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(Some Guy) Unlikely Added to the list of words you never want associated are "Gingrich" and "trampoline"   (thegrio.com) divider line 89
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thismomentinblackhistory [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:07:49 PM
I'm not clicking, subby. No good can come from your link.
 
gimmegimme
2012-02-03 04:13:54 PM
Why can't people just pull themselves up by the bootstraps, just like Newt did? No one helped him, but he worked hard until he achieved his dreams and more.
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:14:01 PM
So Gingrich wants a 'trampoline' not a 'safety net'. Seems reasonable. What might that look like? Health care, since healthy people make better employees? Educated people, so that they have the skills to be employable? Minimal tax burden, so that there is incentive to be on a payroll and not the dole?

Gee, sounds exactly like Obama's State of the Union. Congratulations, Gingrich. You're now a deadbeat socialist.
 
Quasar [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:18:42 PM
Something where, no matter how much you try, you can only get so high and eventually end up falling to the ground?

Sounds like something he'd be for.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:20:06 PM
He's going to help poor people. This means (A) spreading the wealth around and (B) socialism.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:20:57 PM
unyon: So Gingrich wants a 'trampoline' not a 'safety net'. Seems reasonable. What might that look like? Health care, since healthy people make better employees? Educated people, so that they have the skills to be employable? Minimal tax burden, so that there is incentive to be on a payroll and not the dole?

Gee, sounds exactly like Obama's State of the Union. Congratulations, Gingrich. You're now a deadbeat socialist.

They'd need to be in shape, too. Have you ever seen fat people on a trampoline?
 
I_Am_Weasel [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:22:26 PM
TRAMAMPOLINE!

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MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:22:59 PM
As I recall, that plan didn't work so well for the coyote
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:26:23 PM
I_Am_Weasel: TRAMAMPOLINE!

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"His jiggling is almost hypnotic."
 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:27:23 PM
"Trampoline" is a euphemism for "tax cuts for the wealthy."
 
flaEsq [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:29:26 PM
How about three words: "Callista", "trampoline", "Gingrich"
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 04:34:42 PM
flaEsq: How about three words: "Callista", "trampoline", "Gingrich"

How about no.
 
thomps [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 05:02:21 PM
if we built a big enough trampoline, we could bounce all of the poor people to their very own moon base.
 
correct horse battery staple [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 05:42:48 PM
I see where he's going with this.

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Speedofdarkness [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 05:48:50 PM
"I really believe that we should care about the very poor, unlike Gov. Romney," Gingrich said just before his pants burst into flames.
 
YouAreItNoTagBacks
2012-02-03 06:27:25 PM
"By the end of my 2nd term, I will have distributed trampolines to every family living in the state of West Mooninia."
 
Snarfangel
2012-02-03 06:42:11 PM
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 06:44:40 PM
flaEsq: How about three words: "Callista", "trampoline", "Gingrich"

She's so angular, she's just going to tear through the trampoline membrane.
 
culebra
2012-02-03 06:53:00 PM
Mitt Romney doesn't care about acrobats.
 
Joe Peanut
2012-02-03 06:53:29 PM
Junpen' Newt on a trampoline!
 
Shaggy_C
2012-02-03 06:55:02 PM
Thanks subby. You encouraged me to waste 5 minutes of my life watching fat people break trampolines. I appreciate that.
 
gimmegimme
2012-02-03 06:55:18 PM
YouAreItNoTagBacks: "By the end of my 2nd term, I will have distributed trampolines to every family living in the state of West Mooninia."

www.anomalousmaterial.com

"Damn you, Jerry Seinfeld. First you keep Greniarnia from me and now the rich person colony on the moon."
 
your average maint. man
2012-02-03 06:57:30 PM
it's to bounce the illegals back over the fence
 
WhackingDay
2012-02-03 06:58:05 PM
I don't know if Newt has noticed, but most trampolines sold these days also come with a safety net.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-02-03 06:59:45 PM
culebra: Mitt Romney doesn't care about acrobats.

And that's odd considering his amazing ability to do flip-flops
 
gittlebass
2012-02-03 07:00:54 PM
Trampoline? is this new trickleup and then crash down economics?
 
moops
2012-02-03 07:02:04 PM
People who spend their time arguing the semantics of figures of speech can shampoo my crotch.
 
pray_for_mojo
2012-02-03 07:02:17 PM
He got the idea from bouncing up and down on staffers' wives.
No love for pogo stilts?
 
Bob16
2012-02-03 07:02:27 PM
Thats just what we need. Blubber Boy on a Trampoline.

We'd have 7.5 aftershocks for a year.
 
YouAreItNoTagBacks
2012-02-03 07:05:09 PM
Shaggy_C: Thanks subby. You encouraged me to waste 5 minutes of my life watching fat people break trampolines. I appreciate that.

I take issue with your use of the word "waste."
 
Chiquidin
2012-02-03 07:05:22 PM
I watched some of this on CNN, and couldn't believe. I heard this. The "safety net" at least catches, the trampoline would just give many people th opportunity to reach for the stars only to come crashing back down, or have the one person is smart enough to "take" the bounce out of people. So some may gt out of poverty while others sink even lower. Smart one NewtMan.

//what a blow of doucheiness that is.
 
Corvus
2012-02-03 07:05:31 PM
unyon: So Gingrich wants a 'trampoline' not a 'safety net'. Seems reasonable. What might that look like? Health care, since healthy people make better employees? Educated people, so that they have the skills to be employable? Minimal tax burden, so that there is incentive to be on a payroll and not the dole?

Gee, sounds exactly like Obama's State of the Union. Congratulations, Gingrich. You're now a deadbeat socialist.

Yes but he is a Republican so when he has the same ideas as Obama or the left it's much more strappy and self-booty.

But I find Republicans really don't want to give people a "hand up" either. And I doubt Newt "If you are poor you should have a goal of becoming a janitor instead of going to college" Gingrich wants that either.
 
Keyboards
2012-02-03 07:05:38 PM
We could make this a very positive thread.

I'm counting on you, Farkers.
 
YouAreItNoTagBacks
2012-02-03 07:06:17 PM
RexTalionis: flaEsq: How about three words: "Callista", "trampoline", "Gingrich"

She's so angular, she's just going to tear through the trampoline membrane.

"Callista" and "membrane" also give me uncomfortableness for some reason.
 
Soup4Bonnie
2012-02-03 07:07:12 PM
unyon: What might that look like?

This is the problem with Newt's ideas. There's nothing behind them.
 
your average maint. man
2012-02-03 07:09:52 PM
Keyboards: We could make this a very positive thread.

I'm counting on you, Farkers.

please explain "positive".
thank you
 
andrewagill
2012-02-03 07:11:40 PM
I'm imagining the Bizarro-world version of The Man Show starring Bizarro Adam Corolla and Bizarro Justin Bieber, ending each episode with ``Gingrichs On Trampolines!''

It is a happy place. Well, a slap-happy place, at least.
 
odinsposse
2012-02-03 07:16:07 PM
your average maint. man: Keyboards: We could make this a very positive thread.

I'm counting on you, Farkers.

please explain "positive".
thank you

Here's an example.
 
your average maint. man
2012-02-03 07:21:41 PM
odinsposse: your average maint. man: Keyboards: We could make this a very positive thread.

I'm counting on you, Farkers.

please explain "positive".
thank you

Here's an example.

oh, i see. please carry on good chap.
 
jackthezomber
2012-02-03 07:23:27 PM
I could stand to hear a little more.

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Men of power are hot. No two ways about it.
 
jackthezomber
2012-02-03 07:24:11 PM
jackthezomber: I could stand to hear a little more.

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Men of power are hot. No two ways about it.

except with me. I'm bisexual, so I guess there sort of ARE two ways about it...
 
theknuckler_33
2012-02-03 07:26:13 PM
"What the poor need is a trampoline so they can spring up," he said. "So I want to replace a safety net with a trampoline."

Well, that's certainly a coherent policy position.
 
Serious Black
2012-02-03 07:27:27 PM
jackthezomber: jackthezomber: I could stand to hear a little more.

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Men of power are hot. No two ways about it.

except with me. I'm bisexual, so I guess there sort of ARE two ways about it...

You know, it helps if you log out of your alt first.
 
jackthezomber
2012-02-03 07:28:07 PM
theknuckler_33: "What the poor need is a trampoline so they can spring up," he said. "So I want to replace a safety net with a trampoline."

Well, that's certainly a coherent policy position.

does it make any less sense than "winning the future"?
 
falcon176
2012-02-03 07:28:10 PM
GOP fight to see who can pretend they care about the poor the most, right after the Congress fight to see who is more moral? Hilarious. This is like little kids the week before Christmas acting like angels to get presents from Santa Claus.
 
MyNameIsMofuga
2012-02-03 07:28:37 PM
This makes me laugh because whenever my Republican sister talks about poor people exploiting welfare and other benefits she always brings up the people in El Paso that live in bad neighborhoods but have trampolines, as if trampolines are the Bentley of outdoor recreational devices.
 
jackthezomber
2012-02-03 07:28:42 PM
Serious Black: jackthezomber: jackthezomber: I could stand to hear a little more.

[cdn0.hark.com image 200x234]

Men of power are hot. No two ways about it.

except with me. I'm bisexual, so I guess there sort of ARE two ways about it...

You know, it helps if you log out of your alt first.

i was appending, not responding. i can see where you'd be confused.
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2012-02-03 07:32:44 PM
Trampoline
Series of Tubes
Big Truck
Lockbox

/stupid metaphors made by politicians
 
Karac
2012-02-03 07:37:58 PM
Why do I get the feeling these are the images in Newt's head when he thinks about trampolines?
 
YouAreItNoTagBacks
2012-02-03 07:38:08 PM
MyNameIsMofuga: This makes me laugh because whenever my Republican sister talks about poor people exploiting welfare and other benefits she always brings up the people in El Paso that live in bad neighborhoods but have trampolines, as if trampolines are the Bentley of outdoor recreational devices.

Breaking study: the "poor" on welfare have enough to by trampolines...and refrigerators...and I saw one of 'em with shoes...SHOES!!!!"

On Fox in 5, 4, 3, 2....
 
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