Bachmann: Obama is Turning US Into a 'Nation of Slaves'

Bachmann: Obama is Turning US Into a ‘Nation of Slaves’

WingnutsJuly 2010 • Views: 11,218

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) gave the keynote speech at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver last weekend, and brought the crowd to its feet by saying President Obama is a tyrant who is turning America into a ‘nation of slaves.’

In a room of 600 conservative voters brought together by former Colorado Senate president John Andrews’ Centennial Institute, along with Liberty on the Rocks and Colorado Christian University, Bachmann brought the crowd to its feet more than once as she called for an end to the progressive agenda she said has taken over Washington.

“‘We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world,’” Bachmann read from founding father John Jay, ending her reading with the statement, “We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves.”

(Hat tip: Jeff in Ohio.)

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117 comments

abolitionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:01:35pm

Oh no!

Targetpractice Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:01:52pm

Help, help, I’m bein’ repressed!

Jeff In Ohio Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:04:11pm

Let me just see if I get the current GOP line: the rich are slaves to taxes and must be liberated and the unemployed are whiners who must be endured.

Is that about right?

Obdicut Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:05:03pm

Yeah, what with all the rights that I’ve lost since Obama became president.

Like, none of them.

What is she even talking about?

tnguitarist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:05:28pm

We are determined to live free or not at all.

**whistle**

Kragar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:05:37pm

I get the feeling that any time Bachman reads anything aloud, its probably a lot like Will Ferrel from Anchorman.

Lidane Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:05:51pm

re: #3 Jeff In Ohio

Let me just see if I get the current GOP line: the rich are slaves to taxes and must be liberated and the unemployed are whiners who must be endured.

Is that about right?

Pretty much.

theheat Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:07:14pm

We are determined to live free or not at all.

Reminds me of a movie… Live Free or Die Hard. Bruce Willis, I believe.

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:07:38pm

Too late for the warning, Michele…I’m already a slave to fashion. I guess that explains the “Steal your hope” on my chest.

Hm…pre-wedding shot…no ring on my finger. I’ll need to hook up with Lou Seal at the next game and get an updated pic.

Charles Johnson Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:07:51pm

The slightly less sophisticated version of Bachmann’s argument:

Image: ZZ56685266.jpg

_RememberTonyC Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:08:19pm

How does Minnesota manage to give us such a bizarre variety of public servants? “Ecclectic” doesn’t even begin to describe a group that includes Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Ventura, Walter Mondale, Al Franken, and Michele Bachmann.

Jeff In Ohio Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:08:29pm

re: #7 Lidane

Pretty much.

Yes, the old, fuck you give me mine approach to government.

Targetpractice Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:08:43pm

re: #10 Charles

The slightly less sophisticated version of Bachmann’s argument:

Image: ZZ56685266.jpg

Apparently the board wasn’t long enough. He couldn’t fit “Conservative = Raving Loon” at the bottom.

Obdicut Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:09:49pm

I really think that a certain number of people have held a paranoid fantasy of what a black president would do when elected, and even though Obama is doing none of it, prefer to engage with that fantasy than with reality. I can’t tell if the majority of the people doing this are actually aware of how divergent they are, or if they are really so racist that they ‘know’ that Obama must be doing it, secretly, somehow.

Targetpractice Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:10:00pm

re: #11 _RememberTonyC

How does Minnesota manage to give us such a bizarre variety of public servants? “Ecclectic” doesn’t even begin to describe a group that includes Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Ventura, Walter Mondale, Al Franken, and Michele Bachmann.

Hmm, how much you think we could get by selling it to Canada?

Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:11:05pm

re: #3 Jeff In Ohio

Let me just see if I get the current GOP line: the rich are slaves to taxes and must be liberated and the unemployed are ~~whiners who must be endured.~~ spoiled brats who should have their benefits cut off so they’ll get off their fat butts and find a job!

Is that about right?

Yeah.

_RememberTonyC Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:11:14pm

re: #15 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Hmm, how much you think we could get by selling it to Canada?

don’t they have enough problems already?

lawhawk Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:11:45pm

re: #11 _RememberTonyC

What do you think is in those 10,000 lakes. /

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:11:48pm

re: #10 Charles

The slightly less sophisticated version of Bachmann’s argument:

Image: ZZ56685266.jpg

And to think, Minnesota was one of the staunch Union states.

theheat Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:11:51pm

Looks like Bachmann stepped up her eyebrow game. Taupe Sharpie instead of dark brown. Why, it almost matches her skin tone. This must be the kinder-gentler lunatic.

_RememberTonyC Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:14:24pm

re: #18 lawhawk

What do you think is in those 10,000 lakes. /

xanax?

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:14:37pm

OK so let’s get this straight…

Obama is not a terrible president. He came into office saddled with the worst financial crisis in recent memory, two utterly mismanaged and under funded wars, politicians who thought it was OK to ignore the constitution when not convenient and America at an all time low on the diplomatic front - all thanks to eight years of GOP mismanagement.

Since then, he has been trying to put out one fire after another, while the disloyal opposition steadfastly refused to work at all with anyone, spread one vile lie and smear after another (really, he was born in Hawaii and not Kenya, he is not Muslim and health care has yet to send a black helicopter to euthanize anyone’s granny) and has engaged in the lowest gutter politics while actively fermenting racism, revisionism and even revolt.

Even Washington or Lincoln would have a difficult time fixing the mess left to him by eight years of abysmal misrule by the GOP followed by an opposition whose only goal seems to be preventing him from doing anything.

And speaking of slaves, they don’t like Lincoln anymore either. So the disloyal opposition, who is clearly only loyal to itself and its corporate masters, is now whining that a Black man is president and their lilly white America might be lost and do to them what they want to do to black people.

I have yet to see Rush sold down the river, or Michelle Bachman used against her will sexually. I have yet to see Glen Beck have strips of his back scoured off in meaty hunks with a bull whip.

Those were all thing that Lincoln put an end to.

But the disloyal, anti-American opposition, hates Lincoln these days, and shamelessly paints Obama as someone who thinks like them.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:16:38pm

re: #14 Obdicut

I really think that a certain number of people have held a paranoid fantasy of what a black president would do when elected, and even though Obama is doing none of it, prefer to engage with that fantasy than with reality. I can’t tell if the majority of the people doing this are actually aware of how divergent they are, or if they are really so racist that they ‘know’ that Obama must be doing it, secretly, somehow.

That is a major part of what I was saying. It is classic projection. These racist muddleheads know full well what they would want to do to black folks and how much they hate black folks. They assume that Obama thinks just like they do, but in reverse. They are very afraid of being treated in kind.

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:16:40pm

pretty sure the context of the jay quote had something to do with americans not having real representation in british parliament you doofus.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:18:02pm

re: #24 SpaceJesus

pretty sure the context of the jay quote had something to do with americans not having real representation in british parliament you doofus.

Ohh and there was a lot about the Intolerable Acts as well - all that no fair trials, illegal search and seizure and other high handed stuff that the teabags think are good things if they are doing it.

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:19:50pm

re: #25 LudwigVanQuixote

Ohh and there was a lot about the Intolerable Acts as well - all that no fair trials, illegal search and seizure and other high handed stuff that the teabags think are good things if they are doing it.

yes of course. and king george’s secret allegiance to Mecca, and FEMA camps.

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:21:11pm

re: #21 _RememberTonyC

xanax?

Emergency Xanax drop into Minnesota lake.

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:23:58pm

re: #22 LudwigVanQuixote

Basically, Texas needs to add one more thing to their textbooks…Lincoln didn’t actually free the slaves.
/

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:24:13pm

Good morning all!

You know what news story has been bugging me the most recently? The one from the NY Times that says giving underachieving kids computers makes them underachieve even more…

[Link: www.nytimes.com…]

///Now back to being a slave for Obama! (Actually, I think I’ve passed my “tax freedom day” so I’ll be free until nexgt January 1st.)

Gus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:25:42pm

re: #28 darthstar

Basically, Texas needs to add one more thing to their textbooks…Lincoln didn’t actually free the slaves.
/

Which reminds me.

Dancing along the light of day Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:26:03pm

re: #18 lawhawk

What do you think is in those 10,000 lakes. /

Fluoridated water!
Aieee!

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:26:39pm

I sometimes think that living the life of an American slave for one day would cause people like Bachman and the others to show more respect when talking about these issues.

Of course no-one should wish rape, murder and mutilation by bullwhip coupled with daily dehumanization and degradation on any human being.

Let’s look a little at what slavery in America actually was.

Image: slave-back.jpg

Image: aa_tubman_youth_2_e.jpg

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:26:54pm

re: #29 reuven

Good morning all!

You know what news story has been bugging me the most recently? The one from the NY Times that says giving underachieving kids computers makes them underachieve even more…

[Link: www.nytimes.com…]

///Now back to being a slave for Obama! (Actually, I think I’ve passed my “tax freedom day” so I’ll be free until nexgt January 1st.)

Yes, actually, Facebook + teenage girl = nothing real done all day.

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:27:00pm

i think this nation needs an executive agency tasked with policing the way public figures use history in public.

more so, i think it should have the power to fine public figures for historical infractions, or briefly imprison them inside a library for a duration not exceeding 20 days.

Lidane Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:27:18pm

re: #28 darthstar

Basically, Texas needs to add one more thing to their textbooks…Lincoln didn’t actually free the slaves.
/

Give them time. I’m sure the Texas SBOE will find a way to do that. =P

In more light-hearted news, Jimmy Buffet changed his lyrics the other day. Heh.

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:29:30pm

re: #35 Lidane

Most of my “Southern” friends maintain that the “War between the states” wasn’t about slavery at all. (I told the story here about my friend from Tennessee who was seething mad at the Lincoln robot at Disneyland….)

lawhawk Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:29:51pm

re: #34 SpaceJesus

i think this nation needs an executive agency tasked with policing the way public figures use history in public.

more so, i think it should have the power to fine public figures for historical infractions, or briefly imprison them inside a library for a duration not exceeding 20 days.

Thereby insuring that we don’t have to hear from any politician for months at a time. It’s a win win.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:30:40pm

re: #34 SpaceJesus

i think this nation needs an executive agency tasked with policing the way public figures use history in public.

more so, i think it should have the power to fine public figures for historical infractions, or briefly imprison them inside a library for a duration not exceeding 20 days.

That’s kind of like the phenomenom of reading about a child abuse case and thinking you want there to be somebody in charge of deciding who can and can’t have a child.

Nice idea, understandable reaction, but in practice it would go disastrously wrong.

Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:30:42pm

OT: “Zombies” crash on I-84 near Lloyd exit

MSNBC Video

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:30:45pm

re: #34 SpaceJesus

spacejesus for congress CT-5

Targetpractice Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:32:19pm

re: #39 Mad Al-Jaffee

OT: “Zombies” crash on I-84 near Lloyd exit
[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com…]

Oh no, they’ve learned how to drive. We’re all done for!!

abolitionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:32:20pm

re: #30 Gus 802

Which reminds me.

From that link, If Lincoln’s sole purpose was to end slavery, ..

That premise is false. His reply letter to Horace Greeley, short form:
I would save the union. —A. Lincoln

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:32:31pm

re: #40 SpaceJesus

spacejesus for congress CT-5

Sorry. Separation of church and state. Deities, whether earth bound or not, are ineligible to run for office.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:32:40pm

re: #40 SpaceJesus

spacejesus for congress CT-5

/wouldn’t that violate the separation of space & state or something>

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:32:45pm

re: #38 EmmmieG

naw, the consequences are much smaller. i’m talking fines of like 500 dollars. the money of which will go to funding education.

and it only applies to public figures.

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:33:10pm

re: #34 SpaceJesus

i think this nation needs an executive agency tasked with policing the way public figures use history in public.

more so, i think it should have the power to fine public figures for historical infractions, or briefly imprison them inside a library for a duration not exceeding 20 days.

Such a history commission would take one look at the history of censorship and official historiography in general, and abolish itself.

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:33:12pm

re: #43 EmmmieG

re: #44 brookly red

foiled again!

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:33:14pm

re: #36 reuven

Most of my “Southern” friends maintain that the “War between the states” wasn’t about slavery at all. (I told the story here about my friend from Tennessee who was seething mad at the Lincoln robot at Disneyland…)

No it was not about slavery… It was about States rights… (the economic right of a State to keep a class of people as dehumanized and degraded chattel slaves)…

And Lincoln invaded (after the South formed the Confederacy, decided to revolt and fired the first shots at ft. Sumter).

Ignorant racist, revisionist rednecks. They have nothing to be proud of. It is no different than the Japanese who wonder how 40 million Chinese died… (they tripped and fell you know) or Germans who don’t think anything happened to those Jews.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:33:15pm

re: #43 EmmmieG

6 seconds is a long time :)

wrenchwench Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:33:15pm

re: #39 Mad Al-Jaffee

OT: “Zombies” crash on I-84 near Lloyd exit
[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com…]

From your link

Emergency crews took five victims from the crash to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

What other kind of threatening injuries would they have?

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:34:55pm

re: #48 LudwigVanQuixote

EXACTLY! But I still hear this, from people who should know better and who are, otherwise, sane.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:35:20pm

re: #50 wrenchwench

What other kind of threatening injuries would they have?

depends on their insurance…

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:35:25pm

re: #49 brookly red

6 seconds is a long time :)

Kind of reminds me of the one about why cowboys don’t make good lovers?

They think eight seconds is a long ride.

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:37:27pm

Heh…the miracle fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw - duct tape. Seriously.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:37:59pm

re: #53 darthstar

Kind of reminds me of the one about why cowboys don’t make good lovers?

They think eight seconds is a long ride.

I don’r think I have ever been in the same state as a rodeo… but I think some day I need to see one just for the sake of seeing one.

Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:38:21pm

re: #36 reuven

Most of my “Southern” friends maintain that the “War between the states” wasn’t about slavery at all. (I told the story here about my friend from Tennessee who was seething mad at the Lincoln robot at Disneyland…)

Please refer them to the Neo-Confederate Troll Hammer that I posted last night.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:39:00pm

re: #54 darthstar

Heh…the miracle fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw - duct tape. Seriously.

Duct tape fixes everything, except, possibly, for certain cracks in certain heads.

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:39:46pm

re: #48 LudwigVanQuixote

By and large “The Germans” (if I may generalize) like to blame the atrocities of WW II on “The Nazis” as if they’re country were taken over by this external group, and after the war ended all the Nazis don’t exist anymore.

When touring Poland in 2008, I noted that Polish signs/plaques/etc don’t hesitate to say things like “massacred by the Germans” where other countries in Europe would say “The Nazis”. (For example: [Link: www.flickr.com…] )

Dancing along the light of day Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:39:51pm

re: #54 darthstar

Heh…the miracle fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw - duct tape. Seriously.

LOL!
I read it was a rubber band, around the perimeter!
Apparently a bigger problem for left handed people, than right handed ones!

Ericus58 Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:39:57pm

re: #54 darthstar

Heh…the miracle fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw - duct tape. Seriously.

Man, you know an egg has dropped from the hen when C.R. won’t recommend your product.

Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:40:27pm

re: #57 EmmmieG

Duct tape fixes everything, except, possibly, for certain cracks in certain heads.

If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.

It it should move and it doesn’t, use WD-40.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:40:31pm

re: #56 Alouette

Please refer them to the Neo-Confederate Troll Hammer that I posted last night.

Kol Hakovod!

I am deeply impressed.

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:40:54pm

re: #55 brookly red

I don’r think I have ever been in the same state as a rodeo… but I think some day I need to see one just for the sake of seeing one.

I grew up on rodeo. Used to work the chutes when I was a kid. Rode bulls a few times, but never in competition - too chicken-shit/valued my life too much.

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:41:05pm

re: #36 reuven

Most of my “Southern” friends maintain that the “War between the states” wasn’t about slavery at all. (I told the story here about my friend from Tennessee who was seething mad at the Lincoln robot at Disneyland…)

there’s a lincoln robot somewhere? how big is it? what are its capabilities?

Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:41:11pm

Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize
[Link: www.theonion.com…]

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:41:40pm

re: #58 reuven

By and large “The Germans” (if I may generalize) like to blame the atrocities of WW II on “The Nazis” as if they’re country were taken over by this external group, and after the war ended all the Nazis don’t exist anymore.

When touring Poland in 2008, I noted that Polish signs/plaques/etc don’t hesitate to say things like “massacred by the Germans” where other countries in Europe would say “The Nazis”. (For example: [Link: www.flickr.com…] )

Sad and utterly true.

You are espousing doctrine to the chapel singers.

abolitionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:41:42pm

re: #54 darthstar

Heh…the miracle fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw - duct tape. Seriously.

Cheaper than a rubber-bumper case (which helps too). Either will avoid flesh in direct contact with the antenna element.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:41:56pm

re: #61 Mad Al-Jaffee

If it moves and it shouldn’t, ~~use duct tape~~ bird shot.

It it should move and it doesn’t, use WD-40 fiber.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:43:00pm

re: #64 SpaceJesus

there’s a lincoln robot somewhere? how big is it? what are its capabilities?

No, it is not big enough to go stomping down a major urban thoroughfare, shooting lasers out of its eyes and demolishing all that is wrong with this world.

Sorry.

Ericus58 Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:43:10pm

re: #65 Mad Al-Jaffee

Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize
[Link: www.theonion.com…]

“”We’re sending our soldiers out there with a mission, and that mission is to protect this country,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of many conservative politicians who staunchly oppose the change. “If this is repealed, what’s to stop all-night sex romps from breaking out while U.S. servicemen are hiding in a bunker, or crawling around an irrigation ditch bathed only by the light of the moon, or, say, the dozens of other situations I’ve already thought through in elaborate detail?”

“We can’t allow this to happen,” Gohmert added as beads of sweat collected on his brow. “It’s wrong. Sweaty male sex—no matter how erotic and uninhibited—is so wrong and so, so naughty.”“

HAHAHA! Priceless.

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:43:58pm

re: #64 SpaceJesus

At Disneyland and Walt Disney World, Florida. The Disney one has just been re-engineered with advanced capabilities, and an all-electric face (instead of the past pneumatics).

There’s also a Barack Obama robot at Walt Disney World Florida *and* and Ellen Degerenes robot that fights dinosaurs.

tnguitarist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:45:12pm

re: #70 Ericus58

bathed only by the light of the moon

Project much? Maybe he should write a novel.

Ericus58 Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:45:54pm

re: #71 reuven

At Disneyland and Walt Disney World, Florida. The Disney one has just been re-engineered with advanced capabilities, and an all-electric face (instead of the past pneumatics).

There’s also a Barack Obama robot at Walt Disney World Florida *and* and Ellen Degerenes robot that fights dinosaurs.

Does it dance through the crowd after the beatdown of the dinosaur?!

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:46:27pm

re: #69 EmmmieG

No, it is not big enough to go stomping down a major urban thoroughfare, shooting lasers out of its eyes and demolishing all that is wrong with this world.

Sorry.

you know it is only a matter of time till we have terminator style robot soldiers… I don’t think it’s too early to start thinking about who we should make them look like. How about Gary Coleman (RIP) ?

SpaceJesus Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:47:01pm

re: #71 reuven

*and* and Ellen Degerenes robot that fights dinosaurs.

if this turns out not to be true i will be very upset

Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:48:52pm

re: #74 brookly red

you know it is only a matter of time till we have terminator style robot soldiers… I don’t think it’s too early to start thinking about who we should make them look like. How about Gary Coleman (RIP) ?

Summer Glau

Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:49:33pm

Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica
[Link: www.theonion.com…]

ReamWorks SKG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:49:40pm

re: #75 SpaceJesus

Here’s a bad YouTube of it

Youtube Video

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:50:18pm

re: #76 Mad Al-Jaffee

Summer Glau

maybe… I want the maximum demoralizing effect though.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:50:58pm

re: #74 brookly red

you know it is only a matter of time till we have terminator style robot soldiers… I don’t think it’s too early to start thinking about who we should make them look like. How about Gary Coleman (RIP) ?

Battlestar Galactica had it right. Supermodels.

Or, in the words of the villain from Men In Black II—“With the right pair of mammary glands, I could rule this world.”

Kragar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:52:48pm

re: #79 brookly red

maybe… I want the maximum demoralizing effect though.

Helen Thomas.

brookly red Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:53:23pm

re: #81 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Helen Thomas.

demoralizing to THEM, that is.

Kragar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:56:35pm

Design fundamentals are very important when fielding your army of robotic killing machines.

Youtube Video

Mad Prophet Ludwig Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:57:29pm

re: #81 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Helen Thomas.

Basilisk assault droids.

[Link: starwars.wikia.com…]

Kragar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:58:52pm

re: #84 LudwigVanQuixote

Basilisk assault droids.

[Link: starwars.wikia.com…]

I’ll go with a classic retro feel

Image: Necrons_DawnOfwar.jpg

palomino Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:03:21pm

Since when did losing an election make you a slave? The GOP is throwing an extended temper tantrum in response to the 2008 results.

This garbage may work in the short run, firing up the base. But it’s got zero long term potential as far as growing the party.

HappyWarrior Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:08:09pm

Yeah this is just like slavery where if you disobey Obama, you get whipped. Seriously Michelle, just get over yourself and stop with the pathetic martyr complex. Your party lost the election two years ago.

Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:15:20pm

I see a method in this madness, and excuse me for being a Cassandra, but threre are people are out there plotting and fantasizing about a coup to “take their country back” and they need to create this cloud of illusion that we are living under a tyranny that needs to be overthrown regardless of the means.

Granted, it is more fantasizing than actual plottting and I serioulsy doubt that they will ever be more than a local nuisance and a minor threat to public safety, but the fact that they have folks like this in the House and Senate and it state and local governments about the country does cause me a slight bit of concern

Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:16:28pm

re: #74 brookly red

you know it is only a matter of time till we have terminator style robot soldiers… I don’t think it’s too early to start thinking about who we should make them look like. How about Gary Coleman (RIP) ?

Once again this is ground that Philip K Dick has already trod upon.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

lawhawk Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:24:39pm

re: #54 darthstar

What’s odd is that the antenna design for the iPhone is essentially unchanged from the earlier versions - so they’ve known about the problem all along and did nothing.

That duct tape is the solution is hilarious though. Is there nothing it can’t do? (A: yes - it can’t stop a speeding car).

lawhawk Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:26:39pm

re: #80 EmmmieG

Heh… Six. Lots of Six.

Kragar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:28:23pm

re: #91 lawhawk

Heh… Six. Lots of Six.

I’ll take a bakers dozens of Number 3

Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:29:18pm

re: #90 lawhawk

What’s odd is that the antenna design for the iPhone is essentially unchanged from the earlier versions - so they’ve known about the problem all along and did nothing.

That duct tape is the solution is hilarious though. Is there nothing it can’t do? (A: yes - it can’t stop a speeding car).

There are limits to what duct tape can do to stop cars, build bridges, but there is nothing it cannot do for a band on tour. Never leave the practice room without it!

darthstar Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:29:52pm

re: #93 ralphieboy

There are limits to what duct tape can do to stop cars, build bridges, but there is nothing it cannot do for a band on tour. Never leave the practice room without it!

Does anyone use it on ducts anymore?

Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:33:07pm

re: #94 darthstar

Does anyone use it on ducts anymore?

According to [Link: www.hotforwords.com,…] it is not approved for use on ducts because it dries out and loses its adhesive capabilities

Jaerik Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:38:59pm

There is no pattern between party in control and federal deficit as a percent of GDP. There is no pattern between party in control and federal spending as a percent of GDP. There is no pattern between party in control and various taxation rates as a percent of GDP. Either in the Presidency or in Congress.

It’s all crap. The “fiscally conservative Republicans” and the “tax and spend liberal Democrats” are equally inane and false pre-construed narratives, that give those who barely pay attention to politics or history a platform upon which to stake their brand identity. Neither of the current parties’ narratives are backed up by history, and even when they are, they change sides so often depending on what their most enthusiastic supporters want to hear year over year, that they’ve long since lost all claim to anything even approaching internal consistency.

I guess I’m just hitting politics fatigue. I’m so jaded at Fox News hurling poo at DailyKOS, who hurls it back at FreeRepublic, who hurls it back at MSNBC, who… etc etc. It’s all so utterly pointless. The TeaBaggers have no idea what they’re so angry at: they just ARE. The MSNBC crowd is supporting Obama while he upholds the same policies as Bush. The Republican party has turned to complete deafening insanity to cover for the fact they have no plan for anything. Nobody has any sort of plan. It makes me want to just check out entirely and not even vote come November, for the first time in my life.

Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:44:16pm

I remember those heady days of the budget surplus under Clinton, and Rush was attacking pointing out that it just meant that the government was taking more from us in taxes than it needed to operate, which was unjust…

And of course, the reason given by conservatives for those surpluses were traced back to the Regan reforms. So much for not blaming previous administrations…

webevintage Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:53:47pm

Crazy lady is crazy….and fucking offensive.

webevintage Mon, Jul 12, 2010 1:56:04pm

re: #87 HappyWarrior

Yeah this is just like slavery where if you disobey Obama, you get whipped. Seriously Michelle, just get over yourself and stop with the pathetic martyr complex. Your party lost the election two years ago.

But, but, but Rove PROMISED, he promised a conservative majority for the next 30 years!!!!!

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b_sharp Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:00:18pm

re: #4 Obdicut

Yeah, what with all the rights that I’ve lost since Obama became president.

Like, none of them.

What is she even talking about?

I notice she hasn’t lost her right to be an idiot, which I suspect is her most important right.

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b_sharp Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:02:58pm

re: #15 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Hmm, how much you think we could get by selling it to Canada?

Four litres of maple syrup, and one year of season tickets to the Leafs.

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webevintage Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:05:41pm

re: #65 Mad Al-Jaffee

Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize
[Link: www.theonion.com…]

“The last thing I need after a 12-hour reconnaissance patrol is to know I’m hitting the showers with some guy who might be checking me out and who might, after seeing what I have to work with, find himself wondering if I too long for the firm yet tender embrace of another man,” Army Cpl. Dale Montgomery said. “So, in conclusion, what were we talking about again?”

hahahahahaha
snort…

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b_sharp Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:07:57pm

re: #41 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Oh no, they’ve learned how to drive. We’re all done for!!

/

No worries, apparently they don’t do it well.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:19:23pm

re: #102 webevintage

Earlier efforts to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have failed, including a notable 2007 bill to end the policy that was filibustered by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who over the course of several days repeatedly screened the gay pornographic film Thrill Sergeant and demanded to know if his colleagues liked that sort of thing.

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wee fury Mon, Jul 12, 2010 2:49:00pm

re: #11 _RememberTonyC

I just moved back to Minnesota so that I can vote here. :D

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:34:32pm

re: #18 lawhawk

What do you think is in those 10,000 lakes. /

Minnesotans have…eclectic…taste in politicians. They seem to like to vote for people with a little ‘zing’ to them.

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:37:48pm

re: #43 EmmmieG

Sorry. Separation of church and state. Deities, whether earth bound or not, are ineligible to run for office.

Well, if a member of a church can hold office, which plenty do, why shouldn’t a deity do likewise?

The real issue is that neither God the Father nor the Blessed Virgin Mother are U.S. citizens, so we’d need to vet SJ’s citizenship status.

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:39:43pm

re: #65 Mad Al-Jaffee

Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize
[Link: www.theonion.com…]

Earlier efforts to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have failed, including a notable 2007 bill to end the policy that was filibustered by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who over the course of several days repeatedly screened the gay pornographic film Thrill Sergeant and demanded to know if his colleagues liked that sort of thing.

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:40:33pm

re: #71 reuven

At Disneyland and Walt Disney World, Florida. The Disney one has just been re-engineered with advanced capabilities, and an all-electric face (instead of the past pneumatics).

There’s also a Barack Obama robot at Walt Disney World Florida *and* and Ellen Degerenes robot that fights dinosaurs.

Ellen DeGeneres fighting dinosaurs? WHY?

I mean, why not, but still, WHY?

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:43:35pm

re: #86 palomino

Since when did losing an election make you a slave? The GOP is throwing an extended temper tantrum in response to the 2008 results.

This garbage may work in the short run, firing up the base. But it’s got zero long term potential as far as growing the party.

There was this kid I used to have in my class. When I made him stay after school, or come in for tutoring, or anything designed to boost his abysmal grades, he told me he ‘felt like a slave’.

I told him, point-blank, that young black men like himself, when enslaved, had not traditionally had multiple adults working their asses off to get them into college, and a slave was the last thing he should feel like. He just gave me this desperate fourteen-year-old gaze and said, “Yeah, I know, but it’s just how I FEEL.”

He was fourteen. He had an excuse. Grown-ups do not.

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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Jul 12, 2010 3:44:30pm

re: #99 webevintage

But, but, but Rove PROMISED, he promised a conservative majority for the next 30 years!!!

Rove lied. People whined.

I can’t get it to rhyme, but you get the idea.

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SteveMcG Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:01:53pm

re: #107 SanFranciscoZionist

A deity just has to recuse itself on certain matters of legislation, namely, all of them.

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watching you tiny alien kittens are Mon, Jul 12, 2010 4:15:58pm

Gee, and here I had thought it was the mindset that corporations can do no wrong that had done that. Something that has been going on for a lot longer than Obama has been on the national stage. Government regulation, corporate incentives, government assistance in union contract busting, and the tax structure have consistently hit the “middle class” hardest, the real source of America’s wealth.

Now that they have milked the middle class dry and shrunk it down to a struggling minority whatever will they do next? We seem to be running out of people to steal money from in order to pay fat profits to corporate shareholders. We also seem to running rather a gigantic deficit, what are we going to do now?

I know! Let’s start another war! That always distracts people for a while while paying out billions (that we don’t actually have) to the corporate shareholders…

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Timmeh Mon, Jul 12, 2010 7:30:38pm

re: #3 Jeff In Ohio

Is there no mind-numbingly ridiculous hyperbole she won’t resort to?

The maddening thing to me is that the huge deficit is due almost entirely to Bush policies and the financial crisis that occurred under Bush, of which the ensuing recession is an aftershock.

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Timmeh Mon, Jul 12, 2010 7:42:12pm

Kyl: Rich Need Tax Cuts More Than Jobless Need Benefits

The second highest ranking Republican in the Senate doubled down on a controversial statement he made this weekend, arguing in greater detail that tax cuts for wealthy people should never be offset by tax increases in other areas — but that unemployment benefits need to be fully paid for by either spending cuts or tax increases. In so doing, he claimed candidly that the very existence of unemployment insurance is a “necessary evil,” while tax cuts ought not be paid for by increases in order to make it easier to shrink the size of government.

“My view, and I think most of the people in my party don’t believe that you should ever have to offset a tax cut,” Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl told a handful of reporters outside the Senate chamber this afternoon. “That clearly reduced savings is a better way to offset increased spending than a tax increase is.”

Unbelievable! Tax cuts never need to be paid for, only spending needs to be paid for!

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HappyWarrior Tue, Jul 13, 2010 3:32:38am

re: #115 Timmeh

Kyl: Rich Need Tax Cuts More Than Jobless Need Benefits

Unbelievable! Tax cuts never need to be paid for, only spending needs to be paid for!

But but it’s the liberals who are the elitist ones. Seriously, Kyl is such a tool for saying this.

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Sol Berdinowitz Tue, Jul 13, 2010 3:42:24am

re: #116 HappyWarrior

But but it’s the liberals who are the elitist ones. Seriously, Kyl is such a tool for saying this.

There was once a bit of a foundation to the notion that lowering taxes for high earners meant that they would invest more in the economy and create jobs.

But now in a globalized world, investment follows the path of highest return, and this is often overseas.

And when these folks invest abroad, they are counting on the US government to maintain the trade routes and access to their markets, by military force if necessary. Which costs money.

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