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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo 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.)
riqster
(13,986 posts)And leave those fuckwits here to deal with the mess they've made.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)He's a kid who needs to get away from his family and into rehab.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)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.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)We are going to have to invade Australia though so there is enough space
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)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)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)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!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)where they should be, unless it's a penal colony.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Sounds like a great place to live. Can I bring a dog? or a cat? or are there friendly monkeys?
longship
(40,416 posts)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.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Just make sure that the local pilots will air drop me crates of rum when needed.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)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!