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[Boogie]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

[Brehvolution]

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

http://jezebel.com/nixons-policy-advisor-admits-he-invented-war-on-drugs-t-1766359595

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Is there any reason for the original article's site to be down? 

[Joe Molotov]

I want to get Kara's take on whether Obama "may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel." I would have thought Nebuchadnezzar and Emperor Titus would be higher on the list, but I'm not of the Tribe.

[Phoenix Dark]

As the National Review editor Rich Lowry puts it: “The whole thing about being the country’s healer and giving people hugs is off-putting to conservatives who take ideas really seriously. And it’s also counter to the image he has back in Washington — which is why people who are in the know roll their eyes whenever they see Kasich’s act.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/magazine/why-the-republican-establishment-doesnt-like-john-kasich.html?_r=0

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now. 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

[Tasty]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

But are you legally compelled to?

[seagrams hotsauce]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

and that's aia so when he says 'broke body' you know he means it both physically and economically

[Tasty]

The Queen slaying that crusty old guy in Arizona

>25% win, called by AP after less than 2% of votes counted

[Human Snorenado]

Trump wins another WTA state, bagging 58 more delegates. Now at 739 out of the 1,237 he needs to outright win the nomination. #datfuckery #sorryaianotsorry

[benjipwns]

20% of Republicans in Arizona voted for Rubio, Carson or Jeb.

[OnlyRegret]

As the National Review editor Rich Lowry puts it: “The whole thing about being the country’s healer and giving people hugs is off-putting to conservatives who take ideas really seriously. And it’s also counter to the image he has back in Washington — which is why people who are in the know roll their eyes whenever they see Kasich’s act.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/magazine/why-the-republican-establishment-doesnt-like-john-kasich.html?_r=0

 

State Republicans have not forgotten how, in 2013, he lectured the Ohio House speaker Bill Batchelder — a Republican legislator who had served over three decades in the House — about his moral duty to support Kasich’s Medicaid expansion plan: “When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. Better have a good answer.”

I like that.

[benjipwns]

Cruz is getting 71% of the vote in Utah.

Bernie got 78% in Idaho and is at 74% in Utah. He'll come out of tonight with more delegates than Hillary. ITSHAPPENING.GIF

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

also, Ohai-o took the government money because they had an impossible budget deficit to balance and no way could they afford high earner tax cuts and rejecting the ACA in total.

Honestly, I'm surprised that even still to this point more red states haven't just broken down and taken at least the medicaid expansion, the dominos are falling way more slowly then I would have thought.

[benjipwns]

POLITICO has learned that in a surprise announcement, Jeb Bush will endorse Ted Cruz on Wednesday as an antidote to the "divisiveness and vulgarity" of Donald Trump, providing a badly needed boost to the Texas senator - but it's one that comes dangerously late in a game that Trump is dominating.

The endorsement comes 32 days after a beaten Bush dropped out of the GOP presidential race, and eight days since Sen. Marco Rubio abandoned his own quest after being rebuffed by Bush, his fellow Floridian and one-time mentor.

Bush says in a forthcoming statement: "Today, I am endorsing Ted Cruz for President ... Washington is broken, and the only way Republicans can hope to win back the White House and put our nation on a better path is to support a nominee who can articulate how conservative policies will help people rise up and reach their full potential."

[Cerveza mas fina]

Jeb Bush endorsement is a death kiss

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Trump wins another WTA state, bagging 58 more delegates. Now at 739 out of the 1,237 he needs to outright win the nomination. #datfuckery #sorryaianotsorry

You're just mad because I was right and you were wrong. As usual instead of just saying "Damn Trump sucks" you are trying to personalize it.  That's cute.

[benjipwns]

Ted Cruz is suggesting he'd find a place for Republican rival John Kasich in his future administration if Kasich agrees to drop out of the presidential race and supports him.

Cruz noted that it's mathematically impossible for Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination. So the only role Kasich is playing now is that of a "spoiler" by taking votes that could have gone to Cruz. And that is only serving to help front-runner Donald Trump, Cruz says.
 
In an interview Wednesday on CNN's "New Day," Cruz said of Kasich: "I think he'd be a tremendous addition to an administration."

Nearly half of the supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich would vote for Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, as their second choice, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday. And more than half of Cruz's backers suggested they would do the same with their man out of the race.

Asked whom they would like to win the GOP nomination, 43 percent of the 652 Republicans surveyed said they wanted Trump to emerge as the party's choice in Cleveland, followed by 29 percent for Cruz and just 16 percent for Kasich, with 9 percent undecided.

In a head-to-head matchup between Trump and Cruz among supporters of Kasich, the Manhattan real-estate mogul earned 46 percent support, compared to 37 percent for Cruz and 12 percent undecided. While the Texas senator drew slim advantages among tea party supporters, white, born-again evangelicals and those describing themselves as very conservative, Trump drew far greater support from Kasich supporters who described themselves as somewhat conservative, moderate or liberal, as well as among men, women and those 45 years and older.

In the event Cruz is the odd man out, 56 percent said they would vote for Trump, with just 25 percent opting for Kasich and 13 percent undecided. More than seven-in-10 (71 percent) of Cruz's tea party supporters said they would vote for Trump over the Ohio governor, along with strong majorities in every demographic and ideological group, including those describing themselves as moderate or liberal.

[Tasty]

Despite the huster and bluster of making Hillary "nonviable," her win in Arizona basically wiped out Sanders gains last night. Despite taking two states he only netted 6 more delegates, bringing Hillary's regular delegate lead down to "only" 313.

[Tasty]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/sanders-campaign-manager-wrong-numbers-221135

“I’m not predicting victory, but I’m not predicting defeat, either," Weaver told CNN in an interview following Sanders' San Diego address to supporters. "I mean, we have to wait and see ‘til the votes are counted."

"There’s obviously something wrong with the numbers, and I think once we see where they come down, it may end up being a split of delegates basically in Arizona," he said. "I do think in other places tonight, we’re hearing some very good news.”

Asked what went wrong in Arizona, Weaver responded, “Well it’s not about what went wrong. It’s early in the night still."

Weaver referred to CNN's projection that 71 percent of the vote has been counted but called the overall votes that have been reported "really an underestimation of the number of people who were voting there."

"We’ve seen lines in Arizona for five hours long literally," he said. "So based on CNN’s calculations and what we know about how many people early-voted, that would mean only 100,000 people came out and live-voted, Democrats in Arizona. I think that that’s just wrong. So I think this race is gonna to close up substantially between now and the morning.”

Also there's no less than 3 articles on /r/S4P about "massive fraud" in Arizona.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4blzpp/arizona_is_a_massive_fraud/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4bl35p/az_voter_fraud_caught_in_pima_county/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4blh88/fraud_in_az_i_am_a_long_time_registered_dem_i_was/

[Am_I_Anonymous]

 

[Human Snorenado]

Trump wins another WTA state, bagging 58 more delegates. Now at 739 out of the 1,237 he needs to outright win the nomination. #datfuckery #sorryaianotsorry

You're just mad because I was right and you were wrong. As usual instead of just saying "Damn Trump sucks" you are trying to personalize it.  That's cute.

What are you right about that I'm wrong about? That Trump is going to win the general? That's doubtful but impossible to say at this point.

The jab was at your general existence as a Republican that hates Trump but will be saddled with him as your party's nominee, breh. Don't try to make it more complicated than it is.

[Joe Molotov]

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/712640850749177856

[brob]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/712712604276428800

[Samson Manhug]

The comment making fun of #1 is good but it’s really #2 people should be questioning

[Joe Molotov]

The comment making fun of #1 is good but it’s really #2 people should be questioning

Her credentials as a wife, mom, and grandma makes her able to easily achieve all these goals.

[VomKriege]

The comment making fun of #1 is good but it’s really #2 people should be questioning

Hey how hard can it be ?

Said someone in 2001.

[Joe Molotov]

Michele Bachmann is "just askin" whether God didn't bomb Brussels in order to personally punk Obama.

Or maybe our president’s humiliation comes in a manner so devastating it makes one wonder whether the Creator of humankind isn’t reminding this world of the inferiority of foolishness in the face of wisdom.

The president once again mocked his nemesis, the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, by cleverly turning the international press corps toward his brilliant work in Cuba, instead of covering ongoing Islamic attacks against the Jewish state as outlined that very same day at the annual pro-Israel AIPAC meeting in Washington, D.C.

History changed less than 24 hours later in the blink of an eye, and the rug was pulled out from under his well-laid plans.

Obama’s slavish press corps was forced to turn their uncritical gaze from adoring him to revealing the newest carnage in Brussels.

Our eyes were spellbound.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/obama-enjoys-cuba-while-civilization-burns/#UJJUA3GBuXzVhx7q.99

[Boogie]

Trump wins another WTA state, bagging 58 more delegates. Now at 739 out of the 1,237 he needs to outright win the nomination. #datfuckery #sorryaianotsorry

You're just mad because I was right and you were wrong. As usual instead of just saying "Damn Trump sucks" you are trying to personalize it.  That's cute.

What are you right about that I'm wrong about? That Trump is going to win the general? That's doubtful but impossible to say at this point.

The jab was at your general existence as a Republican that hates Trump but will be saddled with him as your party's nominee, breh. Don't try to make it more complicated than it is.

Most days, I don't think that AiA can tell any of us apart (well, maybe PD).   In spite of having 7000 posts here, we're all just one big, jumbled amalgamation to him.

[Dickie Dee]

Michele Bachmann is "just askin" whether God didn't bomb Brussels in order to personally punk Obama.

Or maybe our president’s humiliation comes in a manner so devastating it makes one wonder whether the Creator of humankind isn’t reminding this world of the inferiority of foolishness in the face of wisdom.

The president once again mocked his nemesis, the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, by cleverly turning the international press corps toward his brilliant work in Cuba, instead of covering ongoing Islamic attacks against the Jewish state as outlined that very same day at the annual pro-Israel AIPAC meeting in Washington, D.C.

History changed less than 24 hours later in the blink of an eye, and the rug was pulled out from under his well-laid plans.

Obama’s slavish press corps was forced to turn their uncritical gaze from adoring him to revealing the newest carnage in Brussels.

Our eyes were spellbound.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/obama-enjoys-cuba-while-civilization-burns/#UJJUA3GBuXzVhx7q.99

For her it was a Tuesday

[Trent Dole]

[Mandark]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

[Oblivion]

Michele Bachmann is "just askin" whether God didn't bomb Brussels in order to personally punk Obama.

Or maybe our president’s humiliation comes in a manner so devastating it makes one wonder whether the Creator of humankind isn’t reminding this world of the inferiority of foolishness in the face of wisdom.

The president once again mocked his nemesis, the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, by cleverly turning the international press corps toward his brilliant work in Cuba, instead of covering ongoing Islamic attacks against the Jewish state as outlined that very same day at the annual pro-Israel AIPAC meeting in Washington, D.C.

History changed less than 24 hours later in the blink of an eye, and the rug was pulled out from under his well-laid plans.

Obama’s slavish press corps was forced to turn their uncritical gaze from adoring him to revealing the newest carnage in Brussels.

Our eyes were spellbound.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/obama-enjoys-cuba-while-civilization-burns/#UJJUA3GBuXzVhx7q.99

Obama's hatred of Israel led Islamic terrorists to successfully launch an attack in Belgium? 

[VomKriege]

...because Israël, yes. God may also not suffer pinkos in his TVs. Michelle would know.

[Mandark]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

A law to prevent the "PC Police"? 

Text of the bill is here.  It's amending some previous law, so...

Previous law = normal text
Language being removed = strikethrough
Language being added = underlined

Basically they're defining gender as biological-at-birth gender and applying that to restrooms and changing areas, and inserting the idea of biological gender into existing equal opportunity law.  The impetus is Charlotte passing a trans-friendly bathroom statute recently, I think.

The bill prevents any county or municipal governments from passing any sort of anti-discrimination or equal opportunity laws regarding employment or public accommodations.  It also inserts language saying that the law (which says the policy of the state is to prevent discrimination in those areas) gives no basis for anyone to sue in cases of discrimination.  Existing law calls for an agency which "shall use its good offices to effect an amicable resolution of the charges of discrimination" so I'm not sure where there's any kind of actual enforcement built into the law.

Oh, as a bonus measure it also prevents local governments from passing their own minimum wage laws.

[VomKriege]

Hillary-stans loved very much the Stanford speech on foreign policy and terrorism, but really all Clinton is saying is that we'll continue to do what we do now, except it will work this time / pay off.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

I mean at some point somebody has to put a stop to this shit.

It's okay if you're gay
It's okay if you're transgendered
It's okay to expect full rights as a citizen

It's NOT okay to put it in my face every 24 minutes. Or to flatly accuse all of us "breeders" of being the most evil thing on the planet. Or sue everything that moves for failing to comply to your standard.

Enough is enough, welcome citizens, you have the same right to be offended that I do.


I literally had a gay person tell me last week "You don't know my struggle"

Are you fucking serious?

[headwalk]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

I mean at some point somebody has to put a stop to this shit.

It's okay if you're gay
It's okay if you're transgendered
It's okay to expect full rights as a citizen

It's NOT okay to put it in my face every 24 minutes. Or to flatly accuse all of us "breeders" of being the most evil thing on the planet. Or sue everything that moves for failing to comply to your standard.

Enough is enough, welcome citizens, you have the same right to be offended that I do.


I literally had a gay person tell me last week "You don't know my struggle"

Are you fucking serious?

always use a water based lube mate.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

I mean at some point somebody has to put a stop to this shit.

It's okay if you're gay
It's okay if you're transgendered
It's okay to expect full rights as a citizen

It's NOT okay to put it in my face every 24 minutes. Or to flatly accuse all of us "breeders" of being the most evil thing on the planet. Or sue everything that moves for failing to comply to your standard.

Enough is enough, welcome citizens, you have the same right to be offended that I do.


I literally had a gay person tell me last week "You don't know my struggle"

Are you fucking serious?

always use a water based lube mate.

Shit, I have 3 kids. Lube is a luxury at this point.

[Mandark]

North Carolina's state legislature is apparently passing an anti-anti-discrimination bill targeted at LGBT folks.

I mean at some point somebody has to put a stop to this shit.

It's okay if you're gay
It's okay if you're transgendered
It's okay to expect full rights as a citizen

It's NOT okay to put it in my face every 24 minutes. Or to flatly accuse all of us "breeders" of being the most evil thing on the planet. Or sue everything that moves for failing to comply to your standard.

Enough is enough, welcome citizens, you have the same right to be offended that I do.


I literally had a gay person tell me last week "You don't know my struggle"

Are you fucking serious?

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[ToxicAdam]

frynotsure.jpg

Do not engage. You are no match for his anecdotes and appeals to authority.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

frynotsure.jpg

Do not engage. You are no match for his anecdotes and appeals to authority.

 

[Joe Molotov]

AIA is tired of gays cramming their gayness down his throat.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

AIA is tired of gays cramming their gayness down his throat.

No I'm tired of gays telling my black ass that I don't know the struggle.

[Phoenix Dark]

In general I don't take offense from stuff like that anymore. Gay people are still being fired and attacked for being gay, hate crimes happen all the time, the potential GOP nominee pals around with a pastor who calls for gays to be killed...I'm not going to get mad because gay people are feeling threatened and stressed right now, nor am I mad when they make comparisons I might not agree with but understand. This isn't the Olympics of Oppression, who got shat on the most doesn't really matter. If I'm getting shat on and a gay guy is getting shat on too that's enough for me to dap him and provide some support - not compare the total amount of shit on my head compared to his.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

In general I don't take offense from stuff like that anymore. Gay people are still being fired and attacked for being gay, hate crimes happen all the time, the potential GOP nominee pals around with a pastor who calls for gays to be killed...I'm not going to get mad because gay people are feeling threatened and stressed right now, nor am I mad when they make comparisons I might not agree with but understand. This isn't the Olympics of Oppression, who got shat on the most doesn't really matter. If I'm getting shat on and a gay guy is getting shat on too that's enough for me to dap him and provide some support - not compare the total amount of shit on my head compared to his.

99% of the time you're right. It's that 1% who feel the need to scream in my face about how they live with oppression while making 130k a year and living an opulent lifestyle that is on my nerves today.

[Madrun Badrun]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

But will North Carolina protect me from your homo?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

But will North Carolina protect me from your homo?

He's the least of your worries you pasty bloated bastard 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

real talk what is up with people idolizing Hillary Clinton. She's not particularly charismatic. So why? Just why? Seeing some gaffers fawn over her and refer to her as 'queen' is fucking weird.

Meh it's really no different then "feeling the burn" or being a trump supporter is it?

[Atramental]

real talk what is up with people idolizing Hillary Clinton. She's not particularly charismatic. So why? Just why? Seeing some gaffers fawn over her and refer to her as 'queen' is fucking weird.

These are the same people who jizz themselves over video game consoles and CEOs.

They are modern day boot licking peasants who have no self esteem or self awareness.

[Brehvolution]

I find Trump idolization takes more mental gymnastics. I can't remember another leading candidate that has offered so little on policy other than saying, "because I will."

We've all seen how the 'Just trust me' repubs have made out.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I find Trump idolization takes more mental gymnastics. I can't remember another leading candidate that has offered so little on policy other than saying, "because I will."

We've all seen how the 'Just trust me' repubs have made out.

About as well as the "just trust me" democrats.

Unsure why you people think you've had anywhere above marginal presidents in the last 40 years?

Reagan=Clinton (big ass gap) >>>>Obama>>George W Bush>>>>Jimmy Carter >>>>George HW Bush


Outside of maybe Reagan nobody here will be remembered as anything special in 100 years with the exception of Obama breaking the color barrier. His foreign policy is weak and he's allowed several F500's to essentially "move" to Ireland and other locations to avoid their tax obligations. He's probably the most in the pocket of corporate America president since Nixon. Oh and those ISIS domestic attacks are surely doing well for his resume....

Obamacare has killed more small business growth then the recession ever did.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/03/3_reasons_why_the_last_24_hour.html#incart_river_home_pop


RIP any day now.

[Madrun Badrun]

Look, you don't want to mix your civic duty with your Bore leisure time.  I get it. 

I witnessed a black lives matter protest today.  Legally I think I can vote for Trump now.

Legally I can buttfuck your broke body too....just saying

But will North Carolina protect me from your homo?

He's the least of your worries you pasty bloated bastard 

'He'? are you know confusing yourself with other bore posters?

Look, I don't know your struggles dude, but we are a safe place here to help.

[Tasty]

99% of the time you're right. It's that 1% who feel the need to scream in my face about how they live with oppression while making 130k a year and living an opulent lifestyle that is on my nerves today.

Damn all those obnoxious gay strawmen. They're getting out of control!

[Am_I_Anonymous]

99% of the time you're right. It's that 1% who feel the need to scream in my face about how they live with oppression while making 130k a year and living an opulent lifestyle that is on my nerves today.

Damn all those obnoxious gay strawmen. They're getting out of control!

Again, I have nothing against anyone pertaining to their life choices. What right would I have to? But at the same time the work environment isn't a place to throw an "everyone is prejudice" tantrum every goddamn time you are turned down or your decision isn't backed. Its called work....these things happen.

[Tasty]

This wouldn't be a problem if they kept their gayness in the closet where it belongs.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

This wouldn't be a problem if they kept their gayness in the closet where it belongs.

Nobody brings up his sexual preference but him.

Would you like me to explain to you why I like tits and ass every fucking day? Doubt it.


Edit: To clarify, there are proper ways to channel your frustration in a corporate environment. Screaming "prejudice assholes" in a meeting isn't one of them.

[Tasty]

So anti-gay "religious freedom" bills are A-OK because your coworker is an asshole. Sounds good bro.