Sad. What she needs to discover is open mike night at the comedy club, but for now the town council is close enough.

Liberal guilt? It's Bush's fault.

The issue is that it has become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is an honest racist gay-hating tea party GOP Real American™.

Teabaggers ARE mentally ill.

It wasn't the first time Svoboda has testified before the council. She also is a registered lobbyist at the Capitol

so easy, even a certifiably insane person could do it!

If she's mentally ill, why is she speaking in public?

vossiewulf: The issue is that it has become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is an honest racist gay-hating tea party GOP Real American™.

Came here to say this. When a sincere party member cannot be reliably distinguished from a schizophrenic, there is a problem with the party.

Chariset: If she's mentally ill, why is she speaking in public?

A lot of assisted living facilities are not "secure" facilities. They are basically apartment buildings or condos with nurses on staff, as well as janitors and gardeners. Residents are free to come and go as they please.

If she is not actually a danger to anyone, and the courts feel that she is not a danger to herself, there's no legal grounds for locking her up.

(There may be good moral or ethical grounds, but not legal ones.)

If republicans weren't such an obstacle to health reform, perhaps this woman could get insurance and access to the help she needs.

gilgigamesh: If republicans weren't such an obstacle to health reform, perhaps this woman could get insurance and access to the help she needs.

Amen.

It's nice that virulently anti-gay conservatives are willing to admit they sound mentally ill. Kudos to subby.

FOX News job offer in 5...4...3...

This thread not turning out how you envisioned Subby?

vossiewulf: The issue is that it has become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is an honest racist gay-hating tea party GOP Real American™.

Yup.

GAT_00: Interesting that she's mentally ill, yet her comments weren't all that far from standard Teabagger rhetoric.

And this.

"liberal guilt"?

Or, in other words... a conscience.

ecmoRandomNumbers: vossiewulf: The issue is that it has become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is an honest racist gay-hating tea party GOP Real American™.

Yup.

GAT_00: Interesting that she's mentally ill, yet her comments weren't all that far from standard Teabagger rhetoric.

And this.

Yeah, basically. That.

Rodeodoc: Liberal guilt? It's Bush's fault.

why the fark would I feel guilty about calling a crazy person a crazy person?
batchit crazy and the council just let her up to the mike??? LOL nice one

She was obviously a whackadoodle, and I don't think anyone seriously doubted this. But you know what's fascinating? The hateful right-wing rhetoric that somehow got lodged deep into her paranoia gland. She wasn't rambling on and on about the Koch brothers, was she? No, the stuff that made sense to her mentally-ill mind was the religious-right tapdance about teh homoz and teh AIDZ.

Someone didn't know she was crazy? I thought that was pointed out pretty early in the greenlit thread, though I could be mistaken and didn't really spend much time there.

If only there was some universal way of getting her the health care she needs.

Mentally ill.

Is that what they call homophobia now?

ToxicMunkee: Why, as a liberal, am I always told I need to feel guilty?

Because you're a bad person and should feel bad.
socialisms.
gay sex
oral sex
pre-marital sex
sex education
abortion
welfare
unemployment
saving for retirement
not saving for retirement
cannabis
drinking beer.
not drinking beer.
being an atheist
being a mormon
being a muslim
being a catholic
being a pagan
being evangelical
being green
not being green
voting Republican
voting Democrat


pick whichever one fits your sitation.

ToxicMunkee: Why, as a liberal, am I always told I need to feel guilty?

By the cold and religious
we were taken by hand

Shown how to feel good
and told to feel bad

Fox News created her. They should be the ones that feel bad. But NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Relatively Obscure: Someone didn't know she was crazy? I thought that was pointed out pretty early in the greenlit thread, though I could be mistaken and didn't really spend much time there.

Her being mentally ill and/or crazy was pointed out multiple times throughout that thread.

I feel bad for her. Perhaps she needs closer supervision at her facility and maybe shouldn't be allowed to speak in a forum where she could offend people and possibly cause violence to herself. Most people would just laugh and makes jokes, as we have... some people might not.

Zone her out on Seroquel and Trazodone. We'll never hear from her again.

gilgigamesh: If republicans weren't such an obstacle to health reform, perhaps this woman could get insurance and access to the help she needs.

And we're done here, folks.

vossiewulf: The issue is that it has become extraordinarily difficult to distinguish between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is an honest racist gay-hating tea party GOP Real American™.

adamgreeney: ToxicMunkee: Why, as a liberal, am I always told I need to feel guilty?

It always amazes me how the Republican party manages to sound like my mother. She loved people to feel guilty over ridiculous things too.

I don't feel guilty, because I'm not a Republican. Those idiots should wake up every day feeling guilty just for their own existence. And yes, it's impossible to tell the difference between a schizophrenic and a Republican. I doubt most mental health professionals can tell the difference in less than an hour or so.

So... making fun of subby would be bad the same way, right?

FTFA:

"A huge percent of gay men in school grounds molest boys, partly because they don't have AIDS yet," she said.

"Whitney Houston was found without clothes in a bathtub. Every corpse found without clothes has a partner who did away with them.

"Hillary Clinton's roommate four years in college was a gay woman. To avoid going gay like Clinton did, college students need single rooms and single gender dorms."


I have actually heard more-or-less this entire litany from right-wingers who claim not to be mentally ill. Does it preclude a diagnosis of mental illness if one has read these things in a chain email?

2wolves: This thread not turning out how you envisioned Subby?

*snert*

/not subby

Liberal guilt? If anything, it should prove that most of these teabagger types are just like this woman: RETARDED.

Chariset: If she's mentally ill, why is she speaking in public?

And what exactly would you like done to prevent her from speaking?

She's not dangerous.
She's not unable to care for her basic needs.
She's still entitled to all her Constitutional rights because she's done nothing to lose any of them.

Merely because she's schizophrenic doesn't mean she doesn't know what she's doing--what would make you think she's not able to speak about things as she understands them? Or do you hold to the notion that crazy people are somehow subhuman? Do elucidate, as a mentally ill person myself, I'm completely fascinated by your opinion.