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2016/01/13 00:37:22
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
d-usa wrote: Maybe instead of a Response to the Union speech the GOP can just put a camera in an empty stadium somewhere so that everyone has a seat for everything?
AT&T Stadium in Dallas would be a perfect place... It's got plenty of seating, as well as a huge screen
Also, there is never any NFL football games there after December so we know scheduling conflicts wouldn't have been an issue.
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2016/01/13 00:50:17
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
d-usa wrote: Maybe instead of a Response to the Union speech the GOP can just put a camera in an empty stadium somewhere so that everyone has a seat for everything?
Or maybe, Obama can keep on Trucking.
Gun Manufacturers and Dealers can keep nominating Obama as Employee of the Month.
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2016/01/13 00:53:48
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
d-usa wrote: Maybe instead of a Response to the Union speech the GOP can just put a camera in an empty stadium somewhere so that everyone has a seat for everything?
AT&T Stadium in Dallas would be a perfect place... It's got plenty of seating, as well as a huge screen
Also, there is never any NFL football games there after December so we know scheduling conflicts wouldn't have been an issue.
You could probably get Tony Romo to MC the event.... but he'd probably choke
Automatically Appended Next Post: Watching the State of the Union, and I think watching Ryan's expressions is turning out to be better than the speech itself.
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2016/01/13 02:43:28
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
jasper76 wrote: He's giving a pretty good lecture to Trump and the Republican field, but I wonder if he's preaching to the choir.
I think he was doing pretty good till he briefly went pro-TPP.
Also... I can't be the only one, but when he said, "We're the strongest military on the planet" I was waiting for him to go full Sam Jackson with "If you feth with us, we'll feth with you!"
2016/04/26 19:56:18
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
College ain't cheap, y'all... Biden's going to the moon to cure cancer... Bin Laden still dead as hell... We spend too much money on our Military... Keep trying to shut down club Gitmo...
"It will only happen if we have rational, constructive debates." -Barack Obama, 2016. (in 2009, he's Mr. "I won")
Obama went to war against Libya without consulting Congress and just blamed Congress for not giving approval (which he never asked for) to his phony war against ISIS. I can't just can't even...
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2016/01/13 03:11:07
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Ustrello wrote: Ha, he just called out cruz for wanting to carpet bomb civilians
That's rather weak and extremely hypocritical coming from a president that orders civilians including US citizens to be killed via drone strikes.
Us citizens that have gone and joined terrorist groups, but thats besides the point. You can kill a lot more civilians bombing a city than you can drone striking every once and a while.
Obama went to war against Libya without consulting Congress and just blamed Congress for not giving approval (which he never asked for) to his phony war against ISIS. I can't just can't even...
He basically suggested that if they want to do more, is to authorize boots on the ground, something that I don't think he's really asked for, or will really happen.
2016/01/13 03:20:31
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Ustrello wrote: Ha, he just called out cruz for wanting to carpet bomb civilians
That's rather weak and extremely hypocritical coming from a president that orders civilians including US citizens to be killed via drone strikes.
Us citizens that have gone and joined terrorist groups, but thats besides the point. You can kill a lot more civilians bombing a city than you can drone striking every once and a while.
A US citizen is still a US citizen. You don't lose your citizenship just because the government thinks your doing bad things that's why we have a criminal justice system. The Feds can't just label a citizen a terrorist and assassinate him.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
2016/01/13 14:36:37
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
whembly wrote: Of course we're the most powerful nation on earth. Is that position relatively weaker or relatively stronger than it was seven years ago?
"No nation attacks us directly," Obama's last SOTU address... on the night Iran seized two of our boats and ten of our sailors.
Who are released. If that is our metric then I guess we must be doing OK after all then?
Bit harsh, loads of jobs opened up in the dancing girl market.
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2016/01/13 14:54:52
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
whembly wrote: Of course we're the most powerful nation on earth. Is that position relatively weaker or relatively stronger than it was seven years ago?
"No nation attacks us directly," Obama's last SOTU address... on the night Iran seized two of our boats and ten of our sailors.
Who are released. If that is our metric then I guess we must be doing OK after all then?
To answer your question, no... in the grand scheme of things, we're not doing "ok".
Consider this, would the UK do this if our boats accidently drifted into their waters? (at least the Brits would offer tea or something... no? )
If our “new best buds in the ME” saw two of our small vessels in their water they could easily have approached and asked if the sailors required assistance. If the answer was yes, then help could be rendered. If our sailors declined they could have remained in the area and waited for another US vessel to arrive.
This is just another provocation by Iran *only* because the Obama administration's weak international face.
Bit harsh, loads of jobs opened up in the dancing girl market.
Okay... that's awesome.
However, when the president states:
"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between parties has gotten worse instead of better."
My retort to that is:
#YOUbuiltTHATbro
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2016/01/13 15:03:16
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
whembly wrote: This is just another provocation by Iran *only* because the Obama administration's weak international face.
Going to repeat what I said in the thread about this; There's actually nothing to suggest that this is a significant incident other than all the Republicans jumping on it for political points. All the 'hard' language about it seems to stem from an original report by Tasnim News (an Iranian News service) that used the word 'arrested' and a report from Fars News (another Iranian News service) that said someone said this was a 'grave incident.' The thing about Tasnim and Fars News is that they're both ultra-nationalist and pro-Republican Guard, and are very hawkish in their reporting. Normally if they both say the same thing it means someone in the Republican Guard is talking to them, but their original reports don't say the same thing. Which means one or both of them is probably just making it up.
There's been little to actually come officially from Iran on our end. We're mostly getting what US Politicians and Officials have said happened in discussions with the Iranians, but there's nothing that clearly indicates they've taken this matter as anything more than "we found some boats in our waters that weren't moving so we towed them somewhere to sort it out as per common practice when you find someone who isn't supposed to be in your waters in your waters."
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, quoted in National Journal, November 4, 2010
We're lucky that the American right haven't wasted everyone's time with a procession of losers, last chancers and abysmal liars/no hopers whose main tactic has been to accuse him of everything from destroying the economy, to not being an American or being the actual anti-christ.
And they weren't even good at that.
So, in essence, we're left with a president who we're told over and over again is useless beyond belief in every way -- whilst simultaneously of course having the cunning and trustiness of an Sheik's Vizier.
Who the GOP was unable to beat.
Comes a point -- especially in politics -- when you've gotta stop yelling at the opposition and have a long hard look at yourself if you're not winning.
Course mirrors involve science so that's akin to witchcraft so that won't happen.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2016/01/13 15:10:13
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, quoted in National Journal, November 4, 2010
We're lucky that the American right haven't wasted everyone's time with a procession of losers, last chancers and abysmal liars/no hopers whose main tactic has been to accuse him of everything from destroying the economy, to not being an American or being the actual anti-christ.
And they weren't even good at that.
So, in essence, we're left with a president who we're told over and over again is useless beyond belief in every way -- whilst simultaneously of course having the cunning and trustiness of an Sheik's Vizier.
Who the GOP was unable to beat.
Comes a point -- especially in politics -- when you've gotta stop yelling at the opposition and have a long hard look at yourself if you're not winning.
Course mirrors involve science so that's akin to witchcraft so that won't happen.
We're not winning?
Who has both the house and senate now?
Who kicked major assed during Obama's tenure in all the State govenorships and legislatures?
Who kicked major assed during Obama's tenure in all the State govenorships and legislatures?
And as people have continually pointed out, it's easy to do all that when you've restructured voting districts across the country to rig the race So yeah, the Republicans won, but we can have some perspective on how that happened and what it means Namely that the Reds will probably keep the House and maybe even the Senate in 2016. None of the stuff that helps them do that is going to be much help in the Presidential
How was President Romney's State of the Union address ?
Was it as good as McCain's unifying inaugural address -- or that destined to be quoted-through-the-ages speech VP Palin made after the umpteenth mass shooting ..?
Oh.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2016/01/13 15:27:33
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
You should see my voting district, it looks like a coiled serpent or some gak. Rigging the district's is really horrible for our democracy, and I'm aware that both sides do it.
I'd be much more in favor of just using County borders to identiy voting districts.
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2016/01/13 16:20:23
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
So yeah, the Republicans won, but we can have some perspective on how that happened and what it means 
