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Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk




  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I'm confused that's hilarity all right (first 19 mins anyways), but erm, it's also really depressing.:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Isn't there a chance that Bachmann and Perry will split the god bot vote?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    It mentions write-in votes for Perry, but what about Parry? :S


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch




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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Here are some republican debates, they're all fcuking hilarious:
    Dara Ó Briain should go up against those clowns.

    "C'mere, and get into that feckin' sack, boyo".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Mistress 69


    http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/758/f-16-falcon-7.jpg


    Republican Presidents are too fond of the toys.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Not directly related to Ms Bachmann, but multi-billionaire Warren Buffett has asked Congress to make the USA's super-rich to dig deep:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html
    My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    robindch wrote: »
    Not directly related to Ms Bachmann, but multi-billionaire Warren Buffett has asked Congress to make the USA's super-rich to dig deep:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

    I like Buffett. Obama should tell Biden where to get off and take Warren on as his running mate for the 2012 election.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    robindch wrote: »
    Not directly related to Ms Bachmann, but multi-billionaire Warren Buffett has asked Congress to make the USA's super-rich to dig deep:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html
    Buffet once pointed out that his secretary paid a higher percentage of her gross income in tax than he did. This was years before the current mess arose. He's always had a sense of fairness that way, and it's a credit to him.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭gargleblaster


    Rick Perry scares me, because he has a chance. I don't think Bachmann will last, but Perry - I don't know. There was a recent piece on his extreme-right crazy-fundamentalist Christian backers (some Christians call them a cult) in the Texas Observer recently. Spine-chilling stuff. These people want a theocracy, no doubt about it.

    edit: Link to story


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Perry scares me, but not as much as this woman does. This is hilarity, damn I'm getting more comedy relief from watching US Republicans these days than just about anything else. I might just pitch a show to RTE.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    "...one from her husband. Did I say that out loud?"

    /subscribes


  • Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭Mr. Boo


    She thinks her views are clear? She just can't bring herself to say it out loud?

    These are the sort of goblin-chasers they have in congress in the US, and we're worried about a few cute hoors over this side. :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution, but I would probably vote for him

    /runs


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution, but I would probably vote for him

    /runs

    I wouldn't. I dont care what other policies or ideas he has, not accepting evolution is as reality-denying as not believing airplanes can fly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I wouldn't. I dont care what other policies or ideas he has, not accepting evolution is as reality-denying as not believing airplanes can fly.

    Beats Bachmann who's on par with believing the wheel to be a figment of imagination.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    With regard to evolution, I mean… I just don’t spend a whole lot of time on this, especially in politics. “Do you believe in evolution or don’t you believe in evolution? Yes or no? And then we’ll decide whether you should be President or not.”


    You know it is a theory, nobody has concrete proof of any of this. But quite frankly I think it’s sort of irrelevant, that because we don’t know the exact details and we don’t have geologic support for evolutionary forms, it is a theory, even though it’s a pretty logical theory. But my concept of understanding of a creator is not related one bit to whether or not I or anybody has to believe in evolution or not believe in evolution.


    The idea that if you don’t [?] believe in evolution means that you don’t believe in a creator is total nonsense. So I think this once again is overly played and we spend too much time on it. And besides, if you’re in politics it shouldn’t be a bother. This is something maybe not dealing with science as much with your own spiritual life, your personal beliefs.



    The important thing is that you have a political system where you can debate this and make a decision and government rule shouldn’t be based on this. If you have governments basing their rules on this, then it becomes very important. But in a libertarian society these beliefs aren’t nearly as critical.

    http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-09-11/ron-paul-and-reddit-com/


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    From the bizarre to the frankly dangerous. Here's Rick Perry -- he of the praying to sort out the financial crisis, global-warming denier, governor of Texas and all-round nutter -- making veiled threats to the chairman of the Federal Reserve:
    Rick Perry wrote:
    If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don't know what y'all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Ron Paul wrote:
    The important thing is that you have a political system where you can debate this and make a decision and government rule shouldn’t be based on this. If you have governments basing their rules on this, then it becomes very important. But in a libertarian society these beliefs aren’t nearly as critical.
    No idea what Mr Paul means by that jumble of words, but it looks like libertarian societies might just have taken one small step closer to happening:

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

    I would just love to see what would happen in some place populated and run by people like Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and hundreds or thousands of gun-toting get-off-my-lawners. A bit like Waterworld, except without the cheerful undertone I suppose.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I bet every comedian in America secretly hopes she's elected just for the sheer amount of material she'd provide over 4 years, Bush was a comedy goldmine during his tenure.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Renamed the thread "Republican Presidential Fruitcakes" as the GOP is fielding more nutters than just Ms Bachmann...


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    robindch wrote: »
    Renamed the thread "Republican Presidential Fruitcakes" as the GOP is fielding more nutters than just Ms Bachmann...

    Sweet then I can now post this. :D

    Aww, bastards, it's no longer available um anyone interested google Fox News, the link between porn and terrorism. It's absolute gold, if ya can find it.:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Sweet then I can now post this. :D

    Aww, bastards, it's no longer available um anyone interested google Fox News, the link between porn and terrorism. It's absolute gold, if ya can find it.:o

    Came across this after watching some Young Turks videos after your link above :cool:



  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Stewart's golden analaysis of election analysis.


    Poor Ron Paul.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    According to independent analysis, the Tea Party is -- gosh! -- more interested in injecting religion into government than any other single topic. And the Tea Partiers are even less popular than atheists and muslims amongst the average US citizen:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?_r=2&hp

    Meanwhile, in Russia, here's Prezzident-for-life Putin leaping into the Black Sea and hauling out two completely clean Grecian urns that apparently date from the sixth-century BC:



    Would love to see Sarah Palin in a wet suit...


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    John Stewart should run for president, I'd vote for him


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Yes - But he is an inspiration for those who abhor homosexuality, abortion and strive for 'traditional family values' - whatever that is. Bachmann is a lunatic, and shouldn't be taken seriously.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    These ickle Republicans are so cute.


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