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snowguy716
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« on: September 05, 2011, 09:18:00 PM »

I think you just have to ask yourself:  How many of them have to be sons of bitches before you can just start calling all of them sons of bitches?

Perhaps Hoffa's threshold is too low... but the term certainly and accurately describes a good number of the Republicans in congress.  Though there are some Democrats who I wouldn't mind calling a "son of a bitch".
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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2011, 11:52:12 PM »

Why would anything he said be unacceptable? Because it makes conservatives and libertarians uncomfortable to think about? Because it doesn't involve working people getting on their knees and accepting whatever managers and corporate leaders decide upon? There is indeed a war on the working class and organized labor going on in this country and it's a good thing someone's talking about it.

I'm also glad somebody is talking about it and isn't afraid to use a little hyperbole to get the working people fired up.

I think the Tea Partiers and white collar Republicans are terrified because the "REAL 'MURICANS" aren't actually the people sitting on their electric scooters wearing funny costumes and telling government to stay out of their medicare... but the people who actually work installing their plumbing and electric lines and providing them high speed internet and paving the roads they drive on and teaching their children and keeping the streets safe and putting out your house fire and caring for you when you are sick...

They should be scared of what happens when you push "REAL 'MURICANS" too far.  They tend to give in for a while... and then snap.  And they won't be wearing tri-cornered hats and complaining about the deficit.  They'll be the ones who finally make a charge at the Tea Party only to watch as the Tea Party, with all its grandstanding and big talk, cower away like the spoiled adult children that they are.
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« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2011, 11:52:42 PM »

And yes.. I am aware of just how hackish that post is Wink
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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2011, 09:15:22 PM »

When someone ends up dead or seriously injured in Mr. Hoffa's war, will the President and his party then say that he has gone too far? Unfortunately, it will be too late by then.

Many people have already died in this war. Their sh*t healthcare didn't provide the treatment they needed for the injury or sickness they developed as a result of their job.

Let's just hope that the President agrees and puts that in some TV ads! Of course, we'll just tell him to pull the advertisements and he'll do so in record timing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(literary_device)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_out





When someone ends up dead or seriously injured in Mr. Hoffa's war, will the President and his party then say that he has gone too far? Unfortunately, it will be too late by then.



...I can't tell if this is serious or not. Nobody really believes that those were to be interpreted as actual crosshairs and what's even worse was the totally disingenuous, faux outrage over the term "targeting" after Giffords' shooting. Everyone in politics knows what "targeting" means in a political sense. It will be a real shame if you fall for the nonsense that it means anything else by conservative groups.
That's a very hackish post.

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.. considering that people also know what "war" means in a political sense.

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