Santorum was in Charleston, SC, and dealt with an insane crazy lady named Virginia (last name was NOT Palin), who had some interesting things to say. I’ll let you decide which of these two is the bigger frothy mess:
Why is the Congress rolling over and lettin’ this Communist dictator destroy my country? Y’all know what he is and I know what he is. I want him out of the White House. He’s not a citizen. He could’ve been removed a long time ago. Larry Cleveland’s the one who got the judge to say that the executive amnesty is illegal. Everything he does is illegal. He’s trying to destroy the United States. The Congress knows this. What kind of games is the Congress of the United States playing with the citizens of the United States?
Y’all need to work for us, not for the lobbyists that pay your salaries.
Get on board. Well let’s stop all this and get save America.
Y’know, what’s goin’ on Senator Santorum.
Where do we go from here? Ted told me I’ve got to wait now till the next election. I don’t think the country will be around for the next election.
Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston a few months ago and the three Admirals and Generals. He has totally destroyed our military. He has fired all the Generals and all the Admirals who said they wouldn’t fire on the American people if they ask ’em to do so if he wanted to take the guns away from ’em. This man is a Communist dictator. We need him out of the White House now. And the Congress of the United States is the only one — we’ve lost our Congress. We’ve lost our executive.
Bless your heart, Virginia. Obama did not try to nuke Charleston. It was MY idea was to have a modern day Sherman rampage through every state south of the Mason/Dixon taking out every one of you gas huffing, mayonnaise sandwich eating, confederate flag waving, racist, ignorant, tea-bagging, sibling buggering backwoods inbred redneck shitheels. But I did not specifically call for nuking y’all, because, well, Austin and Athens and a few other places are still worth saving and I like peaches and citrus fruits.
So sorry about the confusion.
Baud
McCain stood up to this woman in 2008, and it may have cost him the election. They won’t make that mistake again.
Comrade Dread
Just let me know what office you’re running for and I’ll volunteer for your campaign, sir.
Pogonip
Geez, Cole. I don’t like mayonnaise either, but your approach seems a little extreme.
Hungry Joe
Is “gas-huffing, mayonnaise-sandwich eating, confederate-flag waving, racist, ignorant, tea-bagging, sibling-buggering backwoods inbred redneck shitheel” too many characters for a nym on this site? Because if not I may switch.
smintheus
And this woman is a retired schoolteacher.
mdblanche
Was it Foxx?
The luckiest break the city of Charleston ever enjoyed was that General Sherman considered Columbia the more important military target.
Corner Stone
What?
I’d take any ‘burb of Austin over any and all areas of WV.
You know nothing, John Cole.
SiubhanDuinne
Her very first sentence, she identified as a “retired schoolteacher.” I tremble for the chilluns that passed through her classroom over the years.
So much for demographic shift.
Southern Goth
@Pogonip: I guess John is trying to say he prefers Miracle Whip.
Chris
This is the problem with feeding people such a constant, endless stream of bullshit, from so many outlets, for such a long period of time. To the campaign managers and activists who put out these kinds of stories, it’s just red meat tossed to the yokels so they’ll turn out and vote for you, and then you quickly forget about it.
But to the yokels, it’s not just crap you said so you’d get elected – they think it’s all real. If you keep telling them that Obama is a Communist dictator who’s putting your grandma in front of a death panel and plotting to destroy Charleston, eventually the yokels are going to start wondering why the hell you’re just standing there in Washington when you should be moving to impeach him, or maybe even lead a coup or a revolution against him. After all, isn’t that what you should be doing if the U.S. government really HAS been taken over by a Communist dictator?
And yet, there you are, not doing it. Which leads the yokels to think you, too, must be part of the conspiracy, or otherwise under the thumb of the Communist dictator. So they freak out and start looking furiously for a REAL Real Conservative, who really WILL stand up to the Communist dictator…
mdblanche
@Corner Stone: Cole just said he doesn’t want to nuke you. What more do you want from him?
Trentrunner
People should really go and watch the video so you can hear that woman’s voice.
It’s like an aria. It builds, it climaxes, and I truly thought she herself was going to explode from all the commie-pinko-afro-dictato stuff Barry Hussein Obama has been doing.
Also, fun that Santorum’s response was not to push back on a single lie, but instead to say “Don’t blame me! I’m no longer a senator!!”
Eric S.
What scares me the most is Virginia is going to vote.
mai naem mobile
Lemme guess. Virginia was in a scooter with an American flag on her scooter with a bunch of Nobama stickers with a hammer and sickle. Also too, she’s got her front teeth missing and her eyes have that crazy Fox news affect.
Nunca El Jefe
Nice reading comprehension there, hoss.
Nunca El Jefe
First comment meant for corner stone, damn the eyes of the edit function on this phone.
msdc
@Eric S.: Every election, midterms and primaries included.
Lord Baldrick
Oooh, thanks for the reminder. Gotta get some ‘Just Mayo’ — no eggs and tastes pretty good.
Eric S.
Also, awesome rant Mr. Cole.
grandpa john
Well I don ‘t live in the low country, but I think there is probably a lot of inbreeding goes on down in Gullah land ,
Violet
Comment on the Jezebel article:
No kidding. Santorum aced that part. The video cut off before his response. Wondering what he said.
Keith G
@mdblanche: No, Corner Stone’s burg, and mine, were not given a reprieve.
@Chris: Good insight.
Edit:
@grandpa john: ?????
MazeDancer
Can never understand what America to which they want to get back. Jim Crow America? Women fighting 72 years for the Vote America? Separate water fountains America? Kill the “Indian savages” America, as enshrined in the Declaration?
The whole “Communist Threat” time proved to be as absurd as now ridiculing saturated fat has been shown in recent research. Millions of people still think low fat milk is a good idea, so maybe this lady’s idea of a good America is the same as most of the American populace’s swallowing the marketing idea of low fat milk being the healthiest choice.
Mike in NC
@mdblanche: Charleston is decent. Columbia is awful. Should never have been allowed to rise from the ashes.
David Koch
BOOOM, Baby!
Obama has Øfucks to give
grandpa john
@Violet: Oh he probably understands it since any one who proposes and believes some of the shit he does, is not playing with a full deck either
qwerty42
Well, we can laugh, but she seems obviously to believe this nonsense. So what will panic-stricken people do, even if the thing they fear is absurd? Become even more panic-stricken? Get guns? Yell at clouds?
Elizabelle
@mai naem mobile: We need to know where you chose your screen name. Thread immediately previous.
Roger Moore
@MazeDancer:
Dred Scott America.
BGinCHI
This insult to mayonnaise will not stand!
Petorado
Reagan’s most profound impact on the Republican electorate may not be the Southern Strategy after all,but rather his dismantling of the mental health system. That was some truly evil genius to realize which way the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, like Ms. Virginia, would swing.
I’ll take Colorado peaches and California citrus over any of the stuff from south of the sanity/ insanity line.
Violet
@grandpa john: Still wondering what he said. If he really wants to run for president he can’t have a video out there where he’s in complete agreement with the crazy lady. He’s enough of a politician to know that. So he’s got to respond without telling her she’s insane but without fully agreeing.
I’d hate that sort of job. The patience it must take to stand there and listen to crazy people rant like that. Sheesh.
Violet
@David Koch: Really loving this home stretch Obama. Zero fucks to give. Having fun trolling. Love it.
Tree With Water
Should such woeful honky ignorance ever be eradicated in the South, this planet would be immeasurably better off. Virginia, you poor thing.
David Koch
@Baud:
not true. In Axelrod’s dynamite book “Believer” he discusses how McCain only did that because his polling had caved with indies and swing voters after saying “obama pals around with terriers“.
Davis X. Machina
No mention of Methodists. Total balls-up.
Tommy
@David Koch: Did Netanyahu call to Obama when he was speaking to our nation and giving us his middle finger.
mdblanche
@MazeDancer: They want to get back the America where certain people knew their place.
Violet
@MazeDancer:
They want the America where white people have all the rights and everyone else doesn’t. Legally codified.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Trentrunner: People should watch Santorum’s expression as well. He tried to keep a blank face, but I thought the gears were turning behind his eyes – “She’s clinically insane, but I need to find a way to agree with her!”
Politicians like him are much, much more dangerous than poor Virginia.
Cheers,
Scott.
mtmofo
The CT she blathered about.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/charleston.asp
Zinsky
Virginia is obviously dumber than a shovel and probably inbred. Santorum is a self-righteous handjob who probably still thinks the earth is flat. And this is the core of the modern Republican Party. Pathetic.
Raven
Glad we are safe for now!
beth
The local news stations here in Charleston were practically squealing with delight at Jeb’s surprise visit to MUSC. Maybe he wanted to visit all the sick people he wants to take health insurance away from. It’s disgusting. Walker will be here Friday. What did we do to bring all these assholes here this week?
Citizen Alan
As I’ve said many times, the thing I hate most about Republicans is that they MADE me hate them. I don’t even know this woman (and I refuse to watch the video), but if I read next week that she had died screaming in a fire, I would probably take a level of satisfaction in it. It saddens me to know the extent to which they have stripped me of any empathy or compassion for them.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MazeDancer:
My argument for a while has been that the America they “want back” is the one they saw in movies (and later TV) from about 1935 to 1965, which is an America that never actually existed. It was the construct of a very restrictive censorship regime.
They are literally longing for an imaginary world.
Jim C
Two thoughts:
I’m glad I’m not the only person who remembers the movie Special Bulletin (wherein David Rasche, David Clennon, and Rosalind Cash try to nuke Charleston for peace)
Um, he tried to nuke the three Admirals and Generals?
She’s got her XTC in my Seven Days In May!
Svensker
@Trentrunner:
What a frigging coward scum bag. Not even to say, “Obama did not try to nuke Charleston.” And then to go on to agree that Obama is “dangerous.” He reinforced her Sorcha Faal paranoia.
scav
@David Koch: The day is that much better. Øfucks. Chew harder on your seed corn Bibi et Bobbity supporters, Y’all clearly signaled you have no interest in any long-term (International) reputation or cooperation repeatedly, so long as the single individual is first past the post in the next election.
Time Travelin'
@BGinCHI: The Big Mayo lobbyists are already on it.
PIGL
John, buddy, you know they grow peaches in Washington state? Heck, thé grow in Southern Ontario and so presumably in Michigan and New York. Citrus, well, they grow them California and before long, probly, in Oregon. So. as far as delicious tree-fruits go, you can burn the whole entire south to the ground, and all The inbred racist cracker shitheels with it.
Betty Cracker
Spare the Tampa Bay area from Sherman’s firebugs, fer chrissakes! Otherwise deviled crabs will never reach their rightful audience.
But the sad troof is, as much as people north of the MD line understandably like to mock regions south of it, the cancer of cray is widespread, covering the whole gott-damned planet. Consider Michele Bachmann. And Netanyahu.
Wally Ballou
I love how you can pinpoint the exact moment, at 0:23 into the video, when the voices in her head start talking.
David Koch
Hillary leading Jeb! by 15 pts in new CNN poll.
Jeb!’s approval number is minus 17 pts (31-47) while Hillary’s number is +9.
but, but… Obamacare is a job killer!
and, and…. Ben Gazra!
BillinGlendaleCA
Sounds a bit like the Randy Newman song “Political Science”.
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
Re the irrelevance of the Mason-Dixon Line:
In fact, Netanyahu attended high school in the Philadelphia suburbs and then obtained a couple of degrees from MIT.
Jim C
@mtmofo:
If memory serves, the April 2008 earthquake in southern IL was reported by some Russian source as a nuking of Scott AFB to put down an attempted coup by Air Force generals. (I wish I could find that one again, it was so “out there” at the time it struck me funny.)
mike with a mic
Everything south of DC, and between NY and LA can be glassed, and the world would be better for it.
Flyover has no value at all, neither does anything more than 20 miles out from a major city. Just white trash, Christians, and racists… but that’s repeating myself.
Rural people, always fucking shit up for the rest of us.
Baud
@Raven:
It would have ruined March Madness.
Corner Stone
@mike with a mic: Everything south of DC and west of NYC should be nuked?
Hmmm…
Omnes Omnibus
@mike with a mic: Wow, a candidate for stupidest comment of the year.
Tommy
@Jim C: Funny. I know that earth quake and other than a few. I live a few miles from Scott. Five miles in fact. The earth quake was a small thing.
Alex
@mike with a mic: You’re a fucking idiot. Stay blessed.
Corner Stone
@Tommy:
I keep reading this, but…
Cervantes
@mike with a mic:
Now just convince Obama to do it — and then you’ll be happy and Virginia will have been right.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Alex: @Omnes Omnibus: isn’t this the troll who thinks he’s making a point about how the Left (Dems, Progs, Libs, whatever) has become too elitist and obsessed with “social issues” at the expense of regular folk?
Pogonip
@mike with a mic: You, sir, are nuttier than that lady, and that’s going some.
Pogonip
John, “insane crazy lady” is redundant, but I’ll forgive you if you post a pupdate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Citizen Alan:
I agree. I am constantly having to be on guard against losing my basic humanity.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s the guy.
kc
@Mike in NC:
Charleston gave us Fort Sumter, John C Calhoun, Arthur Tavenel, Thomas Ravenel, and Mark Sanford. And that lady in the video. It has some pretty old buildings, but other than that, it is not “better” than the rest of SC.
Brendan in Charlotte
@Comrade Dread: Hell, where do i enlist in this effort???
Anne Laurie
@PIGL:
‘Course, there’s still lotsa folks down in the Pellagra Belt whose ancestors were there even before this here United States became a ‘thing’. But “progressives” don’t have to respect those particular People of Color, because — well, it’s easier to pretend it’s all disposable trailer trash, amirite?
Woodrowfan
check her Facebook page. She’s a big Ron Paul fan and buys into every CT out there: Chemtrails, Birtherism, 9/11, etc. etc.
sparrow
Sadly these people are a not insignificant chunk of the populace. Getting of an Alaska Airlines flight today, one of the stewardesses complained that she only made $10 an hour (lie) and that “Uncle rapist Sam took $9 of that $10!”. I gave her a very dirty look on the way out.
TaMara (BHF)
@SiubhanDuinne: Sunday School Teacher is my guess. No Jesus, no peace. 7 day creation, no evolution, no dinosaurs. Not even a high school diploma required.
J R in WV
I’m with Obama, Bibi is a SOB with no aspect worthy of respect.
This lady from Charleston, SC is a real loon. I was there for training at theNaval base, and went downtown once. Pretty, but souless. No one home. Sad. so pretty, but so ugly underneath.
JPL
Why isn’t this big news?
The mastermind of the terrorist attack that killed 67 people at the Westgate Mall in Naibrobi, Kenya, in 2013, has died after a U.S. military drone strike in Somalia, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
Baud
@sparrow:
Oh wow. I was on Alaska Airlines recently. Great planes. Luckily, I didn’t come across any wingnut flight attendants.
Anne Laurie
@mike with a mic:
As a born-and-bred, stone city person, I say this for the record: Shut the fuck up, you’re embarrassing us, asshole.
SiubhanDuinne
@Woodrowfan:
No.
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: The two sides need to divorce before they end up shooting at each other.
Baud
@JPL:
I blame Obama.
Woodrowfan
@SiubhanDuinne: dare you! I double-dog dare you!
Jim C
@Tommy: I live in a north suburb of Chicago, and it woke me up – it was the first time I noticed one.
muddy
@Mike in NC: I knew a guy from Columbia and he said South Carolina was the armpit of the country and Columbia was the armpit of SC. He meant the humidity, but it works the other way.
geg6
What a coward Santorum is. I already knew he was cowardly but I really didn’t think he was quite this much of a wimp. One of the happiest moments of my political life was working to get him out of office. As boring and sometimes wrong as Bob Casey, Jr. Has been as my senator, I’m thankful for him every day. Having had Santorum as my senator, I have less patience for the purity pony factions in my tribe than I did before he was in office. He’s the one who was my canary in the coal mine as to how crazy and evil the GOP was becoming.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: You’ll give yourself a headache.
I’m going to give myself a headache by watching the clip.
Mike in NC
@kc: Yeah, but comparing Charleston to Columbia, SC is like comparing Paris to Pyongyang.
Joe Scham
“Ice cream, Mandrake. Children’s ice cream.”
Gvg
all Americans are Americans. rural, city, immigrant, mayflower ancestors, rich, poor, gun nuts, Quakers,etc. We don’t get to pick and choose. it really annoys me when I hear GOP politicians speak of real Americans like I’m not just as real as them so I really really recommend all of ya’ll calling for getting rid of some region where the majority doesn’t agree with you just look in the mirror. You are becoming what you fight. stop.
And push for more mental health treatment with research on higher success rates. that woman is nuts. sanatorium might have wondered if she would get violent or even more embarrassing if he said the wrong thing….well knowing him, probably not, but another person mIght.
Sherparick
You forgot to include “talk radio snorting,” “peckerwoods” and “incestous” in the diatribe, but otherwise pretty well covered it. Always appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-vZTogpwsA or this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjxqZWWmgc
jonas
Mayonaise sandwiches are a thing? I mean, mayonaise *on* a sandwich, ok. But just mayonaise? ‘Course real rednecks just go straight for the Miracle Whip. “Mayonaise” sounds awful damn French, if you get my drift.
SiubhanDuinne
@Woodrowfan:
Unh-UNH!
Mike in NC
@muddy: Yes!
Shaun Appleby
@Southern Goth: What’s up Tiger Lily?
BillinGlendaleCA
@jonas: I ate mayonnaise(and not that dreadful Miracle Whip crap) sandwiches as I child; I grew up.
Mike in NC
@jonas: Miracle Whip between two slices of Wonder Bread, with maybe a slice of turkey thrown in. Honkey Special at Subway.
mike with a mic
@efgoldman:
No you can keep going. Since the dawn of civilization it’s always been the fucking hicks screwing shit up for everyone else. It’s always the fucking hay shaking, cousin fucking, god loving, salt of the earth.
I’ll let Mel Brooks say it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
Mike E
OT…funny line on The Simpson’s:
Rev Lovejoy (to Moe): …and, what is it [religion] that you are?
Moe Szyslak: You know when your dog has nightmares? That’s what I pray to.
grandpa john
@kc: Small correction, John C .Calhoun actually came from all the the way across state, in a general area near the town Of Calhoun Falls, close to Calhoun Mill. He practiced law in the town Of Abbeville, where I currently reside , and you can be sure that local history has made sure that we are all aware of these facts.
2 blocks up the street is the house where Jefferson Davis held the last meeting of the confederate cabinet before he was captured by union troops. 2 blocks down the street is the site called Secession Hill where the first meeting calling for the secession of states from the union was held. And again you can be sure that the locals have made sure that all visitors are aware. As I have only lived here since 1964 ,I may be still considered a carpetbagger. Life is a small southern town
Chris
@Pogonip:
Crazy Lady: “Omigosh! Teh Libruls want to NOOK us!”
Balloon Juicers: “Pfff. No we don’t.”
Mike With A Mic: “YES WE DO!”
MobiusKlein
@sparrow: re $10/hr. Suggest she start a union!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@MazeDancer:
The one that got destroyed 150 years ago.
PurpleGirl
My brother is 4 years older than me. When he was in high school he began reading stuff like None Dare Call It Treason. I was reading Richard Condon’s Manchurian Candidate, Fail Safe, Seven Days in May. I began “treason” and after 1 page or so I put the book down. Damn that was some crazy stuff. That’s when my brother and I began growing apart.
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: I’d rather kick up than down, thanks. Aryans from Darien (like the Bush crime clan), vulture capitalists (hiya, Mitt) and their enablers (Koch sockpuppet Scott Walker), gated-community would-be kapos like EWErickson or Michelle “Don’t Call Me an Anchor Baby” Malkin… all the fiends & grifters who use our low-rent prejudices to set worker against worker. It’s the Irish in me.
gian
@PurpleGirl:
Is that the bugliosi article about bush v gore and the supreme court?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrayal_of_America
Chris
@PurpleGirl:
Haven’t seen any of these books, but I love the movies. “Seven Days In May” is probably my favorite, only because “Fail Safe” was intense enough that I’ve only watched it once.
Suzanne
Mayonnaise is one of the grossest foods known to man. It’s like someone expects me to like come on my sandwich. WTF.
Libertarian big-city hipsters are more irritating than rural mayo eaters: DISCUSS.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@gian: I suspect she’s talking about this guy’s book.
Scott Alloway
@Comrade Dread: I’ll enlist in this campaign. Sherman fell short of the goal.
Matt McIrvin
I think the “None Dare Call It Treason” in question is a book from 1964 about how Commies ran the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Anne Laurie: Oh. Wait. I thought I was hitting the “Like” button. Carry on.
kindness
You know that mayonaise with pickle relish in it called sandwich spread? Or at least that’s what it was called when I was a kid. When my brother, sister and I were young, say 7,8 & 10 we used to make sandwich spread sandwiches. Not alot. But we did do it.
BruceFromOhio
Gaia dammit all, son, you canNOT be saying that sort of thing out LOUD. Those gas huffing, mayonnaise sandwich eating, confederate flag waving, racist, ignorant, tea-bagging, sibling buggering backwoods inbred redneck shitheels are not DEAF.
MsJoanne
@Violet:
He ignored her rant and laid out the tired trope of Obama Can’t Lead ™, blah blah blah. I quit listening. Little Green Footballs has too many minutes of it. If you can stand the froth.
MsJoanne
@mtmofo:
From 2013. That’s some looooong months they have down there.
PIGL
@Anne Laurie: oh dear did I go too far? I was just trying to reassure our host that he needn’t defer his blood and fire rampage for lack of alternate sources of peaches.
It all seriousness, and in gratitude for prayers just answered I take back all my harsh words about the South.
mike with a mic
@Anne Laurie:
The Koch’s aren’t feeding people bullshit really. The Kochs are telling the crazies what the crazies demand they be told for their vote.
Since the dawn of civilization it’s always been the rural volks pulling this sort of shit. It’s a fact.
Rex Tremendae
Getting rid of the rural South wouldn’t have spared us Rick Santorum, but it would have eliminated John Lewis.
PIGL
@Sherparick: thank you for that I’d never heard it before. Excellent vermifuge to all the Neo Confederate nonsense.
Gian
@Matt McIrvin:
I was hoping otherwise.
notorious JRT
@mai naem mobile:
Follow the link and in the Jezabel comments is a link to her Facebook page. She is all that & a bag o’ chips.
Seanly
Is she related to the Wonkette P-E-N-I-S Goes Into The Anus To Rupture Intestines Lady?
http://wonkette.com/472386/p-e-n-i-s-goes-into-the-anus-to-rupture-intestines-says-nebraska-lady-nobody-sure-why#ffPkM3rfUercH3lP.99?
The Republic of Stupidity
@Comrade Dread:
Shit… sign me up too…
Now THAT’S a campaign platform I can get behind…
Death Panel Truck
@Pogonip: Everybody knows rednecks be lovin’ ’em some Miracle Whip.
Allan
It’s Larry Klayman, but otherwise, this.
AxelFoley
Damn, son. I ain’t mad atcha, tho.
AxelFoley
@mai naem mobile:
I see you’ve met her.
Snarki, child of Loki
Nukes are too valuable to waste on redneck southern trash.
Just get the Supreme Hax to cut their Obamacare and watch them bleed out, slowly and painfully. While cheering all the while.
Cermet
Every state south of the Mason/Dixon line? Maryland is (South of it) and is solid democratic; it was the second highest percentage State in voting for President Obama. Still, does need some pruning in some areas that are red.
Iowa Old Lady
@Gvg: This thread is probably dead but I had to say how much I appreciated this reminder. Now that you point it out, yeah, this kind of talk does sound too much like “Real American” vs everyone else. It’s so seductive.
Ryan
Wait, so the commie fires all of the generals, destroys all the law, was prepared to nuke a liberal haven in a sea of crazy AKA the South, has set up FEMA camps in Long Island (okay, she missed this one, because the nuke conveys the point).
Despite all of this power, wedded to all of this evil, Congress. Congress!! has the power to stop the President. I’m left struggling to figure out how Congress has this power, given the fact that the president appears to have violated all the checks and balances in the system. I suppose they could appropriate funds to contract out Tony Stark?
Ryan
And wow, I went to her facebook page and learned all about chemtrails. I haven’t even heard of these before!
boatboy_srq
@Chris:@Trentrunner: @Citizen Alan: At whatever point Fauxnews implodes, the US will be faced with years (and untold billions) in deprogramming.
Craig
@Jim C:
“I’m glad I’m not the only person who remembers the movie Special Bulletin (wherein David Rasche, David Clennon, and Rosalind Cash try to nuke Charleston for peace)”
That was my first thought as well. I LOVED that movie when it aired in 1983. It’s not “Threads” or “The Day After,” but it still made a big impression on me, and it’s an overlooked chapter in the history of mass-market entertainment wrestling with the consequences of nuclear weapons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKY-2zkWJuo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Bulletin
evodevo
@Baud: No, that one was some other Bagger – Gayle Quinnell or somesuch –
deborah wellman
@Chris: This crazy lady hasn’t figured out politicians at her age? Don’t follow the lobbyist that are paying you-are you kidding me.?