Author Topic: Ron Paul (Read 3641 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **on:** February 24, 2015, 05:25:59 PM »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ron-paul-congressional-black-caucus-only-against-war-because?utm_term=.kwZAaOZgZ2#.eblNNePv7

What a shame Mandark and FoC are no longer with us to witness this.

Kara · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2015, 05:35:38 PM »

Americans using a peace dividend on social welfare, especially a kind that reaches more segments of society than WASPs.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2015, 05:57:59 PM »

i warned you about ron paul bro
i told you dog

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2015, 05:58:08 PM »

This is a gift that will keep on giving brehs. It's like Thanksgiving, the leftovers will be better than the first meal.

1. Ron Paul's inevitable response
2. Ron Paul fanatics explaining why this isn't racist/why we're the real racists
3. Rand Paul being forced to choose between throwing his dad in the bushes or catering to dead enders.
4. Elected officials defending him (slim but possible)

Steve Contra · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2015, 06:22:34 PM »

Ron Paul's mental battle between isolationist foreign policy libertarian and embarrassing racist uncle at Thanksgiving was less of a fight than many people would believe.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2015, 07:13:20 PM »

To be fair, saying blacks would prefer a Great Society to war would also sound bad. Why he didn't go somewhere in the middle we'll never know.

benjipwns · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2015, 07:38:43 PM »

He didn't say those things, they just came out of an organ that he owns and put his name on.

Besides the military industrial complex likes to get blacks because they're fleet of foot.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2015, 09:03:41 PM »

FoneBone · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2015, 02:03:13 AM »

Quote from: Steve Contra on February 24, 2015, 06:22:34 PM

Ron Paul's mental battle between isolationist foreign policy libertarian and embarrassing racist uncle at Thanksgiving was less of a fight than many people would believe.

like those two categories were ever mutually exclusive

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2015, 10:11:10 AM »

Lol. I'm sitting here yesterday thinking this thread will be boring because no one would possibly come in and defend this

sarslip · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2015, 10:44:36 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 24, 2015, 05:25:59 PM

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ron-paul-congressional-black-caucus-only-against-war-because?utm_term=.kwZAaOZgZ2#.eblNNePv7
(Image removed from quote.)
What a shame Mandark and FoC are no longer with us to witness this.

lol, and in any case

food stamps > wars

kick51 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 25, 2015, 11:02:13 AM »

Dangit ronpaul: goodbye despair

Huff · « **Reply #12 on:** February 25, 2015, 01:07:38 PM »

Dunno about hating blacks, but the only RP supporter I know hates jews and believes that they control the world or whatever. I didn't think anyone, in the states at least, still felt this way

Steve Contra · « **Reply #13 on:** February 25, 2015, 01:48:00 PM »

I can't wait until SERIOUS candidate RAND PAUL starts to get questions about his racist nutter of a dad. It was ok when Ron Paul was a fringe candidate for bitter internet losers and people who think legalization is an issue worthy of overriding any other political belief, but shit aint going to fly for a SERIOUS Republican nominee.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2015, 02:25:40 PM »

Rand Paul is HIS OWN MAN.*

*registered trademark of the Jeb Bush 2016 campaign

Kara · « **Reply #15 on:** February 25, 2015, 04:25:42 PM »

Do we have any good political dynasties? The Adamses are the closest I can think of and that's not really saying much. (No benji, but the Roosevelts are *rasberry*.)

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #16 on:** February 25, 2015, 04:55:35 PM »

derail: what happened to mandark?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #17 on:** February 25, 2015, 05:04:36 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 25, 2015, 04:25:42 PM

Do we have any good political dynasties? The Adamses are the closest I can think of and that's not really saying much. (No benji, but the Roosevelts are *rasberry*.)

The Kennedys, for giving us Governor Schwarzenegger.

Kara · « **Reply #18 on:** February 25, 2015, 05:15:32 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on February 25, 2015, 04:55:35 PM

derail: what happened to mandark?

He was promoted to the Office of the Fourth Protocol for the Mahoz of Washington D.C. by the Elders. It's a very demanding job.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2015, 07:19:49 PM »

I'd leave for some hoes too.

benjipwns · « **Reply #20 on:** February 25, 2015, 09:55:53 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on February 25, 2015, 04:25:42 PM

Do we have any good political dynasties? The Adamses are the closest I can think of and that's not really saying much. (No benji, but the Roosevelts are *rasberry*.)

Nationally, not really outside of the Bushes, but at the state and local levels there are plenty. (Mayor of Chicago for example.)

Udalls, Harrisons, Tafts, Romneys, Doles, Rockefellers all have had decent runs. Chafees, Gores, Cuomos.

The original Clintons: George, DeWitt and George.

Oblivion · « **Reply #21 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:41:14 AM »

Quote from: JayDubya on February 25, 2015, 09:52:50 AM

Another limpwristed accusation of racism? Damn, it must have been one of those days of the week ending in y.

"Why do these neo-confederates keep showing up at my states' rights rallies?!"

benjipwns · « **Reply #22 on:** February 26, 2015, 04:39:09 AM »

Neo-confederates are kinda interesting actually. They actually have all those disputes and stuff most fringe/hardline ideological groups have. That swing from just weird Southern Pride to Civil War Fetishism to plain ol racism to actual states rights only people to the "Lost Causers". There were a couple books about them a few years back that were interesting in delving into it.

The actual movement that is, not the neo-conservative like epithet. The original neo-confederate movement was a 1880s one by people who were growing up during and shortly after the Civil War and they had actual publications and such calling for re-fighting it. But the movement died off to almost nothing for a long while before this kind of Southern Pride/Lost Cause thing rehabilitated it in the 1960s. The modern movement has gotten swept up into general nationalism anti-foreigners stuff. Though the original one supported immigration restrictions because most foreigners fought for the Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Cesspool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_the_South
Here's like their "academic journal" lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Occidental_Quarterly
http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/
http://samdavis.scv.org/

Quote

Calling all SONS and DAUGHTERS
to the 11th Annual Sam Davis Youth Camp!

Why should your son or daughter attend the Sam Davis Youth Camp?

In a survey conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis in 2000, 65% of college seniors failed to pass a high school equivalent American history test:

Only 23% correctly identified James Madison as the "Father of the Constitution." Yet, 98% knew that "Snoop Doggy Dog" is a rapper.
Just over half, 52% knew that George Washington's Farewell Address warned against establishing permanent alliances with foreign governments. Yet, 99% correctly identified Beavis & Butthead.

This was in the related and made me laugh:

Oblivion · « **Reply #23 on:** February 26, 2015, 05:09:35 AM »

Wait, does Levin like Lincoln for conducting the Civil War, or for him suspending habeus corpus?

Also funny that he complains about people who don't know what they're talking about cause they have no history degrees, even though he doesn't have one himself (he's got one in poli sci).

Brehvolution · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2015, 10:38:21 AM »

No one should care what Levin thinks.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2015, 12:59:25 PM »

I wonder if this story would be getting more mainstream traction if Bill O'Reilly's career wasn't slowly imploding at present.

the LIEberal can only concentrate their ire at one target at a time.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #26 on:** February 26, 2015, 01:13:19 PM »

Bill O isn't going anywhere. The right never apologizes for anything because an apology is an acknowledgement of wrong doing. The typical defense is to attack which is what he is doing now. If he does step down, he'll just go on radio.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #27 on:** February 26, 2015, 02:34:58 PM »

Do you think Ron Paul is mad that of the seemingly crazy anachronisms floated in recent years a viable Islamic Caliphate is happening and the gold standard is still mocked by pretty much everyone?

Kara · « **Reply #28 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:08:29 PM »

The New Economic Policy also won.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #29 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:38:26 PM »

meanwhile in "actual elected officials doing shit" land
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/26/8114265/fcc-ruling-net-neutrality-victory-internet-title-ii

vs

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120705/10581919594/ron-rand-paul-net-neutrality-public-domain-are-really-evil-collectivist-plots.shtml

Steve Contra · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:43:35 PM »

Internet providers might be the only group more universally loathed than congress, so it only makes sense the Republicans would side with them.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:54:39 PM »

When people see how much more they pay for so much less than other countries, they take notice. Everyone hates getting ripped off.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:58:23 PM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on February 26, 2015, 03:54:39 PM

When people see how much more they pay for so much less than other countries, they take notice. Everyone hates getting ripped off.

US reactions to "socialized European medicine" would suggest otherwise...

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2015, 04:16:10 PM »

A small percentage of that population.

News:

Author Topic: Ron Paul (Read 3641 times)