hey heads up if you get a youtube ad that’s chris pratt telling you not to skip, take his advice. it’s an ad for the Lego Movie 2 that literally plays the entire first movie
This Man Legislates isn’t even a year old but it already has 102 posts documenting some of the most outrageous behavior from elected officials across the nation. I started this blog after years of frustration over legislators doing and saying things that should disqualify a person from holding an elected office, but somehow don’t. And I’m glad to see that it’s caught on. We’ve had more than 20K page views and nearly 10K notes!
Outrageous statements and actions will always garner some media attention, but no one seems to cover this broadly. These aren’t isolated incidents, and while I enjoy poking fun at terrible legislators, what I’m really trying to show is that these individuals are merely symptoms of a much bigger problem with our electoral system. My hope is that those who visit this blog come to laugh but leave outraged that our tax dollars pay their salaries.
Below are my top 10 favorite posts from 2015. Enjoy!
“Men, by and large, make more because of some of the things that they do,” he said. “Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.”
“Slave owners were very good Christians and good people,” he said, adding that he disagrees with slavery itself. “They weren’t terrible, rotten, horrible people. And that’s how I see gay people.”
But the nine and ten-year-olds were in for a brutal lesson in realpolitik. At the start of the day, legislators turned and applauded to children for coming to the statehouse. When lawmakers began to consider the bill, however, Republican Rep. Warren Groen—who has devoted his career to combating abortionand marriage equality—took the floor to denounce the Red Tail Hawk. “It grasps [its prey] with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb,” he explained as the children watched. “And I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”(Slate, emphasis mine)
“I actually called a gentleman, it was a couple months ago, he was so upset, he took his children to an animated movie … guess who the villain was? Evil Mr. Businessperson. It’s insidious. That propaganda starts very early,”
“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience, presumably referring to HB 2, the omnibus Texas abortion bill that included a 20-week ban based on junk science. “It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California.”
He loudly said that if he were not a Christian, he would go across the street to the state Supreme Court building, douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire to “protest the evil in that building.”
“Scrolling through the conversation, however, Smith found more than sexually suggestive messages. He found an unsolicited picture of the public servant’s not-so-public parts.”(WaPo)
Thanks Ken for being one of a small, but real, minority of Democrats who’ve made this tumblr. You are proof that horrible legislators are a bipartisan phenomenon!
With 8,754 notes, this was our most popular post of 2015 by a wide margin. You might ask yourself, why would Matt Schaefer want to legislate this? Of course he has an answer.
Schaefer said that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”
There you have it. Thanks so much for reading, supporting, and sharing this tumblr in 2015. Can’t wait to see what our favorite elected officials do next year!
Next month you will be able to purchase a Simpsons-themed LEGO set depicting their house and complete with LEGO Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Homer, Marge and Ned Flanders! A LEGO-themed episode The Simpsons, now in its 25th season, will also air in May.
So I submitted my Build shirt to Qwertee, but it needs to be voted up if it wants any chance of it being printed. If you like it, and wouldn’t mind it on a shirt, I’d love it if you’d give it a quick vote and share :) Cheers!
-Jonny
Repost from earlier this morning: This shirt is currently on around 80 votes, and would love it if you could do a quick log in and vote for it and leave a cheeky comment if you like the design. Promise this will be the last you see of this. Unless it gets printed, then one day in the future it will be like today.
Thanks for everyone who has voted so far! As usual I don’t know how many votes you need to get considered for Qwertee, but my last one got 300 ish and didn’t get selected. Might have been that it was a naff design though. I can never tell.
UNIKITTY is getting a brand new full-length sneak peek THIS FRIDAY @6:15PM on CARTOON NETWORK!! Tune in to check it out! @lynnvwang & I can’t wait for you all to see it!
UNIKITTY IS COMING TONIGHT!! Tune into CARTOON NETWORK @6:10 to check out a super spooky sneak peak at the show @lynnvwang & I have been producing with our amazing crew at Warner Bros for the last few years! Boo Boo!!
GUYS!!! It’s been a long time coming, but this Friday the show @lynnvwang and I have been working on for ages is finally getting a sneak peek!! Tune into Cartoon Network Friday at 6:10pm for a super spooky first look at UNIKITTY!!!
Also a huge shout out and big thanks to our amazingly talented crew and everyone who worked so hard to get this episode out the door and this crazy show off the ground. You guys are the absolute best in the world!!
What’s So Great About That?: Episode 9 The Lego Movie: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity
The Lego Movie has been theorised to comment on many things, from capitalism to copyright laws, but here’s a look at what it might mean for our own identity.
Inktober Day 5: Build. Be creative and free to express yourself, regardless of the opinions of others. Forget about being ordinary or standing out: just be the best you. Just don’t step on legos…. and remember: everything is awesome.
