This type of manipulative reporting is just disgusting. It’s amazing that we have to rely on a Comedy show to hear some semblance of thruthiness. BTW, apparently Bachmann won her votes the old fashioned way, she PAID for them. Douchebags, all.
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Ron Paul seems to be the only guy who is making any sense.
I’m not sure what to make of that, but here is his latest campaign video. It’s pretty good.
http://latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-20110816,0,1093453.story
I certainly don’t need to hear from these two clowns. I can make up my own mind.
It takes a liberal to expose the filthy, fixed and contrived show put on by the Teapublican party.
Good call on Bachman paying and cocksucking her way to the top.
A modest proposal:
Set a maximum tax deduction of $20 per person, per year for political donations.
I’d vote for an candidate who’d agree to this. An individual can still donate as much as current laws allow, but they only get a $20 tax deduction.
I’m sure President Obama will quickly agree to such an idea because he’s in favor of “spending cuts in the tax code”.
awww our ¿Republic’s ( licensed Court Jesters) delivering insight and advice license to mock, speak freely to dispense frank observations and highlight folly these guys are the best since the Smothers Brothers-(kids ask your parents)
Our treasured Republican Manifesto strictly prohibits acknowledging anybody who our Secret Leader (Norquist. Shh.) does not endorse.
Dang, she bought the votes… and got 80% of her bought votes! lol
I have to agree with Jon Stewart… I disagree with a whole lot of what Ron Paul says but he speaks truths that no one else does.
I said before and I will say it again,
Vote for the person who won’t lie to you. At least you know where he stands and you can deal with it.
Unlike the biggest liar in history we voted in last time.
#10 You voted Republican right? So qwitcher bitchin, Obama’s doing the same things McCain would have done. Yes, he lied, but he said he’d do all this liberal stuff and he’s doing the things you like instead! Sheesh. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Jon Steward amazes me here. I used to dislike the guy immensely. Now I find he also makes sense. See what the truth do to people, reason and sense? This is the Ron Paul effect! Just like NA, Ron Paul changes you – makes you see through all the bullshit, rhetoric and falseness and outright lies from the political mainstream.
It is not that amazing that they poo poo Paul as they do.
They know who they want and Paul is not it/
Myself I wouldn’t vote for him even if they all said yea to him/
But then I didn’t vote for Obama either.
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Wow! Bachmann bought votes? So I guess she took a page out of the Obama play book…
No really, bigboybc. She isn’t using OUR money, unlike most Dems with their “entitlement” programs.
So Phydeau, since you are against all things reason, why won’t you vote for Ron Paul?
http://ontheissues.org/ron_paul.htm
Ron Paul is a “true” libertarian. That has good and bad aspects that I wish we could parse.
Paul loses me on his Trade Policies. Paul, as a libertarian basically does not want a Federal Government, preferring the operation of a free market.
Like any dogma, like religion, these ideologues believe in things that don’t exist: the free market for example.
Sorry——reality bites——Ron Paul right in the ass.
VOTE ALL “NO NEW TAXES” POLITICIANS OUT OF OFFICE. They want to remove the New Deal and kill off the Middle Class. Its what the free market does.
Speaking of religion, the IowA straw poll. Another sham dominated by religious types where the ends justify the means. It should be very simple to stop politicians from buying their votes. At a minimum, just make it a rule/pledge that the candidates won’t do it. But the Iowa Sham is not about reality, its only a show to an end: nominate a loon that agrees with us.
So Backman buys 6000 votes but only gets 4000 votes. I wonder how many votes Ron Paul paid for? None is what I wager.
I’d vote for Paul “if” he had raised his hand on the 10 to one expenses reduction to tax compromise. JOBS/the Economy is the most important debatable issue the Feds deal with and you can’t have the religiously constipated totally on the crapper when the time comes to move.
VOTE ALL “NO NEW TAXES” POLITICIANS OUT OF OFFICE.
Silly Hoomans.
I have to give credit to John C. Dvorak for smelling this before I did but here goes:
http://spectator.co.uk/australia/7143123/lathams-law.thtml
Jon Stewart is the smartest guy with a big stage.
For those of you who are thinking: “So the owner of Fox News has a hard-on for Lenin, so what?”
There is more of this:
“Kto kogo?”
“Who/whom,” or “Who does what to whom?” ~ The central question of politics, according to Vladimir Lenin.
Lenin wedded the exterminationist principle kto kogo (“who/whom”) to the totalitarian formula for a “scientific dictatorship,” which he defined as “Power without limit, resting directly on force.”
Here:
http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w79.html
The executive summary is this: The evil elites are trying to create a world that only a Bobbo would love.
Ron Paul is the only guy not going along.
They don’t understand this.
Why won’t he take the money and just SFU and sell out his constituents like all the reasonable politicians?
Must be some kind of fanatic.
Somebody===wazzzzzup? I was going to foist my political views onto your excellent link but decided to let you have your say. But claiming I want whatever it is you link to? Sounds evil. Not elite though, just evil.
Without reading whatever piffle you think is relevant, as a pragmatice libertarian Existential Anti-Theist Humanist ((dang–it gets longer the more I live)) I will support just about any system that provides a social safety net (food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, jobs) and balances the budget. Tradeoffs as necessary to achieve those two goals.
My own thoughts about Murdock/Lenin was that it was off point but totally consistent.
You see my friends you bascially got two types of people in this world: them that are ideologically driven and those that are practically driven. The two don’t swap sides too often but rather simply switch ideologies or relative weights. Murdock being a free market capitalist to the injury of everything/one else is no different than being a Leninist. Same monkey, different banana. Now–being a pragmatist, what weight can I switch between as my fancy might catch? Oh…..I don’t do that, I let the facts present themselves and then deal with reality.
Yea, two different camps.
If you ever pull your head out of your ass, be careful you don’t pop your eardrums. The effect of going from a pure vacuum to reality always involves passing a pressure wave.
Heh, heh.
God that was depressing.
Kudos to Comedy Central and Dvorak.org for keeping the citizenry informed. Stewart and Colbert may be comedians, but the talking-head media whores misreporting the news are evil clowns.
My dear Bobbo,
You are about as libertarian as Attila the Hun.
Talk about having your head up your ass, at least I don’t claim to be something I don’t understand.
You’ll forgive me, perhaps, for using you as an example, but you’ve established your anti-freedom attitude so thoroughly, it is going to take a long time to live it down.
I love crazy Uncle Ron. He’s a great guy.
#21
“My own thoughts about Murdock/Lenin was that it was off point but totally consistent.”
Let me explain that then. The reporters at the straw poll cold hardly have failed to notice that Ron Paul was within a few hundred votes of Frau Bachmann.
They had an agenda.
Which is why you should get your news here:
http://noagendashow.com/
And don’t be a Douche-bag.
#21
“I will support just about any system that provides a social safety net (food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, jobs) and balances the budget.”
Good. That only leaves the question Who/Whom?
Who pays and Who gets?
Who is the master and who is the slave?
I mean, there has to be a slave-class to provide for those who are “too whatever to work”.
This is why you are no libertarian.
Libertarians would have a voluntary charity system for the deserving poor only.
No welfare plantations.
Somebody–I challenge you to put some meat on your bones. What you linked to was a bio on Rupert Murdock. What does that have to do with Paul/backman/Iowa Straw Poll/Stewart-Colbert?
I define freeeeedom as other people doing what you don’t like. I accept majority will. Let them make the wrong decision and hopefully learn from it. What have I posted, don’t look it up–paraphrase it if you can, that makes you think I am anti-freedom as opposed to I advocate a balanced budget taking into account expenses and revenue.
Very Murdock of you to call people with a differenct idea than yours “anti-freedom.”
Yep, head up and locked.
Prove me wrong.
Buying votes.
The party divides the venue into sections and auctions each to the candidates, who can then set up booths to present their case to the voters. The larger areas and those closest to the entrance often fetch the highest price. In 2011 bidding started at $15,000 and ranged to as high as $31,000 (bid by Ron Paul).
Non-Republicans are allowed to vote in the Ames Straw Poll. However, all voters must be at least 16 1/2 years of age, be legal residents of the state of Iowa or a student attending an Iowa university/college, and purchase a ticket priced at $30, however some campaigns pay the fee for their supporters.
Damn You HULU!!!
Maybe Dvorak Uncensored can work out an easy way for these US only vids to be upload to an external US site for Non US viewers.
Hey–a nice on point cross posted. Kudo’s. The taxation is slavery meme is dishonest. You will tax for national defense but not for social programs. That means taxation is not slavery if you agree with its aims.
The real question then is what do the majority of people want and how to pay for it. America is not set up to satisfy the desires of any minority dogma. See “real” freedom at work? If people don’t want to support universal healthcare, I think they are wrong, but will accept the majority vote==freely arrived at and not swamped by special interest money==all as can be best arranged.
So–the social safety net is FOR EVERYBODY and paid for BY EVERYBODY. Silly rabbit to go around thinking you can divide people into such groups: the advantaged and the oppressed and THEN PUT THE BILLIONAIRES IN THE OPPRESSED CLASS. haw, haw. What a looney.
Yes, head firmly up your ass as every argument you make shows.
Silly Hooman.
Ron Paul.. Making sense since the beginning of time… I’d vote for him.