BRILLIANT: The Image That Destroys "Get Big Government Off My Back" Proponents

[kpete]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/31/1153278/-BRILLIANT-The-Image-That-Destroys-Get-Big-Government-Off-My-Back-Proponents-in-Sandy-s-Wake

[Cha]

1. Brilliant! Some people sound so Ignorant

with their soundbites.

Thanks kpete

[clydefrand]

10. ah, but remember, they aren't 'ignorant',

they are stupid. (education can cure ignorant).

[KansDem]

2. So true...

kick!

[SunSeeker]

3. K&R

[sarcasmo]

4. Kick!

[Salviati]

5. Funny how "the FEMA helecopters are coming to get you"

Sounds quite a bit different when you've got a sane context to put it in...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Are they black helicopters? Somebody with a sense of humour should paint them black

Or somebody with a sense that the tinfoil T types could self-cleanse themselves from the gene pool by refusing to get on board a black helicopter!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Lots on this theme:

More here thanks to n2docs: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021676020

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. I can only repeat....

Brilliant!

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

9. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Saint Ronny's "nine most terrifying words in the English language"...how many times did you hear that effing phrase during the GOP primary campaign??? It almost always followed with a hearty chuckle.


to Nick Anderson.

to FEMA folks.

[JackN415]

11. It only says "...get off my back", nothing about pulling out of water.

Actually, if the rescuing service is left to private industry, that would be a lucrative time to negotiate. "If you want our company to pull you out of there, you have to sign over everything you own. This conversation will be recorded".

May be it's good to form Pain Capital to invest in private rescuing companies for time like this. Abolish FEMA, reducing funding to states. Then have Pain Capital companies going around doing business during disasters.

[muntrv]

12. They'll put you in a FEMA camp!

[calimary]

13. EXCELLENT!!! I think we should spread this one (and others like it) around - generously!

Share to Facebook, email to friends, wake people UP!!!!! "You REEEEEEEEEEALLY want that small-government crap?

[KatyBR]

14. K &R

[Fearless]

15. They just mean for those "lazy people"

Fine up-standing citizens like themselves have "earned" help.

[dangerdoll]

21. That's the crux of it, right there, spot on.

They apply that logic to anything and everything. FEMA? For me, because I'm a Good Citizen who deserves help, but not for those lazy brown people! Abortion? For my daughter, because it was an accident/not her fault/will ruin her bright future, but not for those other slutty girls! Religious freedom? For me, because my religion is the Right One, but not for those other unChristian heathen! Free speech? For me, because I'm Right, but not for those pinko commie bastards! And etcetera.

[efhmc]

23. Looks like you are new here. Welcome and thanks for the great post.

[Fearless]

24. Agreed and welcome!

[lindysalsagal]

16. The cartoonists make everything clear and simple.

They're brilliant.

[Historic NY]

17. Here is a better one.....

"Were from the government and we are here to help"!!

[Ikonoklast]

20. Is that from Men In Black IV?

"Just look right here and you'll forget that you were ever a Teabagging jagoff."

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Shortly after Katrina ...

I was at a social function where a rightwing, conservative, small business owning, and now President Obama hating friend began spouting off about how FEMA should be abolished and Katrina recovery should be of concern to only the states of Louisianna and Mississippi.

I let it go for awhile, then asked ... "Brian ... If it were you or your family stranded on a roof-top with the water rising in New Orleans or Mississippi, would you still say it's the state's responsibility; or would you want the federal government or whatever governmental agency to move heaven and Earth to secure your/their rescue?"

His response: "Yes. I wouldn't want the federal government spending all that money just to rescue me or my family ... it's not their responsibility."

I said, "B.S., I suspect you would accept whatever help that came, regardless of the source, to save your family. Any other choice would mean loving your theoratical ideology over your real life family. That's B.S., and you know it!"

But the priceless thing was watching his equally, rightwing, conservative, and even more now President Obama hating, wife wrestle with the mental conflict of telling her husband he's full of $hit (he had better save her and their kids) versus supporting him in saying that he would be right to allow her and their kids drown for the sake of political ideology.

[Buzz Clik]

19. Texas.

Totally irrelevant in the context of Hurricane Sandy, but no state has a bigger or more intrusive government. Inefficient. Sprawling. Incompetent. In the "wildly independent" state of Texas, where bullshit walks.

[Doc Holliday]

22. Not only 'walks'...

...it chases you down dark alleys, and tries to mug you and take your wallet.