# These progressives are ruining America! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 15, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733 "2015-02-15T17:52:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/21 "2015-02-16T01:55:47Z")
It’s like _A Modest Proposal_, only conceited and boastful. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/22 "2015-02-16T02:08:21Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > Is this just the day for liberals to post idiotic OPs or something? I think it was a silly attempt at sounding like a conservative, but seeing past examples from you one wonders how silly that was. > **[I pit ITR Champion and his 'concerns'...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713380)** > > I swear-is there even the most insignificant tiny aspect of modern liberal thought anywhere which escapes this guy’s attention? I mean, where would this board be without his eternal vigilance to save us from ourselves? I shudder at the mere... [\*\*[Bender laughing:] "hahahaha. Oh, wait. You’re serious. Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAHA\*\*]([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_n5E7feJHw0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0)) ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/23 "2015-02-16T02:11:53Z")
Brevity is the soul of wit. I rate 1/10, though you still fooled some blinkered Dopers who can’t detect dancing monkey levels of sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/24 "2015-02-16T03:38:31Z")
Oh yeah? Critic hates it? Check. Makes fun of Liberals? Check. Normally, according to the media elites’ rulebook, when liberals rant, it’s called free speech; when conservatives rant, it is hate speech. But then again I have guns and a Bible etc…What did Barry Hussein Obama say about me? Democrats/liberals think it is OK to kill an unborn baby but not a terrorist. God Bless America. A critic being this angry and defensive causes me to believe he doesn’t want the message to get out…hmmm…makes me really want to see it. The state is responsible for providing an opportunity for livelihood. Abolition of unearned income. Profit sharing from heavy industries. Expansion of old age welfare. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program. The state is to care for the elevating national health. Cube synergy voids 2-company system. 4-players voids Windows god. I bet you can’t handle. Members of the media elite appear to sincerely believe that liberals are less vitriolic than conservatives, and through repetition they have convinced a large part of the public that this is true. The reason liberals can “rant” without fear of being labeled terrorists is that their “rants” are justified in the eyes of the media elite. Liberals believe that their beliefs are based on the rational analysis of scientific data. Their opponents’ beliefs are based on superstition and prejudice. You think that we should all believe in your god so much so that a clump of cells that have been developing for two weeks, having no heart beat, no sensory neurons, of any type, should be allowed to evolve. Anyone who doubts that the “progressive” Left is not animated by a quasi-religious fervor ought to ponder the implications of such a statement. check. Cheney was no longer with Haliburton and that company was actually qualified to do the jobs they were hired/contracted for. That’s one instance you have during the Bush years compared to dozens of BO bundlers in 3-1/2 years…those bundlers have received billions in grants/stimulus/contracts in return for millions in donations. Huge difference. So where is your outrage or does it only swing in one direction? When you bend your laws to accommodate other peoples laws, soon those people will bend you to their laws . Personally, I can think of nothing funnier than seeing Mr. Sensitive Liberal himself getting whacked in the head with an anvil. Heck let the scum bank some where else. You do know they don’t pay interest on the loans don’t you? So the banks are going to get this interest some where and that is going to fall on the rest of us by raising our interest rates. I look at it this way. An evil group of men has always wanted to rule the entire world. In the past conquest has failed to achieve this, due to the resulting outrage and awareness of the enemy. In our present time an evil group are trying a subtle but effective way to rule. This is to gradually infiltrate and delude the masses into accepting their ideas. Such subtle gradualism, along with distraction (such as unnecessary work, study, entertainment and sport) is being used effectively. Few people will therefore be aware of what is going on. You moderate Muslims out there… The time has come for you to stand up and say something. And I will repeat what I’ve said before. The point is, that the time has come for Muslims in this country and for other people around the world to stand up and be counted, and if you can’t, you’re cowards. Including here in SE about how Bush/Cheney gave contracts to Haliburton, but nary a peep out of you when it comes to all of BO’s bundlers receiving grants, stimulus money, and contracts and the list is long…hypocrites, all. At one point during the conversation, the liberal talk show host leveled a frontal assault on capitalism. By now I have seen a fair share of bitter remarks over the theme that someone presents them self as a mathematician, and the answer they get is a blank stare and a comment in the ball park of “I can’t even balance my own checkbook”. Same theme of rant also cover someone stating that “Oh, mathematics is easy. It is just memorizing the formulas and plug in the numbers!”. I have seen them and I have laughed hard over the witty retorts and remarks people have come up with. But I had an epiphany when I thought more about it. The person stating those things are not necessarily being rude, but in their world that is what mathematics is. I agree with you that comments like that are narrow minded but the person who states it doesn’t know that there is a lot more to the wonderful world of maths. Or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/25 "2015-02-16T04:06:35Z")
Okay Grandpa, time for your meds. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/26 "2015-02-16T04:26:19Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > In America Conservative Chess, the movements of the White King do not have to make sense. The movements of the Black King are always against the rules. The Queen is the politicians, the knights are the lawyers, the bishop is the Church, the rooks are the banks. The pawns…well, that one’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/27 "2015-02-16T14:29:38Z")
The OP is a few toppings short of a jumbo deluxe. And it needs more cheese. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/28 "2015-02-16T16:33:22Z")
We DFH already destroyed America, and no one even thanked us! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/29 "2015-02-16T16:58:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The pawns…well, that one’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Ah, yes. The cheesemakers. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733/30 "2015-02-16T22:00:52Z")
Good g-d, is angel dust one of the new Pizza Hut flavor crust toppings? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-progressives-are-ruining-america/712733.md?page=1)