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Bay12 Presidential Focus Polling 2016

Ted Cruz
- 7 (6.5%)
Rick Santorum
- 16 (14.8%)
Michelle Bachmann
- 13 (12%)
Chris Christie
- 23 (21.3%)
Rand Paul
- 49 (45.4%)

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MetalSlimeHunt

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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4425 on: November 12, 2013, 11:31:45 pm »

Now, now, Washington didn't ban Christmas. He just celebrated it in the tradition of the Khornates.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4426 on: November 12, 2013, 11:34:19 pm »

Americans: We will kill you in your sleep on Christmas.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4427 on: November 12, 2013, 11:35:48 pm »

Now, now, Washington didn't ban Christmas. He just celebrated it in the tradition of the Khornates.

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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4428 on: November 13, 2013, 12:01:37 am »

The only answer to America's problems is radical, radical State Socialism. Everything from public transportation, industrial sites and energy companies to the land in Bush's possession should be nationalised and collectivised.

Health care shall be nationalised and made free from cradle to grave, education should be made free on any level. Bush, Cheney, Obama, Romney, the entirety of the political and financial establishments must be rounded up and put into camps where they will smash rocks into smaller rocks for eternity. The entire state system must be replaced with Soviet republics with elected workers' Soviets replacing every layer of government.

The army will become a people's army, officers replaced by proletarian, ideologically pure kommissars (no West Point graduates). Police shall become Guardians of the Revolution and will provide strong corporal punishment to those who go against the words of the Supreme Soviet.

Worship of God and praying in schools and even the celebration of Christmas shall be forbidden.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4429 on: November 13, 2013, 10:24:38 am »

Can I volunteer for the genetic experiments?
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4430 on: November 13, 2013, 02:10:00 pm »

We wouldn't want to destroy your delicious prettyboy looks. C:


edit: wow that was a lot more predatory than i meant it to sound
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4431 on: November 13, 2013, 02:17:13 pm »

It's the delicious part. You cannot call someone's looks delicious without being somewhat predatory/creepy. Unless they're in a costume that looks like food, of course.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4432 on: November 13, 2013, 02:18:22 pm »

We wouldn't want to destroy your delicious prettyboy looks. C:


edit: wow that was a lot more predatory than i meant it to sound

damnit descan you're not allowed to be predatory you've got a boyfriend already

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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4434 on: November 13, 2013, 04:04:46 pm »

All you damned foreigners with your godless socialism.

By the by, if an extreme comment by the extreme wing of a extreme party is said about you, and it's accurate, you have a problem. You are actually socialist foreigners trying to destroy the American way of life. You made Ted Cruz right, and that means you're not helping.
Over 3000 people are serving life without parole for non-violent crimes.
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Obamacare continues chugging along, and Congressional democrats have started getting upset with the White House. The WH Deadline for Healthcare.gov working smoothly, Nov 30, comes closer. New statistics state that only 160,000 have signed up through the system, one quarter of which went through the Federal site (which covers 36 states), the rest of which going though the significantly more effective state sites (which cover only 14 states and the district of Columbia).
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4435 on: November 13, 2013, 04:48:50 pm »

Obamacare continues chugging along, and Congressional democrats have started getting upset with the White House. The WH Deadline for Healthcare.gov working smoothly, Nov 30, comes closer. New statistics state that only 160,000 have signed up through the system, one quarter of which went through the Federal site (which covers 36 states), the rest of which going though the significantly more effective state sites (which cover only 14 states and the district of Columbia).

I enjoy how the inept republican states are the ones who did not set up their own exchanges, and their flood of uninsured poor [especially elderly people in the south] are the ones slowing the entire system.

Now to why
a.) Because they know they couldn't do it with any sense of ability [Likely]
b.) They don't understand the concept of 'private insurance exchanges' in the first place [Likely]
c.) To hamper the federal exchange, which was not supposed to handle a majority of the states in the US [Most likely]

This just helps to show how inept and political state legislatures have become. Synonym: Pathetic.

Way to prove that you're better than those socialist Californian/Kentuckites with your massive amounts of uninsured fat people.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Maps-and-Data/State-Exchange-Map.aspx

http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/obesity-statistics-in-the-united-states.aspx

Lets do some fun with maps.


[Kentucky is slightly blending in with the state-federals because of the high obesity level skewing its color, it is the only state-only exchange in the south]

I overlayed the obesity rate map over the health insurance exchange map. My rudimentary key should show my point rather well.

I am only taking into account those areas with the 'critical' levels of obesity [25%+].

Just would like to mention how well those states are running their health care systems. [Not]

They can't even setup their own marketplaces because they have too many extremely obese uninsured people [thanks to their own cutting of health programs, child benefits, education systems, etc] to be able to run a self-sustaining exchange, its almost like they're trying to be a parody of what 'state's rights' used to be.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4437 on: November 14, 2013, 10:53:17 am »

http://www.businessinsider.com/an-investment-managers-view-2013-11
The answer is to simplify the law, not pile more on top of it. They get where they are by using the rules in a way which hardly anyone could possibly understand. Because the laws are so huge and intricate as to be draconic and arcane. Even law experts can only be expected to know certain parts of it.

Making more rules and regulations, at some point, only serves to make it more difficult for normal people to understand the law. This point was passed long ago. Because those in power have teams of experts specifically to find ways around those rules. Remove the obstructive regulations, and people can see the bullshit they are really doing.

2500 pages does not make a sensible law.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4438 on: November 14, 2013, 11:22:35 am »

While it's true that many stuff should be simplified (US tax code anyone?) the law can help lift the weak too.
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Re: FJ's American Politics Megathread Two: Celebrating Four Decades of Malaise
« Reply #4439 on: November 14, 2013, 11:52:31 am »

While it's true that many stuff should be simplified (US tax code anyone?) the law can help lift the weak too.
Only if they can comprehend the laws in question. Otherwise, they still have to rely on those in power to tell them what it means.
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