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Re: SEQUESTERGEDDON 2013: 3Great3Depression Thread of American Politics
« Reply #660 on: April 11, 2013, 08:57:18 PM »
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/dave-agema-compares-being-gay-to-alcoholism?ref=fpb

Well then!  Alcoholism, bestiality, pedophilia... apparently being gay is JUST LIKE everything except, you know, being gay. 

I am glad to see that the GOP continues to be successful in their attempts to moderate on social issues in order to not repel younger voters.
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Re: SEQUESTERGEDDON 2013: 3Great3Depression Thread of American Politics
« Reply #661 on: April 11, 2013, 11:49:18 PM »
Interestingly, being gay doesn't have a sin tax.

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« Reply #662 on: April 11, 2013, 11:50:20 PM »
Interestingly, being gay doesn't have a sin tax.

We could balance the deficit by putting one on Madonna and Lady Gaga albums
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« Reply #663 on: April 12, 2013, 08:15:15 PM »


:drudge PD ALERT :drudge

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« Reply #664 on: April 12, 2013, 08:18:56 PM »
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« Reply #665 on: April 12, 2013, 08:32:59 PM »
The best part was Greg Gutfeld selling the hell out of that shit.

THAT IS THE. FUNNIEST THING. I HAVE EVER SEEN. IN MY LIFE.

Come on, Guteld, you know Patti Ann Browne is way harder than this bitch.  :comeon

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« Reply #666 on: April 12, 2013, 08:35:31 PM »
Red Eye is kind of amazing, like the Fox News version of The Onion.
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« Reply #667 on: April 12, 2013, 08:40:53 PM »
Red Eye is kind of amazing, like the Fox News version of The Onion.

Actually, I think that would be Fox & Friends.
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« Reply #668 on: April 12, 2013, 10:01:34 PM »


:drudge PD ALERT :drudge

The worst thing about all of this is that I've been forced to defend the Camel  :scusthov

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« Reply #669 on: April 13, 2013, 12:34:10 AM »
Did you guys see that clip of Rand Paul at that predominantly black university asking the (predominantly black) audience members if they knew the NAACP was founded by Republicans?

Oh, the things I imagine he wrote in his diary later that night...

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« Reply #670 on: April 13, 2013, 12:35:46 AM »
Did you guys see that clip of Rand Paul at that predominantly black university asking the (predominantly black) audience members if they knew the NAACP was founded by Republicans?

Ctrl+f dude.

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« Reply #671 on: April 13, 2013, 12:37:36 AM »
I haven't seen the clip, but I did make a billion word post about the whole thing
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« Reply #672 on: April 13, 2013, 12:40:11 AM »
Did you guys see that clip of Rand Paul at that predominantly black university asking the (predominantly black) audience members if they knew the NAACP was founded by Republicans?

Ctrl+f dude.

Balls.

I saw that Paul's trip to the university was posted, but didn't see that part about him asking the question.

Next time, Gadget. Next time..

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« Reply #673 on: April 14, 2013, 11:38:59 PM »
Why the fuck is Michelle Bachman on the House Intelligence Committee
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-michele-bachmann-completely-baffles-john-brennan-with-bizarre-questions-during-cia-hearing/ 
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The comments and behavior are bizarre until you realize she's basically just showing off that she is in possession of classified intel. I noticed she would constantly humble brag about being privy to such intel during the GOP debates, and I'd imagine this is just her signaling to her constituents that she's an Important Person. What a fuck up.
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« Reply #674 on: April 14, 2013, 11:41:47 PM »
Why the fuck is Michelle Bachman on the House Intelligence Committee

Because she's a Tea Party darling. That's the only reason.
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« Reply #675 on: April 15, 2013, 12:32:07 PM »
Did you guys see that clip of Rand Paul at that predominantly black university asking the (predominantly black) audience members if they knew the NAACP was founded by Republicans?

Ctrl+f dude.

Balls.

I saw that Paul's trip to the university was posted, but didn't see that part about him asking the question.

Next time, Gadget. Next time..

You quoted and replied to PD's post about it!  On this page!

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« Reply #677 on: April 16, 2013, 03:07:33 PM »
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It is a logical impossibility for Social Security to go bankrupt. We can voluntarily choose to suspend or eliminate the program, but it could never fail because it “ran out of money.” This belief is the result of a common error: conceptualizing Social Security from the micro (individual) rather than the macro (economy-wide) perspective. It’s not a pension fund into which you put your money when you are young and from which you draw when you are old. It’s an immediate transfer from workers today to retirees today. That’s what it has always been and that’s what it has to be–there is no other possible way for it to work.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2013/01/07/social-security-rerun/

This article has the best explanation for how SS works I've seen so far. Read the whole thing. Why the hell can't Obama and the Democrats explain this in such a way?




Did you guys see that clip of Rand Paul at that predominantly black university asking the (predominantly black) audience members if they knew the
NAACP was founded by Republicans?

Ctrl+f dude.

Balls.

I saw that Paul's trip to the university was posted, but didn't see that part about him asking the question.

Next time, Gadget. Next time..

You quoted and replied to PD's post about it!  On this page!

:lol

I know, I was specifically talking about that question segment. I missed that portion in PD's original post.

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« Reply #678 on: April 16, 2013, 04:25:45 PM »
Gotta say it's very depressing to see democrats join in on the "social security is going bankrupt" meme. It's not true, and the program can be completely fixed with one fell swoop (raising or eliminating the income cap). There is no justification for benefit cuts.

Pretty sure this makes Obama the only democrat president to call for SS cuts. Pathetic.
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« Reply #679 on: April 16, 2013, 09:27:00 PM »
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It is a logical impossibility for Social Security to go bankrupt. We can voluntarily choose to suspend or eliminate the program, but it could never fail because it “ran out of money.” This belief is the result of a common error: conceptualizing Social Security from the micro (individual) rather than the macro (economy-wide) perspective. It’s not a pension fund into which you put your money when you are young and from which you draw when you are old. It’s an immediate transfer from workers today to retirees today. That’s what it has always been and that’s what it has to be–there is no other possible way for it to work.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2013/01/07/social-security-rerun/

This article has the best explanation for how SS works I've seen so far. Read the whole thing. Why the hell can't Obama and the Democrats explain this in such a way?

Because the link between contributions and benefits is a big part of why it's universally supported.  As long as the public conceptualizes SS as something people have earned through setting aside FICA taxes, it's generally immune to the criticism and resentment you see with welfare, unemployment insurance, food stamps, etc.

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« Reply #680 on: April 16, 2013, 11:06:34 PM »
my only problem with SS is that you're not given the choice to opt out. as a handsome young man who gets paid by the hour it can be frustrating seeing that on your check when you could use that money more now, rather than later when I will have had a real job for some time.

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« Reply #681 on: April 16, 2013, 11:48:56 PM »
my only problem with SS is that you're not given the choice to opt out. as a handsome young man who gets paid by the hour it can be frustrating seeing that on your check when you could use that money more now, rather than later when I will have had a real job for some time.

I would be all for allowing people to opt out, but only if when you're old and broke because you're an idiot and have wasted your money, I get to shoot you rather than have to help keep you afloat.

I'm talking you specifically, not in general.
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« Reply #682 on: April 17, 2013, 12:46:19 AM »
but when I am an old man you will be a dead man!

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« Reply #683 on: April 17, 2013, 12:48:49 AM »
You're only as old as you feel.  I've been dead inside for at least 10 years.
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« Reply #684 on: April 17, 2013, 12:57:25 AM »
my only problem with SS is that you're not given the choice to opt out. as a handsome young man who gets paid by the hour it can be frustrating seeing that on your check when you could use that money more now, rather than later when I will have had a real job for some time.

I would be all for allowing people to opt out, but only if when you're old and broke because you're an idiot and have wasted your money, I get to shoot you rather than have to help keep you afloat.

I'm talking you specifically, not in general.

I'd allow people to opt out just so I can become a senator and create the Reagan Paul Welfare Program (RPWP) in 40 years. Only libertarians and republicans who decided to opt out of social security and are now poor/in need of boot strap pullin' up would be eligible to apply.

The program would offer a meal a day, a brown nurse, and an Aryn Rand coloring book
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« Reply #685 on: April 17, 2013, 01:02:14 AM »
well as for myself I plan on Yukon Manning it for the latter part of my life, at least until I get old enough for when tripping in my backyard in the middle of winter would be a death sentence, life alert or not, lol.  Then I'll have my family put me into a home where I can sip on sublingual morphine every afternoon while I chill out in front of my smart wall.
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« Reply #686 on: April 17, 2013, 01:04:42 AM »
I'm not paying for your morphine, freeloader.
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« Reply #687 on: April 17, 2013, 04:13:27 AM »
drew, the problem is that old people are lazier and greedier. It's just a natural thing that happens with age. As a result, they will rely on their children or government on giving them as much money as they can pressure/vote them into doing so.

So when you get old and you get some US GUVMENT generic viagra in the mail while watching Top Shot season 347, just look back at what I said today and pop a big ol' government-subsidized gun broner.

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« Reply #688 on: April 17, 2013, 10:57:55 AM »
Today, I'm spending my time researching the early-20th century labor movement [for a book I'm working on] and it's really amazing how similar some of the rhetoric being thrown around then is to some of the rhetoric being thrown around now, just replace "Bolshevism" with "communism/socialism."  There was even one guy, Ole Hanson [Seattle mayor, 1919], who was basically a prototypical Fox News contributor [he resigned as mayor after helping stymie a general strike, so that he could tour the country and make a ton of money talking about how awesome he was and how bad commies were]. You really don't hear much of anything about this now, but this period of time was incredibly chaotic, violent, and paranoid.
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« Reply #689 on: April 17, 2013, 12:23:26 PM »
There's some really crazy stuff that went on back then. You had unionizers fighting police and state militia, private companies beating up and shooting people, and violent clashes involving all them at once. People that talk fondly of the past [and berate unions] don't have any idea what went on during this time period, or what kind of corporate practices led to this in the first place.
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« Reply #690 on: April 17, 2013, 12:26:24 PM »
You really need to watch Matewan
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« Reply #691 on: April 17, 2013, 12:27:30 PM »
You really need to watch Matewan

I saw that while I was looking around. Was really hoping that it was available on Netflix streaming, but no dice.  :(
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« Reply #693 on: April 17, 2013, 12:59:11 PM »
NH Legislator Sorry for Calling Women 'Vaginas'
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nh-legislator-calls-women-vaginas-house-email-18977117#.UW7QKvLD-Uk

Pretty shocking stuff. He's a Republican but yet he was still able to say the word "vagina"?
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« Reply #694 on: April 17, 2013, 02:30:59 PM »
If only a republican mouth had a way of shutting down before talking about anything relating to women.
Must be Akin's disease.
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« Reply #695 on: April 17, 2013, 03:20:04 PM »
Well then! 

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/mark-sanford-trespassing-complaint-90211.html?hp=f3

Either way this will have a hilarious ending... SC votes to send this Appalachian Trail hiking, stalking creepazoid to Congress, or they elect Colbert's sister.  I'm betting on Sanford still managing to win because, you know, South Carolina.
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« Reply #696 on: April 17, 2013, 03:32:25 PM »
haha she gave him her blessing to run months ago, and now drops the bomb on him. Perfect revenge.
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« Reply #697 on: April 17, 2013, 04:05:25 PM »
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and met her at the back steps under the light of my cell phone when she returned and told her what had happened.

Sounds like the most romantic "divorced guy trespassing at his ex-wife's house" ever.
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« Reply #698 on: April 17, 2013, 04:09:44 PM »
No redblooded American son should have to watch the superbowl alone.  :usacry
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« Reply #699 on: April 17, 2013, 08:07:54 PM »
well, gun control is 100% dead
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« Reply #700 on: April 17, 2013, 08:12:05 PM »
well, gun control is 100% dead

American politics- where an issue that has 80+% support can get 54 votes in the Senate, but that means it doesn't pass, and even if it did it would have died quicker than a six year old in a hail of bullets in the House.
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« Reply #701 on: April 17, 2013, 08:20:06 PM »
We can always squirt out more kids, but we've only got one 2nd Amendment, COG.
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« Reply #702 on: April 17, 2013, 08:22:54 PM »
well, gun control is 100% dead

American politics- where an issue that has 80+% support can get 54 votes in the Senate, but that means it doesn't pass, and even if it did it would have died quicker than a six year old in a hail of bullets in the House.

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« Reply #703 on: April 17, 2013, 08:38:26 PM »
God I wish I was in an industry where my customer base is dumb enough to make me tons of money when my product kills children :fbm
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« Reply #704 on: April 17, 2013, 11:33:49 PM »
“All around me I hear kids saying: ‘My parents don’t have any money. We don’t know what we are going to do,’ ” said Evangelia Karakaxa, a vivacious 15-year-old at the No. 9 junior high school in Acharnes.

Acharnes, a working-class town among the mountains of Attica, was bustling with activity from imports until the economic crisis wiped out thousands of factory jobs.

Now, several of Evangelia’s classmates are frequently hungry, she said, and one boy recently fainted. Some children were starting to steal for food, she added. While she did not excuse it, she understood their plight. “Those who are well fed will never understand those who are not,” she said.

“Our dreams are crushed,” added Evangelia, whose parents are unemployed but who is not in the same dire situation as her peers. She paused, then continued in a low voice. “They say that when you drown, your life flashes before your eyes. My sense is that in Greece, we are drowning on dry land.”

Geez, are things ever gonna start getting better in Greece?  :-\
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« Reply #705 on: April 18, 2013, 01:37:03 AM »
Sure. Every country in the Eurozone needs to spend even less money, then we'll all be richer and then nobody starves. They're just not cutting hard enough.[/Troika]

I hope everyone comes to their senses really soon but I fear they will suggest more cuts before they admit that we're ruining the south, as if the existing problems weren't bad enough. Even the IMF doubts austerity is helping a whole lot but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. Angela "there is no alternative" Merkel isn't going to change HMS Neo-Liberalia's course unless it blows up in her face.  She's nothing if not pragmatic. If it's not threatening her position she won't do shit. Polls say that Germany loves her, no doubt in part because she's being tough on the "lazy South" and 'doing pretty well' during the crisis.
The only real opposition (SPD) is worthless (think New Labour) so she's probably going to get re-elected. The only ones who have even remotely sensible opinions on the matter are the far left and they're being ostracized by the other parties, so they have no chance of even forming coalitions with anyone. But who knows, maybe people will flock to them instead of the new Euro-sceptic, 'back to the Deutsche Mark, bugger the consequences' protest party that's popped up and been likened to a German Tea Party movement, but I doubt it.

Reading the news is more agitating than usual, for sure. A dubious study comes out showing that German households have less money than Cypriot, Italian and even Spanish households? Ha, see! Make 'em pay, make 'em pay! Oh, domestic demand is slowing (17% fall in new car registrations), hm, what a mysterious development. Cars must be too expensive these days. Never mind the whitewashed poverty report that showed how more and more Germans are coming near or falling below the poverty line. Never mind the millions of workers on benefits because they don't earn enough to live. Never mind the fact that Germany has the highest income equality in the EU and that we've been wage dumping these last ten years to build up this absurd export industry which violates stability pacts in its own way and is hence not exactly helping the other members of the Eurozone. We're doing the right thing here.

/rant

edit: Merkel just identified minimum wages as part of the problem in the affected countries. :lol Can you say "class warfare"? She's strictly against a universal minimum wage in Germany as well, because it would (supposedly) endanger our economy. Even 8,50€ has already been shot down. What a sick joke.
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« Reply #706 on: April 18, 2013, 10:58:10 AM »
The Leftists in Greece need to fucking do something already.
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« Reply #707 on: April 18, 2013, 12:14:15 PM »
Mitch McConnel posted this on his Facebook:



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« Reply #708 on: April 18, 2013, 12:49:54 PM »
Contrary to my posts on Gaf I have to say that universal background checks and CCW reciprocity would have been pretty badass. AWB got hammered and magazine limit also failed even 50 votes.

Bill would have been a net positive for people who have a permit.

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« Reply #709 on: April 18, 2013, 02:09:44 PM »
Gabby Giffords went in fucking hard today

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?_r=0

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SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

the whole thing is quite brutal
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« Reply #710 on: April 18, 2013, 03:03:55 PM »
I'm honestly surprised anyone thought a gun control bill ever had a shot at becoming law this year, with a GOP House, yet a ton of people are genuinely disappointed at this news.

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« Reply #711 on: April 18, 2013, 03:31:38 PM »
I'm honestly not surprised so many people on the right thought this had a chance in hell and made millions for the gun industry. 
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« Reply #712 on: April 18, 2013, 03:41:00 PM »
The 94 Assault Weapons Ban passed with a 61-38 majority

The AWB amendment was rejected from being added to s. 649 40-60

There's far less support for any weapons bans than existed in 94.

With Crime falling the only thing that can rally support is shooting sprees, and we just had probably the most emotionally devastating spree in Newtown, where someone killed a bunch of kids with an assault weapon... and the ban was still thoroughly rejected.

So what scenario would it actually take for a ban to occur?

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« Reply #713 on: April 18, 2013, 03:43:33 PM »
So what scenario would it actually take for a ban to occur?

Mass shooting at the Republican National Convention?

Uhh...not that I'm suggesting such a thing.
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« Reply #714 on: April 18, 2013, 03:44:30 PM »
leftist minorities with guns?
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« Reply #715 on: April 18, 2013, 03:54:34 PM »
I would think a scenario where a kindergarten room was shot up, but I'm not sure anymore.
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« Reply #716 on: April 18, 2013, 03:55:20 PM »
leftist minorities with guns?

Worked for Reagan!

But seriously, the gun lobby is much more organized and effective than the anti-gun lobby, and poll numbers are halfway to meaningless (people support all sorts of crap when you ask them in a phone survey, but that's very far from translating to political momentum).  Plus it's a cultural issue, which means it's subject to all the tribalism and paranoia that comes with it.  So you can't expect a compromise even if, like Yoritomo said, the compromise would actually benefit legal gun owners.  There's a fundamental mistrust.


As an aside, Obama didn't run on gun control.  Not sure of the practical effect, but it sure seems harder to pass agenda items that were largely absent from the campaign (ie Bush and SS privatization).

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Re: SEQUESTERGEDDON 2013: 3Great3Depression Thread of American Politics
« Reply #717 on: April 18, 2013, 04:22:14 PM »
It would need to be a bunch of Arabs with legally purchased guns shooting up a bunch of white folk for anything to happen.

The Panther stuff is a good fall back when talking about Reagan.  It confuses most Republicans that widespread gun control was more the work of their hero than the Dems.
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Re: SEQUESTERGEDDON 2013: 3Great3Depression Thread of American Politics
« Reply #718 on: April 18, 2013, 04:25:01 PM »
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Re: SEQUESTERGEDDON 2013: 3Great3Depression Thread of American Politics
« Reply #719 on: April 18, 2013, 04:28:17 PM »
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Nah, it's not ironic, because guns and Voter IDs both serve the same purpose: protecting whitey from dirty minorities.
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