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Oh thank god
GET THOSE LIGHTS OFF
OMG I will never be able to unhear this
Paul gettin’ his sass on for DC Mean Tweets.
Bonus! A cropped version of #2 for your ‘WTF’ reaction gif needs.
I’m pretty sure this post got hijacked along the way but it just hit 10,000 notes, so…
Nice!
Dear Bernie supporters.
Nope, wrong. You missed the entire point of the original source. That is about sometimes, life doesn’t go your way, and instead of blaming others because they have more, take what you have. BUT YOU CANNOT COMPARE THIS TO AMERICAN POLITICS.
In its current state, there is a diminishing middle class. If you are born into it, you’re probably gonna stay there for the rest of your life. You can afford health care, going to school (not even college, some people can’t afford public school), and being well-off in life and you are presented with better opportunities because you live comfortably. On the other hand, if you’re lower class, well good freakin luck. You don’t have what the upper class has, and you have 0.001% chance of being comfortable.
When people call Burnie a “socialist”, they don’t realize THATS WHAT THE FUCKING COUNTRY IS FOUNDED ON, THATS WHAT TRUE DEMOCRACY IS.
America was created to let anyone who comes to the US, or is born here, have a fair chance at getting into whatever position they so desire. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you support, what you look like, or what you were born into. YOU SHOULD HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS AS SOMEONE WHO IS BORN INTO WEALTH/A MORE DESIRABLE SITUATION. We are literally experiencing what the Founding Fathers experienced. In the UK they had the rich and the peasants. There was no middle class.
So basically what you’re trying to say is that I should “accept” being poor? Nah, fuck that. We live from paycheck to paycheck, I don’t fucking eat a meal sometimes. Should I accept that? Should I accept the fact that I may be in the same situation as my parents are in? That I’ll work a job that’s barely over minimum wage and I won’t be able to send my kids to college?
I am not gonna accept any of that.
So it’s the governments job to force others to give you their money? Yeah, don’t think so.
Could you explain what you mean about not being able to afford public school? School is not only free, it’s compulsory.
John Boehner personally asked Paul Ryan to run for the job.
Hey guys! Just came back to see what everyone has to say about this. Makes no sense.
Come @ me, Paul Ryan.
I’m ready.
welcome back??
Wait, what year is this? *war flashback*
Hello again!
Hey guys :)
" If Republicans even thought he might run for president in 2016, his fellow potential candidates would have to distance themselves from Ryan’s ideas, as he would be a threat to them. But now Ryan can work to shape all their agendas simultaneously, and they will have to compete for his favor — they’ll want both his endorsement and, if they win, his help."
Mia Love and others like her are seemingly out of touch with the political realities of African Americans and what remains at stake for them. Viewing herself and others through the prism of individualism, she strays from the political stances ...
She "strays"? She strays? Can we just talk about HuffPo's racist dogwhistle? Mia Love strays from the political stance permitted to blacks, isn't that right? She strays from the liberal plantation, is that what they're trying to say?
Darron T. Smith, PhD, looks black, but his political stances reflect not his own self-interest, but the interests of his rich, white puppetmasters, such as Arianna Huffington.
I'd also like to hear him explain how Mia Love, as a Haitian-American, cannot fully internalize the struggles of those African-Americans who may be the great-great-great-grandchildren of slaves, but Barack Obama, who was born to a white mother and an African father (i.e., no slave lineage!) somehow can? Oh, because he's a Democrat?
I mean, I love me some cowboys.. but.. hahahahah
Oh, BB, shave, asap!
Happy Labor Day
It’s been a crazy summer, but I’m still here …
Looks like you all are having a pretty good time though!
Hi! All is well here! Hope you are doing good.
Eh, good enough :) But I see you had a pretty good time at the Reagan Library! Scoooore! Nice photo!
but...where is dailypaulryan? Did she close her account? I can't find her...did she just change her name?
To take the measure of this uncommonly interesting public man, begin with two related facts about him. Paul Ryan has at least 67 cousins in his Wisconsin hometown of Janesville, where there are six Ryan households within eight blocks of his home. And in his new book, The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea, he says something few politicians say, which is why so many are neither trusted nor respected. Ryan says he was wrong. At a Wisconsin 4-H fair in 2012, Ryan encountered a Democrat who objected to what then was one of Ryan’s signature rhetorical tropes — his distinction between “makers” and “takers,” the latter being persons who receive more in government spending than they pay in taxes. He had been struck by a report that 60 percent of Americans were already — this was before Obamacare — “net receivers.” But his encounter at the fair reminded him that, for a while, he and many people he cared about had been takers, too. #ad#The morning after a night “working the Quarter Pounder grill at McDonald’s,” Ryan, 16, found his father, who had been troubled by alcohol, dead in bed. Janesville’s strong sinews of community sustained Ryan and his mother; so did Social Security survivor benefits. When GM’s Janesville assembly plant closed, draining about $220 million of annual payroll from a town of 60,000, many relatives, friends and constituents needed the social safety net — unemployment compensation, job training, etc. “At the fair that day, I realized I’d been careless with my language,” he writes. “The phrase gave insult where none was intended.” He has changed his language and his mind somewhat but thinks the fundamental things still apply. “Society,” Ryan writes, “functions through institutions that operate in the space between the individual and the state,” and “government exists to protect the space where all of these great things occur.” Hence government has a “supporting role” as “the enabler of other institutions.” Progressive government, however, works, sometimes inadvertently but often deliberately, to subordinate or supplant those institutions. This depletion of social capital is comprehensively injurious to the culture. And “all the tax cuts in the world don’t matter much if you don’t get the culture right.” Progressivism aims to place individuals in unmediated dependency on a government that can proclaim, as Barack Obama does: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Meaning, people depend on government for what they are and have. Few of today’s progressives are acquainted with their doctrine’s intellectual pedigree or its consistent agenda. Progressivism’s founders, however, considered it essential that the nation make progress, as they understood this, beyond the Founders’ natural-rights philosophy, which limits government by saying (in the Declaration of Independence) that it is “instituted” to “secure” these rights. Hence Woodrow Wilson, a progressive who understood his doctrine’s premises, urged Americans to “not repeat the [Declaration’s] preface.” Progressivism preaches that rights do not pre-exist government, that they are dispensed and respected by government as it sees fit and to fit its purposes. Those purposes grow unconstrained by the Constitution that progressives construe as a “living” — meaning infinitely elastic — document. Since 1999, when he became its second-youngest member, Ryan has been an intellectual ornament to the House of Representatives — and a headache for risk-averse Republican-party operatives. They pay lip service to electing conservatives who will make the choices necessary to stabilize the architecture of the entitlement system and unleash the economic growth that must finance the system’s promises. But they want to let voters remain oblivious about the choices required by that architecture’s rickety condition. Such Republicans are complicit with Obama, who demonstrated the self-destructive nature of his now-evaporating presidency by his contemptuous, and contemptible, treatment of Ryan on April 13, 2011. After he loftily aspired to teach Washington civility, the White House invited Ryan to sit in the front row at a speech in which Obama gave an implacably hostile and mendacious depiction of Ryan’s suggestions for entitlement reforms. Obama thereby repeated his tawdry performance in his 2010 State of the Union address, when, with Supreme Court justices in the front row of the House chamber, he castigated them for the Citizens United decision, which he misrepresented. Both times, Obama’s behavior bespoke the insecurity of someone who, surrounded by sycophants, shuns disputations with people who can reply. Ryan, however, has replied with a book that demonstrates Obama’s wisdom in not arguing with a man who has a better mind and better manners. — George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2014 The Washington Post
Happy Labor Day
It's been a crazy summer, but I'm still here ... Looks like you all are having a pretty good time though!
[F]or the sake of the poor, we have to overcome our understandable wariness and begin a full and honest conversation about poverty. We have to understand that neither character alone nor government programs alone are going to solve the problem, and that we have before us, if we only choose to see them and support them, examples of groups that have combined renewed character and supportive private and public generosity to lift individuals out of poverty.
Paul asked me to show him those groups. He was and is willing to learn how they work, not by reading studies that aggregate results from hundreds of sites, but by going into poor neighborhoods one by one and talking to low-income people face-to-face. In my years of work with the poor, and having learned to tune up my own BS detector to a fine edge, I can say that I’ve never seen this sort of willingness to learn before.
Ready for the debate!
Hahaha, I sincerely hope he comes on stage tomorrow just like this.
"SURPRISE!"
Party time!
Paul gettin’ his sass on for DC Mean Tweets.
Bonus! A cropped version of #2 for your ‘WTF’ reaction gif needs.
8,677 notes babay...
Nice work, missmerewolf!
Have A Very Micro Christmas!
A growing snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht
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It might be cold, but beautiful science warms my heart.
original-prg will LOVE this one…..not. ;)
(OMG, how was this not from me??)
I don't think I've logged on here for weeks but thank you SOOOO much PRAD for calling this to my attention ... I needed the laugh
In other news ... how 'bout that budget deal? Sheesh.