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A challenge for all Bush-Haters

Started by Anonymous, January 20, 2005, 12:33:58 AM

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Mangrove

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 08:35:25 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 15, 2009, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 05:45:01 AM
Quote from: Voice of Truth on January 20, 2005, 12:46:14 AM
"he is a dirty fuckbag liar who is seriously undermining everything America stands for".

Always with the propaganda?  If you don't like Iraq, cool, but America does stand for freedom and democracy and that's what he is trying to spread.  Shit...


Hee hee!

I tried to be reasonable with him....and look what happened!

Next time I try and be reasonable like that, please punch me in the balls.

You wouldn't have the chance.  Word is, he became a hardcore birther, and fucked off to Freerepublic.

I don't just mean reasonable to him specifically...I mean generally. I tried 'reasoning' with Daruko. I even tried that on DK. I'm a sick, sick individual! I need professional help! Or at least, a lot of really amaterish help!!
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Mangrove on December 15, 2009, 09:42:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 08:35:25 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 15, 2009, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 05:45:01 AM
Quote from: Voice of Truth on January 20, 2005, 12:46:14 AM
"he is a dirty fuckbag liar who is seriously undermining everything America stands for".

Always with the propaganda?  If you don't like Iraq, cool, but America does stand for freedom and democracy and that's what he is trying to spread.  Shit...


Hee hee!

I tried to be reasonable with him....and look what happened!

Next time I try and be reasonable like that, please punch me in the balls.

You wouldn't have the chance.  Word is, he became a hardcore birther, and fucked off to Freerepublic.

I don't just mean reasonable to him specifically...I mean generally. I tried 'reasoning' with Daruko. I even tried that on DK. I'm a sick, sick individual! I need professional help! Or at least, a lot of really amaterish help!!

Well, we have that, and lots of it.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mangrove

Balls Roger!!! Balls!! I am demanding that you punch me in the balls!!

At least once a year I try and 'reason' with the likes of VoT and Daruko. Surely this warrants some form of punishment?
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Mangrove on December 16, 2009, 10:39:17 PM
Balls Roger!!! Balls!! I am demanding that you punch me in the balls!!

At least once a year I try and 'reason' with the likes of VoT and Daruko. Surely this warrants some form of punishment?

Yes.  Punch yourself in the balls.  Twice.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mangrove

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 16, 2009, 10:45:37 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 16, 2009, 10:39:17 PM
Balls Roger!!! Balls!! I am demanding that you punch me in the balls!!

At least once a year I try and 'reason' with the likes of VoT and Daruko. Surely this warrants some form of punishment?

Yes.  Punch yourself in the balls.  Twice.

On it.


(though part of me is thinking that maybe there will be a reasonable outcome.... :lulz:)
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Mangrove on December 16, 2009, 11:01:10 PM
(though part of me is thinking that maybe there will be a reasonable outcome.... :lulz:)

That's the devil talking, that's what that is.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

This thread should be renamed "A Challenge For 77% of the USA, and the majority of world opinion"

Alethias

#787
I've got a question for anyone that cares to try to answer it.

People go on and on about how fucking dumb Bush is.

So what?  If a man is horribly smart or dumb as a rock or anything inbetween, he can still do horrible things that piss people off royally.  If someone is truly that horribly stupid, doesn't it just mean they will be really incompetent in their stupidity?

The ones that fuck things up the worst are the really smart ones.  In this respect, Obama is probably scarier than bush(I'm thinking by a longshot, but I don't want to give him too much credit).

All the birther's are doing is the same as the other conspiracy theorists out there;  they got a false positive on a pattern match in their interesting little brains, and they won't let go because it is a pattern they desperately want to believe in.  And that is part of what this whole discordian shit is all about, recognizing the tendency of some humans to get trapped pattern-matching themselves into oblivion.

Was bush stupid?  In some ways.  In others ways, he was smart like a good used car salesman.

Is Obama smart?  Probably.

Which will be a better discordian saint over time?  Hard to guess, but I'm banking on Obama producing a higher volume of disorder thru imposition of order.  You can look at the direct effects of Bush policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places and say it'll be hard to overcome.  It'll take time, but I'm banking on Obama's intelligence winning out over time and making the world economic destabilization even more profound than Bush ever could dream of.

I'll quit rambling now.  My Coffee is done anyway.

AFK

I don't actually think Bush was/is dumb.  Bush is a horrible public speaker.  I think that is mostly where the perception of him being a dumb-ass comes from.  But I know plenty of people who are really smart, can write amazing papers and come up with some great ideas, but when you put them in front of a bunch of people and put a microphone in front of them, they sound like Forrest Gump. 

I mean, I think he's displaying a certain level of cleverness currently by letting Cheney be the pitbull to try to save the Bush legacy while he and Laura are relaxing deep in the heart of Texas. 

Another thing about painting him as some kind of moron is that on a certain level, it frees him of ownership over the truly vile policies and decisions he made that brought harm and grief to many Americans.  He knew damn well what he was doing and he didn't give a rat's ass about the outcomes for some Americans. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

We elected a three-time failed businessman to run the country.


What did you expect would happen?

Fuquad

Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 18, 2009, 02:11:52 PM
I don't actually think Bush was/is dumb.  Bush is a horrible public speaker.  I think that is mostly where the perception of him being a dumb-ass comes from.  But I know plenty of people who are really smart, can write amazing papers and come up with some great ideas, but when you put them in front of a bunch of people and put a microphone in front of them, they sound like Forrest Gump. 

I mean, I think he's displaying a certain level of cleverness currently by letting Cheney be the pitbull to try to save the Bush legacy while he and Laura are relaxing deep in the heart of Texas. 

Another thing about painting him as some kind of moron is that on a certain level, it frees him of ownership over the truly vile policies and decisions he made that brought harm and grief to many Americans.  He knew damn well what he was doing and he didn't give a rat's ass about the outcomes for some Americans. 
Fuck. Did anyone actually pay attention to Forrest Gump. When you put him in front of a bunch of people and put a microphone in front of him the man sounded like a goddamn genius.
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Freeky

Quote from: A Pesky Nonvoting Screeching on December 25, 2009, 12:48:30 AM
Fuck. Did anyone actually pay attention to Forrest Gump. When you put him in front of a bunch of people and put a microphone in front of him the man sounded like a goddamn genius.

It was probably just his accent, and his comparing life to choclate in a box.

Triple Zero

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