Politicians Say The Dumbest Things

[Jem]

After reading another post in the IMO forum, I thought it would be funny to post some the most nonsensical, dumb, funny or "effed up" things that our politicians have said. ANY politician, right, left and in between, from any country. Sometimes (most of the time) discussions about politics and politicians get way too heated, so lets have some fun (at the expense of our "beloved" leaders)

I'll start with our current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

“We have to rethink elements as basic as time and space.”
- ....riiighhht...

"I'm not going to go around reciting Pi to the 19th decibel or you know wave my grades, or test scores to people."
- ...I am so smart, I am so smart, S M R T...

"The budget will balance itself"
- ........ahhh...no.

"I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. If something important happens, someone will tell me."
-...entitled much?...

''Why aren't we talking more about the kind of humanitarian aid that Canada can and must be engaged in, rather than trying to whip out our CF-18s and show them how big they are?"

- can we say...inappropriate?

"I am not going to talk about this anymore because I am setting a new standard for transparency."
-....wait...what?

 

[Winchester]

I can't. Oh, I could. I could sit here all day, writing about the stupid, idiotic things that are coming out of our WH. But I can't. This thread would be shut down so fast, it would make your head spin.

 

[JamesCalifornia]

` ~ This will be a fun thread ...

 

[muffy]

I can't. Oh, I could. I could sit here all day, writing about the stupid, idiotic things that are coming out of our WH. But I can't. This thread would be shut down so fast, it would make your head spin.

I agree with you a 100%.

 

[AbbysMom]

This thread would be shut down so fast, it would make your head spin.

Just waiting. It’s only a matter of time.

 

[Willowy]

Haha, keeping track would be a full-time job!

But here's one that's pretty recent and fairly egregious. The GOP tweeted that Elizabeth Warren wants to raise taxes to increase the minimum wage. That's. . .not how things work. It would be nice not to have to explain to the people running this country how wages work.

 

[Talien]

"I did not inhale."
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
- Bill Clinton

As dumb as GWB sounded at times and as immature as Donald Trump is, I gotta say Bill Clinton still tops them all.

 

[DreamerRose]

Sometimes newscasters say stupid things too. We are so used to their patter we don't hear it, but listen closely sometime. On our local news broadcast a few days ago, the announcer said, "That story will be on our 5 o'clock news at 6 o'clock."

 

[JamesCalifornia]

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is ... "

~ William Jefferson Clinton​

“ This was a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water ..."

~ Donald J Trump
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[aliceneko]

The US is having some competition with dumb politicians from us in the UK!

"No one uses the Irish border" - Boris Johnson. This man is the main candidate for our next PM

"Let's go back to the Troubles" - Jacob Rees-Moggs (I can't stand the man) referring to the IRA terrorism incidents in Northern Ireland

"It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school" - Dianne Abbott after she sent her son to St. Paul's, an expensive private school in central London

 

[Jem]

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
Dan Quayle

''Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.''
President George W. Bush

''For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks.''
President George H.W. Bush

''You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.''
President George W. Bush (speaking to a single mother of three)

''I've now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.''
Barack Obama (Campaigning)

"They don't call me Tyrannosaurus Sex for nothing.''
Ted Kennedy

''We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.''
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

"A zebra does not change its spots.''
Al Gore

 

[Jem]

''If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.''
Barry Goldwater

''Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.''
President George W. Bush

''I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.''
Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

[Jem]

''Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.''
Marion Barry (former mayor of Washington DC)

''If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.''
Bill Clinton (speaking about "Juanita" an Incan Mummy on display at the National Geographic museum.)

 

[Jem]

Although at the time this may have been an acceptable concern, now, it just sounds ridiculous...

''As you well know, Mr. President, railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed."
then governor and future president Martin Van Buren, 1829

 

[Norachan]

“It is socially accepted as something that falls within the realm of being occupationally necessary and appropriate,”

Japan’s health and labour minister, Takumi Nemoto, commenting on the fact that most Japanese companies insist women wear high heels to work.

 

[Willowy]

“It is socially accepted as something that falls within the realm of being occupationally necessary and appropriate,”

Japan’s health and labour minister, Takumi Nemoto, commenting on the fact that most Japanese companies insist women wear high heels to work.

I saw that! Oooh, I'd like to make HIM wear high heels to work every day. He'd be screaming for mercy within 3 days. We'd see how "occupationally necessary and appropriate" he thought they were after that.

 

[Lari]

I'm just going to link to this post of Blago's greatest hits: VIDEO: Blago's 10 craziest quotes

 

[DreamerRose]

"For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," he wrote. "They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part)."

- Donald Trump on Twitter

 

[JamesCalifornia]

Today at 3:45 PM #11

Jem
Thread Starter / TCS Member & Famous Quotes Research Pundit

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Oh boy - thanks . I needed that ! Today was "one of those days " .

 

[tarasgirl06]

"For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," he wrote. "They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part)."

- Donald Trump on Twitter

If it wasn't so scary that this person is the most powerful leader on earth and the person in control of way too much, it'd be comedic.