OK, I’ve done that, now what?
( I live in Illinois, all my politicians are assholes. )
Let's pork this asshole. Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor of Texas.
Yes, that would be a bad direction for the board to head in. A very bad direction.
Throw that bastard little pig down in the quarry!
When come back bring pork pie.
Yes, please.
OK, so what? Why is that wrong?
You better wise up, Janet Weiss.
I feel like you’d remember taking a corkscrew-shaped penis no matter how drunk you were, if for no other reason than because you might have tried to use it to open a wine bottle after coitus.
Depends on the age of the porkee.
Let me guess.
You copy/pasted wikipedia articles for research papers in high school.
Or is that just your plan for when you get there?
So a Little_Pig in the BBQ Pit! Will it be a Kansas City, Memphis, Texas or Carolina style barbecuing?
And a LA Times opinion piece on the Texas Republican nominee for governor is weak sauce.
This Little_Pig should have advised TogoFan about stretching nostril openings (cuz, ya know, even little pigs have large nostril openings [I shouldn’t have explained that, should I?]).
Maybe it’s just the parts of the Web that I frequent, but if a writer wants a reader to click on a link, IME the writer generally does a bit more to sell it than the OP has.
Here, as in most places I go, the standard is pretty simple: you still have to make at least the bare bones of your own argument.
You can link to another source for a more thorough argument, or for substantiation of particular facts that you’re asserting along the way, but you still have to make some sort of basic argument, like “Texas AG Abbott is a bad person because he throws parties where he barbecues gay illegal immigrant children” or some such.
And at the link, you would expect to find either substantiation that he barbecues gay illegal immigrant children, or a more detailed argument about why that’s a bad thing.
His pork pie don’t taste too nice.
Seems to be going pretty well, just not in the direction you had hoped.
Interesting OP User name/thread title combo. Just sayin’.
Abbott will most likely defeat Wendy Davis regardless.
Pit fail.
Also ducks. But the pigs got a chapter in BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, mostly because there aren’t many government duck inseminating programs.
Is that an actual sign of his poor thinking, or even of his personal opinion? If you’re AG of Texas, I expect you’ll get told to protest that thing. And if you’re protesting that thing, what else are you going to say? That it’ll cause the neighbor children to be born with obscure tattoos?
Even if he was pro gay marriage (I know nothing about the man, so I have no guess), he’d be best served by serving up a weak argument. It reminds me of Suzette Haden Elgin’s advice on what to do when you’ve been assigned the promotion of something that you’re against. She said argue for it with due diligence, but use a metaphor that causes people unavoidable unconscious irritation. Apparently for many academics the contaminant metaphor is campus parking. Maybe he’s using “the government wants to promote people having many babies” as a contaminant metaphor. It would sure get up the nose of any conservative who’s been discussing welfare recently.
Is he using any other metaphors, besides government promoting babies?
Greg Abbott had been married two years when a falling oak tree rendered him paraplegic–back in 1984. Wikipedia mentions that their daughter is adopted. If he was all that interested in “procreation” perhaps he ought to had had the marriage annulled to allow his young wife to do her part with populating the great state of Texas.
Of course, this was a personal tragedy–but he’s going to court to interfere with lots of folks’ very personal lives. (And I do think it worth mentioning that he got $10 million dollars from the negligent tree owners; he worked for a high-tone law firm at the time. Later, he capped punitive damages for Texans.)
It’s easy enough to come up with reasons Abbott is worthless. (He’s not an idiot, but he’s glad to play one to reach our state’s Republican voters.) For example:
In your OP, write a brief paragraph & then add a supplemental link, if you wish. We’ve had too many idiots drop a Youtube link & then want to “debate”…
Holy Christ on a crying crutch. I thought I had some stupid rants in my daily whisky drinking days. I stayed away from the pit for a few years hoping people would forget some of the stupid shit I said. Then I see this OP and realize I was actually ok. Even then. Vindication!