"Stupid wingnut says something stupid" thread

[Luna]

Christ almighty. So much for protecting and defending the Constitution (not that anyone has been doing that for a long time, but still).

Really, he could have saved time by bringing a copy out onto the stage and just taking a dump on it right there.

[Juana]

They probably would have cheered him on, too.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Eh hes just afraid of justices doing their job i guess.

Legislating from the benches is shorthand for "im butthurt over the idea of monogamous gays signing a contract and non-whites not being used as decorations for the town christmas tree."

[deadfong]

Congress is out of touch because Congressmen are overpaid, over-staffed and away from home too much. Americans have had enough.
It's time to create a part-time Congress where their pay is cut in half, their office budgets are cut in half, and their time in Washington is cut in half.

(They apparently can't do their goddamn jobs full-time, how are they supposed to do it part-time?

He must be basing this on Texas-style governance, in which the legislature only meets for four or five months every other year.  Because Texas government has worked so well for Texans, you know.  It's the goddamn Texas Miracle!

[LMNO]

Oddly enough, congress used to go home quite a bit in the past, as they were concerned about properly reflecting the community's needs.  Now, with the combinaton of perpetual campaigning, the need of money for such, and the massive amount of cash DC lobbyists fling around, they stay in DC to get funds for re-election. 

[deadfong]

I imagine actually cutting their pay in half would just drive them to the lobbyists even more.  And by cutting their working hours in half, they'd have more time to devote to the lobbyists!  It's a win-win!

Except for, uh, the people, that is.

[LMNO]

Right now, they don't even have time to read the bills they're voting on, so the best thing to do is give them less.

[Jenne]

Ha ha.  He's still Dumber-than-Dubya. 

[Cain]

Cutting their pay in half is even more insidious than the lobbyist thing, because it basically ensures no working or middle class American will be able to earn enough in office to make it worth their time.  It will become the preserve of the independently wealthy...we tried that in the UK, once.  In the 1700s.  Didn't turn out too well.

It also makes actual corruption, well beyond the legal gray zone of what lobbyists do, a certainty.  Least corrupt elected officials in the world?  Those in Singapore.  Highest paid?  Those in Singapore.  If you want to make a position uncorruptable, you have to offer a better deal than anyone else, while punishing the shit out of anyone stupid enough to try and take advantage of their position.  Incentives are everything.  If you're pulling down great pay already, even if you're an amoral sociopath, you're going to think twice about trying to get more through illegal means, because it simply isn't worth the risk.

[LMNO]

Speaking of corruption, I was just reminded of a thread I wanted to start...

[Luna]

Jesus fuck.

"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/153115/new_low_for_right-wing_anti-choicers_--_exploiting_the_holocaust_to_push_anti-abortion_propaganda?page=entire

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Jesus fuck.

"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/153115/new_low_for_right-wing_anti-choicers_--_exploiting_the_holocaust_to_push_anti-abortion_propaganda?page=entire

Everytime a man has sex, he kills MILLIONS of gametes.

Who says a gamete has to become a zygote before it counts?

[Luna]

Jesus fuck.

"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/153115/new_low_for_right-wing_anti-choicers_--_exploiting_the_holocaust_to_push_anti-abortion_propaganda?page=entire

Everytime a man has sex, he kills MILLIONS of gametes.

Who says a gamete has to become a zygote before it counts?

Every time a man faps, he needlessly murders millions of gametes.  On purpose.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Jesus fuck.

"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/153115/new_low_for_right-wing_anti-choicers_--_exploiting_the_holocaust_to_push_anti-abortion_propaganda?page=entire

Everytime a man has sex, he kills MILLIONS of gametes.

Who says a gamete has to become a zygote before it counts?

Every time a man faps, he needlessly murders millions of gametes.  On purpose.

Allowing men to make that choice is like allowing Hitler to make a choice.

[Luna]

Jesus fuck.

"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/153115/new_low_for_right-wing_anti-choicers_--_exploiting_the_holocaust_to_push_anti-abortion_propaganda?page=entire

Everytime a man has sex, he kills MILLIONS of gametes.

Who says a gamete has to become a zygote before it counts?

Every time a man faps, he needlessly murders millions of gametes.  On purpose.

Allowing men to make that choice is like allowing Hitler to make a choice.

"Tell ya what, sport.  You get to make THAT decision for ME right after I get to decide when, where, and how your vasectomy happens.  I have a pocket knife, right here..."