22 Jul 16
Originally posted by HandyAndyI just find it so precious that a fella who spent his life as a punctuation mark (in his mind, he's the exclamation point in a world littered with question marks), who worked extra, extra hard to insert himself into the conversation by demanding to be heard yet alleviating fears enough to parenthetically introduce himself as "Barry," but then runs for Change! under the nom de plume of Barrack Hussein Obama, to once again become the exclamation point... a man so cock-sure of who he is, must certainly be Irish.
Do you add the apostrophe just for laughs or to punctuate your racism?
Or possibly Scottish.
They(politicians)all plagiarize all the time. How many ways are there to say the same thing over and over again year after year. But they'll never run out of things to say. And it's all lies. They even plagiarize each other's lies.
Its all been said before, and history repeats itself again and again and again. Nothing new under the sun.
22 Jul 16
Originally posted by josephwI'd say the "lie" involved in lifting sentences and paragraphs from an 'opponent's' speech is a particular curiosity because...
They(politicians)all plagiarize all the time. How many ways are there to say the same thing over and over again year after year. But they'll never run out of things to say. And it's all lies. They even plagiarize each other's lies.
Its all been said before, and history repeats itself again and again and again. Nothing new under the sun.
[1] it's so exquisitely petty, like half inching a dollar from the campaign bus's petty cash when you've got hundreds of dollars in your wallet ~ struth! why not just write your own speech? and...
[2] you're just going to get found out - you can bet petty cash's bottom dollar on it - in this day and age with the facilities of verbatim recording and retrieval being available to literally billions of people, and...
[3] it just goes to show that supposedly diametrically opposed opponents, so filled with guff that they are, can simply go out there on the stump and make virtually identical speeches.
22 Jul 16
Originally posted by FMFSigh.
I'd say the "lie" involved in lifting sentences and paragraphs from an 'opponent's' speech is a particular curiosity because...
[1] it's so exquisitely petty, like half inching a dollar from the campaign bus's petty cash when you've got hundreds of dollars in your wallet ~ struth! why not just write your own speech? and...
[2] you're just [b]going to get ...[text shortened]... guff that they are, can simply go out there on the stump and make virtually identical speeches.
This has to stop.
For the second, or possibly third time in over ten years...
We agree?
Something is wrong with the Matrix, man.