Winners of page 318 (!!) of this thread i.e. the last couple of hours of “Oh, God, what have they said/done now?” are:
elucidator Bryan Ekers for gift-wrapping a slogan for Republic politicians to use.
Your cash prizes are, uh, in the mail. In the meantime, applause, and a gold star sticker for each of you.
Bryan_Ekers:
It’s kinda like Republicans are hoping to stumble onto the slogan that will go unstoppably viral, like (for example) “No more gay in the U.S.A.!” Something that goldfish-brained voters can remember, repeat and act upon.
Godomy, not sodomy!
Well, you know, the gays use … oh, nevermind.
What the hell, I haven’t contributed one for awhile, and I don’t think I saw this one yet. I present Rep. Steve king, descending further into incoherence:
If it is a day of the week, which it usually is, then you can bet Rep. Steve King, theself-proclaimed Jesus of Iowa, is choke-holding logic and reason and common decency and kicking puppies and torturing chickens because he is Steve King. And Steve...
Money quote, and better luck parsing it than I had:
“This is a man-caused disaster, and the man that caused it is Barack Obama, with his DACA policies and his Morton memos, and the advertisement that has been such a huge magnet that have caused these families to give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico, and it’s a death path on the death train.”
Also, anyone who enjoys this thread should check out Wonkette, and I love Kaili Joy Gray, even though she’s always mad about a thing.
I’d trademark this fast, before Ann Coulter needs another chapter title.
We should spread this all over Facebook.
wonky
July 31, 2014, 1:13am
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Or, lacking both, lobotomy!
Morgyn
July 31, 2014, 1:18am
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Try2B_Comprehensive:
Wow.
I go on vacation for a week, and GOP stupidity seems to have taken a nosedive aimed at about 50 feet below the bottom of the barrel. Official theocracy, secession, nullification, more regressive taxes, the destruction of the Federal government… holy shit :eek: But I think the article on the Texas GOP platform holds the key to perhaps this entire thread:
And Rick Perry wants to cut education funding still more. Texas isn’t the only place where the education system is basically in a state of failure. And these uneducated, ignorant people grow up to be fundamentalists and Republicans, and that’s good for billionaires, and there you have it.
Gosh, this is the perfect lead-in to this story in the National Review , which seems to have a problem with the fact that most nerds fall on the left-end of the spectrum.
Being a nerd, apparently is the direct antithesis of being
… southern, politically conservative, culturally traditional, religious in some sense, patriotic, driven by principle rather than the pivot tables of Microsoft Excel, and in any way attached to the past.
Kobal2
July 31, 2014, 1:35am
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I dunno, man. Unprotected sex with deities has historically been linked with teenage pregnancy. “Immaculate” my ass.
jayjay
July 31, 2014, 1:45am
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<Catholic pedant>The Immaculate Conception is not the conception of Jesus, but the conception of Mary. </Cp>
Or The Rock and Hercules.
Louisiana Republican Flees Interview When Asked About Obama’s Birthplace
Truman_Burbank:
“This is a man-caused disaster, and the man that caused it is Barack Obama, with his DACA policies and his Morton memos, and the advertisement that has been such a huge magnet that have caused these families to give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico, and it’s a death path on the death train.”
Thank you, Representative King, for that great example of genuine, old-fashioned American gibberish!
Now who can argue with that?
“He said the President’s near!”
Zakalwe
July 31, 2014, 3:50am
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“Just answer the question, Claire!”
Kimstu
July 31, 2014, 3:58am
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That is some serious Republican stupid there. Not just a birther but a climate denier as well:
David Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Political Report, detailed his strange encounter with the “frightening” and “fact-averse” Louisiana State Rep. Lenar Whitney.
Whitney, who is running for Louisiana’s open sixth district, gained some prominence in June when she released a campaign video blasting global warming as a “hoax” and the press as “lamestream media.” Wasserman said he pressed Whitney on the issue of climate change only to find her unable to answer his questions.
[…]
Wasserman said he attempted to “change the subject” and ask whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. Her aides then ended the interview.
“When she replied that it was a matter of some controversy, her two campaign consultants quickly whisked her out of the room, accusing me of conducting a ‘Palin-style interview,’” he continued. “It was the first time in hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings that a candidate has fled the room.” […]
Update (10:10 a.m.): In a Facebook post last week, after the interview was conducted, Whitney slammed the Cook Political Report. “It was obvious, from the onset of the interview, that Wasserman had planned to jump me simply because I am a Conservative Woman and liberal shills like Dave Wasserman want to destroy us,” she wrote.
Yeah, asking a question about a thoroughly documented matter of verifiable fact is blatantly unfair journalism. How dare that liberal shill force you to choose between endorsing a delusional fabrication or alienating many of your delusional supporters!
Not safe for work (or anywhere else).
Actually, that probably makes it sound worse than it is. It’s just a song. With puppets. But don’t say you weren’t warned.
Evil_Captor:
Thank you, Representative King, for that great example of genuine, old-fashioned American gibberish!
But hey, he’s not even wrong!
Try2B_Comprehensive:
And Rick Perry wants to cut education funding still more. Texas isn’t the only place where the education system is basically in a state of failure. And these uneducated, ignorant people grow up to be fundamentalists and Republicans, and that’s good for billionaires, and there you have it.
They grow up to become the people who decide what your nation’s children get to study .
Rather have a free bottle in front of me
Not quite. Scansion.
