Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

porsche959

Huckabee is a loon, but history is against him. Surveys have shown the US is moving in a more secular direction. The high point of the Christan Taliban was getting their man appointed Attorney-General.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft

They've been in decline ever since he stepped down from the role in 2005.

robindch

porsche959 wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft

...who famously presided over the "drapegate" incident when he installed $8,000 worth of drapes over an exposed nipple belonging to the Spirit of Justice.

More interestingly though, yes, it does appear that some Republicans are increasingly avoiding "moral" issues:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/09/republican_candidates_are_avoiding_social_issues_gop_politicians_don_t_want.html

It'll be interesting to see if this trend is real and if so, whether it lasts.

Hotblack Desiato

They're not abandoning their anti-woman policies, just staying more quiet about them. Not good news if their opponents allow them to get away with it.

robindch

Oops - Republican family values:

Todd Palin wrote:

everything escalated and it was a situation they couldn't walk away from

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29563253

joseph brand

robindch wrote: »

Oops - Republican family values:



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29563253

It didn't take long for that article to irk me.

According to the report, Mrs Palin's children Track and Bristol and husband Todd were involved in physical altercations at a birthday party.

At least the name 'Todd' reminded me once again of the brilliant George Carlin.

I found a quote from Sarah that requires an empty stomach before reading:

“I love my Bristol! My straight-shooter is one of the strongest young women you’ll ever meet. I have to say this as a proud mama: right up there with their work ethic and heart for those less fortunate, my kids’ defence of family makes my heart soar!” Palin wrote in a September 19 Facebook post.

That stupid woman makes my head soar, and to think that she has her own channel. You betcha!

For a mere $10 a month, subscribers to the Sarah Palin Channel can gorge on the typical conservative news reports and anti-Obama hysteria offered by her competitors, with a twist: She’ll also serve up plenty of videos of the Palin family doing stuff around the house and probably shooting at things. “Believe me, it is fun,” Palin says in the introductory video. “Because it’s real life.”

I assume there's videos of the Palins doing housework while the stereo pumps out 'The Best of Bill Ray Cyrus'. Sarah is known for her eclectic taste in music, saying that she listens to "both kinds": country AND western.

joseph brand

Kevin Sorbo (of 'Hercules' fame) is a republican and quite the vocal religious nutbar. He's nuttier than squirrel poop. Which begs the question: Which came first; the Kirk Cameron or the Kevin Sorbo?

Sorbo stars in a new pro-christian groanfest titled, 'God's Not Dead' (he's just resting) as a cold, harsh atheist who eventually 'sees the light'. The film went straight to VHS.

Here's a condensed trailer. You'll groan, you'll sigh, you may even want to punch something after witnessing this celebration of ignorance. Live a life free of facts and reality. We all know that reality, history and facts have a liberal bias.

This is even worse than an Adam Sandler movie *shudder* and I'm especially thinking of Jack and Jill. Holy sh*t those trailers were bad and the reviews were no better. But I digress. Sorbo sucks balls!

PopePalpatine

Nope, I'm not subjecting myself to even 7 minutes of J C's directorial debut.

joseph brand

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Nope, I'm not subjecting myself to even 7 minutes of J C's directorial debut.

I must be a masochist, watching people I hate all the time such as Hannity and his ilk. If my condition gets any worse I might end up watching EastEnders. If that happens I want to be put to sleep.

Don't ask me how I remember this scene, but it's from 'Addams Family Values'. The young girl 'Wednesday Addams' and some friends are locked in a miniature log cabin and forced to watch endure Disney films and The Brady Bunch. Can't say I'm a fan of those films but I always remember her disgusted expression when faced with the overly-happy camp leaders and the that awful Brady Bunch theme song.

It looks like an analogy of a white christian group trying to brainwash the incredulous 'non believers'. Like Jesus Camp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nkzbr-JaJU

PopePalpatine

I just have a very low tolerance for bull****. It's just so frustrating coming across it.

joseph brand

Fox News Angry, Harvard Students Know Stuff.

When asked, an overwhelming majority of Harvard students believe that the US is a greater threat to world peace than IS. Yes that's right.

"Those pesky book lerners and brain exercisers ain't thinkin' like gud freedumb-lovin' republicans be thinkin'. No siree. They a bunch of snobs, is what they is. Yup." - Fox news

"What I find funny about our video was that, and it's sad, my video proves that students are listening to what they're learning in class".

#nottheonion

The horror. Poor students being bombarded with facts and not enough faith in the supernatural. It's probably hard to make soldiers out of these people. Gotta go find some christians. They jump at the chance to fight in the desert. These victims of religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmwsj70heA

robindch

UKIP does deal with far-right, racist Holocaust-denier to save EU funding

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/20/ukip-does-deal-with-far-right-to-save-european-grouping

The Guardian wrote:

Ukip has struck a deal with a Polish MEP whose far-right party leader casually uses racial slurs and questions the Holocaust following fears that its grouping in Europe would lose millions of pounds in taxpayers’ funds. Nigel Farage’s Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group recruited an MEP from the Congress of the New Right with the blessing of its controversial leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke, according to reports from Poland. The Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz is to join the EFDD’s ranks as an individual, which will restore the group, a Ukip spokesman said.

The deal means that the EFDD group, set up by Farage, has 25 MEPs from seven countries, which should guarantee that Ukip will maintain about £1m a year in funding. The group received €2.6m (£2.1m) in 2013. Ukip accounts for 53.3% of the group. The deal is yet to be confirmed by the European parliament, after Iwaszkiewicz’s application was handed in this afternoon. Korwin-Mikke, whose party has two remaining MEPs and received 7.5% support in Poland during May’s European parliamentary elections, is one of the most outspoken figures within the far-right groupings of parliament.

In July, he declared in English that the minimum wage should be “destroyed” and said that “four million ****” lost their jobs in the US as a result of President John F Kennedy signing a bill on the minimum wage in 1961. He went on to claim that 20 million young Europeans were being treated as “negroes” as a result of the minimum wage. He refused to apologise and was fined 10 days of allowances for his comments.

Korwin-Mikke has also called for the vote to be taken away from women, has claimed that the difference between rape and consensual sex is “very subtle” and said that Adolf Hitler was “probably not aware that Jews were being exterminated”. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, ruled out forming an alliance with the Congress of the New Right after the European elections. “His [Korvin-Mikke’s] remarks, his political views ran contrary to our values,” she said at the time. The EFDD has been desperate to recruit a new MEP since last Thursday, when Iveta Grigule, a Latvian member of the group, resigned. This meant that the group only had MEPs from six EU member states, just below the number needed to qualify for official group status.

Farage accused Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, of acting as the head of a “banana republic”. He said that pressure was placed on Grigule to stand down if she wanted to lead a parliamentary delegation to Kazakhstan. Polish newspapers reported that a Ukip official negotiated with the Congress of the New Right in Poland this weekend over plans to give a single MEP to EFDD. A spokesman for Ukip did not respond to questions asking what Ukip has promised the Congress of the New Right in return for allowing the EFDD to be revived or whether they had negotiated directly with Korwin-Mikke.

In a statement to the BBC, Farage accused Schulz, a German socialist, of “manipulative backroom politics of the worst kind”. “EU federalists will be sitting in a corner somewhere slowly rocking, muttering the words ‘please make the Eurosceptics go away’ over and over,” Farage said. Last week Schulz denied any wrongdoing in connection with Grigule’s decision to leave the EFDD. Iwaszkiewicz said he joined EFDD “because of two important values – opposition to EU bureaucracy and support for free markets”.

PopePalpatine

Holy ****, Korwin-Mikke's views on women is down there with ISIS and Nearly Dead! Alive!

oscarBravo

Wow. When someone of whom Marine Le Pen basically says "I'm not touching thon racist scumbag with a bargepole" is welcome in your grouping, that says rather a lot...

joseph brand

Black Radio Host (Jesse Lee Peterson) Supports Jim Crow Laws.

Only a Republican could perform such mental gymnastics. Another Uncle Tom, just like Herman Cain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18PiHcWGvWQ

From Wiki:

"On September 21, 2005, Peterson penned a column for WorldNetDaily, in which he suggested the majority of the African-American people stranded in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were "welfare-pampered", "lazy" and "immoral".
Peterson has also thanked "God and white people" for slavery—adding that if it weren't for the slave trade, blacks might have never made it to the United States—and described traveling on slave ships as akin to "being on a crowded airplane".

:eek:

Nodin

Reminds me of yer man that was on Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" that was campaigning for white people to be compensated for the loss of their slaves.

Peregrinus

Nodin wrote: »

Reminds me of yer man that was on Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" that was campaigning for white people to be compensated for the loss of their slaves.

Trivium: The British government did pay compensation to slaveholders when slavery was abolished in British possessions in 1833 - pretty generous compensation.

robindch

From the comedian's perspective, Frankie Boyle does not look forward to UKIP acquiring some real political power in the next election:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/03/ukip-comedians-nigel-farage-leftie-comedians

Doctor DooM

I really love Frankie Boyle's humour and style when the pay off doesn't result in a shock tactic.

robindch

UKIP spots some "Liberal Bias" within the walls of the BBC when the Beeb held an opinion poll outside a mosque in London.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/27/-sp-ukip-mistakes-westminster-cathedral-for-mosque

Unfortunately, the building turned out to be Westminster Cathedral and the hashtag ThingsThatAreNotMosques is currently trending.

jank

robindch wrote: »

UKIP spots some "Liberal Bias" within the walls of the BBC when the Beeb held an opinion poll outside a mosque in London.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/27/-sp-ukip-mistakes-westminster-cathedral-for-mosque

Unfortunately, the building turned out to be Westminster Cathedral and the hashtag ThingsThatAreNotMosques is currently trending.

In their haste to cast their 'UKIP are evil, down with this sort of thing' lefty spin on this story they made a huge error themselves in the reporting of the story.

This article was amended on 27 November 2014. An earlier version said the EDL co-founder Tommy Robinson “had tweeted #creepingsharia when he saw a picture of the Taj Mahal in India on the Twitter homepage”. In fact the picture in question was not of the Taj Mahal but of the Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman

Made me chuckle on the irony..

Nodin

jank wrote: »

In their haste to cast their 'UKIP are evil, down with this sort of thing' lefty spin on this story they made a huge error themselves in the reporting of the story.



Made me chuckle on the irony..

They, the little Englander party, thought westminister cathedral was a mosque. That requires no spin at all.

jank

Nodin wrote: »

They, the little Englander party, thought westminister cathedral was a mosque. That requires no spin at all.

National newspaper of the UK left print a story about UKIP confusing a picture of a church for a mosque and in their haste confuse the Taj Mahal with an actual Mosque in Oman. Doh! What ever about twitter you would think the Guardian would have fact check their story first.

Of course what does this have to do with the GOP, other than pursue the usual ideological driven posting. Shouldn't this be in the funny side of religion?

Nodin

jank wrote: »

National newspaper of the UK left print a story about UKIP confusing a picture of a church for a mosque and in their haste confuse the Taj Mahal with an actual Mosque in Oman. Doh! What ever about twitter you would think the Guardian would have fact check their story first.

Of course what does this have to do with the GOP, other than pursue the usual ideological driven posting. Shouldn't this be in the funny side of religion?

Obsessed - there's a word.

jank

The Guardian is synonymous with the centre left in the UK. Just like the 'Tory graph' is synonymous with the centre right. Do you deny this or are you just total_posts(count++)

Anyway, Guardian coverage of UKIP reminds me of the SINDO's coverage of Sinn Fein. Paranoid and agenda driven.

Nodin

jank wrote: »

The Guardian is synonymous with the centre left in the UK. Just like the 'Tory graph' is synonymous with the centre right. Do you deny this or are you just total_posts(count++)

Anyway, Guardian coverage of UKIP reminds me of the SINDO's coverage of Sinn Fein. Paranoid and agenda driven.

I was referring to your obsession with regard to the "left".

jank

And what about it? You stalking me now? Are we going to have a Fatal Attraction moment soon? You know are are free to engage in discussion. Posting each time I use a term you don't like isn't engaging its called upping your post count.

Turtwig

Nodin wrote: »

Obsessed - there's a word.

Nodin wrote: »

I was referring to your obsession with regard to the "left".

jank wrote: »

And what about it? You stalking me now? Are we going to have a Fatal Attraction moment soon? You know are are free to engage in discussion. Posting each time I use a term you don't like isn't engaging its called upping your post count.

Mod:

No more of this please. Nobody really wants to see interpersonal stuff in a discussion.

Nodin

~UKIP - the gift that keeps on giving......

"The former leader of the right-wing UK Independent Party and one-time advisor to Margaret Thatcher, has declared that gay men have up to 20,000 sexual partners in their “short, miserable lives” before dying young of AIDS-related illnesses."
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/11/uk-politician-gays-have-20000-sex-partners-in-their-short-miserable-lives/

How you can shag 20,000 and still be young enough to 'die young' is a mystery only the bould Lord Marty Feldman Monckton can answer.

jank

I have to ask again, what does Lord Mockton have to do with the Republican Fruitcakes? He certainly is not a republican by any means....

robindch

jank wrote: »

[...] what does Lord Mockton have to do with the Republican Fruitcakes? [...]

Well, firstly, he's a member of UKIP which is, broadly, the UK equivalent of the US Tea Party. Secondly, he's a particularly outrageous climate change denier for a start. And thirdly, his dishonest claim to be a member of the House of Lords has been rejected publicly by the House of Lords.

All of these facts suggest that Monckton may have a troubled relationship with the truth - something he would also share with many Republican fruitcakes too.

Finally, one or two posters suggested that this thread was unduly narrow in focussing on conservative fruitcakes in the US and that the remit should be expanded to cover fruitcakes in other polities. Hence the appearance of Monckton and others here.

I hope this answers your question.