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nachos posted:My favorite part of all this "Trump is running no campaign" stuff is that Trump never ran a campaign. He defeated the "best GOP field in a generation" on the strength of twitter and memes. People actually think he is a brilliant politician and campaigner when in fact the GOP is just that much of a loving disaster that they could be beaten by a goose stepping human cheeto. Hahaha holy poo poo. Nice. But, yeah, anyone that actually thinks the 2016 GOP field was deep and not just broad needs to have their head examined. More is not always better (except when it comes to the length of one's fingers). It's not like any of them were or are Richard Nixon or whatever. And I mean that as a complement here, as in someone who was really smart and had game. Ruthless, illegal game, but game nonetheless. Ok, so maybe Nixon wasn't a great example. But you get the idea.
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Bryter posted:lol why, what did he do that was heroic? Lived through the Hanoi Hilton while being tortured so badly that it left him crippled for life and when given the option to trade on his name in order to get out early he told them to go cram it up their rear end. McCain's opinions are poo poo, but that's heroic as gently caress.
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STAC Goat posted:Honestly, I feel like John Boehner has basically made anyone like McCain look especially bad. Boehner even got out before Trump. But if he can just say "gently caress this, I'm done" it makes McCain pandering and denigrating himself and his principles all the more embarrassing. Oh my god Boehner has gotta be just sipping merlot on a beach somewhere and laughing and laughing at the current state of affairs after being the official GOP House Tea Party Cat Herder for years
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Jun 16, 2016 22:10
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Are we sure this isn't Doobie's truck?
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Jun 16, 2016 22:11
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John Boehner is probably the happiest man alive right now
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Monkey Fracas posted:Oh my god Boehner has gotta be just sipping merlot on a beach somewhere and laughing and laughing at the current state of affairs after being the official GOP House Tea Party Cat Herder for years gently caress you; I'm positive Boehner drinks liquor. 
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Jun 16, 2016 22:12
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Railing Kill posted:Hahaha holy poo poo. Nice. Every year a greater and greater percentage of GOP presidential hopefuls were blatant hucksters trying to sell a book or get a gig in the Right Wing Media-O Sphere and they all stuck around as long as possible saying stupid poo poo and it was great Will it happen again is the question- will I get to keep seeing it play out over and over again or has Trump ruined that?
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Jun 16, 2016 22:14
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I think we can agree, a rich boy draft dodger saying "I prefer guys who weren't captured" is pretty lovely
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Jun 16, 2016 22:14
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What would banning Obama curtail?
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Jun 16, 2016 22:16
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prefect posted:gently caress you; I'm positive Boehner drinks liquor. Good things about Boehner: 1) Good taste in bourbon 2) Is not Ted Cruz 3) Laughing about 2) while drinking 1)
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Also Trump running a presidential election into the ground, tanking the GOP, and then creating his own media empire so he can yell at them for being liars and terrible is going to be the loving greatest thing ever. He's going to leverage his lunacy into a giant mouthpiece and its going to set the GOP on fire forever.
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prefect posted:I don't think musicians can actually forbid people from using their music like that. It's entirely based on the candidate's willingness to be a giant rear end in a top hat. Pretty sure Trump has used that song at events since. Neil Young actually said he didn't object, that you are free to use his music as long as you pay for it. But how petty can a man be to tweet "Didn’t love it anyway" after Young's fans told him to gently caress off? Who on earth could say of Rockin' in the free world "meh, didn't love it anyway" after using it as the background to declaring yourself a presidential hopeful??
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Jun 16, 2016 22:17
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Zeroisanumber posted:Lived through the Hanoi Hilton while being tortured so badly that it left him crippled for life and when given the option to trade on his name in order to get out early he told them to go cram it up their rear end. McCain's opinions are poo poo, but that's heroic as gently caress. prefect posted:He had the option of leaving early, but I understand he refused to leave until they freed the rest of his friends. That's a pretty cool thing to do. If a member of the Saudi royal family joins ISIS, gets captured and tortured and then refuses to trade on his name in order to get out in a prisoner swap, is he a war hero too?
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Jun 16, 2016 22:20
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Bryter posted:If a member of the Saudi royal family joins ISIS, gets captured and tortured and then refuses to trade on his name in order to get out in a prisoner swap, is he a war hero too? Dude... don't pick this hill to die on.
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Bryter posted:If a member of the Saudi royal family joins ISIS, gets captured and tortured and then refuses to trade on his name in order to get out in a prisoner swap, is he a war hero too? To the ISIS people, he might be.
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prefect posted:gently caress you; I'm positive Boehner drinks liquor. I seem to remember a ton of press coverage where he talks about drinking wine but I would not be at all surprised if his time as House majority leader led him to develop an appreciation for the harder stuff
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Jun 16, 2016 22:23
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shiksa posted:I think we can agree, a rich boy draft dodger saying "I prefer guys who weren't captured" is pretty lovely Remember when Romney got a religious exemption, then counter protested Vietnam protestors and draft dodgers? That is pro tier FYGM.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:24
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Bryter posted:If a member of the Saudi royal family joins ISIS, gets captured and tortured and then refuses to trade on his name in order to get out in a prisoner swap, is he a war hero too? Haha drat
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Jun 16, 2016 22:24
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I'm not claiming McCain was Daniel Inouye, but what he did wasn't easy.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:25
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prefect posted:To the ISIS people, he might be. Exactly, because they think the war they're waging is just. No sane person thinks America's war in Vietnam was just.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:25
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Bryter posted:If a member of the Saudi royal family joins ISIS, gets captured and tortured and then refuses to trade on his name in order to get out in a prisoner swap, is he a war hero too? This is a dumb.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:26
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sean10mm posted:Good things about Boehner: 4) Keeps a tidy lawn while all of the above
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Jun 16, 2016 22:27
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Zeroisanumber posted:Lived through the Hanoi Hilton while being tortured so badly that it left him crippled for life and when given the option to trade on his name in order to get out early he told them to go cram it up their rear end. McCain's opinions are poo poo, but that's heroic as gently caress. Maybe he should take some personal responsibility for being a poo poo pilot that didn't lose his wings the first 3 times he lost a plane because of Daddy.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:29
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I enjoyed Boehner in that Obama's retirement video.
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Goatman Sacks posted:Maybe he should take some personal responsibility for being a poo poo pilot that didn't lose his wings the first 3 times he lost a plane because of Daddy. I like the guys who didn't get captured - you, probably
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Jun 16, 2016 22:30
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Bryter posted:Exactly, because they think the war they're waging is just. No sane person thinks America's war in Vietnam was just. Goatman Sacks posted:Maybe he should take some personal responsibility for being a poo poo pilot that didn't lose his wings the first 3 times he lost a plane because of Daddy. Huh. You guys are actually doing this, eh?
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I think part of the political problem in this country is that people can't even hear one good word about someone on the other side without trying to make it equivalent to something ISIS does.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:30
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Turn left thread, turn left! McCain has done a ton of shady and shifty things; his Vietnam record really doesn't need to be dredged up. It's probably accurate to say he's no chickenhawk (in that he actually served and got tortured) but he's also right up there with the rest of the neocons in trying to stick soldiers in the poo poo. And then cutting their care when they get home. In any case, hopefully he's on his last few months in office and then he can retire to his 7 or 8 homes in peace.
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Goatman Sacks posted:Maybe he should take some personal responsibility for being a poo poo pilot that didn't lose his wings the first 3 times he lost a plane because of Daddy. He was a shithead who did shitheaded things, but he still demanded his buddies got released before he would leave. That's a Good Thing, and not something I would have expected from a person like that.
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mlmp08 posted:Remember when Romney got a religious exemption, then counter protested Vietnam protestors and draft dodgers? That is pro tier FYGM. I do not but hahaha holy poo poo
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Zeroisanumber posted:I have the biggest soft spot for crazy political opinions expressed in car form. I don't agree with the politics of this man but I will defend to the death his right to express it in the form of a garish, over-adorned car with a hundred conflicting messages Can't wait to see that parked next to some GOPe think tank shitlord's BMW at the RNC
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Remember in Police Academy when Mahoney was a goofoff and a screwup, but he wound up doing the right thing when the chips were down? It's like that.
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Thump! posted:This all has to make the assumption that Trump doesn't want to be POTUS though. On a hunch, I looked at some of my posts from last summer. Christ I was naive 
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shiksa posted:I do not but hahaha holy poo poo He was bringing the word of mormonism to those poor unenlightened French people. Then this: 
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https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/743557486054096896
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prefect posted:He was a shithead who did shitheaded things, but he still demanded his buddies got released before he would leave. That's a Good Thing, and not something I would have expected from a person like that. Sure, it took a lot of courage and integrity to make a choice like that. Doesn't make him a war hero though.
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Jun 16, 2016 22:36
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He was also one of the Keating 5. But I tend to hate him less than the vast majority of R's.
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OAquinas posted:Turn left thread, turn left! I probably should have said "how did he go from a war hero to indistinguishable from a chickenhawk"
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