2016: Battle of the Dynasties?

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by garamet, Jan 1, 2015.

  1. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Nobody certainly is. You have a lot of fears, don't you, Chubs? So many that you need to lie about the transcript and suck onto the Rightwing sound bite.

    Volunteered to serve, yes. You said "they all wanted to go..." to Iraq.

    Except for a few little things like an oath of enlistment, violation of which means desertion.

    Go visit your local VA and chat with some of the guys who are still receiving care for injuries sustained. They'll tell you all about it.

    Watch out for raindrops.
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    If John McCain could ride a broomstick he wouldn't have spent five and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. The first time they had him sweep the grounds he'd have been out of there.
  3. John Castle

    John Castle Banned Writer

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    Yeah, rip on your perception of my weight. Meanwhile, you haven't got the guts to post a pic of yourself. Wonder what you're hiding, you fashion plate, you.
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    Dayton Kitchens Banned

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    They either enlisted or reenlisted AFTER the U.S. invaded Iraq.

    Do you REALLY think there were American soldiers who enlisted who felt they didn't have a decent chance of being sent to Iraq?

    Every member of my family (and my wifes family) who were in the military in the early 2000s had considerable enthusiasm for going to Iraq.

    My first cousins son who was in EOD didn't want to come home at all when he was transferred back.

    Unfortunately he died in a motorcycle accident in Arkadelphia about a year later.
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    My uncle road with Patton's 5th Army all the way to the end, came home, and bought a motorcycle with his GI money, wrecking in '46. Luckily he only broke his hip, which eventually had to be replaced.
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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  7. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    GT, there is certainly no main stream group saying business is evil. There are lots of main stream groups who do believe those who have more should pay a slightly higher tax rate, instead of a lower tax rate as is currently the effective tax policy, which is extremely different from your deliberate mosrepresentation.
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    I enlisted well before Iraq and did not reenlist after. Me thinks you paint with a broad brush.
  9. gturner

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    Huffpo - Can a Business Really Make Money and not "Do Evil"? Possibly, in theory, by partnering with government.

    AOL - Women more likely to shun business careers as 'evil'.

    New York Observer Big Business as Evil as Everyone Thought.

    The list is pretty infinite, especially if you include Occupy and other Anarcho/Fascist organizations.
  10. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    And you think that supports your position... How?
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    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    And now, according to another of our Absolutely-Not-A-Misogynists, she's a "creature," too. But I'm sure all of those words really have noting to do with anything other than her policy positions. :yes:
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  12. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    That depends where you go. Maybe not "evil," but when Virg Bernero ran for governor of Michigan, his hostility toward business was pretty apparent.
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  13. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    Mostly just to those who drank the "Benghazi!!!1111" kool-aid, and they weren't going to vote for her anyway.
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  14. gturner

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    Big business is evil is pretty much a plank in the platform of the DNC, driving many of their policies such as they way they tax corporations and single out entire industries for extra taxes, such as alcohol, without explaining to their constituents things like the fact that 100 percent of all alcohol taxes are actually paid by consumers, which provide 100 percent of the revenue to the brewers and distillers. They've been feeding such lines for generations, and thus, business has a much higher favorability rating in communist Vietnam than it does in the US.
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    Even aside from Benghazi, in which her involvement wasn't addressed by the recent House report (in fact, the chairman of the committee made plain that the White House and State Department were not exonerated, only the CIA and DoD), her tenure at state was market by a continual stream of foreign policy disasters. Russia, Ukraine, China, the entire Middle East blowing up. Things got even worse under Kerry, and our current State Department spokesman, Jen Psaki, is a laughing stock throughout most of the world. The Russians coined a word "Psaking" to mean being an incompetent idiot. Some in the US press have asked whether she's really the spokesman or whether it's an elaborate SNL skit. Enemy diplomats would have done a better job representing us.
  16. Aurora

    Aurora Vincerò!

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    Deep, important thought. However, it needs a fourth sentence, containing the words 'the man' and 'down', to become standard literature in any course on political sciences. Please revise at your earliest convenience.
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  17. RickDeckard

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    Big business is alarmingly masochistic in that case, as they continue to fund Democrats to the tune of billions of dollars.
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  18. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    One would think.
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  19. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Says the guy who thinks the human brand is irreparably damaged.
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  20. John Castle

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    Why don't you go invade Poland or something.
  21. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Not even remotely. Only a delusional fool or a liar would say the DNC is anti business. They suck big business's cock every chance they get.
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  22. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Photos of me have been posted here. Not sure what that has to do with your raft of phobias.

    Now, as to the sound bite you love, here's the full transcript, complete with a link to the video:

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  23. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    It's funny, how they treat a rhetorical question that she herself answered as some sort of dear in the headlights moment. If somebody wanted to sound stupid, s/he could do well to focus on such snippets.
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  24. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    That's your All Gubmint Is teh Suk (but Demoncrats R Worse) demographic for you. :shrug:
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  25. Aurora

    Aurora Vincerò!

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    That's your comeback? Really?
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  26. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    The ban broke him. He must try harder.
  27. Liet

    Liet Dr. of Horribleness, Ph.D.

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    Isn't it his complete lack of money that broke him?

    The ban just gave him more time to wallow in self-pity with his one distraction in life taken away from him.
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  28. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Is this the part of the thread where @evenflow swoops in and tells all of you to stop "engaging" Castle?

    This thread is supposed to be about Hillary bashing [and not because she's a woman, oh, no, no, no, but Reasons]. Kindly get with the program. :nono:

    Maybe they need to change their socks and reload first. :bergman:
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  29. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Considering many Republicans have indicated that they would support Condoleeza Rice in a run for President, no, it has nothing to do with Hilary being a woman.
  30. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    Not voting for Hillary Clinton doesn't make someone a misogynist.

    Calling her a shrill shrew who flies around on a broomstick, however, dramatically increases the odds.
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