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i would upvote this thrice if i could

figures. damn cupcake was angelfood.

*parody? This seems to good to be true.

Invocations (parody) cannot be called by NordlichReiter because NordlichReiter is not privileged - sorry.

Yes, *parody.

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Lol @ Epa guy "Buy it in a bottle"

Oh man, this needs to be circulated. I'm thinking all the major television networks on a constant loop until the election.


*cookie?

What in the hell did the guy in the woods say? "Mwaffa waffa wiffle waf... "

Enunciate dude.

Man.

But great vid.

Wow, the world is just so black and white!

Very cool. Upvote, despite the rhetorical pro-choice bullshit. Yep, I enjoy invoking the wrath of sifters.

http://www.rageagainsttheright.com/becomerepublican.swf

Sad thing is, theres people that will actually vote republican after seeing it because they are ignorant idiots and dont understand sarcasm.

I might actaully vote republican. I'd like to see them try and fix the messes we're in, but would hate to see a democrat fail.

Downvote becuase this video treats us like idiots.

this is gross oversimplification. Agree with voting republican or not, this is bullsh*t propaganda and I'm sick of it on either side. NO VOTE FOR YOU!

(nothing personal, grimm )

>> ^coolhund:
Sad thing is, theres people that will actually vote republican after seeing it because they are ignorant idiots and dont understand sarcasm.


No, the sad thing is that uneducated historically ignorant people like yourself are so mired in this two-party duopoly with petty antagonism with one another, that they fail to see how socialist policies on both sides are leading this country straight into bankruptcy.

Let's look at how stupid and hypocritical this is:

1. Video implies that Democrats respect the constitution. Oh, really? Is that why Obama voted for the patriot act and gun bans, both violations of the Bill of Rights. Or how about joint support for easily inflatable fiat currency, in violation of Article 1, Section 10 which mandates gold backing. How about going to war without congressional declaration in Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo and others? All illegal under the same Article and section and all started by the Democrats.

2. Video says abortion is about respecting a woman's right to her own body. I'm not even religious and it seems rather obvious to me that abortion is murder of inconvenience. Didn't want the kid? Why did you have unprotected sex? Furthermore, why is a being one minute apart, from womb to exiting, the difference between having no rights and having rights. That makes no sense. Life has to be defined at conception.

3. Video implies that allowing drugs to be chosen immediately is a bad thing because they haven't been tested. Dude, that's against freedom. If you're dying of cancer, and you want to try an experimental drug, who the fuck cares if it's unsafe? YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. Government has no right to restrict you that opportunity to research and get advice from your doctor about it. And what about all the people who die during the delays that the FDA imposes on new drugs. How can those deaths ever show up in statistics?

4. Video implies that we should continue to block domestic drilling to prevent potential harm to some wildlife. This isn't a cartoon, drilling doesn't leave an area in shambles. Have fun trying to fly planes with solar panels and meeting our power needs without emission-free nuclear, recyclable nuclear, which you've blocked for thirty years with fear-mongering campaigns about shitty soviet reactors from the 70s. Have fun watching Bush starting insane wars in the middle east and begging Saudi princes to increase production because we have to import 70% of our oil from abroad because of these insane energy policies. Say hello to peak oil and $300 a barrel oil in the coming years. You can't lower the price by debasing your currency to pay for 60 trillion in unfunded ponzi scheme welfare promises started by FDR, blocking oil, and blocking nuclear.

BansheeX - Please tell us why YOU are voting Republican.

Lighten up Francis!

Funny, quality, Move-On parody. It's a shame that stupid people actually believe the rhetorical propaganda, though.

I wonder why this got so many votes...

I mean, come on, I expect better from such an educated community as sift. Could all you folks that upvoted just judge the video purely on its actual merit, instead of on whether or not it agrees with your political sentiments. Is a video that takes every single terrible stereotype about republican voters and dictates them back to you really worth the up arrow? It didn't even make me laugh...

Tell me, will you upvote the next video that paints everybody left of center as a tree hugging, cannabis smoking sexual deviant? Will you upvote the video that shows every socialist as a soviet communist, or every fascist as a Nazi?

By all means support your political beliefs sifters, but support them for the right reasons, because if you continue to support bullshit videos like this then it won't matter who leads your country, democrat or republican, you will have all fallen for exactly the same mud slinging propaganda.

non-partisan downvote (^see Rotty's comment above, ditto)

Jinx & Rotten:
We know this video got its vote because of it political content, and we know to which side the majority of sifters lean. Because of this, I knew that the video would get an unnaturally inflated number of votes, and I would not upvote.
However... it's funny and well made. It is a shame that the sifted videos on this site cannot earn their positions honestly and fairly. Kinda like the way most union members do.

Jinx, Swampgirl, and others....it's called having a sense of humor...even if that means laughing at yourself. Yes these are over-exaggerated stereo-types...but...like many stereo-types there is a kernel of truth in there.

I hope most intelligent people know this...of course like Penn pointed out there are many on the left who don't...those that think Republicans are "evil" and not just wrong.

And yes...Jinx I would upvote a "video that paints everybody left of center as a tree hugging, cannabis smoking sexual deviant" if it was made well.

I'm voting for the half-Republican because the other choice is a marxist who doesn't dare admit it openly.

Grimm, no this was sarcastic, but not laugh my ass off funny. It's just not coming across as comedy.. maybe dark comedy. (checks for *dark tag) Lighten up.. That "kernel of truth" line was absurd.

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grrr....oversimplification of the issues.

Too bad the true conservative republican (See VideoSift's local hero, Ron Paul) doesn't stand for any of that. If they had said "I'm voting McCain" then maybe it would have saved itself. But according to this video, all true republican stances are right next to evil.

Here, here, Gunner! I'll second that. "I'm voting neo-Con" should be the name of this video.

Tree-hugger here. I didn't think it was funny. I sort of agree with some of it, and some of it is oversimplified, aggrandizement. Well made? I guess... decent production but overall, it wasn't funny and it preaches (badly) to the converted.

I upvote just because i like the way it was shot and in technical terms its a good parody. However that being said i agree with everyone else that see's this as bullshitish. Its not about parties, both suck and both commit almost all the crimes this video states. Just because one con artist calls the other one out first doesnt mean they are the hero. So really it should be "I'm Voting for...Anyone, You'll Get What You Deserve"

There is a big disconnect between brand Republicans (like QM) and ideological Republicans (like MG). This video is a fair critique of the former, but not so much to the latter.

I predict the ideological Republicans are going to make a play to take their party back from the Neo-cons in the next few years, just as the Dems did with Howard Dean in 2006.

Ron Paul for RNC chairman!

socialist policies on both sides are leading this country straight into bankruptcy.

Clinton balanced the budget. It's not socialist policies, it's war and tax cuts for the top 1% that are bankrupting the United States.


Let's look at how stupid and hypocritical this is:
1. Video implies that Democrats respect the constitution. Oh, really? Is that why Obama voted for the patriot act and gun bans, both violations of the Bill of Rights.

Since then both Obama and the Democratic Party have supported removing the most heinous parts of the Patriot Act. Obama also supported an effort against telecom immunity in the wiretapping scandal. Neither Obama nor the democratic party has attempted to ban all guns outright, just certain types of guns. Don't forget to read the first half of the sentence in the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendment is about maintaining a militia, and does not say you have to let every mentally ill person buy an M-249

Or how about joint support for easily inflatable fiat currency, in violation of Article 1, Section 10 which mandates gold backing.

Bullshit. It says: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

The states are not allowed to make their own fiat money, but the federal government is allowed to make fiat money.


How about going to war without congressional declaration in Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo and others? All illegal under the same Article and section and all started by the Democrats.

Once again, Article 1 Section 10 is about restrictions on state governments, not restrictions on the federal government. You fail.



2. Video says abortion is about respecting a woman's right to her own body. I'm not even religious and it seems rather obvious to me that abortion is murder of inconvenience. Didn't want the kid? Why did you have unprotected sex? Furthermore, why is a being one minute apart, from womb to exiting, the difference between having no rights and having rights. That makes no sense. Life has to be defined at conception.

Which would you rather save, a conscious adult or a single-celled fertilized egg? The brain of a fly has 200,000 cells. Until the fetus develops enough of a nervous system to become sentient, its only rights are with respect to preventing suffering that might happen to it in the future after it becomes sentient. I.E., causing birth defects should be illegal but early abortion should be allowable for any reason whatsoever. Birth is NOT the single point where rights are granted; the supreme court has previously upheld a ban on late-term abortions (minus a few exceptional circumstances like saving the life of the mother).



3. Video implies that allowing drugs to be chosen immediately is a bad thing because they haven't been tested. Dude, that's against freedom. If you're dying of cancer, and you want to try an experimental drug, who the fuck cares if it's unsafe? YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. Government has no right to restrict you that opportunity to research and get advice from your doctor about it. And what about all the people who die during the delays that the FDA imposes on new drugs. How can those deaths ever show up in statistics?


You can get non-FDA-approved drugs by participating in the human studies required for FDA approval, which is exactly what you would be doing if you got an experimental treatment.

We need the FDA to keep the snake oil salesmen at bay. Selling bad medicine is not just fraud, it's often manslaughter.


4. Video implies that we should continue to block domestic drilling to prevent potential harm to some wildlife. This isn't a cartoon, drilling doesn't leave an area in shambles. Have fun trying to fly planes with solar panels and meeting our power needs without emission-free nuclear, recyclable nuclear, which you've blocked for thirty years with fear-mongering campaigns about shitty soviet reactors from the 70s. Have fun watching Bush starting insane wars in the middle east and begging Saudi princes to increase production because we have to import 70% of our oil from abroad because of these insane energy policies. Say hello to peak oil and $300 a barrel oil in the coming years.

Pelosi, Clinton, Obama Favor More Nuclear Plants
The anti-nuclear fear mongering is lessening as people realize that it's better for the environment than coal. It won't do shit about dependence on foreign oil unless people buy plug-in electric cars, but it will reduce our dependence on domestic coal.


You can't lower the price by debasing your currency to pay for 60 trillion in unfunded ponzi scheme welfare promises started by FDR, blocking oil, and blocking nuclear.


Sweden's deficit is 0.01% of its GDP, and France's deficit is under 3% of its GDP, while the USA's deficit is 4% of its GDP, despite the fact that both France and Sweden have much broader welfare programs than the USA.

If Bush's tax cuts for millionaires were undone, and the Iraq war (and "homeland security" pork) never happened, the budget would be balanced. (do the math)

>> ^Jinx:
Tell me, will you upvote the next video that paints everybody left of center as a tree hugging, cannabis smoking sexual deviant? Will you upvote the video that shows every socialist as a soviet communist, or every fascist as a Nazi?

abso-fuckin-lutely.

Jwary, the bit on drugs is wrong. Anyone can get experimental if the doctor thinks it is worth it. It's not illegal, just not mass marketed. My Dad has Cancer here in Canada and is getting new stuff.

Oh and it's included her, covered by our tax system.

The problem is over all, many people in the states who call themselves republican, are actually just financial republicans...because being a neo con makes them rich. They don't really care about those issues, just so long as those issues feed into a country that keeps them in new cars and jets.

Watching you guys it seems like you are destroying yourselves. This is not something I say with delight, it's just that no one is actually that big a threat to you, not even 911, and your overreactions tend to do more damage then the threat in the first place. You've actually, in my minor thinking, become your worst your own worst enemy. I think greed has totally consumed your country, and because of that, nobody cares at all about the other person next to them.

I mean if you are in a society that is very centred on the self, and you are on your own 99% of the time, why would you care for it, or for those around you?

Again, I'm just regular person, but