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Public Policy Polling: 65% of voters with a favorable view of Trump believe -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 1:46PM
It must be very comforting for Liberals -- PalmyraHoo 05/12/2016 07:58AM Yet the Democratic nomination is going to Hillary and she's the odds-on -- WahooRQ 05/12/2016 10:08AM Which part of my post says I'm comfortable about the impact -- SixerHoo 05/12/2016 09:48AM Republic if you can keep it? Liberals and Progressives are all about that -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 8:03PM Alexander Hamilton said, "The nation will fall when people -- Shenhoo 05/12/2016 10:50AM Except that quote is not only nonsense, it is also misattributed. -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 8:27PM I Posted a quote from Ben Franklin -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 8:47PM No, you didn't. You attributed a quote to Ben Franklin. ** -- VAGentleman05 05/11/2016 10:05PM But if you had read the end of the sub thread.... ** -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 10:12PM Except it isn't Franklin. Or de Tocqueville. Or Hamilton. Or Tytler. Or..? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 9:09PM Was not aware of the controversy...why is it nonsense? ** -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 9:39PM And why is believing a BF misquote worse than believing an outright lie -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 10:56PM Nice save. Obama is just as bad. ** -- KCHoo 05/11/2016 11:10PM That's a fair answer..but seriously sixer cited my misquote to prove his -- HokieDan95 05/11/2016 11:27PM Weird...didn't mean to post the thing three times! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 05/12/2016 12:42PM ....** -- Seattle .Hoo 05/12/2016 12:11PM Ooop...multiple posts...apologies.** -- Seattle .Hoo 05/12/2016 12:06PM My problem with it is twofold. First it's always thrown out there as a deep -- Seattle .Hoo 05/12/2016 12:02PM It isn't a bad quote and is worth considering but history hasn't -- KCHoo 05/11/2016 11:39PM Wrote my undergrad thesis on rumor-mongering in American politics -- ShenanHOOah 05/11/2016 5:34PM It has always been so hasn't it? I like this quote. -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 7:08PM 65% of Hillary voters believe her! ** -- AlexHoo 05/11/2016 3:51PM Fly-Over Cretins ** -- Tuckahokie 05/11/2016 3:18PM A prison inmate won 42% of the vote in 2012 -- DanTheFan 05/11/2016 7:41PM What do people from Crete have to do with this?** -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 6:09PM "women that look like Zorba" ** -- HokieDan95 05/12/2016 07:08AM Great idea. Mock and shame the Trump supporters. -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 3:06PM As I've said here before, nobody on the Soapbox is gonna be converted. ** -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 4:59PM Then what was the purpose of the post, simply to shame and mock? And I -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 5:24PM I did not link the poll to shame and mock, certainly no one here. -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 5:50PM Yea sure you didn't......somehow I never see you express your concern -- TomKazanski 05/11/2016 9:45PM I hadn't even read your post when I replied to Hoodafan -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 6:59PM Thanks Joey. No offense intended. Have a great evening. ** -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 7:11PM When I read the arrogant elitist put-downs on the working class... -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 3:37PM Step back a moment, Joey. -- DanTheFan 05/11/2016 7:57PM I'm sure you haven't missed the constant class-based digs -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 8:50PM Of course I haven't missed those digs. -- DanTheFan 05/11/2016 9:56PM Yeah, including a stereotype in an argument against stereotyping... -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 10:23PM Asparagus and rhubarb seasons make life good. -- DanTheFan 05/11/2016 10:45PM Always hard not to be irked when it is groups you associate with -- KCHoo 05/11/2016 9:42PM In all the years I've posted on this board I've never mentioned this peeve -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 10:15PM You ARE weird hippies. ** -- Shenhoo 05/12/2016 09:11AM Well, he does seem ignorant about that topic. That's not a crime. -- KCHoo 05/11/2016 11:05PM Is he really that ignorant about the topic though. I -- BocaHoo91 05/12/2016 09:52AM I think so. In part, because there are so many forms of islam -- KCHoo 05/12/2016 11:22AM I found this survey to be extremely educational as it provides some -- Hoos Operator 05/12/2016 11:03AM Question for you, Joey.... -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 9:35PM Dude you insult more people than anyone on here -- TomKazanski 05/11/2016 10:46PM I agree with that. However, discrediting ideas like Obama was born in Kenya -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 6:18PM ^ My favorite for POY so far. ** -- Hoos Operator 05/11/2016 5:58PM I'm offended by the word "redneck". Please refer to us as "rural citizens". ** -- WilliePegram 05/11/2016 5:55PM "Appalachian American" is my favorite. There's a farm up in WVA that made -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 7:35PM Urbanly challenged? ** -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 6:04PM Antimetropolitan? ** -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 6:40PM An urban area is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.** ** -- WilliePegram 05/11/2016 6:11PM *** -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 4:43PM Nah, you're probably the most respected dude who posts here. -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 4:50PM Aren't there more "working class" people in NOVA and RVA than the -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 4:16PM Nobody calls NVa "flyover country" ** -- WAH00WA 05/11/2016 6:19PM They do, however, call it "Occupied Virginia" ** -- Moneyshot 05/11/2016 6:26PM Foreigners from Timbuktu to Connecticut moved here from their -- ryno hoo 05/11/2016 11:34PM Connecticut is a failed culture? ** -- SixerHoo 05/12/2016 12:07AM Yes! :-) ** -- Hoodafan 05/12/2016 08:06AM Funny, but the people who talk about "real America" being all-white, small -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 7:00PM Nice rant, but nobody mentioned anything about "Real America" -- Moneyshot 05/12/2016 11:11AM Part of what your missing is the growth of metro areas. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 05/11/2016 10:00PM All I said is that over 80% of the country lives in places like NOVA, so -- WahooRQ 05/12/2016 10:31AM I don't think 80% of those people are arrogant pricks -- Cold Hoober Hoo 05/12/2016 10:51AM Hoober, it's all good. This has been a bit of a touchy thread but as I -- WahooRQ 05/12/2016 11:01AM Same here. Sometimes shit just rubs you -- Cold Hoober Hoo 05/12/2016 11:41AM Come on RQ, nobody is saying the hard working folks out in Manassas, inner -- Hoodafan 05/12/2016 10:44AM LOL, well played. -- WahooRQ 05/12/2016 10:59AM Related threadjack -- Stimp 05/12/2016 08:45AM Do county ordinances trump home owner associations? -- Cold Hoober Hoo 05/12/2016 10:56AM As I said, when it's you they're talking about, you know it. -- Joey Wahoo 05/11/2016 4:45PM Exactly. It's not a very effective strategy regardless of topic but for -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 4:01PM I think the Kevin Williamson column was the ultimate in that regard. ** -- Shenhoo 05/11/2016 3:51PM Preach it brother Joey ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 05/11/2016 3:49PM I think performers these days refer to that as a... -- Stimp 05/11/2016 3:47PM Exactly! These people have no political sense at all. -- Faz d. Hoo 05/11/2016 3:21PM Makes no difference. Folks who believe this stuff wear their ignorance like -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 3:09PM How about those that think we can just make the 1%ers pay for free college? -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 3:21PM Some of those ideas are certainly problematic, but they -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 5:15PM Honest question for you. To begin with, I will and have joined you guys in -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 5:32PM Both groups have bought into that one -- the naturalist types and the folks -- KCHoo 05/11/2016 5:56PM Thanks. I guess that would make it the -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 6:15PM When I said below that I have relatives who believe this Scalia nonsense I -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 6:24PM Only because it was addressed in the poll. They chose to include it. -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 5:56PM You already answered your own question. It was simply to -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 6:11PM Not sure it's a rightie thing, although there was that Michelle Bachmann -- SixerHoo 05/11/2016 6:27PM That's a mixed bag that amounts to a policy disagreement. I consider it a -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 3:28PM LOL! Policy disagreements? I think it's more likely that Obama is a -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 3:36PM The free college thing is nonsense. I just didn't feel like responding to -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 3:54PM Re: The free college thing is nonsense. I just didn't feel like responding to -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 4:04PM Seriously, I wonder what responses from Clinton supporters would -- 81_Hokie 05/11/2016 2:41PM 100% of those with favorable view of Clinton think govt is great -- TomKazanski 05/11/2016 2:22PM 100% of TomKazanski's parents are also his aunts and uncles. ** -- WahooRQ 05/11/2016 2:28PM Don't even try to trace his family wreath ** -- 81_Hokie 05/11/2016 2:37PM My Trumpette niece and sister-in-law both believe all those things. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 05/11/2016 2:08PM Hello, his name is Barack Hussein Obama .. of course a mooslim ** -- FfxStationHokie 05/11/2016 2:07PM Of course you know that 18% of people say yes to every -- RML Hoos 05/11/2016 1:59PM I've found that hanging up the phone gets me off the phone the quickest. ** -- Late 80s Hokie 05/11/2016 4:18PM 60 percent of the time, it works every time ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 05/11/2016 1:59PM And the other half is made up. ** -- Hoodafan 05/11/2016 3:03PM 4 out of 5 dentists recommend Trident for their patients who chew gum.** -- JMHoo 05/11/2016 7:55PM
