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Strudel Man posted:Seriously? The tone I get from that page is an extremely mocking one. Note 'macho' in quotation marks, for the most obvious indication. It's not. There are a lot of conservatives that look upon Russia enviously for having a president like Putin.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:It's not. There are a lot of conservatives that look upon Russia enviously for having a president like Putin.
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Mar 4, 2014 07:00
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Strudel Man posted:There are such people, yes, but that is not at all the vibe I get from that page in particular. Making fun of their own audience doesn't seem like a very Fox thing to do and judging by the commenters, if it's a joke on Putin they're not in on it at all. 'Macho' being in quotes reads more like "gee whiz look at this crazy word the kids are using these days" that comes out of Kelly cartoons than it does like a sarcastic insult here because that's how elderly white men are more likely to read it.
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Mar 4, 2014 07:21
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Strudel Man posted:There are such people, yes, but that is not at all the vibe I get from that page in particular. Leave. Leave while you still have a chance. Before it consumes you.
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Mar 4, 2014 08:17
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Haha look at you, you think you can leave. There is no escape, the abyss will follow you wherever you go.
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Mar 4, 2014 08:57
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Strudel Man posted:Seriously? The tone I get from that page is an extremely mocking one. Note 'macho' in quotation marks, for the most obvious indication. Sarcastiquotes don't exist in the right wing bubble.
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comes along bort posted:Sarcastiquotes don't exist in the right wing bubble. They do, only for words like "bigot" and "racist."
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Mar 4, 2014 09:34
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pd187 posted:http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/03/03/must-watch-highlight-reel-vladimir-putin-doing-macho-things
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Mar 4, 2014 17:18
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Yes. That is exactly what they want. They are insane and think the US is invincible. Why would they want the U.S. to get involved in this stupid bullshit? Are they still living out unresolved Reagan-fueled cold war fantasies? I think if Obama (for some stupid reason) wanted to intervene militarily in Ukraine the same way he did in Syria, the dittoheads would be screaming just as loudly but in another direction. You know. The same way they did with Syria.
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Mar 4, 2014 17:26
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BiggerBoat posted:Why would they want the U.S. to get involved in this stupid bullshit? Are they still living out unresolved Reagan-fueled cold war fantasies? I think if Obama (for some stupid reason) wanted to intervene militarily in Ukraine the same way he did in Syria, the dittoheads would be screaming just as loudly but in another direction. You know. The same way they did with Syria. Pretty much yes to all of it. The right hasn't stopped fighting the civil war or the cold war. Communism is the great enemy so we MUST fight it at all costs, especially at home. See, Oblammo passed a law that gave poor people something and that's communism! Now Russia is starting to spread again so obviously WE MUST DEFEND AGAINST COMMUNISM by deliberately impoverishing our own people. It's paradoxical because they adore Putin for being such a totalitarian bastard. They dream of getting away with the sorts of things happening in Russia. The dittoheads don't give a poo poo what Obama does. The only thing they care about is finding an answer to the question "Obama did a thing. What can we say that makes it wrong?"
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Guilty Spork posted:his macho posturing comes off as silly overcompensating. I wasn't aware it was coming off as anything else
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Mar 4, 2014 17:55
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I wasn't aware it was coming off as anything else   
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Mar 4, 2014 18:03
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Yes drat that Obama for driving a tank disguised as a limo rather than a motorized tricycle! 
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That's a traffic cop vehicle.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Yes drat that Obama for driving a tank disguised as a limo rather than a motorized tricycle! The place I used to work at commissioned a similar vheicle for driving around in Mexico, and I located the specifications for it, you're not kidding at all about them being tanks disguised as limos. Apparently during one trip it almost ended in disaster because they physically cannot roll down the window.
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For reference, The Beast:  precisely the kind of thing macho types would normally find cool, but they can't be arsed to learn about it edit: better readability
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Mar 4, 2014 18:21
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Ah the old "presidents blood in case of transfusion" WAKE UP SHEEPLE; The president is a vampire!
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A 180 J-Turn!?!?! What is this, the Matrix?
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TheQat posted:For reference, The Beast: The thing about information like this is, this is only the stuff that has been declassified.
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Mar 4, 2014 18:33
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TheQat posted:For reference, The Beast: Yes, but is it as stylish as Silvio Berlusconi's Maserati Quattroporte?
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Mar 4, 2014 18:52
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StandardVC10 posted:Yes, but is it as stylish as Silvio Berlusconi's Maserati Quattroporte? I'd volunteer to help carry Silvio around on a solid gold palanquin as long as we were taking him directly to jail.
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Mar 4, 2014 18:54
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Obama rides around in an armored vehicle because he knows he's not bulletproof. Putin rides on a traffic cop bike because he thinks he's bulletproof. Who's the wimp now democRATS 
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Mar 4, 2014 18:55
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I'm honestly surprised the President of the United States of America would have to pay a toll of any kind when he can just get one of those IPass things.
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kik2dagroin posted:I'm honestly surprised the President of the United States of America would have to pay a toll of any kind when he can just get one of those IPass things. I might be talking out my rear end but I believe they also haul it (or another one if there's more) when going abroad which is where I'd think the toll thing might be an issue because no toll booth person in America is going to charge the president.
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Mar 4, 2014 19:01
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BiggerBoat posted:Are they still living out unresolved Reagan-fueled cold war fantasies? Reminder that after Putin published an op-ed in the New York Times, John McCain wanted to rebut it in the pages of Pravda. Many conservatives are still stuck in the Cold War, yes.
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Mar 4, 2014 19:05
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What I find baffling is that they're complaining that Obama is doing this thing we like to call "travelling safely" which, you know, presidents of large, powerful nations generally need to do. I'm going to guess W. Bush was also surrounded by very similar safety measures but you didn't hear any complaints back then! Of course I'm going to assume part of that is because W was their darling and they WANT Oblammo to get assassinated.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:What I find baffling is that they're complaining that Obama is doing this thing we like to call "travelling safely" which, you know, presidents of large, powerful nations generally need to do. I'm going to guess W. Bush was also surrounded by very similar safety measures but you didn't hear any complaints back then! You're reading too much into it. It's not "Why does the president drive the presidential tanklimo?", it's "Putin drives a motorcycle, and thus is manlier than our weak president who rides in a car to work!"
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Mar 4, 2014 19:21
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If Obama did ride a trike, they would call him unmanly for not riding a real motorcycle.
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Mar 4, 2014 19:24
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Putin prefers to have sex with soft, lovely women, where as Gay Obama bangs mustachioed bikers hard through a gloryhole. Who's the wimp now?
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peter banana posted:Putin prefers to have sex with soft, lovely women, where as Gay Obama bangs mustachioed bikers hard through a gloryhole. Who's the wimp now? Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU
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ToxicSlurpee posted:"Obama did a thing. What can we say that makes it wrong?" That's what I'm getting out of this as well, and pretty much everything Obama does and the subsequent right wing media reaction to it. I get the sense that had Obama not wanted to go into Syria we'd be getting the same sorts of "weakness!" type horse poo poo we're hearing now. Also, the posters pointing out that right wing media listeners are jacking off to the totalitarianism of Putin while crying "freedom!" and "big government" here at home are spot on. Reading the Freep thread taught me that most of these folks want to be in a theocratic fascist government. It just has to be the right religion and political bent.
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BiggerBoat posted:That's what I'm getting out of this as well, and pretty much everything Obama does and the subsequent right wing media reaction to it. I get the sense that had Obama not wanted to go into Syria we'd be getting the same sorts of "weakness!" type horse poo poo we're hearing now. If the Taliban had been Christian the right wing would've embraced them with open arms and elected them into office.
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Notorious QIG posted:If the Taliban had been Christian the right wing would've embraced them with open arms and elected them into office. Preposterous; nobody with beard gets elected to national office.
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Gotta challenge: You have a picture of Obama on a Harley Davidson and a picture of Putin on that geriatric trike-thing. Aruge for Putin's machismo and/or Obama's queerness.
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Oh, I just heard a radio ad about primarying John Bohner, since I live in the Cincinnati area (I actually live in Bohner's district, about two miles away from his house, and considered running against him out of boredom). Basically it consisted of "John Bohner makes back room deals, sign a petition to have someone run against him in the primaries, because of Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare!"
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BiggerBoat posted:That's what I'm getting out of this as well, and pretty much everything Obama does and the subsequent right wing media reaction to it. I get the sense that had Obama not wanted to go into Syria we'd be getting the same sorts of "weakness!" type horse poo poo we're hearing now. What freeper types really want is the freedom to oppress and exploit. They want themselves and people like them to be powerful and wealthy while everybody else is weak, desperate, and easy to control. It's part of why the very wealthy dump so much money into support of "economic freedom." There is a strong desire among the right to return to the 19th century when a few white men owned everything and everybody else was so desperate they'd work 80 hours a week in unsanitary, dangerous conditions in return for barely enough money to not starve to death in a year.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:What freeper types really want is the freedom to oppress and exploit. They want themselves and people like them to be powerful and wealthy while everybody else is weak, desperate, and easy to control. It's part of why the very wealthy dump so much money into support of "economic freedom." There is a strong desire among the right to return to the 19th century when a few white men owned everything and everybody else was so desperate they'd work 80 hours a week in unsanitary, dangerous conditions in return for barely enough money to not starve to death in a year. The disturbing part is those freeper types would be the majority of the ones working those 80 hour weeks for poo poo. They vote against their own interests out of racism and xenophobia that Republican elites are more than happy to foster. Pssst, I heard the liberals are going to try to take all of your guns away forever so they can control you, make sure to vote for me so I can keep you economically handicapped for life.
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Swan Oat posted:Reminder that after Putin published an op-ed in the New York Times, John McCain wanted to rebut it in the pages of Pravda. Many conservatives are still stuck in the Cold War, yes. I think it's understandable that McCain of all people might be a little stuck in a Cold War mentality.
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Good Citizen posted:I think it's understandable that McCain of all people might be a little stuck in a Cold War mentality. John McCain is the stereotypical American grandparent: you can't get mad at his views because you know why he has them but that doesn't mean you want to hear them.
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ponzicar posted:If Obama did ride a trike, they would call him unmanly for not riding a real motorcycle. Or they'd say "Look at this fancy pants, tricked out pimp rolling around on his custom bike on the taxpayer dime." Then they'd post pictures of President President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho from Idiocracy and FW:FW:FW: that poo poo while completely missing the point. My point being If Obama DID want to intervene than that would be Wrong also. What sane leader would want to get involved in this nonsense anyway? Maybe we should try telling these jerks if they love Russia so much, why not move there, you loving commie? ToxicSlurpee posted:What freeper types really want is the freedom to oppress and exploit. They want themselves and people like them to be powerful and wealthy while everybody else is weak, desperate, and easy to control. It's part of why the very wealthy dump so much money into support of "economic freedom." There is a strong desire among the right to return to the 19th century when a few white men owned everything and everybody else was so desperate they'd work 80 hours a week in unsanitary, dangerous conditions in return for barely enough money to not starve to death in a year. Right. Theocratic fascism. That's what I was trying to say.
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