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Back when I had to drive around with my parents conservative radio was constantly on so now my brain has been permanently rewired that whenever I hear or read Hannity's name I immediately get the "Freedom Ring" song stuck in my head. He was playing that like every commercial break eight years after 9/11 and I have no idea what a song about someone's mom burning down their house to kill herself and her abusive husband has to do with AMERICA but whatever.
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Fox News seems pretty untouchable but adding in the "didn't have the character to publicly issue the apology we made up" character slam doesn't seem like a good idea.
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Nov 27, 2012 16:31
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Ballz posted:Sandra Fluke is among the people nominated to be Time's Person of the Year and predictably, the far right is losing its goddamn mind over it. I'm glad they are past pretending they disagreed with Rush Limbaugh's slut and prostitute comments.
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Nov 28, 2012 17:32
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I wish there was more of an effort to teach that stuff. I personally learned about the marginal tax rates on this forum back in 2005 or so but never had it really explained before. My family and half my co workers who are mostly all college educated or earn decent salaries don't understand it some of which have been paying taxes for forty years. I have no idea why it seems like there's no movement to dispel the ridiculous "earn more but get less because of taxes" lie that's really prevalent. I mean I understand why conservatives propagate the notion that increased upper income tax brackets hurt people that barely reach them, but it doesn't seem like any realy voices on the left ever touch it when it should taught on PBS kids shows. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 29, 2012 23:16
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A co-worker got angry with me when it became more and more obvious he didn't know how capital gains taxes worked after overhearing me complain they were way too low and I just acquiesced the point since it wasn't worth office drama being correct.
Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Nov 29, 2012 23:30
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Luminous Obscurity posted:Rush is having another meltdown about women. What is it about this time?
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Nov 30, 2012 20:28
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I've love to take what the average 25 year old libertarian pays in taxes and see what they can get for that in the private sector in regards to all the stuff they take for granted like education, roads, police protection, etc.
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Dec 6, 2012 14:33
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Spacedad posted:As a barometer of how pathetic the right wing and its media have become, this is the latest "issue" they are pushing. Yeah I got to hear over Christmas how Hillary's injury was in order to avoid Benghazi hearings so that she will be clean for the 2016 election. I asked how she is going to pull that for the next four years if Benghazi actually is a Big Deal but whatever. I feel sad that people still think there's some shadowy Obama/Hillary motive that they did something bad there but they can't explain what that possibly could be since they were hammered so hard that it was A Thing during the election and can't turn it off.
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Jan 3, 2013 14:53
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Branis posted:That picture makes my blood loving boil, especially how they paint the single parent and kids to just look dejected that their taxes are going up and god they just might not be able to afford prviate school AND two european vacations next year. My mother would have loved to make 260,000 while raising two boys by herself. gently caress the wall street journal. Seriously you'd think they would have been smart enough to put the incomes those people make in little footers with asterisks next to the pictures so that it wasn't immediately obvious how ludicrously entitled the wealthy people in this country are and how absolutely removed from the situation that the majority of people live in. People making over half a loving million dollars per family looking like they are going to starve over a 3% tax increase is the epitome of ridiculousness. That's not even going to cut into their European vacation budget; if their accountant didn't tell them they probably wouldn't even notice. The "struggling single mother" trying to survive is also pretty outrageous. Try being a single mother who teachers autistic children raising a kid like my neighbor growing up or my co-worker that adopted a child. Both of them would love to make half what the info-graphic woman earns. What really makes my blood boil is hearing people that should be outraged defending this sort of tripe because "we shouldn't be jealous or punish their success."
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Jan 15, 2013 05:48
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The same way Republicans can tell me to my face that $200,000 just isn't rich anymore and then complain that poor people on welfare have it too easy in the same conversation. It's two repeated talking points and never the two shall meet in their brains.
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Jan 15, 2013 13:16
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:And it'll be as anticlimactic as we all expected, I admit I am curious how exactly the dialogue will change so that they can still pretend that Benghazi is the biggest scandal ever.
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Jan 23, 2013 16:32
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jackofarcades posted:I don't buy that "players know the risks" and neither should anyone. Our understanding of football and its relationship to CTE has really only come about in the last few years. Besides, the NFL has been lying and covering up evidence of brain trauma for over a decade. It's absurd anyway. It's not like a chemical plant can just have open containers lying around and then claim the employees knew the risk since they walked by them during HR initiation meeting.
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Feb 7, 2013 20:25
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Goatman Sacks posted:Hey check out the comments section of this little diddy on the 1 year anniversary of Trayvon Martin's murder: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/one-year-anniversary-of-trayvon-martin-death/ I made the mistake of reading the comments of a CNN story yesterday about how his parents were holding up after a lot of the media buzz has died down over the course of the year. Lot's of people convinced that the "thug" bashing Zimmerman's head on the ground was an ironclad fact, well because Zimmerman said so!
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Feb 27, 2013 21:26
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, fair points all. I haven't actually watched the clip in question -- that would involve watching cable news, and that's against my belief system. Yeah I agree as well that I can find sympathy for people, especially minors caught up in our justice system even though they deserve punishment (and rehabilitation but I'm not confident that will occur). The most offensive thing to me were the twitter/tumbler/facebook comments inferring that if the girl didn't get drunk, the boys wouldn't have been put in a situation where they would commit a crime which is outrageous. Honestly the entire ordeal should be a wake up call for teaching people how to behave and not get caught up in this kind of social mind set where they think it's their right to commit these acts and egg each other on. I can kind of see that these two kids are victims of the culture that encourages this behavior (and then covers for it afterwards making it seem even more acceptable) but the fault ultimately lies with them and I don't think that's what the cable news are really getting at and the real true victim is the girl that was abused.
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Mar 19, 2013 15:27
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swampland posted:I can absolutely see Sean Hannity loving a blow up doll he keeps hidden in his gun safe to inflate when his wife goes out of town. The only question for me is whether its modelled on Anne Coulter or his old highschool football coach. It's modeled after him.
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Mar 27, 2013 12:06
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I do find it amusing whenever a conservative deviates outside the small concept of what is an acceptable lifestyle and finds the magnifying glass on them from their own compatriots.
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Mar 27, 2013 16:32
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Sounds like Rush has been listening to the hyper liberal NPR this week.Crasscrab posted:Greg Gutfeld of the Fox talk show The Five gets super pissy about Jim Carrey making fun of Charleston Heston. For all their bluster about being big tough guy American cowboy stereotypes, they really are the biggest whiny pansies whenever they get made fun of or have their opinions dis-proven.
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Mar 27, 2013 19:01
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It kind of tells you where we are politically as a country when Rush Limbaugh is relying on NPR to make his talking points for him.
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Mar 27, 2013 19:04
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DynamicSloth posted:Who the hell bothers going to the google front page anymore? I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now?
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Apr 2, 2013 11:43
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I have a coworker that has a refrigerator magnet from some law firm specializing in motorcycle related laws and it has a map of the US that displays different helmet laws relating to state. On the legend most of the different levels of helmet requirements are just solid colors for but on the states with none it's red, white and blue. 
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Apr 3, 2013 15:36
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I thought the talking point was along the lines of "I didn't hear a whistle; if you hear it then YOU are the racist."
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Apr 3, 2013 19:35
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Crasscrab posted:Done and done. Mostly just me quoting the "pulled the UK back from 35 years of socialism" and saying "gently caress you". http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/world/europe/uk-margaret-thatcher-reaction/index.html It's irritating to hear our Marxist leader Barrack Hussein Obama declare we have "lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty." What garbage. I understand you have to say nice stuff as a leader about other ex-leaders but that's the biggest stretch I've ever heard.
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Apr 8, 2013 15:51
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Andrew Sullivan's support of Obama does more to tarnish Obama than make Sullivan look less loathsome.
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Apr 8, 2013 20:50
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There's no "I'm against the death penalty EXCEEEEEPT when the guy did something bad" opinion. You are either for or against it and if some "left wing" disk jockey wants to kill that kid he's pro-death penalty period.
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Apr 23, 2013 20:01
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At least it seems that the actually listeners are opposed to that nonsense.
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Apr 24, 2013 14:42
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NPR makes me nervous since they are branded as extreme left wing but as in this case they often present either a "truth in the middle" attitude where one side is a GOP thing tank or straight up conservative dogma and it starts to move everything to the right. So when callers don't go along with it, it makes me feel a little better.
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A DENVER FAX posted:They get that brand from the Extreme Right Wing though. I dont think NPR has any interest or responsibility to be the "left wing" news source. I don't think they necessarily do either but I'm fairly certain it's not just Republicans that think they are center to far left. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Apr 24, 2013 16:09
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I agree but I think this comes down to what is considered "leftist" by the average American's standards and what is actually left wing which is probably a topic for another thread.
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I just don't get what the goal here is. I asked my Republican dad about it and he didn't even know although he was conditioned Pavlov's dog style to be outraged since Fox News said so. I mean, don't help out Americans when you have the tools, they die, lie about it, then ???? Like there's nothing here to gain and people don't care too much about it so what's the coverup supposed to be?
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Apr 25, 2013 18:54
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boom boom boom posted:Obama let those people die because he hates America. Seriously, That's it. If you don't assume that Obama wants Americans to die, then there's nothing there. I figured the idea was that Obama hosed up something or other that they really can't articulate (something about mortars and an odd time frame) and then he's trying to cover it up by not calling it terrorism. If the GOP can just prove this the next step is impeachment since there's really nothing else they can get Obama on. Even that doesn't really make any sense and the entire thing sounds like all they have as an argument is yelling BENGHAZI! and then assuming that's enough.
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Anyone that wants to claim that waterboarding isn't torture should have to man up and have it done to them or be called out as the hypocritical cowards they are. Say what you will about Christopher Hitchens and Mancow but both of those guys at least manned up and then immediately recanted afterwards when they couldn't last 10 seconds.
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Apr 25, 2013 20:28
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Haha left wing Comu-nazis. "Nothing bad is right wing" is a pretty nice trump card. It would be funny if in 20 years after constant messaging the "middle" will be that we can't say for sure if Nazis were left or right wing since both views have to be politely respected.
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I thought the Nazis had an economically left wing faction but they were killed off with Hitler's other political enemies in the Night of the Long Knives.
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Apr 26, 2013 18:28
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Wizards sound like total assholes.
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ReindeerF posted:This is one of those areas where what the gently caress do you say? She lost her son and while I can only vehemently disagree with some of her beliefs, she's also distraught. Mark Ames pointed out yesterday the same thing about the Tsarnaev mother. Both her sons are now dead and also among the most infamous criminals in American history. So, of course, she's looking for people to blame. You kind of just want to hug the woman and say how sorry you are, because I don't know how you stand in her face and say, "You've been hijacked and these people are rooting for you to be crazy. That's the only reason they care what you have to say." Yeah every time I hear about their mom the only thing I can think about is that it feels really exploitative to put her on camera when not only has she lost her sons but they are probably the most hated people in America right now. Regardless of what they did they were her kids and she's not going to be making the most rational statements right after.
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The type of people who are pro-Republican messaging would probably be in favor of wealthy capitalists overthrowing FDR so I doubt it would get much traction other than to call them unsung heroes or something.
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How would that even work? Don't you have to prove you have them as dependents somehow? Wouldn't showing identification of three missing women tip someone off? I know it's Rush and he's just filling the radio with his stream of consciousness hot air but I'm really looking forward to the facebook messages about the rash of kidnapping related welfare fraud.
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Pretty much everything Republicans complain endlessly about from high taxes, to their freedom of religion being infringed on, to welfare queens stealing their tax dollars, to blue states being the parasites of the red states, to endless voter fraud, to evil unions stealing from honest job creators, to birth control causing abortions, to environmental and labor regulations being outdated since we know better now than to do bad things, etc is an easily dis-proven fallacy but it doesn't stop them so look forward to BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI and the Liberal Media Coverup until they find something else to complain about.
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Typical Pubbie posted:To be fair, that's because the Right fully understands and accepts that we have a two party system in this country. They embrace the game, vote (R) across the board at the polling booth, and demand the candidates they want in the primaries. Not surprisingly, they get their way in Washington more often than not. Their godheads in the media are a near perfect extension of this practice. If only the Left would do the same... To be fair what ultra rich sponsors are going to bankroll a platform of economic plans based around public good and not short term massive cashouts for a select few?
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I don't think what actually happened at Benghazi or what the State department did after or even what the GOP thinks happened matters. This entire affair is just an excuse to act outraged and try and create a "where there's smoke there's fire" situation so the base can be riled up in anger which is what their base does over everything and to deflect attention away from the poo poo show for a job Congress is doing on everything. I'm not sure how much this will actually help people since it doesn't sound like anyone not already pissed about voter fraud and Obamaphones cares about it at all. Maybe after two years of complaining they are not getting the answers to questions they aren't asking while while Fox News and every conservative political cartoonist and editorial writer complains that the media isn't covering it that might change so I guess we'll see.
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