Michelle Bachman (R, Batshit)

[Beware_of_Doug]

@foolsguinea

I object. I think the correct form is “Michelle Bachman (Batshit, Minn-6)”.

Michele Bachmann. One l, two n’s.

Alternate spelling: Jean Schmidt.

[Scylla]

@Equipoise

It’s still hilarious, and sad, and pathetic that ACORN has become a voodoo word on the right - evoke it and nutjobs will back away in horror while making the sign of the cross - when the organization didn’t do anything wrong at all. In fact, they did everything they should have done. They cross-checked the information handed in to them, then reported the inaccuracies/falsehoods that were found, just as the law requires (considering that it’s against the law to throw away voter registrations). They CROSS-CHECKED the information for inaccuracies and falsehoods, then REPORTED those problems, and fired the lazy field workers who turned them in. They did everything right, within the law and common decency, and yet they were vilified and are still being vilified, because Republicans are fucking asshole scum who lie and lie and lie and don’t give a shit whether innocent and good-hearted organizations who do good work are tarred and feathered and ruined in the process. And the ones who know the truth but don’t speak up for ACORN are even scummier assholes.

I don’t defend it, but you’re complaining about a grain of sand while lying on the beach. Mudraking, and throwing shit around for political effect is hardly a Republican phenomenom.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Scylla

So, I see nothing particularly abnormal or “batshit” about these particular lies and exagerations.

Hmmmmm… I’m going to agree with you here.

It is perfectly normal and not “batshit” to hear lies and exaggerations coming out of the mouths of Republicans. The goal of Republicans is to make Democrats look bad, not to govern the country or act as a loyal opposition.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Scylla

I don’t defend it, but you’re complaining about a grain of sand while lying on the beach.

It’s more like I’m complaining about someone who takes their dog to the beach, and lets them take a huge steaming dump next to me, then when I complain, says “everyone does it”

[Scylla]

@Euphonious_Polemic

Hmmmmm… I’m going to agree with you here.

It is perfectly normal and not “batshit” to hear lies and exaggerations coming out of the mouths of Republicans. The goal of Republicans is to make Democrats look bad, not to govern the country or act as a loyal opposition.

Now that’s batshit! The selective perception totally amazes me. I’ve been coming to the conclusion that politics is really a genius scam. Republicans and Democrats are like sports fans who see everything through the lens of their respective affinity. It’s that way by design to keep us in contention and distracted from the fact that everyone in Washington is a dishonest corrupt bastard fucking over his constituents.

They all suck.

[Scylla]

If you think only one side sucks or sucks significantly less than you’re batshit, too.

[black_rabbit]

@Scylla

Now that’s batshit! The selective perception totally amazes me. I’ve been coming to the conclusion that politics is really a genius scam. Republicans and Democrats are like sports fans who see everything through the lens of their respective affinity. It’s that way by design to keep us in contention and distracted from the fact that everyone in Washington is a dishonest corrupt bastard fucking over his constituents.

They all suck.

And that’s horseshit.

You could stack up all the lies, exaggerations, mistruths, and bullshit spread by the left about W and it wouldn’t stack half as high as the tower of slander and vomit about Clinton piled up by Richard Mellon Scaife alone.

That’s not even counting the rest of your cadre of liars and blowhards.

[BrainGlutton]

@Scylla

If you think only one side sucks or sucks significantly less than you’re batshit, too.

Oh, they both suck – but they don’t suck equally. The Dems are a Hoover floor model and the Pubs an industrial dredge pump.

[BrainGlutton]

@Scylla

That’s just the same cite twice.

Sorry, here’s the other one.

[Equipoise]

@Scylla

I don’t defend it, but you’re complaining about a grain of sand while lying on the beach. Mudraking, and throwing shit around for political effect is hardly a Republican phenomenom.

I’d like to know what good-hearted Republican-oriented community service organization is loathed and has been vilified by the left, to the point where its very name is synonymous with corruption and feted fecal matter among liberals.

I can wait all century.

[Terrifel]

@Scylla

I know I’m the only conservative left here. I kind of feel like Will Smith in “I Am Legend…”

Theatrical release, or original ending?

[Sailboat]

@Scylla

And, if there is justice in the world no Democrat posting here may ever complain about a stupid name a Republican calls a Democratic President. By my calculations Republicans need to say “Obamalama,” or “Obamination” 9,337, 432 times to make for all the “Shrubs” and “Repugnicans” over the last 8 years.

Never seen “Repugnican” before this moment, and I’ve been following politics on this board and elsewhere. Certainly it’s not like “the Democrat party,” a deliberate rhetorical branding by Republican party operatives. Or at least it’s not as well known.

And you know what a “shrub” is, as a unit of derisive measurement?

1/10 of a Slick Willie.

[elucidator]

@Terrifel

Theatrical release, or original ending?

**Scylla? **Theatrical. No question.

[Captain_Carrot]

@Scylla

I know I’m the only conservative left here.

What are Shodan, Sam Stone, Mr. Moto, xtisme, ivylass, IdahoMauleMan, Carol Stream, Starving Artist, and LonesomePolecat, chopped liver?

*Note: list not extensive, just off the top of my head, and does include a couple of complete nutcases. But they’re conservative nutcases.

[Scylla]

@black_rabbit

And that’s horseshit.

You could stack up all the lies, exaggerations, mistruths, and bullshit spread by the left about W and it wouldn’t stack half as high as the tower of slander and vomit about Clinton piled up by Richard Mellon Scaife alone.

That’s not even counting the rest of your cadre of liars and blowhards.

You’re kidding me, right? Farenheit 911, W, the forged papers on CBS. Dan Rather was in on it. You guys got all of Hollywood and all three networks.

We got Rush Limbaugh on AM radio, and Fox News.

You have every celebrity hot babe in the world, every actress, and all the College chicks. You got the faculty of every College on the planet.

We got Ann Coulter and Mickey Rourke, and the guys at the VFW.
Don’t even give me that whiny shit, your media disinformation empire spans the entire mediaverse.

[Scylla]

@BrainGlutton

Oh, they both suck – but they don’t suck equally. The Dems are a Hoover floor model and the Pubs an industrial dredge pump.

Yeah sure. We didn’t have the guts to put 8 billion dollars for a bullet train between DisneyLand and Las Vegas into the first TARP. Could we have gotten away with that?

[Scylla]

@Equipoise

I’d like to know what good-hearted Republican-oriented community service organization is loathed and has been vilified by the left, to the point where its very name is synonymous with corruption and feted fecal matter among liberals.

Christianity

I can wait all century.

Well, now that you don’t have to, can I have your taco?

[Scylla]

@Captain_Carrot

What are Shodan, Sam Stone, Mr. Moto, xtisme, ivylass, IdahoMauleMan, Carol Stream, Starving Artist, and LonesomePolecat, chopped liver?

*Note: list not extensive, just off the top of my head, and does include a couple of complete nutcases. But they’re conservative nutcases.

They’re not here right now, are they? They’re like the guys at the end of the movie in the fortress in Vermont.

I’m in NYC fighting liberal vampires with just my dog.

[Frank]

@Scylla

They’re not here right now, are they? They’re like the guys at the end of the movie in the fortress in Vermont.

I’m in NYC fighting liberal vampires with just my dog.

Poor Scylla! Hijacking a thread all by himself! What guts he must have.

[Captain_Carrot]

@Equipoise

I’d like to know what good-hearted Republican-oriented community service organization is loathed and has been vilified by the left, to the point where its very name is synonymous with corruption and feted fecal matter among liberals.

@Scylla

Christianity

Liar.