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(269,157 posts)fucking idiots
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Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)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 ...
matt819
(10,749 posts)Spechless
icymist
(15,888 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They are the only network fool enough to put Bachmann in front of a camera.
padfun
(1,787 posts)I carry around a teddy bear to keep the space aliens away from me.
It works! There's no space aliens around me!
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)They all came to my town. Thanks a lot!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/20/facebook-posts/no-michele-bachmann-did-not-say-there-are-no-illeg/
Autumn
(45,120 posts)And note how easy it is to believe she did say it !
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)If she did not say it then I condemn whoever put this out there. Not cool at all.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)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)(Just not in that order)
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
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/
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JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)To good to be true.
Bettie
(16,126 posts)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.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
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madokie
(51,076 posts)well pretty close anyway
treestar
(82,383 posts)Ignorance of epic level!
840high
(17,196 posts)glowing
(12,233 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)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.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Maybe she can see China from her house!
W T F
(1,148 posts)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?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Nice username, btw.
JEB
(4,748 posts)I hate liars
(165 posts)meow2u3
(24,772 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Response to Playinghardball (Original post)
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Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)They are not mutually exclusive conditions.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)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)I've been suggesting we need a 'Great Wall' down there for weeks! THINK of the tourist money that could roll in!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Oh, wait...
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And tell people not to cross the dotted line.
Leith
(7,813 posts)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.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)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.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)egduj
(805 posts)Good find!
This information needs to get out so people know who they voted for.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It's an invented "quote" from a Facebook humor page.
libodem
(19,288 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)punguin54
(47 posts)The new Reagan generation.
thebighobgoblin
(179 posts)Nothing new here.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)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.