Bad punditry = Good romance writing? "Liberals Hate Palin Because She's Beautiful"

[cloudy]

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It took a lot of bucks and pounds to protect your scrawny Euro asses during the cold war years; not that we ever expected any appreciation...

amicus

Way to give 'em the expected ugly american.

no_sleep: please pay no attention to amicus. He's old, infirm, and in the onset of alzheimers. We try to keep him placated with toys, and locked up, but sometimes he wanders around.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by no_sleep
Americans are far too scary. I'd always hoped it was just distorted by the television, but oh fuck. Please get rid of the nukes before you elect someone crazy or dumb enough to use them again.

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It took a lot of bucks and pounds to protect your scrawny Euro asses during the cold war years; not that we ever expected any appreciation...

amicus

He's right, you know. If it hadn't been for the American nuclear weapons, you would now be a pile of radioactive ashes or living in the Welsh Soviet Socialist Republic. With some people, the latter would have been what they wanted, but I don't know about you.

I hope you are aware that your own nation is well-supplied with the same kind of weapons, although not as many.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Quote:
Originally Posted by no_sleep
Americans are far too scary. I'd always hoped it was just distorted by the television, but oh fuck. Please get rid of the nukes before you elect someone crazy or dumb enough to use them again.



He's right, you know. If it hadn't been for the American nuclear weapons, you would now be a pile of radioactive ashes or living in the Welsh Soviet Socialist Republic. With some people, the latter would have been what they wanted, but I don't know about you.

I hope you are aware that your own nation is well-supplied with the same kind of weapons, although not as many.

Not as many by a factor of what, Box?

Not to mention the proportion of stupid people trying to threaten the world with them is minuscule compared to the idiots who holler and froth here in the US of A.

 

[no_sleep]

Way to stereotype.

Mostly based on seeing american news broadcasts and how stories are reported in your national news and press. As I said, I've always believed that the media is a distorted lens, but having browsed the general board and this thread it's harder than ever to regard it as a sane country. I'm assuming users of this forum are well above the national average in terms of intelligence and self-awareness.

Some of us are fighting the stupidocracy, I swear it!

Good luck!

It took a lot of bucks and pounds to protect your scrawny Euro asses during the cold war years; not that we ever expected any appreciation...

You want to talk about the amazing good that's come of american foreign policy during the last 70 years? Please...

 

[rgraham666]

Sorry, no-sleep. But I have to give the Americans some props for their foreign policy. They did manage to defeat the Soviet Union without fighting WWIII.

The Marshall Plan was especially brilliant. Rather than kick Europe and Japan when they were down, the U.S. gave them a hand up. Now, Europe, Japan and the U.S. may have their differences of opinion, but when they need to stand together they do.

I think the problem is that the U.S. is under going a bit of an identity crisis. This, in my opinion is caused by two things.

First, the U.S. is not isolated the way it used to be. It was settled by Europeans who meant to leave the rest of the world behind and never deal with it again. This isolated mindset worked for them for centuries.

Technology supported this perception for a long while. The rest of the world was weeks and months away. Now technology has reversed that. Thanks to the internet every where is the same as next door.

This sudden opening of the world upsets a lot of Americans and they're not handling it well.

The other problem is that America is no longer 'the indispensable nation.' When America first became a major power after WWII due to the wealth it had due to its size and position, as well as the fact that many of its rivals had been severely weakened by war, it was a huge, unrivalled power. At that point its GDP was 50% of the entire world.

Now America is 'first among equals' and if demographics is any indication it will soon be the world's number two power. China will surpass it and others like Brazil and India will come close to it. The world is becoming multipolar rather than unipolar.

And again, many Americans are having major problems adapting to this new world.

Luckily there are lots of intelligent Americans who are trying to deal with these problems. Whether they succeed depends on the Americans undergoing identity crises.

 

[xssve]

Mostly based on seeing american news broadcasts and how stories are reported in your national news and press. As I said, I've always believed that the media is a distorted lens, but having browsed the general board and this thread it's harder than ever to regard it as a sane country. I'm assuming users of this forum are well above the national average in terms of intelligence and self-awareness.

Good luck!

You want to talk about the amazing good that's come of american foreign policy during the last 70 years? Please...

Just you wait until Sarah Palin's fake tits are running the country!

 

[Huckleman2000]

[...]I'm assuming users of this forum are well above the national average in terms of intelligence and self-awareness.
[...]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
You really are new, aren't you?

 

[Huckleman2000]

From Dylan Brody. Too good not to post in its entirety:

Former Vice Presidentiary candidate Sarah Palin recently twat about her desire to see Muslims "refudiate" the actions of their violentistic brothren. When challengers predeigned to question her verbial usage, she proclared herself an inventress of words, colining herself with no less auspecial a wordsmith than Shakespeare. She also encited George W. Bush's "misunderestimate" as a speculant examplar of the reclectorance of the English Language.

This is all, of course, in perfect cocordance with Republican trendition, if not outforth policy. Admittery of any mistake, no matter how trivetal can not be expoused lest weakness be percepted. This prejunction of confluencies does not enrupt, of course from any real comprestanding of psochoactric sciences, but rather from the villianification of intellectuism, the disenvaluing of educationative endeavings and, of course, the enchantalizing of ignoracy that has provasivily influcted our society; a strict encountability to dictionarial vocabulism enotes a tendery to factive adherence and pompish philosophorism. How would that put a person in good steading with those who decry out for common sense governencing?

I think it is time we all stop unliking Ms. Palin for her lack of acumenity and her enthuseistic abracing of folksiness that presigns as stupidity. She is, after all, only doing what her party asks of her, only being what her supporters want her to be.

Frankly, I have no dog in this fight. I'm just doing my part to forwardize bipartisal civilism.

 

[Katiecat]

Thanks rgraham, for an insightful and well-thought-out post. You understand the good ol' U. S. of A. purty well for a furriner.

You really did clearly outline the problems and adjustments we are facing in this current day and age. Add to that our freedom of -- or from -- religion, and we have to allow and accommodate all beliefs, whether they are moderate and "acceptable" to us, or fringe group wackos of whatever stripe. And our freedom of speech, which is extended to all, whether or not they have anything intelligent to say, it's their right. And the political and ideological polarization of our huge sprawling country, which is mapped out in red and blue every election day. The American Ideal is wonderful. The American Reality...has its problems.

Getting back to the topic of the thread...I think the same thing holds true of Sarah Palin. The Ideal -- red-blooded American woman, mother, patriot, attractive, successful -- looks ok on the outside, but the reality -- a leader who abandoned her political post, can't hold her own in a debate and isn't terribly smart, parades her Down syndrome baby and underage pregnant daughter as publicity stunts -- not so much. My husband described her as a Twinkie full of catsup -- pretty icky on the inside.

 

[xssve]

Who cares if she can communicate intelligibly in English SHE HAS NICE TITS!

 

[cloudy]

Who cares if she can communicate intelligibly in English SHE HAS NICE TITS!

Hey! I have nice tits (as evidenced over there <====), and a damn high IQ....vote for me!

 

[xssve]

I don't think she's substantially bigger, just firmer, and higher - I think she was losing more credibility as a saggy middle aged broad than as a MILF hottie.

And yes, I'd vote for your tits in a heartbeat!

 

[cloudy]

I don't think she's substantially bigger, just firmer, and higher - I think she was losing more credibility as a saggy middle aged broad than as a MILF hottie.

And yes, I'd vote for your tits in a heartbeat!

I bet I have better skin.

 

[xssve]

Well, that and she's a soulless, opportunistic, corporate cocksucker.

 

[xssve]

And, as I recall, you have the booty to match!

Like buttah...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Not as many by a factor of what, Box?

Not to mention the proportion of stupid people trying to threaten the world with them is minuscule compared to the idiots who holler and froth here in the US of A.

These are the estimated nucvear arsenals. Nobody knows how accurate these figures are, and I don't know where they came from:
http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/database/nukestab.html

 

[Boxlicker101]

Who cares if she can communicate intelligibly in English SHE HAS NICE TITS!

She has a great ass too!

 

[cloudy]

And, as I recall, you have the booty to match!

Like buttah...

Indeed.

Mama was good to me.

 

[xssve]

She has a great ass too!

This is a distinctly right wing thing to say - to religious gun nuts, Janet Reno will forever be remembered as the AG who OK'd the Waco raid - to mainstream conservative pundits and politicians, she "the woman who looks like a man" - Hillary is "ol' Piano Legs", Chelsea a "Dog", etc. i.e., they are obsessed over looks, even the article that started this thread is all about Palin's appearance, and probably simply an astroturf marketing ad to call attention to her new tits.

It will be a definite "issue" if she were to run against Hillary, mark my words.

Right wingers seem utterly insensible to any argument that involves the ability to govern, or those boring "issues" - thing is, what does that say about the conservative rank and file? Or still more interesting, what does that say about conservative pols respect for for the intelligence of their marks, I mean, constituents?

 

[Huckleman2000]

This is a distinctly right wing thing to say - to religious gun nuts, Janet Reno will forever be remembered as the AG who OK'd the Waco raid - to mainstream conservative pundits and politicians, she "the woman who looks like a man" - Hillary is "ol' Piano Legs", Chelsea a "Dog", etc. i.e., they are obsessed over looks, even the article that started this thread is all about Palin's appearance, and probably simply an astroturf marketing ad to call attention to her new tits.

It will be a definite "issue" if she were to run against Hillary, mark my words.

Right wingers seem utterly insensible to any argument that involves the ability to govern, or those boring "issues" - thing is, what does that say about the conservative rank and file? Or still more interesting, what does that say about conservative pols respect for for the intelligence of their marks, I mean, constituents?

Did you happen to watch Rachel Maddow's show last night? She did a total takedown of the GOP's 'Southern Strategy', starting with George Wallace in the 60s right up to Fox News and their ginned-up white victimhood stories of the Obama administration. The strategy is breathtaking in its cynicism! Here's a site that has a clip.

 

[xssve]

Since when has it not been cynical? Helms and G.H. Bush both played the race card effectively in the 1990 elections, and it's been an open staple for the GOP ever since.

Their great innovation has largely been to find Black people to do it for them so they couldn't be accused of racism, and all this means is that the gloves are off again.

Apparently they think it's political expedient to throw Black conservatives under the wheel for being uppity enough elect a Black man - or at least a dark Brown man, president.

 

[xssve]

I particularly recall Ken Hamblin, who ought to have known better, since he was on shift the night Alan Berg was gunned down.

 

[xssve]

I think the crack in the "Big Tent" strategy appeared when the GOP snubbed the Log Cabin republicans - African Americans couldn't be too far behind, I remember how they set Colin Powell up like a bowling pin, he was practically their only viable mainstream candidate at the time - and they wasted no time cutting his legs off - i.e., they might've gotten into the "Big Tent, but they weren't going to be eating at the "Big Table".

Conservative Black Christian women played a key role as recently as the Prop 8 thing, but they're circling the wagons after the last election.

I'm guessing they're banking that high voter turnout among White Christian conservatives will make up for dumping diversity.

 

[rgraham666]

Hey! I have nice tits (as evidenced over there <====), and a damn high IQ....vote for me!

In a heartbeat.

 

[Stella_Omega]

In a heartbeat.

That's not your heart you're beating there, ol' pal.