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Smarter than you: satire
« on: September 18, 2012, 10:02:18 AM »
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Taco Jockeys?? Taco Jockeys??
http://dailycurrant.com/2012/09/18/hidden-camera-tape-romney-blasts-loser-hispanics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hidden-camera-tape-romney-blasts-loser-hispanics

This may even lose him Rubio's vote.


. . . Today the controversy widened further with the impending release of a new portion of the video in which Romney unloaded on America's Hispanic population, claiming they are "losers" and "trash" who are only in the United States to claim welfare benefits.

Leading Latino rights groups have characterized the video as "shockingly racist" and have called on Romney to drop out of the presidential race and allow a new candidate to run in his place. . . .

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1. holy shit. can this be true?

I'm speechless.

If only.

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get the red out (6,128 posts)
2. OMG! What a complete racist!

"Hispanics will never vote for me because they can't possibly udnerstand my ideas. They are descended from a primative cutlure. They were sacrificing 9 year olds to the gods before Cortés came."

I just can't wrap around a candidate for anything saying this. This has to be one of the most ignorant statements any candidate has ever let come out of their mouth anywhere at any time.

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3. It's satire

Like "The Onion"

Not if it feeds a fabricated narrative.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021368759

ETA: After 8 more posts stating that it's satire we have:

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Le Taz Hot (12,551 posts)
13. Oh. My. God.

"Taco Jockey?" Honestly, what kind of mind comes up with these terms? Why would you WANT to come up . . . **** it. There's no understanding these people.

If he wasn't toast before, he's done now. And all of a sudden, the House may be in reach. Hmmmm.
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2012, 10:10:53 AM »
How many "I want to belieeeevvvvvveeee it b/c it fits my pre-existing biases against Rmoney" posts?
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2012, 10:12:07 AM »
"Taco Jockey?"....but the rich ones are "Donkey Drivers".
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2012, 10:12:21 AM »
haha shamed DUmmie has bowed out in disgrace

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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2012, 11:32:10 AM »
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13. Oh. My. God.

"Taco Jockey?" Honestly, what kind of mind comes up with these terms? Why would you WANT to come up . . . **** it. There's no understanding these people.

If he wasn't toast before, he's done now. And all of a sudden, the House may be in reach. Hmmmm.
If I had to guess, probably a DUmmie. The author gets the same thrill using racial pejoratives as the DUmmies do and the tone of the other "stories" at the Currant seem to be leftward slanted...not so much Obama bashing.
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2012, 11:46:38 AM »
The OP has now been self-deleted, but it is always interesting to read how many of the DUmmies will jump on this sort of thing with glee.  Doesn't matter if it is unbelievable to most people, some of them will still embrace it as if they were ". . .clinging to their guns and bibles. . . ."
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2012, 12:04:59 PM »
Again, the smarter someone thinks they are, the easier they are too fool.
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2012, 12:15:09 PM »
 :rofl: :lmao:  I can't believe they can't discern satire!!  How idiotic do you have to be? 
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2012, 01:17:46 PM »
Quote from: Karin on September 18, 2012, 12:15:09 PM
:rofl: :lmao:  I can't believe they can't discern satire!!  How idiotic do you have to be? 
There was (and maybe still is) a DUmmy with screen name of "thispostissatire", or something similar.  He/she would make OPs that were outrageous, and DUmmies would jump all over them.

There would be several responses scattered randomly telling the other DUmmies it was satire, and they should read the screen name of the OP, but it rarely helped.
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2012, 01:21:08 PM »
Quote from: Karin on September 18, 2012, 12:15:09 PM
:rofl: :lmao:  I can't believe they can't discern satire!!  How idiotic do you have to be? 

To be fair: BNN has taken in a couple of cavers.

One article I wrote in particular got a few. It was just after DADT was repealed and I wrote how that led to cultural difficulties because now soldiers trying to pose as gay would no longer be kicked out instead of being deployed.
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2012, 02:15:11 PM »
Yeah, I've seen people here and at TOS get sucked in by things like Onion articles myself, there's just a certain portion of the population that reacts first and thinks later on both sides.  A much bigger portion on theirs, of course...

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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2012, 03:05:59 PM »
I think most straight men could be called "Taco Jockeys"
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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2012, 06:11:53 PM »
Quote from: Jasonw560 on September 18, 2012, 03:05:59 PM
I think most straight men could be called "Taco Jockeys"
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Taco Jockeys?

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Re: Smarter than you: satire
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2012, 06:17:17 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 18, 2012, 02:15:11 PM
Yeah, I've seen people here and at TOS get sucked in by things like Onion articles myself, there's just a certain portion of the population that reacts first and thinks later on both sides.  A much bigger portion on theirs, of course...

 :-)

I believe some of it falls into what I call cult herding. You tell someone something that they know to be true, then something that they wish to be true, and then when they're properly hooked you can tell them anything.
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