Comments on: All the Vice President’s Men http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/ If it smells, we're on it. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:11:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Prommie http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33023 Prommie Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:27:33 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33023 @<a href="#comment-33021" rel="nofollow">SanFranLefty</a>: I hadn't, but I mostly agree, if they wanted to leave again, well, it would come down to how much they want to steal. Do we still have to pay their citizen's Social Security? Do they get any military hardware? I would hardly think so. Its not like its marital property, which must be owned by one State or another, this property is owned by a seperate entity, the federal government, and if they want to leave, fine, but, ya know, what with being hard-working, pull yourself up by your boot straps kinds, they'll do fine on their own, I would think. The worst part would be the effect on their minorities; of course they will reinstate Jim Crow, abolish all welfare, and encourage all minorities and poors to emigrate to the US. Whoopee, saddle us with all their social failures. That would be a problem, what to do? @SanFranLefty: I hadn’t, but I mostly agree, if they wanted to leave again, well, it would come down to how much they want to steal. Do we still have to pay their citizen’s Social Security? Do they get any military hardware? I would hardly think so. Its not like its marital property, which must be owned by one State or another, this property is owned by a seperate entity, the federal government, and if they want to leave, fine, but, ya know, what with being hard-working, pull yourself up by your boot straps kinds, they’ll do fine on their own, I would think.

The worst part would be the effect on their minorities; of course they will reinstate Jim Crow, abolish all welfare, and encourage all minorities and poors to emigrate to the US. Whoopee, saddle us with all their social failures. That would be a problem, what to do?

]]> By: SanFranLefty http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33021 SanFranLefty Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:19:17 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33021 @<a href="#comment-33020" rel="nofollow">Prommie</a>: Did you see <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/05/04/090504taco_talk_hertzberg" rel="nofollow">this</a>?? h/t - rprtrcub @Prommie: Did you see this??

h/t – rprtrcub

]]> By: Prommie http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33020 Prommie Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:05:20 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33020 @<a href="#comment-33017" rel="nofollow">Original Andrew</a>: But on rare occasions a party has imploded, disintegrated. As it is now, the retardpigfucklicans really are not a "democratic" or "republican" party, they are an authoritarian theocracy party, they can no longer play a legitimate role in a constituitional democracy. Thats why they didn't play a legitimate role when in charge under Bush, and its why they will be even worse if they gain control again. They regard any period during which they are not in control a crime against them which justifies even greater extremism, with the result that they are spiraling out of control into full-on fascism. Here is where yhou are wrong, prosecutions will not deter further criminal acts by republican administrations, no, it will only increase their sense of victimhood and anger and justification to commit more and worse crimes. Trust me, that is where they are at right now. @Original Andrew: But on rare occasions a party has imploded, disintegrated. As it is now, the retardpigfucklicans really are not a “democratic” or “republican” party, they are an authoritarian theocracy party, they can no longer play a legitimate role in a constituitional democracy. Thats why they didn’t play a legitimate role when in charge under Bush, and its why they will be even worse if they gain control again. They regard any period during which they are not in control a crime against them which justifies even greater extremism, with the result that they are spiraling out of control into full-on fascism. Here is where yhou are wrong, prosecutions will not deter further criminal acts by republican administrations, no, it will only increase their sense of victimhood and anger and justification to commit more and worse crimes. Trust me, that is where they are at right now.

]]> By: Original Andrew http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33017 Original Andrew Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:57:03 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33017 @<a href="#comment-33016" rel="nofollow">Prommie</a>: Lo siento, I should've realized. Torture makes me crabby. We've got to accept though that it is a two-party system, infuriating as it is, and the Repubs (or their successors) will be in control again eventually. It's inevitable. @Prommie:

Lo siento, I should’ve realized. Torture makes me crabby.

We’ve got to accept though that it is a two-party system, infuriating as it is, and the Repubs (or their successors) will be in control again eventually. It’s inevitable.

]]> By: Prommie http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33016 Prommie Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:52:20 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33016 @<a href="#comment-33015" rel="nofollow">Original Andrew</a>: I was just snarking. I'm in favor of prosecutions, limited, not going after little guys, but I am willing to wait and am not hating on Hopey merely because it hasn't happened yet, is all. The GOP had better be over as a viable party, because as you say, yes, noone sane belongs to it anymore, it has become the Nazi party. It is no longer capable nor inclined to abide by the laws of a constitutional democracy. I suspect that its hold on the South will eventually result in secession. @Original Andrew: I was just snarking. I’m in favor of prosecutions, limited, not going after little guys, but I am willing to wait and am not hating on Hopey merely because it hasn’t happened yet, is all.

The GOP had better be over as a viable party, because as you say, yes, noone sane belongs to it anymore, it has become the Nazi party. It is no longer capable nor inclined to abide by the laws of a constitutional democracy. I suspect that its hold on the South will eventually result in secession.

]]> By: Original Andrew http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33015 Original Andrew Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:46:44 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33015 @<a href="#comment-33014" rel="nofollow">Prommie</a>: Look at the current leaders of the Retardican Party and tell me that they wouldn't begin torturing people within two minutes of being sworn in. Talibunny would have her own personal death squads roaming the streets, and then there's Mitt "double Guantanamo" Romney, who'd act like he's playing <i>24</i> like a deranged 12 year-old. Huckabee, Jindal, etc, etc. @Prommie:

Look at the current leaders of the Retardican Party and tell me that they wouldn’t begin torturing people within two minutes of being sworn in.

Talibunny would have her own personal death squads roaming the streets, and then there’s Mitt “double Guantanamo” Romney, who’d act like he’s playing 24 like a deranged 12 year-old. Huckabee, Jindal, etc, etc.

]]> By: Prommie http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33014 Prommie Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:35:34 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33014 @<a href="#comment-33010" rel="nofollow">Original Andrew</a>: The next democrat after Roosevelt didn't reopen the internment camps. @Original Andrew: The next democrat after Roosevelt didn’t reopen the internment camps.

]]> By: Original Andrew http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33013 Original Andrew Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:26:35 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33013 @<a href="#comment-33012" rel="nofollow">Pedonator</a>: He was an Enemy Combatant And Possibly Ay-rab or At Least Messican, which makes torturing him legal so long as it's done in good faith, according to the OLC. @Pedonator:

He was an Enemy Combatant And Possibly Ay-rab or At Least Messican, which makes torturing him legal so long as it’s done in good faith, according to the OLC.

]]> By: Pedonator http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33012 Pedonator Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:21:31 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33012 @<a href="#comment-33010" rel="nofollow">Original Andrew</a>: Didn't they already do all that (well, except maybe the "disappear" part) to an American by the name of Jose Padilla? And I assume there are others that <i>have</i> been disappeared, thus we wouldn't know of them. @Original Andrew: Didn’t they already do all that (well, except maybe the “disappear” part) to an American by the name of Jose Padilla?

And I assume there are others that have been disappeared, thus we wouldn’t know of them.

]]> By: Pedonator http://www.stinque.com/2009/04/29/all-the-vice-presidents-men/#comment-33011 Pedonator Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:11:16 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7791#comment-33011 Nojo, this is a WAY excellent post. Seeing it all summed up so well like this gives me Hope™ that something is gonna be done about it. Nojo, this is a WAY excellent post. Seeing it all summed up so well like this gives me Hope™ that something is gonna be done about it.

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