Too Stupid To Vote
Morons in America sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment. (Let's hope they're all home sick on election day -- for the rest of their lives.)
Too Stupid To Vote
Morons in America sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment. (Let's hope they're all home sick on election day -- for the rest of their lives.)
I remember the first episode of the man show featured a booth at a local fair with big banners reading "End Women's Suffrage". Got lots of signatures
Vinnie Bartilucci at January 25, 2010 4:32 AM
Seriously? This is a hoax right?
Sabrina at January 25, 2010 6:20 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/01/25/too_stupid_to_v.html#comment-1690852">comment from SabrinaNope - you see the guy doing it. No, I don't think he really wants to repeal it -- just show what idiots people are. Frightening that these people are voters. Now I understand better why we have such lameasses who end up being candidates for president. John Kerry and George Bush? John McCain and Barack Obama? I mean, could we please have somebody qualified for the office, and maybe even actually exemplary, for the next election? For some election?
Amy Alkon at January 25, 2010 6:28 AM
We are getting closer and closer to the world Douglas Adams predicted, where the people who most want to rule should under no circumstances be allowed to. Anyone with half a brain wouldn't touch politics with a ten-foot Gallup Poll.
Vinnie Bartilucci at January 25, 2010 6:46 AM
I see the guy doing it and I get what he is doing but I still just don't want to believe it. People actually took it seriously? I knew people were stupid but Holy Rusted Metal Batman!
But... I guess I shouldn't be surprised for the very reason you just stated. Look who we have had in and nominated for office recently.
*sigh*
Sabrina at January 25, 2010 6:48 AM
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-- H. L. Mencken
MonicaP at January 25, 2010 8:00 AM
Public support for the First Amendment has been iffy for a long time. I can remember polls from the 1970s and 1980s showing that a majority favored putting restrictions on speech. And it's been a bipartisan sentiment, depending on what's going on at the time. Of course, they don't ever think it's going to effect them... only the people who say things that piss them off...
Cousin Dave at January 25, 2010 9:14 AM
Anyone with half a brain wouldn't touch politics with a ten-foot Gallup Poll.
I've been saying this for years. Anyone who should be in charge is smart enough to know they don't want the job.
Flynne at January 25, 2010 9:51 AM
Yeah, yeah, but people want to cluck, and other people are polite enough to let you. (No, I didn't watch the clip, I'm just saying.) There are a lot of people who just want to make their way through public spaces without a bunch of interpersonal conflict or detailed political discussion.
A guy's had a long day of work. He stops at the 7-11 to pick up a carton of tampons for his sweety, some calamine lotion, and a six of Heineken... And on the way out the door, some intense, hyperfocused undergrad slams a clipboard into his hands and says "sign here". Meanwhile, our hero's still thinking about whether or not he's going to watch and episode of "Lost" or some straightforward pornography when he gets home, or trying to remember whether he paid that parking ticket from last week; there are other things on his mind. He knows that the document in front of him isn't a title transfer for his car or anything important. Sign it, and maybe these little fuckers will go away....
...It ain't the end of the Republic. Besides, this is America, and we never get to choose when other people pay attention.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 25, 2010 11:42 AM
Hey, didn't they do this as a gag back when Michael Moore was doing that show TV NATION? In any case, this is both a funny and chilling reminder that people REALLY need to pay closer attention to what they're reading and signing. I tell you, every day in every way the real world is getting more and more like Kurt Vonnegut's HARRISON BERGERON. Brr...
DorianTB at January 25, 2010 12:38 PM
Hey Crid- don't forget to pay that parking ticket you got last week.
(just kidding)
Eric at January 25, 2010 2:17 PM
Dood! FIFTY BUCKS. For three minutes outside a computer shop in WLA.
Last year I was late on a light on the Sunset Strip (La Cienega) and the camera caught it. Beverly Hills made FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS on the fine.
Crid at January 25, 2010 5:44 PM
Holy fucking shit!
Mike Hunter at January 25, 2010 7:27 PM
Last year I was late on a light on the Sunset Strip (La Cienega) and the camera caught it. Beverly Hills made FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS on the fine.
I dunno if the source was credible or not. But I recall reading that red light cams are the reason why those tickets are so pricey in CA; they needed to justify the cost of the cameras. Not sure if it's credible, but wouldn't be shocked. That intersection pretty much sux 24/7, cameras or no, though.
Whatever at January 25, 2010 10:18 PM
$400????
Reading about all your lives in the heavily populated areas, I feel so lucky and unencumbered here in Idaho.
Eric at January 26, 2010 7:45 AM
We all remember your favorite Idaho intersection.
But this is going to be a problem across the country for a long, long time: "The country's lurch to the political left won't necessarily mean a greater protection for civil liberties in forfeiture cases."
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 26, 2010 11:42 AM
We definiatly need a poll test. You dont pass you dont vote, you dont count as a valid signature on petitions either
lujlp at January 27, 2010 3:23 AM
Why would anyone in the world trust a fucker like you to compose and administer such at test? What do you mean "WE" need a test? Who do you think you're speaking for?
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 27, 2010 4:24 PM
OK, that "fucker" was a big much. I'm just saying, this all begins to look like an anti-liberty impulse at time when we need more than ever to think carefully about automating the judgments we make about people. See this thread too. Wo do 'we' think 'we' are?
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 27, 2010 7:16 PM
Typos galore, sorry
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 27, 2010 7:17 PM
Crid, I'd make it fairly simple: You pay income tax, you get to vote. You don't pay any income tax, you don't vote.
Cousin Dave at January 28, 2010 8:34 AM
There are plenty of people who have interests but who don't create wealth (or even merely receive income): We desperately need their wisdom on election day
Crid at January 28, 2010 12:36 PM
"We definiatly need a poll test. You dont pass you dont vote"
Aaaaand I just just got my daily recommended dosage of irony.
Vinnie Bartilucci at January 28, 2010 12:37 PM
Vinnie.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 28, 2010 6:00 PM
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