Open Call – It is Time to Fix or Replace the Republican Party

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nickqt

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1) hahahaha

2) depends on whether it's night or day.
Even though most of us libruuls have criticized Obama for any number of things, in their reality, we all worship us some of that there Obama.

Because freedom. Also: Benghazi.
 

sportage

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I'll chime in here SO BE WARNED !!! ;)

The party in question has been fully hijacked by the religious right. Period.
But first of all it should be noted that this so called self appointed religious right involved with the republican party takeover is not religion as we know Christianity, nor do they ever attempt to follow the teachings of our true Christian heritage.
So there is that...

The religious practices they promote is more aligned with third world Middle Eastern religion.
No tolerance. Christian and scripture rewritten to fit into their narrow view.
Pick and choosing which Christian teachings they will accept, and which they chose to simply ignore.
And the big giveaway into their tactics, they redefine all within society to fit into their twisted belief.
They force absolutely every social and economic issue of every kind through the meat grinder, and what comes out they insist as true religions philosophy.
Then, insist the entire nation must fall in line as well with this religious meat grinder philosophy.

They do all this with the skills of a serpent slithering through the grass.
You really have to keep on your toes, listen very carefully to every word they claim, and never assume anything as actual fact.
Especially as Biblical scripture fact, which what they claim as is, never actually is.

This self proclaimed self appointed religious right that took over the republican party has their every political party member as well as every single presidential candidate, in line and marching united to their drum beat.
And that alone is quite an achievement for the serpent.

They pretend they have some God given right as to how the nation should be ruled and governed. They insist everyone, regardless, that every citizen hold into their beliefs and only theirs. And sadly, they have a powerful alliance within the broadcasting industry to help them with their dirty deed. The media, which has been blindsided fooled as well.

The media as a whole gives validity to this religious right takeover.
Including the progressive liberal media, which may forcibly disagree and forcibly fight against the religious righties attempt at their takeover, but dare never to question the basic credentials in their false religious victories with doing so.
We all take as a granted that the religious right is exactly that.
That is our weakness, and their skill.
"Religious" as in Christian scripture, and "right" as to never be wrong when it comes to Christian scripture.
The "religious right". Operating out of neither.

Take SS marriage.
They, the religious right, speak in unison of "traditional marriage".
Looking into what that really means, first of all and once again they claim full ownership of marriage itself.
And dare not anyone question their authority to take full ownership of marriage definition.
Once again, the religious right took marriage, processed that through their meat grinder, and what came out was their redefining of the idea regarding marriage itself.
And no one had better question their authority to do this.
Not progressives, not the media, and never a fellow republican.
What they have so skillfully done is redefined marriage under their terms, their definition, which all must now be judged against.
Pretty slick of them, hay?

But they do this all the time. Their meat grinder thing.
And the public seldom questions their right to meat grinder each and every issue.
Never questioning how this meat grinder was built and what it consists of.
People assume what comes out is high quality chuck, where in reality is no more than raw sewage waste.
And the people that provided our news information and commentary dare not question the difference between high quality ground chuck, and raw sewage.
Just because their conclusion of point comes from this self anointed religious right, that should never be our paddock for argument and disagreement to follow.

With so called "traditional marriage", there is no such animal.
Nor is marriage any sorts of an religious entity.
One may have a marriage ceremony themed upon religion, if they so chose, or not.
And if you wish to define traditional marriage, in all accuracy you would need to go back to polygamy and the marriage to minors.
Certainly interracial marriage would not be defined within the terms of traditional marriage.
And lastly, to put the nail in this coffin concerning marriage as religion based, Atheist have been legally allowed to marry for as long as marriage has existed.
No one have questioned that fact.

Traditional marriage, schmaditional marriage, there is no such thing.
Marriage is a concept that has ever evolved and for the future, will ever evolve.
Who knows, one day with our quest to find alien life outside our universe, we may find that alien life and may desire to marry with it?

But never allow the so called and falsely assumed religious right to define or redefine a single aspect within our society.
They made this meat grinder of theirs, and no one should ever take for granted that is does in fact process meat as claimed.

They will force feed their meat grinder with marriage, religion, equality, our economy, the fair working wage, our environment, every social issue, how and whom can vote, the very process used to make our laws, the courts, and least but never last our very US Constitution.
And what comes out of their meat grinder should never to be thought of as truth, fact, or have one ounce of validity what so ever.
 
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Even though most of us libruuls have criticized Obama for any number of things, in their reality, we all worship us some of that there Obama.

Because freedom. Also: Benghazi.

Oh yeah, Ben Ghazi. Greatest tv doctor ever.

(I know, I know. It's just bad a joke I never get tired of)
 

michal1980

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You are truly delusional. Neither claimed to be morally offended by 2 icky gays getting married. Neither used biblical reference to rail against it. Neither came out against gay marriage, merely stated what they wanted to accomplish at the time, particularly Hillary.

Obama came out strongly in favor of gay marriage when he & Holder refused to defend DOMA in the federal court system way back in 2011-

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...efense-of-marriage-act-gay-rights-105794.html

Your self sealing bubble does seem to be completely impermeable, however. I wonder how air gets in there.

The public mood change, and all of a sudden they are for gay marriage.

Like I said liberals will say whatever it takes to get elected.
 

michal1980

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You are such a clown. Do you even know who you're communicating with?

We've had this dance before. You accuse me of being an Obama/Democratic Party lover and I gently remind you that no, no I'm not. I have no liking for either the party or the man and have said so in this forum many times while discussing any number of different issues (and have reminded you every time you pull this stunt). And then, I don't get a reply from you. And so it goes.

So, shall we start this clown dance again? As you're the clown, you can lead this time.

Right... you also don't support ISIS.


Yet all you do is support Obama and democrats, and ISIS.

Walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, must be a duck. Your denial might be a sign of a medical condition.
 
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Right... you also don't support ISIS.


Yet all you do is support Obama and democrats, and ISIS.

Walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, must be a duck. Your denial might be a sign of a medical condition.

Ok. Show us some posts where I have shown support for Daesh (notice that I don't even dignify those assholes with their attempt at self-identification but, rather, use the term that the people that fight them use as a form of delegitimisation), Obama or the Democratic Party. If that's all I do it should be easy for you.

Put up or shut up.

btw, I think Gov. Haley is still waiting to hear if you agree with Ann Coulter's remarks about her.
 

michal1980

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Ok. Show us some posts where I have shown support for Daesh (notice that I don't even dignify those assholes with their attempt at self-identification but, rather, use the term that the people that fight them use as a form of delegitimisation), Obama or the Democratic Party. If that's all I do it should be easy for you.

Put up or shut up.

btw, I think Gov. Haley is still waiting to hear if you agree with Ann Coulter's remarks about her.


Go to any Isis thread. You do nothing but sympathize with them. Everyone but you can see it.
 
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Are you denying it? Even moderate dissent is met with derision by Democrats. No solution will work but the Democrat solution, all others are heretics.

Just look at the Rand Paul tax proposal thread. Even if it's not a perfect plan, or even a good plan, isn't it at least worthy of discussion? But Democrats jump in and started trash talking immediately. Democrats don't want debate, they want agreement.

There's no room for dissent in politics. If you can't see that, it's because you're blind, not because it isn't true.

Sounds exactly like the other side also . learn to bash both parties with equality :p
 

sm625

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It has been time to replace it for a long long time now. Unfortunately their primary voters are fanatics who are completely and totally captured. You have total reform on one end of the spectrum, and you have Jeb Bush on the other end. Jeb Bush will win every time. The democrats are the same with their precious Hillary. On both sides of the isle, the primary voters are completely brainwashed and braindead. Both parties need to go. In order for that to happen, enough people have to wake up and vote in an outsider who will push hard for electoral reform. We need a 21st century electoral system. Instead of spending millions traveling around the country, all a candidate should have to do is answer questions on a forum and people can read (or watch) the candidates answer. And there should be a LOT more debates. We spend millions in taxpayer dollars on public campaign finance. Why isnt that money going toward building a real website for candidates, where all information, all interviews, all debates, everything accessible on the candidate's page? For the money that's been spent, we could have built a massive public website that aggregates all the media related to each candidate. This could truly allow voters to make informed decisions. Instead, the money is completely wasted on goddam nothing. We should have a website that does regular live debates between candidates. Live, or even pseudo-live, where the candidates just go back and forth in an extended series of rebuttals that get archived. But there is literally nothing like this in existence, yet it is so cheap and easy to do compared to the logistics and costs of campaigning. wtf?!?
 
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dank69

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Are you denying it? Even moderate dissent is met with derision by Democrats. No solution will work but the Democrat solution, all others are heretics.

Just look at the Rand Paul tax proposal thread. Even if it's not a perfect plan, or even a good plan, isn't it at least worthy of discussion? But Democrats jump in and started trash talking immediately. Democrats don't want debate, they want agreement.

There's no room for dissent in politics. If you can't see that, it's because you're blind, not because it isn't true.
We bashed it because when the math was done it was the same tired old trickle down policy that people should be ashamed to support at this point. Then people started arguing that it isn't the trickle down policy that the math says it is, so we started bashing people that were arguing with math, because people that argue with math should be discouraged from doing that in the future.
 
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We bashed it because when the math was done it was the same tired old trickle down policy that people should be ashamed to support at this point. Then people started arguing that it isn't the trickle down policy that the math says it is, so we started bashing people that were arguing with math, because people that argue with math should be discouraged from doing that in the future.

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dank69

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It's time for moderates/independents to form a 3rd party and run off the nuts on either side of the political spectrum.

Hillary is closer to Republican than she is a Democrat. Yet she is too liberal for you moderates/independents. Quit pretending that liberal nuts have any substantial power in our government.
 

FerrelGeek

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But we have to label! It makes us feel so much better about ourselves when we can look down on others for daring to disagree with our opinions. We need the division and strife to separate people out into warring factions. Much easier to manipulate and control the masses that way.

There's very little difference between most of the DC political crowd, re: party affiliation. They want power and the lifestyle that comes with it. Anyone that thinks that lot actually cares about little old you and me is a moron.

Why is the left so obsessed with identity politics?

First of all the issue of marriage equality is not a Democratic or Republican Issue as detailed here. Marriage equality has always been divided along generational lines.

There are a lot of Republicans that are pro-choice, pro-gun control. Likewise the same for Democrats.

Stop labeling issues that are not left/right as such.
 

brycejones

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Right... you also don't support ISIS.


Yet all you do is support Obama and democrats, and ISIS.

Walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, must be a duck. Your denial might be a sign of a medical condition.

Scarecrow -

Do you support Ann's comments about Gov Haley?

You implying another poster may have a medical condition based on posting history is an astounding lack of self awareness on your part.
 

TheSlamma

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Hillary is closer to Republican than she is a Democrat. Yet she is too liberal for you moderates/independents. Quit pretending that liberal nuts have any substantial power in our government.
For me she just still just scratches the back of everyone but the middle class with handouts for the poor and empty threats to corporations just like the dominant part of Dems and pretty much all Repubs.

IMO Warren would make a far better leader than Hillary ever would and it's nice to see she has that poser Pelosi on the defensive too. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/nancy-pelosi-elizabeth-warren-wall-street-119631.html

If at anytime either one of your parties makes an attempt to ENABLE or EMPOWER (Notice I didn't say take care of) the middle class then you will get this Indy's vote. We don't want to be taken care of, We are just tired of being taken advantage of.

TPP (what was Obama thinking?) Is just going to benefit corporations, the exploits are already starting. When Turtle Senator is over there with that big no teeth grin on his face, then you take that as a clue you are helping corporations directly. Look at that happy face.. awwww http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ough-senate-with-no-amendments-closed-debate/

That Exempt past 40 hours bill being proposed stopping in the $50K range. Why was it not a flat law across all salaries? Because both parties know that the middle class has self motivated work ethics and drive that this country can't survive without and it wants to keep us grinding.
 

BoberFett

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It's time for moderates/independents to form a 3rd party and run off the nuts on either side of the political spectrum.

Impossible. Any time that happens the big two use fear to keep people in line.

"Don't throw away your vote on a third party! You don't want to let the enemy win do you?"

I'd much rather see a Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders, or any other outsider in the white house than the shit we keep getting fed to us from the Ds and Rs, but the rank and file slurps up the propaganda, and prefers that we get yet another Bush or Clinton rather than any real change.
 

Moonbeam

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Impossible. Any time that happens the big two use fear to keep people in line.

"Don't throw away your vote on a third party! You don't want to let the enemy win do you?"

I'd much rather see a Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders, or any other outsider in the white house than the shit we keep getting fed to us from the Ds and Rs, but the rank and file slurps up the propaganda, and prefers that we get yet another Bush or Clinton rather than any real change.

You and because of Ralph Nader and folk like you we got George Bush. I would have preferred Ralph Nader and would have voted for him but for my fear of Bush. I think fear was a proper reaction to the disaster that was Bush.

I'm very sorry, but the greater evil can be an enormous one, and I can't let go of my wisdom and experience to risk the destruction of the nation because I am personally pissed off. I sympathize with your passion but you emotional immaturity, in my opinion, is irrationally dangerous. I can't join you either in any rationalizations of false equivalency. We have Hillary Terrible and utter shit as choices.

Get active and call for a Constitutional convention and change the way we vote so I can vote third party and pass that vote to a second candidate if my first choice fails. Then I will vote third party every time.
 

Jhhnn

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The public mood change, and all of a sudden they are for gay marriage.

Like I said liberals will say whatever it takes to get elected.

Neither Clinton nor Obama ever claimed to be against it. They just weren't prepared to make it an issue in the 2008 election.

Compare & contrast that with the current raving & pandering on the Right.

"They're just as bad!" is the usual defensive right wing bullshit.
 

TheSlamma

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You and because of Ralph Nader and folk like you we got George Bush. I would have preferred Ralph Nader and would have voted for him but for my fear of Bush. I think fear was a proper reaction to the disaster that was Bush.

I'm very sorry, but the greater evil can be an enormous one, and I can't let go of my wisdom and experience to risk the destruction of the nation because I am personally pissed off. I sympathize with your passion but you emotional immaturity, in my opinion, is irrationally dangerous. I can't join you either in any rationalizations of false equivalency. We have Hillary Terrible and utter shit as choices.

Get active and call for a Constitutional convention and change the way we vote so I can vote third party and pass that vote to a second candidate if my first choice fails. Then I will vote third party every time.
so then you continue on to the endless loop that is based on least worst and who can beat who.

As long as you don't wonder why nothing ever really changes then hey, mission accomplished for you.

edit: I'm glad you are admitting you vote based on fear also, that is a big thing to admit. Normally the "fear" votes are reserved just for Fox news viewers.
 
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lotus503

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I'm of the opinion that lobby really runs government. I think both sides are screwed up in their own way and as long as our political and electoral system, is what it is, were not likely to see anything meaningful from any candidate or party regardless of what they say.

Its a broken system, that favors money and power. both parties are just different shades of the same oligarchy.

And the thing is we the people are to blame because we put up with this shit and allow it to continue.
 

nickqt

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Right... you also don't support ISIS.


Yet all you do is support Obama and democrats, and ISIS.

Walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, must be a duck. Your denial might be a sign of a medical condition.

Hey, look!

It's michal1980!

He's here to say:

Libruls libruls libruls, libruls libruls. Libruls!

Yes, libruls support Obama and Democrats and ISIS.

Of course they support ISIS, because they hate them 'Murrica and love right-wing religious radicals!

Because Benghazi!

Up is down, left is right, and black is white, if you're a conservative.