You think cookies will make it better somehow? Seriously?

[TalkingDog]

(used to be halfway proud of how we were coming around)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/pat-mccrory-cookies_n_3681532.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) offered a plate of cookies Tuesday to a group of mostly female demonstrators protesting a new law he signed Monday restricting abortion access.

McCrory went outside the gates of the governor's mansion, cookies in hand, and pointed at protester Jamie Sohn. "'These are for you. God bless you, God bless you, God bless you,'" she quoted him as saying.

The protesters did not appreciate the gesture. They returned the chocolate chip cookies to the gate with a sign that read, "Will take women's health over cookies!"

[pscot]

1. What a bastard

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Pat is truly an asshole.

I mean, this is Sarah Palin-level bullshit. At least he's ticking off indies and many moderate GOPers -- ONE TERM!

[yesphan]

3. What a

"farggin icehole" !

[hfojvt]

4. a good cookie makes everything better

at least a little bit

just like rain (and hatred) make everything worse - at least a little bit.

Which is better

A - really bad situation
or
B - the same really bad situation AND cookies

I like AND better.

[enlightenment]

7. When the main ingredient in the cookies

is condescending bullshit, option "B" isn't better.

[hfojvt]

8. I am all out of condescending bullsh*t

can I borrow a cup of yours?


I was just trying to figure out how condescending bullsh*t gets into a cookie. Do they sell that in bulk at Whole Foods?

[enlightenment]

9. Don't know where to buy it,

but based on your response, I'd say you appear to have a good source already.

Are you offended that your humor fell flat, or what?

[TalkingDog]

11. Yeah, because cookies are central to any negotiations between mature adults.

I know that when things are tense in the Middle East, Palestine often sends a basket of freshly made cookies over to Israel.

Or when Kim Jong Un is in mid-bluster, nothing says: "The world takes you seriously and we are ready to sit down in conference with you." like some macadamia white chocolate chip cookies straight out of the oven.

[hfojvt]

12. maybe they should be

make cookies, not war

not sure about the macadamia part though. Including coconut in a cookie might actually START a war.

Or at least a food fight.

[TalkingDog]

13. In a perfect world cookies would be included in every major political discussion

and we would fart rainbows and they would smell like jasmine.

But, here and now, what he did was paternalistic and condescending. It was unnecessary.

[hfojvt]

14. cookies are never really necessary

But I find them to be much less offensive than many other things.

Cookies don't make evil policy any less evil, but they don't add to the evil either. It's a far better response to a protest than tear gas and water cannons. Or a middle finger.

Condescending? It's a cookie, not a pacifier.

[KittyWampus]

16. the cookies are a version of the middle finger coming from this jackass.

[reflection]

20. man, that sounds good.

I love hot white macadamia cookies right out of the oven, when they slump over your fingers like one of Dali's clocks.

I like womens' rights better though.

[Niceguy1]

21. would never pass up a free

Cookie....yummy

[warrior1]

5. Fucking asshole

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. he is a typical Republican,

treating women like children. how insulting can one man BE?

[truebluegreen]

10. Just pathetic.

[Mnemosyne]

15. K&R so more can see how important women are to this asshole. nt

[gollygee]

17. "Don't you worry your pretty little heads about it"

is how that sounds to me.

[Quantess]

18. I want to see him try to give a cookie to this woman:

[The Straight Story]

19. Thought this was going to be about the NSA and browser cookies