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Author Topic: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections  (Read 88602 times)

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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1360 on: October 22, 2012, 06:59:09 PM »

I thought it was pretty boring on the whole.  I think Obama really dipped in the middle but started and finished strong, and that's probably what's important.  Romney did okay.

Who the fuck knows.  I went over the ballot props tonight so I'm mostly sure how I'm voting.  Two more weeks of this and somehow I don't think we'll be getting the verdict in Melendres v Arpaio in the meantime.

I dunno.  I wanna go play video games but I can't decide which one.  Guess I should find tonight's Zappa video too.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1361 on: October 22, 2012, 10:55:50 PM »

It never goes away

Not even if you close your eyes.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1362 on: October 26, 2012, 10:57:53 AM »

Paul Ryan Labor Day Promise To American Workers: Candy & Packer Schedule

Yeah, it's a bit of a "Gotcha" thing, but jesus christ.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1363 on: October 26, 2012, 01:39:53 PM »

I reposted that elsewhere and was amused to see this reply:

Quote from: some asshole
Actually made Paul Ryan sympathetic, my god
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1364 on: October 28, 2012, 02:22:04 PM »

Joss Whedon endorses Mitt Romney.

Whedon On Romney
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1365 on: October 29, 2012, 10:34:58 AM »

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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1366 on: October 29, 2012, 12:29:00 PM »

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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1367 on: October 29, 2012, 10:42:53 PM »

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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1368 on: October 29, 2012, 11:01:58 PM »

Okay I laughed at "The great middle class, the 80-90% of us."  Do I lose?
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1370 on: November 01, 2012, 12:13:26 PM »

No bitch is safe from Bronco Bamma.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1371 on: November 02, 2012, 03:00:13 PM »

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/business/comparing-the-tax-bite-under-obama-or-romney.xml

Extremely washy math (mainly due to lack of information, surprise surprise) but the takeaway is:

* The middle class is fucked.
* The middle class is slightly less fucked under Romney than Obama.
* Romney's campaign stil insists that taxes will decrease for the middle class under him, despite every single possible calculation proving otherwise.
* The 1% would pay a higher tax rate than the middle class under Obama.  It would not pay a single cent more under Romney.
* ...wait a minute you're raising taxes on the middle class exclusively?
* Your choices are "tax the incredible shit out of everybody" or "shoulder the tax burden entirely by yourself".
* Enjoy your cake.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1372 on: November 02, 2012, 03:31:53 PM »

"tax the incredible shit out of everybody"

That's communism!  :rage:
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1373 on: November 02, 2012, 08:28:23 PM »

The good news is, probably not a single one of us here are middle class!
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1374 on: November 02, 2012, 08:43:50 PM »

That god for that. I'm glad I don't make enough to worry about taxes. Or this lump in my testicles.

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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1375 on: November 04, 2012, 06:38:25 PM »

Frostbitten children held against their will by staffers at Romney rally.  Right now.  This is literally happening right now.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1376 on: November 04, 2012, 07:00:32 PM »

I'm pretty sure presidential candidates don't have the right to detain people against their will and without due process. You have to be elected first, Mitt.
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Re: 2012: The Mayans Warned Us Of Stupid Elections
« Reply #1379 on: November 05, 2012, 06:15:53 PM »

President Obama's fairly grim, toothless, meandering and perfunctory presidency gained excellent contrast from an assemblage of GOP candidates so demented and corrupt that even to so describe them would be an insult to the many hard-working demented and corrupt politicians extant today. It was an array of desperate, shambling criminals (and Jon Huntsman, who presumably was there on a bet) that may have been unprecedented, even in the stinking cesspool of American politics, in its lunatic evil. The "winner" of the GOP race was always going to be the one who didn't shit themselves on stage. But the GOP itself couldn't win, because, of the bunch running, the best you could hope for was a candidate who didn't shit themselves on stage.

Which is exactly what the Republican party got. A man who's only coherent when he's lying. Any solid political points he might have made have been washed away in a tide of dissembling, flipflopping and outright bullshitting. Broad swathes of the party fail to summon enthusiasm for him. The Koch brothers, who could surely have amassed mighty forces to Romney's advantage, have provided only perfunctory support. And his mealymouthing about Big Government have put him on the wrong side of not only New York but also New Jersey, whose well-liked Republican governor Chris Christie has been effusive in his praise of the President even as Romney was being pelted with his own words about disbanding the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

My concern is this. The radical elements in the GOP will be able to claim that Romney was never their guy, and will take the next four years to place some genuine nutters, with serious backing, in line for the 2016 candidacy. Not the scrag-ends and barrel-scrapings they slapped on to the stage for this year's farce. The idea of the Democrats being conscious and organised enough to have a real player in place for 2016 – because there's no way in hell they can run Joe Biden -- is kind of funny. There will be a real temptation to throw 2016 to the GOP, to give the people a reminder of what that's like, to buy themselves a whole new four years to get their shit together in.
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