You guys seriously need to lay off the Tea Party. They are just a group of well-intentioned patriots trying to take some peaceful grassroots action against irresponsible government use of our tax dollars. They aren’t even concerned with social issues at all. Do you really not care about your freedoms?
Okay, I’ve been out all day and haven’t returned to the other thread since I got back this evening. But now I’ve gone back and followed the links that you did eventually supply, and now I’ve refamiliarized myself with what was going on. So, let’s recap: In the post you referred back to, I said:
Now, why did I say that? Because in the conversation we were having about government health care, you said:
In my opinion, “Yee-haw” and “buckaroo” in that context are insults. They are dismissive and clearly intended to imply a backward, redneck mentality.
I followed that by asking if you were really as stupid as your posts made you sound, or whether you’d simply reacted out of reflex without thinking your position through. If you’ll think about it you’ll see that I was actually expressing the belief that you were not that stupid in point of fact…a backhanded compliment to be sure, but a compliment nontheless. And I ended the post with an amused smilie, intended to show that the comment was made in good humor, as I explained to you later and which I illustrated by quoting William F. Buckley’s comment: “I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you actually believe what you just said.”
And yes, as I said in another of the posts you linked to, I think that following me around posting snippets of things I’d said out of context in an effort to make me appear hypocritical or self-contradictory is “assholey”.
And I’ll go further now and state that it’s dishonest as well.
“Eventually”? That link was in the first post where I quoted you.
Welcome to the world of Starving Artist, where “yee-haw, buckaroo” is an insult, but “I con’t believe you are actually this stupid” isn’t.
And quoting someone is dishonest.
I’ll give Cisco credit and assume this remark is tongue-in-cheek and that he’s laughing his head off at his own wit, but in case there are children present it might be worth noting that the unifying principle of Teabaggingism proves their imbecility:
The Number One key problem they’re concerned with is the Federal debt. Their Number One solution to that problem is Tax cutting.
Many Americans still think the Sun rotates around the Earth. Is it possible that many Teabaggers’ grasp of the simplest math is so poor they think increasing tax revenue causes deficits?
(Yes, I’ve hear of “starving the beast.” But that beast is already pretty emaciated by now; regulaters are laid off, private firms manage our prisons and security, etc. Cutting military spending is off-limits since we need to project power against non-Christian or gay-loving countries.)
Here’s the first post in that thread where you quote the actual insult. Note that you follow it by stating, “I can’t cite that I didn’t insult you before that, but you’re welcome to look.” That was in post #210. In post #230 I asked you to link to it so I could examine the context, which you eventually did in post #238…some four hours and two minutes after the post in which you quoted me.
Now, I won’t go so far as to say you were lying, but at the very least you don’t appear to have a good enough memory to be making declarative statements like the one you made above.
Within the context as I explained it, you are correct.
Quoting them out of context in order to create false impressions what they said certainly is. Frankly, given how stringently the board enforces the rule about altering quotes, I’m surprised it’s allowed in the first place.
Go to post #210. The insulting quote is preceeded by “Originally posted by Starving Artist”, and an arrow. That arrow is a link to the original post in the original thread.
My memory is fine and my statement was accurate.
Gol darn! I been here nigh on to a hunnert years and I ain’t never seen nothin’ like that afore…leastwise not so that I knew what it was. Still, it woulda been a mite more sportin’ of ya if ya had linked to it like a normal person, ya know. Anyways, I guess you did link to it in your own funny kinda way so I guess I gotta take back what I said…so I do.
You’re still here? Shouldn’t you be sitting in the back of a patrol car somewhere asking a cop to just piss on you?
Just to clarify my earlier post: The fag comment wasn’t actually directed at septimus. It’s just that the sub-average mentality of those random nutsacks who cotton to the leaderless chaos that is the Tea Party, and the fact that they haven’t been burnt at the stake by their fellow Americans, drives home the point that Idiocracy is not a comedy. Rather it is a horror flick with all the prophetic acuity of Fahrenheit 451, only maybe a little darker. Therefore, pretty much anything related to the TP compells me to brush up on being 'tarded in preparation for the general abandonment of human wit.
You’re correct. The story begins with a quote from O’Donnell but the really weird stuff comes from the unnamed Tea Party woman. That woman describes herself as a Baptist and O’Donnell is not one of those.
Paladino is married but also has a young daughter from an affair with a former employee, so I’m betting he’s used to awkward Thanksgivings.
It would be so low class for anybody to start a rumor that she’s black.
No, I’m dead serious. The Tea Party should be running this country. We need real Americans in office. The Tea Party doesn’t care if you are black, or gay, or have any other problem. That’s not what they’re about. They’re about freedom, America, and the Constitution. And they have been angry for a long time. Maybe if we had some real patriots in office we never would have gotten in this mess. Try reading the Federalist Papers sometime. Or look up a guy name Thomas Payne. You’ll see what I mean.
Maybe true for the most part Cisco. Unfortunately, the people running for office as self-described Tea Party candidates don’t really fit that description.
I’m calling Poe’s Law on Cisco.
Of course they do. And we need to send them to Washington so they can stand up for us against the beltway bureaucrats.
Riiiight.
Or if you fuck horses, hate gays, or are opposed to civil rights!
Seriously, are you high?
- Pours domestic beer on Cisco *
The answer to 1984 is 1776.
Dude, Mondale lost fair and square. Get over it.
Wait till you see the bloodbath at the polls next month. Bye bye Reed. Bye bye Pelosi. Bye bye Obama.