The real outrage here is that we are still talking like Bachmann is running for something. They are just keeping her on the stage because he fills the quota. They've already got two Mormons, a Catholic, and the token Black guy. That's just enough to make it appear like it's not a party run by super rich Christian fundamentalists bent on returning America to it's pre-Progressive movement days.

Dey eat de poo-poo!

/Sorry...
//Still marginally germane to today's story.

Barbigazi: kronicfeld: I'm tired of this guilt by association crap. Unless you've expressly or impliedly affirmed or approved of the policies of a friend or colleague, then their failings aren't yours. I have friends who are Republicans; hell, I have family members who are borderline teabaggers. Does that make me one of them?

If you're running in the same circles as people promoting mass killings of homosexuals and running for president I'm going to want to know that shiat.

Yes, I can see how working with someone who knows someone who does stupid things makes you a horrible person. I knew a guy who worked with someone whose wife stole a car, and as soon as I heard the news I quit that job so I didn't have to see his guilty face.

Friends of shiatty people only count if you are a Republican, subtard.

sprawl15: Barbigazi: kronicfeld: I'm tired of this guilt by association crap. Unless you've expressly or impliedly affirmed or approved of the policies of a friend or colleague, then their failings aren't yours. I have friends who are Republicans; hell, I have family members who are borderline teabaggers. Does that make me one of them?

If you're running in the same circles as people promoting mass killings of homosexuals and running for president I'm going to want to know that shiat.

Yes, I can see how working with someone who knows someone who does stupid things makes you a horrible person. I knew a guy who worked with someone whose wife stole a car, and as soon as I heard the news I quit that job so I didn't have to see his guilty face.

Also, in this analogy Bachmann is a firetruck.

torch: So I guess it's pretty serious.

I lol'd

No one should be surprised by this. She and her advisors and their circle of associates are all like minded. This isn;t to say she herself would endorse such extreme behaviour however, she would not likely speak out against it either.

Barbigazi: Also, she doesn't work with him. She employs him.

OH MY GOD THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Employment should entirely be based on the quality of the employee's friends! You've convinced me, I think we should pass a law saying employers are allowed to not only browse your Facebook for anything they consider against their company image, but they are allowed to browse all of your friends' Facebooks for similar offensive material. No, that's not far enough. Not 'allowed', we should make it mandatory. No more employing of people who know people who are stupid. IT STOPS TODAY! LETS GO STREAKING!

Mark me down on the "who cares?" pile. One of my childhood friends is friends with more than a few criminals. This does not mean I endorse drug dealing and prostitution.

/I do endorse prostitution

She herself explicitly advocates forced government destruction of all things homosexual, so this doesn't come as a shock.

Wow such outrage, some of you guys were all up in Obamas ass for being associated (along time ago) with Ayers. Even after he distanced himself, you couldn't let it go.
Now that the tables are turned, oh my, it's just not fair.
Bias? Bias? Table for bias is reafy.

sprawl15: Employment should entirely be based on the quality of the employee's friends!

Funny you should mention that. I worked with a guy that was taking a position with the government. A guy in a suit came down and interviewed all of us. We weren't even his friends. It matters(if she was a Republican).

Reafy, ha I said reafy.

Diogenes: already knew how she felt about homosexuals.

I know right. I'm telling you, she's a character tight out of The Handmaids Tale

s2s2s2: Funny you should mention that. I worked with a guy that was taking a position with the government. A guy in a suit came down and interviewed all of us. We weren't even his friends.

Background checks are always fun for the whole family.

s2s2s2: sprawl15: Employment should entirely be based on the quality of the employee's friends!

Funny you should mention that. I worked with a guy that was taking a position with the government. A guy in a suit came down and interviewed all of us. We weren't even his friends. It matters(if she was a Republican).

He had to list you as a reference.

They don't just go out and check with all of your past coworkers in your entire life. You are required to put a certain number of people down as character or job related "witnesses," then they send an agent (usually the retired ones do this) to check out your past, dig up all your dirt. After all the interviews with your friends/coworkers/family/whoever you put down, they come back and interview you about what they said and anything incriminating they may have dug up.

/why yes, I have done this a few times....
//ALWAYS tell your references, else they will shiat bricks when the FBI knocks on their door. Its a courtesy thing, but a big one.

That's two undedected typos. I better tighten up before the spelling nazis show up.

sprawl15: Background checks are always fun for the whole family.

Fark me. I read that as the other famous Michelle. I'd say this is just par for the course with Michelle Balkgays. I think it matters, tho.

Woah woah woah. Back up. Bachmann has advisors? I thought her advisors were forwarded email chains with titles like: THINGS OBAMA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.

Barbigazi: Are you saying that who a presidential candidate hires should never be talked about?

Who they hire is somewhat relevant. Not incredibly, since people should be hired based on their capacity to do their farking job, not on their taste in music or friends. I really couldn't care less about an opinion of a friend of an employee. Playing six-degrees-of-asshole doesn't solve anything.

blackminded: Mark me down on the "who cares?" pile. One of my childhood friends is friends with more than a few criminals. This does not mean I endorse drug dealing and prostitution.

/I do endorse prostitution

I understand that and agree that you shouldn't be considered guilty because of what someone you know does. But however with Bachmann this theme of being violently anti gay and preaching this type of stuff against gays keeps popping up with people close to her. Once or twice you can brush it off, but when it keeps coming up then you have a problem.

Jackson Herring: Where does Kevin Bacon fit in here?

6 degrees

At worst it indicates that her circle of friends are a bunch of homophobic, backwards loons. We already knew this.

Jobs bill?

Barbigazi: He's supposed to help set her policies.

Exactly. He is supposed to help her set policies. Not his friends. She is not employing his extended Facebook network.

I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.


What's that make us?




Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become.

Barbigazi: No she's just employing a guy who hangs around with people who think gay people should be killed and helped put that thought into action in Africa.

Were you one of the people outraged over Obama's association with Bill Ayers?

So the takeaway from this is that Michele Bachmann supports and endorses the mass murder of non-caucasians? Good.

/I just wanted to say this where Google will index it.

sprawl15: Barbigazi: No she's just employing a guy who hangs around with people who think gay people should be killed and helped put that thought into action in Africa.

Were you one of the people outraged over Obama's association with Bill Ayers?

So, when was Bill Ayers ever on Obama's payroll...or even talked to him?

/Does anyone remember the guy who laid hands on Sarah Palin and also believed witches were real?

Barbigazi: I missed the part where Ayers was helping countries pass laws to kill gay people.

Ayers was part of a group that actively killed people. Shirley you must think that Obama being friends with someone who was friends with terrorists means that Obama is a horrible person, right?

Barbigazi: sprawl15: Barbigazi: No she's just employing a guy who hangs around with people who think gay people should be killed and helped put that thought into action in Africa.

Were you one of the people outraged over Obama's association with Bill Ayers?

I missed the part where Ayers was helping countries pass laws to kill gay people. I must have also missed the part were Obama hired Ayers or his close friends to advise him.

Also is there any proof that Obama had met Ayers more than once or twice or had an ongoing friendship with him?

kronicfeld: ongbok: with Bachmann this theme of being violently anti gay

We already know she's anti-gay. That's not a contested fact. At this point, this other evidence is just surplusage.

Yeah we knew she was anti-gay, but she is close to people that are violently anti-gay. People that want to commit genocide against gays.