Mineral Man makes a stupid analogy

[Ralph Wiggum]

MineralMan (57,366 posts)

Why Republicans are like Nascar and Democrats are like Formula 1:
 
Last edited Tue Sep 17, 2013, 04:20 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Nascar:

You drive around and around an oval, turning only in one direction. It's simple to understand and simple to design cars for. Republicans are simple, and they like things that don't change. Republicans like Nascar.

Formula 1:

Formula 1 tracks are complex in design and require all sorts of turns, in both directions. They're complicated, with frequent changes in direction. Formula 1 cars have to be versatile and so are more difficult to design. Democrats are versatile, and like changes in direction. Formula 1 fans tend to be Democrats.

Even his fellow DUmmies call him out:

Indydem (1,641 posts)
1. Or not.

You overlook Pocono, Sonoma, and Watkins Glen.

But nice try.

Pocono isn't a road course, but point noted.

CherokeeDem (1,897 posts)
2. I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat...

and I like NASCAR and Formula 1...

Not certain the analogy works all that well...

Tikki (9,900 posts)
3. ...sorry both are wasting gasoline...

Their only purpose is to use up gasoline and with an obsessive need to flaunt their consumerism.

Blue_Tires (32,894 posts)
5. I get your general point...

But as someone who watches a lot of racing series, your analogy is a bit off...

[obumazombie]

Libs would follow NASCAR if there was a car designed out of arctic ice.

[USA4ME]

Look rockboy primitive, we conservatives are smarter than you. All your attempts to convince yourself otherwise doesn't mean a thing. That was a major fail, son. Cut it out before you hurt yourself.

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[Karin]

Well that didn't go very well.  It was stupid and unclever, and even DUmmies thought it was DUmb.  Hope you feel like a fool, MM.

[JohnnyReb]

They should love NASCAR, it's mostly left turns.

[Chris_]

They should love NASCAR, it's mostly left turns.

Only if a government committee were allowed to design the cars and were required to meet all sorts of pointless regulations that had nothing to do with actually driving them.

[Carl]

They never tire of looking like idiots.

[USA4ME]

NYC_SKP

4. Nah, they aren't that orderly. Its WAY more like this:


 
Also, please note the teabaggers in attendance.

Oh looky. Skippy the skank primitive tried to make a funny.

Here you go, skippy. A pic of the Dems in action.



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[Skul]

E15 blend is the current fuel being used.


Here ya go, DUmmies.

[Ralph Wiggum]

E15 blend is the current fuel being used.


Here ya go, DUmmies.

Don't confuse the poor DUmmies with the truth, Skul.

[diesel driver]

Tikki (9,900 posts)
3. ...sorry both are wasting gasoline...

E15 blend is the current fuel being used.


Here ya go, DUmmies.

DUmbass Rikki Tikki Tavi can't seem to grasp the reason car manufacturers race in the first place.  A few of the innovations from racing that directly translated to today's cars:

1.  Safety crush zones.
2.  Disc brakes
3.  Anti-lock brakes
4.  Fuel injection
5.  Alternative fuels  (Indycars run on E85 ethanol.  Used to run on methanol.  NASCAR uses E15.)
6.  Forced induction (turbo and super charging)

DUmbasses watch a NASCAR race and see 43 cars going in left-hand circles, wasting gas.
I see 43 individual test labs that will improve the car I buy in the future.
That is, as long as the f'n government stays out of the car business!

[franksolich]

They never tire of looking like idiots.

Right.

I wish they would, but they won't.

[98ZJUSMC]

Tikki (9,900 posts)
3. ...sorry both are wasting gasoline...

Their only purpose is to use up gasoline and with an obsessive need to flaunt their consumerism.

The reason baseball bats were created.

[diesel driver]

The reason baseball bats were created.

To be applies LIBERALLY about the region of the head and shoulders of LIBERALS!        

[ChuckJ]

In the idiot's defense, he's somewhat correct. Republicans are sort of like NASCAR, and dems are sort of like F1.

I watch both F1 and NASCAR (all caps).

In a NASCAR race, you have a lot of drivers jockeying for the win. They are driving their hearts out to get ahead.

In an F1 race, you usually have a bunch of drivers following the leader.

[diesel driver]

NYC_SKP

4. Nah, they aren't that orderly. Its WAY more like this:

Oh looky. Skippy the skank primitive tried to make a funny.

Here you go, skippy. A pic of the Dems in action.



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Oh look!

Skippy and USA4ME both posted pics of Barry's economic policies.  

[jukin]

I don't watch either on TV because I don't do spectator sports.  However, I do own a pace car from Laguna Sega. I'm a hands on guy.

[biersmythe]

No I have to dis-agree the libs are like
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erNO699Jm8E [/youtube]

And Conservatives are like.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQ-xj5C2m8 [/youtube]

And yes before I get my azz jumped I know it was the English team that did this, but they did hit it first. And besides most of the top F1 cars aren't american teams either...just saying.

[GOP Congress]

((SIGH))

Again, ol' Ban was way ahead of the 4-wide turn with this epic Bush-era rant...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/BanTheGOP/53

YEE-HAW, VOTE FOR BUSH BOYS!!

Copyright ®2005 Ban the GOP

Perhaps no activity represents the Republican ideology and constituency makeup than the national association of sports car racing. With its racially exclusive, corporate plasterizing presence wreaking environmental havoc on the planet, NASCAR projects its hillbilly lingo and moonshine running beginnings in front of thousands of screaming Republicans every Sunday. This obscene ritual goes completely against the grain of most normal people, ridiculing our stature in the global community amid a orgiastic ritual that celebrates environmental havoc over sanity.

Let's don't we start with the basic evil of NASCAR:
all participants, drivers, and owners, are 100 percent white male.

There are no African-Americans.

There are no Latinos.

There are no Asians.

There are, in fact, exactly zero—count them, zero—minorities involved in this multimillion dollar sport.

In addition, every race is a three-hour corporation glorifying orgy of mechanical monsters with billboards careening around a searing hot bowlful of dirty tarmac at 190 miles an hour. Corporations routinely take money from providing living wages and benefits for its workers and disburse it to greedy sports car owners who project Republicanized-corporate images on the hoods, fenders, bumpers, roofs, and every other nook and cranny of their cars. In addition, every square inch of their body suits, pit crews, infield grass, T-shirts, and infield outhouses have decals from half the known republican-sponsored companies, many of whom have moved their labor base overseas, putting millions of Americans out of work permanently.

Environmentally, NASCAR wreaks humongous damage into the atmosphere. From every car, an unmistakable, overbearing stench of nitro gasoline, oil, and hazardous chemicals seep ominously into the atmosphere. Oil spills are common, washed into the drains to permanently harm our rivers, oceans, and waterways. Global warming goes up a tenth of a percent per year on NASCAR racing alone.

One of the biggest lies routinely used by these Republican good old boys pertains to NASCAR's so-called contribution to the evolving safety measures for normal cars. This whopper can easily be refuted by comparing the automobile industry with other industries regarding safety testing and development.
For instance, how many jet races go three-ride around the aerial pylons, trading paint on their wings and fuselages? How many cities and islands are routinely destroyed by nuclear bombs in the development of nuclear energy? Responsible businesses don’t open up their testing environments for planetary destruction and driver safety. They test their products with no damage to the environment, ostensibly with workers chosen through democratically approved Affirmative Action policies. But logic and republicanism are not compatible.

The average NASCAR fan is a beer guzzlin’, tobacco chewin’, bucktoothed redneck with missing teeth and a fat, ugly wife. They routinely live in white trash neighborhoods adorned with overgrown weeds, discarded bottles and pizza boxes, the obligatory rusting ’67 LTD sitting on blocks (originally used for moonshine runs of course), and breed sass-mouth kids running amuck chasing frogs and other critters. Of course, no NASCAR fan’s house is complete without the African-American loathing symbol of slavery and the KKK’s main symbol, the confederate flag. This obscene logo can be found in at least two windows on their usually dilapidated house, the car antenna of their only running vehicle (usually a 20-year old pickup), and plastered on the bumper of the vehicle, along with bumper stickers that say “US out of NATO” and “Reagan-Bush ‘84”.

The insidious spread of this racially exclusive, environmentally destructive “sport” has been conducted by our little Nazi media network, Fox. With cameras placed in virtually every nook and cranny on and around the racetrack, in every car (both front and back windows, steering wheel, and even “pedal cams”), Fox spews out every conceivable view of the race for its screaming minions, complete with corporate logos prominently displayed in the frame. Most commentators are fanatics of this renegade redneck brand of demolition derby style kiddy carts, combining quasi-hi-tech babble about differential cables, restrictor plates, and gasoline-oxygen mix ratios with barely discernable redneck-ese good ol’ boy accents, paint trading guffaws and overall moonshine madness.
“Boogity boogity boogity, let’s go RACING, boys!!” has evolved from its dirt-track origins to the Republican Party theme cry. Of course, one can’t help mentally transposing “RACING” with “VOTE FOR BUSH.”

The US Military has been prominently featured in all the races. No less than three cars are fully sponsored by the US Army, obviously supporting its many incursions and destruction of countries, most of which pose no threat to the rest of the planet. In addition, NASCAR is the only major “sport” that starts every race with a “JEE-zuz!” prayer, effectively barring the beliefs of atheists, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, and other religions. Finally, the overall false patriotic pride spewing from the participants, fanatics, and media conflicts with decent American and global values.

In other words, it's a complete, outright cesspool of obscene toxic worship.

The citizenry needs to call NASCAR on their blatantly Republicanist hypocrisy and show their vociferous dissent to an institution that prevents the progress of humanity in an inclusive, collective nature, not by this showcase of Republicanist bullshit.

DU'ers are not only DUmmies, they are amateur pikers...

[JohnnyReb]

((SIGH))

Again, ol' Ban was way ahead of the 4-wide turn with this epic Bush-era rant...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/BanTheGOP/53

DU'ers are not only DUmmies, they are amateur pikers...

NASCAR could run for years on the pollution that the First family puts in the air on one vacation.

[BlueStateSaint]

((SIGH))

Again, ol' Ban was way ahead of the 4-wide turn with this epic Bush-era rant...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/BanTheGOP/53

DU'ers are not only DUmmies, they are amateur pikers...

Ahhh . . .

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d8FTPv955I[/youtube]

[DumbAss Tanker]

The thing about Formula 1 that is most like the Pigressive DemonRat Party is that the crashes tend to kill a lot more innocent bystanders than NASCAR ones.

[67 Rover]

In the idiot's defense, he's somewhat correct. Republicans are sort of like NASCAR, and dems are sort of like F1.

I watch both F1 and NASCAR (all caps).

In a NASCAR race, you have a lot of drivers jockeying for the win. They are driving their hearts out to get ahead.

In an F1 race, you usually have a bunch of foreign drivers following a foreign leader.

Fixed

[obumazombie]

Libs love to call for diversity for it's own sake. Libs frown about meritocracy, and often are downright hostile to it.

[AprilRazz]

A couple of points..
First there are blacks and other minorities in NASCAR as well as women.
Second, Top Gear UK was at a race a while back and Hammond interviewed a driver that used to drive F1 and he said that stock cars are harder to drive. It takes a lot more skill to handle a stock car that is not giving you feedback on each and every little system.