Pic Of The Moment: Government By Trolls: Republicans Now Say Letter To Iran Was Just A Joke

[EarlG]

JK y'all! Sheesh, can't you take a joke?

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[Enrique]

1. i have to admit

i did not see this one coming.

[Pacifist Patriot]

72. You and me both.

[AlbertCat]

2. Hahahahahaha! Y'got us!

Yous guys!

Because nuclear disarmament talks with Iran are HILARIOUS!

The negotiations to get our powerful enemies to not get atomic bombs is JUST SO FUNNY!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I can't wait to see what other jokes they come up with re Syria or maybe some one liners about refugees or dead civilians!

Just SO FUNNY!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Omigod. They really did come out of a clown car.

[The_Counsel]

29. ^^^ This.

lol

[Roy Rolling]

37. ^^^ same...so funny

Even more, as the senator clowns exit the clown car, a never-ending supply of GOP governors are entering from the other side.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

64. 47 clowns in one clown car?

I guess you can do that assuming their brains and hearts are "two sizes too small".

[father founding]

4. chuckles the clowns

What the f**k is wrong with these people ?

[appalachiablue]

5. Frat Boy Senators with the maturity level of 11 year olds. Nothing new.

Last night it was Obama who made them do it. Now it was just a joke, GOP Comedy Club. Um hum.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. ass monkeys would be too kind.

[The_Commonist]

7. Once again proving...

...for the umpteenth time, that CONservatives are incapable of doing humor.

[stillwaiting]

13. Whenever conservatives get called out for offensive and inappropriate behavior...

... It's ALWAYS a joke.

And, it's never funny.

[Enrique]

8. you guys!

[MADem]

47. He's outta the picture these days, but that's a funny photo!

Rouhani is Large and In Charge (notwithstanding the Supreme Leader and Guardian Council, mind you...)

[ProudProg2u]

9. Sick,Twisted ,Evil,Demented ,Bastards..

[oldandhappy]

10. bad save.

Stay silent and do your real word for a change.

[DetlefK]

11. Oh, this is perfect attack-ad fodder.

"When Obama tried to talk the Iranians out of nuclear weapons, the Republicans nearly destroyed this opportunity with a childish prank."

[lark]

39. +1,000,000

This ad just writes itself and would be a winner, hope to get to see it.

[MADem]

48. 47 Republicans committed TREASON, and then tried to pass it off as a childish prank... nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Just wild and crazy guys. We shoulda known.

I'll bet they're a hoot an a funeral or a suicide bombing.

[douggg]

18. Kind of a Westboro Baptist Church theme?

[Contrary1]

14. Yep...and the joke is on them.

Way to go, clowns.

[pansypoo53219]

15. the FUNNY part is they didn't think they'd get hit by the shit they threw & now UH OH.

HA HA. the bubble is dangerous.

[packman]

16. Oh, you Democrats and Liberals, you have no sense of humor

We just like to kid around - climate change, global warming, race issues, poverty, etc. - it's all just a big joke.

Christ, you gotta admit - they are clowns.

[Gman]

17. Whose stupid effing idea was it

to make "Obama can't take a joke" a talking point?

They never did learn the first rule of holes

[AC_Mem]

56. and yet, they win political races

What does that say about our country?

If we don't GOTV and straighten this $#%& out, our future will be one big fat joke.

[turbinetree]

19. Really

There aids are know saying it was a JOKE, this is not a JOKE and for there aids to provide cover to these 47% ( think MITTEN ROMNEY) hypocrites say they should resign if they don't know the CONSTITUTION for one, and two if they know what the LOGAN ACT means, because boys and girls they have committed treason, they have negotiated with a foreign government without going through the proper channels under ARTICLE II SECTION 2, just like good old Johnny in the House

[YoungDemCA]

20. Republicans and humor are two words that don't go together

Unless they are being unintentionally humorous in their banality.

[Jamaal510]

21. ...

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OK, anytime you have to explain that something is a joke, that probably means that your "joke" is bad.

[EEO]

22. Stupid Republican chicken hawks.

[SoapBox]

23. Tehran Tom on TV, did not sound like he was joking.

He was mean and evil towards President Obama.

[d_legendary1]

24. Prank Level: SAE

Pretty funny, huh?

[calimary]

25. Welcome to DU, d_legendary1!

Glad you're here! Yeah. No kidding. Totally excruciatingly hilarious, isn't it. They're so funny the rest of us (those of us with genuine intellect and a grip on the reality we all actually have to deal with from day to day) forgot to laugh.

[C Moon]

26. The fun and lies never stop with the GOP. THEY are the joke. How anyone, who is not

in the 1%, can find it in themselves to vote for these evil creatures is beyond anything I'll ever understand.

[The_Counsel]

27. "The Administration Has no Sense of Humor..."

Yes, because Presidents who are called "weak" 24/7 ALWAYS have a sense of humor...

My GOD these guys are stupid...

[No Vested Interest]

28. Were Jindal and Perry in on the joke, too?

Or are they the joke?

[RufusTFirefly]

33. And don't forget Scott Walker and Jeb

A day after its release, Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker expressed support for the message.

"The Senators are reacting to reports of a bad deal that will likely enable Iran to become a nuclear state over time," Bush said in a statement. "They would not have been put in this position had the Administration consulted regularly with them rather than ignoring their input."

Walker said in a statement that "Republicans need to ensure that any deal President Obama reaches with Iran receives congressional review. Unless the White House is prepared to submit the Iran deal it negotiates for congressional approval, the next president should not be bound by it. I will continue to express that concern publicly to the President and directly to the American people."

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker weigh in on GOP senators’ letter to Iran

[MADem]

45. You make a wonderful point--the 47 Traitors, in saving their own asses, SCREWED their front runners!

How are they gonna unring those bells?

I suppose they'll have to hope for the usual--hate addling the memory of their base.

[RufusTFirefly]

46. No one ever went broke underestimating the attention span of the public n/t

[MADem]

51. This is true, but video is the gift that keeps on giving. One can only hope...! nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Their standard reply when they get called on their bullshit

International diplomacy is not a place for good ol' boy humor. Glad the Iranians seem smarter than these guys.

[RufusTFirefly]

31. Niiice! From the same mind set that called Abu Ghraib photos "a fraternity prank."

Or perhaps it's another illustration of the Dunning-Kruger Effect:

Across four studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.

Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It

[blackspade]

32. Cheeky?

These 'aides' are full of shit.

[bvf]

40. Right!

When I read "cheeky," I immediately think "asshole."

[spartan61]

34. I really believe that their shoe size

is bigger than their I.Q. Such idiots.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

35. 155,600 now have signed the joke petition at the White House.

That is the fastest I have ever seen this happen.

[Ilsa]

36. Because nuclear anything is soooo funny!

My goddess, what is wrong with these idiots? And the party of personal responsibility won't even be responsible for their actions.

[RiverNoord]

62. Yes, they believe in personal responsiblity.

Other people's personal responsiblity to cope with the problems that the Republican Party created...

[lovemydog]

38. Other possibilities for republican 'humor'

Visit grandmother in hospital. Tell her you have 'the last word.'

Write open letter to minister at church, declaring 'that god crap' is overrated.

Tell IRS its tax requests are not binding.

While boarding airplanes crack jokes about bombs in luggage.

Tell spouse all that wedding vow stuff was nonsense.

Join Taliban for the giggles.

[cascadiance]

59. Or Reagan could have said "Oops, I just pressed the button!"

when talking with Gorbachev, and then say a few minutes later "Oh... I was just joking! Ha, Ha!" after Gorbachev had really pressed his own button in response, and we would be in the ozone instead of living through the internet age, etc. that we have now.

Idiot Republicans! You DON'T joke when talking to the outside world on issues like this! And they want to claim that they are better at foreign policy issues?

[Snotcicles]

41. Funny, all these mishaps from the GOP seem to transform into jokes only after they start souring. nt

[Curmudgeoness]

42. Yep, it is pretty funny to send a letter to Iran

telling them that our president has no power, so just ignore him. It would have been funnier if they would have just sent a cc to Obama and not really sent it to a rogue nation....just for laughs. This is as funny as a hazing gone bad.

[MADem]

44. Har Har Har!!!!! 'Cuz, ya know, TREASON is so Gosh-Durn FUNNY!!!!!! nt

[blkmusclmachine]

49. They lie, now.

They meant every word in that letter.

[Lifelong Protester]

50. "Lighthearted"?

Was that their attempt at being lighthearted??


Hope they never get close to "the button" and joke around.

[MADem]

52. Aww, don't be SQUEEZIN--they had a REASON for the TREASON!!!

They wanted to play an early April Fool's joke on us all!!



Gawd, what tools they are...

[Initech]

53. That was a joke?

[awoke_in_2003]

54. This is as funny as that joke I heard about prostrate cancer...

oh, that's right, I have never heard a joke about prostrate cancer.

[Monk06]

55. It's a joke because we did it and we're a joke. Get it? Think of the civics club of your junior

high school.

That's the GOP controlled Congress and Senate and now you've let the whole world in on the fact that the US government is run by 13 year old boys.

[kentuck]

57. "Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!..."

said Curly of The Three Stooges...

[chknltl]

58. A 'RUZY'* huh?

*Republican version of something we at DU used to enjoy, sadly this RUZY leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to being funny.

[Cha]

60. It's a clown car.. whadda ya want.

[Joe Johns]

61. PA

THE

TIC!

[Caretha]

63. Yeah

Well all is fun and games, until someone looses an eye.

[KansDem]

65. Aren't Republicans simply hilarious!

Remember the humor of the Great Communicator?

Didn't he keep us in stitches?!!

[Major Hogwash]

66. We will get the last laugh . . when these jerks run for re-election!!

We'll see who's laughing then!!

[3catwoman3]

67. While this letter may have been written by and signed by...

...a bunch of jokers, it is not even remotely funny, and the attempt to justify this as a joke is totally pathetic.

[MADem]

71. It was written by a foreign government lobby with an interest in keeping Iran in their box...

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/israel-fingerprints-republican

Cotton was PAID, in essence, to be the stooge. He is a treasonous bastard in the worst sense of the term, and so are his forty six little buddies.

[bearssoapbox]

68. That's so funny!!!

Jeebus.

What a bunch of clueless idiots.

[JohnnyRingo]

69. I'm reminded of Jon Lovitz.

Yeah.. a joke.. yeah, that's the ticket.

[malthaussen]

70. They got that one right.

The letter is a joke.

-- Mal