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US Senator Demands A Federal Reserve Bailout Of Greece

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It should hardly come as a surprise when a hard-core US socialist comes out with demands that his socialist peers in Greece be bailed out by none other than the Federal Reserve: in fact, it does show why while so many quasi-socialists hate when the Fed bails out the "loathsome" banks, they love when the Fed bails out everyone else. And yes, socialists are known to demand for bailouts - in fact the more often, and the more frequently, the better .

And yet, perhaps in asking for a Federal Reserve bailout of Greece, everyone's favorite Vermont socialist does make some sense: after all if the Fed is bailing out European banks, and just European banks, on an ad hoc basis, and usually quite well hidden (see for example: "How The Fed's Latest QE Is Just Another European Bailout"), does it really matter if the Fed spends what amounts to one daily POMO amount to save some 11 million Greeks?

In retrospect it may be the most "social" thing the Fed will have ever done.

 

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Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:53 | 5764537 knukles
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Oh Fuck Bernie Sanders and anybody who thinks like him.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:56 | 5764552 Timmay
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Bernie, your Federal Reserve Notes go first......

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:00 | 5764564 Supernova Born
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I envision a fleet of grilled-cheese trucks driving off massive transport planes.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:03 | 5764582 barliman
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"You get a bailout!"

"And YOU get a bailout!"

"And FUCKING everyone gets a bailout!" ***

 

 

 

*** - note offer DOES NOT include U.S. citizens who actually pay taxes cause YOU are FUCKED!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:07 | 5764597 quintago
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Bernie makes sense 80% of the time. Unfortunately that other 20% discounts back the 80%

 

I love this line .... "if you impose austerity, they won't have the money to pay off their debt"  -- who said anything about paying off the debt, except for the bankers and their political hacks

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:08 | 5764612 ZerOhead
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Bernie certainly can be hit and miss...

In the last minute of this interview he says he is behind the presidents policy in the Ukraine and hasn't ruled out supporting use of force against seperatists or Russians.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/sanders-on-ukraine

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:16 | 5764640 SMG
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Sure, print it all up, it's all good.  This can go on forever.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:26 | 5764688 FrankieGoesToHo...
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I think bernie is taking the piss.  He knows bailouts are stupid but the sheeple keep accepting them when they happen.  He figures, if we bail out greece, it will show how corrupt the system is and the sheeple will wake up.  He is like that father who, after catching you smoking, makes you smoke the entire pack of cigs before he will let you out of the closet

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:32 | 5764717 ZerOhead
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"He is like that father who, after catching you smoking, makes you smoke the entire pack of cigs before he will let you out of the closet"

Today the kids would call the cops while locked in the closet with their iPhones and the cops would come over kick down the door and shoot dad.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:35 | 5764733 Keyser
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I wonder how the folks in Detroit feel about Bernie's most generous offer...

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:53 | 5764758 remain calm
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Sure Bernie, and why don't we sign them up for obamacare, food stamps and give them a free college education too. And Berne while your at it, why don't you blow every Greek in the country. Feel better now?

Where do Derelicts like him come from. Did he come from his mothers ass instead of her vagina?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:56 | 5764793 nmewn
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Crazy huh?

Almost as crazy as setting up a hotline for illegals to complain about taxpayer & federal largesse not flowing freely enough to them, its all about "customer service" ya know...oh, wait...

Homeland Security sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals

...they did.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/8/homeland-security-sets-up-obama-amnesty-complaint-/

Homeland Security "folks"...lol...under orders, set up a hotline...for illegals.

Finally we've reached Peak Insanity, I was starting to question myself but I feel much better now ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:15 | 5764851 Tall Tom
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Zerohedge is transforming into the Land of the Visually Challenged, nmewn.

 

They are suffering from acute myopia and it seems to be developing into a chronic state.

 

Last night I made a post about the Federal Reserve bailing out Greece.

 

Five people downarrowed it...if you can fucking believe that.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-08/greek-finmin-warns-euro-will-collapse-if-greece-exits-says-italy-next#comment-5761030

 

Now I come here for prescience and the ability to prognosticate future events, so that I may protect myself if not gain.

 

Other than that why read the comments at all?

 

At times it seems as if I am a Cassandra.

 

I do not know how anybody could have not foreseen this development.

 

The tragedy is that it will happen.

 

The US Taxpayer is going to be stuck paying for the Greek's welfare programs.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:22 | 5764867 nmewn
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I can believe they'll try.

I can also believe what will happen to them if they do ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:33 | 5764898 sodbuster
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Bernie is a f'n tool. Of course the fed will bail them out. What's difference if they suck the Troika's cock or Janet Yellen's?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:09 | 5765002 The9thDoctor
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Five people downarrowed it...if you can fucking believe that.

I can believe it.  I was downvoted to oblivion a few months back because I didn't think that a NYPD officer throwing latex gloves in a garbage can was a big deal.  The other posters whined that he violated some hazmat protocol when dealing with a suspected ebola case.  Hard to believe a financial blog would make a cop throwing latex gloves in a trash can their top story.

Only 1 man died in Dallas from ebola in all of the US, and Ebola fizzled out of the media the same way Swine Flu did in 2009.  A whole bunch of fearmongering BS and then the non-event gets forgotten about weeks later.

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:10 | 5765161 Rusty Shorts
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Welcome to Fight Club.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:14 | 5765171 Never One Roach
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I hope someone threw a shoe at Bernie when he said that and told him to sit down and shut up.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:22 | 5765268 wee-weed up
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Just 4 words...

Bernie is a Liberal!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:49 | 5765306 Colonel Klink
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Scanned the entire first page and no one made note of it yet.

Just 4 words...

Bernie is a CHOOSENITE!!!  A cheesepope in sheeps clothing.

FIFY

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:03 | 5765372 Self-enslavement
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He wants the Greeks to make austerity slave payments to the Federal Reserve Chosenites instead of the German Chosenites.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:36 | 5765502 GetZeeGold
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Bernie is a Liberal!

 

Bernie is a globalist marxist.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:11 | 5764838 Kayman
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"Did he come from his mothers ass"

No- that's reserved for lawyers.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:56 | 5764783 European American
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You're all to nice. He needs to be lynched at sunrise, tomorrow, Feb 10, 2015, along with a few hundred of his like minded croonies nesting in DC. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:25 | 5765178 nope-1004
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Totally agree.  The parasite speaks out of both sides of his mouth.

And I feel quite sorry for these moronic elected people, who clearly have ZERO understanding of the exponential function.  He talks about "growth" that Greece needs in order to restore it's economy.  GROWTH people, that's the answer.

Only one problem.  Well, ok, maybe two:

1)  The world is finite.  How can there be infinite growth on a finite lanscape commensurate with population increases?

2)  ZIRP is the price of "money".  Money is priced at nothing... meaning, it is valueless.

 

So we have an idiot claiming we need growth in a finite area, while the number of inhabitants thereon is increasing, at the same time that the global unit of exchange is being debauched.

Bernie, you're a complete idiot.  But as stated above, since money is so valueless already, bailing out Greece will look good so may as well be done, but in reality it will do NOTHING material to save or preserve the nation.

The "system" needs to be washed away, wiped clean, and redone.  Growth is finished.  Growth wil never come back, as crony capitalism and fascist foreign policy in the name of attempting to preserve as much as you can out of a dying and decaying economic model, rules the day.

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:38 | 5764747 cnmcdee
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In reality we should all personally write this clown - ask him if we run up our credit cards will he bail us out too?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:58 | 5764787 LibertarianMenace
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No. Because you see, our man Krugy says that credit card debt isn't like national debt, because the latter we owe to ourselves, so it doesn't count like credit card debt which you only owe yourself, and so does not include the rest of us, which if it did, would then make it okay for us to bail you and the rest of us out, but then it wouldn't matter if you and we were bailed out or not, because the debt doesn't matter in that case. Do you now understand why Krugy and Bernie couldn't bail you out? I mean, I'd be willing to, but I can't because it's the same, just different.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:01 | 5765440 cnmcdee
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So if one Lemming marches over a cliff that is a travesty - if they all join hands and get pushed over together we have a Disney Movie?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:01 | 5764808 HardAssets
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No, these politicians are usually as stupid and corrupt as they seem to be.

You give them too much credit.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:18 | 5764652 rccalhoun
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the senators should pass a law that the US citizens can run a deficit of 150% of personal gdp financed at the fed 0% window

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:12 | 5764842 Fun Facts
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The US should pass a law prohibiting dual citizens from any country from serving in the US government.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:06 | 5765375 Self-enslavement
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And reinstate the death penalty laws for usurists.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:00 | 5764805 WhyWait
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<sigh!>

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:18 | 5764857 nmewn
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As rude as this is going to seem/sound to some and not directed at anyone in particular but the Fed is a constuct of federal government, they created it, by its law.

For War & Welfare.

You cannot have one without the other, as it is a construct of them and is why it was fabricated in the first place, that is its prime purpose. Socialists can go on living the lie thinking it can be controlled for just the welfare state just as they keep on thinking the guy under the tree watching everyone else work recieving the same benefits will suddenly have a change of heart and leap to his feet and grab a shovel.

But you know its lie, human nature is what it is.

So what'll it be? ;-)

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:07 | 5765376 Self-enslavement
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You are referring to Socialism for the rich, aren't you?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:25 | 5765486 nmewn
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The Fed & .gov printing trillions and throwing it into the middle of the trader pit of Wall Street certainly qualifies in my mind, yes.

Any gain was in fact subsidized, any loss socialized among the masses.

The cruelest (or funniest, depending on your stance) cut comes after all that, being lectured to by thieves or idiots about "wealth inequality" by the very people who are actually doing it or support it.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:15 | 5764637 Harbanger
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Moar likely he lies 80% of the time.  It's the 20% that gets you.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:26 | 5764698 nmewn
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"if you impose austerity, they won't have the money to pay off their debt"

Yeah, right up there with arbeit macht frei!

Cutting the expenses of government is austerity. Are you afraid government won't have enough of your money to operate?

Truly a friggin calamity.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:17 | 5765021 The9thDoctor
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Cutting the expenses of government is austerity. Are you afraid government won't have enough of your money to operate?

So transportation systems, water treatment, landfills and other essential services are cut, yet banks collect interest on the debt.  Austerity destroys western civilization.

Austerity is services getting cut, and all tax revenue goes directly to banks.

The only people who benefit from Austerity are the .001%.  I thought a site like Zero Hedge that hates banks so much would be super opposed to Austerity.

 

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:11 | 5765380 Self-enslavement
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Zerohedge is trolled by Chosenites (nmewn included) People like you and me instead simply suggest that Greece print it's own currency and forget about the Chosenite paper scam.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 06:44 | 5765459 hot sauce technician
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Yes, the chosenites. Responsible for your shitty life. I see you also have a problem with interest...by inductive reasoning I'll conclude that you also have a problem with investing, right? And profits too! I mean, why would someone be entitled to compensation beyond his immediate costs of production? A central authority must enforce! Price controls now! Out with the chosenites! Seig heil!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:36 | 5765503 nmewn
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Printing currency is a paper scam yet you advocate for the Greeks to...wait for it...wait for it...print currency and I'm a "chosenite"...lol.

We really need to bring back captcha around here.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:40 | 5765625 BigJim
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I doubt nmewn is a chosenite. From things he's said in the past (during all the Operation Protective Edge arguments we had round here) he appears to be a Christian Zionist.

One would assume that would make him broadly philosemitic, but it's possible he's in that class of Christians that believes all the Jews will (and deserve to) go to hell; it's just that Jeebus won't come back until they are all returned to Israel.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 19:22 | 5769004 nmewn
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Well if you must know, I can appreciate many cultures & races yet recognize why some among them are stereotyped and scorned.

The people inside the kosher food store in Paris weren't bankers intent on enslaving the world and didn't deserve to be murdered, at the same time I know who betrayed Jesus, at the same time it doesn't fall to me to forgive them (whether it was pre-ordained or not) as it is well above my pay grade...and no, I don't forgive them.

At the same time I understand English kings used them as cash cows, ignoring the illegality (his own laws) from which the profit came to be taxed, in much the same way as a muslim imposes the jyzya tax on infidels.

What I really can't stand are simplistic fools.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 16:15 | 5768005 StandardDeviant
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I know it's not nice to make fun of the mentally disturbed, but... don't you think "Self-enslavement" is a brilliant handle for someone so utterly controlled by his own obsessive fixation?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 05:59 | 5765435 cnmcdee
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Sounds like Conmonton, I mean Edmonton, that spends 7% of it's budget on fixing perpetual potholes and their cratered road system (or not).  Once citizens get tired of ripping off their front axles and start screaming loudly they come to the rescue with a 4.99% tax raise (keeping under the 5% they promised every year).  To whch they immediately run off and build hocky coliseums with temporary foreign workers so they can let a billionaire have the profits from it. 

Next year when some fresh axles are ripped off the vehicles again the people will scream for relief and be presented with a fresh cycle of tax raises and ludicrous building projects (aka museam, LRT transit etc).

And the people of Edmonotn VOTED THESE PEOPLE IN. 

 

 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:32 | 5765496 nmewn
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Do you not pay for transportation systems, water treatment, garbage collection-landfills, cops & firemen through some form or combination of fee for service or taxation?

What do you want, free taxis & airliner service?

Perhaps a new .gov subsidized Rolls Royce? ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:45 | 5764774 Democratic koolaid
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It makes scence, greece goes so does everything else?

 

and i Use the word "papist" as a form of endearment.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 07:45 | 5765512 rbg81
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Fuck Bernie Sanders--Everything he advocates involves spending massive amounts of taxpayer $$.  According to Sanders,, the only way to prosperity is Government spending.  In short, he is a brain-dead Socialist.  But that's okay as he represents Vermont, a state which long ago lost any vestige of common sense.  Vermont is the equivalent of Fredo, California's older and weaker idiot brother.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:10 | 5764621 Cangaroo.TNT
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This is what US citizens get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0

(The Frantics - Last Will & Testament)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:15 | 5764635 Beowulf55
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OK.... if Nation States get bailed out then I declare myself the State of Bare Naked.  When can I expect my bailout?  I should qualify as I'm a non-taxpaying US citizen who is bare naked.  A one time QE loan of 10 million ought to get my country back on track.  But I only except gold coins....is that a problem?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:33 | 5764727 OpTwoMistic
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Beam me up Scotty.  I want off here.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764664 zstard
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+100. I couldn't stop laughing out loud!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:38 | 5764915 exonomic halfbreed
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Spain, Portugal and Italy get in line, the FED has a great deal for you too.  

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:10 | 5765160 Shad_ow
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NO BAILOUT FOR YOU!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:13 | 5764629 Harbanger
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Is there any doubt that the Libs and the FEDS are on the same fucking team?  Only to the useful idiots.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764657 A Lunatic
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Obama came out today and basically admitted that one of the biggest advantages of opening the immigration floodgates is that it will dilute the conservative voice to the point of irrelevance. More proof that there really is only one team, which George Carlin called the Big Club, which we ain't part of..........

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:37 | 5764741 Tucson Tom
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can you provide a source for that talk so I can read it?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:02 | 5764813 nmewn
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There's waaay too much information out dayah!

We gonna haf to do sumpin bout dat ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:11 | 5764830 A Lunatic
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This should be a good start. Of course we'll have to pass it to find out what's in it.......

 


OBAMA'S 332-PAGE PLAN TO CONTROL THE INTERNET...

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:34 | 5764902 nmewn
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Yeah man!

I've been bangin on that for a couple of days now, Tylers haven't picked up on it yet. Under the guise of "regulation & fairness" with zero transparency, like all technocrats.

The interesting thing about it is, why wouldn't Comcast (for one) be purposely caught "throttling down" a clearly illegal activity and thus suffer the transient PR nightmare...knowing in the end...that down the road, the gatekeepers will be codified into law, meaning, them & the regulator?

Pure fascism.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:57 | 5764974 Miffed Microbio...
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The courts better strike this one down. This is serious. Removal of weapons and disrupting communication is the first step in any fascistic regime. And people still cannot perceive the psychopathic tendencies of this man even when so overt? My head isn't going to take the wall banging much longer trying to wake up from this nightmare.

Miffed

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:12 | 5765554 DaddyO
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Permanent brain damage may result, and the clear outcome will be to label you a danger to yourself and society...

It's all in the plan for complete and total control from the Central Authority, they clearly know best.

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...

DaddyO

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:18 | 5765388 Self-enslavement
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It says that all communication on the internet that reveals the truth about the Chosenite parasites shall be sensored.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:44 | 5764935 atomicwasted
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"Daily Caller" is not a news source.  It's an opinion outlet.  A real source, please.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:26 | 5765273 The_Dude
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Please name one fucking real source....

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:21 | 5764668 surf0766
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Hell yea  that is why this ship isn't going down under dear leader. They will sell their mothers to protect their savior

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:26 | 5764686 Harbanger
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Fear Not.  You cannot beat a fighter that fights, not for money, not for glory, not for personal gain, but he fights because he loves.  That is unfucking destructable.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:18 | 5764648 realmoney2015
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I believe you said that backwards. "Bernie, here's your Federal Reserve Notes first!" The Fed has to be paying this guy to say something so wrong and criminal.

With all this money printing and bail-outs hyper-inflation will come to our shores soon enough. Protect yourself and your wealth! Buy guns and silver! I know Americans like their guns (at least the people I hang out with) but they aren't into silver. Silver is real money and will hold its value during any collapse! These candles with a silver coin prize are a great gift to give to friends to help encourage them to protect their wealth: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScentSavers?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:56 | 5764553 Cangaroo.TNT
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Dear Bernie,

You are fucking retarded.

Regards,

Planet Earth

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764662 Oldwood
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For every socialist problem, the only socialist answer is more socialism. It is apparent that the only way to change direction is to change those directing us. Unfortunately the only new faces that seem to have a snowball's chance in hell are more of the same only worse.

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:27 | 5764671 permarig
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The staged socialist revolutions cometh. The new facade for the fresh liquidity injections that are needed to keep the derivaties complex afloat.

(At least, it's a plan, some must think.)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:04 | 5764591 drendebe10
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.... let the old fukn fossil fart pay for out of his own goddam pocket book....

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 08:07 | 5765547 jughead
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Bernie might have been a good fuck in his younger days, but today he pretty much just lies there, wheezing and sweating

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 09:18 | 5765742 torak
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Someone forward this last ZH article to Senator Numbnuts:  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-09/chinas-solution-tyrannical-bill...

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:53 | 5764540 lunaticfringe
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I want a fucking bail out too. When do I get mine, Bernie.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:05 | 5764599 Soul Glow
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You don't deserve a bailout because the economy in the United States is doing fine and humming right along.  If you are down and out find a better job.  There are plenty out there.

#sarcasm

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:10 | 5764832 sun tzu
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That old bastard son of a whore Bernie doesn't give a fuck about US citizens

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:55 | 5764546 pupdog1
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First, Senator Ichabod, we deplete your senate pension and your medical account.

Still sound like a good idea, bitch?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:57 | 5764560 Bossman1967
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Hey if they bail greece out then we all get a bailout or there will be anarchy what kinda bullshit have they been smoking. I just though had heard it all

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:58 | 5764561 Bollixed
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Yes, let's teach the Greeks a lesson on responsibility. We'll say it's for the children. After all, they'll never want another bailout down the road...

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:59 | 5764566 Joebloinvestor
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 21:59 | 5764567 SDRII
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Why hasn't  zh. Covered the Croatia debt jubilee. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:05 | 5765241 noben
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It's a limited debt jubilee.  For the poorest (elderly) Croatians, whose bank accounts are now frozen and...

Owe no more than $5100, make no more than $138/mo, have no property, no savings and can't use bank accounts.

The plan has pros and cons, supporters and skeptics.  It gives them a fresh start,  but also makes them targets for new loans with high interest.  Skeptics argue that a fresh start should not allow for new loans: once a debt addict, almost always a debt addict.  Especially if you're poor, odds say.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:00 | 5764569 Normalcy Bias
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CTRL+P another half trillion.

At this point, what difference does it make?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:03 | 5764581 Cangaroo.TNT
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Greece ain't gonna pay back the +200B euros they owe now, so they might as well not pay back +300B euros. 

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:22 | 5765034 Urban Roman
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Exactly. It couldn't 'cost' more than JP, Goldman, AIG, and etc. could it?

^P FTW

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:31 | 5765255 noben
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Aside from milking an old line that's going on two tours old, "the difference it makes" is...

IT ENABLES THE FED TO COUNTER GLOBAL DE-DOLLARIZATION, and forestalls a shift in geopolitical alliances that do not favor the US and its elite.

Obvious, really. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:01 | 5764572 Professorlocknload
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Wow? Syriza sold out so soon?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:01 | 5764573 Not Goldman Sachs
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Free money for all! When can I get my bailout? I am suffering.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:05 | 5764590 FrankieGoesToHo...
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You can if you can get a Congressman to invest in your "company".  If you can manage an IPO, you are home free.  Which is why guys are offering equity shares in Bigfoot expeditions for christ sake.  I am only upset because I didnt think of it.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:12 | 5764628 Bollixed
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I wonder if those equity shares are fungible. I'll give them the Big Foot the gubberment has shoved up my ass for a few of those shares.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:02 | 5764575 Soul Glow
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The fact that it can even be thought logical for the Federal Reserve Bank to bail out Greece shows how far up this creek economic policy is.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:04 | 5764586 stvitus
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Only debt issuance can fuel the growth needed to pay for existing debt. Got it.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:13 | 5764592 essence
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Actually this is a good thing for it delineates differences in philosophy about how government should operate.

Socialists, fascists, and others of the same stripe LOOK to government to solve all problems (never mind the attendant inefficiencies, corruption and cronyism). Note that they don't EVER believe in personal accountability for foolish actions. Heaven forbid that folks/the private market should have to work things out on their own absence any government interference. That's completely outside their mindset.

Senator bernie is just showing his true colors.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:05 | 5764593 TeethVillage88s
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Is he Yellow, bought off, or is he out of his depth here?

- Bailout is a state sponsored loan with interest, and is an exercise of status, power, control, money... and will be enforced by the concessions of the mafia:

- access to real estate,
- building sales,
- island sales,
- historical assets sales,
- museum sales,
- bridges & highway sales,
- water ports, air ports,
- military access,
- pipeline assess, leases on strategic locations...
- hegemony

Sanders is being used.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:05 | 5764594 DavyRoySixPack
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Sanders idea is the best way to go ahead and end central banking. By bailing out "the people" of the world we can implode the old system and start anew. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:06 | 5764605 Unknown Poster
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Why stop at Greece, and why are they special. What about Somalia, Bangladesh, Rawanda, Zimbabwe. Venezuela etc.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:08 | 5764613 cherry picker
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The same reason they only bomb colored folk.

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:28 | 5765348 Dancing Disraeli
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The few survivors in Dresden may beg to differ.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:19 | 5764654 yogibear
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Have the Federal Reserve print hundreds of trillions and bailout the world.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:25 | 5764687 Unknown Poster
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Printing hundreds of trillions has been tried several times, and nobody lives happily everafter.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:16 | 5764850 LibertarianMenace
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Yes, but to progs it looks so good. And proggies are only, and all, about style & fashion.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:27 | 5764704 Savyindallas
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What the hell? Why not? It just might work for another year or two. World war and depression are coming. We all know that. Let's all party for a year or so. For all we know, a fucking asteroid will kill us all before then anyway. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:24 | 5764672 Savyindallas
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Lets bail out the American worker  -any American making less than $250k gets a tax credit on there first 100K of income. That will sure get the economy going. Mr. Yellen can print money for the bonds to make up the tax deficiency. The party will keep going for Wall Street indefinitely - it will never end. Let the rest of AmeriKa join the party. It's different this time. Money grows on trees. Right? 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:55 | 5764965 FallenOne
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Or Or Or how about no fucking taxes on any citizens! the only ones who should be paying taxes are corporations! aand speculators stop thinking like a fucking chud!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:25 | 5764683 red1chief
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And then there's me, I need more toys.  What's another few hundred grand, that's just a small part of POMO.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:09 | 5764618 p00k1e
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Kevin Bacon - Fraternity Paddle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:10 | 5764623 Bunga Bunga
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Hurry on, before Putin bails them out.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:11 | 5764624 logicalman
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So, bankrupt USA bails out bankrupt Greece with digits on computer hard drives that must be repaid by more digits on hard drives.

It's all fiction - the emperor is one huge wardrobe malfunction.

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764665 yogibear
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I want my Federal Reserve money printing machine too!!

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:01 | 5765371 Bioscale
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Maybe look for one on ebay.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:12 | 5764627 Dazman
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One word: PILLOCK.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:13 | 5764631 Bill of Rights
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Peak retard....

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:14 | 5764634 Usura
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https://xaameriki.wordpress.com/

 

This is what Sanders fears is hiding under his bed.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:15 | 5764636 Bangalore Torpedo
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Dear Bernie...STFU.  Nobody cares about Greece.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:32 | 5764719 dexter_morgan
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OK, who IS this and what did you do with Bangalore Torpedo?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:16 | 5764639 A Lunatic
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These SOB's are sure charitable with other peoples money aren't they........

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:16 | 5764641 nmewn
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The man is literally insane, there is no debt burden heavy enough that the socialist Bernie Sanders will not advocate for "his citizens" to bear.

So we're back to the age old socialist question, if debt doesn't matter and it all works just fine with "other peoples money", where is my Frrreeeee! Lamborghini Madura?

Its for the cheeeldrun ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:33 | 5764726 A Lunatic
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I've been publicly requesting for years that the FED deliver a pallet of fresh Ben Franklins to my home, but have yet to see the Brinks truck in the driveway.......

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:36 | 5764737 OpTwoMistic
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Someone voted for him.  Which is insane?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:44 | 5764768 nmewn
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"Everbody up in heah got ObamaFowns!"

So thoroughly fucked up its absolutely priceless.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:17 | 5764643 Berspankme
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Why are all these fucking congress critters like 75 years old and up? Fuck you bernie

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:28 | 5764690 dexter_morgan
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Because it the best scam on the face of the earth. You 'control' other people and their money, make stupid fucking decisions all day, get rich on insider trades and graft, and THERE IS NO FUCKING ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!! Why would anyone leave voluntarily?

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:17 | 5764646 franzpick
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Things aren't just being said here at random regarding Greece.

This is the limpest, leaking trial balloon launched in months.

The conspiritorial congressional-banker desparation is showing.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:31 | 5764715 tip e. canoe
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my thoughts as well.

he's frightened about sumthin.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:19 | 5764655 dexter_morgan
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Just commies bein commies. Why the fuck do we have to pay income taxes anymore? They can just print the fucking money up to cover the debt, leave us peoples keep our money? Get some consumin goin on. This economy os so FUBAR what difference does it make, as our next prez says. 

How ya doin Bernie? oy vey oy vey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-jW6d7dZY

 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:36 | 5764736 A Lunatic
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Funny how taxes have become a punitive measure used to control and intimidate the downtrodden masses while everyone else gets away with literal fucking murder on a grand scale in broad fucking daylight. I mean it is funny right.....??

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:19 | 5764656 surf0766
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Progressive socialist asshole

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764666 nmewn
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But you repeat yourself! ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:24 | 5764676 surf0766
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When I get my bailout I am buying you rounds of drinks

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:38 | 5764749 nmewn
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An appreciated gesture on your part but we both know no bailout is coming for us.

Can I interest you in some Peach Shine? Its 2014 vintage ;-)

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 23:32 | 5764893 Unix
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A weekend at Bernie's? yay

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:20 | 5764663 jmaloy5365
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How bout go fuck yourself, 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:26 | 5764689 silentsock
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Geez. I always knew this guy was a flaming idiot, but he's even worse than I thought.

What in the hell is wrong with the people of Vermont that would make them elect such a defective Senator???

I would probably get thrown in prison if I said what I think needs to be done with this stupid asshole.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:36 | 5764740 lasvegaspersona
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Marxist=Communist=Socialist=Progressive=Democrat= ...wrong...always...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 00:29 | 5765051 The9thDoctor
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Righty=fascist=conservative=regressive=Republican= ...wrong...always...

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 01:03 | 5765143 cornfritter
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either of you fellas happen to be smithies, or otherwise trained in the metalurgical arts?

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 02:57 | 5765311 Tall Tom
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I have been refining Gold today...

 

With my forced air furnace I will be Lost Styrofoam casting both Aluminum and Copper in Green Sand forms...as well as making Anthill Scuptures which currently sell for hundreds of dollars...as well as forming Glassware.

 

I think that metallurgy and metalsmithing will be a most valuable trade post Economic Collapse.

 

Getting material may be challenging.

 

Then again this chick with these huge tits and Silver Dollar sized Nipples flashed me while I was working today.

 

Brown nipples...

 

Ain't so bad refining Gold in Lakeside after all...

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:50 | 5764786 CunnyFunt
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Sanders isn't even from Vermont. He's a Brooklynite. Urban affluent beatnicks and later trust-fund hippies transplanted to southern Vermont from places like Boston and New York and have influenced state politics since. It's a beautiful place, but many there adopt the socialist uniform, you know, because it's the right thing to do. That's what's wrong with the Vermont electorate.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:26 | 5764693 gould's fisker
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Beware of Bernies bearing gifts--there's more of him where he came from.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:27 | 5764705 Spectre
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They need to "up" Sanders meds, cause he is in a Fucdup reality !

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:29 | 5764709 lordbyroniv
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Platinum coin time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:30 | 5764711 WillyGroper
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Well ole BS said one thing very telling, "global financial collapse".

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:31 | 5764716 10mm
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Anybody named Bernie,well you know. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:31 | 5764718 Northern Lights
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What a dick.  Not surprising though.  Typical commie rant.  Only difference is, at least he's honest.  Most fuckers would publicly say no and then behind closed doors pass the other country an envelope.

Somebody needs to send this dinasour to Syria.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:32 | 5764723 Prober
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There is no greater evidence of the cesspool America has become than this piece of living excrement in the Congress, EVEN MORE SO than obola in the White House.

Americans, you self-gratified yourselves to inevitable decline and ruin.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 22:34 | 5764728 lasvegaspersona
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....because the Constitution says....wha...

...we got rid of it?...when?

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