Is They REALLY Stupid?, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #129
August 14, 2009 Michael Davis 1 Comment
I’m not being funny, I’m being dead serious and I really hope someone can make me understand.
Is the GOP really that stupid?
It’s no secret that on most issues I’m a bleeding heart liberal. That said I am a member of the NRA but not because I believe in most things they stand for except the right to bare arms. Or to put it another way; I believe in the right to blow some MF’s head off if he comes into my home uninvited looking to do me or my family harm. So yes, I believe enough in that one thing that I joined the NRA.
Unlike some people who took me to task over The Black Panel I can get what I need from a thing without damning the thing simply for the sake of doing so. I don’ care much for the platforms of the NRA but they have wonderful gun safety programs and as I said, I’m big on the right to bare arms point.
I KNOW the NRA is a staple of the GOP. I don’t care, I’m happy to belong to the organization that gets me discounts on bullets.
What about my principals you say? That’s just it, MY principals. I can bend them any way I choose because they are mine. I know plenty of people who won’t eat pork-that’s on them, I don’t care. Me? If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times I will wrestle a pig to the ground with knife and fork in hand.
After I wrestle said pig to said ground, I will kill it. No, not with the knife or fork but with one of the many guns I own.
BLAM!
Once the pig is dead I will clean it then cook it, taking care not to ingest the bullet I put into it. Now that I think about it, a shot to the head will help me avoid looking for the bullet; I’m not eating Porky’s head so I’ll be fine.
Yes, there’s a point coming give me a sec…
So just to recap…
Wrestle to ground.
Shoot in head.
Clean.
Cook.
After that has been done, I’m going to chow down Heaven.
YUM!
I know enough, Hell EVERYBODY knows enough not to eat anything that was once alive unless it’s been cleaned and cooked. If not you will DIE.I mean that’s common sense. Most people have that.
Most people.
I’m beginning to think (and I’m NOT kidding) that the GOP are some really stupid people.
Someone PLEASE explain to me how on earth can you court the Latino vote like the GOP has done for decades and NOT vote for the first Latino candidate for the Supreme Court? How do you justify that when next campaigning in the Latino community?
What do you say to the Latino community when asked? I for one can’t WAIT for that answer.
Are they SO right wing that they have lost their freakin minds?
Could they have voted for her for the greater good (VOTES) and voiced their concerns, or better yet believed her when she said she would be fair to all? Or at LEAST give her the benefit of the doubt. Heck, like I said; I can get what I need from a thing without damning a thing and having to deal with a bigger problem later.
I’m really starting to think the GOP is made up of some very stupid people and I’m NOT kidding.
It’s like not making love to your wife because your EX girlfriend would be upset. It makes no damn sense. Who would be that stupid?
“Hey honey, I just got off the phone with my ex and she’s having a really hard time with us having sex. I’m going to have to pass.”
That in and of it’s self is STUPID. But what’s even stupider is then GOING back to your wife and asking for her support while you try and screw the girlfriend.
Did anyone in the GOP say; “This is a bad idea because we want these people to support us in the next election.”
I’m really starting to think the GOP is made up of some very stupid people and it’s real scary.
The whole Latino vote thing is stupid but this ‘Death Panel’ thing is down right retarded.
There are members of the GOP telling Americans that the United States government will KILL them at a certain age or under certain medical condition under Obama’s health plan.
W.T.F?
How can they get away with a blatant lie? I’ve been asking myself that for a solid week now.
Then I hit on it; maybe they actually believe the ‘Death Panel’ thing. Maybe they are not trying to scare their ever so shrinking base with a lie. Maybe they just are THAT STUPID.
But on the off chance this is yet another fear tactic and it works, and they kill health care and eventually take back the government then we are all stupid.
David Quinn
August 14, 2009 - 5:28 am
That’s it, Mister, we now hate you, too.
Though we are delicious, it’s true.
Love,
The Pigs
Mike Gold
August 14, 2009 - 6:53 am
The Republicans appear to be THAT stupid because of attrition. The smart Republicans might identify with the label, but when it comes to the death panels and the birthers and virtually everything that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth, they’re on another page. With luck, they’ll actually turn that page and jump to the chapter “Maybe The Bull Moose Party Was A Good Idea After All.”
I’m not kidding. Check out the Bull Moose platform (Google around; it’s out there). Really not a bad position for Republicans to hold.
Aside to The Pigs: MOTU LOVES his bacon.
MOTU
August 14, 2009 - 8:34 am
Mmmmmmmmmmuuuuummmmm…bacon!
Alan Coil
August 14, 2009 - 8:39 am
I’m not a Republican, so I can’t explain them to you. Ask Vinnie.
Vinnie Bartilucci
August 14, 2009 - 9:11 am
America has gone High Concept. Long detailed explanations of your opinions are passe and boring. If you can’t explain your policy in under fifteen words in the middle of a crowded parking lot, nobody is gonna listen to you. Or so the 24-hour newsmachine has decided to believe.
“A nationally run healthcare system with limited funds and resources might eventually get to the point where they might have to ration some services, or you might have to wait for services a bit longer, since there might be a point where too many people are looking for one service at once so they might have to wait, like with PS3s.” is far too long and not nearly attention grabbing enough. Plus it’s far too “If”fy – people don’t want to hear about what MIGHT happen, they want to know what WILL happen, or at least what sounds like it probably will happen.
“Death panel”, OTOH, is perfect – it sticks in the brain, it’s something that’s gonna scare (of at least anger) everyone, and they’ll be too busy shouting to stop and say, “Wait, WHAT?”. It’s a verbal IED. It’s a weapon of terror.
It is a deliberately overinflated nightmare scenario conconted specifically to spur people into immediate and sweeping action, rather than allow them to take a moment, analyze the facts, see that while there may well be reason to consider the issue , it should be done carefully and not just reacted to willy-nilly.
Some will notice a similarity in tactics between this and other hot button issues in recent memory.
You see, if reasoned and careful thought takes place, then the people might notice that there are parts of the other side’s argument that hold water as well, and the problem is that if ANY facet of the opposition’s plans make it through, it could be construed/spun as a victory by the opposition, and that’s the LAST things we want to happen.
The idea that there must be no successes on the part of the opposition is also why we had so many people against Sotomayor. Obama could have nominated George Bush (either one) to the Supreme Court and Republicans would have been honor-bound to find flaw in the choice. Even if they eventually vote for her, it’ll give them the chance to claim they TRIED to stop her. But of course, if she eventually does something controversial, the blame will go straight to Obama. Again, every move by the minority party is to cast enough aspersions on the majority party to restore itself to power.
One side is demanding the health bill gets hammered through as is, as fast as possible. The other is demanding it be struck down in toto. Again, binary thinking – it’s either all right (“we”) or all wrong (“they”). There’s not nearly enough people suggesting, say, some weird hybrid of public and private coverage, making sure that everyone has access to basic care as a safety net, but allowing people to have or get their own (possibly superior) coverage if they can afford it. Or even “Let’s see what we can do about getting everyone educated to a level that they can get good jobs with their own coverage, and not have to rely on the Government for much at all, in fact they’ll be GIVING us money as taxes.”
Because for the vast majority of the people doing the fighting, the endgame is not “get people the help they need”, it’s “get me the recognition for doing what the people think they want”.
This is almost certainly going to end in a stalemate resulting in no plan at all, or as a plan that’s so riddled with provisos and codicils like Robocop’s directives in the second movie, will render it useless and impotent.
McCarthy
August 14, 2009 - 12:09 pm
Wouldn’t it be easier to just set your death ray on PERNIL?
MOTU
August 14, 2009 - 2:40 pm
Vinnie said,
‘America has gone High Concept. Long detailed explanations of your opinions are passe and boring”
Dude, a lie is a lie is a LIE. Sound bites from a United States Senator or even a quitter Ex Governor should at least have the ring of truth somewhere.
MOTU
August 14, 2009 - 2:46 pm
McCarthy said,
“Wouldn’t it be easier to just set your death ray on PERNIL?”
I tried setting it on DESTROY and pointed it the GOP convention but they were to stupid to die. I guess they are waiting to see their doctor.
Vinnie Bartilucci
August 14, 2009 - 3:53 pm
“Dude, a lie is a lie is a LIE.”
Well, yeah. My point was they don’t even TRY and come up with arguments anymore, just come up with a scary buzzword to deflate it or a derisive name to call it.
Mike Gold
August 14, 2009 - 4:16 pm
Vinnie, arguments just get in the way. They’re too easy to disprove. Reduce the Big Lie to the Big Slogan, and you’ve got a winner.
Vinnie Bartilucci
August 14, 2009 - 6:11 pm
But unfortunately, recent activity has shown that people can’t tell the difference.
Elayne Riggs
August 15, 2009 - 8:42 pm
I like to say that these people always accuse their opponents of doing something they themselves are (or were) doing. Yet, even my jaw dropped when I read that, when George W. Bush was governor, Texas actually had the equivalent of “death panels” where the state government was able to tell hospitals and doctors to let babies die against their parents’ wishes if those parent were too poor to afford life-prolonging treatment:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Texas_baby_removed_from_life_support_against_mother%27s_wishes
Adriane Nash
August 22, 2009 - 11:00 am
Marty saw the bacon pancakes on the menu at Robert Walker’s the morning after SDCC was over & immediately looked up and said “Does Michael know about this?”