The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[Frodo]

This is why I like the New Deal.

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This random comment of his is from my thread 'The Rebel Yell'.   I hope it makes more sense given the context than it did to me.  

[Paul Kemp]

Something a little more fun! (I hope the mods think this is ok)

Back in late 2008, early 2009, everyone thought Mark Sanford and John Ensign would be frontrunners in 2012's GOP primary race. We know how those two turned out. The Democratic side also has its fair share of sexual affairs and other scandals, but usually revealed long after Election Day.

So, which talked-about 2016 candidates are most likely to have a sexual affair, or some other kind of disqualifying scandal (corruption, nepotism)??





I think Marco Rubio is most likely to have an affair. Probably with a gay Mexican prostitute. He just seems the type to me.

A gay scandal with Santorum is also overdue.

Paul Ryan also seems insecure with his sexuality but I don't think he'd cheat, I think he'd stay clean.

Nikki Haley is most likely to have a big nepotism/corruption scandal, since she's already faced a variety of smaller charges of nepotism since being elected.

Biden and Cuomo may have a roving eye...

Your turn!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is why I like the New Deal.

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This random comment of his is from my thread 'The Rebel Yell'.   I hope it makes more sense given the context than it did to me.  

It's not quite as absurd as it seems at first glance since the 75th Anniversary Encampment was held in 1938 and while not strictly New Deal related, the New Deal was responsible for jumpstarting government funding for oral history projects.

[Antonio the Sixth]

i've always wondered what makes Vermont whites so much more liberal then the rest of the white population elsewhere. Is it possible to take a stereotypical white in Tennessee or Oklahoma and tinker with the genes to make them behave like Vermont whites (without of course telling them what the intent is)

[politicus]

how do people feel about a "no arguing in the Deluge" rule (like the Comedy Goldmine) is...or does awkward self-defense just add to this thread's charms?

My opinion of the matter is: no Deluge at all. Unlike the Goldmine, this thread isn't fun in even the remotest sense of the word, so I don't see how the forum would be missing anything.

Disagree. I think its often funnier, but people should be more selective about what they put here.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

how do people feel about a "no arguing in the Deluge" rule (like the Comedy Goldmine) is...or does awkward self-defense just add to this thread's charms?

My opinion of the matter is: no Deluge at all. Unlike the Goldmine, this thread isn't fun in even the remotest sense of the word, so I don't see how the forum would be missing anything.

Disgree. I think its often funnier, but people should be more selective about what they put here.

There's so much to choose from it's hard, you see

[Paul Kemp]

Obama hasn't even been re-inaugurated yet and he already had his Harriet Miers moment.

[Paul Kemp]

Israel-haters seldom let facts get in the way of their hysteria.

[Vosem]

Israel-haters seldom let facts get in the way of their hysteria.

He's right...

[Paul Kemp]

Israel-haters seldom let facts get in the way of their hysteria.

He's right...

The very thread he posted it in is hysteric. It's not a one way street here.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

J.J. is my friend but his horrific postings on the CT shooting thread all belong here......I'm just too lazy to copy them all.

[Paul Kemp]

J.J. is my friend but his horrific postings on the CT shooting thread all belong here......I'm just too lazy to copy them all.

I'm sure linking to his posting history would suffice.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

J.J. is my friend but his horrific postings on the CT shooting thread all belong here......I'm just too lazy to copy them all.

I'm sure linking to his posting history would suffice.

Done

[Vosem]

Just ban guns.  Make every single gun ing illegal.  Lets become a civilized country.  It's 2012 not 1791.
I want to be free to leave my house in the morning without being in danger of being shot by some gun nut.  Respect my freedom please (and no, I am not going to buy a gun to protect myself because I am only protected when none of you have a gun)!  I don't want to live in a society of fear where everyone carries a gun.

[Lief 🗽]

Nothing wrong with that post. Banning guns is a sensible, mainstream position.

[Vosem]

Nothing wrong with that post. Banning guns is a sensible, mainstream position.

I really don't want to argue in the Deluge, but banning guns is neither sensible (it's like the marijuana argument in reverse; the government can then no longer regulate it/tax it and it goes underground and proliferates anyway and you end up with every Dick, Nat, and Jane owning a Chechnyan firecracker) nor is it a mainstream position (and this is easy to back up with numbers: http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun-ban.aspx . Note the trend; America is getting more and more pro-gun over time, and quickly).

[Lief 🗽]

Just because Americans are far outside of the mainstream doesn't make the position any less mainstream.

[Vosem]

Just because Americans are far outside of the mainstream doesn't make the position any less mainstream.

If 'mainstream' doesn't refer to the attitude of the majority, it becomes a literally meaningless word.

[Lief 🗽]

Just because Americans are far outside of the mainstream doesn't make the position any less mainstream.

If 'mainstream' doesn't refer to the attitude of the majority, it becomes a literally meaningless word.

The "attitude of the majority" of the world is to severely limit access to guns.

[Vosem]

Just because Americans are far outside of the mainstream doesn't make the position any less mainstream.

If 'mainstream' doesn't refer to the attitude of the majority, it becomes a literally meaningless word.

The "attitude of the majority" of the world is to severely limit access to guns.

Proof? I'm sure you can find evidence suggesting that's the case for a majority of Western Europeans, but you'll find it difficult to argue about what 'the majority of the world' (in Asia) think about gun control. So that's basically an unprovable assertion. It's like asking if God exists -- merely faith. (We're talking about mainstream of people, not mainstream of governments, I assume.)

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=166425.0

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=166425.0

This does not qualify. That someone would put it here is more or less proving his point.

Israel-haters seldom let facts get in the way of their hysteria.

Ben is right, for a sufficiently strict definition of "Israel-haters."

A good half or so of this thread definitely belongs here, though.

Oh, and this:

Come on, man... even I admit when I'm wrong.

[Franzl]

A vile sack of dog shit. And the fact that the entire forum seems to be supporting him...well. You'll see my opinion on that.

This is an insult to all the sacks of dog inks out there.

[k-onmmunist]

Israel-haters seldom let facts get in the way of their hysteria.

yeah, no.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think he may just have turned dada on us.