Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the the envelope on just how crazy InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it when I tell you that last week was no exception.
…Virtually every Republican after new EPA rules came out: I’m not a scientist but… here’s a bunch of idiotic stuff I learned in grade school.
The “I’m not a scientist, but” statement of faux humility was the most popular refrain this week in Republican circles, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds and press conferences. It was almost always followed by either second-grade level science like, “but carbon dioxide is good for plants, why do we have to limit it?” Or some other nonsensical argument against the new, much needed regulations.
There is, of course, only one retort to, “I’m not a scientist, but ….”
It’s, “That’s right, so shut up and listen to what actual scientists have been saying about this for, like, ever.”
We know, we know. We live in dreamland.
The stupid reactions to Obama’s announced coal restrictions ran the gamut.
You can read about them here. And here. But if we had to pick a favorite, just on the grounds of moronic immaturity, the prize has to go to this pathetic imbecile:
“Thanks to the Obama administration’s EPA and the new regulations released today, America is poised to become the ‘no pee’ section of the global swimming pool,” said Marita Noon, executive director of some bogus right-wing group called Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy. “Just because we declare that we won’t pee in the pool, won’t stop the others.… We’ll be stuck in our little no-pee section with a crippled economy while the rest of the world will be frolicking in unfettered growth.”
Well now, that is a terrific way of deciding on matters of vital national (and international) interest. C’mon everybody, let’s keep peeing in the pool, until, well, the pool is entirely urine, and no longer any water whatsoever. Or, they catch us, whatever comes last…
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Now this is the second in a list of six Republican lunacies from last week alone. These people belong in a padded room, not running the country! Click through for the other five.
8 Responses to “Last Week’s Republican Lunacies”
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1. Gavin McInnes ~ Does he have to apologize like liberals do? No. He was only a paid guest commentator, not a host like Martin Bashir.
2. I'm not a scientist either, but, it is patently evident that none of these people have a functioning brain.
3. Ah.. What more can we say about Glen Beck? Why did he resurface as on idiot of interest?
4. Would someone please give Mr. Bergdahl a duck so the Right Wing-nuts will leave him alone for a while.
5. Opponents still won't leave SS and Medicare alone. Obamacare is young yet. Don't expect the criticisms to go away for a long time if ever.
6. Strike another victory for freedom!
I need a shower – I clicked through and saw the other assorted lunacies that the Reich Wing have come out with this week – they give lunacy and hypocrisy a bad name! Gavin McInnes really needs a long time in a closed ward with strong medication by the sound of it – that was revolting – presumably saying such revolting things is the only way this sad man can get air time.
As for the one you picked TC, Germany and Sweden both invested heavily in renewable power early on, they were out of recession in a matter of a year or so, and Germany now has 74% renewables – that means that it has independent power, regardless of which nutter comes to power in the various countries that supply oil to the rest of us – lucky them! Recent research has shown that the power that apparently has been touted to last 100 years for America coming from oil in Texas and from shale, will only last 10 years or so – gosh, they'd never lie about things like that for financial gain would they?! (They have over here too).
I wish someone would Cloudfund/Cloudsource projects for renewables all over the world as governments seem to have the willpower and backbone of paramecia and won't do anything to possibly offend big investors even if it kills us all…. If someone set up good reliable projects that we could all give a few quid/dollars/euro to then they would surely soon get lots of money and we could indeed save the world!
I am always speechlesss after reading the weekly list. What can you say about a party whose adherents, after a loaded gun is found in a Target toy department, start (predictably) a Twitterstorm abou how some liberal must have put there to make them look stupid, as a false flag. Facepalm.
Canada has it's own nutters, but damn, the US is just filled with them and they're called Republicanus/Teabaggers. Hateful, bigoted, racist and more . . . they have putrefied brains that are infecting some of American society. No wonder aliens don't visit anymore.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Glen Beck in the same article were almost more than I could stand. I don't know which of these two sicken me the most. We all know the reasons Republicans are against the EPA, MONEY! Do you have to take a lunacy, homophobic test to be a Republican these days?
Thanks all. Tuckered rush mode engaged!
No expert… 🙄 rolling eyes