# Bricker is a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344 "2017-03-30T13:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/441 "2017-09-24T14:19:57Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I love watching liberals twist statements into pretzels. Newsflash for ya - nowhere in there did he say he was happy to let people die. > > And I gotta admit that I got a laugh out of your characterizing the idea that **people should be responsible for themselves** as a “despicable right-wing opinion”. That’s comedy gold right there. Really? Is that why you begged for money when you had a 401k to tap? And even though you own the business, you were hoping to get your female partner listed so you could qualify for a female-owned business grant? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/442 "2017-09-24T14:25:38Z")
Almost by definition…anybody who causes BigT to launch into yet another lecture/holier than thou/your a bad bad man speech can’t be all bad. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/443 "2017-09-24T18:10:23Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And I gotta admit that I got a laugh out of your characterizing the idea that people should be responsible for themselves as a “despicable right-wing opinion”. That’s comedy gold right there. So when your house catches fire you’ll turn the socialist fire department away, say “I am responsible for myself,” and hire private firefighters? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/444 "2017-09-24T19:23:05Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > So when your house catches fire you’ll turn the socialist fire department away, say “I am responsible for myself,” and hire private firefighters? Yep, there is that; and as I noted before, [the pre-ACA state of health care was mostly to defend servitude if you have a previous condition](https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/job-lock-what-the-aca-does/). Guys like **Clothy** are so deluded that they really think that slavery (or in this case, a system that a feudal lord would be proud of) is freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/445 "2017-09-25T00:21:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Translation: he wins debates with liberals, and they hate that. > [@Clothahump](#): > > I love watching liberals twist statements into pretzels. The irony woulda been richer if kaylasdad hadn’t posted between these two, but as it is, it’s rich enough to pay for its own health care. ---
**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/446 "2017-09-25T13:06:09Z")
priceless ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/447 "2017-09-25T13:55:23Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > So when your house catches fire you’ll turn the socialist fire department away, say “I am responsible for myself,” and hire private firefighters? I’m sure he filed a report with the socialist police department when someone smashed his window. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/448 "2018-10-13T17:50:40Z")
(I Googled looking for the Pit thread on **Bricker**. There are dozens to choose from! I chose this one because I like the title). First some background. When the North Dakota GOP figures out a clever way to deprive thousands of D voters of their franchise, **Bricker** writes: > [@North Dakota Voter ID Law Bars Native Americans from Polls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-dakota-voter-id-law-bars-native-americans-from-polls/822839/10): > > … Or (and spoiler alert: this is the right answer) the law is proper based on the standards in Crawford v Marion County, the Eighth Circuit noted that North Dakota would be likely to proceed on the merits and thus refused to enjoin them from enforcing it state-wide, and the Supreme Court, equally correctly, declined to overturn that decision. > > Now, some of youse will piously claim that even though it’s legal, it’s Wrong. > > Don’t care what you think. We decide things in this country without relying on what you say is Wrong, especially when your standards are so flexible. Paraphrasing **Bricker** : “We’re a country of laws, not of morality. Trying to have a sense of ‘right and wrong’ is futile. For every right-thinker there will be pig-headed haters like me and my ilk. Therefore it must all be about Laws **Laws Laws!! What is LEGAL!** If it was _legal_ for the GOP to deny those Native Americans and students the right to vote, then it was proper for them to do so.” Got it. **Bricker** is an equal-opportunity hater. Georgia GOP wants to cheat a hundred thousand citizens of their franchise and **Bricker** is all for that too: > [@Georgia purges 1 in 10 voters from voter rolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-purges-1-in-10-voters-from-voter-rolls/822742/93): > > See, that’s the difference between your scheme and the one I support: mine was passed by the legislature, signed into law by the executive, and passed constitutional muster by the judiciary. > > Yours hasn’t. But if you get it past all those hurdles, I’ll acknowledge it as legitimate law. > > Go get 'em, champ! Georgia’s cheating was LEGAL. The GOP would be remiss in its fiduciary duty to the billionaires who own them if they _didn’t cheat_. Got it. _ **But now, watch closely as this sanctimonious, hyper-partisan hypocrite shows his true colors:** _ In a new GD thread, **Bricker** tries to play _Tu Quoque_ on GOP measures to cheat in elections: > [@Do Democrats suppress Republican votes anywhere?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-democrats-suppress-republican-votes-anywhere/822898/2): > > [my emphasis — I’ve reddened the complaint by a few D’s that Bricker treats snidely] > > Let me guess. You get to define what “suppress,” voters means, and it won’t mean gerrymandering, and it won’t mean arguing that **military absentee ballots should not be counted** because they lack postmarks, which military mail often does, but it WILL mean Voter ID and voter registration roll verifications. > > Right? I wonder if he’s self-aware enough to see the irony. He’s condemning the Democrats _ **who wanted to follow the law!** _ As **ElvisL1ves** points out, **Bricker** has his facts wrong but wrong facts are _de riguer_ for modern Republiopaths; my complaint is deeper: > [@Do Democrats suppress Republican votes anywhere?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-democrats-suppress-republican-votes-anywhere/822898/5): > > IIUC, it was _illegal_ to count those military ballots but the majority of Democrats acquiesced to their counting without pursuing legal remedies — _even though all know these ballots would favor Bush by a huge margin_. _ **This was to show respect to young Americans in uniform.** _ And thus Bush, rather than Gore, became the 43rd President of the United States. > > Regardless of the _morality_ of the situation, the _ **LAW** _ required that the ballots NOT be counted. I am not entirely uncertain that Dopers who usually advocate for conformity with the LAW would not advocate for the LAW in this case also, were the party alignment reversed. I wrote “I am not entirely uncertain that Dopers who usually advocate for conformity with the LAW would not advocate for the LAW in this case also, were the party alignment reversed” because **Bricker** whines to the Mods when I call a spade a spade outside the Pit. I’m in the Pit now so let me make my point with more straightforward language: This hypocrite whines and whines that only the law matters when the law is on the side of Trump, the GOP and his other fellow cheaters and haters. BUT, when the GOP ILLEGALLY counts delinquent absentee ballots in Florida (and Democrats go along out of a sense of fair play, despite that it cost them the election) _ **Bricker condemns the Democrats who wanted to follow the law!!** _ The OP was right. “Bricker is a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape” ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/449 "2018-10-13T21:04:15Z")
Yeah, he’s trash. At first, I felt sorry for him but after I read the GD thread, it’s pretty clear he’s in some Kanye-level sunken place shit. This dude said he didn’t think the requirements were onerous by the state; it goes to show you that he believes everyone can read, everyone has the Internet, everyone postal address is up-to-date, mail doesn’t get lost, people don’t throw out mail, people don’t go to school or jail, people don’t have unintended hospital stays, or have unforeseen circumstances (like a death of a close family member or natural disaster, taking care of an ill family member, working multiple jobs, etc) that might make returning a post card not a priority; it’s clear from his words that neither him or nor his family has ever known poverty, struggle, or adversity in their fucking lives. If he could sprinkle like one-billionth of that extraordinary fortune on his people being interned in concentration camps, maybe we wouldn’t have kids being deported back to their home country (without their parent(s)) or sexually assaulted while under the care of the US government. The dude alchemizes the factual and storied history voter disenfranchisement to partisan, Republican v. Democratic bullshit. I don’t give a shit that’s he is privileged and dumb to history, my issue is that he brings up his minority status to pull a Mr. Meeseeks, “I’m a conservative person of color, I have a college degree, look at me”. It’s disgusting. White supremacists love people of color who are willful mouthpieces of white supremacy because the bearer of those words are inoculated against the charges of racism. In our culture, we have a specific word for this - we call this shit coonery. It’s the same game that OJ Simpson, Candace Owens, Paris Denard, Diamond and Silk play (or played) to profit off white (usually advertising) dollars. Let me be clear, too. There are conservative people of color who denounce white supremacy and do not engage in coonery like Condoleezza Rice, Nikki Haley, Anna Navarro, and Colin Powell. So, it’s possible. My hunch is that while Bricker may wear the amulet of a person of color, I suspect it’s more of a Cristina Aguilera and Ted Cruz type of thing - his skin is light, his diction is probably free of any urban or ethnic accent, and his partner and/or offspring are ethnically white. I suspect Bricker, like Ted Cruz, has nearly always been treated like a white man and thus he has no skin in the game. When you walk around with white privilege, ethnicity transforms itself into a novelty, a datum point to explain an unusual last name, a physical feature like hair color or texture, a strange 23andme result, or a reason to choose to learn a specific foreign language in high school or college. Nothing more, nothing less. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/450 "2018-10-13T21:22:39Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > There are conservative people of color who denounce white supremacy and do not engage in coonery like Condoleezza Rice, Nikki Haley, Anna Navarro, and Colin Powell. What? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/451 "2018-10-13T22:22:51Z")
Nothing quite like using a white supremacy derived insult directed at people of color to argue that racism doesn’t exist!!! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/452 "2018-10-14T13:48:19Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > … The OP was right. “Bricker is a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape” I am not so sure you can confidently say that. Given that we only see his posts he could be sculpted into _any_ shape! ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/453 "2018-10-14T16:27:37Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Nothing quite like using a white supremacy derived insult directed at people of color to argue that racism doesn’t exist!!! Where would you get the idea that racism doesn’t exist? It exists. It exists, in part, due to House Pochos like Bricker who worship at the altar of whiteness. My issue is that he deliberately claims it in order to be a mouthpiece of white supremacy. Why not represent who you are? Whiteness. Why not just be who you are? White. You don’t see sunken place clowns like post-confirmation Clarence Thomas or Kanye West talking about being black. It’s about conforming to white folks and bowing down to the power of whiteness. On a cold day in January 1963, Malcolm X highlighted this very point to the NAACP at Michigan Sate University. Kuchiyose No Jutsu. Educate these college-degree carrying white folks, please. > [@Malcolm X in Lansing MI (1963)](#): > > You have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called “Uncle Tom.” He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. > \*\* > The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master’s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master’s house–probably in the basement or the attic–but he still lived in the master’s house. > > So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, “We have good food,” the house Negro would say, “Yes, we have plenty of good food.” “We” have plenty of good food. When the master said that “we have a fine home here,” the house Negro said, “Yes, we have a fine home here.” When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he’d say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would.\*\* > > But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses–the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they’d pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze. > > If someone came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate,” naturally that Uncle Tom would say, “Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?” That’s the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate,” he wouldn’t even ask you where or how. He’d say, “Yes, let’s go.” And that one ended right there. > \*\* > So now you have a twentieth-century-type of house Negro. A twentieth-century Uncle Tom. He’s just as much an Uncle Tom today as Uncle Tom was 100 and 200 years ago. Only he’s a modern Uncle Tom. That Uncle Tom wore a handkerchief around his head. This Uncle Tom wears a top hat. He’s sharp. He dresses just like you do. He speaks the same phraseology, the same language. He tries to speak it better than you do. He speaks with the same accents, same diction. And when you say, “your army,” he says, “our army.” He hasn’t got anybody to defend him, but anytime you say “we” he says “we.” “Our president,” “our government,” “our Senate,” “our congressmen,” “our this and our that.” And he hasn’t even got a seat in that “our” even at the end of the line. So this is the twentieth-century Negro. Whenever you say “you,” the personal pronoun in the singular or in the plural, he uses it right along with you. When you say you’re in trouble, he says, “Yes, we’re in trouble.” > > But there’s another kind of Black man on the scene. If you say you’re in trouble, he says, “Yes, you’re in trouble.” [Laughter] He doesn’t identify himself with your plight whatsoever.\*\* (emphasis mine) Look at this Diamond and Silk gem in Great Debates. > [@Do Democrats suppress Republican votes anywhere?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-democrats-suppress-republican-votes-anywhere/822898/2): > > Let me guess. You get to define what “suppress,” voters means, and it won’t mean gerrymandering, and it won’t mean arguing that military absentee ballots should not be counted because they lack postmarks, which military mail often does, but it WILL mean Voter ID and voter registration roll verifications. > > Right? For Bricker, there is no right or wrong, suppression doesn’t mean what it means, and every issue can be boiled down to some ridiculous feud between Democrats and Republicans, Hatfield and the McCoys, Red and Blue, the Green Bay Packers and Michigan. Here’s a newsflash, Bricker: People of color don’t give a shit about your fucking political parties. People of color primarily vote Democrat not because we want to, but because white people insists on forcing us to choose from either raging dumpster fire or a flaming meteor. If Republican offered a better deal, we’d switch in a heartbeat. When both parties kicked the League of Women Voters out of moderating debates and colluded together to prevent third parties from participating in the Presidential debates, it became clear both political parties are functions of white supremacy. ---
**Author:** ![Savoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Savoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savoy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/454 "2018-10-14T16:51:22Z")
So what explains your racism? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/455 "2018-10-15T04:14:17Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > House Pochos like Bricker And your true colors shine through at last. Apparently it’s okay to be racist at other minorities, if they don’t show the same views as you do. I may not always agree with Bricker, but this is absolutely fucking disgusting. Don’t you ever, EVER, call me a racist again, not if you’re going to spew shit like this. Being black is not a license for bigotry. If you want to argue that one can’t be racist against whites, that’s one thing. But against other marginalized groups, you have absolutely no excuse whatsoever. In short, go fuck yourself, you hypocritical piece of excrement. (BTW, Bricker’s El Salvadoran, NOT Mexican.) ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/456 "2018-10-15T04:55:59Z")
Oh Huey, you write well and are clearly educated. You just have the misfortune to look at everything through a simplistic lens. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/457 "2018-10-15T04:59:28Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Oh Huey, you write well and are clearly educated. You just have the misfortune to look at everything through a simplistic lens. Whereas you do the latter without the former. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/458 "2018-10-15T05:05:16Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Whereas you do the latter without the former. Oh snap! :eek: Aren’t you supposed to be building re-education camps? Or am I confusing you with another member of the mob? ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/459 "2018-10-15T06:04:18Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Oh snap! :eek: > > Aren’t you supposed to be building re-education camps? Or am I confusing you with another member of the mob? No, I was the Nazi-stabbing one. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/460 "2018-10-15T06:16:23Z")
Bricker is Ted Cruz. Like the same oily grease-shart attempt at charisma. Smart, but utterly amoral. He is also one creature and not several. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344.md?page=24)