America Speaking Out

America Speaking Out was a webshite created in 2010 by the United States Republican Party to solicit citizen input. The site was buggy, ran very slowly, and often rejected posts as inappropriate because they contain words like "basement", "satisfied", "growth", "enlargement", or "excited". The site provided many laughs on the Poe's Law level.

The site had several issue sections using obvious framing, from "the sanctity of human life" to "defeating extremists who threaten American security".

Unfortunately (for the Republican Party), the site didn't quite seem to be working out the way they intended. A sample of what the site attracted:

This atrocious example of bad framing and Poe's Law flypaper was paid for with tax dollars.

The site also awarded "badges" to major contributors.

Users embarrassing the Republican party by submitting either ridiculous or liberal/progressive suggestions is one of few instances in internet history where trolling was used for a good cause.

In response, the Democratic Party attempted to use another G.O.P. web project, "YouCut", through which citizens can propose and vote on which government spending to cut, to propose cutting off any taxpayer funds to finance America Speaking Out.

Tragically, the site turned into a boring old blog.

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Some commenters submitted many authentic crazy quotes that were documented by FSTDT. For example: