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We've noticed a trend.

Seriously, what’s up with the crowds at these GOP presidential debates?

At the Reagan Library debate in California, attendees memorably broke into a spontaneous round of applause in support of Rick Perry’s record on the death penalty. At last week’s debate in Tampa, a handful of audience members cheered the prospect of a man without health insurance being left to die. And on Thursday in Orlando, a chorus of boos erupted when a gay Army veteran asked former Sen. Rick Santorum if he should still be allowed to serve the country in Iraq.

vruz: huh… they’re fucking fascists? that’s what’s been happening for the last 10 years or so. right wing extremism among a vocal crowd, politicians trying to look more or less moderate and presidential to capture a few more conservative votes, whilst nodding in code to the bloodthirsty crowd who are looking for a complicit wink to satisfy their barbaric lust. unfortunately for the candidates, I think few in their sane minds can interpret these displays of unbridled fascism is anything but a total reversal and inversion of american values. it remains to be seen how many sane minds remain in the electorate.

Reblogged from Random Acts of Chaos

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Perry, it becomes clearer and clearer, is Bush without the sophistication or conscience. You’ll notice that at no point does the factor of the Arab Spring come into view. Indeed, Perry seems to view all Arab and Muslim states as a threat which must not be “appeased”. What are the odds, do you think, that he has weighed what Fayyad has done these past few years and made a calculation of how to support forces of democracy and reform in Palestine rather than empower Hamas some more? About as high as the odds of him actually doing due diligence on a death warrant. In that sense, Perry is the best thing for Jihadism in a very long time. In the end, the fundamentalists of all stripes feed each other’s paranoia and worldview. Until the religious war they truly seek can play out.

- Andrew Sullivan (this would be in the correct fucking place if Tumblr’s iPhone app worked correctly. I mean, seriously guys. Is it that fucking hard? It’s your JOB.)

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Ummm this is stupid. Why do people classify Christians like this? The people who claim they are “Christians” and do this… Are not true “Christians” seriously.

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No True Christian, eh?

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vruz: depends… is the christian person also a Scotsman? :-)
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There are these people cheering for executions, cheering for letting people without health insurance die. In today’s Republican Party there’s a term for people who hate charity and love killing: Christians.

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Countries that allow the death penalty.

—via sirmitchell:

The execution of Troy Davis really irked me. If you haven’t kept up with it, give it a couple minutes of your time. The United States has executed yet another man who may very well have been innocent, and I can’t help but feel embarrassment & sorrow. Too many people have been found innocent after being put to death for me to be ok with capitol punishment. It’s tragic to say the least.

I wanted to see what other countries still participate in this shameful act, only to find we are in the company of some unsavory places. In case you geography skills are as poor as mine, the countries marked in red include: China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, & Syria, among others.

Only one country in all of Europe practices it and that is Belarus.

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Class warfare, Elizabeth Warren style

vruz: how about President Warren in 2016? (and no, I’m not being serious, but if you push the question too much I have a few words for you: Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry…)

—via sarahlee310:timekiller-s:Greg Sargent:

This must-watch clip of Elizabeth Warren aggressively rebutting the GOP’s “class warfare” charge is burning up the internet, and once you watch it, you’ll understand why.

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As Steve Benen rightly notes, very few Democrats are able to make the basic case for the social contract quite this effectively. And this is coming from someone who only started campaigning seriously a few weeks ago. So she may have lots of room to grow.

Here’s why I think this video is so important. As I wrote the other day, a Warren candidacy could test the electoral limits of true populism in a way that few other Dems have been willing to venture. Here we’re seeing the beginnings of this — this is a candidate who is starting out with her own voice.

Republicans are planning to paint Warren as a liberal Harvard elitist — they’re already referring to her as “Professor Warren” — because they believe that she will have trouble winning over the kind of blue collar whites from places like South Boston that helped power Scott Brown’s upset victory.

But as this video shows, Warren is very good at making the case for progressive economics in simple, down-to-earth terms. Despite her professorial background, she sounds like she’s telling a story. She came across as unapologetic and authorative, without a hint of the sort of defensiveness you hear so often from other Democrats when they talk about issues involving taxation and economic fairness….

I may have already posted/reblogged a quote from this. It is worth watching it all.

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united colours of vruz

23rd September 2011

We've noticed a trend.

22nd September 2011

There are these people cheering for executions, cheering for letting people without health insurance die. In today’s Republican Party there’s a term for people who hate charity and love killing: Christians.