Akin: We've Got A Commie President

[proud2BlibKansan]

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[budkin]

1. He just really does not want to win LOL

It's just comical at this point.

[LynneSin]

43. He's under the delusion that if he goes harder right he'll win

That somehow there is more teabaggers out there just waiting to come out of the closet and say they support this douchebag.

[Coyotl]

86. He knows about all the hollers in the Ozarks

and he thinks they still live in the 50's in the Ozarks just like he does

This guy is handing Missouri to Obama and McCaskill on a silver platter. Thanks Todd.

[Texin]

62. It'll only be comical if Claire wins

Wow. I don't think things were this ugly even back in the 50s.

[progressoid]

101. And yet hundreds of thousands will vote for him.

[patrice]

2. That's what Republicans call anything that doesn't support Divine Right Royalty: commie. nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. About fucking time!

[JaneyVee]

4. What took him so long?

Desperation.

[patrice]

5. Proof positive that Republican grasp of economics is pathetic.

[lastlib]

36. The Republican grasp of reality is pathetic!

[patrice]

53. Yes! That is the very specific fundamental fact. It has to do with a lack of respect for science.

Science, i.e. what knowledge is and how it develops, is of no or insignificant value to some people, so they lose even hypothetical connections to reality. Everything is one false equivalence or a false dichotomy or another. We now have significant demographics that intentionally or otherwise devalue knowledge. Meaning, identity, significance is predicated upon echoes of echoes, extrapolations from abstractions from, at best, 2nd or 3rd hand "information".

Is it any wonder that widely accepted and very powerful business models have become MALADAPTIVE???

[docgee]

66. Haha! I like to say the cognitive dissonance these people experience must cause insanity... nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

78. They don't experience cognitive dissonance: they just ignore anything doesn't fit preconceptions. nt

[patrice]

81. Indeed. The anomalous is ASSUMED to be insignificant and is, therefore, not even tested . . .

The aggregate of that fact is STAGGERING in its implication$$$$$$$$$ to functionality. Lots of money goes into maintaining firewalls against the "anomalous", which triggers other problems of their own.

I know all of that is systems talk (I used to do technical writing and I am watching that arena through family associations), but it does have enormous relevance to so much much more than just computer science.

[patrice]

79. Indeed! & One of the things about that experience is that, after a certain point, it achieves

critical mass and that point doesn't even necessarily HAVE TO be anything even near 50:50; it can be MUCH less than that, depending upon what is included in the individual's constellation of self-reinforcing contextual factors.

The point being that after an individual's cognitive dissonance achieves his/her own critical mass, it becomes self-reinforcing/self-rewarding (biologically), so it maintains itself not just despite all else, but, in fact, BECAUSE of all else.

"Me/us against the world" is taken as PROOF of validity and maintained, until "external" systemic dysonance:consonance achieves its own critical mass and change results, thus triggering individual adaptation or maladaptation.

For some people, cognitive dissonance is a stimulus to adapt, for others cognitive dissonance is a stimulus to maladapt, so the questions are about how big whichever cohort is at a given moment in which of the most relevant processes.

[docgee]

89. Wow, they modify their perception to justify their own existence...

Tending toward psychopathy, and it's terrifying that this can happen on such a large scale.

[patrice]

90. Everyone needs to know much more about perceptual processes and cognition. There should

be ongoing respectful honest community discussions.

I have heard of something called The Community of Reason; I know a few people who participate. I should look them up and support them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

77. Excellent post. Thank you.

Some thoughts on important points you make:

Many people have not learned how to reason or the sources of knowledge or how knowledge is accumulated or how it is checked against itself and reality.

False dichotomies and false equivalences are pandemic. There is much too much simplistic thinking.

The devaluation of knowledge is a long term factor in American culture. It is insane how many people are proud of knowing nothing. People would be ashamed to say "I have a block in reading and writing" but many smugly say they have a block in math (meaning Grade 10 and 11 math), partly because they get peer support in high school which rains down on them from parents and adults.

Baseball players are called "heroes" while cancer scientists and robotics engineers are called "nerds", "egg-heads", "pointy-haided intuhlekchules" and worse.

Meaning, identity, significance is predicated upon echoes of echoes, extrapolations from abstractions from, at best, 2nd or 3rd hand "information".

Too true.

[patrice]

82. Peer groups are replacing families, because many adults don't/can't see what you're talking about

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here.

I am a conservative Liberal in some aspects and one dimension of that part of me is how I view families. There is no substitute for authentic family and, whether it's blood or some other foundation, that authenticity comes from the extent to which a given relationship is familial, i.e. can be trusted, can be vulnerable, in challenges from BOTH/all participants. My guess is, on the average, many parents, being products of the same dysfunctionalities themselves, cannot deal with their children and the real challenges that the young pose to everything about the "establishment" with which "adults" identify.

Voice of experience here.

This is why teachers should be valued as so so so very much more than cogs in the mechanized "education" machine. Even if they are not the actual familial mentor, when it comes to LEARNING, and the extent to which "education" is an essential factor in learning, teachers are the last step, for a significant cohort, before 0.

[AverageJoe]

104. Excellent points, but

Some people simply do not have an aptitude for math. I am such a person, and I am honest about this deficiency to a fault. I can laugh about it, make fun of myself, and so forth, and that might seem like I am being smug or willfully ignorant, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

I wish I were better in math, but for reasons that I don't completely understand, I am not. On the other hand, I hold three advanced degrees, am fascinated by scientific achievement, and I believe I do have a grasp of how knowledge is created and accumulated.

I don't mean to be testy about this, but math is not the only path to truth and some of us who are otherwise quite capable and rational are more than challenged in this area.

And, a thousand years ago when I was in high school, I certainly did not get peer or adult support because of my problems in math. Just the opposite, in fact. I could name many other people just like me. So please, watch the hasty generalizations.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

105. Clearly you are not the average dodo-head we were talking about. Thanks for pursuing your education.

[AverageJoe]

107. And thanks for pursuing yours too, I guess

Have fun with your math....

[limpyhobbler]

6. wow nt

[Whovian]

7. Holy shit. Did he just say that?

What a "moran."

[defacto7]

8. Time to let this guy

disappear into the waste bin of memory.......

[xxqqqzme]

9. I am so f*cking tired

of these ignorant people being allowed to speak in public as if they had an understanding of current events.

[Newsjock]

10. And how it gets reported

"Akin says President Obama is a communist; Democrats say he is not."

That kind of crap bogus reporting has to stop.

[LisaL]

11. He is going for broke.

[jackbenimble]

25. Exactly.

He's got nothing to lose so he is attempting one last ditch all out effort to appeal to the folks who were simply shamed out of voting for him. Believe it or not, I actually know a woman who is voting for him. She claims its because she thinks what he said was a mistake. The reality is she votes republican all the time regardless of who it is. It's ironic because if it hadn't been for government funded programs she wouldn't have the education she has that allowed her to be successful enough to buy a home, drive nice cars, and live very comfortably. Without help she would have been just another single parent barely making ends meet every month. But she can't see that.

[struggle4progress]

12. I tink I hoyd wimminses ain't git preggers if dey is a commie prez

[TwilightGardener]

13. The comb-over only makes it better.

[quinnox]

14. the 1950s called and they want

you know the rest.

[spanone]

15. out. of. his. fucking. mind.... and newt likes him.

[goclark]

26. birds of a feather flock together

Two of a kind

[WinkyDink]

52. Mais oui!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

16. What ignorance. nt

[JI7]

17. Dumb Shit like this should be getting less than 25 percent

even 25 would be considered too high .

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Oh he'll get at least 40%

Maybe even close to 45%.

[LongTomH]

60. The scary fact is......it will be a close race!

This is Missouri, after all. I am very afraid for my country when people like this are in power!

[Downwinder]

19. They brag that Ronald Reagan defeated Communism.

Now is Akin claiming that Reagan was a fake and the Communists won after all?

[Dr Fate]

40. They brag into microphones and in front of cameras made by the Communist Chinese.

Some defeat.

[progressivebydesign]

47. Well Romney DID say our biggest foe was RUSSIA!!!

Which of course makes me wonder if there is something wrong with Romney.. or if it's just Romnesia taking him back to the 50s. It's like the McCarthy era is back.

[KamaAina]

74. His advisers are still calling it the Soviet Union!!

[Cha]

20. Akin is such a dumbfuck.. nothing's working so he's going for

the disgraced Joe McCarthy sympathizers.

[Permanut]

21. I think that if things like this are said by a legitimate idiot..

we ought to have a way to shut that whole thing down.

[desertduck]

22. Hahahaha. Love your response!

[Plucketeer]

54. YEAH! Great idea!

If Akin screws himself, his body probably has a way of shutting the "hole" thing down. And THAT would explain how he's come to be full of shit!

[tavalon]

23. keep talking idiot

Every word out of your mouth loses you 10 votes. Talk and talk and talk.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Oh I hope so.

[edhopper]

27. How is thios race close?

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What is wrong with people?

[AlbertCat]

28. He left out...

.... "we've got a bunch of stupid dumbfuck lying Repugs everywhere who don't know what "socialist" or "commie" means"

[daleanime]

33. Thats my standard response to idiots like this....

When you can tell me the difference between communist and a socialist then I'll listen to you.

[Ikonoklast]

87. He couldn't even define Capitalism. Most people get it wrong.

Of course, Akin can't define "Numbnuts" either, even though he is a living example of such.

[TBF]

29. I wish ... nt

[byeya]

34. I wish too...

[Starry Messenger]

99. +1

[Zen Democrat]

30. Only a fascist would say that.

[marble falls]

31. And some folks in Kansas have a nitwit for a Congressman, that's where they are.

[Laxman]

32. Newsflash for Missouri Republicans....

This just in-You've nominated a lunatic for Senate. Doesn't it register at some point? I know this crap has gotten old and it's aggravating, but isn't it pathetic at the same time? On two fronts. First, that this is all you have to offer and second, that there are people who buy this swill.

[lastlib]

35. Most people....

..just go to the toilet and take a good poop. Todd just opens his mouth and lets the shit flow.


Keep on talking, Todd!! You're showing us the crazy you'd bring to the Senate and punching your ticket to oblivion.

Sad thing is, 45% of Missouri will agree with him. We gotta quit cutting education!

[Dr Fate]

37. His suit, tie and shirt was manufactured by the Communist Chinese.

But who is counting.

[drm604]

38. This guy gives me an Akin back.

[hobbit709]

39. And we have a fascist fundy nutcake Senate wannabe.

[hifiguy]

41. How does anyone this deeply stupid manage

to function in everyday life? Does someone dress him? Is there an attendant to wipe his ass? Single-celled fungi demonstrate more intelligence on a daily basis.

[SoapBox]

42. The Rape Apologist, is really a filthy traitor...

everything he can do to bring America down, he's doing it.

Ship his perverting, raping ass to Gitmo.

[hfojvt]

44. I guess if you are as far right as Akin

that anybody to the left of, say George H W Bush, is a 'socialist'.

A bunch of socialists in the Senate. Yeah, sure. Like Lieberman and the Nelson brothers and Herb (millionaire) Kohl are all just as far left as the late Senator George McGovern, a three term senator from that hotbed of socialism known as South Dakota.

South Dakota

McCain 53% Obama 45%
Bush 60% Kerry 38%
Ford 50% Carter 49%
Goldwater 44% LBJ 56%

Missouri
McCain 49.36% Obama 49.23%
Bush 53% Kerry 46%
Ford 47% Carter 51%
Goldwater 36% LBJ 64%

[Darth_Kitten]

45. I'm confused...is he a commie or the reincarnation of Hitler?

[DFW]

46. He found Obama's name on a list of 287 communists in the State Department

Joe Biden Was born in Botswana, too. A Republican told me, and they're ALWAYS up on their facts, aren't they?

[Laxman]

50. No, No, No.....

There are exactly 57 card carrying members.....

Akin = John Ickes Iselin

[Skidmore]

48. And Missouri has a slug that crawled out from under a rock and learned how to

speak.

[DFW]

49. "At long last, sir, have you no......

SANITY?"

[Blue_Tires]

51. if only...

[weetie]

55. 1982 called

it wants its Reagan era vocabulary back.

[heaven05]

56. this

idiot clown is desperate.

[porphyrian]

57. Akin: I'm a Batshit Fucking Crazy Misogynist Pig! n/t

[workinclasszero]

58. If you'er not the 1%, you're a communist

FU Akin and all your brain-dead followers

[NICO9000]

59. What year is it again?

How can this race be so close? Are there enough racists and religiously insane folks in MO to let him win?

[proud2BlibKansan]

75. It will be close.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

61. In my dreams maybe

In the RW bubble of ideology, if you're not a vindictive robbing sociopath you must be a commie.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

63. The guy is obviously a graduate of Beck U....

[valerief]

64. If we're afraid of commies, we shouldn't elect Romney, because he makes all his money

off shipping US job to Communist China.

[libdem4life]

65. He missed the class on How to Dog Whistle.

Just blasts it right out there...almost, not quite, comical. Go, Claire.

[KansDem]

67. This shit is really getting old!

I feel like I'm back in post-1950s America!!!

"Commie?" Give me a ****ing break!

[Actionman]

68. Thanks Todd...

I finally get it now, if you don't follow the belief that women should stay in a subservient role in the US, you're a commie or socialist.

Got Mr. Ashitstainonhisskidmarks. Clair please beat this man back into a womb he can never escape...

[Shuhered]

69. 1953..... " I can see 22 Card Carryin'....." WTF??

Just when one thought that he could not shoot himself in the foot yet again, Senator Akin delivers another gift to the comedians of the world who love, love, LOVE his can't-make-this- stuff-up ignorance. Amazing!!!!

[-Steph-]

70. Does he really think this kind of talk is going to win him the election?

[Bake]

71. And it's CLOSE?? This asshat might WIN????

Good lord, we get the government the dumbasses deserve.

Bake

[Initech]

98. WTF!!!!!! Stockholm syndrome maybe????

[newspeak]

72. another words, anyone who actually cares about the poor, the elderly, the sick

the working poor, women, children are all commies and against "supply side jaysus." predatory sociopathic deregulated capitalism is much better, right arsehole?

[KamaAina]

73. We may not have a commie President,

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but we sure as hell have one dumbass mofo in Congress -- and possibly the Senate.

[Caeser67]

76. This Is So 1950's

This should (but it won't) automatically disqualify him (or anyone) from running for or holding, public office.

[BeliQueen]

80. Romney called Obama a communist at the Alfred E. Smith Dinner.

"So little time; so much to redistribute."

Maybe Akin got it from him.

[newspeak]

93. it would be nice if they made up their damn minds

we got the obama is hitler signs in my town. and, now it's the communist. they just can't make up their minds or they have no minds. maybe it's because president obama is actually a centrist and it confuses the buggers.

[FSogol]

83. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you.

He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx

[moondust]

84. Why commie?

That's so overused.

Why not "Baby-eating Zombie from the Death Star" or something like that with a little more pizzazz?

[patrice]

85. Because baby-eating is the sine qua non of War Slavers. It's not PC to criticize baby-eating. nt

[moondust]

91. I knew that.

Dammit I knew that.

[patrice]

92. Just about everyone really does know. "Eat a baby for 1%er-commies, fuck up his/her education & ...

then get your minister to counsel your problem children into the "blessings" of war slavery for "all"."

It's all about income redistribution for whom.

[ieoeja]

88. If I agreed with this guy on the issues, I still couldn't vote for a nutcase like this.

That is the part I do not understand about Rightist voters. Let my local Democratic Representative claim that "Conservatives kill puppies!", and I would vote against him in a heartbeat. That kind of crazy just can not be supported. But Rightists don't seem to have that problem.

[proud2BlibKansan]

100. I so agree

He's so damned stupid I'd never be able to vote for him.

[68 Rex]

94. He'll be Akin aplenty on Election Night

[SomethingFishy]

95. Akin: The gift that keeps on giving... n/t

[stubtoe]

96. I still think "commie" is code for "a black guy" in these people's minds.

Clinton never got called a "commie". But this meme was launched immediately following the '08 election.

I think it harkens back to a time of socially-acceptable hate and fear.

[elbloggoZY27]

97. Super Ugly Stuff

This is really ugly speech and very intolerant to a vast majority of United States Citizens.

[D23MIURG23]

102. I can't wait till this shitbag gets flushed. n/t

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

103. morons...

The repug party is definitely the party of mental patients.

[gordianot]

106. As a lifelong Missourian I do know what my neighbors who endorse Akin truly represent.

I will never look at them the same again. Every political disaster the world has seen in the last 100 years is endorsed by Missouri voters of Todd Akin.

As horrible as Todd Akin appears there is one Republican State Senator on the horizon who is far worse Brian Nieves. Compared to Nieves, Todd Akin is something of a moderate. Nieves advocates violence against those who oppose his radical agenda.