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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12:00 AM

This Modern World

The rise and fall of stupidity in America.

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Monday, August 4, 2008 05:54 PM

*sigh*

(B)lather, rinse and repeat. Isn't that nice...

Monday, August 4, 2008 05:54 PM

See, this is not realistic at all...

real neocons aren't nearly that lucid when they talk.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:25 PM

Yeah

That pretty much covers it.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:32 PM

It are too bad

That this shit happen to United State.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:49 PM

By the way

All your Baghdad base are belong to us.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:54 PM

stupidity

"After 9/11, stupidity became patriotic in America"

Come on, Tom, have you really forgotten the Reagan era?

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:55 PM

finally

Indeed. It's well past time to call a stupid a stupid. John McCain = the second coming of Archie Bunker. Only less funny.

Monday, August 4, 2008 07:02 PM

To tell you the truth

I would be ecstatic if the right wing of the republican party were simply motivated by stupidity.

Unfortunately I think its a nasty combination of greed for oil money and war profiteering, trashing the constitution in order to establish the permanent dominance of their political party (its funny that they used to call Democrats communists), arrogance all greased with raw stupidity.

If they just stupid I'd have a lot easier time forgiving the bastards for the damage they've caused this country...

from letting 9/11 happen,

to lying us into a disastrous war,

for not capturing Bin Laden,

for making torture something that Americans do,

for causing crisis after crisis in the housing mortgage market, the energy markets (enron anyone) by passing harebrain deregulation laws at the behest of corporate cash making theft legal for corporations, by ......... OK, this could go on all night.

Prosecute those &^$%&ds and throw away the key.

Monday, August 4, 2008 07:05 PM

In the near future...

Patriotic Americans will spray-paint, "Good Grammar!" on houses and stores, so that NeoCon Storm Troopers will know where to find enemies to arrest and imprison.

Monday, August 4, 2008 08:54 PM

re: in the near future

Tom, that's, "gud gramer."

Geez, you don't want to be found out, do you?

Monday, August 4, 2008 08:58 PM

Riiiight it's all those OTHER people

mindless jingoist prattle had a 90%+ approval rating after 911 and for almost a year after. Please please don't try to tell me the bitter trust fund communists here, the group that helped foist the Congress we have right now, on us, were the people thinking clearly and were it not for those evil white fat guys and Jews with their evil plots, We'd ALL have rainbows of free fusion powered sunshine blasting out of our asses, just like Obama. No, dear readers, you're all stupid. Stark staring stupid.

Monday, August 4, 2008 09:04 PM

@ Dave Satan

I don't know who you're talking to, but I never approved of the Bush administration, before or after Sept. 11. Never voted for the guy either.

I was 15 and I was still pretty darn sure that Bush was a douchebag.

Monday, August 4, 2008 09:49 PM

@Dave Satan

All your Satan are belong to us.

Monday, August 4, 2008 09:53 PM

You're the generation couldn't find the US on a map

And your idea of measured debate is throwing a brick through a Starbucks window to prove to that hot chick how revolutionary and shit you are. But hey, you're blawghers. You must be so smart. Only smart people get to be in the blawgher club.

Monday, August 4, 2008 09:57 PM

@Dave Satan

All your Starbucks are belong to us.

Monday, August 4, 2008 10:34 PM

All your base....

I take it all back Klytus. haha Love it!

Monday, August 4, 2008 10:39 PM

Satanic Reich

Hmm, he can read... his speech is composed of full sentences, but he couldn't quite get out a full paragraph without using "9-11".

He must be one of their chieftains.

Monday, August 4, 2008 10:40 PM

but...

his spelling does need work.

Sub-chieftain.

Monday, August 4, 2008 11:49 PM

Stupidity hasn't fallen that far

if Obama and McCain are even in the polls.

Monday, August 4, 2008 11:52 PM

@ slair

oooooo. point.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12:44 AM

New bad thing...

...scheduled for October.

Election not happen. Or not matter.

Congress no like! Pass resolution of stern disapproval before being dissolved.

How story end?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 03:14 AM

This is what happens

when smart people refuse to call a spade a spade.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 03:37 AM

O RLY

We called Reagan a moron. We called Bush an idiot.

American anti-intellectualism predates us all. Twain railed against it...

Send me plans for a TARDIS and I'll go back and convince Jefferson to come out as an atheist... maybe that'll help?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 06:54 AM

Oh yeah,

and Pelosi, et al are bastions of hyper intelligence... Here's some reality for you: Bush's approval rating hovering in the 20s. The democrat congress is in single digits. I can't stand any of them, but to suggest that the left is somehow more intelligent than anyone else is the essence of stupidity, that essence being rooted in denial.

Please left, right, and in-betweens, don't be stupid too. Tom got it wrong this time. It's time for a complete re-do. It's ok if your philosophy differs from mine. It's not ok to think that any politician gives a rat's butt what you think, least of all the two running for president.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 07:29 AM

reagan started it

…when he called ketchup a vegetable, and casual drug users “murderers” while sending arms to the contras and South American death squads.

Ok, sorry to pick on Reagan - though I despised him when he was in power and I am disgusted by how the right reveres the man. He was not universally loved in his day.

Ever since "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad) determined that corporations have the same rights as individuals, our real rights have been steadily eroded.

"Remember the Maine?" It’s not so much that our leaders are stupid, but rather that they encourage public fear and ignorance in order to cover up evidence of their crimes.

Those of us who grew up during the Watergate era were fortunate enough to witness how the "press" was supposed to protect us from egregious power grabs. If today’s press had been operating during Watergate, Spiro T. Agnew would have presided over the Bicentennial.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 07:31 AM

Whaddya mean, "fall"???

Stupidity is alive and well in America. Everywhere else, too, but it seems like we Americans have made an art form of it.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 08:06 AM

Amurkins are indeed stoopid

I want to meet some voters who are still "undecided".

I want to meet some of those who changed the polls last week becuase of the Paris / Brittney ads.

I want to ship them all to Texas.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 08:50 AM

It has risen but it hasn't fallen

Hang on, sloopy, hang on. Or, as Forest Gump would say, "Stupid is as Stupid does." And just as soon as we get this idiot and his motley crew out of D.C., perhaps we'll begin to see stupidity fall. That is, unless McBush wins the election--which would but prove the stupidity of the American voter.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 09:20 AM

The Republican College of Stupidity

Mind-set, lock-step loyalty to the Party first, Constitution second.

Bush and Cheney graduated, with Honors.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 09:28 AM

If only Democrats have brains

Then why is it again barely 49% of eligible voters can lug their fat asses off the couch to vote?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 09:38 AM

why things are so bad.

I just read "The truth never damages a just cause." Oh oh, that must mean invading Iraq was not a just cause!! Can you believe it?!

The foundational problem is not stupidity or greed, but lack of integrity. Integrity requires courage. Can you imagine someone

running for president who had so much integrity that he or she would have the courage to tell the truth even if it meant losing votes? The closest anyone comes to this ideal might be Nader, as far as I can tell. Look how well he is doing!

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