The downfall of the right
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Sunday, August 30, 2026 17:08
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As a curiosity I'm placing this thread into my favorities, then into mothballs to be revisited in 2013-14. It'll serve the purpose of a case study on the subject that I believe common political thinkers are generally unable to predict the future of politics, regardless of belief systems.
For several years now I've observed those about me examining the momentary minuta of ever changing political environments and then divine with absolute certainty a future. When approached later about the resultant inaccuracies I'll often be presented with newer minuta coupled with "logical" excuses. Meinwhile I find myself considering such things in a manner similar to Leto Atredies in God Emperor of Dune--watching ants scurry about unable to percieve that a macroenvironment exists.
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Who predicted what ?
I wasn't following. Seriously.
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Quote:SignyM predicts that the Republican Party will "Implode into Fantasy" and that they will finally do something "Equiventally stupid to invading Russia in the Winter, then they'll be gone" per the opening post on the thread.
Originally posted by rue:
Who predicted what ?
I'm curious to know how this thread will be percieved in 5 years. To that end it is saved in my favorites now. I've been on fff.net for 5 years now...I'll be here in 5 more.
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Quote:Not if the coming plague works the way it might.
Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I'll be here in 5 more.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:Quote:SignyM predicts that the Republican Party will "Implode into Fantasy" and that they will finally do something "Equiventally stupid to invading Russia in the Winter, then they'll be gone" per the opening post on the thread.
Originally posted by rue:
Who predicted what ?
I'm curious to know how this thread will be percieved in 5 years. To that end it is saved in my favorites now. I've been on fff.net for 5 years now...I'll be here in 5 more.
I'll be interested to see how it shakes out, too. I predict that the right-wingers will indeed be back, and will remain a force to be dealt with, if not THE force in power, by around 2014 at the latest.
'Course, I also predict that China will own Taiwan by then, too.
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Alas the same statement could have been profered in 1977 replacing the names "Bush" with "Nixon" and "McCain" with "Ford". Ebb and flow sir, ebb and flow.
And having learned, and paid DEARLY for that lesson, given how many of the same shitheads just pulled the same crap on us cause Nixon and company got a pass...
Not everyone is so eager to hand one out THIS time around.
Our feelings are best summarised by that little speech at the end of Boondock Saints.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Quote:Indeed. Except... having experienced Nixon once, was there any reason in h*ll to have to go through that cr*p again???
Alas the same statement could have been profered in 1977 replacing the names "Bush" with "Nixon" and "McCain" with "Ford". Ebb and flow sir, ebb and flow.
Seems we really ARE doomed to repeat history!
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We should have strapped him into a glider, filled it nose heavy w/ explosives, and dropped his Allah lovin' ass into a large, empty field. After which, release wild boars into the area so they could make good use of his remains. Now THAT's justice.- rappy
Yeah, that's what Sheikh Issa said. Seems you both have a lot in common.- signy
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Rappy's BIGGEST right-wing hero (and I mean that in ranking not in size, altho it works both ways) is hillbilly heroin addicted viagra-popping doughboy Rush Limbaugh. His next biggest hero is Bush, and the one after that is Cheney. Add in Hannity and Beck, and you've got a perfect royal flush of know-nothings.
Rappy, your right-wing heroes have done nothing in their lives except be draft-dodging doughy blowhards. They've studied nothing, sacrificed nothing, learned nothing.
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They pit us like dogs against each other and rake it in. And I'll bet they laugh when they hear dupes like you defend the system that fucks you over and rewards them so nicely! But the one thing they'll stamp out in horror as if it were the spark of conflagration is any whiff of socialism. That should tell you something.
Bush?
GHW Bush fought as a Navy Pilot, even tho his dad was Senator Preston Bush. He was shot down over the ocean in a combat theater. Yup, no sacrifice at all, or risk of it.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Wooo....he's talking about PEOPLE
So fucking what ? He can't pass any laws, he can't sentence anyone. He has no POWER to do anything. Why's it such an issue w/ you ?
He may have "no POWER", but he's got influence, especially over people like YOU. Influence is its own kind of power.
And ya know, President Obama can't pass any laws or sentence anyone either, so what's your problem with HIM?
Mike
Are you dumb?
A legislative Bill becomes Law when the President SIGNS IT INTO LAW. No other one person can PASS A LAW. If the POTUS does not pass a Bill into Law, a large number of legislators can collectively pass a Bill into Law. A President also has the Power of Pardon or Commutation.
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Bush?
GHW Bush fought as a Navy Pilot, even tho his dad was Senator Preston Bush. He was shot down over the ocean in a combat theater. Yup, no sacrifice at all, or risk of it.
Nice dodge.
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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