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Alter Ego posted:Truman took it in either the White House or the Capitol (can't remember which). LBJ took the oath on Air Force One though. Yeah, that's it.
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Joementum posted:If it's wrong to eat beef and drink whiskey through the rectum, I don't want to be right. Hell it wasn't even that, they could have just sown up the bullet hole and then crammed as much beef and whiskey up his rear end as you want and he'd have completed his presidency.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:46
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Another fun one: two people are tied for taking the Presidential oath of office the most times. Which two?
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Jul 2, 2015 02:47
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Barack Obama and FDR both took it three times.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:49
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greatn posted:Barack Obama and FDR both took it three times. Wait had we not moved the inauguration up to January by 1944?
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Jul 2, 2015 02:51
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greatn posted:Barack Obama and FDR both took it three times. They both took it four times. Obama did it twice in 2009 due to Roberts loving it up and twice again in 2013.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:52
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Joementum posted:They both took it four times. Obama did it twice in 2009 due to Roberts loving it up and twice again in 2013. And why didn't he take it five times? ... Really makes you think.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:53
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Joementum posted:They both took it four times. Obama did it twice in 2009 due to Roberts loving it up and twice again in 2013. Okay, I remember the gently caress up first term, but what happened in '13?
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Jul 2, 2015 02:58
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site posted:Okay, I remember the gently caress up first term, but what happened in '13? The official ceremony was held inside the White House and then they did a ceremonial one during the inauguration. He was probably lip syncing during the ceremony.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:01
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site posted:Okay, I remember the gently caress up first term, but what happened in '13? Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, so he did a private ceremony and then had the big event on the 21st. e: drat YOU JOEMENTUM
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Jul 2, 2015 03:01
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Gen. Ripper posted:Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, so he did a private ceremony and then had the big event on the 21st. Hah! I didn't know they did that because it was a Sunday, but that's exactly the kind of stupid reason that they would. On a similar note: Franklin Pierce was the only President to affirm, rather than swear the oath.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:06
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Joementum posted:Hah! I didn't know they did that because it was a Sunday, but that's exactly the kind of stupid reason that they would. Looks like all those conservatives were right about atheists.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:07
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Joementum posted:It's understandable. There's no reason to remember Chester A. Arthur, our mutton-choppiest President. Uhh excuse me, the man owned over five hundred pairs of pants. If that's not a reason to remember a fellow, I don't know what is. plus debatably he's our only other VT president, if he wasn't actually from Canada
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Jul 2, 2015 03:10
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I hope I live long enough for someone to say "no" when they do the pledge, the reactions would be great.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:14
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Joementum posted:If it's wrong to eat beef and drink whiskey through the rectum, I don't want to be right. that we once shoved whiskey and beef bullion up a President's butt until he died will never not be funny. I mean, for the family and the nation, it was tragic. But say that sentence out loud. Its hilarious.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:20
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Joementum posted:Another fun one: two people are tied for taking the Presidential oath of office the most times. Which two? Question for you, Joe: Which Presidents have violated that oath?
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Jul 2, 2015 03:21
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Fried Chicken posted:that we once shoved whiskey and beef bullion up a President's butt until he died will never not be funny. Who did it to him, the CIA?
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Jul 2, 2015 03:23
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Some nice folks turned out to see the Presidential motorcade leave Nashville tonight.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:24
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Uhh excuse me, the man owned over five hundred pairs of pants. If that's not a reason to remember a fellow, I don't know what is. Rafael Cruz's spiritual ancestor. ...Literal ancestor? 
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Jul 2, 2015 03:28
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Joementum posted:Some nice folks turned out to see the Presidential motorcade leave Nashville tonight.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:30
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Samurai Sanders posted:Not that I think people should be punished for just waving a flag, but that seems almost treasonous to me. Very least confusing with the dude dual wielding the traitor flag and the marine flag.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:34
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Joementum posted:Some nice folks turned out to see the Presidential motorcade leave Nashville tonight. I like the woman in the middle. Committed enough to wave that tiny flag around at the President, but also eager to record the time the President visited her town 
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Jul 2, 2015 03:34
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DemeaninDemon posted:Very least confusing with the dude dual wielding the traitor flag and the marine flag. It's a callback to the 2013 shutdown march! 
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Also, leg braces and rollerskates?
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Samurai Sanders posted:Not that I think people should be punished for just waving a flag, but that seems almost treasonous to me. Obama should've mooned them though!
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Jul 2, 2015 03:37
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I'm serious about Garfield's death being a tragedy for the nation BTW. He entered office with a plan to beat back the rose of Jim Crow and build from the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to push for racial equality. But then he was assassinated and Arthur didn't care about the issue and the SCOTUS ruled the CRA of 1875 unconstitutional and history played out as it did. It's an intriguing counterfactual though, what if the big steps forward we made on race in the 60s had happened 80 years prior? Where would we be now?
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Fried Chicken posted:I'm serious about Garfield's death being a tragedy for the nation BTW. He entered office with a plan to beat back the rose of Jim Crow and build from the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to push for racial equality. On the plus side his death forced a major reform of the civil service which was probably the major reason why corruption is kept to a minimum here (at least compared to [developing country of your choice]). Oh also Plessy v Ferguson was like 15 years after he was elected so he probably wouldn't have done much.
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Joementum posted:It's a callback to the 2013 shutdown march! You know, I'm pretty sure that in any other context, waving the Confederate flag outside the home of a black family while telling them to get out of here would be regarded as an intensely threatening act. But given that it's the president we have to pretend that isn't exactly what was going on there.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:40
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Fried Chicken posted:You know, I'm pretty sure that in any other context, waving the Confederate flag outside the home of a black family while telling them to get out of here would be regarded as an intensely threatening act. But given that it's the president we have to pretend that isn't exactly what was going on there. While he was waving those around, Larry Klayman was yards away yelling into a bullhorn for Obama to "put the Koran down and come out with your hands up" so that he could citizen-impeach him and try him before a jury of the march's attendees.
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computer parts posted:On the plus side his death forced a major reform of the civil service which was probably the major reason why corruption is kept to a minimum here (at least compared to [developing country of your choice]). Yeah but his appointments to the court and the lower courts could have changed the makeup, blocked assholes from White from getting appointed, etc, and prevented Plessy v Ferguson. You never know.
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Disinterested posted:http://www.salon.com/2015/06/30/african_american_flagger_says_confederate_flag_isnt_about_race_slavery_was_a_choice/ The tea bagging former teacher I have on facebook posted this and then a video of a black guy saying why Democrats are the real racist party, then later posted one of those dumb ecards along the lines of "oh what you say is free speech but what I say is bigoted? I see how it is." It's all so dumb and I just have to resist replying to him with "yes, when you use free speech to demand gays not get equal rights, or that a state keep flying a flag they put up as a response to the civil rights, you're being an rear end in a top hat and a bigot" but Jesus himself would have his work cut out getting this guy to pay attention. LORD OF BUTT posted:So this is possibly not a USPol question, but... what exactly is HuffPo's purpose? Huffington Post was created by her and others (including motherfucking Breitbart) to basically be a leftwing Drudge Report IIRC. Probably with the idea that Drudge's traffic + actual revenue plans would make them a shitload of money (it would) but Huffington's just insane period and egotistical as all hell.
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Fried Chicken posted:You know, I'm pretty sure that in any other context, waving the Confederate flag outside the home of a black family while telling them to get out of here would be regarded as an intensely threatening act. But given that it's the president we have to pretend that isn't exactly what was going on there. They were tap dancing all over the line and they knew it. The only way to make the message any more obvious involved nooses, flaming crosses and white hoods. It was the equivalent of a five year old holding his finger a quarter inch away from his sister's nose while yelling "I'm not touching you" over and over.
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Jul 2, 2015 03:52
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Joementum posted:It's a callback to the 2013 shutdown march! "Hey Buddy, the US Marines would be shooting at the Confederates"
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Samurai Sanders posted:Not that I think people should be punished for just waving a flag, but that seems almost treasonous to me. Hang the first one of them you can get your hands on to the first tree you can find.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:They were tap dancing all over the line and they knew it. The only way to make the message any more obvious involved nooses, flaming crosses and white hoods. When my siblings tried that poo poo I smacked them in the goddamn head (and vice versa) and my parents were like "too bad, you were asking for it, next time don't antagonize each other" so we learned that lesson quickly. I guess taking a violation in spirit as a violation in letter isn't as thoughtfully received when it's the President firing Reconstruction back up to finish the loving job.
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Jul 2, 2015 04:00
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Joementum posted:Some nice folks turned out to see the Presidential motorcade leave Nashville tonight. It would have been cheaper to buy oaktag and magic markers and write signs that say "WE ARE HUMAN GARBAGE, PLEASE IGNORE US". Would have gotten the same point across, anyway.
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Jul 2, 2015 04:03
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Alter Ego posted:It would have been cheaper to buy oaktag and magic markers and write signs that say "WE ARE HUMAN GARBAGE, PLEASE IGNORE US". If they were being honest they would have brought signs emblazoned with that word which polite society and Political Correctness Gone Mad(R) has cruelly taken away from them. Have some mental mouthwash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-5uyp44WA
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Jul 2, 2015 04:19
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Joementum posted:It's a callback to the 2013 shutdown march! Thankfully flag code doesn't apply to that rag.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Thankfully flag code doesn't apply to that rag. Pretty sure it doesn't apply to the rebel flag either.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:HuffPo is by and for the rich as gently caress liberal elite that poor conservatives always bitch about. I don't think it's some 11th dimensional chess Trojan horse but I do think it hurts leftist causes more than it helps anything. It's like the liberal version of FoxNews, just less outright disconnected from reality. They used to call those people Rockefeller Republicans, because they were moderate- or liberal-leaning on social justice causes before being purged from the party during the Reagan era. Also, I'm pretty sure Ariana Huffington's real political change-over was when her husband dumped her when he came out of the closet.
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