OMG: Paul Ryan's "empty soul" line plagiarized from Captain Picard?!

[stg81]

Paul Ryan today at CPAC

Paul Ryan: Democrats Offer Americans a ‘Full Stomach and an Empty Soul’

Mitt Romney’s old running mate rips liberals over income inequality, saying they want to hook people on welfare.

…


Ryan insinuated that the Democratic Party is selling the American people a welfare state. "What the left is offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul...People don't just want a life of comfort. They want a life of dignity."



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/06/paul-ryan-democrats-offer-americans-a-full-stomach-and-an-empty-soul.html

Captain Picard, Star Trek, "Chain of Command (Part II)":

Meanwhile on Celtris III, Gul Madred is speaking with his daughter about whether Humans have parents. Picard is sitting in a spotlight in a red robe-like gown. Picard tries to get under Madred's skin by questioning his motives for bringing his daughter to such an installation, let alone allow her to see her father interrogating a prisoner. They banter back and forth about military power and its role in their civilizations. Madred tells his prisoner that because of the Cardassian military, his daughter will never go hungry. Picard turns this on him by saying, "Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty."


http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command,_Part_II_(episode)

[aquart]

1. Billionaires have a life of dignity because their comforts are respected.

Where is there dignity in a life without comfort?

Ayn Rand super crap.

[Laurian]

2. Further proof that Republicans are incapable of

original thought. The party of Lyin' Ryan and Plagiarizing Paul. Just sad......

[stg81]

31. yes

[BeyondGeography]

3. haha, yeah...dignity

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Somebody ought to tell that self-satisfied fuckwit

about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

To-wit: If your stomach is empty - if you lack the basic requirements for survival - you won't be able to satisfy any "higher" goals. Your spirit can't be fulfilled if all you can think about is how poor, hungry and desperate you are. If you're living under a bridge and eating garbage from dumpsters it's pretty tough to hang on to your dignity.

But then, if you've spent your entire adult life being subsidized either by your well-to-do family or your cushy job in Congress, you wouldn't have a clue about how barely managing to survive crushes your spirit.

[laundry_queen]

38. +1 nt

[otohara]

5. The Party Of Other's Ideas

LOL

[stg81]

17. ha!

[TlalocW]

6. I remember that episode

Primarily because of the space ferret.

TlalocW

[Cha]

7. MF paul ryan needs to worrying about his own soul before pondering

anyone else's.

[Scuba]

11. Too late. He already sold it to the Devil.

[Cha]

12. Just what I thought.

[Rex]

8. How a grifter living off the taxpayer dime his ENTIRE LIFE

can get up in front of people and tell them how bad WELFARE RECIPIENTS are...and then pretend he is NOT THE BIGGEST ONE...is a miracle of modern politics.

[ananda]

9. Good point!

Self-satisfied, smug moochers should just stfu!

[Cleita]

10. I've noticed a lot of plagiarism of ideas and speeches from movies and TV programs by the

right wing. They are too lazy to even get an original thought.

[glowing]

19. His staffers wrote the speach, I'm sure.. None of these idiots do anything for themselves

other than parrot their partisan lines and conduct kabuki theater.

[stg81]

20. staffers must be trekkies

[AtheistCrusader]

24. The irony is, that episode excoriates their beloved torture of prisoners.

[sheshe2]

13. Paul...

you lost your soul a long time ago, as did the rest of your party!

[TeamPooka]

14. Grand Old Plagarist

[Blue Owl]

15. Eddie Munster always fakes his homework

n/t

[stg81]

16. here is another reference for that Star Trek episode

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708687/

[dawnie51]

18. It's official......

these right wingers and baggers do not have one original thought among the lot of them. A bunch of plagiarizers and liars and charlatans.

[kentuck]

21. Let 'em eat platitudes.

So their soul will be full of righteousness.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

22. Well, he is part of the Borg!

[AtheistCrusader]

23. THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS

Oh who are we kidding. Repugs would never watch an episode of ST that casts torture in a negative light.

[LeftyMom]

25. You beat me to it.

I was just telling somebody the other day what an awesome episode that was.

[AtheistCrusader]

27. I can't wait to watch reruns of that show with my kid.

He needs to be a bit older, but man, that show was full of so many provocative ideas. And honestly, most of those ideas were fairly progressive.

I'd watch them all, all over again. Even the campy and dumb episodes. Why not.

[LeftyMom]

29. My kid and I just started them recently. He's not quite 13.

So far he's definitely more of an original series person, but he's starting to warm to TNG. I love DS9 but that's a bit dark for him yet, he's a sensitive guy.

[CANDO]

33. You'd be surprised.

My hard core conservative brother just loves "It's A Wonderful Life". It's just that he can't equate the message of the movie to daily life.

[pnwmom]

26. As a pretending Catholic, he should be more concerned about the 1% who have

investment accounts worth millions and empty souls.

[Gothmog]

28. Rand Paul's disease may be contagious

Paul Ryan may have been hanging around Rand Paul and caught Paul's habit of stealing other people's ideas

[OldHippieChick]

34. Maybe Rand fired his staffers and they

just went to work for Ryan. Or, maybe it's Rand Paul Ryan? Have they ever been seen together?

[xfundy]

30. Somebody has to say it.

Ryan is a turd.

[spanone]

32. an empty soul speaking of empty souls...how profound. not.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. Someone needs to do a quick photoshop of Ryan in a Star Fleet uniform.

[JHB]

36. No, he'd be the spoonhead Cardassian

Even though a David Warner role is too good for him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. He's Ferengi, like all the other GOPers.

[Whisp]

37. Lots of soul talk lately - empty souls, sickened souls...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. Never saw such a pasty bunch of soul brothers in my life.

[Javaman]

41. robots are funny that way. nt