# Oh Brownie, you're still a douchewaste! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389 "2012-10-31T02:05:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/61 "2012-11-02T02:51:57Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I mean, REALLY: > > > [@](#): > > > > Brown defended his words in his editorial on Wednesday, arguing that New Yorkers need to take the natural disaster as a sign to unwind and learn to live without technology. > > > > “Hurricane Sandy proved once again you can’t beat Mother Nature,” he wrote, listing the effects of the massive outages that hit the East Coast. “Seven million people didn’t have access to laptops, microwaves, ATM machines, televisions, forced-air heating, subways and commuter trains… > > …clean water, food, shelter, functional sewers, medical attention… It’s as if he ACTUALLY thinks everybody’s big problem is “oh noez, my electricity is out.” Just as disturbing is that somebody paid him to write this shit. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/62 "2012-11-02T03:12:50Z")
Brownie is starting to sound like the non-funny version of the guy driving the alien car in ‘Repo Man’. “Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/63 "2012-11-02T13:41:47Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “Hurricane Sandy proved once again you can’t beat Mother Nature,” he wrote, listing the effects of the massive outages that hit the East Coast. “Seven million people didn’t have access to laptops, microwaves, ATM machines, televisions, forced-air heating, subways and commuter trains… > > …clean water, food, shelter, functional sewers, medical attention… … the road you live on, your house, your dog, grandma … I’m mean really. Suck it up, people. Those 90 or so people who died … shit, they were gonna die sooner or later anyway. ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/64 "2012-11-04T03:42:51Z")
Why does Brownie suck so hard? I doubt he really is a deep-cover liberal, which only leaves the possibility that he is one of the stupidest people to ever run anything, or be quoted in a newspaper, or get paid as much as he always seems to get paid. Which then brings up the question, how can somebody so catastrophically stupid get paid so much, for so long? It really makes the conservative movement in this country look like a bunch of idiots by association. I mean, he clearly only has his current job because he was a prominent member of the Bush administration. Why are Republicans/conservatives in this country so loyal to even the biggest fools in their party? Don’t they realize how it makes them look to everyone else in the country, as well as the entire world? Surely they realize that shit backfires sooner or later, like it’s doing in this case. Why put that fool in a position where he can possibly be publicly quoted? OMFG, what a PR train wreck. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/65 "2012-11-04T06:39:17Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > Why are Republicans/conservatives in this country so loyal to even the biggest fools in their party? Don’t they realize how it makes them look to everyone else in the country, as well as the entire world? It’s the logical result of building a party around denigration of the intellectual elite, rejection of science and facts, and celebration of ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/66 "2012-11-04T16:00:06Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > Why does Brownie suck so hard? > > I doubt he really is a deep-cover liberal, which only leaves the possibility that he is one of the stupidest people to ever run anything, or be quoted in a newspaper, or get paid as much as he always seems to get paid. > > Which then brings up the question, how can somebody so catastrophically stupid get paid so much, for so long? It really makes the conservative movement in this country look like a bunch of idiots by association. > > I mean, he clearly only has his current job because he was a prominent member of the Bush administration. Why are Republicans/conservatives in this country so loyal to even the biggest fools in their party? Don’t they realize how it makes them look to everyone else in the country, as well as the entire world? > > Surely they realize that shit backfires sooner or later, like it’s doing in this case. Why put that fool in a position where he can possibly be publicly quoted? OMFG, what a PR train wreck. Call it political welfare, the granting of handouts to the undeserving. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/67 "2012-11-05T03:52:01Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I say we tattoo his “Obama’s responding too quickly” remarks across his forehead and drop him onto one of the barrier islands that’s still flooded and without gas, electricity, running water, and internet and phone services. From one of the overflying helicopters. Without a parachute. As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/68 "2012-11-05T04:37:57Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Brownie is starting to sound like the non-funny version of the guy driving the alien car in ‘Repo Man’. > > “Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.” J. Frank Parnell had his shit way more together than Brownie ever will. ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389/69 "2012-11-05T14:36:51Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > It’s the logical result of building a party around denigration of the intellectual elite, rejection of science and facts, and celebration of ignorance. The Republicans were much more balanced back when they WEREN’T the party of racism. The way I see it is that economic conservatism and racism go hand-in-hand. \* As long as the party of racism was the economically-liberal one, then both parties were sort of ideologically muddled, on a purely philosophical level. However, the Republicans have become, ideologically, in that sense, extremely pure. So the extremism can run amok more easily, essentially. \*Racists naturally support the withholding of government help from underprivileged minorities. Why would any racist want welfare to go to minorities? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389.md?page=3)