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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:08 PM
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Is * well on his way to being the dictator he has longed for?
Seems he hasn't lost anytime seizing power on all fronts. His marginal "win" has made him even more arrogant, if that is possible. What really frosts my butt, is that he knows he stole this election through whatever means and he is rubbing it in the faces of the 49% who wanted him the hell out of office! He is laughing at us, while giving working class Americans, including those who voted for him, a royal screwing! We know it, the "value voters" don't, yet!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:10 PM
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1. Yes
I had an exchage with one of them, and I told him

Teh election was not between a corrupt demcrat and a corrupt republican... it was between the choice of Republic or Empire. You chose Empire and like many in Ancient Rome you may live to regret that vote... and I surely hope you do.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:12 PM
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3. Amazing ain't it?
:shrug:
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:12 PM
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2. Hitler was elected, too.
And there was the Reichstag Fire (9/11?), and the Night of the Long Knives (the CIA purge?), and then there was Kristallnacht (will there be "sanctioned" hate crimes vs. gays?). Hitler had Leni Riefenstahl; Bush has the entire cable news media. I don't think the comparison is over the top at all.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:13 PM
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4. It's not
at all.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:14 PM
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5. I drew a little mustache on *'s cover photo in last week's Time
The resemblance was more than disturbing. Grab a sharpie and check it out. Eek.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:22 PM
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8. I can visualize that without actually doing it.
I remember so clearly on 12/18/00, watching him on C-SPAN with members of both the House and Senate, saying how he might have to "knock heads" to get things done, and "how it would be easier if this were a dictatorship, so long as he was the dictator." Yuck Yuck Yuck! And that wasn't the first time I had heard him say that! Yeah, real funny Chimpy! :mad:
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:35 PM
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15. Sometimes a sharpie trumps visualization...
The fact that it came out even worse than I expected threw me. I couldn't even touch the magazine after that. I showed it to 2 friends and threw it away. Face down.
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Gay Green Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:47 PM
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16. "Sometimes a sharpie trumps visualization..."
The fact that it came out even worse than I expected threw me. I couldn't even touch the magazine after that. I showed it to 2 friends and threw it away. Face down.

My local paper had the Shrub th three-quarters profile with a gold-plated presidential seal behind him, looking every bit like the aura that Orthodox Christians paint around the heads of Jesus and the Saints (and Medieval catholics used to do). I took a sharpie and wrote "DCLXVI" right across his forehead! :evilgrin:
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 02:02 PM
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31. This One...?


Revisited and improved by LiberalCartoons.com :evilgrin:
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wysi Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:30 PM
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11. It's entirely apt.
We are watching a replay of history, with the exception that gays and liberals will be playing the role of jews in this one.
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Nikepallas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:16 PM
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6. YEP!!! and he will prove it when 2008 election is cancelled
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:56 PM
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25. Why cancel it? The article on the results is already written, no doubt
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:15 PM
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26. they will continue with fake elections to keep the mobs at bay
Look at what just happened. Everybody thinks we had an honest election, so everybody is accepting it quietly.

They will continue to do this down the road, of course.

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lizzieforkerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:22 PM
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7. Presidential Viagra
Becaues screwing an entire nation is hard werk!
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:23 PM
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9. Heh!
:evilgrin:
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Scan Hopper Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:26 PM
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10. i nearly lost my mind at my desk at work
when i heard his press conference on Nov 4th. the arrogance!!! after work i went out and bought the most stinging anti-Bush bumper sticker i could stand.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:31 PM
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12. Welcome to DU!
* is nothing if not arrogant!
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Scan Hopper Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:32 PM
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13. thanks!
...from a red state native...Texas actually. Abilene TX actually. whew.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:52 PM
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18. San Antonio here
:hi:
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:13 PM
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20. Fort Worth here
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:19 PM
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21. Hi neighbor!
:hi:
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:41 PM
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22. hi neighbor yourself! You in Foat Wuth?
I am in the I-20 corridor, not far from Hulen
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Scan Hopper Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:46 PM
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23. well i've now lived in Austin for 5 years
thank heavens.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 10:50 PM
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24. I only envy you if I can get around the )(*^&($ mountain cedar
pollen.

I could NEVER live in the Hill Country.

When that stuff starts blowing up here around end of Nov, I start sneezing and don't stop until February.

Twice I have had pneumonia from secondary infections.

And I am normally quite healthy.

But Austin is such a neat city!!!!! I do like to visit it
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:22 PM
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28. Austin is a neat city
San Antonio is bad for pollen. Where I live, oak trees abound! Allergies big time here. :-(
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:18 PM
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27. I'm San Antonio
1604 and 281.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 03:37 PM
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34. Hi Scan Hopper!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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MsConduct Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:33 PM
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14. I'm a-m-a-z-e-d at how blindly loyal the fools who voted....
for him still are! Just proves to me that they are all a ignorant as I thought they were. I guess when all the people who make less that $200,000 a year are rounded up and put in some kind 'poor folks' work camps, they'll see the error of their misplaced trust.
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Gay Green Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:51 PM
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17. Re: "I'm a-m-a-z-e-d at how blindly loyal the fools who voted...."
I doubt it. And if the people who make less than $200 thou a year are slated for extermination, those who drink his kool-aid could LITERALLY drink it then! :evilgrin:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 09:56 PM
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19. Well one would hope that might wake up the ignorant * "value voters"
But sadly I don't hold out much hope for them.
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MsConduct Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 12:13 PM
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29. Without hope, we got nothing! n/t
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DownNotOut Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 12:22 PM
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30. He is 1 major attack awary from
full marshall law and the total controll he has been working to achive. Be strong and learn the skills to sustain yourself and your family in the worst of times.

D.N.O
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Roxy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 02:04 PM
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32. He's already there
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 02:08 PM
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33. Another poster
said that he/she witnessed a billboard with his douchebag face on the side of the highway. Looks like he's well on his way to becoming a dictator. Even more likely considering we have no more CHECKS AND BALANCES. Sigh. The stupidity is going to make my head explode.
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