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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #120 on: November 11, 2014, 02:34:34 pm »
Quote from: Witchyjoshy on November 11, 2014, 12:46:05 am
What would you even call a government run by comedians?

An improvement.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #121 on: November 11, 2014, 06:56:22 pm »
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Quote from: Beezlebub on November 11, 2014, 12:07:50 am
I'm starting to wonder if elections are rigged by the comedians to ensure that they'll have material for the following years.

Damn it, he's onto us.

Dane Cook, is that you?
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #122 on: November 11, 2014, 10:18:51 pm »
Quote from: Canadian Mojo on November 11, 2014, 02:34:34 pm
Quote from: Witchyjoshy on November 11, 2014, 12:46:05 am
What would you even call a government run by comedians?

An improvement.

'Senator Fluffy' has a nice ring to it, if you ask me.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #123 on: November 12, 2014, 08:27:16 am »
I'd vote for Lewis Black.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #124 on: November 12, 2014, 09:13:06 am »
Knowing how these things tend to go, it would probably end just as badly as regular politics. Each election would be between the likes of either Dane Cook or Paulie Shore. Come to think of it, I think we're much better off with things as they are.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #125 on: November 12, 2014, 10:28:12 am »
If he were still alive, I'd suggest we make Moe Howard the President, but alas...
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #126 on: November 12, 2014, 10:35:55 am »
Rick Mercer for PM!
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #127 on: November 12, 2014, 12:03:49 pm »
Don't forget that Al Franken is a Senator.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #128 on: November 12, 2014, 03:53:58 pm »
Quote from: dpareja on November 06, 2014, 09:01:17 pm
Quote from: Id82 on November 06, 2014, 04:42:16 pm
They have to get a super majority vote to bypass a veto. Even though the republicans control the senate, I don't believe they have enough for a 2/3rds super majority vote.

They'd need about 45 Democratic Representatives to defect in the House, and at a bare minimum 13 Democratic Senators (if every outstanding race goes to the Republicans) to defect, in order to override a veto. That's not going to happen.

Which means they can screw up everything Obama has done and still blame him.  What are the chances that we could enter yet another recession soon?
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #129 on: November 12, 2014, 04:33:49 pm »
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They have to get a super majority vote to bypass a veto. Even though the republicans control the senate, I don't believe they have enough for a 2/3rds super majority vote.

They'd need about 45 Democratic Representatives to defect in the House, and at a bare minimum 13 Democratic Senators (if every outstanding race goes to the Republicans) to defect, in order to override a veto. That's not going to happen.

Which means they can screw up everything Obama has done and still blame him.  What are the chances that we could enter yet another recession soon?

Depends. The Fed will probably keep cushioning the blow.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #130 on: November 12, 2014, 07:11:56 pm »
Ugh. 4 more years of a batshit-crazy GOP governor.  At least the state House remained Democrat, so that'll keep the state from sinking as far down as it could go in 4 years.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #131 on: November 12, 2014, 07:16:35 pm »
I take it that none of you head about this 65 percent possibility that we'll be in another Republican Recession by the end of 2015? Worth a read anyhow. http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Predictors-1929-Stock-Market-Crash-Recession-Economy/2014/11/11/id/606657/

Even if it does not happen, and there is a good chance it won't, Republicans are nothing but bad news. You never hear of Republicans recovering this country from depressions and recessions, because they are the cause of them.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #132 on: November 12, 2014, 08:09:02 pm »
Just remember, the last time Republicans controlled this many state governments was 1928. Hmmm, anything happen shortly after that?
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #133 on: November 13, 2014, 01:29:33 am »
Quote from: lord gibbon on November 12, 2014, 08:09:02 pm
Just remember, the last time Republicans controlled this many state governments was 1928. Hmmm, anything happen shortly after that?

Yes. Joseph Stalin launched the first five year plan. A British court declared that Canadian women are technically "persons" and therefore allowed to be in the senate. And Martin Luther King was born soon after that.
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Re: 2014 American Midterm Election Thread
« Reply #134 on: November 13, 2014, 01:34:15 am »
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Quote from: lord gibbon on November 12, 2014, 08:09:02 pm
Just remember, the last time Republicans controlled this many state governments was 1928. Hmmm, anything happen shortly after that?

Yes. Joseph Stalin launched the first five year plan. A British court declared that Canadian women are technically "persons" and therefore allowed to be in the senate. And Martin Luther King was born soon after that.

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