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« Reply #3120 on: December 05, 2013, 12:56:21 PM »
I dunno. When you already publish the peanut gallery, the next likely move would be to get the Peanuts.
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« Reply #3121 on: December 05, 2013, 03:34:16 PM »
it's almost like ALEC is a bunch of buttholes

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy

An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as "freeriders" – in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.
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« Reply #3122 on: December 05, 2013, 03:37:32 PM »
Rent-seeking cunts.

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« Reply #3123 on: December 05, 2013, 03:42:29 PM »
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Eick dismissed the suggestion that individuals who buy and install home-based solar panels had made such investments. "How are they going to get that electricity from their solar panel to somebody else's house?" he said. "They should be paying to distribute the surplus electricity."

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« Reply #3124 on: December 05, 2013, 03:46:17 PM »
That has to be near peak distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. I don't know how it can get worse than that.
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« Reply #3125 on: December 05, 2013, 04:12:26 PM »
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/04/are-you-aware-your-daughter-is-with-two-black-men-police-accused-of-racial-profiling-after-taking-white-teen-from-black-legal-guardian/

yeah - Glenn Beck etc etc - but christ - how many of these stories are happening these days? It seems to be daily.

But christ - the comments section. I honestly cannot tell the difference between Conservative Christian opinion and that of the Taliban. They're basically the same.
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« Reply #3126 on: December 05, 2013, 05:08:58 PM »
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« Reply #3127 on: December 05, 2013, 08:26:47 PM »
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This is not racial profiling. SHE IS A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH 2 OLDER MEN. Black or no black, but especially because they are black. What the helll was the cop supposed to do? It’s common sense. THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.
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Sending your 13 year old daughter alone to be with people they don’t even know? Did I read that right? DUMB!!!!
You read it right. They sent their 13 year old daughter from tulsa to Houston with two men to dance in a rap video. Gee….what could go wrong?

CPS should do a little more digging on this one I think.
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Yeah, I don’t care whether these people are black, asian, white, hispanic, native amarican or martians…you don’t let your 13 year old daughter hang out with a 29 and 22 year olds by herself…that’s just unthinkable. However, just knowing the statistical data involving the black community it’s much more likely something could happen with your underage daughter who hangs out with two black adults…that’s just a statistical fact. Sad but true.
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What relationship to victims of sexual assault is most frequently the case, perp is a total stranger?
NO! It is usually the proverbial “well known friends” or relatives of the victim.

There’s always that tearful moment during the news interview where they express shock that this could happen to their child because; this was a trusted friend of the family.
Do you suppose that someone who has legitimate businesses of dance studios don’t turn out to be perps?
What, are you thinking – that everyone who commits an assault is unemployed or independently wealthy, so these two guys would never do anything like that to their daughter? Wow!

Someone explain to us why Mom or Dad couldn’t go on this really-really-really important trip with the Daughter? Is it because they both were working and just didn’t want to take the time off? Whoa, now there’s a priority.

I think I’m getting old. My memory seems to be working too well which I’m pretty sure just can’t be the case at my age.
Cops should apologize for questioning the parents sanity and skills, but then say nothing more when something bad happens. I told you so just won’t cover it.
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You fool, all the black churches are SUPREMACIST. The are full of black racists who HATE US.

You think that racism in black churches is as rare as the Westboro church? No, it isn’t, anti-white hatred is the PREVAILING THEME almost all black churches, and among almost all black people. Sorry you can’t handle the truth. Everybody on earth is racist except you and lot of other whites in denial.
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Since when is it “Christian” to jig around and grind your hips in a sexual way and call it dance? What kind of IDIOT parents would send a 13 year old to a city far away with 2 unelated adult males of ANY race ??? How stupid can they be..it boggles the mind.
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« Reply #3128 on: December 05, 2013, 08:29:18 PM »
THIRTEEN YEAR OLDS, BREH.
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« Reply #3129 on: December 05, 2013, 08:36:46 PM »
THIRTEEN YEAR OLDS, BREH.

WITH TWO BLACK MEN!

They may as well have just thrown her straight into a rape pit.
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« Reply #3130 on: December 05, 2013, 08:38:37 PM »
Just know the statistical data, it's a statistical fact.

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« Reply #3131 on: December 05, 2013, 08:51:32 PM »
I'd certainly take pause if I saw two black guys with a 13yo white girl at 3AM, especially if they were looking for a hotel; same if I saw two white guys and a 13yo black girl. Whereas if I saw two black guys and a 13yo black girl at the same time, I'd assume they were related.

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« Reply #3132 on: December 05, 2013, 10:28:37 PM »
Like the guy said, it wasn't a bad thing that the cop were initially suspicious, it's that they continued to be suspicious even after the proper papers were produced and the parents were called.
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« Reply #3133 on: December 05, 2013, 11:02:50 PM »
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/gop-men-tutored-in-running-against-women-100701.html
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The National Republican Congressional Committee wants to make sure there are no Todd Akin-style gaffes next year, so it’s meeting with top aides of sitting Republicans to teach them what to say — or not to say — on the trail, especially when their boss is running against a woman.

Speaker John Boehner is serious, too. His own top aides met recently with Republican staff to discuss how lawmakers should talk to female constituents.

“Let me put it this way, some of these guys have a lot to learn,” said a Republican staffer who attended the session in Boehner’s office

There have been “multiple sessions” with the NRCC where aides to incumbents were schooled in “messaging against women opponents,” one GOP aide said.
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“Some of our members just aren’t as sensitive as they ought to be,” Boehner said.


Speaking of being sensitive to women:
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/12/president-clinton-doodled-male-genitalia-we-think-and-it-was-glorious/355840/

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« Reply #3134 on: December 06, 2013, 02:22:37 PM »
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Politico notes that with so much riding on the line with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, "one would assume" President Obama "held weekly, if not daily, one-on-one meetings with his Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to isolate problems, challenge assumptions, apply executive pressure where needed and successfully manage a project of scale."

"A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) analysis finds that from July 12, 2010, to Nov. 30, 2013, the president's public schedule records zero one-on-one meetings between Obama and Sebelius. Equally shocking, over the same period, the president's calendar lists 277 private meetings with his other Cabinet secretaries (excluding full Cabinet meetings)."

I guess we  can't hold Obama accountable for this roll out. He really was in the dark.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-zero-meeting-president-100767.html?ml=m_t2_2h


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« Reply #3136 on: December 10, 2013, 09:14:03 AM »
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« Reply #3137 on: December 10, 2013, 09:21:13 AM »
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« Reply #3138 on: December 10, 2013, 09:46:30 AM »
literally palling around with terrorists at a terrorist's funeral

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« Reply #3140 on: December 10, 2013, 01:08:53 PM »
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« Reply #3141 on: December 10, 2013, 01:14:32 PM »
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« Reply #3142 on: December 10, 2013, 01:23:13 PM »
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« Reply #3143 on: December 10, 2013, 01:59:02 PM »
FUCK YOU PD, I CAME IN HERE TO POST THAT
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« Reply #3146 on: December 10, 2013, 02:39:40 PM »
:lol

The comments on the mother jones article are comedy
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« Reply #3147 on: December 10, 2013, 03:09:01 PM »
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« Reply #3148 on: December 10, 2013, 04:06:45 PM »
Mother Jones comments - bwaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha

I just learned that Nazi's are left liberals because NATIONAL SOCIALISTS .... bwahahahaha. And even better is the whole "Do you not know what NAZI stands for?!" because, hey, only the name counts and not the acts - but the whole feeling of THIS IS THE SUM OF MY KNOWLEDGE is pretty darn entertaining.

Also fun to see right wingers fingerwag Obama for not repealing the Patriot Act - good lord, could you imagine the uproar from the same people if he'd tried?
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« Reply #3149 on: December 10, 2013, 06:18:50 PM »
Noted RINO Paul Ryan has capitulated and actually governed, so there's apparently a budget deal about to be announced


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-murray-to-announce-budget-deal
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« Reply #3150 on: December 10, 2013, 06:30:33 PM »
It's quite a chickenshit deal but hey, it's a deal.

It's amazing that republicans can't stomach event a 1 cent tax increase considering Obama is on record being willing to give them ridiculous entitlement reforms. A smarter republican party could have fleeced him ages ago. Thank god for GOP absolutism.
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« Reply #3151 on: December 10, 2013, 06:43:47 PM »
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"It gives Raul some propaganda to continue to prop up his dictatorial, brutal regime, that's all," McCain said of the handshake between the two world leaders that took place at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

When asked if Obama should have extended his hand, McCain was quick to respond.

"Of course not," the senator said. "Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point?"

Then, after a slight pause, McCain went there.

"Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler," he added.


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« Reply #3152 on: December 10, 2013, 06:48:39 PM »
Obama's just being Neville Chamberlain all over the place.  The poor Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia probably heard this and were all "Another Munich, with Castro?  Fuck, now we'll have to learn Spanish."

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« Reply #3153 on: December 10, 2013, 06:49:37 PM »
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« Reply #3154 on: December 10, 2013, 06:54:50 PM »
I was looking for that!
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« Reply #3155 on: December 10, 2013, 08:08:29 PM »
Go to bed, Grampa.
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« Reply #3156 on: December 10, 2013, 09:33:16 PM »
"Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler," he added.

I wish there was a gif of Obama doing the Banderas meme, because I would post it right here. It's been 5 years, but Granpa McCain is still salty AS FUCK. :lol
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« Reply #3157 on: December 11, 2013, 01:56:50 AM »
Could be all the drugs made me a commie terrorist socialist or something, but anyone else intrigued by the idea of a minimum income? Not wage, but just income for being an alive person. I mean, the problem is framed as theres not enough jobs, doesnt that mean theres already enough people working? So isn't the problem really that we have no other plans for the people who dont contribute to the work force? Bu-bu-bu no one would work if they didn't have to! Bullshit, people are greedy as fuck and advertisement has them by the balls, they'll work so they can have what the TV tells them to buy or whatever they need to feel like they belong, or to impress, etc. The difference being if they don't work, they don't die of hunger, they don't committed poverty driven crimes, they're not homeless. I would bet there would be more volunteering and non profit activity. The arts would benefit which helps progress society. Anyway I'm drunk.
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« Reply #3158 on: December 11, 2013, 02:05:48 AM »
You're Bruce Barlett?

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« Reply #3159 on: December 11, 2013, 02:09:45 AM »
That's actually not just a crazy drunk idea.  It's something that's been kicked around for decades in one form or another.  Milton Friedman (boo! hiss!) proposed a version of it.  There are arguments for why it would be better than the current welfare system that appeal to academic types (mostly that it alleviates poverty without messing around with markets too much).

Can't see it happening in the US in my lifetime, and I imagine it'd be a harder sell in the EU as a whole than it would have been in the individual countries.  You know the Germans are going to see it as propping up the lazy Mediterranean countries.


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« Reply #3160 on: December 11, 2013, 02:20:59 AM »
Definitely reading up on that, thanks guys!

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« Reply #3161 on: December 11, 2013, 02:57:04 AM »
The primary benefits to it as seen from the evolutionary libertarian perspective (and other perspectives, but this is to explain why the Friedmans and Johnsons see value in the idea) are for one thing you can do away with a lot of dead weight costs from the bureaucracy. The current system is a bunch of different programs, all with their own rules, regulators, investigators, processors, etc. Under one of these other systems you would mostly just have a department to send out checks/prebates/whatever. The idea being to use made up numbers that in the current system any money that comes into a welfare program 75% goes to pay for the overhead costs and then 25% gets out to the needy, whereas one of these systems might reverse that.

Another is seen from freeing from those rigid programs is the flexibility you started to talk about and Mandark mentioned. Currently with many of these programs there are restrictions involved, you can only buy certain things or you have only set amounts that you have to spend or you lose it or if you make one dollar too much in income or something else you can lose half or all of the benefits. Whereas under a system where it's mostly no-strings attached money you can have people who don't need say $500 a month in food spending that under another program they might have incentive to spend because it's use it or lose it, now they can maybe save money or pay for classes or invest in some other manner as what they see as in their best interests.

The knowledge that some people WILL just spend it on drugs and alcohol and Xbones and spend all day writing horrible music or painting terrible art is offset by the notion that there are people trapped in the current system who cannot escape it without tremendous immediate costs to themselves that make them worse off by "bettering themselves" and these more streamlined and flexible systems would avoid. Plus, the current system doesn't stop a lot of this "bad" behavior and has the aforementioned dead weight on top.

I think it's a political non-starter because there's too many interests aligned against it. The bureaucracy that manages the existing and potential other programs doesn't want to lose their jobs/money/power/etc. Voters would be upset, as they often are currently, because those fucking free loaders aren't spending on the RIGHT THINGS* like Bibles and GRAINS. And like say, the tax code or the rest of the regulatory system, there's the loss of power that comes from the ability to reward various interests that you get in more complex and opaque systems along with any freeing of dependencies that helps let you be seen as the giver of the plenty.

Of course, it's still theft so  :gun

*Which if you ever look at your state's say WIC allowances they aren't always doing in the first place. Michigan for example only in the last decade really started to shift away from basically letting parents buy as much cereal and similar as they want but limiting to like one snacks worth of fruits and vegetables and eggs. Now you can buy so many fucking eggs with WIC you'll have Bane for a kid in no time.
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« Reply #3162 on: December 11, 2013, 03:11:33 AM »
Here's another recent article that probably explains more clearly and/or better than I and covers the same ground written in response to a recent Swiss proposal to provide $2800 a month to every adult: http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-state-give-people-free
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However, it is worth considering that, as Peter Ferrara pointed out in Forbes, the Census Bureau estimates that our total welfare spending is four times the amount that would be needed to lift all Americans currently living in poverty above the poverty line by giving them cash.

In 2008, Charles Murray wrote that a guaranteed income for all American adults over the age of 21 who are not in prison of $10,000 a year that would replace all current welfare programs as well as agricultural subsidies and corporate welfare would be cheaper than maintaining the current welfare system in the coming decades.

And to include this because I couldn't think of the exact term but was getting so close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
And since I think it's highly related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_trap
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« Reply #3163 on: December 11, 2013, 08:50:22 AM »
http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/12/09/time-2013-poty-finalists/

Bashar Assad, president of Syria

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder

Ted Cruz, Texas senator

Miley Cyrus, singer

Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church

Barack Obama, president of the United States

Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran

Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services

Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower

Edith Windsor, gay-rights activist

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« Reply #3164 on: December 11, 2013, 09:34:20 AM »
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Ben Bernanke.




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« Reply #3165 on: December 11, 2013, 05:33:43 PM »
assad, miley cyrus, jeff bezos, and edward snowden were all in consideration for person of the year? ffs why does anyone waste breath talking about this shit rag again?
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« Reply #3166 on: December 11, 2013, 07:07:35 PM »
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« Reply #3167 on: December 11, 2013, 07:29:21 PM »
The GOP can't lose control of the House quickly enough.
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« Reply #3168 on: December 11, 2013, 08:03:07 PM »
ie after 2020.
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« Reply #3169 on: December 11, 2013, 09:21:02 PM »
Well for any political party, it's kind of pointless to only have control of the House. In 2016, if Hillary or some other Dem wins, Republicans will know they have to soften up if they ever want to push forward any legislation ever again rather than just trying to block things and get what they want through debt ceiling negotiations.

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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3170 on: December 11, 2013, 09:28:23 PM »
Well for any political party, it's kind of pointless to only have control of the House. In 2016, if Hillary or some other Dem wins, Republicans will know they have to soften up if they ever want to push forward any legislation ever again rather than just trying to block things and get what they want through debt ceiling negotiations.

You just tried to ascribe reason to the House GOP, which may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard from you, which is saying a lot. A LOT.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3171 on: December 11, 2013, 09:40:31 PM »
The House GOP is controlled by people who view compromise on the same level as treason, and the ones who don't are being primaried right now by ones who do.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3172 on: December 11, 2013, 09:43:29 PM »
but both sides are the same

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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3173 on: December 11, 2013, 10:25:10 PM »
Assuming their main priority is to be reelected, they'll eventually have to change. And after 2020, it'll be too late to change (new maps being drawn up).

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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3174 on: December 11, 2013, 10:38:33 PM »
Their main goal is to stall long enough for them to retake the Senate and the White House.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3175 on: December 11, 2013, 10:44:58 PM »
someone PLEASE save me from this stupid SAVE TEXAS FROM TURNING BLUE ad on yt. I've bitched about it before, but IT'S STILL HERE.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3176 on: December 11, 2013, 10:46:40 PM »
The obnoxious "Texas is gonna turn blue, guys" shit on Daily Kos is more annoying. Dems will get blown out next year in Texas. I like Wendy Davis, I'd wife her, but she gonna lose.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3177 on: December 11, 2013, 11:08:00 PM »
Gotta start somewhere.
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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3178 on: December 12, 2013, 12:31:32 AM »
Dems will get blown out next year in Texas. I like Wendy Davis, I'd wife her
I'm sure the latter would help change the former.

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Re: HEALTHCARE.GOV-BETTER-BUT-STILL-NOT-GREATGHAZI! Thread of American Politics
« Reply #3179 on: December 12, 2013, 02:48:23 AM »
Dems will get blown out next year in Texas. I like Wendy Davis, I'd wife her
I'm sure the latter would help change the former.

Sarcasm? And yes, I looked up Wendy Davis. She's a cutie pie.