Stupid Republican idea of the day

[Boyo_Jim]

@Revtim

It’s a great word, I hope it catches on. You could argue that much of the things posted in this thread are more Republopathic than stupid. Michele Bachmann should probably be referred to as “Michele Bachmann (R - epublopath)”

To my ear, “republiopath” rolls off the tongue a little easier, and is more reminiscent of “sociopath”.

[74westy]

@eschereal

I mean, yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed. That’s because they are associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel.

Republopath

Is this like a red letter bible only with Ann Coulter?

[Smapti]

@Superdude

Well, there goes Smapti.

Harvesting poor immigrant children for their organs is really more of a libertarian idea.

[eschereal]

@Boyo_Jim

To my ear, “republiopath” rolls off the tongue a little easier, and is more reminiscent of “sociopath”.

I was aiming more toward “psychopath”, because sociopaths are kind of almost respected. Most right-wing libertarian types are basically sociopaths. Coultergeist is nowhere near that level of emotional stability.

[elucidator]

Oh, she appears to be quite emotionally stable, as well as intellectually stable. Therein, perhaps, lies the problem. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

[septimus]

I like Republiopathic. Republopath sounds to much like “Republican path.”

Google shows that Republiopath is untaken, though Republipath gets two hits:

harlana says:
December 15, 2011 at 6:17 pm

the death-cheering, soldier-booing, child-labor loving, racist (thanks, Newt, for ramping up the racism back to the “welfare queen” days, btw, good job!) clown show is a gift to the Obama presidency and guarantees his re-election, regardless of the republipath nominee

they have become simply the party of sociopaths, as evidenced by their candidates.

[a35362]

Peggy Noonan has a drinking problem? Sez who?

[silenus]

@elucidator

Oh, she appears to be quite emotionally stable, as well as intellectually stable. Therein, perhaps, lies the problem. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our minds. In loyalty to our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction.

[elucidator]

I’ve seen their ways too often for my liking.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@elucidator

I’ve seen their ways too often for my liking.

If my computer hadn’t stalled I would have beaten you to it.

[Kolak_of_Twilo]

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks thinks the Democrats are in danger of becoming perpetual losers because they have launched a “war on whites”.

I gotta tell you Mo, when Laura Ingraham says your comments are “a little out there”, you may need to dial it back a bit. Just sayin’.

[elucidator]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

If my computer hadn’t stalled I would have beaten you to it.

I don’t remember that one. Was it in After Bathing at Baxter’s?

[silenus]

@elucidator

I don’t remember that one. Was it in After Bathing at Baxter’s?

Bless Its Pointed Little Head

[elucidator]

Groovy.

[eschereal]

If the truth is found
To be lies
And all the joy
Within you dies

[Rick_Kitchen]

National Organization for Marriage: “same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same”.

[Revtim]

@Rick_Kitchen

National Organization for Marriage: “same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same”.

No less rational or valid than all their other arguments against SSM.

[wonky]

@Rick_Kitchen

National Organization for Marriage: “same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same”.

Isn’t the argument “Chairs have to have something in common to be called chairs therefore SSM should be illegal”? It’s no more coherent, but I didn’t think the Kos precis captured the precise incoherence!

[Steve_MB]

@Revtim

No less rational or valid than all their other arguments against SSM.

Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to get married to a 2-foot-tall Ewok? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this issue? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this issue! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending traditional marriage, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must ban same-sex marriage! The defense rests.

[CalMeacham]

@Rick_Kitchen

National Organization for Marriage: “same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same”.

Not only that, but in their love for G. K. Chesterton, they have ignored that H. G. Wells is actually quite right:

Take the word chair. When one says chair, one thinks vaguely of an average chair. But collect individual instances, think of armchairs and reading chairs, and dining-room chairs and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentists’ chairs, thrones, opera stalls, seats of all sorts, those miraculous fungoid growths that cumber the floor of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, and you will perceive what a lax bundle in fact is this simple straightforward term. In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

H. G. Wells
A Modern Utopia, Appendix: Scepticism of the Instrument

So, Chesterton notwithstanding, I have to agree with Wells. All chairs are emphatically NOT alike, yet I can call them all chairs from an identical functional standpoint. And if the ghost of Chesterton disagrees, he can stuff a beanbag chair in his mouth.
What does THAT do to the argument?