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Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) spoke this week to the Western Republican Conference in Nevada, and argued that environmentalists are crazy. This was his pitch:
“We got kooks running Washington, basically. Kooks are in charge of our government. You all can recognize a kook, but the media seems to not understand. Around two years ago, some guy in New Mexico claimed he was the messiah. And the press couldn’t figure it out. I’m sorry, but the answer to that is real simple. You take them five miles off the coast and let ‘em out. If he walks home, you think about it. If he sinks to the bottom, then he probably wasn’t the messiah. But we’ve got people like that in Washington running our agencies.
“People are declaring that we descended from apes. Now, I know that’s not true. The argument that we descended from sheep is still an open question. But the ape idea is completely out of line.”
I’d note for context that Pearce, a Birther and a Sarah Palin ally, was elected by the people of New Mexico’s 2nd district to help write federal laws.
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DAY on October 23, 2011 10:14 AM:
I suspect that the quotes were NOT from his campaign literature.
Then again. . .
c u n d gulag on October 23, 2011 10:17 AM:
In all fairness, listening to him, if I was an ape, I'd deny any direct lineage myself.
hells littlest angel on October 23, 2011 10:18 AM:
So, have Republicans started urging Pearce to get into the 2012 race yet? He sounds like something new and different!
chi res on October 23, 2011 10:21 AM:
If he sinks to the bottom, then he probably wasn’t the messiah.
Hey, that's a lot of progress from nailing them on a cross and letting them hang there until they die.
biggerbox on October 23, 2011 10:22 AM:
It does seem hard to believe that something so stupid could have descended from a relatively intelligent primate like an ape.
Just another fascinating surprise from the world of Science!
ComradeAnon on October 23, 2011 10:27 AM:
For a while, I've been telling my kids that most people are very bright. I might need to take it up a notch.
Maybe we could incorporate Captcha into the political process. That might weed out a few.
stormskies on October 23, 2011 10:34 AM:
I’d note for context that Pearce, a Birther and a Sarah Palin ally, was elected by the people of New Mexico’s 2nd district to help write federal laws.
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And therein lies the actual problem with our country: the people who 'elect' such creatures as this. Creatures like this are simply a symptom of a cause, and that cause is the nature of the population itself that elects such creatures.
This particular was, by the way, descended from oozing slime emanating from Lucifer's asshole.
berttheclock on October 23, 2011 10:42 AM:
There must be something strange in the USAF for promoting C-130 pilots to Captain. Perry and Pearce. BTW, Pearce was an ardent foe of helping children receive medical care as he attacked federal aid, the first time he was a US Rep.
LL on October 23, 2011 10:43 AM:
Remember, GOP voters love to piss off people more than anything else on earth. So Pearce pisses off normal people. Perfect.
GOP voters are profoundly irresponsible children. The kind of children who throw their shit around when they don't get whatever it is they want at that moment. Pearce is an example of shit-throwing.
c u n d gulag on October 23, 2011 10:46 AM:
ComradeAnon,
"Maybe we could incorporate Captcha into the political process. That might weed out a few."
LOL!!!
sick -n-effin-tired on October 23, 2011 10:47 AM:
What the Fuck is wrong with CBS? I just happened to have CBS on after Sunday Morning (usually a good show) and inadvertently have been subjected to old rheumy eyed Bob Schaffer subjecting me to back to back interviews with foreign policy experts Michelle Bachman and Rick Santorum.
Seriously???? You couldn't find anyone anyone else on the planet that actually knows less about foreign policy tan the usual suspect John McCain???? I'll be right back I wall that needs to be impacted by my forehead.
Danp on October 23, 2011 10:47 AM:
So who was the guy in Mew Mexico that claimed he was the messiah? I don't recall the media reporting that.
kevo on October 23, 2011 10:50 AM:
The tragedy to this man is he was elected to office right in the middle of becoming a rising star in the dust-heap world of mediocre comedy writing.
He missed his calling, and now we have to suffer! -Kevo
AK Liberal on October 23, 2011 11:40 AM:
You take them five miles off the coast and let ‘em out.
As I recall, that was the Argentine solution to leftist "kooks". These people are bloody minded.
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person on October 23, 2011 11:53 AM:
You take them five miles off the coast and let ‘em out. If he walks home, you think about it. If he sinks to the bottom, then he probably wasn’t the messiah.
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The argument that we descended from sheep is still an open question. But the ape idea is completely out of line.”
Have you noticed most right-wing "humor", is about "as funny as a rubber crutch"? This stuff ain't bad, actually. Points for that, even if he is nuttier than a jar of Peter Pan Chunky...
zandru on October 23, 2011 12:10 PM:
I'm no fan of Steave Pearce, but seriously - the man was making jokes. Maybe his idea of humor didn't amuse you, but it should have been obvious that he wasn't serious.
AK Liberal on October 23, 2011 12:16 PM:
@zandru: Okay, he has a bloody minded sense of humor.
chi res on October 23, 2011 12:22 PM:
the man was making jokes
Oh, is this like Cain's "fry the Mexicans" joke?
Just love those Republican "jokes" about killing people. They tell them with such straight faces that one would think maybe they're really sadistic enough to do it.
TCinLA on October 23, 2011 12:30 PM:
Hey, fifty percent of Americans would agree with Pearce on the ape thing.
Actually, the idea that humans are descended from apes is an insult to apes, as well as any other animal.
No other species on the planet lies, cheats, steals, murders for no purpose, and fouls its own next with such enthusiasm as the failed evolutionary experiment in biological intelligence that can foresee the results of its actions and modify its behavior accordingly.
Thank goodness, with the way we've accelerated our fucking-up, humans will be extinct in a century (good riddance) and all visual evidence of our ever having been here will be gone in another century, and the planet can get back to trying again.
Sadly, during the 100 years of increasing fuckups we have left, we'll be taking a lot of the life of the planet out with us. Hopefully there will be enough left to start over.
Pearce - and those stupid enough to vote for him - are the perfect example of what I'm talking about.
As Mencken said, "In this world of pain and sorrow, there is much to be thankful for; as for me, I am thankful I am not a Republican." And I'll add "I am thankful I won't be around to watch all this crap go down."
chi res on October 23, 2011 12:33 PM:
Here's a good one: How many dead people does it take to find a bunch of non-existant weapons of mass destruction?
As many as the defense contractors want.
Hey, maybe my idea of humor doesn't amuse you, but it should be obvious that I'm not serious.
TCinLA on October 23, 2011 12:47 PM:
@berttheclock: There must be something strange in the USAF
Yeah, that's why it's called the Hair Farce. The USAF is proof that airplanes are not difficult - if they were, nobody in the Hair Farce could operate one. The most technological of the services, run by people who think airplanes fly because angels hold up the wings.
The USAF continues to live on the reputation created 70 years ago by the citizen legions of the Old Republic (as does the Army). Today's Imperial Luftwaffe can't even design airplanes that work the way they're supposed to. Why be surprised that idiots like Perry and Pearce are what you get out of that system? When I consider the two idiots I grew up with who went on to become career AF, all is explained.
Consuelo on October 23, 2011 12:50 PM:
pearce is my rep.he is a gas and oil whore.is one of the top ten worse repug in congress rated by the nation mag.he is a pathetic repug/teabagger.he has voted every time time with his greedy obstuctionist party. please help get rid of him.money talks in NM while people are homeless, jobless,and without food.
sherifffruitfly on October 23, 2011 12:58 PM:
The idiocy of the American electorate is without bound.
Clueless on October 23, 2011 1:42 PM:
Processing, walking on water, processing, drowning crazy people, processing, early 21st century U.S. political humor, processing, processing, process cess cess cess ing Ah! Steve Pearce = Herman Cain
zandru on October 23, 2011 1:50 PM:
We Had Hoped Redistricting Would Help
(with consolations to Consuelo)
Had the Las Cruces Democrats prevailed, the 2nd Congressional district would be less strongly Republican - and the 3rd up north would be just a little less Democratic. There's currently no telling how Judge Hall will be redrawing the districts, but the smart money is on "minimal change."
A reason that Pearce sounds so wingnutty is that his district is the closest to Texas, and basically part of it. One of the cooler redistricting concept maps had him getting not only the south of the state but the whole east side up to the Colorado border, too.
All of it right next to Texas, of course.
AndThenThere'sThat on October 23, 2011 2:08 PM:
The idiocy of the American electorate is without bound.
True. But on the flip side, there is a veritable goldmine of votes to be harvested out there in the "real" America. It's sad that Democrats don't tap that resource, preferring to forfeit wide swaths of it over to Limbaughland. Scared white dumb people are just too large a voting block to write off.
Democrats need to create a middle-America brand. Something along the lines of "limited government Democrats" that want government out of the lives of the average Bubba and Billy-Bob, but in the lives of the Wall Streeters Clarence and Herman. Oh, and an A.M radio jock that spends all day demonizing rich elites and their in-the-pocket politicians. What the party doesn't need are social liberals that vote the corporate line every time a' la Ben Nelson.
low-tech cyclist on October 23, 2011 3:15 PM:
Around two years ago, some guy in New Mexico claimed he was the messiah. And the press couldn’t figure it out. I’m sorry, but the answer to that is real simple. You take them five miles off the coast and let ‘em out. If he walks home, you think about it. If he sinks to the bottom, then he probably wasn’t the messiah.
Or more or less equivalently, I guess you could try to nail him to a cross, and if you're able to do it, then it's obvious that he wasn't the messiah.
Maybe someone should point out to his constituents that Pearce has proved that Jesus wasn't the Messiah. I'm sure they'd be happy to hear that.
Donald G on October 23, 2011 4:27 PM:
Re: Zandru: Unfortunately, Pierce's district is huge, extending just south of Albuquerque into Los Lunas. The idiocy of Little Texas has outsized influence on the political scene.
Trollop on October 23, 2011 4:34 PM:
I believe the proposition does not go far enough. Take anyone who believes in the messiah 5 miles offshore, if "it" saves any of them by truly miraculous means, why then, there's a messiah!
Death to all religious charlatans.. Why is this asshattery even remotely part of our lives in the 21st century, and why does it attract the malignant and stupid more than anyone else?
AK Liberal on October 23, 2011 4:57 PM:
@Trollop: How about we just stop killing people? Or even joking about it. The "jokes" betray a streak of brutality in one's thinking.
exlibra on October 23, 2011 5:20 PM:
You have to admit that Pearce's "messiah test" is a lot more humanitarian than the "witch test" as it had been applied in the past. We tie you to a stool and "duck" you. If you died, you weren't a witch; you were innocent. Too bad, so sad, apologies all around. If you live... Well, obviously, your paymaster the devil must have helped you. To the stake with you.
clarence swinney on October 23, 2011 5:26 PM:
How can this be serious? 9-9-9 is 18-18-18
Total National Income is 12,000B (INDIVIDUAL AND CORP)
Total consumer spend is 10,000B
Cain taxables are 22,000B
9% is 1,980 or one half 3800B budget
am I nuts or ?
clarence swinney madmadmad at Inequality in America
clarence swinney on October 23, 2011 5:31 PM:
Am I nuts?
Flat Tax
Total National Income is 12,000B rounded
Total Consumer Spending is 10,000B
Budget is 3800B
3800 is 32% of 12000 and 38% of 10,000
Try selling that?
clarence swinney
chi res on October 23, 2011 5:37 PM:
Um, yeah, I think I'll go with number a) "nuts".
chi res on October 23, 2011 5:39 PM:
Um, yeah, I think I'll go with number a) "nuts".
zandru on October 23, 2011 6:25 PM:
@Donald G: "Pierce's district is huge"
Yes it is, and it's going to get a whole lot huger, just to have the same number of PEOPLE in it as the other two. Pearce is a typical Republican: he represents acres, not people.
Schtick on October 23, 2011 6:35 PM:
chi res on October 23, 2011 12:22 PM:
"Just love those Republican "jokes" about killing people. They tell them with such straight faces that one would think maybe they're really sadistic enough to do it."
Repubs start wars to do that.
crapcha....oriesl FOUCHE....erm. I ain't touching that one.
oldentyme on October 24, 2011 11:02 AM:
I'm so pleased to note that Pearce cannot believe his good fortune: he's a vet (thanks for your service), he's a Repub (why?), he got elected by catering to intellectual dullards voting, and has spent a fortune trying to communicate with uninformed Democrats (his staff cannot read, either) in New Mexico. If he only works to publicly "denounce", he should not enjoy the epithet (Representative) as a "Steward of the people". Working for the good of common agreement means to have the sense it takes to compromise in order to arrive at resolution! Ah, the pendejo always survives, I guess!