I Have No Problem With Republicans Winning Elections And Not Getting More Votes Than the Opposition

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  1. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    So, not you, then.

    Good luck with the next medical crisis. :clap:
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  2. Man Afraid of his Shoes

    Man Afraid of his Shoes كافر

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    What's more productive?

    A. Giving free stuff to a few people who are already productive.

    B. Giving free stuff to a lot of people who are less productive in order to make them more productive?
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  3. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    if it were the other way around, would you still be cool with it?
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  4. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Yes, he hired a substantial number of people, many of them illegals, and fired them with considerable alacrity each time his business practices put him in the toilet. As for “increasing the value of many properties,” in New York that’s called “being a slumlord like his Daddy and turning people out of their apartments onto the street.”

    All hail :hail: St. Donald of Queens and Manhattan! Sing his praises before he shoots you in the middle of Fifth Avenue!
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  5. Señor Hoint

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    As I said. You openly oppose democracy.
    I ask liberals and Democrats: what is to be gained by compromising with this?
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  6. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    In fact, what Trump is really a genius at is failing and then finding ways to leave other people holding the bag.

    In other words, he's a career con man.
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  7. Tuckerfan

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    He also failed to pay a number of people for their services and this lead to at least a few of them going bankrupt.
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  8. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    nobody cares what you think.
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  9. Damar

    Damar Liberal Elitist

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    If the Republicans win the next 10 presidential elections with 45% of the vote the country will be in a bad place. And resemble Arkansas. Nobody has invested there since Bill Clinton left office.
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  10. Señor Hoint

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    People in favor of minority rule should leave the US and go somewhere more suited to their values, like China.
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  11. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I Have No Problem With Democrats Winning Elections By Sending Black Panthers To The Polls, And Trucking In Busloads Of Illegals.

    Yeah....:bailey:
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  12. Dayton Kitchens

    Dayton Kitchens Banned

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    Obviously you know nothing about Arkansas.

    Two of Clinton's successors one Democrat and one Republican have been ranked among the best governors in the country while in office
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  14. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    And in other news form the chicken coop...
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  15. TheLonelySquire

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    If giving free stuff to less productive people made them more productive then they wouldn't continually need the free stuff, would they?
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Exactly.
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    Then there should be no problem with finite benefits of all kinds. Glad we agree on that one. :yes2:
  18. Man Afraid of his Shoes

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    In 2009 I was making a little less than 45k, then I got laid off. I then got "free stuff" in the form of a WIA grant to get training to get a CCNA. I leveraged that to get a new job where now I'm making 70k.

    So when do you think I was more "productive"? Now or when I was unemployed?
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  19. TheLonelySquire

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    I agree with you 100%. Absolutely. But you're not continually getting handouts, are you? You got a hand up. Big difference.
  20. Jenee

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    And, who is continually getting handouts?
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  21. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    If they're actual benefits such as job training/placement, child care, realistic public transportation in exurban areas, it would be doable. There were such programs a couple of decades ago, but TPTB never solved the transportation thing, employers kept shipping jobs overseas, and the programs were terminated. The leftover revenue was spent on spurious drug-testing programs until it ran out. Your tax dollars at work.
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  22. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    nobody cares what you think.
    nor do we give a fuck about Arsekansas.
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  23. tafkats

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    Shhhh. Republicans cherish their welfare-queen fantasies.
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  24. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    It's Dayton, so I'm sure you know the answer to that. :ramen: :j:
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  25. Jenee

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    I know. I want him to say it though. Then I'll smash that fantasy like great big vase over his ignorant head with facts.
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