US Politics July - Boner Sues the Hussein Clown Posse

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ufarn: May 30, 2009

How time flies ...

# ¿ Jul 9, 2014 17:59

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 10:20

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Now is the time to buy, before they fix that poo poo.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2014 20:32

ufarn: May 30, 2009

I swear to our atheist god, if you Americans ruin the nice weather for us European by blowing up half your country after exposing the Yellowstone volcano, I'm gonna be hella pissed.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2014 17:51

ufarn: May 30, 2009

mdemone posted:

Every time Yellowstone comes up in conversation I just have this incredible urge to stop thinking about it. I think it's my lizard brain activating the self-preservation mechanism; terror management theory and all that.

The Cascadia earthquake or a Yellowstone eruption, which will gently caress over North America first, pull up your lawn chairs, Europe!

# ¿ Jul 16, 2014 18:29

ufarn: May 30, 2009

cheerfullydrab posted:

You all don't seem to be aware that, currently, the major conservative idea for securing the border is that all we have to do is use the armed forces to form a human chain from the Pacific to the Gulf Coast and physically push people back who try to cross. Like the people at the periphery of a mosh pit.

There is however one maverick who favoured putting up a danged fence.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 21:22

ufarn: May 30, 2009

For the love of Sagan, don't remind them. You might just give them ideas.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 21:26

ufarn: May 30, 2009

cheerfullydrab posted:

I'm pretty sure the fence idea is falling out of fashion. At least, a fence that's not made out of troops or police officers or some other people.

Think bigger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-q5lI7618

# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 21:27

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Fried Chicken posted:

Andrew Cuomo's office hobbled ethics investigations - you'll never believe how!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/n...ory-continues-1

Practicing my click hole post writing up in here

The first time I saw that article, I thought "hey, that's pretty bad" and scrolled down more - to find like fifty-gajillion more words with revelations on Cuomo. :stare:

Of course, the NYT bury the lede as usual, so 2% of readers will probably learn about the truth.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 17:36

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Fried Chicken posted:

Wisconsin governors race is a dead heat

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FS2DC20140723?irpc=932

Probably could have the recall with a decent candidate. :smith:

# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 17:16

ufarn: May 30, 2009

ErIog posted:

Ezra Klein is like the most punditty pundit to ever pundit, and Paul Ryan constantly shits out these awful policy papers that provide opportunities for punditry. It's a match made in heaven. I'm not sure he thinks Paul Ryan is the greatest or anything, but he has this starry-eyed naive belief that, by god, both sides are saying the same thing so if they could just talk to each other then maybe that's a thing we could actually do!

Ezra Klein might actually be a robot. He can't seem to understand the motivations behind stuff like this, and so he just takes the entire thing at face value. I wonder if he voted for Romney out of solidarity.

GOP doesn't give a gently caress about helping anyone who isn't registered in Delaware or rich enough to own something registered in Delaware. They have even demonstrated they don't even give a gently caress about actually helping veterans in any tangible way. So even if Paul Ryan's stupid policy paper were in some way an improvement over the current system in terms of helping poor people, there's no way he can put together the votes to pass it. He's just masturbating into the w

So you're saying he's pretty much the journalistic CBO for BS.

Sounds about right.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2014 16:28

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Joementum posted:

Lucy Coffey, 108, the oldest woman veteran visited D.C. today.

Did she sit on his lap?

# ¿ Jul 26, 2014 21:17

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Game of Thrones has based its most famous scenes on actual events, so. Gurm also gets to wrap it nicely together and add dragons, so.

Dude likes his Middle-Age English history.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2014 12:22

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Joementum posted:

The Sarah Palin Channel launched today.

Do we know how big a business Ron Paul's online gimmick is?

# ¿ Jul 28, 2014 09:27

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Oh dear.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2014 17:09

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Radish posted:

Didn't Carter also really get the deregulation train rolling before Reagan?

He kickstarted a lot of neoliberalism, and wasn't exactly a friend to the unions, yeah.

Lots of good comments in the link as well.

ufarn fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jul 29, 2014

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 01:20

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Rand Paul has supported some legit-good bills recently on things like justice/sentencing and prison reform, and I'll definitely give him that.

Booker has probably made some of the most insane pro-Israel remarks of any prominant politician I can remember.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:33

ufarn: May 30, 2009

You can't really be a Libertarian and not be against today's drug laws. It's like in the top two for Libertarian causes.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 22:23

ufarn: May 30, 2009

And no one in the press corp found it germane to ask Obama about that whole CIA spy-y and lie-y business.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 20:30

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Joementum posted:

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Kind of amazing he says something like that, when people at the presser are bored out of their skulls and just starving for the tiniest morsel to pounce on.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 21:06

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Aren't forums somewhat down in activity since the 90s?

Of course, fandom poo poo is still alive and kicking, but general chat.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2014 22:26

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Nintendo Kid posted:

That'd be hard, as forums only really got going in mass use in the 2000s.

Derp, I meant the 00s. Good thing I started posting early 2002. I'm sure I never wrote anything stupid about that whole thing.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2014 22:57

ufarn: May 30, 2009

VikingofRock posted:

I'd say that unless you've literally posted "My name is [whatever]", you can probably go with the standard politician strategy of "deny everything" and be alright. At worst it'll be a minor thing that no one really cares about, like George W. Bush's cocaine binges.

Snowden's user on Ars was discovered, and people on SA have been doxxed before, so a little paranoia is always appropriate.

I think the most controversial things I've said on SA are my thought on certain movies and directors/screenwriters, so I think I'll manage.

Stuff you wrote in college papers are always on the top of the list for most journos anyway.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 00:29

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Fried Chicken posted:

He's been the figure for gun control for 30 years, how much worse can it get?

Larry Speakes.

Do not question the Reagan Administration, when it comes to this.

For everything bad that's happened the past thirty years, there's a member of the administration with a poo poo-eating grin.

But I guess it'll be interesting to see how the Saint Reagan crowd will take the criticism.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 19:12

ufarn: May 30, 2009

Fried Chicken posted:

Wait, you are blaming Brady for what his replacement did? Seriously?

Wow, zoux was right.

Sure, if you read my post the wrong way.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 19:17

ufarn: May 30, 2009

The reason you nominate Obama is that it'll up free up at least four Conservative seats.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 21:35

ufarn: May 30, 2009

zoux posted:

Can you imagine what the GOP would've done if 9/11 happened during Obama's term? Everyone basically gave the Bush administration a complete pass for 9/11. I'm not saying that we should go after Bush for 9/11, but if he ain't culpable then Obama sure as poo poo ain't culpable for Benghazi.

lolwut

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# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 19:11

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 10:20

ufarn: May 30, 2009

I think the real question here is: When will the moderators lead?

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 21:01

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