2016 election thread

[fatmenace]

the title alone made me laugh

www.theonion.com/articles/man-who-couldnt-defeat-george-w-bush-attempting-to,33149/

[gk]

Aug 5, 2013 16:00:25 GMT -6 fatmenace said:

the title alone made me laugh

www.theonion.com/articles/man-who-couldnt-defeat-george-w-bush-attempting-to,33149/

Hahahaha

[fatmenace]

Unreal. And no one is being held accountable.

www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57598487/more-fast-and-furious-guns-surface-at-crimes-in-mexico/

[gk]

So this is really fun, and explains how Obama could win rather handily, yet the House is comfortably red.

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/08/gerrymandering_jigsaw_puzzle_game_put_the_congressional_districts_back_together.html

[grubbi]

Is there anything that this president/administration has not done on their to do list yet (ie. immoral, deceit, murder, lie, bully, ignore laws, write their own rules, shred the constitution...get the point)?

[fatmenace]

Agree with this. Syria is heartbreaking, but it's not out problem.

reason.com/blog/2013/08/27/8-reasons-not-to-go-to-war-in-syria

[grubbi]

It's a no win situation: Assad is anti-US; the "rebels" are anti-US. And the American public is saying, "Stay out!!". Perhaps we should just nuke 'em and keep the oil for ourselves

[fatmenace]

finance.yahoo.com/news/last-president-obama-reportedly-told-024401509.html

[fatmenace]

lol. oops! i don't know why i'm laughing though, i'm one of the 129 million.

dailycaller.com/2013/11/04/expert-at-least-129-million-will-not-be-able-to-keep-health-care-plan-if-obamacare-fully-implemented/

Obamas's strategy could not be clearer:

1. make a promise he could not keep, but was absolutely necessary to get the bill pass. In fact, if he told the voters his real plan, it never would have gone through and he would have lost the 2012 election. That plan is: if you like your plan, you keep it IF it meets all of these criteria. Otherwise, you have to get a policy stamped with the government seal of approval. This new policy will likely cost you more unless you qualify for a handout.

2. To insure his legacy, he made a calculated risk: through the use of these lies, hope more people would be getting government freebies as a result of the new law than would be paying higher premiums. The people getting the freebees would think its great and at the polls would trounce those paying more. Or, they will be so excited about their freebies the group will be more motivated to vote than those who pay the higher premiums.

3. Of course, the whole reason for the delay of the employer mandate was to mask the adverse impact of the law on millions of Americans until after the midterms.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

[fatmenace]

Fantastic story on the Military Authorization Act and how it came to be.

www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most?src=longreads&utm_content=buffer4c68c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[fatmenace]

www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ar-339724.html

Sounds like Ukraine wants to make it costly. Or they know that Russia won't stop with Crimea.
That's their last card to play, and it's a pretty damned good card. For all its manpower, Russia can't conquer the whole of Ukraine. Nor does it want to. And beyond that, such a war would invite a more serious European response.

[fatmenace]

lol

dailycaller.com/2014/06/13/irs-so-our-computer-crashed-and-erased-all-of-lois-lerners-emails/

[fatmenace]

This was the cover of Dallas Weekly the week before the ebola stuff hit. lol.

[fatmenace]

Bringing in the other party always fixes everything!

Sent from my SGH-T999L using proboards

[gk]

Those against NSA spying lost an ally in Mark Udall last night. He was probably the foremost senator - certainly Democratic senator - who was wary of NSA wiretapping and invasion of privacy. He ran the worst campaign imaginable.

Did you see Ron Paul's tweet (since deleted) about how last night's results will certainly lead to more boots on the ground?