Some things never get old and some things never change. In Alabama, every measure of progress is always accompanied by kicking and screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth. So, when told that they can’t ban gay marriage by a federal judge, they sound exactly like they sounded when told that they had to give up their Jim Crow laws.
“It is outrageous when a single unelected and unaccountable federal judge can overturn the will of millions of Alabamians who stand in firm support of the Sanctity of Marriage Act,” Republican Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard said in a statement. “The Legislature will encourage a vigorous appeals process, and we will continue defending the Christian conservative values that make Alabama a special place to live.”
If by “special” they mean “special ed…”
Yeah, I know, we’re not allowed to “go” there.
I’m looking for a politically correct word to mean that your damn brain doesn’t work right.
I’m looking for a politically correct word to mean that your damn brain doesn’t work right.
The word you are looking for is conservative.
Damn!
You beat me to it!!!
“Halfwits” doesn’t have quite the right connotation.
Yeah, it implies that there is some “wit” there at all, not just the archaic vs. modern usage of “wit”.
“In the Witless Protection Program, aka GOP”
…is better.
Actually my Dad always said that some people are born halfwits and for GOP members they grow into full fledged “NITWITS”.
I think there’s something to that. A lot of people are really stupider than they need to be. Why reasonably intelligent people would embrace stupidity is kind of a mystery to me, but it’s easy to think of examples. I don’t think Bobby Jindal is really a complete moron, for instance, but he does play one on TV.
But then I suppose you could look at it from the point of view that there is so much stupidity to embrace. You’re basically selling your soul, but it can be a good career move.
I know I am being a promiscuous poster today, but Jeebus, I am so sick of listening to this shit out of the mouths of conservatives. No, not their crying over the outrage of having their “special Christian conservative values” being trampled upon by being forced to endure the horrendous possibility of knowing some gay couple may be being married in AL. That outrage is part and parcel of their “submental” brain functioning and can’t be remedied. They have no other vision of reality in their world of oppressive and cruel Christian “compassion”.
I’m talking about their incessant whining over the fact that some “unelected and unaccountable federal judge can overturn the will!” of voters. Hapless Lib’ruls have been recently forced to watch 5 unelected and unaccountable conservative male activists masquerading as Justices overturn the will of millions of Americans by declaring gun ownership a constitutional right, and by declaring that corporate CEOs and plutocrats have a first amendment right to throw all elections, and by declaring that it was unconstitutional(!) for Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act, and by declaring bosses have some religious-based right to interfere in their employee’s health insurance benefits, to name just a few recent scuttlings of state and federal legislative enactments by (so-called) conservative judges.
So hearing rightwing Alabama imbeciles whine about the unjust abominations of “unelected judges!” and their power gets a bit much to take. Dear Conservatives: you must retire this stale and threadbare line of prattle, especially when you are winning on just about everything as a result of this “outrage”.
Has a highly unionized work force.
I’m pretty sure some neo-populist blather, or putting Howard Dean in charge of the DNC isn’t going to bring them home.
They do? Highly unionized compared to much of the South at close to 11% of the work force (Georgia was 4.3% in 2014,Tennessee 5%), but I don’t think that translates into a lot of voting power. Michigan was 16.3% and those unions can’t work their will on the electorate either. AL is still a right to work state.
Remembering Biden debating Palin and wondering how he was going to debate ‘the stupid’ and keep his gentlemanly front and center. Now I’m wondering how the debates between Hillary and any one of the GOP nominees will go. Will she master the art of not letting her jaw drop?
How about “Real American.”
meaning they’re that way because they like it that way?
I think you’re on the right track there. But I think we need something here that isn’t just a generic term, because what we’re talking about is a uniquely American kind of stupidity. It’s a particular set of myths (we’re a Christian nation), cliches (unelected activist judges), and bigoted attitudes (self-evident). If you find rational thought to be a burden, you can just turn off your brain and plug in.
Exactly 0.697591 “millions” of Alabamians voted for this.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Amendment_774
Also too, of course, it’s not “outrageous” when a judge does something that’s specifically part of their job. But it is outrageous — if entirely predictable — that some grandstanding fuckwit will be loudly stupid and/or dishonest about it.
Steven’s diary “Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops, Again.”
It starts up every time I come to this page. Thanks!
I endorse this message wholeheartedly.
Me too.
“N now! N tomorrow! N forever!” for all values of N.
At the meta-language, meta-schema, meta-framing level, it’s “B now! etc.” B is for bigotry. N is a subcategory of B. Just as G for Gays is a subcategory of B.
In Calculus (which s/he was referencing) “n” is the standard variable. In your greater sense to the (n-word) I agree with you.
Oh, you mean Mike “indicted on 23 counts of corruption charges” Hubbard?
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/10/mike_hubbard_indicted.html
Fuck you, criminal.
“Willful ignorance” is the term I end up using.
The only problem with that term is that it communicates only to those not in the “willful ignorance” tribe. It goes right over the heads of those holding up their “Get a clue Moran” placards and leaves no mark on them.
It’s certainly a tribe that is very motivated not to be communicated with, to begin with. Hard to have much of a conversation, let alone actually reach, members of a group who have gone to great pains to be reachable.
“I’m looking for a politically correct word to mean that your damn brain doesn’t work right.”
The reason ‘Special Ed’ or a category for ‘impaired’ or somehow constitutively unable isn’t politically correct is because the object of one’s scorn, or the person or group of people being declared to be in the wrong, is because the Special, Impaired, or constitutively unable is being identified as wrong by virtue of something that is not their fault, something that is not their choice: “you are wrong because your brain doesn’t work right” or because they are too short, too tall, or ‘born that way.’
What we really mean to say is that their point of view is biased, hence handicapped because of their fears, their selfishness, the laziness of their thinking.
The consequence of not addressing their fears, considering their selfishness, of being weak and lazy in their thinking is that they are, plain and simple, mean.
And they are mean because they are cowards. They are selfish because they are cowards. They think poorly because they are frightened of what thinking might cause.
Mean and frightened.
Thats the base for everything and anything they have to contend with.
So if you come up with any term that describes Mean & Frightened, you’ve appropriately described both who and what they are.