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

[SS-18 ICBM]

There has to be a context I'm missing for the last one.

 

[Cutlass]

There has to be a context I'm missing for the last one.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins-vote/

Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes
By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN February 14, 2014: 8:22 AM ET

Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote -- and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes.

The venture capitalist offered the unorthodox proposal when asked to name one idea that would "change the world" at a speaking engagement in San Francisco moderated by Fortune's Adam Lashinsky.

"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes," Perkins said.

"But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How's that?"

The audience at the Commonwealth Club reacted with laughter. But Perkins offered no immediate indication that he was joking. Asked offstage if the proposal was serious, Perkins said: "I intended to be outrageous, and it was."

Perkins seemed to be aware that he was courting controversy, saying that his voting proposal would "make you more angry than my letter to the Wall Street Journal."

That letter, published last month, compared the supposed assault on the wealthy to a wave of Nazi attacks on Jews ahead of the Holocaust.

The letter sparked a public firestorm, and the venture capital firm he co-founded -- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers -- distanced itself from his comments. Perkins has since allowed that the comparison went too far, but has not apologized for the overall message and his warning about anti-rich "radicalism."

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[ReindeerThistle]

"The Founding Fathers...put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and got to vote...One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community."
-- Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips

"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes... But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars, you get a million votes."
-- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Perkins

These guys are going on my GAR (Gulag After the Revolution) list...

 

[NedimNapoleon]

He who burns the candle at both ends, lives the life of a hairdresser - Rolf from EEnE

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/investing/tom-perkins-vote/

Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes
By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN February 14, 2014: 8:22 AM ET

Never mind, it was as bad as I thought.

 

[Antilogic]

Yeah, you could charitably say he was joking or his entire public persona is a massive troll. But it's surprisingly easy to believe he has been serious about most of his public statements in the last couple weeks.

 

[Cutlass]

"I would like to professionally continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else...[I am] a scapegoat [for] the government, the president, the attorney general...I don't know what they're thinking or why they're thinking it, all I know is that they're doing it. I don't know what agenda they have."
—

George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin

 

[ReindeerThistle]

"I would like to professionally continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else...[I am] a scapegoat [for] the government, the president, the attorney general...I don't know what they're thinking or why they're thinking it, all I know is that they're doing it. I don't know what agenda they have."
—

George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin

Oh. Mah. Gawd. I should think Mr. Z would be fighting to maintain the status quo that let him get away with murder.

 

[classical_hero]

I never knew that self defence was murder.

 

[Cutlass]

Nothing Zimmerman did was in self defense, because there was never any threat to Zimmerman. He was 100% safe until he threatened Martin.

 

[Cutlass]

Remember when the Miley Cyrus twerk incident that everybody would not shut up about back in the summer of 2013?

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis thinks that is just one example of how President Barack Obama is using Cyrus, and other celebrities, to become a dictator.

Davis explained the meaning behind the band's new song and video, Spike in my Veins, to TMZ. The singer says:

"I think that our government uses those people to distract from what's really going on...the thing with Miley Cyrus at the VMAs, when that went down, I think Barack Obama passed a law that he is basically a dictator, he can imprison whoever he wants, he doesn't have to charge them, he can hold them as long as he wants."

It sounds like Davis is referring to the National Defense Authorization Act. The president signed that bill into a law back in January of 2012.
http://www.dc101.com/articles/music-news-477342/barack-obama-is-using-miley-cyrus-12085809/

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Davis makes a compelling case.... for birth control!

 

[Glassfan]

 

[Cutlass]

Russian Olympic hockey coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, at a press conference after his team was eliminated from medal contention:

Reporter: "You know, your predecessor was eaten alive after the Olympics."

Bilyaletdinov: "Well then, eat me alive right now."

Reporter: "No, I mean..."

Bilyaletdinov: "Eat me, and I won't be here any more."

Reporter: "But we have the world championship coming up!"

Bilyaletdinov: "Well then, there will be a different coach because I won't exist any more, since you will have eaten me."

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Russian deadpan humor?

 

[Cutlass]

Not sure what you would call it...

 

[bhsup]

I rather liked it. Trolling reporters should be done more often.

 

[Cutlass]

"This invalid has brought shame upon us."
—

Russian political leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on four-time medalist Evgeni Plushenko, who withdrew from skating competition after re-injuring his back during warmups

 

[Cutlass]

"A Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel..."
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Ted Nugent on President Obama

 

[Cutlass]

"How many people can pray that that's how they wanted to die, and got exactly what they pray for? Not many."
—

Cody Coots, on his father, Pastor James Coots, who was killed by a snake he was handling