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Your country on Democrats ... Your country on Republicans (Original post)	proud2BlibKansan	Dec 2012	OP
Yes, there is a difference.	freshwest	Dec 2012	#1
And the differences are every bit as stark as depicted	indepat	Dec 2012	#2
Agreed. The oppressive one is owned by the greedy old patricians.	freshwest	Dec 2012	#9
K & R	Scurrilous	Dec 2012	#3
Only one payday loan?	LeftInTX	Dec 2012	#4
Bedford Falls vs Pottersville, indeed.	NRaleighLiberal	Dec 2012	#5
Perfect analogy. First one, still fighting them off. Second, battle lost because of lost hope.	freshwest	Dec 2012	#7
No doubt about it..under Rethugs, it's Pottersville	amuse bouche	Dec 2012	#6
on the repug side...	lame54	Dec 2012	#8
They left out the tenement house for the poor people	WhoIsNumberNone	Dec 2012	#10
It's there. See "The Projects"?	jmowreader	Dec 2012	#14
I've been likening them to these guys for quite some time...	WhoIsNumberNone	Dec 2012	#21
And these guys for even longer....	WhoIsNumberNone	Dec 2012	#22
Yes!	HuskyOffset	Dec 2012	#31
it's already uncomfortably close	They_Live	Dec 2012	#41
Also the army recruitment centre.	wickerwoman	Dec 2012	#18
yeah,	Raffi Ella	Dec 2012	#42
Not nearly enough gun stores on the Republican side	jmowreader	Dec 2012	#11
Where is the single woman and her 6 children sitting on the	bonniebgood	Dec 2012	#12
Red or Blue?	Mnpaul	Dec 2012	#13
should read under left and under right	SHRED	Dec 2012	#15
Great. That illustrates my sentiments exactly.	wake.up.america	Dec 2012	#16
Has anyone else noticed...	savebigbird	Dec 2012	#17
That's how Republicans build	jmowreader	Dec 2012	#28
That's way more involved than my explanation.	Kennah	Dec 2012	#32
That too	jmowreader	Dec 2012	#38
I love it, and oh so true	quinnox	Dec 2012	#19
Apparently, only Republicans	demwing	Dec 2012	#20
Churches down on the other side of town away from the strip clubs....	Historic NY	Dec 2012	#27
A televangelist church.	caseymoz	Dec 2012	#37
Yeah...	harmonicon	Dec 2012	#58
Right?	demwing	Dec 2012	#64
Something like that.	harmonicon	Dec 2012	#68
"Junk in the Box" LOL	Coyotl	Dec 2012	#23
Hey, you forgot a few stoners.	Rozlee	Dec 2012	#24
Oh, yeah dude, 'cause kind bud is totally like from mother nature, man.	harmonicon	Dec 2012	#59
Missing gun shops on the right side. n/t	DebJ	Dec 2012	#25
There's a lot of truth in this.	yardwork	Dec 2012	#26
You forgot the Locally Owned Microbrewery	Wolf Frankula	Dec 2012	#29
truth	lrellok	Dec 2012	#30
This is inaccurate. The right would be massing an army to slaughter the left and take their stuff.	dorksied	Dec 2012	#33
Just a bit...	GTurck	Dec 2012	#34
Love this!!! k&r	Little Star	Dec 2012	#35
Why is the strip club a Republican thing?	caseymoz	Dec 2012	#36
Hypocrisy.	wickerwoman	Dec 2012	#47
Portland, OR has more strip clubs than churches...	cascadiance	Dec 2012	#57
Utah has the highest online porn consumption.	SunSeeker	Dec 2012	#51
The truth is that the neighborhood on the right will collapse quickly--	pandr32	Dec 2012	#39
Oops...meant "half empty"	pandr32	Dec 2012	#40
I wish that were still true.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#43
There would be no library on the Republican side.	subterranean	Dec 2012	#44
There needs to be a liquor/cigarette store on the left too !!! :)	Tx4obama	Dec 2012	#45
And a "Smoke Shop."	SunSeeker	Dec 2012	#52
At least as the Dems used to be	zentrum	Dec 2012	#46
I'm assuming the coffee house house has free wifi, but where is the clothing optional beach?	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#48
Unfortunately, seeing too few "left sides" and waaaaaay too many "right sides" . . .	HughBeaumont	Dec 2012	#49
Potterville nt	Kablooie	Dec 2012	#50
The right side needs a prison	Liberal In Texas	Dec 2012	#53
Correction: The right side needs a prison corporation.	Initech	Dec 2012	#54
LOL	Liberal In Texas	Dec 2012	#55
I've seen this before, and I fail to get it, really.	harmonicon	Dec 2012	#56
Whoa.. excellent graphic!	Cha	Dec 2012	#60
Excellent?	demwing	Dec 2012	#65
"lol, whatever"? Yeah, Excellent.	Cha	Dec 2012	#66
OK!	demwing	Dec 2012	#67
The Republican library is open only 2 hours a week??	Jamaal510	Dec 2012	#61
Nice graphic	former_con	Dec 2012	#62
Welcome to DU!	proud2BlibKansan	Dec 2012	#63
lol, priceless- totally going to my fb. nt	cecilfirefox	Dec 2012	#69

Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:11 PM

freshwest (32,410 posts)

1. Yes, there is a difference.

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Response to freshwest (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:34 PM

indepat (19,068 posts)

2. And the differences are every bit as stark as depicted

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Response to indepat (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:00 PM

freshwest (32,410 posts)

9. Agreed. The oppressive one is owned by the greedy old patricians.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:37 PM

Scurrilous (24,749 posts)

3. K & R

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:45 PM

LeftInTX (2,509 posts)

4. Only one payday loan?

My neighborhood has about 20 of those

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:47 PM

NRaleighLiberal (28,800 posts)

5. Bedford Falls vs Pottersville, indeed.

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Response to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:58 PM

freshwest (32,410 posts)

7. Perfect analogy. First one, still fighting them off. Second, battle lost because of lost hope.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:54 PM

amuse bouche (1,763 posts)

6. No doubt about it..under Rethugs, it's Pottersville

Scary

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:00 PM

lame54 (13,445 posts)

8. on the repug side...

where are the castles of gold in the gated community?

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:16 PM

WhoIsNumberNone (4,543 posts)

10. They left out the tenement house for the poor people

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Or is that what the republicans building off in the distance?

Also, the republican side needs a big, for-profit industrial prison.

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Response to WhoIsNumberNone (Reply #10)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:28 PM

jmowreader (24,125 posts)

14. It's there. See "The Projects"?

What the Republicans are building off in the distance is either a strip mine or a housing development for Californians who sold their houses and moved out of state.

This is kind of funny: North Idaho has had, in the last decade or so, a major influx of California Republicans. The fuckers sell their houses for very high prices, run up here, and push up the real estate values with all the money they bring in. (Right now, you can get far more house for your money if you buy in Spokane County, Washington, than in Kootenai County, Idaho...and the two counties touch. And the two counties have very similar topography...but the Republicans don't want to live in a place with a Democratic majority, which Washington has even though it's 200 miles away.) The California Republicans say they can get these prices because "no one wants to live in California anymore." Guys, guys, guys...if no one wanted to live in California no one would have paid you a million-five for your house. The reality is Republicans are like the villains in a sci-fi flick...the Empire in Star Wars, the Klingons in Star Trek or maybe the Spaceballs. They go somewhere, destroy it and move on...and right now, where they've moved is Idaho.

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Response to jmowreader (Reply #14)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:57 PM

WhoIsNumberNone (4,543 posts)

21. I've been likening them to these guys for quite some time...

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Response to jmowreader (Reply #14)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:58 PM

WhoIsNumberNone (4,543 posts)

22. And these guys for even longer....

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Response to WhoIsNumberNone (Reply #22)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:35 AM

HuskyOffset (28 posts)

31. Yes!

Combine that movie ("They Live") with Idiocracy and I think you've got America's future if the Rebublican party gets its way.

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Response to HuskyOffset (Reply #31)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:56 AM

They_Live (820 posts)

41. it's already uncomfortably close

to both of those films. time to turn this thing around.

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Response to WhoIsNumberNone (Reply #10)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:00 PM

wickerwoman (5,298 posts)

18. Also the army recruitment centre.

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That dumpster diver looks fit enough to serve his country.

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Response to wickerwoman (Reply #18)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:21 AM

Raffi Ella (3,541 posts)

42. yeah,

the right side needs a military industrial complex for their never ending war profiteering and the left needs a higher education center.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:16 PM

jmowreader (24,125 posts)

11. Not nearly enough gun stores on the Republican side

And where's the McJobs and Day Labor place?

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:25 PM

bonniebgood (218 posts)

12. Where is the single woman and her 6 children sitting on the

street curb with a beggar's cup for food and shelter?

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:27 PM

Mnpaul (1,421 posts)

13. Red or Blue?

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 06:52 PM

SHRED (10,196 posts)

15. should read under left and under right

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 07:18 PM

wake.up.america (3,334 posts)

16. Great. That illustrates my sentiments exactly.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 07:41 PM

savebigbird (400 posts)

17. Has anyone else noticed...

...that the left side features buildings which are all about the same height, while the right side's buildings are all different heights?

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Response to savebigbird (Reply #17)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:59 PM

jmowreader (24,125 posts)

28. That's how Republicans build

That thing running down the middle is a river, correct? Because Being Able To See The Water is a valuable thing in Repukeland, every time Republicans build a building in an area with a lake, river, swamp, ocean, creek, large chuckhole or sewage lagoon they build a shortish building next to the water feature, then every building after that is taller so the residents can see the water.

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Response to jmowreader (Reply #28)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:02 AM

Kennah (6,782 posts)

32. That's way more involved than my explanation.

I was going with the "My dick's bigger" approach to building in GOPland.

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Response to Kennah (Reply #32)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:13 AM

jmowreader (24,125 posts)

38. That too

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:02 PM

quinnox (16,052 posts)

19. I love it, and oh so true

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:23 PM

demwing (11,152 posts)

20. Apparently, only Republicans

have churches, or smoke and drink.

And Dems only eat organic.

Nice stereotypes...

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Response to demwing (Reply #20)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:55 PM

Historic NY (19,873 posts)

27. Churches down on the other side of town away from the strip clubs....

take the train.

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Response to demwing (Reply #20)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 09:32 AM

caseymoz (5,320 posts)

37. A televangelist church.

If you look at which side televangelist churches support, it's a bit closer to the truth.

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Response to demwing (Reply #20)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:25 PM

harmonicon (11,996 posts)

58. Yeah...

I look at it like an illustration to show that Democrats are prudish assholes. I don't get why people like this little picture. I think it's insulting on so many levels.

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Response to harmonicon (Reply #58)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:02 PM

demwing (11,152 posts)

64. Right?

Makes us look like sanctimonious hipsters

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Response to demwing (Reply #64)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 01:34 AM

harmonicon (11,996 posts)

68. Something like that.

Where did the ore come from to make the steal to build the track and the cars for the light rail? Mining has to happen. Oil drilling has to happen. Chemical manufacturing has to happen. Those are all pretty great things. What's not pretty great is giving them insane government subsidies and favouring them over more sustainable alternatives when alternatives are available. It's things like this that can make blue collar workers turn away from the Democratic party, which is a shame, because Republicans really will fuck them over.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 09:30 PM

Coyotl (5,403 posts)

23. "Junk in the Box" LOL

Double meanings there.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 09:59 PM

Rozlee (1,414 posts)

24. Hey, you forgot a few stoners.

Maybe they've got some primo good stuff growing in the community garden. The pill heads would be on the Rethug side.

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Response to Rozlee (Reply #24)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:27 PM

harmonicon (11,996 posts)

59. Oh, yeah dude, 'cause kind bud is totally like from mother nature, man.

People who want to get high in other ways are just total downers, bro.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:47 PM

DebJ (5,293 posts)

25. Missing gun shops on the right side. n/t

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:55 PM

yardwork (37,173 posts)

26. There's a lot of truth in this.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 11:41 PM

Wolf Frankula (360 posts)

29. You forgot the Locally Owned Microbrewery

on the Democratic side.

Wolf

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:22 AM

lrellok (26 posts)

30. truth

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:20 AM

dorksied (347 posts)

33. This is inaccurate. The right would be massing an army to slaughter the left and take their stuff.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 07:36 AM

GTurck (733 posts)

34. Just a bit...

hyperbolic? Still the evidence so far is that Republican leaders really do think their version is good business and we will get used to the downsides...or at least accept them in order to have more things.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 07:39 AM

Little Star (11,751 posts)

35. Love this!!! k&r

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 09:28 AM

caseymoz (5,320 posts)

36. Why is the strip club a Republican thing?

Meese Commission? Seems to me the sex industry is both non- and bi-partisan.

If not for that, I'd say thumbs up.

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Response to caseymoz (Reply #36)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:27 PM

wickerwoman (5,298 posts)

47. Hypocrisy.

There actually are more strip clubs in the Bible belt, they are better attended and porn sales are higher.

All of that holier than thou bullshit is really overcompensation. Look at all of the vehement anti-gay preachers who are secret closet cases.

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Response to wickerwoman (Reply #47)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:23 PM

cascadiance (14,233 posts)

57. Portland, OR has more strip clubs than churches...

... and many people here know it to be a pretty liberal town. Though the hypocrisy component is correct, I don't think that this business sector necessarily is prominent just by political persuasion of the surrounding community.

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Response to caseymoz (Reply #36)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:31 PM

SunSeeker (5,334 posts)

51. Utah has the highest online porn consumption.

Must be all that misogyny and repressed sexuality.

From the Salt Lake Tribune:
"Utah is No. 1 - for online pornography consumption"
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11821265

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:55 AM

pandr32 (22 posts)

39. The truth is that the neighborhood on the right will collapse quickly--

just like our economy did.
I've been keeping track of the "businesses" I pass by and find that just about all the "ma and pa" businesses are corporate franchises, and a lot of new strip malls sit have empty. After rezoning agricultural land or tracks of trees to build them and put in the parking lots for the large gas-guzzling vehicles, there is no chance for someone who wants to start a boutique, a mom who wants to open a consignment children's clothes store, a local grocer, a cafe/gallery, etc., to afford the leases costs and terms to get into those empty spots and start one-of-a-kind businesses that give our communities flavor and uniqueness. We are all slaves to the corporate empire and our "majesty" of shining beauty across the land is already mostly gone--and the remainder is already eyed for exploitation.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:56 AM

pandr32 (22 posts)

40. Oops...meant "half empty"

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:38 AM

woo me with science (20,239 posts)

43. I wish that were still true.

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Unfortunately, we now have a largely corporate-controlled neoDemocratic party that is supporting most of the same economic, war, and police state policies as Republicans.

Our infrastructure is crumbling and our President and corporate Democrats in Congress are supporting more oil drilling, privatization of the Gulf of Mexico, job-killing free trade agreements, corporate education deform, big agriculture, for-profit health insurance, militarized police departments, surveillance drones in our skies, warrantless surveillance of emails and phone calls and internet use, coordinated federal spying and assaults on protesters, indefinite detention, billions more for war and Israel, austerity budgets and slashing of block grants and social programs in an economy that has already devastated its middle class, and assaults on Social Security.

I long for the old Democratic Party, whose policies would create a picture like this.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:37 PM

subterranean (2,085 posts)

44. There would be no library on the Republican side.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:00 PM

Tx4obama (29,938 posts)

45. There needs to be a liquor/cigarette store on the left too !!! :)

Some of us Democrats drink and smoke too

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Response to Tx4obama (Reply #45)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:32 PM

SunSeeker (5,334 posts)

52. And a "Smoke Shop."

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:25 PM

zentrum (438 posts)

46. At least as the Dems used to be

Can't count on members of the current crop. The picture applies to the democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:43 PM

Glassunion (5,056 posts)

48. I'm assuming the coffee house house has free wifi, but where is the clothing optional beach?

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:43 PM

HughBeaumont (20,543 posts)

49. Unfortunately, seeing too few "left sides" and waaaaaay too many "right sides" . . .

. . . primarily thanks to the "good" folks in the "IGotMine" estates that thought Bewsh 43 was the key to salvation, gobs of money and the country club entrance.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:06 PM

Kablooie (8,942 posts)

50. Potterville nt

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:50 PM

Liberal In Texas (7,417 posts)

53. The right side needs a prison

Brilliant piece of work though.

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Response to Liberal In Texas (Reply #53)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:53 PM

Initech (39,578 posts)

54. Correction: The right side needs a prison corporation.

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Response to Initech (Reply #54)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 02:56 PM

Liberal In Texas (7,417 posts)

55. LOL

Yes it would be privatized.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:18 PM

harmonicon (11,996 posts)

56. I've seen this before, and I fail to get it, really.

I'd choose to live on the Republican side. It has a public housing apartment building and a liquor and cigarette store.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:42 PM

Cha (125,807 posts)

60. Whoa.. excellent graphic!

Thank you, p2BlK!

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Response to Cha (Reply #60)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:06 PM

demwing (11,152 posts)

65. Excellent?

lol, whatever

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Response to demwing (Reply #65)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:32 PM

Cha (125,807 posts)

66. "lol, whatever"? Yeah, Excellent.

To show the stark difference between the two cultures.

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Response to Cha (Reply #66)

Tue Dec 25, 2012, 12:35 AM

demwing (11,152 posts)

67. OK!

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:06 PM

Jamaal510 (3,346 posts)

61. The Republican library is open only 2 hours a week??

BTW whoever made this pic could've also included a church and a liquor store on the Dem side. There are some of us who are religious and/or drink and smoke.

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Response to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:33 PM

former_con (47 posts)