Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

Started by PoopyfaceMcGee, December 11, 2006, 01:30:30 PM

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Diomedes

We're going to bomb refugee camps for a while now, boys.  What shall we call it?

How about Operation Protective Edge, Sir?

That's it.

Protective Edge.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

PhillyPhreak54

On Facebook from some random icehole...lolol what a dope

QuoteAll he did was stage this for photo op.  The PoS doesnt care one bit about our military or military family.  He is a dirt bag that has ruined America for my son and grandkids.

Rome

I don't know how many "friends" I've deleted from Facebook since I joined but all of them have gotten the boot because of similar comments, Phreak. 

BTW: The military folks who think Obama ruined the country must really hate Bush & Cheney considering they literally were responsible for the unnecessary deaths of thousands of their loved ones, right?

SunMo

my favorite one is "name one thing obama has done good for this country"

oh i don't know..... got troops out of iraq, got troops out of afghanistan, caught osama bin laden, established healthcare for millions of uninsured, lowered unemployment, created new jobs, kept the country from a depression and is bringing it out of the recession.

other than that....BENGHAZI!
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

Seabiscuit36

Same boat here, i've had to delete or hide so many fargtards just because I couldn't handle reading their idiocy.  As far as Social Media, and propagating lies.  How awesome are the links to their "Stories".  They're blatantly trolling for page-views, and I'd venture to guess the Koch brothers are ultimately funding the sites.
"For all the civic slurs, for all the unsavory things said of the Philadelphia fans, also say this: They could teach loyalty to a dog. Their capacity for pain is without limit." -Bill Lyons

ice grillin you

just this year: a million and a half jobs created and 10 million people or 25% of all uninsured americans now have health care

in july 2008 we were losing 175k jobs a month and 10k a month were being dropped by their insurance companies

but kenyan socialist who wants to destroy america...
i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

rjs246

Quote from: SunMo on July 10, 2014, 08:40:00 AM
oh i don't know..... got troops out of iraq, got troops out of afghanistan, caught osama bin laden, established healthcare for millions of uninsured, lowered unemployment, created new jobs, kept the country from a depression and is bringing it out of the recession.

This list is actually woefully incomplete. He's accomplished even more than most of his supporters are willing to acknowledge from a policy perspective.

The list of things that he's done for the environment alone is as long as my arm. 15 million more people have health insurance now because of the ACA. Thanks to the stimulus some of the completely neglected infrastructure that holds our country together got fixed (only $1.7 trillion to go to modernize, but hey let's just continue to ignore it, Congress. I've always wanted to live in a third world country). The deficit has been reduced drastically. Our endless Quixotic war is now fought via remote control instead of with American lives. Rescued the US auto industry. Killed Bin Laden. Reformed Wall Street (kind of). Repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell. Reversed torture policies. Etc. Etc. Etc.

But all of his accomplishments come with serious caveats:
- Most of the really impactful environmental stuff was hidden away in the stimulus and got almost no press. There are like 90 pieces of significant environmental legislation in there that would have been important on their own and they all got enacted at once without any fanfare. Impressive, but no one knows about it.
- A lot of the big legislation that he championed was preventative. How do you measure how bad things could have been? It's tricky.
- He spent so much time during his first term trying to compromise with the right and trying not to piss off centrists that he didn't trumpet his major accomplishments allowing the opposition to dictate the narrative.
- Thanks to many variables, he has overseen a period of serious polarization. Could be because he's black. Could be because the GOP immediately went into obstruction mode, could be the outsized influence of the tea party whackadoos, could be because he didn't have the stones to really brag about the things that he was doing. Most likely it's a combination. Whatever the issue, a wedge has been driven between the right and the left and that will have long-lasting negative implications and whether that's his fault or not, it will be a part of his legacy.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

PhillyPhreak54

I wish I could find a list of everything he's done, with the caveats, so I could print it out and drop it on people's desks here when they go into their rants.

As for the Facebook things...most of that stuff isn't even from people I am friends with. It'll be where someone on my list comments on something then I see it and will take a gander at the threads and get to see those clowns spewing their shtein

Sgt PSN


Sgt PSN

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 10, 2014, 11:54:21 AM
I wish I could find a list of everything he's done, with the caveats, so I could print it out and drop it on people's desks here when they go into their rants.

As for the Facebook things...most of that stuff isn't even from people I am friends with. It'll be where someone on my list comments on something then I see it and will take a gander at the threads and get to see those clowns spewing their shtein

Why?  It's not going to change anyone's mind about him. Very rarely do people change their opinions on things, especially when they fundamentally disagree with the policy in the first place. These are people who don't care about environmental laws and think that war is good and that gays are the work of the devil.  They don't like him,  they don't like compromise,  they don't like anything that falls outside of what they consider normal. There is no reasoning with the unreasonable, so why bother? 

Seabiscuit36

thus why i just hide or delete them.  Not worth the time to engage them in a discussion. 
"For all the civic slurs, for all the unsavory things said of the Philadelphia fans, also say this: They could teach loyalty to a dog. Their capacity for pain is without limit." -Bill Lyons

SunMo

Quote from: rjs246 on July 10, 2014, 10:17:10 AM
Quote from: SunMo on July 10, 2014, 08:40:00 AM
oh i don't know..... got troops out of iraq, got troops out of afghanistan, caught osama bin laden, established healthcare for millions of uninsured, lowered unemployment, created new jobs, kept the country from a depression and is bringing it out of the recession.

This list is actually woefully incomplete. He's accomplished even more than most of his supporters are willing to acknowledge from a policy perspective.

The list of things that he's done for the environment alone is as long as my arm. 15 million more people have health insurance now because of the ACA. Thanks to the stimulus some of the completely neglected infrastructure that holds our country together got fixed (only $1.7 trillion to go to modernize, but hey let's just continue to ignore it, Congress. I've always wanted to live in a third world country). The deficit has been reduced drastically. Our endless Quixotic war is now fought via remote control instead of with American lives. Rescued the US auto industry. Killed Bin Laden. Reformed Wall Street (kind of). Repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell. Reversed torture policies. Etc. Etc. Etc.

But all of his accomplishments come with serious caveats:
- Most of the really impactful environmental stuff was hidden away in the stimulus and got almost no press. There are like 90 pieces of significant environmental legislation in there that would have been important on their own and they all got enacted at once without any fanfare. Impressive, but no one knows about it.
- A lot of the big legislation that he championed was preventative. How do you measure how bad things could have been? It's tricky.
- He spent so much time during his first term trying to compromise with the right and trying not to piss off centrists that he didn't trumpet his major accomplishments allowing the opposition to dictate the narrative.
- Thanks to many variables, he has overseen a period of serious polarization. Could be because he's black. Could be because the GOP immediately went into obstruction mode, could be the outsized influence of the tea party whackadoos, could be because he didn't have the stones to really brag about the things that he was doing. Most likely it's a combination. Whatever the issue, a wedge has been driven between the right and the left and that will have long-lasting negative implications and whether that's his fault or not, it will be a part of his legacy.

your face is woefully incomplete
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

smeags

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 09, 2014, 07:25:33 PM
On Facebook from some random icehole...lolol what a dope

QuoteAll he did was stage this for photo op.  The PoS doesnt care one bit about our military or military family.  He is a dirt bag that has ruined America for my son and grandkids.

still talking to fast freddie ?
If guns kill people then spoons made Rosie O'Donnel a fatass.

Quote from: ice grillin you on March 16, 2008, 03:38:24 PM
phillies will be under 500 this year...book it

rjs246

Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

Rome

FF is just a misguided Libertarian.  We share the same party affiliation but I'm about as left a libertarian as you're going to find.  I tried to explain that to a colleague of mine a while back.  He thought for sure I was a Democrat, but to me they're just as gutless and disgusting as Republicans.  I vote for them because of the lesser of two evils thing but I want an ultra-liberal social policy and a centrist (pay to play - and that means everyone including the rich fargs who routinely don't pay their fair share) fiscal policy and that's just not going to happen in this climate.

Actually, I would settle for a government whose elected officials actually took rudimentary civics classes for a start because it's woefully (wink) clear that few, if any, of them have.  Boehner's latest bout of absolute idiocy is proof of that.