To all the people overreacting at this very moment

[Хahar 🤔]

Take a step back. Take a deep breath. Now think. Think hard. Some of you don't do it nearly enough.

What does any of this matter? None of this affects most of you. Sure as hell, none of it affects me in any significant way. Will you care about this in 50 years? Will you care about this in 15 years? No, of course you won't. Change is inevitable. Whether you support this or not, whether this passes or fails, things will keep going, the inevitable stream of history will not stop, and one day, you'll look back, and you won't be able to imagine things any other way. It's what's going to happen. Now stop acting as if this is so damned important.

Are you watching what they say in Congress? I know you are. You're repeating it, too. Guess what. They don't mean what they say. Self-righteous anger is their job. It's what they're paid to do. I know some of you want to go down that road. You can exaggerate and grandstand all you want then. But spare us now. None of you are there yet, except muon, and he never posts anything political. More likely than not, none of you will ever be there.

When the history of this era is written, will this be there? No. Of course it won't. Whatever change is wrought will not be done in the chambers of the United States Congress. If you think it will, you're both incredibly naive, and have a disgustingly Amerocentric view of things. You ought to fix that.

And now you folk will respond to this thread in the same way you've been flaming in all the other threads. That's because you don't get it. You ought to get it if you want to be anything like many of you think you are, if you want to be those Übermenschen some of you talk about. Think about your life, and how it reflects on your surroundings, and how it will do so in the future. Look at the bigger picture. Learn about the world.

Just stop acting like such tools. That's all it is, in the end. Don't throw out any more buzzwords like "freedom" or "socialism". Think about what they mean. Think about why they are. Just think.

[Alcon]

Oh, by all means if it doesn't affect me, carry on

[Lunar]

Xahar you're just a puppet for Nanzi Pelozi

[The Duke]

Wow, this is a really stupid thread posing as calm wisdom.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Wow, this is a really stupid thread posing as calm wisdom.

Ironically enough, this description fits you perfeclty.

[Rowan]

Xahar you're just a puppet for Nanzi Pelozi

[pogo stick]

Wow, this is a really stupid thread posing as calm wisdom.

Ironically enough, this description fits you perfeclty.

Ironically it fits you, Xahar and Duke of Wellington Perfectly.

[Mechaman]

Sorry if I sound like an ignorant dumbass but:

Xahar, what the hell issue are you referring to here?

[k-onmmunist]

Sorry if I sound like an ignorant dumbass but:

Xahar, what the hell issue are you referring to here?

Healthcare presumably.

[Mechaman]

Sorry if I sound like an ignorant dumbass but:

Xahar, what the hell issue are you referring to here?

Healthcare presumably.

If that is the case I agree with Xahar.
I mean really it has a snowball's chance of hell passing the Senate (assuming that the Senate Democrats still have no balls when it gets there).

[Lief 🗽]

I hope you guys don't mind when I bump all of these "healthcare won't pass the Senate" posts when it passes the Senate.

Obama's not an idiot. He'll make sure it passes.

[Hash]

xahar u r a socialist ANGER ANGER ANGER

[Landslide Lyndon]

I hope you guys don't mind when I bump all of these "healthcare won't pass the Senate" posts when it passes the Senate.

Obama's not an idiot. He'll make sure it passes.

What's really baffling is that supposedly serious analysts and politicians repeat the same things.
As if they don't know that:

1)The Senate bill has nothing to do with the House bill.

2)There is always the possibility of reconciliation where the Dems only need 50+Joe Biden's tiebreaking vote.

[Mechaman]

I hope you guys don't mind when I bump all of these "healthcare won't pass the Senate" posts when it passes the Senate.

Obama's not an idiot. He'll make sure it passes.

What's really baffling is that supposedly serious analysts and politicians repeat the same things.
As if they don't know that:

1)The Senate bill has nothing to do with the House bill.

2)There is always the possibility of reconciliation where the Dems only need 50+Joe Biden's tiebreaking vote.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.......................

[Mechaman]

I hope you guys don't mind when I bump all of these "healthcare won't pass the Senate" posts when it passes the Senate.

Obama's not an idiot. He'll make sure it passes.

Alrighty then, since I'm a man of my word if this does passes you also have the undisputed right to call me a "super beyond the extreme pale dumbass of the 10th to the 11 thousand degree order".

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Wow, this is a really stupid thread posing as calm wisdom.

Gosh, is that moron really use my name as a nick?, asked himself deeply concerned Duke of Wellington

[Vepres]

Yeah, because you told Democrats to calm down when Bush tried to overhaul social security

[JSojourner]

A Facebook friend shortly after the vote was announced:


"We are witnessing the Sovietization of our country.  It is time for armed revolt."


Yeegods.  

[Landslide Lyndon]

A Facebook friend shortly after the vote was announced:


"We are witnessing the Sovietization of our country.  It is timed for armed revolt."


Yeegods. 

Jsojourner, I'm dissapointed with you.
Surely you know better than being Facebook friends with Glenn Beck.

[Хahar 🤔]

Yeah, because you told Democrats to calm down when Bush tried to overhaul social security

Your assumptions are amusing.

I was not particularly politically cognizant at the time.

[JSojourner]

A Facebook friend shortly after the vote was announced:


"We are witnessing the Sovietization of our country.  It is timed for armed revolt."


Yeegods. 

Jsojourner, I'm dissapointed with you.
Surely you know better than being Facebook friends with Glenn Beck.

LOL

I would love to see Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly or any of these big, tough, brave men stage an armed rebellion.  I'm sure they would be first in line to shed their blood for the America they love so much.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Out of the mouths of babes.