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Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 1:27 pm
by GORDON
What's amazing is that the only thing to which republicans are sticking to their guns is religious stuff, and that's the stuff that's getting really unpopular. They are as tax-and-spend as any true liberal.
I'm not sure if the anti-obama backlash will be enough to save them in 2016. Half of the so-called anti-Bush backlash in 2008 was actually 98% of black voters mobilizing to show they will vote for a black guy.
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 1:38 pm
by Malcolm
I'm not sure if the anti-obama backlash will be enough to save them in 2016.
Not even close.
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 1:54 pm
by Leisher
The Republican party needs to sit down and have a "Come to Jesus" session about their core voters and the message they're sending everyone else.
They're REALLY keeping those core voters, but that group is constantly shrinking, would NEVER vote the other way, and everyone else thinks you and that group are assholes.
Maybe it's time to think about a new strategy?
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 1:56 pm
by Malcolm
Maybe it's time to think about a new strategy?
The last time Republicans met to try and revamp their party, they attempted to come up with an image that could usher them into modern times. They picked, I shit you not, Ronald Reagan on a horse.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 1:58 pm
by Leisher
They should have picked John F. Kennedy since he'd be a Republican today. Hell, going around saying things like "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." might make him an extreme right wing tea bagger.
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 5:07 pm
by Vince
JFK also lowered taxes quite a bit to spur economic growth. Or was in favor of it. Not sure if he succeeded.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 1:11 pm
by Malcolm
I'm starting to like Rand a bit more. He's pissing off all the right people.
He has been blasted by two candidates, first New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who clubbed him for being on the same side as Edward Snowden (“He’s a criminal and he’s hiding in Russia, and he’s lecturing to us about the evils of authoritarian government while he lives under the protective umbrella of Vladimir Putin? That’s who Mike Lee and Rand Paul are siding with? With Edward Snowden? Hey, come on.”) and now Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (“American weakness, not American strength, emboldens our enemies.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 1:13 pm
by Malcolm
Hastert proves what I've been saying for years -- that he's nothing but a corrupt, greedy douchebag.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 1:54 pm
by TheCatt
I've always thought he was Mr Boring.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he's basically guilty of structuring, and should have all his assets seized, right? Isn't that what happened to the general store that was posted here somewhere a few weeks ago?
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 1:58 pm
by Malcolm
Politicians are exempt from normal laws. We can't be throwing our white-collar leaders in jail and taking their shit. We save that for the real problem -- people without the cash to hire decent lawyers.
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 4:25 pm
by TheCatt
Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 11:23 pm
by Vince
I'm glad there's nothing within the last three decades (Clinton emails, IRS, etc) that the attorney general could be looking at instead. They must have a handle on everything else.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:13 pm
by Malcolm
Huckabee opens his idiot mouth again.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:24 pm
by Malcolm
This is about me and how I felt unsafe. I should feel safe in there.
Sing it with me now ... FEELINGS, nothing more than FEELINGS...
But really, let's examine this. What is she not feeling safe about? Did the transgender client try to :
1) talk to this woman?
2) make unwanted advances, sexual or otherwise, towards her?
3) surreptitiously take pictures of other women changing?
4) stare at her for extended periods of time?
Would she feel safe with lesbians in the locker room? If someone doesn't feel safe around blacks or Hispanics or whites, does the gym provide them separate locker rooms? I feel unsafe around creationists. I want them in their own room, too.
“I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said: ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’
That's about as likely as a gay guy waking up and saying, "Yeah, I'd like to fuck women today."
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:17 pm
by Vince
GORDON wrote:Huckabee continued, “For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize the fact that we are now, in city after city, watching ordinances say that your seven-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom, cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man."
This has also recently been proven true.
http://www.advocate.com/politic....er-room
It's okay to offend straight people and make them uncomfortable. Even though they are over 95% of the population. The transgendered (which make up less than 1%) must not be allowed to feel uncomfortable at any time for any reason ever.
This will soon lead to hate speech legislation. The irony there is that this will also include Islam. Any mention of having a problem with Sharia will be a legal offense, and thus Sharia will be allowed which will clamp down HARD on the LGBT community.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:33 pm
by Malcolm
This will soon lead to hate speech legislation. The irony there is that this will also include Islam. Any mention of having a problem with Sharia will be a legal offense, and thus Sharia will be allowed which will clamp down HARD on the LGBT community.
You just leaped forward about ten million assumptions.
I'm still waiting to hear which of these was going on:
1) talk to this woman?
2) make unwanted advances, sexual or otherwise, towards her?
3) surreptitiously take pictures of other women changing?
4) stare at her for extended periods of time?
And answers to these:
Would she feel safe with lesbians in the locker room? If someone doesn't feel safe around blacks or Hispanics or whites, does the gym provide them separate locker rooms? I feel unsafe around creationists. I want them in their own room, too.
Hell, I don't feel safe with old people driving on the road.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:50 pm
by GORDON
It seems like people are assuming that breaching the door that says, "Ladies Locker Room" isn't enough to be threatening. TFA plays it down, "He was just hanging up his coat." That's a bullshit deflection, and if he was just "hanging up his coat" then there was no reason to go into the ladies' locker room. Those women were in a locker room changing, possibly naked, and a dude in a dress walked in.
Some women are old fashioned and don't want random men seeing them undressed. I'm not quite ready to throw that convention out the window.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:03 pm
by Malcolm
Like I've said forever, women want equality.*
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:36 pm
by Vince
It's insanity. An individual with junk in his shorts walks in on my wife and I'm going to transition his ass to the floor. End of discussion.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:48 pm
by TPRJones
I guess that's fine as long as you are willing to pay the consequences for assault and battery.