I agree Democrats do have a majority… but control? I’m skeptical.
I know it’s only jokes, but can we not advocate nuking the south?
We should fuel-air bomb them. Why the fuck should the sane people in the country have to deal with radioactive cousin-fucker particles raining down on our cities?
Whoa! This is the pit! No fair trying to be reasonable. If you want that kind of action, take it to Great Debates. This is where they say Fuck, what kind of Moron follows that kind of Asswipe set of beliefs? Very important distinction!
Like wearing a Giants cap at a Dodger game.
(General agreement, by the way. It is the duty of the minority party to be obstructionist, at least to a degree. Some of us feel that the current brand of Republican obstructionism has ceased to be sufficiently moderate. They’ve lost track of the ultimate goal of seeking what is best for the whole country, and act solely upon narrow partisan self-interest. And then they have the balls to complain that Obama’s killing jobs!)
Yeah. The bolded to me seems especially true. And I hate it. Nor do I understand it. Why aren’t there any modern day Henry Clays anymore?
Because Clay would likely be ousted in the primary by some (confirms forum) fucking Tea Party nutter. And branded a socialist to boot.
Even if he could survive the primary, he’d likely be up against someone from the America-First-Know-Nothing-Monster-Raving-Loony-Party who would split the vote. Much safer to toe the party line in the first place — after all, as we well know, the primary duty of a politician, whatever his or her leaning, is to get elected.
But, it is also the duty of any conservative party not to exist, to any degree.
Which really isn’t all that pertinent to contributing a “fair share”. As it turns out, the labour of the bottom half of the country already contributes a fair share to the top earners. Even the unemployed keep things competitive since it makes it easier for an employer to kick someone out for failing to meet a certain standard. The current economic system is a trickle up one, where the richest continually grow richer. The system of taxation does not even assuage that to any great degree and the richest want to remove any mitigation of the possibility of regression. It makes more sense to look at the quality of life impact various rates of taxation
As other people have pointed out,socialist medicine is cheaper and insurance is still an option in other industrialised nations. The other option is just rescinding the requirement of hospitals to treat patients, which’d please the social Darwinist crowd, but would have serious effects on quality of life for other citizens. The ensuing riots, epidemics, relative deprivation and whatnot would probably lead to a far less productive workforce and a lowering of the quality of life for all Americans - though as with everything in the country, such impacts would be highly regressive (with a greater impact on the poor).
One of the countries with the highest quality of life indicators (Japan) also nears top on debt to GDP ratio (far higher than the US), playing a perpetual three card monte with finances. Norway gets by just fine with under half of the US’ debt to GDP ratio, socialist medicine and high quality of life indicators.
This is fantastic. I’m stealing it!
Perhaps some people remember that Clay ran for president four times and always lost. And that the most famous “Clay Compromise” don’t look good in hindsight.
I’m not a mod - you can bite me in fee tail. (I’ve got a Black’s Law Dictionary and don’t usually use just to be snarky). Get over yourself.
Wake me when people are biting the Statute of Trusts.
OK. I have to know what that means.
That’s what you get for this crap. Bastard.
Mutually assured destruction, that’s what.
U.S. Intelligence Confirms: The Hillbillies Have the Bomb
Been saving that headline from The Onion for a long time.
Actually the Southerners at Oak Ridge, TN had the processed uranium in 1945. The Yankees had the plutonium at Hanford, WA. A carefully thought out separation that has kept the peace for years.
What is the Impeach John Roberts Facebook page if not the modern day billboard?
Didn’t take a week for that. What do you win?
Sorrow. Despair. A dark sense of forboding…
My take is that Philliam just told Oak to bite him and all of his descendants, forever, each generation in turn, until the end of time.
86 likes? :rolleyes: