THEY'RE TAKING OVER!!! politics thread

by **dajafi** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 22:38:38

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

1) I would, yeah. (edit: she has a serious "Elaine from Seinfeld" thing going. Wonder to what extent it was intentional.)

2) Not that I consider myself an expert on any of this stuff, but she really, really, really, really misses the point of pretty much everything having to do with love, sex and relationships, to a degree where I find myself feeling sorry for her. Even if you have these extremist views as a young person, which she was then, to hold onto them into your 30s or 40s, and to want to impose them on others, is just sad.

by **meatball** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 22:39:00

There's a new strip mall in Bear.

by **Barry Jive** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 22:47:31

jerseyhoya wrote:
my cousin mose wrote:just keep in mind that if you don't like delaware, you don't like rich gannon.

so... so there

Rich Gannon went to SJ Prep, which absolves him of any Delaware ties.

came back to visit and chumped my friend on his interview for the school paper

can go fuck hisself

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:02:53

Fenty don't look so good

This really sucks

by **CalvinBall** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:05:10

paladino (tea party) beat lazio (gop) in the ny governors primary.

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:07:04

CalvinBall wrote:paladino (rich dope) beat lazio (loser) for the right to lose to Andrew Cuomo by 20

by **pacino** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:09:21

Everythings coming up shithouse

by **dajafi** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:26:56

jerseyhoya wrote:Fenty don't look so good

This really sucks

It does... but if DC doesn't want Rhee, I would guess plenty of other cities will.

Otherwise, the DC election is, or should be, a probably useful reminder for those on my side of the aisle that identity politics sucks as bad on the left as on the right.

by **dajafi** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:29:50

Now watching local returns on NY1. Looks like Rangel will survive... but Pedro Espada Jr, who's basically the Latino Clay Davis, is going down. That alone makes this a decent political day.

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:31:24

Read something this afternoon about Fenty maybe running as GOP/indy if he lost. I wonder if there's anything to that.

by **kopphanatic** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 23:33:06

dajafi wrote:Now watching local returns on NY1. Looks like Rangel will survive... but Pedro Espada Jr, who's basically the Latino Clay Davis, is going down. That alone makes this a decent political day.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 00:33:29

As depressed as I am about Fenty, very pleased that Ayotte appears to be turning it around

She's not safe yet, but in much better shape

Will be a good senator, and won't need the NRSC as much down the stretch

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:56:22

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeJzpjefH4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Rove bitchslapping Hannity :h:

by **Harpua** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:02:50

C'mon Karl, don't be unfactual.

by **kopphanatic** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:56:28

Man, the right is all over Rove today.

by **cshort** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 13:06:58

I have to think at some point a 3rd party has to form. There are too many disenfranchised people in the center that are getting screwed by the primaries of both parties.

by **The Crimson Cyclone** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 13:09:19

cshort wrote:I have to think at some point a 3rd party has to form. There are too many disenfranchised people in the center that are getting screwed by the primaries of both parties.

will never happen because the reason the center is getting screwed is because they dont vote

by **jeff2sf** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 13:20:23

cshort wrote:I have to think at some point a 3rd party has to form. There are too many disenfranchised people in the center that are getting screwed by the primaries of both parties.

What if the Dems just traded the unions for a bunch of rich socially liberal or at least socially don't care Republicans? Can't that work?

by **dajafi** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 13:23:15

jeff2sf wrote:
cshort wrote:I have to think at some point a 3rd party has to form. There are too many disenfranchised people in the center that are getting screwed by the primaries of both parties.

What if the Dems just traded the unions for a bunch of rich socially liberal or at least socially don't care Republicans? Can't that work?

That's basically what has happened. No Democrat over the last couple decades has been really strong for the unions, with some good consequences (education reform gaining momentum) and bad (inequality getting worse and worse; you don't want spending power to get too concentrated in a consumption-driven economy).

The new Democratic "base" is people like us: social liberals with a lot of education and good professional networks. Fifty years ago we would have been Rockefeller Republicans, like my grandfather basically was.

(Right, Paul?)

by **drsmooth** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 14:10:44

dajafi wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

1) I would, yeah. (edit: she has a serious "Elaine from Seinfeld" thing going. Wonder to what extent it was intentional.)

2) Not that I consider myself an expert on any of this stuff, but she really, really, really, really misses the point of pretty much everything having to do with love, sex and relationships, to a degree where I find myself feeling sorry for her. Even if you have these extremist views as a young person, which she was then, to hold onto them into your 30s or 40s, and to want to impose them on others, is just sad.

only way a gal could mess up her makeup as bad as hers looked in those shots is if she applied it with only one hand

you know, you know

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