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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 09:55 AM
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Is it just me or has the "birther" bowel movement lost it's steam?
Edited on Fri Aug-14-09 10:11 AM by Javaman
I think once these tools began questioning whether or not Hawaii is even a state, it passed from the already lunatic fringe straight into the Coast to Coast with George Norey midnight callers ranting about aliens eating their babies category.

Now that the crazy as a shit house rat group of nuts are now screaming and yelling at the town halls about death panels, it seems the whole birther thing just doesn't have quite that much zing anymore.

On a scale of insanity the death panel frothers seem less insane. That is not really saying much. It's like comparing getting shot in the head to getting shot in the face.

There will be more birthers still popping up from time to time. There will always be the ones that will get pride in carrying the torch of crazy, in hopes of being that one crazy ass dumb shit that thinks they were right all along. They will scream from the highest tower with an automatic rifle in their hands, picking off innocent people, yelling "I was right!!!!".

So what will transplant the bizarre level of misplaced anger now that the living will provision has been removed from the health care discussion?

It's like these people are morons for hire.

Need to squelch rational discussion? Need to shut down a town hall? Then Call us!

Mouth Breathing morons for hire!!! At MBM Corporation, we bring the moron to you!

Certainly a new type of mercenary for hire. Now that Blackwater has change to, what, Ze, Be, Te, fe fi fo fum??? I don't know anymore, perhaps they are trying to reband themselves as domestic disruptors aka the asshole in the crowd that does shut up.

I don't know, I'm riffing now and frankly, these willful tools supply endless comedy.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 09:59 AM
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1. It will lose it's steam when the media decides it has.
More time has been spent on a few hundred liv's than on 10 million people in the streets.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:05 AM
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2. When the likes of Ann Coulter called them nutjobs, their movement started to lose steam
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:23 AM
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3. It does not matter to them how they manifest their racism - birthers became deathers. nt
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:26 AM
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4. Oatmeal on the ceiling
The brains and money behind this shit doesn't care about 'steam' for any particular issue. They just keep firing shots. If an issue (death panels, birf certificates) gains some traction, they pull all the stops and run it as far is it goes. Meanwhile they are prepping the next assault and it is underway before anyone has time to reflect on the idiocy of the previous attack.

When the first swift-boat lie lost traction, they just shifted to a new lie. The new lie was good to go before the first lie died out. And then for good measure they had the Rather trap all prepped. Bang bang bang.

The steam is generated by the continual barrage of bullshit.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:41 AM
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5. Ever since Oily Taintz went to hide in Israel,
proceedings are going forward to dis-bar her in in California, her completely illogical, rambling, incoherent babblings on talk shows with everyone openly laughing at her, it would seem that even the lunatic fringe are laying low on this one.

Of course, they are now all worried about the Death Squads coming for Grannie, so they have a new shiny object to play with.

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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:43 AM
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6. they have jumped on the deather bandwagon.
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Blue For You Donating Member (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:50 AM
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7. They're all about death certificates now. BCs are so 5 minutes ago.
:crazy:
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:54 AM
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8. Look, they're the same
Birthers, Teabaggers, Recess Rioters, secessionists, supremacists, Sovereign Citizens, Oathkeepers, you name it, they are all the same people.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 02:40 PM
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9. Orly Taitz killed the birther movement. All by herself.
This is what I remember from last time I looked...

The "Kenyan Birth Certificate" was released on the Internets. Orly grabs it as PROOF the president was born in Kenya, and starts screaming not only for his long-form BC but now also for his medical records from the hospital--or for his immediate resignation. The hospital he was born in doesn't exist anymore and it's very possible an over 40 year old record from a defunct hospital is 90 feet down in a landfill somewhere, or (considering it's Hawaii) dumped out in the ocean like some places (no, I don't know if Hawaii ever did this) used to do with trash.

The left analyzes the BC and determines it's a very clever forgery. Orly gets on her blog and asks if "EF Lavender" was registrar of births in Kenya in the early 1960s. No, Orly, I don't think a bottle of laundry detergent was ever registrar of births, in Kenya or anywhere else.

Then the person who actually built the fake "Kenyan Birth Certificate" came forward and admitted it's fake. Orly immediately gets on her blog and calls him a liar, saying the "Kenyan Birth Certificate" has more "detail" than the one the campaign actually released. True dat, Orly, but it's all LIES.

The majority of the birther movement realizes they've been fucked, and not in a nice way, and went on to saying the president's going to whack Gramma.
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 02:44 PM
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10. It now seems to have changed to--"Obama was born in Hawaii but his dad is Kenyan"
and they are saying that makes Obama ineligible.

Grasping at straws now...
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 02:45 PM
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11. They jumped the shark with the forged birth certificate scandal
Edited on Fri Aug-14-09 02:45 PM by Lone_Star_Dem
Now it's once again reduced to a fringe wacko concept.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 02:45 PM
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12. I think Orly Taitz and the forged birth certificate was the laxative that killed
that, now they have switched to death panels.
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izzybeans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 02:48 PM
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13. That wasn't steam, that was crystal meth.
Edited on Fri Aug-14-09 02:49 PM by izzybeans
and yes they are out of it. But I'm sure they'll panhandle enough dough on the street corner to come screaming back, all pot-marked, and scabby another time or two.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 04:14 PM
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14. ...
:rofl:
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 04:28 PM
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15. jeez, Oily Taintz isn't around anymore???WTF happened?
close your eyes for a moment and the world changes.

Anyone know what Joe the unemployed non plumber is doing?

Did we ever see his bc?
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