Is no one going to do anything?
Where are our elected officials? Must we storm Capitol Hill and wake up our representatives? Are they going to force us to turn to mob rule? I’m ready.He invents a stupid "Obama Resistance" logo and polls the delegation: "Anyone else have any ideas?" Some comedian in the comments steps up:
Um… I guess I could dress up as a giant vagina?Raise a toast to this patriot tonight. He's got the right attitude.
UPDATE. Small edit for better set-up; thanks JennOfArk for the close reading.
Love the comment, but don't get the joke (hangs head in shame). I guess I'll have to mosey over there to see if context will help it sink in. And this after a day of doing battle with the herp-a-derps at Gay Patriot (who oddly enough, are more on about how Obama's 3% tax increase on millionaires and billionaires will destroy the republic, rather than the evil scourge of gay marriage, their usual bogeyman).
ReplyDeleteI left the boat, and holy shit.
ReplyDeleteExcerpt from my favorite comment: Where is the American exceptionalism? Where is the American fighting spirit? Where is the American bravado I hear so much talk about?I have watched, commented (you regulars know) and read for the last four years on everything that was and still is happening, and at the end of the day I see not a damn thing being done about it. NOT A DAMN THING!
Where, indeed!
What has happened to our DNA?
ReplyDeleteI would guess - denatured.
...plus I'm kind of partial to "Every man for himself. Lord have mercy."
ReplyDeleteOk, I get it now (it's an answer to "does anyone have any other ideas?), and it's even funnier, especially since the other denizens of the site don't seem to understand the joke and are voting it up.
ReplyDeleteMore comedy gold:
ReplyDelete...no matte[r] what we do we’re going to be called racist. No matter what we do we’re not going to get the black vote. No matter what we do we’re not going to get the hispanic vote. No matter what we do we’re not going to get the youth vote. And the biggie, we’re not going to get the dead vote.It is time to take this country back or split in to two countries.
Of course within one year the blue country would be out of food, and scrounging for their next meals out of garbage cans, but that won’t be our problem then.
We need a national leader to step forward and get the movement started – investigate the election or lets go our seperate ways.
Now that's an idea I can get behind.
within one year the blue country would be out of food
ReplyDeleteCalifornia is a net exporter of foodstuffs; I think Oregon and Washington are, too. I'm pretty sure Vermont and Minnesota are, too. We'll miss cheap corn, but we'll try to bear up.
Why do they think the blue country will be out of food? Because some farmers are in red states? Ignoring the fact that California has the largest agricultural sector of any state, are they imagining those farmers will stop selling to food manufacturers that sell in blue states? How are they going to make money with those sales, especially given that the blue state taxpayers won't be paying for the farm subsidies anymore? But really, the hole idea is silly. No state is a "red" state. Heck, in Texas, Obama got more votes than Romney in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, etc. Do they think those people want to secede too?! The whole idea is stupid. Apparently butthurt makes wingnuts even dumber than usual.
ReplyDelete"Now that's an idea I can get behind."
ReplyDeleteNo meth for you! Next!
Bluto Big Fur Hat Blutarsky:
ReplyDelete"What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Ni**ers stole all the votes in Philadelphia? HELL no! What the fuck happened to the America I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this! Nate Silver? He's a dead man! Al Sharpton? DEAD! Rachel Maddow? DEAD! Who's with me? Lets goooooo...! Umm... anyone else have any ideas?"
You have to love the cluelessness of berating people who won't vote for you. And they wonder why nobody likes them.
ReplyDeleteWe gave those dumb fuckers four score and seven years to prepare themselves the first time around, and 150 years since then, and they're still not ready. How to secede without really trying.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Illinois, and even Iowa went blue--those are your two big corn and soybean states right there.
ReplyDeleteIn other Ooga-Booga news, examination of historical records reveals that Jefferson Davis got zero, that's right, zero black votes across the entire Confederacy! We're through the looking glass, people!
ReplyDeleteThe only alternative is that people don't like being demonized and written off en masse, and, well, that's just crazy talk.
Gee, it's as if they didn't see it coming.
ReplyDeleteHow can we miss them if they won't go away?
ReplyDeleteThe GOP problem in one chart http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2012/11/white-nonwhite1.jpg. Stolen from the War Criminal Post but a very good illustration
ReplyDeleteThere's even music to go with it: http://youtu.be/rW9-FOLG-iA
ReplyDelete"Yes, indeed, it's downright racist to not vote for rich, white Republicans that think black people are all moochers and looters.
ReplyDelete"Why, in better times (when the pickaninnies were all 3/5ths of a vote), we didn't have this kind of trouble. No, sirree, bob. We are going to take our country back, one lunch counter and drinking fountain at a time.
"By Jesus and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, we will be great again! God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in
true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids.
God bless you all..."
... and he hung up.
Interesting observation that may, or may not, be revealing, but it seems when self-identified progressives or liberals make "I'm fed up with this shit" noises it's all about "I am going to move to X." When self-identified wingnuts make empty-promises of leaving, it's always a group thing, "We ALL need to take our shit and go away. Who's with me? C'mon, guys, I need the tribe to go with me and validate my paranoia, anger and fear of expulsion (while maintaining my pathetic illusions of individualism)."
ReplyDeleteI'd been wondering when they'd start to figure out that there must have been massive vote fraud. I mean, how could Obama have won when all the legitimate polls showed an easy win for Romney? In retrospect, it should be obvious to the more patriotic and wise among us that the real purpose of all the fake liberal polls was to provide cover for the coup d'etat the traitors and their allies in every nook and cranny of this great despoiled land of ours had been so meticulously planning for so long. It's amazing that we've been able to bamboozle them for this long.
ReplyDeleteOn a less serious note, it's strange no one, no one that I've read anyway, has commented on the historical through-the-looking-glass nature of the whole "makers and takers" argument. It's not a new argument, it's just been flipped on its head. Not so long ago, the makers were identified as people who made things. They were known as "workers." The takers were those who profited from those who worked. They were known as "capitalists." So even in today's modern service economy when there aren't so many people actually making physical things, it's surprising anyone would look at, say, union members, teachers or community organizers like Obama on one side and, say, hedge fund managers, derivative traders or vulture capitalists like Romney on the other and come away with the conclusion that those on Obama's side are the takers and those on Romney's the makers. Of course one of the great prototypes of modern conservatism scornfully taught that "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less," so it's really not so surprising.
"Red America" can "go their separate way" right after they settle up the bill for Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. We'll even throw in the highways and other infrastructure we paid for in for free!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that if you asked Sheldon Adelson for his thoughts, he'd be happy to tell you that he could train a marmoset to deal blackjack, but it takes a real genius to set up a casino, to wine, dine, and flatter his investors, to figure out which local officials in Macao can be bribed, to weight the roulette wheel juuust enough to pay off well for the house without attracting undue suspicion from the marks, to rewrite zoning laws to skirt the building codes in Vegas and to deal with those mooching unions. Jeez... it's a wonder our man Sheldon gets any sleep at all, and a billion dollars a year doesn't BEGIN to cover the value of all he does for us.
ReplyDeleteAs long as we keep the nukes. I don't trust Rick Perry with them...
ReplyDeleteVersion 1: Makers are making profits! Where do these profits come from? Please, pay no attention to that white man behind the curtain behind the bulletproof window in that mega-mansion.
ReplyDeleteVersion 2: Marx said the workers are the makers and the bourgeoisie are takers. Marxism = Socialism. Socialism = Nazism. By transitive bullshittery that means Marxism = Nazism. We all know Nazis are evil and therefore Marx was wrong.
Version 3: Unions are taking the future. Their pensions will ruin it for everyone. Makers are making money right now which increases the GDP and therefore America is strong because the makers!
Iowa just went blue, didn't it? And what are these guys going to do without the farm supports? Do they think we are going to keep cutting them checks and voting for farm bills?
ReplyDeleteI am actually one of those people who considered moving to Canada under Bush. I wasn't so much worried about what would happen to liberals like me as I was concerned not to raise my children in a polity that was going to commit massive war crimes for the rest of their lives. I'm ashamed of the impulse, really, but I lost faith in the ideal of democracy after 2000 and 2004--once was an accident (?) and the second time seemed like a wake up call. I'm glad I hung in there and worked with other people to get a better government.
ReplyDeleteWeep, weep, for the mom and pop numbers runners who little dreams of middle class utopia were destroyed by the walmartization of degenerate gamblers.
ReplyDeleteWe'll miss cheap corn, but we'll try to bear up.
ReplyDeleteIf the blue states stop subsidizing corn the red states will miss it, too.
Apparently butthurt makes wingnuts even dumber than usual. Well, they do keep their brains in their butts.
ReplyDeleteIowa voted for Obama, twice, so your cheap corn is safe for now.
ReplyDeleteThe nonexistent Philly Romney voters either went Galt before the election, or they were raptured off to Mormon Heaven.
ReplyDeleteWill someone please tell me how I'm supposed to get any work done today, what with "let slip the dogs of derr" and the hilarious popcorn gif on Wonkette and etc.? Thanks in advance.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention that the red states would be screwed as farm subsidies from the blue states stop.
ReplyDeleteAt least you didn't call Rachel Maddow "a dead man" too. V. progressive!
ReplyDeleteWithin six months, the red country would be sick of eating corn mush every day.
ReplyDeleteWhite people got no reason...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA
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Didn't you hear?
ReplyDeleteOBAMA WON!
You don't have to work anymore.
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Come ON... whaddya think grits is (are?)? If they haven't gotten tired of it (them?) after a hundred and eighty years, its (their?) place in the Red State diet is secure.
ReplyDeleteWe're, uh, still committing massive war crimes.
ReplyDeletePoor Reince Priebus's inbox is cluttered with thousands of emails from the crazies.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. After a Supreme Court decision or two and some necessary "repairs" to voting machines, those precincts will be going 100% for the GOP.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm no one, but I've written about it, not just once but most recently on Labor Day. If'n you wanna read it, click the link for 3 weird sisters in the blog roll, and mosey on over.
ReplyDeleteI feel absolutely zero sympathy for Reince Priebus, even regarding his name.
ReplyDeleteLook, all's fair untill grits get besmirched. Grits must remain neutral.
ReplyDelete>>>Why do they think the blue country will be out of food? Because some farmers are in red states?
ReplyDeleteBecause THE MARKET that's why! Freed and unfettered from evil federal crop subsidies ($20 billion a year) they will finally make a profit by becoming net exporters, and they can gouge whomever they please! Or something! Grown in the Republic of Ozarkistan! Look for the non-union label!
Grits must remain neutral.
ReplyDeleteAs befitting their flavor.
Every man for himself and God against them all.
ReplyDelete"It's not a new argument, it's just been flipped on its head." Not exactly-- or at least, the flipped version has been around a long time too. Businessmen have been portraying themselves as the source of all good and complaining about the mooching masses for more than 150 years; Dickens was all over that.
ReplyDeleteWe're all neutral till someone butters us up.
ReplyDelete(the secret is bacon)
ReplyDeleteI shall weep tears onto my ipad and order a chinese take-out
ReplyDelete...except for Wobal Glorming. All the corn fields are moving up to Canada. The Midwest will soon be growing... um... tumbleweeds?
ReplyDeleteY'know I looked at house prices in Canada after the '04 election. I mentioned it to a friend and she said she & her Mom had done the same. We're still here, though. I'm sure glad I didn't move to Portugal or Ireland.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that one of the first things Rove claimed had happened, vote fraud by Democrats? Because Obama said mean things about Rmoney and made repugs ascared to vote for him?
ReplyDelete>>>...validate my paranoia, anger and fear of expulsion (while maintaining my pathetic illusions of individualism)
ReplyDeleteThis should be the dictionary answer to the question "Who is John Galt?"
We city folk prefer to call our grits "polenta."
ReplyDeleteI don't want to hijack the thread, but this is just too good:
ReplyDeletehttp://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/abc-denver-channel-broadwell-all-in.php
"Of course within one year the blue country would be out of food, and scrounging for their next meals out of garbage cans, but that won’t be our problem then."
ReplyDeleteIt's only been a week since the election and I can't stop smiling. Maybe it's the satisfaction in knowing our country isn't as dumb as some would suggest. Maybe it's the wingnuts and their hilarious toddler tantrums. Maybe it's seeing Karl Rove humiliated and scorned. If this keeps up, I'll have to consult a doctor because my face is starting to hurt.
Okay, just when I thought it couldn't get better, I went ahead and read the comments on this post over at IOTW. They are certain we stole the election because not one blah voted for their guy in some districts but they are not sure what to do about it. Some suggest they search for Galt's Gulch. Others suggest they find two comedians and have a million patriot rally. Still others suggest they invest their energy in doing something that will really have an impact with their voting block, saving the Hostess Twinkie. I am not making this up.
ReplyDeleteIf you keep reading the comments, you'll find they DO offer some concrete solutions. Namely, saving the Twinkie.
ReplyDeleteActually, the Philadelphia Inquirer did a little digging in some of the districts that recorded no votes for Romney. Here's what they found.
ReplyDelete"Although voter registration lists, which often contain outdated information, show 12 Republicans live in the ward’s third division, The Inquirer was unable to find any of them by calling or visiting their homes.Four of the registered Republicans no longer lived there; four others didn’t answer their doors. City Board of Elections registration data say a registered Republican used to live at 25th and York Streets, but none of the neighbors across the street Friday knew him. Cathy Santos, 56, founder of the National Alliance of Women Veterans, had one theory: “We ran him out of town!” she said and laughed.
Eighteen Republicans reportedly live in the nearby 15th Division, according to city registration records. The 15th has the distinction of pitching two straight Republican shutouts – zero votes for McCain in 2008, zero for Romney on Tuesday. Oh, and 13 other city divisions did the same thing in 2008 and 2012.
Three of the 15th’s registered Republicans were listed as living in the same apartment, but the tenant there said he had never heard of them. The addresses of several others could not be found.
Even the Republicans that do exist are, um, actually Democrats.
James Norris, 19, who lives down the street, is listed as a Republican in city data. But he said he’s a Democrat and voted for Obama because he thinks the president will help the middle class.
A few blocks away, Eric Sapp, a 42-year-old chef, looked skeptical when told that city data had him listed as a registered Republican. “I got to check on that,” said Sapp, who voted for Obama.
On West Albert Street, Duke Dunston says he knows he’s a registered Republican, but he’s never voted for one."
That confused me for like the first two years I lived in a city.
ReplyDeleteIt's a more realistic interpretation of the data than "hey, let's just run Marco Rubio."
ReplyDeleteAH! So that's why I detest "polenta". Ug.
ReplyDeletewhy do they think the blue's will be out of food? Because Liberals eat conservatives?
ReplyDelete...Of course within one year the blue country would be out of food, and scrounging for their next meals out of garbage cans... Just like the people in SPAIN and GREECE with their horrible "austerity" programs! Oh, wait. Never mind!
ReplyDeletei dunno. everyone, including moi, thought Citizens Untied would destroy all elections. Instead it seems to have merely made a few con-men-political-advisers vewy VEWY rich.
ReplyDeleteHere's your "Galts Gulch": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2991742/Tent-cities-of-homeless-on-the-rise-across-the-US.html
ReplyDeleteAnd the notorious problems Greece has with tax evasion.
ReplyDeleteBut we owe him a debt of thanks for giving Charlie Pierce the chance to dub him "Obvious Anagram Reince Priebus" which, along with "Zombie Eyed Granny Starver" should live in, well, famy.
ReplyDeleteaimai
Massive crimes, yes. Massive war crimes, less so. Baby steps, mofo!
ReplyDeleteGrits > polenta. (If you don't believe me ask Al Green.
ReplyDeleteI think you mean "Nobody gwine have to work no mo."
ReplyDeleteI like of think of Reince Priebus as the cousin of Reebus Kneebus.
ReplyDeleteLiberals are the biggest bigots. The racist liberals in Port St Lucie hate Allen West. Port St. Lucie is but one of some 3100 counties in the United States.
ReplyDeleteTheir ballot records show that 141% of the registered voters cast
ballots on Tuesday. West declares that if this one county can do this,
what’s to say other counties in battleground states didn’t stuff ballot
boxes to lift Barack Obama to victory?
Really? 141% - That means 41% of the liberals voted to keep the black man down....
I can't wait till one of these commenters accidentally googles "Twink."
ReplyDeleteFat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, printboy.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/breaking-st-lucie-county-florida-had.html?showComment=1352636017186#c2593314297457647756
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a personal attack? Why? Couldn't poke hole in the story?
ReplyDeleteWhat about just fat and drunk?
ReplyDeleteToo drunk to follow the link?
ReplyDeleteNo. You're confused. In St Lucie Co, as in other Florida counties, there was a two-card ballot. The image captured in the story shows the number of cards cast, not the number of ballots case. The latter is half the former.
The captured image is from page two of the "Statement of Votes Case" dated 7 Nov 2012, 1:39AM. (Go to www.slcelections.com.) On page 3 of the same document, the total number of votes is given. It's 123,591, which is 70.4% of registered voters. I repeat, the same document the writer cites explicitly states that the total number of votes cast was 123,591, NOT 247,713.
Continuing on the same document, we see that Romney got 56,125 votes (45.5%) and Obama got 66,246 (53.6%). Minor party and write-in candidates got 1,220 votes.
The alacrity with which the writer, and most commenters, latched onto this bogus story should give you all pause.
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FORT PIERCE — Posted: 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012
ReplyDeleteFlorida
Secretary of State Ken Detzner is sending three representatives to St.
Lucie County Wednesday to try to figure out how 799 votes disappeared in
Sunday’s partial recount of the tight, nationally watched congressional
race between Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick
Murphy.
http://leestranahan.com/election-stories-from-florida-you-need-to-hear-to-believe/
ReplyDeleteWait, so now it's 799 votes? An hour ago it was "141%" of 175,554 registered voters or 70,221 fraudulent votes cast by blah people.
ReplyDeleteSeems you've got a bit of a math problem there Sparky.
Palm Beach Post also says "a partial recount on Sunday showed Murphy losing 667 votes and West losing 132 — a net gain of 535 votes for West."
ReplyDeleteSo if those 799 votes were added back in it wouldn't help West.
Soylent green is sheeple?
ReplyDeleteFoit, foit!
ReplyDeleteIn this episode, [Stevie J. West] talks about a biased system that is deeply and blatantly corrupt; something that Jeff wouldn’t have believed he hadn’t seen for himself.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have believed I hadn't seen it for myself either.
Heh. That "scrounging for their next meals out of garbage cans" reminded me of the image I most associate with life in Galt's Gulch, one week after the Going:
ReplyDeleteLee Stranahan? That's your source?
ReplyDeleteSecretary of State Ken Detzner
ReplyDeleteThat poor dear. being an appointee of Rick Scott, can't possibly hope to deal with all the Democrat voter fraud. That poor, defenseless Office of the Florida Secretary of State, I don't know how they face the day, you barely-sentient motherfucker.
People, Porkboy has already shown us that because of mathematics the vote was skewed and even if it wasn't ,as some votecount people are saying, then it might have been if the thing Porkboy was saying was true. Just because it wasn't true it's no need to discount the thing that didn't happen and anyway BLACK PANTHERS!!!
ReplyDeleteBehind every great fortune, lies a great crime. Ditto empire. I look forward to the day that we miraculously turn into Sweden but even Sweden, in its day, committed plenty of crimes.
ReplyDeleteIf you really thought that one or more of your African American voters was suppressed in Philly why wouldn't you go out of your way to rescue them? Do they imagine that there was one black Romney supporter whose vote was destroyed? Two? Fifty? 300? If you think the number is dispositive don' tyou have a kind of duty--or wouldn't you have to white romney supporters--to try to find those voters and at least hear their tales of horror and woe?
ReplyDeleteThe simultaneous conviction that no AA's are good enough to be considered real voters, and also that there is some kind of pent up longing among (people who sit on buses and talk to Megan McCardle) for AA's to turn the reins back over to white people who will fix things for them, is kind of jaw dropping.
Also: in Erick Erickson's recent post at Red State admonishing his readers to eschew seccession when you read the comments they pretty quickly devolve into wistful demands that we return to a property owner's franchise and stop letting transients and apartment dweller's vote at all as a realistic solution to the problem of the wrong people voting.
Oh, now I understand. Where is the emoticon where I shoot myself in the head?
ReplyDeleteI say printboy has demonstrated "stupid" here as well.
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More "election stories from Florida" you need to hear to believe.
ReplyDeleteFucking economics, how do they work?
ReplyDeleteHe said that was "suppression." Which is a backward-ass good sign, it means the word is getting some traction and recognition as a Bad Thing so it's time for the ratfuckers to co-opt it.
ReplyDeletewithin one year the blue country would be out of food
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that the implication is that everyone in Blue states is a layabout moocher just collecting food stamps, which flow - like all that is right and good and valuable - from the hardworking honorfolk of the Red states. SNAP benefits are distilled directly from the sweat of their weary brows. Luckily, they pasteurize first.
Anyone else wonder if the troll who used to (and maybe still does) spam Roy's VV column comments has finally shown up?
ReplyDeleteJust in case we'd forgotten that the grown-ups are no longer in charge...
ReplyDeleteAs you might imagine, this is impossible.
ReplyDeleteOr, to put it another way, possible.
Let's also imagine that Mitt got, in those areas, 99% of the amount of votes Obama got in those Obama-leaning areas. Impossibly, in those areas, Obama still wins.
I know, I know, your mind is blown.