Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78100 times)

Niku · « **Reply #860 on:** September 16, 2013, 07:02:42 AM »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/love-you-steve-harvey

the one thing of value i have ever seen on buzzfeed

Mongrel · « **Reply #861 on:** October 03, 2013, 02:38:51 AM »

There's reaching and then there's this: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/need-health-care-coverage-just-dial-1-800-fuckyo-to-reach-obamacares-national-hotline/

That is some serious bullshit gymnastics to score an absurdly trivial non-point. Not only is "FUCKYO" only six characters, but the 1 isn't even at the beginning or end of the sequence, It's right in the fucking middle

I guess the main point of the article is to demonstrate that third graders can successfully run inflammatory websites?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #862 on:** October 03, 2013, 04:06:35 AM »

I usually expect better of the Daily Caller!

Mongrel · « **Reply #863 on:** October 03, 2013, 04:11:27 AM »

I think it's a pretty good sign that things have become this silly, actually. This is self-inflicted injury territory.

EDIT: Reminds me of how a friend of mine has suggested that if Jeb Bush doesn't get the ticket for 2016, it may well be Cruz-Lee, a situation he called "The Full Goldwater".

Mongrel · « **Reply #864 on:** October 03, 2013, 06:59:49 AM »

Shots fired at the Capitol, as some but tried to ram his way in with a car. I think the car didn't even get close and they took him down already with nobody hit, but news is in flux at this stage.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #865 on:** October 03, 2013, 07:41:44 AM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #866 on:** October 03, 2013, 08:31:58 AM »

And there was a kid in the car.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #867 on:** October 03, 2013, 09:20:44 AM »

But no weapon, turns out!

TA · « **Reply #868 on:** October 03, 2013, 09:27:53 AM »

When you're running secret service people over with it, a car is pretty much a weapon.

Mothra · « **Reply #869 on:** October 03, 2013, 02:20:42 PM »

Yeah. She had several opportunities to stop, and she gunned it. She had to be stopped before she fucking drove someone over:

Incredible video of DC car chase

Zaratustra · « **Reply #870 on:** October 04, 2013, 12:00:05 AM »

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/04/20816675-woman-in-dc-chase-may-have-thought-obama-was-stalking-her-sources-say?lite

That's like the republican nightmare. Black single mothers with untreated medical issues ramming into the white house.

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<ScootWork> man, just wait
<ScootWork> someone is going to claim the kid is Obama's
<zaratustra> oh god
<zaratustra> of course they are.

Friday · « **Reply #871 on:** October 04, 2013, 01:22:32 AM »

a black single woman who was crazy may have been crazy, news reports

after driving her car with her kid inside it into the capital building, reports suggest that she may have thought some crazy weird thing that makes no sense, and that shit is just whack, yo

I don't care if you're gonna try to kill the President or Congress or whatever with your car while your kid is inside it, thinking some weird, nonsensical thing is fucking beyond everything

in the future will you crazy motherfuckers who attempt to carassinate the government please be a little less weird

Mongrel · « **Reply #872 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:30:52 PM »

Quote from: glocks4interns

Painful to read. He is clearly a very smart person just with a hugely warped world view that he is in the position to put forward:

http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/

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You can’t go to a movie—or watch a television show for that matter—without hearing the constant use of the F-word—including, you know, ladies using it.

Ladies!

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Have you seen evidence of the Devil lately?
You know, it is curious. In the Gospels, the Devil is doing all sorts of things. He’s making pigs run off cliffs, he’s possessing people and whatnot. And that doesn’t happen very much anymore.

No.
It’s because he’s smart.

So what’s he doing now?
What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way.

That has really painful implications for atheists. Are you sure that’s the Devil’s work?
I didn’t say atheists are the Devil’s work.

Well, you’re saying the Devil is persuading people to not believe in God. Couldn’t there be other reasons to not believe?
Well, there certainly can be other reasons. But it certainly favors the Devil’s desires. I mean, c’mon, that’s the explanation for why there’s not demonic possession all over the place. That always puzzled me. What happened to the Devil, you know? He used to be all over the place. He used to be all over the New Testament.

Right.
What happened to him?

He just got wilier.
He got wilier.

Oh Scalia.

Thad · « **Reply #873 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:45:39 PM »

Sounds like somebody just saw The Usual Suspects.

Mongrel · « **Reply #874 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:51:09 PM »

Quote from: Thad on October 08, 2013, 12:45:39 PM

Sounds like somebody just saw The Usual Suspects.

I know! I was thinking the same damn thing!

I was also thinking about the bizarre parallels with the GOP's destructive bullshit lines from the past 30 years about how Government is the enemy (i.e. "belief is the enemy").

Mongrel · « **Reply #875 on:** October 13, 2013, 07:59:35 AM »

Research group does a study on the Tea Party, based on a detailed series of focus groups with Tea Party adherents.

It projects that the influence of these groups will only increase over the GOP.

Bal · « **Reply #876 on:** October 13, 2013, 09:34:53 AM »

If true, the question then becomes whether they will still get elected. Some, certainly, but the GOP and the Tea Party in particular are very unpopular right now, and the TP in particular has always been very hit or miss when it comes to actually getting elected. Many long time GOP seats are just not available to TP candidates.

Thad · « **Reply #877 on:** October 14, 2013, 04:36:29 PM »

Flipside is that, due to gerrymandering, a lot of what the Tea Party Republicans are doing is actually popular back home in their districts -- and indeed, if they compromised they'd leave themselves vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right.

Though that's certainly not the case across the board.

I've been thinking of sending Schweikert a letter reminding him that Arizona's seats are drawn up by an independent committee and not by a partisan legislature -- and that if he were in a district where a batshit crazy Republican was likelier to win than a more moderate opponent, then he would have lost to Ben Quayle.

Sharkey · « **Reply #878 on:** October 15, 2013, 09:13:04 AM »

I pour whiskey at time-locked saloon in a pretty damn redneck, open carry state. I regularly have to, no fucking joke, tell people to check their iron at the bar. Mostly because we have some gaming in there and you can't be armed in what's technically a casino. I got more fastidious about that after one of them shot his wife in there a couple weeks ago. Until recently it seemed like every other damn conversation had to come around to Obama taking their fucking guns away.

Yet even among the kind of folk who openly joke about lynching the president (or the saloonkeeper; I love confronting them about speaking in metaphor when I have their gun behind the bar,) a fair number of them are vocally and violently fucking pissed at the tea party republicans right now. I've had to break up fights over this shit. I take that as a pretty useful public opinion poll.

Büge · « **Reply #879 on:** October 15, 2013, 11:14:56 AM »

Do you at least have a Wild Gunman cabinet for them to take their frustrations out on?

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