The Outlaw Josey Wales FTW.
The government cannot force you to buy things. It can only tax you; draft you; seize and sell your property; arrest you; incarcerate you; and execute you. But it cannot tell you to buy insurance! Only a gecko can do that.
Why is it easier for you to believe that 150 million people are lazy and stupid than 400 people are greedy and malicious?
You wanna add another candidate? It’s like the Republican primary is like a season of American Idol in reverse, where every week, you just add another idiot. …First you guys wanted (Michele) Bachmann, then (Rick) Perry — now (Chris) Christie? You know what, Republican base? Meet me at camera three!
(To camera three.) Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe your candidates aren’t the problem — maybe it’s you? You’re hard to please or figure out! You’re unrealistic! I mean, you’re pro-life, yet — (rolls tape of GOP members applauding Texas’s death penalty) — what was that? You’re afraid of ‘death panels,’ yet for uninsured coma patients — (rolls tape of GOP members shouting ‘YEAH!!!’ when Ron Paul was asked if a patient without health insurance should be allowed to die) — that’s the crowd: ‘YEAH!!!’ You guys ‘support the troops’ — well except for Captain Creatine over here (rolls tape of gay U.S. Army soldier who asked GOP candidates if they’d repeal DADT — and was booed by GOP debate crowd).
It’s like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points: ‘I want someone who’s gonna cut taxes — and balance the budget! Someone who’s a skilled orator — that doesn’t talk all fancy! The child of poor immigrants — who will build a fence to keep them out of this country! Someone who’s strong enough for a man — but Ph-balanced for a woman!
…It’s like your ideal candidate is a rare, super-heavy element that can only exist in a particular particle accelerator. And even then, only for a fraction of a second. Before you all remember how much you hate science.
You guys need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and not come away thinking ‘Hey, there’s something wrong with this mirror.’
JON STEWART, on media-fed rumors that New Jersey governor Chris Christie may enter the GOP presidential race — as well as the hypocritical sentiments of the Republican party — on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
If I may add that, since I am living in Jersey, I can say that Christie could be worse BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP HIM FROM BEING TERRIBLE AS IT IS.
also this is a good quote.
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I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.
Mean Girls jokes are so played out but I just want to say that terming Bill Clinton a “sexually active band geek” literally made me spit out a little bit of water.
Holy crap! In this moment I understand why politics frustrates me so much, it’s because it’s like High School. I know that pretty much all organizations are still High School but this shit, this is Movie High School.
-Joe
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“We know just how intense the right’s contempt for government workers is. A bipartisan proposal to present a flag at the funeral of federal workers killed in the line of duty was stopped dead in its tracks after Red State blogger [and CNN contributor] Erick Erickson denounced the bill as the “Flags for Bureaucrats Act.”
And I guess we now know that these people - all federal workers, all killed in the line of duty on 9/11 - aren’t heroes. They’re just bureaucrats, undeserving of a symbolic gesture of national gratitude.
I know it’s easy to demonize bureaucrats and government workers as shiftless, but as a son of two public servants who have worked their entire careers to make people’s lives better, all without much in the way of recognition, I know it’s a cheap lie. I know the people that do it ought to be ashamed, Erick Erickson.” - Chris Hayes, in his debut MSNBC show, “Up with Chris Hayes”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrqafhm8jt1qzr73ro1_500.png)
“We know just how intense the right’s contempt for government workers is. A bipartisan proposal to present a flag at the funeral of federal workers killed in the line of duty was stopped dead in its tracks after Red State blogger [and CNN contributor] Erick Erickson denounced the bill as the “Flags for Bureaucrats Act.”
And I guess we now know that these people - all federal workers, all killed in the line of duty on 9/11 - aren’t heroes. They’re just bureaucrats, undeserving of a symbolic gesture of national gratitude.
I know it’s easy to demonize bureaucrats and government workers as shiftless, but as a son of two public servants who have worked their entire careers to make people’s lives better, all without much in the way of recognition, I know it’s a cheap lie. I know the people that do it ought to be ashamed, Erick Erickson.” - Chris Hayes, in his debut MSNBC show, “Up with Chris Hayes”
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Bachmann of course is always strongly pro-choice, as long as that choice is cervical cancer.
Pro-life. These people aren’t pro-life. They’re killing doctors. What kind of pro-life is that? They’ll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it. They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets. Anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state. Pro-life. You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.
Basking in the dark shadows of the moon: Abortion - George Carlin (via cocknbull)
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