And Now a Note for Todd Akin (language)
Last week, Mr. Akin said a few things, and I think they need to be commented on.
"It might be helpful to think back and say, there’s more to Thanksgiving than the Pilgrims."
Yeah, like how if the indians didn't come and bail their asses out they would have starved to death (or at least been an earlier version of the Donner party).
"They were a group of people who were willing to change the system, to think of different ideas. They came here and separated civil and church governments."
Really? Seems to me their civil and church governments were pretty much one and the same, they just didn't like the one in England because they were stick up their butts Puritans and the English had their own church. They didn't separate anything, and if the indians didn't bail them out, we might remember them along with Jim Jones and David Koresh as just another failed cult (if we remembered them at all).
"They came here and created the model of a written constitution, the idea that the government should be the servant of the people."
Uh, no. They did nothing of the sort. That's why, Willaims split from them and founded Providence. To be really blunt about it, the Puritans were such a bunch of assholes that they'd moved for a while to Amsterdam and not even the Dutch could stand them.
"They came here with the idea that after trying socialism that it wasn’t going to work. They realized that it was unbiblical, that it was a form of theft, so they pitched socialism out. They learned that in the early 1620’s."
Wait, what??? Socialism? In feudal England? In the England of King James? Did you fail high school American history, cut class, or are you just this stupid?
One, no socialism in England than. None. Zero.
Two, "socialism" in the form of the indians bailing them out is the only reason they lived to see 1621.
Three, have you been reading "Supply Side Jesus" again, because I'm pretty sure what you're talking about ain't in the King James Bible.
Mr. Akin, RESIGN. I can understand misstating or not knowing everything, but we're talking about BASIC US HISTORY and you're so far off the mark you wouldn't get out of the class. What's next? Next week you're going to give a speech about how we didn't give up when the Russians bombed Pearl Harbor?
"It might be helpful to think back and say, there’s more to Thanksgiving than the Pilgrims."
Yeah, like how if the indians didn't come and bail their asses out they would have starved to death (or at least been an earlier version of the Donner party).
"They were a group of people who were willing to change the system, to think of different ideas. They came here and separated civil and church governments."
Really? Seems to me their civil and church governments were pretty much one and the same, they just didn't like the one in England because they were stick up their butts Puritans and the English had their own church. They didn't separate anything, and if the indians didn't bail them out, we might remember them along with Jim Jones and David Koresh as just another failed cult (if we remembered them at all).
"They came here and created the model of a written constitution, the idea that the government should be the servant of the people."
Uh, no. They did nothing of the sort. That's why, Willaims split from them and founded Providence. To be really blunt about it, the Puritans were such a bunch of assholes that they'd moved for a while to Amsterdam and not even the Dutch could stand them.
"They came here with the idea that after trying socialism that it wasn’t going to work. They realized that it was unbiblical, that it was a form of theft, so they pitched socialism out. They learned that in the early 1620’s."
Wait, what??? Socialism? In feudal England? In the England of King James? Did you fail high school American history, cut class, or are you just this stupid?
One, no socialism in England than. None. Zero.
Two, "socialism" in the form of the indians bailing them out is the only reason they lived to see 1621.
Three, have you been reading "Supply Side Jesus" again, because I'm pretty sure what you're talking about ain't in the King James Bible.
Mr. Akin, RESIGN. I can understand misstating or not knowing everything, but we're talking about BASIC US HISTORY and you're so far off the mark you wouldn't get out of the class. What's next? Next week you're going to give a speech about how we didn't give up when the Russians bombed Pearl Harbor?
Labels: Akin, GOP, stupidity, Thanksgiving
posted by Mike N | 6:59 PM
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