The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

[RINO Tom]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

[BundouYMB]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

You not liking something does not make it a fringe position.

[SWE]

This thread is becoming almost as entertaining as the Ebola outbreak.

Becoming?

[RINO Tom]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

You not liking something does not make it a fringe position.

Agreed.  What makes it fringe is it's ridiculous and a very left-wing position.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

You not liking something does not make it a fringe position.

Agreed.  What makes it fringe is it's ridiculous and a very left-wing position.

I mean, yes, it's currently a position that's been relegated to the political periphery, sure.

[Ebowed]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

What jobs have you worked?  How many people did you support on your salary?

[Badger]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

What jobs have you worked?  How many people did you support on your salary?

RINO's family is quite rich, IIRC. Exactly the types who sniff at unions.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

He's allowed his opinion. I don't agree. I know I've gushed over women others found unattractive.

That doesn't make him wrong, that makes you desperate.

I wasn't sure if I should have put this in Funny or here.

[Figueira]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

Using the word "fringe" as an insult is one of the worst things one can do in political disussion.

[RINO Tom]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

Using the word "fringe" as an insult is one of the worst things one can do in political disussion.

Not an insult so much as a request to not sit at the fringe and call someone right of center like Charlie Baker a right-winger because he's not on the far left (which has happened here on several occasions).

[RINO Tom]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

What jobs have you worked?  How many people did you support on your salary?

RINO's family is quite rich, IIRC. Exactly the types who sniff at unions.

I guess that's all relative.  Now I'll stop derailing this thread.

[Figueira]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

Using the word "fringe" as an insult is one of the worst things one can do in political disussion.

Not an insult so much as a request to not sit at the fringe and call someone right of center like Charlie Baker a right-winger because he's not on the far left (which has happened here on several occasions).

No one called anyone a right-winger in that post.

Supporting gay marriage is a fringe position in Saudi Arabia. Opposing universal health care is a fringe position in Sweden. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a position that's unpopular in your country.

As for Baker, he could be considered a right-winger depending on the context. It's all relative.

[RINO Tom]

Are they in a union? If Not, This is why a union is a fundamental right that everyone has to have and needs to be in.

I just want you to acknowledge how fringe it is to believe that you should have to be in a union just for being employed.

Using the word "fringe" as an insult is one of the worst things one can do in political disussion.

Not an insult so much as a request to not sit at the fringe and call someone right of center like Charlie Baker a right-winger because he's not on the far left (which has happened here on several occasions).

No one called anyone a right-winger in that post.

Supporting gay marriage is a fringe position in Saudi Arabia. Opposing universal health care is a fringe position in Sweden. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a position that's unpopular in your country.

As for Baker, he could be considered a right-winger depending on the context. It's all relative.

Fair enough.

[Joe Republic]

Poster joins AH.  Poster gets banned from AH.  Poster joins Atlas.  Poster gets banned from Atlas.  Poster joins AAD and spends the rest of their miserable days there.

It's the circle of life.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Got a good chuckle out of this

It kinda seems like right wing posters on this forum use the term "Reagan Democrats" in a manner that suggest it's like a video game power up...

"You acquired Reagan Democrats!!  +15% white vote to your score!"

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Not a fan of Cleveland, but his Republican opponents always found ways to be worse.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I don't have a huge problem with it.

A political party by definition consists not only of its supporters in the electorate (the voters), but also the party's elected officials in government (as well as the party as an organization). I don't think its fundamentally wrong for that other aspect of the party to have a say in the presidential nominating process.  

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Context:

Only in Florida.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Really, attacking someone on those grounds is low, and often shows you have no better attacks to use.  (see: Bush '92) People, generally, don't care. The majority of the electorate hasn't grown up on the draft, and the proportion that has gets smaller every year.

Yes. If you tell swing voters that Bernie dodged the draft, a majority of them will probably think that he didn't bother to tune in to the NFL or NBA draft.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I propose an interesting new possibility to those ITT:  See people as complicated human beings rather than as monolithic angels to be worshipped or demons to be condemned.

[This account no longer in use.]

I can tell how this thread is gonna go...

1) The Bernie hacks insist his current polling would not move at all, and show him winning in a historic landslide.

2) The anti-Bernie hacks insist he would collapse to McGovern levels the second a negative ad about socialism runs against him.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

As much as I love primates, the child should definitely come first. Who can live with knowing they let an ape kill an innocent kid when they had a chance to save him? The kid didn't know what he was doing and didn't deserve to die, the zoo failed to provide a secure habitat and the mother should have kept a better eye on him.. though, to be fair, I don't think it would be unreasonable to assume that your average mother believes kids can't just sneak into an enclosure like that. But, still, is the ape that important? Was it currently serving a super critical function, other than simply existing in a terribly small living space with random people gawking at it all day? We have its DNA, after all. Not the same, sure, but it reduces the severity of its death.

[This account no longer in use.]

I most likely agree with Nathan as usual, but I wasn't here for that, and Atlasia always has ridiculously stupid tensions going on related to that silliness.

Yes, CC's views are completely absurd, but bullying a teenager over them with such extreme language is way too far. I hate a lot of what he stands for. Still, this forum could certainly use an injection of love pretty soon because I'm getting really sick of it this election season. Everything is good and evil - no trying to correct - just vicious character attacks. Every time I start coming on, I get more and more depressed reading this complete disregard for others - I hate to direct this to you because you are the least of my concerns, but seriously, let's start making a conscious effort to stop with the baseless name calling attacks. I'm not innocent either - I get swept up in the mob mentality, but how many times do you have to bump this thread?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Wow. When was the last time Dick Morris was the most competent person in a room?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

But as the judge said, giving the guy a longer sentence, would traumatize his cosseted upper middle class privileged life style. We can't have that. Long sentences are to be reserved for the sans culottes.