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The Gravity Of Our Situation
We have heard all day long what a dismal wreck the Republican Party is about to become, or has, courtesy of the "Wheel of Misfortune" among others. In light of this "fold" we though the following "infographic", courtesy of Jim Quinn's Burning Platform, would help with a "fair and balanced" perspective of just how irresponsible Washington has become, and that at the end of the day, there is no difference between "our" team and "their" team.
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Hard to imagine where we'd be without Obama and D.C. "interventions"....
Id personally would be richer
The size of this farce can only be measured in astronomical units. I fully suspect Yellen's romp will balloon to atleast 3 AUs by the end of her term. Can you imagine the stress?
Too bad that Zionist-funded lie about 'nuclear Iran' is included in the above graph of US 'problems'
Thought I'd post a reply here so people would read MY idiotic post - before the ZH formatting gets down to 3 characters per line.
Carry on.
Get your comments in - let everyone know you're desperate to have people read your comment NOW :) Only 4 or 5 REs to go before...
For all of the smart folks on this site, this particular practice seems beyond retarded. Yet it just keeps on keepin' on.
Hurry up or you'll have to RE to the next guy down to have your clever comment on the first page. Space is still available. The article is about space, so while this has nothing to do with the OP's comment - at least it has to do with space? Look at me - I'm here to stay on the front page!!! Don't vote me down, you bastards :)
Seriously, no one else finds this annoying?
Thanks - yeah...
AND SOME CAPS!!!!!!!!!!
Why do people consistently do this here?
I AM SO CLEVER!!!!!!!!!! READ MY COMMENT!!!!!!!!!
Don't you dare downvote me - you know you do it. Yeah, you.
Downvoted SEVEN times already? WTF?
So no one else finds the practice here of infinitely REing to the OP, to the point the responses
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I don't see you people downvoting everyone when it happens on a SERIOUS article, where there might actually be some INTERESTING comments.
LOOK AT ME!!!!!!! FIRST PAGE BITCHEZ!!!!!!!!
Your point is not lost on me, Crash.
I like that the formatting does this because it just showcases how unintended consequences/incentives from central planning always drastically affect how individual actors behave in a community; something that just about everyone who believes in government fails to take into account.
The formatting is fine, geeez. And get a higher resolution monitor..
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Try ZH on iCrap.
Oh, I guess that's why it is called CRAP.
Nevermind -- Kurt Cobain
The Gravity? LOL! Gravity just sucks; my picture of reality sucks and blows!
http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/gold-backed-global-sdr-hegelian.html
Time to build morale, time to build that MONORAIL!
Washington is a cesspit of the corrupt, dysfunctional and incompetent. A real Den of thieves. This is a deal? ... kick the can down the road for barely 3 months, only to going through all this again. R U frickin' kidding me... and the MSM portrays this with thunderous applaus as a deal to avert a default....hang 'em all.
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my 3 cents...
well if you idiots had to spam the comments with garbage, at least you used an article from that denier of harsh realities (*cough 9-11*)" Quinn
It doesn't matter when or where a post is made, if too many replies are posted upthread, even if subsequent to the original reply, a poignant and intelligent comment like this one can turn into an alphabet waterfall.
Ha, thanks. Since I found out this is running on Drupal, do wish the "community" bit was a little more accessible.
Maybe we could disorganize the Million Anarchist March, with none of us bothering to show up? I think that would send a vaguely clear message.
His name was CrashX
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZhmQgw5VEI
Hey, this post looks like a great place to reply with a completely off-topic message! Ok, so I'm kinda late to the party. Gotta compliment you on your efforts there, Don Quixote; I mean CrashX, but the worst offenders likely don't give a shit and won't ever give a shit...that is if they even realize that you're making fun of them. Keep on fighting the good fight!
I laughed harder with each post
Crash, you made my day. I am laughing with tears.....
Firstpage means nothing dude, It's either #1 or you lose. Copy your comment for an article you know is coming up then refresh refresh refresh. Finally paste and you are the winner!!!
32 inch screen with an 8 point font. ;)
What the hell are people with this 'problem' using, a bloody iPhone?
Open your eyes butthead, between the article text and the comment section is an area called:
"Comment viewing options"
And in the first drop down list on the left there are two versions "Flat List" viewing format.
Would you please use one of these and stop crying like yer boyfriend just jilted you.
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"Comment viewing options"?
that's like saying that we live in a free society because we can choose to vote democrat or republican!
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Pretty good, but forgot about War on Whistleblowers and Transparency (or rather, the lack thereof).
Personally, when posts gets too narrow for my standards I just skip to the next page.
I have the evil IMAC and thus can see all the posts in all their "glory". There's something to be said for a screen that can follow 22 columns of indention even if they are on one of the Tyler's shit lists.
Hey, crash. Thanks for paying for my healthcare.
You signed up yet?
Yeah, the media is camped outside my house. I called around to set up my first OC appointment - but apparently, no doctors are jockeying for my dole. Their loss - I'm terminal with Baby Boomer Bulemia. Just thinking about that worthless fucking generation induces projectile vomiting. I think I only have a few days left...
But it's all good. I stocked up on supplies at Wal-Mart - the only sensible thing to do. Who knows HOW long my EBT card could have gone unfulfilled. Okay, gotta run - trading ribeyes for rock tonight. Hellz yea, sheeeuht. We SO kuh-ray-zee!!!
Should have been stocking up on bullets.
I tried to sign up for heathcare...and I got 100,000 rounds of 9mm hollowpoints in the mail.
What the hell is up with that?
Only women and effimenate men use smiley faces at the end of their sentences.
All my rowdy friends are comin' on me tonight! ;) XXOO
I actually know Hank Willaims......and you're not him bitch.
The cocaine is running like water in DC today bitchez!
Add a bunch of white space next time. that's always helpful in getting noticed.
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Is it bad for one to reply to one's own reply?
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Not if you're doing it to make a point about how retarded this practice has become here.
I usually find most of the comments entertaining here - but I can't READ them :)
Carry on...
Free francis_sawyer
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Just make vague comments about race, then use a bunch of tilde characters.
YOU SEE, I TOLD YOU IT WAS THOSE ( Insert Brain Damaged Rant )
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SOME RANDOM THOUGHT FROM MY ACID FLASHBACK
There, done.
And lots of bold type ... preferably ALL IN CAPS,,,,, and lots. of, odd punctuation !
Come on. now. Bold face is, vErY uSeFuL when applied with sensitivity and GRACE!!!!!1!!!!1!11!!1
Dont forget to say Bitchez Bitchez!!!! And a big FU To Bernanke and Yellen!
+1 for bitchez.......
Now get in there and print us more of that green gold. At this rate I'm going to need 50 million in my 401K just to live like a pauper.
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I have to stop now before I piss someone off.
But the fight to be above the fold with the REs that don't have shit to do with the comment above, much less the OP...
Crap, why am I even writing this? It'll never stay above the fold... And no one EVER clicks to the next page. Nope, they'd rather read
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Well, the site glitched there for a second... Thought I'd been banned for goofing on the RE shit.
But guessing the site admin thinks it's funny to have anarchy in the comments :) Not like they couldn't upgrade this old skool shiznik if they gave a shit. I think this is Drupal 4? Bad ass platform - no clue why they've stuck with push and not promoted the commie plumbing :)
Sent you the Drupal version of the "friend request" - does it even show up? Cool, they've got a chatrooms. Gonna go find out what people are wearing... ASL? :) Geezus...
Sent you the Drupal version of the "friend request" - does it even show up?
No, but you are my new best friend.
Thanks, Spastica. My former best friend died two days ago, a victim of the Government Shutdown and the sad state of Healthcare in this country. So I needed a new one. Thanks for being there for me, man.
Call me - I'm really depressed because apparently I'm a woman or effeminate man now, due to smiley face abuse :) Maybe if I could down a beer, then go down on you - I think I'd feel more secure in my manlihood.
How sweet.
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Blah blah blah. People replying to the OP is not a problem.
If its off-topic, sure, its slightly annoying.
For the life of me I don't know why we cannot have more harmony on this site.
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Fight Club ended a few years ago.
Over.
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Like glomids in the sun,
But when the dap did heifel
The smarking was begun.
But soon tword was klabished
And the dap lay by the parf
Forever gargled and stiggled,
Like the hoosgen on the larf.
Did the dap forglade its smilling?
Or the tword regret its plang?
No? -then koosh the plyde and slib the twang.
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@CrashX
I am going to reply to you so I can take this ride up the stupid ZH code screwup escalator. Wheee!
By the way, if you use Firefox, you can use Firefox's ability to use custom stylesheets. I use a stylesheet that re-jiggers the incompetent coding and makes even long threads readable--as well as takes out some other nonsense.
Indeed "bank guy". This fake Iranian threat is all down to AIPAC and it's control of the US congress via bribery and threats. Israel is able to dictate to the American people what wars we must fight. Iraq, Libya, Syria and others have been mastermined in Israel and then the US congress goes along with what AIPAC pressures them in to doing. Syria is a prime example. But Iran is the big lie, the biggest lie. America does Israel's bidding, a certain group will deny it, even though they know it is true. That is their self interest winning out. They have never been above the "Big Lie" to manipulate the stupid Americans into supporting the war aims of Israel. Who has the nukes? Israel Who has the chemical weapons? Israel WHo has the biological weapons? Israel Who cries the loudest about being threatened? Israel Who makes sure all Israeli war plans come true? The USA.
you anti-semite rotter!
(getting in early jack)
Hello Element! Not sure if you are on me for my anti-semite rot or not. But for those who label me a jew hater. I simply stand behind my AIPAC and Israeli foreign policy dislikes. If Lutherans, my own religion, were doing what Israel was doing, they would get blasted just as hard by me.
America funds Israel and we act in their interests. Actually, no Israeli should dare be critical of an American, as we provide them with money, arms and diplomatic cover. It's my tax money.
Anyways, Element. Hope to see you around, always like your posts, even if they are critical of me. I can take it. Unlike some others.
"Israel" never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
"Israel" never ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
"Israel" has never allowed inspectors from the IAEA to tour its nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons facilities.
Yup, and the French.gov are staggering one-eyed warmongering hypocrites in all this, they gave Israel the plutonium re-processing plant tech, and secretly built Dimona, and supported weapons and political support to radical Islamists fighting Assad, but then wanted to bomb Syria when those same rebels used Chem weapons on Damascus, and blamed Assad.
Meanwhile, Israel still threatens Syria with the nuclear weapons tech that France gave to it. But does France accept any responsibility for Assad, and the entire ME region, responding via developing chemical weapons and ballistic missiles?
Or does France want to do anything of any kind about Israel now plainly having nukes?
Nope! Fucking hypocrit assholes.
So in 1969 the US was satisfied enough to stop its 'inspections'. What a bloody farce, they were just providing a political fig-leaf to sheild it from ridicule, and to deflect movement towards real inspections, as Israel built nukes anyway (the USS Liberty attack was on 8 June 1967).
The only thing the Frenchies cared about was to not get directly blamed for the Israeli arsenal being built.
Iran, holder of peaceful nuclear fuel cycle technology - Islamic Republic News Agency
"The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued the Fatwa that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons."
So the printing will be measured in parsecs?
This will be controversial, but I stand by it:
The USA is more corrupt than Peru.
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There is no worse president than Obama.
And Valerie Jarrett is his prophet.
I beg to differ in one regard. There is no worse president than Jarrett and Obama is her mouthpiece. She has more balls and brains than bozo any day of the week.
Valerie Jarrett is his Rasputin.
Lets hope for a similar fate.
Rasputin was very hard to kill.
So was Steven Segal...
Steven Segal is still alive and fat.
Chuck Norris is never gonna be killed.
Reptilians, all of 'em. Well, maybe some of them,
What's with the them thinge...
i thought we all have reptile dna, no?
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i really really do not want to go on the first page today ;- (ahhh, strike that) !!!
Dubya is the worst president in American history.
What is that saying..."I stand on the shoulders of giants..."
Well, Dubya left it in tact. The results are not yet in on the current.
What a sad fucking testimony*, "At least it didn't collapse on HIS watch!"
*I think you should show more respect for the signer the Patriot Act and abettor of the status quo and crony insiderism.
Wilbur Mills and Spiro Agnew just keep lookin' a little better every day in every way....
Come to think about it even Carter was a great Preeseedunt by comparison with those that followed. After all, RAYGUN did facilitate the spending frenzy that allowed suck-my-dick Cheney to quote "Deficits don't matter". After todays omnishambles that sure came true.
I could not vote on "W" performance ... just too much competition.
$17 Trillion and still countin'
Just sayin'
You seem to have forgotten the situation we were in at the end of 2008.
Which turned out to be a buy everything under the sun and just put it away for 4 more years....
midtowng,
Dubya was, but not anymore!!! We now have Obummer!!!
You have to wonder how the Romans felt after the death of Tiberius and the end of his viscious reign to then experience the madness of Caligula.
Miffed;-)
I rather liked his movie....
But alas, we just may have the Mad Hatters in our midst.
No wonder so many today speak openly about the End of Days, Revelation, The Second Coming, an Anti-Christ and so forth....
Methinks the system is stretched.
Yeats' Center has Not Held, but is In Tatters.
Yeats, how apropos to our times
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity....
Men of vision shouting from rooftops to be spurned and ignored. The Silent marching toward cliffs with out abatement, their eyes fixed and unaware. Voices of reason will be lost. History will not be kind.
Miffed;-)
Does your sense of history only span 10 years? Does Wilson, FDR, LBJ strike any historical memory? Bush might not even make the top 10 worst in terms of damage to the country-certainly Lincoln was worse than Bush who started a phony war against a foreign people while Lincoln started a phony war against his own people. My vote for the worst would be Wilson-because without his acquiesence in the creation of the FED and the income tax the modern welfare, debt-based money state would not be possible. FDR and LBJ put the nearly finishing touches on the loss of freedom, while Obama completed the cycle with the complete take over of health care by government. I'd probably give LBJ the dubious second position with Obama in 3d place.
O(bama) = W + FATCA + ACA + NSA
>> The USA is more corrupt than Peru.
Seems to be confirmation of Lord Acton's famous quotation - http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-2-number-6/power-corrupts
With a Central Bank that makes Zimbabwe's look tame.
You know your bearings, but you do not remember your history...
*based on debt expansion, government expansion and liberty killing legislation.
Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater, on the other hand, are the best presidents we never had.
Re; Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater, on the other hand, are the best presidents we never had.
Most people love free money. Well, most people love spending other people's money.
It has always been so.
Harry Browne.
Zappa for president!
A dead president would be the best president.
And Frank had CLASS.
He could run with Warren Zevon. Personally, out of the dead guys, I'd vote for an Aaron Burr/ Andrew Jackson ticket. They were both excellent shots.
I miss Harry Browne. I liked calling his followers the Harry Browne people. It made them sound like a bunch of Rastas.
Thank you sir for remembering him. What a gentleman he was.
@ Shell Game
Well, if I calibrate my statement to add "since I have been alive", we are much closer to agreement!
Nice Shell Game :)
However, this proves once again Murray Rothbard's argument and final conclusions after considering this over time. The farce will continue until it just stops. Democracy and the facade of the State is totally corrupt and cannot, by it's own accord or the will of the sheeple, change. It is the epitome of evil and will grow like a cancer until it collapses under its own hubris and self programmed destruction. A mathematical certainty but of course no one can predict the moment.
The STATE is the enemy.
>> "Hard to imagine where we'd be without Obama and D.C. "interventions"...."
Less disliked, especially by those who have been on the receiving end of the "Global Policing by Drone" programme? http://www.livingunderdrones.org/
Seems things are just fine in Afghanistan - http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0731/465625-afghanistan-civilian-casualties/ ;
Iraq is doing fine post Gulf War too - http://www.npr.org/2013/10/09/230639665/violence-in-iraq-trends-higher
Ah yes, you can always identify countries that have been "liberated" by the US.
At least we gave them lots of free depleted uranium
Man, the bad karma we have accumulated for that DU and the 2 wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) are enough to give one the cold sweats. Add on drone strikes, extra-judicial murders, torture, drug running, abuse of the reserve currency, and on and on, and everyone knows there will be hell to pay, literally.
I think that may explain in part why so many people feel, even if inarticulately, that something really bad is going to happen. TPTB cannot keep their thumbs on the scales of justice forever. The accumulated weight of evidence eventually overpowers them. Justice (or karma) is a principle of the universe.
Why haven't we done anything to stop them?
First you win, then you go to war.
They ARE the reason I can't have nice things.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Need. Moar. Broken. Windows.
That's from IBD editorials ... the best cartoons in the Universe.
P.S. I am Red Team, 'cuz as meager as its been, it is all that stands between us and absolute tyranny.
When 'they' gained full control of the media, that was all she wrote for Merika.
Yeah, Red Team really proved its worth today...
Yea, and since they won't be around to fight tomorrow, they are pretty much done.
Don't say it's over, was it over when the germans bombed pearl harber? Heck no.
I thought the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
The Iranians bombed Pearl Harbor.
Forget it, he's rolling
One day Israel will be Hiroshima'd at its Pearl Harbor.
Don't be startled.
Pearl Bailey was never bombed, to the best of my recollection. Tipsy, at best for Pearl...
> That's from IBD editorials ... the best cartoons in the Universe.
Yeah, well ... they didn't add the atmospheric white haze of chemtrails surrounding the planet. Picky, I know ... but just sayin'.
Civil war is coming. The FSA and the brainwashed VS the people.
I said that about 4 years ago, and I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist. The two, opposing philosophies are too divergent to coexist. It will all end in bloodshed and tears.
You're pretty optimistic Jethro.
Bloodshed and tears looks like the best possible outcome at this point.
I'm predicting extinction or enslavement.
Enslavement AND extinction.
Our very souls in chains...
Do you really mean civil war or revolution? I can see citizens revolting against a tyranical government, although not so sure about a civil war beteen the red team and the blue team. Not in this day and age. Most sheeple would prefer to watch it on TV.
We need a more accurate description of the conflict,
I suggest the Slavemasters vs. the Drapetomaniacs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity. Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism.
When they come for our big toes, we'll know it's all over.
I hope you all have a second passport.
If your gov't takes your passport, that is your international 'big toe'.
same time frame for me
Be careful what you wish for - "they" do seem to have the numerical advantage.
Also, the following scenario is likely (and knowing the duplicity of Politicians Worldwide, maybe part of "The Grand Plan" -
1. Restrict / curtail access to welfare ("technical glitch" which conveniently becomes a "prolonged outage")
2. Once the "9 square meals" deadline is breached, expect those "without" to take an unhealthy interest in those "with", i.e. the "Prepper" community.
3. Prepper community defend their property / stores - probably with some degree of lethal force (deliberate or accidental).
4. Consequences of such actions all over popular media / Youtube / Facebook / Twitter. "The People" demand "a solution".
5. Politicians of all "sides" (but in reality all under the same "management") decry the "hoarders" and rush through legislation / Martial Law to "combat" this "problem".
6. Preppers find themselves battling the very well-armed US Militias (Police), Nat. Guard, Military, who have been tasked to ensure "fairness" of asset distribution "in the present times of crisis".
7. The political threat presented by those who are independently - minded is thus eliminated - with the full backing of the majority of the US Population (and all branches of the Government) - "It was only fair don't you know!"
8. "Mission Accomplished" - independence crushed, everyone has been very clearly told that there is only the one playbook, and "dissent" in any form will not be tolerated.
"6. Preppers find themselves battling the very well-armed US Militias (Police), Nat. Guard, Military, who have been tasked to ensure "fairness" of asset distribution "in the present times of crisis"."
They keep the patriotic troops overseas, while the sociopathic ones are given jobs in domestic law enforcement?
As the saying goes, we hang together, or we hang separately.
They will do exactly what Margaret Thatcher did during the Miners' Strike. Ship in Police / "Enforcers" from other Constabulary areas (with no family connections to the striking miners), so a much reduced risk of the "Enforcement Brigade" exhibiting counterproductive sympathies, especially for an operation that was generally regarded as "not quite legal" under the framework at that time.
Worked very well for Aunty Margaret; it'll work just as well for the real US "Leaders" (who probably are not those in frontline or mainstream politics . . .)
I think the prepper community is larger than most people think. It’s a bit like the AR community. Who would have thought AR. 15’s would be on sale at Wal-Mart or that enough guns and ammunition would be sold to outfit a World War II army every two days.
I think enough people are convinced of the illegitimacy of the government that should a serious effort be made at gun confiscation that the tipping point would be reached. All it would take is for three or four percent of gun owners to resist with deadly force and the control freaks would rapidly run out of minions. You might remember that the unorganized militia shot the hell out of the British army on its march back to Boston. That morning when they left Boston they were masters of it. When they returned that evening they were prisoners in it.
Modern warfare is the warfare of the superior command and control system. How many of the Prepper community would be reliant on cellular communications for C&C purposes? That'll be the first element of "civilisation" to be shut down.
"They" have some very effective air capability (manned and unmanned - down to Policing level). Air superiority has very big tactical and strategic (intelligence) advantages, as the USAF is fully aware!
Finally, and perhaps most decisively, "they" have access to a very large range of anti-personnel weapon systems, many of which are designed for urban warfare / counterinsurgence operations. They also have the very best / latest in night vision capability, and they certainly have the manpower to fight a prplonged engagement, especially if "supported by the majority of the population" - which the Politicians will have ensured will be the case.
There are soft targets galore. What happens to the local constabulary when the food supply chain fails. Where will the re-supply come from? Cool radios and shit at work will not feed the family.
I got a cannon !!!
Who cares, Yellin, PRINT MOAR PARTY ON. DUDES
You might like this one too.
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/675001-governtment-shut-down
"TranSquidity Base here --- The Vulture has landed."
We see S&P's @ 1900 by year end
Fucking Boomers.
Git yer hippy commy hands off my Medicare, I'm entitled to that. Why don't you go cut one of those socialist welfare programs instead.
Biden gets his own arrow and Blankfein doesn't? Fuck that!!!!
Where is Hillary and Susan Powers!
How about 911?
Where is 911?
pathetic
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Next door to 909 and 913, and across the street from 912.
And yet almost no one attributes the mess to its root causes (beside man's still over-developed amygdala) - fiat currency, central banks and fractional reserve banking.
Those sport neither a donkey nor elephant head.
Yup, that big, fat, diseased pachyderm so huge we can't squeeze around his backside anymore and still it's (fill in the blank's) fault. Nothing like victims tearing the victims apart while the FED elephant in your own living room farts in your general destruction.