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#119751: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:36:54 PM

Hey, look, LePage said something ignorant and dangerous. Next thing you'll tell me is that it's Thursday.

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#119752: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:37:24 PM

[up][up][up] What prevents Trump from crossing into "evil" territory here?

edited 21st Apr '16 1:38:01 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#119753: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:39:49 PM

That he didn't vote against the Sandy relief bill, for example. And had actually some somewhat nice things to say about New York values during that debate where Cruz first mentioned the term.

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Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#119754: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:41:03 PM

[up][up] Oh, Trump is evil, but he's "merely" a greedy and selfish sort of evil, as opposed to crusading, True Believer'ing evil of Cruz. [nja]

edited 21st Apr '16 1:44:44 PM by Reflextion

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#119755: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:41:18 PM

Trump's evil, just not to the same extent.

Think of it this way: Trump is Hitler, Cruz is Satan. Hitler's direct, in your face, up-front. He rallies hate groups and openly espouses horrific views.

Satan is subversive. Insidious. He sits next to you in a fancy suit and goes, "Wow. That guy, amirite?! Gotta do everything we can to keep him out of power and hey, it's your lucky day. All you gotta do is sign."

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#119756: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:43:18 PM

Trump is 1% evil and 99% hot gas.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#119757: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:43:38 PM

[up][up] Hitler seemed a lot like the latter to many people, though.

edited 21st Apr '16 1:43:55 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#119758: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:44:53 PM

Hey, look, LePage said something ignorant and dangerous. Next thing you'll tell me is that it's Thursday.
As a matter of fact, today is Thursday.

edited 21st Apr '16 1:46:20 PM by sgamer82

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#119760: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:49:59 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] Churchill would disagree on that. tongue

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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#119761: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:50:23 PM

'Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose
So what, it doesn't count as "truly" lifesaving unless it makes you fucking immortal?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#119762: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:54:06 PM

Fuck LePage. I've had two dead from heroin overdoses in my neighborhood just last week.

edited 21st Apr '16 1:54:19 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#119763: Apr 21st 2016 at 2:29:58 PM

@Fighter: It's a response to the article Septimus posted about foreign leaders being scared of Trump. Europe and Asia in particular terrified about Trump sending the US into isolationism, and leaving them to deal with Russia and China all on their own. Oddly enough the Gulf States are quite calm about the whole thing. It's worth noting that the major Western European states are less panicked, in general countries that have spent longer amounts of time analyzing American politics are less convinced Trump will win. Still they resent being characterized as freeloaders and bad allies.

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#119764: Apr 21st 2016 at 2:40:41 PM

Stupid double posts.

edited 21st Apr '16 4:07:17 PM by AceofSpades

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#119765: Apr 21st 2016 at 2:40:41 PM

Stupid double posts.

edited 21st Apr '16 4:07:17 PM by AceofSpades

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#119766: Apr 21st 2016 at 2:45:21 PM

[up]Isn't he the one who said that blacks were brining Heroin and crime to Maine?

John Kasich: DC shouldn't become a state because it's residents would vote Democrat He isn't even trying now.

edited 21st Apr '16 2:49:12 PM by JackOLantern1337

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#119767: Apr 21st 2016 at 2:58:55 PM

[up] Isn't the whole point of D.C. not being a state so that the other states don't fight about one of the states having the capital? It's the reason why New York and Philadelphia stopped being the capital of the US. Then again, they kinda failed at that too, with D.C. being in the South rather than directly on the Mason-Dixon Line.

edited 21st Apr '16 3:06:33 PM by Bat178

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#119768: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:02:45 PM

Wow, fuck that Le Page prick. Didn't he only win because he was in a three way race? Hopefully his approval numbers are in the gutter.

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#119769: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:13:47 PM

[up][up] DC was designed to prevent the syndrome of a country's capital taking over governance and convincing itself that it is the nation and all other parts of the country are mere irrelevant provinces, think "Britain is London", or to an arguably more extreme degree "France is Paris." Mind you this has led to us treating the city itself and it's citizens like shit, but in our defense for most of it's history DC was basically a small town with an unusually large amount of monuments. Letting the City become a state, and having all the Federal Buildings become the District of Columbia would not be unconstitutional nor unwise in any way except for the fact it would add one more Blue State to the Union.

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#119770: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:23:26 PM

At this point, making any patch of land that isn't already part of one into state #51 would be adding another blue state to the union.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#119771: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:27:47 PM

[up] Unless they merge the Carolinas and/or Dakotas into one.

edited 21st Apr '16 3:27:55 PM by Bat178

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#119772: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:36:41 PM

@119767: I refuse to acknowledge D.C. as being in the South.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#119773: Apr 21st 2016 at 3:48:05 PM

[up]Why does it matter?

edited 21st Apr '16 3:48:24 PM by LSBK

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#119774: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:16:46 PM

[up][up] Because the South is often thought of as a shithole. Plus it's rural and the state of New Columbia would be the first state to be entirely urban. Also maybe Guam would go red, seeing as like half of it's population are Military personnel.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#119775: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:20:45 PM

It matters because Physical Stamina is apparently offended by the fact that there might in future be a state in the South that isn't deep red and considered ignorant hicksville? I exaggerate but it does seem like a stupid stance to take when it is in fact, physically in the southern region of the nation. Technically in the middle, as that was the reason it was chosen at the time.

In any case there's also Puerto Rico which has three political parties right now, The Us Virgin Islands which appears to lean strongly democratic, and American Samoa whose people don't even get to be US citizens, they're US nationals which is a distinction I don't quite understand and as far as I'm aware many find to be insulting, especially as many there also serve in the US military.

Frankly, if people are going to be wonks about the population issue, the Dakotas could in fact be merged and I doubt it'd change anything. South Dakota appears to have only Mr Rushmore and ghosts.

edited 21st Apr '16 4:22:21 PM by AceofSpades


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