This is a re-created thread to replace the broken one, please contribute here, not on that one.
I love Truth-Out. They've published some great stuff over the years. Yes, leftie stuff, but still well produced, often provocative.
http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
Summary: The GOP is all about three things.
**While the meta-discussion is happening, I think I'm just going to contribute when it makes sense right now. (h/t Listener Pete)
Ahh.. This one works correctly, it seems. I call it "confirmed". 
Conservatives are so easy to anger these days. Even the most insignificant statement can set off their tempers. If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:
1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.
3. Joseph McCarthy was an un-American, witch hunting sissy.
4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors.
5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.
6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.
7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.
8. Sarah Palin is an ugly cow (said to conservative males).
9. The Earth is round.
10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.
11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.
12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.
13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.
14. Global warming is real.
15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.
16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?
17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists.
18. Paying taxes is patriotic.
19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880.
20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party.
21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America.
22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia.
23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it.
24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.
25. Jesus was a liberal.
26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats.
27. Tea parties are for little girls.
28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.
29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.
30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.
31. The President is NOT a Muslim.
32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.
33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.
34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.
35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.
36. Women control their own bodies.
37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.
38. Please use spell check.
39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.
40. Social Security is solvent through 2038.
41. Health care is a right, not a product.
42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.
43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Perverts.
44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses.
45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight.
46. Waterboarding IS torture.
47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe.
48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.
49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.
50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.
51. Barack Obama is the first African-American President, get over it.
52. The Oval Office is NOT a “whites only” office.
53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.
54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving.
55. God is a particle.
56. Evolution is real.
57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.
58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.
59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.
60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.
61. Federal law trumps state law.
62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.
63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.
64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.
65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job.
66. Republicans: Paranoid since 1932.
67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.
68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.
69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.
70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas.
71. Republicans hate communism, so why do they refer to themselves as red states?
72. Labor unions built this country.
73. Republicans hold America hostage as a political strategy; the temper tantrum throwing kind of political strategy.
75. When Republicans see black, they attack.
76. Inside every Republican is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to bloom.
77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born.
78. Republicans are hypocrites, they’re just too stupid to know it.
79. The Christian-Right boycotts movies that have violence, and then promotes guns and insurrection.
80. I think therefore I am NOT a Republican.
81. Republicans that oppose gay marriage are most likely in the closet themselves.
82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed.
83. People are too poor to vote Republican.
84. Democrats think for themselves, Republicans form think tanks to do it for them.
85. Republicans hate education because they couldn’t hack it in school.
86. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins and Republicans wallow in it.
87. A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.
88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high.
89. Republicans: Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-Lesbian sex.
90. Republicans: Terrorizing the America people since 1981.
91. Republicans have their own terrorists, just look up Timothy McVeigh.
92. Republicans love outsourcing, just ask the Chinese Communists.
93. The Republican answer to the oil spill was to apologize to BP, a foreign oil company.
94. Democrats will be working hard to bring jobs to Americans, while the Republicans tea bag each other in the middle of the aisles.
95. Voter disenfranchisement is immoral and un-American, that’s why Republicans do it.
96. Republicans would let your house burn down unless you pay them to put it out.
97. Democrats want to take care of the sick. Republicans take their credit cards and then deny them medical attention.
98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.
99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.
100. Republicans are idiots and arguing with them is a waste of time!
Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.
Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.
Yup!
Watch UF&UB, and Deane when confronted with the truth. They're numb!
Cons hate facts. They call them lies and opinion. Very sad.
Ever notice, though, that they are hard pressed to come up with ANY facts to counter the claims?
Cons remind me of dumb blonde jokes, only not as funny nor capable of conjuring any fun images.
I like #36. Women control their own bodies.
Around here they need to. All you have to do is look at the fat asses waddling around the shopping center and you wonder where the control is.
Deane>>"Around here they need to. All you have to do is look at the fat asses waddling around the shopping center and you wonder where the control is."
I can't disagree with that. But you have conservatives criticizing Michelle Obama for telling people how to eat so they don't get those fat asses.
Around here they need to. All you have to do is look at the fat asses waddling around the shopping center and you wonder where the control is.
#1 reason why MEN shouldn't have a say over what a woman does with her body.
"But you have conservatives criticizing Michelle Obama for telling people how to eat so they don't get those fat asses."
Suggesting what I eat or don't eat is fine. The government has NO place legislating what I eat though.
"Watch UF&UB, and Deane when confronted with the truth. They're numb!"
I can take a joke. I think it's funny.
"The Earth is round."
The earth is not round.
Roundness is defined as a set of points equidistant from a center point. It could be in a plane, which would result in a circle, or in space, which would result in a sphere.
But all points on the the surface of the earth are not equidistant from a center point. Irregularities in the surface would prevent that, as well as the fact that the diameter of the earth from pole to pole is less than the diameter which would include the equator.
So if a Republican gets angry when you tell him the earth is round, now you know why.
While a bunch of these statements are opinion, not factual, I still find it disappointing that one reaction was to call this list a joke and another reaction was to deflect. When my teenager was in his 13-15 range he would pull those two stunts repeatedly. Fortunately he outgrew this.
F and B is right- the earth is an oblate spheroid. I'll give him that much.
"While a bunch of these statements are opinion, not factual, I still find it disappointing that one reaction was to call this list a joke and another reaction was to deflect. When my teenager was in his 13-15 range he would pull those two stunts repeatedly. Fortunately he outgrew this."
You expect us to refute all 100 of them?
Most of them are ridiculous, or just digs based on stereotypes and half-truths.
But if you want to discuss this, please refer to points 89, 98, and 99 and tell me why they apply to Republicans. I will not dodge your answers and will respond.
deane sez: Around here they need to. All you have to do is look at the fat asses waddling around the shopping center and you wonder where the control is.
Get the hell out of WalMart and go someplace more upscale Deane. Like K-mart.
Suggesting what I eat or don't eat is fine. The government has NO place legislating what I eat though.
They should though.... You want to tell a woman what she can do with her body they should be able to tell YOU what to eat. Very simple...
Get the hell out of WalMart and go someplace more upscale Deane.
Your talking about NabrASSka Skep! There's a Walmart on every corner.
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