2017 Poli/History Summer Reading List

[Grizalltheway]

So was I wrong to say they don't make Republicans like him anymore?

Not really

smh

You'll have to pardon my confusion, because when I said they don't, you said they do, they're just called Libertarians.

[Ibanez]

I forgot you're desperately checking my posts for a win

For your benefit, I'll say that people today who would most closely resemble conservatives like T Roosevelt, are libertarians. He was a big government guy in a day when many people did not understand that all bureaucratic creep builds on the bureaucratic creep that came before it.

He wasn't a libertarian.

The people today who would most closely resemble him are libertarians.

And like Kennedy or Reagan, he wouldn't sniff a nomination

Is that parsed out enough for you, Nancy?


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So was I wrong to say they don't make Republicans like him anymore?

They don't make Progressives like him anymore.

[Chizzang]

Progressives f*cking suck... and are screwing everything up
Reasonable Liberalism is out the window
scuttled for something more extreme and less sustainable

None of the political extremes are sustainable by design
This is what is so sad about hard left hard right thinking
They are ultimately full speed ahead off a cliff

[CID1990]

Not really

smh

You'll have to pardon my confusion, because when I said they don't, you said they do, they're just called Libertarians.

They aren't REPUBLICANS

You and Jelly - seriously

Get a room

And when I say "a room", I mean a hotel room - moderately priced

Where you can discuss not stepping on cracks, handwashing, etc

Oh, and screw


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[Grizalltheway]

You'll have to pardon my confusion, because when I said they don't, you said they do, they're just called Libertarians.

They aren't REPUBLICANS

You and Jelly - seriously

Get a room

And when I say "a room", I mean a hotel room - moderately priced

Where you can discuss not stepping on cracks, handwashing, etc

Oh, and screw


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Right

I didn't say there aren't people like him anymore

I said there aren't REPUBLICANS like him

It was a commentary on the state of the modern Republican party

Now go find a power washer

With which to clean the sand out of

your gaping vagina

[Skjellyfetti]

Progressives f*cking suck... and are screwing everything up
Reasonable Liberalism is out the window
scuttled for something more extreme and less sustainable

None of the political extremes are sustainable by design
This is what is so sad about hard left hard right thinking
They are ultimately full speed ahead off a cliff

If only we had more Jill Steins.

[CID1990]

They aren't REPUBLICANS

You and Jelly - seriously

Get a room

And when I say "a room", I mean a hotel room - moderately priced

Where you can discuss not stepping on cracks, handwashing, etc

Oh, and screw


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Right

I didn't say there aren't people like him anymore

I said there aren't REPUBLICANS like him

It was a commentary on the state of the modern Republican party

Now go find a power washer

With which to clean the sand out of

your gaping vagina

You are the sand in my vagina, Mister

And when I flush you it goes, "DOUCHE"


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[Chizzang]

Progressives f*cking suck... and are screwing everything up
Reasonable Liberalism is out the window
scuttled for something more extreme and less sustainable

None of the political extremes are sustainable by design
This is what is so sad about hard left hard right thinking
They are ultimately full speed ahead off a cliff

If only we had more Jill Steins.

Look here knuckle head
I voted for batsh!t crazy Jill Stein as a statement against where we are today
When Hilary and Trump are the two choices - well fuck me

BTW:
Both of them are destroying their respective parties

[GannonFan]

If only we had more Jill Steins.

Look here knuckle head
I voted for batsh!t crazy Jill Stein as a statement against where we are today
When Hilary and Trump are the two choices - well **** me

BTW:
Both of them are destroying their respective parties

I'm with ya, Chizzy. Both on the Jill Stein being bat crazy and on the protest vote value of a vote for her. And on the lunacy of both the political extremes that are screwing things up these days as they jockey for the next soundbite/twitter/meme victory over the other.

[CID1990]

If only we had more Jill Steins.

Look here knuckle head
I voted for batsh!t crazy Jill Stein as a statement against where we are today
When Hilary and Trump are the two choices - well **** me

BTW:
Both of them are destroying their respective parties

I'm sort of with the knucklehead on this one though-

Based on just about everything you espouse I'd place you firmly in the Johnson camp. That would have been a constructive vote. Johnson was a level headed choice

Stein is HARD left, so I can accept her as a protest vote, but it is hardly one against extremism (left or right)

[Ivytalk]

I'm moving on to An Army at Dawn, part 1 of Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy" about WWII. This one's about the war in Africa. I read part 2 -- The Day of Battle -- first, about the war in Italy.

Better Rommel than Drumpf, I figure.

[OL FU]

If only we had more Jill Steins.

Look here knuckle head
I voted for batsh!t crazy Jill Stein as a statement against where we are today
When Hilary and Trump are the two choices - well **** me

BTW:
Both of them are destroying their respective parties

That's why I voted for the stoner

[Ibanez]

I'm moving on to An Army at Dawn, part 1 of Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy" about WWII. This one's about the war in Africa. I read part 2 -- The Day of Battle -- first, about the war in Italy.

Better Rommel than Drumpf, I figure.

I read An Army at Dawn long ago, it's a good book.

[Ivytalk]

I'm moving on to An Army at Dawn, part 1 of Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy" about WWII. This one's about the war in Africa. I read part 2 -- The Day of Battle -- first, about the war in Italy.

Better Rommel than Drumpf, I figure.

I read An Army at Dawn long ago, it's a good book.

I've already read two books about Rommel this year. They don't make soldiers like that anymore.

[kalm]

Look here knuckle head
I voted for batsh!t crazy Jill Stein as a statement against where we are today
When Hilary and Trump are the two choices - well **** me

BTW:
Both of them are destroying their respective parties

I'm with ya, Chizzy. Both on the Jill Stein being bat crazy and on the protest vote value of a vote for her. And on the lunacy of both the political extremes that are screwing things up these days as they jockey for the next soundbite/twitter/meme victory over the other.

This thread delivers! It's fun watching Chizzy and CID get roughed up a little!

Agree on the political extremism although I think a better description might be duopoly induced adversarialism. After all, both tribes tend to nominate center right candidates.

[Ibanez]

I read An Army at Dawn long ago, it's a good book.

I've already read two books about Rommel this year. They don't make soldiers like that anymore.

They certainly don't. That man was incredible. A certifiable Military genius

[UNI88]

I read An Army at Dawn long ago, it's a good book.

I've already read two books about Rommel this year. They don't make soldiers like that anymore.

Book names? Recommendations? Come on Ivy, is retirement making you soft?

[Ivytalk]

I've already read two books about Rommel this year. They don't make soldiers like that anymore.

Book names? Recommendations? Come on Ivy, is retirement making you soft?

The two I read were Knight's Cross by David Fraser (comprehensive bio) and Discovering the Rommel Murder by Charles F. Marshall (intriguing look at Rommel's life and death, based on interviews of Mrs. Rommel and German military officers by a US officer stationed in Germany at the end of the war).

[Chizzang]

I'm with ya, Chizzy. Both on the Jill Stein being bat crazy and on the protest vote value of a vote for her. And on the lunacy of both the political extremes that are screwing things up these days as they jockey for the next soundbite/twitter/meme victory over the other.

This thread delivers! It's fun watching Chizzy and CID get roughed up a little!

Agree on the political extremism although I think a better description might be duopoly induced adversarialism. After all, both tribes tend to nominate center right candidates.

Hey! Look Here Fuck-O

[CitadelGrad]

I've already read two books about Rommel this year. They don't make soldiers like that anymore.

They certainly don't. That man was incredible. A certifiable Military genius

Where exactly can one get that certification?

He lost North Africa and Normandy. Then he lost his ass.

[Ivytalk]

They certainly don't. That man was incredible. A certifiable Military genius

Where exactly can one get that certification?

He lost North Africa and Normandy. Then he lost his ass.

With better air cover and supply lines, Rommel would've stomped Montgomery's ass at El Alamein, and we'd all be speaking German right now.

[Ibanez]

They certainly don't. That man was incredible. A certifiable Military genius

Where exactly can one get that certification?

He lost North Africa and Normandy. Then he lost his ass.

And Washington Lost New York and Pennyslvania...but we cheer him on as a military hero.


Seriously, do some reading on Rommel. It's clear you don't understand him. Do you know why he committed suicide (w/o cheating, why?)

[Ibanez]

Where exactly can one get that certification?

He lost North Africa and Normandy. Then he lost his ass.

With better air cover and supply lines, Rommel would've stomped Montgomery's ass at El Alamein, and we'd all be speaking German right now.

And if he had his way, the Panzer divisions would've been ready for our troops at Normandy.

If Hitler hadn't gotten in Rommels way..Rommel would done many great things in that war.