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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,184 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:48 PM Mar 2014

So who would you exile to a deserted island if you had the chance?

Just a totally hypothetical stress reliever.

Say you had the power to banish certain persons to a deserted island where there is no access to mass media. Just totally isolated from the rest of the world. They'll live on with their lives, but we here get to be free from hearing about them ever again.

Ideally, this would be reserved for persons who can't stay out of the news despite no one wanting to hear about them in the news. Or for people who have an audience but really shouldn't have an audience--basically the media gives them a microphone and they inevitably go to town.

And for the sake of conscience, I'll just say there's plenty of fresh water and coconuts on this island to drink and eat, and they can easily fashion thatch huts from palm trees and such. So you don't have to worry about the inhumanity of it all. (Unless they choose to resort to cannibalism, but that's on them, not you.)

So who would you choose? I think my list would have to include at the very least:

Sarah Palin
Justin Bieber
George Zimmerman
Ted Nugent
Any right wing talk radio host (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc.)

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So who would you exile to a deserted island if you had the chance? (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 OP
Or we could send ourselves there. riqster Mar 2014 #1
If it's a nice enough island, you might have a point. nt Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #2
Hell yeah, I'll exile myself in a heartbeat to the right kind of island... Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #6
The Kartrashians, with Kanye thrown in for good measure. (n/t) WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2014 #3
Please don't waste a beautiful island on them. Siberia maybe - all of them but Bieber... polichick Mar 2014 #4
Anyone named Kardashian KamaAina Mar 2014 #5
How big is the island? pinboy3niner Mar 2014 #7
all fundies from all religions snooper2 Mar 2014 #8
it will not be deserted when I am done lol 2pooped2pop Mar 2014 #9
Right now? enlightenment Mar 2014 #10
WE go!! oldandhappy Mar 2014 #11
P.S. Dick Chaney oldandhappy Mar 2014 #13
No one mentioned Cheny, Bush, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Perle, Ledeen. Although an island is not sabrina 1 Mar 2014 #15
Kesha Rogers and the people who are voting for her. nt ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #12
I'd pick me fadedrose Mar 2014 #14
All those, and Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy. longship Mar 2014 #16
Donald Trumph. He and his hair will need their own island. Shrike47 Mar 2014 #17
another vote for self exile NightWatcher Mar 2014 #18
The entire JustAnotherGen Mar 2014 #19

polichick

(37,152 posts)
4. Please don't waste a beautiful island on them. Siberia maybe - all of them but Bieber...
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:56 PM
Mar 2014

He's a kid who needs to get away from his family and into rehab.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
5. Anyone named Kardashian
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:56 PM
Mar 2014

Politically: Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Marsha Blackburn, Michele Bachmann, Boner.

Religiously: Pat Robertson, Fred Phelps.

The entire Fox News crew, assuming the island has a sufficient supply of peroxide.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
8. all fundies from all religions
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:00 PM
Mar 2014

We are going to have to invade Australia though so there is enough space

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
9. it will not be deserted when I am done lol
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:00 PM
Mar 2014

everyone who has bought a congress person or any congress people who have been bought

Most republicans
Most 1% ers
the hating religious right

all republican radio/ tv personalities

Koch's

Adelson

Banksters who buy laws

corporations that have people status

the gay hating church members-name won't come to be now



some of these cross into more than one list.

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)
10. Right now?
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:01 PM
Mar 2014

The President of my college, whom I not so kindly refer to as "Baby Huey". That's unfair to Baby Huey, as I am sure he is more useful than the baby-faced sloth sitting in the executive suite.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
11. WE go!!
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:01 PM
Mar 2014

I saw John Oliver in stand up at the end of 2013. He mentioned he has recently been to Australia for the first time and talked about the fact that Australia had been a penal colony for England. He talked about the clean beaches and clear water and blue sky in Australia and ended by saying he thot the Brits back then should have fenced in England and left the prisoners and everyone else gone to Australia.

If we must put people out on isolated islands, I recommend Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, and I agree with your list. After the comments on the Ukraine, I will include former mayor Guiliani

Thanks!

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
15. No one mentioned Cheny, Bush, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Perle, Ledeen. Although an island is not
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:05 PM
Mar 2014

where they should be, unless it's a penal colony.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
14. I'd pick me
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:03 PM
Mar 2014

Sounds like a great place to live. Can I bring a dog? or a cat? or are there friendly monkeys?

longship

(40,416 posts)
16. All those, and Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:05 PM
Mar 2014

Who do much real harm -- children die because of them.

The tea party, in general. All of them.

Ken Ham, who will immediately start bilking the others to build an ark to get off the island.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
18. another vote for self exile
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:12 PM
Mar 2014

Just make sure that the local pilots will air drop me crates of rum when needed.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)
19. The entire
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:35 PM
Mar 2014

Kartrashian Klan
Any and all Celebutantes
Andy Cohen since he unleashed a whole new crop of Celebutantes with the Real Housewives franchise.
The owner of Velocity TV - because that's on in my house every chance my husband can sneak it.
Newt Gingrich
Sister Sarah Alaskastan and Family
Rush and every single one of his ditto heads

I'm sure I'll think of more. This is a fun game!

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