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This should simplify Halloween for me.

I know for a fact that if Bachmann becomes President, it will be terribly bad for me and everyone I love. But why can't I shake the feeling, in the back of my head, that wants her to win, just for the show?

Is there a term for that feeling that doesn't give a fuck about personal safety, as long as the show is good?

I'm from Flint. Don't know about having a beer or doing a whole lot of anything due to job search and school, but if you're planning on going through that area I can recommend some places to stop by, depending on your interests.

ED: Christ on a bike, step the fuck back and reread everyone's posts. Most of us are sympathetic to the rioters or whatever the fuck you want to insist on calling them. And quit making silly and stupid assumptions about the positions of everyone.

Everyone thinks you're a fucking Looney Tune because you insist there's some deliberate conspiracy to provoke the riots and get the poor out of London for the Olympics. Cain explained well enough why that isn't true. The poor are still getting fucked, but not as part of a dark conspiracy, just because everyone likes shitting on the poor.

Also, if you can't understand what Dok meant with the anarchy comment, just fucking ask him to elaborate. Don't start in with some goddamn silly purple prose and verbal kowtowing. Keep it simple, stupid.

Dok: I didn't quite understand what your post was referring to. Could you elaborate a bit?

 

We're not getting out of this without a second Great Depression, are we?

 

This is going to be a fun century.

I really wanted to see Obama take the 14th Amendment route. It would lead to a bunch of pants-shitting from the Tea Party and Obama would likely never hear the end of it, but the debt ceiling has to go. There should never be any sort of law that has a fail-deadly effect should it not be renewed/revised/etc.

Still kinda holding out hope for somebody to filibuster the bill in the Senate. If they can hold the floor for (I believe) 12 hours, that should force the President's hand and hopefully get rid of the debt ceiling entirely, and make sure that the U.S.'s credit rating isn't threatened by economic hostage taking.

Hopefully Bernie Sanders gets recognized and decides to turn some tables. I don't know all of the procedural rules of the Senate, so it's probably just a pipe dream, but I would love to watch the Republicans lose their shit as one rogue Senator makes executive intervention to prevent default necessary, and removes all incentive for the Senate Democrats to vote yes on that bill.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what all's going on in this bill. I'm reading it now but it'll probably take the rest of the day before I can have a half-decent understanding of what's going where and to whom.

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