# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/981 "2013-01-25T17:53:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s right-wing-crazy-speak for “Obama is accomplishing things we don’t like despite our attempts to stop him”. See also: “ramming down our throats”. Or code for “see how uppity they get when you put 'em in the White House?” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/982 "2013-01-25T18:04:01Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It’s easy to see where they get this idea, here is what the inauguration sounded like to conservatives: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpwhA-LdOHo&feature=em-uploademail](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpwhA-LdOHo&feature=em-uploademail) I actually had to switch that off because I was laughing too hard. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/983 "2013-01-25T18:29:48Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Yeah, it makes it easier to get stuff in the Senate to a vote. > > Bills still have to get 51 senators, or 50 senators and the VP, to vote for them, _and get the House of Representatives to vote on them and get a majority to vote for it,_ and get the president’s signature to become law. No, it turns out the filibuster rule changes some procedures, but essentially leaves the 60 vote barrier intact. [Reid sold out.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-leaders-reach-deal-modifying-filibuster-procedures/2013/01/24/48a8ca16-6648-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html) > [@](#): > > “I’m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold,” Reid said in an interview Thursday with The Washington Post’s Wonkblog. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/984 "2013-01-26T13:18:40Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > It’s bad enough that Obama thinks of himself as the god-emperor of the USA. And what a [sad empire he presides over](http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/16/5117549/jack-ohman-the-united-states-of.html). ---
**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:** [January 26, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/985 "2013-01-26T19:52:42Z")
One post in this thread caught my eye, as the malignant babblings of a (probably racist) dolt. > [@Clothahump](#): > > It’s bad enough that Obama thinks of himself as the god-emperor of the USA… > JezzusFrickinChrist, no wonder our government is as fucked up as it is. I read SDMB for content, irrespective of poster, but the name **Clothahump** did seem familiar. The subconscious association was “contemptible imbecile.” Then, just now skimming another thread I saw > [@Is Fox News really all that bad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/116): > > Your TLDR assumption is incorrect. The mainstream media is biased hard left. FOX is moderate, which puts it in the middle. The others, however, are so far left that it makes FOX look hard right if things like ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN et. al. are all you listen to. It’s the right-wingers like **Brickhead** who have three-digit IQs and are hypocrites who are irritating. But anyone as stupid as **Clothahump** probably believes his own drivel. I find him as lovable as a fragrant donkey fart. Please don’t Ban ClothyHump!! Clicking “View Posts by” under his name must be a great diversion when bored. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/986 "2013-01-26T20:38:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Not sure what’s stupid about the first proposal, but the other two do seem awfully dumb. My bullshit meter pinged hard. That’s a mix of one real thing with two unbelievable things, worthy of a conspiracy from a Fang the Unwashed book. Anyway– If we’re going to pick on small-time conservatives for arrogant ignorance in the other thread, this is only fair. Small-time New York pol confuses “heat-seeking” and “incendiary,” sounds dumb: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BRQqieimwLQ/hqdefault.jpg "Heat Seeking Bullets") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQqieimwLQ) Thanks for keeping up the side, lady. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/987 "2013-01-26T21:07:49Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > My bullshit meter pinged hard. That’s a mix of one real thing with two unbelievable things, worthy of a conspiracy from a Fang the Unwashed book. > > Anyway– > > If we’re going to pick on small-time conservatives for arrogant ignorance in the other thread, this is only fair. Small-time New York pol confuses “heat-seeking” and “incendiary,” sounds dumb: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQqieimwLQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQqieimwLQ) > > Thanks for keeping up the side, lady. Nice job giving their side a lovely sound bite of a liberal who doesn’t know the first thing about what they want to ban. That was painful to watch. :smack: How can she really have thought the bullets are HEAT SEAKING like MISSILES?!?? :mad: ---
**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:** [January 26, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/988 "2013-01-26T22:10:52Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > Nice job giving their side a lovely sound bite of a liberal who doesn’t know the first thing about what they want to ban. That was painful to watch. :smack: > > How can she really have thought the bullets are HEAT SEAKING like MISSILES?!?? :mad: That was comedy gold 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/989 "2013-01-26T22:45:39Z")
I don’t know all that much about bubonic plague, I’m still against it. I do know that quite often, too often, that little metal thingy (a “bullet”, I think the ballistiphiles call it…) goes where it ought not, thus injuring people. Reason enough to want such things regulated and controlled. I also know those two words mean something quite distinct from “banning”. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/990 "2013-01-27T05:06:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > It’s bad enough that Obama thinks of himself as the god-emperor of the USA. I, for one, welcome our new god-emperor overlord. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/991 "2013-01-27T05:39:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I don’t know all that much about bubonic plague, I’m still against it. I do know that quite often, too often, that little metal thingy (a “bullet”, I think the ballistiphiles call it…) goes where it ought not, thus injuring people. Reason enough to want such things regulated and controlled. I also know those two words mean something quite distinct from “banning”. I have to show picture ID and sign a gov’t BigBrotherPad if I want to buy a box of Sudafed. That’s one box, and not as many boxes as I can stuff into the pockets of my camo pants. I’ve tried hurling them, spitting them, _fump_ing them from the business end of a bamboo blowgun, and the damn things don’t even leave a bruise. Basically useless for anything but ever-so-slightly shrinking my inflamed turbinates for a couple of hours and (I’m told) possibly motivating folks with dire oral hygiene to completely disassemble their fully functional microwaves at 4:00 in the morning. But, you may counter, there is no guaranteed right to breathe through one’s nose in the U.S. Constitution. To which I would reply yes, that certainly appears to a point that you are trying to make. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/992 "2013-01-27T07:02:19Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > I, for one, welcome our new god-emperor overlord. Nice! > [@septimus](#): > > I read SDMB for content, irrespective of poster, but the name **Clothahump** did seem familiar. The subconscious association was “contemptible imbecile.” That about covers it. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/993 "2013-01-27T14:28:35Z")
This one-man thread of Clothy’s gets more pathetic every time he attempts to add to it. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/994 "2013-01-27T16:31:43Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > I, for one, welcome our new god-emperor overlord. Ya know, I was okay with Obama declaring himself God-Emperor of the USA. I did have to draw the line at his becoming a sandworm. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/995 "2013-01-27T16:38:53Z")
“And how can this be? For he is the Kenyan Hatrack!” St. Malia of the Knife ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/996 "2013-01-27T16:45:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “And how can this be? For he is the Kenyan Hatrack!” > > St. Malia of the Knife Que end of movie with Elton John singing “The Water Of Life”. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/997 "2013-01-27T17:55:28Z")
Just like Obama to lead those Bene Gesserit Feminazis. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/998 "2013-01-27T19:17:50Z")
I’ll have a burger and some Fremen fries. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/999 "2013-01-27T21:04:34Z")
Often wondered about that. What was there to _eat_ on Arrakis? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1000 "2013-01-27T23:11:15Z")
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