She makes Sarah Palin look like Stephen fucking Hawking.
2007, Bachmann returned from a junket to Iraq and told her colleagues, "There's a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it's on that proportion. There's marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere."
Bachmann saw Melissa Etheridge"s cancer as a teachable moment: "Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers", she said in November 2004. "This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian."
During a February trip to South Carolina, Bachmann told a South Carolina audience, "I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]".
Whoa! Melissa Etheridge has cancer? WTF :x
Bachmann on the economy: "Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (deceased) on July 18, 2011, 06:44:15 PM
Bachmann on the economy: "Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
This is one of my favorites because it is those who pay below minimum wage who hire illegals and she is so against illegals, but she thinks offering a wage no one can afford to live off of as an acceptable solution.
I swear if they elect her I am leaving the country.
"Everything I needed to know, I learnt in Iowa".
Bachmann left Iowa before she graduated from High School, in 1974. That's some dedication to ignorance. :lol:
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2011, 07:04:38 PM
"Everything I needed to know, I learnt in Iowa".
Bachmann left Iowa before she graduated from High School, in 1974. That's some dedication to ignorance. :lol:
Oh I hope someone throws this in her face when the "education" debates come up. Of course this ignorant wench probably thinks education should stop in 7th or 8th grade.
I think Colbert riffed on that. lemme check.
Quote from: Khara on July 18, 2011, 06:49:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (deceased) on July 18, 2011, 06:44:15 PM
Bachmann on the economy: "Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
This is one of my favorites because it is those who pay below minimum wage who hire illegals and she is so against illegals, but she thinks offering a wage no one can afford to live off of as an acceptable solution.
I swear if they elect her I am leaving the country.
In any election, going by current polls, Bachmann would trail Obama by 14 points.
The only way she is on the winning ticket is as VP, with Romney.
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2011, 07:13:57 PM
Quote from: Khara on July 18, 2011, 06:49:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (deceased) on July 18, 2011, 06:44:15 PM
Bachmann on the economy: "Literally, if we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
This is one of my favorites because it is those who pay below minimum wage who hire illegals and she is so against illegals, but she thinks offering a wage no one can afford to live off of as an acceptable solution.
I swear if they elect her I am leaving the country.
In any election, going by current polls, Bachmann would trail Obama by 14 points.
The only way she is on the winning ticket is as VP, with Romney.
Straight up, I would rather have another 4 of Obama. And that is one of the saddest things I have every seen myself type.... I think I need to go strangle someone now.
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2011, 07:13:57 PM
The only way she is on the winning ticket is as VP, with Romney.
This is what I see happening, but I don't see them winning.
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2011, 07:16:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2011, 07:13:57 PM
The only way she is on the winning ticket is as VP, with Romney.
This is what I see happening, but I don't see them winning.
Yeah, it's still not likely.
Just more likely than her winning as the Presidential candidate. As are, indeed, a many great number of things.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2011, 07:16:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2011, 07:13:57 PM
The only way she is on the winning ticket is as VP, with Romney.
This is what I see happening, but I don't see them winning.
She still wins even if she loses...look what losing did for Palin's profile and pocket. Her agenda is being pushed even further to centre stage in mainstream political debate. The opposition has to move further to the Right to meet them. Local officials get elected on National Platforms. They get a foot in the door of the Oval Office.
Both Palin and Bachmann are symptomatic of the creeping Radical Right focus of the GOP Their strategists have shown dogged determination to wring every last vote they can out of the lowest common denominator element in the electorate. Politics of fear and xenophobia. Religious extremism. Backward looking social attitudes. A dearth of ideas or policies of their own, but a plethora of issues they "oppose" and a raft of slogans and catch phrases.Rabble rousing amid misspelled racial slurs on hand written signs at Tea Party Rallies. They've proved adept at fomenting hatred and distrust. Dividing the community neatly along racial and religious lines. These strategies are the hallmark of Fascist regimes throughout history when on the rise.
Palin didn't win and Bachmann won't. But one day soon, as economic times worsen yet again, someone just like them only a lot smarter may well do so. The bourgeoisie move to the right in times of economic hardship..They find it hard to resist the appeal to the security imagined in retreating to a mythical "better" past. Look at the fall of the Weimar Republic...or the rise of Pinochet.
And someone as radically right wing as Bachmann...with a brain....Now
that's a motherfucker of a scary thought.
(And your spell check wants to make Bachmann into Eichmann...prophetic or what?)
I'd vote for a Palin/Bachmann ticket.
Not because I think they would be good in the executive off but because I think if civilization is going to crash it should also burn while doing so.
Quote from: PopeTom on July 19, 2011, 06:44:14 PM
I'd vote for a Palin/Bachmann ticket.
Not because I think they would be good in the executive off but because I think if civilization is going to crash it should also burn while doing so.
Problem is those stupid bitches wouldn't let the
worst of it burn, just the
poorest.
GAY BARBARIANS GLITTER BOMB BACHMANN CLINIC. (http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/07/21/gay_barbarians_glitter_bomb_bachmann_clinic_nick_espinosa_and_ot.html)
(video included)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (deceased) on July 22, 2011, 01:57:44 PM
GAY BARBARIANS GLITTER BOMB BACHMANN CLINIC. (http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/07/21/gay_barbarians_glitter_bomb_bachmann_clinic_nick_espinosa_and_ot.html)
(video included)
I think this is the best possible form of protest
it combines satire, social justice, silly costumes, and dancing like crazy people
if only all nonviolent protest were so spectacular!
This is fabulous. :lulz:
That was the most FABULOUS thing I've ever seen.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 22, 2011, 04:02:03 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (deceased) on July 22, 2011, 01:57:44 PM
GAY BARBARIANS GLITTER BOMB BACHMANN CLINIC. (http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/07/21/gay_barbarians_glitter_bomb_bachmann_clinic_nick_espinosa_and_ot.html)
(video included)
I think this is the best possible form of protest
it combines satire, social justice, silly costumes, and dancing like crazy people
if only all nonviolent protest were so spectacular!
Fiercely :fap: ulous
:lulz: NICE!
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/michele-bachmann-teen-suicide
Fucking hell.
Yeah...not surprised. This is the soft, nasty underbelly that gets exposed when people run for national office. So far, she's been a backwater political bruiser...with a semi-pretty face...but now that we get to question the practices she's put in place and their subsequent results...shit's gonna fly a WEEEEE bit faster toward the fan for her.
We'll see what kind of umbrella the GOP hands her. If any. If they're smart, they'll make it a defunct one.
WTF?
Quote
"In our public schools, whether they want to or not, they'll be forced to start teaching that same-sex marriage is equal, that it is normal and that children should try it."
She makes same sex marriage sound like pizza.
Mmmm gay pizza.
But yeah its not a choice so... No point in "trying it." if youre not going to like it chances are youll know that by the fact that you dont look at people of the same gender and think yeah id hit that.
Funny... Interracial marriage has been, despite conservative resistance at the beginning, legal since before I was born. I do not recall a single one of my teachers ever suggesting, much less insisting, that I marry someone outside of my own race.
Maybe it was just me.
Heh yep. No one ever told me that i should try out asians or black women. But believe me ive tried to try. Oh did i try.
Twid
happy that hes not a pimply awkward teenager anymore
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 29, 2011, 11:48:43 PM
Mmmm gay pizza.
But yeah its not a choice so... No point in "trying it." if youre not going to like it chances are youll know that by the fact that you dont look at people of the same gender and think yeah id hit that.
True, but not what i was getting at. It's marriage, it's a lifelong commitment. The idea of it as something that, you know, you might want to try, is pretty absurd.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on July 30, 2011, 07:19:09 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 29, 2011, 11:48:43 PM
Mmmm gay pizza.
But yeah its not a choice so... No point in "trying it." if youre not going to like it chances are youll know that by the fact that you dont look at people of the same gender and think yeah id hit that.
True, but not what i was getting at. It's marriage, it's a lifelong commitment. The idea of it as something that, you know, you might want to try, is pretty absurd.
Hahahahaha (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm).
And in theory, liberal democracy is government by the people, for the people.
Given that I am a current statistic, I'll refrain from comment.
Michelle "CRAZY EYES" Bachmann
(http://cdn.thefrisky.com/images/uploads/Michele-Bachmann-Newsweek-main.jpg)
The Queen of WHAT?
Oh, no. I AM NOT HAVING THIS!
:crankey:
Someone running Newsweek HATES Bachmann, with a passion. THAT photo certainly AIN'T gonna get her elected.
Quote from: Jenne on August 08, 2011, 04:34:51 PM
Someone running Newsweek HATES Bachmann, with a passion. THAT photo certainly AIN'T gonna get her elected.
It's actually one of her better pics. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 08, 2011, 04:36:26 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 08, 2011, 04:34:51 PM
Someone running Newsweek HATES Bachmann, with a passion. THAT photo certainly AIN'T gonna get her elected.
It's actually one of her better pics. :lulz:
Nawwww...too many wrinkles not ironed out. Look at that lockjaw!
I've generally found that politicians who rant about the evils of government tend to do their best to ensure that government is evil if they get elected.
God, she's creepy looking.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on August 08, 2011, 05:50:04 PM
I've generally found that politicians who rant about the evils of government tend to do their best to ensure that government is evil if they get elected.
More to the point, if she's a Christian and government is evil, what the hell is she doing in government?
It is amazing how voting in people who think government is evil and incompetent results in evil and incompetent government, and the solution is to vote even more of these people in.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 08, 2011, 03:49:25 PM
Michelle "CRAZY EYES" Bachmann
(http://cdn.thefrisky.com/images/uploads/Michele-Bachmann-Newsweek-main.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/24/article-0-00290D8400000258-487_468x339.jpg)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/08/bachmann-supports-view-that-slavery-wasnt-so-bad-after-all/
(http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/08/13/1313256551-bachmandogging.jpg)
That picture is really disturbing.
:fap:
Quote from: Cain on August 13, 2011, 09:12:54 PM
:fap:
Someone had to. Thanks, Cain.
Plus I think it's actually what that dude in the lower left corner is doing.
(http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc322/fennario99/bettybowers.jpg)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/13/iowa.straw.poll/index.html
well, the bitch won the Iowa straw poll, not that that means anything.
I've often wondered over the last 10 years or so why the fuck Iowa's opinion should matter so much, and why they get to vote first. Perhaps any Iowans on the board could help me understand this?
Also, why I hate having to sometimes use the word "that" followed by another "that" to complete a sentence.
I really don't like that bitch at all, and I'm still registered Republican.
Obviously not Iowan here, but I wondered about the same thing back in 2008, so I consulted some political science papers to find out way.
As far as I could figure, Iowa is important because the media believe it is important. And because the media believe it is important, the politicians flock there to court media attention for their campaigns.
It's retarded, but sounds plausible.
Quote from: Disco Pickle on August 14, 2011, 12:30:01 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/13/iowa.straw.poll/index.html
well, the bitch won the Iowa straw poll, not that that means anything.
I've often wondered over the last 10 years or so why the fuck Iowa's opinion should matter so much, and why they get to vote first. Perhaps any Iowans on the board could help me understand this?
Also, why I hate having to sometimes use the word "that" followed by another "that" to complete a sentence.
I really don't like that bitch at all, and I'm still registered Republican.
I think it's pronounced "not thet that means anything". At least down here it is. And probably in Iowa.
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
Iowa is important because they vote first. Any other state could choose to go even earlier, if they wanted to, but they'd incur the wrath of Iowa.
No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".
The major interesting thing for me in this race is seeing if the unemployment rate "iron law" of political science (that states anything above a 7.8% unemployment rate = certain doom for the incumbent) will be overturned. It has been disproven twice in the past, by FDR and Reagan, but of course, the booters of this "law" (on both sides of the partisan divide") insist it applies always and in all circumstances, for forever. Just like real science!
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on August 14, 2011, 05:58:46 AM
No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".
Um, gonna disagree this time.
Look up "Christian reconstructionism". Perry's a big fan.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on August 14, 2011, 05:58:46 AM
No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".
Um, gonna disagree this time.
Look up "Christian reconstructionism". Perry's a big fan.
He's compensating, trying to build social conservative credibility. He's viewed with some suspicion by the religious right, because he was Guiliani's man in 2008, so naturally he's gone for the most batshit social conservatives he can find to prove them wrong.
Sadly, it will probably work.
Quote from: Cain on August 15, 2011, 05:53:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on August 14, 2011, 05:58:46 AM
No offense, guys, the presidential candidacy is a farce "race". /Every/ candidate is "four more years".
Um, gonna disagree this time.
Look up "Christian reconstructionism". Perry's a big fan.
He's compensating, trying to build social conservative credibility. He's viewed with some suspicion by the religious right, because he was Guiliani's man in 2008, so naturally he's gone for the most batshit social conservatives he can find to prove them wrong.
Sadly, it will probably work.
But what I said.
Not all candidates are equal.
Dok,
Knows the difference between "abysmal" and "worse". The second one is funnier.
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
It really only seems to be a matter of speed. Obama = the "go slow" of political evil. Republicans = political evil on crack
Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Yeah, although the religious right do seem to be softening, to a degree, on Mormonism in general. They'd probably have more specific issues with Romney's politics, especially as he's trying to regain the centre.
Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 06:01:47 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Quote from: Khara on August 15, 2011, 06:04:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 06:01:47 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Why? Perry's religious inquisitors will do the job for free.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 06:06:28 PM
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Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Why? Perry's religious inquisitors will do the job for free.
I don't want to be shot be some religious nutjob, I would prefer it be a friend..... :lulz:
Quote from: Khara on August 15, 2011, 06:07:45 PM
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Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Why? Perry's religious inquisitors will do the job for free.
I don't want to be shot be some religious nutjob, I would prefer it be a friend..... :lulz:
You're just not serious about having a good time.
Quote from: Net (existing) on August 15, 2011, 06:23:04 PM
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Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Why? Perry's religious inquisitors will do the job for free.
I don't want to be shot be some religious nutjob, I would prefer it be a friend..... :lulz:
You're just not serious about having a good time.
This.
PD.com has the weirdest conversations about American electoral politics than anywhere or anyone I've encountered. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 07:38:01 PM
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Quote from: Iptuous on August 15, 2011, 05:57:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 14, 2011, 01:41:42 AM
BBC is predicting a Romney win for Presidential candidate, with Perry and Bachmann reduced to sniping at each other for the VP spot.
So if it became Romney/Perry, the christian religious right would be in an odd spot having their muppet being directly under, and next in line behind a man who they would categorize as a heretic, no?
Not gonna happen.
It's going to be Perry and Bachmann, in one order or another.
Fuck, just shoot me now.
Why? Perry's religious inquisitors will do the job for free.
I don't want to be shot be some religious nutjob, I would prefer it be a friend..... :lulz:
You're just not serious about having a good time.
This.
Alas, I am starting to fear this is only too true..... :cry:
BACHMANN 2012
(http://i.rickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Michele-Bachmann-eats-a-footlong-corndog-at-Iowa-State-Fair-150x150.jpg)
SHE WON'T CHOKE
It's the look on her face that just :vom:
:lulz:
RUUUUUUUUUUUULE 34
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 15, 2011, 08:04:59 PM
BACHMANN 2012
(http://i.rickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Michele-Bachmann-eats-a-footlong-corndog-at-Iowa-State-Fair-150x150.jpg)
SHE WON'T CHOKE
I'm betting neither will her husband.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BACHMANN_ELVIS?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-16-14-43-05
Michelle Bachmann wishes Elvis a happy birthday.
Problem: Today is the day Elvis died.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 16, 2011, 08:31:50 PM
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BACHMANN_ELVIS?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-16-14-43-05
Michelle Bachmann wishes Elvis a happy birthday.
Problem: Today is the day Elvis died.
You cannot fix stupid.
His birthday is January 8th. And the only reason I know that is because it is my birthday too. And Steven Tyler's.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 16, 2011, 08:31:50 PM
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BACHMANN_ELVIS?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-16-14-43-05
Michelle Bachmann wishes Elvis a happy birthday.
Problem: Today is the day Elvis died.
:lulz:
And not a chance she's just doing it on purpose, is there?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 16, 2011, 09:12:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 16, 2011, 08:31:50 PM
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BACHMANN_ELVIS?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-16-14-43-05
Michelle Bachmann wishes Elvis a happy birthday.
Problem: Today is the day Elvis died.
:lulz:
How can she be this stupid and still remember to breathe occasionally?
QuoteHow can she be this stupid and still remember to breathe occasionally?
Well she
does have to get resuscitated by a corn dog from time to time.
Huff Post has it on video (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/michele-bachmanns-elvis-birthday_n_928454.html).
I just don't understand why the American people are not outraged by such complete stupidity. I mean have we sunk so low that we don't care if our elected officials know anything about US history. The Elvis thing doesn't bother me near as much as her continued mistakes about history.
I'm pretty sure that's the case. Tea Bagger stepdad jumped right in behind Sarah Palin's "Paul Revere went out to warn the British" when she said that, and I'm pretty sure he's far from the only one.
Quote from: Hover Cat on August 17, 2011, 03:44:58 PM
I'm pretty sure that's the case. Tea Bagger stepdad jumped right in behind Sarah Palin's "Paul Revere went out to warn the British" when she said that, and I'm pretty sure he's far from the only one.
:cry:
I'm begining to think we are doomed!
(http://chzdailywhat.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/64dd522c-346c-43fe-8e60-1e1c3066f2b3.gif)
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
WIN
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: Oh, my fucking...
That's worse than Meatspin. And just as hypnotic.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 17, 2011, 04:38:18 PM
That's worse than Meatspin. And just as hypnotic.
But is it just me that it makes rather nauseous?
Corndog back and forth, forever.
Quote from: Khara on August 17, 2011, 05:07:03 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 17, 2011, 04:38:18 PM
That's worse than Meatspin. And just as hypnotic.
But is it just me that it makes rather nauseous?
Oh yes. And the spinning really isn't helping at all either.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW :lulz:
http://rt.com/usa/news/bachmann-soviet-union-threat/
QuoteIn an interview conducted today by Christian radio host Jay Sekulow, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann offered up her latest and perhaps funniest flub. According to the congresswoman, the USSR still poses a pretty big threat to the USA — even if the Union disbanded, oh, 20 years ago.
When asked on-air about what different people from coast-to-coast are telling Bachmann on her campaign trail, the GOP hopeful said that jobs and economy are obviously a big concern among Americans. That's not all that's on their minds, however.
"What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline," said Bachmann. "They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward."
It looks like the Cold War is still going on and hotter than ever.
"our loss militarily going forward"
:cramstipated:
Why is your children not learning, with such great role models to learn from?
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/08/18/why-michele-bachmanns-2-a-gallon-gas-promise-is-a-fantasy/?hpt=hp_t2
Promises, promises...
"mahst crrahsh kyepitulizm" -resurrected lenin on the simpsons
Quote from: Cain on August 18, 2011, 11:55:07 PM
Why is your children not learning, with such great role models to learn from?
I am not can know!
:lulz:
I just want to punch her one good time. Just once. In the face. HARD!!!
:cry:
Quote from: Khara on August 19, 2011, 03:25:21 PM
I just want to punch her one good time. Just once. In the face. HARD!!!
:cry:
I'm sure she would spin that as some sort of lesbian foreplay.
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on August 19, 2011, 04:27:47 PM
Quote from: Khara on August 19, 2011, 03:25:21 PM
I just want to punch her one good time. Just once. In the face. HARD!!!
:cry:
I'm sure she would spin that as some sort of lesbian foreplay.
:lulz:
Or demon posession..... :evil:
Quote from: Khara on August 19, 2011, 04:28:39 PM
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on August 19, 2011, 04:27:47 PM
Quote from: Khara on August 19, 2011, 03:25:21 PM
I just want to punch her one good time. Just once. In the face. HARD!!!
:cry:
I'm sure she would spin that as some sort of lesbian foreplay.
:lulz:
Or demon posession..... :evil:
Same thing to her isn't it? :lulz:
McCain's pastor, John Hagee, likely tells his congregation to "expel the demon of lesbian foreplay".
He had Matt Taibbi expel the demon of automatic writing, so I can't see it being impossible.
Quote from: Cain on August 19, 2011, 04:33:41 PM
McCain's pastor, John Hagee, likely tells his congregation to "expel the demon of lesbian foreplay".
He had Matt Taibbi expel the demon of automatic writing, so I can't see it being impossible.
My understanding of the way pentacostal's view demons posession is that each and every little sin has it's own demon.
John Hagee is certainly a hellfire and brimstone kind of guy.
Quote from: Nigel on August 18, 2011, 11:53:03 PM
"our loss militarily going forward"
:cramstipated:
Remember when Candidates could speak English? I swear to fucking God, it's like having Warren Harding crawl out the grave and start brutalizing speeches.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 18, 2011, 11:53:03 PM
"our loss militarily going forward"
:cramstipated:
Remember when Candidates could speak English? I swear to fucking God, it's like having Warren Harding crawl out the grave and start brutalizing speeches.
I don't think there is much hope anymore Dok. I'm at the train station, I hope it gets here soon!!!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 18, 2011, 11:53:03 PM
"our loss militarily going forward"
:cramstipated:
Remember when Candidates could speak English? I swear to fucking God, it's like having Warren Harding crawl out the grave and start brutalizing speeches.
Remember, Dok, remember when we made fun of Reagan for his speaking gaffes?
Remember the first President Bush? Oh, man, we couldn't even believe someone like him had made it into the White House.
These days, it seems that politicians are being groomed based on whether they make the lowest common denominator feel as if they might be equally competent.
Quote from: Nigel on August 19, 2011, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel on August 18, 2011, 11:53:03 PM
"our loss militarily going forward"
:cramstipated:
Remember when Candidates could speak English? I swear to fucking God, it's like having Warren Harding crawl out the grave and start brutalizing speeches.
Remember, Dok, remember when we made fun of Reagan for his speaking gaffes?
Remember the first President Bush? Oh, man, we couldn't even believe someone like him had made it into the White House.
These days, it seems that politicians are being groomed based on whether they make the lowest common denominator feel as if they might be equally competent.
:mittens:
How Michele Bachmann Is Tied to the Ugandan Movement to Execute Gay People (http://gawker.com/5832740/how-michele-bachmann-is-tied-to-the-ugandan-movement-to-execute-gay-people)
QuoteWhy did Michele Bachmann hire an accused terrorist and ex-spy who pals around with a central figure in the Ugandan effort to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death?
Peter Waldron is a Christian pastor and on-the-ground organizer for the Bachmann campaign in Iowa. He is also, as The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta reported this week, an accused terrorist who spent 37 days in a Ugandan prison after officials there found him with a cache of assault rifles and ammunition in 2006.
Weird, huh? He's also a self-promoting globe-trotting raconteur who actively encourages the perception that he is a U.S. intelligence operative. And, as reporter Andrew Rice—who met Waldron in Uganda in 2004—notes, he is pals with a Ugandan minister named Martin Ssempa: "The Sunday I attended Ssempa's church, after he finished his sermon, the pastor told his audience that he had a special guest to introduce, a visitor from the United States. All eyes fixed on a stocky white man with a thick moustache, who wore a gray safari suit. He introduced himself as Dr. Peter Waldron, of Wyoming."
Ssempa is one of the chief proponents of Uganda's so-called "Kill the Gays" bill, which would criminalize homosexuality and introduce the death penalty in certain cases (it's currently tabled in the Ugandan parliament). He preaches that gay people "eat poop" and shows gay pornography in his church to disgust and inflame his followers. He's no stranger to American evangelicals—Rick Warren has hosted Ssempa many times at his Saddleback Church in Southern California. As MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has repeatedly demonstrated, Uganda is sort of a playground for right-wing American Christianist politicians, who view it as a laboratory of sorts for theocratic policy initiatives. Sen. James Inhofe is a frequent visitor.
On her Meet the Press appearance last weekend, Bachmann tried to play down her gay hatred, claiming that she "doesn't judge" people and believes that gay people deserve to be treated with "honor and dignity." But she's sticking by Waldron, who hangs around with people who think gay people ought to be killed by the state on account of what they do with their private parts. Don't Tread on Me!
Not particularly surprising, but still :x
The hell.
they 'eat poop'?
:lol:
Quote from: Iptuous on August 22, 2011, 07:26:12 PM
they 'eat poop'?
:lol:
http://goatmilkblog.com/2010/06/10/anti-gay-ugandan-priests-eat-da-poo-poo-unintentionally-hilarious/
http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_18726018?source=rss
When presidential candidates blatantly lie about their resume, how do they expect to not get caught?
Quote"On her campaign website, too, the Minnesota Republican highlights her first career job as a U.S. tax lawyer in St. Paul, arguing that her experience on "hundreds of civil and criminal cases" triggered her interest in tax simplification and adds to her qualifications for the White House.'
...
"Bachmann appears to have represented the IRS only twice in cases tried in U.S. Tax Court - both small cases - according to a search of judicial records by attorney Melissa Wexler, a research expert at Westlaw, a major provider of computerized records."
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 06:20:01 PM
http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_18726018?source=rss
When presidential candidates blatantly lie about their resume, how do they expect to not get caught?
Quote"On her campaign website, too, the Minnesota Republican highlights her first career job as a U.S. tax lawyer in St. Paul, arguing that her experience on "hundreds of civil and criminal cases" triggered her interest in tax simplification and adds to her qualifications for the White House.'
...
"Bachmann appears to have represented the IRS only twice in cases tried in U.S. Tax Court - both small cases - according to a search of judicial records by attorney Melissa Wexler, a research expert at Westlaw, a major provider of computerized records."
I don't think they care anymore Dok. They'll just hand us another lie to cover the last. I just start with everything they say is a lie and it's worked for me. :D
Just thought I'd leave this here.
(http://www.bartcop.com/Bachmann-Submissive.jpg)
:halfchewedchipmonitor:
I think I peed myself.....
:lulz:
:lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on August 19, 2011, 05:56:59 PM
These days, it seems that politicians are being groomed based on whether they make the lowest common denominator feel as if they might be equally competent.
No, really, that's exactly it. Except for Obama's case--and now people call him "too professorial." :lulz:
Dubya was elected because he was someone people wanted to HAVE A BEER WITH.
That, there, tells ya a lot.
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF, and all the Tea Baggin' daddies wanna fuck 'em while all the Tea Baggin' mommies wanna BE them.
Sad. Very sad.
Forget their ideals, morals and their deeds. Let alone their WORDS.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 06:34:42 PM
Just thought I'd leave this here.
(http://www.bartcop.com/Bachmann-Submissive.jpg)
:lulz: Oh wow. Oh. Fucking. Wow. *yoinked, shared*
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:26:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
Fuck John Stewart. This is Goddamn politics, not an ice cream social.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:32:41 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:26:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
Fuck John Stewart. This is Goddamn politics, not an ice cream social.
...would that I could.
...
Ahem.
But I do see his point--even though I sometimes think he takes the
fairness tack too far...it's nice to see how he doesn't let Obama get away with schtick, either. Nor (p)msnbc. Rhetoric is RHETORIC ends up being the message, though sometimes I think he has to SEARCH HIGH AND LOW for the opposition's.
Quote from: Jenne on August 25, 2011, 02:36:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:32:41 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:26:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
Fuck John Stewart. This is Goddamn politics, not an ice cream social.
...would that I could.
...
Ahem.
But I do see his point--even though I sometimes think he takes the fairness tack too far...it's nice to see how he doesn't let Obama get away with schtick, either. Nor (p)msnbc. Rhetoric is RHETORIC ends up being the message, though sometimes I think he has to SEARCH HIGH AND LOW for the opposition's.
Not the point. I pay good money to watch politicians beat each other with shitty sticks every few years, and I want my money's worth.
Troof. And it's not like they really have anything ELSE to say but "blame the other guy" anyway. You remove that...you get dead air.
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:26:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
It's one thing to make a big whoop in the media because some skinny celebrity is skinny (and therefore, according to them, anorexic/drug addicted/has AIDS) or an aging celebrity aged, or put on weight, or a hot person looks hot...these things are not relevant.
Bachmann's looks are relevant BECAUSE SHE LOOKS LIKE A BATSHIT INSANE SELF-ENCLOSED OUCH CUBE OF MUTATED WEIRD DISORDERS THAT ARE STILL BEING RESEARCHED AT HARVARD.
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on August 27, 2011, 03:40:27 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:26:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
It seems Jon Stewart would do her. He went off on Newsweek or whoever it was that did that "deer in the headlights" pic of her a couple of weeks ago. Said the news organizations should pick apart her WORDS not her looks.
I say both go hand in hand, but that's probably just me. :lol:
It's one thing to make a big whoop in the media because some skinny celebrity is skinny (and therefore, according to them, anorexic/drug addicted/has AIDS) or an aging celebrity aged, or put on weight, or a hot person looks hot...these things are not relevant.
Bachmann's looks are relevant BECAUSE SHE LOOKS LIKE A BATSHIT INSANE SELF-ENCLOSED OUCH CUBE OF MUTATED WEIRD DISORDERS THAT ARE STILL BEING RESEARCHED AT HARVARD.
We're nowhere near drawing any conclusions. The data is very befuddling.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
Remember, US conservatives would like you to know that the most attractive women are Republican ones.
Quote from: Cain on August 27, 2011, 06:30:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
Remember, US conservatives would like you to know that the most attractive women are Republican ones.
They'd also like us to think that they're the most rational and intelligent ones too.
But we all know that Republicans are fucking liars.
Dems are too, but at least they tell believable lies.
"Ouch cube" :lol:
Quote from: Cain on August 27, 2011, 06:30:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2011, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 24, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
I suspect Bachmann is like Palin, a Conservative MILF,
Ew. Bachmann looks like a corpse.
Remember, US conservatives would like you to know that the most attractive women are Republican ones.
http://jezebel.com/313606/republican-women-are-hotter-than-democrat-women-contends-highly-objective-group-of-dickweed-fratboys
I suspect that many Republican female politicians are elected for their looks rather than their brains, which is not exactly an endorsement.
Well sure. The last republican with a brain was nixon.
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on August 27, 2011, 07:51:08 PM
Well sure. The last republican with a brain was nixon.
This is true.
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
Apparently, God sends messages ten times a year or so, but we don't speak "120 MPH wind", so we miss out on a lot.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 29, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
Apparently, God sends messages ten times a year or so, but we don't speak "120 MPH wind", so we miss out on a lot.
I was just thinking isn't it odd that god only seems to talk to people I have zero respect for and even less desire to listen to.
How hard would it be for god to talk to someone who has a brain and can actually communicate? Because somehow I don't think the natural disasters and such that god is sending messages in can have so many different messages in the same disaster.
I like how the phrase "morbid obesity diet" rolls off the tongue. It feels so weird to say. One would imagine that "morbidly obese diet" would make more sense, but even in context it does not at all. Why this particular phrase tickled me, I have no idea. :lulz:
Quote from: Khara on August 29, 2011, 05:08:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 29, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
Apparently, God sends messages ten times a year or so, but we don't speak "120 MPH wind", so we miss out on a lot.
I was just thinking isn't it odd that god only seems to talk to people I have zero respect for and even less desire to listen to.
How hard would it be for god to talk to someone who has a brain and can actually communicate? Because somehow I don't think the natural disasters and such that god is sending messages in can have so many different messages in the same disaster.
No, no. I think the message is pretty clear. "Get off my planet, assholes."
See, God wanted Earth for a dinosaur farm. And as any good Christian will tell you, humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction. Obviously, he was on vacation for a couple thousand years, and just now got around to noticing that his favorite pets are gone.
Would anyone like to see a video of her shouting "Who likes white people?!" at a crowd?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE4OPMmdPsg
Apparently the warmup band were called White People Soul Band, but somehow that doesn't make it better.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted whoever as telling voters during a rally in general. "We've had a Sarah Palin; we've had a Michelle Bachmann. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know shitfuck about fart and we've got to un-herp the derp."
:lulz:
I don't think the Tea Baggers, et al. really want their god to come back Old Testament style with plagues and natural disasters as much as they think they do.
I know for a fact that if Bachmann becomes President, it will be terribly bad for me and everyone I love. But why can't I shake the feeling, in the back of my head, that wants her to win, just for the show?
Is there a term for that feeling that doesn't give a fuck about personal safety, as long as the show is good?
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
It took me a moment to really get it, but :x fuck, she actually
thinks that way! Nevermind that hurricanes have been happening since before government even fucking existed*.
It burns to explore the mindset of someone like that.
*Or does her religion say otherwise?
Quote from: Epimetheus on August 30, 2011, 02:07:49 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 29, 2011, 05:00:54 PM
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/08/bachmann-irne-was-political-message-from-god/ACJ4zJCjJoqxfDK6RT4ETN/index.html
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that Hurricane Irene was a political message from God, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," the newspaper quoted her as telling voters during a rally in Sarasota. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
It took me a moment to really get it, but :x fuck, she actually thinks that way! Nevermind that hurricanes have been happening since before government even fucking existed*.
It burns to explore the mindset of someone like that.
*Or does her religion say otherwise?
God has hated the infidels longer than there has been government.
Quote from: Fast Eddy on August 30, 2011, 01:55:53 AM
I know for a fact that if Bachmann becomes President, it will be terribly bad for me and everyone I love. But why can't I shake the feeling, in the back of my head, that wants her to win, just for the show?
Is there a term for that feeling that doesn't give a fuck about personal safety, as long as the show is good?
Yes.
*ahem*
SCIENCE!
:Blinkblink:
Oh, right, people still think Jesus Wrath is what makes weather go.
I know this because I had to use logical points to nicely point out that someone was musing about stupid ideas the other day.
Like the idea that god is telling us something with a minor earthquake and a tropical storm.
:stewing:
He was.
It was his way of saying he had gas and explosive diarrhea.
...but-but-SHE WAS ONLY KIDDING!
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/08/29/michele_bachmann_on_irene_earthquake_natural_disasters_were_mess.html
QuoteUPDATE: Michele Bachmann told supporters Monday that her weekend comments about Hurricane Irene and the East Coast earthquake being messages from God were all in good fun.
"I have a great sense of humor and I think it's important to exhibit that humor sometimes when you are talking to people as well," she said at a campaign event in Miami, CNN reports. "Of course I was being humorous when I said that."
UPDATE Monday at 4:43 p.m.: One more note on this: It looks like Michele Bachmann used her Hurricane Irene laugh line at least twice this weekend. The CNN clip mentioned below appears to be from a different location than this clip, also making the rounds Monday (from an NBC affiliate via Mediaite).
Bachmann's words are pretty much the same, but her delivery and the crowd's reaction are slightly different. (For what it's worth, based on the exact wording of the remarks, the NBC clip appears to be the one quoted in the original St. Petersburg Times article that started this whole thing.)
UPDATE at 1:32 p.m. The video is now making the rounds on the Internet and cable news, and it is pretty clear that Bachmann was indeed having some fun when she made her comments.
CNN American Morning has the clip, and the trio of anchors seem in agreement that not only was Bachmann joking, but that the joke was funny. (We'll reserve judgment on the latter part.) You can watch for yourself here.
Given that Bachmann made her comments Sunday afternoon, while what was left of Hurricane Irene was still battering the Northeast—doing billions of dollars in damages and killing at least 25 people—the GOP hopeful is likely to continue to catch some flack for her comments. Still, her backers certainly have grounds to complain that the media and her critics were quick to jump on the comments without checking the tape first.
UPDATE at 12:04 p.m.: Michele Bachmann's campaign said Monday that the White House hopeful was only joking when she suggested over the weekend that Hurricane Irene and last week's East Coast earthquake were messages from God.
"Of course she was saying it in jest," campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart told Reuters. Stewart delivered a similar quote to other media outlets, but does not appear to have elaborated further on the issue. Talking Points Memo notes that while Bachmann appeared to draw "some titters of laughter from the crowd" when she made her comments, the local media didn't judge her to be joking.
Team Bachmann's attempt to downplay the controversial comments are likely to do little to push them from the headlines and political talk shows, however. The likely best-case scenario for the campaign is that they are merely labeled a political gaffe, the latest in a string from the Minnesota congresswoman.
POST at 10:08 a.m.: The East Coast was rocked by an earthquake last week and then battered by Hurricane Irene days later. Michele Bachman has a theory on why: It was God's way of telling the political class to embrace small government.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of politicians," the GOP presidential hopeful said over the weekend at a campaign event in Florida, the St. Petersburg Times reports. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
Politico notes that Bachmann isn't the first to venture into the "risky territory of attributing political motive to natural disasters": John Hagee suggested that New Orleans' gay pride parade may have triggered Hurricane Katrina, while Pat Robertson speculated that Katrina may have been tied to the debate over abortion.
There's also a more practical issue at hand: If Bachmann was implying that the "message" was directed at Washington, D.C., in specific, it may have been lost amid summer vacations. Congress is currently in the middle of August recess, so most lawmakers weren't in town for either the quake or the storm. Likewise, President Obama was in Martha's Vineyard for the earthquake, although he did return to D.C. early to be at the White House during Hurricane Irene.
So in other words.....
"I have once again shown myself to be a complete idiot and I can make it all better by saying.... 'It was a joke' right"?
I introduced to my band the concept of voting for Bachmann for the "the house of cards is already falling, let's give it a good kick" line of reasoning.
We riffed on this, and came up with the "Anarchists for Bachmann" PAC.
Anyone interested?
I like it. I've been spreading the "APOCALYPSE PARTY: PALIN 2012" meme, but Anarchists for Bachmann is a great false flag twist too.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 30, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
I introduced to my band the concept of voting for Bachmann for the "the house of cards is already falling, let's give it a good kick" line of reasoning.
We riffed on this, and came up with the "Anarchists for Bachmann" PAC.
Anyone interested?
Yessir.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/PopeTom/Backmann2012.jpg)
America: With a bang not a whimper!
Anarchists for Bachamann 2012
Quote from: PopeTom on August 30, 2011, 10:03:11 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/PopeTom/Backmann2012.jpg)
I'd shell out $6 for that.
Quote from: Nigel on August 31, 2011, 02:31:48 AM
Quote from: PopeTom on August 30, 2011, 10:03:11 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/PopeTom/Backmann2012.jpg)
I'd shell out $6 for that.
Can you direct me to something that isn't CafePress?
Quote from: PopeTom on August 31, 2011, 04:19:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on August 31, 2011, 02:31:48 AM
Quote from: PopeTom on August 30, 2011, 10:03:11 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/PopeTom/Backmann2012.jpg)
I'd shell out $6 for that.
Can you direct me to something that isn't CafePress?
Some large print shops (who I won't disclose) actually use this company for their own jobs:
http://www.psprint.com/stickers-labels
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 30, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
I introduced to my band the concept of voting for Bachmann for the "the house of cards is already falling, let's give it a good kick" line of reasoning.
We riffed on this, and came up with the "Anarchists for Bachmann" PAC.
Anyone interested?
This woman couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. Of course I'm in.
Quote from: Pancho on August 31, 2011, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 30, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
I introduced to my band the concept of voting for Bachmann for the "the house of cards is already falling, let's give it a good kick" line of reasoning.
We riffed on this, and came up with the "Anarchists for Bachmann" PAC.
Anyone interested?
This woman couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. Of course I'm in.
:lulz:
If she thinks there's money in it, she'd come give a speech...
She should be elected, if for no other reason, than the joy I would derive from the speeches she would give at college graduations. Can you imagine some of her blunders at say Princeton or Harvard? It would tickle me to no end.
However, if she does win, I'm still leaving the country. I truly think we're doomed if she's elected. It's a shame we can't convince the conservative christians she's the antichrist.
Quote from: Khara on August 31, 2011, 02:36:19 PM
She should be elected, if for no other reason, than the joy I would derive from the speeches she would give at college graduations. Can you imagine some of her blunders at say Princeton or Harvard? It would tickle me to no end.
However, if she does win, I'm still leaving the country. I truly think we're doomed if she's elected. It's a shame we can't convince the conservative christians she's the antichrist.
She's at 10%. Perry is the one you have to worry about.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2011, 02:37:47 PM
Quote from: Khara on August 31, 2011, 02:36:19 PM
She should be elected, if for no other reason, than the joy I would derive from the speeches she would give at college graduations. Can you imagine some of her blunders at say Princeton or Harvard? It would tickle me to no end.
However, if she does win, I'm still leaving the country. I truly think we're doomed if she's elected. It's a shame we can't convince the conservative christians she's the antichrist.
She's at 10%. Perry is the one you have to worry about.
I take it the porn issue is no longer or never was an "issue"?
Fucking Pat Robertson is slacking :argh!:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2011, 02:37:47 PM
Quote from: Khara on August 31, 2011, 02:36:19 PM
She should be elected, if for no other reason, than the joy I would derive from the speeches she would give at college graduations. Can you imagine some of her blunders at say Princeton or Harvard? It would tickle me to no end.
However, if she does win, I'm still leaving the country. I truly think we're doomed if she's elected. It's a shame we can't convince the conservative christians she's the antichrist.
She's at 10%. Perry is the one you have to worry about.
Truth be told, I would bet we have not yet seen the candidate who will get the nomination step forward. He or she will be slightly more sane, and, next to Perry and Bachmann, will look downright electable... but will likely still be dangerous.
Quote from: Khara on August 30, 2011, 07:08:04 PM
So in other words.....
"I have once again shown myself to be a complete idiot and I can make it all better by saying.... 'It was a joke' right"?
Cause joking about massive destruction and possible loss of human life is always in good taste. I bet she thought the Japanese tsunami was high larious.
My money's still on Romney for the primary. He's got the most swing appeal.
Quote from: Pancho on August 31, 2011, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 30, 2011, 08:44:14 PM
I introduced to my band the concept of voting for Bachmann for the "the house of cards is already falling, let's give it a good kick" line of reasoning.
We riffed on this, and came up with the "Anarchists for Bachmann" PAC.
Anyone interested?
This woman couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed upside down on the heel. Of course I'm in.
FTFY
Quote from: Cramulus on August 31, 2011, 03:57:33 PM
My money's still on Romney for the primary. He's got the most swing appeal.
Maybe, but there enough skeletons in his closet to rattle that may disqualify him.
http://www.realchange.org/romney.htm
Wont matter - compared to Perry, it'll seem trivial in comparison for swing voters. Corrupt is always better than crazy in their eyes (Bush fooled them, by being Bush senior's son).
Yeah, the more publicity Perry, Bachmann, and Palin get, the more the reasonable Romney looks by comparison. Overton window and all that.
Video of Bachmann trying to dodge the question about whether or not God communicates by laying down the smack with weather.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/bachmann-dodges-question-on-whether-god-uses-weather-to-send-messages-video.php
ETA: More stupid.
QuotePainting herself as a "constitutional conservative" Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Sen. Jim DeMint's forum Monday that if elected president she would look to get rid of the Department of Education, among other things.
"Because the Constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government the role and duty to superintend over education that historically has been held by the parents and by local communities and by state governments," she said...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/bachmann-why-is-there-a-department-of-education/
Quote from: Cramulus on August 31, 2011, 03:57:33 PM
My money's still on Romney for the primary. He's got the most swing appeal.
I'll take that bet.
Quote from: Luna on September 05, 2011, 11:26:21 PM
Video of Bachmann trying to dodge the question about whether or not God communicates by laying down the smack with weather.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/bachmann-dodges-question-on-whether-god-uses-weather-to-send-messages-video.php
ETA: More stupid.
QuotePainting herself as a "constitutional conservative" Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Sen. Jim DeMint's forum Monday that if elected president she would look to get rid of the Department of Education, among other things.
"Because the Constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government the role and duty to superintend over education that historically has been held by the parents and by local communities and by state governments," she said...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/bachmann-why-is-there-a-department-of-education/
She's never read article I or II, I see. :lol:
It's getting to the point where I don't know who to NOT vote for, because I am not into trolling myself, anymore.
Ed Rollins just quit Bachmann's campaign.
She's officially done.
WHEW.
I know eerything still sucks, but still...WHEW.
More room for Perry now. I imagine a good number of Bachmann supporters will join his camp.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on August 31, 2011, 03:49:21 PM
Quote from: Khara on August 30, 2011, 07:08:04 PM
So in other words.....
"I have once again shown myself to be a complete idiot and I can make it all better by saying.... 'It was a joke' right"?
Cause joking about massive destruction and possible loss of human life is always in good taste. I bet she thought the Japanese tsunami was high larious.
If Hurricane Irene was a sign from God then God might really really hate Rick Perry right now. Perry prays for rain, God gives him fire instead.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2011, 06:57:41 PM
Ed Rollins just quit Bachmann's campaign.
She's officially done.
Trump gone. Newt gone. Bachmann gone. Palin will probably jump in for about a month to grab some headlines. Romney is being smart and playing low. Everyone is peaking too early.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2011, 06:57:41 PM
Ed Rollins just quit Bachmann's campaign.
She's officially done.
I can only assume he resigned when he came to realize that the stroke he suffered last year didn't do enough damage to his brain that he could legitimately support a Bachmann presidency.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html
:crankey:
Can't view at work. :sad:
QuoteRep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says she was approached by a woman after last night's Tea Party/CNN debate who told her that her daughter now suffers from mental retardation as a result of taking Gardisal, a vaccination for HPV.
"The problem is, is it comes with some very significant consequences. There's a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine. There are very dangerous consequences," Bachmann said on FOX News after the debate.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2011, 08:38:08 PM
QuoteRep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says she was approached by a woman after last night's Tea Party/CNN debate who told her that her daughter now suffers from mental retardation as a result of taking Gardisal, a vaccination for HPV.
"The problem is, is it comes with some very significant consequences. There's a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine. There are very dangerous consequences," Bachmann said on FOX News after the debate.
My guess is, she made that up out of wholecloth.
There's a reason I have no problem smearing these people.
So wait, her 11 year old daugher was perfectly normal, then got the vaccine and is suddenly retarded? Am I understanding this correctly?
...and what we do know is third-hand hearsay. Without any clinical or medical evidence to back it up.
Quote from: Khara on September 13, 2011, 08:51:41 PM
So wait, her 11 year old daugher was perfectly normal, then got the vaccine and is suddenly retarded? Am I understanding this correctly?
She's playing on the MMR autism thing.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2011, 08:53:32 PM
...and what we do know is third-hand hearsay. Without any clinical or medical evidence to back it up.
Bachmann doesn't need evidence.
Quote from: Suu on September 13, 2011, 08:13:07 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html
Yeah, Bachmann's done. Rush was all over her shit for that one.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/
I have to admit, Perry scares the fucking shit out of me, but after what I've already been through and still have to go through thanks to my HPV related carcinoma'd cooter, I'd make Gardasil fucking mandatory too. Just according to my sister (who has HPV related dysplasia now herself) it's one of the most painful shots she's ever had to get.
Quote from: Luna on September 13, 2011, 10:28:42 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 13, 2011, 08:13:07 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html
Yeah, Bachmann's done. Rush was all over her shit for that one.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/
She should have stuck with the "It'll turn our daughters into sluts" talking point instead. That would have played well with the base.
erv (Abbie Smith) did a funny job covering this:
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/09/yo_dawg_republicans_vaccines_a.php
:lulz:
I'm still not seeing how anyone can believe an 11 year old went suddenly TARD from a fucking shot. They don't give these shots to girls under 11. At least they don't here in St. Louis.
I've always had some sympathy for the MMR issues that have happened. I mean it's a serious decision parents make to get their kids vaccinated. But they are babies, even on those cases that have autism, I've never been truly conviced it was the shot alone that caused the problem, I've always thought the problem was most likely already there and it became obvious after the shot. Still they are babies.
The Gardasil is for young men and women. 11 years or older.
This just shows how stupid people really are. 11 year olds don't just go TARDED. I don't believe it for an instant.
Quote from: Khara on September 14, 2011, 02:50:55 PM
I'm still not seeing how anyone can believe an 11 year old went suddenly TARD from a fucking shot. They don't give these shots to girls under 11. At least they don't here in St. Louis.
I've always had some sympathy for the MMR issues that have happened. I mean it's a serious decision parents make to get their kids vaccinated. But they are babies, even on those cases that have autism, I've never been truly conviced it was the shot alone that caused the problem, I've always thought the problem was most likely already there and it became obvious after the shot. Still they are babies.
The Gardasil is for young men and women. 11 years or older.
This just shows how stupid people really are. 11 year olds don't just go TARDED. I don't believe it for an instant.
For the record, the original article suggesting the link has been retracted.
I don't remember how to properly say a person was 'retracted' but the author had that happen too.
Quote from: Luna on September 13, 2011, 10:28:42 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 13, 2011, 08:13:07 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html
Yeah, Bachmann's done. Rush was all over her shit for that one.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/
The schism is the male-female bagger schism, Bachman was taking the stance that anything that makes sex safer is evil, Limbaugh thinks the world should be his jackrag. :vom: Remember when he took up for schoolboys who felt girls up in the hall?
Surely there must be a way to exploit this...
Quote from: Luna on September 13, 2011, 10:28:42 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 13, 2011, 08:13:07 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html
Yeah, Bachmann's done. Rush was all over her shit for that one.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/
Turns out the conversation never happened. :lulz:
Gop wants to cut funding which makes schools worse which is the real cause of people becoming retarded (and more likely to vote for people who are plainly off their rockers.)
Blogger explains to Bachmann, in small words, that you can not have an abortion if you are not actually pregnant...
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/13/memo-michele-bachman-cant-have-abortion-pregnant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/michele-bachmann-hpv-vaccine-mental-retardation_n_963140.html
Rollins doing a little tap-dancing on his opinion of Bachmann...
Quote from: Luna on September 14, 2011, 10:15:24 PM
Blogger explains to Bachmann, in small words, that you can not have an abortion if you are not actually pregnant...
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/13/memo-michele-bachman-cant-have-abortion-pregnant
Things like this are why I'm not convinced when people call themselves "pro-life". Things like cheap/free birth control, emergency contraceptives, and comprehensive sex education have been proven time and time again to reduce the number of abortions. Yet these people are opposed to every single one of them. They aren't interested in reducing the number of abortions. Their real motives are to control women and punish them for having dirty dirty sex. They are happy with high teen pregnancy rates and super high STD rates in the South. As long as the sluts suffer, who cares what happens to them?
:evilmad:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on September 15, 2011, 06:55:25 AM
Quote from: Luna on September 14, 2011, 10:15:24 PM
Blogger explains to Bachmann, in small words, that you can not have an abortion if you are not actually pregnant...
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/13/memo-michele-bachman-cant-have-abortion-pregnant
Things like this are why I'm not convinced when people call themselves "pro-life". Things like cheap/free birth control, emergency contraceptives, and comprehensive sex education have been proven time and time again to reduce the number of abortions. Yet these people are opposed to every single one of them. They aren't interested in reducing the number of abortions. Their real motives are to control women and punish them for having dirty dirty sex. They are happy with high teen pregnancy rates and super high STD rates in the South. As long as the sluts suffer, who cares what happens to them?
:evilmad:
Youre assuming far too much intelligence in these people. Abstinence works 169% of the time because if it didnt, why would Jesus endorse it?
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/217149/20110920/michele-bachmann-food-regulations-food-safety-department-of-agriculture.htm
QuoteDuring a visit to a meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa, Bachmann called for an end to food safety regulations that keep food safe for human consumption. Bachmann told reporters that food regulations hurt job growth and that they're "overkill."
"That's part of the problem, the overkill," Bachmann told reporters during an appearance at a family-run meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa. "And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business."
What could possibly go wrong? :asshat:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on September 21, 2011, 10:30:37 PM
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/217149/20110920/michele-bachmann-food-regulations-food-safety-department-of-agriculture.htm
QuoteDuring a visit to a meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa, Bachmann called for an end to food safety regulations that keep food safe for human consumption. Bachmann told reporters that food regulations hurt job growth and that they're "overkill."
"That's part of the problem, the overkill," Bachmann told reporters during an appearance at a family-run meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa. "And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business."
What could possibly go wrong? :asshat:
And yet the packing plant IS in business.
And this sort of deregulation bullshit worked SO well in our banks, why NOT try it with our food? :lulz:
I think Upton Sinclair-type expository on this type of thing, unfortunately, just goes WAAAAY over the intended mark. The Onion, after all, only ends up preaching to the choir. I'm thinking some SERIOUS badwrong shit has to happen before this pendulum swing into BEYOND ASSHOLE ever goes the other way.
Doubleplus-good irony: wasn't Michelle Bachmann one of the Republicans screeching about how the Chinese were going to make all American children into retards by putting lead in childrens toys and making substandard food and so on? There was a big flap about that in 2008, as I recall.
Of COURSE, she did.
QuoteRepublican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would force women in the early stages of pregnancy to have a physically invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound procedure before they can legally consent to having an abortion.
The "Heartbeat Informed Consent Act" requires doctors to make the fetal heartbeat visible and audible to the woman prior to the abortion procedure and to describe the ultrasound image to her in detail, even if she prefers not to hear about it. If the woman is between four and five weeks pregnant, the doctor has to perform a "transvaginal ultrasound" in order to hear the heartbeat, which involves a probe and can be physically uncomfortable for the woman.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/michele-bachmann-abortion-mandatory-ultrasounds_n_1000561.html?1318018082&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
Quote from: Luna on October 09, 2011, 01:02:34 AM
Of COURSE, she did.
QuoteRepublican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would force women in the early stages of pregnancy to have a physically invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound procedure before they can legally consent to having an abortion.
The "Heartbeat Informed Consent Act" requires doctors to make the fetal heartbeat visible and audible to the woman prior to the abortion procedure and to describe the ultrasound image to her in detail, even if she prefers not to hear about it. If the woman is between four and five weeks pregnant, the doctor has to perform a "transvaginal ultrasound" in order to hear the heartbeat, which involves a probe and can be physically uncomfortable for the woman.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/michele-bachmann-abortion-mandatory-ultrasounds_n_1000561.html?1318018082&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
The Kentucky senate passed one of these earlier this year (fortunately the House voted it down). We called it the "Fetal Seance Bill."
Bachmann (probably accidentally) advocates for higher taxes for the wealthy!
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/bachmann-i-want-to-adopt-the-reagan-tax-plan-psstthose-taxes-were-higher.php?ref=fpa
:lulz: Invoking Saint Ronald, huh?
Quote from: kingyak on October 09, 2011, 04:53:40 AM
The Kentucky senate passed one of these earlier this year (fortunately the House voted it down). We called it the "Fetal Seance Bill."
i misread that as Fecal Seance Bill. the associated imagery inside my brains was funnay.
Holy fuck.
QuoteBachmann: "Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves," ...Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat."
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/michele-bachmann-wants-the-unemployed-to-stop-eating
That is just fucking AMAZING.
Quote from: Luna on November 07, 2011, 10:23:24 PM
Holy fuck.
QuoteBachmann: “Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves,” ...Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.”
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/michele-bachmann-wants-the-unemployed-to-stop-eating
Ah yes, the Christian elite.
Their "WWJD" is not subject to discrimination, of course. :lulz: Assholes.
Quote from: Luna on November 07, 2011, 10:23:24 PM
Holy fuck.
QuoteBachmann: "Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves," ...Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat."
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/michele-bachmann-wants-the-unemployed-to-stop-eating
Anyone explain to this dimwit that people WANT to work, but there aren't any FUCKING JOBS because her pals shipped them all overseas?
If they really wanted to work, they would start businesses.
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 08, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
If they really wanted to work, they would start businesses.
Or relocate, or other things that require money that you don't have if you're unemployed. :lulz:
No, see, she's advocating Ghandi style hunger striking for social justice. She's just misunderstood.
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 08, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
If they really wanted to work, they would start businesses.
If they really wanted to work they would all go to Georgia to pick crops for farmers for $60 a day.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 08, 2011, 06:28:51 PM
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 08, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
If they really wanted to work, they would start businesses.
Or relocate, or other things that require money that you don't have if you're unemployed. :lulz:
That's always been one of my favorites... "They should just move to where there are jobs"
Because (even if you assume for a moment that this mythical land of jobs exists within our borders) it doesn't cost ANY money to relocate! Let alone lots of it!
Quote from: Nigel on November 09, 2011, 06:40:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 08, 2011, 06:28:51 PM
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 08, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
If they really wanted to work, they would start businesses.
Or relocate, or other things that require money that you don't have if you're unemployed. :lulz:
That's always been one of my favorites... "They should just move to where there are jobs"
Because (even if you assume for a moment that this mythical land of jobs exists within our borders) it doesn't cost ANY money to relocate! Let alone lots of it!
Furthermore, if thousands upon thousands of unemployed people and their families show up in a place that's got 100 extra jobs to go around, that won't cause ANY new problems at all. Nope.
Quote from: Nigel on November 09, 2011, 06:40:42 PM
Because (even if you assume for a moment that this mythical land of jobs exists within our borders) it doesn't cost ANY money to relocate! Let alone lots of it!
SOLUTION:
All the people who are still collecting unemployment spend that money to move to the magical land of jobs.
All the people out of work and out of UE benefits get jobs as movers.
Once all the moving work is done the now unemployed movers can get back on unemployment.
NEW AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION!!!!!!!
GENIUS! :lulz:
I swear, the woman HAS to be a shill, planted to make the rest of the candidates look sane.
QuoteMichele Bachmann thinks America blew it by extending a safety net to millions of Americans under President Johnson's "Great Society." Her solution? Model the economy after communist China.
"The 'Great Society' has not worked and it's put us into the modern welfare state," she said. "If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security...They don't have the modern welfare state and China's growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they'd be gone."
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/bachmann-america-should-be-more-like-china.php
"What I'm saying is, look at Chinese culture. China has adopted Confucianism, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do is look at the morality Jesus Christ gave us and it'd be gone".
It makes just as much sense.
"What I'm saying is, look at Chinese medicine. China has adopted acupuncture and herbal medicines, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do is look at modern, expensive medical science and it'd be gone."
This is great; we can learn so much from China, and ANYTHING we adopt from them will make our economy grow!
"What I'm saying is, look at the Chinese attitude to Buddhism. China has brutally repressed Buddhists for decades, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do, is I would look at locking up Steven Seagal and Richard Gere and having the crap beaten out of them."
:mittens:
"What I'm saying is, look at the Chinese attitude towards meat. They tend to eat more pork than beef, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do is let the Hindus have their sacred cows and make Americans eat more pork."
Quote from: Cain on November 15, 2011, 11:32:53 AM
"What I'm saying is, look at the Chinese attitude to Buddhism. China has brutally repressed Buddhists for decades, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do, is I would look at locking up Steven Seagal and Richard Gere and having the crap beaten out of them."
I'm strangely okay with this.
Quote from: Cainad on November 15, 2011, 11:44:32 AM
:mittens:
"What I'm saying is, look at the Chinese attitude towards meat. They tend to eat more pork than beef, and their economy is growing. And so what I would do is let the Hindus have their sacred cows and make Americans eat more pork."
MOAR BACON!
Just when you think she can't possibly say
anything more stupid...
Quote"[A]s people are looking at the candidate that is the most conservative and the most consistent candidate, I've been that candidate," the Minnesota Republican told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Thursday.
"I haven't had a gaffe or something that I've done that has caused me to fall in the polls. People see in me someone who's genuinely a social conservative, a fiscal conservative, a national security conservative and a tea partier. I'm the whole package. And when it comes to the best Republican who take on Barack Obama and not have any clunker in my record to be able to take him on, it's me."
:eek: I don't even...
ETA: Link (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/18/i-havent-had-a-gaffe-bachmann-insists/)
:lulz: No gaffes, huh?
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on November 19, 2011, 11:34:30 PM
:lulz: No gaffes, huh?
I'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around that one, I tell ya.
Yes... the Tea-Baggers are running a very deep and subtle strategy, get Obama reelected.
Quote from: wudgar on November 19, 2011, 11:37:45 PM
Yes... the Tea-Baggers are running a very deep and subtle strategy, get Obama reelected.
Best thing that could happen to them, actually. It'll spur more teabagers into Congress in the midterm elections.
COOLEST MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BqeVjopXLWI
Ms. Bachmann is reportedly butthurt. :lulz:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/bachmann-outrage-at-roots_n_1110225.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 23, 2011, 11:37:40 PM
COOLEST MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BqeVjopXLWI
Ms. Bachmann is reportedly butthurt. :lulz:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/bachmann-outrage-at-roots_n_1110225.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Awwww lookit that singed pucker! :lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on November 24, 2011, 01:31:38 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 23, 2011, 11:37:40 PM
COOLEST MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BqeVjopXLWI
Ms. Bachmann is reportedly butthurt. :lulz:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/bachmann-outrage-at-roots_n_1110225.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Awwww lookit that singed pucker! :lulz:
Knocked that frozen meth monster rictus right off her face, didn't it? :lulz:
Apparently still clueless about the fact that the only way she's going to win the GoP primary is that if the rest of the candidates suffer simultaneous heart failure on election day, Bachmann is already musing about running mates. Apparently, her top picks are Donald Trump, and Rick Santorum.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57334801-503544/michele-bachmann-talks-potential-vp-picks/
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
I would also support closing our embassy on the moon, as well.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
I love this century.
Fuck it - If I get the chance, I'm voting for her.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
She's old enough to actually remember the crisis in Tehran... she was a fucking ADULT at the time. How can she not remember that???
:facepalm:
Quote from: Nigel on December 02, 2011, 07:55:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
She's old enough to actually remember the crisis in Tehran... she was a fucking ADULT at the time. How can she not remember that???
:facepalm:
Well, if Obama loved America and her allies, he'd close it anyway. :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 07:56:06 PM
Quote from: Nigel on December 02, 2011, 07:55:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
She's old enough to actually remember the crisis in Tehran... she was a fucking ADULT at the time. How can she not remember that???
:facepalm:
Well, if Obama loved America and her allies, he'd close it anyway. :)
THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN IRAN: YOU CAN'T CLOSE IT CLOSED ENOUGH.
Quote from: Nigel on December 02, 2011, 08:03:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 07:56:06 PM
Quote from: Nigel on December 02, 2011, 07:55:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 02, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Bachmann is demanding that we close our embassy in Iran, in response to the violence at the British embassy.
For you younger folks, I'll let Cain explain why this is the best Bachmannism EVER.
:lulz:
She's old enough to actually remember the crisis in Tehran... she was a fucking ADULT at the time. How can she not remember that???
:facepalm:
Well, if Obama loved America and her allies, he'd close it anyway. :)
THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN IRAN: YOU CAN'T CLOSE IT CLOSED ENOUGH.
We should open one and then slam it shut.
I would laugh so hard if someone were to actually do that.
Hey, I just thought of a perfect job role for Ollie North....
Quote from: Cain on December 02, 2011, 08:09:54 PM
I would laugh so hard if someone were to actually do that.
Hey, I just thought of a perfect job role for Ollie North....
If I was president, I'd do that shit even to countries with which we have friendly relations.
I'd try to get England to play along, too.
:lulz:
Bachmann promises to "shred Barack Obama" in debate.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/12/04/video-michele-bachmann-i-will-shred-barack-obama-in-the-debates/
Quote from: Luna on December 05, 2011, 04:15:18 AM
Bachmann promises to "shred Barack Obama" in debate.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/12/04/video-michele-bachmann-i-will-shred-barack-obama-in-the-debates/
(http://i.imgur.com/aA8LY.jpg)
:lulz: