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Old 12-13-2015, 09:10 PM   #2261
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Dennis Miller is, I assume, still a comedian, and he's gone full Fox Crazy. Funny thing is he's never been bigger than he was in the 80's, when he was ripping on Ronald Reagan on SNL.

Larry The Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy are (were?) hugely popular.

Only if they completely missed the point, which is entirely possible.
Dennis Miller does work at Fox,

Do foxworthy and Larry make fun of liberals the same way liberals make fun of conservatives. I don't know much about either, but, you may be a redneck if, sounds like a conservative making fun of conservatives. Easy targets I guess.
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Old 12-13-2015, 11:49 PM   #2262
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They don't need to cover any topical subjects. When SNL was at it's best was when political satire wasn't in their lexicon of subject material.
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Sorry, when was this time when SNL stayed away from politics exactly?
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Old 12-14-2015, 01:53 AM   #2263
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http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease....lease_id=13059

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With more than 400 Electoral College votes, the Democratic ticket—Bernie Sanders, president, and Martin O'Malley, vice president—was declared the winner in Western Illinois University's third Mock Presidential Election (MPE)
They're even predicting quite big margins of victory.

This mock election has a phenomenal accuracy rate (100% by some claims), so it's worth taking note. It claims to be the largest and most elaborate of it's kind.

If nothing else, I think it rather clearly points out that Sanders is a legitimate candidate that seriously could win.

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Old 12-14-2015, 07:15 AM   #2264
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If we are looking at a Sanders vs Trump election next year I will need to stay in Canada forever. The U.S. will surely have fallen off their rocker.
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And it was Weapons of Mass Destruction that got us into an unwinnable war that's a huge part of the debt the US owes right now? That 16 trillion dollars that the GOP loves to blame on welfare and social security, and not the ridiculous military budget, full of gift contracts to companies like Halliburton?

And speaking of...





How do you feel about Dick Cheney? And Bush part 2? Who again, lied to the American people to start a war, who then encouraged and condoned torture?

How about them?
They need to be charged with Treason.
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Old 12-14-2015, 07:47 AM   #2266
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If we are looking at a Sanders vs Trump election next year I will need to stay in Canada forever. The U.S. will surely have fallen off their rocker.
We Canadians need to take a long hard look in the mirror...
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Go on Nobama...
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We Canadians need to take a long hard look in the mirror...
Gotta change your username to False-deau first.
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Old 12-14-2015, 08:08 AM   #2269
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Go on Nobama...
Where to start? The trust fund, part time drama teacher prime minister? Or the pipeline protesting, caribou loving Alberta Energy Minister?

Yeah things couldn't be better in Canada right now...
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Old 12-14-2015, 08:19 AM   #2270
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Where to start? The trust fund, part time drama teacher prime minister? Or the pipeline protesting, caribou loving Alberta Energy Minister?

Yeah things couldn't be better in Canada right now...
I'm sure you speak for all Canadians.

part time drama teacher, community organizer. you know, you could probably use this technique on just about anyone, you wanted to.
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Old 12-14-2015, 09:42 AM   #2271
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So it's looking pretty solid that Ted Cruz is going to win Iowa. As Trump begins to slide down the polls and after he actually loses something, that's when the fun starts. How quickly will he go into take-my-ball-and-go-home mode? Into racist overdrive? Should be fun.
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Old 12-14-2015, 09:44 AM   #2272
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The best possible outcome is that he runs as an independent and takes his support with him.
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Wasn't Trudeau an MP for 7 years before becoming PM, not a drama teacher?
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Old 12-14-2015, 10:16 AM   #2274
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Wasn't Trudeau an MP for 7 years before becoming PM, not a drama teacher?
Yes, it's the same logic as Obama was a community organizer only, not a Senator, president of Harvard law review , constitutional lawyer etc. only an unqualified community organizer.
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Old 12-14-2015, 10:20 AM   #2275
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I believe that Sanders is the candidate in either party that comes across as the most viable victor. Never mind that Sanders 1916 socialist policies would be a disaster, but his rhetoric and indeed, his character are certainly speaking to the heart of some important matters in the USA.
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Old 12-14-2015, 10:37 AM   #2276
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Seems some on the American Left are not too fond of your new PM

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...st-cancer.html

And this was the leader for North America on Guardian today.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...uicide-alberta

I would say things could be a bit better up north.

Then there is this.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...inquiry-racism
Didn't know Canada had such a colonial gender violence problem. Way this forum runs you would think it only occurs in the US....

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Old 12-14-2015, 11:54 AM   #2277
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Seems some on the American Left are not too fond of your new PM

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...st-cancer.html

And this was the leader for North America on Guardian today.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...uicide-alberta

I would say things could be a bit better up north.

Then there is this.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...inquiry-racism
Didn't know Canada had such a colonial gender violence problem. Way this forum runs you would think it only occurs in the US....
Since when has The Daily Beast been located on the American left?
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Old 12-14-2015, 12:29 PM   #2278
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While they have some "conservative" writers it is generally thought of as a liberal site. The author in particular (Dana Kennedy) also writes for MSNBC, Huffpo and New York times. I would also consider those to be Left leaning news outlets.

http://www.danakennedy.com/

Progressive links from University of Penn

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/progressive.html

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Old 12-14-2015, 12:35 PM   #2279
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Didn't know Canada had such a colonial gender violence problem. Way this forum runs you would think it only occurs in the US....
Our history and even now our track record with our indigenous is nothing to be proud of but looking at the treatment that the Americans have given to their indigenous people, I don't see anything for them to brag about.
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Our history and even now our track record with our indigenous is nothing to be proud of but looking at the treatment that the Americans have given to their indigenous people, I don't see anything for them to brag about.
I guess it's more noble to just kill them all outright then to totally mishandle their integration.
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