# my idiotic jackass cousins latest political theory (or obamas plan to have an isis take over....... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 17, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149 "2016-07-17T20:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/61 "2016-07-18T17:45:46Z")
You should slap your cousin ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/62 "2016-07-18T18:00:00Z")
You’re Dan Patrick’s cousin? > **[Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick Blasts President Obama for Response to Police Killings](https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-blasts-president-obama/story?id=40588563)** > > He told Obama to be careful of being "too quick to condemn the police." ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/63 "2016-07-18T18:06:11Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Included in the unincorporated, unorganized territories. **There are 11 of them** , and I didn’t feel like typing them all out. okay,folks, this is the Dope…even in the Pit we’re fightin’ ignorance… How many of us Dopers even knew that there is a category of US territory defined as “unincorporated, unorganized”? And that there are 11 of 'em? Well? Didja? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/64 "2016-07-18T18:09:55Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > What’s his or her excuse for the lack of capitalization? They can’t all be typos. Seriously? Do you always ignore content and concentrate on grammar rules? Does that get you through the night? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/65 "2016-07-18T18:12:20Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > okay,folks, this is the Dope…even in the Pit we’re fightin’ ignorance… > How many of us Dopers even knew that there is a category of US territory defined as “unincorporated, unorganized”? And that there are 11 of 'em? Well? Didja? 🙂 Of course I knew. I also know how many pineapples are in a can of pineapple rings. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/66 "2016-07-18T18:15:27Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Seriously? Do you always ignore content and concentrate on grammar rules? Does that get you through the night? **D’Anconia** doesn’t do content. Sometimes he complains we’re discussing something that doesn’t concern us. Example: The Kentucky ( see? I got it right) clerk who wouldn’t issue same-sex marriage licenses. He stated that unless one lived in the county, we had no business discussing it, being upset at it, it was none of our concern. Too stupid to understand the national ramifications. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/67 "2016-07-18T18:59:21Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Seriously? Do you always ignore content and concentrate on grammar rules? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482070&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482070&postcount=2) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482074&postcount=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482074&postcount=4) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482077&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482077&postcount=5) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19483704&postcount=33](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19483704&postcount=33) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19484652&postcount=46](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19484652&postcount=46) There were more, but you get the picture. And that was one thread in the Mundane Forum, not the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/68 "2016-07-18T19:03:17Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > There were more, but you get the picture. And that was one thread in the Mundane Forum, not the Pit. Trying to excuse yourself because other people do it is the sign of a true weenie. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/69 "2016-07-18T19:04:41Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482070&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482070&postcount=2) > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482074&postcount=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482074&postcount=4) > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482077&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19482077&postcount=5) > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19483704&postcount=33](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19483704&postcount=33) > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19484652&postcount=46](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19484652&postcount=46) > > There were more, but you get the picture. And that was one thread in the Mundane Forum, not the Pit. So…still focusing on grammar, huh? Not content? As my dad would have said, “all hat, no cattle.” ---
**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:** [July 18, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/70 "2016-07-18T19:08:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > So…still focusing on grammar, huh? Not content? As my dad would have said, “all hat, no cattle.” “No brain, all bull” fits this situation better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/71 "2016-07-18T19:14:45Z")
Ignoring the side discussion on grammar, I always wonder about this sort of thing. “Obama is going to be dictator for life.” Has anyone seen the man lately? His hair is completely gray and he looks weary and tired. I think he just wants to go home and spend what little time he has left with his daughters before they grow up. I don’t think he wants to be dictator for life! He was leader of the free world, that’s enough for anyone. I feel like people think that the president can just issue edicts willy nilly and not have to answer to anyone. When I took my oath of citizenship I had to learn about the three branches and about checks and balances. Sometimes I feel like it’s only filthy goddamn furriners who had to learn this stuff. What do they teach in schools? President can just do whatever he wants? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/72 "2016-07-18T19:18:52Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > My plan come January 21st, 2017 is to go back through all the whack job claims and ‘predictions’ and the like about what Obama would do as President, list them and what actually happened, then post that list **every fucking place I can**. > > Along with some choice bible verses about false prophecy and slander. > > If I win the lottery between now and then, I’ll pay to post it as an ad on every goddamned right wing site I can buy ad space on, at least until they demand it be removed. 😃 They won’t care. By that time they’ll have moved on to the next conspiracy, and at that particular time will be deeply immersed in the conspiracy of how Hillary stole the election. If they had any ability to notice that their predictions are always wrong, they wouldn’t be right-wing wackjobs. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/73 "2016-07-18T19:19:44Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > When I took my oath of citizenship I had to learn about the three branches and about checks and balances. Sometimes I feel like it’s only filthy goddamn furriners who had to learn this stuff. What do they teach in schools? President can just do whatever he wants? Way back when dinosaurs still roamed the American continent, I was taught about checks and balances between the three branches of government. That said, people like _idiotic jackass cousin_ may have been taught such things, but they never actually learned it. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/74 "2016-07-18T19:36:37Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > When I took my oath of citizenship I had to learn about the three branches and about checks and balances. Sometimes I feel like it’s only filthy goddamn furriners who had to learn this stuff. What do they teach in schools? **President can just do whatever he wants?** He certainly tries to do whatever he wants. The pesky Supreme Court keeps ruling against him, often unanimously. > **[Despite This Week’s Victories, Obama Has Struggled At The Supreme Court](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/despite-this-weeks-victories-obama-has-struggled-at-the-supreme-court/)** > > The Obama administration won three major victories at the Supreme Court this week, with the justices upholding the Affordable Care Act, legalizing same-sex marr… ---
**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:** [July 18, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/75 "2016-07-18T19:45:44Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > He certainly tries to do whatever he wants. The pesky Supreme Court keeps ruling against him, often unanimously. > > [Despite This Week’s Victories, Obama Has Struggled At The Supreme Court | FiveThirtyEight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/despite-this-weeks-victories-obama-has-struggled-at-the-supreme-court/) Politifact:[GOP leader: Supreme Court has ruled 13 times that Obama exceeded his constitutional authority](Bob Goodlatte said, "The 9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that the president had exceeded his constitutional authority.) Ruling:False > [@](#): > > **For starters, in eight of the cases, the alleged overreach occurred under President George W. Bush, as did the court cases that challenged the administration** (United States vs. Jones, Sackett vs. EPA, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School vs. EEOC, Gabelli vs. SEC, Arkansas Fish & Game Commission v. United States, PPL Corp. vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Horne vs. USDA, and Bond vs. United States). Bush’s Justice Department handled the initial court proceedings in most instances. > > Obama’s Justice Department in many of the cases handled the appellate process and ultimately defended the actions to the Supreme Court. But that’s commonplace, experts we spoke with said. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/76 "2016-07-18T19:48:54Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > He certainly tries to do whatever he wants. The pesky Supreme Court keeps ruling against him, often unanimously. > > [Despite This Week’s Victories, Obama Has Struggled At The Supreme Court | FiveThirtyEight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/despite-this-weeks-victories-obama-has-struggled-at-the-supreme-court/) Unlike DUBya, who took us to fucking war and got how many servicemen and women killed, not to mention the countless Iraqis who got killed. There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world. **running coach** has an even better link. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/77 "2016-07-18T19:57:01Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Agreed, despite the fact that every two termer seems quite ready to step aside at this point in their second term. Obama is no exception. There is nothing I know that tells more of a story than comparing photos of a President at their first inauguration and at the inauguration of the next guy. It’s not just four or eight years of aging - it’s obviously been a trip through hell. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/78 "2016-07-18T19:57:22Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Unlike DUBya, who took us to fucking war and got how many servicemen and women killed, not to mention the countless Iraqis who got killed. There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world. **running coach** has an even better link. Which I managed to screw up. Fixed. [Bob Goodlatte said, “The 9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that the president had exceeded his constitutional authority.”](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/29/bob-goodlatte/gop-leader-supreme-court-has-ruled-13-times-obama-/) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/79 "2016-07-18T19:58:28Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > He certainly tries to do whatever he wants. The pesky Supreme Court keeps ruling against him, often unanimously. > > [Despite This Week’s Victories, Obama Has Struggled At The Supreme Court | FiveThirtyEight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/despite-this-weeks-victories-obama-has-struggled-at-the-supreme-court/) So, I see you’re continuing the tradition of either being wrong about absolutely everything or else deliberately misrepresenting everything in order to promote your insanely distorted view of the world. As your own link attests, the Obama administration has faced unprecedented obstructionism in Congress, so federal agencies have been playing a greater role resulting in more court challenges. The other major factor is the extremely ideological right-wing makeup of the court. And if you claim that the rulings are “often” unanimous, I don’t think you understand what the word “often” means. The fate of the EPA regulation on coal pollution is a good example of all of this, and notably of the wingnuttery of the court when Scalia was still there: The 5-to-4 vote, with the court’s four liberal members dissenting, was unprecedented — the Supreme Court had never before granted a request to halt a regulation before review by a federal appeals court. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/us/politics/supreme-court-blocks-obama-epa-coal-emissions-regulations.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/us/politics/supreme-court-blocks-obama-epa-coal-emissions-regulations.html?_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149/80 "2016-07-18T20:01:46Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Unlike DUBya, who took us to fucking war and got how many servicemen and women killed, not to mention the countless Iraqis who got killed. There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world. **running coach** has an even better link. He has the lowest winning percentage of any President, going back to 1946. And by at least a 10% margin. Some Constitutional Scholar he turned out to be. **running coach’s** link returns a “page cannot be displayed” error. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idiotic-jackass-cousins-latest-political-theory-or-obamas-plan-to-have-an-isis-take-over/760149.md?page=5)