Cosplaying as Indians and breaking shit?
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Breaking shit is the fundamental of everything America is.
Pretty much. The Tea Party was just a bunch of hooligans
Ladies and gentleman, I give you your vice president:
- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.
- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."
"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.
"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."
"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."
- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.
"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.
- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.
"Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"
- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
This still my favorite one; I like joking around that he's so old he remembers when you had to enter an IP to get around.Quote:
During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."
How could you forget,
"I've had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
Still a better VP than Palin.
THAT HAS YET TO BE PROVEN?
WAHT IS THE DIFFERINCE BETWEEN A PITBULL AND A SARAH PALIN?
NOTHING, THEY'RE BOTH STUPID BITCHES
sorry pacrappa, your dogs aren't stupid.
What's that saying about rocks and glass houses?
I should ask Dan Quayle.
Janeane Garofalo, political philosopher:
So... if you are so adamantly against the president's multi-trillion dollar budget that you are willing to demonstrate peacefully against it, you are now "racist against a black man" and suffer from a "neurological disorder." Gotcha.
I especially love her analysis of the "limbic brain."
This is 5:30 yet I am not hearing anything meaningful here. Are they talking to themselves?
Round pins/buttons on jackets.
I was just thinking...I wonder if The Daily Show is going to run with this one.
Hah, peacefully. Also most budgets are above a trillion dollars it's not that big of a deal. Where were they against Bush's trillion dollar budgets? Where were they against all the previos spending? They weren't there cause it was a republican president. These people are just trying to incite shit, not get anythign done. I'm not going to agree with that democrat cunt because she's also making a bigger deal than it is, but the ONLY STATION TO COVER THIS WAS FOX. THE ONLY PLACE WHERE MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE SHOWED UP? FOX WAS THERE. This is more stupid shit instigated by fox, if you think this is a peaceful protest to a normality during a time of crisis you're wrong, it's stupid bullshit trying to rally the republican party once again and failing.Quote:
So... if you are so adamantly against the president's multi-trillion dollar budget that you are willing to demonstrate peacefully against it
The republicans are flailing around helplessly and it's depressing.
These people are trying to act like they're revolutionary's, there is nothing peaceful about their protests.
The intention and promotion of said "grassroots" protests were anything but peaceful. If you over the last few months you have bothered to listen to the antagonistic tone of Republican talk shows, both radio and television, you would certainly understand how foolish calling the ideas fueling these protests "peaceful."
Listen to the Jerry Doyle segment on getting everyone with their guns to march on Washington. Listen to the Bill Cunningham segment where he asks U.S. soldiers to call in and pledge themselves to America and not Barack Obama. Listen to Glenn Beck cry on the air to rile up the base to do something "stupid" and then claim the exact opposite in his apology. The very things that were considered treasonous by the previous administration and particularly their pundits for the last 8 years have now become their single, most important, intention.
Make no mistake, this is a Right Wing media driven silent (though not by choice) panic masking itself as a protest, and it is crossing lines that will encourage the most hardcore extremists of that side to do stupid, stupid, things the longer it goes on. It is a very, very, dangerous way to rile up a base, and the longer it goes on, the more likely something truly horrific will be waiting for us before it's all over.
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The boston tea party was part of the series of events that sparked the civil war; these people are hoping to spark a similar revolution (though no doubt not necessarily as violent Just in some way to fight against a new president and hopefully draw support in anger).
Funny, I didn't see a single gun or burning effigy or anything that even remotely hinted at danger or malicious intent at any of the tea parties. In fact, the only person I saw trying to stir shit up was that one CNN anchorcunt.
Watch the second half in particular.
People don't protest because they're happy. An undercurrent of anger is natural for any such demonstration. You can single out a few nutjobs from the far-right fringe, and that's perfectly fine. But we would then have to apply your logic to the far-left fringe and assume that they speak for all liberals. And that hardly seems correct.
People should get angry. The federal government is disturbingly more powerful than the eighteen enumerated powers in our Constitution allow, and our dipshit Congress has sat idly by and allowed it to happen for the better part of a century. And I would love nothing more to see a revolution of ideas, a return to states' rights, and fiscal responsibility. The more that things are handled at the state and local levels, the more control you have over the manner in which they are carried out.
It's not about attacking a particular president or party; hell, some of the tea party organizers were Democrats. We're all going to have to pay dearly for this reckless cycle of borrowing and spending, regardless of your political stripe. I'm glad people are being moved to action.
The protesters have a legitimite gripe. Compared to a Sharpton shakedown march or G-20 anarchists torching a Starbucks, this is downright fucking refreshing.
Bullshit. This shit was all put on by Fox.
The concept of the executive branch being to powerful I can actually agree with. But what I have a problem with is all these people are only thinking that just NOW. As if there was some huge change in the powers of the executive branch in the last few months. If they had been doing protests last year I wouldn't see it as massive right wing idiocy.
its pretty disgraceful that no one did anything like this for the patriot act. Its a damn shame that people care more about taxes and money than anything else.
I'll see your "bullshit" and raise you a "get a fucking clue."
Tea party protests coming to Kentucky
I hate to shatter your reality, but not all liberals believe that an extra helping of our incompetent government is the answer.Quote:
Wendy Caswell, a 24-year-old restaurant worker who is organizing the tea party downtown at Jefferson Square, said it could attract 1,500 people. "That's a rough estimate," she said. "It could be 5,000, it could be less (than 1,500). But I don't think it's going to be less."
The events take their name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists opposed to the Tea Act and its British-imposed tax on tea staged an uprising and threw hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
The idea was originally popularized by financial reporter Rick Santelli during a rant on CNBC. Since then, there have been tea parties from California to New York.
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Caswell, a registered Democrat who said she's a social liberal and fiscal conservative, said she decided to organize the tea party in response to a fairly recent interest in politics.
It's not just the executive branch, though. The entire federal level has shit the bed.Quote:
The concept of the executive branch being to powerful I can actually agree with. But what I have a problem with is all these people are only thinking that just NOW. As if there was some huge change in the powers of the executive branch in the last few months. If they had been doing protests last year I wouldn't see it as massive right wing idiocy.
As for the timing, call it a perfect storm of a piss-poor economy and outrage over the Bush/Obama bailout fiasco.
Joe Biden is rad, Yoshi! He's not gonna be another Dan Quayle until he trips over Bo. You're trying too hard!
Ok. I know this will be pointless because trying to get you to see another point of view is like trying to drive nails into steel, but I'm going to do this anyway...
First of all of COURSE protests are angry. Of course they are. I never said they weren't. Point out when I said they weren't, and you can point out to me why you felt the need to say something this inane.
Second of all. I didn't see a gun either. Or a riot. Nor did I say there would be one at these particular things. I don't know why you love putting words in my mouth so much but you sure do it a lot.
Third of all. This isn't fringe Right wing groups talking about and promoting raiding the government with Firearms and egging Soldiers on to declare that they will refuse to acknowledge orders from Obama. This is mainstream Republican talking heads who I hear on the radio every day and see on television if I decide to torture myself and watch Fox news. If this was some Alex Jones level nut job with a web cast going out to 25 people I wouldn't be concerned, but it isn't. Don't even try to draw a comparison there.
People are not being moved to action for the reasons you believe they are Squall, and it's sad you can't see that. If I believed those people thought that's what they were protesting for even a second, I would have gladly gone out of my way to show them how to protest properly (i.e. you don't buy the fucking tea from out of state in bulk and pay double taxes on it before destroying it), because dammit they deserve the help.Quote:
People should get angry. The federal government is disturbingly more powerful than the eighteen enumerated powers in our Constitution allow, and our dipshit Congress has sat idly by and allowed it to happen for the better part of a century. And I would love nothing more to see a revolution of ideas, a return to states' rights, and fiscal responsibility. The more that things are handled at the state and local levels, the more control you have over the manner in which they are carried out.
It's not about attacking a particular president or party; hell, some of the tea party organizers were Democrats. We're all going to have to pay dearly for this reckless cycle of borrowing and spending, regardless of your political stripe. I'm glad people are being moved to action.
The protesters have a legitimite gripe. Compared to a Sharpton shakedown march or G-20 anarchists torching a Starbucks, this is downright fucking refreshing.
That kind of thinking however, is bullshit. Not one of those people at those protests thought about it that way. It was, "Your gonna raise my taxes and take my guns away, so watch me buy this tea and destroy it..." if they were this knowledgeable about the expansion of federal powers over the course of the last few years then they should have been out protesting the Patriot act.
i love joe biden and always will. he is a man's man.
I don't have a problem with Biden. It's his boss that's annoying me.
I see Garofalo posts on TNL
I do hope you're not surprised by this idea. America is built on a foundation of greed. We wanted direct American owned control back in the 1770's so a bunch of rich ass colonists could do whatever they wanted w/o King George taxing their loot away. The Rev. War looks far more noble on paper than its actual intentions. It's not like that really matters though as the founding father's idea of America died at Appomattox Courthouse. The government we have today, dickless congressmen run by lobbyists, a president w/ too much power and a supreme court too pussed out to call them out is a natural progression from the Feds overriding the secession 150 years ago.
Power was to be local in nature w/ a basic fed goverment to keep certain things in check. Now we might as well take away state gov's and just apply whatever the feds want for the whole country.
The craziest thing about this current tea party shit is that we've got red neck construction workers and truckers who make like 25k a year showing up to help protect the wealth of the rich. It's nuts yo!
I may be a sucker as you put it.
It still doesn't change the fact that people who make so little cash that they hardly pay any (if any) taxes to begin with are fighting tooth and nail to prevent tax increases on mill/billionaires. Tax increases are also unlikely to seriously affect the US economy unless one is to believe that taxes are oppressively high to begin with.
I think the right is a bunch of suckers for thinking that any and all tax increases are the end of the world and ultimately horrid for the economy or the people getting the tax increase. Tax increases are a slippery political slope indeed but excepting macroeconomic backlash it won't affect the poor that much and it's the poor that shows up in droves to protest these sorts of things.
Besides, tax increases are probably a very little problem in the grand scheme of what's fucked in America right now.
there is nothing crazy about it. You are putting them down for dreaming. That is why they protect the rich. They want to be "the rich." They dream of one day being rich. (though admittedly, they are stupid, because somewhere along the way they bought into the lie that being a sweet little christian that works hard will get you rich).
red necks have always been this way. They do not dream of lofty new governments or social revolutions to fix the problems around them. Their ideas on making life better are very simple, make more money. Get rich.
Its one of the reasons that the poor in the south supported rich slave owners. They wanted to be those rich slave owners, and by hell fire would they let another power redefine what it meant to be wealthy.
And it isn't that stupid that they think that way. More than any other time before do we live in a society that supports the idea that all joy can be obtained and all problems can fixed if you have enough money and buy the right things.
They are fighting for what they perceive to be happiness.
No, I put them down for fighting to protect the wealth of rich assholes all the while being poor as hell w/ little to no hope of ever winding up rich. Naivette is a bad thing in most opinions. It's the same thing as uninsured people who were bankrupted by hospital stays fighting socialized or a universal health care plans. It makes no sense because they're fighting to maintain ideals that do not readily help them.
The rich rarely show up to to politically protest things. Especially things that will adversely affect the 'non-rich'.
it will.
Explain how.
It's been explained by Yoshi numerous times.
I don't quite know exactly what Yoshi thinks about Taxes (perhaps he can do a summary to help me understand) but...
He could be going off the assumption that any time the government takes a dollar out of your paycheck that it's a dollar that you cannot spend and therefore stimulate the economy. This is a rationale that all taxes are awful and bad and should not exist. This ignores the fact that the government takes most of that taxation and gives it back into the populace with public grants, roads bridge, fire dept. etc. etc.
We should be far more worried about wasteful government spending.
This notion also ignores that the US has had substantial economic growth under tax regimes far stricter than what we have at this time.
Taxes aren't the problem right now, fear of increase of taxes from the recent bailouts I thought was causing the problems.
Yoshi has said several times to make sure you're paying the govt back at the end of the year because you can spend that money, but I've never heard him say paying taxes is bad (He just doesn't want increases caused by govt Bailouts.)
I'm all for higher taxes.
You don't raise taxes during a depression/recession. Only a complete fool would propose such a measure while at the same time advocating that we borrow and spend our way out of this mess. Thankfully, no one on this planet would be such an eggregious fool to run on such a platform.
The Independent has a list of 100 ways Obama is reshaping America.
Any link that ends in .uk is completely irrelevant in that regard.
If you read all of those items, which are almost without exception things he's yapped about and done nothing else, the only thing that is clear is that he likes every country on earth and their people more than the US and its people.
While I don't necessarily agree with Yoshi's statement..
this list is stupid.
You know what list I want? The list, on day 101, of what Obama has accomplished in his first 100 days. And by accomplished, I don't mean what he has read off a teleprompter.
Hrm the best I could could come up with is:
http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/promises/
Which tracks what campaign promises have been kept, broken, compromised in some way.
That's actually really useful. I do wish spinsanity.org was still being updated...
I wonder which president in the last 100 years got the most things accomplished
in their first 100 days.
I like that he got equal credit for getting his daughters a puppy and granting Americans access to their families in Cuba.
On the whole, the less promises he keeps the better though, since his ideas are 90% terrible.
I didn't expect miracles out of Obama, so I can be patient. What does get my goat, however, is how he's expanding Executive power and disguising it as if he's doing some good.
Closed Guantanamo? GREAT! What? You now take prisoners to a prison even FARTHER away where it's a lawless black hole and then say the Constitution has no jurisdiction there because it's so damn far away from the U.S.? OKAY!
I'm not as picky about the balance of power between the branches of the federal government as I am about the increasing power the feds have over the states. That scares the shit out of me. And I am well aware that Obama is only following Bush's and Clinton's lead there.
An increase in executive power is directly related to overreaching federal governing. You think the head of the executive office is going to give a shit about each state? He or she will consolidate it to make the job easier.
100 bullets and not one mention of soul food?
maybe they need to stop being faggits?
They should stop being faggots.
Class warfare is played out Bojack.
States' rights were done the moment people stopped seeing themselves as Virginians and Pennsylvanians and Rhode Islanders rather than as Americans. The fact that they once did is the whole reason it was ever an issue to begin with.
So anyway...
I think Hitch may well be right here. Thing is, I'm not sure whether to be delighted we've got a freethinker in the White House, or furious that he insists on hiding it (understandable as that may be politically).
It'd be political suicide to admit to a lack of belief in the Magical Man.
During the campaign, sure. But he's already won the highest office in the land - he could "come out" now, and then have four years to show the other side we're not baby-eating monsters, thereby tearing down the same barrier for those who share his beliefs as he already has for those who share his color.
Wishful thinking, I know. :(
A President should try to appoint Jesus to a cabinet post so that Congress has to deal with the awkwardness of saying that he's not an American citizen or that it's just a story.
Jesus died so that faggots and baby killers go straight to Hell. He's Republican, because as we've learned in the past 20 years, that's what Republicans stand for. Bi-partisan is for those loser Sodomites AND THEY GO TO HELL TOO.
Finch, that was like a love letter to bama. You're so sweet.
OBAMA TEA PARTY I'LL HAVE THE ENGLISH BREAKFAST LOL OBAAMA CAN HAVE ROOIBOS CAUSE iTS AFRICAN AND HE"S A BLACKY!
It would be if it was anywhere near over. Half of the fury over the economy is because people are waking up to how the rich roll. There's been an incredible amount of shameful activities over the past few months from corporate and political bigwigs.
America's pennywise-pound foolish ways are catching up but the certain rich as shit people helped to bring the whole thing down and are still eating fresh lobster salads while thousands go unemployed. I know this is the way life is but a lot of people don't. Hence our class warfare.
So true.
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What is so bad about reading your fucking speeches. Isn't it like having notes on the podium in front of you, but hi-tech?
But they're saying he can't do anything without a teleprompter! OLOLOL
Why aren't people giving him credit for being literate?
It's 2009.
tanks im really getting politicul sense the enocomoney is doing so bad
I think the economy is so bad because of Obama. It is probably because he's a democrat. He doesn't know what he's doing and he's taking all of our personal liberties away. Anything he says is a lie because he's Muslim and real Americans know Muslimism is the enemy. Also, taxes are stupid. We should never have to pay taxes. People on welfare are bringing our nation down by having a hundred children.
Did i cover everything?
i think hes a faggit to
He's pretty skinny. If you tied him to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton you would certainly have a faggit, except Hillary Clinton's butt is too big.
How do you feel about his putting emphasis back on science where it's been lacking for so long? I'm curious where you like your science to be focused on, as I have no doubt you're all for science being pushed forward.
I ask because I think that's one of the best things that's been done so far, though I have I think McCain would have moved in the same direction.
Personally I'm a fan of Medical sciences and anything that will help innovate travel.
Yeah, painting with broad strokes, I'm for investment in science. The only caveat there is that if you're billions of dollars in the red, something has to be cut. You know I want that to be welfare long before science, but there are certainly tough choices on the list in-between.
one thing that makes me sad is that the average idiot would like to see things like NASA cut well before anything else.
I'd like to see Welfare cut. And Corzine cut with a butcher knife.
Yep.
Just make the conditions for approval much more strict.
Fuck it. We should just use all the money that's taken out of MY TAXES to pay for a rocket and blast those fucking poor people into the sun. They don't try hard, that's what America's about. We're not like any other country where you can just skate by and be poor or not. You have to work, because in America, no matter how bad the economy is, you can get your dream job. That's what America's about. You work hard to get that grillion dollar house, why should you give any money to those fucking liberals? What a bunch of idiots. I should be able to put all my money into my butt hole without the GOVERNMENT trying to use it for things like PORK BARREL SPENDING and BRIDGES TO NOWHERE.
WHO'S WITH ME? I SAY WE ALL GO DONKEY PUNCHING AND TEA BAG THAT SON OF A BITCH BEN BERNANKI AND THOSE LIBERAL CRONIES.
The Stockholm Syndrome pt. 1
The Stockholm Syndrome pt. 2
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