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There is a thing that happens every year on the internet, and it is that noted liberal radio thingie NPR engages in the communist hippie gay act of tweeting the Declaration Of Independence on July 4. They also say it out loud on the program “Morning Edition.” We are not sure why they waste Americans’ time doing something like that on a holiday dedicated to eating grilled meats and making fireworks go boom, but, you know, “intellectuals” ruin everything. But this year, at long last, Trump supporters were NOT about to let some UNPATRIOTIC LIBERALS engage in such activities without REGISTERING THEIR DISAPPROVAL. These are their stories (“LAW & ORDER” SOUND “DUN-DUN!”).

We will not try to curate every erudite Trump supporter response to every line in the Declaration, because ain’t nobody got time for that, but we will give you a healthy sampling:

“When in the course of human events …”

FAGGOTS! Haha just kidding, that was Wonkette doing an impression of a Trump supporter.

HAW HAW! If you go to NPR’s Twitter feed, you’ll actually be disappointed wading through the threads, because it seems a message has gone out in Trump land that they got tricked by life and verifiable facts yet again, and have deleted many, if not most, of their tweets hating on the Declaration of Independence. But Buzzfeed found a few great ones! Of course, Buzzfeed is LIBERAL, so they probably MADE THEM UP to make Trump supporters look like DUMB PEOPLE WHO HAVE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS:

Twitter liberal person Parker Malloy also was paying attention and found a few nice ones:

In fact, when they got to the line about “tyrants,” some baby snowflake Trumpers were MUY TRIGGERED, because obviously big gay NPR was talking about Donald Trump. “Too soon!” they cried, because Twitter on July 4th is a wholly inappropriate place for such anti-American talk:

Ah yes. But if all liberals got deported, who would write the warning labels that say things like “Don’t eat this frozen pizza without cooking it” or “don’t play with your toaster oven in the bathtub”?

Sigh.

Oh did you hear Donald Trump got lost on the way to his limousine, which was parked directly at the bottom of the stairs coming down from Air Force One? That is a thing that happened. It’s a good thing nobody told him NPR was tweeting cusses about him, from the Declaration of Independence, as he might have gotten stuck on those stairs for the rest of his life (and stairs are SCARY), as he rage-tweeted himself to death at those awful liberals who don’t even own one #MAGA hat.

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  • TundraGrifter

    Who among us hasn’t misplaced our limo coming down the stairs from our private jet?

    • Gayer Than Thou

      If I had a dime…

    • leemoder

      Thurston Howell Problems.

  • armed_bears
  • Canis Greyhame

    When the U.S. Declaration of Independence reads like a condemnation of the guy you voted for, you might want to reexamine your life choices as an American citizen.

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    • armed_bears

      Please repurpose my “sick burn” comment from below to riiiiight here.

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      I wish I could upfist this a million times!

    • Ryan

      I was thinking the same, also when Trumpsters we’re whining about The Handmaids Tale, but could never quite put the thought into words so well.

  • Joe Beese
  • Me not sure

    Obama must have used his infamous time machine to go back and ghostwrite the Declaration of Independence for Jefferson.

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Bub, the truculent Zombie

    “We all gotta git on that there Twitter ma, t’show preznit Trump thet we luvs hisself!”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d43fc208dc36cca22a70a88404252c44c37eaff806c3c8d5bfa0fb5d12876c67.jpg

  • Bill D. Burger
  • msanthropesmr

    Did you know that the founding fathers were not Evangelical Christians either?

    • Bub, the truculent Zombie

      Shhh! If you look into a mirror and say that three times, David Barton appears and starts a lecture!

  • One of those Trump trolls is actually being hailed a hero for admitting he was A Idiot about the NPR tweet, and apologizing. https://media3.giphy.com/media/ojPPcnRSqs8FO/giphy.gif

    • MynameisBlarney

      Oh for fucks sake.

    • marxalot

      The bar is so low, it’s a lintel.

      • msanthropesmr

        It’s quarter round.

      • Gayer Than Thou

        Make sure you clean the lintel trap in your dryer every time!

        • Indivisible Snark Tank

          I made some lintel soup over the weekend….very tasty.

      • William Cook for now

        I thought lintels go across the top. Threshold?

    • Ωbjectifier

      The first step to enlightenment is admitting you’re A Idiot.

    • William Cook for now

      If they admitted to taking it the wrong way and apologized, is it fair to call them a troll?

    • Celtic_Gnome

      Notice how someone admitting their mistake and apologizing is a Man Bites Dog story on the right and a Dog Bites Man story on the left?

  • Gayer Than Thou

    Well I for one am not going to sit still for this! I am going to find random arts organizations with any of the words “national,” “public,” “radio,” “declaration,” or “independence” in their name and make a bunch of anger twitterings demanding a boycott.

    • Canis Greyhame

      They don’t let em anywhere near their local Shakespeare productions no more, so off they go to make death threats against Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, and the CarTalk guys!

      • PubOption

        How long until they discover that death threats against one of the Car Talk guys are futile.

  • msanthropesmr

    So I betook me to the Hashfire Inn. There I met the rebellious libertines, all lusting for life and liberty. George Washington brought the hemp and I the evening papers. We proceeded to get Sam Adams and young Tom Jefferson goodly stretched by the hemp, which smoked us all like Boston scrod.

    ‘I say’ cried fiery Sam Adams, the tax collector, ‘Let’s have a revolution!’

    To which I replied, ‘Fine, Sam – then we can invite over a bunch of immigrants and make cars.'”

  • arglebargle

    “And why you gotta keep bringing up that Hippity-hop Prince thug fellar.”

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Nounverb911

      Well, it is!

      • Gayer Than Thou

        I mean…

    • Oblios_Cap

      Well, Julius Caesar was a an anti-Trump play. Written by Shakespeare.

      • schmannity

        Shakespeare is a liberal.

    • Oblios_Cap

      God forbid they have the obvious epiphany.

  • Edith Prickly

    Trumpkins must be bruised all over from their constant collisions with reality.

  • Nounverb911

    Just wait until NPR tweets the constitution and they all find out that there is more to than the second amendment.

  • OrdinaryJoe
    • Gayer Than Thou

      Honestly, a better hairdo.

      • msanthropesmr

        A Robin’s nest would be a better haircut

        • CafeenMan

          My cat barfed up something on the kitchen floor. I thought it was Trump’s hair until I realized whatever it was on the floor didn’t look as gross.

      • Joe Beese

        Kind of a Kid ‘n Play feel.

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        Hands are still not small enough, though.

      • The Wanderer

        It’s like a matador hat that several sizes too small.

    • William Cook for now

      It’s like if there was a political Garbage Pail Kid.

  • Joe Beese

    “North Korea is that way?”

    “Uh… no, Mr. Vice President…”
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc8e7797562a2b6bc5c97be2af01680a6eadda71d41b089e269a30c9788c4315.png

    • Bub, the truculent Zombie

      “Please send that young lady over there, I don’t care that she’s a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. I can’t be around her – mother isn’t here.”

  • Indiepalin

    Most Trumpers I know were simply livid that NPR left out the second amendment entirely.

    • Oblios_Cap

      I know, right?

      And they forgot the line “One nation, under God”.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Vincent Ricola

    If you are spending a holiday rage tweeting at NPR while the rest of the country is enjoying explosions and hot dogs, you may want to reconsider you civic priorities.

    TLDR; Find a friend and go to a picnic for fucks sake.

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      “What’s a ‘friend’?” – wingnuts

      • Gayer Than Thou

        Are “picnics” outside?

        • Oblios_Cap

          “I’m not comfortable leaving the basement.”

        • CafeenMan

          “Why’d ya’ll marry her?!?! She’s ain’t even in your family!”

    • Ghenghis McCann

      They don’t need to go outside, their minds are providing all the explosions.

  • MynameisBlarney

    I guaran-fucking-tee you these are the same people that drive around on the 4th with an American flag and the traitor rag on the back of their “sorry ’bout yer penis, bro” coal-rollin’ trucks.

    • Canis Greyhame

      (and sure enough, truck nuts)

      • MynameisBlarney

        Totes.

    • shivaskeeper

      Traitor flag sounds more right. Sometimes both of them at the same time.

      • MynameisBlarney

        That’s what I’m talking about, I saw two over the weekend.
        Complete with pro-turmp stickers and “Assault Life” stickers.

        https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61oEPrWuA5L._AC_UL130_.jpg

        • The Wanderer

          Basically defining themselves as targets for people who steal guns for the black and gray markets.

          • MynameisBlarney

            Also, too; defining themselves as people wanting to advertise their worship of murder toys.

  • Gayer Than Thou

    Some poor Russian computer nerd got called out of bed in the middle of the night to come to office and turn off all the pro-Trump Twitter bots.

    • marxalot

      His fault for not having a remote link to the bot-farm set up in his bedroom.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      “’My country, right or wrong’, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober’.”
      – G.K. Chesterton

      • SterWonk

        I prefer the update, attributed to Carl Schurz:

        “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

      • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

        I thought my kids thought up that line on their own?

    • Gayer Than Thou

      Ya, but Teddy Roosevelt was some kind of commie Democrat who … wait, he’s which Roosevelt? Oh. Never mind.

    • armed_bears
      • Robbertjan Brandenburg

        Much love for Henry.

  • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

    Maybe we need to start with the basics:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTY0V8GaeFI

  • SayItWithWookies

    Most of these fuckers would denounce John 3:16 if NPR tweeted it.

    • msanthropesmr

      That’s “The Lord cares about football. He shall maketh my team win” right?

  • Scooby

    Are we sure these aren’t some still disgruntled Brits?

    • Crystalclear12

      No, they currently pretending they don’t know us.

      Who?

    • Ghenghis McCann

      The British nation has never been as gruntled as at the present time.

      • The Wanderer

        “Grundled?”

      • UnsaltedSinner

        Thanks to that declaration, the British now have universal healthcare.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Bill D. Burger
  • Anna Elizabeth

    I thought I was past being surprised by the utter, Grotesque stupidity of “R” Voters, but hate, fear, and being A Dumb are the only things these types are overachievers at.

    • Edith Prickly

      Cute hat! ;)

      • Anna Elizabeth

        Thanx! :D

      • CafeenMan

        I thought it was a blanky for a baby bowling ball.

        • Anna Elizabeth

          Really?

          • CafeenMan

            No, but it is really round looking. :)

  • Crystalclear12

    We really need more funding for education.

    And yes, I am still upset that the Obama FEMA reeducation camps never got under way.

    • CafeenMan

      Me too. I was hoping to be a guard or Kommandant and get a spiffy uniform in the deal.

    • MynameisBlarney

      Don’t forget Operation Jade Helm.

      • The Wanderer

        It led directly to the Bowling Green Massacre, didn’t it?

        • MynameisBlarney

          Damn right.

  • marxalot

    These are the same people who respond to cold reads of the Constitution with “Commie bullshit!”

    • exinkwretch

      And the same reaction when they read the New Testament.

  • Belasaurius

    part of me is laughing because why not and the other part is crying because these Trump-flakes can apparently vote and shit.

  • Belasaurius

    This is why I go over it in detail in my classes.

  • The Wanderer

    And this concludes the special July Fourth edition of “Dear Shit Fer Brains.”

  • CafeenMan

    Wait… explain again why we are writing warning labels so wing-nuts don’t injure themselves. ???

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      Inconvenient compassion?

      • CafeenMan

        I don’t have that for people I don’t like. Have you seen a doctor?

      • shivaskeeper

        CYA

    • UnsaltedSinner

      They are a litigious bunch.

      • CafeenMan

        Oh yeah…

  • Wild Cat

    NPR, with their “both side are the same” election coverage, got the ignorance back that they earned.
    CNN, NPR, the NYT, et al., can never redeem themselves.
    Fights between fascist morons and the old, rotted,corrupt media should be treated as the donkey shows that they are: ignored and unlooked at.

    • William Cook for now

      Everyone is bad forever and we should all give up on everything!

      • Wild Cat

        Yup. These people have not served you well for eons and have no intention of doing so.
        Has the NYT ever apologized for Whitewater? Judith Miller?
        Hasn’t every public radio and TV show played “both sides are the same” for four decades now? If not, show me who.
        CNN is wretched. MSNBC is wretched—they chuck a few hours of liberal programming between their crap.
        What media do you watch? Adhere to? Believe?

        • William Cook for now

          I’m just saying, defeatism never accomplished shit.

      • Parakeetist

        Yes.

  • ariel_gee_398

    Sometimes, I feel like we’re standing on the tarmac screaming, “It’s a cookbook!” over and over again. And the Trump supporters just keep filing into the Trump-branded spaceship saying, “Whatever, libtards, facts are for pussies.”

    • Vincent Ricola

      “To serve man” is basically the 2017 wingnut battle cry.

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Robbertjan Brandenburg

    Maybe the libelz should return to Europe as Macron proposed and let the demons run amok while we help North Korea with their ICBM programme. Problem solved.

  • Martini Ambassador 🍸

    How come self-proclaimed patriots are so friggin disrespectful of our country’s ideals?

    • CafeenMan

      Because they have no actual principles. The ONLY things they care about are their hatred, greed and selfishness. And guns.

    • MynameisBlarney

      Because they are slap ate up with the dumbass.

    • Edith Prickly

      Because they are the ones who actually hate freedom and love mindless authoritarianism.

    • shivaskeeper

      Because the founding documents they so revere are only in their heads. They don;t know what they actually say, only what they think they say.

      • CafeenMan

        They don’t know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are two different things.

        And they believe it says, “You’re American. You can do anything you want and anyone who says different is an America-hating commie. And stock up on guns. It’s your right.”

      • jodyleek

        Same thing could be said about the right’s “Christianity”.

    • OrG

      Stupid AND ignorant?

      • The Wanderer

        “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

        • MynameisBlarney

          They obviously took that as a challenge.

          • The Wanderer

            Eeyup.

          • CafeenMan

            Then they’re winning!

          • Suttree

            In a Charlie Sheen sort of way.

        • ahughes798

          We are living in times when alcohol may be the answer to all of life’s little problems. To paraphrase the great philosopher, Homer.

        • Can I just be fat and drunk then?

    • Kiri the Unicorn

      Because they don’t really agree with them.

    • Suttree

      Because religious tests are not coded into law?

      • Suttree

        Not that there isn’t a defacto religious test.

    • Something, something wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.

      • Querolous

        Something, something wrapped in the flag, carrying burning a cross.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Glad you are being defunded. You have never been balanced on your show.

    Posting the Declaration of Independence is a politically biased act now.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/33369b4ca6c4077e208213aa004934debc745ff4426505e2228c64bf1f672901.jpg

    • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

      It’s early.

  • UnsaltedSinner

    As Kathy Griffin was questioned for an hour by the Secret Service, how many hours of questioning can the Founders and everyone at NPR expect?

  • OrG

    Does the Declaration of Independence say anything about boom sticks?

    • The Wanderer

      The Declaration was the Airing of the Grievances.

      • WotsAllThisThen

        Begun, the War on Festivus has.

        • The Wanderer

          The Revolution was the Feats of Strength.

        • ahughes798

          The airing of grievances has been going on since November. It’s a whole year of Festivus!

    • Vincent Ricola

      I think it says something about all boom sticks being created equal.

    • sadboy

      ‘Got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger. Shop smart, shop S-Mart.’

  • Relativicus

    If Buzzfeed could’ve waited to break the story until after 9am this morning we’d have lots of Trump twats to laugh at. Now all we get is the limo thing, which is funny, but not near as funny as Trump yelling at NPR over publishing the Declaration of Independence.

    • The Wanderer

      Trump’s ragetweeting at NPR?

      • Relativicus

        No, that’s what coulda been. Alas, ’twas not to be so.

  • Michael R
  • MynameisBlarney

    “All liberals must be deported”

    LOL

    Fucking moron.

    • The Wanderer

      I approve this message.

    • Vincent Ricola

      I wish. Please pick me and my family up and send us somewhere elitist and intellectually snobby asap.

    • OrG

      If they’ll deport me to Nederland I’ll go.

      • proudgrampa

        Canada.
        Bahamas.
        Hawaii (you know it’s not part of the US — Obama was born there!).

    • Suttree

      Who the fuck is going to pay for your unemployment insurance assholes?

      • MynameisBlarney

        INORITE?

    • CripesAmighty

      Can I haz plane ticket to Berlin?

      • MynameisBlarney

        For real! I gots a lot of kinfolk in Germany.
        If turmp doesn’t get thrown the fuck out of office soon, I may see if they can lend me a couch to sleep on.

    • Anna Elizabeth

      They are welcome to try. I wonder if these haters have reckoned with what happens if I turn a lifetime of rage outwards?

    • GoutMachine

      Yes, PLEASE deport me to the south of France!

  • Crystalclear12

    Poor little snowflakes.

    Where’s my heater?

  • TX Dept. of Space Tacos
    • The Wanderer

      Wow. That’s a high level of imbecility.

      • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

        and it’s injustice with a capital “I” – so you know that means not having christ in schools and making white people pay (allegedly) pay for stuff that helps people of color.

        • The Wanderer

          I thought that it was Random capitalization.

          • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

            insert: Why Not Both meme.

          • The Wanderer

            Insert: Stock video of people celebrating.

    • Vincent Ricola

      Hum. I get this strange feeling that JohnLemos11 may hе быть американским, comrades.

    • The Injustice of Dumb, Uneducated, Ignorant White People being treated just like the mediocre people they really are? The nerve.

  • Mavenmaven

    The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution can only be wielded by “Conservatives” against “liberals”, any other use is in violation of white privilege.

  • Lance Thrustwell

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: You don’t have to be illiterate, ignorant, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, or have anger management issues to be a conservative.

    However, if one or more of those things does describe you…

    • lucidamente

      But it sure helps.

  • lucidamente

    Or as George III replied to the signers in 1776, “Dear Fhit for Brainf.”

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      Huh….I just watched “1776” yesterday, and don’t remember that number. I did like “Sit Down, John!” though.

  • “We hold these truths to be self evident…”

    1. A vote for trump was like branding oneself an ignorant mofo.
    2. Having the Declaration of Independence read to you and not knowing what it is reinforces “Truth #1”.

  • CripesAmighty

    “…and, were sick of all them know-it-all smarty pants coastal elites disrespecting all us salt-of-the-earth Real Americans as dumb, provincial hicks…”

    Weeellllll……

  • schmannity

    FAKE DECLARATION!

  • Belasaurius

    jeebus, as much time as they spent masturbating over the Founders, you’d think they’d have something the Founders wrote, but hell, they do the same thing with the Bible, so he ho. And if liberals are being deported, I’d like something in a northern Europe, someplace where someone with two advanced degrees will be respected and not laughed at.

    • Crystalclear12

      They promise deportation but I’m still here.

      Damn it.

    • UnsaltedSinner
    • jesterpunk

      They know half of the second amendment, the part that says no restrictions on guns.

  • beingreleased

    I saw someone tweet from this article earlier today. Read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt:
    http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/years-ago-fear-ruled-fourth-reporter-s-petition-measured-effect/article_3a6ea200-819c-11e0-994d-001cc4c03286.html

    None of the others would sign. Twenty of the 111 accused Hunter of being a communist. “I can see you are using an old commie trick, putting God’s name on a radical petition,” one elderly man said.

    When Hunter pointed out to one woman that the opening passage of the petition was from the Declaration of Independence, she was in disbelief. “That might be from the Russian Declaration of Independence, but you can’t tell me that it is ours,” she said hotly.

    Another said, “You can’t get me to sign that – I’m trying to get a loyalty clearance for a government job.”

    Note: This happened in 1951.

    • Antonin Dvorak

      This sounds like a scene from Dr. Strangelove.

    • therblig

      “loyalty clearance” – holy fuck

  • Where is the “right place” to talk about tyrants?
    http://www.illwriteit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wes_003.jpg

    The Neighbourhood KKK Meeting?

    • Lance Thrustwell

      Is that the “unmasking” the Trump White House likes to talk about?

    • Joe Beese

      I smell reefer.

      • The Wanderer

        Those hoods would be effective chimneys.

  • jesterpunk
  • MynameisBlarney
    • Kiri the Unicorn

      “Very nice, Donald. Now you will use your tongue.”

    • Joe Beese

      “Пойдите, получите свой гребаный блеск.”

      • TJ Barke

        Does that say “Make em shine, bitch boy”?

        • Joe Beese

          “Go get your fucking shine box.”

    • Msgr_MΩment

      “Say, as long as you’re down there…”

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      Obligatory “Hands are too big” comment.

  • Antonin Dvorak

    This reminds me of a video of then MA Gov. Deval Patrick giving a speech in Boston. In it he quoted both the Gettysburg address and the Declaration of Independence. Nearly all the comments on the video were people accusing the governor of plagiarism.

  • reelreeler

    Hey Trump supporters, here are two things your leader said that I agree with: “I love the poorly educated” -Donald J Trump 2016 “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy” -Donald J Trump 2012 ……happy now?

  • Crank Tango

    I don’t believe any of this.

    What part of the Old Testament was this supposedly from anyway?

  • Ghenghis McCann

    Meanwhile in Britain: The Queen gets to meet Justin Trudeau. She’s very happy with which part of North America is in the Commonwealth, and which part isn’t.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/justin-trudeau-queen-edinburgh-scotland-g20-summit-hamburg-a7824526.html

    • Cock Blockula

      Lucky, lucky Queen!

  • Joe Beese
    • Bill D. Burger

      Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest…..order is irrelevant.

      And at least the original Three Stooges were funny and only caused harm to themselves.

      • therblig

        Mel, Scary, and Swirly

    • beingreleased

      McConnell looks like he’s thinking about the poor orphan boy he kicked on the way to work.

      • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

        Melania looks like she’s thinking about crawling into that photographer’s gear bag and getting smuggled out of the building.

        • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

          P.S. McConnell looks like a pedo at a public park.

          • Querolous

            He has no lapel pin. Does he hate ‘Murica?

        • Has she gained a few kilos???

  • CafeenMan

    This is why the wing-nut bit about the Second Amendment and commas makes me laugh.

    They are the most ignorant group of people on the planet, yet somehow they all independently became experts on English punctuation and have decided that the commas in said Amendment make it mean something completely opposite of what any normal person would believe they read.

    • jesterpunk

      Funny how the comma rule only applies to that one amendment and not any other one with commas in it.

      • CafeenMan

        Exactly. They don’t scrutinize anything else. Hell, most of them can’t spell, “Declaration”, “Independence” or “Constitution”. In fact, a huge number of them can’t pronounce one or more of those words properly.

        But they’re experts on comma-placement… in one or two sentences.

        • Ryan Denniston

          They are A Experts on all MANNER of punctuation and Capitalization!

          • William Cook for now

            AOT,K, except the proper one.

      • Cock Blockula

        I, myself, am a master practitioner of Comma Sutra.

        • Oblios_Cap

          Nicely played. I’m resisting the colon and period jokes…

          • therblig

            what about the crux of the biscuit?

  • Ryan Denniston

    We hold these women to be self evident?

  • lucidamente

    So when does The New York Times run a series of pieces on the discomfort of Trump voters who don’t recognize the country’s founding document?

  • Crystalclear12

    For some reason this reminds me that my push mower has a warning not to use it as hedge clippers.

  • WotsAllThisThen

    Not surprising. Truths we hold to be self-evident have a well-known liberal bias.

    • efoveks

      Libs have all the good time machines too.

  • Ryan Denniston

    Can’t wait to see what they do with MSNBC’s annual replaying of 9/11 covfefe.

  • BreakingDeadMen

    I’ve always said these assholes would have been Torries in 1776. Now with actual proof!

  • Oblios_Cap
    • Joe Beese

      Always kneel before Zod.

    • WotsAllThisThen

      I recommend entering the room on all fours, just to avoid any possible diplomatic incident.

      • Celtic_Gnome

        And don’t forget, the Putin butt plug goes with both Day Wear and Evening Wear.

    • Ghenghis McCann

      Shouldn’t he kiss his ring?

    • Ryan Denniston

      Kneeling does have the benefit of putting the peen front and center.

      • BreakingDeadMen

        It’s easy to catch the pee drops from there.

    • Vincent Ricola

      I’m telling you, he’s going to curtsy and Fox news is going to compliment him on his grace.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Kneel, but let Putin make the first move vis a vis his zipper.

      • Bad Tom

        The fancy move is to undo the zipper with your mouth. It shows dexterity and devotion.

        Donnie’s got devotion down. Dexterity could be Donnie’s downfall.
        We would be delighted.

        • Donnie would never give a blowjob! It’s purely by accident that Putin’s dick keeps ending up in his mouth!

    • Jenny

      He should bow.

    • UnsaltedSinner

      Either way it will be awkward, as Putin will remind him how their relationship works.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8t4eZ_btmU

    • I’ve always been on the fence as to the legitimacy of these “Rogue” accounts… This tweet has me leaning more towards “fake”…

      • Bad Tom

        This tweet seems like a joke Jon Stewart would say.
        I took it as such.

        • Oblios_Cap

          They are entertaining.

    • Bill D. Burger

      I read Putin wants him to kneel and wear that furry costume he wore in Moscow when Putin designed the hat that would get him elected POTUS.

      https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/thumb/7/7d/Trump_and_Putin_Shining.jpg/500px-Trump_and_Putin_Shining.jpg

    • Royal Ugly Dude
      • Jon Sussex

        And then I says “Sod off, Neil” and this is what I find when I come home.”

    • notanncoulter

      knees.
      and open wide.
      and… swallow.

  • Msgr_MΩment
  • bookish

    http://abc30.com/news/trump-policy-shifts-contradict-what-most-americans-want-polls-reveal/2184194/

    A number of significant Trump administration policy changes fall out of line with views held by the majority of Americans, according to multiple recent polls.

    • TJ Barke

      No kidding, really?

    • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

      shocked, shocked, etc etc

    • WotsAllThisThen

      It’s okay. His supporters don’t know what any of those mean. As long as he Makes America Great Again, he can do what he wants.

      • Bad Tom

        And he gets to define what MAGA means in real time.

  • IdiokraticDrumpfenResistance

    If NPR had not wanted to offend true MAGA patriots they would have included these quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2049624-mein-kampf

  • TJ Barke

    This is the sort of thing that makes me entertain the idea that there should be testing and permits for voting…

    • CafeenMan

      And reproducing.

    • Carpe Vagenda

      Sadly, when we did have those, this is who was administering them.

      • BreakingDeadMen

        This irony goes to 11

  • Carpe Vagenda
    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      Pavlov’s got nothing on the GOP.

    • Antonin Dvorak

      Did that guy really just say Auschwitz’ stance on the Holocaust was just like their opinion man?

      • Carpe Vagenda

        He like totally did. But probably because he feels like private industry would do better at running crematoria.

        • William Cook for now

          Also at running ‘history’.

      • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

        Don’t you love how everything is now subject to debate? And by “love” I mean “want to gouge out your eyes with an ice cream scoop”?

    • MynameisBlarney

      I fuckin hate nazis.

    • BreakingDeadMen

      When you quote Wikipedia, you lose.

      • Carpe Vagenda

        There is a value in Wikipedia, but it’s in the list of first-order references. I find those can take you in directions you didn’t know you needed to go in.

        • BreakingDeadMen

          I find that it is good for pop cultural things that aren’t in academic resources, and I agree that the citations are helpful. But on Big Things like this it is not the authority.

    • elviouslyqueer

      To repeat: Clay Higgins is from rural St. Landry Parish, which is about 1 million percent Cajuns who only just recently emerged from the Atchafalaya Basin and learned to walk upright. It’s a damn shame that these same batshit rednecks also cook some of the best food in the world.

      • Mike Steele

        nothin’ sez lovin’ like a selfie from the oven

  • Blackest Noobs

    funny plenty of these white people probably had cable when they were kids…even the poor ones in west virginia…and as kids they might have even seen the animaniacs’ episode title the flame…spoilers…it was about the Declaration of Independence…and i think that is just ONE example of MANY. uh duh, School House Rock for another.

    and yes i say WHITE PEOPLE…because they for the most part voted for Trump and had all the advantages to knowledge but instead chose to rest of the laurels of better, hard-working people…they chose to ignore any intellectual pursuits cuz why bother when you’re on the top of the food chain, right? only problem all them jobs you want back…yeah sorry Charlie i don’t need someone to work on an assembly line but i do need someone with some mechanical engineering skills to maintain my automated assembly line…that means math and that means intellectual pursuits and not some dick who stopped learning stuff after fourth grade and never ever bothered to evolve as a person. these White People who voted for Trump and still support him…they’re still fourth graders.

    i knew from the get-go Trump would fail at his promises. that is his M.O. guys. promises the skies, deliver on fucking nothing AND ( most importantly, for him) get PAID. and he is doing that…and if the rubes that support him were just a lil less lazy, a lil less stupid they would realize what Trump is doing….but they won’t and not for years and years later if that.

    THIS. IS. AMERICA.

    and sadly she is going to go to shit thinking we’re #1 we’re #1.

    America needs to go fuck itself, then get an enema…and then get its shit together or just say fuck it.

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      It galls me that all these people claim to “know” what the Founders wanted or believed based on what they want or believe.
      It’s like, do you know how much reading material there is that the Founders actually wrote? We don’t have to divine what they knew, most of them committed it to paper!

      • Komsumverweigerer Ron

        The idea that, 240 years later, no-one but scholars would care what they wrote, I don’t think would ever have occurred to them.

      • Blackest Noobs

        we are in a weird period where people believe more in the truthiness than the source…they actually deny the source is real or truth.

        i get doubting shit but jesus fucking christ all these doubting thomases about the media, the scientists, or actually FACTS….why do we have to coddle you????WHY?
        isn’t it bad enough all our tech is designed to be dumb’d down. i know it’s because we coddle you Trumpies….i say stop coddling and let the cards fall where they may. Trump supporters say they want that….I am pretty certain if they got it…they will regret it.

  • Much like the Constitution and the Bible they also claim to love, many of these people have never bothered to read the fucking documents. They just ‘know’ what they say.

    • Ryan Denniston

      The content is in the eye of the beholder, the documents merely serve as props to signal to others.

    • Royal Ugly Dude

      It’s just something about not taking away our guns, right?

  • Lizzietish81

    Deporting all liberals?

    Well if I HAVE to leave this country to implode on itself I won’t resist too hard. Oh no, I’m in Canada where I can get healthcare even when I’m unemployed, which means I can get my anti depressants.

    Terrible.

    • William Cook for now

      Actually you still pay out of pocket for scripts but meds are cheaper. My Citalopram is $40 or so a month.

      • Lizzietish81

        Right now I can’t get my anti depressants because my psychiatrist requires that I be in therapy, which is about 65 bucks a pop without insurance.

        • William Cook for now

          That is fucking ridiculous. Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds are to help you stay out of therapy, not be dependant on it.

          • merty

            Therapy helps though and especially important if the doc is trying to make sure you’re not suicidal.

          • William Cook for now

            Yes. Not knocking therapy. But withholding medication due to inability to afford therapy, I need a medical professional to reassure me that shot isn’t malpractice. :/

      • Komsumverweigerer Ron

        If your income’s low enough you can qualify for the Trillium plan, where after your deductible everything’s $2.

        • William Cook for now

          That’s only Ontario.

          • Komsumverweigerer Ron

            Good point. Though I am led to understand that other provinces have something similar. Don’t ask me to remember details, though, I’m seriously buzzed on painkillers right now.

      • The Librarian

        I get three months worth for $10.10. No complaints!!

        • William Cook for now

          The prices are much better than the US. I’ve had some weird stuff in my medical history though, and I’ve had to shell out at the pharmacy before. I’d prefer the NHS model. :P

          • The Librarian

            I get mine cheaply since it’s a generic and I do it through mail order. If I got it through a regular walk-in pharmacy I wouldn’t be as lucky, for sure. Same for my allergy nose spray, even though it’s now available over the counter. Getting the generic via mail order is much cheaper.

          • William Cook for now

            I should switch to mail order, but my pharmacist notices when I fill late and scolds me for missing doses. I don’t want to admit that this helps me take them on schedule but it does.

          • The Librarian

            Totally understand!

    • lowenufc

      Deport all the liberals and let the country fall into a “Lord of the Flies”-esque tragedy of stupidity and ignorance, where everything falls apart because all the people who know how to keep the country and everything in it running are gone?
      Sure, why not? Can the spouse and I go to Canada or Iceland?

      • The Librarian

        My understanding is that in addition to leaving, we have to live someplace where human rights don’t exist.

    • Moldy Weißwurst

      No thanks. Moving’s such a hassle, I’ll take Blue State secession instead. I’m pretty sure most of my neighbors and friends would prefer the same.

  • ResistanceFictionista blondeiq

    Suitcase packed. Patiently waiting for deportation. Anywhere in the EU will be fine, although I’d prefer Spain.

    • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

      I’d be willing for it to even be a surprise! Rural, city – Western EU, Eastern EU.

      Just bring on the relocation funds and I’m in!

    • GreenGoldSharpie

      I heard I’m being shipped to the ghettos on Ontario.

      • William Cook for now

        Northern or Southern Ontario?

        • Komsumverweigerer Ron

          Ghettos, so southern. Northern Ontario doesn’t have enough people to even POPULATE a ghetto.

          • William Cook for now

            Excuse me I used to live there and beg to differ. I’m guessing you’re from Southern Ontario.

          • Komsumverweigerer Ron

            Lived in both, actually. I was being arch.

          • William Cook for now

            Sorry, guess I felt it was flippant considering the state of some of the smaller communities.

          • Komsumverweigerer Ron

            I lived in one of them, population 285. We had to fight to get our dam repaired, we had to fight to keep our school open (it had 99% utilisation, but the municipal board lied and said it was 55%), we had to fight to get a 4-way stop put in our main intersection. And we were one of the lucky ones.

          • William Cook for now

            Yep. Mostly because, according to Southern Ontario, nobody lives there.

        • Nyumbu

          Right now I’d be okay with Northern Nunavut, if they’d have me.

          • William Cook for now

            You say that, but you should see what groceries cost up there. When you can get them.

          • Nyumbu

            Oh, I know. And it costs thousands of dollars to get to anywhere you can’t reach easily by snow machine (or dogs). I suppose a person could get sick of salmon and moose after a while.

          • William Cook for now

            Gasoline and dog food aren’t cheap up there either.

          • Nyumbu

            It’s all academic. I’m too old and not nearly rich enough, even though I have mad skillz. Nowhere in Canada will take me.

      • Welcome to London!

      • Les Appentis De la résistance
        • William Cook for now

          Is this based on the CBC Radio show?

          • Les Appentis De la résistance

            Yes. I just got it. Its pretty funny.

          • William Cook for now

            Neat. Though I fear whatever is contained in that book may be what Canada is judged on a millenia from now.

      • Me too in 2 weeks.

    • therblig
    • Persistent Demme

      Lawyer-daughter is our Canadian anchor-baby.
      It’s kinda cold there sometimes, but the heath care is free!
      Buh-bye!

  • Paperless Tiger

    Jefferson: Should I put in something cautionary about a God Emperor?

    Adams: Nah, nobody would ever be that stupid.

    • Hancock: Look how big I can make it!

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        “That’s so Fat George can read it without his glasses!”

      • Komsumverweigerer Ron

        ‘Hmm. Pretty flamboyant signature for an insurance man.’
        h/t Stan Freberg

  • Mirful

    The Washington Post has a story today headlined, “Trump has never had a plan for dealing with North Korea.”

    This is the grossest sort of understatement.

    “President” Trump has never had a plan for dealing with anything.

    (With the possible exception of his plan to bang his daughter – if only she weren’t his daughter.)

    • BreakingDeadMen

      I honestly think it is more likely than not that he has molested his daughters.

      • Komsumverweigerer Ron

        perhaps Tiffany’s the one who said ‘no.’

        • BreakingDeadMen

          Or perhaps Marla Maples knew enough to keep her as far away as she could.

    • Ryan Denniston

      Wat! I don’t believe it!

    • beingreleased

      Trump’s tweet this morning said something about having tried to get China to do something, but that didn’t work. I honestly wonder whether his trying to get China to do something involved more than tweeting “China – do something.” Did he discuss it with anyone in the administration? Does he know that sometimes you have to do more than tweet?

    • Aileen

      Surprising how vainglorious despotic dictator of a hermit kingdom isn’t responding well to Trump’s brand of third-grade-reading-level Twitter diplomacy.

  • UncleTravelingMatt

    I used to live in a town where on every 4th of July since the founding of the County in 1910, the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners stood on the courthouse steps and read the Declaration of Independence. They stopped doing it a few years ago because right-wing assholes — most of them aligned with the county GOP leadership — showed up and booed when the Democratic Chair read it instead of the junior teabagger member of the Board. The Board decided (on a 2-0 vote, with the right-wing asshole abstaining “in protest”) to discontinue the practice altogether, rather than have people booing the Declaration of Independence.

    • cmd resistor

      THAT is SAD.

      • UncleTravelingMatt

        Low energy, too.

      • armed_bears

        I associate myself with the comments of my learned colleague.

    • Dude. That’s fucking crazy. Can you imagine if they read/tweeted out TJ’s version of the bible?

      • UncleTravelingMatt

        They threw a fit when the Board (pre-teabagger) voted to replace some shitty paintings of Jesus and Moses outside the courtrooms with the text of the Bill of Rights.

        • I am proud that i know much of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by heart

          • UncleTravelingMatt

            Here, all you need to know is: “God helps those who help themselves” and “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, [T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

          • armed_bears

            There ya go: The most ignored dependent clause in history!!1!

        • TundraGrifter

          Lately I’ve been seeing and reading more about FDR’s “Second Bill of Rights.”

          Perhaps now is the time.

    • therblig

      i think they still do it at washington’s HQ in morristown nj. haven’t been there in years, but they passed out copies with appropriate insults for “fat george” that the crowd could yell out.

      even this dissolute libtard found it humbling taking the tour and realizing “george washington sat in THIS room at THAT desk, making battle plans”.

      • Nyumbu

        Body-shaming?!? Oh, noes! Did they set aside a safe space for King George?

      • Teto85

        It sent shivers up my spine when I visited.

    • Mike Steele

      Shame about your spineless board; that’s how these terrorists win.

    • Hollandaise

      Philly had Boyz II Men read it @ Independence Hall this year and it was fantastic.

      • clubseal

        This might be my favorite sentence I’ll read this week.

        • Hollandaise

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8q2NyGwB30
          Every once in a while Philly gets one very right! Ignore the awful sign prominently displayed in this vantage point.

          • clubseal

            What shitmonger brought that sign to a reading of the Declaration of Independence?
            “Hey, honey, did you grab the abortion sign for this completely unrelated event?”
            “Yes, dear. Unfortunately I didn’t finish the scale model aborted fetus.”
            “Rats!”

          • Hollandaise

            What a country!

          • Teto85

            The first amendment allows people to be assholes.

          • Hollandaise

            Luckily it also allows me to say “look honey – one of those uneducated American Taliban members we’ve heard so much about!” whenever I see them.

    • mardam422

      Patriots, obviously.

  • Bad Tom

    NPR should tweet the Constitution.
    ——-
    All Hell would break loose. It would be delicious.

  • Bemused Australian

    They’d be burning Locke’s second treatise in the streets if they had any fucking idea what it was.

  • Villago Delenda Est

    Idiots. They’re all friggin’ idiots…

    • Lord Jim

      These responses to the reading of the DoI give the lie to the ersatz patriotism of right-wingers. If democracy means liberals might be in charge or brown people have rights, then fuck democracy.

  • 3FingerPete

    Trump didn’t get lost. He was walking a serpentine path to confound potential libtard snipers. Trump plays 65D chess.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      “Sure, he shit his pants, but did you see the faces of all those libtards who had to smell it? The man is a political genius.”

    • Bigby
      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        ^^^ THIS is why I love this place. You people know as many weird movie references as I do!

        • mardam422

          I loved that movie.

          • Indivisible Snark Tank

            Me, too. I got the Criterion Blu-ray a few weeks ago; nice package.

    • andyshelt

      “Trump plays 65D chess”

      I’m not even convinced that he can play tic-tac-toe and Connect 4 is definitely beyond him!

    • That’s his bra size.

  • Komsumverweigerer Ron

    The Trumpanzees have a point. Shut ‘er down, America. The Revolution’s been cancelled, and Britain will drop by later to pick up the keys.

    • OutOfOrbit

      Maybe we would be better off right now if the American Revolution had never happended.

      • William Cook for now

        You mean if you were Canada? Yeah, guess we’ll never know how that might have worked out.

  • StlSaxist

    It would seem the problem is not so much Trumpsters recognizing tyranny, but preferring it. It certainly does away with a large amount of thought and responsibility.

  • TheoLib

    That last tweet, by CCCTrump … Is that “Civilian Conservation Corps Trump” or “Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Trump”? (The latter is the name, often shown as “CCCP”, of the Soviet Union [USSR].)

    • Nyumbu

      AOTK

  • sly-3

    Are you not entertained?

    • mancityRed6

      it would be more entertaining if I was sure that none of these people ever voted.
      ever.

  • Napacab

    An ignorant democracy is destined to fail.

  • This is just like the time grandpa had to fight them Martians FDR and Orson Welles let invade New Jersey.

    • therblig

      BIG-BOO-TAY! TAY! TAY!

      • The Wanderer

        I liked John Many Johns.

    • sadboy

      ‘And your name is…John Small Berries!’

  • mancityRed6

    so a reading of, well, probably one of the most important historical texts of the country triggers them, but _we’re_ the snowflakes?
    not doing it now, I’m at work. but after, I think I’ll mosey over to the brainfart and see how long they’ll ignore this.

  • therblig

    Don’t know much about history
    Don’t know much biology
    Don’t know much about a science book,
    Don’t know much about the french I took
    But I do know that we are whites,
    And we’re entitled to extra rights
    What a wonderful world all for me

  • Debbie the Unpaid Protester

    Wow, they are DUMB. They should be embarrassed, but that would take too much self-reflection.

  • Edith Prickly

    OT but kind of relevant – Canuckistani Proud Boys make asses of themselves at an indigenous protest, may lose their government-supported jerbs as a result…

    http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/nova-scotia/proud-boys-canadian-military-indigenous-protest-disrupted-1.4189615

    • CripesAmighty

      Yup. Let’s take the day off from our gubmint jobs to expound the evils of gubmint.

    • The Wanderer

      And there were only five there – or, in Trumpworld, “thousands.”

    • William Cook for now

      I was wondering if this had been linked yet. Proud Boys, eh? Well you can’t be that and in the armed service too, so be Proud of your dishonourable discharges!

    • Edith Prickly
    • ltmcdies

      well if those Proud Boys are military like the article says…I do hope said military has something to say about how they comport themselves.

      what a load of bull

      • William Cook for now

        Did you read the article? The subtitle is a General stating they’re likely to be discharged. Our Military has been fighting a PR campaign lately and they are PISSED these idiots pulled this on Canada Day of all days.

        • ltmcdies

          was that an update…I read it last night and there was nothing there about a confirmed discharge. Likely don’t cut it

          • William Cook for now

            I do hope said military has something to say about how they comport themselves.

            You hoped they had something to say. They have been saying things.

          • ltmcdies

            until there has been action done…it’s still a hope…and what are we arguing about actually…obviously we’re both want these guys dealt with…right?

          • William Cook for now

            I think what happened is I misinterpereted your desire for action as a desire for a statement, which seemed odd because the article included many, many statements.

      • Edith Prickly

        I think their careers will be over before they begin.

  • Displaced brit here and have always thought your declaration – beautiful.

    • Swampgas_Man

      They knew how to write back then.

    • BigCSouthside

      Can you get the Queen on the line? Tell her we might be amicable to being Brits again as long as Trump isn’t in charge

  • Christopher Story

    When I was a practicing Jehovah’s Witness, I had an interesting experience very similar to these reactions.

    In the KJV, there are four scriptures that use the name “Jehovah,” (Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:4) and we would often show people that in their personal Bibles. After one such demonstration for an elderly woman, she proceeded to rip the entire page out of her Bible and sneered at the Brother who’d shown her,

    “Well, it ain’t there no more.”

    The lack of knowledge of the subject, coupled with the disrespect of the document they swear is so soveriegn and devine, and the smug arrogance of their actions, just to stick it to someone else, feels very poignant now.

    • James

      Still, it might have been worth it just to see the expression on the face of a JW for bothering her on a Saturday. (I would guess she worshipped what the Bible purports to represent, not the book itself.)

      • Christopher Story

        I was thinking more the wwillful dismissal of facts which they can’t refute. But yeah, at that time we did worship the Bible itself as a holy artifact, not to be added to or taken away from, so it was quite shocking and traumatic when I saw that.

  • Yr. Gma

    Sigh. I have no words.

    • mardam422

      Unfortunately, this.

      • Swampgas_Man

        O, I’ve got words– but I’ve also got Rules for Radicals.

  • ltmcdies
    • Lord Jim

      Those are some courageous women.

  • Moldy Weißwurst

    One thing’s for damn sure – tRump ain’t no Prince! Sure as hell ain’t no prize, either.

  • PixieThis

    I’m both crying and laughing…mostly crying. Mr. Pixie and I watch 2 holiday movies every 4th of July – Independence Day and 1776. Everyone should watch 1776 or pick up a fucking history book. Of course, 1776 is fact based, so I’m sure it’s a liberal conspiracy.

  • Bitter Scribe

    During the McCarthy era, someone remarked that if the Bill of Rights were put to a vote, it would lose.

  • JoeChristmas

    Whatever you do don’t tell them that the DOI and Constitution are liberal documents.

    • Christopher Story

      I think the reactions confirm this forever

  • Next up, Tweet out the Constitution, NPR.
    ooohhh and the Bill of Rights! Do that one, do that one!

    • James

      Especially the part about “a well-ordered militia, being necessary to the security of a free state. . . .”

  • The Librarian

    I would think that before one shares their foot in mouth disease, they would check the language via google or some other site. Stupidity is actually preventable, but they’re probably anti-vaxxers, too.

    • Moldy Weißwurst

      The “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” quote should have been their first clue. Of course, I don’t think the idiots actually took the time to read all the Tweets before they got triggered.

  • amindofitsown

    How much do you want to be if the DOI included the 1st and 2nd Amendments, that they’d likely know what it was when they heard it?

  • The person calling for ‘defunding’ doesn’t even have ignorance of the text as an excuse. They replied to a tweet that states the title and has a huge photo of the DOI!

    • clubseal

      Well, they can certainly lay claim to some kind of ignorance.

  • baconzgood

    These are the people that call themselves patriotic Americans. Funny that none of them can’t name all 8 supreme Court justices too also.

    • Résistance Land Shark Ω

      9?

      • baconzgood

        That’s the snark.

        • Résistance Land Shark Ω

          What about the girls? Doesn’t the supreme court have a girl on it?

          • Teto85

            3 girls, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan and Justice Notorious RBG.

          • Résistance Land Shark Ω

            This was snark, but … do you think of the people responding to the NPR broadcast would know the number, never mind the names of these justices?

          • Teto85

            They are the type who would have to take off their shoes to count beyond 10.

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          This one goes to eleven!

          FDR probably…

      • Teto85

        One of them is a Pip and not a Supreme.

  • SisterArtemis

    If this weren’t so sad and pathetic, I’d LOL myself to death

  • Khavrinen

    “when they got to the line about “tyrants,” some baby snowflake Trumpers were MUY TRIGGERED, because obviously big gay NPR was talking about Donald Trump.”

    They have to be constantly on the lookout for all the COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED attacks on GodEmperor tRump, because those durn liberal SJWs are just such tricksy hobbitses. Why those Hollywood elites/traitors even tried to disguise their anti-Trump propaganda film by calling it “The Madness of King George”…

    … and releasing it over twenty years ago. What diabolical craftiness will they come up with next?!?

    • Opiwan

      WHAT IS IN ITS POCKETSES??? VOTESES????

  • Résistance Land Shark Ω

    I wonder how many of these tweets were generated by paid twitter responders … like the ones Donnie Dumbass uses.

  • clubseal

    This is my country?
    *[cntrl][alt][delete]*
    Nothing? Oh well, it was worth a shot.

    • JustDon’tSayShank

      Older system than that. Try Halt – Reset – Load. You’re going to need an 8″ floppy disc.

      • James

        C-64 reset button.

        • JustDon’tSayShank

          Not old enough. Think big cabinets with processors running at a blistering 900 kHz.

          • Lord Jim

            Running VAX/VMS?

          • James

            Well, my wife used to keep a working PDP-11 in our garage when we lived in Oklahoma. She sold it before we moved: It’s amazing how much money you can get for one of those. (I think it was her parting gift from Digital Equipment or something.)

          • Lord Jim

            Be a dear and save me a Google – which PDP was current when Dennis Ritchie, et al were busy inventing C and UNIX?

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    Conservatives don’t know the difference between the Constitution and Declaration of Independence much less what’s in them besides GUNS!

    • baconzgood

      I have had them tell me (TELL me mind you) that God is mentioned in the Constitution.

      • Reddishrabbit

        She is. Clearly you are reading the wrong one, you have to get the one from National Treasure III, with the special God Glasses (patent pending).

        • SeeTrain65

          Obviously, this is the version that states “America is a Christian Nation.”

          Must be written in lemon juice or something.

    • Roadstergal

      Ironically, they had a shitfit about Michelle Obama exercising her right to bare arms.

  • anon_the_great

    Yannow, I’m starting to think requiring a Civics Literacy test before voting isn’t such a bad idea.

  • Jennaratrix

    I can’t even laugh at this anymore. The country is full of garbage persons and led by an idiot. North Korea is launching ICBMs and the idiot president is lifting sanctions on Russia while leaving more than half the posts in our barely-functioning government vacant. Our elected officials are hoping to ride it out long enough to gut the ACA and kill off some non-deserving Americans while they deny the Russian hacking of the 2016 election long enough for it to happen again in 2018. It’s not funny anymore, and I’m losing hope that we’re going to come out of this with anything like an intact country.

    • James

      I didn’t affirm to uphold and defend the Constitution, both as an enlisted military member nor as a politician, to give up when the going gets tough.

      The nation has been through tough times before. We can get through them again. Moreover, we can act to improve things. A lot of advances in this country (and many others) have been three steps forward, two back.

      The reason for all the intransigence from the GOP is they know their party is in trouble. If they had good ideas, they would sell those. If they had bad ones, they would try to sell those. Instead they are trying to throw sand in the gears.

      Special elections in MT, KS, SC, and GA were all a heck of a lot closer than they normally would be. GA-6 is Newt Gingrich’s old district. Two state special elections (NH and NY) long held by the GOP flipped to Dems.

      Freakin’ Orange County, California went for Hillary Clinton (the first time they went for a Dem since 1936).

      The country is worth fighting for. All the gerrymandering in Texas will not stop the inevitable march of progress. (That is why Texas is ground zero for the GOP: There has not been a white-majority graduating class there since 2004. The GOP loses Texas and they’re finished and they know it. And Texas is a lot more liberal than the GOP would have you believe – cough cough Ann Richards.)

      Perseverance is what matters: Politics is a marathon, not a sprint.

      • Jennaratrix

        I know. And I’m doing what I can; letters to my reps, counteracting the stupidity in my in-laws where doing so won’t cause a heart attack, and maintaining my sense of humor most of the time. I just hit a wall today; I’ll bounce.

        • James

          Key to a lot of political issues is concentrate on one that matters most to you. You’ll find others who support the same issue as you.

          Is women’s access to abortion or equal pay your issue? Focus on that. Is your issue gun safety? Voting rights for all who are eligible? Getting out the vote of those who did not do so?

          The trick is not to burn out trying to fight everything at once. Tens of millions of people did not vote for this crap-fest: If you include those who voted for Dr. Stein or Mr. Johnson, Mr. Trump did not lose by five million, he lost by twenty million.

          There is no mandate there, and the GOP knows it. That’s one reason they can’t get their wealthcare bill through Congress (the other being is they are fighting with each other).

          Their inability to govern is not going unnoticed.

          • Jennaratrix

            I’ve been concentrating on the ACA repeal vote for now; sending letters with Resistbot every other day or so. McCaskill is a definite no, but Blunt is a GOP buttboy and won’t even respond.

          • James

            My representative (Adrian Smith) says he only represents Republicans, so it’s an uphill fight here. Nevertheless, she’s persisting (wait what? I’m not a she. . . .)

          • Jennaratrix

            That… is ridiculous, and a really interesting reading of his job description. And sort of symptomatic of the entire problem, really. I suspect Blunt is the same. Oh, and I’m also writing that ASSHOLE Greitens about providing voter registration information to this ridiculous commission. That’s a big one, too. I can only concentrate on one or two things at a time, you’re right.

          • James

            My state says it’s still studying the issue. We’ll have to see what happens here.

          • Lord Jim

            Today, we are all Vagina-Americans.

          • Thank you.

      • SadDemInTex

        I needed this pep talk!!

        • Jennaratrix

          Me too.

          • James

            Glad to oblige. (I am a tiny blue dot in a sea of red US House district.)

          • Jennaratrix

            Me too – transplanted Masshole in Missouri. I’m sure that has a lot to do with my temporary despair.

          • James

            “Masshole” LOL. I first heard that nickname when I was a Navy recruiter in Pittsfield (by people from Vermont and Connecticut).

            I am a Michigan transplant in the Nebraska Panhandle. Someone has to live here, might as well be me. . . .

          • Jennaratrix

            My dad, husband, and now son are all Navy; dad was a nuke on the USS Enterprise, husband was a submariner and then a corpsman with the 1st Marine Division, and son is a Seabee. So you know, Go Navy! and all that. ;-)

          • James

            I go with “Fly Navy” myself. (I was enlisted aviation. My mother and father both were during Vietnam, though my father was killed in the war.) My sister sold out: She joined the Army.

          • Jennaratrix

            I’m the sellout in my family – I work for the Army. My grandfather was Infantry on Guadalcanal in WWII though, so he’d be proud.

            I’m sorry about your dad. Mine was just gone for 8-9 months at a time, but never in any immediate danger.

          • James

            Thank you for your condolences about my father. Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of his death in Vietnam. It was really tough when I was seven years old. It is tough now, but half-a-century has made it a bit more understandable (I now understand what a crapfest Vietnam was). It’s a bit easier to understand as an adult (though I would still rather have my father than understanding).

            Our thoughtful government did get round to issuing my mother, sister, and me its Gold Star Family buttons in a public ceremony in 2012 at least.

          • Jennaratrix

            Crapfest is being polite. Vietnam is a big reason I’m a military historian; I wanted to know just WTF happened there. I don’t really remember it (I’m about 10 years younger than you are), but it still made a big impression.

            Studying the history didn’t make me feel any better about it, but at least now I understand just how big a crapfest it actually was.

          • James

            Considering the mess that Japan and France left there, I don’t know how a crapfest could have been avoided. Sort of like the Scramble for Africa amongst European empires, but in Southeast Asia.

          • Jennaratrix

            Goddamn France.

            (Joke. Don’t kill me.)

          • James

            Trying to reimpose their empire on Southeast Asia probably wasn’t the best strategy.

          • starfanglednut

            Oh, so sorry. That was a shit war.

          • Weird Fishes

            I hope you no longer talk to her.

          • James

            My sister? I talk to her. She lives in a sane place (California).

          • Weird Fishes

            Nice weather there, despite the liberalism.

          • starfanglednut

            While it’s an insult everywhere else in the country, it’s a badge of honor here. I’m actually thinking of getting a masshole t-shirt.

          • James

            Well, I won’t plug any particular sellers, but I put “Masshole t-shirt” into a search engine and got a whole bunch of hits. Apparently that’s quite the popular fashion statement.

          • starfanglednut

            Omg. Come home!

        • unionthuggery

          I used to live in the predominately Democratic lower Rio Grande Valley. My Texas experience wasn’t terribly republican, but it was right during the time that the Republicans began to dominate the state, and GW Bush was governor.

      • Cat Cafe for the Prosecution

        Thank you.

    • Reddishrabbit

      Sometimes I can see why epicureanism was popular in the Roman Empire. And NK is very troubling, just finished an Atlantic article by Mark Bowden that is not comforting knowing Trump is in charge. But I’m not ready to give up yet, and as Moa said, it is darkest before it is completely dark (gallows humor).

    • Courser_Resistance

      At this point, I’m not sure we will. I’m so fucking frustrated with Democrats who are doing nothing but convening a circular firing squad or so focused on navel-gazing that they have no bandwidth for anything else.

      We *could* mount an aggressive defense and robust opposition, but no, we still have to listen to the whining about how Hilary was all wrong and we were all wrong and Hey, Look, here’s Bernie again! Yaaay, Bernie.

      Yeah, they can FOAD

  • Roadstergal

    I’m glad Twitler’s supporters agree with me that he fits every classic definition of a tyrant. Our only disagreement is whether or not that’s a bad thing.

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Two groups of people that don’t recognize the words of our DOI

    Russian twitterbots and RWNJ’s

    at least one of them has an excuse…

    • James

      The right wing nut jobs are the ones with the excuse.

      Most Russians can read for comprehension. (My Soviet-born sister-in-law understands the Declaration and Constitution better than most wingnuts – she had to take a citizenship test.)

      • Hollandaise

        My Russian-born friend who’s now a Canadian citizen understands the Declaration and Constitution better than most Americans!

  • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

    So I’ve been quoting the 28th amendment of the constitution in arguments with my family who support the Mango Menace. It’s useful because it doesn’t exist so I can make up whatever I want. If they call me on it, I blame President Obama for making it disappear.

    • James

      Could try the XXV Amendment and see if they go up like Independence Day fireworks. . . .

      • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

        It’s been in the news lately so they know what it’s about. So I’ve been saying crap like, “Sure, the 25th, but the 28th amendment DEFINES incompetence in the President. Something the 25th leaves out. And Dump hits almost all the points on the list.”

        • Cat Cafe for the Prosecution

          I think I love you

          • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

            What’s a cat doing quoting a Partridge Family…oh. Cat’s and birds. I see.

    • timpundit

      You’re one of America’s Treasures, I hope you know.

      • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

        Aw Shucks. I just grew up a bigoted, lying redneck. When I switched sides I kept the skills.

        • Weird Fishes

          #goals

    • Peripatetic Poltroon

      I would pay to watch that.

      • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

        They haven’t caught on yet. It’s pretty funny. I’m thinking of one uncle in particular. He usually takes a time out to drink some beer and come up with a new argument.

    • Hollandaise

      <3 <3 <3

  • motmelere

    To be fair, it wasn’t the one sentence fragment from the second amendment that is the only founding document portion that counts.

    • unionthuggery

      Shall not be infringed!!1!

      • James

        If you put a fringe on a gun, does it make that gun subject to Admiralty Law? Does the settler, the agent, but not the person, have to comply with those laws?

        • unionthuggery

          True Patriots ™ would never dress their AR-15s in tasseled skirts.

          • James

            Now if we could only put out the word that AR-15’s are a secret investment by George Sorso to fund liberal causes. . . .

          • unionthuggery

            Obama was the best salesman of AR-15s. It’s obvious that his pal Soros stood to gain from it. They used the proceeds to cover up for the secret NASA child slave pizza dungeons on Mars.

            (It hurts to even pretend to be that whacko)

          • James

            Care to promote that on Infowars? Perhaps you could get some grift bux from Alex Jones. (You’d have to sell your integrity and maybe your immortal soul, but hey, it’s money.)

          • Opiwan

            COME ON! One more buzzword and I win Wingnut Bingo!

          • James

            G-ACORN. B-Alinskey. O-Socialist. (Check your cards. . . .) N-Obummer. I-Libtard.

          • Opiwan

            Yes! Libtard!

            BINGO! BINNNNNGOOOOOO!

          • unionthuggery

            The Clinton Foundation used the relief supplies for Haiti to stockpile the Mars slave colony?

          • Peripatetic Poltroon

            Sadly, “Secret NASA Child Slave Pizza Dungeons on Mars” is too long a name for most garage bands. Perhaps a shoe gaze art duo?

        • Lord Jim

          Not written in red ink and ALL CAPS, so invalid.

        • Peripatetic Poltroon

          Precisely the opposite. If the gun lacks fringes, it is only legal under Admiralty Law. Which means that the only legal guns are those once owned by Buffalo Bill. Annie Oakley’s guns don’t count, since female suffrage was not yet law.

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    Watch the right wing idiots explode when you tell them the Declaration of Independence isn’t a legal document and doesn’t guarantee any rights or anything.

    • James

      Yup. It’s nothing more than a statement of principles.

      You can also cause some real angst by pointing out the Constitution is not based on the Bible. For bonus points, ask them to find any clause in the Constitution that relates to religion.

      • Peripatetic Poltroon

        “[redacted] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
        not be infringed.”
        Please pay my bonus in Cheesy Poofs.

      • sgt. jmk of the résistance

        As the veteran of many such arguments, it’s like being given free candy when they say “separation of church and state isn’t in the Constitution and besides, it says ‘freedom OF religion’ not ‘freedom FROM religion.”

        I get to point out that since Article VI says we’re free FROM religious tests for office and the First Amendment says we’re free FROM a state religion and free FROM interference in our private practice of religion, the Constitution very definitely comes down squarely on the “freedom FROM religion” side of that distinction. Then I acknowledge that the phrase “separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution and ask them to guess what OTHER phrase isn’t, either… and oddly enough, none of them EVER guess it’s “freedom of religion.”

    • Darrell Imaginarian

      No its liberal propaganda from an 18th century skeptic of religion and divine right.

    • sgt. jmk of the résistance

      I enjoy dealing with the pro-fetus folks who claim that the inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” the Declaration mentions means that abortion should be illegal.

      It seriously blows their minds when I point out that the Declaration is just the note we wrote to Britain when we divorced them and doesn’t have legal force.

  • Ms.MLG on Maui

    Whenever I feel down about myself, I’m gonna remember that someone out there got angry about the Declaration of Independence, and reacted to this by Tweeting “Trump is the man”. Instant self-esteem booster.

  • Weird Fishes

    I’m super-duper glad that in our current climate “All liberals must be deported” can in no way be construed as hate speech.

    • James

      Well, Rep. Steve King (R-IA4) if he had his way would have me deported (he wants the grandchildren of so-called illegal immigrants deported), because my family illegally entered the country to escape the Nazis in Poland.

      Poland’s nice and all; I’ve visited the country, but I don’t think I would do well there, having been raised here.

      • Weird Fishes

        My wife is from Iowa and horrified by him. Unfortunately his constituents also hold these views, and therefore he will probably return to DC as many times as he wishes. Lotsa scary folk in the US of A.

        BTW – You’re right: Fly Navy! (My Dad was also enlisted and also in Aviation; retired as an E-8)

        • Cat Cafe for the Prosecution

          Also, wasn’t his would-be opponent literally bullied out of running by endless death threats? He’s such a nice guy.

      • Peripatetic Poltroon

        Speaking as someone in Utah, where a decent sausage seems to be an affront to Joseph Smith, Poland probably has decent sausages.

  • Hardly Ideal
  • whitroth

    Overthrow the Tyrant! IMPEACH THE SON OF A BITCH, NOW!!!

  • Fartknocker

    If these Trump super fans had a modicum of decency they would be asking the POTUS how young Bannon is adjusting to life in the White House. 8 years ago we all began to have concern about how the Obama children were doing. I worry about Bannon.

    • James

      Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, Malia and Sasha Obama: Democratic children are always fair game. It has always been thus in my life. Republican children shall not be folded or spindled.

  • CATMAN

    This is further proof–as if any more were needed–that you can’t fix stupid

  • Lyly Sirivong

    I say citizenship test for all of them. And if they fail -> deprivation of nationality. Give it to someone who deserve it. Like the translators who are working for the US army and are in danger in their native country.

    • Darrell Imaginarian

      But, no other country would take them.

      • javadavis

        So stick them on a cruise ship that never docks in a country. Surely you can get them aboard by telling them about all the ham and egg trees on the islands they will be visiting. Then refuse them re-entry.

        • Peripatetic Poltroon

          Silly, most of them are Muslim. Use lamb instead.

    • Snarkbot 9000

      Might I add 24 lashings with a rubber hose, commercial grade, preferably Craftsman, fittings (likely) removed.

  • tinker12

    So sick of being locked in a room with fidiots!

  • alpacapunchbowl

    Ccct up there has to be a parody account, right? A play on CCCP, and save the missing period at the end of the last sentence, that tweet is too grammatically sound for Ccct to be a true believer Trumpatarian.

    • Jared James

      I endorse this theory.

      • alpacapunchbowl

        It really is so hard to tell anymore, though.

    • Peripatetic Poltroon

      CCCT is an acronym for Conservatives Cock-Coddling Trump. Look it up; it’s true.

      • Snarkbot 9000

        Are you sure it’s two (2) D’s in “Coddling”? My thinking box will not compute.

      • alpacapunchbowl

        Does that make it more or less likely that it’s a parody account?

  • Alex Grey

    Everyone knows that Obama used his time machine to put those passages into the Declaration, specifically as an attack against Trump.

    • Peripatetic Poltroon

      Dammit, I said that first. Now to use the time machine to make it true.

      • Alex Grey

        Deep government flunkie!!!

    • Boscoe

      -Right after he added all that hippie “turn the other cheek” and “give your wealth to the poor” junk to the Bible…

  • escalera

    They’ve as much admitted that a foundational document destroys and is incompatible Trumpism.

  • dshwa

    This was one of the more interesting moments on Twitter, as the mockery of the Trumpites was some grade A snark

  • Jerry Noneofyourbizz

    Early today, Newsweek had quite a few of them. They are so unfuckingbelievably stupid it’s scary.

  • Alexander Stallwitz
  • Saxo the Grammarian

    Yet another reason why I don’t have a Twitter account, and no plans to get one.

  • SeekingCovfefeBarbie

    They can’t even Logic, for Pete’s sake! There’s no way a criticism of trump would include begin with calling him a Prince.

    • Delu

      They thought that him being Caesar was accurate, so Emperor perhaps?

      • ibwilliamsi

        Kaiser.

      • Darrell Imaginarian

        The racist twit who made the wrestling CNN gif called him the “God Emperor”. But Obama gave a speech in front of faux Roman columns!

      • Bring on the Ides of March (with votes!)

  • ibwilliamsi

    23% of Americans don’t know what country the USA declared independence from.

    http://www.newsmax.com/US/poll-us-independence-npr-poll/2017/07/04/id/799727/

  • handyhippie65

    so, the declaration of independence was trolling trump before he was even born? wow, those founders really did have vision.

    • Peripatetic Poltroon

      Meh, it’s just Obama and his damnable time machine again. The original D of I was short: “Fuck the poors, and fuck George III. We espy insufficiently bulging corporate codpieces.”

  • Skadi
  • javadavis

    For comment on this, I just cannot beat “Oh dear god”.

  • Celtic_Gnome

    We’re surprised by this? Trump supporters are as fond of the words of the Founding Fathers as conservative Christians are of the words of Jesus Christ.

    • Jeffery Campbell

      And they couldn’t pick either out of a line up. They are ignorant and proud of it.

    • Boscoe

      They just like the version in their own heads better.

  • Jo Mathie

    “Hate speech”. But you are a Trumplet – hate speech is what you thrive on… Probably needs more racism for you.

    • Johnny Appleseed

      Correct. Not enough hate for some of them.

  • I thought gun humping “patriots” and preppers would love revolutionary talk. Preppers spend their whole lives waiting for an uprising so they can eat Jim Bakker’s delicious bucket food and say “I told you so” to us liberal hell spawn.

    • Boscoe

      They do, but their need to hate all things “librul” overrides the the lizard part of their brains and so yeah, the Declaration is hatespeech if it’s coming from NPR.

  • Jeffery Campbell
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    • sgt. jmk of the résistance

      Oh Cynthiad, the “managing director of Google” never said that.

      You lie.

      • Boscoe

        What do you mean? If *I* were making $100 an hour with One Weird Trick, I would totally want everyone to know how to do it and spend all my time spamming comments to tell them instead of making that sweet, sweet hunnid clamolas.

  • sgt. jmk of the résistance

    So… it’s “inappropriate hate speech” to quote the Declaration of Independence and mention “tyrants,” is it?

    And the best, least hate-speechy response to such reckless quoting is to advocate the deportation of all liberals?

    I’m beginning to suspect that these folks are as well-versed in logic as they are in history.

    • rebecca

      comment testing.

    • Boscoe

      It is because all conservatives “know” what evil lurks in the hearts of everyone who isn’t them. You’re “saying” the Declaration of Independence, but they know what you “really mean”. because they are psychic geniuses who totally are not projecting.

  • ResonantCavity

    A “triggered” joke? Are you shitting me with that? We’re supposed to be the non-shitty ones.

    • ResonantCavity

      I love my Wonkette but could you consider not?

    • Boscoe

      I’m not grasping why you are triggered by “triggered”…?

      • ResonantCavity

        Whoa, good one. I have literally never heard that before. Allow me to think on’t, good sir.

        • Boscoe

          Sorry, didn’t mean to trigger you.

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