Seven Politicians Making Fools Out of You
And not only on April Fools’ Day...
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White HouseToday is April Fools' Day, the one day of the
year set aside for trying to prank friends or strangers without
appearing juvenile. Newspapers, magazines, and even television
programs have used the day to fool people.
Among the most well-known are the BBC’s 1957 spaghetti tree hoax, which featured footage purportedly showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees, and George Plimpton’s 1985 Sports Illustrated story about a New York Mets prospect named Hayden Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch who could throw a 168 mile per hour fastball and pitched wearing a single hiking boot. The Mets played along with the hoax, allowing Sports Illustrated to photograph someone playing the role of Finch with various Mets figures and even assigning him a jersey and locker room.
According to novelist Jonathan Dee, who was Plimpton’s assistant at the time, Plimpton was a "wreck" while writing the Sports Illustrated piece, fearful of a flop. "I still remember my naïve astonishment at the sight of a world-famous, successful writer actually agonizing over whether something he’d written was good enough, funny enough, believable enough," wrote Dee, "or whether the whole thing would wind up making him seem like a national jackass."
So instead of risking looking like a jackass by trying to fool you, I've rounded up some jackass politicians making fools out of you 365 days a year, whether you expect it or not. The list is by no means a complete one...
California Senate1. LELAND
YEE
California state Sen. Leland Yee (D-Senate District 8) might have wished the feds waited until this week to reveal their 137-page criminal complaint against him, charging the anti-gun legislator with political corruption and conspiracy to traffic guns. "Anti-Gun Lawmaker Charged With Gun Trafficking," after all, is the stuff of The Onion headlines (and of the "Not The Onion" subreddit).
Yee’s anti-gun stances are typical among Democrats in places like California, but Yee was an especially outspoken advocate of more gun control. He had no issue using the 2013 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, to push his agenda: "4 weeks after Newtown I'm still shocked & prepared to take steps to stop gun violence,” Yee tweeted last January, while peddling a bill to "strengthen" a ban (how do you strengthen a ban?) on "assault weapons" in California.
No matter how strong a ban, a product can rarely, if ever, be eliminated from the marketplace. Witness the drug war. And there are always your Leland Yees, members of the political class ready to demonize a product and restrict your freedoms while planning to profit from it themselves.
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Is being an April Fool a pre-existing condition? Thank god for obamacare.
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Yee’s anti-gun stances are typical among Democrats in places like California, but Yee was an especially outspoken advocate of more gun control. He had no issue using the 2013 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, to push his agenda
It makes perfect sense, really. More gun control = bigger black market = more opportunities for gun trafficking. He's really just taking cronyism to its next level.
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"This isn't even my final form."
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Nooo!!!
I love Joe Biden.
He has done more good with his stupidity then all the others combined.
Note: I am referring to Joe screwing up Obama's anti-gay marriage agenda so bad that it forced Obama to become pro-gay marriage.
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It sure turned out ok for our first gay president.
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Geez, tell me something I don't know.
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Harry Reid (R-Nev)???
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That must be the brown M&M.
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Obama and Boner. That picture made me throw up in my mouth.
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It is sad to say, but the one douche bag from that list that turns my stomach the most is Warmonger McCain.
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I quite often find myself thinking that things like Harry Reid and France must be some vast conspiracy to see how far off the deep end "progressives" can go and the sheep will follow.
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Don't ever use the word "bemoan" again, seriously, don't!
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I find this list incomplete without Pelosi.
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The one thing all these politicians have in common, is they lie to the public and those that elected them. Given they are frauds, Michael Moore should support their beheading. But he has a different standard for political liars, than he does for liars in GM.
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Oof. I wish some of these were just April Fool's jokes.
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Given they are frauds, Michael Moore should support their beheading. But he has a different standard for political liars, than he does for liars in GM.
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Making a fool out of us, Reason readers? You're saying that as libertarians we are too naive and/or dumb to see through the liberty-limiting and criminal actions of these big government boobs? Why don't you take a great, big, flying leap into Lake Blockhead.
