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Republican Opens The Door For Violent Terrorist Mob In Salem
StukaFox says...If you crossed Olympia with Salem, you'd have the reason we need nuclear weapons.
Bill Maher: New Rule – There's No Shame in Punting
heropsychoThe problem is the GOP as constructed is already the minority party at least nationally. Since 1992, they've won the popular vote once in presidential races. Demographics favor voting blocs that track for Democrats. If the GOP splits into a moderate party and Tea Party, that is the effective end of the GOP, and the Tea Party would also be politically castrated. The people who built the Tea Party understood that the way to gain influence was as an insurrection within the GOP, not as a third party. For the Tea Party, it was a smart move. They've gained massive influence nationally compared to their numbers. But it is a cancer to the Republican Party that they've proven they're completely unable to control.
Every single problem or mistake you've listed is all due to one common thread - there are too many supporters of the GOP that are too radical. Why did McCain pick Palin? He was too moderate for the base, so he needed to up his conservative street creds, and he needed a minority splash to combat Obama being black. Combine those two, and you can't get Olympia Snow or Susan Collins, but you could get to either of them if you drop the "needs to be hard right conservative". Why did McCain move to the right in the first place? The base demanded it.
Why can't Obama do anything right according to no one in the GOP pretty much? Base is too rabid and demands it. Why did Romney shift to the right? Base.
You can blame the party for catering to the extreme too much, but the problem is the extreme makes up so much of what they have for support, they have no choice. Tea Party organizers astutely realized that, radicalized their supporters to threaten to not turn out for moderate candidates, and even to primary challenge even guys like Eric Cantor for compromising too much.
I mean this sincerely - the GOP party leadership is not at fault. Blame the original Tea Party organizers. Blame Tea Party candidates. Blame the media environment for increasingly favoring more radical candidates by creating partisan bubbles to carefully dissimenate information that suites partisan goals. Blame an electorate too stupid and/or apathetic to understand that neither conservative nor liberal ideology solves every problem (which is so painfully obvious that I can prove that in about 5 minutes), so you need to learn about each issue, and use those ideologies to form options, and then choose the one that's more likely to work, regardless of its ideological foundation. Yeah, that actually takes work and critical thinking, but you'll actually solve problems!
But that ain't happening, so it's time to sit back and watch the slow decline of the GOP as it eats itself alive, and Democrats will increasingly win because we'll keep being presented more with GOP candidates a majority of candidates can't stomach, and hope like heck the Democrats nominate at least someone semi-competent for office, because that's pretty much all we got.
I couldn't stomach voting for a single GOP nominee for president since George Bush, Sr. It's gotten worse because I couldn't stomach my choice for VA governor last year either. I had to choose between a batsh1t insane Cuccinelli or political sleeze in McAulliffe, and it was both the fastest choice to make for me, yet I was the least happy about having to make it for McAulliffe.
And just when I thought you couldn't get much lower from the GOP, they're on the doorstep of nominating Trump or Cruz for president of the entire country.
A party split is needed though. They need to split the two elements of the party from one another. Let the Tea Party form on it's own and let Fox and talk radio follow it. They'll find that the mass media is still far more central and closer to them than what they've been led to believe via Fox and talk radio, who accuses it of being far liberal. The party would be hurt for a couple election cycles, but as people start to wise up, they'd come back to the GOP from the Tea Party and the Tea Party would eventually become a footnote. As it stands, leaving the Tea Party elements in it will destroy the party in full.
The GOP keeps trying too hard to appeal to the far right element of it self and abandoning the central core. They are appealing to the hate mongers and bigots rather than the compassionate conservatism that Reagan at least pretended to have (though didn't).
I still think that McCain made two major errors when he ran. First was stepping too far to the right of where his voting record was while running. Had he stuck to what his record showed, he would have stood a semi-decent chance of winning... had he not made a second major fatal error and that was putting a batshit crazy, way far to the right, person as his VP candidate. Even if she wasn't crazy, or had a brain, she was far too the right for most Americans. Now, even if he had stayed true to himself, and used a centrist VP candidate he may have lost as Obama tapped into something... and I don't think anybody saw that coming.
Then the GOP embraced the hatred of Obama too much. Obama could cure cancer and they'd decry it as a bad thing, he can do nothing right so far as they are concerned. They should have toned that down. They also messed up the messaging on Obamacare. They should have embraced it, noting that they invented it, and tried to pass the same thing into federal law 3 times prior, twice under Bush Sr and once under Clinton and each time it was the Democrats who wouldn't take it. Showing how the Democrats embraced your idea would have shown, "look, we were right the whole time. We could have had this ages ago but the Democrats said 'No' and now they realized we were right." Rather than take the high rode though, they rode the crazy train of hate, and pushed more and more to become obstructionist.
Anyhow, then Romney too shifted far to the right of what his record as Governor showed, and again went with somebody who's too far to the right (who oddly enough is now seen as too establishment by the Tea Party element) as a VP candidate... though Obama's popularity, and the popularity of Obamacare would have made it hard to overcome... though again, if the GOP had handled Obamacare properly, as their invention, then Romney would have ridden that strongly as his state used the previous Republican led efforts to create the same program, to do so on the state level. He could have ridden the fact his state had it before anyone else... again they let hatred of Obama override the logical move.
The party in the end is too afraid to do what it needs to do. It's too afraid of the short term losses and doesn't realize that the far goal is obtainable.
Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
siftbotTags for this video have been changed from 'Rolling Stones, Ruby Ttuesday, 1967, Olympia, rare footage, live music' to 'Rolling Stones, Ruby Tuesday, 1967, Olympia, rare footage, live music' - edited by lucky760
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (RECENTLY FOUND DIRECTOR'S CUT)
YogiAll joking aside people should really watch Triumph of the Will, and Olympia. Leni Riefenstahl was actually a genius and it's just interesting watching these movies.
Drilling A Water Well Just Goes From Bad To Worse.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I got it! Love those old Olympia beer commercials.
To "get" this reference, you will need:
1. to be old, like me (beer, circa 1981),
2. to be from the Pacific Northwest,
3. to know who Richard Farnsworth is,
4. to know what an Artesian is,
5. this link: http://videosift.com/video/Artesian-Gardener
Drilling A Water Well Just Goes From Bad To Worse.
MilkmanDan says...I "got" it, except not in exactly the way you meant. Here's how I qualified:
1. I'm the right age -- 1981. *edit* ahh, the commercial is from 1981. So nope, I probably wasn't comprehending TV beer commercials just yet.
2. Nope, Kansas.
3. Nope.
4. While watching the video, I remembered my college Geology 101 "Rocks for Jocks" class and learning abouthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesian_aquifer>artesian aquifers. Kansas has conditions that are good for those in some locations due to water in our local aquifer system flowing down from the Rockies (all subterranean, but still down). I'm betting that isn't what you were referring to?
5. Is the joke that Olympia Brewing used an artesian well, and he plays it like "Artesian" sounds like a nationality or ethnic group? Or is it a Pacific Northwest region/group? Wikipedia disambiguation refers to an Artesian South Dakota, but I don't think that's it.
Anyway, I've honestly enjoyed this little snipe hunt I embarked on due to your comment mentioning "artesian" which was my first thought when watching the video, but now I'm coming up empty trying to nail down your actual reference (and therefore the reference of the video you linked also). But it's been fun!
To "get" this reference, you will need:
1. to be old, like me (beer, circa 1981),
2. to be from the Pacific Northwest,
3. to know who Richard Farnsworth is,
4. to know what an Artesian is,
5. this link: http://videosift.com/video/Artesian-Gardener
Love and Justice will always win out -- WA State rocks!
bareboards2http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/19/welfare-state
What county do you live in? Because King County gets back 62 cents from the state on every dollar it sends to Olympia. While EVERY SINGLE "red" county gets back more than they pay, sometimes three times as much.
Sooo.... Republicans have a reputation for not accepting "the math." Do you accept this as fact? Cold, hard, pure and simple math.
Olympics Cameraman Likes Snezana Rodic's Cute Butt!
HarzzachBut there is nothing else to Olympia than tight asses. Everyone dopes, the medals dont mean shit, the olympic comitee is a bunch of greedy old assholes, the whole event a stupid commercial sell-out ... so lets focus on beautiful bodies. At least i can fap to this.
Heritage Foundation response to "Obamacare" nightmare
KnivesOutRight, because the Tea Party is so clearly unhindered by outside influence.>> ^bobknight33:
All this occurred because of a RINO Olympia Snowe, gave in.
This is such policy. I hope that Republican RINO Romney gets in along with filling the house and senate with true TEA Party members.
Olympia Snowe gives the vote to get OBAMA care out of committee.
This is why we can't afford any RINO, Republicans or Democrats controlling government any more. Tea Party need only apply.
Heritage Foundation response to "Obamacare" nightmare
bobknight33All this occurred because of a RINO Olympia Snowe, gave in.
This is such policy. I hope that Republican RINO Romney gets in along with filling the house and senate with true TEA Party members.
Olympia Snowe gives the vote to get OBAMA care out of committee.
This is why we can't afford any RINO, Republicans or Democrats controlling government any more. Tea Party need only apply.
Henry Rollins on Writing
vaire2ubei was hyped to actually hear the writing. cant find anything
#174
Irbil, Iraq (Hometown: Tacoma, WA): I saw your show in Olympia back in March. Your story about the young boy with Asperger’s moved me. My son has Autism so it meant a lot to me. Did he ever email you? Do you still talk to him?
========== I sent him a bunch of music and books and we write often.
http://henryrollins.com/news/detail/e-mail_interviews_2009_part_1/
Meet Rock-It
LifeIsSweet says...Wow, so 2002.... google "olympia soundbug"
Awesome music video, staged as classic paintings
arvanaThe paintings it is based on, thanks to basilisk on Reddit:
Chorus:
Verse:
Chorus again, then
Public Option Supporters Disrupt AHIP Speaker By Singing
NetRunnerLyrics:
SINGER #1
No, thank you!
FOR KILLING THE PUBLIC OPTION
AND BLOCKING ANY HOPES OF ITS ADOPTION
THANK YOU, SIR!
SINGER #2
Sure,
BUT WHAT ABOUT COMPETITION?
IT'S AN OLD AMERICAN TRADITION
OR SO I'VE HEARD?
SINGER #1
Meh.
SINGER #3
WHEN OLYMPIA SNOWE
SAID NO,
IT CROAKED
Right?
SINGER #2
NO, THE OPTION'S NOT DEAD
SINGER #3
OR RED!
SINGER #1
EXPLAIN!
Who let these hippies in here?
SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS
IF WE GET A PUB-
LIC OPTION
WE CAN SNIFF OUT WASTE
JUST LIKE A DACHSUND
COSTS COME DOWN!
SINGER #1
Hey, those "costs" are my profits!
SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS
THE OPTION
THE OPTION
THE PUBLIC WANTS OPTIONS
WITHOUT IT,
IT'S A GIVEAWAY
SINGER #1
Exactly. To us. Am I in the right room?
THE OPTION
THE OPTION
THE PUBLIC WANTS AN OPTION
SINGERS #2 AND #3, and CHORUS MEMBERS
OR REFORM IS A CORP'RATE GIVE-A-WAY!
SINGER #1
Well, I've heard enough.
Alan Grayson on the Offensive again
rougy>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
As a fascinating and entertaining exercise, do this substitution...
1. Every time he says "Obama" - replace it with "Bush".
2. Every time he says "Republicans" - replace it with "Democrats".
So, you're saying, every time he says 'health care' replace it with 'terrorism'?
Every time he says '44,000 dead' replace it with '9/11'?
Replace 'Olympia Snow' with 'Osama bin Laden'?
Replace 'Republicans' with 'appeasers' or 'defeatists' or 'terrorist sympathizers'?
You have the gall to argue equivalency between the two examples?