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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:06 AM
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The ultimate Freeper meltdown thread
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 12:10 AM by rumguy
This an ongoing thread about outsourcing, about how it impacts the middle class. It is full of passion, argument, and name-calling. Some are starting to wake up, others are playing the class-warfare card. It is a jumbled mess of a thread but well worth a read.

Many are attacking Bush, saying he's out of touch, and can't believe he is defending outsourcing.

"I simply think Bush and his economic team really don't know what is going on.

They don't, they are the pampered sons of the wealthy elites and it's all a game to them. This will be the first election since 1968 that I will not vote in. I used to tell friends that it was important to vote that the great issues of the day were decided in elections. Well, I was wrong and my friends that told me that voting was a waste of time, and that "they are all thieves" were right. I intent spend this election with my friends at my bar laughing at all the fools that think either the rats or the gop is going to do any damn thing to help anyone other then themselves.

In 94 I worked hard to elect a GOP congress. Waste of time."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1094285/posts
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IrishBloodEngHeart Donating Member (815 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:16 AM
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1. Let's start calling the Bush presidency the "pass the buck" administration
These posters are still blaming 9/11 for Bush's f#*^ed up economy.

They won't take responsibility for anything!!!

Economy- 9/11s fault
Iraq intellegence-CIAs fault
Defecits- Democrats domestic spending fault.

Its totally ridiculous
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:18 AM
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2. Awesome
They're starting to tear into their own party. November is ours.
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cosmokramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:39 AM
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12. I received an email from Jeff Jacobson, a Senator in Ohio...
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 12:39 AM by cosmokramer
Don't know why I got it, which is irrelevant, but it said that the biggest threat to the "republican party we have fought so hard to build is not from the democrats, but from other republicans who have put their own political interests ahead of our party".

Very telling that they are beginning to eat their young.

:evilgrin:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 01:01 AM
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15. Faaaantastic
And how about that woman who ran against Chandler in Kentucky? She initially ran as a lockstep Bush loyalist and found her numbers tanking. She had to get Dubya to cancel campaign appearances because it turned out he was radioactive in RED Kentucky. So they wound up sending Cheney out to do a fundraiser for her... in Illinois. Haw!!
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cosmokramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 11:16 AM
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21. Many are beginning to distance themselves.
...November is going to be soooooooooooooo goood.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:18 AM
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3. I've noticed a lot of that going on in freeperville lately
It is so hard for them to break out of their years of denial about Bush.

He is screwing over them and yet they stay loyal. Some see the light but most don't. If Bush asked them to jump they would say "how high?"

I think that at nights the repug leadership sits around the lounge sipping their drinks and laughing their asses off over the way they can screw over the ignorant feep types yet keep getting their votes.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:35 AM
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9. If Bush told them to jump they'd say "Off of what bridge?"
:D

Morans. :eyes:
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:20 AM
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4. FreeRepublic is a place for social conservatives...
It doesn't surprise me they're against Shrub's economic policies - no one can honestly defend supply-side economics anymore, not even Reagan republicans...
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:38 AM
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10. "Compassionate" Conservatives?
Did you notice that a lot of them try to slam the single mom whose job was outsourced. Someone asks, why doesn't the father contribute? Then somebody else says:

"Divorced, of course - father's too busy with drugs and alcohol to help out any."

Sheesh!! YEAH THAT MUST BE IT!!
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:23 AM
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5. You know, in part we all agree with the guy you quoted
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 12:24 AM by jpgray
Maybe we're all Boxer, but I'll 'work harder' one more time. :D
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:26 AM
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6. very interesting..and encouraging
Of course, we have our own people here who are still part of the Cult of Ralph.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:29 AM
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7. very true - the cult of Ralph....lol - n/t
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Devils Advocate NZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 02:46 AM
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19. Yeah, that's right!
Those crazy anti-corporate types like these freepers are just NUTS! Of course they are such a minority that their views are irrelevant, but they better vote for Dems because they could cost the Dems the election!

Yes, the Dem party HAS to be pro-corporate, otherwise anti-corporate types like these freepers will NEVER be swayed into voting for Dems...
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:30 AM
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8. OMG!! This was wild
They freaked at the thing where the unemployed US worker was worried about starving. Get this (note Freep Spelling):

"They've even got a name for it, ANAREXIA.

And that ain't from being poor, just too nerotic to eat"


Might as well make that ANNorexia, for Ms. Coulter!
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:38 AM
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11. Or how about the guy
complaining about Bush excluding the middle for his "salivating base." Jeeeeebus, I'd like to see the deranged creature that a freeper thinks he stands apart from.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:43 AM
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13. Never saw one blame it on corporations outsourcing to low wage countries
Most said the typical reason for leaving was overreging and overtaxing which is a myth. These guys want slave labor and no environmental rules. Thats it.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 12:50 AM
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14. Just so long as they are not the slaves or don't have to drink dirty water
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 12:52 AM by Mountainman
Whenever what a freep believes in effects him/her negatively they stop being a freep and walk into the light. Immagine a freep IT person who's job went overseas. Do you think he tells himself he has to learn to compete with two dollar a day Indians?
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feistydem Donating Member (994 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 01:09 AM
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16. You need ask yourself only one question to think like a Republican...
How does this affect me?

Today's Republicans are all about ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. I've been looking for one that isn't entirely selfish and I have yet to meet one.

Hopefully, their selfishness will be Bush's undoing... because he's screwing all but the wealthiest among them. Maybe when they realize that, they'll just stay home during the November election.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 03:06 AM
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20. You hit it on the nose
me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me and more me me me me and what about me me me..........
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 11:31 AM
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22. That should be
MEpublicans.
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Djinn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 01:17 AM
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17. god I love the class warfare stuff
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 01:23 AM by Djinn
when we have a big wall with all the corporate thugs and the pollies they keep on a leash lined up against it...then talk to me about class warfare.

and you gotta love:
"Why do people adopt facile arguments with no moral compunction?"
Response - Ah, you're one of them book readers aren't you?


Damn interlecchool book readin' elitists
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 01:23 AM
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18. Holy moly. Freeps are waking up. (n/t)
Edited on Wed Mar-10-04 01:35 AM by w4rma
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