"Republicans Say the Darndest Things" Megathread

Lady Anne wrote:

Mouse wrote:

Normally, I'm totally opposed to pirating books, but right now...rae, I hope you borrowed that book or something and didn't put anymore money in the author's pocket.

Checking a book out of the library isn't pirating.

It is if you do it while wearing a Bandanna and saying "Yarrrgh!" a lot.

Lady Anne wrote:

Mouse wrote:

Normally, I'm totally opposed to pirating books, but right now...rae, I hope you borrowed that book or something and didn't put anymore money in the author's pocket.

Checking a book out of the library isn't pirating.

Sorry if I inadvertently insulted you. By pirating I was meant downloading the eBook illegally or something. I've got no beef with libraries. Libraries=warehouses of awesome!

Once again, we get to play Mike Huckabee bingo. This is a traditional game in my state, and now you all get to play, too. So far, I've got 'spoke in defense of a child molester, then backpedaled furiously', 'Nazi imagery followed by 'Jews like me', and 'I'll send out the FBI and CIA to stop abortions!'

I still need to fill 'Homophobic comment that even other repubs side-eye' and 'forgets to hide his utter disdain for minorities'

rae wrote:

Mike Huckabee bingo.

This is a thing? You have me interested, what does it entail?

It is a thing people say about him. To my knowledge, no actual bingo sheets have existed except those made by random people for distribution to their friends. My local social circle hasn't made an actual physical sheet in years, but will sometimes read or hear something he's said and yell out that they've almost bingoed and just need [x] more.

Slots that must be on there:
>Defending someone who should not be defended, then backpedaling
>Casual racism followed by bullshit excuses (see above comment)
>Something batshit crazy to help stir his batshit uber-conservative base
>Something to imply that your marriage isn't good enough / "threat to marriage"
>Some sort of saying that is supposed to down all 'downhomey from teh south u guise' but just sounds bizarre and stupid
>Major logic fail
>"Think of teh childrenz" (preferably while attempting to cut funding to Head Start or other program to help children)
>Free space: The Bible says...
>"War on Christians" / "War on Christmas"
>Claims something infringes on their rights, when that 'right' is to be a racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshat
>Implies it is better for children to have no home than to live with gay parents / ignorance of the ability for certain gbltq couples to have biological children
>Implies women are really just greedy walking uteruses
>Women are less capable at XYZ
>Implies that service industry workers are lazy &/or all teenagers
>Implies that the poor are mostly on drugs
>BOOTSTRAPS

I can't remember them all, but you get the gist of it