Discussion: Candidate Says He'd Be A Martyr For Oil, 'Invade' Alaska's Wildlife Refuge For Drilling

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Discussion for article #222962

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What Tundra Trash hath wrought

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All these people who talk about being martyrs should just go and be martyrs and stop talking about it all the time. If you want to be a martyr it’s fine with me, seriously.

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“martyrdom goes a long way sometimes.”

Exhibit A: Jesus died for oil.

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“A [GOP] candidate for lieutenant governor in Alaska said recently he’d be willing to invade a federal wildlife refuge to expand oil and gas drilling, even if it led to a shootout, because ‘martyrdom goes a long way sometimes’….”

But it doesn’t go nearly as far as Exxon contributions in a political campaign.

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Please proceed. Seriously.

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They can tag in for all of those actual martyrs serving their second, third, fourth, fifth etc. tour in Afghanistan and Iraq any ol’ time now…

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“martyrdom goes a long way sometimes.”

Great. Our own Hamas.

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Then do it, you fucking coward.

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I don’t understand this moron. Is he going to drill with hand tools all by himself? Maybe he should be shot!

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All kidding aside, we can either fight another hot Civil War, or we can have an orderly divorce like the Roman Empire did when they split their empire in half with each half ruling themselves. It’s an idea I think people should take seriously.

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“One of the things I’ve suggested, too, is that if I was governor today, I’d probably invade ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge],”

He’s postponing Poland for the time being, as it’s been done too recently. Today the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; tomorrow, the Onion Portage Archeological District.

P.S. Sorry about the violation of the Godwin bit.

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He desires martyrdom? I didn’t know he was an Islamic terrorist.

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Paraphrasing Sir Thomas More in “A Man For All Seasons”:

"Why Dan, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for ANWR?

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Why are all these GOPers so fucking ugly? Is that a prerequisite for being a GOPer?

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What an absolute fucking moron.

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Hm. Martyrdom… Martyrdom… where have I heard that before? Which international “club” is the GOP aligning itself with? Hmmmmm…

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I’d settle for the GOP splitting itself in half

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Wildlife? Who needs it! Suck up all that sweet, sweet crude!

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You going to give them their half of the nukes? And I guess anybody who has the misfortune to be a minority in the new confederacy will just have to, what leave their homes, sell all their goods for whatever they can get and move north/east? Sure, no problem as long as it doesn’t inconvenience you.