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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#112401: Feb 18th 2016 at 6:05:13 AM

It was the same with Romney. Everyone thought he had a chance because he was the generic Republican.

And then he started talking...

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#112402: Feb 18th 2016 at 7:17:15 AM

A Yeehawd update from my local newspaper:

A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Cliven Bundy and four others on 16 charges related to an armed standoff near his ranch in 2014 over unpaid grazing fees.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article61010667.html

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#112403: Feb 18th 2016 at 7:22:06 AM

These are the programs President Obama's budget wants to eliminate

Oh no! Not the abstinence only programs!

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#112404: Feb 18th 2016 at 7:56:09 AM

That list for the most part reads like mumbojumbo to me. Good on the abstinence only cut though, while it's not necessarily a bad idea it's not dependable enough to leave other topics off - and most abstinence only ed does not handle these topics at all.

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#112405: Feb 18th 2016 at 8:58:40 AM

I like this budget or, if you will, Obamafund.

I also approve of the $210 million cut to compensating law enforcement agencies for catching immigrants. Without the financial incentive, maybe they'll be a bit less gung-ho about hunting illegals. Now we just need better programs for legalized immigration, possibly termed "Obamagration".

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#112406: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:18:55 AM

[up] How about a reformation of Tax Policy so taxation is based on Residency, not Citizenship?

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#112407: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:22:10 AM

BBC: Pope Francis questions Donald Trump's Christianity

...That can't have done what standing he has among the religious GOP base any favours.

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#112408: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:23:00 AM

Keep in mind that the majority of the GOP are Protestants, not Catholics.

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#112409: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:25:00 AM

Yeah, if anything that is going to push the protestants even more in Trump's favor because the Pope is the antichrist in their narrative

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#112410: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:28:43 AM

[up] Eh, I don't think it's that common of a belief.

Unless you weren't being entirely literal there.

Mind you, this may cost him potential votes from conservative but devout Catholics.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#112411: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:30:10 AM

Isn't Obama supposed to be the Antichrist?

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#112412: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:31:09 AM

[up][up] But being anti-Catholic (or as some might say, anti-Papist) is more common — but not as much as it was when JFK was elected.

[up] Depending on the Author.

edited 18th Feb '16 9:31:56 AM by Greenmantle

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#112413: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:41:05 AM

[up] True.

I thought Gorbachev was supposed to the Antichrist, and he just fucked it up.

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#112414: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:56:04 AM

To be honest, it legitimately wouldn't surprise me that much if Trump was the anti- Christ.

Then again, he'd be too obvious. He's obviously a diversion for someone else.

Leviticus 19:34
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#112415: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:36:33 AM

We've noted before that Trump doesn't have entirely odious views when you dig beneath the surface. What said digging reveals, instead, is a man who once hobnobbed with Democrats and paid homage to their ideas, and was in most ways politically uncontroversial until he started to run as a Republican, wherein he adopted his current platform of bigotry.

Trump is first and foremost a showman. His career is based on marketing himself. One can make the argument that this populist circus ringmaster is the anti-Republican, but it's hard to attach any religious significance to that fact unless you are way out there.

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#112416: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:43:35 AM

Well, just a quick glimpse at Wikipedia suggests a less hardcore Republican then, let's say, Cruz. Not that I want him in office, though.

edited 18th Feb '16 11:00:51 AM by KarkatTheDalek

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#112417: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:45:39 AM

Trump gets elected, the country collectively begins to pack its bags for Canada, but then as he's being sworn into office, Trump suddenly rips off his mask and reveals himself to have been Stephen Colbert all this time, taking the piss out of the entire Republican Party.

Canada, meanwhile, contemplates building a wall over its southern border so that they can stop being the emergency evacuation place for American refugees fleeing from the latest election every four years. They're tired of Americans showing up in droves and taking Canadian jobs and abusing Canadian government services.

edited 18th Feb '16 10:48:22 AM by TobiasDrake

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#112418: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:48:05 AM

Canada, meanwhile, contemplates building a wall over its southern border so that they can stop being the emergency evacuation place for American refugees fleeing from the latest election every four years.

Here is the important question

Will they make the United States pay for it?

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#112419: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:48:46 AM

I don't think he really is, but he's much more likely to be than Obama or the Pope. (I seriously doubt the end times will occur within our own life time)

But let's not be silly, it's obvious that your mother-in- law is the real anti-Christ.

Leviticus 19:34
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#112420: Feb 18th 2016 at 10:49:34 AM

I don't even have a mother in law.

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#112421: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:06:14 AM

The greatest victory the Devil ever achieved was convincing the world he didn't exist, Aszur...

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#112422: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:07:49 AM

Cogito ergo sum, though.

Oh yeah, one thing about actual politics though.

Obama will visit cuba in March, becoming the first president to do so in 88 years

edited 18th Feb '16 11:10:35 AM by Aszur

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#112423: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:09:44 AM

[up][up]That statement begs the question, though.

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#112424: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:12:29 AM

Bah, logic has no place among the faithful! Had Cruz taught you nothing?

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#112425: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:13:22 AM

By the way, why is the American Northeast so small compared to the other 3 Regions of the US? The South and West are both huge, and the Midwest is really big too, but the Northeast is smaller than a lot of European countries.

edited 18th Feb '16 11:19:06 AM by Bat178


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