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eridani

(51,907 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:05 AM Oct 2015

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Conservative club on college campus puts up 'anchor babies' poster, gets smashed, begins crying

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/30/1426293/-Conservative-club-on-college-campus-puts-up-anchor-babies-poster-gets-smashed-begins-crying

A brand new Young Americans for Freedom student club put up recruitment posters at Gettysburg College.

CALLING ALL CONSERVATIVES
Do you enjoy hugging babies vs killing them?
Obamacare not for you?
Do you realize socialism doesn't work?
Can you manage your email account better than Hillary Clinton?
Anchor babies.....and you're not afraid to say it #notpc
Is fixing the country more important than your golf game?

BEST PART if you disagree.... come for the debates!

Seem like a fun bunch? Indeed! A Hillary-is-bad-at-email joke for the 18 to 22 year-old set? These guys and gals (let's be serious, it's probably almost entirely guys) are wicked funny! Let me use some college level deconstruction, in the most postmodern fashion possible.

Do you enjoy hugging babies vs killing them?
This is the pro-choice versus anti-abortion thing, amiright? Is hugging the right answer?

Obamacare not for you?
You're at college and covered by your parents' insurance. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

Do you realize socialism doesn't work?
Doubt you even have the foggiest idea what socialism is. But, fair enough.

Can you manage your email account better than Hillary Clinton? [crickets]....ZZzzzzzzz, wait, what?

Anchor babies.....and you're not afraid to say it #notpc
Are you a racist? That's a much more succinct way of saying what you're trying to say. The hashtag notpc thing is just a caveat promising you can say racist things and derogatory remarks and not be made to feel badly for being a racist asshole.

Is fixing the country more important than your golf game?
I believe this is a dig at John Boehner? But it could be a backhanded attack on Greg Norman and his inability to solve world hunger.

As these young conservatives were soon to find out, no good deed goes unpunished and a parody poster came to light.

Calling all Fascists!

Do you believe:
Poor people should be starved or imprisoned?
In ignoring the success of Democratic Socialism in many countries?
In religious freedom for Christians?
The right to an attorney but not a doctor?
Obama is a Muslim?
A police badge is a license to kill?
Babies should be deported instead of fed?
Rove's, Cheney's, and Powell's private servers didn't count?
In only reading books written by Fox News contributors?
Embryos are more important than women?
That all of this will make America GREAT AGAIN?
Support Fascism in your local communities!

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Conservative club on college campus puts up 'anchor babies' poster, gets smashed, begins crying (Original Post) eridani Oct 2015 OP

Ome quibble. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1

Another case of screw the poor, if you can attend college you probably have parents with money Stargazer99 Oct 2015 #3

Most parents with insurance cover kids under "Family" plans bigbrother05 Oct 2015 #5

The ACA allows kids to stay on thir parents insurance until age 26. This is a better deal for FSogol Oct 2015 #14

Typically, adding 1 "child" to a 2-adult plan is cheaper jeff47 Oct 2015 #16

I think the golfing line is a dig at Obama MiniMe Oct 2015 #2

Really? Frank Cannon Oct 2015 #7

Well, at least he's wearing stripes.. mountain grammy Oct 2015 #13

And God forbid Obama takes a vacation... Human101948 Oct 2015 #8

That's how I read it, too. spooky3 Oct 2015 #10

Great Insight, but why do you have to add this? Roy Rolling Oct 2015 #4

And they sound even stupider if you look at the last line... mak3cats Oct 2015 #6

they're always the sort that if they smell gasoline they strike a match to see it better MisterP Oct 2015 #17

Like this idiot. Elmer S. E. Dump Oct 2015 #19

Fascism? Today's "conservatives" are 14 for 14. forest444 Oct 2015 #9

Do you enjoy hugging babies vs killing them? PatrynXX Oct 2015 #11

Conservatives don't believe in a right to an attorney or a right to a doctor. Jim__ Oct 2015 #12

Excellent post eridani. At least someone on that campus still has dae Oct 2015 #15

That's someone's idea of "smashed"? Matariki Oct 2015 #18

is that Reagan's image on the paper? Skittles Oct 2015 #20

They missed a bet here. Someone should have written, under "Do you enjoy hugging babies... Moonwalk Oct 2015 #21

Another win for the good guys SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #22

Your answers are better than theirs. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #23

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

1. Ome quibble.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:16 AM

Oct 2015

Many college students are NOT covered by their parents' health insurance - because colleges often offer BETTER health insurance than their parents have, and cheaply. College students are, by and large, a really healthy group of people, so they're a great pool as far as health insurance goes. I suspect the college-offered insurance plans match or beat most silver level plans on the exchanges, and they're also really cheap. I signed up for college health plans whenever I was taking even part-time classwork into my 40s.

Stargazer99

(2,582 posts)

3. Another case of screw the poor, if you can attend college you probably have parents with money

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:52 AM

Oct 2015

Pull your self up by the bootstraps, poor one...Oh and too bad I cut the boot strap

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)

5. Most parents with insurance cover kids under "Family" plans

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:59 AM

Oct 2015

Paying for an extra policy might be a luxury many would forego.

FSogol

(45,468 posts)

14. The ACA allows kids to stay on thir parents insurance until age 26. This is a better deal for

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:17 AM

Oct 2015

my 2 sons than the offered college plans. I suspect this is true for most middle-class students or any student with working parents.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

16. Typically, adding 1 "child" to a 2-adult plan is cheaper

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:36 AM

Oct 2015

than that "child" having their own plan. The "child" is in the same risk pool you describe as the reason the college plan would be cheaper, so that is already factored into adding the child to the parent's plan.

On my health plan from work, adding an infinite number of children is about 75% the cost of adding one adult.

MiniMe

(21,714 posts)

2. I think the golfing line is a dig at Obama

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:24 AM

Oct 2015

The right wing is obsessed with Obama playing golf. Because a Democratic President has no right to any personal time to enjoy himself, especially if he is black.

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)

7. Really?

Reply to MiniMe (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:22 AM

Oct 2015

Well, watch this drive!

mountain grammy

(26,608 posts)

13. Well, at least he's wearing stripes..

Reply to Frank Cannon (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:04 AM

Oct 2015

I think I die a little every time I see this video.

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

8. And God forbid Obama takes a vacation...

Reply to MiniMe (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:24 AM

Oct 2015

Unlike George Bush Jr. who took more vacation than any other resident of the White House.

On Aug. 8, 2014, Knoller tweeted that Obama had taken 19 vacations totaling 125 days so far while in office. Those numbers have risen a bit due to the Martha’s Vineyard vacation, but that’s still many fewer than George W. Bush’s 65 combined trips to his Texas ranch and his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine, which totaled 407 days at the same point in his presidency.According to the Washington Post it was 879 days by the time he left office.

Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at his beloved California ranch.

Not included in this data are trips to the Camp David presidential retreat in western Maryland, which Knoller doesn’t count as "vacation." Knoller told Yahoo! News that, through Aug. 12, 2014, Obama had made 33 visits to Camp David for all or part of 84 days, while Bush had been there 108 times for all or part of 341 days.

The article does point out that George Bush Jr. did stop playing golf after he made that gaffe, "Now watch this drive!"

....As for which president has played the most rounds of golf, it’s definitely not Obama. For instance, Dwight Eisenhower played almost 800 rounds during his eight-year presidency, according to a study of his daily itinerary cited in Golf Digest -- many times what Obama has played.

And Eisenhower is not even the No. 1 golf-playing president. Woodrow Wilson played nearly 1,200 rounds during his two terms. Wilson "played more rounds of golf than any president in history," said Wilson’s biographer, A. Scott Berg.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/aug/23/who-took-more-vacation-george-w-bush-or-barack-oba/

spooky3

(34,425 posts)

10. That's how I read it, too.

Reply to MiniMe (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:47 AM

Oct 2015

Roy Rolling

(6,911 posts)

4. Great Insight, but why do you have to add this?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:54 AM

Oct 2015

"These guys and gals (let's be serious, it's probably almost entirely guys)".

It is not entirely male, the Vice President according to their website is a female named Alissa.

Just sayin'. Cheap shot. There are many rabidly conservative women.

mak3cats

(1,573 posts)

6. And they sound even stupider if you look at the last line...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:10 AM

Oct 2015

"BEST PART if you disagree.... come for the debates!"

If the last line is referring to all the previous statements, shouldn't the last line say:

"BEST PART if you agree.... come for the debates!"

Idiots.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

17. they're always the sort that if they smell gasoline they strike a match to see it better

Reply to mak3cats (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:26 PM

Oct 2015

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

19. Like this idiot.

Reply to MisterP (Reply #17)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:37 PM

Oct 2015

forest444

(5,902 posts)

9. Fascism? Today's "conservatives" are 14 for 14.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:26 AM

Oct 2015

http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)

11. Do you enjoy hugging babies vs killing them?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:55 AM

Oct 2015

yeah.. except if your tea party this gets interesting since they think it should be instant death penalty for all "******" babies ... no hugging involved who are you aiming the question at numbnuts

Jim__

(14,073 posts)

12. Conservatives don't believe in a right to an attorney or a right to a doctor.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:03 AM

Oct 2015

You only have a right to those things that daddy's money can buy for you.

dae

(3,396 posts)

15. Excellent post eridani. At least someone on that campus still has

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:28 AM

Oct 2015

useful grey matter between their ears.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)

18. That's someone's idea of "smashed"?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:28 PM

Oct 2015

Skittles

(153,138 posts)

20. is that Reagan's image on the paper?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:32 PM

Oct 2015

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)

21. They missed a bet here. Someone should have written, under "Do you enjoy hugging babies...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:30 PM

Oct 2015

...vs killing them?": Unless they're anchor babies, which you'd rather have the mother abort than give birth to in your country....

That IS that they're saying, isn't it?

SusanaMontana41

(3,233 posts)

22. Another win for the good guys

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2015, 05:11 AM

Oct 2015

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

23. Your answers are better than theirs.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Oct 3, 2015, 05:18 AM

Oct 2015

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