warefare.
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To hell with that. Let's have JESUS FUCKS show up in Tampa and denounce Romney as the Son O' Satan and open fire, leaving hundreds wounded and Michelle Bachmann crawling to the top of the pile of bloody flesh shrieking her cries to the drooling, slack-jawed, bug-eyed party faithful to take back America in the name of JESUS, an AK raised over her head and Romneys intestines wrapped around her throat!
That's where this is headed and that's the show America will buy a ticket to see.
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The captain likes to ride the line between idiot and genius. Usually leaning more towards the former, and blaming the "liberal media" is laughable, and yet I couldn't help but really laugh at this:
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In a twisted way he makes sense, although "liberal media?" Give me a break. Also, how in the world did we end up with a president who's name rhymes with Osama, and with a middle name of Hussein at the same time that we are fighting a war or whatever it is with Islamofascist terrorists? It's almost as big a coincidence as the "the inventor of Obamacare" being the guy running against Obama.
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There's more one distinct power out there when talking about "the powers that be." I still think Obama will win, because he's the better man, and is far more likeable which is what it comes down to.
And besides, the most powerful of the powers that be, actually made sure that the loser ROmney was the candidate, because the economy is going to be bad for quite a while longer, and Presidents get blamed for bad economies and credited with good economies. That is, they want Obama to win. He is perfect for them.
THey'll wait until the economy is finally ready to turn around to get a republican in there. So they can blame the democrats that were in power and say see ?
It could be quite a while.
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If Veteran Combat Hair Stylist Mittycakes wants to win the hearts and minds of the contemporary GOP he is going to have to make his confession to Jesus as his lord and prove his white supremacist credentials and his love of gun violence.
Seems like a tall order for a Mormon who doesn't know melanin-enhanced people exist and who never fired a gun in his life.
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Ruki says
Because of your Republican monkey boys on the Supreme Court, anyone can make any claim they want regardless of the message Obama wants to get out.
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Ruki says
Oh bullshit and you've now exposed total ignorance of what a superpac is.
http://www.prioritiesusaaction.org/ is not affiliated with the Obama campaign and would not even exist had your Republican zealots on the Supreme Court not created it.
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APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says
He's trying hard to cover those: he exhorts all to join him in imposing "Christian" theocracy on America, and he spent more than two years on a mission to recruit people into a "church" that excluded black people from the priesthood. (Someone really should ask him if he can remember how he explained that at the time.) Admittedly he's weak on gun violence, having avoided 'Nam by going to France (of all places), but the hair styling bully might get Bachman's vote for having organized his fellows to tackle a younger kid, who was gay, so that 18-year-old Romney could pin the kid down and then cut off the kid's hair.(http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/romney-incident-would-likely-mean-more-punishment-today/2012/05/11/gIQAmvuJIU_story.html) The kid was crying and begging for help, btw, which will surely engorge the bloodlust of today's GOP stalwarts, producing a frothy mix of Santorum all over the GOP convention.
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Yes, Romney's a certifiable racialist psychopath, but does exhibit the full-bore bug-eyed genocidal lunacy the base expects?
He's got to get into the pit with the neoconfederates and demand the repeal of the 13th and 14th Amendments and denounce Obama as a sub-human product of miscegenation and therefore ineligible to be a President or even a voter.
Pounding the podium with a loaded AK in Tampa, Romney can capture the base's imagination, intoning the mantra of the GOP, 'white power is jesus power when it invokes its righteous will to use firepower.'
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curious2 says
so 1980s... they said the same about Reagan. Later they said we would all die in a nuclear war by 1984. THEY were wrong then THEY are wrong today!
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thomaswong.1986 says
Mitt "tie the dog to the roof" "only the little people pay taxes" Romney is no Ronald Reagan. Though, I do acknowledge, Mitt likes to fire people, and Reagan famously fired the air traffic controllers.
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Everyone knows that Mitt is a psychopathic elitist misanthrope.
He still has to prove he is a genocidal maniac to excite the base.
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curious2 says
LOL! famous words from the infamous NYC meanie... Helmsley! and not from Mitt
Certainly no where near what a well spoken mormon like Mitt would act like.
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curious2 says
When people dont do their job.. yes they get fired...their agreement to perform as contracted has terminated... how shocking! Im sure we need to clean house in Big Govt!
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I remember that remark. My way of saying it: I hope his antiquated ideas about marriage and relationships die of old age along with him and his generation.
I agree, politics has shifted so far right, that Obama is to the right of Nixon in many ways, and the neoconservatives are practically in a parallel universe any more.
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thomaswong.1986 says
Helmsley said it as a joke, and got convicted of tax evasion. Romney proposes it as policy, while concealing his tax returns.
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Yet Romney proposes to increase government spending on the military. Ron Paul campaigned on the need to reduce government spending, but the GOP refused to listen.
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curious2 says
Same o same o talk... did the liberals talk to PWC who prepared his tax return.
NOOOOOOOOO! to afraid to ask the tax accountants.
US Govt can use a trimming.. but more, it needs a good hand in old fashion proper corporate internal controls. Like No Insider Trading by Congress, and proper verification of payments (like $3B Tax refunds to non-existent tax payers).
So money can go the really needed and not the scams and thieves.
I sure didnt see Obama fixing anything over the past 4 years.
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Returning to the original topic, the GOP has lost the ability or willingness to think through policies and consequences, instead competing to be the most devout reciter of their new Doctrine of Theocratic Plutocracy:
"Some liberal writers have opined that the socioeconomic gulf separating the business wing of the GOP and the religious right make it an unstable coalition that could crack. I am not so sure. There is no basic disagreement on which direction the two factions want to take the country, merely how far it should go. The plutocrats would drag us back to the Gilded Age; the theocrats to the Salem witch trials. If anything, the two groups are increasingly beginning to resemble each other. Many televangelists have espoused what has come to be known as the prosperity gospel — the health-and-wealth/name-it-and-claim-it gospel of economic entitlement. If you are wealthy, it is a sign of God’s favor. If not, too bad! This rationale may explain why some poor voters will defend the prerogatives of billionaires."
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-insider-how-religion-destroyed-my-party
What I find interesting though is they nominated the only other person in the country who actually signed Obamneycare. The lobbyists, crony capitalists, lemon socialists, and campaign financiers profit either way, but everyone else loses worse with Romney. The commercial media (brought to you by the recipients of corporate welfare) famously ignored Ron Paul, even though he outpolled the President nationally, and the GOP actually booed Rep. Paul during debates. In addition to losing any semblance of sanity, the GOP have lost even the civility to conduct a debate without booing the least crazy voice in the room.
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Curious2,
Believe it or not, I agree with most of what's in that article.
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Ruki says
You mean a story told in a campaign conference call by the same man makes Obama responsible for a campaign ad aired on television by a Super Pac?
Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?
You must have these stupid talking points hardwired into your brain.
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Both parties are Keynesians since Nixon in 1971. Money has no backing so deficit spending is inevitable and overleveraged collateral is the source of trillions in "wealth" creation among the central banks. It matters not which side you are discussing. They both have issues so important "they can't afford NOT to deficit spend" - whether it be social programs for the underprivileged, or wars in the Middle East. Supposedly, we can't afford NOT to. We're broke, but because we can print new debt at any time, we do. Essentially, to them, it's IMPOSSIBLE to truly be broke. Where once the banks leveraged real collateral at 20 to 1 at the most, we now leverage EVERYTHING from coffee beans to real estate at 50 to 1, 100 to 1, 150 to 1! Picking on one side without picking on the other is to prove how blind you are. There is an 800 pound gorilla in the room and everyone is complaining about the monkeys in a slapping fight on the couch.
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iwog says
I think so, yes. The "ignore" function is a beautiful thing. It helps reduce heartburn.
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Well, unfortunately, it was the Democrats who strayed from the mainstream and brought in a draconian, costly and retrograde science and engineering that cost the US dearly the last 4 years.
Only now are people realizing the great harm that has been visited upon them by the current rulers...and they themselves have realized their mistakes based on erroneous assumptions and are backtracking, for example:
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are On the Way In
"The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, has changed his mind about using hydrogen fuel cells. "
http://automotivediscovery.com/hydrogen-fuel-cells-are-on-the-way-in/9214144/
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Post 1968 I don't think the democrats had much for any real ideas. Granted much of what democrats say today was pretty much what republicans had for ideas long ago.
Obamacare came from Romney care which came from Hillarycare which came from some bush 41 republicans
cap and trade was a republican idea.
The democrats really don't have a base because they pretty much killed much of it off. Unions for example have been abandoned by the left. Clinton voted in NAFTA and we've put on environmental restrictions and want to mandate bennies that were normally fought for by the unions. Why join a union if you can sit around and get the same stuff for free?
So the political divide is about what again? Abortion? It's going to still be legal. Guns? Same thing. Same sex marriage is going to be legal eventually in every state as it is pointless to fight against it. at the same point the religious right needs to basically end.
gun control is a dead issue as is the environment. It is employment that is the big issue. When unemployment is 8+% then nothing else matters.
It is hard for the left to fight for higher wages and bennies when there are less jobs. You have to allow the government to do things to attract businesses. If you don't give them a reason to be there then they will leave. I've seen this on a local and state level so naturally it happens on a national level.
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The Republicans' Duty: Bring Democrats Back from Evil.
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still1bear says
Name as single evil act by Democrats.
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Today's neocons are indistinct from whack-a-mole "simply living" hyper vegan luddite freaks. They're both just extremists trapped in an endless loop trying to out-extreme their own compadres.
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ALL of the financial deregulation by the Clinton Administration, the epitome of evil being embodied in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Bill Clinton should be dismembered slowly for this crime against humanity.
Obama's criminal maintenance of Gitmo and continued remote random killing program using Predator drones in the Middle East is probably one of the most vile and criminal use of executive authority in contemporary American politics.
Obama should be in the dock at The Hague for these crimes.
Obama's continued prosecution of martial violence in Afghanistan is evil beyond all description.
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APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says
I think it was ignorant, but there was no evil intent.
What Bush did in Iraq is evil.
What Obama is doing in Afghanistan is barely justified by 9/11, but I agree there is no purpose behind it now.
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iwog says
Oh, he was just misguided! Give him a pass! Fuck that. A banker that is not facing a Sears over-under held by a bug-eyed regulator is a crime wave ready to happen.
If Obama had a shred of humanity, he'd send pediatric doctors and civil engineers to Afghanistan to provide potable water delivery. Fuck all. Everything else is service to fucking evil. Let the Taliban just try to shoot at them. They'd be vaporized by the locals in a heartbeat.
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PPete says
Clinton owned Chrysler?
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PPete says
Turn off the radio. It's melting most of your brain cells.
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PPete says
How the fuck do you blame Afghanistan on the Democrats?
Do you remember campaign 2008?? Don't elect the liberal wuss? NO SURRENDER?????
I guess Obama was listening to you. (then)
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PPete says
So let me get this straight. Chrysler shareholders, Chrysler management, and Daimler were all about the merger. All they needed was a technical anti-trust waiver.
Soooooooooo.......Clinton should have prevented a contractual deal between two large corporations based on what? The fact you're pro-socialism?
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PPete says
Right.....so what you're saying is that you're a socialist and Clinton was wrong for not shutting down a deal between two public corporations.
It's okay if you're a socialist, I just want to clarify.
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Automan Empire says
They lost their beards.
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PPete says
And the dick of a horse.
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mdovell says
Bingo. The Democrat base used to be working class "blue collar" Catholics.
Now it's the Castro District.
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Google: 2016 Movie for a location near you. It explains Obamas anti-American roots and training. Quite an eye opener.
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iwog says
The main sticking point? Clinton was not a liberal.