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Fri Jul-29-11 10:48 AM
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Ok folks if you want to know why we are where we are |
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go spend some time at Free Republic. Realize that many of the people elected think like the denizens at Free Republic... but truly, if you want to know what they think, and why they are doing what they are doing... go spend some time there.
There are a few other places that are even more RADICAL... but truly the RADICALS have taken over and paralyzed the government... and I mean utterly paralyzed it. To me it seems that the people at the White House do not understand this either. You really cannot negotiate with ideological twits who are stuck in radical thought and fantasy.
So yes, them Tea partiers ARE Freepers.
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:51 AM
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1. and understand that they are happy to be ignorant... |
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...if ignorance suits their perception of events.
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nadinbrzezinski
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:54 AM
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2. Oh absolutely... we used to have a friend |
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who IS a freeper... well before those things were verboten by them... he even had dinner here a few times. The discussions on economics and history were down the rabbit hole... Of course in the 1990s nobody expected people like him, and he is your prototypical radical, would ever get power We used to joke about it. Now we know.
And I am serious, this not talking to the other side... was a non spoken rule.
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:55 AM
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All the way around.
I said this months ago, I still think their one Reichstag fire away from trying to take total control. And I think they'll do anything to get into a position to be able to do so. Would they intentionally crash the economy to create a crisis situation. In a minute.
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nadinbrzezinski
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:56 AM
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5. We are one second away from a shooting civil war |
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-11 10:57 AM by nadinbrzezinski
and the bunch is looking forwards to it. At least they are somewhat realistic and expect about 20 million dead... But they are looking forwards to it, and to cleanse the country from lib'ruls...
They are radicals, and in my view proto fascists...
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:25 PM
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I just posted about how well armed my TB relatives are.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:13 AM
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8. I wonder how many, like Cantor, are set to financially benefit from a default? |
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You may remember recent revelations that he has investments which will pay off in the event of a default. Surely he cannot be the only member of Congress to have this?
worse yet, how many Dems do?
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:56 AM
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4. Costa Rica is looking better every day... |
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Fri Jul-29-11 10:57 AM
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:12 AM
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I really have to start looking at leaving this corpse of a country.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:22 AM
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11. You're late! LOL!! I've got a whole magazine devoted to |
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"the best places for retirees to live!" Just waiting to finish my doctorate and I'M OUT!!!
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Fri Jul-29-11 02:09 PM
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Will you use your Doctorate where you plan to go? Will you be teaching?
Congrats, either way!
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:20 AM
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9. The president is well aware of the lunatic fringe. His |
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"obsession" with bipartisanship is pure politics.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:25 AM
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12. Riiiiight! He's not stupid as many a progressive thinks he is... |
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He's a statesman. As such, his actions are intended to make him appear to be the reasonable leader, as opposed to the gopers who are immature brats. I expect to hear a lot from the president as the campaigns for his reelection and the house and senate reelections heat up next year about the intransigence of the repukes and how they have reversed the progress the Dems were making.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:31 AM
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13. At this point we cannot afford politics |
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:39 AM
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15. I think he would beg to differ. His re-election campaign |
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:40 AM
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16. Well then, we need a statesman... and so far I have seen all but one |
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and statesmen are also elected to office. He ain't one...
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:49 AM
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17. I think he is very much a statesman and a shrewed one, |
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at that. The party that once marched in lock step during the bush administration has totally unraveled. I am delighted.
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nadinbrzezinski
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:59 AM
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20. You are delighted wiht a paralyzed government? |
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:02 PM
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21. It won't be paralyzed for long. There is always cloture. But |
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-11 12:04 PM by Fire1
obviously you have made up in your mind that this is all Obama's fault. So, we can agree to disagree at this point.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:08 PM
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22. I did not say that... you think that. I just said that it is time to stop |
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-11 12:12 PM by nadinbrzezinski
playing politics...
And I am not blaming Obama for this. I am blaming EVERYBODY for this. A simple clean bill, should not have become a pretend crisis, that has morphed into a real crisis. That is a failure of leadership on everybody. They decided to play russian roulette, and forgot that one of the bullets is live ammo
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:12 PM
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23. Politics is what they do. It's D.C. It is what it is. He did not |
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create this power struggle but I don't blame him for using it to his advantage. THEY are the one's willing to treat the public as collateral damage in the whitehouse warfare, NOT HIM!!
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:13 PM
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24. Did he put social security on the table? |
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Yes, yes he did. So time to become a statesman and STOP playing politics,
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Fire1
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:18 PM
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27. I'm sorry but it's political strategy. That's why it is well known |
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that politics is dirty. Always has been and it's not about to change, no matter what POTUS said during his campaign.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:23 PM
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29. Well I hope you enjoy the implosion, after all this is politics |
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by the way... when ANY government stops working, it crossed into something that is NOT politics... this is like basic history, serious.
History will not look kindly at any of the people in DC right now... that includes the President.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:27 PM
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32. So you're OK that his "master politics" is destroying the country? |
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Man, I thought the wingers were Macheavellian. We've gotten to the point where the best we can hope for on the budget impasse is that SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, and a lot of other programs for the needy, are going to be decimated. Please expand on how the president's master strokes have been so brilliant.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:43 PM
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34. So, you're OK with teabaggers holding the country hostage? |
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You're OK with citizens being collateral damage in this warfare HE DID NOT CREATE? Yet, you blame HIM?? You're as looney as the fringe!!!
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:50 PM
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and I am pretty sure that the best way to handle terrorists is not to let them have their way as the first step in some grand scheme to defeat them 10 years from now.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:54 PM
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36. actually in real life you do not negotiate wiht terrorists |
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-11 12:55 PM by nadinbrzezinski
and to take the analogy further... once the terrorist or hostage taker, threatens to kill a hostage, that is a trigger for you to send in the tactical team... OF course at this point the analogy breaks since we do not have the political equivalent
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Suffice it to say we first negotiated with terrorits in December
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:21 AM
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10. No shit! Hardly a revelation. It's the voters, stupid. Not personally |
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calling you stupid. That's my new standard remark to people who are trying to figure out how we got here.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:32 AM
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14. Yeah but there are people all over, including here, that really |
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do not know this. FR is a nice ... less radical (that is the scary thing) window into the my way or highway thinking,
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:50 AM
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18. They're like a bunch of toddlers. We want our way no matter the consequences! |
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If it destroys the country because we're to uneducated, ignorant and completely out of touch with reality, so be it. We will get our way and to hell with the rest of the entire WORLD. We will have won.
And for what? It will have done NOTHING GOOD. Of course, they don't know the meaning of that word, "GOOD" because they're all a bunch of racist, hateful, uneducated FOOLS. Teabaggers suck.
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Fri Jul-29-11 11:59 AM
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19. Don't insult toddlers... even a three year old in a full meltdown |
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behaves beter than these so called adults.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:15 PM
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25. LOL...sorry toddlers! |
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:16 PM
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26. Because Jesus (or Elvis) WANTS IT THIS WAY! |
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:22 PM
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28. You are exactly right. I recced this. |
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I have teabagger relatives. They are real. The tea party is real and they're dangerous in different ways. My relatives are armed to the teeth. And they wish the South had won the civil war. They are hoping for default so they can show their power.
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:23 PM
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30. So do we... and yes our relatives are also armed to the teeth |
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Fri Jul-29-11 12:33 PM
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33. Nothing like a little drama on a Friday. |
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Fri Jul-29-11 02:41 PM
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38. I dwouldn't go to freeperville, and don't understand why anyone would, |
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but it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. That's why I don't understand any Dem who wants to compromise with them on anything. They're malignant, evil psychopaths who need to be destroyed, not appeased. Getting the country back from them is going to be extremely hard work.
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Fri Jul-29-11 02:58 PM
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39. Alas enough freepers are now in power |
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to do real damage...
Why I suggested going there.
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