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    The number of countries in the world, according to Mr. and Mrs. USA has shrunk to five:

    Canada
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    Iran
    Russia

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    From the great state of Texas, home of some real imbeciles.

    Republican Texas Board Of Education Hopeful Claims Obama Was Gay Prostitute | If You Only News

    Republican Texas Board Of Education Hopeful Claims Obama Was Gay Prostitute

    Mary Lou Bruner, who is running for the Texas State Board of Education, appears to be the embodiment of every lunatic Tea Party troll you have ever encountered on the interwebs.

    Before she locked down her Facebook to prevent voters from getting even more proof that she does not even science or reality, it was discovered by the Texas Tribune that she believes that Obama is gay, and was a prostitute to support his drug habit.

    This woman is running for the Texas State Board of Education. Hide your children.

    It seems RWNJs (Right Wing Nut Jobs) and Fundies like to run for school board positions because they know that the best possible way that they can infect young people with their suppurating dogma is to dose them young and often.

    Eerrily similar to some of Boon Mee's claims.
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    It would be funny if it weren't actually so scary.

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    ^I know.

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    Terrifying Texas....

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    Bunch of fucking looney tunes.

    A woman charged with conspiracy for the prolonged takeover of a federal building in Oregon is suing federal employees for committing “the works of the devil” on her, and she wants billions of dollars for it — specifically, $666,666,666,666.66.

    Shawna Cox, a Utah resident, accuses the government of trying to kill her, and of murdering Robert (LaVoy) Finicum, the only occupier killed by police during the weeks-long siege.

    In her so-called “counter criminal complaint,” which Cox filed Wednesday independently of legal counsel, she says “arrogant, narcissi Federal Government officials” (sic) tried to “hijack” the Constitutional rights of her and her fellow armed occupiers.

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    Anywhere else in he world? Anywhere?

    Let me re-phrase that:
    Anywhere outside of Texas (and Arizona)? Anywhere?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    Terrifying Texas....
    Gotta agree, some, not all Texans are a special kind of stupid.

    Not unlike some the special imbeciles who make TD their special little home.

    But when ya think about it neither TD, nor Texas have exclusive dibs on stupidity.

    Governments and mainstream media breed stupid fukwits by the skyscraper-full all around the world, at an alarming rate....Terrifying....


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    Noam Chomsky said the social conditions that are driving voters to Donald Trump also explain the rise of fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler.
    The famed linguist and political scientist discussed the presidential election in a recent interview with Alternet, where he was asked to explain Trump’s growing popularity with Republican voters.
    “Fear, along with the breakdown of society during the neoliberal period,” Chomsky said. “People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”
    He said economic uncertainty and a loss of social cohesion had also fueled the rise of fascism in the last century — but he cautioned that some current conditions were even worse.
    “It’s interesting to compare the situation in the ‘30s, which I’m old enough to remember,” Chomsky said. “Objectively, poverty and suffering were far greater. But even among poor working people and the unemployed, there was a sense of hope that is lacking now, in large part because of the growth of a militant labor movement and also the existence of political organizations outside the mainstream.”
    Chomsky traced echoes of that era in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign, describing the presidential candidate as “an honest and decent New Deal Democrat.”
    “The fact that (he is) regarded as ‘extreme’ is a comment on the shift to the right of the whole political spectrum during the neoliberal period,” Chomsky said.




    Chomsky: Trump?s rise fueled by same societal ?breakdown? that birthed Hitler

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    Holy crap....it gets even better :

    According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real estate mogul and now Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, kept a book of Hitler’s speeches near his bed.
    “Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed … Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,” Marie Brenner wrote.


    More below :

    Donald Trump's ex-wife once said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed | Business Insider

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    The GOP is the party of stupid, but its voters are the deluded ones

    One wonders how Republican primary voters can listen to the disruptive, yet vague, stump speeches of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and believe that they have any specific plans to govern. A celebrated essayist, roundly criticizing the partisan divide, has written forcefully of “the Mob of Malcontents” who are quick to believe in “absurdity,” who are “daily nourished … by fiction and delusion.” He goes on to assert that the “political faith of a Malcontent” is altogether founded on imagining wishes will come true, and giving credit to what is said that is pleasing to his ear.

    The insightful author of these words is the worldly English opinion writer Joseph Addison, a Latin scholar, playwright, poet and politician writing in 1716 in a journal titled “The Free-Holder.” It was not the Republican Party that troubled his mind; it was the Tory Party. He was complaining about political unreason and the credulity of a majority — even of educated people — precisely 300 years ago.


    Let’s be honest. While the Malcontents of our day tend to be those who follow blindly the exaggerated claims of demagogic self-lovers Trump and Cruz, Addison’s plaint should not be adjudged party-specific. A republic cannot function smoothly if voters accept at face value the impassioned promises of candidates whose record of actual accomplishment is more modest than they claim. Or, to single out the GOP, voters should be properly informed when a presidential candidate’s public actions or votes in Congress do not represent real commitment to improving conditions for ordinary people.


    What can we do about voter gullibility? When the Republican Party insists that President Obama has been bad for the economy, and that lower taxes on everyone is always the best stimulus (no matter what conditions prevail), it is more than a question of “faith” in the leadership of the GOP. When candidates say they believe the science on climate change is uncertain, are they doing anything other than promoting wishful thinking?


    Addison saw the political problem clearly. He wrote in an era when it was easy for people to acknowledge submission to their superiors, when “party” was defined not as a mainstream organization but as an unwholesome faction bent on destabilizing what was good in political society: “Our Children are initiated into Factions, before they know the Right Hand from their Left … They are taught in their infancy to hate one half of the Nation.” In this he could as well have been talking about us. Wait a minute: The United States Constitution was written and enacted at the end of Addison’s century, without any mention of parties but with the purpose of introducing such checks and balances that the resulting spread of liberty would represent a healthy improvement over the British model. A belief in American exceptionalism grew out of the latter assumption. Instead, we have experienced disunion on a grand scale (without even counting the Civil War) and have replicated the worst of former British ills.


    Malcontents, by Addison’s definition, need to be “undeceived” in the interest of advancing civil society. Malcontents, he is saying — and he’s right — do not want honesty. Bernie Sanders, bless his Democratic Socialist heart, is trapped in a very unlikely version of the American Dream if he believes that all students at public colleges and universities will pay no tuition. Even if Wall Street speculators kick in the billions he would exact from them, it wouldn’t be nearly enough; it will never happen until Democrats take over all the stingy Republican-led state legislatures. Who is that gullible? Apparently they number in the millions. So it’s not just Republicans, though their deceptions are obviously more cynical.


    In assessing the candidates in both parties, Politifact finds that Hillary Clinton edges out Sanders as the least dishonest (let us frame it this way rather than say “most honest”). While she underplays her opposition to Wall Street, her falsehoods are, for the most part, on the order of “We have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.” She favors the phrase “empirical evidence,” which Mr. Addison would no doubt approve. Yet in televised punditry, the most often heard critique of Hillary is that she lacks the fundamental honesty of Sanders.


    The real difference in honesty is that which separates the opposing parties. For the two Democratic contenders, Politifact finds that about fifty percent of questioned claims are either true or mostly true; for Trump and Cruz, the percentage is closer to single digits. Cruz singularly blames Barack Obama for the movement of American jobs overseas, redefines “carpet-bombing” at will, and goes nuts over imaginary federal government conspiracies; Trump’s pants are on fire so often that he will have to spend some of his billions on a new wardrobe. (Politifact need not investigate that figurative statement: some hyperbole is not intended to deceive.)


    The predominantly white Malcontents who have gravitated to the GOP frontrunners in 2015-2016 eagerly consume the junk food of a party that denies or twists data, encouraging its supporters to believe that social programs don’t help them, but instead support the unwholesome lifestyles of people of color and job-killing illegal immigrants. The GOP welcomes to the fold all who are incapable of dissociating economic anxiety from their inherited racist assumptions, those whose anti-intellectualism is ready to be exploited (or who believe Sarah Palin can actually interpret everyday reality for them).


    Proffering fictions, Republican politicians who serve and are served by moneyed interests repackage the facts about poverty in America. They don’t react to empirical evidence, i.e., the majority of our poor are elderly and/or disabled; the married-with-family poverty rate in the U.S. is at least six times that of the Democratic-Socialist nations of northern Europe; and the number of impoverished Americans definitely includes all kinds of white people. Conservative policy is to eradicate the FDR and LBJ reforms that were designed to combat racism and a class-based inequality of access to power and opportunity. Empirically speaking, what years do the GOP cite, when conservatives’ legislative initiatives remedied economic malaise, benefited wages (other than at the top) and improved the overall standard of living? Eisenhower doesn’t count: he kept taxes high, supported labor unions and didn’t try to undo New Deal programs.


    Back to our initial focus, then. What is to be done about all the political lies to which we are subject during campaign season? The clear-headed recognize that overturning Citizens United, making all elections publicly funded and redistricting at the congressional level on the basis of non-partisan factors will help reverse the trend toward institutional corruption of our electoral politics. But, as far away as these legislative priorities appear right now, it’s only a start. You can’t accomplish anything without an informed public. By definition, an informed public is resistant to questionable assertions; an informed public looks not for a savior but for a reasonable reformer.


    Instead, we are overwhelmed by Malcontents who feed on “fiction and delusion” because critical detachment is hard for human beings to muster. It’s why they love the theater and go to action movies and read romances: real life is pressure-filled, contentious and demanding. When offered positive emotional engagement, we take the bait; we get something off our chest; it feels good. Political campaigns, like rooting for sports franchises, tap the universal desire to exhibit strength and emerge victorious, even if it’s vicarious and it’s not nearly as much about us as we imagine. Like the World Series or the Super Bowl, identifying with a team is a way to experience hope; the media enlarge the personalities involved, and for an extended moment we get to identify with a “huge” idea. Exaggeration is good business. Rarely do we share in a collective response on the order of July 1969, when the cause of humanity, as well as the cause of science, was enlarged as humans first walked on the moon. It didn’t matter who was president. A government program, as it happens, demonstrated the possibility of matching the dream with empirical fact. If only there were more such moments of productive joy.

    We all want our candidates to be earnest in their solicitation of our vote but the system seems to require that they “go negative,” thereby awakening the Malcontents whose faces and placards and interruptions in turn delight TV executives. We ask — naïvely, it seems — for statesmen and stateswomen to discuss and debate honestly, to exhibit their judgment on critical issues and not simply calculate their positions on the basis of what sells. That was how our inspired republic was supposed to function. We are learning, instead, how an authoritarian (or an entertainer) can conceivably come to power.
    Joseph Addison, writing in 1716, shows us that we have scarcely improved over the past 300 years. He understood the politics of deception, how easily promises flow in recognition of the credulity of humans. If he saw glorification of kingly virtue as snake oil, we see its modern incarnation in the banal tendency toward idolatry that reality TV competitions aim to draw forth. Addison was celebrated by the founders of the United States for his work as coauthor of the witty, widely read “Spectator” series of essays, which took as its conceit its protagonist’s preference to live in the world as a Spectator, rather than as an active striver. Addison’s Spectator tried to discern the difference between claims to authority and fractured opinion; the American voter is a dumbed-down version of his Spectator, made a disagreeable Malcontent by being led to fear and, in consequence, led to impulsive adulation.


    Addison wrote presciently of our commitment to exaggerated images and managed causes when he noted the flaws of those who enjoy power too much. Unlike a more broadly literate, knowledge-seeking person, one who lives and breathes politics and has little time to take up more refined pursuits is in it for the wrong reasons. “A mere Politician is but a dull Companion,” he said. But here we are. Every few years (or perhaps it’s without pause now), servants of the public put on their makeup, hire pollsters and return to the old playbook of quoting disturbing facts while professing to be the voter’s friend and advocate … if not their saving grace. And we fiction-friendly Malcontents keep arising, coming back for more.


    Republicans really fall for this nonsense: The GOP is the party of stupid, but its voters are the deluded ones - Salon.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    The number of countries in the world, according to Mr. and Mrs. USA has shrunk to five:

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    You forgot "Yoorp". They think that's a country.

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    I wouldn't believe what Ex wives say about their ex husband, it's seldom true.

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    ^ you love it in the ass jetty...

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    Naom Chomski's lost some of his marbles over the last few years, turned a couple of points towards authoritarianism.

    Poor show.

    I hope he recovers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Somboon View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    I wouldn't believe what Ex wives say about their ex husband, it's seldom true.
    Bsnub and Ant are a gay couple. So who is the wife?
    Dunno about Bsnub, he's a laugh, good on him!
    Ants, got a very nice rich lady, so I gather.

    But his neighbour's a sexy little Thai lady he likes to spy on.

    Then he likes to indulge in gerontophobic sex analysim, too.

    C'est la vie.

    Takes all sorts to make a narcissistic sadistic queer.

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    The depth and breadth of your delusions is equal parts fascinating and disturbing.

    At least you're in the right thread for you I suppose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    The depth and breadth of your delusions is equal parts fascinating and disturbing.

    At least you're in the right thread for you I suppose.
    Disturbing to you? I'll bet!

    The depth and breadth of my observations lead me to conclude that you're a very lonely person.

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    Well they aren't observations they're just things that you've rather bizarrely dreamed up and are attempting to superimpose over objective reality.

    Which leads me to conclude you're a raving loon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post

    Which leads me to conclude you're a raving loon.
    I've known that since 2011. He's alright for anthropological facts and acronyms, but forget any kind of analysis completely.

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    Says the Aspie who chopped his thumb to the bone with a little electric chainsaw he couldn't use properly.

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    ^ Says the man who poured petrol down his earhole !

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    I did nothing of the sort.
    A fuel line broke, I was sprayed with petrol.

    Not as daft as deliberately trying to use a brand new chainsaw with one hand, skippy!


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    You may not be right wing, but you are a moron.....I said nothing about it being brand new.

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