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Conservatives are so easy to anger these days. Even the most insignificant statement can set off their tempers. If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:
1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.
3. Joseph McCarthy was an un-American, witch hunting sissy.
4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.
5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.
6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.
7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.
8. Sarah Palin is an ugly cow (said to conservative males).
9. The Earth is round.
10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.
11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.
12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.
13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.
14. Global warming is real.
15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.
16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?
17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists.
18. Paying taxes is patriotic.
19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880.
20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party.
21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America.
22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.
23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it.
24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.
25. Jesus was a liberal.
26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats.
27. Tea parties are for little girls.
28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.
29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.
30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.
31. The President is NOT a Muslim.
32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.
33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.
34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.
35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.
36. Women control their own bodies.
37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.
38. Please use spell-check.
39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.
40. Social Security is solvent through 2038.
41. Health care is a right, not a product.
42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.
43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Perverts.
44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses.
45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight.
46. Waterboarding IS torture.
47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.
48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.
49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.
50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.
51. Barack Obama is the first African-American President, get over it.
52. The Oval Office is NOT a “whites only” office.
53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.
54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving.
55. God is a particle.
56. Evolution is real.
57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.
58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.
59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.
60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.
61. Federal law trumps state law.
62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.
63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.
64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.
65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job.
66. Republicans: Paranoid since 1932.
67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.
68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.
69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.
70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas.
71. Republicans hate communism, so why do they refer to themselves as red states?
72. Labor unions built this country.
73. Republicans hold America hostage as a political strategy; the temper tantrum throwing kind of political strategy.
74. Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian.
75. When Republicans see black, they attack.
76. Inside every Republican is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to bloom.
77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born.
78. Republicans are hypocrites, they’re just too stupid to know it.
79. The Christian-Right boycotts movies that have violence, and then promotes guns and insurrection.
80. I think therefore I am NOT a Republican.
81. Republicans that oppose gay marriage are most likely in the closet themselves.
82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed.
83. People are too poor to vote Republican.
84. Democrats think for themselves, Republicans form think tanks to do it for them.
85. Republicans hate education because they couldn’t hack it in school.
86. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and Republicans wallow in it.
87. A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.
88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high.
89. Republicans: Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-Lesbian sex.
90. Republicans: Terrorizing the American people since 1981.
91. Republicans have their own terrorists, just look up Timothy McVeigh.
92. Republicans love outsourcing, just ask the Chinese Communists.
93. The Republican answer to the oil spill was to apologize to BP, a foreign oil company.
94. Democrats will be working hard to bring jobs to Americans, while the Republicans tea bag each other in the middle of the aisles.
95. Voter disenfranchisement is immoral and un-American, that’s why Republicans do it.
96. Republicans would let your house burn down unless you pay them to put it out.
97. Democrats want to take care of the sick. Republicans take their credit cards and then deny them medical attention.
98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.
99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.
100. Republicans are idiots and arguing with them is a waste of time!
Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.
Edited By: Alexis Atherton
“99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.”
Hey, if you don’t believe in abortion – Don’t have one….
These things always start off with a great title, but after reading some of them they make us anti republicans sound worse than the republicans because some are so stupid. If you can’t do more than 50 reasons that make sense, just stick with 50.
8 Sarah Palin is far from an ugly cow. She is dumb as can be, but not ugly. Her dumbness would have been a much better insult than her looks.
38 spell check? is this elementary school? Ripping on someones spelling is something you do when you don’t have anything real to say. There is much real to say.
46 I’m totally down for tourting terrorists.
48 dumb.
51 Obama is not the first black president! Are you just stupid! He is half white and half black. So that somehow equals the first black president. Ah nooooo! He may be the first bi-racial president, but not that 1st black one. Not that it would care if he was the first black president, but it annoys me because this simply wrong.
56 & 57 You do not have to be a republican to be a christian, and to think that the theory of evolution is beyond stupid and completely wrong! Speak for yourself! Putting us all in the same group that believes nonsense as evolution makes us looks as dumb as Palin. Stop it!.
I didn’t read much after that because it became to stupid. Stick to a top 50, or maybe even 25. It would make you look a whole lot better.
Hey Robert E Lee and Jeff Davis were not traitors! They had every right to secede. And think how much better off the north would be now without the south!!
Including things like “sarah palin is an ugly cow” (I do not like that person, at all, but that offends me) and “tea parties are for little girls” destroys any merit this piece might otherwise have, regardless of its playful intention.
Numbers 2, 3, 6, 9, 14, 23, 24, 27, 29, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 58, 63, 64, 65, 70, 72, 74, 83, 88, 96, 98 are totally or mostly correct. The rest are debatable, and I don’t think that the name-calling is necessary (or constructive), though.
HOW TO GET A DEMOCRAT ANGRY. Get them a job & make them give half their earnings to the criminals that illegally cross the borders or to the school yards full of adults playing basketball that are working the system. I wish one of them would write a book, “How to beat the system & laugh at the working people that complain,” or “How to live off other people’s earnings & not be called a pimp.” Promise, I’ll buy the book & stay home and make babies for money too. Why is it if a Democrat doesn’t like something, they make a law against it. Didn’t, Ms USA Pilosi, (If she get another facelift she’ll have a goatee,) say that the illegals should live like all Americans? I worked & put into the system, served my country; I want to live like her. Where should I go for my free plane & pilot?
Oh honey Dems all work and pay taxes, and NOBODY gives up 50% to taxes so stop whining. All the anti-abortion zealots ALSO made sure you could not get welfare for more than two kids. What wwere you supposed to do with the third if you had one? Always mystified me…
You live in the best country on earth with almost everything working pretty well for you if you’re lucky TO be working. Your taxes are the lowest they’ve been in decades AND lower than any other highly developed nation. You are free to go where you want, say what you want, and do what you want – government is barely an intrusion EVEN when you have to register your car. If you’re mad because you have to share the planet with other people who are not exactly like yourself? Well – we have to share it with you, so you evened that out just fine. If you want a free plane and pilot (Nancy Pelosi mostly flies commercially) then get yourself elected president – or become the head of a large corporation. Nobody’s getting what you don’t have. Everyone puts in taxes – even undocumented people who never get the benefits. You are in a GREAT place – you have a computer so you can’t be starving. So: chin up! Head high! Eyes bright! You’re an American and living well!!! Stop sniveling. It cheapens everything you’ve said.
That was beautiful.
yup, nicely said.
Ditto again!! The exaggerations by the (so-called) right are just amazing.
Spot on!! Excellent comeback!!
Thanks for the compliment. Someone called me NOBODY. That is I am a working person and I do pay 50% of what I make in taxes. Consider that I pay income tax, FICA tax, property tax, gasoline tax, sales tax virtually everything I purchase, excise taxes, and the list goes on, and on and on and on…………… I eventually even pay corporate taxes as by definition as corporations cannot pay taxes. They must first collect the money from their customers before they can pay the tax. If I invest in a corporation and the corporation is successful, the corporation will have to pay tax. Then when the corporation distributes the profits to the shareholders, another tax called capital gains tax is accessed. And finally if I have been fortunate enough to amass some wealth, a death tax is imposed on what I have left. The facts are that when you compare the total income from wages in this country and compare this number to the total taxes collected by state, local, and federal government, you will find that taxes consume well over 50% of all wages.
As for the comment that all democrats pay taxes is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. Is there a group out there such as the democrats that are better at avoiding taxes? How many tax cheats are in the current administrations? (hint: over 40) What political party makes up the majority on Indian reservations or in inner city slums? That’s right, democrats and these two groups don’t pay taxes unless somehow you can twist earned income tax credit (EITC) as paying taxes.
Amen! I’d be willing to bet that there are more democrats who WORK for a living/ have HONEST jobs, than republicans.
Word! Well said!
I love you <3
You’re obviously too thick to get the reasoning behind it, so let me spell it out for you:
If we force corporations to pay illegal immigrants the same as American citizens, and to provide them with the same benefits as American citizens, they suddenly have no incentive to hire illegals. Therefore, the jobs will go to Americans instead of illegal immigrants.
Get it?
Let me see if I can predict the response:
herp derp derp Mexicans takin our jobs herp derp ‘MURICA IS #1 derp also I don’t trust Mexicans because they are brown!
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Good one!
for a “progressive” or “liberal” list, it sure is sexist:
27. Tea parties are for little girls.
8. Sarah Palin is an ugly cow (said to conservative males).
The tea party is for big corporate whores. I would say Palin’s a pretty vulture.
Ugly vs. pretty: irrelevant. Her gender is irrelevant. She is a mean-spirited, ill-informed, self-aggrandizing opportunist, period.
She’s ugly on the inside, and that’s where it counts.
#10 – Reagan also increased regulation – contrary to the oft repeated spin of the Liberal Democrats….and is accused of deregulation that was voted on by the Congress serving during Carter’s administration but enacted under Reagan’s……..
And Reagan got gun control passed in California too. (Of course, back when he was in favor of gun control, it was to keep guns out of the hands of uppity black people. They kinda forgot that laws apply to everybody.)
#2,,,,
The Government did not take from Jesus’ income in every possible way imaginable to force him to heal the sick and feed the poor – he did it as a tenant of his faith, not his subservience to a centralized government’s edict.
a tenant of his faith? not a tenet? Teabaggers ALWAYS, in the interest of appearing smart, misuse words. Pompous morons. It’s pretty much how you can identify them. That, the horrific spelling, the willful ignorance, and the hate.
and furthermore, LMW, “every possible way imaginable” — hyperbole much??? We want to end Bush tax cuts. Relax. It’s not socialism, not “centralized govt edict”; it’s repealing Bush era tax cuts and returning them to where they were under Clinton. Relax, jeez.
Regardless, you understood what he meant, and he was correct. People should not be required by law to be good people. People are to be granted such freedom as to be able to do as they please, so long as they do not actively or intentionally impose upon another’s ability to do so.
Sorry, that’s not the basis of a society. There is a strong element of interdependence in a society. People have paid taxes since the beginning of civilization: Jews, Christians, Moslems (as maligned as they are, their religion requires charity), Hindus, bhuddists, and others all require charity as a matter of faith and tax their citizens. What thee republican parry appeals to is selfishness and greed.
They shouldn’t? Why not? We refer to the ‘general welfare’ in the Constitution, so it seems reasonable that we use the resources of our society to have the government sustain people in hard times.
Why is the anti-Christian “dog eat dog” kind of society attractive to you? For people who hate evolution, some Christians STILL adore SOCIAL DARWINISM. Since when is it American to let people die int he gutters instead of assuring they have some basics to get them through? When business decides you are a disposable commodity, it’s a jolly good think the rest of us think you’re valuable.
Americans are at their best when they make sure all of us are cared for. Nobody lives on welfare all their lives, but social supports are an expression of a high civilization that has concern for ALL its members.
We think everyone should be able to take care of themselves and their families. So why do we create situations that make it impossible to do so? If private business has no nationalism, surely the nation should!
Otherwise, well – Marie Antoninette and the Czar would be your role models. HIGHLY un-American!
Regardless you must have understood what he meant as well, yet this made sense to you?
To invoke the name of Jesus to bolster support for a government that would leave the least fortunate of us to exist in perpetual poverty or die for lack of medical care in the name of what you would call ‘freedom’ defies belief.
To support this platform (as the GOP/tea party does) is not only anti-American, it represents the antithesis of what it means to be human.
A society is only as great as the least of it’s members. Freedom in this country isn’t free, it requires that all pay their fair share towards the common good. It does us no good to be spending $2.1 million a minute on our military if we forget this, because it means we have already been defeated and are indefensible.
Uh, so what SHOULD the law do, then, if not force people to be good? I’m serious. Have you spent even five minutes seriously thinking through the implications of that statement?
Since the earliest days of philosophy, people have understood that it is the job of government and laws to lend force to the rules and responsibilities people must observe in order for society to function. That includes a measure of collective solidarity. A society in which 85% of the people died from starvation in a bad year because the grain stores all belonged to a few wealthy landowners who refused to share would quickly die out and fall to other, saner nations. It’s not about socialism, it’s about survival – and it’s also about ‘being good’. Do you honestly believe that the 400 richest families in this country would not happily watch everybody else starve if it meant they got a bigger share of the pie? OF COURSE THEY WOULD! If you do not make laws to correct human greed and stupidity, then human greed and stupidity will destroy civilization.
Umm…Jesus had no income.
Oh you aren’t being robbed. Your taxes are low, you live in a great country with lots of bounty for you. You pay a pittance compared to low wage workers, and the poor are poor ’cause the rich pocket the money instead of creating jobs. Get over yourself – you are NOT abused in ANY way by government. You ARE abused by business – who decides if you work or don’t? Who shifts the risk onto you and off themselves? Who picks and chooses what you can eat, drink, wear – that’s not government, it’s decisions made by company men and women. Who determines if your city is decimated by a shut down? Who ships jobs overseas to save a few bucks? Who takes away your freedoms at the door – business. You have NO rights in the workplace if GOVERNMENT is not there to keep you safe.
Don’t be another brain-numb silly goose – you live in a great country with few restrictions, lots of freedom, and no control over what you believe from your government. From corporations? Not so much. But stride boldly forward in pride over being an American. And please stop whining. It makes you look cheesy.
MAGNIFICENTLY stated, my good friend. Thank you SO much for saying the obvious so clearly and eloquently. If only more people could and did do that!
Jesus’ income? According to all accounts, Jesus was a roaming, itinerant Rabbi, (the word means ‘Teacher’), who preached and ministered to the poor, sick, and needy in the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee. He did not have an income, per se.
Also, it was Jesus who told the rich man to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor. This, I believe, was in response to the question of how the rich man could guarantee his place in Heaven.
It’s in the Bible. You could look it up.
That would require reading, which in turn would require caring about the truth. Neither are things conservatives can rise to very frequently.
It doesn’t really matter why Jesus did it; Jesus said repeatedly that if you amass earthly wealth, if you don’t give to the poor and do charity work, that you’re doing it wrong. He also said “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.”
So let’s see… how many people have you PERSONALLY escorted to the ER for treatment and paid their medical bills for? Hmmm? What you’re saying – going by the tone in your post – is that given a choice, you would NOT care for the sick, visit the jailed, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, or house the homeless.
A tenet of His faith?? No, He WAS and IS the faith! He said, “inasmuch as you do to the least of these, my brethren, you do also unto me.” So you either have to call Him a liar, call yourself a liar, or stop calling yourself a Christian.
And by the way… Jesus paid taxes. Are you better than Him?
More pseudo-pious rubbish to justify ignoring the commandment to compassion.
Ways to irritate a Democrat:
1. Francis Belamy also wrote “”[a] democracy like ours cannot afford to throw itself open to the world where every man is a lawmaker, every dull-witted or fanatical immigrant admitted to our citizenship is a bane to the commonwealth; where all classes of society merge insensibly into one another.”
So?
So you’re opposed to democracy. Good to know.
You know the economy is suffering when…1.You get a predenied credit card in the mail from Capitol One. 2.CEOs now play mineature golf. 3.Exon-Mobil fires 25 Congressmen. 4.Motel 6′s light is turned off. 5. One picture in only worth 100 words. 6.Lawyers are keeping their hands in their own pockets. 7.Commodity speculators actually use their own money to buy something. 8.Commodity speculators actually buy something. 9.Prices for reduced/free lunches in public schools increase to pay the higher costs of food that farmers are losing money on. 10. You call the crisis hot line, get a call center in Pakistan, tell them you are suicidal, they get all excited and ask if you know how to drive a truck!
Did they mention how much the tea bagger is against a fair union wage but the moment they get the upper hand they vote themselves an unnaturally high raise that the workers have to pay for. IE: congress, ceo’s, teaching administrations…
Zeke. You are SO misguided in terms of logic. Appreciate your urge to be conciliatory, but “Calling a right wing goon a “sissy” is ONLY “Calling a right-wing goon a “sissy”. It is not inherently anything else, nor does it “mean” anything else. YOU added another meaning to it and equated it to the statement “acknowledging..as acceptable”, which is not necessarily so, just a thought you had. It does not “Legitimize” their transgressions to honestly point them out.
Besides, insulting Republicans is FUN, and it’s EASY, because all you have to do is tell the truth, or quote their own idiotic and untrue statements verbatim, which they consider to be “an unfair attack”. How DARE we point out their stupidity, their hypocrisy, their dishonesty, their basic pathologically narcissistic ground of being. And it isn’t even bigoted or racist to do so because these critters were not born that way. They chose it. And they choose it again with every vote, every dumb-ass illogical or patently untrue statement they make.
Exactly how many years do you think we should be civil, to be subjected to and victimized by their intransigent and disgusting greed-driven ground of being, before we stand up, poke them sharply in the eye (verbally) and let them know we will not tolerate any more of their crap? I think Ghandhi and Martin Luther King were still willing to call a spade a spade, instead of being “nice”. Power and leverage is the only thing Republicans understand or respond to. They equate civility and compromise to cowardice and losing, so why should we decide that civility is the only tool in our kit? It clearly is not effective. Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are effective. Obama is not.
Well said! It’s time for the gloves to come off – and smack the faces of our enemies.
We have FDR. They have Joe McCarthy. We have John Kennedy. They have Nixon. We have VP’s like Nobel prize winner Al Gore. They have national jokes like Dan Quayle and Sara Palin. We were right about women’s sufferage, the civil rights act, Watergate and Vietnam. Also, support for gay marriage is now at 51%, higher than when the racial civil rights act was passed in the sixties. And the 49% against it are older people. That means as the years pass, all of these anti-gay republicans will be judged very harshly by history as bigots.
You might want to check out who saw that the Civil Rights Bill was enacted. You might be surprised and less one sided.
You mean Kennedy, and then after him, Johnson? Democrat Mike Mansfield? Granted, the split on actual voting was not Democrat/Republican, it was Southern/Northern, but the people who set the Civil Rights bill into motion were most certainly liberals.
And shortly after that, all the racists jumped to the GOP. You conservatives always ignore that part.
And who do the Republicans have to their credit? Let’s see…
…hmm…
…uh…
…oh! They have Eisenhower!
And, since then, nobody. Not a single true statesman of any stature or merit. Damn. That’s pretty sad.
I’m a pro life Democrate. But found myself agreeing with the rest. I used to work in an all black community and now I work in an all white community in affluent suburbs. The comments about hate are very true about tea bag ger s and it’s very sad. Their belief is that their tax dollar pays for 96% of the black communities lively hood. Thank You for posting. You are very wise. Bereft of Gods love and compassion for innocent children. But wise in all other matters. Peace and be well, J. L.
I have attended a number of Tea Party events and they are anything but what you describe. They are concerned about the size of government and it’s continued encroachment of our liberties. They are not racists as you describe. They are America loving individuals, black, white, yellow & brown. When things get tough for the liberal side, racism and class warfare are their side. I know I attended a rally where Herman Cain spoke very eloquently and I might add without a tele prompter!
Oh, give the teleprompter thing a rest. It’s a dumb thing to fixate on–almost every single person who gives speeches professionally uses one. I’m sure many, many Republicans use them (or have another means by which to read their speeches–they’re not saying them by rote, gimme a break).
There was a study that was actually done just before the tea party came into existence–I believe it was done in 2006–and although the researchers were initially looking for something different, they found that strong religious belief and varying degrees of racism WERE accurate predictors of tea party supporters.
Herman Cain can speak eloquently all he wants. He groped women, didn’t he? And he has said some absolutely appalling things about those women, while lying through his pearly-whites about even knowing one of his victims.
The Tea Party wants a smaller government for the same reason bank robbers prefer fewer police. We don’t need smaller government. What we need are people in office with integrity. Period.
Accusing a right-wing goon of being a “sissy” or “little girl” only serves to acknowledge their notoriously homophobic and misogynistic attitudes as acceptable, and even patriotic, forms of expression. May as well be a right-winger yourself!
What’s the URL for this vid? I wanna share it with some friends.
Obama didnt even know about a mission to kill bin Laden until after he was dead. Obama shot down 10 requests from the CIA to go through with missions to kill him. The Seal Team 6 mission that ended up killing bin Laden was approved by hilliary Clintonn, without Obama’s knowledge b.c the CIA couldnt risk having this attack shot down aswell. Fact.
Reagan was a liberal b4 he became a Republican. Fact
Reagan was a liberal *before he met his crazy ass wife*.
FACT 1: Republicans will NOT, under any circumstances, acknowledge Obama being responsible for any POSITIVE result, let alone getting Bin Laden.
FACT 2: Republicans will blame Obama for anything BAD that happens, even if it did before he was sworn in office. Ref. TARP and the mortgage collapse.
Hence CONCLUSION: had the commando authorized by Obama to take on Bin Laden failed and crashed as did the one in 1980 to free the Iran hostages, YOU of all people would blame no one else but Obama, the same way you’ve been blaming Carter for the 80′s disasterous raid.
Biased much?
Obama DID know about the take down of Bin Laden. He’s the effing President, of course he knew… There’s a photo of him watching the takedown WHILE IT WAS TAKING PLACE. How the hell would he be watching it if he didn’t know about it?
I dare you to prove any of your political assertions about Obama with one shred of evidence.
Just one shred.
Didn’t think so. Conclusion: you just proved those 100 points.
Oh, and by the way, it is history that W said to the nation that he didn’t know where bin Laden was and didn’t care. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o Listen to that swagger, that ignorance, the condescension. Then compare it to the fact that Obama went after bin Laden and KILLED the man.
So, your denial of the evidence is an insult to the fact that we live in a reality you have clear disdain for.
Sorry, but for those of you who claim Obama killed Osama, he didn’t do shit but sit in his office. Please don’t forget the brave Navy SEALS who actually put their life on the line while our presidents (republican or democrat) sits safely in their office pushing paperwork.
Please don’t forget the brave men and women in our military who constantly put their lives on the line every day so you don’t have to. Please stop giving the president all the credit.
Personally, I wouldn’t vote for anyone running for president that didn’t serve in the military and obama didn’t(can’t argue about that one, sorry). He also wanted to delay checks for the military, I highly doubt you weren’t sitting by the television watching that one while your spouse(husband in my case) was off training at a camp getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan wondering if he was going to be doing it for free!!! You have no idea how that feels and most likely never will. And as a registered Republican, I didn’t have a true problem with Obama until that little incident, now i think he’s a moron. Marines and other military personnel guard and patrol the white house daily, as president, I would have thought twice about cutting the pay of people who I pay to protect me. Just an observation.
So please just remember our actual military personnel who protect a President who actually had a brief thought to cut their paychecks off. How is that benefitting America?
-PROUD Army Wife and former MP
I guess, using YOUR own logic, that Osama didn’t kill anyone on 9/11, since he was just sitting at home when it happened, not actually doing it himself.
That’s YOUR logic.
So your husband will only defend his country if the taxpayers are paying him for it. What a patriot…
Thank you for proving all but one of the above talking points. Thanks, moron.
Just because you can spell “Fact” (but not Hillary Clinton), doesn’t make something an actual fact. Republicans always seem to have trouble with this concept. There is a difference between facts and beliefs.
Reagan was indeed a liberal before he was a Republican. In may just be a coincidence that he was also a liberal before he got Alzheimer’s.
Fact: Hilary Clinton is not the Commander-in-Chief and cannot approve such a mission.
Fact: Obama has not stopped the drone strikes on individuals in Pakistan the Pakistanis continue to complain about.
Fact: Obama supported the NATO mission that took out Quaddafy, a dictator with known terrorist ties, while the Republicans complained about it after they complained about Obama not doing anything to help the rebels.
Actually Obama is a mixed blood mongrel! The only african reference to him, is that he was born in Africa, as to him being American??That is debatable!
Your a moron.
For being a world-class git, at least his spelling was good as opposed to yours; it’s “You’re a moron”. 10 of 10 for accuracy, though.
Say that to yourself, “Mine a moron”. Does that make sense? No, I think you were going for “You are a moron.” The racist fuck-twat has a better grasp of grammar than you.
I am blown away that more of you are attacking a spelling/grammar error than the racist remark. Just goes to show…
Isn’t the internet a hilarious and wonderful place? :D
*you’re
As in your are, not “your” as in belonging to you….moron.
“You’re” is a contraction of “you are,” not “your are.”
Read a book.
Some of Obama’s ancestors were among the first people in NH, MA, and then northern NJ. Couple that I know of (that I was happy to prove were related to my very republican in-laws) were here by 1630. He is likely related to a large percentage of Americans with any colonial ancestry.
You are a great AmeriKKKan!
It’s clear why you really don’t like Obama. Your opinions on his policies have no credibility whatsoever.
It is simultaneously sad and funny to see the USian tribe go through their obsolete finger pointing rituals.
Congress gave away their monetary powers in 1913, gave away their national security powers in 1947, and gave away their fiscal powers in 2011. Now they are going for their AIPAC mantra refresher summer camp.
By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
I’m sad some idiot libtard (sorry) wasted 4 hours of his/her life compiling this list.
Actually, it only took about 10 minutes. Lots of material, you know.
The hard part was narrowing the list down to just 100…
Democrats and Republicans still engaging in the same childish arguments while all around them their country falls to pieces.
America is doomed!
Stop complaining about “childish arguments.” This is politics, and this stuff is important, and it effects peoples’ lives. Name calling and other less than helpful tactics have ALWAYS been a part of the political landscape and always will be. The atmosphere today is NOT demonstrably worse than any other time in history. I dig up some QUITE juicy, mean-spirited quotes from politicians from around the time of the US Civil War, if you like. This whole “a pox of both your houses” meme that’s going around so much these days is a copout to disengage from the political wrangling that’s just a fact of life, and so upsets your delicate sensibilities. Get the fainting couch!
YOU are the one being childish. Projecting much?
101. Shawn is not currently gainfully employed and borrows money from family and friends. He lives in someone’s basement which affords him a lot of free time.
Yeah, you’re “that guy” who doesn’t know when to just give it up. Don’t bother trying to disprove me, you’ve already provided enough evidence to support my theory.
kekekeke, I am a republican and I can see why this would anger uptight people :)
I would like to anger you better, if this didn’t work. Making Republicans cry is how I get off.
How about this? Let’s say you’re an HR expert working for a corporation, and you interview an applicant. When you ask him if he believes in the company’s goals and methods, he responds thus:
“Oh, no, I hate this company. I think they do terrible work, and I want nothing more than to see them fail and fall to their competitors.”
Do you hire this applicant? No matter what his credentials, I mean. Of course not! It would be a breach of your duty as an HR worker to do so! Well, Republican candidates take pleasure in openly stating how much they hate the Federal government, distrust its motives, denigrate its methods, and want to see it fail. I’m not even going to bother finding a specific quote. Just find ANY quote from some recent Republican primary debate.
For you to vote for a Republican candidate in any election at all is a breach of the duties that accompany your citizenship in this great election. You should be fired from America, along with the rest of your moronic party-mates.
There, did that make you angry? If not, I can certainly try again. And again, and again, and again, and again…
My apologies; my typing got ahead of my brain. Where I said the phrase ‘great election’, I of course meant ‘great nation’. Whoopsies.
http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/deficits.html These are numbers from the Treasury Department . . . If you look you will find that your facts about the 70% tax bracket is true. But look at the deficit when they lowered the top tax bracket.
The author of this crap is a moron. It is so FAR easier to upset the crybaby liberals. It’s effort-LESS!
It’s so very simple.
Just mention personal responsibility. Everything they believe in is in furtherance of avoiding even the vaguest whisper of accountability, even while they push for totalitarian boots crushing everyone’s throats.
Is that so?
If it was far easier to upset “crybaby liberals” why are you here complaining about them?
I notice you are crying now, and you only have one thing to say. Go back to anger management, my son.
Personal responsibility? You mean like the kind shown by Repuglibagger Joe Walsh who owes over $100,000 in back child support? Baggers are always big on personal responsibility, as long as it’s someone else and not them.
Don’t forget republicans are statistically more like to get divorced, cheat on their taxes, and drive jobs overseas.. The GOP is not about personal responsibility, only about personal gain…
This guy’s retarded to think that republicans get angry over truth. It’s quite the opposite. Most of those items on the list were just thrown in there as jokes anyways. I mean if a republican gets angry at someone saying “the earth is round” then it’s not a “republican” problem. I’ll give you one thing, though. This list made me angry, but more sad and disappointed in Stephen and some of these commenters. I mean, grow up.
Your comment seems to prove the author correct.
“22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.” He kissed him too, and on American soil. I guess I’d kiss a guy that paid me billions of dollars too, even if he was the leader of the country that was home to 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.
The “Clinton didn’t get Osama” argument to “prove” that it wasn’t actually Bush’s fault… WJC tried and republicans said “he’s wagging the dog… no war for Monica.” Here one of many articles from 1998:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/eafricabombing/stories/decision082198.htm
Sure, Bush held his hand and kissed his cheek – that’s a fairly common greeting between people and due respect between equals. However, Obama bowed before the Saudi King. In contrast, you’ve no point.
per your linked Washington Post (aka Communist Times, a term from the Vietnam Era and not my own), I can go tit for tat with you on that. Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/international/asia/17osama.html
While were at the whole Bush bashing thing… a lot of democrats claim that Bush was a liar who took us to war for his oil buddies…
Really?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
Now, how many of those same people are still in power? Not Bush, that’s for sure…
If that’s how you feel about bush kissing his cheek, I’m REALLY interested in hearing your take on Obama bowing to him…
Also, if you democrats keep saying that the taxes we pay, you know, the ones you guys keep trying to raise, go into the circle of job creation life, why then did Obama appoint a guy who didn’t pay taxes for not one, but several years – as head of effing treasury. If Obama didn’t know, then that’s his fault for not checking to ensure the people he picked to help run stuff were upstanding and without guilt. If he I’d know, then well… I shouldn’t have to explain that one… Even to deluded people.
I had written a response to this earlier with a link to snopes, pointing out who Clinton knew Osama was a threat, and did nothing. Snopes compiled links and documents from across several years, and snopes is nonpartisan… So they were unbiased in it. Strange how that comment didn’t get posted…
Strike the above… My original comment didn’t appear on my iPad so, I stand corrected about t not being moderated.
OMG, the comments are almost funnier than the post! Y’all just can’t help the reactionary, knee-jerk response, can you?
LMFAO while crying for our country.
It is funny as hell, isn’t it. They’re arguing against one liners. Accurate one liners, but one liners none the less.
Where’s item 74? I’m trying to repost and formatted this an proper ordered list – came up one short so I checked your list carefully and #74 is missing.
“47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.”
Neither did any member of Congress during that time… wasn’t Obama a Senator then? Giving the green light for an assassination isn’t keeping anyone safe either – obviously, there were those SEALS recently killed in the CH-64 crash that insurgents proudly claimed responsibility for.
“49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.”
Which also claims that we can say as we please provided it doesn’t promote lawlessness. What it doesn’t say is that we have right to say what we want, when or how we want.
“45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight”
Which wouldn’t have been necessary had Clinton not passed the opportunity. So, it’s less about the success of the assassination but more about the need for one in the first place. it was the 8 years of info gathering and red-tape cutting of the Bush administration that secured the ability to find the whereabouts. Obama didn’t appoint the administration head that presented the information to Obama.
“9. The Earth is round.”
A circle is round, the Earth is a sphere.
“25. Jesus was a liberal.”
Actually, according to the Bible Jesus was a Jew and a carpenter. I didn’t know him personally and the Bible makes no reference to his American political alignment so I’m going to hold off on projecting assumptions. I do know that in the course of American history, political ideological definition and entailment shift every few decades so there’s no possible way that such labels have tangible value, so again I just can’t place that tail on the donkey and also claim to be intelligent.
“72. Labor unions built this country.”
No, a few ship-fulls of penal immigrants did…that had nothing to do with unions. Years later the mob and organized crime that infiltrated the unions for decades can be said to have then built this country – so why so surprised and upset at the current level of corruption? You guys endorsed unions then allowed the mob to control it. Strange, though, to champion labor unions that diligently worked to stop immigration (See also Chinese Exclusion act of 1882)and in many way disenfranchised the labor of immigrants but then turn around and want to pat them on the back.
“4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.”
Sure, if dissent is a traitorous act. Both believed that the Union was wrong and fought to be independent. Sort of reminds me of an earlier war that happened because another group thought they should be independent. Oh, but that wasn’t wrong or traitorous…
But I get the point of your list. You want people to poke and prod Conservatives and smack them with truth. I like that, so in the spirit of this article I present words of wisdom from your fellow representatives.
“It’s the biggest bang for the buck when you do Food Stamps and Unemployment” -Nancy Pelosi
“I don’t worry about the Constitution.” -Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL)
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill.’ What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” -Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)
“He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.” Dianne Watson (D – Calif) on Ward Connerly’s interracial marriage.
The list works! All your comments proved it! Thanks!
Yep… it should irritate anyone to see straw man arguments and history revision. That kind of thing irritates Democrats too and they’re the first and often loudest to whine about it endlessly. I could go on this whole “shut up” argument tirade, but that’s just not my personal style – besides I have a libertarian side to me too; far be it from me to tell you when you shouldn’t put your OTHER foot in your mouth. On the other hand my conservative side is nagging at me to stop because I don’t support affirmative action – I shouldn’t have to help you do it because you appear to be doing fine all on your own.
Aww… chin up bud! There’s always your windowed cubicle to make you feel warm and fuzzy.
You mean like all the lies you told, rightard?
You’ve yet to provide one source to back up all your lies. Provide them or get out and never, ever come back. You are hereby ordered to give evidence or be banished.
I have a better idea. Instead of giving you links to prove they’re not lies, why don’t you back your assertion that they are. The thing is, you’ve no interest in the truth because you disagree with anything outside your tiny ideal. If you had an open mind, you’d have looked things up on your own and realized that the two party system is and has been broken and that either current ideology is a manufactured label to lure the public into paying attention to words instead of actions. To Republicans lie? yeah… a lot. So do Democrats. It’s two sides of the same hand buddy… but you’re so caught up in trying to say I’M lying to notice what you’re representatives are doing and not doing. Good job… you’ve failed at life. Incidentally, you can also blow me until my head caves in for speaking to me in such a manner as to imply superiority – I’ll add you to the list of liberals that really don’t champion equality as they like to claim on their platform.
NEXT!
You are projecting again, Shawna. You really should go back on your meds and to your anger management classes. Breathe, sista, breathe.
That sounds suspiciously like the … “yeah, but Obama’s black” excuse …
““47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.”
Neither did any member of Congress during that time… wasn’t Obama a Senator then? ”
Uh, no, he wasn’t … that’s pretty easy to check, really, isn’t it? And even if he was (he wasn’t) what was it a single Senator can do …
the Senate creates and passes laws … the President is the Commander in Chief of the armed services (and who the NSA reports to, as all the other intelligence agencies) … it’s one of the President’s responsibilities, protecting our country from attack …
And actually, Bush was warned during his PDB in August that bin Laden was determined to attack on U.S. soil, he got the briefing in Aug while on vacation in Texas, he took it from the guy that delivered it, told the man, “all right son, you covered your ass, you can go now” and went on with his vacation …
There were many, many people who tried to get Bush and his administration to pay attention to the threat of al qada, but they weren’t concerned, in fact … it wasn’t even on their top ten list of things to worry about …
This is all fairly easy to source … Bush was more interested in Iraq than any threat from any Saudi-based terrorist group (they housed in Afganistan, but most of the attackers were from Saudi) ….
Again, this is all pretty easy to check out, and it really seems like a simple cheap shot …
And makes me suspect the thoughtfulness of the rest of your post …
and I should add, Bush called off the hunt for bin Laden (if you remember, he said he wasn’t that concerned about him) and put his resources into Iraq … so no, the intel gathered during the Bush years DID NOT lead to Obama doing what he did …
How’s that Kool-aid you’ve been sipping off the right tit of the Faux News zombies?
I dunno… I’m and AP / BBC kind of fella myself. Never much liked the chalky filth of Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or ABC.
The Earth isn’t a “sphere” either, it’s an “ovoid,” you idiot.
Besides which, it’s a stupid point. Are you saying a ball isn’t round? Is an orange not round? You must be an insufferable person to spend time with. No wonder you’re a Republican – you hate people.
Wow. Ovoid is oval shaped and requires a broader base. The earth, technically is an ellipsoid or geoid. It would be behoove you to when pulling technicalities, be technically correct. T answer the question, “is an orange round” a drawing of one is, yes… “round” refers to a two-dimensional object. So, is the earth two dimensional? If you say it’s round, like a circle, then you imply it’s flat. If you say “curved surface” you imply dimension and depth as in a three-dimensional object such as the earth.
I do hate people. I constantly run into many such as yourself, who cannot effectively communicate and get upset because despite what they think they meant, it doesn’t change what was said nor the actual meaning.
My hat’s off to you good sir. I’m glad someone has some bloody sense.
oblate spheroid
This is all semantics, and silly ones at that. Round can refer to 2- or 3-dimensional objects. Earth is, technically, an oblate spheroid. And it’s really not even that when you account for the fact that most of the southern hemisphere is fluid and more reactive to lunar tidal forces which ends up making Earth more pear-ish shaped.
Of course, ALL of these effects are at the less than 1% level! That is, shrink Earth down to the size of a bowling ball and it is smoother and more spherical than that.
Actually, Shawn, President Bush received intelligence in early August of 2001 that bin Laden had a plan to highjack planes in a plan to attack America.
“‘It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad,’Ari Fleischer, the president’s press secretary, said…. ‘The president was also provided information about bin Laden wanting to engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense, not for the use of suicide bombing, not for the use of an airplane as a missile.’”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/us/bush-was-warned-bin-laden-wanted-to-hijack-planes.html
Yeah, I don’t defend everything he did nor do I claim he didn’t have some idea, but if there w no way to link him to any of the setup in the attacks, a threat is harmless until acted upon. Ghats what makes them difficult. Should we act based on fears? That’s what the entire counter-argument to Iraq was by the left…. We feared WMDs so we went in, but that was wrong. Now you’re implying that we should have feared a terrorist attack and acted on it. So, which is it?
technically, you ARE defending Bush … just sayin’. You defended him above and now only claim to not be defending him when someone points out something that proves counter to your point …
i have read only a small amount of the comments on here and i find you all over the place. you remind me of that dipshit teabagger bachmann…you never know when to shut the fuck up.
do you really have no life what so ever shawn that you have spent so much time running your mouth on here wastefully as, you have not changed a single person’s opinion of the above list.
Apparently You don’t know the Definition of a Liberal….. Look it Up. You Apparently Don’t know Jesus either.
Barack Hussein Obama II was not a U.S. Senator in 2001. He was an Illinois State Senator from 1997 to 2004. This probably doesn’t matter to you, as you are still waiting for the birth video and signed affidavits from 100 eye witnesses.
Are you sure this isn’t a list of things the DNC doesn’t dwell on the remain stagnant. None of my southern Republican friends dwell on this, they’re too busy looking to work on fixing the problems brought by the Democratic Congress. Oh, and conservative don’t hate illegals unles they need a lawn cut anymore than democrats hate blacks unless they need votes. I seem to recall this once incident in Alabama….where a republican president had teo get the national guard to force a democrat governor to let those kids go to school unharmed…hmmm.
I believe you’re referring to JFK, George Wallace — I believe they were both Democrats.
Now, now, don’t confuse him with facts. He might boil over.
and the Civil Rights Act pushed that LBJ signed pushed all the racists out of the Democratic Party, they joined the Republican Party, and the South went from being Democrat to Republican within two election cycles. And as someone who has spent all 32 years on this planet living in the South, I know that the Republican Party is full of racists. Kinda of like how Stormfront openly promotes the Tea Party…
If you want to weep read Nixon’s Wikipedia entry. He’d be tarred and feathered as a hand wringing bleed heart liberal today…by DEMOCRATS!!!! AAAAARRRRGGHHH.
Just ask one of them a question. They dont have an answer for you and they will just try and change the subject.
Ok, ask me a logical question. I guarantee I have an answer for you.
I guarantee I also have an answer and that I promise not to change the subject. Asking me questions though has a price – I give honest answers so do be careful not to ask anything to which you don’t want an answer.
There’s a difference between honesty and accuracy. Being honest doesn’t make it accurate.
It doesn’t take much to upset a republican and make them open mouth and insert foot lol. After all, that’s what they’re best at! Their stupidity would be comical if do many didn’t believe it with all their little black hearts.
I really hope I’m not the only person that spotted the irony of Kathy’s comment. I mean, making fun of someone and then spelling things wrong at the same time? This is definitely going on the fail blog for sure… (names and all)
You’re really quick to point out spelling errors when you don’t have a good reply, aren’t you? Since the d key is next to the s key, maybe she hit the wrong one. You and your comments are the fail blog.
Well, You did not drive me crazy!! I am ROTFLMFAO!!! Libturds keep me in stitches!!
Republicans scare the crap outta me because they truly believe the crap that comes outta their mouth!!!
Yeah, like “Once you earn it and pay taxes on it, you oughta be able to keep it.” Pretty scary stuff, eh?
Wait, so what they try and teach in college is wrong? I don’t have to take what I spent years working for and make programs that incentives laziness, like welfare? You mean, the world DOESN’T owe me a living just because of my nationality (in this case American) and vote for democrats. next you’ll tell me that affirmative action is outdated because it doesn’t allow people to achieve on their own merits and promotes inequality.
There you go again, generalizing. Welfare as it now exists, is a stop gap for people who have fallen on hard times. You are not allowed to be on the program for more than 2 years. That law was signed by a Democrat, Bill Clinton. But, like a typical Conservative, you have no problems with tax breaks for the wealthy, or corporate welfare, and subsidies even though they are reporting record earnings.
Obama achieved on his own merits but you Repuglibaggers can’t accept that fact. Do the words Summa Cum Laude and Editor of the Harvard Law Review ring a bell? To you any African American who has achieved anything in life must have had help. You want a fine example of an affirmative action enhanced black man, look no further than that right wing darling Clarence Thomas.
Define “earn” and define “taxes”. Therein are the differences, not the concept itself.
Number one could be the beginning and the end if you include that the Socialist who wrote the Pledge was also a pastor and never wrote the words “under God” into his pledge!
101.) “Mr. Republican” Teddy Roosevelt passed the Pure Food and Drug laws. (As a result stomach cancer, e.g., has dropped montonically ever since as government research found more and more places to implement those laws.)
102.) The cattle and corn industries of Iowa depend on evolution.
103.) The Republican farm program, mostly the work of President Eisenhower and Mormon Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, is the Socialist Party platform of every election from 1880 through 1948.
104.) Government give-aways built the railroads which get the food to market.
105.) America was created by, uh, the Continental Congress.
-dlj.
106) None of Presidents on Mount Rushmore were consider conservative.