Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week #36

[Nanjing to Seoul]

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Best Government Money Can Buy Edition[/font]

Oh, you didn't think this week would pass without the SCOTUS (1) being labeled and tagged #1, did you? They essentially ended one man, one vote with their decision and decided that “one billionaire, one bank account” is better. Also on the list this week, Vladimir Putin and Pat Robertson are bigots (3, 4), Hall of Famer Louie Gohmert has an odd idea (7) and Dan Coats is a complete moron (1).And as always, don't forget the key.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The United States Supreme Court[/font]

Mark it down. July 1776 – March 2014. . .that's the lifespan of the Great American experiment in democracy. Citizens United put it on life support and McClutcheon V. FEC has pretty much ended the pretense that the United States is a democracy. And like always, the hubris comes out big time as those wishing to buy democracy come out of their rat holes to feast on the rotting carcass. RIP poor man's voice in government.

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On a 5-4 vote, the court struck down the overall limits on how much individuals can give to candidates, parties and political action committees in total during the federal two-year election cycle.

The ruling leaves in place base limits on how much a donor can give individual candidates and laws that require candidates, parties and political action committees to disclose information about donors.

The court was divided over how sweeping the ruling actually is. The biggest impact is that a single donor can now give the maximum amount by law to as many federal candidates, parties and committees as he or she wishes.


So, if some rich, bored idiot like Sheldon Adelson or those measly Koch stains decide to spent 1% of their massive fortune, now they can. Super PACs aren't even necessary anymore. Just sign a check and it's done. Bought, sold and paid for.

Chief Justice John Roberts, or the modern day Roger Taney, [link:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/02/supreme-court-campaign-finance/4481675/|wrote the majority decision.

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Next time someone says there is no difference in the parties, slap that person silly and then have them committed to a nut house. The five Republican nominated justices all said it's perfectly acceptable for politicians and political parties to get on their knees, open their mouths and service the billionaire. The four Democratic nominees tried to invoke sanity by voting no.

Those who voted for George Bush, or didn't vote at all. . .I hope you're happy. We're stuck with Roberts and Alito for at least the next 25 years.

So to recap. . .Democracy is dead, plutocracy is in and American Idol is on. Time to defund the educational system a bit more so people don't develop the critical thinking skills to realize the politicians and the upper 1% that controls them threw them overboard 40 years ago. Let's keep Americans just smart enough to do the jobs and just dumb enough to accept low pay, long hours, no benefits, no job security, vanishing pensions and everything else that the right wing wants to do.

Amazing how the election of a black man caused white Republicans to go insane.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]All Levels of American Government[/font]

Number Two looks at the plight of Jerome Murdough, a nameless, faceless, mentally-ill homeless veteran in New York City. And his story is an indictment on all levels of American Government. Yes, even the current executive branch.

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Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old, mentally-ill homeless veteran, was just trying to stay alive during a New York City cold snap when he thought he found his spot: a stairwell leading to a roof in a Harlem public housing project.

But that desperate act set in motion a nightmare ride through New York's criminal justice system that would end with Murdough dying of heat stroke in a Riker's Island jail cell. New York officials now say the system failed Murdough every which way.


So, America treats its veterans so well they become homeless. America wants good babies to they can raise them to be dead soldiers. And if a soldier comes back alive, hurt or maimed, they are a drain on society and a “taker.” A soldier must be dead to be admired, as Gordon Lightfoot sang.

And American government loves its veterans so much they allow them to become homeless and have to find a place to sleep in a doorjam. Only to have to shithead cop arrest the veterans for vagrancy and put them through the nightmare of the draconian, police state, zero tolerance, everyone is a criminal American criminal justice system.

Because, as we all know, homelessness, poverty and all that comes with it is criminal in today's America.

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So the uneducated police are Riker's Island (I say that because all that is required is a High School Diploma and the ability to read, write and understand English on most police job application forms across the country) allow this man to cook because. . .he's dangerous? They didn't provide adequate care. They didn't provide supervision and let this poor man die.

You read about North Korea, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Iran doing things like this and people in America get upset. But when it happens in our backyard, there is nary a peep made. The Great American Double-Standard: “it's wrong for another country to do what we do in our country.”

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Just like My Lai in Viet Nam. It all fell on Lt. Calley, the fallguy. Police in NY probably picked this guy because no one likes him, he's a bit of a trouble maker and honestly wants to do good rather than use the badge as a manhood and self-esteem extension.

So the United Nations has condemned the US for criminalizing homelessness. Not that American governments at any level give a shit about that. We're Americans. We're the greatest.

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The whitewash was on instantly, but the FBI came in to investigate. Don't expect anything to happen.

So why the indictment of all levels of American government, even the current executive? Because they allow it. They've passed these laws, signed them, enforce them. Mandatory minimums, three strikes, long punishments for victimless crime. The government has brainwashed people that criminals will come out of their toilet and attack them when they take a shit, so we pass SYG laws and kill minorities that are “suspicious” or “made me fear for my life” because they are carrying iced tea or listening to music too loud.

We use drones to kill. We have Gitmo still open. Joe Arpaio's “tent city” runs still in 120 degree heat of Maricopa County. Police shoot, kill, beat, attack and torture people with impunity and the American government allows it to happen. And so do the American people by electing and re-electing the people that pass these laws.

Oh. . .as for Mr. Murdough. He was black too. So being homeless and black. . .double felony and the punishment definitely needs to be death. If only he died like a soldier should die. Then he'd be a hero.

But he was a veteran. And homeless. And black. And mentally ill.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Vitaly Milonov[/font]

Russia has decided to throw away all pretenses of their fake democracy and have decided to become an aggressive, imperialistic state, using “lebensraum” and “there are Russians in that area and all Russians should be under the Russian flag” arguments in Crimea.

Putin has decided to crank up old conflicts and try to reignite a cold war. Inside Russia, one of Putin's allies, Vitaly Milonov, has decided to ratchet up old world pogroms and the classic specter of antisemitism by calling Jews “Christkillers.” Yes, we're back to blood libels and drinking the blood of unbaptized babies for Passover Seders. And we killed Jesus too (The writer of the Top Ten is Jewish).

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“They vilify any saint, it is in their tradition of 2,000 years, beginning with the appeals to crucify the Savior, ending with accusations of anti-Semitism against St. John of Kronstadt,” Milonov said during a March 19 speech before the city’s legislative council, according to the report.


They stole German money. They ruined Germany's economy. They caused and profited from the hyperinflation of 1923! Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews! DEATH'S HEAD UNITS! Kill them all, those greedy, hook-nosed heathen Jews!

The word “they” is a weasel word. It implies everyone thinks and does the same and panders and appeals to the baser instinct of group hatred that people that are afraid, angry and discontented manifest.

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Milonov is the same politician who has proposed that Russia outlaw the “promotion” of homosexuality, grant full citizenship to embryos and forcing women who have not given birth by the age of 23 to join the army.

So, this asshole hates Jews and Gays. What a fun person. No wonder former KGB personnel Vladimir Putin has this person as an ally. They are two peas in a pod. If that pod is rotting from the inside out.

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Role models? I'm glad you're not a role model. . .mass murder and second class citizenry would be the norm. And I'm sure he blames Jews and Gays for the massive Krocodil epidemic that is sweeping his country. . .as well as the ballooning HIV rates.

I guess, since the current Russian government is trying to rehabilitate Stalin's image in the eyes of today's Russians, going for broke by bringing back Tsarist policies of pogrom and Jew hating works too.

And the Russian democratic experiment falls flat. Remember, Democracy is all put impossible in places that have never had any tradition of it.

Get ready for a new cold war. It's coming, and the MIC is salivating.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Benghazi Republicans [/font]

Benghazi. Benghazi. Benghazi. BENGHAZI! (breathe). Ben. Gha. Zi.

There, got that out of my system. But apparently, the Republicans in Congress haven't, won't and can't. Because there are now new calls for an investigation. Oh no, not this shit again.

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Graham, McCain and Ayotte. . .not surprising. McCain is that old man with a cane screaming at kids to get off his lawn while reminding us of the good old days when certain people knew their place. Graham is that guy on the street with the sign saying “The End if Coming” while muttering incoherent musings about freedom and government conspiracies. . .and Ayotte is just fucking stupid.

A join select committee needs to be established, eh? Darrell Issa leading it? Graham the co-chair and McCain being the one who smells off cat pee and mothballs in the corner sleeping? Luckily, Harry Reid has better things to do than listen to these three jackasses.

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Well, there's Issa's name. And no evidence has been found? Don't worry. They are Republicans. They will fabricate. . .oops, I mean invent. . .oops again, I mean “locate” all the evidence they need. All they have to do is tell half truths, innuendo, pseudo-patriotic slogans and speak with self-righteous indignation.

Not to be outdone with the Obama Derangement Syndrome, Michelle Bachmann (R-Jupiter) offered her latest Alex Jones/Glenn Beck conspiracy theory about Benghazi and why nothing has been found. It isn't because nothing is there. I mean, something has to be there. No, it's because Hillary Clinton needed a fall guy.

In an interview with World Nut Daily, Bachmann goes all tin-foil hat.

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Evidence? Evidence? We don't need not steen-king evidence! We have ideology and an echo chamber that will believe anything we say. Who needs evidence? Or proof? Or logic? Or intelligence for that matter? This is Michelle Bachmann.

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After she was done, the aliens came and took her back to her home planet.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Pat Robertson[/font]

Back on the homefront, Pat Robertson decided to take his lily-white bedsheets off his bed, put them on and wear them on his turdfest echo chamber “The 700 Club.” 700 of what, no one knows. Maybe 700 ways to make rational, thinking Americans cringe.

So, Putzo McBiblethumper decide he wants to opine on one of his favorite areas: Jews. He had on some guy promoting a book and things went down into Hell fast.

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Robertson started the interview by asking, “What is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially? You almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the weekends or mowing their lawns.”

Hmmm. . .really? Are you sure about that? Or is that just what your rich friends think? Better call the gardener or the private mechanic.

Granted, not many people can fix a car. I can't even change my oil, but that doesn't mean no Jew does it. The writer's brother is a car mechanic in Arizona. His best friend was a grease monkey in the United States Army. Two examples of Jews that show Pat Robertson thinks things that come out of his anal cavity.

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How hard is it to mow the lawn? Get on your riding mower, put it into the driver and drive in a circle. If Forrest Gump could do it, so can anyone with an IQ double their shoe size. Sorry, Mr. Lapin. . .you're an elitist snob. You and Pat should fit in well together. You just need to accept Robertson's warped interpretation of Jesus Christ.

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Next on the 700. Jews: Greedy money grubbers or just Takers in the Job-creator class? Pat Robertson opines with the ghost of Walt Disney while reading from the Bible and Mein Kampf.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Louie Gohmert (HOF)[/font]

Top Ten Hall of Famer Louie Gohmert is back again for a two-fer of “casting aspersions on his asparagus.” First the Giant Texas Boob comes out with one of the dumbest lines in the history of mankind, then goes for broke by accusing those who have been victims of intolerance of being “intolerant.”

#1: In a statement that is sure to make people's head's spin, Gohmert actually believer that the first amendment Establishment Clause means government can't interfere with religion, but the Church plays a role in the State. You may pick up your bottom jaw off the ground.

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“On Sundays this became the largest non-denominational Christian church in the Washington, D.C. area,” he explained. “People came in here and prayed, they sang hymns, they worshiped God. It was part of our history.”

Yeah. . .so? What about Jews? Muslims? Hindus? Do they matter? Christ was Jewish, dipshit! But all that doesn't matter. Engel V. Vitale. Lee V. Weisman. You people on the right need to learn constitutional case law. It's not hard. If you know how to read, which might be stretch for you people.

Louie the Loon then went on to misquote Thomas Jefferson.

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Gohmert pointed out that a Congressional Research Service report revealed that President Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase “separation of church and state,” had also attended church services at Statuary Hall.

Let's see something Jefferson said, as quoted by DU member Galraedia:

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So, Louie is talking not only bullshit, but out of his huge ass as well.

But not stopping there, Louie doubles down and goes after a Republican's favorite target gayo-Americans. First a little background on Louie's attitudes towards the LGBT community.

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In reaction to Mississippi’s enactment a similar law, Gohmert yesterday told Washington Watch host and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins — who stood behind Mississippi’s governor at the bill’s signing ceremony — that he is “so proud of Mississippi and what they’ve done.”

One thing Louie is good at is going to places where he will be welcomed. World Nut Daily, Family Research Council, Townhall, Fixed Noise. He loves those places. Go any place else and he looks like the boob he is.

So he is not a friend of gay people. He thinks the 14th amendment doesn't apply them and neither does the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Remember, this clown was a judge!

What happened when Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant refused to said the gay hating bill? Louie started whining and crying.

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Wha. . .what? People who are working to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation are the bigots and the intolerants? I guess the men that beat Matthew Shepperd to death were good, wholesome Americans that were tolerant of differences. It was tolerant murder.

Boob is good to describe Louie Gohmert, who solidly continues to earn his place in the Top Ten Hall of Fame.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Lorraine Mae Rafferty[/font]

Let's look at what Republicans have equated gay marriage to being:

01: Pedophilia
02: Bestiality
03: Destruction of traditional families
04: Destruction of American culture
05: murder.

Wha. . .what? Murder? Seriously? That's can't be true. According to Lorraine Mae Rafferty, running for the GOP nomination for Oregon governor, it is true.

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In this four-minute “meet the candidate” interview with The Oregonian, Rafferty explains why she’s running for governor and makes it clear that she opposes same-sex marriage because it’s a sin, “just the same as murder” — a label she also applies to abortion.
Yes, she person actually said that. . .on the record, to people who recorded her words. Amazing. Stupid, and amazing.

The news article has the video of this, so there is no way Psycho McKlanswoman can scream she was taken out of context.

So, all you murderers out there. . .when you're arrested for killing someone, blame a gay person who want to get married. It's their fault anyway.

Next up for Ms. Rafferty: Explaining the concept of a gubernatorial campaign that's DOA before it even begins. All because gay people, and their supporters, think she's just a fucking lunatic.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tag Greason [/font]

Virginia has a lot of jackasses in their Legislature. Tag Greason is a perfect example.

He gets into an email exchange with a constituent over Obamacare and the ACA. Soon, it devolves into Greason showing himself to be classless, shameless and brainless.

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Greason, an outspoken opponent of expanding Medicaid in Virginia, responded first by thanking Merk for contacting him. He went on to explain his position against expansion, reasoning that "ObamaCare has already proven to be inefficient, costly, and an utter disaster," and that "Medicaid is one of the largest and fastest-growing parts" of the budget even without expansion.

Okay. . .this is starting well. Merk goes into why her Delegate should do the right thing and expand medicaid and Greason responds with condescending talking points without logic or reason. Politicians normally talk down to their constituents because voters are idiots and are only tools to get and keep power.

Ms. Merk didn't take too kindly to this man talking down to her and told him so in a follow-up email.

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"I will be sure to vote you out the next time you're up for election," she said.

We at the Top Ten are proud of you, Susan Merk! Way to standup for yourself. You pulled no punches. You told him exactly what you thought and told him that his idiocy cost him a vote. Good job.

Tag Greason decided not to let it die. . .he had to have the last word. And it's painful to read, coming from an elected official.

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Wow! Calm down there, slappy! You blame a voter for disagreeing with you. What thin skin you have.

How dare this woman challenge the great Tag Greason! You stupid, fucking, old, female skazwag! Shut up and agree! What the fuck do you know? You're just a voter! One of a million. Fuck you! And don't bother me again. I have more important things to do. I actually took time out of my day to talk to the likes of you. I mingled with the commoners.

Makes Virginia proud. So, all of you in this asshole's district. . .remember, come election day, to vote for the other person. Tag Greason is too immature and thin skinned to take the smallest and lightest form of criticism.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]

Booze Cruz is really angling to make a name for himself so he can be the first foreign born president of the United States, if people don't include the Chester A. Arthur controversy back in the Gilded Age.

Anyway, Teddy Boy of Idiotland decides he is going to put up a poll on his Facebook (because it's free and it makes him look hip and cool) in which he asked a simple question: “Quick poll: Obamacare was signed into law four years ago yesterday. Are you better off now than you were then? Comment with YES or NO!”.

Dumbo got almost 56,000 responses. Most told him he was a complete idiot. The Top Ten mentioned this last week if you go to #9.

Let's look at a few of the things say to Ted.

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01: “Not only am I better off, but I have friends that are better off.”

02: “Yes I have MS and I lost my job I wouldn’t be able to get any other insurance because of my pre existing condition thank you President Obama.”
03: “This nation is better off for helping folks avoid the devastation that poor health can bring. Thank you, ACA!”

Oops. . .not good. Anything else?

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No problems with that. Ted Cruz has shown he is not worthy of the honor of being an elected speed bump, let alone an elected senator.

Don't worry. . .his spokestoad made a good spinning excuse for the poll being as bad as it looks for Cruz.

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“This was clearly a manufactured, concerted effort from people on the left making comments days after the original post was put up,” she said. “Probably a better use of their time would be encouraging the administration to build an Obamcare website that actually works.”

Hey, we're famous! DU fucked up Ted Cruz's bullshit poll. Now, if we can just fuck up his Senatorial career and presidential aspirations, DU would be complete.

What a God damn crybaby.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Dan Coats[/font]

And finally, senators and Congressmen like to pass themselves off as intelligent, worldly and having brains. Let that sink in and try not to laugh your ass off doing it.

Most of these people are the lowest common denominator that pander to the lower-than-the-lowest common denominator. And Dan Coats of Indiana is a prime example. See, he spent a lot of time working on a hearing.

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Okay. This is what a senator should do. Prepare for a hearing, get the facts, get the ideas and prepare questions that give them the answers they require to get the truth.

Good job, Dan Seals. You make Indiana proud.

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Ummm. . .what? What? What!?!

Schmucko went to the wrong place and spoke to the wrong person? And no one that works for him told him this?

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“Well, that would explain why I didn’t know anything about this letter,” said David Cohen, undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! What a boob!

Yes, the asshole showed up at the wrong hearing. I wonder, if he needs the bathroom next, he will realize that the one with the person in the dress is the woman's bathroom.

Couldn't find his ass with both hands. And he's in Congress. God help us all.

See you next week.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank you for this latest edition!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. You're very welcome. I'm sorry it is two days late.

[DiverDave]

3. Thanks for the laughs

K+R

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Kicking this up for the people who just woke up because I posted it around 2 AM US time

[Agschmid]

5. Nice job!

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yes, it is!

Needs another kick!

[pink-o]

7. Oy! Pogroms are what brought my father's family to America!

WTF is UP with Russia? Those idiots make us Yankees look progressive, right?

Thanks for the laughs, but also for reminding us we are on the right track--it's just being blocked by reactionary, regressive sewage that's gumming up our wheels!

[niyad]

8. k and r

[marble falls]

9. Good stuff.