Thequietone
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It'll never get off the ground. Worst case scenario is rioting in the south which I have a hard time believing will happen either. They'll have their little temper tantrum and go back to their lives until the next election.
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It'll never get off the ground. Worst case scenario is rioting in the south which I have a hard time believing will happen either. They'll have their little temper tantrum and go back to their lives until the next election.
Because, think about what would have happened had the Republican party not full out revolted after Obama's resounding victory. The country as a whole absolutely disliked Bush and what he left us and put everything into Obama's hands. If the republicans had gone along with it he'd be a savior. He'd be Reagan for the left and shift politics in this country by that much for probably the next ~30 years. Without that obstruction the Democrats would have fixed healthcare and averted another great depression (they still might, but it's a bit fuzzier now).
The thing is that now we joke about the Republicans having to reinvent themselves, but I think they'd have really had to do it if they went along with things. It would have been an easier re-invention, though, but they still would have been beat for a while, probably. So, they made a gamble that stopping him at any cost was a better risk than letting him be a savior.
On top of this you have the conservative media machine. They cater to old fearful people. That's how they make their money. They saw and opportunity and did what they had to make money. In doing so, they had to practically make up their own reality in order to keep the fear and madness going for so long. So, the liberals see what could have been their defining politician for a few decades torn down by obstruction, and the conservatives see their entire way of life quickly fading away.
reggieandTFE
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Haha, he hits every conservative bogeyman. His most absurd stretch is trying to separate private sector Auto workers from the bailed out auto workers. I'm sure he has much disdain for the bailed financial titans.
thezerofire
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didn't we find out that that Colorado model was tuned to past elections after the fact and didn't actually predict anything?
travisbickle
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This is cracking me up. I'm actually teaching my students how to express opinion in writing, I'd like to show them this but I wouldn't be able to without bursting out laughing.
My favourite sentence
Romney will win by a landslide - "brilliant prediction"...
after Romney loses a by landslide - "once brilliant prediction"
arglebargle
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i love when people talk about that university of colorado study because...
it shows they dont understand what that study actually did. it was basically a backtest, probably with some pretty serious data mining. i hope the people relying on that aren't traders.
from a news story on colorado.edu:
also, this seems pretty important and is usually ignored:
also, why would this possibly be better than polls?
University Christian must be nice to be rich. But channel 4 got his ass gj channel 4 news4jax
All that aside, he does point out what is probably the path to relevance for the republican party. Drop the socon nonsense and focus on the economic message. Run slates of candidates that are inclusive (Romney+Ryan was such an immense backslide into a white fratboy ticket). Stop making everything about Roe v. Wade but don't abandon the principle.
The increasingly urban United States will not elect a ticket like Romney/Ryan for a very long time, and he's entirely right about why.
travisbickle
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What was there economic message before the election last week? "We'll tell you after we're elected"!
la flama blanca
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On a Facebook page of one of my old college teachers.
An economic message doesn't have to be detailed to work. It just has to not be attached to all sorts of other ridiculous baggage.
It's not like I *want* the republican party to be resurgent, or that I agree with what economic message they have. I'm just saying that he's right about what could bring the party back to the white house.
Needs more JPEG artifacts.
Memphis Reigns
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Yes! This this this! 100% this. Especially true for college students I'd say.
travisbickle
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I didn't mean that sentence to sound as though it was directed at people who support Republicans. I'm just questioning whether nowadays it still works to have an economic message that was basically "Obama hasn't done very well we can do better!!".
This made me curious to check the Facebook of the PoliSci teacher I had, and fortunately it was more or less the polar opposite. Ironically, shortly after the 2008 election he DID say it was a shame people were writing off Mitt Romney just because of his religion, but I imagine most optimism about him from anyone who isn't seriously right wing evaporated once he actually became a presidential candidate.
Deified Data
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On a Facebook page of one of my old college teachers.
It's called beanie weenie, not "beans and hotdogs". Fuck.
monchi-kun
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I'm having some fun with the "Boycott Blue States" blogger...
Sir_Crocodile
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So his supposed ethical beliefs can be easily subsumed by his political butthurt
nice
The other bizarre thing about this meme is that I don't remember unemployment benefits and food stamps being a debated issue at any point in the campaign. Romney didn't campaign on cutting social programs for the poor. Obama didn't promise to expand them, or tout some expansion there as a great policy success.
When in the campaign did Obama promise "free stuff"? I don't think Romney even painted that as the Obama camp's position directly, except in those 47% comments.
My question is, what the hell do they think the tax cuts for the rich are if not "Free stuff"? Oh, it's letting you keep the wealth you COMPLETELY generated yourself, that's right, I forgot.
On a Facebook page of one of my old college teachers.
of course there'd be a black guy and something about his sausage.
speculawyer
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Romney did a obama is getting rid of the work requirement for welfare commercial. But it was a lie and the press pilloried them for it.
Yeah, this meme makes no sense. The entire point of electing a person to office is that he or she promises the constituents things they want whether that be a war, a tax, a refund, a service or a law, etc. and they reciprocate by giving him or her the job. This is how it is in all elections, and has always been.
They're just pissed because they thought they should be able to give us a crappy deal and get away with it.
Black Mamba
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lulzy. Science and common sense is what he went with. Except it involved none of it.
ClassyPenguin
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Because they are convinced for some reason that companies use the money that was not collected in taxes as an investment (new hires, expansion). I see how it makes sense but that's not what happened during Reagan or Bush or any time there were tax cuts. But then again, Republicans and Libertarians are terrible scholars.
There's a parking lot by chase field in Phoenix that has "Kerry" painted across it from way back when.
lastplayed
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So many labels. Makes my head hurt.
HP_Wuvcraft
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I've seen so many conservatives throwing around the phrase "scientific evidence" this election season when they really just mean "evidence".
It really, really makes me depressed, because the usage of that phrase just goes to show you that they don't know what the fuck science is.
Poll numbers rising is not scientific evidence.
HP_Wuvcraft
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When I say "they", I meant the authors of the particular articles, not conservatives in general.
Tornado Condor
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Surprisingly, i didn't see that many tears in fb.
My fav part.
They like to trump that one up, but it only did all that retroactively, they just made it this year.
Some of the commentary on the Republican Party was correct. Still, the comments on SCIENCE and some of the logic shows that he is simply put of touch with how this country is thinking. Typical far right republican trait imo
This one didn't amuse me like so many of the other bitter tears pieces, it just angered me. So much misinformation, false judgement and outright arrogance.
This notion that people on the left voted on hand outs and ignored the economy in place of rights, freebies etc, it's just despicably inaccurate. The truth is, it's conservative methods that got the country in to the financial and fiscal mess, and it's usually democratic methods that get you out. Or at least, stood a better chance than Romney/Ryan's awful plan, that was far LESS fiscally conservative than Obama's plan. One plan included tax increases on the upper tiers, decreased spending, cuts in the military budget and seeking to close loopholes, the other did the complete opposite. More tax cuts, more military spending, more leeway on certain loopholes (tax havens etc) and when asked to detail the loopholes it would close, Big Bird and that's it. The Conservative/GOP plan was the opposite of fiscally conservative. If you actually cared about the economy and with it the general wealth inequality of the nation as a whole, which historically has been tied to growth and prosperity, you'd vote Obama.
The conservatives and republicans even in defeat, are as disingenuous, woefully ignorant and arrogant as ever.
EdwardTivrusky
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On a Facebook page of one of my old college teachers.
Did he post it to point out that someone needs to learn how to spell Recession correctly?
The extra "es" is for European Socialism.
BertramCooper
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Posted by a fucking idiot on my Facebook feed (who happens to be my ex-boss' uncle):
Damn, this shitbrain is on fire today.
Just a follow-up to these:
I finally wised up and defriended this horse's ass. He has been posting shit like this for the better part of a year and now that the election is over, it's just downright pathetic.
I really, really wanted to chew him out before defriending him, but as I stated earlier, he's the uncle of my former boss (which is the only reason I accepted his friend request in the first place - back when his niece was still my boss) and I didn't want to risk ruining a reference, even though I find his niece as insufferable as him.
With that, it's time to stop subjecting myself to bullshit like this. No more getting riled up by ignorant fucktards on social media. No more hate-listening to Rush Limbaugh. They lost, society won - end of story.
love the ending
But if Romney had picked Rubio as his VP, and GOP Senate candidates Akins and Mourdock had never tried to tackle abortion and rape, I have no doubt my prediction would have been "on the money."
"if all this shit happened totally differently, i would have been right on the money!"
JustHadToJoin
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I don't want this thread to end, but the tears are drying up. What a shame, awesome (slightly horrifying) thread.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Why didn't you just hide him from your news feed?
Well, it's not like he's a friend in the first place...?
SteveWinwood
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is our children learning what happen in bengazhi?
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Deified Data
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On a Facebook page of one of my old college teachers.
If I might add to my previous statement, only someone who has never been poor before would consider such a hearty portion of protein to be "recession food".
SteveWinwood
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It's what I had for lunch yesterday. Welp guess I'm poor. News to me.
BertramCooper
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Again, I only accepted his friend request because his niece was my boss. I never actually considered him a friend.
Dude Abides
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But would they consider it "recessesion food"? The extra "es" is for extra protein!
It's for both recession and secession.
Omegasquash
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If that's what the creator of the image considers "recession food," then I wonder what he or she thinks is non-recession food. My guess is that he or she has not ever been poor.
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