Do We Have A 'Silly Shit Politicians Say' Thread? If Not, Here We Are

[Roranora]

New campaign platform, you heard it here first. I will unite the Dakotas.

I've got so many of these. We could bring in PR and stop fucking over (so blatantly at least) territories to try to get it back up to 50, but I think it's still a net loss on states.

[Fiye]

https://theslot.jezebel.com/a-texas-...ta-1792437905?

Texas state senator breaks glass telling a pro-choice testifier her time is up.

I should add this while I'm at it.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/oklahoma-...die-1792303950

[Fiye]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b07602ad55246f

[Fiye]

http://deadspin.com/texas-gov-greg-a...ill-1792531158

On Glenn Beck's show

“The NFL has coddled its players who refused to stand for the national anthem.... Imagine this, if the NFL decides to come down on the state of Texas, I might just pass a bill here in the state of Texas mandating that all NFL players have to stand and put their hand on the heart when the national anthem is played. If the NFL really wants to solve this problem about bathrooms for people who are transgender, the NFL should impose on all of its teams to put their own bathrooms into their stadiums to accommodate those with transgenders, as opposed to trying to dictate to states what laws they must comply with.”

But then walks that back fast

“It was intentional hyperbole to make a point: demonstrating the NFL’s own shortcoming of how they are disconnecting with their fan base by allowing players to disrespect the U.S. flag.”

[Niiro]

[myreality]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/1....co/LQMK6Jfmft

A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia.

Mr. Flynn is gone, having been caught lying about his own discussion of sanctions with the Russian ambassador. But the proposal, a peace plan for Ukraine and Russia, remains, along with those pushing it: Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, who delivered the document; Felix H. Sater, a business associate who helped Mr. Trump scout deals in Russia; and a Ukrainian lawmaker trying to rise in a political opposition movement shaped in part by Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul D. Manafort.

[6souls]

MN Rep submits a new healthcare coverage bill for businesses that states contraception is the same thing as abortion.



http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS90/HF1128.0.pdf

The guy is already known as a crackpot.

Gruenhagen is the House’s kookiest science skeptic. He actually believes that climate change is “a United Nations fraud.”

In the past, he’s also called homosexuality “an unhealthy sexual addiction,” and accused the government of secretly paying nonwhite welfare recipients to have children.

He also once introduced his “ex-gay friend,” Kevin, on the House floor as proof that gay conversion therapy really works.

More recently, he called the national popular vote “mob democracy."

http://www.citypages.com/news/republ...tion/414539503

[6souls]

Poor People "just don't want Health Care," Kansas Rep makes his case to do away with Medicare

“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” Marshall, a doctor (obstetrician) and first-term congressman, told STAT reporter Lev Facher in an interview last week. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”

“The Medicaid population, which is [on] a free credit card, as a group, do probably the least preventive medicine and taking care of themselves and eating healthy and exercising. And I’m not judging, I’m just saying socially that’s where they are,” Marshall told Facher. “So there’s a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER.”

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opin...splays-shamefu
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/03/...sas-obamacare/
https://thinkprogress.org/roger-mars...fd9#.ld4eb8cl5

[Ragnus]

Queue Kurono screaming into a pillow in 5... 4... 3...

[kuronosan]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

[6souls]

Ben Carson equates Slaves to Immigrants

"There were other immigrants who came here on the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less," Carson said as he walked across a stage holding a microphone.

A HUD spokesman declined to comment on Carson's statement. The department later tweeted: "This is the most cynical interpretation of the Secretary's remarks to an army of welcoming HUD employees. No one honestly believes he equates voluntary immigration with involuntary servitude!"

Rana Hogarth, a history professor and expert on American slavery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said comparing slaves with immigrants was "inappropriate and wildly inaccurate." She said immigration "suggests a desire of a person to make the journey."

"I think that he's either misinformed or made a mistake," Hogarth said. "His beginning on Ellis Island tells me there's a major gap in his knowledge of how we talk about different ways people settled the United States and what circumstances they settled in United States."

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03...ion-to-america

[Yuri-G]

The best part of that whole incident:


OK!! Ben Carson....I can't! Immigrants ? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!!#dickheadedtom
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) March 6, 2017


http://mashable.com/2017/03/06/samue.../#n3YnM1X1AOqA

[kuronosan]

That's actually technically correct. They were forced into indentured servitude, but test doesn't mean they weren't immigrants. It was a terrible analogy but I see what he meant.

[Andalusian girls]

people were not forced into indentured servitude as it was a labor contract willingly entered into, usually to pay for passage to the New World. chattel slavery was a whole other kettle of fish.

[Tyrath]

Seriously. Kuro pls.

[archibaldcrane]

Indentured implies a contract was entered into.

There is no reasonable comparison between the two.

[kuronosan]

Yea, sorry. I don't know what I was thinking with that one.

[Marootsoobutsu]

Ben Carson equates Slaves to Immigrants

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03...ion-to-america

I'm going to put it out there, but President Obama made the same comparison at least 11 times during his presidency, in essentially the same way Carson did. That is, calling slaves immigrants, and praising them and their descendants for chasing the American dream.

[Zealot]

One of those instances is literally on the front page of Breitbart right now and it gets it completely wrong.

Ben Carson said "they worked hard and earned less," Obama said "they were forced here in chains, but were immigrants in a way."

[Salodin]

I'm going to put it out there, but President Obama made the same comparison at least 11 times during his presidency, in essentially the same way Carson did. That is, calling slaves immigrants, and praising them and their descendants for chasing the American dream.

I know you're gonna try hard to give citations for your claim...