Election Night Lounge

[LEAPup]

A Harley Biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, 'Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.'

The Harley rider replies, 'Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.'

The reporter says, 'Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page... So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?'

The biker replies, “I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican.”

The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

"U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH

And THAT pretty much sums up the media's approach to the news these days ..

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from Lucrum:

You know, I was thinking about that just the other day.

What if Lincoln had let the Confederacy be?

Despite history revisionists attempts to change it, the war was in fact fought to restore the union, not end slavery per se.

I think it's fair to say slavery as an institution would have died out on it's own within, say two decades at most. Lets say there was no war, no 620,000 + deaths, no burning and mass destruction of the south. With no war, there would have been no reconstruction period, no carpet baggers. But most importantly, no severe animosity for the north or the former slaves by those in the south. With that in mind Jim Crow laws and segregation might never have happened. And even if so, certainly not to the extent they did. Imagine no civil rights struggle, no riots in the 60's. All IMO, a very plausible possibility. If only Lincoln had been willing to let well enough alone.

Don't bother even glenn beck worships the manufactured story of abe as some fricken hero.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from RCG Trader:

Because to vote for someone just waiting to send us back to the fifties socially would a stupid thing to do. Thank goodness a majority of the nation agrees with this.

The fifties finally brought the start of equality to minorities. The power of the Democrats and their system of racism started to break under the efforts of the Republican party and the Supreme court.
Eisenhower forcible integrated the schools. Housing laws started to be enforced.
Still it took years for the Democratic racists to stop fighting every law the Republicans in Washington tried to pass to move civil rights along. Republicans could not get a huge civil rights bill passed in 1957 without it being watered down because LBJ and other racist Democrats filibustered it.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Mercor:

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And then the dems flip flopped on racism and the reps happily took it up. The end.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from Ricter:

And then the dems flip flopped on racism and the reps happily took it up. The end.

A higher percent of republicans voted for the 1964 bill then democrats.
The bill would not have passed if it did not have a huge majority of Republicans voting for it.

 

[iagainsti]

Quote from Mercor:

A higher percent of republicans voted for the 1964 bill then democrats.
The bill would not have passed if it did not have a huge majority of Republicans voting for it.

Cool story bro...

 

[iagainsti]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

Economic prosperity, low unemployment, less intrusive govt, sane energy policy, no ben bernake printing press.

I agree with everything!

Especially the part about less intrusive government. Except when people make choices that I don't personally agree with. Then I think the government should get involved.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Mercor:

The fifties finally brought the start of equality to minorities. The power of the Democrats and their system of racism started to break under the efforts of the Republican party and the Supreme court.
Eisenhower forcible integrated the schools. Housing laws started to be enforced.
Still it took years for the Democratic racists to stop fighting every law the Republicans in Washington tried to pass to move civil rights along. Republicans could not get a huge civil rights bill passed in 1957 without it being watered down because LBJ and other racist Democrats filibustered it.

Mercor, you have very severe cognitive dissonance. The conservatives inhabited the host known as the democrats back then. You have been told this 50 times.

You simply have nothing left to say. Conservatism is a disease. Hopefully, they are finally out of hosts.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from iagainsti:


Especially the part about less intrusive government.

Except when people make choices that I don't personally agree with. Then I think the government should get involved.

Yeah, that makes a lot of fucking sense.

 

[iagainsti]

Quote from Lucrum:

Yeah, that makes a lot of fucking sense.

Well, it does. I mean, everyone knows that things like smoking pot and a dude marrying another dude are immoral and against God's will and stuff...

So on THESE kinds of things, I do think the government should step in...

Do you not agree?