Pic Of The Moment: What's The Matter With Kansas? (Answer: It's Being Run By Idiots)

[EarlG]

New GOP Lie: Food Stamps on Cruise Ships

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[tazkcmo]

1. Almost...

It's being run by re-elected idiots.

[mindwalker_i]

9. And there's the other side of the equation

We bitch about idiots screwing up government, but in a democracy, we are the leaders, ultimately. So I have to say Brownback is the leader of people in Kansas.

[tazkcmo]

11. Yup

Again, RE-elected.

[Nay]

14. IMO, Kansans are getting exactly what they deserve and when they're ready to

wise up, I hope it won't be too late for them.

[tazkcmo]

15. I have a sister living in KC, Ks.

Has the most to gain/avoid losing, at risk, disabled. Does not vote. Her circle of "friends" SAY they vote Republican because Obama is Kenyan. Yes, they have exactly what they want.

[mindwalker_i]

17. Geeze...

Well there's your problem!

[Zambero]

20. A case of stupid + willfully ignorant exceeding 50% of the electorate

Witness the recent gubernatorial election.

[Cheap_Trick]

23. Screw you.

I didn't vote for the squinty eyed fuck. It looks like a LOT of people didn't vote for him.

http://politicalconundrum.lefora.com/reply/47173225/KANSAS-STATISTICIAN-FILES-SUIT-GAIN-ACCESS-VOTING-DATA-I
"In her study, what she has found indicates an irregularity in the voting results, where the larger a district, the more the swing from Democrat to Republican can be noticed. This was first noted by former NSA analyst Michael Duniho, who uncovered the digital fingerprint of voting machine tampering in the 2012 elections."

[Nay]

25. Enough people are voting for "the squinty-eyed fuck" for the election to be stolen, as

happened in Florida, with nary a peep from EITHER PARTY about election fraud. Note the fact that the NSA analyst uncovered this in 2012. It's 2015. Kansas' election machines and election process aren't going to be changed anytime soon because nationally the Republicans, for whom all these dolts vote, have no intention of changing stuff that works in their favor. If you wait until it's physically impossible to vote them out because they have captured the voting system, you've waited WAAAAAAY too long.

And if you initially vote in line with 'gods/guns/gays' moronic topics, then you are guaranteed to be screwed. It's on the voters to cut that shit out in the very beginning, or at least not whine when the results of their bigotry fucks them, and the innocents in their state, over.

[rpannier]

34. Yeah right

That's the common reason given why republikkans get elected and re-elected, it was stolen
People in Kansas for the last half-century have reflexively voted for republikkans
Don't make this out to be some sort of irregularity
Just because people you know didn't vote for him (and Roberts and the rest of the brood) doesn't mean most of those who voted did not either.
Kansas is getting what it voted for. Maybe next time the voters will think a little more

[ananda]

24. Just like Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Bobby Jindal, etc.

We live in a toxic, dystopian society. The problem is systemic.

If people are convinced to vote for greedy, hateful fools, that's
on them and the whole system.

Nothing will change except from organization from the grass
roots, people doing their civic duty, so to speak.

This will also mean no boundaries between right and left. This
will have to come from everyone.

[samsingh]

2. kick

[2naSalit]

3. Who either are

or are pretending to be religious zealots who want to foist their BS on everyone. Religion is about population control and greed.

[procon]

4. What's The Matter With Kansas? (Answer: Kansas voters)

It's predictable; the rightwing voters in Kansas will continue to double down on the damages Brownback has caused, demanding that the next wave of Republican candidates must shift even farther into the political weeds to prove they, too, will stop at nothing to prove their crazy regressive schemes will work.

Lessons learned: zero.

[longship]

29. Religion mixing with politics is the problem.

I lived in Wichita for eighteen years after university. I worked for Boeing as an acoustical engineer, beginning in the very early 80's.

I became increasingly politically active, rising to county party treasurer and state delegate. I knew three Democratic governors, personally.

But then it all fell apart. We saw what the religious right were doing. We were aware of all the dog whistles to the faithful. But the media portrayed it all as politics as usual.

The Sedgwick County Republican Party was actually hosting a dialup message line called the GodArchy Line where one could hear a daily message about how the Ten Commandments should replace the Bill of Rights. Their monthly newsletter read like a Jack Chick religious tract. It was Jesus this and Christ that in almost every article.

And when Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman lost to religious right Republican Todd Tiarht we knew how bad it was. Somehow Kansas still managed to elect Kathleen Sibelius as governor.

But make no mistake, the Kansas Republican Party is nothing but a fundamentalist Christian religious cabal. It has been that way before I left there in the 90's.

[procon]

31. Exactly, religion is eating away at the fabric of society.

One of the most treacherous aspects of religion is the recent escalation in special carve-outs and exemptions that primarily favor christians, obligating everyone else to grant them extraordinary rights and privileges that are denied to others.

[longship]

46. In the name of religious freedom no less.

And they always play the persecution card. "Help! We're being oppressed!!!!!"

It's all rubbish. And the media often goes along with it. "Let's hear first from Tweedle-Dee than from Tweedle-Dum(b)." Gotta be balanced after all. Of course, Tweedle-Dumb often filibusters so Tweedle-Dee gets not much opportunity to say anything.

I wish we still had Christopher Hitchens. He is sadly missed. He cut down many a Tweedle-Dumb.

My best regards to you.

[madamvlb]

5. K&R

[ejbr]

6. If I had a nickel

for every time a person on welfare took a cruise... well, then I guess I wouldn't know what a nickel looked like.

[libdem4life]

8. I hear they smuggle themselves on the ship to use their food stamps and lay

hiding down in the hull for days at a time singing Row, row, row your boat or Merrily We Roll Along. That was what first brought attention to this creative solution of temporary housing and free food. Not much gets past our Righteous Republicans, and this is no exception.




Just in case...

[tclambert]

7. Just what cruise ships does Kansas have jurisdiction over?

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Seriously crazy or unbelievably cynical

Or both.

I'll go with both.

[bvf]

12. Just another measure designed to gauge

the current amount of stupid in the populace.

I go strictly with "cynical."

[The CCC]

16. Just another measure designed to gauge

Stupid and mean.

[rpannier]

35. Maybe neither

They made it up to give their idiot supporters a talking point
Over the years I've decided that they just make stuff up and if it works even a little, they double down on it
If it fails, they move on to a new 'supposed' problem
Unless you're Ted Cruz. In which case, even if it fails, you quadruple-down on it

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. I think my Laughter Reflex has just broken.

[AlbertCat]

18. But where are the homeless gonna live....

.... if they can't book a cabin on a cruise ship?????

[Zambero]

19. Make sure they never even get near the water!

The great state of Kansas (aka Brownbackistan) is as landlocked as one could get. Anyone getting food stamps from this state should never be allowed to take a vacation period, let alone within sight of any ocean, especially when there's so much distance between the Sunflower State and either coast (throw in the Gulf here as well). Yes, it costs big bucks just to get there from Kansas, and welfare cheats would surely use it cover any trip expenses. So just make air travel means tested, so that only well-heeled certifiable folks above the poverty level get through security. I suggest a "not on food stamps" code to be included on Kansas drivers licenses. That should do the trick. If they were to somehow reach the coast, these lazy underachievers would quickly find a way to sneak onto the nearest cruise ship, food stamp cards in hand. So nip it in the bud, just keep 'em high in dry and Kansas, preferably working 2 of 3 minimum wage jobs to keep 'em out of trouble!

[Madmiddle]

21. This is not by accident.

The 2015 election proves two things about this country. 1. The very corrupt are winning. 2. We are losing everything because of the SCOTUS decided to allow the corruption to not only continue, but to grow so big that we all know there's only one way to stop it.

[zentrum]

22. Yeah, but...

…which comes first? The chicken voters or the rotten egg leaders ?

[Initech]

26. I asked this in another thread:

Would these same assholes care about the military industrial complex spending unchecked billions on expensive fighter planes that the Pentagon doesn't want or need? Probably not.

[aka-chmeee]

27. As a Progressive voter here in Brownbakistan,

Once more I get the opportunity to contemplate with great anticipation the satisfaction I will feel should the spirit of smug hubris sneak up and bite you all in the *ss.

[GoneFishin]

28. What are poor people going to do with a cruise ship in Kansas?

[nxylas]

30. They also passed a bill banning the use of magic in the presence of a muggle

Glad to see them tackling the really important problems that affect Kansans every day.

[turbinetree]

32. Toto

left a message for Dorothy-----Took the shoes find your own way back---I am outa here

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. This is right up there with the charm that drives away tigers....

See any? No? It's working.

Republicans claiming they will end an outrage that doesn't exist outside of their teeny little minds.

Lump it in with their passing legislation banning the use of "death panels" in "Obamacare".

[turbinetree]

36. Guess

what they are doing in another state called North Carolina and probably coming to a right wing republican state very soon---oh boy.


The legislature wants to shut down the residency training requirement at the UNC Chapel Hill for OBY/GYN, so that all the doctors have no training---nice huh


So let's say a woman comes in and has a miss-carriage or other issues and they have no trained personnel ---who is responsible because this legislature banned the class room training, they go to Kansas?
This twit running that state wants to ban the right to woman's privacy there also.

And the best part is, if a doctor gets trained in North Carolina and moves to another state and they don't have the OBY/GYN training, how do they get certification in the state they are moving too---they can't.
This is what is called a "death panel"---the republican way

You just can't make this stuff

[Spitfire of ATJ]

43. This comes from the same geniuses that believe eliminating sex ed will stop teens from fucking.

[ecdab]

37. Don't miss the forest for the trees...this is what that the GOP starve the beast ploy looks like

They are not idiots, they are greedy and evil scum bags who think (and perhaps not incorrectly) that they can sell this BS to the public.

[trof]

38. GO KANSAS! Thanks for taking the heat off of Alabama.

You're making us look downright LIBRUL!
We Blue Dots sure do 'preciate it.
THANK YOU!

[blkmusclmachine]

39. Not even remotely believable.

[3catwoman3]

40. Chris Hayes just interviewed...

...one of the Kansas state senators who supports this bill. The guy was a condescending little twerp who smirked thru the whole interview.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. "We want your food stamps!!!"

"But,...nobody here has any food stamps."

[marble falls]

42. Kansas has its own George W. Bush.

[LarryNM]

44. Kansas is a Failed State. Time for Regime Change. eom

[brooklynite]

45. UNREC

...because this doesn't capture the breadth of the Kansas Bill...

"No TANF cash assistance shall be used in any retail liquor store, gaming establishment, jewelry store, tattoo parlor, massage parlor, body piercing parlor, spa, nail salon, lingerie shop, tobacco store, vapor paraphernalia store, psychic, fortune telling store, bail bond company, video arcade, movie theater, swimming pool, cruise ship, theme park, dog or horse race facility, parimutuel facility, or sexually oriented business or any retail establishment which provides adult oriented entertainment."

[MADem]

47. OMG--the Nightly Show made a joke about both the poor and Carnival Cruise Lines passengers

living in "squalid conditions" but this doesn't begin to capture all of the unbelievable-ness of this account!!

What? No tattoos with food stamps? And one can't use 'em for BAIL, either?



Why not just say "Food stamps are to be used to buy ... errrr... FOOD?" Sounds much easier to me than adding to a list of "Cool Things to Do" .... but don't do 'em with food stamps!!!!!

[Brett Fitz]

48. That's An Insult To Idiots

We're talking psychopathy here!