Tuesday, November 04, 2014

GOTV.

Election season has brought the usual crop of conservatives telling you that too many people vote so you filthy paupers should desist and to leave the franchise to your betters. In the last ditch, knowing that you won't vote Republican, they may try and steer you toward their deceptive niche brand. But by and large they'd rather you just gave up.

National Review legacy pledge Jonah Goldberg has been doing this routine for years but never gets any better at it. Perhaps sensing his audience has become jaded, this year he's added a hook designed to excite them:


They just can't quit Lena Dunham, see; she's like the anti-Fox Fembot and her very existence, even on the fringes of popular art, enrages them. (I understand Goldberg's second choice was "Why Obama's birth certificate shouldn't be allowed to vote.") National Review even has an actual editorial about Dunham, as if she were ISIS or the Cyprus question.

Back to Goldberg: How's the content? Bet you're sorry you asked:
Dunham says that "voting is kind of a gateway drug to 'getting involved.'" 
This is a widely held view and, as far as I can tell, there is absolutely no truth to it. But even if voting boosted civic participation, the very idea puts the cart before the horse. It is like saying you should buy a car because that way you might learn to drive or take the test and then study for it.
Similarly, it's like reading a book to become smart, which is backwards; everybody knows that only smart people with Van Dykes and designer specs can read books cuz they've been properly educated in liberal fasciology -- try and read without that, and you might learn the wrong things.

Anyway, you know how they feel about you voting -- and in America's redder precincts on Election Day, their message is spread by deeds rather than words. So let's go ahead and vote, then, if only because it pisses off the idiots.

UPDATE. So, when's the impeachment start?

309 comments:

  1. why my fat man's goatee shouldn't be allowed to vote

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  2. Thanks to Kris Kobach, voting is kind of hypothetical for me, so it looks like the Load won this time. Maybe I'll just get that copy of the first season of Girls out of the library and watch that in protest.

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  3. Bizarro Mike12:08 PM

    Supreme power is derived from a farcical aquatic ceremony, not a mandate from the masses. Take heed, little brains!

    I'm sure denial-of-franchise fits in somehow with Goldberg's famous olde fashioned Manchester liberalism, but I'm not venturing into the gas to find out how.

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  4. FlipYrWhig12:12 PM

    Once again, Jonah understands analogies the way a fish needs a bicycle.

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  5. Brother Yam12:23 PM

    He's a dumb person's idea of a Josh Marshall. Sorta like an idiot version of Spock's Van Dyked double.

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  6. Derelict12:32 PM

    Dunham says that "voting is kind of a gateway drug to 'getting involved.'"
    This is a widely held view and, as far as I can tell, there is absolutely no truth to it. But even if voting boosted civic participation, the very idea puts the cart before the horse.


    I'm sure Jonah has once again consulted that eminent researcher Prof. Otto Yerass to get his data to back this claim. Yet, Jonah the Fail can't help but state. "Even if I'm wrong, let me mangle this analogy in ways nobody has ever done before, or with such care."

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  7. Helmut Monotreme12:35 PM

    So, the ignorant, spiteful, lazy blowhard, who is reliably wrong on every important issue, says not to vote? Sounds legit. Following his advice is like betting on the Washington Generals, he's clearly due for a win.

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  8. Zencomix12:39 PM

    A man may write for the National Review because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he writes for The National Review.

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  9. <>Election month is bad, but it is a symptom of a deeper problem that
    makes the underlying problem worse. As George Orwell said, "A man may
    take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail
    all the more completely because he drinks."

    Jonah should be restricted by law from ever quoting Orwell ever again.

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  10. Oh, and happy day, I get this as my chosen comment on the article. Thanks, L.A. Times!

    The notion that our democracy is better when more vote is one of the biggest canards going. Why in the world would we want the most ignorant, disengaged, apathetic and lazy -- aka, the Democrat base -- determining the future of the country?
    BarackMugabe
    at 9:21 AM November 04, 2014

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  11. Did MY part to annoy the Right; I voted this morning.

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  12. mortimer200012:49 PM

    I'm beginning to think the best part about voting is that you can elect someone like Barack Obama to irk the shit out of fuckwads like Jonah fucking Goldberg.

    Also, "shouldn't be allowed to vote"? Gee, Jonah, that sounds kind of, what's the word again... fascist?

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  13. Jonah is part of the Democrat base now?

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  14. DocAmazing12:56 PM

    Jonah arguing for a more informed electorate is like Colonel Sanders arguing for chicken longevity.

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  15. BigHank5312:57 PM

    Why can't they quit Lena Dunham? Because she's damn near the embodiment of their mythological limousine liberal: she's urban, has short hair, works in entertainment, isn't conventionally attractive, and ordinary people still like her and buy her work. Which means one of two things:

    1. The conservative model of the world is broken, or
    2. the Left has somehow brainwashed decent, upstanding American citizens into consuming the tainted cultural products of a bra-burning, hairy-legged, man-hating demon from the pit of Hell.



    Guess which one they're going with.

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  16. BigHank5312:59 PM

    How can you tell which desk is Jonah's at the National Review? It's the one where the thesaurus and Barlett's Quotations are chained to the desk to keep them from flushing themselves down the toilet in despair.

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  17. tigrismus1:21 PM

    Hmm, so "Tyranny of Cliches" was actually about his cruel abuse of the poor cliches?

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  18. dmsilev1:29 PM

    Why Lena Dunham Should Be Allowed To Vote: She's a US citizen over the age of 18. Period. Full Stop. End of discussion.


    (Note: "Should", as opposed to "Can, subject to the whims of the Roberts Court")

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  19. Jay B.1:36 PM

    They've taken to heart a consumer culture that sees closing the sale as the only important metric.


    The shallowest capitalist in the history of mankind has never met a puddle he can't drown in.

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  20. Anyway, you know how they feel about you votingYes, I really do. Yet again, I rediscover my capacity for surprise. There are members of Congress who have endorsed repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. The approach to voter restrictions subsequent to Crawford v. Marion County Election Board has become sufficiently egregious that even Richard Posner, who voted with the majority on the 7th Circuit in Crawford, effectively said "whoopsie" over Wisconsin's shenanigans. The Supreme Court has nullified vast swathes of the Voting Rights Act by flagrantly disregarding the Fifteenth Amendment. Confederate states have been rushing to reimpose poll taxes. A Republican secretary of state in Georgia can disappear 40,000 voter registrations with no recourse. Fox News has already declared single young women too stupid to vote. And Jonah and his fascist commentariat are openly asserting that it's actually bad for democracy when more people vote. I knew that dirty tricks and disenfranchisement were going to be the the name of the game for continued Republican power; I just somehow didn't expect them to so openly embrace it. At this rate, in 2016 the GOP presidential candidate will officially be running on a platform of restricting the franchise to white property-owning conservative Christian men ... and getting at least 47% of the vote.

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  21. tigrismus1:42 PM

    the most ignorant, disengaged, apathetic and lazy -- aka, the Democrat base

    Let me guess, his last screed was against "Ivory Tower" professors, liberal activists, and/or the working poor.

    Anyway, fuck that guy. People who work harder and have more sense in their pinkies than he does also pay taxes and have legitimate concerns about the government that purports to represent them, hell yeah our democracy is better when they vote. Plus the fact that this asshole's people get in and fuck the country up when the people he scorns don't vote is absolute proof of this. I mean Jesus, how long will it take to fix Bush et alia's mistakes? We're still not completely recovered from Reagan's.

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  22. I don't have cable, so I've never seen Lena Dunham's show.


    It isn't overtly political, is it? I've been getting the impression the conservatives don't like her because she's nude sometimes and not properly embarrassed for being slightly overweight, or something like that.

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  23. Kordo1:49 PM

    I will always upvote a good Monty Python reference, especially one from my favorite scene.

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  24. The Dixie Chicks weren't overtly political, either, and I'm sure they're still pursuing their vendetta against Natalie Maines.

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  25. KatWillow1:53 PM

    She doesn't look like a Fox Barbie. She's home grown, as opposed to fox's assembled straight from the factory-box.

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  26. Kordo1:53 PM

    This comment is wildly inaccurate; no self-respecting pig would let Jonah talk them into sex.

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  27. I voted today.

    Along with encouraging people to vote, can we also encourage our Party to return to a 50 State Strategy?

    The Rahm Emanuel-Steve Israel-Debbie Wasserman Schultz "recruit and support right-wing assholes" plan is not working very well. For us, that is. Obviously, it suits the big corporations just fine.
    ~

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  28. FlipYrWhig2:03 PM

    the most ignorant, disengaged, apathetic and lazy -- aka, the Democrat base


    This guy is one "thug" short of Racist Bingo.

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  29. Kordo2:04 PM

    Is there anything so tragic as unrequited love? The Korner Kidz want Dunham's body so bad the slobber almost drips out of the screen. I do give Loadpants some credit: at least he's being open about his Fascist leanings. You don't often see that level of self-acceptance from this crowd.

    Myself, I hope the Reps do take the Senate. The lesson of the Bush Years has clearly been forgotten, so a refresher ahead of 2016 is called for. They'll let the Freak Flag fly for the next two years, and scare hell out of everyone, then get their clocks cleaned.

    A painful remedy, to beaked, but sometimes you just hafta lance the boil...

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  30. thimker32:06 PM

    "...and, as far as I can tell..." is this Jonah tell, or mandated NR lexical phrase?

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  31. It's a particularly appropriate scene too! It shows that even ordinary people can be politically astute; that's one of the things I like about it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA

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  32. You do know who ditched the 50 State Strategy, right, Kordo?

    And as bad as Tim Kaine was, DWS is far worse.

    And that couldn't/shouldn't have been a surprise to Our President, given
    her performance as co-chair of the Red-to-Blue committee in 2008
    .
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  33. Man, Lena Dunham gives them the weirdest shame-boner. Just to mess with their heads (more), she should come out and claim that, since she's a member of the 1%, she's decided to vote Republican. The scramble to delete terabytes (Lenabytes?) of blog posts would be mind-boggling.

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  34. redoubtagain2:20 PM

    See, this is what I think of when I hear "Fox body."
    (The missus learned to drive in a '79 Mustang. POS kept shedding parts; when the flywheel lost too many teeth she gave up.)

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  35. susanoftexas2:23 PM

    Oddly, Megan McArdle said the same thing. Ignorant, spiteful, lazy blowhard minds, who are reliably wrong on every important issue, think alike!

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  36. DN Nation2:23 PM

    Alex Pareene's description of J-Load as a "chimp with a monocle" works really well with that profile pic.

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  37. Myself, I hope the Reps do take the Senate. The lesson of the Bush Years
    has clearly been forgotten, so a refresher ahead of 2016 is called for.
    They'll let the Freak Flag fly for the next two years, and scare hell
    out of everyone, then get their clocks cleaned.


    From your mouth to God's ears.

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  38. I get to vote, but so do those other people. It's not fair!

    New frontiers in persecution complex.

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  39. Gromet2:31 PM

    Why, the very idea!

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  40. How can you tell which desk is Jonah's at the National Review?

    The one inside the perimeter of biohazard ribbon?

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  41. susanoftexas2:34 PM

    Yes. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/is-dccc-even-pretending-to-win-tale-of.html
    We can't afford to wait for our party to fight off their leaders, their backers and the establishment Democrats with inch-by-inch gains. We are out of time, out of luck and out of bullets.

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  42. susanoftexas2:36 PM

    These people have been around since Nixon. We need an exorcism to get rid of them.

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  43. Kordo2:39 PM

    Oh, I'm from Florida. Her record is well-known here. I remember her coming out in public and refusing to work against the Diaz-Balart boys. Comity, or some such bushwa.

    I known I'm being callous, but people don't change governments when they're annoyed, or when they're kinda pissed off. They change them when the disaster and the horror and the impossibility of relief have become so glaringly obvious that any possibilty of personal survival seems, not out of reach, but actively under attack. Remember 2008? Remember all those "25 year old political geniuses" who told us the Reps were done? That they'd never dig out from under the pile of blood and body parts, that they were done? I do.

    Yet, here we are. The burned hand teaches best, I believe.

    Whether we'll survive the lesson is another matter...

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  44. Gromet2:39 PM

    Oof, I can't back this way of thinking. I remember friends voting for Nader in 2000 and saying, "If it means Bush wins, that's perfect, because he'll be so bad the country will really learn something." Yeah, well, we learned what it's like to occupy Iraq for a decade and drive the whole world into Great Depression II, and I don't see the GOP expressing a single regret over any of it. They and their base are gunning to do it one more time -- with feeling. (The feeling being extra anger.)

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  45. Kordo2:42 PM

    Love it!

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  46. susanoftexas2:42 PM

    As long as people hope they won't fight. They have to give up hope that things will change.

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  47. dmsilev2:43 PM

    Now I'm wondering how many Allen wrenches and wooden pegs it takes to assemble an Ikea Focksboet.

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  48. Gromet2:44 PM

    They've been around since Fillmore, but they became a big deal when Nixon said, "Hey, let's tell 'em they're the majority and really stoke the furnace of stupid resentment."

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  49. Derelict2:44 PM

    Lance Boils? He's my doctor!

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  50. randomworker2:45 PM

    Jonah Goldberg: The anal wart of culture.

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  51. He's banned for life from TVTropes for crimes against humanity.

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  52. I'm pretty sure "BarackMugabe" counts as a free square.

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  53. Stephen Barlow2:45 PM

    Are you being serious? You have serious issues if you feel that way. Shame on you.

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  54. IYKWIMAITYD.

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  55. Then he immediately follows his weasel-phrase with "absolutely no truth". Nice bit of WTF there.

    Surprised he didn't hedge "as far as I can tell" with a "to the best of my knowledge".

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  56. Stephen Barlow2:46 PM

    not I, Ms. Susie. You ought to put Helmut on and prance around the streets of LA chanting "My lips feel like giant Snicker bars!"

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  57. Stephen Barlow2:47 PM

    do you have anal wart's?

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  58. Stephen Barlow2:48 PM

    did your momma ever hear you talk like that?

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  59. randomworker2:48 PM

    I can haz apostrophe?

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  60. Stephen Barlow2:49 PM

    English please. This is not Ebonics class

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  61. Derelict2:50 PM

    Well, Republicans do not understand the concept of consent. So it really wouldn't matter what the pig had to say about it.

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  62. Drunk, racist troll is drunk and racist.

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  63. Derelict2:52 PM

    I would like a 12-month subscription to this comment.

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  64. Stephen Barlow2:53 PM

    that is mean

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  65. Someone check on that pig's ethics.

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  66. Stephen Barlow2:54 PM

    Huh,? not being racist. Just proving a point. I am not drunk or racist. just a liberal trying to find my way. oh and can't stand ebonics:)

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  67. Who says it isn't?

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  68. just a liberal trying to find my way.

    Suuuuuure you are.

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  69. Derelict2:56 PM

    The troll--do not feed it.

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  70. Well, the conservatives think NOBODY should be voting in the first place, so it's kind of consistent.

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  71. GODDAMNIT DAD I NEVER HAVE ANY FUN

    *kicks dirt clod*

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  72. How much is a Lenabyte?

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  73. Kordo2:58 PM

    I don't see either party expressing regret, seein' as how we're still balls-deep in both wars. I don't see either party doing fuck-all but what they've been doing. I do see a lot of people who are beginning to realize that the System has been hijacked. They're a minority just now, true, but their numbers are growing. I think it's going to have to get much, much worse before it penetrates the media bubble.

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  74. FlipYrWhig3:01 PM

    Actually it's about ethics in pig-sex. #swinegate

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  75. Shame is a bourgeois concept. Bet you're drowning in it.

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  76. Another Kiwi3:08 PM

    I think he's just generally pretty base.

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  77. Kordo3:09 PM

    Aww, wee lamb, just got a blast e-mail from the DSCC about getting on the Internet and stumpin' for the Party, and that led you here, eh? Golly, we're all totes stoked to hear your thoughts about how Those People talk, and what's the proper level of credulity with which to approach a Jonah Goldberg column. Tell me, how do you feel about Chappaquidick?

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  78. No, no. As an informed voter, he was just making a pointed comment about the runaway 1.6% inflation rate.

    Which proves you're the real racist.

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  79. FlipYrWhig3:11 PM

    A 50-State Strategy that runs Democratic candidates in hostile territory is also a strategy that, when it works, gets center-right candidates elected. You don't get one without the other. You might get center-right populists instead of center-right corporatists, I suppose, but you're not getting liberals. Ask Travis Childers, John Barrow, and Don Cazayoux.

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  80. Kordo3:11 PM

    Pleez! I only wanna poke it a little.

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  81. Can we split the difference and at least make more of an effort in all swingy and Dem-leaning districts (See, e.g., Carol Shea-Porter and Jason Ritchie)? Because one potential weakness of an all-out 50-state strategy is that it too can lead to more "right-wing assholes" in the Democratic caucus. There are actually places a genuine Democrat can't currently win, or at least reliably enough to help. Of course, it would certainly help if we ran genuine Democrats in the places they can currently win.

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  82. General Curtis Goatheart3:15 PM

    Say what?

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  83. Waccoon3:18 PM

    I see that Marx' observation that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" is still valid. Dreher also wrote a post on Dunham, just hours before Goldberg.

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  84. I don't think it knows what it means either.

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  85. tigrismus3:20 PM

    It was lolcat.

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  86. Kordo3:20 PM

    Newton, or Kohl? Interesting idea, but if you're talking about LA, yer gonna hafta to do more that put a famous photographer or ex-Nazi on your head to get attention. Plus, that's going to be really bad for your neck.

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  87. Kordo3:23 PM

    Self-Awareness: yer doin it wrong.

    Jeebus, at least I admit that I'm hammered...

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  88. If I wasn't a broke puppy I'd have a six of beer ready for this evening myself. I have a sick feeling I'm gonna need it.

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  89. Yours had an awful potty mouth on her when we had our little "encounter".

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  90. I know!

    They should at the very least buy the pig dinner before.

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  91. Gromet3:30 PM

    This way of thinking doesn't work for me.

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  92. olde fashioned Manchester liberalism

    burkean derpean

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  93. Kordo3:40 PM

    I understand. I don't advocate disaster. Hell, sometimes my chemical intake makes me cheerful enough to believe we can avoid it. Then, reality intrudes. We're not lost, ya'know? There's good Libs run in, and winning, even tonight. We just have to work on increasing their number, and polishing their message.

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  94. Maybe his sharts have achieved sentience.

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  95. susanoftexas3:43 PM

    He does like South Park an awful lot.

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  96. I can't speak for Haystack, but I'm pretty sure my momma was the one who taught me "All Around the Cobbler's Bench." So "weasel-phrase" would be unlikely to rattle her. She's not an Internet sort, so WTF would go right over her head. And calling out liars for shamelessly lying would actually be in accord with how she brought me up. So what exactly are you phony-baloney concern trolling over this time? Or are you just rolling a D6 to choose comments to pretend to clutch your pearls over?

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  97. Tell me, how do you feel about Chappaquidick?Well, if the above is any indication, he feels its plural is "Chappiquiddick's."

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  98. Eh...As far as I can tell Dunham is not that popular, at least in terms of her creative projects. I've seen the numbers on Girls, which has a tiny audience even by the lower standards of premium cable. She's taken the classic arthouse hack route to success, charming enough of the pop culture gatekeepers that she gets visibility well out of proportion to her actual fanbase. Think of Dunham as the equivalent of one of those 90's zine publishers who became nationally known despite having circulation numbers in the tens.

    I'm not sure wingnuts even remember why they hate Dunham at this point ("My First Time," remember?). My working theory is that they use her name as shorthand for "debased leftist culture," sorta like they used to with The Vagina Monologues. Remember that? How they took this small performance piece, put on once a year at college campuses to audiences of a few dozen per showing max, and presented it as though it were the heart and soul of liberalism? You noticed how they haven't mentioned it since they started fixating on Dunham? The social scolds have finally updated their references.

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  99. I had this feeling on September 20th when New Zild re-elected the conservative government.Yeah, but at least both Labour and the National Party lost ground in the popular vote, while NZ First came on strong!



    ... Sorry, I'll stop helping.

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  100. This is a widely held view and, as far as I can tell, there is absolutely no truth to it.



    this line speaks volumes.

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  101. No, it's "GOSHAWOBBLES, massa, I shore dowan' lahk me some ebonics, nuh-huh lawdy!"

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  102. Christopher Olson4:11 PM

    I think I'll have to turn down the offer to "Follow Jonah Goldberg." In fact, I don't even like using the bathroom after him.

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  103. Another Kiwi4:11 PM

    *Sniffle* Thanks for dropping by. *starts rocking back and forth*

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  104. "Kobach has to be nailed by the electorate in such a way that he goes away. Long, long away into political oblivion.

    "Of all the politicians I have covered in more than four decades, starting with a campaign trip with Richard Nixon in 1968, I have never run across a meaner, nastier, more egomaniacal politician than Kris Kobach."
    [...]
    "Kris Kobach must be stopped now, before we find him in an even more powerful position to ply his diabolical schemes."
    --Steve Rose, The Kansas City Star, 10/11/2014


    If he does win re-election, it will probably be tight, especially as far as Kansas goes. And it's still possible that if Brownback really does go down, Kobach will go down on with him.

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  105. BTW, if you're still lurking -

    fuck you, I'll write my comments in fucking Urdu if I want.

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  106. What is it with conservatives thinking lolcat is "black"?

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  107. Got me.

    Lolcat doesn't sound at all like any kind of African-American dialect I've ever heard.

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  108. Stephen Barlow4:42 PM

    excuse me? you can speak when I talk to you. beside's that, butt the fook out

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  109. Stephen Barlow4:42 PM

    or perhaps a wet back

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  110. Stephen Barlow4:43 PM

    a dog, how did you guess?

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  111. Stephen Barlow4:43 PM

    how about you get a job, LOSER?

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  112. ooooooh Internet Tough Guy!

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  113. Stephen Barlow4:44 PM

    you and that fag Dark Avenger should start a company. the name of the company could be "How to stick your finger up your butt and pull out poop"

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  114. Stephen Barlow4:45 PM

    Maybe you could finger bang that queer, your boyfriend Dark Avenger?

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  115. OMFG NO YOU DIDN'T SUNSHINE

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  116. Stephen Barlow4:45 PM

    ebonics is for drakes and sugars.

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  117. What the fuck are you, twelve years old?

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  118. Stephen Barlow4:46 PM

    i say and I am the authority so fuck you

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  119. Stephen Barlow4:46 PM

    actually a pork monkey

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  120. oooooh BUUUUUURRRRRRNNNN

    alas I am slain! I will my unused comments to tigrismus *cough*

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  121. Stephen Barlow4:47 PM

    English please? Not Ebonics

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  122. Stephen Barlow4:47 PM

    you must be part spooge

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  123. SPEAK ENGLISH, TROOPS!

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  124. Stephen Barlow4:55 PM

    i most certainly did. go run to the moderator you asshole. bring it

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  125. Stephen Barlow4:55 PM

    ditto

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  126. OMFG you are twelve.

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  127. Stephen Barlow4:56 PM

    nope, 60 +. i fix bikes, they call me fudge pack rider

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  128. Stephen Barlow4:56 PM

    really with the cough? loser

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  129. Stef Barload4:58 PM

    you and the dark avenger sitting in a tree?

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  130. Ditto what, asswomble?

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  131. “I—I thank you, Governor,” he said with dignity, “on behalf of the Great Science of Mathematics and Joe the Duck.”

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  132. Why is the government not paying for my moldy shit sandwiches? I’m one of the 47%, dammit, I want my free moldy shit sandwich.

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  133. Stef Barload5:00 PM

    just Ditto duck tard

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  134. Stef Barload5:01 PM

    Can you get a job at Wendy's please? It will give DA a reason to come clean your clock

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  135. *I* wouldn't follow him. You'd be within his blast radius.

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  136. I don’t get how saying you saw a flying object he couldn’t identify makes you a flake, but claiming that the ghost of a homeless Jewish political criminal told you to run for office makes you a Man of Deep Faith and thus Strong and Trustworthy.

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  137. You were right- it's fucking not even funny.

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  138. But then I suspect that most libertarians (the majority of whom are younger white males) are fine with that. Just don't make any laws and regulations that curtail their personal freedom or require them to pay money for something they don't immediately and directly benefit. That's where the real line is drawn.

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  139. Wizards, druids, and monks do not have Unarmed Strike as a weapon proficiency and the druid loses all abilities for 24 hours if she tries to punch someone, or if she Wild Shapes into an animal and bites them.

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  140. Libertarianism is the haunting fear that somewhere, an able-bodied, affluent white man is being told ‘no’.

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  141. People who care more about free market ideology than human life prove themselves remarkably undeserving of either.

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  142. susanoftexas5:13 PM

    The smell, the growling, the simple thought process, the fleas, the streak on the carpet, the dog vomit in front of the door and the shredded shoes.
    Other than that, just a lucky guess.

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  143. United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness

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  144. M. Krebs5:29 PM

    Okay, Pere. From now on we're gonna have to ask you to take off your shoes before you come in here.

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  145. On the bright side she always had change if you paid her a full dollar afterwards.

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  146. ColBatGuano5:34 PM

    Their hatred is easily explained. She's not a supermodel and yet she continues to be naked on TV. Any other explanation is far too complicated for their tiny brains to come up with.

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  147. Just like food stamps.

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  148. ColBatGuano5:40 PM

    I think your cousin's calling from the bedroom.

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  149. Buffalo Rude5:44 PM

    Well aren't you adorable. . .

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  150. M. Krebs5:53 PM

    I've been slightly encouraged by the number of Carter and Nunn signs I've seen where usually Dems are invisible. But I ain't getting' my hopes up.

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  151. mgmonklewis5:54 PM

    Considering Jonah views himself among the intelligentsia, it's even more hilarious to watch his argument unfold. It's like someone gave a bowl of sea monkeys a treatise on Plato, and one of them has flopped up onto a soapbox to hold forth.

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  152. ken_lov5:56 PM

    The guy who took that pic of Jonah deserves an award. It makes him look like an intellectual Dirty Harry, whereas when you see him on video he looks like a smug buffoon who specialises in pointless laughing. Come to think of it they did the same trick with Kevin Williamson's photo. NRO must use really talented interns.

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  153. M. Krebs5:57 PM

    I haven't been so disgusted with Democratic wimpitude since Dukakis. I stayed home that year, but I voted my ass off today -- out of spite if nothing else.

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  154. gocart mozart6:04 PM

    It was directed at Obama's white half, so not racist.

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  155. Stef Barload6:05 PM

    Hey Chutney- are you on the Pere Wet Back Train?

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  156. gocart mozart6:05 PM

    Does your mom know you are using the computer?

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  157. Stef Barload6:05 PM

    You would know, right? Food stamp loving, EBONICS speaking troll.

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  158. Gosh, you seem to have this thing about me.

    It's... it's... *sees sparkles*

    HONEY!

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  159. gocart mozart6:10 PM

    Snark, you're doing it wrong.

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  160. Yes, it seems that the best Nunn can hope for is that the election will be close enough to get a run-off.

    And in that case, she'd really have to step up her ground game to win. Less people are willing to turn out for a run-off election.

    So ... no, her chances aren't good. I'd hate for the entire Senate majority issue to ride on Georgia, the way things stand.

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  161. M. Krebs6:13 PM

    Stupid, racist, and too dumb to know it is no way to go through life, son.

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  162. I dunno, she never bit me.

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  163. With a private profile, no less.

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  164. Smarter than Your Average Bear6:19 PM

    Wouldn't that be the whole building?

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  165. Smarter than Your Average Bear6:20 PM

    It's only fascist if it is Rethuglicans kept from voting. If it's Democrats why then it's simply God's will.

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  166. More like an intellectual Dirty Sanchez....

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  167. Derelict6:22 PM

    . . . and presented it as though it were the heart and soul of liberalism?

    But that's what they do! Grab some outlier (previously unknown college professor, single poster to an open contest at Move-On, some guy with a sign in WestTesticle, Idaho) and that outlier is somehow the heart and soul of liberalism.

    Sadly, the MSM plays right along with that. So you find Democratic candidates being asked to explain and defend something on SomeGuy's sign, while conservative candidates can go on about Agenda 21 and fluoridated water, and never have to suffer those wacked-out views even being mentioned by the press.

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  168. Forget it, Pere, it's "Dennis". He's been whiny ever since "Sadly, No!" permabanned him.

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  169. Smarter than Your Average Bear6:24 PM

    They had to give up on using The Vagina Monologue - every time one of them typed the V word they didn't know whether to fap off to a picture of Bush/Cheney or twitter with embarrassment. Finally their mothers yelled into the basement that they weren't washing their athletic socks anymore.

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  170. After this weaksauce troll, I almost miss "ALPHA.MALE".

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  171. M. Krebs6:27 PM

    Where have all the fun trolls gone?

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  172. Holger Carlsen and his buddies took a torch to them.

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  173. Derelict6:31 PM

    Your points are valid BUT . . .

    People in red districts will never get to hear actual liberal policies articulated if nobody is running to speak for those policies.
    You may still end up with right-centrist or right-populist, but either of those are worlds better that Ted Yoho or Louie Gohmert.
    And, finally, forcing the GOP to spend more money in the "safe" districts means they have less cash to shovel into purple districts.

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  174. J Neo Marvin7:00 PM

    New handle, same old Dennis.

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  175. LookWhosInTheFreezer7:04 PM

    Also her character has sex without asking permission or showing the requisite guilt.

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  176. Spaghetti Lee7:05 PM

    I voted the shit out of this election. Turnout was quite high for one in the afternoon (I'm unemployed and getting fat and happy on OBAMACASH!1!), which is usually good news (and it wasn't just retired people either). Things don't look good in congress, but any election where there's a chance that Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Rick Snyder will all lose can't be all bad.

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  177. Stef Barload7:15 PM

    Who's Dennis Jew Bag?

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  178. Stef Barload7:16 PM

    I'd kick your bald ass, pussy

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  179. I thought you were commenting on MY comments, honey! *pouts*

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  180. What a he man! *swoon*

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  181. Stef Barload7:19 PM

    Who is Dennis? You fucking bald pussy

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  182. Stef Barload7:20 PM

    You are so fucking ugly. Pussy

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  183. Stef Barload7:22 PM

    Do you sit on this blog and do nothing else all day? Holy shit, you are like a pimple on my ass

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  184. Stef Barload7:23 PM

    I have had enough of you. Stupid emoticons and EBONICS

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  185. Oh, baby, don't say that! Our love is FOREVER!

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  186. susanoftexas7:25 PM

    Some people only care about the seduction. As soon as they get a response they're on to the next commenter.
    Love is cruel.

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  187. You're just flirting now, honey. "ass" *SWOON*

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  188. susanoftexas7:26 PM

    Which one? Do you have a numbering system?

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  189. YES YES he's nothing I'm the one you want!

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  190. susanoftexas7:28 PM

    At least he yearned for the love of a good woman, despite the hopelessness of his cause.

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  191. susanoftexas7:28 PM

    Flirt.

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  192. KatWillow7:36 PM

    Oh but look at that SEXY photo portrait! Those glasses! That, uh, beard (I think its a beard). The tousled hair! The very epitome (pronounced ep-a-tome by conservatives) of a devastatingly cool intellectual. Be still, my heart. Oh wait, its just indigestion.

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  193. He's "negging" me... and what's up with "pussy" being a pejorative term? There's no comparable structure in the male anatomy- the rigors of childbirth would kill the strongest man who ever lived.

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  194. I make no secrets of my whereabouts for at least one day out of every month. If you really want to throw down, you can find me rather easily.

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  195. Of course, we had no idea HOW bad it could get back when people were voting for Bush the first time.

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  196. susanoftexas7:51 PM

    Maybe it was a Pussy Galore reference. Remember, she fought back against Bond's manliness but finally gave in to the inevitable.
    I suspect he never had the guidance of a father or father figure; he hasn't a clue how to succeed.

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  197. susanoftexas7:53 PM

    Is it a good idea to love a fickle man? You have to think of yourself too.

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  198. HE'S the one! I just know it! Big and stupid and like that there!

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