Originally Posted By ecdc >>Already happening here in Long Beach, CA.<< See, this is what's so great about the Republican party these days. You can make a joke, and no matter how out there, no matter how insane or absurd, they will manage to meet your expectations. You cannot possibly come up with anything too extreme for them to not do. Vilify teachers? Done. Attack firefighters? You bet. Racism? And how! Take funding from the poor? They're moochers anyway! Money for cancer screenings? Jesus wants those people to die or he wouldn't have given them cancer, duh. Demonize Planned Parenthood? You had us at "Pla." Attack Muslims? You do realize they have brown skin. Birth control education? Talking about "down there" makes Ronald Reagan cry.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>You had us at "Pla."<< LOL! That was the funniest post I've read in a month!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Yep - well done, ecdc. And by the way... <Birth control education? Talking about "down there" makes Ronald Reagan cry.> Did you know that in the Canadian version of Trivial Pursuit in the 80's there was a question: "How many months was Nancy Davis Reagan pregnant when she married Ronald Reagan?" The answer was either 2 or 3, but of course the shock was that the question was in there to begin with. It was NOT in the American version. There was a rumor that the Reagan Justice Dept. pressured the manufacturer to leave it out and threatened them with legal action if they did not, but I don't know if that's ever been confirmed. But I saw a Canadian card that had the question.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<I guess I just don't understand people that think this way. How could someone who already has enormous wealth want more - even at the cost of other people's happiness.>> It's a form of addiction, just like to gambling and drugs and alcohol. You get hooked on the acquisition. You don't do anything with it once you get it. You're just hooked on the rush of acquiring it. It also helps to be a hard core narcissist. If you weren't, then you'd feel guilty for screwing over other people in your acquisition of wealth. You have to only care about yourself, nobody else, and getting your "fix." And the more you obtain, the more you want. The more you get, the further removed you become from everyone else. Which is fine, because you didn't care about those people in the first place.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Money equals power - the more money you have, the more power you have. And it's working - they're winning. Those richest one to two percenters have been very effective at using their wealth to amass greater power unto themselves. It has allowed them to corrupt our own government into tilting the playing field in their direction.
Originally Posted By Mr X That's nothing new though, and it never ends well for them or their puppet government.
Originally Posted By fkurucz " I guess I was just naive, but I truly had thought we had grown beyond the "robber baron" mentality, but I guess I was wrong. There really do still seem to be people who only care about taking as much as they can, and screw everyone else." They're sociopaths and wired to be insatiable.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I want so badly to have hope, but I am more and more convinced that we are watching an empire in its twilight.<< Sadly, I feel this way as well.
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Originally Posted By Mr Y Why are you making fun of our first lady's eating disorder, that does not seem right.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Looks like we have a new sock puppet: "Mr Y" (what an original name!). It didn't take the sock puppet long to get adminned either.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Yes this person actually created 2new names in the middle of the night to discuss his own brilliance.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Have I missed something, or did ds2 disappear a few days ago? I haven't read a post from Beau since the beginning of the week. Did ds2 get kicked out of the LP sandbox?
