Al Franken takes dummy Ted Cruz to School

[idb]

[Calling me a Marxist is clear evidence of your blinkered world view.
I stated support for net neutrality, said that without it is inevitable that throttling of speeds will occur and from that you extrapolated that I'm against capitalism and a Marxist.
There's no middle ground as far as idealogues like you are concerned...one can be either free-market or socialist...apparently there can be no such thing as a nuanced mix which, actually, is the real world.

I never called you a Republican...I don't care who you vote for but you are a slavering idealogue.

So your go to issue to demonstrate you're not a Marxist is you want the government to control the Internet. Wow, that's a pretty good argument that you are...

When did I say that I'm not a Marxist?
When did I say that the government should control the internet?

I bet, in your own mind, you win every argument you go into.
It's easy to win when you state the other person's position for them and then argue against it.

 

[daws101]

Conservatism as a Mental Illness
Republican pols have recently exhibited 10 telltale signs of mental illness.
Published on June 12, 2012 by Barry X. Kuhle, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Entertainment

In Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial, psychosis, and inability to grasp irony.

The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their political bedfellows, conservative politicians, especially when you consider a wide range of illness indicators. In his award-winning 2005 book, Dr. James Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I'm no clinician, but in my (admittedly biased brown) eyes it seems that prominent Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness over the past year:

1) Denial: humans did not evolve; Obama is not a native-born American Christian
2) Delusion: climate is not changing
3) Hallucination: God ordained me to be President
4) Disordered Thinking: being for small government that's huge in the bedroom; being anti-contraception and anti-abortion
5) Anger: Newt Gingrich’s perpetual scowl
6) Anti-social Behavior: toward women, gays, minorities, anyone without an umbilical cord or trust fund
7) Sexual Preoccupation: a fervent compulsion to control when we can mate, with whom we can mate, and precisely how we are allowed to mate (which I lampoon in Why Do Politicians Want to Police Dick and Jane's Private Parts?)
8) Grandiosity: even Rick Santorum recognizes Gingrich’s “over the moon” grandiosity
9) General Oddness: Ron Paul
10) Paranoia: pretty much all of them, all of the time
Even (the not necessarily dumb) Pope Francis appears to recognize that “it is a serious illness, this of ideological [conservative] Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”
Until Jon Huntsman becomes the sane voice of his insane party, maybe "Republican Syndrome" should be added to the DSM-V so that crazy conservative pols can receive the mental health treatment they need. I bet "Obamacare" would even cover it.

• See also Conservatism as a Mental Illness, Part II: Does the GOP Suffer from MSBP?

• 
  Conservatism as a Mental Illness Psychology Today

 

[daws101]

Seriously, who cares what an illegitimate Senator and washed-up lame comedian thinks? The fact Al Franken is a U.S. Senator, says it all about how fucked up our Government has become. What a mess.

change that to cruz and you're right!

How so?

how so what? does the obvious need explaining ?

 

[idb]

...one can be either free-market or socialist...apparently there can be no such thing as a nuanced mix which ... .

LOL! Oh now THAT has always fascinated me, this notion of the 'mixing' of ideas which promote the free exchange of goods and services to the mutual benefit (profit) of both parties and those which oppose such.


Would ya take a moment to express the principles to which you adhere within your 'capitalist' side and the principles which you feel are central to your socialist mix?

It's the real world.
Look around you.

 

[zeke]

idb, how the hell ru? Hows things in the down under? Rain yet? Ever?

 

[idb]

idb, how the hell ru? Hows things in the down under? Rain yet? Ever?

Heh, it never rains here except for soft warm summer showers.
The wind gently caresses the green grass, the fruit is always ripe on the trees, the birds eat out of your hand, the lambs are gamboling in the fields and the rainbow is in place over the snow-capped mountains.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Lucky for you, you're free of all of those, duhs!

false as always. I've been infected by the first two for many years .
the others are mostly genetic and you have all the markers...[/QUOTE]

What a pathetically flaccid retort.

No doubt the best you could do!

 

[Uncensored2008]

say's the expert at having his head up his ass.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, yet that was just, sad...

 

[zeke]

idb, how the hell ru? Hows things in the down under? Rain yet? Ever?

Heh, it never rains here except for soft warm summer showers.
The wind gently caresses the green grass, the fruit is always ripe on the trees, the birds eat out of your hand, the lambs are gamboling in the fields and the rainbow is in place over the snow-capped mountains.

Damn, guess you're doing fine. Good.
But I thought you lived in New Zealand? Not heaven. Did you move?

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

...one can be either free-market or socialist...apparently there can be no such thing as a nuanced mix which ... .

LOL! Oh now THAT has always fascinated me, this notion of the 'mixing' of ideas which promote the free exchange of goods and services to the mutual benefit (profit) of both parties and those which oppose such.


Would ya take a moment to express the principles to which you adhere within your 'capitalist' side and the principles which you feel are central to your socialist mix?

It's the real world.
Look around you.

So what you're saying is that despite being politely requested to simply state the principles which you recognize as being central to your desire to mix diametrically opposed ideas, you have absolutely NO means to identify any principles which get anywhere near to the center of what stands as your 'reasoning'.

LOL!

Anyone shocked by an advocate of 'mixing' freedom with tyranny having no kinship with principle?

As always, the addled 'centrist' is just a Leftist, who lacks the courage to commit.

Deceit, FRAUD and Ignorance... the fundamental elements of socialism.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Conservatism as a Mental Illness

Oh my goodness, demagogues are spewing shit against those whom they hate.

Well, it must be true then....

You wouldn't lie to slander conservatives anymore than the Nazis you got your techniques from would lie to slander Jews...



You're on a roll today - I take it you pan handled enough for TWO bottles of Thunderbird!

 

[kaz]

Tell the truth, you masturbated through that whole thing, didn't you? The actual Cruz quotes didn't support any of their hate filled leftist drivel.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Conservatism as a Mental Illness
Republican pols have recently exhibited 10 telltale signs of mental illness.
Published on June 12, 2012 by Barry X. Kuhle, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Entertainment

In Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial, psychosis, and inability to grasp irony.

The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their political bedfellows, conservative politicians, especially when you consider a wide range of illness indicators. In his award-winning 2005 book, Dr. James Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I'm no clinician, but in my (admittedly biased brown) eyes it seems that prominent Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness over the past year:

1) Denial: humans did not evolve; Obama is not a native-born American Christian
2) Delusion: climate is not changing
3) Hallucination: God ordained me to be President
4) Disordered Thinking: being for small government that's huge in the bedroom; being anti-contraception and anti-abortion
5) Anger: Newt Gingrich’s perpetual scowl
6) Anti-social Behavior: toward women, gays, minorities, anyone without an umbilical cord or trust fund
7) Sexual Preoccupation: a fervent compulsion to control when we can mate, with whom we can mate, and precisely how we are allowed to mate (which I lampoon in Why Do Politicians Want to Police Dick and Jane's Private Parts?)
8) Grandiosity: even Rick Santorum recognizes Gingrich’s “over the moon” grandiosity
9) General Oddness: Ron Paul
10) Paranoia: pretty much all of them, all of the time
Even (the not necessarily dumb) Pope Francis appears to recognize that “it is a serious illness, this of ideological [conservative] Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”
Until Jon Huntsman becomes the sane voice of his insane party, maybe "Republican Syndrome" should be added to the DSM-V so that crazy conservative pols can receive the mental health treatment they need. I bet "Obamacare" would even cover it.

• See also Conservatism as a Mental Illness, Part II: Does the GOP Suffer from MSBP?

• 
  Conservatism as a Mental Illness Psychology Today

ROFLMNAO!

I guess I'll never tire of watching the Left cry about 'evolution', even as their every 'feeling' results in the devolution of human reasoning.

LOL! You can NOT make this crap up.

 

[zeke]

So what you're saying is that despite being politely requested to simply state the principles which you recognize as being central to your desire to mix diametrically opposed ideas, you have absolutely means to identify any principles which get anywhere near to the center of what stands as your 'reasoning'.

Whursmykeys, I didn't read where idb said what you said he said. Wazzupwiddat?
And you are missing something in your run on sentence. A verb. Maybe a prepositional phrase. Something to make it more readable. You know what I mean? Yugotta get more concise. I can tell you got impotent shit to spread.

 

[kaz]

When did I say that I'm not a Marxist?

Fair enough, I thought you were denying it, you just wanted to know when you tipped me off? It's your rhetoric and positions.

When did I say that the government should control the internet?

Here you go

I stated support for net neutrality

 

[idb]

idb, how the hell ru? Hows things in the down under? Rain yet? Ever?

Heh, it never rains here except for soft warm summer showers.
The wind gently caresses the green grass, the fruit is always ripe on the trees, the birds eat out of your hand, the lambs are gamboling in the fields and the rainbow is in place over the snow-capped mountains.

Damn, guess you're doing fine. Good.
But I thought you lived in New Zealand? Not heaven. Did you move?

That's what it's like here...haven't you seen the brochures?

 

[idb]

...one can be either free-market or socialist...apparently there can be no such thing as a nuanced mix which ... .

LOL! Oh now THAT has always fascinated me, this notion of the 'mixing' of ideas which promote the free exchange of goods and services to the mutual benefit (profit) of both parties and those which oppose such.


Would ya take a moment to express the principles to which you adhere within your 'capitalist' side and the principles which you feel are central to your socialist mix?

It's the real world.
Look around you.

So what you're saying is that despite being politely requested to simply state the principles which you recognize as being central to your desire to mix diametrically opposed ideas, you have absolutely NO means to identify any principles which get anywhere near to the center of what stands as your 'reasoning'.

LOL!

Anyone shocked by an advocate of 'mixing' freedom with tyranny having no kinship with principle?

As always, the addled 'centrist' is just a Leftist, who lacks the courage to commit.

Deceit, FRAUD and Ignorance... the fundamental elements of socialism.

Your use of the words 'freedom' and 'tyranny' to describe conservative and liberal principles reveals you as an uncritical thinker.

My basic principle is simply 'fairness'.
According to you that makes me a socialist that advocates tyranny.

It's important to you that everyone identify with a tribe...we all have to have an unwavering ideology and any deviation from that - even in the face of new evidence or compelling argument - represents treason against your tribe.
Fair enough...enjoy your certainty on everything.

 

[JoeNormal]

...one can be either free-market or socialist...apparently there can be no such thing as a nuanced mix which ... .

LOL! Oh now THAT has always fascinated me, this notion of the 'mixing' of ideas which promote the free exchange of goods and services to the mutual benefit (profit) of both parties and those which oppose such.


Would ya take a moment to express the principles to which you adhere within your 'capitalist' side and the principles which you feel are central to your socialist mix?

It's the real world.
Look around you.

So what you're saying is that despite being politely requested to simply state the principles which you recognize as being central to your desire to mix diametrically opposed ideas, you have absolutely NO means to identify any principles which get anywhere near to the center of what stands as your 'reasoning'.

LOL!

Anyone shocked by an advocate of 'mixing' freedom with tyranny having no kinship with principle?

As always, the addled 'centrist' is just a Leftist, who lacks the courage to commit.

Deceit, FRAUD and Ignorance... the fundamental elements of socialism.

Your use of the words 'freedom' and 'tyranny' to describe conservative and liberal principles reveals you as an uncritical thinker.

My basic principle is simply 'fairness'.
According to you that makes me a socialist that advocates tyranny.

It's important to you that everyone identify with a tribe...we all have to have an unwavering ideology and any deviation from that - even in the face of new evidence or compelling argument - represents treason against your tribe.
Fair enough...enjoy your certainty on everything.

That's one of the most succinct summaries of the right wing mindset that I've ever seen. Well done.

 

[idb]

When did I say that I'm not a Marxist?

Fair enough, I thought you were denying it, you just wanted to know when you tipped me off? It's your rhetoric and positions.

When did I say that the government should control the internet?

Here you go

I stated support for net neutrality

That isn't a support for government control of the internet.
Why does it have to be black or white to you?
Your position is that either the government is out of the internet or it's 'controlling' it.
There's no middle ground with you.

What a wonderful world of certainty you inhabit.

 

[kaz]

When did I say that I'm not a Marxist?

Fair enough, I thought you were denying it, you just wanted to know when you tipped me off? It's your rhetoric and positions.

When did I say that the government should control the internet?

Here you go

I stated support for net neutrality

That isn't a support for government control of the internet.
Why does it have to be black or white to you?
Your position is that either the government is out of the internet or it's 'controlling' it.
There's no middle ground with you.

What a wonderful world of certainty you inhabit.

The Marxist objects to extremism, that's a hoot.

Government has no legitimate power to dictate to Americans what we do with our own assets. Play all the word games you want, but when they do that, they are controlling it. We are only allowed to do that which they decide we can. They determine what they can decide and what we can, that is control.