Out of Pod Experience

Santorum is the epitome of bible thumping hypocrisy America has become famous for. On that point we're like the Christian version of (insert middle eastern country here), or a modern version of the papacy. It's all just a play for power, except Santorum actually seems naive enough to believe what he's spewing, along with a decent voting base.

When it comes to Newt, I'm kind of split. On one hand I entirely agree that poor and at risk teens should be given the opportunity to work for some money within a school provided it gives them an incentive to keep their grades up. On the other hand his ego is massive, and I mean frighteningly so.

And Romney... Aside from the flip flopping if there was ever one man that could act as a face for 1% elitism that the 99% (more like the other 1%) could rally against, well he's the one.

It's like one of my Japanese animus. Abraham Lincoln sacrificed his own life force to split post Bush era Republican nominees into 3 components because he knew the world could not endure the combined hypocrisy, ego, stupidity, and sanctimonious self righteousness of one super Republican.

Despite being Republican in some values, I just cannot bring myself to support the party as long as this level of absolute stupidity continues.

Great thread, thanks for the laugh and why am I not surprised watching an American bullshit and his fellow Americans buying it!?! yeah...

In America freedom means to never have to apologize or take responsibility for ones actions

My take on this:


My parents are evangelical Christians (i'm 33, for reference). Over Christmas, my mother repeatedly asked what I think of Santorum.

In their minds it is very simple; does he share my faith? If so he MUST be the right choice.

What really scares me is that they agree with his bigotry and racism! Of course they would never admit that's what it truly is.


They've gone bat-****-insane, and I am not sure what to do about it.

That was funny

I shudder to think what the world would be like if they manage to win

Extremist views can be an effective way to unify support in a group of people, but extremism also makes it easy to drive wedges between those same people.

Just dredge up some of the "why protestants think the Pope is the anti-christ" stuff from recent history. Ask why they support a Catholic candidate who wants to enforce papal law over them if elected? How can they evangelize if a Catholic president would limit and control who can read the bible? What about a US President taking orders from the Pope and putting a shrine to Mary in the White House? Etc.. It doesn't have to be true for people to believe it, as Santorum has shown.

you know what all this reminds me?

first quarter of the 20th century.



I can already see it: in the next few years, there will be somebody important that will be murdered. this will trigger a local conflict that will further escalate more and more, and soon enough a "War to end all Wars" will happen.

trouble is, in 100 years we managed to get more efficient methods of killing more people, so I don't know if we'll be here to watch the return of the totalitarian states on Europe and many other countries around the globe. Or maybe we will.


well, who knows. I'm just speculating.

The fact that the GOP has gone absolutely over-the-top batpoo crazy shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Let's recap the last four years..

1) They decided to put winning the presidency above absolutely everything, including inconvenient things like actually running the country or bothering to be honest when it got in the way of being right.

2) They decided that all the moderates weren't real republicans and proceeded to purge as many of them as they could

3) The Tea Party, which started out as astroturf and morphed into a terrifyingly real amalgamation of every hick stereotype there is.

4) Big talk show hosts and Fox News took over the party from the people who were actually supposed to be running it, and they seem to be as interested in keeping their base in as milkable a frenzy as possible as actually winning elections.

I expect the GOP will eventually move back to the middle - the Tea Party is fading away already and even the most crazy right-winger would be hard-pressed not to recognize the current primary circus for what it is. But not this election - Romney might have a chance but even so his own party is making him move so far to the right Obama will just be able to play Romney's own soundbites this summer for campaign ads.

Totally feels like this from the outside...