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More than 29th reasons- Why I will not vote Republican///Thanks Mr. Carlin for refreshing my memory...

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50 comments // More than 29th reasons- Why I will not vote Republican///Thanks Mr. Carlin for refreshing my memory... // Video

  • deane
  • letsliveinpeace
  • SIBob
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      SIBob  
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    • This guy will never be replaced because he said just what he thought. There was no filter, of any kind. I liked the line about "country-club pinheads". I know so many people like that, some in my family, who get off on that slap-on-the-back competitiveness, that "let's talk business" attitude, (even though many of them don't have a pot to piss in). That is the problem with this country, too many working stiffs have their heads up their boss's ass, or are willing to kiss-up to any potential "business" mark, just as long as they can be perceived as a "player". Get real and get organized, we are all mostly in the same boat, and it is a dingy riding alongside a sinking ocean liner. http://sibob.org/wordpress/

    • 4 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • SIBob
  • irie_ojo
  • nardo1224
  • savroD
  • BRAVATRAVELS
  • NEVERSCARED
  • fiberbundle
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      fiberbundle  

    • 29 reasons; 53 point plans; nine,nine nine; but only TWO viable parties. If I have even five issues I care about; it just doesn't add up.

    • 4 months ago
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  

    • Ronald Reagan helped fund the creation of Pakistan's secretive intelligence organisation. Back then, in collaboration, they sent some 30,000 militia to Afghanistan. After arming and funding these forces they left the Afghanistan people to face the trouble and mayhem they have suffered through for decades. Was it any surprise that this would only lead to trouble? The American government has funded terrorist organisations itself in the past, will it lock itself up in detention indefinitely or just a "patsy" instead?

    • 4 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • Mishima
  • Paulian
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      Paulian [removed]  
    • LivingPong:

      We have funded such organizations through both Republican and Democrat regimes. Maybe instead of looking at the letters after their names we should look at their foreign policy plans. Ron Paul is the only candidate who wants to put an end to that kind of madness.

    • 4 months ago
  • Buddha2112
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      Buddha2112  

    • I like how people are still caught up in the parties. "Republicans are still worse than democrats"... Rofl. Get over the party lies already...

      There was reason for a bipartisan system, but it's corrupt... Either one is fucked. Your best choice is to take the parties over and carry on the original messages of both parties... It's switched back and forth quite a bit over the last 300 years... (Jackson was a Democrat!) But one thing needs to remain true to both parties and that's upholding the Constitution. If you can find anyone in any party that's willing to actually follow their oath, then by all means, VOTE for them. Route the bastards out and take it back.

      BTW what the fuck is "More than 29th Reasons" ???

      We need to use our brains and be honest in office (Politicians are people [us]... They have to be), or we're doomed... again. We've done it to ourselves, relying on the government and the corporations to take care of things... We gave them the power... and now we cry for it back. It's not going to work.

    • 4 months ago
  • BRAVATRAVELS
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      BRAVATRAVELS  
    • Buddha2112:

      "More than 29th reasons...is a response to an article that read ...

      "29th reasons why I will not vote for Obama"

      I understand it is not about parties anymore; however I prefer spineless than Evil///

    • 4 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
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      VFORVENDETTA  

    • George had this right to an absolute tee, I am convinced now more than ever, that this country's is owned and dictated to buy corporate interest, it's a plutocracy, pure and simple, and it matters less and less in actual terms who controls the White House, yes, the Republicans are obviously the more aggressive in the fascist agenda, but make no mistake, the Democrats have thoroughly sold out as well, and I believe that not only the contradictions, broken promises, and out right backtracking of the Obama administration's stand as testimony to this, but the reality of a system that-in the words of Mr. Carlin "through working Americans overboard 30 fucking years ago" demonstrate this condition quite clearly, I will no longer vote for plutocrats, I will no longer settle for "the lesser of two evils."

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI

    • 4 months ago
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  
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    • VFORVENDETTA:

      I'm considering painting a penis on the next ballot, perhaps I'll have to use coloured pencils so the ballots don't all stick together. I'd rather like to use oils, maybe if I apply now they'll accept a canvas rather than a ballot.

      The choice between being stabbed in the back with a blunt knife or stabbed in the back with a sharp knife is not much of a choice. If I vote for one party I get a government lead by one faction made up of bully boys, if I vote for the other party it's run by a faction of bully boys plus a bully bitch, the minor parties would give my vote to one of the major parties depending on the mood. If I draw a penis on the ballot then I'm pretty sure it's recorded as a vote for the current government.

      Perhaps one party will rape me a little less violently after stabbing me in the back, but I'm purely speculating.

    • 4 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • LivingPong
  • joeredford
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • joeredford
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • joeredford
  • VFORVENDETTA
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      VFORVENDETTA  
    • joeredford:

      it was about your picture of George, the humor I intended with the reference, was the famous picture that was put up all around many of the very left leaning business establishments, particularly in bars and clubs, in an around Portland Oregon, where I used to live and is my adopted home at the time of his first election, his face drawn as Alfred E. Neuman, you know, the "What? me worry?" guy on Mad Magazine, that's the reference.

    • 4 months ago
  • joeredford
  • LT4456
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      LT4456  

    • I'm won't vote for either party. The Democrats are better than the Republicans; however, the Democrats aren't good enough for me anymore. They work for the bankers and lobbyist just like the Republicans. They start and continue wars just like the Republicans. Also, The Democrats haven't ended the stupid war on drugs either.

    • 4 months ago
  • Mishima
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      Mishima  
    • LT4456:

      I am hearing more and more people say what you say.

      That is great because it will help insure that our next president is Romney, and that the Republicans will take over the Senate, repeal ObamaCare.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
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      Paulian [removed]  
    • LT4456:

      Ron Paul is the only candidate not being backed by the bastards who destroyed the economy. Ron Paul is the only candidte who will end the war on drugs. Ron Paul is the only candidate who doesn't want to start a war with Iran. Why not look beyond the letters after their names and look at what they plan to do.

    • 4 months ago
  • artemis6
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • I guess that leaves Obama off the ballot for you too....?

      You guys like DINO's (democrat in name only)?

      See much like Mr.1010220, Mr. Obama can and has been bought out.... I love Mr. Carlin always will, he's right up there with Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, and a few other great ones known for calling out bullshit....

      And I won't be voting for a republican either, it will be the Trojan Libertarian that ripped the GOP a new one, a Libertarian that has so much influence his sense of integrity will touch generations and policy yet to come.....

      But yeah don't vote republican that would be a waste... I mean unless you like overpaid "Fiji Water" connoisseurs sitting back lying to you about how they're not planning to send your children to die over "ownership" of the last drop of mid-eastern oil.....

      Or you can imply Mr.1010220 (HATED THAT FUCKING COMMERCIAL) meant explicitly Trojan Libertarians and Carlin never had personally a vested interest in selling you shit......

    • 4 months ago
  • BRAVATRAVELS
  • joeredford
  • Paulian
  • joeredford
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      joeredford [removed]  
    • Paulian:

      Paulistas are the most ill informed people I have ever had the displeasure to deal with. Stay locked in your little idealogical box while Paul loses again and again and again. Power to libertarians will be forever denied by the American people because we have common sense, and recognize a failed political theory when we see one. It worked out so well for the people of Iceland, didn't it? American's may not be the most sophisticated people in the world , but they know how to spot an extremist and a fraud when they see one.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
  • joeredford
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      joeredford [removed]  
    • Paulian:

      Really? One party has provided every piece of social legislation which has moved this country forward over the past 80 years. The other has done everything within it's power to prevent this progress and take it back to the 19th century. I prefer progress to regression and will stick with the party that has created that progress . I won't swallow the utopian rantings of a theory that rewards greed over the concept of community , no matter how much you guys rail about the libertarian nightmare you call an answer.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
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      Paulian [removed]  
    • joeredford:

      The "conflict" you are talking about is nothing more than a puppet show for the masses. The Democrats get to play a part to keep their constituants happy and the Republcians get to do the same. Each plays their part well. Ron Paul is the only man who will not continuue this game of distraction. Ron Paul is the only man who wants to stop the madness and move us into a future where budgets are truely balanced and government serves the people. Voting against him is a vote for business as usual.

    • 4 months ago
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  

    • OMG!!!
      Carlin is so right on!
      Do we not see the evil we are up against???
      How can any liberal or progressive not see this?
      Astonished by the apathy and ignorance of my own party.

    • 4 months ago
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • 20thsieclefox
  • BRAVATRAVELS
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  

    • Has only always taken One Reason for me:

      The Lairds of the Manor Vs people who create and work, and make the Lairds' life possible.

    • 4 months ago
  • alanb4130_
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      alanb4130_  

    • Towards the end George's tone kind of changed towards how he felt about Republicans. Things have only gotten worse with the way the Republicans have acted .

    • 4 months ago
  • ecoalex
  • Leen61
  • MSII
  • BRAVATRAVELS
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      BRAVATRAVELS  

    • "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

      -George Walker Bush

    • 4 months ago
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