FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Smallpotatoes · Oct 31, 2012

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And today's visit from the Secret Service goes to:

http://www.wthr.com/story/19944994/neighbors-question-hanging-barack-obama-display

I don't care if he's a disabled veteran or not. He's a piece of shit.

LongTimeListener · Oct 31, 2012

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hondo said:

LongTimeListener said:

GeorgeFHayek said:

LongTimeListener said:

Then you're unlike a very large portion of your party, George. And much like the abortion debate, that's just a reality you're going to have to square with yourself.
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Let R be that set of the politically inclined populace that would be considered on "the right."
Let r be that subset of R which identifies primarily with the Republican Party.
Let rr be that subset of r which would find racist jokes about President Obama (or anyone of African descent) to be funny.

It is reasonable to assume that rr is, regrettably, not a null set. By the arithmetic implied by your first post, however, rr = R.

And you're telling me I have some squaring with reality to do?
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I am telling you this: The Tea Party is in control of the GOP. The Tea Party is the birthers. So if that's your side and you're not repulsed enough to get away from that kind of hate, don't get upset that you get lumped in with it.
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Just because "you're telling us this" doesn't make it true. I know a few people who go to Tea Party rallies. They're not birthers. They tell me the vast majority of Tea Partiers are not birthers. They just think the prez has done a horseshit job. But you'll find one birther sign at some Tea Party rally in Murfreesboro and think it means they're all birthers. You're falling into just as much a conspiracy theory as the birthers are.
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2011 poll: 49 percent of Republicans support Tea Party
2011 poll: 51 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born outside the United States

You can try to figure out which people fit one group but not the other. There ain't many.

Double Down · Oct 31, 2012

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The Venn Diagram is ... (gasp) a circle!

dooley_womack1 · Oct 31, 2012

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hondo said:

Bubbler said:

hondo said:

LongTimeListener said:

GeorgeFHayek said:

LongTimeListener said:

Then you're unlike a very large portion of your party, George. And much like the abortion debate, that's just a reality you're going to have to square with yourself.
Click to expand...

Let R be that set of the politically inclined populace that would be considered on "the right."
Let r be that subset of R which identifies primarily with the Republican Party.
Let rr be that subset of r which would find racist jokes about President Obama (or anyone of African descent) to be funny.

It is reasonable to assume that rr is, regrettably, not a null set. By the arithmetic implied by your first post, however, rr = R.

And you're telling me I have some squaring with reality to do?
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I am telling you this: The Tea Party is in control of the GOP. The Tea Party is the birthers. So if that's your side and you're not repulsed enough to get away from that kind of hate, don't get upset that you get lumped in with it.
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Just because "you're telling us this" doesn't make it true. I know a few people who go to Tea Party rallies. They're not birthers. They tell me the vast majority of Tea Partiers are not birthers. They just think the prez has done a horseshit job. But you'll find one birther sign at some Tea Party rally in Murfreesboro and think it means they're all birthers. You're falling into just as much a conspiracy theory as the birthers are.
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The vast majority of Tea Partiers were predisposed to think Obama did a shitty job the minute he got elected.
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Now that I will grant you. But he went ahead and fulfilled their wishes.
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No, they went ahead and looked at everything Obama did through their jaundiced eyes.

dooley_womack1 · Oct 31, 2012

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zagoshe said:

Bubbler said:

The vast majority of Tea Partiers were predisposed to think Obama did a shitty job the minute he got elected.
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And just because they are one step away from the lunatic fringe - that doesn't make them wrong on that point, though it was probably closer to an hour after he took office before he began to show us all what a fucking idiot he is.
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Assuming you're not just pushing buttons in your own special way, what did he do within the first hour to show that?

LongTimeListener · Oct 31, 2012

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Hey don't look now everybody but guess who formed a big ol' disaster-relief-services company last year? Jeb Bush!

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/09/jeb-bush-forms-company-to-get-into-the-disaster-response-business.html

Double Down · Oct 31, 2012

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Be interesting to see what the jobs report says on Friday. Gallup (has flipped! Um, suck it?) says unemployment is now at 7.1 percent.

http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/8038/gallup-unemployment-down-to-71-economic-confidence-highest-since-2008

Drip · Oct 31, 2012

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Mitt Romney.... media whore. Why in the name of fuckdom did FEMA brief him about the Hurricane Sandy? I would like to think that FEMA has a lot more important things to do than to brief this a-hole. Man, my scale is beginning to tilt.

GoochMan · Oct 31, 2012

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Drip said:

Mitt Romney.... media whore. Why in the name of fuckdom did FEMA brief him about the Hurricane Sandy? I would like to think that FEMA has a lot more important things to do than to brief this a-hole. Man, my scale is beginning to tilt.
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I'm pretty sure this is standard practice with a presidential candidate in the General election. He also gets the daily security briefings if I'm not mistaken.
I think it's a good thing that the final candidates get this info. I don't think it's a good thing that Mitt Romney is one of the final candidates.

Tarheel316 · Oct 31, 2012

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zagoshe said:

Bubbler said:

The vast majority of Tea Partiers were predisposed to think Obama did a shitty job the minute he got elected.
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And just because they are one step away from the lunatic fringe - that doesn't make them wrong on that point, though it was probably closer to an hour after he took office before he began to show us all what a fucking idiot he is.
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They aren't one step from the lunatic fringe. They are the lunatic fringe.

Tom Petty · Oct 31, 2012

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hondo said:

Bubbler said:

hondo said:

LongTimeListener said:

GeorgeFHayek said:

LongTimeListener said:

Then you're unlike a very large portion of your party, George. And much like the abortion debate, that's just a reality you're going to have to square with yourself.
Click to expand...

Let R be that set of the politically inclined populace that would be considered on "the right."
Let r be that subset of R which identifies primarily with the Republican Party.
Let rr be that subset of r which would find racist jokes about President Obama (or anyone of African descent) to be funny.

It is reasonable to assume that rr is, regrettably, not a null set. By the arithmetic implied by your first post, however, rr = R.

And you're telling me I have some squaring with reality to do?
Click to expand...

I am telling you this: The Tea Party is in control of the GOP. The Tea Party is the birthers. So if that's your side and you're not repulsed enough to get away from that kind of hate, don't get upset that you get lumped in with it.
Click to expand...

Just because "you're telling us this" doesn't make it true. I know a few people who go to Tea Party rallies. They're not birthers. They tell me the vast majority of Tea Partiers are not birthers. They just think the prez has done a horseshit job. But you'll find one birther sign at some Tea Party rally in Murfreesboro and think it means they're all birthers. You're falling into just as much a conspiracy theory as the birthers are.
Click to expand...

The vast majority of Tea Partiers were predisposed to think Obama did a shitty job the minute he got elected.
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Now that I will grant you. But he went ahead and fulfilled their wishes.
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good god, hondo. you're a smart guy. did you really forget where we were in 2008? shit all around us was ready to collapse. i mean i remember getting up one morning and it was like waking up and being in a dream.

we were a baby step away from being in a second great depression. WTF was the guy supposed to do? wave a magic wand over a branch of congress that refused to lend any kind of helping hand for the past two years. i mean, fuck, their goal wasn't to make the country you and i live in a better place, it was to make sure the negro didn't get re-elected ... they said as much.

WTF did you expect from the guy in four years with that?

trifectarich · Oct 31, 2012

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Here we are, inside a week of Election Day, and I've yet to hear a reason to vote for Romney that's not, "The other guy hasn't done a good job."

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