Tee:
There’s this thing called the Base. Millions of Conservative voters. They consider themselves the bulwark against the Left and all its manifestations - public schools, the media, political correctness, Press 1 for English, and that ubiquitous woman with six kids and an Escalade who uses her EBT card for cigarettes and hair extensions. However it was done, this group has claimed the party and the platform, and would prefer that everyone else in it (RINOs, the Establishment) step aside or be removed. They have simply too much money and too much influence to be barred from anything. And there it stands.
Unless and until they finally decide to go third -party .
Gyrate
October 18, 2013, 9:13am
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MsWhatsit:
He said that Republicans wouldn’t care about him even if he were literally on fire. Now, I don’t propose we actually do an experiment in which we set DT on fire near a bunch of Republicans and see what they do, but my guess , and I’m just spitballing here, is that they won’t say, “Hey, son, mind telling us what your political leanings are?” before they go and throw some freaking water on him to put him out. Because Republicans, like the rest of us, are human beings, and will not stand idly by watching another human being burn to death .
I’m sure this is true of most conservatives/Republicans and I’d like to believe it was true of all of them. But then I remember this and I wonder…
Kimstu:
Onomatopoeia , I’m sure it was unintentional, but you have misquoted my recent post by inserting into it something I didn’t say:
That last bolded sentence is part of your response, not my quote.
If I were as given to illogical rhetoric as some people around here, I might employ some pretty scathing analogies about the practice of sticking unwanted content into my quoted remarks against my will and without my consent. :dubious:
You also evidently don’t know or care what the meaning of “coercion” is.
No, what we’re saying is that because a woman knowingly consents to this legal medical procedure , it is not rape.
Fearing for your life has nothing to do with it. In the past I’ve knowingly consented to legal medical procedures that did make me fear for my life, and they weren’t rape either.
You know, if you weren’t so busy being sickened and outraged, you might have been alert enough to notice that what the woman in that article is charging the hospital with is “medical battery”, not rape. Now, why do you think that is? Hint: it’s because she wasn’t raped .
If I go to the dentist for urgently needed healthcare services, and he tells me that he cannot carry out the requested procedure without performing a legally mandated diagnostic probe of my tongue, palate and pharynx, and I object to that procedure because I consider it unnecessary and invasive but I consent to it anyway, has my dentist orally raped me?
Like I said, I am adamantly opposed to unnecessary and invasive gynecological procedures of any kind, but saying that any consensual medical procedure is the same as actual rape is just third-degree-burn stupid.
Kimstu , just so you know, I am in 100% agreement with your position, here. I do find myself wondering if you’re hand-waving away a bit of nuance wrt “consent.” Please clarify for me: is it your contention that coerced consent is as valid as volitional consent, or are you taking an even more nuanced position and holding that the requirements placed upon a seeker of abortions are not properly characterized as “coercion?”
Yikes. My apologies. Posting from my phone and didn’t read past the post I was quoting. I’ll be good.
Biggirl
October 18, 2013, 1:10pm
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Why do Doper Pit Parties always end in rape and tears?
Yours is a rare sense of humor. Unique? Sadly, no.
Debaser
October 18, 2013, 2:25pm
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Oh, can’t you take a fucking break from saving the poor and downtrodden for just a few minutes to laugh at a funny song, luce ?
C’mon… Get down off of that high horse and get over to Youtube and listen to some Bloodhound Gang. It’ll be good for your soul.
Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.
Do I have to stand up for the Tea Party anthem ?
Don’t need a break. Not a burden. Besides, I set it down, who picks it up? You?
Debaser:
Oh, can’t you take a fucking break from saving the poor and downtrodden for just a few minutes to laugh at a funny song, luce ?
C’mon… Get down off of that high horse and get over to Youtube and listen to some Bloodhound Gang. It’ll be good for your soul.
Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.
Don’t blame luci , blame the assholes who made the formulation of Poe’s Law necessary.
Thanks, K , but I’m cool with it, I need a boost every now and then to keep my self-esteem level up to gargantuan, lest it slip down into wildly exaggerated.
If only we could think of something that could help you mellow out and chill. Something natural and green…
Debaser
October 18, 2013, 5:22pm
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[Garage Attendant]
Sure. Just give me a finsky.
Relax. You guys got nothing to worry about, I’m a professional.
[/Garage Attendant ]
Self-flagellation is its own reward - or punishment - but NEVER, EVER both. That would just be so wrong. Interesting, exciting and maybe even slightly stimulating, but NO! EVIL and WRONG!
“Weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no weed.”
