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Basically saying everything that the majority of folks are thinking imo.
Jesse Ventura for President of the Western Confederation!
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Jesse Ventura for President of the Western Confederation![/quote]
…who, Garrison Keillor has said, has the IQ of a salad bar.
Garrison, I am not so sure anymore…
Garrison Keillor is about as liberal as a salad bar.
Ventura, an intelligent, powerful man who clearly doesn’t align himself with enough socialist agendas, is threatening to a person like Keillor, who then demonizes him the only way a liberal can: by denigrating his intelligence.
The implicit message being, of course, “if you only had a brain, you’d be a left-winger like me!”
I can’t Youtube at work but it seems Jesse is buying into all the 9/11 conspiracy crap. Does this video touch on that?
I like this Klingon American.
Too bad he hates America.
And freedom.
You know how smart Jesse is by the mere fact that he basically said fuck it to politics and the stupid people who vote…
When he became governor of MN I was skeptical of having a loudmouth, ex-pro wrestler in charge but when he decided not to continue his tour I was kind of sad because I like the fact that he pissed everyone off.
BTW, don’t dis Garrison he was raised in the mythical, Scandinavian, socialist paradise of Lake Woebegone (where the women are strong, men are good looking, and the children are above average). He’s just a poet who doesn’t know any better.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
I can’t Youtube at work but it seems Jesse is buying into all the 9/11 conspiracy crap. Does this video touch on that?[/quote]
No.
[quote]Rykker wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
I can’t Youtube at work but it seems Jesse is buying into all the 9/11 conspiracy crap. Does this video touch on that?
No.[/quote]
Good. I like Jesse, I don’t want to see him spouting crap.
I am listening to this right now.
Ventura is a huge dumbass. I lived in MN during his tenure and he has to be the most thin skinned, reactionary politicians on the planet.
He may have been a physically powerful man but intellectually and emotionally he is weak.
In fact, as I listen to this interview I think King makes him look silly with some of the questions he asks. Messe’s answers are for the most part silly.
The most powerful man in America? NFW. I can’t believe he said that with a straight face.
He was voted in to MN as a snub to conventional politics and the only thing he can hang his hat on is a unirail system that should have been a no-brainer anyway. One year into office Minnesotans realized what they did and most would have loved to get his ass out of there.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
He was voted in to MN as a snub to conventional politics and the only thing he can hang his hat on is a unirail system that should have been a no-brainer anyway. One year into office Minnesotans realized what they did and most would have loved to get his ass out of there.[/quote]
He’s the best thing that ever happened to this frozen wasteland.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
He was voted in to MN as a snub to conventional politics and the only thing he can hang his hat on is a unirail system that should have been a no-brainer anyway. One year into office Minnesotans realized what they did and most would have loved to get his ass out of there.
He’s the best thing that ever happened to this frozen wasteland.[/quote]
Are you serious? How old are you?
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
He was voted in to MN as a snub to conventional politics and the only thing he can hang his hat on is a unirail system that should have been a no-brainer anyway. One year into office Minnesotans realized what they did and most would have loved to get his ass out of there.
He’s the best thing that ever happened to this frozen wasteland.
Are you serious? How old are you?[/quote]
Just turned 39.
I like the fact that both dems and reps hated him. That is the only thing that keeps politics honest. He saw through both of them and he wasn’t afraid to call it how he saw it. He was brilliant and just too good of a person to let politics change him. There has never been a politician who can say that.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Just turned 39.
I like the fact that both dems and reps hated him. That is the only thing that keeps politics honest. He saw through both of them and he wasn’t afraid to call it how he saw it. He was brilliant and just too good of a person to let politics change him. There has never been a politician who can say that.[/quote]
Hmmm. We are real close in age.
I actually hate debating politics and should have probably kept out of this but I was always struck by how he had to answer every criticism and just seemed like such a baby to me. When we went to shut down the Gov’s mansion I thought that was just infantile.
Anyway, MN is having one hell of a winter. I wouldn’t be surprised to see you get snow this week.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
Anyway, MN is having one hell of a winter. I wouldn’t be surprised to see you get snow this week.
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STFU, them’s fightin words. Say anything you want about my mom, MN politicians, my intelligence but keep your mouth shut about the weather…
I can’t take it anymore.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
Anyway, MN is having one hell of a winter. I wouldn’t be surprised to see you get snow this week.
STFU, them’s fightin words. Say anything you want about my mom, MN politicians, my intelligence but keep your mouth shut about the weather…
I can’t take it anymore.[/quote]
Heh. I gotta think that’s a fact.
Ventura is one of those guys who has a few wacky ideas, and several with which I vehemently disagree. But just the same, he’s willing to stand up and actually SAY what he believes, and that’s something that I can definitely respect.
In particular, I think he’s right on with the Republican/Democrat deal, I wouldn’t even blink if we got rid of the party system altogether.
What I’ve read of his books has been enjoyable, and I bet he’s a cool dude to hang around with.
[quote]MrRezister wrote:
Ventura is one of those guys who has a few wacky ideas, and several with which I vehemently disagree. But just the same, he’s willing to stand up and actually SAY what he believes, and that’s something that I can definitely respect.
In particular, I think he’s right on with the Republican/Democrat deal, I wouldn’t even blink if we got rid of the party system altogether.
What I’ve read of his books has been enjoyable, and I bet he’s a cool dude to hang around with.[/quote]
I like his idea of a “none of the above” choice on the ballots.
“None of the above” voting is an old, old libertarian idea. I remember a friend of mine recommending that back in the days of Bush vs. Dukakis, and Claire Wolfe has mentioned it a few times in the last three presidential elections.
In a parliamentary system, you can initiate a no-confidence vote, which really will result in the bum getting thrown out of office. This is something I think our system should have. Instead we have “approval ratings,” which are as effective as a “needs to try harder” mark on a third-grader’s report card.
He was awesome in ‘Predator’.
I’m sorry,but it had to be said.