Shit Republicans Say

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That's my facial reaction when reading that also.

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[JTA]

His sign is backwards.

[Vrede too]

It needs a comma.

[Seth Milner]

His sign is backwards.

Wrong. The White House is backwards.

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Credit to O Really for the idea.

[JTA]

His sign is backwards.

Wrong. The White House is backwards.

It would be easier to flip the sign around rather than flip the white house around though.

[Vrede too]

To be fair, it's effective messaging to visually link your sign with the target that way. Given the perfect framing, I'd even wager that the pic was taken by a colleague of the protester. No one inside the fence cares what the sign says, they see dozens or hundreds every day.

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His sign is backwards.

Wrong. The White House is backwards.

It would be easier to flip the sign around rather than flip the white house around though.

Meh, just use magnets and mirrors. That'll work right?

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[O Really]

''She's a f**king raghead. We got a raghead in Washington; we don't need one in South Carolina. She's a raghead that's ashamed of her religion trying to hide it behind being Methodist for political reasons.''

—South Carolina State Sen. Jake Knotts (R), claiming that his Republican rival in the South Carolina governor's race, Nikki Haley, has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor by outside influences in foreign countries. (Haley is of Sikh descent, and is now a Christian.) Knotts later clarified his statement, saying he did not mean to use the F-word. (June 4, 2010))


''The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.''

—Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Steven (R-AK), explaining the workings of the Internet during a debate on net neutrality

[Seth Milner]

It would be easier to flip the sign around rather than flip the white house around though.

I don't know; ought to be easy; the current occupant has had no problem with flipping.

[O Really]

... the current occupant has had no problem with flipping.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”


― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

[Boatrocker]

To be fair, it's effective messaging to visually link your sign with the target that way. Given the perfect framing, I'd even wager that the pic was taken by a colleague of the protester. No one inside the fence cares what the sign says, they see dozens or hundreds every day.

And the average knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing reichwingnut would never think to question the direction the sign is facing.