Joementum posted:

Not at all. Their objection is absolute, counter-productive, and idiotic.

Joementum posted:

The Senate just adopted a resolution calling for an investigation into the death of Boris Nemtsov. Too far?

Joementum posted:

The Senate just adopted a resolution calling for an investigation into the death of Boris Nemtsov. Too far?

a shameful boehner posted:

Finally, we can realize our collective dream of joining Obama's Brownshirts Brigades and putting MIGF up against the wall.

A Winner is Jew posted:

I thought republicans loved Putin....

A Winner is Jew posted:

I thought republicans loved Putin....

FAUXTON posted:

Grey Fox posted:

What's up with all that loose skin around his nose?

Grey Fox posted:

What's up with all that loose skin around his nose?

ReidRansom posted:

Lizard person, duh.

I wish I could remember whatever dumb poo poo Cotton said that cemented my low opinion of Harvard though. Because it was really dumb.

quote:

In an interview in his still-bare office a few hours before being sworn in, Cotton told us he would have voted against both Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” tax on millionaires, and the final tax hike that got the country off the fiscal cliff. He vowed to vote against raising the debt limit in two months, absent the sort of massive cuts the president opposes. He said he is more concerned about the “cataclysmic” consequences of inaction than the “short-term market corrections” of default. “I’d like to take the medicine now,” he said.

quote:

Despite blather about the "information superhighway" in popular culture, connecting classrooms and libraries to the Internet is a horrible idea. The Internet at best brings convenience to everyday life. It allows us to check the weather, the news, the stock market and so on very quickly. None of this information helps educate children. But the Internet does not just fail to educate children; it even obstructs their education. The information on it lacks veritable scholastic quality because it is not filtered through the ordinary editing and publishing process of books and magazines. Moreover, the Internet has too many temptations—ESPNet and Playboy come to mind—to distract students bored with their assignments and looking for some fun.

quote:

To have women serving in infantry, though, could impair the mission-essential tasks of those units. And that’s been proven in study after study, it’s nature, upper body strength, and physical movements, and speed, and endurance, and so forth.

a shameful boehner posted:

On the fiscal cliff:


On the value of the Internet (while at Harvard ):


On women serving in the military:


Those are all from the Arkansas Times.

zoux posted:

Oh so you mean they would continue to repeat the same rhetoric of the last seven years.

There is nothing they could say that they haven't already said. Obama's always tried to play the above-the-fray statesman but he's utterly failed to outmessage the Republicans at every turn.

a shameful boehner posted:

On the fiscal cliff:


On the value of the Internet (while at Harvard ):


On women serving in the military:


Those are all from the Arkansas Times.

Al Harrington posted:

sweet baby jesus, how the gently caress did this guy get into Harvard?

Grouchio posted:

If Clinton becomes president in 2016, would this cycle of boneless cowardice from the democrats finally end?

ReidRansom posted:

Oh, it was far stupider than that. Like some glaring ignorance of basic science.


Harvard is a joke that doesn't deserve its reputation is how.

Tom Cotton posted:

Feminists who allegedly speak for women should attack divorce, not its effects. If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. If restrained, however, men can fulfill women’s deepest hopes. They can learn that personal happiness comes from the desire to devote and sacrifice oneself to one’s beloved.

A few men can see this by themselves, and women are quite lucky to hook them. Ordinary women must not only defend these men against feminism, but also demand that all other men accept the lifelong nature of marriage. If not, one-half of all women who marry see their ‘greatest fear’ come true. If so, they can have their ‘deepest hopes’ fulfilled.

Tom Cotton posted:

"I don’t think that we should be using farmers as a way to pack more welfare spending into Barack Obama’s government, nor should we have a food stamp program that isn’t reformed that doesn’t have job training and a work requirement, so we can get people who are addicted the help they need," Cotton said. "We need to make sure that long-term addicts who are receiving this aren’t abusing taxpayer dollars."

ReidRansom posted:

Harvard is a joke that doesn't deserve its reputation is how.

Trabisnikof posted:

When exactly were the democrats not boneless cowards in your mind?

Grey Fox posted:

What's up with all that loose skin around his nose?

Gravel Gravy posted:

Just watched a conservative PAC against negotiating with Iran. Basically pulled some 24 scenario out of its rear end about a nuke driven into a parking garage and detonating. These people have fear mongering ads for everything.

bradburypancakes posted:

tbf I think they were blowing up Baltimore so, you know, eh...

Enigma89 posted:

Rand Paul is loving done in my book after signing off on that letter to Iran.

Are there any candidates that don't want to bomb other countries?

Enigma89 posted:

Rand Paul is loving done in my book after signing off on that letter to Iran.

Are there any candidates that don't want to bomb other countries?

bradburypancakes posted:

tbf I think they were blowing up Baltimore so, you know, eh...

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Baltimore ate a truck nuke in the sum of all fears movie which we were also talking about.

Joementum posted:

The Senate just adopted a resolution calling for an investigation into the death of Boris Nemtsov. Too far?

Joementum posted:

Bernie. He's not going to win, but you were supporting Rand already, so that's apparently not an issue for you.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Baltimore wouldn't be a huge loss so long as the fallout didn't affect crab cakes.

a shameful boehner posted:

Bernie is the Senator of my heart if not my state.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

I am reliably informed by historical documentary Fallout 3 that it does not.


Not gonna lie, it was sweet when he was our sole representative, and I like him in the Senate as well. Pity about the accent, though.

Enigma89 posted:

Rand Paul is loving done in my book after signing off on that letter to Iran.

Are there any candidates that don't want to bomb other countries?

Enigma89 posted:

Rand Paul is loving done in my book after signing off on that letter to Iran.

Are there any candidates that don't want to bomb other countries?

ReidRansom posted:

Ahahaha that's what it took? It wasn't all the other stuff about him generally?

e: I mean, I guess everyone has their moment where they realize everything they thought was wrong, but still

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Baltimore wouldn't be a huge loss so long as the fallout didn't affect crab cakes.

Aerox posted:

I think the most infuriating thing about this Iran Letter debacle is that all of my social media stuff is filling up with people arguing about it, and I'm once again reminded that most conservatives (and quite a few liberals, but literally almost every conservative I see) have absolutely no clue about anything regarding even the most basic government procedures and are actively resistant to even the thought of educating themselves.

Already multiple times today I've seen people in comments sections parroting some talking point they heard somewhere about how all treaties have to be approved by the senate so not only are these senators right but they're champions of justice fighting against lawless Obama. When other people inevitably link them to the explanations of executive agreements vs treaties, or try to explain it themselves, it's like talking to a brick wall. They do not seem to believe that executive agreements even exist. The source is biased, the stats on how common executive agreements are liberal lies made up by Obama to cover his rear end, or they just don't read it at all and start yelling about how Obama is the real terrorist for shredding the Constitution. Almost everything I've seen on Facebook or in comments sections from conservatives is a belief that what Obama is doing by making an executive agreement is completely illegal and unprecedented.

The last political argument I had with a conservative on social media was years ago when someone who fancied himself a Constitutional Scholar was ranting about how the legal protections and right to trial in the Constitution only applies to American citizens and if liberals had actually studied the Constitution they'd know that. He was trying to play it off like this "Aw shucks" attitude about how it would be nice if everyone had rights, but you just have to follow the Constitution. When I quoted him the "The fourteenth amendment to the constitution is not confined to the protection of citizens." line from the Yick Wo decision he just said I was an rear end in a top hat and then just instantly switched his argument to "We need to amend the Constitution so rights don't apply to illegal aliens."

That taught me to not even bother engaging conservatives about political issues, at least on impersonal stuff like social media, but it's just so infuriating. There are plenty of liberals guilty of similar behavior, but this lack of basic knowledge about the government and an unwillingness to even read basic information seems so pervasive in the Conservative mindset.

I don't even know why I'm so annoyed by this, but I can't even remember the last time politics riled me up as much as it has in the last week or two.

Aerox posted:

Malloreon posted:

block/unfriend them. You don't need that kind of aggravation in your life.