Funniest thing about that article is how thinkprogress.org carefully lays out the evidence that Santorum is mistaken.
Soylent Green is soybeans! Tell the – get your hands off me – tell the world! Soylent Green is soybeans!
This thread is so long, we need a Doper with great patience to compile a highlights reel. I nominate Santorum’s speech for the Top Ten Stupidest List:
I guess that, unlike when Romney told his supporters about the 49% who were only “takers,” there was no rationalist spy in the room to capture this for Youtube. Too bad. 
This utterance is so disgusting it’s hard to believe that Santorum, even as rancid and putrid as he is, really said it. Still, the present-day GOP teaches us that “truth is stranger than fiction.”
I guess the meaning is pretty clear, but was having a hard time parsing the quote. Then I realized he was channelling his inner Palin talking on Fox News. Try reading it in her voice, particularly with her trademark smirk:
“It’s actually a pretty clever system,” the former [vice]-presidential candidate explained, “Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you.”
Now put it in context. She knows full well that voter-ID laws are wholly designed to suppress voting in predominantly Democratic segments, so she’s trying to pull a Rove and use criticism of those laws to descr-
Wait, that’s not right. It was a private meeting. Sorry. He was actually channelling his inner Romney, describing to his rich closed-door supporters how he’d implement Obamacare to address immigration.
.and LENTILS! Don’t forget the lentils!
That’s where the “-lent” part comes from, to go with the “soy-” from soybeans.
Hopefully a lot of them.
Larry Pratt, president of Gun Owners of America, was asked by Chris Wallace if background checks don’t prevent people with mental illnesses–people who don’t have criminal records–from getting guns, and if that might not prevent mass shootings sometimes.
Here’s Larry’s answer:
[QUOTE=Larry Pratt, who may have a mental illness, if you ask me]
If we’re really serious about people who’ve got some kind of problem, mental or criminal, they oughta be in jail! We oughta put 'em in jail! (go to 4:40 of the video)
[/quote]
Granted, he may think that going to a shrink, and the shrink putting you in prison is part of Obamacare, but someone should explain to him that’s not the case.
I think most of them are already on Medicare anyway.
I bet there are the same that with indignation tell us to “Keep the government out of my Medicare”.
Just when you thought Paul Ryan had come to his senses by negotiating a bipartisan budget deal, he says the GOP is planning to hold the debt ceiling hostage over Obamacare. Again.
Okay, someone needs to stop dropping Paul Ryan on his head.
No, somebody needs to drop him on his head from a great height. <sour look> And send McConnel, Boehner, Cruz, Issa, and Inhoffe along with him. Bloody assholes.
Someone has to get dropped on his head from pretty high to make their assholes bleed.
Exactly.
“Mr. Ryan, sir? Its the police, your middle school English teacher is out on the ledge, threatening to jump…”
“Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you.”
“We don’t want nothing out of this debt limit,” Ryan said in a solo appearance on Fox. “We’re going to decide what it is we can accomplish out of this debt limit fight.”
Ok, is it just me or have these folks gone from just having stupid and/or evil ideas to being totally incomprehensible? The first quote, well, I can’t make sense of that at all. And is Ryan saying they “don’t want nothing” but are deciding what they want? Is it too much to ask that they present their Stupid Republican Idea of the Day in a clear and concise manner? (Not including Sarah Palin, of course, who is beyond hope.)
I read it as Ryan saying “We want something. What we don’t want is to get nothing.”
Not “We don’t want anything.”
This is Ryan’s effort to improve his image among intellectuals. To the GOP base, the double-negative sentence means “We don’t want anything”; but Ryan demonstrates his erudition, showing that he knows what the sentence means in educated English.
I think the utterance still does qualify as Stupid. Those smart enough to parse educated English are unlikely to support Ryan or his ilk.
I caught a clip of him actually saying it and realized it was indeed a double negative. :smack: Still, I stand by my issue that they need to be more precise in discussing their stupid ideas. 
No. You’re overthinking it.