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Pic Of The Moment: Republican Immigration Fearmongering Reaches New Heights Of Idiocy (Original Post) EarlG Mar 2024 OP
Only the GOP! How moronic can they be? MineralMan Mar 2024 #1
Careful Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 #29
True lonely bird Mar 2024 #63
Jesus, republican dumb and dumber. republianmushroom Mar 2024 #2
Someone tell him these are the final four busses of immigrants Blue Owl Mar 2024 #3
That would surely confuse him. Harker Mar 2024 #10
A buss is a kiss, so how can three kisses be loaded with illegal invaders! Lonestarblue Mar 2024 #4
Busses or buses, Disaffected Mar 2024 #7
Maybe is should be "bussses," since there are three of them. colorado_ufo Mar 2024 #30
You may be on to something there. Disaffected Mar 2024 #32
The rule I learned in grade school, lo those many years ago, PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2024 #57
Looks like Rep Maddock (two d's) (R) Disaffected Mar 2024 #59
Well buss my ass. Good catch. twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #8
Immigrants from Gonzaga. When will it end? twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #5
This guy probably thinks Gonzaga EarlG Mar 2024 #6
with lots of very tall people rurallib Mar 2024 #9
Yes, lots of VERY tall people! ShazzieB Mar 2024 #49
Those buses crossed some borders alright IronLionZion Mar 2024 #42
ILLEGAL Gonzagan invaders! With uniforms! Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2024 #11
Armed with basketballs. twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #17
Those could be orange fentanyl bombs! Komrade Tucker will surely investigate. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2024 #18
Yikes! Fentanyl bombs! Dave Bowman Mar 2024 #47
I, for one, Dave Bowman Mar 2024 #45
Facts? The GOP doesn't believe in FACTS! liberal N proud Mar 2024 #12
Oh no, not the Catholics! RainCaster Mar 2024 #13
Which is ironic conserding the he lives in the Detroit-metro area which is chock-full of Catholics. Crowman2009 Mar 2024 #20
We even have a Jesuit university with a sometimes-not-bad basketball team JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2024 #31
I believe Dick Vitale use to coach that team if I'm not mistaken. Crowman2009 Apr 2024 #67
If idiocy were an Olympic sport, dobleremolque Mar 2024 #14
"Spectacularly stupid" Kid Berwyn Mar 2024 #15
This is what tRump did...... MyOwnPeace Mar 2024 #43
you have got to be kidding me Roc2020 Mar 2024 #16
Another racist white-flight dickhead who thinks Gonzaga is one of dem dere foreign words. Crowman2009 Mar 2024 #19
From time to time . . . AverageOldGuy Mar 2024 #21
Sherlock Holmes ffr Mar 2024 #22
What's with all these busloads of Gonzales? JoseBalow Mar 2024 #23
😆😆😆 underpants Mar 2024 #24
Perfect! 😆 Nevilledog Mar 2024 #25
snork AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #26
Jimmy Kimmel will have fun with this.. Thunderbeast Mar 2024 #27
After he started doing that... jmowreader Mar 2024 #35
Jimmy Kimmel will have fun with this.. Thunderbeast Mar 2024 #28
So stupid that it burns. Add this zinger to the list of idiotic statements by the GOP. SWBTATTReg Mar 2024 #33
They're all suspect until there's proof! SupportSanity Mar 2024 #34
If you can't even spell busses... malaise Mar 2024 #36
ssssssss twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #40
Well...ya know..."Spokane" does sound a little foreign. jmowreader Mar 2024 #37
As a matterof curiosity, just how many people are there involved with niyad Mar 2024 #38
Just a guess but there were probably college student fans included on the bus riversedge Mar 2024 #48
Thank you. That obvious thought had not even occurred to me. niyad Mar 2024 #55
They probably also take the cheerleaders and the band. LisaM Mar 2024 #58
Put down the bong and back away from Fox News very slowly... Initech Mar 2024 #39
Migrants have great basketball skills IronLionZion Mar 2024 #41
I thoroughly enjoyed tweeting that directly to Matthew Maddock. Dem2theMax Mar 2024 #44
Moron Matt shows why the Michigan GOP Hassler Mar 2024 #46
Well, to be fair.... COL Mustard Mar 2024 #50
At his Twitter/X account, he doubles down. Archae Mar 2024 #51
C'mon Earl. Nobody believes that. Gonzaga is a Japanese monster & those are probably immigrants from Japan. Wonder Why Mar 2024 #52
Just when you think they can't get any dumber... llmart Mar 2024 #53
Republicans consider intelligence to be elitist Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 #54
It was at VGNonly Mar 2024 #56
A mind on a steady diet of conspiracy theories is a terrible thing to waste. summer_in_TX Mar 2024 #60
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2024 #61
As far as manipulative politicians are concerned, this isn't idiocy, it's good politics Silent3 Mar 2024 #62
Kick dalton99a Mar 2024 #64
This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Mar 2024 #65
Our local news DownriverDem Mar 2024 #66

Lonestarblue

(12,237 posts)
4. A buss is a kiss, so how can three kisses be loaded with illegal invaders!
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 10:57 AM
Mar 2024

Did Republican legislators never go to school to learn anything? Their lack of knowledge and their hateful biases are appalling for people in the public eye representing our country.

Disaffected

(5,352 posts)
32. You may be on to something there.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 01:40 PM
Mar 2024

Plurals would become less ambiguous and the same could apply to most any object.

Might even be worth getting some petitionnns going.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,172 posts)
57. The rule I learned in grade school, lo those many years ago,
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 09:49 PM
Mar 2024

was that in a short word, if the vowel was a short one, like bus, you double the final consonant and add "es", hence busses.

Think of it this way. The word abuse. Pronounce it. Okay. The plural is abuses. Pronounce that. Now go with buses, except that it would be pronounced like abuses without the initial a. Which is why the plural of bus is busses, not buses.

ShazzieB

(19,395 posts)
49. Yes, lots of VERY tall people!
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 06:11 PM
Mar 2024

That alone should have tipped him off. But he evidently thinks there are people going to Mexico and hand picking only the very tallest guys to fly up here! Can't you just picture someone running around down there with yardsticks and stuff, measuring all the men waiting to get into the U.S.?

Because God knows we don't have any tall people here! We have to go south of the border to find any, and.... oh, we DO have tall people in this country? I see. All righty then...in that case, please explain to me why we would need to go to such lengths to import them from Mexico.

Take your time. I'll wait.

IronLionZion

(47,535 posts)
42. Those buses crossed some borders alright
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 04:15 PM
Mar 2024

They crossed state borders from Spokane Washington to Detroit Michigan.

Crowman2009

(2,954 posts)
20. Which is ironic conserding the he lives in the Detroit-metro area which is chock-full of Catholics.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 12:22 PM
Mar 2024

A lot of whom are not white.

Kid Berwyn

(19,105 posts)
15. "Spectacularly stupid"
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:41 AM
Mar 2024

Perfect summation of the entirety of Mich. State Rep. Matt Maddock.

MyOwnPeace

(17,287 posts)
43. This is what tRump did......
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 04:42 PM
Mar 2024

He made it possible for idiots to actually say their stupid shit in public and not be ashamed of being a f**king idiot!


Crowman2009

(2,954 posts)
19. Another racist white-flight dickhead who thinks Gonzaga is one of dem dere foreign words.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 12:20 PM
Mar 2024

AverageOldGuy

(2,461 posts)
21. From time to time . . .
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 12:28 PM
Mar 2024

. . . I encounter something that is so blazingly stupid, all I can do is slam my head into the desk.

Now I have a headache!!!

Thunderbeast

(3,597 posts)
27. Jimmy Kimmel will have fun with this..
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 01:15 PM
Mar 2024

One of his long-time gags is positing that Gonzaga does not exist.

jmowreader

(51,855 posts)
35. After he started doing that...
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:01 PM
Mar 2024

Gonzaga’s athletics department asked the company who prints the T-shirts they sell to create one that says “Gonzaga Exists” on it. It sells well.

Thunderbeast

(3,597 posts)
28. Jimmy Kimmel will have fun with this..
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 01:15 PM
Mar 2024

One of his long-time gags is positing that Gonzaga does not exist.

jmowreader

(51,855 posts)
37. Well...ya know..."Spokane" does sound a little foreign.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:06 PM
Mar 2024

He probably can’t even pronounce it.

The “spo” is pronounced like it looks.

Guys like this pronounce “kane” like the cane he waves around while telling kids to get off his lawn.

It’s pronounced like the can of whoop-ass Biden’s fixin’ to open on Trump in November.

niyad

(122,093 posts)
38. As a matterof curiosity, just how many people are there involved with
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:32 PM
Mar 2024

Last edited Thu Mar 28, 2024, 08:02 PM - Edit history (1)

a college baskeetball team? Though it may be the angle, those buses look huge!

LisaM

(28,969 posts)
58. They probably also take the cheerleaders and the band.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:38 PM
Mar 2024

We were in Spokane last weekend and there were buses and a police escort waiting outside of the Davenport Hotel to take the St. Mary's Gaels to a game. Inside the lobby were about 20 cheerleaders, about 30-40 band members, and the mascot.

Dem2theMax

(10,565 posts)
44. I thoroughly enjoyed tweeting that directly to Matthew Maddock.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 04:44 PM
Mar 2024

I encourage others to join me.

If you are still on Twitter, @matthewmaddock

COL Mustard

(7,203 posts)
50. Well, to be fair....
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 06:14 PM
Mar 2024

They ARE from out of state, and you know, some are probably...brown...

Archae

(47,010 posts)
51. At his Twitter/X account, he doubles down.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 06:29 PM
Mar 2024

When a couple people correct him, he calls them "kommies."


Wonder Why

(4,946 posts)
52. C'mon Earl. Nobody believes that. Gonzaga is a Japanese monster & those are probably immigrants from Japan.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 06:45 PM
Mar 2024

summer_in_TX

(3,444 posts)
60. A mind on a steady diet of conspiracy theories is a terrible thing to waste.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:07 AM
Mar 2024

Just say "No!"

 

Silent3

(15,909 posts)
62. As far as manipulative politicians are concerned, this isn't idiocy, it's good politics
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:08 AM
Mar 2024

Now, maybe Maddock is stupid enough to have believed this idiocy himself.

On the other hand, he might know it's total bullshit... very effective bullshit for riling up his base.

Response to EarlG (Original post)

DownriverDem

(6,741 posts)
66. Our local news
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 09:46 AM
Mar 2024

Channel 7 Detroit reached out to the Michigan GOP and Maddock. The MI GOP offered no response and Maddock doubled down on his lies.

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