Well….I still can’t bring myself to watch any of the delusions being presented as fact at the repub convention…but I did read of one that was put forth by the VP pick of the repubs, Mike Pence, during his speech the other night where he asserted that “conservative economic principles work wherever they are tried..” Now, this is one of the delusional “facts” that is just so easily debunked the only place that he could utter such nonsense would be in front of a crowd of idiots like those at the convention. In reality, everywhere “conservative economic principles” have been tried it has been a disaster…you just have to look at Kansas, the test lab for the huge tax cuts for the rich and business that is the core of conservative economics…that state is on the verge of collapse after the cuts and the cuts have hurt revenue so much that they are trying to eliminate public education as a way to pay for it…also decimating help for the poor since the state “just can’t afford it” according to the idiot governor Brownback. The same thing has happened in Louisiana where the other conservative genius, Bobby Jindal did the same thing and now the new democratic governor has come in to try to clean up the mess of deficits as far as the eye can see….so no, governor Pence…conservative economic principles have never worked for anyone but the rich so you are either an idiot or you are lying through your teeth…which is it? Sad!
Tag Archives: Indiana
Tom Cotton is an even bigger idiot than I thought…
Well….if you remember this idiot who was the one behind the undermining of the administration’s Iran policy by getting 46 more of his other idiot repub senators to sign the ridiculous letter the leader of Iran…you do? Good…well, he’s back again with more idiocy that can only come from someone on the right…the other day ole Tom was commenting on the “license to discriminate” law that was passed in Indiana and said that he couldn’t understand what all the uproar was about…after all, they hang gays in Iran so the gays here have it pretty good even when they are being treated as second class citizens. Yep, he actually said that…I may have paraphrased a little but the gist of his comment was captured…that gays should just shut up here in the US since they are treated worse in another country…so by extension of his logic, women should just shut up since they are treated worse in other countries…and minorities should shut up since they are treated worse in other countries. Maybe ignorant senators should just shut up…don’t you think? In case you haven’t looked lately, Tom, the US has a little thing called the 14th amendment that gaurantees equal treatment under the law…not equal treatment for the people YOU think should have equal rights…what an idiot…the standard bearer of the modern repub party….geez…
Mike Pence is still lying…
Well…after ole Mike’s show yesterday at his news conference about his state’s ‘license to discriminate” law…where said repeatedly that the law needed to be ‘fixed” to go forward and garuntee that there would be no discrimination against LGBT people, this idiot goes on fox news and basically says “nevermind” that the law does not need to be fixed and he stands behind the law…repeating the repub talking point that it is not the law but the perception of the law that is the problem…and all he needs is a little propaganda from fox to make everything better…yep, Mike that’s it…it just the perception that the bigots in the state who will use this law to discriminate that is the problem and that Hoosiers will not discrimninate..so, when were you lying, Mike? At the news conference or on Fox? Just ask the O’Connor family who own Memories Pizza in Walkerton…who stated today that they will not serve gay people and said ”it’s not discrimination, it’s just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in anything”…yep no bigots in the Hoosier state….Mike, you are such an idiot and the people that voted for you deserve to lose everything….geez…
Protected classes?
Well…had to do one more to make the goal for the month and I’ve had this one rattling around in my head ever since the idiots in Indiana passed their “license to discriminate law” last week. As you know…the repubs are all about the idea that there should be no protected classes in our society since discrimination is a thing of the past; attacking affirmative action, voting rights, women’s rights as no longer being necessary in our modern society. But then, in a fit of hypocrisy that is a hallmark of the modern repub…they create their pet protected class of religious believers…but the thing they don’t get is that religious folks have no right to not have their fee fees hurt by people that don’t believe in their kind of religion….they can believe whatever they want but they have no right to project their religious beliefs on the rest of us and make us adhere to them in the secular society at large…once they choose to be part of that economy, they have no right to discriminate against any customer and any service or product they offer to one, they have to offer to all…one of the straw men they put up to try to defend the law is that no one would expect a kosher deli to serve ham sandwiches…no you wouldn’t…but no one gets ham sandwiches..,.not just gays that are customers….I really think that today’s repubs are just a stupid, stupid bunch….they need to go away an leave the sane of us alone….geez…
Mike Pence is either a liar or stupid..you pick…
Well…just watched the Mike Pence news conference and the only thoughts that came into my head is either lying or stupid…or maybe both, trying to make people believe that he never thought the law would result in discrimination while it’s supporters, who stood behind him when he signed it crowed that discrimination was the purpose of the law. But the striking thing to me is how well he used the repub playbook of victimhood….that Indiana is the target of a “smear” campaign by outside media and the problem is just of “perception” of the law. If you follow the news at all, this is the go to repub tactic whenever they are challenged on this nonsense….it’s not that the law will permit discrimination (it does) but the perception that people have that it will allow discrimination…or that people found out that this law will permit discrimination and they surely wanted to hide it from the general public…just like they lied about right to work here in Michigan and Wisconsin. The “outside media” claim was exploded by the biggest paper in the State…the “Indianapolis Star” having a front page editorial today that called on the Governor to get rid of this hate legislation and ensure equal rights for all people in Indiana…but ole Mike said that rights for everyone is different than this law so they have to be dealt with later….he even said last week that LGBT rights were not on his agenda. So, bottom line…the repubs got caught trying to use the law to discriminate against people they hate…that’s the only takeaway…that they got caught…not that it is wrong to discriminate…what a bunch of asses…geez…
Serves you right, Indiana…
Well…after the idiot governor, Pence, went on the Sunday shows a lied his ass off about the new “license to discriminate” law that he signed, the fallout continues….a major union just pulled their conference out of Indianapolis…Angie’s list just stopped an expansion that they had planned and many states have forbidden their people from any travel for state business to Indiana….and this idiot continues to double down on his lies along with attacking the media for their “sensationalism” in their reporting. Now Mike, ole buddy…it’s not sensationalizing when they truthfully report that you won’t say that this law will lead to discrimination…when you know for a fact that it is the sole purpose of this law…and you were asked pointedly about just that fact and you wouldn’t answer that simple yes or no question. So, citizens of Indiana…it serves you right to have this attention on your state…you elected these asses….geez…
Mike Pence is an idiot…
Well…if you haven’t heard…this idiot governor signed into law a “license to discriminate” last week in Indiana and, with the firestorm from across the country about this backward nonsense, ole Mike went on the Sunday shows this morning to try to explain that it wasn’t designed to do that….and had an epic fail on the whole thing…when asked bluntly if the law would allow people to discriminate against gays, this idiot just kept parroting “Hooisers don’t discriminate” ….yeah, right…don’t you read the news, you idiot? Just yesterday, a business owner went on the radio and told some right wing ass that he turned a gay couple away from his restaurant since it was his and he “could do anything he wanted with it”….and would do it again and again now that he is protected by law….this is what you signed, Pence….to all of the bigots that vote for you to be able to shout “religion” and be the jerks that most repubs are….geez…
Indiana goes back to the middle ages…
Well…I am always amazed how the “small government” conservatives always rail about the overreach of government until they are in control and they start using it to discriminate against those they don’t like. In Indiana today, the governor signed into law a bill that would allow anyone to discriminate against anyone just as long as it was done for religious reasons…yep, it is now legal to deny gays, blacks, Muslims, or anyone else you don’t like services from your business, in housing, or anything else if you just spout “religion” as you do it….never mind that it is still against federal law and the lawsuits will start flying tomorrow…these American Taliban just don’t care…they think the government can and should be used to push their version of religion on everyone else….I agree with Keith Olbermann today when he tweeted that the Final Four should be moved…today..out of Indianapolis and played anywhere…even if it’s in a parking lot in LA or any of the other states that are sane…I’ve had enough of religion in this country..go back to your churches where it belongs and nurse your delusions there…don’t force them on the rest of us….
Pravda of Indiana…..
Well…reading the news today was a little boring until I came upon this little nugget of weirdness out of Indiana…the governor there has decided to create his own “state run media” so that small newspapers there will be able to get the “news” from the government without sending poor reporters to do that job….it’s goal, stated by the governor is to create pre-packaged “news” stories about what’s happening in the government and to break “news” exclusively on this new website/press release machine without having to have all that messy interaction with the media. I wonder if these idiots have ever read history or anything about the constitution and a “free press”? This whole thing seems to be modeled on the Soviet Union’s “state run” media which was basically the propaganda arm of the state…even more so than fox news is for the repubs on a national level. So, they can’t afford to fix their schools, or their roads, of feed their poor, but they have plenty of cash to pay a bunch of “journalists” to create propaganda that will no doubt say how wonderful things are in Indiana and how great the governor is and how terrible the “libruls” are….I cringe at the tone deafness and stupidity of these folks…geez…
Oh…there was one quote that I forgot to share by a commenter over at Kos…”George Orwell, the author of 1984, is spinning in his grave screaming “1984 is supposed to be a cautionary tale…not a how to manual”…pretty funny….