WELL SO MUCH FOR THAT. (I blame the upcoming 2016 elections, everyone knows that to politicians brain presidential election years are basically bacon wrapped chocolate covered heroin)
So yea, its once again time for THIS [fill in appreciate time period later] IN STUPID!
So we lead off with the Casually stupid. These are the poor smucks that had they spoken at a more intelligent time in our country wouldnt have made this blog, because, while they are morons, they honestly didnt say anything stupid enough to merit their own blog posts. They just got in because they got caught in the gravitational pull of even stupider people.....
First up Rep. Don Young of Alaska, who early last week made the following comments about homeless people:
“We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district, I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
He's right, you wouldnt have much of a homeless problem......you would have a problem with disease being spread by all the chewed on human corpses. (not to mention the problem of wolves trying to eat you)
And lets just hope the wolves are smarter than the Congressman (actually, they might be....). I mean it would be a shame if they accidentally attacked say, a child on the way home from school or a pregnant mother or something.
Next up, Senator Jim Inhofe. What did he do? well actually let me show you.
WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG TO BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS!
(P.S. I'm cooking dinner right now, so by the time you read this, I likely will have solved world hunger too)
Finally our 3rd and final slot in the "entry level stupid" category Iowa State Rep. Vito Barbieri.
In a hearing about the uses of telemedicine, a doctor has just spoken about how colonoscopies could be done via swallowing a camera, and viewing the footage as it "ended it trip"
To which Rep Barbieri said:
"Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?"
See kids, this is why we need comprehensive sex ed.....or at least anatomy classes.........
Next up, we get to mid level stupid. And we start this group off with Dr. Ben Carson, newly announced presidential candidate, who was trying to explain why he believes being gay is a choice:
“A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”
So I asked myself that question, and in about 1/8 of a second I had my answer. Yes something DID happen to them in prison. It's called rape. And it doesnt make them gay, it makes them victims of crimes.
But hey, the good news, by understanding neither gay sex or rape, Dr. Carson has just assured he will do quite well for himself in the primary.
The bad news, the expression "you dont have to be a brain surgeon to understand [X]"/"its not brain surgery" just announced its retirement from the English language due to that bar being lowered to the point its now deep underground.
Next up, the Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach, who on his own radio show this week said this:
"word is going to come down [from the white house] that there just won't be any prosecutions of black criminals and I can see it happening.Well, it's already happening, more or less, in the case of civil rights laws, So I guess it's not a huge jump. I think it's unlikely but, you know, I've learned to say with this president never say never."
Now what he's referencing to there is the infamous "Black Panther voting intimidation case" where the Justice Department decided their hadnt actually been any voter intimidation and dropped the case.
Oh but did I mention this happened in December of 2008? You know who was president in December of 2008 and who's administration made that decision? (right wrong or otherwise)
Although really, I guess I shouldnt be too surprised. Cause if you take Kobach's job title and initials, you have SS KKK.......So I guess assuming it was the black guys fault is kinda a requirement.....
Next up, Govenor of Wisconsin, and front-runner in the race to be the former Republican front-runner, Scott Walker, who in a recent campaign speech said this:
"One of the most powerful foreign policy decisions that I think was made in our lifetime was one that Ronald Reagan made early in his presidency when he fired the air traffic controllers....What it did, it showed our allies around the world that we were serious and more importantly that this man to our adversaries was serious."
Yea....I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Reagan firing the air traffic controllers would be DOMESTIC policy....unless he fired them INTO Russia.....I also have a hunch the rest of the world didnt give a shit.....
"Years later, documents released from the Soviet Union showed that that exactly was the case, The Soviet Union started treating [Reagan] more seriously once he did something like that. Ideas have to have consequences." Then again, maybe I stand corrected.....
Oh wait I have just been handed this special bulletin from Jack Matlock, Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the Soviet Union, who has this to say about Walkers comments:
"It's utter nonsense. There is no evidence of that whatever."
Ok. nevermind I was right, Walkers an idiot. Although to be fair as far as covering for the fact he doesnt even know what foreign policy IS, let alone understand it enough to have one, that was a decent try.
And now, our winners, the people who ignored the advice
went full retard this time around, and are the stupidest people of the last 2/3rds of a year:
Hillary Clinton, her staff and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.
Yea, you read that right. I just awarded stupidest people of at least 66% of a year to two Democratics. In fact, Gov Granholm's comments (which I'll get to) were the inspiration for me bringing this series out of retirement.
Ok so, unless you've been living under a rock, you know Clinton is in some trouble, because it appears that during her entire tenure as Sec of State she was using her personal email account.
Now I actually think her team is doing a good job handling the fallout of this, saying they want all the emails public and what have you. And I know most politicans use personal emails. That's not what landed her here.
What got her here was this one line in the original New York Times report:
"Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State
Department."
Ok. so in a job that basically involves a lot classified government information being sent to and from, it didnt even occur to you or your staff that having some kind of secure account AVAILABLE might be a good idea? You know, just in case you ever had to deal with an issue of national security?
But as bad as that is, that doesnt hold a candle to Gov Granholm's attempt to defend you. Which may actually be the worst defense ever offered by anyone on any subject.
So on the TV show, "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" Gov Granholm had the following exchange: (which shockingly I'm quoting from Breitbart.com. I saw the exchange live on TV, and they have the best summary I've seen):
“well, the issue, Lawrence, is that — what was the state department’s proper recordkeeping system? What she did was follow the precedent that had happened before, which is that she had — she did e-mail –
O’Donnell then interjected “when there’s a new regulation issued while you are Secretary of State in 2009, you don’t get to say, ‘I’m doing what everyone before this regulation did,'” to which Granholm asked, “why not? [...] Lawrence, if it worked for the previous administration, why not –”
Ok so the key point here, is that in 2009 the law changed, and by all accounts Clinton didnt follow it. Granholm thinks that fine, because she did what everyone before her did, so the fact the law changed doesnt matter.
Which actually, now that I think about it, I kinda like that logic. In fact that logic is about to send me on a shopping spree.
I'm going to go buy a black person (or 3/5ths of one). I know I know, the 13th amendment says I cant do that. Well precedent and the logic of Gov Granholm say I can, so suck it.
And with that, I'm off. I gotta get going before all the good ones are sold.......
So on the TV show, "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" Gov Granholm had the following exchange: (which shockingly I'm quoting from Breitbart.com. I saw the exchange live on TV, and they have the best summary I've seen):
“well, the issue, Lawrence, is that — what was the state department’s proper recordkeeping system? What she did was follow the precedent that had happened before, which is that she had — she did e-mail –
O’Donnell then interjected “when there’s a new regulation issued while you are Secretary of State in 2009, you don’t get to say, ‘I’m doing what everyone before this regulation did,'” to which Granholm asked, “why not? [...] Lawrence, if it worked for the previous administration, why not –”
Ok so the key point here, is that in 2009 the law changed, and by all accounts Clinton didnt follow it. Granholm thinks that fine, because she did what everyone before her did, so the fact the law changed doesnt matter.
Which actually, now that I think about it, I kinda like that logic. In fact that logic is about to send me on a shopping spree.
I'm going to go buy a black person (or 3/5ths of one). I know I know, the 13th amendment says I cant do that. Well precedent and the logic of Gov Granholm say I can, so suck it.
And with that, I'm off. I gotta get going before all the good ones are sold.......
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