chumbucket - 2011-04-04
it's good to be the prez
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MrBuddy - 2011-04-05 Funny you should say that, I really expected him to say, "I am the law."
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oddeye - 2011-04-04
Stuff like this enrages me alsmot as much as people who complain about this shit and don't bother to vote.
You can't have it both ways people!
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fractured - 2011-04-04 I don't really see voting changing much when this sort of mentality is symptomatic of the whole US political system. That said, I agree that it is silly to just sit around and complain. And obviously Republican politicians are more explicitly evil.
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simon666 - 2011-04-04 "You may have noticed that there's one thing I don't complain about: Politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says, "They suck". But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. No, they come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they're elected by American voters. This is the best we can do, folks. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.
....I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain", but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.
I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."
George Carlin
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oddeye - 2011-04-04 George is partly right, the people who vote in these scumbags are responsable for the shit they do. The solution is not to stop voting, it's to start voting for good people, THE RIGHT people.
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Innocent Bystander - 2011-04-04 Yeah, George kinda lost me there. If you don't vote you really can't complain because you haven't even exhausted the limited means of control you've been given. Let's say that one year, somewhere, in a democratic system, no one votes. Is that going to place the competent people (whoever they are) in charge? I'm thinking no flippin' way.
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jangbones - 2011-04-04 Partisanship kills any meaningful discussion of reigning in the power of the executive branch.
Sure, Dems hated how George W. pissed all over the Constitution but fuck if they are going to water down the presidency now that their guy is the one pissing all over the Constitution.
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oddeye - 2011-04-04 While I see your point there are people on both sides of the fence that care more about doing the right thing than being a member of a party.
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jangbones - 2011-04-04 I hope so, but I don't believe you.
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Riskbreaker - 2011-04-05 What if i don't like neither candidate and neither political party? Also, say what you want about not voting being a silly posture, but thinking that voting for one guy is going to change things in a drastic way sounds far more silly, naive and absurd to me. I respect people that believe in voting, i would like to see equal respect for the rest of us who don't believe in the charade of politics and voting.
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oddeye - 2011-04-06 Vote independent?
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Desidiosus - 2011-04-04
This applies in Canada too. The prime minister was just found in contempt of Parliament, something which has never happened before, and no one seems to give a crap.
Nixon inspired a lot of right-wing politicians.
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Jet Bin Fever - 2011-04-04
MORNING IN AMERICA
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pineapplejuicer - 2011-04-04
i was really hoping this would be overdubbed with charlie murphy's character from the boondocks.
"the fuck y'all lookin at?!"
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