Apparently Neither Is Being Governor
No, seriously. He said that. Out loud.
“Running for the presidency is not an IQ test. It is a test of an individual’s resolve, it is a test of an individual’s philosophy, it is a test of an individual’s life experiences,” he told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt in an interview that aired Thursday. “And I think Americans are ready for a leader that will give them a great hope about the future.”
And then as if to prove the whole bottoming IQ thing and providing hope to people, Perry explains that God wants you to be poor so shut the hell up about it.
Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry shrugged off wealth inequality, saying the Bible showed poverty could never be eliminated.
“Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion,” Perry told the Washington Post.
Okay, so Texas is the fifth-highest level of income inequality in the U.S but Perry says that’s okay because God said it was okay. Besides, there’s this ….
He said a young man who dropped out of high school in South Texas could make more than $100,000 a year as a truck driver.
Perry acknowledged that the richest Texans have experienced the greatest amount of earnings growth, but dismissed the notion that income inequality is a problem in the state, saying, “We don’t grapple with that here.”
Where? Where are truck drivers making $100,000 a year? Maybe they are, if they are hauling drugs.
Okay, so maybe half that. But, Perry says you could hope your wage would double. Expect no help from him, though, because he is admittedly dumber than a sack of hammers.
Now here’s the sad part, he said all this butt crazy stuff after he “has been working with speech coaches from a Republican firm run by a former actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company.” Well see, that’s the problem right there. They should have gotten a cast member from Dumb and Dumber.
Thanks to everybody and their Aunt Betty Lou for the heads up.
“Dumber than a sack of hammers.”
I’ll give points to the hammers.
1I’m pretty sure that when he said that a high school dropout truck driver in South Texas could earn $100K per year, he was thinking of very specific sorts of cargo.
2Perry’s reference to the poor being always with us got Fred (the Slacktivist) Clark into high dudgeon. Those unfamiliar with Fred might want to make his acquaintance as he is a truly rara avis — an evangelical Christian who espouses liberal policies. Read what he had to say about Rick and all the others who repeat this line without understanding it.
3http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/12/10/ignorant-christians-need-to-stfu-about-the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you-until-they-can-be-bothered-to-understand-what-jesus-actually-said/
Well, Rick Perry running for President and once again losing in a ludicrous manner does give me some hope about the future.
4I think he just admitted that he knows he is stupid.
5Will he now have a British accent? To go with the glasses, of course.
6omg, he has just gone from dumb and dumber to dumbererer! The Bible did not say that the poor are fair game to keep poor and to act as convenient targets when they are down so you can kick or stomp them to death until you feel better. Ten to one he thinks Matthew 25 is a commie librul plot! Well, Christmas is coming. Maybe he will get a visit from 3 ghosts who can straighten him out.
7rick is right!!! this was proven by george W, IQ doesn’t matter
8@ Don A: looking forward to reading that link! Perry would have whined about the nard not being sold and the money distributed, (cuz it wasn’t going to or on him!) too – and also like the Pharisees, he would have hated Jesus’ hogging the limelight! What an idiotic a$$ he is!
9Perry was thinking about the south Texas truck driver who is paid wages, but additionally collects retirement benefits from both of his previous jobs. That adds up to $100,000. What? Truckers can’t do that?
10Thank you, Don of Pennsyltucky, for the link. I have listened to my go-to-church-every-day-and-watch-FoxNews-the-rest-of-the-day mother pull the same quote as Rick and misunderstand it the same way. And 100k for a truck driver? I’ve seen local delivery jobs advertise at $10/hour. If you earn $10/hour and work 24 hours a day for 365 days a year, you get $87,600.
11Did somebody say Shakespeare? Mmmm, nothing like barbecue and iambic pentameter.
To be or not to be the President?
The current Texas Governor opined
That any tea bag White House resident
Need only be the one who loudest whined
About the state of states, whose state-y rights
To do whate’er the hell they damn well please
Are limited by all of those non-whites
Who live a life of poor and jobless ease.
Who needs a brain? It’s just a waste of space
That otherwise could be a head of air.
You don’t need smarts to win a White House race;
You just need smart-ish specs and good-ish hair.
Just be the village idiot you are
12And drive off with the G.O.P. clown car.
Whoever said pRick had a “room temperature IQ” was wrong. He has a “meat locker IQ”.
13Not even Sir Laurence Olivier nor Sir John Gielgud could put lipstick on the pig that is pRick Perry.
14Bravo, Chipster, your flowing poetry doth paint
15A likeness of Sir Perry, wizard that he ain’t,
But like his ilk he doth aspire
To be anointed Presidential Squire
of jesters.
I’ve got Chris Matthews on the TV at the moment and whose dulcet tones should come floating into the computer room as I am reading this article but … OMG … it’s pRick Perry. I’m sorry, but that was just too doggone weird!
daChip and Maryelle … you both done good with your poetry!!
16y’all are just inspired tonight.
17Friends out in Midland explained that oil companies around there, and also around the state, are hiring everyone they can get to work the fracking sites in West Texas, to the point that businesses in town can’t get enough minimum wage employees just stay around and do the lower paid jobs. One of the jobs that’s been taking low-level employees is truck driving for the oil companies and oil service companies. In Midland, for a few years now, apartments and RV parks have been pretty much at capacity, housing the influx of transient workers, and Midland houses sell for big bucks in all that housing shortage, before they even make it onto the market. Yes, nowadays, truckers with oilfield businesses are paid huge amounts, up to and including $100K, to haul for the oil companies and the many oilfield support companies. A newbie driver rides to work the first time with someone and, after a few paychecks, can buy his own very nice pickup. This has been a wild fracking market for a number of years now, all around the state, and someone with a commercial drivers license can make a LOT of money driving a truck, working long hours at a time. Most likely, as the cost of fuel drops, the job market probably won’t be as steady a moneymaker as it has been. But I’ve heard of truck drivers with the right oil support companies, and working very long hours with little down time, can make a LOT of money…way above the average of other trucking endeavors.
18So, between IQ, philosophy, resolve, and life experiences, Perry has resolve. So does a cat wanting to be fed. So does a horsefly looking for a horse’s butt to bite. So does a chihuahua for your ankle. It’s not impressive.
19Running for President in the Republican primary is so an IQ test. As with golf, low scores are the winners.
20Watch closely folks. Perry will have a spectacular campaign while it lasts, but he will be done and gone in the blink of an eye. It will take him less time to self-destruct than that guy who went off the side of the ski jump in the video that was used for so many years to introduce the ABC Wide World of Sports.
21LynnN, yes.
22The article Don in Pennsyltucky quoted is very good. Thanks for sharing.
23“Running for the presidency is not an IQ test.”
I have just one word, but it’s a long one.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
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