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You are here: Home / Politics / Media / Peak Wingnut And Other Imaginary Things

Peak Wingnut And Other Imaginary Things

by Tim F|  February 28, 20099:59 am| 32 Comments

This post is in: Media, Republican Stupidity, Assholes

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That was such an awesome theory.

***Update***

I broke the internets; it’s fixed now.

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32Comments

  1. 1.

    Balconespolitics

    February 28, 2009 at 10:02 am

    some linkage repair needed there

  2. 2.

    El Tiburon

    February 28, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Let me be the second one to say: linky no worky

  3. 3.

    Ruth

    February 28, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Sounds good, ‘peak wingnut’ should mean that we go downhill from here. Truly to be hoped for. Will check back in when your link repair is completed.

  4. 4.

    smijer

    February 28, 2009 at 10:04 am

    http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-plots-out-our-dystopian-f

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    February 28, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Huxley: “Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”

  6. 6.

    Left Coast Tom

    February 28, 2009 at 10:10 am

    I think the problem with Peak Wingnut theory is that stupidity is a renewable resource. That, and the marginal cost of extracting stupidity doesn’t increase over time.

  7. 7.

    Davis X. Machina

    February 28, 2009 at 10:14 am

    It’s more like a Second Law of Thermodynamics of the mind.

    It takes an expenditure of energy to prevent or mitigate the descent into randomness (or stupidity), and in the end the smart Vegas money is on entropy.

  8. 8.

    Farley

    February 28, 2009 at 10:15 am

    @Left Coast Tom: Can we harvest it for our energy needs?

    Or would the effluence from the process be too stinky?

    Perhaps we could exercise some environmental injustice and allow said effluence to waft over certain congressional districts, such as, say, that of the esteemed Ms. Bachman of Minnesota.

  9. 9.

    El Cid

    February 28, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Again, since it’s only come clear to the right in the past couple of weeks that yes, they really did not only lose office but POWER, they’re going to go nuts real quick.

    And I mean nuts compared to their previously established level of whack.

    Plus, the dehingification gets to trade on the fact that Obama’s black, so, the unthinkified rage will emerge much more quickly and nastily than in the drawn-out evolution of the neo-Confederate primal screams of the Clinton years.

  10. 10.

    demkat620

    February 28, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Beck was more coherent during his drug addled hemorrhoid surgery rant.

  11. 11.

    JL

    February 28, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Gee, Is it possible to find any one whackier than those two to appear on Glenn Beck?
    If memory serves me Michael Scheuer, once said that in order to solve the terrorist problem, we would have to nuke Pakistan. His comment about the military would never fire on American civilians shows his ignorance. (Kent State doesn’t count, I guess.)

  12. 12.

    cosanostradamus

    February 28, 2009 at 10:32 am

    .
    That’ll be a Hell of an army: "Bubba’s" making over $250k. One fire team, at most.

    Do these morons LISTEN to themselves, ever?

    Come the Revolution, bruther, we’ll tie ’em to their chairs and make ’em listen to their own shows until their ears bleed. Cruel, I know…

    The network owners must have someone give them each a BIG doggie biscuit after each show. Whom else could they be addressing with this crapola? The few tards remaining in the audience must just be scratching their heads.

    Whatever happened to the Secret Service, anyways? Isn’t it still illegal to advocate the advocate the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence? No?

    I give up. Here some little ditties on the news.
    .

  13. 13.

    Comrade Stuck

    February 28, 2009 at 10:33 am

    ‘Bubba Effect’

    The Little known 10th insight of The Celestine Prophecy

  14. 14.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    February 28, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Anyone listen to NPR this a.m.? After Daniel Shorr they had some republican political consultant on (Michelle Laxalt) and she was totally incomprehensible. Is this what’s left of the party? Are they taking to drink 24/7 ?

  15. 15.

    Napoleon

    February 28, 2009 at 10:41 am

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: I turned it on part of the way through the interview of her. She sounded kind of wacked. The more that people like her are the face of the Republican party the better. Her saying that using Jindal to deliver the reply was "tacky" because he is "dark skinned" was priceless.

    BTW, I wonder if she is related to ex-Republican Sen. Laxalt?

  16. 16.

    Farley

    February 28, 2009 at 10:42 am

    OT – The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that 300 people showed up the Atlanta Tea Party.

    This is a far fewer number than I estimated were standing in line at the canned food giveaway that took place Thursday at the local strip mall in my tiny town. I bet all of them would have loved a nice cuppa and a few of those little sandwiches.

    One woman at the tea party said "Taxation has gotten away from representing the people."

    What does this woman even think that MEANS?

  17. 17.

    valdivia

    February 28, 2009 at 10:45 am

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: I could not even listen to it I had to turn it off. So it was as bad as I feared eh?

  18. 18.

    Rick Taylor

    February 28, 2009 at 10:46 am

    If only we could learn how to harness the energy from wingnuttery, the world would be saved!

  19. 19.

    Nikita

    February 28, 2009 at 10:49 am

    I loved John’s Peak Wingnut theory. Wasn’t it like the fastest debunked theory in the history of the internets? I remember LMAO and thinking "John has no clue…" as I read that post.

    By the time I came back, not only had John updated and retracted his theory but Tim had put up a post arguing why Wingnut had not peaked. And the comments on those two threads – o lordy!

    I love this site.

  20. 20.

    Montysano

    February 28, 2009 at 10:50 am

    If we’re going to go all Mad Max and have a Poxy-clipse, I’ve totally got dibs on the Lord Humungus outfit.

  21. 21.

    Michael

    February 28, 2009 at 11:01 am

    To hell with Lord Humungus. I’m going to set up the Thunderdome – Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves.

  22. 22.

    Montysano

    February 28, 2009 at 11:09 am

    @Michael:

    To hell with Lord Humungus. I’m going to set up the Thunderdome – Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves.

    "Bust a deal….. Face the Wheel!1"

  23. 23.

    Conservatively Liberal

    February 28, 2009 at 11:33 am

    @Michael:

    I prefer Meatwad’s version of the Thunderdome (his bowels): "Two men enter, no one leaves."

  24. 24.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    February 28, 2009 at 11:35 am

    @Napoleon: I think she is the ex-congresswoman – turned consultant. I was half listening, my ears only really perked up with that assinine comment about Jindahl.

    And yes valdivia, it was that bad.

  25. 25.

    Swervus

    February 28, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Don’t you guys get it? Like "State’s Rights!" is code for "keep the n—–s down!" This whole "tax revolution" crap is Republican code for "THE TURNER DIARIES!"

    Nothing changes with these people.

    Prepare for a huge uprising of the white pride in Idaho again and all those militia asshats running around wheezing in the carolina backwoods with their drinking buddies complaining about the damn lazy minorities.

  26. 26.

    Rick Taylor

    February 28, 2009 at 11:59 am

    I find myself looking back at Kung Fu monkey’s, I miss republicans.

    No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who’d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Remember those serious-looking 1950’s-1960’s science guys in the movies — Republican to a one.

    They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car. I was never one (nor a Democrat, really, more an agnostic libertarian big on the social contract, but we don’t have a party …), but I genuinely liked them.

    How did they become the party of fairy dust and make believe? How did they become the anti-science guys? The anti-fact guys? The anti-logic guys?

    I don’t know if these guys were real, or just stories I believed I was a kid, but I have to think if they were real and still around today, maybe we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.

  27. 27.

    demkat620

    February 28, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    @Rick Taylor: I think the last Republican was Eisenhower.

  28. 28.

    BruceK

    February 28, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    It occurs to me that the energy-related metaphor for wingnuttiness doesn’t come from petrochemicals, but from nuclear fission.

    IE: we’re not talking about peak wingnut. We’re talking about a self-sustaining chain reaction, out of control and heading for China Syndrome territory.

    (Actually, Chernobyl may be an even better metaphor. They ignored realistic safety concerns to satisfy party ideology, didn’t pay attention to the regulations, and the whole thing didn’t just blow up in their faces, it turned the entire surrounding region into a wasteland for years to come.)

  29. 29.

    AhabTRuler

    February 28, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    @Rick Taylor: I think the last Republican was Eisenhower Lincoln.

    Fixeteth.

    Although it does remind my of the Prine song Grandpa Was A Carpenter: "…he voted for Eisenhower, ’cause Lincoln won the war."

    Edit: Dammit! WordPress: U R DOIN IT RONG!

  30. 30.

    Splitting Image

    February 28, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    @Rick Taylor

    How about Jon Huntsman in Utah? I swear. If you told me a year or two ago that Utah would be where the New Republican Moderates would start building a base, I’d have told you that you were crazier than the actual G.O.P.

    But Huntsman seems to be getting some screen time, and he’s burning some seriously large bridges with the wingnut factions. See the Politico interview. ("I don’t pay any attention to what’s coming out of Congress." Yikes.) Crist, Schwarzenegger and a few others are starting to speak out as well.

    What’s scary is that for a party with thousands of elected representatives across the country, there’s less than ten of them that can speak out and not give the impression that they’re complete nutjobs.

  31. 31.

    Cain

    February 28, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    @Conservatively Liberal:

    I prefer Meatwad’s version of the Thunderdome (his bowels): "Two men enter, no one leaves."

    If you want true, hillarity.. the choices is layed down
    here

    Wheel of Fish baby!

    cain

  32. 32.

    Da Bomb

    February 28, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    @Swervus: Don’t you guys get it? Like "State’s Rights!" is code for "keep the n——-s down!" This whole "tax revolution" crap is Republican code for "THE TURNER DIARIES!"

    Actually it is like a cross between West Side Story (those damn darkies mixing with our kind!) meets Robin Hood; Men in Tights (repressed guys who like to wear women’s clothing and prance around)

    Maybe that’s covered in a lost chapter of the Turner Diaries.

    I just knew that neo-Nazis and Republicans have latent hidden homoerotic desires!

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