Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

Um...what???

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[Ibrahim90]

fuck....

seriously the guy in the video just makes me want to create another Toba....

[Lord T Hawkeye]

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Blamethe1st gave him the stern talking to he needed.

[evensgrey]

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Blamethe1st gave him the stern talking to he needed.

One small detail:  The current form of income taxes (direct levy on individuals) was specifically allowed by the 16th Amendment (it was previously possible to apply an indirect tax on the transactions of the payment of wages, rents, interest, dividends, sales, etc., but the rates had to be uniform, and any time someone devised a new way to package the transaction that made it legally different from any existing transaction type, a new tax would be required to tax it, and apportionment rules for direct taxes, which is what the 16th specifically does away with, made it extremely awkward to tax certain kinds of income directly on the individual receiving it).  Any debate on whether or not income taxes are constitutionally valid is equivalent to a debate on whether or not the 16th Amendment was correctly approved.  (But, seriously, can you imagine any legislature anywhere, at any time, EVER saying no to a measure to permit taxation?)

[MrBogosity]

More for the comments than the video (although the video is a fail):

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[AnCap Dave]

My mother posted this on Facebook. She also posted this quote to go with it. Mom, I love ya, but god damn this is just blatantly untrue:

I wish people would stop saying that Obama has done nothing. I wish they would stop saying things are actually worse. The facts say those statements are NOT true. I don't understand why people believe blatant lies, and make decisions based on untruths, when the results would undue the progress, while not as fast as we'd like, that we HAVE made.

[Ibrahim90]

if the recession was over, I wouldn't be writing a post about how there are literally no minimum or other wage jobs willing to hire me.

in the meantime, I do agree with your mom, D: Obama did indeed do things. It's just that everything he did in that regard has been blatantly retarded.

[MrBogosity]

I don't know where she's getting her unemployment figures, but they're LAUGHABLY wrong! Look at the BLS statistics: the number goes up and down and up and down, and it's still more or less where it was when Obama took office. I have NO idea where she gets 27 straight months of job increases, but it ISN'T the BLS! The most you can find is 5 months of straight growth. And it isn't much.

[Ibrahim90]

I don't know where she's getting her unemployment figures, but they're LAUGHABLY wrong! Look at the BLS statistics: the number goes up and down and up and down, and it's still more or less where it was when Obama took office. I have NO idea where she gets 27 straight months of job increases, but it ISN'T the BLS! The most you can find is 5 months of straight growth. And it isn't much.

probably from Obama's control cen...I mean, his official figures.

seriously, the more I hear these people out, the more I can't help but think that they are robots. Of course, this makes the term "Obamaton" increasingly more descriptive.

[AnCap Dave]

Oh boy, another Voice of the People, and this time around people complain about immigrants.

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[MrBogosity]

Are the people there really that moronic, or do they cherry-pick?

[Ibrahim90]

Are the people there really that moronic, or do they cherry-pick?

both and neither are possible options too: the former implies stupidity greater than what you imply, the latter, that these people are as viper-like as Obama or Romney, or most politicians these days.

[AnCap Dave]

Are the people there really that moronic, or do they cherry-pick?

Shane, I shit you not, "The Voice of the People" is truly the worst segment on television. You are guaranteed at least one major asshole or at the very least a ton of dumb people.

To give you an example, I recall one woman actually saying that everyone should just get over the Cheshire home invasion case (including the surviving husband who lost his wife and two daughters) because she was tired of hearing about it on the news.

[MrBogosity]

Shane, I shit you not, "The Voice of the People" is truly the worst segment on television. You are guaranteed at least one major asshole or at the very least a ton of dumb people.

Yes, but I'm guessing they get a LOT more responses than the ones they air on TV. So how do they choose which ones to air? Do they deliberately choose the ones that are the most moronic?

[AnCap Dave]

Yes, but I'm guessing they get a LOT more responses than the ones they air on TV. So how do they choose which ones to air? Do they deliberately choose the ones that are the most moronic?

Honestly, I've heard that some people have not made it when they called, but I wouldn't be surprised if more dumb people call than smart people. You DO occasionally see something that doesn't reek of stupid or downright douchiness, but it isn't often.