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  1. NSIAP (and this is from a year ago):  Still relevant now.

     

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    Today’s Republican Party is nothing more than a gross celebration of inequality. It is loose collective of yahoos and rich assholes and fringe libertarians and pious hypocrites whose only shared trait is their vindictiveness. You can see it in Trump’s fervent undoing of every Obama-era policy. And all the “good” conservatives out there—be they corporate raiders like Mitt Romney, or Bush-era warmongers like David Frum, or even pleasantly niche conservative thinkers like Daniel Larison—who think Buckley would be appalled by Trump are wrong. The old fucker’s ghost would be right there with Trump to stomp on the brake pedal of American progress. His own unreadable magazine handed its spine to Trump long ago, and I see no reason why Buckley himself would have been any different. This may not be [Rubio voice] quite how he envisioned it, but it's still very much the byproduct of conservative purity.

    And so it’s long past time to stop giving credence to conservatism as a whole, to treat it as the failed intellectual exercise it has proven to be. Look where it’s gotten us—endless war, mass incarceration, mass shootings, mass opioid death, mass inequality, for-profit schools and jails, virtually legalized white collar fraud, open racism, suppressed voting rights—and tell me it’s worth anything. Tell me this wasn't the PLAN all along, so that the comfortable can remain comfortable. I say this as someone who has seen liberalism fail in all sorts of predictable, hilarious ways. The Democrats are a perpetual mess. Occupy Wall Street fell apart thanks to its complete lack of leadership. Opening a small business in certain cities requires enough paperwork to make you kill yourself. Liberalism isn’t without its faults. But the ideal of a liberal democratic America that features things like, oh, I dunno, free education and free health care, maybe even free housing and a basic guaranteed income? That is not a pipe dream. That is not impractical. That is not a slippery slope to becoming East Germany.

     

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  2. 30 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Every time I read that “legitimate rape” mess my blood boils.

    How exactly does he think a vagina works? Does he think we have steel shutters in our snatch? A pussy pistol? Teeth?

    Pillowpants: Pussy troll.  Also, be weary of Listerfiend.  

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  3. 8 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    The last 4 races for nominations, all the nominees were in the top 3 by this time of the race.  The outlier would be John Kerry, who sank nationally to as low as 6th despite polling top 3 in Iowa.  The press will talk a lot about the January favorite not ending up being the eventual nominee (with nothing to say Jan the year before) but they're usually in the top 3 by now.

    These are all Democrats BTW.

    With social media and 24 hr news channels, shit can change quickly.  Add on the secure.actblue.com for donations,  it's a long way away from knowing who is in it for the long run.  Top 7 candidates should feel in for awhile (as long as their campaigns have money).  

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  4. 2 minutes ago, troph said:


    But someone out there is having buttsex and calling it a marriage. O_o

    And they must really want to have a child because they cannot create one themselves.  Which I have no issue with.  #Nomistakes.   

  5. 2 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Dude would be hard as a rock the whole time.  Not sure that’s the ‘punishment’ we want to reward him with.  

    Maybe toss him in jail with all the wrongly incarcerated and let Jerald go to town on his ass, right up to the point he can see his ascending colon spill out between his shoes.  

    FIFY

  6. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Yes. In those countries everyone pays a high percentage of income in taxes. Not just the “rich”.  All those Nordic countries the left jerks off about have a much, much flatter tax structure than we do.  Is there a dem that will run on raising taxes on the bottom 50 percent?

    They have a progressive tax rate like most countries.  They also have this going for them:

    These are the top 10 happiest countries in the world:

    1. Finland
    2. Denmark
    3. Norway
    4. Iceland
    5. Netherlands
    6. Switzerland
    7. Sweden
    8. New Zealand
    9. Canada
    10. Australia

     

    They also don't have to deal with assholes like you. 

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  7. 33 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Love the whole anecdotal angle. Yeah the wife's experience was miserable because the level of serial incompetence, and intentional slow the process down was aggravating to someone used to working in companies innovating and attempting to make them process better. That does not happen in gov't office very often.

    Now run on down to the greyhound terminal, the next round of clients is surely rolling in.

    I'm sure she gets plenty of that at home.   

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