Lots of Wonkette readers sent us this embarrassing new GOP “America Speaking Out” website, because obviously we — as Americans who speak — should go flood this dumb thing with TruckNutz and whatever. Okay, that is a funny thing to do, on the Internet, but oh dear Jesus in Space why did you have to make Americans so ruined and sad? How can we find cheap ‘n easy comedy bits to post here when they’re surrounded by so much awful depressing dull horror, and even polite requests for human decency? For every “All Members of Congress and Senate must be routinely and randomly drug tested,” there are three posts from the jobless and the maimed veterans and the confused old people, all just begging for some help.
All of these quotes were found on the “submitted ideas” section of this “America Speaking Out” public relations effort by the Republican Party, and are reproduced here without editing:
- Approximately 36,000 veterans have been physically wounded in action or wounded as a result of non-hostile fire from OIF, OEF and other operations. Of that number approximately 850 are amputees. The remaining 35,150 wounded vary from the extremely wounded that were evacuated to those that were returned to duty. Some estimate the evacuated number around 10,000. Then you add the estimated numbers of those who will have TBI and/or PTSD. Some estimates have that number at over 600,000.


- Many of us are now calling ourselves the 99ers. Meaning that we have exhausted our uneployment extensions and have been left out to dry with no safty net. We want to work we are desperate to work anywhere in order to save our homes and feed out families and Someone in washing needs to help us with additional weeks of unemployment until there are more jobs created. The housing market and the economy will be going further south as many people will be joining me upon the exhaustion of there unemployment bene’s Teir 5!
- I just proposed an idea about how much we pay out to congress in salaries. The site flagged it as “inappropriate”. Apparently, I can not speak freely when I am talking about the money they are making… that is coming from my pockets.
- I think the healthcare bill should be changed for corporation fines. The Bill should state that if a company abandons their medical benefits, then they should have to pay bigger fines depending on the company’s size. If you have under 100 employees you would have to pay $4000. If you have in between 100 – 499 you would be fine $8000. If you have in between 500 – 999 employess you would be fine $12000.00. If you have over 1000 employees and get rid of your health coverage your fine would be $15000.00. The current $2000+ fine the bill has as a fine is a joke, all this lawmakers do not know how much health insurance cost. I used to pay a little bit over $2000 + another 2000.00 the my old company used to pay. Another way to bring health care cost down is to deregulize health care in the way that it allows any health insurance company in any state. This will allow users and companies a wider range of health insurance that they could pick from.
- I already TRIED to submit this idea, but I don’t think it went through… which gives emphasis to my suggestion: Have a tutorial for the site, b/c it’s just too difficult to navigate, to know if my vote was recorded, etc. etc. I am an older American, who is quite familiar with computer usage, but am not used to a website like this. Also, it seemed to accept my voting several times for the same issue…….if that is correct, what use is this site, since an individual could “vote” about the same issue numerous times, and skew the results.
- Why is it with every idea I post it comes up inapropriate?
- This site is a good idea, but poorly done. I can’t get it to let me vote on anything but the small stuff. It is difficult to navigate to where I want to go. I tried to go to open forum, but there was no ‘post your idea’ button. Again; Great idea, but this site needs some fine-tuning, or it is basically useless.
- Our health care costs are out of control, and at least part of the cause is the huge problem of obesity. One of the causes of obesity, particularly in the poor, is the huge cost difference between high-fat, high-refined carbs food and good quality, healthy foods. Many Americans can no longer afford to eat healthy. Our farm subsidies are contributing to this. We heavily subsidize corn, which is the primary ingredient in a lot of our cheap chunk food. Why not take some of these corn subsidies and subsidize other, healthier fruits and vegetables? Why not take some of the health care money and use it to encourage small business owners to bring fresh, healthy foods into poor and rural areas? As it is, we are subsidizing corn twice — first when it is grown, and then again when we deal with the health effects.
- dear GOP, why do all your policies only revolve around tax-cuts ? and why do you always take the position of the corporation AGAINST people ? are you only about money? or do you care at all about american citizens ?
- As a Republican since the 70s, a faithful voter for most of that time, and someone who worked in the defense industry for years, you guys have simply flown off the rails. The extremism and partisanship of the current GOP has taken you out of the mainstream, and put you into the realm of the American Independent Party. Nixon was a good President, so was Reagan. But what you are pushing now is unwise and unresponsive to the nation’s needs. Get back to where Republicans had workable and useful solutions to our problems, instead of just calling our president a socialist and refusing to do anything at all. It’s too extreme, and too partisan, and people such as me don’t like it. You may call me a RINO, but I am what the party used to be, and you are forcing me to become independent because of the ugly partisan extremism that is now the hallmark of the GOP. Please stop this trend before it is too late.
- Can Hannity & others on FOX stop bashing the opposition. Come up with a better idea, a better bill. A blowhard, with a big mouth isn’t helping Republicans get elected. New ideas will.
- The Republican Party needs to post to the internet, exactly how they would replace the current Health Bill with details so people understand it before the next general election!
- wow I have reworded about 6 times my idea and it keeps telling me it is inappropriate — what in the world?
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Anything that does not involve molesting boys is considered inappropriate by the GOP
An the taxpayers are picking up the tab for this.
Shut up America.
Dear Americans Speaking Out:
Your ideas are all depressing and/or inappropriate.
Tax cuts & kisses,
The GOP
The ‘misc’ Open Mic has some of the best ideas:
Name tags, seriously this is a great idea. Everyone has to wear name tags, it’ll feel like everyone you meet on the street is an old friend. You could decorate them with glitter, or smiley faces, the possiblities are endless really. Also a question, what do you get for the most badges on this site, extra feedom maybe?…that would be cool.
Wow. I bet the GOP’ers never expected those responses. How long before they are deleted from the site?
The obvious answer to the most common question raised by these posts is that the GOP thinks it inappropriate for working people to have ideas, which should come only from rich real estate developers. The Dems, in contrast, think it’s grand for workers to have ideas, as a hobby.
Wow, can you imagine if we had an “inappropriate” filter for this site?
Mmmm. From the voice of those clips maybe the gee oh pee shoulda used a trailer from the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.
For fear the hearts of men are failing. These are latter days we know.
I think it will be great cause the GOP can put their “Personal responsibility ethic” to good use as they were the ones that did much of the hurt to these folks…
Meh, I’m going to go back to registering at Breitbart with as many I.P. addresses as I can possibly manage to bring under my control.
Good old AT&T/Yahoo email! It sent my confirmation registration email right to the spam folder.
I do like the phrase “cheap chunk food”; don’t know if it was a mistake or intentional, but it works.
I’ll stand in for the GOP and answer the one guy’s questions:
“dear GOP, why do all your policies only revolve around tax-cuts ?” Because we don’t actually have new ideas.
“and why do you always take the position of the corporation AGAINST people ?” They’re the ones paying our salaries; er uh, campaign contributions.
“are you only about money?” Yes.
“or do you care at all about american citizens ?” No.
Could this be the first website created by Republicans that isn’t slathered with red, white and blue and wrapped in a hundred American flags?
The first idea they should adopt is to stop using a dial-up connection to that site!
Mandate 37 pieces of Flairg® (“Flag Flair”) to wear with the PatrioTag®, and I think we gots ourself a winner!
The commenter/suggester is right about fines under the health care bill. Our company pays $9600/year/employee towards health/dental insurance, and everyone complains it’s not enough. Paying a $2000/year fine is a much better deal. The employees of V572625694 & Associates, LLC, say “Thanks, Obamar! We want our country back!”
[re=584625]Tommmcatt[/re]: Actually, this site needs a filter for “not inappropriate enough” comments.
Dear American People,
Less thinking and more screaming please. Tax cut, tax cut, tax cuts.
Sincerely,
GOP
Libtards have crashed it?
A blowhard, with a big mouth isn’t helping Republicans get elected.
But isn’t that the entire Republican platform?
[re=584643]freakishlystrong[/re]: Either that or some people think the GOP would actually consider championing such actually good ideas.
House Republiklans asking for ideas on fiscal responsibility, made me do a spittake.
[re=584643]freakishlystrong[/re]: Don’t you mean lib intellectually disadvantaged?
Ok , who is “Hilter?”
And you need a bloody Facebook account to comment? Lame .
I have an idea , how about that site getting more load balancing and/or extra webservers.
Hey, gang, if you are looking for random people to mock, you might check out http://www.thepartisandialogues.com Especially anybody with Wolf in their name.
[re=584622]chascates[/re]: [re=584639]Extemporanus[/re]: wow I tried repsonding ti your coment, but this internet said it my tags was too bold an inapropriate — what is going on!?
The GOP’s response to any actual ideas:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=7028
(Sorry for the weird site, but it appears NBC has forced any Conan bits off YouTube).
What are you talking about, this submission is the best idea ever! “Nominate Stephen Colbert as the Republican candidate for President in 2012!”
All the Republican intellectual heavyweights are on Facebook now, lobbying for Farmville subsidies and capital gains tax cuts in MafiaWars.
I think the person with the concerns about PTSD etc may be afflicted him/herself. 600,000? Out of a total active/reserve force of just less than 3 million? That’s a decimation times two.
[re=584656]peanutbutterjellytime[/re]: Speaking of Republican candidates, is that a bullet hole in your bloody piece of bread avatar, or a fuck hole?
Which category do I use to give Texas back to Mexico?
I weep for how all of this will be interpreted by Karl Rove.
Some of those comments seem inapropriate.
America deserves a Congress that respects the priorities of the people. Unfortunately, Washington hasn’t been listening. Let’s change that.
But all these people are Washington insiders, taking money from Washington lobbyists, and spinning their bullshit through Washington journalists. How about we just nuke DC and be rid of it? And of course I’m suggesting using a neutron bomb to preserve the Smithsonian, monuments, etc. Sorry, National Zoo, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
“Why is it with every idea I post it comes up inapropriate?”
Uh, because your ideas make sense?
Shit, the GOP can’t even keep a web site up!
Server Error404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable
[re=584659]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: kudos for appropriate math when using the word decimate!
Sorry, National Zoo, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Think of the pandas!
I think it was more fun the last time they tried to launch this site . . . http://wonkette.com/404320/its-truck-nutz-vs-paultards-in-gop-fixin-ideas-contest
My contribution to the site’s Open Mic: “Why doesn’t that socialist Obama get the government to take over the oil spill problem? What kind of socialist is he, anyway? He sure doesn’t act like one!”
Do you think that will make it through the filter?
“We are here to listen to you… as you respond to us telling you the same goddamned ideas over and over again. We’re not thinkers, we’re doers!”
I wonder if we should point out that if you log in via Facebook all your private information will be sold to telemarketers and or Al? Quaida?
Shut up and get a job, whiners.
Huh. Surprisingly literate.
Also, that one guy who thinks Nixon was a good president but the current party’s just too crazy for him? Yowza.
[re=584661]Extemporanus[/re]: It ain’t blood, it’s jelly. And you know what goes best with jelly, don’t you? Peanut butter. And also fucking…
This is as depressing as something I read over the weekend — a City-Data forum from Las Vegas. It was created around the subject of getting employment at the new City Center facility. People with rhetorical skills as good as you read from newspaper reporters these days simply dying to be busboys and pastry apprentices. And helping and encouraging each other, too. Sitting for WEEKS by their phones after they had been told they were finalists to change rich people’s sheets. City Center opened a couple of months ago, so now some of them are being laid off already.
They posted my screed about Obama not being a good enough socialist. Anyone who is logged on, pleeze give me a bump. It’s posted under Open Mic.
[re=584697]EarBucket[/re]: Ronald Reagan would be tossed out on his ear as a complete RINO.
[re=584673]actor212[/re]: Meh, those pandas are Commies, anyways. Engage launch sequence!
I recommend they change it to “America Upchucking”.
Of course the consultants reviewing responses conclude that:
What the Republican party needs is a BIGGER blowhard with a BIGGER mouth!
I would like to explore this comment: “Repeal the 11th, 16th and 17th Amendments! These are nothing but PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIsT Amendments forced down our throats by SOROS!”
Surely even the most naive teabagger would know that George Soros wasn’t born until well after these amendments were enacted… or would they? Seriously, would they?
So it presents a veneer of being open to the public but is difficult to figure out, unresponsive, discourages actual original ideas and nobody in charge is going to pay attention to it unless it’s to pick out one or two ideas as a cover for the latest package of proposed tax cuts and deregulation. And after experiencing that microcosm of GOP leadership, do you think these folks are going to vote Republican or Democrat next election?
Someone there suggested that “america must take over space.” I fully support this idea! We can deal with the illegal aliens sneaking in through our Jovian border at some later point.
Another favorite from the website:
“Remove the 14th Amendment allowing anyone born in the United States citizenship.”
OK, slaves, back to work!!
And who says the GOP isn’t the party of ideas? Ok, well the party of creating a site and asking anonymous people for their ides.
[re=584731]Crankenstank[/re]:
Weren’t these the same idiots who wanted to make an amendment to allow some dipshit Austrian bodybuilder/action hero to perhaps run for Preznit?
[re=584661]Extemporanus[/re]: Can’t it be both?
there’s a certain schadenfreude a cat can feel at watching the continuing demise of the republican party. its heart is beating but it appears to be brain-dead.
there’s no freude at all in contemplating the millions of people who want to work and who could be put to work by the government, at least until the economic storm passes, doing so many of the things that need doing in this country, were it not for the sociopathic opposition of the tattered remnants of what was once called the grand old party.
“Working class ownership of the means of production: American laborers ought to reap the fruits of their labor rather than giving them up to a blackmailer who obtained the means of production through historically questionable means. Freedom should include freedom for laborers, not just those who control the means of production. “
[re=584636]AKAM80TheWolf[/re]: I totally agree. It felt like the GOP was mocking us real americans and calling us gay farmers by using artsy-folksy color schemes instead of the normal RW&B or mostly Red.
[re=584636]AKAM80TheWolf[/re]: And where’s the fucking eagle soaring???!!11
[re=584747]Greg Comlish[/re]: That got my vote.
[re=584729]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Republican. After all, that the site was most probably a liberal plant.
/this comment was flagged as inappropriate/
Beware! If you log in and post something “inappropriate,” you might get sent to a Palin-Bachmann re-education camp! Ooga-booga!
Has the GOP ever made a web 2.0 thing that hasn’t flopped and burned to the ground in less than a week?
[re=584705]peanutbutterjellytime[/re]: I don’t use peanut butter, I don’t use cheese, I don’t use jelly, or any of these. I use vaaaaaaseline…
[re=584741]assistant/atlas[/re]: Mmm, blood jelly!
(Oh wait, you were you referring to the hole, weren’t you?)
“wow I have reworded about 6 times my idea and it keeps telling me it is inappropriate — what in the world?”
Larry King, izzat you?
[re=584636]AKAM80TheWolf[/re]: Yes. And it resembles something created by a countrified diarrhetic baby exploring his or her newly discovered evacuative capabilities.
[re=584845]J.Robert Oppenheiner[/re]: This one’s here to stay…you can earn badges!
I tried to suggest compulsorary tattooing of penis length on all male foreheads. They dubbed it inappropriate. I should have just suggested it for congressional pages.
[re=584697]EarBucket[/re]: Nixon created the EPA and got the the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Safe Drinking Water Acts passed, not to mention the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Nixon is a big part of the reason we aren’t swimmin in a toxic stew of pollution right now.
Then there are the major changes in federal Indian law that basically ended the patronizing bullshit and recognized Indians tribes as sovergein nations, finally.
He had his faults, but Nixon actually did a lot of good. And I need to wash my hands after typing that.
In ancient Rome, when a legion had disgraced itself to the extent of our elected Representatives, they were forced to undergo “decimation”. Lots were drawn and every 10th man beheaded. It was thought to encourage dedication and cut down on counter productive activities within the ranks of the legion.
Now my religion requires that I don’t speak to Satan and I’m assuming that extends to posting suggestions on his web site, but if anybody else thinks it a worthy idea, by all means…
[re=584659]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: Misplaced the link, but one reliable source I visit said that one-quarter to one-third of all returning Iraq/Afghanistan vets are displaying symptoms of full-blown PTSD. Do the math; it’s pretty awful.
It’s just another “push poll” with questioned designed to get the answers they want.
I guess I’ll just say…I hope the GOP can figure out a way to fix the site. I’m one
of the “confused old people”. And this site is REALLY confusing.
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