FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Uncle Tookus? Did your team of writers come up with that one, or were you struck with a bout of inspiration between meth hits?

 

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We ain't?

 

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You're a pile-jumper, Uncle Tookus.
Just like Ray Lewis.

 

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Not with this pacifist. North Korea and Iran will have everything they need on their terms. Same with the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

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Quoted for posterity: "Pacifist" is now an insult.

 

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I myself once dabbled in pacifism. Not in Nam, of course.

 

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It's also humorous considering the many members of al Qaeda who have been killed by drone strikes during Obama's presidency.

 

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dog, I'm not mocking the middle class.
I ain't no senator's son.
I was a latchkey child.
I grew up by the blue light of the cathode ray nipple while my folks were at work.
Just want to know where this is coming from.
There's a justifiable pride, and then there's entitlement.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

We have the largest economy and the largest defense apparatus in the history of the world.

In what way do we no longer have a "robust economy?" In what way are we "no longer central to international stability?"

money.cnn.com/news/economy/world_economies_gdp/

www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore

 

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More interesting is the classification of a man who launched a world-wide assasination campaign with drones as a "pacifist"

 

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Where what's coming from?

The idea that a thriving middle class is central to political and social stability?

Ask your college roommate Robespierre what happens to any state in which a tiny, wealthy, powerful aristocracy presides over a huge population of the angry, angry poor.

As a modern matter, the postwar American middle class created the ocean of wealth the American plutocracy now swims in.