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News: Republicans take over Congress.
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And I thought the Taylor/Britney debate was heated 
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I know not all Republicans are bad, in fact some joined Democrats in passing laws for minority groups...but why can't they pick a decent/moderate one to run for President? 
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Originally posted by Giliap
 A basic sixth grade history class will tell you all you need to know! But:
Racist? Yes, racist. America was founded on racism (not exclusively of course) and non-white people were not even considered humans. Fast forward to today and the effects after the *cough cough* bandaids *cough cough* I meant "amendments" to the constitution have still trickled down to oppression and discrimination against POC.
Power/Greed. That was the whole point of the expansion of the U.S.! Duh.
Killing people... The U.S. is by far the most insidious of all killer nations... ESPECIALLY when it comes to people with different view points. |
Poor sis, probably went to those schools, where they only teach students the "positive" American history.
but drag!
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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Originally posted by KyIe
TO ALL I HAVE RESPONDED TO:
This is the perfect example of the pure ignorance that is spewed throughout this thread. Every single point made by this poor soul has no backing, is factually incorrect
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Republican want to restrict women's abortion right, and why shouldn't birth control be covered?
Gay marriage is an important right so stop trying to downplay discrimination.
Minimum wage needs to be raised as does equal pay for women which they couldn't care less about
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Girl bye lets not even go there. Bill Clinton left this country debt free. If it wasn't for REPUBLICAN airhead bush we wouldn't be in this mess. And mess at you trying to degrade Obama's success in cleaning up the mess republicans made. When he's done a better job than any of these republicans like religious nut job mitt Romney could've.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhart...and-investing/
And you can stop with the conspiracy theories and borderline racist remarks regarding about Obama's race. Let's not act like being black is a privilege or advantage when were talking about American
politics. He got there becusse he was TWICE as good as his peers and right for the job. |
So wrong on this. One Clinton didn't leave the country debt free, i dont know where you pulled that one from lmao. The re-stablization of the economy has nothing to do with any bill Obama has proposed. He has literally been a lame duck for 6 years. Why are you bringing MItt Romney's religion into this? I know because you have nothing else to attack him on. Pitiful.
When did I say being black was a privilege? Ever. I said that the white power in the Democratic party used race as a ploy to get ahead in the presidential election. Literally the complete opposite. And no he did not get there because he was twice as good as his peers that doesn't even have any basis. He had no experience nor accomplishments. Compared to Hillary she completely out shined him in all political aspects.
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The essays in here are remarkable
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There's a reason Republicans wanted to restrict the minority vote,womens vote, young college votes. Because instead of trying to listen and help them they would rather trick them or shut them out
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Originally posted by LuLuDrops
I know not all Republicans are bad, in fact some joined Democrats in passing laws for minority groups...but why can't they pick a decent/moderate one to run for President? |
Because they still believe that KKK/Redneck/Cowboy vote is the only vote to get. So they get the craziest bitches from their party and let them yank each other to see who is going to lose to whoever the Dems put out.
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Originally posted by Giliap
A basic sixth grade history class will tell you all you need to know! But:
Racist? Yes, racist. America was founded on racism (not exclusively of course) and non-white people were not even considered humans. Fast forward to today and the effects after the *cough cough* bandaids *cough cough* I meant "amendments" to the constitution have still trickled down to oppression and discrimination against POC.
Power/Greed. That was the whole point of the expansion of the U.S.! Duh.
Killing people... The U.S. is by far the most insidious of all killer nations... ESPECIALLY when it comes to people with different view points. |
HAHAH. This post is actually funny and I can't believe some other poster called this a drag. EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN EXISTENCE TODAY WAS FOUNDED ON WAR, FIGHTING, DEATH AND OPPRESSION. EVERY PIECE OF LAND THAT HUMANS LIVE ON HAS BEEN WARRED AND FOUGHT OVER. SLAVERY BASED ON RACISM WAS NOT AN AMERICAN IDEA IT WAS A EUROPEAN ONE THAT WAS INJECTED INTO AMERICA. If you think that stating the obvious facts of the past will change anything, it won't. What this country was founded on is nobody's fault and can't be magically changed with a wave of a wand. Plus what does any of this have to do with Republicans winning the senate? it doesn't. You have no other arguments to make so you just spew up randoms facts on how terrible America is and apparently its all the 21st century white man's fault? Please.
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Originally posted by Ryan
Still waiting for a response to two of my rather lengthy responses. Hopefully it'll be from someone who won't sling "ignorant" and "read a book" as their default response.  |
You are not going to get a response, sis. Because even I who agree wwith your post was still left saying "damn". You think the opposition has a counter-response? Just accept that you shut it down.
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Originally posted by KyIe
No they're for smaller government which increases profitability and growth of businesses which in turn leads to a trickle down of jobs throughout all socio economic classes thus decreasing unemployment. The media has portrayed the Republican party as a nativist cult of rich white males whom are racist homophobic misogynists and bible thumpers. This fallacy is completely inaccurate and really grinds my gears. The people on this website only further these stereotypes when they're too busy stanning over one of their pop girl faves than to actually learn the facts.
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Lol @ trickle down economics being a contention. Trickle down economics can never work because there will never be enough to trickle down seeing as the top 1% control more than 99% of the nations wealth. Free market economics will always promote class disparity, and without strict Government regulations and welfare programs suggested by the Democrats, our nation would only fall further into class warfare.
Gtfo with trickle down economics.
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This happens every midterm election with just about every sitting president. It happened to Bush in 2006 when the dems took over congress. I don't know why folks act so shocked and surprised. Politics is so predictable for the most part. The young voters who vote during the general election for Obama never vote in midterm non-general election years.
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America turning conservative. 
I hope Hillary wins 2016, I'm not here for a tea party nutjob taking over the country...
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Originally posted by KyIe
HHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAH YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. Who the f*ck made the country even worse off in 2010 than it was in 2008? The social issues are coming but it takes time regardless of who's in power. If it did matter who was in power than wouldn't they all have gotten passed by now since its been democratically controlled? Here's a fact for you. The white DEMOCRAT power structure has done ruthless tactics for years to try and gain power. They literally plucked Barack Obama from obscurity into the lime light and ran him for president utilizing his race their main selling point which is just reprehensible. You are so caught up in hating the Republicans that you cannot see the issues within the Democratic party. I am not even a Republican myself I am a Libertarian which has completely different values than both but what I can see from both parties is when they are acting in the interests of increasing their own power and not to help the people.
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As usual libertarians have their facts wrong. The Democrats did not want Obama to run for Senate or the white house. Obama didnt even get a plurality of the primary votes. Hillary got more votes than Obama in the primaries. Obamas campaign team did not think he was a good choice for Senate initially. Black voters did not want Obama to run for president until after they saw he had a chance to win. The running joke was Hilary is blacker than Obama.  i know libertarians are senile in the brain and forget easily but damn....
Obama did what he wanted anyway.
I predicted if Obama ran and dems picked him for pres he'd win. I said the same about Howard Dean. They had the best ideas. However, congress has to actually pass those ideas into law and as you saw with Obama its almost never what his first choice for a law or even his second choice for a law. He had a choice to get some of what he wants or none of what he wants. Half the states that voted against the dems are having great success with their Obamacare claim they dont want but good luck trying to take it from them now. Even Mitch McConnell had to tip toe around the issue of Covered Kentucky.
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Originally posted by Ryan
1) I'm all for small government, as long as it's a smart, effective government. In one hand, the GOP can't be for small government and saying they want to respect personal liberty, when they're advocating legislation that has them all up in a woman's uterus and the bedrooms of tax paying Americans. It's contradictory.
2) Smaller government shouldn't mean cutting programs that hard working Americans need to survive the hard times, cutting education, cutting environmental protection, cutting taxes for corporations that ship American jobs overseas, all the while while doubling and tripling military budgets,
3) If trickle down economics is supposed to work as planned, and the free market will sort things out the way it's planned, why are corporations not using all of the gains on Wall Street to hire more workers? Yes, the economy has gotten better, after all, we've had 30+ months of interrupted job growth versus the almost 800K a month we were hemorrhaging, but we should be rebounding stronger.
I don't know about you, but history has shown that when our nation is facing a job crises, we turn to infrastructure programs that not only spurs job growth in the private sector, but also spurs innovation. Yes, the government hiring people to work on our crumbling roads, bridges and outdated power grids, which benefits the private sector because we're buying supplies and staffing from those very companies.
Unfortunately, a lot of governors used money from infrastructure programs to balance their budget, then lambasted the President and Democrats for wasteful spending, when if that money had been used as it was intended, would have led to more jobs and better roads, etc.
4) Yes, Democrats has two years of "complete power" yet had many bills fail even with said "complete power" due to GOP obstruction. You shouldn't need a super majority to get a bill passed in the Senate. Majority should rule. Votes losing 56-44 because they couldn't reach a 60-vote threshold due to grandstanding is ridiculous. Senators supporting a bill, then filibustering their own bill because either the President supported it or because they just didn't want it to go through. Yeah, that was the GOP of 2009-2014.
5) The GOP leaders getting together and vowing to make Obama a one-term president before he even took office? Hmm. Objecting anything he stood for, anything he supported, even when they were Republican ideas first? Refusing to negotiate and compromise, all the while blasting the President for refusing to do so, when in fact he had, many times at the expense of his own party.
GOP voting against jobs bills? Voting against bills for equal pay? Voting against the violence against women act? Voting to repeal "Obamacare" without once putting forth their own plan? Voting to delay mandates of Obamacare, then suing the President when he delayed parts that they wanted via executive order? Voting to ban abortion? Trying to pass personhood bills? What do you call that?
That's not the party of Reagan. That's not the GOP that worked w/ President Clinton on bipartisan bills that fixed a broken welfare system. That's not the GOP looked at bipartisanship as a strength, not a weakness.
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omg didn't even see this one til now. I respect your post so much for actually having facts displayed and argued 
Nobody here is advocating that the GOP is perfect or even decent in the last 4 years, they have been fractured and distant which made them easy prey for the media for the past decade. All of the economic policies you mentioned may not necessarily 'work' but what the Democrats have been doing is absolutely nothing and thats the real issue. NOTHING has gotten done and that is not solely on the Republicans shoulders. Its a two way street in politics and don't say that the Democrats have held out a hand to compromise when your have radicals like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid who have stalled compromise more than any republican. Your opinions on corruption is spot on but we can see now why the GOP wanted Obama to be a one term president. He is simply not fit for the job. He shows no true strength and organization and unity skills that a president needs to effectively take this country into prosperity again and that is the real issue not Congress.
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I want to see turnout numbers, especially among the youth. Conservatives vote in droves while the Liberal youth tend to not care 
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Originally posted by KyIe
HAHAH. This post is actually funny and I can't believe some other poster called this a drag. EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN EXISTENCE TODAY WAS FOUNDED ON WAR, FIGHTING, DEATH AND OPPRESSION. EVERY PIECE OF LAND THAT HUMANS LIVE ON HAS BEEN WARRED AND FOUGHT OVER. SLAVERY BASED ON RACISM WAS NOT AN AMERICAN IDEA IT WAS A EUROPEAN ONE THAT WAS INJECTED INTO AMERICA. If you think that stating the obvious facts of the past will change anything, it won't. What this country was founded on is nobody's fault and can't be magically changed with a wave of a wand. Plus what does any of this have to do with Republicans winning the senate? it doesn't. You have no other arguments to make so you just spew up randoms facts on how terrible America is and apparently its all the 21st century white man's fault? Please.
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All those lies... I cannot.  The point is that European settlers and especially the founders of the U.S. knew better. They chose to run things so disgustingly and inhumane.
Anyways, I was comparing your political ideology to that of the political ideology of those founders. You said you had logical viewpoints and I find that to be laughable as your political ideology, like I said, aligns with the ideology of the "founding fathers" who clearly messed up big time as we've had to amend some very important issues. And this comparison is not baseless... the republican and libertarian platforms literally want to rewind time to go back to the days of unspeakable social conditions.
So no, I'm not totally off-topic but I did got off-topic enough and I apologize to the thread readers and creator for that!
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I kiiii so hard at ATRL'ers fear of Republicans. It's really hysterical tbh
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