Pic Of The Moment: New Poll Reveals That Republicans Remain Completely F*cking Clueless

[EarlG]

Trump Supporters Think Obama is A Muslim Born in Another Country

White House photo of the day

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[onehandle]

1. Muslims in the country of Hawaii look a lot different than Middle-Eastern Muslims. nt

[olegramps]

20. How can you expect to be able to reason with today's Republicans?

We have to put out every effort to register working class people, especially minorities and get them to the polls. I am convinced that it is our only hope of savaging the situation. Everyone of their candidates are worthless liars. We can't expect any significant changes until the Democrats control both the senate and house.

It doesn't matter one iota if either Sanders or Clinton wins if the Democrats are in the minority in either the senate of house. I view the extensive concentration here on DU concerning the nomination of who is to be candidate for presidency is ignoring the crucial issue concerning the of control of the congress. If President Obama's presidency has taught Democrats anything it is that the Republicans will destroy the nation before they will support any bipartisanship.

Furthermore it has been a folly how the Democrats have allowed the Republicans to dominate local and state elections. Candidates for local, state and national positions should not forfeit the stage in regard to the powerful evangelical block and stress the basic teaching of Jesus of his primary teaching that we are or brother's keeper. They should forcibly challenge the Republicans disregard of the needy even to their point of disparaging them as lowly parasites.

The party needs to clean house at the national level and install people who have a vision beyond getting their butts reelected so they can feed at the trough. If Sanders' campaign has glaringly displayed it is the massive resentment that the rank and file have for the majority of their representatives.

[RKP5637]

2. Not surprised, as most republicans are F'en fools gathered under the "Big Tent of Idiocracy!" n/t

[yuiyoshida]

3. Ya know a Republican might ask how is this photo

taken in Hawaii, there is no proof where this was taken, where are the palm trees? The Hula girls? the Ocean beach backgrounds..that photo could have been taken anywhere.

anyway.. I could imagine some one in THAT PARTY disputing everything!

[Raster]

6. I do not see Hilo Hattie's!

This could NOT be Hawaii.

[yuiyoshida]

9. or maybe its...(gasp!)

KENYA !!!

[Raster]

10. shouldn't there be a Kenya Katie's?

You know, the place where we can by souvenir birth certificates?

[yuiyoshida]

11. LOL!

YUP!

[rpannier]

38. No Don Ho in the pic

How can there be no Don Ho and it be Hawaii?

[yuiyoshida]

41. see? there you go...

More proof!

[turbinetree]

4. I want to know how they got a passing grade from school..............

this is really sad--------------no wonder we are 18th in education, when we use to be number 1, and look no further than what Walker, Brownback, and others of this ilk has done to education, they gut and cut and blame the public education.
And just for good measure let's lay this at the feet of MSM News programs that put on a former ("Psychopathic liar ) by the name of Dick Cheney to hype his book------------ I mean really

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Ummm ... when were we ever number 1 in education ?

Check your facts. The idea that the US was ever no. 1 is a pseudo-patriotic myth which the right wing accepts as reality.

OK, maybe at the height of WWII, when much of Europe was in ruins, education was not as high a priority for them. But I'll bet the first international studies comparing educational systems took place much later -- like the Sixties, when America came out looking pretty bad, mostly because of poverty. It was the Kennedy/Johnson social programs which led to improvements in American primary education, and their subsequent repudiation by Republican Congresses and Presidents (think RR here), together with ever-more-drastic budget cuts by local Repugs, which have caused the decline.

[SoapBox]

5. Oh...silly...

He just rented those white people...and that picture was probably taken in that Moose-lamb country where he was born someplace in Afrika.

[Plucketeer]

7. Stuff like this does not surprise me

Hell, I know regular folks on my street that think like this and would stubbornly defend their knowledge, no matter what. Sometimes, we here at DU have to step back and remind ourselves that we're in a relative minority - what with our thinking, reasoning minds. There's a LOT of determined skull-duncery away from the glow of our monitors. And much of that entrenched stupidness is just too comfy to bother to crawl out of!

[Lochloosa]

8. You spelled church wrong...

Mosque

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

12. IT'S A COMMUNIST PLOT! Obama is the DEBUL!!

[Cyrano]

14. Most Republicans probably don't know Hawaii's a state

[Arugula Latte]

15. Yeah, right. They are obviously facing Mecca in this photo.

[Doctor_J]

16. But "Hawaii is such a foreign, exotic place"

- Cokie Roberts

[NBachers]

18. You had to put cokie roberts in front of me and raise my blood pressure, didn't you?

Since National rePublican Radio no longer has a place in my life, is she still on?

[d_legendary1]

17. EarlG has out done himself

He got Obama out of those rags and into a shirt complete with Christian worshippers! That should keep those truthers busy for a while!


(gonna add this just in case)

[PatrynXX]

19. technically if I believed that from an independent viewpoint

not left or right.. then I'd 1. Believe Bush & Cheney blew up the twin towers 2. that besides that and makes no sense we had a state of Anarchy From jan 2001 to Jan 2005 when we didn't have a president. ie this is the only comeback I have to this nonesense , hey we tried it your way Anarchy for 4 years. it clearly didn't work. still facing the sh** for it.

[MADem]

21. But Cubano Canadian Club Cruz? He's as American as "pastel de manzana!"

Or maybe, since they're bilingual up north, we can also say "tarte aux pommes!"

[Cha]

36. Yeah, cruz is just a good ol American Idiot.

[shawn703]

22. What do you expect from a bunch of Trumpkins? nt

[IronLionZion]

23. Trump's supporters are un-American

they don't share our values and they don't think like us. It's time those Trump supporters learned their place and got kicked out of our country.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. It goes full circle and explains the support for Trump....

Republicans take the phrases, "the winner writes the history" and "perception is reality" to the point where they actually believe they can create reality through their vote.

They really believe there are two completely viable realities and you can choose which one you want by voting and through the Triumph Of The Will they can make Obama a foreigner.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. Too Much Religion Has Warped

Republicans' Mental Rigidity Button.

What they believe is more important than facts anyday.

[Fred Sanders]

28. Too much religion...and Fox and hate speech freely spread.

[polynomial]

32. Exactly what many think about

Exactly what many think about

That portion of society is very controlled by what can be considered the

“Republican Mental Button”,

Media driven ditto heads, Rush Limbaugh sheep, that are Orson Well wonders that believe the radio magic or the bible regardless who prints it. And there is nothing you can do about things because it will be argued God makes it that way, through Media "Idolatry" Reagan/ Schwarzenegger Hollywood worship, commercial glitz for gouging services or commodities.

That is precisely the no child left behind concepts. These adult Republican mental buttons are those that are within every once a product of diminished educational reasoning.

These Republican mental buttons cannot think for themselves or use abstract reasoning that will improve society, only war will benefit with grief, excessive taxes, or torture, sacrifice committed to resilience in a predator pray economy.

Republican mental buttons will vote against their interest all the while flying off the cliff, or disregard climate change, or really misunderstand Health Care or that renewable fuel is going to be the future, or that waterboarding is not torture. Or bailing out rich people is the normal thing to do, but its wrong.

Half the country is mentally backwards. Herbert Walker Bush in his time once said about thirty percent fall into that category, Romney in his time was right when he said that forty seven percent are of that character too

Indeed America is headed for warp drive...Beam them out via the vote.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

26. Where is this bullshit coming from?

Doesn't even Fox "News" concede that Obama was born in America? Is all this coming from RWNJ preachers?

[PatrickforO]

35. OK, I am dense but I can actually GUESS that acronym:

Right
Wing
Nut
Job

Preachers.

Yep! Feeling smug here...

[thebighobgoblin]

27. Republitards

The republitards have worked overtime to attract the nation's ultra-religious, and this is the product. These are people who believe that the world was created 6000 years ago, so we already know that a world of facts isn't really their domain. They believe Obama's a Muslim because they want to believe he's a Muslim. And just like some of their outrageous beliefs about science, they don't give a shred whether they can or cannot produce an iota of proof. The proof is inside their imagination, and their beliefs about the world are far more important than facts. In fact the world of facts is a terrifying one and it's a world that isn't to be trusted or believed. They trust facts that support their views, but the facts that don't must be a trick of the devil, used in an obvious attempt to destroy their faith.

This is why Bill Maher's awesome. Yes, he's an arrogant prick, but it's for a noble cause. People who are that thick need to be mocked and ridiculed, and they need to be ashamed of having a mind that's no more advanced than some cave dweller from 20,000 years ago. It's this sort of bat shit insanity that leads to abortion clinic attacks and the meaningless destruction of Palmyra.

[Fred Sanders]

29. As Clinton rightly said, the neo-GOP shares many traits with foreign religious wingnut terrorists.

[63splitwindow]

30. Book learnin' was not the forte...

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of the vast majority of right wingnut wackos.

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[Thav]

40. Unfortunately they also believe

that their ignorance and belief in incorrect information is just as valid as proven fact and logic.

If they were told by the propagandists that the sky was yellow and Obama simply renamed the color as blue, they'd firmly believe that and no mountain of historical evidence defining the sky as blue would dissuade them. In fact, they'd claim persecution and start personally attacking people who pointed out that they were factually wrong.

[herding cats]

31. I wish I could laugh, or at least make a pithy reply.

This just makes me sad though. That's a large chunk of our population, who apparently vote, who are as dumb as a box of rocks.

[BeanMusical]

33. Oy, must go to bed....

I read TPP instead of PPP.

[PatrickforO]

34. We need to elect enough Dems to roll over the crazies. Then,

1) re-institute the Fairness Doctrine
2) overturn Citizens United

Those steps will defeat the crazies and send them scuttling back under their rocks.

I'm supporting Bernie, because he wants to do (2. I think he might be willing to also take on 1).

If he ONLY gets these two things done, his presidency will save our republic from the vicious billionaire parasites.

[DhhD]

37. One week before the Nov 2008 Presidential Election, the GOP candidate (McCain)

bought TV Ads about Obama's religion, a Christian preacher and Christian church that Obama had attended for the past 25 years. The GOP base are absolutely dumb, and are as deaf and mute as a stump.

[robbob]

39. Ok, sorry, putting on my logic nazi hat...

First, let me say I think Trump and his followers are idiots. And the birther movement smacks of racism. And the republicans in general are corrupt evil and stupid. Ok? We clear?

But....in the defence of logic and basic reason skills I feel I have to point out: a picture of president Obama attending church in the state where he says he was born does not prove that he is a Christian, or that he was, in fact, born in that state. No more than a picture of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon proves that he was born on the moon or is an alien life form.

I'm sorry, I love laughing at idiots as much as the next guy, and the survey results in the op does indeed show that many repugs are truely truely delusional idiots, but the accompanying photo does not in fact prove anything and in fact claims to the contrary makes us look like the foolish ones.

As in: "hey, here's a picture of Obama in church! That PROVES he can't be a Muslim!!!".

As I said, being a bit of a logic nazi here...

[YoungDemCA]

42. Let's look at the evidence for each side of the "Is Obama a Muslim?" question...

On the one hand, the President is known to practice a fairly liberal and ecumenical version of Protestant Christianity.

On the other hand, his middle name is "Hussein."

Yeah, this sure is a tough question to answer!