Topic: LONE STAAAAAR (Read 3636 times)

Royal☭ · « **on:** April 22, 2009, 02:32:19 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgKepHebKRc

I... what? Reading the description, Joe Barton seems to think he's won this round.

Brentai · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2009, 02:45:51 PM »

In all fairness, the guy did flub by simply not saying "I don't really understand the question. Are you asking for a six-second summary of the process of petroleum breakdown or a six-second summary of our pipeline network?"

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2009, 02:50:06 PM »

He does describe it as "complicated", but attempts to give a simplified answer anyway. I wonder if this is part of some Barton led initiative to cast doubt on continental drift and prove that if at least one politician starts doubting something other people will as well.

Either that or he's trying to beat Rick Perry to the punch but having Texas shamed out of the union.

Arc · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2009, 02:55:01 PM »

Shinra · « **Reply #4 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:33:17 PM »

I... really don't get where he baffled the guy.

Considering he had only about 30 seconds to speak, I think he did an amazing job of explaining it.

Romosome · « **Reply #5 on:** April 22, 2009, 10:57:26 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on April 22, 2009, 02:50:06 PM

He does describe it as "complicated", but attempts to give a simplified answer anyway. I wonder if this is part of some Barton led initiative to cast doubt on continental drift and prove that if at least one politician starts doubting something other people will as well.

Either that or he's trying to beat Rick Perry to the punch but having Texas shamed out of the union.

He thinks he got the guy to admit that because oil got put under alaska, it used to be a lot warmer, therefore the planet is colder now and global warming is a lie.

Catloaf · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:19:37 PM »

Would this make any more sense if I knew who the fuck those people were?

Romosome · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:24:30 PM »

A random House Representative from Texas, confusing the new Secretary of Energy, who is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

Also of note is that he (Texas Representative Whoever) uploaded the youtube video himself, to his channel, to crow about how cool he was for "stumping" the guy. And then twittered about it.

Brentai · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:27:30 PM »

Once again I have to wonder why people are getting mad that these guys want to go away.

Catloaf · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:47:00 PM »

Well, it does sort of mean that the civil war was for nothing if they leave. And it means, just as it did in civil war times, that other states could leave.

What they could do it split Texas up into for separate states as I believe Texas was given the right to do when it first became a state. It would require some people to move around, but we could get all the crazy fucko's to go to one neoTexas while the sane people go to another, and those in between go to the other ones.

And it also is an issue of not wanting the guilty conscious of watching the fucks 'going galt' and then realizing that they can't survive on their own. And the subsequent watching them beg to undo what they did as they slowly starve and drain more federal money away than is needed. And them leaving would fuck our economy up even worse.

Mongrel · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2009, 03:14:18 AM »

Hey guys! Welcome to Canada!

TA · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2009, 05:10:37 AM »

Quote from: Catloaf on April 22, 2009, 11:47:00 PM

What they could do it split Texas up into for separate states as I believe Texas was given the right to do when it first became a state. It would require some people to move around, but we could get all the crazy fucko's to go to one neoTexas while the sane people go to another, and those in between go to the other ones.

Urban legend, as much as the "Texas has the ability to secede written into the treaty by which it became a state". The initial document allowing Texas in provided for the possibility of Congress making multiple states out of the area, to satisfy the Missouri Compromise, but that option ran out. And then the Civil War happened, and Texas was brought back in as a single state without any sort of special Texas-only splitting up option.

Transportation · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2009, 06:47:58 AM »

Quote from: Median Average Brentai on April 22, 2009, 11:27:30 PM

Once again I have to wonder why people are getting mad that these guys want to go away.

We don't need two third world countries on the border.

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 23, 2009, 03:14:18 AM

Hey guys! Welcome to Canada!

You really should get around to setting Quebec on fire.

Also, founder of Little Green Footballs thinks the GOP is becoming too crazy for his taste.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:43:08 AM »

Less the GOP and more the right-wing foreign policy blogosphere, it looks like. Those guys have always been a bit out there.

Brentai · « **Reply #14 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:38:48 AM »

Quote from: Department of Transportation on April 23, 2009, 06:47:58 AM

Quote from: Median Average Brentai on April 22, 2009, 11:27:30 PM
Once again I have to wonder why people are getting mad that these guys want to go away.
We don't need two third world countries on the border.

That's the most perfect answer I've heard to anything in, ehhhh, about three months. Have an invisible karma.

Mongrel · « **Reply #15 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:40:11 AM »

Should we be worried that the real-world political discourse of our day resembles retarded arguments on internet forums between mouth-breathing 12 year olds more and more every day?

MarsDragon · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:42:07 AM »

Quote from: Catloaf on April 22, 2009, 11:47:00 PM

And it also is an issue of not wanting the guilty conscious of watching the fucks 'going galt' and then realizing that they can't survive on their own. And the subsequent watching them beg to undo what they did as they slowly starve and drain more federal money away than is needed. And them leaving would fuck our economy up even worse.

You'd feel guilty about watching them starve after they realise they can't survive on their own? I'd mostly feel bad about them draining federal money that could go to something more useful. Watching them beg to come back would be the fun part.

But yeah, we can't let them leave because it would fuck up the economy. Ah well.

Brentai · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:43:49 AM »

Erm, which economy?

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:47:56 AM »

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 23, 2009, 08:40:11 AM

Should we be worried that the real-world political discourse of our day resembles retarded arguments on internet forums between mouth-breathing 12 year olds more and more every day?

Mankind has managed to exist all this time with that many idiots creeping around. It's just that now you don't have to go as far out of your way to see them.

Norondor · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2009, 08:52:09 AM »

Quote from: MarsDragon on April 23, 2009, 08:42:07 AM

But yeah, we can't let them leave because it would fuck up the economy. Ah well.

Texas pays into the federal government almost exactly what they take. They're among the best of the red states, being about 1% over the deficit line.

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