« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts  (Read 3398 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Freeper

  • Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17779
  • Reputation: +1311/-314
  • Creepy ass cracker.
Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« on: July 19, 2012, 05:30:25 PM »
Quote
LuckyTheDog (5,385 posts)

 
Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts

It's a sad day when a major-party candidate can build his entire campaign on misrepresenting the meaning of a demonstrative pronoun used by an opponent. How stupid can people get?


Let me know if you do that and what the response is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002977331

Geez they are 2 for 2 today, between this, and the 2 questions thread, I don't see how we have a prayer of ever debating them.  :rotf: :rotf:

Logged
I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14589
  • Reputation: +2286/-76
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2012, 05:34:45 PM »
The Obama campaign hotly disputes Romney's contention that the president meant what he said. A "fact check" from the Obama-Biden "Truth Team" (formerly Attack Watch) claims that Romney "is taking President Obama's words out of context" to produce "a complete distortion." Here is the full context, as presented by the Truth Team:

Quote from:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

The Team then explains: "The President's full remarks show that the 'that' in 'you didn't build that' clearly refers to roads and bridges--public infrastructure we count on the government to build and maintain."

That's bunk, and not only because "business" is more proximate to the pronoun "that" and therefore its more likely antecedent. The Truth Team's interpretation is ungrammatical. "Roads and bridges" is plural; "that" is singular. If the Team is right about Obama's meaning, he should have said, "You didn't build those."

Barack Obama is supposed to be the World's Greatest Orator, the smartest man in the world. Yet his campaign asks us to believe he is not even competent to construct a sentence.

- James Toranto

.
Logged
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline jukin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15759
  • Reputation: +1730/-170
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2012, 05:37:06 PM »
One main difference between the mental inmates at the DUmp and real people is that we don't sit around thinking about trying to piss people off. Still maintain that the DUmp should be shutdown for public good and overall mental health of the primitives. To let the few thousand misfits that find a home there and that others actually think like them is to just enable their illness.
Logged
When you are the beneficiary of someone’s kindness and generosity, it produces a sense of gratitude and community.

When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

Offline Tess Anderson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4066
  • Reputation: +2706/-30
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2012, 05:40:23 PM »
Yep, there you go, it's Mitt Romney's fault that "stupid people" misunderstood a "demonstrative pronoun" that Obama used. Now driving THAT point home ought to seal the deal for a second term.  ::)
Logged

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2012, 05:40:35 PM »
More distractions. The are really desperate........
Logged

Offline Mr Mannn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14885
  • Reputation: +2646/-276
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2012, 05:46:13 PM »
I fail to see how this would drive anyone nuts, conservative or otherwise. I have liberal relatives. We don't talk politics. They know better than to toss out something as weak as this out. I would just laugh at them.

I'm continually amazed at the DU fantasy that a single sentence can stymie a conservative.

really. this is just pathetic.
Logged

Offline FiddyBeowulf

  • "Its on, its off, its on, its off." "That is called blinking, boys."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5271
  • Reputation: +523/-34
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2012, 05:53:17 PM »
When liberal relatives post that I post this:
Logged
Fire...BAD!!! - John Fetterman


The policies that are indorsed by this party, that they backer of which are much of the 1 percent, causes a social structure much like the one back before the Revolution.

-Words of wisdom from Lady Freedom Returns

"Arguing with liberals...it's like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it's victorious." -- Anonymous

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - P. J. O'Rourke

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 05:55:02 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on July 19, 2012, 05:46:13 PM
I fail to see how this would drive anyone nuts, conservative or otherwise. I have liberal relatives. We don't talk politics. They know better than to toss out something as weak as this out. I would just laugh at them.

I'm continually amazed at the DU fantasy that a single sentence can stymie a conservative.

really. this is just pathetic.

Well, you have to understand. The DUmmies think that just looking at person a certain way makes them follow what they say. They think they are the most intelligent people in the world, when in fact, they are the DUmbest people in the world.
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2012, 05:55:13 PM »
It's a sad day when a sitting president can build his entire campaign on misrepresenting when and where a person worked, instead of running on his own record. How stupid can people get?
Logged

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2012, 05:57:16 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 19, 2012, 05:55:13 PM
It's a sad day when a sitting president can build his entire campaign on misrepresenting when and where a person worked, instead of running on his own record. How stupid can people get?

Oh, they think obama's record is stellar. They claim that he will win easily from it. So why should he have to talk about it?
Logged

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2012, 06:18:13 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on July 19, 2012, 05:55:02 PM
Well, you have to understand. The DUmmies think that just looking at person a certain way makes them follow what they say. They think they are the most intelligent people in the world, when in fact, they are the DUmbest people in the world.

The DUmmies Who Stare At Goats?
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2012, 06:21:19 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on July 19, 2012, 06:18:13 PM
The DUmmies Who Stare At Goats?

Great analogy. Hi5 ...



Hey, is that Skinner?
Logged

Offline jukin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15759
  • Reputation: +1730/-170
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2012, 08:19:42 PM »
Quote from: FiddyBeowulf on July 19, 2012, 05:53:17 PM
When liberal relatives post that I post this:


So STOLEN!

Best analogy I've seen yet.

Logged
When you are the beneficiary of someone’s kindness and generosity, it produces a sense of gratitude and community.

When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

Offline Jasonw560

  • Is a Juke Box
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2032
  • Reputation: +143/-42
  • PhD from Sarcastic State
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2012, 08:24:57 PM »
Post "define the meaning of the word 'is'"

How soon they forget things.
Logged
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

"Metaphors needn't be explained to educated people"-Ted
Nugent

"Life ain't fair. Get over it or wear a helmet" -diesel driver

Offline ADsOutburst

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4605
  • Reputation: +1222/-12
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2012, 09:40:58 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on July 19, 2012, 05:46:13 PM
I fail to see how this would drive anyone nuts, conservative or otherwise. I have liberal relatives. We don't talk politics. They know better than to toss out something as weak as this out. I would just laugh at them.

I'm continually amazed at the DU fantasy that a single sentence can stymie a conservative.

really. this is just pathetic.
It does irk me that they would make such a half-assed attempt at damage control and think it would fly.
Logged

Offline Carl

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19742
  • Reputation: +1491/-100
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2012, 05:29:12 AM »
Lurking DUmbasses...when the smartest man that ever lived has to resort to tortured wordsmithing to "unsay" something you should question how bright he really is.

So far his entire Presidency has been one misstep after the other.
Logged

Offline Skul

  • Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12475
  • Reputation: +914/-179
  • Chief of the cathouse
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2012, 06:14:26 AM »
Why would that DUmmie think that his/her/its relatives care about spacebook, much less what he/she/it thinks?
If perhaps they do peruse the pages, it's no doubt for comedy value, and egg him/her/it on.  :rotf:
Logged
Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17549
  • Reputation: +1634/-80
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2012, 07:34:43 AM »
Quote
The Team then explains: "The President's full remarks show that the 'that' in 'you didn't build that' clearly refers to roads and bridges--public infrastructure we count on the government to build and maintain."

That's bunk, and not only because "business" is more proximate to the pronoun "that" and therefore its more likely antecedent. The Truth Team's interpretation is ungrammatical. "Roads and bridges" is plural; "that" is singular. If the Team is right about Obama's meaning, he should have said, "You didn't build those."


Faced with that, they went to Plan B.  "Oh, clearly he meant the actual building."

 :rotf:  It boggles the mind how they think people would buy what they're selling. 
Logged

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2012, 09:36:57 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 20, 2012, 07:34:43 AM
Faced with that, they went to Plan B.  "Oh, clearly he meant the actual building."

 :rotf:  It boggles the mind how they think people would buy what they're selling.  

With foodstamps and welfare checks.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2012, 01:21:01 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 20, 2012, 09:36:57 AM
With foodstamps and welfare checks.

Hey, in California you can buy Cigarettes and alcohol with food stamps. So why wouldn't they also use them to buy what they are selling?
Logged

Offline Skul

  • Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12475
  • Reputation: +914/-179
  • Chief of the cathouse
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2012, 02:48:46 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on July 20, 2012, 01:21:01 PM
Hey, in California you can buy Cigarettes and alcohol with food stamps. So why wouldn't they also use them to buy what they are selling?
It's done in Texas, too. :banghead:
Are there any states at all, that limit types of purchase?
Logged
Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Offline Kyle Ricky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7596
  • Reputation: +614/-1086
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2012, 03:11:05 PM »
Quote from: Skul on July 20, 2012, 02:48:46 PM
It's done in Texas, too. :banghead:
Are there any states at all, that limit types of purchase?

I'm not sure, but it should be a federal law where you can't buy cigarettes or alcohol with welfare checks, or food stamps.
Logged

Offline Duke Nukum

  • Assistant Chair of the Committee on Neighborhood Services
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8015
  • Reputation: +561/-202
  • O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2012, 05:00:04 PM »
If you want to drive a DUmmie nuts, so to speak, just call the party they claim to belong to "The Democrat Party" and refer to their website as "The Democrat Underground."

Not much of a challenge, I know, but there it is.
Logged
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

Offline delilahmused

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7384
  • Reputation: +1367/-80
  • Devil Mom
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2012, 05:16:24 PM »
And I would want to respond to that ridiculous comment why?

Cindie
Logged
"If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world."
Mick Foley

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season."
Hedy Lamarr

"I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade."
Morticia Addams

Offline LC EFA

  • Hickus Australianus
  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4527
  • Reputation: +414/-33
Re: Put this in your Facebook status to drive your conservative relatives nuts
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2012, 05:23:08 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on July 19, 2012, 05:34:45 PM
...

Barack Obama is supposed to be the World's Greatest Orator, the smartest man in the world. Yet his campaign asks us to believe he is not even competent to construct a sentence.

- James Toranto

.


He's barely competent enough to read a sentence from a teleprompter...

Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »