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[Presidential Election Thread] All Hail the Liberty Rooster.
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You know that Mormon's have banned polygamy right?
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Not necessarily. Romney (and the Mormon church) are smart enough to figure out it's a bad idea to be overt about him being in multiple marriages. Polygamy is still illegal, after all. He's have enormous control over them politically within the church since he can have them assigned to other husbands on a whim, depending how cozy he is with its leadership by getting the Prophets or anyone else with authority within the religion. Of course he'd have to deeply involved with its fundamentalist sects not mainstream (unless it's still done by the mainstream secretly). This is all speculation and worst case scenarios. It's possible Romney just has one wife and isn't a fundamentlist nutjob.
Let's not hop on this Mormonism train and get the thread locked, mkay?
Yeah for real I know the only exposure they get on TV is like Sister Wives and Big Love, but that's the FLDS, not the LDS. The Mormons had a whole schism thing to clear up how they didn't feel like fighting the US Government just to keep polygamy.
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Yeah, unlike Gingrich, Romney at least seems to be capable of not being a philandering cockbag.
Thankfully, this election might be relatively free of family attacks (I say "relatively" because I'm not putting anything beyond the PACs when it comes to scumbag tactics).
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College kids these days are so entitled, whining about student debt; they don't even think about the possibility of borrowing a piddling 20 grand from their parents to start a business.
Adjust that for inflation Mr. Romney.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
Frankly, I don't think there's anything to attack. Both Mr Obama and Mr Romney strike me as men who love their wives and children very much. I might have philosophical and ideological problems with Romney, but on a personal, "family man" level he seems like a stand up guy.
Out of curiosity, I did. Adjusting Romney's incorrect figure to reality (wikipedia suggests $25,000), that investment in current dollars would be ~$58,000.
That's nothing to sneeze at, but it's certainly not a Romney level of handed down wealth.
To be fair, 20 grand of Papa Romney's cash probably could have poofed and not mattered in the long run. Of course, most people don't have that kind of scratch to lend, even to family, without basically risking hardship if it doesn't work out.
Even if you don't take his moronic comment at face value, he's talking about the culture of "if you want it bad enough you'll take out the loan for it and bootstrap your way to victory," which doesn't factor in everything that could go wrong with, say, taking out a mortgage from a bank to start a business.
But when people do take risks and it does not work out they are all "tough luck, you should have known better." For instance if a healthy person quits their job to start a business, losing their health insurance, then by bad luck gets seriously ill, they have no sympathy at all.
So if you take no risks they are all like "Playing safe doesn't get you anywhere" but if you take risks and fail they are like "Should have played it safe, dummy." The party motto should be "Damned if you do, damned if you don't."
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Around 45k.
When you get rid of that pesky morality and become an absolute sociopath with great ability to lie.
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
It's classic Romney, where he just doesn't get it. It's also going to be another one of those cases where he is going to luck out because people aren't going to factor in inflation, so he won't get all the flak he deserves. Most people do not have 20k to spare, so 58k is even more unthinkable; especially, in this economy.
Federal Reserve be trollin the dimwits. Love it.
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Fantastic.
Out of touch doesn't begin to describe it.
I'm fortunate that my original student loans were dropped from my credit report, not so fortunate that it's because my parents had to file bankruptcy due to a crooked time-share racket that took all their money. They're disabled, and the loans were taken out before the new laws, so all of that was taken into consideration.
I'm finishing my time in the Army and all it took me to be able to afford college was life-long disabilities and six years of my life put towards the service of my country. I guess that's how you bootstrap, right?
First they'll shudder as the rationalization protocol kicks in, then they'll explain that college wouldn't be so expensive if it weren't for government interference, and that Romney wasn't talking about college, he was talking about starting a small business and helping grow the economy because you don't need no fancy book-lernin' to start a bizness jest like (insert favorite "self-made man" with suspect story here) and it's alla them damb libtards that 're making folks go git liberal indoctrinated at the universities and their underwater basket-weaving degrees instead of gettin' out in the world with their common sense.
edit: Then they will rapidly change the subject to "Obama said this stupid thing," with about a 1-in-3 chance of it actually being a misquote.
Just tell me who to kill.
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You know, the way that commoners became minor lords (and thus nobility, and thus actual "people" instead of cattle) was usually distinguishing themselves in battle...Really the ONLY social mobility was through military service or complex political machinations once you were "in" with the royals.
Food for thought.
You also need some startup capital otherwise you'll just become some sweaty boiler-room con-artist two steps ahead of the law.
Yeah, that's kind of what a figure the die-hard republican crowd will do. The only question is will they show up or not in the fall because I think we can all agree they'll likely vote republican.
I'm more interested in the response from independents and moderate republicans who are still deciding on who to vote for in the fall. I'm sure some of them will resort to the mental gymnastics of the die-hard republican crown, but I don't see the comment going over well with most of them.
Yeah, well, I would have hoped we had moved past the whole middle ages thing, socially speaking.
That's not very pro-business of you.
It's a petition to make Issa investigate these guys.
That's also a really poorly written article. Like, even though I agree with the author I wasn't convinced. Guy needs to appeal to emotion less and provide evidence more.
No no no. The Federal Resevrve.