# Stupid liberal idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 307
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6121 "2017-09-06T02:53:04Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > You made this story up, didn’t you? > > Why are you such a pathetic loser? Why would I make it up? I even took a picture of the idiot. I really wish I had had my phone on me and could have recorded her tirade. Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6122 "2017-09-06T02:54:56Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > But it’s not you, it’s **Clothahump** , busily trying to deflect the discussion away from how he got royally suckered by that bogus faked rescue story. > > So, **Clothy** , you going to admit you got hoodwinked on that one, or not? I’m not deflecting anything. I will admit I got hornswoggled by the fake news story. Mea culpa. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6123 "2017-09-06T02:56:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Cool story Bro. And by that, I mean "what an unmitigated load of horseshit, clearly designed to distract from you being suckered in by a parody “news” site. And as usual, you would be wrong. But that’s to be expected. > [@](#): > > Next time, tell us about how you were minding your own business having a cup of coffee at your local cafe when you were attacked by a militant vegan hippie who was screaming at you for having cows milk in your beverage. If that ever happens, I’ll be happy to post it. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6124 "2017-09-06T02:57:08Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Why would I make it up? I even took a picture of the idiot. I really wish I had had my phone on me and could have recorded her tirade. > > Fuck off. You took a picture of someone’s back a block away. But then, you do rely on flimsy evidence regularly. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6125 "2017-09-06T02:57:40Z")
You made it up because you’re so pathetically desperate that after repeatedly being shown that the stories you linked to are complete bullshit you decided to post something no one could factually refute because you were the only one there. Plus it’s such a pathetic example it’s just sad. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6126 "2017-09-06T02:59:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I will admit I got hornswoggled by the fake news story. Mea culpa. Holy shit. Every single person in my betting pool just lost their shirts! But don’t let me distract you, I think you got a couple dozen more mea culpas to make, in this thread alone. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6127 "2017-09-06T03:09:10Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I’m not deflecting anything. I will admit I got hornswoggled by the fake news story. Mea culpa. _Eyes fall out of head and roll around like marbles_ ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6128 "2017-09-06T03:28:25Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I’m not deflecting anything. I will admit I got hornswoggled by the fake news story. Mea culpa. Wow! Trumpist admits he was Trumped! (Is this why munitions merchants fell on the NYSE today?) Did you learn anything, **Mr. Hump**? Are you still going to get your news from [RightWingLies.com](http://RightWingLies.com) or whatever-the-fuck that “news” site was? I think you’d best respond to my following post, or we’ll worry that your recent moment of self-awareness was just an aberration. > [@septimus](#): > > I think it’s possible, **Mr. Clothahump** , that you really aren’t as stupid as you seem; that instead you are a victim of #FakeNews. You are a frequent object of ridicule here, but perhaps pity would be more appropriate. > > Do yourself a favor: Every time you “learn a new fact,” write down which TV channel or Facebook feed you were on at the time. Don’t be bashful or ashamed — Even if it’s Alex Jones _Infowars_, write it down! > > At the end of a week, post the results here, and we’ll all study them. Look at your list of sources with an open mind, and come up with a plan to be better informed. > [@Clothahump](#): > > Or maybe that’s what you guys think is real news reporting these days. Do you have any idea how hilarious this sounds coming from _you_? :smack: Contrast **Mr. Hump** with one of his fellow passengers on the Ryan-Trump train: > [@adaher](#): > > It was never a federal case or anything, just a silly brainfart. Unlike most fellow travelers, **adaher** seems sincere and intelligent. @ **adaher** - Have you ever thought of coming over to the rational side? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6129 "2017-09-06T06:19:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > …Good cat-like reflexes ya got there, son. Oh, I _totally_ do! Find a warm spot, curl up and be asleep in one minute flat! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6130 "2017-09-06T08:47:26Z")
I’m going to assume **Clothahump** ’s story is true, because random crazy people do happen and this is just some person walking down the street. Even if it’s not true, meh - there’s no harm in assuming it happened. It’s not like she’s running for public office. Of course, at the same time this is happening we have the Republican President of the United States talking about how all those people made homeless by the floods in Houston are “happy” and that they should “have a good time”. The Republican stupidity, particularly from politicians and media types, is coming so thick [sic] and fast that liberals simply can’t keep up. So well done to Random Crazy Liberal Lady for doing her small part to attempt to achieve parity. > [@septimus](#): > > Unlike most fellow travelers, **adaher** seems sincere and intelligent. > @ **adaher** - Have you ever thought of coming over to the rational side? Intelligent, yes. Rational, usually. Sincere, no. He is certainly capable of being sincere but tends to default to being a lying sack of shit when it suits his political agenda. Still, we hope one day he will choose to use his powers for good rather than evil. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6131 "2017-09-06T15:05:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m going to assume **Clothahump** ’s story is true, :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6132 "2017-09-06T15:12:23Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Assuming she’s liberal, that is indeed very stupid. You’d win your thread even harder if you admitted that you were wrong about the CNN reporter silliness from the last page of posts. Yes, assuming she’s liberal. Because the guy in my apartment building that wants to ban people from smoking inside their own apartments is a conservative. Because he smells smoke in his precious snowflake’s bedroom and he’s convinced himself it’s coming from the heat vents. Which are under the window. Which is directly under the porch of a chain-smoker who goes outside to smoke. And yet I’ve never thought of posting his story in the SRIOTD thread. And dude, that’s one crappy excuse for a lawnmower. Are you poor? If we liked you more we might crowdfund you a decent one. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6133 "2017-09-06T15:35:31Z")
Why would she pick you of all people to rant to? Weren’t there others mowers in that neighborhood? I would think that after that flood, there’d be a lot of mowing. Do you have something in your yard to indicate to all who pass that you are a die-hard conservative? An Obama effigy perhaps? Maybe that’s why she accosted you. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6134 "2017-09-06T16:03:55Z")
r/thathappened ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6135 "2017-09-06T16:22:11Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Do you have something in your yard to indicate to all who pass that you are a die-hard conservative? An Obama effigy perhaps? Maybe that’s why she accosted you. I think it was the thirty foot tall diesel powered fire breathing Trumpasaurus that he has on his lawn that clued her in to the possibility that Hump may not be all that into the environment. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6136 "2017-09-06T16:25:18Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I think it was the thirty foot tall diesel powered fire breathing Trumpasaurus that he has on his lawn that clued her in to the possibility that Hump may not be all that into the environment. Not coal? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6137 "2017-09-06T16:39:48Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > You’ll be great in an emergency. “See that single pixel? That’s the guy!” Good cat-like reflexes ya got there, son. > [@steatopygia](#): > > Pretty sure this is fantasy. > > I don’t see any women approaching an unknown male (in the fucking burbs, surrounded by lawns) to yell at him, for mowing his lawn. Did she jog over from the commune where they don’t mow? > > Dude. #Sad > [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > You made this story up, didn’t you? > > Why are you such a pathetic loser? > [@bobot](#): > > You can have it, it’s a piece of shit that has failed to deliver. Congratulations? > P.S. Don’t get any on ya. > [@SaneBill](#): > > Right. In those two pictures there is not one grass blade cut. Sad indeed. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Cool story Bro. And by that, I mean "what an unmitigated load of horseshit, clearly designed to distract from you being suckered in by a parody “news” site. > > Next time, tell us about how you were minding your own business having a cup of coffee at your local cafe when you were attacked by a militant vegan hippie who was screaming at you for having cows milk in your beverage. > [@running\_coach](#): > > You took a picture of someone’s back a block away. > > But then, you do rely on flimsy evidence regularly. > [@zoid](#): > > You made it up because you’re so pathetically desperate that after repeatedly being shown that the stories you linked to are complete bullshit you decided to post something no one could factually refute because you were the only one there. > > Plus it’s such a pathetic example it’s just sad. > [@septimus](#): > > Wow! Trumpist admits he was Trumped! (Is this why munitions merchants fell on the NYSE today?) > > Did you learn anything, **Mr. Hump**? Are you still going to get your news from [RightWingLies.com](http://RightWingLies.com) or whatever-the-fuck that “news” site was? > > I think you’d best respond to my following post, or we’ll worry that your recent moment of self-awareness was just an aberration. > > Do you have any idea how hilarious this sounds coming from _you_? :smack: > > Contrast **Mr. Hump** with one of his fellow passengers on the Ryan-Trump train: > > Unlike most fellow travelers, **adaher** seems sincere and intelligent. > @ **adaher** - Have you ever thought of coming over to the rational side? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Why would she pick you of all people to rant to? Weren’t there others mowers in that neighborhood? I would think that after that flood, there’d be a lot of mowing. > > Do you have something in your yard to indicate to all who pass that you are a die-hard conservative? An Obama effigy perhaps? Maybe that’s why she accosted you. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I think it was the thirty foot tall diesel powered fire breathing Trumpasaurus that he has on his lawn that clued her in to the possibility that Hump may not be all that into the environment. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Not coal? Wow. I thought psycho lawnmower whining babe was a poster child for liberals. I was wrong. You people really are nothing more than a pack of mouth-breathing, room-temperature-IQ assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6138 "2017-09-06T16:51:58Z")
Well shit, it’s almost as if when you spend years spreading insane right-wing propaganda without the slightest intent of fact-checking, you lose credibility. How about _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6139 "2017-09-06T17:01:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Okay, I just might have won my own thread. > > I’m kind of old-fashioned. I actually like to mow my own lawn. And given the weather issues lately, it hasn’t been mown for a while and the grass had gotten rather long. > > So I’m out there this morning, mowing away. I stop to dump the grass catcher bag when I was confronted by a woman who was out jogging and who crossed the street to berate me. Why, you might ask? Well, according to her, I’m polluting the living hell out of the environment with the fumes from my lawnmower. She went on and on about how she could smell it and how she didn’t appreciated having to breathe the fumes and what an “insensitive jerk” I was to the needs of the planet and the people around me, and more typical liberal treehugger BS. > > I started laughing at her and couldn’t stop. She got even more upset, to the point where she yelled, and I quote: “It’s not funny, you sorry asshole. You’re killing other people and you don’t even care!” > > [Here’s her offended little ass jogging away from me.](https://i.imgur.com/Mk5f1lu.jpg) I’m just sorry that I don’t have a video of her tirade to share, but I couldn’t get to the phone quick enough. > > Now, the reason I say I win is that stupidity of this magnitude can only be marveled at. You just can’t make up stuff like this; all you can do is cherish it for the absolute moronic stupidity that it is. > > All the while that she was yelling at me about polluting the world and killing people, [this is what she was looking at.](https://i.imgur.com/xZQXNxc.jpg) I’d vote more for Asshole Neighbor than Stupid Liberal Idea. C’mon, dude. You can find better. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6140 "2017-09-06T17:07:22Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > C’mon, dude. You can find better. This thread has been limping along for almost 6-1/2 years and over 6,100 posts. If he can do better, he has passed up ample opportunity to prove it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=308)