American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

He looks old, tired, and ornery. I'm pleased with what obstructionism has done to him.

Reid is feeling it these days.

yeah idk when reid got cooler

thanks to 'citizens united,' the GOP might get destroyed . . . by rich trustfund objectivists? the irony

http://www.vocativ.com/10-2013/gop-scared-conservative-kids/?test

i like how that one guy is all "i don't believe in a luck" while he and his coterie of 'tantric' Galts are piggybacking off the a dude who inherited millions of dollars.

Yeah, what was the difference between me being born Preston Bates or me being born this indigent, poor child? I don’t know if it was luck or if it was probability.

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Kinda needs a leading initial to cross the asshole event horizon and collapse into assholish singularity. H. Preston Bates or somesuch.

just call him Master Preston

Massah Preston to the rest of us.

Tantric Master Preston

Reiki Master Preston.

“Money’s a phenomenal idea,” Ramsey allows. “The idea to have money and just have that as a system.”

Yeah, what was the difference between me being born Preston Bates or me being born this indigent, poor child? I don’t know if it was luck or if it was probability.

this is the most ontologically confused sentence i've ever read

probability is the scientific form of luck that only happens when rich people get nice things

probability is when it happens to me. luck is when it happens to you.

"It's called Bad. Luck."

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Edwin Farnham Butler III?

is there a more WASPish entitled asshole name than "Preston Bates"

Ahem.

sounds french not anglo saxon

that article is insane

http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2013/10/Super-PAC-Preston-Bates-Twitter3280844893.png

every paragraph contains some priceless gem

After drinking purple, protein-infused juice, we stop at two artisanal coffee shops—lots of flannel and Suicide Girls—just to be sure we’re properly caffeinated. Ramsey stays behind to make some calls, and I go with Preston to his daily cryotherapy session. On the way home, we pick up brisket sandwiches at a local barbecue stand, when it starts to pour, the first heavy rain in months. Bates embarks on a monologue about the beauty of nature. Then, as a sort of denouement, he announces, “I wish I could make love to a woman right now.”

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120622020855/simpsons/images/c/c4/Captain!.jpg

that vocativ article cannot possibly be real

all I ever wanna post on politics threads anymore is "I hope that guy dies"

http://studentsforliberty.org/preston-bates/

Favorite Liberty Figures Frederic Bastiat, David Boaz, David Freidman, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Immortal Technique

vocativ is real shit contendo

fresh out the box
look at watch

hmmmmm.

“I’m ready to make some tough concessions to get a deal,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the lead negotiator for Senate Democrats.

...

If Democrats insist on raising taxes, Ryan and other GOP leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have said they will simply let the sequester stay in place. But that strategy is likely to raise the risk of a shutdown in January and a fresh crisis over the debt limit later in the spring — which may explain why Cole is working hard to keep the door to taxes open.

“You can find revenue without raising taxes,” he said Wednesday. “Let’s leave a little helpful ambiguity in what I’m saying.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beneath-conference-committees-sweet-words-lurks-old-sticking-point-taxes/2013/10/30/7bacafb8-418f-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story_1.html

so guys are you excited about Hillary breaking the partisan gridlock in Washington in 2016 or what

How about reform the immigration system, suddenly BAM millions of new American citizens paying new taxes! You know, the same people politicians are always blaming on mooching off the government?

I guess that would make too much sense?

no new taxes!

no more 47%ers living the lucky-duck life on food stamps (even if they do work minimum wage jobs)!

no more liberal judges making up the law!

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/188851-republicans-block-obama%E2%80%99s-dc-circuit-nominee

“They’ve admitted they want to control the court to advance the president’s agenda,” McConnell said ahead of the vote.

shocking. surely the GOP would never stoop to such tactics.

court packing to fill a vacant seat eh

Dems nominate crate of styrofoam peanuts to circuit court

Many Republicans have said they don't think the panel needs additional judges to handle the current case load. But Carney noted during the Bush Administration, Republicans voted to fill the same seats when the case load was half what it is today.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-rafael-father-video-christian-tea-party

Ted's father:

speaking to the North Texas Tea Party on behalf of his son, who was then running for Senate, called President Barack Obama an "outright Marxist" who "seeks to destroy all concept of God," and he urged the crowd to send Obama "back to Kenya."

reverend wright gop edition

can we send Ted Cruz back to Canada

as abhorrent as teddy dad is, it probably says something about the discursive climate that i read "outright Marxist" and thought "of course he thinks he's an outright marxist, why are we surprised about that part"

destroying all concept of god, that's pretty srs

All the Ron Paul-loving Jesus hippies I know (a significant portion of high school classmates went that way, so by know I mean "who show up on Facebook") are 100% into essential oils/alternative medicine bullshit, gluten-free paleo and Crossfit.

I've never completely grasped the connection between desire for absolutely unregulated capitalism and thinking Monsanto is going to kill us all - the strain seems to either point to absolute anti-intellectualism (unless those intellectuals are Chicago economists) - what do those egghead doctors know? - or conspiracist beliefs that Monsanto are really in the pocket of statists, turning us into sheeple.

trust no one, except Jesus I guess

I know quite a few liberals 100% into essential oils/alternative medicine bullshit, gluten-free paleo and Crossfit and loathe Monsanto.

Reminds me of the CEO of Whole Foods who is a big time Libertarian

I have a couple friends who would also fit this description. At one time, I would have regarded them as liberals, but they've recently been tipping into Ron Paul love.

It's all baffling to me.

It's like, I get how fear of the government, fear of GMOs, fear of traditional medicine, all this stuff is related. But I just don't see how you go from that to worshipping politicians who are outright racist and sexist.

How about reform the immigration system, suddenly BAM millions of new American citizens paying new taxes! You know, the same people politicians are always blaming on mooching off the government?

Oh, come on, we know poor (because they're all poor, of course) immigrants don't pay taxes. All they do is take and take and take and never contribute anything. Tell them to put in a hard day's work first, then we'll get back to them.

It's like, I get how fear of the government, fear of GMOs, fear of traditional medicine, all this stuff is related. But I just don't see how you go from that to worshipping politicians who are outright racist and sexist.

― Moodles, Friday, November 1, 2013 1:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because they want to shrink the government

that's priority one for these people, all else falls by the wayside, consequences be damned

because reasons

"america is broke! goddamn unions. and stop handing out money to monsanto! and cell phones to poor people! i'm gonna go make kombucha!"

also half of them are unconsciously racist