Stupid Republican idea of the day

[kaylasdad99]

@Smapti

After four years of Republicans saying they want to “repeal and replace” Obamacare without actually saying what they wanted to replace it with, Mike Huckabee has come up with an idea;

Instead of paying for people to get health insurance, the Republican Party should just cure cancer.

Gotsta love this money quote:

We said we were going to build an atom bomb in the 40s and we did it.

Pretty sure we were very careful to not say we were going to build an atom bomb, Mike…

[Czarcasm]

@Revtim

How about “They’ll have to pry my cock from my cold dead hand”?

“I think we’ll leave it right where it is and bury you that way-sorry.”

[bup]

@elucidator

My understanding is that there is no lack of effort, but that the task is so daunting. There is almost no such definable thing as “cancer”.

All we have to do is cure entropy. Then the big C is a slam dunk.

[Oldeb]

@Smapti

After four years of Republicans saying they want to “repeal and replace” Obamacare without actually saying what they wanted to replace it with, Mike Huckabee has come up with an idea;

Instead of paying for people to get health insurance, the Republican Party should just cure cancer.

I don’t know, isn’t Huckabee due for a visit from the RINO police? I didn’t think you were allowed to say that the government was better than the private sector at anything.

@Huckabee

The national commitment to curing diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes “has to be largely government funded because the government is the only entity that doesn’t have to have a return on investment,” he explained. “You put it in the hands of the private sector… [that] doesn’t make sense because there is no money long-term if you cure the disease.”

Ironically, of the three examples he gave (Manhattan Project, Apollo Program, and curing polio) the only one that was a private sector effort was curing a disease. While supported by FDR the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis/March of Dimes is a non-profit and not a government project and they’re the ones who funded the first vaccine. Then first oral polio vaccine was created and funded entirely by Lederle Laboratories and it’s creator Koprowski was derided as a commercial scientist.

[a35362]

This was an episode of The West Wing, you know. Bartlet wants to declare finding a cure for cancer within ten years. At the end of the episode (3x11, “100,000 Airplanes”) Joey Lucas tells Sam:

“The Federal Government shouldn’t be directing scientific research.”
“Why?”
“Because you stink at it. ‘If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program, you’d have the best iron lung in the world but not a polio vaccine.’”
“When did you get an M.D.?”
“I was just quoting Samuel Broder, the former director of the National Cancer Institute.”

[smithsb]

‘The Donald’ suggests Obama was in on lawsuit against Trump University

Trump is pissed - turns out he “contributed” $12,500.00 to the same prosecutor who is now suing. Why won’t they just stay - paid for.

[elucidator]

“Well, yeah, it used to be minimum security D-block, but now its the Trump Wing.”

[ElvisL1ves]

This just … I mean … oh, what the fuck, here:

Today during his 700 Club television broadcast, while addressing the concerns of a viewer worried about unknowingly driving an elderly man with AIDS to church, host Pat Robertson told co-host Terry Meeuwsen … “You know what they do in San Francisco, some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger […] Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.”

[Gyrate]

Phyllis Schlafly has come up with the perfect defense of changes to voting laws in North Carolina:

If the poorest members of society can obtain photo ID to get taxpayer-funded handouts, they should be able to do likewise for voting. The real reason the left wants to make sure that individuals without voter ID are allowed to vote is because they are expected to vote for Democrats.

The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that “early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election.”

The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote campaign.

So basically it’s okay to change the laws if it helps Republicans.

In addition to the helpful new voting laws, North Carolina passed stricter regulations on abortion clinics, ended teacher tenure, cut unemployment benefits, blocked the expansion of Medicaid and (despite the scorn of propagandists for the national takeover of education by Common Core) mandated the teaching of cursive writing. Maybe that’s why the liberals are so angry: Kids will now be able to read letters from their grandmothers.

Oh yeah - and liberals hate cursive. I forgot that part.

[Happy_Fun_Ball]

@ElvisL1ves

This just … I mean … oh, what the fuck, here:

Wow. Amazing. You rarely see the attempts at fear based manipulation exposed so blatantly. That is seriously messed up.

[jsc1953]

@Gyrate

Oh yeah - and liberals hate cursive. I forgot that part.

Liberals are ok with cursive; but they hate their grandmas. You see, if an impressionable youth is able to communicate with his/her grandparent, said grandparent may spread their terrible truths about how wonderful the old days were, before we got all these civil liberties and social welfare programs and uppity minorities. And then liberalism will collapse.

Or something like that.

[elucidator]

Goddam fucking right I’m OK with cursive!

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Well, the Constitution was written in cursive, and we all hate that, apparently.

[Shayna]

California Rep. Gary Miller (R-etarded), moved from Arkansas to California when he was, like, five years old, so he’s an “immigrant,” too.

[elucidator]

“Fuckin’ Arkies”, the Californians said. “Go back where you came from!”

And then Miller said “Wherever there’s a banker strangling on regulations, I’ll be there, Ma. Wherever theres an oil company crying because she has no subsidies for her subsidiaries, I’ll be there…”

Its all in his book, The Chardonnay of Wrath…

[kaylasdad99]

Clever.

“Chardonnay” sounds a little blue-statish, though. How about The Single-Malt of Wrath?

[Rhythmdvl]

@kaylasdad99

Clever.

“Chardonnay” sounds a little blue-statish, though. How about The Single-Malt of Wrath?

Are you kidding? Single-malt? Would you like some arugula to go with that? Try Jim Beam, Jack Daniels or maybe even Tall Glass of Warm Gin with a Human Hair in It of Wrath.

[Robot_Arm]

@Rhythmdvl

Are you kidding? Single-malt? Would you like some arugula to go with that? Try Jim Beam, Jack Daniels or maybe even Tall Glass of Warm Gin with a Human Hair in It of Wrath.

The Pabst Blue Ribbon of Wrath

[BigAppleBucky]

Glenn Beck Vows To Fire Employees For Buying Fluorescent Bulbs, Recyclables

Glenn Beck Vows To Fire Employees For Buying Fluorescent Bulbs, Recyclables

“I am dead serious,” he said, admittedly while laughing. “I fire the person that starts to purchase fluorescent light bulbs unless that is the only light bulb for a specific reasons and I want to be CC’ed on what that reason is.”

He further added “If you’re doing anything in this company because of global warming, you’re fired…Global warming is a pile of crap…a load of socialist, communist crap.”

He further added that recyclable spoons and recyclable cardboard boxes are banished from Mercury Radio Arts, his broadcaster.

[DoctorJ]

@Gyrate

.Oh yeah - and liberals hate cursive. I forgot that part.

This one sure as fuck does. Cursive was the bane of my childhood. When you take a kid who derives most of his self-esteem from the fact that he gets good grades and make him bring home a report card every month with straight As except for a big fat C in Writing, it’s pretty damn traumatic. I’m not even kidding when I say that one of the happiest days of my life was late in high school when I realized no one really gave a shit anymore and I could start printing.

I never looked back. These days I can barely write my own name in cursive. (My signature, like that of most people who sign their name dozens of times every day, has become a distinctive but mostly illegible scrawl.) I feel comfortable saying that this has not affected my life in any negative way.

What really makes me sick is that schools for whom art and music programs are distant memories are now going to be spending time and money teaching fucking Penmanship. Gah.

(Sorry. This was kind of triggering.)