Stupid Republican idea of the day

[elucidator]

Would they be saying "Who was that mosqued man? I wanted to thank him...."?

[kaylasdad99]

Go. To. Your. Room.

[OttoDaFe]

Originally Posted by elucidator

Ha. Ha ha. Ahhhh HAHAHAHAHA! Oh, my God, stop, you're killing me over here, what an imagination you've.....a link. Oh. A link. Oh, dear.

Just wait till Drudge drops the other shoe and reveals that Obama was — and possibly still is — in reality a double agent, and was/is actually working for . . . them!

Will you be laughing then?

[boytyperanma]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

Go. To. Your. Room.

We keep sending him there... Maybe we should take the bowl and the computer away first.

(psst I think he hides them in his room)

[elucidator]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

Go. To. Your. Room.

This. Is. My. Room.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Originally Posted by boytyperanma

We keep sending him there... Maybe we should take the bowl and the computer away first.

(psst I think he hides them in his room)

Wouldn't work anyway; he's really good at chewing through the straps.

[detop]

Originally Posted by EddyTeddyFreddy

Wouldn't work anyway; he's really good at chewing through the straps.

Silly you ! That's why Dog invented shackles !

[Really Not All That Bright]

Originally Posted by jsgoddess

Wouldn't working to benefit the ol' U S of A be something he'd have to respect Obama for?

James Bond would be a pretty awesome President.

[Death of Rats]

I don't know... the man does use his own freaking name for a cover and always looks surprised when the bad guy figures it out. I at least want a President who will go to the Monte Carlo casino and try to pass himself off as Heywood Jablowme.

[Batfish]

Originally Posted by Really Not All That Bright

James Bond would be a pretty awesome President.

We need ANOTHER guy not born in the US?

[BigAppleBucky]

A Tea Party lawmaker in Montana said the relocation of 60 bison -- which he blamed on Walt Disney's creation of "Bambi" -- could lead to gas jumping to $25 a gallon as part of a liberal federal government plot.

**snip**

[Rep. Krayton Kerns (R-Laurel)] . . . said the moving of 60 bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck Native American Reservation this winter is part of "a four step process to crush the republic and bring our populace into perfect dependence on big government -- just as Karl Marx dreamed."

Feverdreams. Caused by a virus? It must be catching, but perhaps only to irrational minds.

[Gangster Octopus]

Originally Posted by BigAppleBucky

**snip**




Feverdreams. Caused by a virus? It must be catching, but perhaps only to irrational minds.

First they came for the bison and I did nothing....

[elucidator]

Who cares about the bison, we still got the buffalo!

[Jack Batty]

I've read every word in BigAppleBucky's post; I know they are English words; I can make no sense out any of them.

Is Walt Disney's creation of "Bambi" to blame for bison in general, or for them having to be moved? How, exactly, is livestock moving to a different park going to cause gas to jump to $25 a gallon? What are the next three steps involved in crushing the republic (I hope they're a little more sexy than shuffling cattle around)? And finally, I don't buy that Karl Marx gave a shit about bison in the first place.


Can someone translate what the hell's going on here?

[Rhythmdvl]

Originally Posted by Jack Batty

I've read every word in BigAppleBucky's post; I know they are English words; I can make no sense out any of them.

Is Walt Disney's creation of "Bambi" to blame for bison in general, or for them having to be moved? How, exactly, is livestock moving to a different park going to cause gas to jump to $25 a gallon? What are the next three steps involved in crushing the republic (I hope they're a little more sexy than shuffling cattle around)? And finally, I don't buy that Karl Marx gave a shit about bison in the first place.


Can someone translate what the hell's going on here?

I think the "will it blend?" guys got ahold of a bat and a big handful of shit.

[elucidator]

Well, you see, its Montana, and, well, they are a mite strange out there.

[CalMeacham]

Originally Posted by Jack Batty

I've read every word in BigAppleBucky's post; I know they are English words; I can make no sense out any of them.

Is Walt Disney's creation of "Bambi" to blame for bison in general, or for them having to be moved? How, exactly, is livestock moving to a different park going to cause gas to jump to $25 a gallon? What are the next three steps involved in crushing the republic (I hope they're a little more sexy than shuffling cattle around)? And finally, I don't buy that Karl Marx gave a shit about bison in the first place.


Can someone translate what the hell's going on here?

Here it is, in The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1643167.html



Boy, imagine how embarassed he's gpoing to be when he finds out that FElix Salten, a German, wrote "Bambi", not the folks at Disney. And that it was trranslated into English by ---- Whittaker Chambers! The Communist Party Member and Soviet Spy who ratted out Alger Hiss.

[campp]

Wow, that made my brain hurt.

1. Bambi
2. Godless Americans
3. Bison as pawns
4. Profit!

[Gangster Octopus]

Originally Posted by CalMeacham

Here it is, in The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1643167.html



Boy, imagine how embarassed he's gpoing to be when he finds out that FElix Salten, a German, wrote "Bambi", not the folks at Disney. And that it was trranslated into English by ---- Whittaker Chambers! The Communist Party Member and Soviet Spy who ratted out Alger Hiss.

It all makes sense now.

[Boyo Jim]

Originally Posted by Jack Batty

...How, exactly, is livestock moving to a different park going to cause gas to jump to $25 a gallon? What are the next three steps involved in crushing the republic (I hope they're a little more sexy than shuffling cattle around)? ...

I found the answer!
1. Move bison to Yellowstone Park, where there are huge oil reserves.
2. Declare ground off-limits for drilling, because it is the habitat of bison.
(I am inferring the next two)
3. Then you get the sugar.
4. Then you get the women.

[elucidator]

Originally Posted by CalMeacham

...Boy, imagine how embarassed he's gpoing to be when he finds out that FElix Salten, a German, wrote "Bambi", not the folks at Disney. And that it was trranslated into English by ---- Whittaker Chambers! The Communist Party Member and Soviet Spy who ratted out Alger Hiss.

Of course! And Disney put out Fantasia thirty years before anyone was taking any LSD to watch it! Man, these guys plan ahead!

[Rhythmdvl]

Ok, to explain where the connections come from, remember that this is through the HuffPost filter. Not that he's a rational being, mind you, just that if you want to understand his point it helps to go to the source.

Whether Walt Disney was a cause or an effect is uncertain, but his personification of animals allowed activists to gift Bambi rights equal to those endowed us by our Creator.

activists quietly acquired conservation easements and commandeered Montana water rights through the Clean Water Act. The noose of federal control quietly tightened around massive tracts of Montana’s Missouri Breaks

bison will overpopulate and escape their temporary home and within a decade, there will be thousands of bison ravaging The Breaks. Once Montanans discover the problem, it will be too late—just as it was with the introduction of the invasive species of the gray wolf.

The world’s economy will grind to a halt due to instability in the Middle East driving the price of gasoline over $25 per gallon. In desperation, America will attempt to develop the massive Bakken oil reserves of Montana and North Dakota only to learn a future leftist president has issued a moratorium on all oil exploration to protect the habitat of our national mammal, the noble, YNP-origin, American Bison

So, he seems to be saying that we've started to prefer cute animals over jobs and people's needs. This is fairly standard RW rhetoric, and though I don't agree, it's not quite as insane as HuffPo characterized it. By pushing the environmental agenda, Montana has lost rights/sovereignty to the Federal government and to the radical few. Since these bison are now protected on a reservation (which seems to have gone against state law, though Federal law's pre-eminence is civics 101), they will be free to breed breed breed. Eventually, they'll overpopulate their area and spread to other parts of Montana. Becauswe they're cute and idolized (there is a lot of christian bullshit in his blog I didn't copy/paste), as they spill into Montana state territory (or other Federal lands, I guess), they'll carry a protected status.

So.... when the Mideast goes tits up and gas jumps to $25 per gallon (yeah, that's a stretch but far less batshit than other RW claims), we'll want to drill domestically. However, even though there are rich reserves (are there?) in his back yard, no one will be able to access them because the cute and idolized bison will have to be protected and drilling won't be allowed.

He doesn't think this is his personal wild idea of connect-the-dots, he believes it's a super-secret government plan that he was able to identify and describe.

Fucktard.


Anyone thing that's close? Anone think a good blog would be "interpreting what the batshit really means"? Not somethign that sets up strawmen (what he's actually saying is ...), but one that honestly tries to rephrase the hyperbolic rhetoric in terms that are at least arguable from a rational perspective.

[Dag Otto]

Originally Posted by elucidator

Of course! And Disney put out Fantasia thirty years before anyone was taking any LSD to watch it! Man, these guys plan ahead!

That's nothing. Most people think that Socrates drank hemlock because he was sentenced to death. Baloney. He drank it as part of a plan to fix the 1919 World Series.

Of course, that took more than 4 steps.

[boytyperanma]

Originally Posted by Rhythmdvl

Ok, to explain where the connections come from, remember that this is through the HuffPost filter. Not that he's a rational being, mind you, just that if you want to understand his point it helps to go to the source.








So, he seems to be saying that we've started to prefer cute animals over jobs and people's needs. This is fairly standard RW rhetoric, and though I don't agree, it's not quite as insane as HuffPo characterized it. By pushing the environmental agenda, Montana has lost rights/sovereignty to the Federal government and to the radical few. Since these bison are now protected on a reservation (which seems to have gone against state law, though Federal law's pre-eminence is civics 101), they will be free to breed breed breed. Eventually, they'll overpopulate their area and spread to other parts of Montana. Becauswe they're cute and idolized (there is a lot of christian bullshit in his blog I didn't copy/paste), as they spill into Montana state territory (or other Federal lands, I guess), they'll carry a protected status.

So.... when the Mideast goes tits up and gas jumps to $25 per gallon (yeah, that's a stretch but far less batshit than other RW claims), we'll want to drill domestically. However, even though there are rich reserves (are there?) in his back yard, no one will be able to access them because the cute and idolized bison will have to be protected and drilling won't be allowed.

He doesn't think this is his personal wild idea of connect-the-dots, he believes it's a super-secret government plan that he was able to identify and describe.

Fucktard.


Anyone thing that's close? Anone think a good blog would be "interpreting what the batshit really means"? Not somethign that sets up strawmen (what he's actually saying is ...), but one that honestly tries to rephrase the hyperbolic rhetoric in terms that are at least arguable from a rational perspective.

So your saying this man thinks bison are cute? He is clearly insane.

[BigAppleBucky]

Originally Posted by CalMeacham

Here it is, in The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1643167.html

Boy, imagine how embarassed he's gpoing to be when he finds out that FElix Salten, a German, wrote "Bambi", not the folks at Disney. And that it was trranslated into English by ---- Whittaker Chambers! The Communist Party Member and Soviet Spy who ratted out Alger Hiss.

Arrrrgh - I forgot the link. Thanks

[OttoDaFe]

Originally Posted by elucidator

Well, you see, its Montana, and, well, they are a mite strange out there.

And Laurel — which, last time I was through, appeared to be one humungous oil refinery cloaked in a thin veneer of civilization — is stranger still.

[YogSosoth]

WTF, I had no idea this is still going on. House Republicans today are voting for the THIRTY FUCKING THIRD time to repeal Obamacare?! I had no idea there were 1 effort to repeal, let alone 33! What the fuck do they think they're getting paid for, pointless bullshit? Wait, this is the GOP, so yeah, I guess so. To them, taking a pointless stance to blow your equally insane fringe is just as good as passing actual laws

I shudder to think what kind of bullshit they will pull once they get back into power. And for these 33 wasted times, I will never ever consider Democrats to be "playing politics" ever again. There's simply no comparison. I cannot imagine that they would go through a quarter of the effort to perpetuate a charade like this. I remember one or two votes by the Dems back when Bush was in charge to repeal stuff, but you get your symbolic vote and then you move on like adults

33 times is just the legislative equivalent of a pissing and shitting tantrum thrown on the floor of the store until you get what you want. From now on, whenever any GOP accuses a Dem of playing politics, even if the Dem actually is doing it, I'm just going to point to the 33 fucking repeal attempts and tell them to fuck off

[Gangster Octopus]

Originally Posted by YogSosoth

WTF, I had no idea this is still going on. House Republicans today are voting for the THIRTY FUCKING THIRD time to repeal Obamacare?! I had no idea there were 1 effort to repeal, let alone 33! What the fuck do they think they're getting paid for, pointless bullshit? Wait, this is the GOP, so yeah, I guess so. To them, taking a pointless stance to blow your equally insane fringe is just as good as passing actual laws

I shudder to think what kind of bullshit they will pull once they get back into power. And for these 33 wasted times, I will never ever consider Democrats to be "playing politics" ever again. There's simply no comparison. I cannot imagine that they would go through a quarter of the effort to perpetuate a charade like this. I remember one or two votes by the Dems back when Bush was in charge to repeal stuff, but you get your symbolic vote and then you move on like adults

33 times is just the legislative equivalent of a pissing and shitting tantrum thrown on the floor of the store until you get what you want. From now on, whenever any GOP accuses a Dem of playing politics, even if the Dem actually is doing it, I'm just going to point to the 33 fucking repeal attempts and tell them to fuck off

Sorry this is Stupid Republican Idea of the Day, not Stupid Republican Idea of the Year

[Dag Otto]

Speaking of which, when do the nominations for Stupid Republican Idea of the Year come out?

[elucidator]

Thats not as interesting. For 2003, it was "Invade Iraq!". Hands down, no contest. The next year, it was "Stay in Iraq!" Game over, man, game over. Closer, though, what with "The draft dodging frat boy is a hero, the wounded vet is a wussie!"

[Finagle]

Originally Posted by Jack Batty

I've read every word in BigAppleBucky's post; I know they are English words; I can make no sense out any of them.

Is Walt Disney's creation of "Bambi" to blame for bison in general, or for them having to be moved? How, exactly, is livestock moving to a different park going to cause gas to jump to $25 a gallon? What are the next three steps involved in crushing the republic (I hope they're a little more sexy than shuffling cattle around)? And finally, I don't buy that Karl Marx gave a shit about bison in the first place.


Can someone translate what the hell's going on here?

For you, this was the day that gas went to $25.00/gallon. For Bison, it was Tuesday.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Originally Posted by Dag Otto

Speaking of which, when do the nominations for Stupid Republican Idea of the Year come out?

January 1 of every year. Usually we have at least a dozen candidates within 24 hours so no need to wait.

[Sinaptics]

Originally Posted by YogSosoth

I cannot imagine that they would go through a quarter of the effort to perpetuate a charade like this.

I was reading an article this morning regarding R-Congresscritters (can't remember which ones, Upton and Stern, I think) that have been holding the Solyndra hearings. They are not pushing a bill that will ban any clean energy subsidies and stating, "Our ‘No More Solyndras Act’ will ensure taxpayers are no longer vulnerable to the Obama administration’s game of crony capitalism."

I was thinking to myself, isn't it painful doing this hearing stuff day after day when you know it's all bullshit? They KNOW this was started by Bush, yet they spend day after day trying to pin it to Obama. You have to be one cynical bastard to do that job every day.

[Smapti]

Today, Mitt Romney spoke at the NAACP. He told them he'd repeal Obamacare and pass voter ID laws.

It went about as well as you'd expect.

[jsc1953]

Originally Posted by Smapti

Today, Mitt Romney spoke at the NAACP. He told them he'd repeal Obamacare and pass voter ID laws.

It went about as well as you'd expect.

Well, at least you can't accuse him of pandering for votes.

[Enderw24]

Originally Posted by campp

1. Bambi
2. Godless Americans
3. Bison as pawns
4. Profit!

Or the most awesome game of chess ever.

[elucidator]

Originally Posted by jsc1953

Well, at least you can't accuse him of pandering for votes.

You're right there, that's the least.

[MOIDALIZE]

No, it's definitely pandering for votes. Just not black people votes.

[Kobal2]

Originally Posted by elucidator

Closer, though, what with "The draft dodging frat boy is a hero, the wounded vet is a wussie!"

That's far from stupid. Maybe we do need a "cartoonishly, moustache-twirlingly evil political strategy of the day" however.

[waterj2]

Originally Posted by MOIDALIZE

No, it's definitely pandering for votes. Just not black people votes.

Black people can still vote? What is this, 2008 or something?

[Dag Otto]

Originally Posted by waterj2

Black people can still vote? What is this, 2008 or something?

Shh. There's a surprise planned for them on Nov 6th.

[elucidator]

You know, a whole bunch of them can fucking read! Nice work, race traitor!

[Punoqllads]

San Pablo City Councilman Paul Morris claims he was assaulted, knocked unconscious, driven (in his own car) to a race track five miles away, and abandoned.

"The whole thing is just bizarre," Morris said.

[rogerbox]

Originally Posted by Finagle

For you, this was the day that gas went to $25.00/gallon. For Bison, it was Tuesday.

I just want you to know, I appreciated this.

[Rhythmdvl]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

San Pablo City Councilman Paul Morris claims he was assaulted, knocked unconscious, driven (in his own car) to a race track five miles away, and abandoned.

I'm missing the "stupid" and "idea" part of that story. Or maybe this is The Shitty thing of the day that happened to a Republican thread?

[Punoqllads]

Originally Posted by Rhythmdvl

I'm missing the "stupid" and "idea" part of that story. Or maybe this is The Shitty thing of the day that happened to a Republican thread?

His story stinks worse than week-old sashimi. And is twice as fishy.

[Waenara]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

His story stinks worse than week-old sashimi. And is twice as fishy.

Yup. The thing about his story that seems the most improbable to me is that he was treated in hospital for a "minor concussion" and a bruised tailbone. Yet he says he was hit hard enough on the head for him to be completely unconscious, was somehow dragged/carried to his car, driven somewhere else and woke up sometime later, and was so groggy he had difficulty making himself understood to a 911 operator. IRL (not movies), it takes a significant concussion, likely including a skull fracture, to knock someone out like that.

[Morbo] Concussions Do Not Work That Way! [/Morbo]

[Punoqllads]

Originally Posted by Waenara

[Morbo] Concussions Do Not Work That Way! [/Morbo]

Exactly. Had he said he had had a seizure due to some medication, causing him to trip and fall and then general confusion when he came to, this would all be between him and his doctor. Instead he presents a highly implausible scenario which initiates a police investigation attempting to either track down the assailant or show that the Right Honourable Gentleman is full of shit. In the latter case, he sets himself up to being charged with making false statements to the po-po.

Any medical-types give an off-the-cuff prognosis for someone who was knocked out for an hour and a half?

[Rhythmdvl]

Is there some local context I'm missing? He's anti-gambling? The parking lot is a mecca for Marxist hookers? He just happened to have a box of files that were recently subpoenaed but are now "lost" to a robbery? He's a narcoleptic in a staunchly anti-narcoleptic district? What's missing?

[Revtim]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the point of the lie either.