The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

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Do sigs count here?

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Vegetaboi assembles a WTF-worthy "dream cabinet":

Candidates that I like alot and I would put into my Cabinet would be.

Bernie Sanders
Buddy Roemer
Russ Feingold
Virgil Goode
Ross Perot
Ron Paul
Gary Johnson
Pat Buchanan
Dennis Kucinich
Michael Steele
Dennis Kucinich
Ralph Nader
Joe Biden
Sherrod Brown
Joe Donnelly
Jesse Jackson
Jill Stein
Herman Cain
Rocky Anderson
Charlie Christ

[Kitteh]

Vegetaboi assembles a WTF-worthy "dream cabinet":

Candidates that I like alot and I would put into my Cabinet would be.

Bernie Sanders
Buddy Roemer
Russ Feingold
Virgil Goode
Ross Perot
Ron Paul
Gary Johnson
Pat Buchanan
Dennis Kucinich
Michael Steele
Dennis Kucinich
Ralph Nader
Joe Biden
Sherrod Brown
Joe Donnelly
Jesse Jackson
Jill Stein
Herman Cain
Rocky Anderson
Charlie Christ

So basically everyone who has run for President or Senate within the past 10 years?

Except the ones who actually won.

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Can't believe nobody has posted this yet:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=165029.0

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Can't believe nobody has posted this yet:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=165029.0

One of the worst threads I've ever seen.

I actually find it very funny in a watching-a-train-wreck kinda way.

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I actually find it very funny in a watching-a-train-wreck kinda way.

I quote this as absurd. You apparently find train-wrecks to be funny.

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Just when you thought this thread couldn't get any worse:

Neutral.  You have some good ideas but some of them seem extreme.

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I actually find it very funny in a watching-a-train-wreck kinda way.

I quote this as absurd. You apparently find train-wrecks to be funny.

So which was funnier this past week: Texas, where 4 veterans died when the parade float they were on was hit by a train, or Egypt, where 50 or so school kids died when the school bus they were on was hit by a train?

D:

I meant it as a figure of speech. Sorry...

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I suppose, in a way, your attempt to defend the supposed comedy of the idea of a trainwreck turned into something of a trainwreck itself.

XD

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I suppose I'll be the one who puts  these in here -

The Southern strategy had nothing to do with pandering to racists.

Didn't you read my links?  The Southern strategy had nothing to do with race.  It was about convincing Southern moderates who supported civil rights to fight against the segregationist Democrats by voting Republican.  And it's not ludicrous to point this stuff out.  If Republicans had been the party of slavery and segregation (as many high profile Democrats already suggest in their alternate history), no matter how long ago it was, would you want to support the GOP today?

And if Romney was really using racist "dog whistles", then surely you would have heard more controversy over it in this day and age.

The links in question -

First of all, race may have been a factor in 1964, but it wasn't after that.  And stop making fun of me on the Southern strategy.  Read these articles to prove my point:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100265457/The-Truth-Nixon-s-Southern-Strategy
http://www.wnd.com/2002/12/16477/

Your move, liebirals.

I cannot abide these quotes being lost forever at the end of the previous page.

I'm amazed that he cited WND with a straight face.

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So which was funnier this past week: Texas, where 4 veterans died when the parade float they were on was hit by a train, or Egypt, where 50 or so school kids died when the school bus they were on was hit by a train?

I would say the one with the veterans. School kids likely didn't have the time to kill anybody, so we can actually be sad about them dying.

Hey, the man's an actual communist. Though I would have expected this from someone like FallenMorgan, actually.

Actually, I came into this thread, saw the bottom comment with the quote, and, before seeing who it was from, thought "oh, FallenMorgan's here".

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Without the illegal vote to Obama, Romney would be president elect in January. Democrats depend on the illegals so they can stay in power for more handouts to the poor.  I prove my point.

I didn't know Vegetaboi/Banjo Broski had more socks.

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Guess which movie he's talking about:

Massive Horrbile Movie for me, if you hadn't guessed that already.  Much too scary for children, and it loses even more points for CGI animation. 

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Also, there's such a thing as the Conservative Party of NY, which came in third in the last mayor's race. No need to support joke candidates.

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there is some question as to whether compulsive use of pornography functions as an addiction (see drug use) or as an impulse-control disorder (see compulsive handwashing).

The real reason for this isn't anything particularly attractive about pornography, it is that there is something wrong with a society in which it is so difficult for so many males to get sexual intercourse.

True.

I blame Disney movies.  They make every little girl in this country think she's some perfect princess that has to wait for frickin' Prince Charming to come along until she gives herself up.  If we just told them they are decaying bags of meat like everybody else we'd all be getting it in a lot more. 

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Already posted Franzl's response to this in the Sulfur thread, but this post is just so bad it has to go here too:

I might, but I can't say for sure.  I would much rather live in a wealthy or middle-class black neighborhood than a poor one.

I'm absolutely shocked! How come?

Not because of race.  It's just that I really don't like crime.  And urban clothes, weird names, and "gangsta rap" really don't make blacks look that good anyway.

Especially ironic/terrible considering it's from Oldiesfreak.

Also, makes this look even funnier:

During my time on this forum, I've been known to ruffle plenty of feathers.  If you are one of those people, then I hope that you will read this.  As nearly all of you who are familiar with me and my posting history know, I am passionate about civil rights and civil rights history.  (But contrary to popular misconception, I am indeed white, not black.)  And in the midst of that I have jokingly said some things that were bigoted and hateful toward Southerners.  Although I must admit that those feelings are real, I would like to apologize for voicing them.  I will try not to continue making such posts, and if I do, please feel free to report me.  Thank you.

I had to bold the best line.

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This is a new low, even for Oldies:

I didn't think LBJ's reputation ever suffered that much.  And he only signed civil rights legislation to get ahead politically.  In the Senate, he repeatedly blocked civil rights bills.  He also is on record as making some very racist statements:

On his nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court

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After signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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As a Senator, on the Civil Rights Act of 1957

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Try finding a source for any of those quotes.

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Try finding a source for any of those quotes.

Sure thing.

#1: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/books/on-the-way-with-lbj.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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#2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html

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#3: http://www.fdfny.org/blog/2011/09/18/these-uppity-negroes-lbj/

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These sources enough for you? Sorry to break it to you, but LBJ was no great lover of the black man. I do this out of no love for Oldiesfreak- just that I didn't think you shouldn't be able to get away with claiming that what I knew were three very real quotes were fabrications.

Thank you, I stand corrected. I fully admit that I was wrong here. When I googled the quotes only a bunch of non-reputable sources came up.

As for LBJ, I'm no fan of the guy either, in fact this came up in a thread where I was arguing that liberals give LBJ way too much credit nowadays.

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What is absurd is the assertion that the tendency of a Texan born in 1908 to use a certain taboo word and to express certain things in ways that would now raise eyebrows means anything other than the fact he was a Texan born in 1908. Especially when said Texan was not exactly noted for his delicate language in private.

That doesn't mean he wasn't racist though.

Everyone born in 1908 was likely racist.

Not quite everyone.

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And no, Christians are not stupid, just as not all blacks are lazy, not all Irish are drunks, and not all Jews are greedy.  You can never make generalizations like that.

Not to defend Oldiesfreak, but what's bad about that post?

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And no, Christians are not stupid, just as not all blacks are lazy, not all Irish are drunks, and not all Jews are greedy.  You can never make generalizations like that.

Not to defend Oldiesfreak, but what's bad about that post?

The implications are just amazing. Not all blacks are lazy? Not all Jews are greedy? How good of him to recognize that there are some good ones out there.

Ok, I just read it as saying that stereotypes aren't usually true, but I see what you mean. Might have just been poor wording though.

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I propose we ban Oldiesfreak stuff from the deluge. Regardless of how you feel about him it's cluttering this thread up. I've made a new thread for this.

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https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=10265;sa=showPosts

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This doesn't fit here. It's arguable but there's nothing absurd or ignorant about it.

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2016:

Rand Paul/Gary Johnson (R) 296 EV
Joe Biden/Deval Patrick (D) 242 EV
Michael Bloomberg/Ralph Nader (I) 0 EV

Emphasis mine.