The Last Four Years in One Quote

[phantom power]

In an otherwise innocuous story about the new calorie labeling at MacDonalds, Dick Nigon of Sterling, VA is every Republican:

I did find one customer who had noticed the calorie labels: Dick Nigon of Sterling, Va. He and his wife, Lea, had stopped by McDonald’s after seeing an exhibit at the Renwick Gallery. Dick had ordered for the couple, noticed the calorie labels and liked them.

“I like that you have the information before you order,” he told me, when I asked about the labels. “It’s better than some kind of government health mandate in Obamacare.”

I told him that the calorie labels were, in fact, a government health mandate in Obamacare.

“Well that changes things a bit,” he responded. “I thought this was more of a voluntary sort of thing. Now I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.”

What’s dumber: the notion that MacDonald’s would voluntarily tell customers the calorie count of their greasy-ass food, or the way that the mere mention of “Obama” changes his mind?

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/09/25/the-last-four-years-in-one-quote/

[gollygee]

1. LOL

"What a good idea!"

"That was Obama's idea."

"Oh, hmm, ok maybe not such a good idea then."

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Idiots like that make my head hurt.

[bongbong]

3. That's why that guy is a repig

He's STUPID.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. I guess we know...

who that dunderhead will be voting for.

[Courtesy Flush]

5. I love the first comment

Spite is not a good foundation for public policy.

[abelenkpe]

6. My family in VA is exactly the same

“Well that changes things a bit,” he responded. “I thought this was more of a voluntary sort of thing. Now I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.”

Why republicans think that corporations run soley on the idea of making money would voluntarily do anything to benefit workers or consumers is beyond me.

[Aldo Leopold]

7. Fits perfectly with the analysis of Republican thinking presented in

"The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality".

A pretty good read, if you haven't already read it.

[phantom power]

10. I haven't read it, but really it's "the last 30 years in a single quote"

[Doctor_J]

36. At least 20

starting with Clinton when Pig Boy took over the country, the kooks feel like they have to hate everything associated with any Dem.

[calimary]

32. Welcome to DU! All the more reason to keep these certified IDIOTS as far from the reins of power

as it is possible to do.

Glad you're here - we need you.





Now get to work.

[AlbertCat]

8. Who goes to MacDonald's after an exhibit in a gallery?

Was it a show of black velvet Elvises?

[mac56]

14. Aw, now....

Was that really necessary?

[AlbertCat]

23. OK OK I confess

I crave MacD's fries and a wild berry smoothie all the time.

And I suppose I should be grateful they went to a gallery at all....

[mac56]

27. Yeah, I thought so too.

After the first opera I attended, my date and I stopped at McDonalds. Couldn't afford both opera seats and a fancy dinner!

[AlbertCat]

31. Couldn't afford both opera seats and a fancy dinner!

Capiche

But there are many alternatives in the vast chasm between a fancy dinner and MacDonald's.

[mac56]

35. Not everywhere, no, there aren't.

Just sayin'

[AllieO]

25. I'll try to remember your quote

Choose the reply that won't make you angry - could advice during this unreal election, thanks

[mac56]

26. Awesome. It's served me well over the years.

Welcome to DU

[calimary]

33. Welcome to DU, AllieO!

Glad you're here - we need you! We have an election to win, and polls notwithstanding, we don't have this thing locked in yet.





Now get to work.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. .

[David Zephyr]

9. That sums them up perfectly.

Willingly ignorant. Thanks for the post.

[Brickbat]

11. Same type of person who hates it when unions demand safe working conditions and good work rules and

wages *on his behalf* and thinks instead that the company gives it to people because it's nice.

[phantom power]

13. our system of regulated capitalism became the victim of its own success

Three or four generations grew up never knowing what it was like before unions and the new deal. So it became possible for the GOP to tell them lies about privatization of the commons, and sell them a bullshit story about how corporations would really love to do the right thing for us all, if the mean old nanny state would just get out of the way.

Anybody who lived in the pre-FDR age of robber barons would smack these people upside the head and tell them how disappointed they were in their descendants.

[ReasonableToo]

42. Agree nt

[JBoy]

12. Hmmm...

[SunSeeker]

15. K&R

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Why is it always a this or that?

Why can't I tell you they are both equally dumb because if it were not for one we might not need the other? Good/evil, man/woman, orange/apple are not enough for me. Sorry but these binary decision are boring. I like to fractal my thoughts out for a while and then yoyo them back in. I may not come to any great conclusions but there is the fun in the thinking. Yes/no is too efficient, too easy. Funny post though.

[SemperEadem]

17. not quite sure about how he feels about it?

Christ, what a stupid idiot! Stupid will get you killed in the wild.

Not many companies are willing of their own volition to make transparent what goes into the foods they sell to the pubic, which is why the government has had to step in and regulate them.

I'll bet he looks like a 1/4 lber with cheese, a large fry and a supersized coke.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Has NOT

heard about the slow food movement for sure.

[hifiguy]

19. The bag of hammers just called to state

that it is nowhere near as dumb as this bottom-feeding duck-fker.

[Zoeisright]

21. What a fucking idiot.

The logical response would be for him to think government regulation is a good thing. But he's too fucking stupid.

[rwsanders]

22. If you think he's bad, pop over to yahoo...

There's an article about how Lynard Skynard wanted to stop using the confederate flag during concerts because of what it represents and the melon-heads are in an absolute uproar (with the band and defending it in the comments). They are also still trying to defend the revisionist "states-rights" thing as the "true" history.
What we really need from science is a cure for stupidity. We can add it to McDonald's burgers and fix all the country's problems.

[calimary]

34. Enlightenment sometimes comes hard. Welcome to DU, rwsanders!

Glad you're here. The more of us there are, the higher the collective IQ, I'd wager.

These people are just sad. Just frickin' SAD. Grimly determined to drag us back to the Bronze Age. Let's get as many of them OUT of power as possible!!!





Now get to work.

[Curtland1015]

24. Reminds me of this awesome toon:

[geardaddy]

29. +1000

[Glimmer of Hope]

40. That is great!

[Ganja Ninja]

28. The part that riles them up the most about Obamacare is the "Obama".

Everything else they can pretty much live with.

[AllenVanAllen]

30. That reaction seems really immature...

And emotionally stunted. I would expect something like that from an elementary school kid not an adult.

[socialindependocrat]

37. We need a bumper sticker that sends a distinct message about the stupidity of Repukes....

Something that identifies the stupidity and makes it distasteful to belong to the party.

67% of the teaparty didn't graduate from high school.

IF you wouldn't donate your money to the wealthy
Why do you vote Republican?

Tithe to the wealthy - Vote Republican

You get the idea...

[spanone]

38. hey dick, that makes you a partisan asshole.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

39. Teabaggers...

[progressoid]

41. +1

Love Twain.