• moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    3 hours ago

    This is an old Steven Wright joke. It’s fine to steal it and use it on your young relatives, but stealing it and giving it to a bigot is kind of shitty.

    Also it flows better without the “already”. It’s supposed to be punchy and absurd. Omit needless words.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      29·
      6 hours ago

      FTG!
      Chuck Norris Fact No. 39: “Chuck Norris stared evil in the eye and it went into hiding.” America’s favorite action star is doing just that this election – calling on evangelical Christians across the nation to join him in crushing the creep of socialism under President Obama.

      Norris and his wife, Gena, have filmed a public service announcement, unveiled exclusively at WND, wherein the two urge Christians to help save the country in November.

      “We are here to talk about a growing concern we all share,” Chuck Norris explains. “If we look to history, our great country and freedom are under attack. We’re at a tipping point and, quite possibly, our country as we know it may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which our country is headed.”

      Gena warns that voter apathy among evangelicals in 2008 may have contributed to Obama’s election in the first place.

      “With our country at a crossroads, Chuck and I have asked ourselves what we can be doing to help support this great country we’re blessed to live in and how we can encourage our like-minded American brothers and sisters to unite and let their voices be heard,” she said. “It is estimated that in the 2008 election, 30 million evangelical Christians stayed home on voting day and Obama won the election by 10 million votes.”

      Chuck cautions Christians about the cost of doing nothing while the nation spirals into a state of socialism from which there will be no return.

      “We know you love your family and your freedom as much as Gena and I do,” he says in his appeal to Americans. “And it is because of that we can no longer sit quietly or stand on the sidelines and watch our country go the way of socialism or something much worse.”

      Gena urged Christians to register and cast their votes on Election Day to ensure “our voices will be heard.”

      Chuck recalled the cautionary words of great patriots on the subject of preserving liberty:

      "As Edmund Burke said, ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men and women do nothing.’

      “Our great president, Ronald Reagan said, ‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.’”

      Likewise, Gena noted, “President Reagan went on to say that ‘You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.’”