The predictions thread
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Riona - "remember how a while ago everyone said "allowing same sex marriage isn't a slippery slope thing, allowing that won't allow other things"? Now they're saying, "well go for it guys, no holds barred!". Next they'll want to lower the age of concent so we can be like Pakistan, where 12 year olds marry 50 year olds."
Does anyone remember which thread this was in? I'd really like to follow up.
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Hahahahaha:
Grover Norquist (2004) - "The Democratic Party is Toast"
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.norquist.html
Only Catpirate has achieved more spectacularly wrong predictions in one go.
It's not personal. It's just war.
Wow! Good article. Some highlights, if I may:
- Over time, the Senate--thanks to those wonderful square states out west--will trend toward 60 Republicans as the 30 red states elect Republicans and the 20 blue states elect Democrats. The anomaly of four Democratic senators hailing from Republican North and South Dakota will come to an end, as will the Republican-held Senate seat in Rhode Island.
- Abroad, four more years under President Bush will move America and the world towards greater free trade, spreading prosperity throughout the world and bringing more countries into the trading systems that require property rights and rule of law, draining the swamps that breed radicalism and terror.
- And a steady increase in the number of honest gun owners will continue to reduce street crime and make America safer. [That's right. Because only the "honest" gun owners take advantage of loose gun regulations...]
- Four more years of President Bush will also accelerate one of the most important demographic changes in America over the past 20 years: the number of Americans who own stock. [Just in time for the crash of 2008 woo-hoo!]
- According to pollster Scott Rasmussen, if you own $5000 in stock you are 18 percent less likely to be a Democrat and more likely to be a Republican. Every demographic group, including race, gender, age, and income, becomes more Republican with stock ownership.
- With the end of 40 years of Democratic gerrymandering, states in which a majority of the congressional popular vote goes to the GOP now award a majority of congressional seats to the GOP, too. Republican-led redistricting in Texas will add an additional five to seven Republican House seats over the next few cycles. Redistricting in Texas and throughout the country ensures that Republicans will continue to control the House through 2012. [He's part right on this one, that the gerrymandering will be done by the Repubs to their benefit.]
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Originally posted by kpo:
Riona - "remember how a while ago everyone said "allowing same sex marriage isn't a slippery slope thing, allowing that won't allow other things"? Now they're saying, "well go for it guys, no holds barred!". Next they'll want to lower the age of concent so we can be like Pakistan, where 12 year olds marry 50 year olds."
Does anyone remember which thread this was in? I'd really like to follow up.
This one, I believe:
http://beta.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=53479
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Paul Krugman - "I don’t think the Republican party as currently constituted can change this: after 45 years of the Southern strategy, this stuff is what defines the party’s soul."
It's not personal. It's just war.
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Kevin Drum - "If the GOP endures another few years of losses, they'll start to moderate out of self-defense, but that's still a few years off. If they lose in 2016, my guess is that it will happen sometime around 2017. If they win in 2016, then God only knows."
Kevin Drum - "One possibility is that the extreme right has one last big hurrah, nominating someone like Rick Santorum in 2016, and then gets absolutely blown out of the water due to a combination of a toxic candidate, changing demographics, and an economy finally in pretty good shape. And that will be their Waterloo. Cooler heads will finally prevail and by 2020 we'll have two relatively sane political parties in America. I have no idea if things will really play out like this. But it's certainly a possibility."
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On the upcoming fiscal cliff:
kpo - "Seriously, how can Obama lose this fight?"
NewOldBrownCoat - "Watch closely- he'll compromise , and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
ShinyGoodGuy - "It seems to me "Boner" is playing out his string to show the Tea Party folk that he fought until the bitter end, then he'll have to cave."
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Irrelevant Niall Ferguson believes the Arab Spring is evolving into an 'Islamist winter'.
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BBC correspondents' predictions for 2013: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20810104
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Raptor - woman testifying about birth control is a slut (the term applies.)
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Six - Wow, isn't Niki quite the CUNT? And, yes, I spell that in all caps....
http://tinyurl.com/bdjgbpe
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Context: http://tinyurl.com/afve3r9
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Paul Krugman wonders if/suggests Japan will perform surprisingly well in the short/medium term because it has just launched fresh stimulus plans: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/is-japan-the-country-of-th
e-future-again/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
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