Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[Nanjing to Seoul]

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The New Jackie Robinson Edition[/font]

What a week! What has happened? Well, homophobes sent death threats to a five year old girl (2), the Japanese proceed to piss off every Asian nation again (5), Pat Roberts is a carpetbagger (8) and the Obama Administration (yes, they made the list this week) cries wolf to cover its ass (10) in the most controversial entry to the list since its return. And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Sports Homophobes (with deference to the NFL)[/font]
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Remember back in 1947, if any of you were alive. This black guy named Jackie Robinson was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers. And the world came to end. Civilization fell, people started eating their young. Fire and brimstone came down from the skies! Rivers and seas started boiling! Forty years of darkness, floods! Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

All because some uppity negro was drafted to play baseball. And you see what has happened since? Now, they’re everywhere! Marrying your daughters! Taking well paying jobs. Going to college! Dammit. See what happens!

Of course, the Top Ten is being extremely sarcastic here, but there’s a point to this. See, last week, the world got its first taste of a sports figure “coming out,” which means announcing to the world that his life is honest and that he is no different than anyone else because of the sex he falls in love with. Michael Sam from the University of Missouri came out last week as the first openly gay potential NFL player. Remember, he has not been drafted yet, but if his on-field performance is an indictator, he will be drafted prior to the third round.

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Here is a photo of the man that will end the world.

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What came out was nothing short of spectacular. NFL players around the country tweeted support this Mr. Sam. People looked passed his orientation and welcomed him into the NFL family. It was completely breathtaking.

Well, almost everyone. Apparently, the NFL still has huge amounts of homophobia in its upper echelon.

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A man’s man game? WTF does that mean? 22 men groping each other on a field, tackling each other, then getting naked after the game for big group showers, hugs and ass patting? This is what is called a man’s man. Oh. . .and media, don’t dress it up. . .don’t write (gay slur). We all know they use the word “fag” like most Americans use the word “the.”

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Well, apparently two teams say they will step up. . .and we aren’t surprised which teams they are. So do the fans of the Eagles and the Packers, your teams are amazing. Green Bay Head Coach Mike McCarthy, please tell us how you feel.

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“I think you definitely have to feel he’s a courageous young man but my understanding is he’s a talented young player,” McCarthy said, via Wes Hodkiewicz of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “We always from Day 1 talked about our program, about our culture. Ted [General Manager Ted Thompson] is going through draft process right now and at the end of the day, it comes down to good football players.
“Any player who can come here and be a good teammate and follow the rules of our program, which is one be respectful and produce on the football field, we have room for that guy.”

Yes, that is so fantastic. Not using crap to hold people down. Remember, this is the NFL. People like Marcus and Michael Vick, Ray Lewis and Aaron Hernandez are a-okay. But kiss a man and be prepared for vilification.

One last thing about this. Donte Stallworth ended any type of debate about Michael Sam with one sentence, responding to crap over-rated former head coach Herm Edwards said.

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Game, set and match.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]An unnamed Homophobe[/font]
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Well, Michael Sam. . .be prepared to be the butt of lame ass jokes, homophobic statements and ideas and hearing people calling you a “fag” as you go on and off the field. It’s sad, but predictable.

Middle America has a problem with gay people. Not lipstick lesbians. . .oh no. “Dyking out” in a porno flick is sexy and acceptable. “I kissed a girl, and I liked it” bellows Katy Perry. That’s okay. People had no problems when Britney Spears and Madonna locked lips. I’m sure some homophobe was at home jacking off watching that while listening to Rush Limbaugh scream how horrible gayo-Americans are. It’s 2014 and the US still has this crap.

But, Michael Sam is a grown man. An adult. He has the strength of withstand the copious amounts of bullshit he’s going to get thrown at him. Mia Talerico is different. I know, you’re asking who Mia Talerico is. Here is her photo and here is her Wikipedia page.

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According to her bio, she was born in September of 2008. That makes this actress a five year old girl. That is important to know, because her show on Disney, “Good Luck Charlie” just introduced a lesbian couple. What happens next borders on [link:|http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/06/5-year-old-actress-gets-death-threats-over-her-disney-shows-gay-characters/just plain evil].

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Death threats??? AGAINST A FUCKING FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL??? You homophobes are something else.

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Wow! Just wow! Amazing! Speechless. The girl is five years old. How much say does she have in the writing of the show? Or the creative direction of the show? Better yet, even if she did, who will listen? She’s FIVE YEARS OLD!

Maybe this isn’t bordering on just plain evil. It passes it completely, takes that line, dips it in shit and sets fire to it. This isn’t bordering anything. Except hopefully the courageous asshole that did this bordering on a stiff prison sentence.

These people are given so much deference by our permissive news media because they need to be balanced. The vomit level isn’t much higher than it is now. How much lower can the anti-gay movement go when they resort to sending a five year old girl death threats?

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tim Armstrong[/font]
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So, time to enter that area of vice and crime, where the strong are there to exploit the weak and stupid and power is used to buy people, silence dissent and bolster the leader. No, we’re not talking North Korea. . .we’re talking the world of American big business. And this week’s profile is none other than AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.

See, Mr. Armstrong hates the ACA. Most right wing assholes do. That’s the point of the right wing. To hate things they help everyday Americans because the only Americans that matter to the right wing are unborn babies, dead soldiers, police protecting their property and the upper 1%. So, Armstrong comes out scream that because of two babies, AOL had to gut its benefits package.

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“We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general,” Armstrong said.

Distressed babies? How dare that happen! Just die already, you drains on business. You “distressed babies” are making it harder for job creators to create jobs overseas and pay slave wages.

AOL had to pay a million dollars to keep two children alive. I’m sure if it were Armstrong’s kids, the wallet would have been opened quickly.

Please proceed, ass munch!

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Under the new program, AOL employees will not be able to collect any matching funds toward their retirement savings from the company for any given year if they leave before Dec. 31 of that year.

Okay. I’m sure you’ll take a pay cut as well to help normalize expenditures? Don’t wait too long there, folks. No CEO will turn off the golden parachute.

Part of this story is also strange news. Most people aren’t even convinced AOL is still around. And when they do shit like this, people wonder why they are still around.

At least Ariana Huffington got rich selling out Huff Post to AOL.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Walker[/font]
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Wisconsin governor and known Koch-sucker Scott Walker is back in the news, as that noose tightens around his corrupt neck.

Apparently, there has been a “John Doe” probe against Walker for a while now, dealing with his campaign financing. Who woulda thunk a Republican would be subjected to campaign finance criminal probes. According to PRWatch.org:

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Scott Walker is named in those documents.

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Poor Scott. He seems to be going the same way Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, Rick Scott and now Pat McCrory have gone or are going. And just like Chris Christie, this clown has White House aspirations. Sadly, no one seems to care.

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Okay, logic would dictate that if he cared about Wisconsin, he’d be in Wisconsin and not campaigning in Florida. BTW, how many people showed up to listen to this corrupt sack of shit’s turds of wisdom?

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I’m sure their names were Koch, Walton, Alderson and some other right wing sponsors. Notice these people don’t have public gatherings. They need that echo chamber. As soon as they leave it, their feet go from being on the floor to into their mouths at record speed. Which is funny to see because their head also goes up their ass at the same speed.

Elections matter, Democrats. 2014 is extremely important.

As for Scott Walker, it won’t be long before [div style="display:inline-block; padding-left:0.3077em;" title="Indicted"], [div style="display:inline-block; padding-left:0.3077em;" title="Arrest"], and [div style="display:inline-block; padding-left:0.3077em;" title="Prison"] are added to his entries.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Abe Shinzo and Naoki Hyakuta[/font]
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Japan has been taken over by the LDP, the Liberal Democratic Party. It’s a brand name type of name because they aren’t liberals and they aren’t Democrats. They are right wing, nationalistic revisionists bent on pissing off all their neighbors, specifically Korea and China.

Last week, Japanese writer, and close friend of Japanese PM Abe Shinzo, Naoki Hyakuta, came out and blasted anyone who says Japan committed war crimes during the Second World War. No, I am not kidding. And the United States was not amused at all.

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I see. Photos like these are frauds.

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Here is a wikipedia page of all Japanese War Crimes committed during World War 2. Bangka Island, Unit 731, the Rape of Nanking, the massacre of Suzhou, Singaporean Massacre, Palawan Massacre, Manila Massacre, forced rape and prostitution of Chinese, Korean and Pinay women, littering the ground with disease causing pathogens during the Jiangxi-Zhejiang Campaign, lacing food with poison so people would die, lacing candies with opium to turn children into drug addicts. . .on a personal note, the gang raping of my wife’s great grandmother on a road outside of Changzhou in 1938.

Please proceed, sir!

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Again, where is your evidence? This was posted on DU and a few actually came out to give this guy a little face and support. Which leaves this writer to ask one question: How can the 1937 Rape of Nanking be used to cover up the atomic bombing of two cities eight years later? The logic fails.

Holocaust deniers and Rape of Nanking deniers. Two groups of people that do not deserve the gift of life. No wonder the Koreans and Chinese hate the Japanese even to this day.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Science Challenged Americans[/font]
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And now, the attacks on science have come full circle. According to RT.com, about 25% of Americans don’t realize the Earth revolves around the sun. What!?!?!

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Please make it stop1 Please make this shit stop! No more “God does it” crap! No more “Intelligent Design.”

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Should be a 100% if you have a working brain. What do you expect? People in this country send death threats to five year old girls. Sometimes shit like this shouldn’t surprise me.

Next on the agenda. . .the Earth is still flat, Humans and dinosaurs co-existed and all science can be answered simply by saying “God’s will.”

In a related story, the State of Missouri is now taking up debate to require parental warnings in order to teach evolution.

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The stupid burns so much these days.

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Screw guy, science “fag.” God told me to hate you! Right after spoke through my neighbor’s car and told me to take a shit on the salad bar at Wendy’s.

No wonder 37 more countries produce more scientists than we do.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Arnold Schwarzenegger[/font]
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Shitty actor, shittier governor and lousy husband Groping Austrian Beefcake has decided he wants to become president. He thinks he will be a good president. After all, what the presidency needs is more macho men with testosterone problems.

Small problem. That pesky Constitution, namely Article 2, Clause 5, states:

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Never mind that shit. Arnie is going to court to challenge the constitution.

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So, this running for president is a pub stunt for another shitty movie with two over-the-hill shitty macho actors that don’t even do their own stunts? Is this serious?
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“Schwarzenegger has been talking openly about working on getting the constitutional rules changed so he can run for president in 2016. He is ready to file legal paperwork to challenge the rules.
Well, I guess that’s that. Fuck the US Constitution. Arnie wants in. American tradition and jurisprudence, as well as American Constitutional law and precedent be damned. However, it will take 38 states to approve such a change in constitutional conventions. . .but even if that doesn’t happen, the article says the following:

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Oh snap. Liberal BIRTHERS!!! Wow! That’s amazing!!! But it does take a massive ego to try to change an entire governmental constitution to placate one person’s desire to out live his political shelf life.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Pat Roberts[/font]
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In the real world, people who represent a Congressional district or a state should be residents of that state. Even if you are political carpetbagger (Hillary Clinton, I’m looking at you), you at least setup residency before you run for office.

Pat Roberts of Kansas (R-Naturally) thinks that pure bollocks. According to TPM:

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Wow. Can this be declared on campaign finance forms? Is allowing someone to live in a house that’s not theirs in a state they don’t live in to begin with a violation of campaign contribution laws?

Don’t worry. Roberts has a completely lame excuse and validation to his obvious law breaking.

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Access to a recliner? Nice. Does it have a place to hold your beer? Does it have optional heat and massage? Can you have sex on it? Don’t answer the last one, bald, geratric senator-man!

And no one knows the state better than you do? Maybe living there would allow people to believe that, douchebag!

So, where does Pat live really?

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Oh. . .Virginia now has three senators. Two legit and one because he left Kansas! But, IOKIYAR!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Marco Rubio[/font]
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When answering a question, there is the right way and the dumbass way. Marco Rubio (R-Thirst) was recently asked if he ever smoked weed. A simple yes or no would be good, then moving on to something else. No one would ever say anything.

But this is Marco Rubio and it’s time to give a classic Republican non-answer answer to a simple yes-or-no question.

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So, let’s look at the question. According to State.com:

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Again, simple question. Yes or no. One word then say “next question.”

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232 words. Repeat. Two hundred. Thirty. Two. Words.

Let’s let the Top Ten play Rubio and interpret what he said into real words. Again, the question:

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And the translated response from the Top Ten list:

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Obama Administration[/font]
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And finally. . .the Top Ten list expects to be flagged for a jury over this one, but when the Obama Administration is wrong, it needs to be called out. In the past, the Top Ten called out Dianne Feinstein for her authoritarian little girl crush on the NSA and this time, the Obama Administration is just as guilty.

Let’s look at the story, brought to us by Wired.com.

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Okay. . .mistakes are made. It happens. Everyone can grant that. $3.8 million dollars and seven years later, a brown person gets their freedom returned to them. Keep that in mind, please. We are talking 2007.

So what happened next?

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So, Bush’s White House makes a mistake. Instead of righting the wrong, the Holder Justice Department carries over the mistake, stone walls, cripples this person financially. . .AND IT’S THEIR FUCKING ERROR!!! This cannot be defended. Mistakes are made. Man up, admit them, fix them, and make sure they never happen again.

No, the Obama Adminstration just contiunes for years to torment this innocent person.

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State secrets? This person was added by mistake.

This shows you what dragnets do. The Obama Administration is damned wrong on this and someone needs to be fired. It doesn’t matter if it started under Bush. Obama make it his own when he took up the cause instead of righting the wrong.

This is the most controversial entry to the Top Ten ever! But it has to be said. When the president and his administration is wrong, they need to be called out. Country before party!

See you next week.

[Initech]

1. #2 - I have the perfect graphic to show how I feel about that story:

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. I feel like Hubert Farnsworth too

[Scootaloo]

4. Hey, i LIKE this planet. THOSE fucks can leave.

[Warpy]

3. #10 definitely deserves to be there

While I don't think Obama is micromanaging it, his flunkies sure do and are going all out to cover a bureaucratic butt that needs to be exposed and flogged.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

5. When he is wrong, he is wrong. Pure and simple. Obama has no bigger defender here than me

but when my president and his administration is wrong, they are wrong.

It's how I felt about Snowden. If Obama didn't like Snowden outing this program, he should have stopped it January 21st, 2009!

He didn't. Now he owns it.

[MattSh]

6. Ruh Roh

You quoted RT.com in #6. RT is a tool of (the devil/Vladimir Putin).

Don't forget all those evil things the devil makes you do. Like drink alcohol, smoke weed, dance, drive fast, listen to rock and/or roll, question authority, pleasure yourself, and make whoopee with the opposite sex, the same sex, or (gasp) both sexes at the same time(!) And hang around with liberals and progressives and vote Democratic.*



* It's understood that RT is perfectly fine when it confirms ones personal biases. It's only evil when it tries to make you think differently.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

8. I don't know about RT.com. I just thought the anti-science attitudes of the RW

needed to be exposed yet again. Thanks for reading.

[madokie]

7. This is spot on

as has been the case from day one.
Keep up the good work.

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Mia Talerico's biggest "sin" was

being born.

If she had just stayed a fetus, the Teapubbies would LOVE her, no matter what.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

11. Life before birth, life after death, screw you in between

or as Carlin said: If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're pre-school, you're fucked.

[rbrnmw]

10. President Obama I Love You BUT

You are on the wrong side of History on the NSA and Snowden

[Scuba]

12. "This shows you what dragnets do."

Thanks for another great post!!!

[DiverDave]

13. Thanks for the lists

and you write them with humor and great sarcasm.

Dave
K+R

[eppur_se_muova]

14. "Maybe this isn’t bordering on just plain evil. It passes it completely ..."

This probably needs to be said more often -- this isn't just some political or philosophical disagreement, this is evil.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

15. Rush Limbaugh compared Chelsea Clinton to the household dog of the White House

He and Glenn Beck openly mocked Obama's two children.

We shouldn't be shocked or surprised. . .disgusted yes, but not shocked and definitely not surprised.

[Agschmid]

16. Kick!

Nice job.