Rick Santorum: ”Sometimes Pregnancy Is God’s Way Of Comforting Rape Victims”
http://religionlo.com/pregnancy-is-gods-way-of-comforting-rape-victims/
@Baldimo,
You have a track record of misunderstanding the point. You attack all Moslems then, like the moral coward you are, you row back and pretend you said something else.
You show your true colours when you refuse to criticise Coldjoint's attacks on all Moslems, then speak in vague general terms about Islam yourself.
Only the weak minded could come up with such a feeble excuse as yours. I despise Coldjoint, but at least he has the courage to stand by what he says. He doesn't start accusing people of deleting/changing his posts, that's what a real coward does.
You can carry on thinking I'm a Moslem if you want, anyone who thinks Donald Trump's ringpiece is the sweetest thing ever is going to believe all manner of ****.
Lindsey Graham: Cutting Social Security Will Fix VA
http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/10/13/lindsey-graham-cutting-social-security-will-fix-v/
Cutting pay, pensions, & healthcare for politicians will help to fix the VA as well !
@izzythepush,
Quote:You have a track record of misunderstanding the point. You attack all Moslems then, like the moral coward you are, you row back and pretend you said something else.
You have a very bad record of reading into people's comments what you think they are saying. You then try and turn this into the truth. It's a lame MO, but it's your only MO.
Quote:You show your true colours when you refuse to criticise Coldjoint's attacks on all Moslems, then speak in vague general terms about Islam yourself.
How am I responsible for what CJ says on a2k? I'm not his keeper so I have no need to correct anything he says. Nice try though.
Quote:Only the weak minded could come up with such a feeble excuse as yours. I despise Coldjoint, but at least he has the courage to stand by what he says. He doesn't start accusing people of deleting/changing his posts, that's what a real coward does.
Transference is your thing isn't?
Quote:You can carry on thinking I'm a Moslem if you want, anyone who thinks Donald Trump's ringpiece is the sweetest thing ever is going to believe all manner of ****.
What's this suppose to mean? What is Trump's ringpiece?
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote: What is Trump's ringpiece?
You crack me up. I'll give a more complete response when I've stopped laughing.
@coldjoint,
Where do you get all these Putin posts? Are you a communist in drag? Or just full of shyt?
@Baldimo,
Your refusal to challenge Coldjoint says what sort of person you are, end of. My support for Palestinian self determination is well known, so I take great pains to challenge Holocaust deniers/belittlers like Carlos le Baron or Krumple, because Anti Semitism has no place in the liberation of Palestine.
That's the sort of person I am, you are quite happy to sit alongside bigots because you're one of them. You don't challenge Coldjoint because you agree with him, your posts say as much, you're just too cowardly to stand by what you've said. You're just like the old school racist who has a go at all blacks then tells the one black guy in the room that obviously he didn't mean him, he's different.
Develop a backbone, stand by your own words.
@TheCobbler,
I bet you read the daily comic strips also.
The real reason the Republican Party is imploding: It’s still all about race
What's causing the GOP's slide into complete dysfunction? It's not overheated rhetoric; it's the politics of race
Elias Isquith Follow
It was only last week that Rep. Kevin McCarthy opted not to run for speaker of the House, effectively driving his party, and the U.S. Congress, into a brick wall. Yet despite having more than 240 options and a pressing need to save the world from another global recession, Republicans in the House are reportedly no closer to finding John Boehner’s successor. As a matter of fact, things have gotten so bad that the conservative establishment is begging Rep. Paul Ryan to take the job. He says he’d rather not.
But over the weekend, it started to look like Ryan may not have to resign himself to the miserable fate of being one of the most powerful people on the planet — at least not yet. Because according to reports which first emanated from Breitbart.com and other tribunes of the far right, but which have since been corroborated by the New York Times and others, even Ryan may not be conservative enough to please the 30-40 extremists who felled Boehner, thwarted McCarthy, and call themselves members of the House Freedom Caucus.
Yes, that’s right: The Republican Party is now beholden to a faction so zealously reactionary that Paul “Ayn Rand is the reason I got involved in public service” Ryan is, in its reckoning, much too far to the left. These are the rules of the Congress the Tea Party created. It’s enough to put the fear of God into even the most devoted of GOP apologists. David Brooks, for example, is castigating Republicans for “right-wing radicalism.” It’s gotten that bad.
Still, recognizing the problem is the easy part. The harder part is acknowledging where it comes from. Brooks chalks the GOP’s militancy up to 30 years of “rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals” and suggests that Republicans are “addicted to a crisis mentality.” But although Brooks is right when he notes that GOP extremists “always” act like the country is “on the brink of collapse,” apocalypticism isn’t the problem here. No, as is so often true in American politics, the problem is race.
Some hardliners pay lip service to his supporting the 2008 bailouts when explaining their opposition to Ryan. But if you follow the far-right press, or listen to rank-and-file activists, it’s blindingly obvious that conservatives’ real problem with Paul Ryan is that he not only supports comprehensive immigration reform, but supports higher levels of overall immigration, too. “There’s nobody in the Republican Party who could be worse than Paul Ryan,” said Roy Beck, a leading “immigration control” activist, to Breitbart. “Open Borders is in his ideological DNA. That’s the terrifying thing.”
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Erick Erickson, meanwhile, has described Ryan as “a dangerous pick for conservatives” and “a creature of Washington.” He’s also called Ryan “not a bad guy” and “a competent, good guy.” But only to soothe the burn of yet another sobriquet: “the draftsman for bailouts behind the scenes.” Conservatives who challenge Speaker Ryan “will immediately be labeled as fascist totalitarians,” Erickson warned. Conspicuous in its absence, though, was an acknowledgement of what they’d be fighting him about. It won’t be the 2008 bank bailouts; it’ll be immigration.
That’s in the medium- or long-term. If it’s 2017 and there’s another Democrat in the White House, simply not bringing comprehensive immigration reform up for a vote will probably be enough. But in the short-term, the extremists have bigger plans. Reportedly, they want the next speaker to agree to use a debt-ceiling default and a government shutdown as “leverage” in order to force President Obama to acquiesce to his legacy’s dismantling. The lesson of 2011 and 2013, as they see it, is that the world economy and the federal government are damn good hostages to take.
And if we keep in mind that these folks think the world is ending as it is already, their strategy makes sense. In fact, it’s a real mistake to dismiss these people as lunatics, as their critics, both on the right and the left, so often do. Far as I can tell, these “crazy” tactics have borne them plenty of fruit. Where they break from the rest of the political establishment is in their analysis; that apocalyptic stuff about the end of the republic, the New Black Panther Party, and immigration being akin to “invasion.”
But that’s not craziness; that’s racism. They’re different. So if Brooks and others really want to know how this dysfunction got started, they’ll have to look back further. Before the Tea Party, and before Paul Ryan was even born. They’ll have to examine the roots of today’s Republican Party. I’d recommend they start with Richard Nixon and the presidential campaign of 1968.
Elias Isquith
Elias Isquith is a staff writer at Salon, focusing on politics. Follow him on Twitter at @eliasisquith.
