Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Tee Kay]

McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'.

He's got a point though (and it's a hilarious point)

 

[Phrossack]

"It's never too late to correct historical errors," Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Yeah, all those bloody states getting in your way. So much better if part of Mother Russia, no?

Dude. I'm the one who posted that quote in the other thread. I was just coming here to post it, you thieving son of the swineherd Ivaylo Bardokva!

 

[Cutlass]

I'm not kidding you, you put him on a balcony in a military uniform, this guy is a full-fledged dictator...He's a sociopath!"
—

Glenn Beck on President Obama

 

[ReindeerThistle]

I'm not kidding you, you put him on a balcony in a military uniform, this guy is a full-fledged dictator...He's a sociopath!"
—

Glenn Beck on President Obama

I never agree with Glenn Beck... and I ain't fixing to start!

 

[Antilogic]

Ah... glad to know Glenn Beck is still bringing the crazy. I've been trying to find his website's 2012 election night coverage to hate-watch, but I can only find the 15 minutes where they call it for Obama on youtube.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I think he's kidding us.

 

[Tee Kay]

"Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia."

- Tony Abbott

 

[gay_Aleks]

Why would you want to go to Australia, anyway? Half of the land there is a desert, the other inhabited by dangerous animals and the only normal part has been seized by prisoners.

 

[Traitorfish]

"Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation… and as few of the English understand the German Language, and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, ’tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain. Not being used to Liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it. I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our Elections, but now they come in droves, and carry all before them, except in one or two Counties. In short unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so out number us, that all the advantages we have will not in My Opinion be able to preserve our language, and even our Government will become precarious. [...] Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their languages and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?"

-Benjamin Franklin on German immigration, 1751. The more things change, eh?

 

[gay_Aleks]

If he only knew that approximately 250 years after his publication Germans would be one of the dominating nationalities in America..

 

[Tee Kay]

Except how many of them can actually speak German

 

[gay_Aleks]

They still remain German immigrants, and not the good and proper English ones we all know and love.

 

[Tee Kay]

They still remain German immigrants, and not the good and proper English ones we all know and love.

No, they're descendents of German immigrants... and they're English speaking and protestant and white so who knows the difference.

 

[Traitorfish]

A lot of German-Americans are Catholic, actually. edit: Which is missing the point, but for the record or whatever.

 

[Kyriakos]

A lot of German-Americans are Catholic, actually. edit: Which is missing the point, but for the record or whatever.

Hamburg is a long way from Leipzig (obscure Nietzsche quote about Leipzig and stuff, alluded to)

 

[Antilogic]

"Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation… and as few of the English understand the German Language, and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, ’tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain. Not being used to Liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it. I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our Elections, but now they come in droves, and carry all before them, except in one or two Counties. In short unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so out number us, that all the advantages we have will not in My Opinion be able to preserve our language, and even our Government will become precarious. [...] Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their languages and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?"

-Benjamin Franklin on German immigration, 1751. The more things change, eh?

I didn't think it was possible for me to have a lower opinion of that Bennie Franks guy. Glad to know I can be proven wrong.

 

[Hygro]

I didn't think it was possible for me to have a lower opinion of that Bennie Franks guy. Glad to know I can be proven wrong.

Weird, he was definitely one of the cooler ones.

 

[Antilogic]

Weird, he was definitely one of the cooler ones.

Maybe that wasn't the best way to phrase it. I mean to say that I didn't think I could be surprised negatively, given that I know about the womanizing and scandalous stuff.

 

[Cutlass]

"Absolutely, the whole world would...Hitler would have created a paradise on Earth, particularly for white people. But he would have been fair to other people as well."
—

Frazier Glenn Miller, suspected of killing three people at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement center on Sunday, when asked during his 2010 U.S. Senate campaign if the country would be better off if Hitler had succeeded

 

[Cutlass]

"Senator Hagan says we got to have a nice debate and discussion about what to do [in the wake of Sandy Hook]. See, that's called a democracy, which is actually socialism, which is called majority rules."
—

NC Senate candidate Greg Brannon