Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how ridiculous InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.
One of our favorite governors had a great idea to address the drug epidemic, chop chop.
Maine Governor Paul LePage does not like drug dealers. We learned a few weeks ago that the New England tea partier especially does not like drug dealers with names like, “D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty" who bring drugs up to his state, and then, “Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road," LePage said. Later he surprised that people thought that was a little racist.
This week, LePage showed his usual measured approach to his state’s drug problem when he proposed that drug dealers like good ole D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty have their heads lopped off in the town square.
This proposal came about in his weekly radio address to his adoring public. First LePage argued that "the death penalty should be the law" for dealers. Then he elaborated:
"I think these people — there’s nothing good enough for these people. I think four years is not good enough, we’ve got to go to 20 years, we’ve got to keep them here until they die."
Upon further reflection, he figured that might take too long.
"If you want my honest opinion, we should give them an injection of the stuff they sell," LePage frothed. "I’m just appalled at people getting angry at me for making a comment when they protect these people. And the ACLU, mind you, is the worst organization in the state of Maine protecting these people."
The show’s hosts thought that pretty much capped off the interview and tried to mercifully conclude it, but LePage was not done.
"What I think we ought to do is bring the guillotine back," LePage interrupted. "We could have public executions.”
He is the thinking man’s governor.
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How typically Republican! Maine, isn’t it time to turn the LePage? This is only the fifth of five ridiculous Republican moments listed, from last week alone! Click through to the other four.
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1. About that fundraiser – Sean Sorbie speaks for me. As for Hurricane Katrna, we have ONE race – the human race. The only way there could be a half-breed would be if there were any pure Denisovans or Neanderthals running around, or if there were an alien to arrive which was sufficiently genetically close to humans to mate with us and produce offspring. Not bloody likely.
2. If a corporation is a person, why couldn't a person be a country? I would say that makes Republican sense (I know, an oxymoron).
3. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said "I don't believe the liberal media." Add one wors and I might agree – "I don't believe IN the liberal mediia." I don't believe in flying horses either, but I don't think anyone cares about that.
4. The person who watched this so that I didn't have to deserves a medal. At least.
5. He also made a comment, something about, "whatever hole it falls in," which had people thinking maybe the guillotines were going to be set up over outhouses. So classy, this guy.
5. Oh my goodness, they're having a competition now between governors on who is the best Trump impersonator! Each Republican governor gets himself interviewed en then pulls out all the stops, starting with being pissed off about people being angry about what he said last time and then trying to out-Trump himself when letting one obnoxious and poisonous statement rip after the other. So far, LePage is in the lead.
1. Katrina Pierson by own admission is a half breed, but would like everyone to forget about it by making nasty racist remarks, just like her revered boss Donald Trump. And they have every right to make these remarks, for whatever reason, so don't you dare to ask anything about them, especially not that librul Faux News. I suppose this makes a lot of sense to the two of them and why Katrina is now Trumps spokesperson.
2. Carson's stage fright must have gotten the better of him lately and he had to up his dosage of whatever he takes against that. The results were as hoped for: no fear of freezing up or opening his mouth, Carson let ita all come out in one flow. Completely incoherent, but flowing and audible.
3. I'm so glad I've absolutely no idea what Steve Deace is talking about.
4. Now this is one video I would have liked to see: O’Reilly groveling and kissing Trump's a$$ and getting spanked for it. It's only the first month of the year finished, but this exchange will surely be a strong contender for the most pathetic piece of footage in 2016.
LePage is the governor of Maine, right? That's lumberjack country, right? So why isn't he advocating the use axes or chainsaws, rather than that sissy French guillotine?
Personally I think he’s been having Flint’s water flown in for his personal use for the past year or so … and it’s taken its toll!
LePage — He is a disgrace to the human race and needs to be cut-off electorally. That guillotine should come in handy if he forgets to exit politics.
O'Reilly — He and Trump deserve each other!
Steve Deace — So he doesn't think Faux Noise is conservative enough!? The only way they could be considered even centrist is if they said absolutely nothing, and then it would only be by the nutjobs!
Carson — He's trying to channel again and the connection has been erratic, just like him! His relative silence lately has been awesome. The vagaries of his discourse are sending him into ignominy.
Katrina Pierson — So what if she is a "halfbreed". That does not excuse her racist remarks and her support of Trumps racism,
All this is just SSDD!
SSDD?
Guess you meant:
Single Sided, Double Density (a floppy disk format)
OR maybe …
System/Subsystem Design Description (in accordance with MIL-STD-498)
… Surely you didn’t mean:
"Same Shit, Different Day"
"Maine entered the Union on March 15, 1820 and the Legislature of the State of Maine held its first session from May 21 to June 28 of the same year. The motto, Dirigo, was adopted during this session.
About the Maine State Motto
The resolves, adopting the seal upon which this motto appears, give some insight into the meaning intended by the Maine state motto.
The "Polar Star" in the seal is intended to represent the new State of Maine as indicated above. The motto, Dirigo, extends the character of the "Polar Star… considered the mariner's guide…", referring to the state as the "citizens' guide" while also exhorting the responsibilities of the citizens to the state, "…the object to which the patriot's best exertions should be directed."
Source: http://www.netstate.com/states/mottoes/me_motto.htm
Methinkst he is building the case to abandon their motto.
LePage: WTF?!
LePage is lahlahloony. How did this guy get to be governor anywhere?
Pierson echoes her boss, so he loves her.
So glad O'Leilly got put down, even if it was by the Donald.
I hope it is bye bye to Carson. How did he ever get admitted to a college, much less become a brain surgeon?
Dease must never have seen a real news program if he thinks Fox is the most qualified.
These people scare me, but what scares me worse is the number of people who agree with them.
Thanks all! Swamped today!