What is the stupidest thing you have seen today?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
The email I sent my agent, after he mentioned he’s attending an SF conference: “Well, as long as you’re on the west coast …” I said.
SF. Jesus.
What’s the problem? It’s just like New England. All the big cities are about 50 miles* from each other. How hard can it be? Take a cab if you have to!
* Give or take 900 miles…
What is the stupidest thing you have seen today?
It isn’t a thing so much as a person. Gene Sperling. To wit:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-25/obamas-top-economic-adviser-tells-democrats-theyre-g
oing-to-have-to-swallow-entitlement-cuts
Not stupid, but mean and cruel. I TOLD you this is the fourth term of George Bush. At least Bush was going to give us a sporting chance in the stock market, Obama is just going to rip us off.
Dude, you bummed me big time. Another glass of wine will now be necessary.
Seems like this has been and is the postion of Dems: you want entitlement cuts, there’s gotta be revenues. Isn’t that what Sperling is saying here?
“Right now, I think there is among a lot of people a consensus as to what the ingredients of a pro-growth fiscal policy are. It would be a fiscal policy that–yes–did give more confidence in the long run that we have a path on entitlement spending and revenues that gives confidence in our long-term fiscal position and that we’re not pushing off unbearable burdens to the next generation. That is very important.”
Here’s how he summed up the prospects for a budget deal before year’s end:
“We could have an economic growth strategy where we had a more pro-jobs, pro-recover fiscal policy right now that included–that did not have this harmful sequester. We could have more savings that were on both the revenue and entitlement side that were long-term and would help in the future. And we could make sure that we’re making room for the things that almost everybody thinks we need to do more of”–that is, investments in infrastructure.”
Savings on revenue being “loophole closing”.
That wins the stupid prize for the month, including the government shutdown. “Hey, Dems, let’s take the blame for real or threatened cuts to the social safety net! It guided us to massive losses in 2010, and I’m betting it will again!”
And Sperling is one of those guys who always feels he’s the smartest person alive. How do you explain to someone that stupid that he IS stupid?
Stupidest thing I saw today and every day is my sister.Sometimes I can be just enjoying myself and my sister goes and spoils my mood. Or sometimes I can be going out shopping and my sister will put me in a bad mood, she says really harsh things as well which really don’t help me very much. Sometimes whenever I’m using my laptop with her she keeps talking down to me and laying into me, and sometimes it gets really annoying. But I love her anyway.She did some blog actually about weight loss and I would appreciate if you see it.
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The Daily Show segment with the GOP precinct chair:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nc-goper-fired-for-making-racist-comments-on-daily-show-video
As Aasif Mandvi said, “You realize we can hear you, right?”
Oh my God, today’s update:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nc-goper-who-resigned-over-racist-remark-says-party-is-gutless
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Don Yelton, Real American, if you know what I mean.
In addition, a North Carolina Republican State Legislator told a joke at a public event this week where he said some people are claiming the President is a traitor to his country. The punchline: “I haven’t come across any evidence yet that he’s done one thing to harm Kenya.”
Also, Governor McCrory is participating in an event tonight honoring Jesse Helms.
This week, the North Carolina Republican Party announced a new outreach program to black voters.
I’m not kidding.
It is a joke, though.
The fact that universities are clamoring to get David Petraeus to come shill for Kohlberg-Kravits-Roberts (KKR) at their campuses.
I have had a blessed day…haven’t needed to leave the house, just practicing and wandering around the internet on my practice breaks. The stupidest thing that I have seen today? I guess it would have to be this:
With idiots like this in control, maybe we really do have nothing to worry about.
Lord!!!
From a P.S. to a post I made in 2006 when Hayden was poised to take over the DCI post after Porter Goss had just “stepped aside.”
AG
Stupidest thing? Gene Sperling’s (President Obama’s) comments on trading short term stimulus for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. I can’t wait for the President and Dems in Congress to explain that prior to 2014. With luck, the Tea Party will save the President from himself again if he’s committed to pushing that agenda.
He is. In Goldman Sachs We Trust. Stimulating the stock market is MUCH more important than tens of millions of lives. With the (pending?) election of Terry McAuliffe we see that “The Party on the Left has become the Party on the Right”.
Tom Delay is back. He is back on a mission from GOD to lead a constitutional revival.
Damn, Martin!! Are you kidding? Cut us some slack, man!
Rating stupid right now is like asking us which speech by Sarah Palin was the most ignorant example of word salad. The field is just too damn wide open.
This, by far:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/18/opinion/la-oe-allen-palin-for-president-20121118
Wow. That’s one flaming heap of stupid.
Maybe the stupidest part: Romney lost because he was a rich guy, but Palin would be a better candidate in 2016 because…
wait for it…
Uh. Yeah. The exurban mom, who went from cheerleader and beauty queen to failed TV sportscaster (via five or six colleges) to vindictive small-town mayor to governor, a job so taxing she quit halfway through her only term. A meteoric rise she achieved through sheer hard work, or at least overwhelming ambition and pettiness, combined with a flukish governor’s race, the worst VP selection process ever, and a closet full of tight-fitting sweaters.
And then got rich off the celebrity from her inexplicable nomination and failed campaign, decamped for one of the wealthiest suburbs in America (Scottsdale), and now spends her time receiving Wingnut Welfare and working up a sweat occasionally instructing her staff about what breathtakingly idiotic tweet to put out in her name next and occasionally getting six-figure payments to spout collections of the dumbest of them and call them speeches. A woman who will never have to work a day in her life again, but works anyway (kind of) because she’s addicted to being worshipped by the credulous.
What factory-line worker can’t relate to that?
I’ve been watching this for about 20 minutes. That makes me the stupidest thing I’ve seen today.
http://imgur.com/gallery/646PaCi
Most stupid one I’ve seen today is National Journal Ron Fournier’s headline, “Republicans Don’t Want to Govern and Dems Can’t.” I’m assuming Fournier is referring to the ACA website failure as his example of how Dems can’t govern. That’s a pretty big stretch but par for the course for him. I won’t give him the benefit of a click through. Ever since I saw NJ’s headline about Obama’s IRA scandal back when that was the topic of the day, I’ve given much less credence to their analysis.
I assume you mean IRS. Peter King’s the other with the IRA scandal.
Check that. Peter King is an IRA scandal.
Right IRS not IRA.
freepers are famous for swamping online polls (“freeping”) to tilt them in their favor (which only illustrates the worthlessness of online polling, which can’t control sampling). but freepers will point unironically to the “unskewed” polls as valid indicators of wingnut popularity. freeping polls is obviously about maintaining the wingnut bubble and making themselves feel better.
but freeping the impending virginia blowout? can anything be more pointless? please proceed, freeperville.
Here in Ohio, Governor Stupid, aka Kasich, has hired Gordon Gee, the former Tsar, I mean President of the Ohio State University to run an investigation/evaluation of how to cut the costs of college.
hahahahahahaha! wipes eyes
phew. Anyhoo, Gee was “early retired” because of his controversial spending and outrageous salary. He lived like a king and truly believed he was one. He had access to a jet, he lives in a mansion, he redecorated his office with hugely expensive decor…it’s just disgusting.
My next question is whether or not Mr Gee will also be teaching Irony 101 next semester.
A man climbing a tree backwards. lol. Chicopee, MA