Delusional fast-food merchant Herman Cain is riding around in limousines and trying to sell his shitty book, which is all his “presidential campaign” was ever about, obviously. But he took a break from his self-promotional tour to do some self-promotion with the Wall Street Journal, so he could blame the Occupy Wall Street protests now spreading across the country on … Barack Obama, who planned these protests, apparently, “to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.” Yeah Obama would definitely engineer a radical leftist movement against Wall Street … the same Wall Street that has run the Obama Administration from Day One. ALSO: Herman Cain has a message for the poor, unemployed protesters!
Here’s what Cain said, as transcribed by Mother Jones from this horrid WSJ video clip:
“I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded.”
“I don’t have facts to back this up,” hahahahahah. Asshole.
So, it is a conspiracy, but it’s Obama who is doing the conspiracy, to plan protests. But it’s not a conspiracy that all but a handful of the ultra-rich are doing okay in this shitty collapsing country. That’s the fault of, obviously, poor people. Poor people did it! Fucking poor people, why don’t they work? [Mother Jones]
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Blame yourself, really? What, for not being lucky enough to be born into a rich family? Dolt, wealth comes from dumb luck in America.
I blame myself for being in a job where, if I screw up, I do not get at least a million dollar golden parachute, at best, a couple of million dollar bonus, and the government will make everything better. Why is it these dirty Socialist don't appreciate the hard work that has made people on Wall Street rich, whether or not they do anything right?
There's even some people who are so stupid they actually want to do something useful with their lives instead of becoming bloated parasites on society, feasting off the actual work of others.
That's where I went wrong in my career choice.
Dang it, I saw that those courses were being offered but I became a teacher. Geez. I need the face palm of God!
Really? In America?
Yes, yes, it is my fault for having poor parents! Punish me more!
I hate to break it to you Boojum, but Herman Cain had poor parents too.
The poors understand about dumb luck. That's why most of them buy lottery tickets instead of putting that $2 a week into an IRA.
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Well, I *do* blame myself for picking the wrong parents.
“I don’t have facts to back this up, but… [bloviation]
These nine words are the most honest thing a modern-day Rethuglican has ever said.
Clearly, this should be the start of every campaign commercial from every GOP candidate. Hell, it could be FOX New's and the Journal's now slogan.
RINO!!1!!!
He does get points for honesty, right? Granted, he then loses those points and then some for being a dick in general.
"I'm not intelligent but I try to project that image on TV."
That's the baffling part and what's misunderstood, I think, about him: the man actually has a degree in mathematics, another in computer science and worked under the military in ballistics … But stand him up onstage to score political gain and he comes across like a pandering buffoon.
As they say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
A lot like the new Godfather Pizza slogan-
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind"
"A mind is a terrible thing."
ouch, the United Negro College Fund salutes you!
Gets him where he wants to go.
One may be very gifted, but if one has a delusional belief system one still looks like a blooming idiot to the external observer: He may be able to mathematically prove any point he wants, but the points he seems to want to make are painfully stupid. He may be bright, but his belief system is fucked up. The modern conservative mindset is more religion than reality based: How many times do they have to fail to be discredited and accept that they are wrong?
"It's not MATH, it's CLASS WARFARE!1!1!
Better to not have the facts and bloviate than have the facts, ignore them, and bloviate anyway. I guess?!
That is a fine line, but Herman Cain is just the man to walk it.
Six of one, half dozen of the other; come see come sah; win-win; tomato tomahto; whatevs…
He, like most of the republican orthodoxy, does not have much use for facts. Beliefs are so much more powerful. They're Magic!
Now if only they also would admit that before referring to climate change, the age of the Earth, the beliefs of the founding fathers, hell pretty much all of science and history really.
The next Republican presidential debate will end with, "We will now open up the floor to wild accusations."
Haven't they already?
As opposed to the entire debate?
I'm still dying to hear what he "thinks" he's going to change "Hail to the Chief" to once he is President. Any ideas?
Janis Joplin's Pizza My Heart?
Dammit!
Well he's already singing "Hail to the Thief" so there's that~
John Lennon's Give Pizza Chance?
I saw what you did there.
Beatles "Number Nine"?
I'm guessing there'll be no room for subtlety — it'll be "Dixie."
Patti Smith's 'Rock n' Roll N. . . on second thought, I ain't going there today.
Something by Coltrane, one would think.
Sgt. Pepperoni [Artichoke] Hearts Club Band?
#rehash
True fact: Here in Hartford Connecticut — the nation's leading producer of Joe-mentum — there is a pizza joint called Sgt. Pepperoni's. Slices are $2, which I call the 2-2-2 Dinner.
Horst Wessel Lied. And you know who else…
Hmmm….who vas this Horst Wessel of whom you speak, and why is his truthiness important. Ve haf vays of makink you talk, Mr. Blaine.
The theme from "The Godfather".
Too easy. I'd suggest something by the Godfather of Soul, but Mr. Cain doesn't seem like a soulful kinda guy.
Cheese Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady
Sadly, all I keep hearing in my head is that pootly Turkey in the Straw ice cream truck jingle.
Fight tha Power? No wait–wrong black guy, wrong pizza joint.
Cheese is Christ, Superstar
Don't you mean "Cheesy Crust, Superstar?"
He wouldn't go for that hippie shit. He's more of a fundamentalist, so I'm guessing "Oh What a Friend We Have in Cheeses."
I approve
When the moon hits your eye…
"Crossroads", by Robert Johnson?
"Crazy Train"
Warrant's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Which is worse: the Uncle Tom reference or the Warrant reference?
I hear that Hank Williams, Jr. Is looking for work.
Herman: Having once made the mistake of eating a Godfather's pizza, I blame myself for the fact that you are now a rich clueless obnoxious blathering fuckwit.
What can we expect from a man who's world only involves pizza and black walnut ice cream?
Oh, black walnut? Just had to play the race card, huh?!
Cunning American Black Walnuts processor jumps on this high-profile development to attack Haagen-Daaz.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-681816
Hey, at least he didn't use the old name, nigger walnut ice cream.
It's the name of a flower, jeez!
Brazil nut ice cream?
This guy believes people are to blame for not being rich or having a job and he is trying to become president of the United States? Some people are actually supporting him?
Tell you what Herman: don't blame anyone but yourself if you don't win this election by a landslide.
And it never seems to occur to his base that he is talking about them – they are the ones who didn't get off the ass and be a kazillionaire so we would be talking about their effective tax rate, golden parachutes for running companies into the ground, etc.
Win.
The people who support him are not the poors and unemployeds.
"The same Wall Street that has run the Obama Administration from Day One" does not give me reason to hope.
As it should not. Yet, I have to hope at least a few minutes of the day.
I am over my hope minute limit for the day. And I don't know how to use the rollovers.
you just save up your tears of despair in little jars so instead of going through all the effort of sobbing while in your existential quandary you can just reuse the tears youve already cried
There is probably some fee on that. I need to check the contract.
Ken's being a little harsh on that. Given the distress in the economy from the Bush years and the collapse that was going on, it made sense to bring in some Wall Street people. And there has been some attempts to better the consumer's plight. But let's face it, the GOP would rather raise taxes on their grandmothers than hold a rich person accountable for their sins.
Obama hasn't been perfect, but can you imagine the alternative?
Haha, as my nonprofit environmental lobby friends say, "At least we would've been PREPARED had McCain won."
This horrifying new book about how Obama bowed to literally EVERYTHING that Geithner/Wall Street demanded, from day one, has all the details for those still in denial. And this same book has the fun fact that *on the way to his inauguration,* Obama was told the Republicans in the House and Senate would block everything he planned. Everything. He knew this before he even took the oath, and yet he persisted for three years trying to make nice with them, wasting TWO YEARS with a Senate/House huge majority.
The only silver lining I see is on the supreme court. It might even be tinfoil, but still.
Let's at least quit pretending the guy had huge majorities in the Senate. He had conservative Dems like Baucus, Nelson, and Lieberman that he had to satisfy in order to reach that 60-vote majority that was needed to pass everything. The Dems simply don't have the ideological rigidity and uniformity of today's Republican Party.
Obama, like many presidents before him, promised to bring change to Washington, to govern differently, yadda yadda yadda. He's not the first to run headlong into reality, nor will he be the last, and every time there will be disappointed supporters who were just so sure their guy would be the one to turn the whole place around. But putting aside differences and working together to fix the country's problems was the theme of the man's entire fucking inauguration speech, so I don't know that he could be reasonably expected to do a 180 on that idea because of something someone told him on the way to giving said speech. And if he had, he would have taken fire for abandoning his campaign promise to not govern like an uncompromising dickhead. The guy was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, but at least he made the effort, which is more than one can say about damn near every member of Congress.
Eleventy billion upfists.
Oh yes, the HUUUUUUUGE majority. Can we finally dispense with the fiction that Obama had a unified Dem majority ready to pass liberal legislation, please?
The cuts to the stimulus were made to appease Blue Dog Dems. Without those Blue Dog votes it wouldn't have passed. Ditto the major concessions on the ACA. As much as it galls to remember, the big compromises on the ACA were made to get Democrats on board.
The Democratic party is a big tent, and that means that any legislation making it through Congress has to appeal to a broad coalition, including a lot of Dems who are just slightly less ratfuckcrazy than the Republicans. Add to that the fact that the GOP was unified in blocking any and all legislation sponsored by the Dems and you see why any bill had to appeal to the Blue Dogs in order to get passed at all.
Did it ever occur to you that Obama "making nice" with the Republicans was much more about making nice to the center-right wing of the Dem party? You know, the center-right wing that was needed to get any legislation at all passed in the face of unified GOP opposition?
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck, man.
Yeah, people keep forgetting that a hefty chunk of self-proclaimed Democrats are basically Republicans lite.
I have it on good authority that Suskind is a lying hack of the first order.
Yes, and it is horrifying.
I still have yet to figure out what campaign people were watching in 2008 that they thought Obama was the liberal polar opposite of McCain and Palin. He was a moderate who brought in people who had worked for Clinton in the 90s. Some of them might have been the wrong people for the particular moment, but it can't have been a surprise that they were the ones Obama hired. If people want to be mad, perhaps they should be mad at the neoliberal drift of the Democratic Party that has been going on for almost twenty years now.
The people who thought Obama was going to be the polar opposite of McCain were low-information voters who didn't look at Obama's record or his policy papers available on the OFA website. ZOMG, Obama was in favor of nuclear power development and ethanol subsidies, how liberal. He also voted in favor of warrantless wiretaps, how fucking far left.
I spent a lot of the 2008 campaign making sure that the correct position info was available to people working the phone banks/canvassers/ etc. The fact that Obama was/is a centrist Dem is no surprise to me. A lot of people apparently stopped at "hope & change" and figured they knew what Obama stood for by listening to some campaign speeches while completely ignoring his voting record and the positions clearly outlined on his campaign website. Now those people get angry because Obama continues to support the centrist Dem positions. Fuck it.
I have completely written off people who don't bother to research their candidates then turn around and scream about how they were betrayed.Caveat fucking emptor. And those people better not ever talk shit about those ignorant hicks who vote GOP, because they did exactly the same thing. The only difference is that the ignorant hicks delude themselves that Sarah Palin fights for them, while the oh so educated liberals delude themselves that a centrist Democrat who says he'll increase troop levels in Afghanistan is anti-war. Hahahahahaha.
You are preaching to the choir here, my friend. Sometimes I wonder if Ken just writes stuff like that to tick off people like you and me and Chet Kinkaid, or if living in the desert really has fried his nerves and his brain.
This man is today's Sarah Palin. This is the face of right-wing grifting today.
Glen Rice fucked Herman Cain?!!! Ewhhhhh.
Abraham Lincoln to the slaves? "if you don’t like working for a master and you’re not free, blame yourself! "
All her admirers should note that the beauteous Tamron Hall is doing her show right now down with los Occupados on Wall Street. Do it, Tamron! And give Riley a kiss! By the way, she towers over Ezra Klein, who must be a physical as well as an intellectual dwarf. It would be better if she'd talk to actual protesters rather than other journohacks, but at least you get to look at her.
And i don't have the facts to back this up, but I believe Mitt Romney's magic underwear are woven of golden threads.
…and stained with golden skidmarks.
Tamron Hall reminds me of my six grade home room teacher – the one that I desperately wanted to bang.
"Let them eat shit pizza".
Isn't that part of every Godfather's pizza? "Hey, Marie, put some more shit on the next one, hon."
Cain is starting to play with his little balls. Mutiny in 3, 2, 1…
I don’t have facts to back this up,
I don't have time to watch the clip, but did the Journal's editorial board chime in and say "That never stopped us."
Oh and Ocupado supporters? Make sure you don't order from Godfather's when sending pizza to the high bongo playing laze-abouts.
Cain added that the banks "did have something to do with the crisis in 2008, but we're not in 2008, we're in 2011! Okay?"
Yeah, because it's not as if the banks are doing the same things in 2011 that they did in 2008. Oh wait…
And there is no fucking WAY that anything like economic collapse in late 2008 would still be causing problems today! That's like, twelve reality TV show years.
Mc Fly!!!
“I don’t have facts to back this up. But I'm just going to say some crazy ass shit so I'll be in the next news cycle. You got your pencil ready? Cause this is going to be insane! Just might win you a Pulitzer."
Asshole indeed.
Can I have extra cheese on that half assed idea?
Thanks for confirming my belief that this whole disorganized failure was engineered by the Obama Administration! At least when the Bush Administration "Did 911" they had a real plan and carried through with it.
Cain went on to say "there's always money in the banana stand".
NO TOUCHING!!!
Here, Mr. Cain, have this bag of dicks. I was saving it for Ol' Crazy-eyes Bachmann, but you deserve it more.
Shelly doesn't need another one anyway. Marcus has a a ton in the back of his closet.
I don’t have facts to back this up but I suspect Herman cut costs in his pizza empire by using only meat from cute lovable kittens. What kind of man kills kittens I ask you?
I don't have the facts to back this up, but I don't think any kind of man would do that. He must, therefore, be some sort of space alien/cyborg from the future/undersea creature. Either way, I don't think we should elect someone who may be a sci-fi horror creature president of this or any other country, except maybe Russia.
So what does he do with the scraggly, unlovable kittehs?
Not sure I want to know the answer.
And I submit to you: "a man who proudly goes by the name of 'the Evil One' when translated from Hebrew".
Ah yes, that guy. According to Gen 4:15 he had some kind of mark on him. The mormons have had a striking interpretation of that passage. Cain should ask Romney about it.
There is nothing that takes the mind of of "failed policies of the Obama administration" faster than a group of people protesting the state of the economy. QED.
Cain May not understand it…but I would like to remind him that, the collapse of the middle class would lead to the collapse of the America itself. The middle class is the bedrock of all institutions and democracy itself.
-The way I see America going, if it continues like this for another generation, that very scorge that they so abhor – socialism may be what is waiting down the road for us all.
-It's just a matter of time before teapublicans agree that CORPORATIZATION of our democracy has wrecked havoc on this nation…that CITIZENS UNITED was the day democray died in American…
He then continued – "Not white? Not male? Blame yourself! Minor child without parents who can afford health insurance or, you know, food? Blame yourself! Not my problem! Bahahahahahahahaha!"
What a dick.
Succinct, and crisp, the only change would be "buncha (s)".
"On a sadder note,
Pizza the HuttChris Christie was found dead earlier today in the back seat of his stretchedlimohelicopter. Evidently, the notoriousgangstergovernor became locked in hiscarhelicopter and ate himself to death."That had to take days. No, weeks. Damn a really slow death.
I'm confused. Rand Paul thinks the poor are getting rich faster than the rich, so the wrong people are doing the protesting. Stephen L. Carter thinks the Occupados are taking aim at a figment of their [his] imagination and expressing it in the wrong public space. Alison Kosik thinks it's not the space but lack of explicitly-stated objectives that the movement's flawed, and now Cain says the accused are innocent til proven innocent.
Word salad, meet pretzel logic.
Yeah…..and….?
Mmmmm..pretzel salad pizza.
Confused? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! (Also, check out the media's codpiece!)
I don't have the facts to back this up, but I believe Herman Cain is an asshole.
No wait, I actually do have the facts to back that up.
No facts necessary, it's just stone cold self-evident.
No, wait, he lost fair and square in 2008…oh, that guy. It didn't work out well for the mutineers.
Nope. Some get melted-down into bars of soap, while others run for president.
'I don't have/need facts to back this up' is one hell of a platform.
Seems to be working for the rest of the contenders – though he is the only one to say it out loud.
Rarely has the wingnut philosophy of "I got mine, so fuck you" been so succinctly and honestly been stated by one of its sociopathic supporters.
Just wait until Herman Cain finds out that the whole 'bagger movement was in fact a clever plot by Obama to make everyone on the right look like knee jerk reactionaries who are racist, sexist, boo soldiers, and like to dress up funny.
Of course, Herman Cain is probably just another Obama strategy. Has anyone seen his birth certificate? How do we know he is not a Kenyan Muslim Socialist?
"I don't have facts — not because they're not there, but because they'd get in the way of my opinion. Which is…"
Cain's great at not having the facts. Yesterday he said he's never seen the long-established science that being gay isn't a choice, but still didn't let that stop him from asserting the opposite as though it was true.
One thing about leadership: if it's based on faith instead of facts, it's going to fuck you up eventually.
"Faith is a fact."
George Bluth, "Caged Wisdom"
I don’t have facts to back this up, but [...]
Best summary of the Republican Party circa 2011, to date.
Is "I don’t have facts to back this up" the new "nothing in my statement was intended to be factual"?
Needz moar chilean models.
It's with this kind of rhetoric that Superhero Jesus won money lenders' hearts and spurned the downtrodden! Listen to Cain croon about it next time you give his gospel album a spin. He loves to tell the, uh, story.
I don't have facts to back this up, but:
* Obama is orchestrating the protests.
* Gardasil turns your kids into retards.
* Fed Chair Ben Bernanke is all quantitaitve easy, not b/c his lifetime of scholarly work suggests it's exactly the policy he would pursue under these circumstances but, rather, because he's in cahoots with Obama's campaign.
These guys in the GOP freakshow primary think they'll get elected if they just make shit up! (And they're prolly right.)
The Fed Chair is a slut? Ok, who replaced Bernanke with Terry from Reno911!?
"If you haven't figured out how to fuck people over buy ripping them off with shoddy ingredients or imported crap… you're on your own."
I don’t have facts to back this up but…
Should be the opening statement for all candidate at the next Republican debate.
Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded.
Just like the "Sermon On The Mount," but with less blessing and more blaming.
More like Sherman on the March than Sermon on the Mount
"Blessed are the pizza makers, for they will fuck you in the ass. With sand for lube."
i see nancy grace is weighing in on the miscarriage of justice in the amanda knox case.
that has about as much relevance as herman cain's pronouncments on the economy.
Martin Luther King: "I have a dream …"
Herman Cain: "I don't have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe …"
Sigh.
I don't have facts to back this up, but Godfather's Pizza is made from recycled cardboard, pesticide-contaminated vegetables, and ground-up kittens.
Damn, and I lost the 2 for 1 coupon.
Yum, kitten the new white meat.
Until Herman Cain proves otherwise, I will assume this is true.
Pillsbury appointed Cain as President and CEO of another subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza. Aiming to cut costs, Cain over a 14-month period reduced the company from 911 stores down to 420. As a result of his efforts, Godfather's Pizza finally became profitable.
The fired employees of the 491 pizza stores Cain shut down had no one to blame but themselves.
So you're telling me that Cain is an agent of the Pillsbury Doughboy???
Golly, I thought wealthy Republicans were job CREATORS. Now I find out that GOP business people get rich by making other people poor. Well, I'll be a monkey's ass.
Question for the next R debate: "Mister Cain, how many employees had to be laid off in the closing of those 491 restaurants? How many new employees were added at the remaining 420 outlets? Over the course of those 14 months, how many people lost jobs for each new job created?"
I was beat out of a job to be executive of a national pizza chain as a result of Equal Opportunity by some big dopey black guy. I blame myself.
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
Srsly, why are they worried if they are just a bunch of unorganized hippies??
Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove that just about ANYTHING is true.
Damn. Baconz missed a snark. I nodded off there at my desk.
Twelve martini lunches will do that to you.
Do they? That's so '80s.
For your information it was screwdrivers! And I had only 7.
Drink up!!
Yet another pledge to sign: I don't have facts to back this up.
Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, L. Ron Hubbard, Zoroaster…
Now I feel like a Herman Cain for deleting the the original post:
Oh, man…you know who else "don't have facts to back this up"?
Why is this a surprise from a Repubican? "I don't have facts to back this up, but …
… global warming is a hoax."
… evolution is wrong."
… Obama wasn't born here."
… tax cuts create jobs."
… Ronald Reagan was the greatest president."
… Iraq had WMDs."
…
…I'm a legitimate candidate for the Republican nomination, not just a token the other Reps can point to to claim they're not racist.
"…Harriet Miers is an excellent candidate for the Supreme Court."
"…George Tenet is a great American who deserves the Medal of Freedom."
"…Alberto Gonzales had legitimate reasons for firing the Justice Dept. attorneys."
"…those Muslins deserve to be in Gitmo without charges."
"…it's not the government's fault the levees broke."
"…Obama owes the Cheney family an apology."
I don’t have facts to back this up…..
Then it must be true. Is Hermie "I Wanna Be the Prez" Cain jockeying for position to take over Glenn "Bat Shit Insane" Beck's former slot on Faux-Noose. If'n so you gotta try harder to be crazy. There's Michele "Chisel Face" Bachmann and "Grifter Meth Cunt Media Whore" Sarah Palin. You have to >crazy Hermie to lead into Bill O.
It's sure good planning on this guy's part not to be born about 200 years ago. In the south. That's some serious strategery.
Headline of the day (Foxnews):
"Circumcision Funding Cuts Hurt, Doctors Say"
Tough words from someone who didn't even build his own business but instead got it handed to him.
Most people on the right who have facts to back something up, don't have facts to back something up.
Call me when you DO have facts.
I don't have facts to back this up but Herman masturbates into the dough of every single Godfather Pizza.
The lack of evidence that President Obama actively discouraged the protesters is evidence that he planned the demonstrations. This argument works every time. Cain should have used it to back up his claim.
The 9 most dangerous words in the English language are "I don't have facts to back this up, but"
similarly, "I'm from the government and you're on your own" always scared me a fucklot more.
Herman Cain is the correct answer to the LSAT question:
"What does the phrase, 'assumes facts not in evidence' refer to?"
I don't have facts to back this up, but I believe Herman Cain embezzled most of his fortune from the Brother's Pizza Company.
I wonder if Godfather's Pizza training videos tell employees to blame themselves for making minimum wage.
He might as well become an author, no self-proclaimed Christian would vote for someone named Cain, anyway.
Appropriate use of the future tense ("become") there.
“I don’t have facts to back this up." Well, shit, Herman, don't let that stop you from saying it. Moron.
Facts? I don' got to show you no steenkin' facts!!
Okay, here's my new death bed wish: to wit. I'd like to see Elizabeth Warren take down this huckster in a televised debate. Cain can pick any topic except "how to exploit min wage earners in a shitty fast food franchise".
You know, some people might say that they have no facts to back it up, but they just FEEL that you, Mr.Cain, are an old Tom. Oh, and Hermie, the French Revolution started ffor a reasson…you might want to look into it, but I don't think Obama was President (or the king of France) back then.
Think about it. The Republicans don't even need to print new bumper stickers. A quick snip with a pair of scissors and McCain/Palin becomes Cain/Palin.
He truly IS the black Walnuts!
And a second quick snip will give you Cain/Pain.
Any sentence that starts with 'I don't have facts to back this up', should never start.
Say, Herman, who should a 96-year old black woman denied the right to vote blame?
We are taking our country back from the people who want to take our country back!
Divorce laws?
Maybe if you knew the entire Tea Party movement was orchestrated by someone like oh say, K rove, then naturally you would suspect another grass roots movement to also be as grass roots as a back street boys fan club.
I don't have the facts to back this up, but I understand Herman Cain likes to have giant butt plugs shoved up his ass on a daily basis…how about that make shit up stuff!
But if you don't have a job and you are rich, then you are Mitt Romney and blame yourself as well!
Yeah, hippies, it's all YOUR OWN FAULT that the taxpayers didn't bail you out with trillions of government bailout $$$$ like those banks, blah, blah, blah.
Edited to edit: get off the hood of my limo.
Disperse from under my building or I'll pour champagne on your head!
I believe this is the new certifiable slogan of the Grifting Old Poobahs: "I Don't Have Facts to Back This Up!", but then I started thinking about the other part of Brother Cain's argument about the poor, mainly that we should grow a pair and sell them, and I had this thought: what should be the limits of success? Is a hundred car undersea garage enough, or do we need a car for every day of the year? Are a hundred homes with a hundred rooms enough, or is this too strict a limit? Should Scrooge McDuck have only one vault? – it must be the mass conscious of the Occupiers reaching me here in Cheboygan, Michigan – I don't usually have thoughts anymore….
America won't be finished with building wealth for the rich until every one of them has a golden miniature giraffe to walk their treadmill for them in a golden gym filled with ten-whore-diamond call girls and 120-foot TV screens. And don't forget the diamond-encrusted, self-flushing, heated toilets.
Bring back the miniature giraffe!
This is not surprising, since facts have a liberal bias.
Being unemployed certainly would be your own fault if those "right to work" laws actually did what the name implied.
Yeah, that's some double-plus-good-think-speak they've got going on there, for sure.
I noticed something while having to glance at his Wikipedia article. While it's true his parents weren't rich, they weren't exactly sharecroppers either. Specifically, his father was a chauffeur, someone who had direct, personal contact to the kinds of people who could afford a chauffeur.
He has quite the collection of college degrees. Who paid for the degrees? How, exactly, did he get into prestigious private schools? Who was on the admissions boards? Who was on the scholarship boards? Did daddy drive any of them around?
Was there any… GASP… Affirmative Action involved???
I think using personal connections to "lift himself up by his bootstraps" would be a more delicious form of hypocrisy than would Affirmative Action.
Those hippies would rather bang a bongo than deliver pizzas. Fuckin' commies.
"There's class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
For years people have denounced the Republicans for being totally Racist (Southern Strategy, that old guy on Morning Joe who used to write speeches for Nixon and who manages to put his foot in his mouth about once a week by saying something Racist, Rick Perry's insulting rock inscription…….But now the Party has totally redeemed itself by nominating this SAGE to be their Presidential Candidate. Whoo Hoooo! What a rennaissance it's going to be, as soon as he is in the White House!!!
Obama vs. Cain: A prescription for the lowest voter turnout in American history.
I don't have any facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that Herman Cain sucked Rick Santorum's balls while Cain was ass fucked by Lindsay Graham.
Twas dough, as in pizza, that gave Herman Cain's career life.
Now pure dope will make his political career flatline.
Well, it is the fault of the middle class and the poor. We keep refusing to pitchfork the rich and the politicians they purchase – and the media that keeps stifling real debate in this country – and really always has – even before it went "mass".
Do you think we could convince the Canadians to start giving US Americans political asylum? Is there such a thing as "sanity asylum" maybe?
“I don’t have facts to back this up…"
If reporters were honest, they would out this disclaimer before ANYTHING a teabagger says.
Something tells me that the day Cain's book is released is the day the conservatives will stop the circle jerk that is their book-publishing ponzi scheme. Palin will Tweet, "Sorry, Herb, but you just have one teeny problem that makes you be not one of us."
I wish I could believe that, but Regnery and all the other vanity publishers for conservative claptrap will peddle this nonsense along with all of the rest of it, and sooner or later it will be remaindered out at dollar stores or given away for sending money off to one of the conservative websites or something. If nothing else, they burn pretty well when you get a good base of coals going under them and they'll heat Cheney's cabin or some shit. There is always a way of getting rid of the pallets of unread shit that they produce.
Herman Cain=George W. Bush in blackface.
It's not someone's fault if they succeeded. It IS their fault if they make sure everyone else fails.
I think "I don't have the facts to back this up" should be the new "All of them, Charlie."
This is where you calmly get up and walk away from deranged person.
"I don’t have facts to back this up"
Ass Mode: It's a way of life..
"if you don’t have a job… blame yourself!"
If the unthinkable happens and this guy actually DOES capture the nomination (zero chance of that happening) or if the very thinkable happens and he's cynically tapped as the VP nominee, that quote is gonna be GOLD, baby, GOLD.
And if dead people weren't such pussies, there wouldn't be any dead people.
Why do you think every Daddy's Little Frat Boy becomes an econ major?
Look on the bright side, you get to spend all day with children. That's cool until they hit about 7yrs old in my experience.
And that's another reason not to want to go to work in the financial sector; they are all giant douchebags there, I for one wouldn't want a job where I'm guaranteed to hate my coworkers.
The worst job interview I ever had was with a law firm that worked for investment companies, and the interviewer was just a total prick who implied there must be something wrong with me because I didn't go work for "Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs" after college.
You should have retorted back, "Why would I work for them? I went to law school to actually follow the law."
I think Ken writes stuff like that because it's easier than thinking, no joke. Snark doesn't thrive on shades of gray, after all.
The irony of the name "Wonkette" does not escape me. Perhaps a name change is in order, although "Simplistic Rhetoric-ette" doesn't really roll off the tongue.
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