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2011-12-15 08:39:22 AM
Not if it's Ron Paul.
 
2011-12-15 09:01:52 AM
Not if he didn't do anything to stop it.
 
2011-12-15 09:01:52 AM
Anyone who was thinking saw the housing collapse coming. The rest of those things are always being predicted by some percentage of nutjobs.
 
2011-12-15 09:15:13 AM
Umm...no? How does one follow from the other?
 
2011-12-15 09:20:10 AM
Not if all of his ideas for fixing said problems are batshiat insane.
 
2011-12-15 09:21:09 AM
What about all the things he said that didn't happen?

Throwing out a bunch of darts and having some of them hit the board doesn't mean you're a great dart player.
 
2011-12-15 09:22:59 AM
Wait...what's his prediction for the election?
 
2011-12-15 09:30:59 AM
Pft. Vote for me, then.
 
2011-12-15 09:38:45 AM
See?

Even RON PAUL knows electing Republicans is a bad idea. Look what happened last time they were in charge.
 
2011-12-15 09:47:52 AM
Can he predict the powerball numbers? If not, then no.
 
2011-12-15 09:52:46 AM
It's not all that impressive, really. Ron Paul ages backwards through time, so what he's really doing is talking about the past....and he still got things wrong.
 
2011-12-15 09:53:06 AM
If you think the past three years have been a walk in the park, vote to reelect Obama. Riots, police state, getting felt up at airports, warrantless eavesdropping, wall street execs walking away with billions with no fear of prison, fast and furious. Yeah. Thats what i want.
 
2011-12-15 10:07:39 AM
Then why does this motherfarker keep running as a Republican?

What a farking pussy.
 
2011-12-15 10:15:38 AM
As someone who in 2000 predicted a 9/11 style attack followed by Patriot Act style law and long term war in the Middle East followed by economic collapse I'd call him an amateur.
 
2011-12-15 10:24:43 AM
lysdexic: Pft. Vote for me, then.

TwoHead: As someone who in 2000 predicted a 9/11 style attack followed by Patriot Act style law and long term war in the Middle East followed by economic collapse I'd call him an amateur.

Hell, it used to get me in trouble at parties.
 
2011-12-15 10:28:07 AM
EnviroDude: If you think the past three years have been a walk in the park, vote to reelect Obama. Riots, police state, getting felt up at airports, warrantless eavesdropping, wall street execs walking away with billions with no fear of prison, fast and furious. Yeah. Thats what i want.

THIS.

I'm a liberal and even I can't forgive Fartbongo for giving us the TSA, TARP, The PATRIOT Act, Financial deregulation and all of the other shiat he pulled on us between 2002 and 2008.

Worst President Evar.
 
2011-12-15 10:30:40 AM
That guitar was absolutely atrocious. And as the video went on and on, longer and longer, and the guitar kept becoming more and more frenzied, it became more and more atrocious. How could you possibly concentrate on anything RON PAUL said by the time the Scarborough clip came up?
 
2011-12-15 10:34:37 AM
Ron Paul is frequently correct. Ron Paul may even be a genius. Ron Paul is still too nutty to be president.
 
2011-12-15 10:41:05 AM
TsarTom: Hell, it used to get me in trouble at parties

People were tired of hearing me say over and over "The dead will be the lucky ones." When it came to pass they had to admit I'd warned them. Since no one believed me then I'm not putting much effort into warning people about the depopulation viruses.
 
2011-12-15 10:43:21 AM
Vote for me, then, 'cause I saw all that sh*t coming.

Ok, maybe not the Middle East revolutions, but the housing bubble and erosion of civil liberties should have been clear to anyone with a brain.
 
2011-12-15 10:47:30 AM
EnviroDude: If you think the past three years have been a walk in the park, vote to reelect Obama. Riots, police state, getting felt up at airports, warrantless eavesdropping, wall street execs walking away with billions with no fear of prison, fast and furious. Yeah. Thats what i want.

You mean all the stuff that was already happening under Bush? Getting hassled about ID while trying to ride the bus, having to talk stormtroopers into allowing me to walk around the Capitol building in Austin, not being able to sit and draw a building in public; Bush brought me all of that. He and you Republicans started all of this bullshiat, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't think your opinion on it is worth the electrons you wasted sharing it. Obama has -to his shame- continued your asinine campaign of McCarthyite authoritarianism, but that doesn't change the fact that your party introduced it, that your party is its biggest proponent, and that when they were putting it in place, guys like you couldn't cheer loudly enough.
 
2011-12-15 10:48:49 AM
He's been in office what, 30 years? Of course you can make a nice little clip show of him saying lots of things. Let's also make one of him railing against government pork and refusing to sign bills because of it, and then show the millions he's sent to his district. He's the Pork King of Texas FFS. RON PAUL is possibly the biggest goddamn hypocrite in Washington, and there are apparently thousands of you dumb enough to buy his bit.
 
2011-12-15 10:56:25 AM
Dr Paul is our only way. A vote for anyone else is a vote for our destruction.
 
2011-12-15 10:58:16 AM
This About That: Ron Paul is frequently correct. Ron Paul may even be a genius. Ron Paul is still too nutty to be president.

Yes, yes and no he's not. He's just nutty enough to straighten the shiat out.
 
2011-12-15 11:00:42 AM
GaryPDX: Dr Paul is our only way. A vote for anyone else is a vote for our destruction.

Other proof that RON PAUL is a really stupid choice: he's the #1 preference among deranged psychopaths.
 
2011-12-15 11:13:53 AM
This About That: Ron Paul is frequently correct. Ron Paul may even be a genius. Ron Paul is still too nutty to be president.

These. Except you kind of misspelled RON PAUL. You have to use capital letters.
 
2011-12-15 11:14:17 AM
GaryPDX: This About That: Ron Paul is frequently correct. Ron Paul may even be a genius. Ron Paul is still too nutty to be president.

Yes, yes and no he's not. He's just nutty enough to straighten the shiat out.


For what it's worth, I've never seen "it's so crazy it might just work" actually work in real life.
 
2011-12-15 11:19:50 AM
My favorite description of RON PAUL is that when it comes to our problems, he has the best diagnoses and offers the worst possible cures.
 
2011-12-15 11:19:51 AM
GAT_00: He's been in office what, 30 years? Of course you can make a nice little clip show of him saying lots of things. Let's also make one of him railing against government pork and refusing to sign bills because of it, and then show the millions he's sent to his district. He's the Pork King of Texas FFS. RON PAUL is possibly the biggest goddamn hypocrite in Washington, and there are apparently thousands of you dumb enough to buy his bit.

Granted, he likes larding up bills with pork for his district, but he's far from the Pork King of Texas. Looking at the Pig Book, Paul was at least partially responsible for a total of $5.4 million in pork in 2010. In the House delegation from Texas, Reps. Edwards, Johnson, Carter, Edwards, Granger, Gonzalez, and Reyes all earmarked at least one project that cost more than Paul's grand total. (The senators from Texas are, of course, even worse.)

So feel free to slam him for his earmarks, but just be aware he's far from the biggest little piggie at the trough, especially from Texas.

/The Pig Book is fun to go through.
 
2011-12-15 11:30:03 AM
Snarfangel: Paul was at least partially responsible for a total of $5.4 million in pork in 2010.

Don't forget to search the ones that are under other people's names for the first listed, but he's there too. ~$8M from the guy who says that all pork is a crime. And about ~$9.25M last year.

When the guy says all pork should be banned, to load up that much is criminal.
 
2011-12-15 11:33:32 AM
GAT_00: Snarfangel: Paul was at least partially responsible for a total of $5.4 million in pork in 2010.

Don't forget to search the ones that are under other people's names for the first listed, but he's there too. ~$8M from the guy who says that all pork is a crime. And about ~$9.25M last year.

When the guy says all pork should be banned, to load up that much is criminal.


Oops, sorry about that, I just went to the Texas delegation and sorted by name.
 
2011-12-15 11:55:19 AM
Snarfangel: GAT_00: Snarfangel: Paul was at least partially responsible for a total of $5.4 million in pork in 2010.

Don't forget to search the ones that are under other people's names for the first listed, but he's there too. ~$8M from the guy who says that all pork is a crime. And about ~$9.25M last year.

When the guy says all pork should be banned, to load up that much is criminal.

Oops, sorry about that, I just went to the Texas delegation and sorted by name.


I did the same thing, I noticed it scrolling down that some projects had more than one name attached.

I'm trying to decide if I feel like wasting the time to go through one by one and total.
 
2011-12-15 12:04:00 PM
Even a broken Sentor is right twice a decade.
 
2011-12-15 12:12:13 PM
NO, because that would make him a wizard or a warlock and should be dealt with appropriately, torches and pitchforks.
 
2011-12-15 12:13:07 PM
Even granting the headline's veracity, what's Paul's overall accuracy? Being right once out of 20 is a damn low bar to hurdle.

Ron Paul is a crank.
 
2011-12-15 12:17:41 PM
So did George Carlin. Let's elect him! It's not like a dead guy hasn't been elected to office before.
 
2011-12-15 12:18:03 PM
Ron Paul might be really, really right about some stuff but he's also dangerously wrong about other stuff...
 
2011-12-15 12:18:26 PM
Beaver1224: GaryPDX: This About That: Ron Paul is frequently correct. Ron Paul may even be a genius. Ron Paul is still too nutty to be president.

Yes, yes and no he's not. He's just nutty enough to straighten the shiat out.

For what it's worth, I've never seen "it's so crazy it might just work" actually work in real life.


"Let's make this guy President:

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"Might just work" being a relative term.
 
2011-12-15 12:19:45 PM
Edwards (D) - $83,602,000
Granger (R) - $61,805,400
Carter (R) - $40,932,000
Rodriguez (D) - $37,610,000
Johnson, E. (D) - $29,099,000
Ortiz (D) - $26,981,000
Culberson (R) - $23,892,000
Reyes (D) - $22,284,000
Gonzalez (D) - $20,720,000
Conaway (R) - $17,941,000
Burgess (R) - $15,804,400
Jackson-Lee (D) - $14,162,000
Lamar (R) - $13,578,000
Green, A. (D) - $11,072,000
Johnson, S. (R) - $11,010,000
Barton (R) - $10,769,400
Hall (R) - $10,600,000
Neugebauer (R) - $10,344,000
Olson (R) - $8,803,000
Poe (R) - $7,913,000
Paul (R) - $7,753,000
Green, G. (D) - $7,452,000
Cuellar (D) - $7,327,000
Gohmert (R) - $7,099,000
Doggett (D) - $4,735,000
Brady (R) - $4,000,000
Hinojosa (D) - $3,100,000
Hensarling (R) - $0
Lampson (D) - $0
Marchant (R) - $0
McCaul (R) - $0
Session (R) - $0
Thornberry (R) - $0

Interesting results. So I should clearly withdraw the pork king bit, but I still think it's criminal for someone who's whole career is railing against pork to be doing any.
 
2011-12-15 12:23:16 PM
Your Bubble will always burst. I used to get dirty looks when I talked to people about the artificial economy. He saw it like the rest of us. He was in a position to do more and didn't seem to do anything.
 
2011-12-15 12:25:29 PM
DirkValentine: Then why does this motherfarker keep running as a Republican?

What a farking pussy.


Because he doesn't believe in stealing money from people who work, and giving it away to lazy bums who refuse to work.

Because he believes that most of the power the federal government has should be taken away and given to the states.
 
2011-12-15 12:26:40 PM
I predict he will not be president.

Wanna vote for me now?
 
2011-12-15 12:27:12 PM
GAT_00: Edwards (D) - $83,602,000
Granger (R) - $61,805,400
Carter (R) - $40,932,000
Rodriguez (D) - $37,610,000
Johnson, E. (D) - $29,099,000
Ortiz (D) - $26,981,000
Culberson (R) - $23,892,000
Reyes (D) - $22,284,000
Gonzalez (D) - $20,720,000
Conaway (R) - $17,941,000
Burgess (R) - $15,804,400
Jackson-Lee (D) - $14,162,000
Lamar (R) - $13,578,000
Green, A. (D) - $11,072,000
Johnson, S. (R) - $11,010,000
Barton (R) - $10,769,400
Hall (R) - $10,600,000
Neugebauer (R) - $10,344,000
Olson (R) - $8,803,000
Poe (R) - $7,913,000
Paul (R) - $7,753,000
Green, G. (D) - $7,452,000
Cuellar (D) - $7,327,000
Gohmert (R) - $7,099,000
Doggett (D) - $4,735,000
Brady (R) - $4,000,000
Hinojosa (D) - $3,100,000
Hensarling (R) - $0
Lampson (D) - $0
Marchant (R) - $0
McCaul (R) - $0
Session (R) - $0
Thornberry (R) - $0

Interesting results. So I should clearly withdraw the pork king bit, but I still think it's criminal for someone who's whole career is railing against pork to be doing any.


Thanks for doing that. That's an interesting list to peruse.
 
2011-12-15 12:34:04 PM
master_dman: DirkValentine: Then why does this motherfarker keep running as a Republican?

What a farking pussy.

Because he doesn't believe in stealing money from people who work, and giving it away to lazy bums who refuse to work.

Because he believes that most of the power the federal government has should be taken away and given to the states.


Who was that guy? You know the one who has given more power to the federal government. Oh yeah its was bush.

/None of the republic-rats care about giving the states more power.
 
2011-12-15 12:34:51 PM
Even if every single voter in America voted for him he could still NOT become President unless he signs with one side or the other.

You're question is moot
 
2011-12-15 12:35:32 PM
master_dman: DirkValentine: Then why does this motherfarker keep running as a Republican?

What a farking pussy.

Because he doesn't believe in stealing money from people who work, and giving it away to lazy bums who refuse to work.

Because he believes that most of the power the federal government has should be taken away and given to the states.


Really? Like lowering capital gains so wealthy people pay less taxes than evryome else? You sir, are a dum dum.
 
2011-12-15 12:40:16 PM
Snarfangel: Thanks for doing that.

It's easier than I thought, because it gives totals at the top of the page. What I wish you could do was easily limit the selection, like just make a list of all Tennessee Congresscritters to easily peruse.
 
2011-12-15 12:41:09 PM
I don't usually argue in politics threads..

Mostly because you morons root for your political party in much the same way you root for your favorite sports teams.

It's NOT supposed to be like that.
There should be way more choices than two.

I'm not saying all of Rons ideas are the greatest, or that all his ideas would work, but given the choice between pretty much every other politician out there, he is certainly the lesser of the evils.

He actually does want to give the states more powers. Powers that were stolen from the states by the feds.
 
2011-12-15 12:57:32 PM
Nope. The bastard is without a doubt an member of the Stonecutters. They're the ones causing all the troubles.
 
2011-12-15 12:58:07 PM
A member. Goddamned stonecutters are hacking my keyboard, making typos
 
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