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The Republicans really want to win some House seats in November and are desperate to try anything to make that dream a reality. Desperate enough to create a new, hip crowdsourcing website where real Americans can submit policy suggestions. Yikes.
[...]Here are some favorite policy ideas that could be coming to a candidate near you this fall.
On labor laws, as pointed out by the Post:
End Child Labor Laws. We coddle children too much. They need to spend their youth in the factories.
The Horrorshow That Is the Republicans' Internet Suggestion Box
Seeded on Sat May 29, 2010 6:01 PM EDT
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On "Terrorism Abroad":
Require all Muslims in the U.S. to wear ankle bracelet transponders so we know where the terrorists are at all times. Like B. HUSSEIN Obama.
Predictable and boring. Must be real!
On "Open Mic":
TAX EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! AND CAPITAL LETTERS!!! AND SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
Important lesson to Republicans: Nothing ever ended well that began with "Let's ask the anonymous internet people." Nothing. Well, maybe Team Coco and Betty White. But other than that, nothing.
This is not the first web related glitch the GOP has had. If they can't even organize and run a web site well, how do they expect anyone to trust them to run a country?
- 25 votes
Have you even read some of the crazier comments that was on that site, creed?
...I don't like how cows are free in where ever that is, in Asia probably. We need to use our military to lock those cows up, like we do it here.
...We should pass a law making it illegal for members of congress, senators, governors, attorneys general, cabinet members, lobbyists, etc., to have inappropriate relationships with animals.
...Outlaw clothes for fat people. I want them to be humiliated.
...How did Lee with American Idol? I blame Democrats, Liberals, Catholics, Commies, Disney, Steve Jobs, God, Muslims, Canada, Mark Zuckerberg, God, Hookers, my wife!
...Make American the official language of AMERICA!!! JESUS spoke American. I'm looking at YOU, Mexicans!!!
...g00gle is an Inappropriate word. W T F
...we should make english the official language of the US and stop spending tax dollars on translations for mexicans! if english is good enough for baby jesus, its good enough for americans.
...I should have the right to name my children using numbers. If I want to name my child l33t, I should be able to name him that, darsh gone it. Who is the guberment to say that I can't name my children using numbers?
...We should make it illegal for women to wear pants.
...I think that there should be a national contest to see who can eat the most Hamburgers in an hour and then the winner will become President.
...The women of the GOP should post tasteful pictures of their feet if they want my vote.
...Liberals must stop aborting godly American dogs and cats.
...It should be a law that if you have an abortion, you get sterilized two.
...STOP STEALING OUR WATER! I was watering my plant the other day and I noticed all the water disappeared! WHAT has the state of LIBERAL politics gotten to when your water is vanishing from everywhere!! Sometimes I go to the bathroom and there's no toilet paper either, they should FIX that!
...Mandatory "Straight White Male" testing, performed annually, to determine eligibility to vote.
...The Supreme Court should not be the final arbiter of the Constitution. It is time to grow a set and challenge them with legislation overturning their decisions when they are obviously unconstitutional.
They shouldn't not have been surprised by this
Anyways, it's always easy and immature (and the seeder Carloz is an expert in this) to display the worst retards being somehow talking pieces for an entire ideology.
Because they actually act like this this(you have heard about the person running in North Carolina or a lot of what Rand Paul have stated or the "birthers", the people who call President Obama a "socialist", etc.)...
- 24 votes
Creed, comment #1.1 deleted because it included a CoH violation -- i.e., an off-topic (I am not the topic of this seed), and a personal attack, which is something you seem to be doing regularly on my seeds. The pertinent parts of the CoH are:
Above all else, respect others. Address issues and arguments and refrain from making personal attacks.
Adding a personal attack to an otherwise valuable comment or article serves only to render that contribution invalid in its entirety. Such content is subject to moderation.
Harassment and/or intimidation of others on Newsvine will not be tolerated, and patterns of such behavior may result in account cancelation.
Feel free to make on-topic, CoH violation free comments, otherwise I will delete again. If you want to argue the point, contact Newsvine, rather than making any more off-topic comments. Again, the topic is the GOP suggestion box.
- 18 votes
Creed, if you disagree with my moderation, the policy is to appeal to Newsvine to let them decide if it was a CoH violation or not. Don't keep re-posting the same thing -- as long as the comment continues to include the off-topic insult aimed at me (however feeble), I will keep deleting it -- and FYI to keep re-posting a deleted comment is another form of harassment.
- 21 votes
creed
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Comment collapsed by the communityOh so Carloz - which part do you want me to take out?
Don't play games.
I am waiting.
I usually moderate more than one seed at a time.
OK, here we go again. A slightly moderated post. Is that OK with you now?
Better -- at least you made it an indirect insult this time. Look, Creed, I do not go on other people seeds and insult them because I don't like what they seed, because its a CoH violation. . Just stick to the topic, and mind the CoH.
- 23 votes
Oh man, that is one funny list!
It's good to see that some fellow conservatives still retain their sense of humor.
- 7 votes
Sigh:
If you want to argue the point, contact Newsvine, rather than making any more off-topic comments. Again, the topic is the GOP suggestion box.
- 12 votes
See? another right winger ruining a seed. And yet I got crap for pointing that out on a seed.
If all trolls aren't right wingers, then 99% sure as hell are, and creed is doing a great job showing that, as are the guys on that republican site.
:)
- 18 votes
creed Comment collapsed by the community
Comment collapsed by the communityI understand, Bonos, but
If you see something disrespectful or inappropriate, report it - rather than further inflaming the situation.
So, DNFTT. Let's all stay on topic -- please!
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Comment collapsed by the communityCreed, you seem angry, I'd hate to think how you would respond to my retorts. Carloz. deletes you, I'd demolish you but who is more effective? Carloz! Carloz sends you to the safe seat which ends up being a failed buddy room, which in turn ends being a deletion. I'd simply tell you to go F^(K yourself. You aren't one of my students, so I don't have to be nice.
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Comment collapsed by the communityTAX EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! AND CAPITAL LETTERS!!! AND SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
So, maybe the conservatives are developing a sense of humor.
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Carloz, can delete me, He knows I am a friend (I deserve to be deleted, sometimes) but I doubt that your infractions are the same as my simple truth. I told you what I would do, creed. I didn't tell Carloz to do it and he didn't do what I would do, yet you cry like a baby rabbit in my dogs jaws.
- 7 votes
creed, I wasn't showing smiley teeth, I was serious, you aren't very good at convincing me that you know what is acceptable.
- 4 votes
Ooh...
Something tells me the Chans are behind a lot of these comments.
(And I have a feeling not many people will know what 'website' I'm referring to)
- 1 vote
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Comment collapsed by the communityHave a nice trip, creed, perhaps you will, meet me on this road and share your bread with me, else you may starve, since you have the bread sometimes and I have it the rest of the time.
- 3 votes
Poor creed. Well, now he's free to keep posting ideas on that republican site.
On topic, haven't republicans learned you can't keep a site like that unmoderated??
- 5 votes
This speaks volumes for the mentality of their followers does it not?
- 4 votes
On topic, haven't republicans learned you can't keep a site like that unmoderated??
Not yet, apparently.
- 4 votes
I spent a few minutes on that website...it was hilarious! Then it froze...and I had to get my entertainment elsewhere.
- 23 votes
#2 - Sat May 29, 2010 6:50 PM EDTI spent a few minutes on that website...it was hilarious! Then it froze...
Did it freeze when you tried to vote for universal health care?
or for ending the war on drugs? or reducing military spending?
for ending this long expensive war?
for more alternative energy?
increase in funding education and science? I actually signed up, but not one of my votes went through, they are still showing the same number of votes as last thursday...
- 2 votes
they are still showing the same number of votes as last thursday...
GOP bugs
- 1 vote
I read a lot those while a lot of the crazier suggestions were up(those are most likely removed now) and I've never laughed so hard in my life...
- 15 votes
#3 - Sat May 29, 2010 7:04 PM EDTHere's a practical one I just read:
REDESIGN THIS SITE! This site is laid out like a cross between Yahoo! Answers and I-don't-know-what. But it needs improvement. There are already so many duplicate "ideas" bouncing around, and they are scattered all over the place. CLEAN IT UP! You're not impressing me so far, Republicans! (Oh, and it is really slow right now too.)
Then there was this:
I propose the deporting of all socialists to a socialist country like Cuba, Nicaragua, or Mexico where they can have all their radical ideas, have their wealth redistributed for them, and get their free health care they want to badly. The rest of us will work to restore our Constitutional Rights, and rebuild the foundation of this once great nation.
- 13 votes
I took a quick glance at the "Values" box. Some of them weren't bad, it was the voting that told the story.
For example, "freedom of speech for individuals, NOT corporations". Of course on this website this idea was being overwhelmingly shot down as was a woman's right to reproductive options.
Yes, some of the suggestions are good but you'll get a better handle on how the far-right thinks by looking at the votes. I didn't want to "register" so I couldn't vote.
- 9 votes
#4 - Sat May 29, 2010 7:48 PM EDTI didn't want to "register" so I couldn't vote.
Same here.
- 10 votes
Hey, if you don't vote, you can't complain!!!
Why would we complain? Watching that sugguestion box is like watching the football team you aren't rooting for get into a giant fist fight. You'd normally try and stop it if it were normal people but you enjoy the shadenfreude anyway.
- 5 votes
I'm not complaining -- I'm rejoicing!
Hence the shadenfreude. :P
- 3 votes
I like this website. In two weeks it is getting 520,000 hits. Maybe if it gets big enough the people who work with us will finally start to listen.
#5 - Sat May 29, 2010 9:28 PM EDTI went over to the site and found a bunch of Liberal type suggestions like "The Republican Party should be more liberal and democratic"
Does Newsvine have some new competition? :-)
- 4 votes
#6 - Sat May 29, 2010 9:43 PM EDTEven if somebody posted a good idea the republicans in the congress would ignore them
- 4 votes
if somebody posted a good idea
IF?
Didn't you read the one about locking-up the cattle? That's sheer genius.
- 2 votes
Here are a few I found humorous.
I don't like how bike riders are always showing off with their skinny shorts. If they like wearing their skinny shorts, they should do that when their with the men who like that, not me
Aramaic as the Official Language of the US. We do this to respect two facts: this is a Christian Nation and Jesus spoke Aramaic, therefore, that should be our language as well. Anyone who refuses to speak the language of our Lord should be deported back to where they came from. This includes the Native Americans
Since there so many hungry people in the world i think we shuld make them to eat the other poor people wen they die of hunger. This way theere wouldn't be any more world hunger.
All this talk of oil spill is just another liberal media propaganda. Has anyone even SEEN the oil? NO because it doesn't exist. The extreme left wing only wants you to have windmills powered by the cow f@rts, and oil is so bad or something. OIL COMES FROM YOUR SKIN, it can't be that bad. He||, you even fry your chicken fingers in it for crepes sake. great, now i need some chicken fingers.
we should make english the official language of the US and stop spending tax dollars on translations for mexicans! if english is good enough for baby jesus, its good enough for americans.
- 8 votes
#7 - Sat May 29, 2010 10:00 PM EDTMan, the irreverent comedy is unending, that's some funny stuff right there!
- 6 votes
It almost makes me want to register to put in some suggestions of my own.
They should make it an absolute requirement for Republican lawmakers to read Newsvine.
Newt Gingrich should be made to crawl back under a rock with the other salamanders.
- 10 votes
And the ignorance abounds beyond what I thought was possible from them.....OH MY!
They started this Web because they have no leadership, no ideas, no plan for this country and then we get wing nuts like Rand Paul who want to do away with government-everything about government-who scares the hell out of me.(and I'm not afraid of anything!) If anyone is stupid enough to vote for him and I guess there are a lot of them embarrassed in Kentucky right about now after finding out who they really voted for, They've just made it sooo easy for us to turn this seat Dem it cracks me up!!
So COME ON! Show us your next really good idea R"s!
- 7 votes
#8 - Sat May 29, 2010 10:18 PM EDTThe problem with this website is that it only attracts two kinds of posters, right wing zealots and trolls, neither one of those groups should be listened to. If they really wanted to get a platform they would have gone the old fashioned route of focus groups and polling.
- 3 votes
#9 - Sat May 29, 2010 10:37 PM EDTNine words that brutally sum up these sorts of misguided projects: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
- 1 vote
I've been out in the sun all day so it's perhaps possible the reason I find these haffrigginlarious is because my brain is fried. Actually, only a few of them made my Special list, submitted I am sure by Special Americans.
...I don't like how cows are free in where ever that is, in Asia probably. We need to use our military to lock those cows up, like we do it here.
We'll get the Bovine Moo Force on that right away. After all, Happy Cows come from California not Asia. That just won't do! They pity the Moo's!
...Make American the official language of AMERICA!!! JESUS spoke American. I'm looking at YOU, Mexicans!!!
Has anyone informed Jesus of this? And you're looking at Mexicans....why? Wanna play "Who blinks first?"
...we should make english the official language of the US and stop spending tax dollars on translations for mexicans! if english is good enough for baby jesus, its good enough for americans.
Stupidity, bad spelling and redundancy runs in families, I see. Nice try on the 'using different words' approach to say the same thing. In a classroom that would be considered cheating. Then again, classroom is a 4-letter word to you.
..I should have the right to name my children using numbers. If I want to name my child l33t, I should be able to name him that, darsh gone it. Who is the guberment to say that I can't name my children using numbers?
Yes, dear. No, dear. Ah huh. Ok, dear. Anything you say, dear. What's that, dear? Numbers? Yeah, yeah, ok, dear. Sure, yep, Zero is just fine with me. Nice round number.
...Liberals must stop aborting godly American dogs and cats.
Ok, but is it okay if we continue aborting the ungodly ones?
- 5 votes
#10 - Sat May 29, 2010 11:50 PM EDTAnd the horror that is the DemocRATS is Obama. He has divided this country far more than any prez b4 him. He has engaged in some of the nastiest politics, what with all the bribery & corruption, despite his promise to clean up Washington.
More proof that he IS the horror of his party lies in the fact that all but one of the elections that has been run since he took office went to the Republicans. The one that went Democrat was in Philly where the guy running virtually ran as a Republican, meaning the voters there, as in the other elections, voted against the Democratic policies of today! Politics that Obama brought to the WH. Added to that, Obama personally campaigned for most of those who ran & lost.
With him there the DemocRATS are in problem. To win again he will have to pull another ACORN stunt (no one registers multiple times & votes only once-one guy on TV said he registered 27 times)!
Suggestion box; gimmie a break!
- 2 votes
#11 - Sun May 30, 2010 12:30 AM EDTHow hard is it to type the word "before"? Are you perchance a teenager? The last I noticed, only teenagers used shorthand terms like "b4".
- 3 votes
There is enough material in those posts that are being put in the suggestion box to give Beck and Limbaugh enough talking points to last a lifetime.... Beck can do a whole show on "Jesus spoke American" and "Godly American dogs and cats". :)
- 3 votes
#12 - Sun May 30, 2010 12:34 AM EDTI don't even think that's an attempt at a joke. It's too silly. But if you were trying to be smart, let me ask you, do you think that would qualify as the smartest thing you said all month?
Hey John
If one of those suggestions was yours I apologise... :)
- 2 votes
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