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The Grand Old Party is over for New York's young Republicans, who spent last night crying in their vintage cognac as they mourned the end of the Bush era and quaked in fear over the prospect of an Obama presidency. "I have no idea what's to come," said Amy Noakes, 26, as she and about 100 other conservatives commiserated at Ice Bar in Murray Hill. "It's going to be more like socialism than capitalism." Noakes and her fellow GOPers talked of a political apocalypse at the penultimate New York Young Republican's Club meeting to be held before Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20. "I'm trying to savor the last days of capitalism," said Cathy Reno, 23, as she bitterly sipped a three-olive martini. "I fear Obama's inexperience, and that we have no idea what his worldview is." "I'm hiding all my guns where Barry can't find them," added Villamor Asuncion, 26, referring to Obama's old nickname in high school. Grad student Michael Pocelinko, 22, agreed. "I'm buying as many guns as possible, and I'm enjoying the last days of national security while I can." Others worried about the fate of their money in the hands of a man they see as the lowest of the low - a tax-and-spend liberal. "I'm divesting all equity before the capital-gains tax goes up," said Jeff Miller, 25. Miller anticipated a return to Franklin D. Roosevelt's big-government polices of the last Depression. "I fear a repeat of the bad tax effects of the New Deal and a gross overreaction to the current economic issues," he said. "I fear overinflating wages and prices. It would lead to a huge unemployment boom." Some tried to keep a stiff upper lip, claiming that they really didn't care that their candidate lost and that eight years of Republican rule was coming to an end. "I could give two s- - - s about the inauguration. I could care less," said Allie Nigolian, 25. "I don't get Obama; I don't buy it. People are gonna realize that he's full of s- - -." 
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Jan 10, 2009 12:22
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that sure is a 'i have no idea of what's to come' face if ive ever seen one
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Jan 10, 2009 12:23
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Bootstamps posted:"I'm trying to savor the last days of capitalism," said Cathy Reno, 23, as she bitterly sipped a three-olive martini.
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Jan 10, 2009 12:24
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Ajaarg posted:tbh if i had pinned my hopes and dreams on "fashion distribution" id be rooting for capitalism too
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Jan 10, 2009 12:26
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how can people be THIS DUMB
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Jan 10, 2009 12:26
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that's weird as hell i can't even understand this poo poo
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Jan 10, 2009 12:31
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Michael Ponelinko knows that the British are coming back for their land the minute Obama is President.
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Jan 10, 2009 12:31
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Easy, their parents are rich. I doubt your average 25 year old has any equity to divest.
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Jan 10, 2009 12:32
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quote:"I'm trying to savor the last days of capitalism," said Cathy Reno, 23, as she bitterly sipped a three-olive martini. "I fear Obama's inexperience, and that we have no idea what his worldview is." how is it even possible to still hold this viewpoint i mean, i can kind of understand worrying about specific things like the capital gains tax, incredibly stupid as that may be i can chalk that up to run of the mill ignorance/being fed misinformation about a topic you don't really understand but this is a man that has just had cameras pointed at him for over a year and has been shouting his platform into them for most of that time before that he was a loving senator
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Jan 10, 2009 12:37
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griffiti posted:how is it even possible to still hold this viewpoint she doesn't have time for that she had to learn to distribute fashion
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Jan 10, 2009 12:39
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Bootstamps posted:Bang, bang, bang, three headshots
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Jan 10, 2009 12:59
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is "fashion distribution" a euphemism for "american eagle employee"?
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Jan 10, 2009 12:59
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college republicans make internment camps justified
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Jan 10, 2009 13:00
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griffiti posted:how is it even possible to still hold this viewpoint she didn't want to learn then blames Obama for her not being informed
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Jan 10, 2009 13:09
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that guy in the middle is photoshopped-in douchebag clipart
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Jan 10, 2009 13:10
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well at least hell be paying through the nose since all the other dumb hicks are gobbling up guns as well or more likely its just stupid right-wing hyperbole
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Jan 10, 2009 13:11
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they should buy capitalism a gun to defend itself
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Jan 10, 2009 13:15
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the most worthless human beings imaginable in that picture
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Jan 10, 2009 13:26
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Martinis pretty much rule and as long as this depression doesn't have prohibition again I'm gonna drink them double time.
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Jan 10, 2009 13:31
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I was watching fox for some reason the other day and glenn beck was on explaining how the founding fathers were all capitalists and founded the country on capitalism and that socialism contravened everything they stood for
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Jan 10, 2009 13:36
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i hear they were also big on christianity which was why they put "in god we trust" on the money and "one nation under god" in the pledge of allegiance
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Git posted:I was watching fox for some reason the other day and glenn beck was on explaining how the founding fathers were all capitalists and founded the country on capitalism and that socialism contravened everything they stood for If you take capitalism to be synonymous with business interests the way most Americans do then the statement makes sense. Of course, that's not to say that a government founded by and for business interests is good or desirable, least of all simply because it's what the founders intended, as if the founders were civil saints whose words needed heeding ages past the limits of their imagination, much less their experience
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Jan 10, 2009 13:43
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i think i.. i'll stop reading LF for a few weeks. it's getting to me. hate is corroding my brain.
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Jan 10, 2009 13:49
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it's really quite an interesting article coming from the ny post
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Jan 10, 2009 13:50
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Cellophane S posted:college republicans make internment camps justified Construction and running of the camps creates jobs.
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Jan 10, 2009 13:58
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Git posted:I was watching fox for some reason the other day and glenn beck was on explaining how the founding fathers were all capitalists and founded the country on capitalism and that socialism contravened everything they stood for so did universal suffrage
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Jan 10, 2009 14:01
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Bootstamps posted:I'm enjoying the last days of national security while I can." what does this even mean? 'im sitting and not currently being blown up, i have a smile on my face, i am enjoying doing this. it is nice'
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Jan 10, 2009 14:07
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Uncontrol posted:how can people be THIS DUMB 
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Jan 10, 2009 14:14
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Dusseldorf posted:Martinis pretty much rule and as long as this depression doesn't have prohibition again I'm gonna drink them double time. ppl drank more during prohibition
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Jan 10, 2009 14:29
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Sputty posted:ppl drank more during prohibition Yeah, but it would cost more.
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Jan 10, 2009 14:52
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the problem here is just rampant ignorance with the underlying problem being the cultural conflict currently being waged against reason and objective knowledge that is propagated by the people who would stand to lose the most if everyone started thinking and actually knew what was going on, but yea screw those dumb kids am i rite? if we were in their positions, we totally wouldn't be like them because we're just better people than they are based on magical non-hereditary, non-environmental factors
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Jan 10, 2009 14:56
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itstime4lunch posted:the problem here is just rampant ignorance with the underlying problem being the cultural conflict currently being waged against reason and objective knowledge that is propagated by the people who would stand to lose the most if everyone started thinking and actually knew what was going on, but yea screw those dumb kids am i rite? if we were in their positions, we totally wouldn't be like them because we're just better people than they are based on magical non-hereditary, non-environmental factors theyre rich and educated
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Jan 10, 2009 14:59
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Holy poo poo, it's not an Onion article
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Sputty posted:theyre rich and educated if you don't blame poor people for being born into poor families and poor economic conditions, how can you blame these kids for being born into a retarded culture and families with lovely ideologies? sorry im just feeling antagonistic edit: just because they can read, write, and do a little math doesn't mean they're educated on matters of importance. whoever was supposed to teach these kids how to think has failed miserably. read the quotes. itstime4lunch fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jan 10, 2009 |
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itstime4lunch posted:if you don't blame poor people for being born into poor families and poor economic conditions, how can you blame these kids for being born into a retarded culture and families with lovely ideologies? because they've had every opportunity to open their eyes to the reality of the suffering around them and probably the best educations money can buy; instead they choose to retain and propagate the beliefs and values that will ensure their famlies' wealth and privilege and power is maintained and protected. they don't give a poo poo about anything other them themselves, especially not the poor folks they mislead into thinking they have needs and desires in common.
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itstime4lunch posted:edit: just because they can read, write, and do a little math doesn't mean they're educated on matters of importance. whoever was supposed to teach these kids how to think has failed miserably. read the quotes. The purpose of school is not to beat it into your head that poverty, hunger, and war are crimes of the rich against the poor; it's to give you the tools with which you can question and learn about the world around you. Most Americans choose to ignore the reality of the lives of others and focus only on themselves and their tiny immediate family because it's easy to pretend that that's where our responsibility to other human beings ends. (ie. capital gains > a village of brown people.) I'd like to think there's a little voice inside each of them that makes them feel ashamed.
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Salanole posted:because they've had every opportunity to open their eyes to the reality of the suffering around them and probably the best educations money can buy; instead they choose to retain and propagate the beliefs and values that will ensure their famlies' wealth and privilege and power is maintained and protected. they don't give a poo poo about anything other them themselves, especially not the poor folks they mislead into thinking they have needs and desires in common. or alternatively they have been sufficiently indoctrinated and are unable to form an opinion that does not coincide with that of a cartoon villain. therefore richard cheney,
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Hey guys I've got these investments that are earning me a cool 15-20% annually, but I hear Obama is going to raise the capital gains tax so I'm going to liquidate. Also I'm not going to accept that promotion at work because it puts me in a higher tax bracket, so I'd actually be LOSING money!! God drat liberals.
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