"and plays into the Democrat characterization of the GOP as the party for the rich, by the rich."
That's what the GOP _is_. There is no trace of anything different.
The rich use the Bible Thumpers as "Brown Shirts" to secure their rule. It's a fine strategy, but they can never pull a purge like the "Night of the Long Knives" because there are far too many of their American "Sturmabteilung" base.
I want results, and owe neither outfit a damn thing.
If you are a moderate Republican, the Dems don't hate you, but REAL Republicans consider you a RINO and an abomination.
Any support you give people who despise you is bootlicking. I'm no longer a Republican. Fuck them and their Superstitionist nutcase base. If I liked "Taliban" I'd move to Afghanistan.
" We are smart, educated, and intelligent, something the Republican Party has feared for years."
Let's not not break our arms patting ourselves on the back. "We" are NOW more composed of the demographics the scared, old, White Christian Taliban Kloset Klansmen openly hate. That chases away votes, and water is wet!
Let me break it down for you. Even stupid voters get the relentless message the GOP hates their guts:
The GOP sees niggers, not blacks, and no I DON'T care about the fools with brown skin who hope to change that from within because they get used like Colin Powell or run over like Condi Rice. The GOP doesn't care much for Spics, (Right Wing Cuban exiles excepted), as their anti-immigration "policies" demonstrate. The GOP hates Fags. The GOP hates anyone not an Superstitionist.
Don't take MY word for it, read their party organ, Fox News!
It stands to reason if you are a minority party which wants to preserve minority rule but your country chose to change its demographics, you can't have minority rule forever!
"Eventually, sadly, someone in the conservative camp will eventually try to enlist some of them to help win an election, ignoring the lesson that the Republicans have taught us between 1964 and today: that they're basically cancerous and will destroy from the inside anyone who allows them in."
That's hardly "sad". US conservatives sold their souls to the Santorums of the Christian Taliban base long ago in exchange for being used as window dressing now and then. Any who didn't jump ship deserve what they get.
Stay the course until demographics and public demand further weaken the GOP, whose style can only get more adversarial.
The Dems DO NOT "butt heads" which is why the GOP blocking strategy has succeeded in pushing them so far to the right.
The GOP/Christian Taliban are locked hopelessly into their current state, and that's actually an advantage because they have NOWHERE to go but further Right. Good. The GOP is now an evil Superstitionist party and should be encouraged to damage itself in these ways which it is institutionally unable to consider as damage!
Let the GOP wallow in their bigoted mindset until they choke on the blowback they so relentlessly provoke.
Bullshit. The Republican base are still as dedicated to vengeance and pursuit of theocracy as ever, and still control the House so they can and will still stonewall progress.
The polarization of US is no accident. One cannot sit idly by waiting for ENEMIES to have a group hug. The US is too large to be one country, and as nature takes its course regionalism and the desire for self-determination rear their heads again. (The US has helped break up far smaller countries under UN auspices, but enforces Federal unity at gunpoint.)
The people in shelters had ample time to prepare or prepare to evacuate.
The people with generators had plenty of time to fill their vehicles and fill reserve fuel containers for their gensets. (They had time to buy generators. Fuel cans are cheap enough.)
I always fill my vehicles before major storms, and always have reserve fuel for my small generator. (G.I. fuel cans and STA-BIL fuel additive work very well. Fuel small engines off your reserve or burn it in your vehicle to keep it fresh.)
The best tool in such times is a clue. If you have almost nothing you can still fill a "bug out bag". Take a train somewhere while they still run, crash at a train station if you have no other option.
I'm not a "prepper", BTW. My lifestyle seamlessly incorporates a high degree of preparation because it "fits" with many other activities at trivial cost. Gas heat means I can cook when a storm (or more commonly, a drunk driver) whacks local power lines. I always have enough cold weather clothing that I don't need heating for survival, just to keep water lines from freezing. (Own hiking/combat BOOTS for all weathers, break them in before you need them!)
While my home is very well prepared by default, if the shit really hit the fan I'd load my pickup truck and Get The Fuck Out. That's what homeowners insurance is for! If I'm guaranteed to be fucked for staying, the possibility of reduced fucking makes evacuation look good.
"that we've gone overboard, and abandoned our young men....look at the college graduating stats."
I agree up until that line. (My buds who sell to DoD have women-owned businesses for your listed reasons.)
US males have a CULTURAL problem with education, and this combines with being sold bullshit lines of study (if you are poor and go to college for anything other than marketable skills you fucked up, the few "unique snowflakes" excepted) to produce a generation of football-worshipping dumbfucks. The idealisation of the "common man" is to blame for the common man is a slug who doesn't seek to improve HIMSELF as opposed to his material condition. The result is he isn't good at improving his material condition!
This carries over into schooling. I'm taking CNC machine shop courses at my local community college. (I encourage everyone who likes to Make Stuff to do so.) The underperforming students spend much of their time bullshitting about football (and don't think my comments about the latent homosexuality of jock worship are funny...) so their performance suffers. The serious students come in early for extra lab time and excel as a result. If I come in early I don't have to wait on a mill or a lathe, but male students who really NEED the money they'd earn as machinists or operators can be found smoking and joking in the parking lot.
At least their tuition funds classes we wouldn't have otherwise. A welding instructor I worked with believed in the "ten percent rule". Ten percent of his students had the motivation and determination to excel. The rest had pulse and respiration.
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"and plays into the Democrat characterization of the GOP as the party for the rich, by the rich."
That's what the GOP _is_. There is no trace of anything different.
The rich use the Bible Thumpers as "Brown Shirts" to secure their rule. It's a fine strategy, but they can never pull a purge like the "Night of the Long Knives" because there are far too many of their American "Sturmabteilung" base.
Why give a fuck which Party you vote for?
I want results, and owe neither outfit a damn thing.
If you are a moderate Republican, the Dems don't hate you, but REAL Republicans consider you a RINO and an abomination.
Any support you give people who despise you is bootlicking. I'm no longer a Republican. Fuck them and their Superstitionist nutcase base. If I liked "Taliban" I'd move to Afghanistan.
" We are smart, educated, and intelligent, something the Republican Party has feared for years."
Let's not not break our arms patting ourselves on the back.
"We" are NOW more composed of the demographics the scared, old, White Christian Taliban Kloset Klansmen openly hate. That chases away votes, and water is wet!
Let me break it down for you. Even stupid voters get the relentless message the GOP hates their guts:
The GOP sees niggers, not blacks, and no I DON'T care about the fools with brown skin who hope to change that from within because they get used like Colin Powell or run over like Condi Rice. The GOP
doesn't care much for Spics, (Right Wing Cuban exiles excepted), as their anti-immigration "policies" demonstrate. The GOP hates Fags. The GOP hates anyone not an Superstitionist.
Don't take MY word for it, read their party organ, Fox News!
It stands to reason if you are a minority party which wants to preserve minority rule but your country chose to change its demographics, you can't have minority rule forever!
"Why is it so hard to find one strong candidate?"
Because no Republican wanted to waste his shot at being POTUS, so the "suicide squad" went under the bus.
The GOP has no good ideas, but plans to wait until 2016 in opposition where they don't NEED any good ideas.
"Eventually, sadly, someone in the conservative camp will eventually try to enlist some of them to help win an election, ignoring the lesson that the Republicans have taught us between 1964 and today: that they're basically cancerous and will destroy from the inside anyone who allows them in."
That's hardly "sad". US conservatives sold their souls to the Santorums of the Christian Taliban base long ago in exchange for being used as window dressing now and then. Any who didn't jump ship deserve what they get.
Stay the course until demographics and public demand further weaken the GOP, whose style can only get more adversarial.
The Dems DO NOT "butt heads" which is why the GOP blocking strategy has succeeded in pushing them so far to the right.
The GOP/Christian Taliban are locked hopelessly into their current state, and that's actually an advantage because they have NOWHERE to go but further Right. Good. The GOP is now an evil Superstitionist party and should be encouraged to damage itself in these ways which it is institutionally unable to consider as damage!
Let the GOP wallow in their bigoted mindset until they choke on the blowback they so relentlessly provoke.
"Software preference" clearly falls under "politics/religion"!
They do, but the rednecks use them to reinforce their Foxtardliness.
Yes, White Trash vote GOP. I live among them and your post is no Troll.
Bullshit. The Republican base are still as dedicated to vengeance and pursuit of theocracy as ever, and still control the House so they can and will still stonewall progress.
The polarization of US is no accident. One cannot sit idly by waiting for ENEMIES to have a group hug. The US is too large to be one country, and as nature takes its course regionalism and the desire for self-determination rear their heads again. (The US has helped break up far smaller countries under UN auspices, but enforces Federal unity at gunpoint.)
3) Not persecuting cannabis users even more than the GOP would be nice too.
At that cheap I'd cheerfully toss the enclosure in my spares/rescue equipment box and call it good.
It's not a fringe. It's a massive base of Superstitionists, and they know exactly what they are doing.
They ARE the GOP, which is now the Christian Taliban Corporate Party.
That's why I'm no longer a Republican. I don't OWE any Party my support, so fuck 'em if they fail to serve me.
The Democratic Party has moved so far right it IS the "moderate Republican" party in practice.
WinME was clearly produced under the influence of Plumbers Crack.
"The down side is the majority of the hippies that did a lot of drugs died young."
Citation fucking needed.
Also, the CHOICE of drug is relevant and there is no general result from doing "drugs" any more than there is from booze.
Works for me!
"Politician's need to learn about the Streisand effect."
I MUCH prefer otherwise. Who wants a smart enemy?
How about posting a detailed review of that laptop with pics?
It would be MUCH more interesting than most recent Slashdot articles!
The people in shelters had ample time to prepare or prepare to evacuate.
The people with generators had plenty of time to fill their vehicles and fill reserve fuel containers for their gensets. (They had time to buy generators. Fuel cans are cheap enough.)
I always fill my vehicles before major storms, and always have reserve fuel for my small generator. (G.I. fuel cans and STA-BIL fuel additive work very well. Fuel small engines off your reserve or burn it in your vehicle to keep it fresh.)
The best tool in such times is a clue. If you have almost nothing you can still fill a "bug out bag". Take a train somewhere while they still run, crash at a train station if you have no other option.
I'm not a "prepper", BTW. My lifestyle seamlessly incorporates a high degree of preparation because it "fits" with many other activities at trivial cost. Gas heat means I can cook when a storm (or more commonly, a drunk driver) whacks local power lines. I always have enough cold weather clothing that I don't need heating for survival, just to keep water lines from freezing. (Own hiking/combat BOOTS for all weathers, break them in before you need them!)
While my home is very well prepared by default, if the shit really hit the fan I'd load my pickup truck and Get The Fuck Out. That's what homeowners insurance is for! If I'm guaranteed to be fucked for staying, the possibility of reduced fucking makes evacuation look good.
"that we've gone overboard, and abandoned our young men....look at the college graduating stats."
I agree up until that line. (My buds who sell to DoD have women-owned businesses for your listed reasons.)
US males have a CULTURAL problem with education, and this combines with being sold bullshit lines of study (if you are poor and go to college for anything other than marketable skills you fucked up, the few "unique snowflakes" excepted) to produce a generation of football-worshipping dumbfucks. The idealisation of the "common man" is to blame for the common man is a slug who doesn't seek to improve HIMSELF as opposed to his material condition. The result is he isn't good at improving his material condition!
This carries over into schooling. I'm taking CNC machine shop courses at my local community college. (I encourage everyone who likes to Make Stuff to do so.) The underperforming students spend much of their time bullshitting about football (and don't think my comments about the latent homosexuality of jock worship are funny...) so their performance suffers. The serious students come in early for extra lab time and excel as a result. If I come in early I don't have to wait on a mill or a lathe, but male students who really NEED the money they'd earn as machinists or operators can be found smoking and joking in the parking lot.
At least their tuition funds classes we wouldn't have otherwise. A welding instructor I worked with believed in the "ten percent rule". Ten percent of his students had the motivation and determination to excel. The rest had pulse and respiration.
Bingo. The idea that Demublicans and Repocrats are much different is absurd.
Example, Obamanist DOJ attacking medicinal cannabis far harder then GOP predecessors.
I retired at 47 and live comfortably on about 45K year.
"So, they're raising anencephalics to harvest for transplant organs?"
Don't give Karl Rove any more ways to "grow" the GOP voting base...
64GB is pathetic for anything costing seven hundred bucks. It's like booting off a floppy.
Yes, really. There's no nice way to say it.