She's kind of like the feminine equivalent of G.W. Bush.

She'll say any dumb-ass thing that pops into her head.

de facto leader of the Libertarian party.

Since Battlestar Galactica went off the air, I've been watching this person. She's endlessly entertaining.

I think if we could create a Michelle Bachmann/Sarah Palin hybrid, it would somehow end up with a negative IQ.

>> ^volumptuous:
de facto leader of the Libertarian party.

What makes you say that?

>> ^Xax:
I think if we could create a Michelle Bachmann/Sarah Palin hybrid, it would somehow end up with a negative IQ.


Or a more attractive Ann Coulter.

^ bullshit, volumptuous.
sorry, but that's flatout, moronic bullshit.

for starters, libertarians are social liberals.
just like democrats, and often moreso than you, as with issues like illegal drugs.

you'd know that already, if you were paying any attention in your embarrassing and needlessly antagonistic exchanges with blankfist.

try asking an honest question, instead of assumptions, willful ignorance, and slander.
last time, you accused us of being racist, this time you falsely associate us with bachmann?
i'm not sure which to find more insulting.

*sarcasm

Mmmm, you can smell the passive agressiveness like a bad fart in a car. You're not blaming Obama about the flu, but you're bringing it up...I see.

Okay fine. She's flippin' insanely dumb.

The Swine Flu fiasco in 1976 was one of the big negatives of the Ford administration, which cost him re-election.

I'm almost happy she got re-elected. She makes a great standard bearer for the modern Republican party.

It'd have been a shame to not have her to wave in front of moderates.

*politics
*fear

Adding video to channels (Fear, Politics) - requested by NetRunner.

Didn't the Avian Flu start during good ol' GW's term of 8 long years? You don't see the morons on the other side of the fence trying to blame that on him. Looks like our idjeets are smarter than yor idjeets you 'Republicants'.

I had enormous explosive diarrhea develop during this video, I'm not blaming her, I'm just saying.

I'm sorry, but this is just too fucking stupid. The stupid is unbearable now, The economy has just collapsed, and its only a matter of time before Intelligence collapses. Be careful next time you tape people like this. its at a breaking point, I tell you. A couple of QM posts in this thread about "Comrade Obama" and this could all go to hell.

You'd think the GOP and its spokesclowns would have gone ahead and actually started to activate their brains after 8 years of utter stupidity and failure, but their strategy seems to be to pile on more stupid in the hopes of tipping the scales back.

When will she just shut her mouth?!?!?

Every time I hear her speak, I can feel a portion of my cognitive aptitude slipping away.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to get together with her, an orangutan, and a gallon of Mazola for 15 or 20 minutes.

nwo is euthanizing us.

I think she MAY be able to qualify for a dignitas peaceful exit.

i hope some conspiracy theorists latch onto this one

what a dumb ...can i say it..."cunt"

Someone to look up to for sure.

Where does the GOP find these people anyway? Are there recruitment agents in insane asylums? Do they round up dementing elders from their care homes?

But, you know.. as long as they're not in power, they are great for filling the Sift.

I want to go back to when I used to think she was just some wacky pundit. I don't like this scary new world where I know she's an actual elected official.

Doesn't Fox News say these things regularly? Why the sudden outrage?

This woman is just flat out batshit-insane! And that's why she continues getting news coverage and, no doubt as somewhat of a direct result of that exposure, why she was elected. It seems like the news isn't looking for true 'news' any more. Ie. they're not looking for facts, and people with considered, intelligent opinions on things. They're looking for sound/videobites that people will want to watch, or, barring that, at least find passably amusing. Michelle Bachmann is the king of crazy shit that people will watch like it's a kitten-splattered train wreck.

Of course, accepting that truth doesn't make it any less scary. Knowing that somewhere on earth (ie. I don't know where she resides) there is a constituency where a plurality of people (probably over 40%) actually believe that she is in some way capable of rational human intelligent thought makes me quake in my booties. Where are these people and how can we show them how absurdly wrong they are? How can we teach them to question reality in such a way that they can tell that people like this are TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE. I just don't know. And that's what scares me the most.

P.S. @my15minutes: Wow. You totally took that bait and ran with it, eh?

Free markets can coexist with progressive income tax and government services. Libertarians tend to conflate economic liberty with flatter systems of taxation and a lack of needful public services like healthcare.

>> ^jwray:
Free markets can coexist with progressive income tax and government services. Libertarians tend to conflate economic liberty with flatter systems of taxation and a lack of needful public services like healthcare.


We need more socialized medicine like we need a hole in the head. The model you're suggesting is forced appropriation to create a national credit card of sorts that works until the country can no longer repay its debts in real terms (or more accurately, until its creditors realize this to be the case and stop financing the country's debt and artificially low rates). We're far past the point of having domestic credit, this is the very late stages to depend on exponential foreign credit. Our desire for life-prolonging procedures is unlimited, but our productive capacity to finance it is not. That is why prices are so high and quality so poor in government models. If it's just a national credit card whose compounding interest we finance by continuously finding more foreign investment, what's stopping a servicer from charging as much as he can and when does the foreign credit being "invested" in that increasingly expensive, non-exportable service eventually tap out?

We're like Madoff with a printing press, every time a bond matures we print another one. Since we severed gold-backing in 1971 but retained reserve status, we just export paper promises in exchange for goods, and until now foreigners have snatched them up. This is the fundamental realization that separates libertarians from stupider parts of the population: benefiting in the short-term at some greater long-term expense is not a good trade-off. Eventually it gets to a point where you get so hooked on that lifestyle that the credit junky rejects the withdrawal symptoms come time to save rather than consume. So the government just tries to inflate away the debt and you get bubble after bubble until the bond market itself is a bubble. Because if bond interest is insufficiently compensatory for the devaluation of the currency it promises to pay, why the hell would you buy them? If the effect of devaluation is only hidden by the fact that foreigners are hoarding rather than spending them, that's circular logic to suggest that dollars aren't losing value so long as you never use them to bid up the prices of products.

People wonder how countries like the UK and the USA went from rich creditors and manufacturing powerhouses to leading debtors who run deficits to consume rather than increase exportable production. All in a relatively short period of time. This is precisely how we did it, and as much shared blame you can point on needless military adventures post WWII, a borrow and spend health care model can only lead to squalor.

Recently, a relative of mine had a few procedures done on medicare (the second procedure was begotten by an infection caused during the first one). The doctors sent a bunch of excess equipment to our house and we couldn't return it. Some of it was still in its packaging, and the steel thing that holds up the intravenous bags? Wouldn't take that back either. The cost of her hospital stay and multiple invasive procedures was $150,000. Her out of pocket was only $100. It would take me a decade to earn that much after taxes, it was put on the national charge card in one week. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is going to end badly. People like David Walker have tried to warn people and were ignored for years. People's ignorance and sense of entitlement is too great now to elect someone who will stop the currency crisis before it happens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-NqdmEDq4

You may now continue hitting your neo-con pinata.

Does anyone else envision being sodomized by Michele Bachmann with a steel-studded strap-on as a priest anoints their forehead in front of a sunday school choir attended by walruses? I'm so hot right now watching this.

>> ^BansheeX:
>> ^jwray:
Free markets can coexist with progressive income tax and government services. Libertarians tend to conflate economic liberty with flatter systems of taxation and a lack of needful public services like healthcare.

We need more socialized medicine like we need a hole in the head. The model you're suggesting is forced appropriation to create a national credit card of sorts that works until the country can no longer repay its debts in real terms (or more accurately, until its creditors realize this to be the case and stop financing the country's debt and artificially low rates). We're far past the point of having domestic credit, this is the very late stages to depend on exponential foreign credit. Our desire for life-prolonging procedures is unlimited, but our productive capacity to finance it is not. That is why prices are so high and quality so poor in government models. If it's just a national credit card whose compounding interest we finance by continuously finding more foreign investment, what's stopping a servicer from charging as much as he can and when does the foreign credit being "invested" in that increasingly expensive, non-exportable service eventually tap out?
We're like Madoff with a printing press, every time a bond matures we print another one. Since we severed gold-backing in 1971 but retained reserve status, we just export paper promises in exchange for goods, and until now foreigners have snatched them up. This is the fundamental realization that separates libertarians from stupider parts of the population: benefiting in the short-term at some greater long-term expense is not a good trade-off. Eventually it gets to a point where you get so hooked on that lifestyle that the credit junky rejects the withdrawal symptoms come time to save rather than consume. So the government just tries to inflate away the debt and you get bubble after bubble until the bond market itself is a bubble. Because if bond interest is insufficiently compensatory for the devaluation of the currency it promises to pay, why the hell would you buy them? If the effect of devaluation is only hidden by the fact that foreigners are hoarding rather than spending them, that's circular logic to suggest that dollars aren't losing value so long as you never use them to bid up the prices of products.
People wonder how countries like the UK and the USA went from rich creditors and manufacturing powerhouses to leading debtors who run deficits to consume rather than increase exportable production. All in a relatively short period of time. This is precisely how we did it, and as much shared blame you can point on needless military adventures post WWII, a borrow and spend health care model can only lead to squalor.
Recently, a relative of mine had a few procedures done on medicare (the second procedure was begotten by an infection caused during the first one). The doctors sent a bunch of excess equipment to our house and we couldn't return it. Some of it was still in its packaging, and the steel thing that holds up the intravenous bags? Wouldn't take that back either. The cost of her hospital stay and multiple invasive procedures was $150,000. Her out of pocket was only $100. It would take me a decade to earn that much after taxes, it was put on the national charge card in one week. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is going to end badly. People like David Walker have tried to warn people and were ignored for years. People's ignorance and sense of entitlement is too great now to elect someone who will stop the currency crisis before it happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-NqdmEDq4
You may now continue hitting your neo-con pinata.


I'm not talking about letting the government write a blank check for ridiculously overpriced private healthcare services.

Government shouldn't spend a penny on private health services or private health insurance, or interfere with them at all. It should just set up its own separate clinics that offer basic services at low cost and subsidize preventative care. This could be done for a tiny fraction of the cost of the Iraq war. Sweden spends a lower percentage of its GDP on healthcare than the USA, yet has 3 years longer life expectancy and half the infant mortality. That's socialism for you!

>> ^Throbbin:
>> ^Xax:
I think if we could create a Michelle Bachmann/Sarah Palin hybrid, it would somehow end up with a negative IQ.

Or a more attractive Ann Coulter.


Nothing could help that sickly-looking scarecrow of a woman look more attractive. And I use the term woman lightly.

Oh i don't know duct... if she were suddenly and violently mangled or decapitated... that might be a step in the right direction...

Wow... not sure where that came from.