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What a fucking idiot!! (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2015 OP
Now that's an insult to malaise Aug 2015 #1
heh blm Aug 2015 #2
Insult beyond words. Fuddnik Aug 2015 #16
Oh come on now! RiverNoord Aug 2015 #35
LOL malaise Aug 2015 #49
Wow. That is stupid times infinity matt819 Aug 2015 #3
LOL! Thanks for the laugh! icymist Aug 2015 #4
Leave it to Faux. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #5
Hey Michelle, padfun Aug 2015 #6
No, Of Course Not ProfessorGAC Aug 2015 #52
Fact check: Bachmann never said that pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #7
Okay so she didn't say it. But if she had thought of it she would have. Autumn Aug 2015 #8
LOL true treestar Aug 2015 #21
Not hard to believe but kacekwl Aug 2015 #11
On the satirical meme FB page where it originated, it was obviously a phony quote pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #14
Aw Geez pinboy..it's much more fun to believe she did. In fact, she has used those same exact words. BlueJazz Aug 2015 #13
Unfortunately, SNOPES says it is FALSE! TheBlackAdder Aug 2015 #9
I knew it seemed JackInGreen Aug 2015 #19
The terrifying thing is that Bettie Aug 2015 #48
what is this rocket surgery ? olddots Aug 2015 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Baitball Blogger Aug 2015 #12
Michelle and word salad Sara are the two stupidest people on this earth madokie Aug 2015 #15
LMAO treestar Aug 2015 #17
Not true. unrec 840high Aug 2015 #18
WTF is she smoking? And maybe I want some too... glowing Aug 2015 #20
Unfortunate that this type of thing makes us look like the effing idiots Android3.14 Aug 2015 #22
...fucking moron. SoapBox Aug 2015 #23
You don't think the 7000 mile swim, not to mention a more repressive government had anything W T F Aug 2015 #24
When are we going to fact-check before believing a fictional "quote"? pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #25
Clever like a toilet lever. JEB Aug 2015 #26
What a Maroon! I hate liars Aug 2015 #27
What an ignoranimus! meow2u3 Aug 2015 #30
As a Minnesotan I just want her to go away! glinda Aug 2015 #28
This is made up. Please self delete. It makes us look stupid! nt Logical Aug 2015 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Amimnoch Aug 2015 #31
The fact that the meme is fake does not diminish the fact that Bachmann is a fucking idiot. Thor_MN Aug 2015 #32
I think DU should have a satire forum Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #33
PLAGIARIST! Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #34
It would be a magnet for tourists from both sides of the border! pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #36
You just put a little dotted line right down the center of the top part. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #38
This Quote May Be Just a Joke Leith Aug 2015 #37
What they REALLY hate is to hear most of them fly in. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #45
Yup Leith Aug 2015 #46
They want America to be a gated community. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2015 #47
K&R for exposure! egduj Aug 2015 #39
Good find? Bachmann never said this. pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #41
What a Visionary libodem Aug 2015 #40
american idiot yuiyoshida Aug 2015 #42
Just seeing this I can feel the intelligence being sucked from my brain. punguin54 Aug 2015 #43
Conservatards celebration of stupid thebighobgoblin Aug 2015 #44
Given that THIS IS A JOKE QUOTE, to whom does the thread title refer? WinkyDink Aug 2015 #50
Apparently the OP poster went away soon after posting pinboy3niner Aug 2015 #51
Bachmann is truly a stupid person Gothmog Aug 2015 #53
 

RiverNoord

(1,150 posts)
35. Oh come on now!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:43 PM
Aug 2015

OK, so it's not big history like WWII or Harry Potter, but we ought to be ashamed...

Have all of you forgotten the nearly successful Mexican rice workers' invasion of 900 BC? All those peasants who were displaced and brought so low they had no option but to barely stave off starvation as.... politicians ...

padfun

(1,786 posts)
6. Hey Michelle,
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 07:41 PM
Aug 2015

I carry around a teddy bear to keep the space aliens away from me.

It works! There's no space aliens around me!

kacekwl

(7,013 posts)
11. Not hard to believe but
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 07:46 PM
Aug 2015

If she did not say it then I condemn whoever put this out there. Not cool at all.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
14. On the satirical meme FB page where it originated, it was obviously a phony quote
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 08:17 PM
Aug 2015

When re-posted elsewhere without a disclaimer, it's presented as authentic and doesn't let the audience in on the truth that the "quote" is fiction.

The OP needs a disclaimer that makes it clear this is humor and not something that Bachmann actually said.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
13. Aw Geez pinboy..it's much more fun to believe she did. In fact, she has used those same exact words.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 08:03 PM
Aug 2015

(Just not in that order)

TheBlackAdder

(28,167 posts)
9. Unfortunately, SNOPES says it is FALSE!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 07:45 PM
Aug 2015

.


While the sheer stupidity of this statement might be plausible from her mouth, I had to check to be sure.

Snopes says it's false.

http://m.snopes.com/bachmann-trump-overdrive/


.

Bettie

(16,069 posts)
48. The terrifying thing is that
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 12:25 AM
Aug 2015

you can never be sure.

Onion stories are only a hair more out there than real ones.

She's said some really amazingly stupid/odd things so this isn't' that far from some of them.

We live in strange times.

Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
22. Unfortunate that this type of thing makes us look like the effing idiots
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 08:39 PM
Aug 2015

Double check your sources, folks.

We've all made this kind of mistake, and we can avoid it with a reasonable amount of caution. With the current crop of GOP wackos, there is plenty of reality-based humor.

W T F

(1,145 posts)
24. You don't think the 7000 mile swim, not to mention a more repressive government had anything
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 08:52 PM
Aug 2015

To do with keeping Illegal Mexicans out of Communist China do you? ........When is the the brain dead media going to call out Michele Bachman on her mind numbing stupidity?

Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
32. The fact that the meme is fake does not diminish the fact that Bachmann is a fucking idiot.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:28 PM
Aug 2015

They are not mutually exclusive conditions.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
33. I think DU should have a satire forum
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:36 PM
Aug 2015

for these kinds of posts.

While I enjoy satire as much as anyone, it gets kind of annoying to see a satirical picture or article here being presented as true.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
34. PLAGIARIST!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:42 PM
Aug 2015

I've been suggesting we need a 'Great Wall' down there for weeks! THINK of the tourist money that could roll in!

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
38. You just put a little dotted line right down the center of the top part.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:48 PM
Aug 2015

And tell people not to cross the dotted line.

Leith

(7,808 posts)
37. This Quote May Be Just a Joke
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 09:46 PM
Aug 2015

but cons really do use the Great Wall as an example of how to keep illegals out. The problem is it never worked for the Chinese, either. It's fun to remind them of that, but it still doesn't shut them up.

Leith

(7,808 posts)
46. Yup
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 11:04 PM
Aug 2015

and overstay their visas. A wall can't do anything about that.

The whole "build a wall" thing is just busy work to make the cons feel like they are doing something useful. If they just looked at the issue in an intelligent way, a better solution would come out of it. That probably sounds too academic for them.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
51. Apparently the OP poster went away soon after posting
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 06:39 AM
Aug 2015

This should be a lesson in why it's a good idea to babysit your thread after posting an OP so you can make corrections or deletions in response to comments.

If I can't stick around to babysit my OP, at least for a while, I don't post it.

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