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[PhoenixDark]

I must admit I got the question wrong: for some reason David Brooks came to mind instead of Rubin. Probably has to do with me not reading or paying attention to anything Rubin writes outside of twitter.

 

[Oblivion]

I must admit I got the question wrong: for some reason David Brooks came to mind instead of Rubin. Probably has to do with me not reading or paying attention to anything Rubin writes outside of twitter.

Nah, if it were Brooks it would come off as more concern trolling-ish, not obnoxiously acerbic. He wouldn't be straight up attacking Obama, but lamenting how he hasn't been able to change the culture in Washington like he promised.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Nah, if it were Brooks it would come off as more concern trolling-ish, not obnoxiously acerbic. He wouldn't be straight up attacking Obama, but lamenting how he hasn't been able to change the culture in Washington like he promised.

Yup, I really brain farted. I have David Brooks on the brain, I guess.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

I don't know how it took me so long to come across this.
guys make sure u get all ur friends out to vote obama again this december 6th #hope

Bams loves his dubstep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85haOoK5os

 

[Dan]

This one's pretty great too. I mean, aside from the fact that we had the slowest rate of job growth since WWII during Bush's 2 terms, there was that whole financial crash thing that wiped away almost all of the gains he received during that time. It's like someone bragging about their academic success in high school cause their freshman year was pretty decent, while ignoring the fact that they stopped going to class for the remaining 3 years.

It's like bragging about your grades within a pass/fail system and still not graduating.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Bush is Back



$10 to the person who can guess the author without clicking on the link.

I love this line: "Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11"

lol

 

[rocketknight]

Bams loves his dubstep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85haOoK5os

Wow, I can't believe I forgot about that.

 

[Mike M]

I love this line: "Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11"

lol

None except the anthrax attacks, pipe bombings, shooting up El Al's ticket counter, beltway sniper, etc.

That's just off the top of my head.

 

[Mario]

I love this line: "Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11"

"If you disregard the largest terrorist attack on the US ever, then..."

 

[Black Mamba]

Bush is Back



$10 to the person who can guess the author without clicking on the link.

I knew it was Rubin before clicking the link. Not lying, either. She has a distinctive style when shitting on Obama to prop up Republicans.

She tipped her hand at medicare part D being fiscally sober.

 

[Particle Physicist]

"If you disregard the largest terrorist attack on the US ever, then..."

Even then it's a lie, just as Mike M pointed out. These people are unbelievable.

 

[Link]

Even then it's a lie, just as Mike M pointed out. These people are unbelievable.

It's like they think no one is going to check.

 

[TacticalFox88]

It's like they think no one is going to check.

Well, the people who the message is aimed at sure isn't.

 

[Black Republican]

Max B is out?

i wasnt expecting that but no biggie

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Well, the people who the message is aimed at sure isn't.

Any sources saying otherwise have been poisoned by Liberal media.

 

[Jooney]

I can't wait to see what hypocritical, non-sensical justification tea partiers have for supporting Cruz for president. Probably something about Canada being closer to the US than Kenya.

 

[Oblivion]

Why does that stink in big spending Obama love cutting spending so much?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...ain-about-austerity-they-demanded?detail=hide

 

[GhaleonEB]

None except the anthrax attacks, pipe bombings, shooting up El Al's ticket counter, beltway sniper, etc.

That's just off the top of my head.

The framing in that quote implies that 9/11 doesn't count against Bush's record beacuse, well just because. His record is great so long as you don't count the single worst terrorist attack in US history. Rubin seems totally oblivious to the cherry picking.

 

[Oblivion]

I can't wait to see what hypocritical, non-sensical justification tea partiers have for supporting Cruz for president. Probably something about Canada being closer to the US than Kenya.

I'm gonna go with Canada being less socialist than Kenya.

 

[Mike M]

The framing in that quote implies that 9/11 doesn't count against Bush's record beacuse, well just because. His record is great so long as you don't count the single worst terrorist attack in US history. Rubin seems totally oblivious to the cherry picking.

They're just skipping past the part where they think 9/11 was because of cuts Clinton made and how Bush's security build up kept us safe until it was dismantled by Obama to fund his Obamaphone program.

 

[Oblivion]

They're just skipping past the part where they think 9/11 was because of cuts Clinton made and how Bush's security build up kept us safe until it was dismantled by Obama to fund his Obamaphone program.

Wonder how they justify ignoring the whole "AL QAEDA DETERMINED TO ATTACK" thing.

 

[Mike M]

Wonder how they justify ignoring the whole "AL QAEDA DETERMINED TO ATTACK" thing.

Clinton's fault because of reasons.

 

[Link]

Why does that stink in big spending Obama love cutting spending so much?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...ain-about-austerity-they-demanded?detail=hide

These guys are such clowns.

 

[speculawyer]

I'm going to say Malkin. But it could be a number of people. EDIT: Whoops, wrong.

I also like the two huuuuuuge gaps she is leaving out:

"After 9/11*, no terrorists attacks!" - *9/11 biggest terrorist attack on US, under Bush's watch
"7 1/2 year* of economic growth!" - *suffered biggest recession of the past 60 years in last 1/2 year of his presidency.

Keep fuckin that chicken.

It is worse than that. Even those weasel words are not true. What about the Anthrax attack?

The Belt-way sniper attack?

I guess those don't count anymore?

 

[B-Dubs]

It is worse than that. Even those weasel words are not true. What about the Anthrax attack?

The Belt-way sniper attack?

I guess those don't count anymore?

Those weren't terrorist attacks because they weren't done by brown people who worship Allah.

I am literally (not literally, I cleaned it up a lot) quoting someone on that, I pulled a grandpa simpson when I heard it.

 

[speculawyer]

Those weren't terrorist attacks because they weren't done by brown people who worship Allah.

I am literally (not literally, I cleaned it up a lot) quoting someone on that, I pulled a grandpa simpson when I heard it.

I don't doubt someone said that. But yet again, they are wrong. I think the Beltway sniper was a brown person that worshipped Allah.

 

[RustyNails]

I don't doubt someone said that. But yet again, they are wrong. I think the Beltway sniper was a brown person that worshipped Allah.

He didn't worship Allah. He was Nation of Islam member.

 

[Hitokage]

He didn't worship Allah. He was Nation of Islam member.

For the purposes of wide brushes this doesn't make a difference, even without going into whether such a distinction has actual merit.

 

[Chichikov]

Uh...

Is this like Christians who claim that Mormons don't really follow Christ?

The LDS are closer to mainstream christianity (however you want to define it) than the Nation of Islam is to mainstream Islam (however you want to define it).

 

[User 406]

I can't wait to see what hypocritical, non-sensical justification tea partiers have for supporting Cruz for president. Probably something about Canada being closer to the US than Kenya.

My money is on some variation of "Well, Cruz never tried to hide it!"

 

[Mike M]

My money is on some variation of "Well, Cruz never tried to hide it!"

"Both of Cruz's parents were US citizens!"

 

[RustyNails]

Uh...

Is this like Christians who claim that Mormons don't really follow Christ?

NoI doesn't have anything to do with the Abrahamic faith of Islam. It's a black supremacist theology.

 

[zero shift]

Well according to my cousin, Tsarnaev was alive when police caught him. They KILLED him afterwards!!!

 

[Jooney]

"Both of Cruz's parents were US citizens!"

I think we have a winner.

 

[Tamanon]

BTW Harry Reid's aide was absolutely demolished by John Oliver on the Daily Show tonight over gun control.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

Why would anyone think this is a good idea?

Oh wait

 

[InsaneZero]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

I'll be awaiting the next Jon Stewart video years down the line.

 

[Hitokage]

I'll be awaiting the next Jon Stewart video years down the line.

No, this time they've learned their lesson. He'll be banned from appearing.

 

[Link]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

I knew your mind sucked.

 

[Jooney]

Newt with Cutter? Calista better call the divorce lawyer.

 

[Avon Barksdale]

No, this time they've learned their lesson. He'll be banned from appearing.

He doesn't need to appear on CNN to get a show canceled. See the shortlived (Get to) the Point as an example.

 

[RustyNails]

I know it's black supremacist, but it also claims to follow Allah, the five pillars of Islam, etc. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that it does have something to do with Islam.

Except Allah is the Black Man and Allah stands for Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head of the Black Man.

They have mishmashed pieces of traditional Islamic theology and principles here and there because Wallace Fard Muhammad knew bits and pieces of Islam and wanted to start something new combined with his own personal beliefs.

This is quite seriously the only place I've been on the internet that even entertains the idea that NoI is somehow tied to traditional Islam.

Yakub (sometimes spelled Yacub or Yakob) is, according to the Nation of Islam, a black scientist who lived "6,600 years ago" and was responsible for creating the white race to be a "race of devils". The Nation of Islam theology claims that Yakub is the biblical Jacob. Traditional Muslims do not have this belief, or anything similar to it.

 

[Hitokage]

Christians don't typically believe in a pre-existence council where Lucifer and Jesus debated over how God's children would return to him after going to Earth either.

Any major religion has its wacky splinter groups that don't really represent the main group.

 

[RustyNails]

I mean, ok, but you're sort of contradicting yourself. They used a lot of traditional Islamic theology and principles, but they're somehow completely unrelated?

Where did I say they used a lot of traditional theology and principles? I said their founder used some shit he knew about the religion to create his own racial supremacist nonsense. It's about as related to Abrahamic faiths as Scientology because at least L Ron Hubbard believed Jesus was a high level thetan. So yes, in a strictly literal sense it's related. But not so much when it comes to religiously related. In any case, this diverted from the DC Sniper topic and these are quotes on why DC Sniper did what he did:

According to Malvo's confession, he and Muhammad had planned to kill six white people a day for a month in order "to terrorize the nation."[3]
...
According to Craig Cooley, one of Malvo's defense attorneys, Malvo believed Muhammad when he told him that the $10 million ransom sought from the US government to stop the sniper killings would be used to establish a Utopian society for one hundred and forty homeless black children on a Canadian compound.[4]

 

[Marvie_3]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

This could be the most amazing thing ever.


And by amazing I mean gigantic disaster.

 

[speculawyer]

He didn't worship Allah. He was Nation of Islam member.

Uh...
Is this like Christians who claim that Mormons don't really follow Christ?

For the purposes of wide brushes this doesn't make a difference, even without going into whether such a distinction has actual merit.

The LDS are closer to mainstream christianity (however you want to define it) than the Nation of Islam is to mainstream Islam (however you want to define it).

NoI doesn't have anything to do with the Abrahamic faith of Islam. It's a black supremacist theology.

I know it's black supremacist, but it also claims to follow Allah, the five pillars of Islam, etc. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that it does have something to do with Islam.

Except Allah is the Black Man and Allah stands for Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head of the Black Man.
They have mishmashed pieces of traditional Islamic theology and principles here and there because Wallace Fard Muhammad knew bits and pieces of Islam and wanted to start something new combined with his own personal beliefs.
This is quite seriously the only place I've been on the internet that even entertains the idea that NoI is somehow tied to traditional Islam.

Sounds like inverted Mormonism.
I mean, ok, but you're sort of contradicting yourself. They used a lot of traditional Islamic theology and principles, but they're somehow completely unrelated?

Christians don't typically believe in a pre-existence council where Lucifer and Jesus debated over how God's children would return to him after going to Earth either.
Any major religion has its wacky splinter groups that don't really represent the main group.

Where did I say they used a lot of traditional theology and principles? I said their founder used some shit he knew about the religion to create his own racial supremacist nonsense. It's about as related to Abrahamic faiths as Scientology because at least L Ron Hubbard believed Jesus was a high level thetan. So yes, in a strictly literal sense it's related. But not so much when it comes to religiously related. In any case, this diverted from the DC Sniper topic and these are quotes on why DC Sniper did what he did:

Well I'm pretty sure the Nation of Islam would count for the guy who said "Those weren't terrorist attacks because they weren't done by brown people who worship Allah". ;-)

Such a great example of the difference between the straightforward (but inaccurate and over-simplified) conservative thinking and the hyper-nuanced liberal over-analysis.

 

[Mrs. Manky]

Newt with Cutter? Calista better call the divorce lawyer.

As long as Calista is healthy, she has nothing to fear.

 

[Giant Panda]

As long as Calista is healthy, she has nothing to fear.

Damn. I still can't believe how close Newt came to winning the Republican primary with all that baggage.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

Rumors circling that CNN is reviving Crossfire...with Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter.

It's like they read my fucking mind.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk about their ratings since the bombing tragedy. Best they've had in awhile and their big attractions were not doing so great up until then.