How to win an argument with tea-bagging big-government so-called "conservatives"... by Kwicko

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How to win an argument with tea-bagging big-government so-called "conservatives"...

POSTED BY: KWICKO
UPDATED: Saturday, June 4, 2011 15:36
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Thursday, June 2, 2011 4:25 PM

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Call their bluff.

http://www.repealcreationism.com/508/17-year-old-to-michelle-bachmann-
show-me-your-nobel-laureate-scientists/

17 Year Old to Michele Bachmann: Show Me Your Nobel Laureate Scientists

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In 2006, Congresswoman Bachmann claimed “there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact… hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel prizes, believe in intelligent design.”

Intelligent design is another name for creationism. Teaching these exchangeable theories in public school science classrooms was found unconstitutional in the 2005 Dover vs. Kitzmiller case because they are not science.

Bachmann’s ongoing misrepresentation of science and scientists at a national level adds fuel and false authority to the lobbyists and politicians in my state who have an agenda to undermine evidence-based science.

Does Congresswoman Bachmann really think the public will fall for her sleight of hand and believe she has Nobel Laureate scientists who support these unscientific theories?

Congresswoman Bachmann, I see your “hundreds” of scientists, and raise you millions of scientists.

For the next hand, I raise you 43 Nobel Laureate scientists. That’s right: 43 Nobel Laureate scientists have endorsed our effort to repeal Louisiana’s creationism law.

Major science organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which represents over 10 million scientists, have publicly endorsed the repeal.

Congresswoman Bachmann, you claim that Nobel Laureates support creationism. Show me your hand. If you want to be taken seriously by voters while you run for President, back up your claims with facts. Can you match 43 Nobel Laureates, or do you fold?

This comes on the heels of Michele Bachmann refusing to debate a 16 year-old high school student on the issues of the United States Constitution and American history. She was challenged to the debate after making ludicrous claims, such as that the "Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery" (despite that "tireless" work not occurring until four-score and seven years later

) and that the "shots heard 'round the world" were fired at Lexington and Concord... NEW HAMPSHIRE!

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Thursday, June 2, 2011 7:03 PM

CANTTAKESKY

I like Francis Collins' thoughts on this debate:

http://faculty.fmcc.suny.edu/mcdarby/tucker_carlson_.htm

Now, he believes in God, and he also believes evolution is a fact, but he rejects intelligent design. I know more scientists in this category (God + evolution, but not ID) than scientists that support ID.

I can't think of any Nobel Laureates who vocally support ID.

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Thursday, June 2, 2011 8:24 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Well then CTS I guess I better get my arse in gear then and become one.
:)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Friday, June 3, 2011 12:49 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Call their bluff.

Hey, or you could just distract them by asking who, say, Paul Revere was.

"He who warned, uh, the... the British that they weren't gonna be takin away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and, um, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed."

Yes, Sarah, that's exactly the story of an original tea partier, right there.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Friday, June 3, 2011 12:56 PM

KWICKO

Yeah, PR, I just saw that when I got home. Freaking hilarious.

Rappy will write it off as just a "tiny gaff" [sic], of course, just like he did with Herman Cain's woeful ignorance of the Constitution.

These tea-bagging morons just aren't smart people, in any sense of the word, are they? Palin has diarrhea of the mouth, and can't stop herself from talking, even when she has no goddamned idea what the hell she's saying; she just has to keep the words coming out, hoping that it will all come together into something resembling coherent speech by the time she wraps it up. It hasn't happened yet.

Maybe she, Bachmann, and Cain can run on a "Dumb, Dumber, and Dumberer" ticket together. "Race to the Bottom" is their slogan.

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Friday, June 3, 2011 6:17 PM

HKCAVALIER

Judas Priest on a Pringle! What the hell was she talking about?

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Friday, June 3, 2011 6:25 PM

KWICKO

I think she's been huffing entirely too much motorcycle "emissions".

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Friday, June 3, 2011 7:33 PM

LILI

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

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"He who warned, uh, the... the British that they weren't gonna be takin away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and, um, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed."

Facts are stubborn things.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 3:38 AM

KWICKO

To summarize:

All you need to do to win an argument with tea-bagging big-government so-called "conservatives" is...

LET THEM TALK!

And remember, this is not a publicity stunt! It's just a quiet family vacation away from the "mainstream media".

Uh huh. Suuuuuuurrre it is.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:29 AM

KANEMAN

Kwicko, not all teabaggers believe in intell-design...just sayin...that just because MB says something stupid..don't think one should brrursh stroke a whole movement...typing on with my knook...so ttry not to spelling faiury me

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:35 AM

THEHAPPYTRADER

Kane, why do you have to be so rude? Couldn't you just let them enjoy their self-righteous circle jerk?

Seriously, you should feel bad.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 6:25 AM

JONGSSTRAW

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... Couldn't you just let them enjoy their self-righteous circle jerk?

I'm told they almost always feel better afterwards.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 12:48 PM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:
Kane, why do you have to be so rude? Couldn't you just let them enjoy their self-righteous circle jerk?

Seriously, you should feel bad.

Sorry, but I tend to leave self-righteous circle-jerks for Republicans and Baptists. They get so very much practice at it!

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 2:12 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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just because MB says something stupid..don't think one should brrursh stroke a whole movement

I agree. Michelle Bachmann is someone NOBODY should take seriously or expect any sense out of, and reflects nobody. The unfortunate part is there seem to be so MANY ignorant (I think that's more accurate than "stupid") blathering mouths on the right that it's hard NOT to paint with one brush. Bachman, Palin, Gingrich, Coulter, it goes on and on:

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Regarding 9/11 widows: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much." Ann Coulter

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The Govenator: "I finally arrived here in 1968.I had empty pockets, but I was full of dreams. The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon and Humphrey presidential race on TV. I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism which is what I had just left. But then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes, and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican!" And I've been a Republican ever since!"

That's Arnold at the 2004 Republican National Convention. The problem, is that in 1968 Arnie didn't speak English, and there were no Humphrey-Nixon debates.

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Representative Rep. Richard H. Baker, (in reference to hurricane Katrina) said: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

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"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy — or go on Prozac?" Bush campaign worker Susan Sheybani's musings on employee options in the weak U.S. job market.

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"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch

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"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk." Ronald Reagan (Wrong, unless the space under your desk can store 30 tons.)

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Tom Delay: To fix fish kills caused by acid rain: "Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid."

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"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections. Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." Newt Gingrich

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"Women are best suited for secretarial work, decorating cakes, and counter sales, like selling lingerie. --South Carolina Republican Representative Larry Koon

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." --Dan Quayle

That’s just a SMALL sample (cites can be found for those and more at http://guerillastickers.com/Evil%20Republicans.htm)

When you have so many people saying things like these, and far more (should we go into O’Reilly?? BECK?!!!), it tends to tar the entire party/ideology with something unpleasant smelling. That’s just the way it is.

The Palin “gaffe” is bad enough (dangit, Rose, I didn’t get here fast enough, I wanted to put that one up as its own thread!), but when you watch her, you can see her searching for what to say, as we’ve seen her do so many times before. Mike nailed it, we all know the look:

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keep the words coming out, hoping that it will all come together into something resembling coherent speech by the time she wraps it up.

Rather than admit she doesn’t know, she’ll say whatever she can think of...and the thing is NOBODY WILL CALL HER ON IT! Oh, of course the media will, it’s funny and shows how IGNORANT (not stupid) she is, but the people she’s TALKING to won’t bat an eye, and FauxNews, etc., won’t say a word about it. It’s “legal” now, anything is, there is no need to pay attention to facts, truth or reality, and they know it.

P.S. There’s no “circle jerk” here, just astonished amusement at what would cause most Americans-—HK being a perfect example—-to drop their jaws and shake their heads in wonderment.

Kiki-—the facepalm was a brilliant stroke, by the way. Says it all.