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Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Kevlar Kandidate Kicks Himself 36

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Scott "Kevlar" Walker has been trying to pretend that he isn't trying to position himself to run for the white house:

you have to be crazy to want to be president. And anyone who has seen pictures of this president or any of the former presidents can see the before and after. No matter how fit, no matter how young they are, they age pretty rapidly when you look at their hair any everything else involved with it.

He then went on to attack the politician who republicans assume to be the front-runner (and make second careers out of attacking):

Whether it's two years, six years or 20 years from now - because I think of Hillary Clinton. I could run 20 years from now and still be about the same age as the former Secretary of State is right now

So now Walker is trying to flip the age matter. When McCain ran against Obama, the GOP was telling us that seniority was an important and valuable thing and that one should vote for the older candidate. Now Walker is telling us that age is a bad thing. Thank you for the flip-flop, there.

On a bit of a tangent, if slashdot doesn't fix the message system here soon I will likely be reading this site a lot less often. I don't have time to search out replies to my comments on a regular basis, the front page did a great job of alerting me to them. Now that system is broken for the second time in as many weeks.

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  • I noticed that comments are getting sparse on the front page too...

    By the time you finally do get your messages, the articles and JEs will be archived...

    I've always liked this place. They were very stable, and almost indelible. And now it's starting to look like your average abandoned Olympic Village, left to rot, with spam graffiti sprayed all over the journal section and even the front page, all to gain a 'wider' audience. Maybe the owners are just letting the lease to run out. I'm sure they bought the pl

    • The problem though is that if you flip something and find out that it lost value, then you lost the money you put in to it. Thankfully for dice, they wanted the other parts of the organization and if they just end up shutting this operation down entirely they still can come out ahead.
  • Walker read the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/articles/kimberley-strassel-scott-walkers-2016-challenge-1415923731 [wsj.com].
    This is basically an open letter from Rove telling Walker that if he has any ambitions, he'd better prick a finger and sign on the goatskin.
    Walker, sanely, is gauging whether his soul is worth wading through the wreckage in the wake of #OccupyResoluteDesk.
    • Soul? What kind of soul does Walker have left to risk? He's already crapped all over the future of most of his state. Didn't Jesus have something to say about helping out the less fortunate, or something about the eternal fate of those who worry only about their own financial house?
      • Jesus said much about helping out the less fortunate. On an individual basis. As one should, for spiritual growth.
        This whole business of confusing God with Caesar (a chronic Progressive error) is the source of much, much woe.
        After we've passed the Communist Manifesto in the kidney stone fashion, maybe you'll up your game and go for the Gospel of John with me, for good therapy?

        • Jesus said much about helping out the less fortunate. On an individual basis. As one should, for spiritual growth.

          To the best of my knowledge there is no record of Scott Walker helping the less fortunate on an individual basis, either. Meanwhile his actions are directly hurting the less fortunate on a much wider basis. Walker is supposed to be a leader, but he is not presenting any examples of helping the less fortunate. Rather, he is presenting examples of helping himself.

          This whole business of confusing God with Caesar (a chronic Progressive error) is the source of much, much woe.

          There's a whole lot of conjecture, there. It does seem I have made the mistake of confusing this particular politician with being an actual le

          • there is no record of Scott Walker helping the less fortunate on an individual basis

            So you're saying he's not the sort of hypocrite who trumpets acts of charity. Got it.

            • there is no record of Scott Walker helping the less fortunate on an individual basis

              So you're saying he's not the sort of hypocrite who trumpets acts of charity. Got it.

              That is another nice double standard, there. When you evaluate a democrat you insist that they spend their free time conspiring to impose a new world fascist regime, while when you evaluate a republican you insist that they spend their free time working at soup kitchens and building orphanages.

              Funny thing is, though, most of a governor's time is reported in one way or another. I haven't heard anything of him investing his spare time in helping less fortunate people.

              • When you evaluate a democrat you insist that they spend their free time conspiring to impose a new world fascist regime

                More accurately, I point out that more legislation == less freedom.

                when you evaluate a republican you insist that they spend their free time working at soup kitchens and building orphanages.

                I find out the most remarkable things about my actions from you.

                • When you evaluate a democrat you insist that they spend their free time conspiring to impose a new world fascist regime

                  More accurately, I point out that more legislation == less freedom.

                  Being as we lost more freedom when your guy was in the white house then any time that we've had a democrat in the white house, there is actually a small shred of reality in that statement. Far more legislation was passed into law during terms with republicans in the white house than during terms with democrats there.

                  when you evaluate a republican you insist that they spend their free time working at soup kitchens and building orphanages.

                  I find out the most remarkable things about my actions from you.

                  Considering how quickly you were tripping over yourself to praise him:

                  So you're saying he's not the sort of hypocrite who trumpets acts of charity. Got it.

                  When there is no evidence of him performing any such "acts of charity" - and indeed plenty of records of him performing a

                  • Look, you have to provide substantiating links for any of that to make sense.
                    My default position on any claim you make is that you're peddling fiction.
                    • I just quoted you directly. I directly employed the actual words you used to show how you were doing exactly what I said you were doing. You were giving your hero a giant free pass based solely on the what fact?

                      Or do you want me to follow him around with a video camera 24x7 for the next ~16 months (until he launches his presidential campaign) to see if he commits a charitable act?

                    • do you want me to follow him around with a video camera 24x7 for the next ~16 months (until he launches his presidential campaign) to see if he commits a charitable act?

                      You, sir, are a man of creepy obsessions.

                    • do you want me to follow him around with a video camera 24x7 for the next ~16 months (until he launches his presidential campaign) to see if he commits a charitable act?

                      You, sir, are a man of creepy obsessions.

                      That was not an offer. Rather it was to point out how absurd your command was to prove that Walker has never personally done anything that was charitable towards the less fortunate. You could have offered up an alternate way to counter your assertion of him being so Jesus-like but you did not.

                    • How is lack of information about a private matter an absurdity, exactly?
                    • The absurdity is that when you don't have information on "private matters" of a politician from party A, you say that they are off doing saintly things with that time. Conversely when you have no information on "private matters" from a politician of party B, you immediately assert that they are plotting the NWO.
                    • I'm sorry--when have I commented on anyone's spare time? I know I've commented on the total lack of academic documentation for #OccupyResoluteDesk, and remarked that he seems to be a decent father with a stable family life.
                      But I guess that would offend your Holy Narrative, so don't let facts trigger fretting.

                    • I'm sorry--when have I commented on anyone's spare time?

                      Many of your favorite conspiracy theories - particularly the ones where you claim that President Lawnchair is a closet illuminati waiting to convert the US into a socialist fascist dictatorship - are dependent on having knowledge of what he does when he isn't doing POTUS stuff.

                      But I guess that would offend your Holy Narrative

                      You use that term as if it should have some sort of meaning. I'm not sure if it is more or less absurd than the conspiracy theory that you try to propagate with your silly hashtag.

                    • you claim that President Lawnchair is a closet illuminati waiting to convert the US into a socialist fascist dictatorship

                      Are you saying that BHO hasn't urinated all over the spirit of the Constitution while on the job, e.g. Amnesty?

                      he conspiracy theory that you try to propagate with your silly hashtag

                      What, that the styole of community organizing and activism informing the #Occupy movement isn't congruent with the No-Talent Rodeo Clown's playbook?

                      As is so commonly the case, you have offered no evidence in support of your point. Chiefly due to its fictional nature.

                    • It sounded so nice, I'll say it twice:

                      You are a meme machine, mang [youtube.com]!

                    • So, you can just slap a "meme" sticker on any inconvenient fact and ignore it? Now that there is some Progress!

                    • you claim that President Lawnchair is a closet illuminati waiting to convert the US into a socialist fascist dictatorship

                      Are you saying that BHO hasn't urinated all over the spirit of the Constitution while on the job

                      I wish that question had a meaning. The "spirit of the constitution" is beyond a nebulous term. If the authors of the constitution wanted the document to mean something other than what it says then why doesn't it say it? If we were supposed to incorporate your favorite interpretation of the federalist papers into the constitution then why weren't they written into it?

                      The conspiracy theory that you try to propagate with your silly hashtag

                      What, that the styole of community organizing and activism informing the #Occupy movement isn't congruent

                      Well, for one it is generally better spelled than that.

                      More significantly, though, your silly hashtag-driven conspiracy is dependent

                    • If the authors of the constitution wanted the document to mean something other than what it says then why doesn't it say it? If we were supposed to incorporate your favorite interpretation of the federalist papers into the constitution then why weren't they written into it?

                      The Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and the Constitution itself form a clear corpus defending my assertion. To pretend otherwise puts you well into the realm of the absurd. For a specific example, Federalist 62 [constitution.org] seems downright prophetic about the idiocies of the last decade, e.g. the Patriot Act and the Affordable Care Act:

                      The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

                      However, I grasp that the first lie of Progress is that the Founders were idiots, and we need "change". Well, get stuffed.

                      silly hashtag-driven conspiracy

                      Joke's on you. I've never asserted anything m

                    • What 'fact' did you spell out? Again, what have you ever shown that proves any difference from past administrations? You haven't because you can't, because there is none. The common parlance is, *throwing a bone*. That is what they do to pacify people.... You still obsess with the person.. Hellllloooo, McFlyyyy... anybody in there?

                      For better effect, spread your poop more evenly. It might appear believable that way. Emphasis on might... considering it's still poop.

                    • If there were a person named "Progress" involved, you'd be halfway to making sense.

                    • "Progress", "rodeo clown", all meaningless mass media gibberish retransmitted by you.. You don't make sense. You actually destroy it, making people dumber..

                    • There is nothing I can do to preclude you from misinterpreting what's said, to paraphrase Karl Popper. I support and defend your Constitutional right to obtuseness.

                    • ...misinterpreting what's said...

                      :-) Tee hee... There you go again... Here we see you shining your endless loop on the big screen [youtube.com]

                    • No, it's just you that responds. It applies to all your little friends and your favorite sparring partner just as much. And if you were paying attention at all, you would have noticed I treat them no differently. And it applies to me, but I at least can fully acknowledge it. Unlike you I am not in denial of my nature in the least. Your clinging to your culture however has clouded your judgement and destroyed your ability to observe the world objectively. Thus everything you say here can never amount to more

    • Walker, sanely, is gauging whether his soul is worth wading

      What soul? He's a pol.

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