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[57Brave]

--When we talk about taxation and forced insurance or even having to stop at traffic lights!!! No one here has the stones to admit publicly Sarah Palin is their spokesperson. Yet they parrot in one for or another everything she says.

You know who you are!!

this read from outside the bubble:

Next year's most famous meth addict, Sarah Palin, says that the national debt is "like slavery" (prefacing it with a charming "this isn't racist" because white Alaskans get to judge such things). Republicans all over the place say that the insurance mandate under the Affordable Care Act is "like slavery." Right-wingers compare abortion rights to slavery (when they're not comparing it to the Holocaust). And they're right. All of those are exactly like being owned as property by a master who can force you to work and rape you and sell you or your children to others and torture you on a whim.

Here's a list of some other things that Palin, the GOP, and company must consider to be just like slavery:

1. 2-Year cell phone agreements

2. State-mandated car insurance

3. Frequent flier mileage usage restrictions

4. Hotel mini-bar prices

5. Sharing a cab

6. Finishing one's four-year term as an elected official (Palin only)

7. Waiting in line for a cronut

8. Having to appeal to voters who aren't white, conservative, and/or rich

9. The minimum wage

10. Having a black president

[zitothebrave]

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[yeezus]

Sarah Palin is a very dumb human being. Why do we take what she says seriously?

[57Brave]

Why does common sense seem to have to keep answering to her? That is pretty much the issue
and, it does.

Witness dozens of posts here tauting just about verbatum her and Rush's words. Yet, the poster(S) proudly proclaim they don't follow him (her) butt-- "what they say makes a lot of sense."
Haven't we seen on this board posters tip toe to the edge of calling ACA "slavery"
???

[yeezus]

She thinks christianity is attacked more than she attacks islam, calls people who want to "ruin" christmas scrooges and those who want to "preserve it" "patriots." She is thoroughly delusional. She says "liberals and mainstream media" wants to tell people how to live their lives - which is incredibly hypocritical considering the party she associates with.

Listening to her talk is torture and maddening. I can't believe people like her actually exist.

[57Brave]

That's very true yeez but she doesn't exist in a vacuum. People do get her message -- witness the attacks she made on Obama as the "other" during the 08 election. She tapped into something we see today in everything from the analysis of the handling of Syria to ACA to there still being questions spoken out loud on national TV over the Presidents right to be President.

Like I said earlier -- no one claims to follow but many hold her advise close. Be it directly from her mouth or through filter vehicles like Sunday talk shows.
Different mouth same words.

[sturg33]

--When we talk about taxation and forced insurance or even having to stop at traffic lights!!! No one here has the stones to admit publicly Sarah Palin is their spokesperson. Yet they parrot in one for or another everything she says.

You know who you are!!

this read from outside the bubble:

Next year's most famous meth addict, Sarah Palin, says that the national debt is "like slavery" (prefacing it with a charming "this isn't racist" because white Alaskans get to judge such things). Republicans all over the place say that the insurance mandate under the Affordable Care Act is "like slavery." Right-wingers compare abortion rights to slavery (when they're not comparing it to the Holocaust). And they're right. All of those are exactly like being owned as property by a master who can force you to work and rape you and sell you or your children to others and torture you on a whim.

Here's a list of some other things that Palin, the GOP, and company must consider to be just like slavery:

1. 2-Year cell phone agreements

2. State-mandated car insurance

3. Frequent flier mileage usage restrictions

4. Hotel mini-bar prices

5. Sharing a cab

6. Finishing one's four-year term as an elected official (Palin only)

7. Waiting in line for a cronut

8. Having to appeal to voters who aren't white, conservative, and/or rich

9. The minimum wage

10. Having a black president

1. I have a choice to do this. I don't with ACA

2. I have a choice to not drive a car. And I have a choice to move to a different state. I don't have that luxery with ACA

3. I have a choice to decide which card/beneifts I want. I don't with ACA

4. I have a choice whether or not to pay those prices. I don't with ACA

5. I have a choice to take a cab. I don't with ACA

6. Did Obama finish his 6 year senate term? No

7. I don't even know what this is. But I have a choice to wait or not wait. I don't with ACA

8. You're a moron

9. The minimum wage reduces employment. So does the ACA

10. You're a moron

[The Chosen One]

I think it's hilarious Palin has called the Pope too Liberal.

She's basically just confirmed to herself that she's bigger than the Pope or any othe religious figure in history.

Just waiting for her to say Jesus was too liberal.

[57Brave]

Tongue planted firmly in cheek --- I am surprised there hasn't been an outpouring of support for Mr Zimmerman like say when he ...

[weso1]

I think it's hilarious Palin has called the Pope too Liberal.

She's basically just confirmed to herself that she's bigger than the Pope or any othe religious figure in history.

Just waiting for her to say Jesus was too liberal.

We should never question the pope and his handling of the Catholic Church.

[The Chosen One]

We should never question the pope and his handling of the Catholic Church.

Don't see what the big deal is with this Pope when the most contraversial thing he's said so far was "God accepts and loves his *** children too" or something to that extent.

He's still pro-life which is supposed to be the biggest factor.

[57Brave]

Rep. Trey Radel, (R) Florida who voted to drug test food stamp recipients has been busted-booked and tatooed for Cocaine possession. Not only did he favor testing food stamp people but he used his heartfelt public service to gut the food stamp program. Y'all should know who your friends are. "don't follow leaders and watch ya parkin meters"

Wonder what Anthony Weiner is doing today? and why no one has invoked his name yet today??

[Tapate50]

There really isn't quite as much help as you think for the impoverished addict who you seem to be, coincidentally, in favor of starving through lack of assistance.



That's all well and good as advice, but sometimes people don't make ideal life-choices, and I'm not comfortable – personally, or as a society – being so callous as to say, "Well, you done muffed your life up, so: go **** yourself," if for no other reason than because I think that's a pretty damn juvenile and base way to approach living, other humans, et cetera.

But there is help, and people who will get you that help. I would rather give someone a reason to get help than provide them the means to continue down the current path. I'm not telling someone to go F themself, I'm telling them "here is where you can get clean and where you can come get benefits when you do" . Doesn't sound so harsh when you aren't typing it in an over dramatic and sarcastic tone does it?

After all , isn't getting clean the best help?

[goldfly]

[thethe]

Why is the defense of social welfare programs, "LOOK AT ALL THIS OTHER MONEY WE SPEND!"

Can't we talk about how awful both are?

[thethe]

Further, while those subsidies are ridiculous and I have gone off many times about how the wealthy are really the ones that are running the world, at least the taxpayer sees a return on those subsidies. These companies employ us, we make money on their equities/bonds, and some contribute to the tax revenue of this country.

[yeezus]

Further, while those subsidies are ridiculous and I have gone off many times about how the wealthy are really the ones that are running the world, at least the taxpayer sees a return on those subsidies. These companies employ us, we make money on their equities/bonds, and some contribute to the tax revenue of this country.

LOL.
LOL.

[thethe]

What is not accurate about that statement?

[Krgrecw]

I would much rather have the recipients of welfare that don't have jobs; pick up trash, paint, habitat for humanity. At least make them do something. Even if it only improves thier neighborhood

[goldfly]

I would much rather have the recipients of welfare that don't have jobs; pick up trash, paint, habitat for humanity. At least make them do something. Even if it only improves thier neighborhood

i could get down with this