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It's funny, innit? Every time you see an attack on Hillary Clinton, it's about whether or not she's been honest about something related to her job as Secretary of State, whether or not she's given us the facts, or, most importantly, whether or not her proposals as a candidate are sensible. The same goes for Bernie Sanders: the media spends more time talking about his proposals for economic justice than the economic or any plans of the entire slate of all the Republican candidates combined. And, if you've paid attention to the coverage, Sanders doesn't get a hell of a lot of air.
One of the reasons for that is because who gives a slow turtle fuck what the Republicans stand for when they say such stupid shit constantly. Honestly, not a day goes by without one candidate or another putting out some appalling statement or speaking some idiotic blathering that is calculated to appeal to the simpletons.
In the last couple of days:
1. Ben Carson, a man who looks like he's injecting horse tranquilizers right into his jugular, did a quick Q&A on Facebook yesterday. The dude who isn't sure about how gravity works ...
(it's Jesus semen sticking us to the Earth, Dr. Carson)
... was asked about his position on the 2nd Amendment, the one that says God wants you to be able to kill on a whim. Carson replied, really, "As a Doctor, I spent many a night pulling bullets out of bodies. There is no doubt that this senseless violence is breathtaking but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."
How the fuck do you respond to that? You wanna show him that 8 year-old girl who was shot dead in Tennessee and ask him? He won't care. One of the leading Republican candidates said that guns are more important than people. So what do you ask next? "Gee, and how about your tariff policy and South Asia?" There aren't enough dicks on enough donkeys to tell Ben Carson to get fucked with.
2. This afternoon, on the right-wing blog RedState, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (campaign slogan: "Stop laughing!" decided the best use of his time was to attack the father of the Oregon shooter because he dared to say that guns suck. About the man whose son killed himself after murdering nine other people, Jindal said (quoted extensively so you can get the full blast of motherfuckering going on here), "This killers father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns. Of course he doesnt know. You know why he doesnt know? Because he is not, and has never been in his sons life. Hes a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public. Hes the problem here. He brags that he has never held a gun in his life and that he had no idea that his son had any guns. Why didnt he know? Because he failed to raise his son. He should be ashamed of himself, and he owes us all an apology. When he was asked what his relationship was with his son, he said he hadnt seen him in a while because he lived with his mother. Case Closed."
If you have anything like a moral compass, you read that and thought, "There must not be a God because a demon hand didn't burst out of the ground, reach into Jindal's anus, and pull him inside out before dragging him into the shit-filled sodomy pits of Hades." If you read that and thought, "Well, this is a reasonable person who should be treated with respect," then perhaps it is your anus that needs a hellclawing.
3. Away from the deranged gun fellating that seems to be one of the prime activities of the Republican Party, Carly Fiorina (campaign motto: "Failure has a name" said Sunday that she'd be able to handle the terrorist armies of ISIS because "my degree in medieval history and philosophy has come in handy because what ISIS wants to do is drive us back to the Middle Ages, literally." Yes, and when ISIS wants to use trebuchets to launch anti-aircraft rockets, we can talk. Until then, let's keep the Crusades references to a minimum.
Who has time to discuss anything of substance with these drooling numbskulls and skeevy con artists masturbating in public?
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-we-barely-talk-about-terrible.html
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)What a bad joke all GOP candidates are.
1939
(1,683 posts)The world just sucks!
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)-No jobs? Blame the undocumented workers.
-Crime on the rise? Blame the AA community for not keeping themselves in check.
-ISIS? Blame Obama for being weak on terrorism.
-Stock market crashing? Too much regulation!
-Mass shootings? We need more good guys with guns!
-Price of medicines going up? Blame Obamacare!
Add right wing radio, television, and social media and that's a perfect recipe to mislead the public into believing that our problems stem from other sources and not right wing policies.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)if Sanders doesn't get the nomination should be forced to read this shit every day. Then beaten with a sock filled with horse manure as they are asked "Really?? Are you fucking SERIOUS?? Are you saying that Hillary Clinton is so much like these vile, ignorant motherfuckers that you'd actually even consider helping one of THEM to win by withholding a Democratic vote on Election Day? Read this disgusting filth AGAIN, and then get over your fucking self-indulgence and open your eyes to the real world!!"
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Carly--
3."....... Carly Fiorina (campaign motto: "Failure has a name" said Sunday that she'd be able to handle the terrorist armies of ISIS because "my degree in medieval history and philosophy has come in handy because what ISIS wants to do is drive us back to the Middle Ages, literally." Yes, and when ISIS wants to use trebuchets to launch anti-aircraft rockets, we can talk. Until then, let's keep the Crusades references
to a minimum.
Punx
(446 posts)Now I know why she was qualified to run HP. And no wonder she is such a skilled business person.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)the rest of the world does not seem to take them seriously as actual policy proposals. "Surely these are intelligent people who know deep down that what they are saying is not realistic as national immigration policy or refugee policy or gun policy or any other policy."
That would just prove that 'the rest of the world' does not really know that the racism and nativism of the base was nurtured by the party to win elections and they are not about to change that formula now.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)This is all serious as a heart attack, but I couldn't help but burst out laughing at "perhaps it is your anus that needs a hellclawing."
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)I may not always agree with him, but that guy has a way with words.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)(of course Aquinas notes that God wouldn't make a universe with a *plot hole*: He's all-good and all-powerful, not 90s George Lucas)
and Fiorina's medievalist professional work seems to be badly outdated for even a 1976 MA--it's the old "everything was bad until Bacon gave us Protestantism and ended all war" shite that makes the professors tear their hair out