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You are here: Home / Harnessing the Power of the Red State Strike Farce

Harnessing the Power of the Red State Strike Farce

by John Cole|  January 6, 20096:59 pm| 59 Comments

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They are just warming up, but watch out leftards, behold the power of the premier website for conservative thought:

Now, I agree that Duncan’s quote wasn’t the most profound or the most coherent; however, Crowley might want to make sure he at least gets the url of the website he’s incorporating into his slam against Duncan, you know, correct.

Obama’s site – the site of the fictional “office of the president-elect” the delusionally grand Barack Obama made up from thin air – is Change.gov, not Change.org, which is a hippie social networking site dedicated to Changing The World in 140 Characters or Less. Nice try, though.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    January 6, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    I really think it’s obligatory to post the Official RedState Strike Force Shoulder Patch for all of these posts. Just to remind us of the …um …awesome power of the 101st Chairborne.

    -dms

  2. 2.

    sidereal

    January 6, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    If they were really a hot shot Internets strike force, they would have pointed out that it’s an example of Muphry’s Law. Sadly, they are not aware of all Internet traditions.

  3. 3.

    calipygian

    January 6, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    The official Caribou Barbie pinup calendar of the Red State Strike Force from Newsmax, now with a "pre-drilled hole". For hanging, of course. Perverts.

    Headline from Newsmax advertising the calendar:

    "Hot Sarah Palin Calendar Just Released‏"

    I can hear Rich Lowry’s starbursts from Virginia.

  4. 4.

    TenguPhule

    January 6, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    The official Caribou Barbie pinup calendar of the Red State Strike Force from Newsmax, now with a "pre-drilled hole"

    But is there oil in there?

  5. 5.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Well Vaseline is a "Petroleum Product".

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    January 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Well Vaseline is a "Petroleum Product".

    Vaseline is for Pussies.

    /ducks

  7. 7.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Well I hear that April’s picture is Caribou Barbie with a nice stuffed beaver.

  8. 8.

    Jennifer

    January 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Oh, SNAP! He totally pwn3d Crowley for getting that url wrong. With a series of important scoops like this, Red State Strike Farce will prove once and for all that teh Libruls are suxx0r and show the whole GOP the path out of the wilderness!

  9. 9.

    TenguPhule

    January 6, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Well I hear that April’s picture is Caribou Barbie with a nice stuffed beaver.

    Got some wood?

  10. 10.

    Jennifer

    January 6, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Vaseline is for Pussies.

    Huh. I always thought it was for assholes.

  11. 11.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    No but I bet Lowry does.

  12. 12.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    @Jennifer:

    You’re right on that one *snickers*.

  13. 13.

    TenguPhule

    January 6, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Red State Strike Farce will prove once and for all that teh Libruls are suxx0r and show the whole GOP the path out of the wilderness!

    And it leads into a tunnel where the tracks they followed were a train’s.

  14. 14.

    Nylund

    January 6, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    So basically The Red State Strike Farce is just a really dickish free proofreading service?

    Someone point them towards Yglesias. That dude makes so many typos.

  15. 15.

    Jerkface McGee

    January 6, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Hilarious…. took me a second to see exactly what they’d done there but that’s gold.

    I even went through the trouble of registering at the site so I could commence mockery…. but haven’t received my confirmation mail yet. :(

  16. 16.

    Incertus

    January 6, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    There will come a point when mocking Red State will cease to be fun and games, and where it will become the equivalent of kicking a homeless person and laughing. But that day is not yet here.

  17. 17.

    Jerkface McGee

    January 6, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I mean, it’s not so clear from teh excerpt… but in context it looks like change.org really is the right URL. Follow the linky.

  18. 18.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    January 6, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    The Sunshine Patriots and Summer Soldiers march on to a land brimming with mountains of cheetos and rivers of Mountain Dew. Gosh I’m getting all misty eyed.

  19. 19.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    The Red Neck State Strike Farce:

    Because this Image can’t be used enough.

    Sadly teh google did lead me to a damn reichwing blogger.

  20. 20.

    John Cole

    January 6, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    @Jerkface McGee: The point is that this is what is considered front page material at the “premier site for conservative thought.”

    Taunting evil liberal (ha, the New Republic is liberal again) journalists over a URL.

    What a wankfest.

  21. 21.

    Incertus

    January 6, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    @calipygian: That’s about the right circumference.

  22. 22.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    @Incertus:

    Are you saying they all could be called needle-dick the bug fucker?

  23. 23.

    Jerkface McGee

    January 6, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Right, I mean it’s stupid crap for the front page and they get extra douche skills for missing the point anyway.

    Change.gov has nothing to do with anything.

    Change.org on the other hand, "a hippie social networking site dedicated to Changing The World in 140 Characters or Less" totally fits in Crowley’s context re: "the Facebook… the Twittering".

    And why is there no comments there yet? Do they moderate everything…? Then why the hell make me register?

  24. 24.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    January 6, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    The ground shakes! Lightning flashes! Mountains topple! Liberals cower whimpering beneath the sheets! Obama flinches! George Soros wets himself! RED STATE STRIKE FORCE unsheathes its awesome power to point out minor errors EVERYWHERE!

    Explosions! Uproar! Consternation! Once again RED STATE STRIKE FORCE brandishes a mouse-pumped fist in the faces of scurvy libtards, where e’er they lurk!

    Anger conservatives at your peril, O left-wing automatons! RED STATE STRIKE FORCE will LASH OUT with the speed of the deadly black mamba, CRUSHING your socialist visions with the unspeakably ponderous heft of HARSHLY WORDED BLOG POSTS! More than once a day, even!

  25. 25.

    HyperIon

    January 6, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    the post upon which this post is based is minimally stupid. this post is also minimally stupid.

    by commenting on it, i suppose my contribution becomes minimally stupid as well.

    i fear that JC is about to develop yet another obsession, this time with Red State. in future, i hope he writes about RS posts that are more mockworthy, focusing on those that are more than minimally stupid.

  26. 26.

    libarbarian

    January 6, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    LOL!

    I agree with him. If the Dems cant even get a URL right, that obviously means everything else they think is wrong too.

  27. 27.

    Dreggas

    January 6, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    @Jerkface McGee:

    Right, I mean it’s stupid crap for the front page and they get extra douche skills for missing the point anyway.

    Extra Douche skills, are those under feats or general skills and just how are they used?

  28. 28.

    Brian J

    January 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Meanwhile, why is Michelle Malkin so goddamn stupid and/or dishonest? In this post, she puts forth the idea that Sanjay Gupta isn’t qualified to be surgeon general compared to the current guy, Richard Carmona, before wondering if we need the position and if it’s constitutional. I can’t speak for his qualifications as a doctor any better than most of us can, but from his Wikipedia page, it looks like he’s qualified. Yet Malkin only links to his CNN profile page, which she cuts off the part that mentions he’s a practicing neurosurgeon and also a professor of if at Emory.

    I mean, seriously? Why are people like this?

  29. 29.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    January 6, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Man, this Strike Force hoo-ha is the funniest conservative concept since Operation Leper. What, Red State coughed up that one, too?

    When I’m down, feeling low… I only have to whisper "Red State Striiiiiiike Forrrrrrce…" and I’m smiling again.

    Do you think Erik Erickson has a special helmet he wears when he types in Strike Force posts? Do members have to thrust up a clenched fist and roar "STRIKE FORCE!" after hitting the SUBMIT button? Please, God, let it be true…

  30. 30.

    Ripley

    January 6, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Anger conservatives at your peril, O left-wing automatons! RED STATE STRIKE FORCE will LASH OUT with the speed of the deadly black mamba, CRUSHING your socialist visions with the unspeakably ponderous heft of HARSHLY WORDED BLOG POSTS! More than once a day, even!

    Did you steal that from Darragh Murphy’s gran mal comment at Wonkette?

  31. 31.

    FMguru

    January 6, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    Do you think Erik Erickson has a special helmet he wears when he types in Strike Force posts?

    I think he has a special helmet that his doctors make him wear all the time.

  32. 32.

    Bubblegum Tate

    January 6, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    I mean, it’s not so clear from teh excerpt… but in context it looks like change.org really is the right URL.

    That’s what I thought, too. It just adds an extra bit of fail to the overarching jackassery that John is pointing out.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    January 6, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    Did you steal that from Darragh Murphy’s gran mal comment at Wonkette?

    Nay, comrade Ripley, I did not… fine libtard minds oft move in similar patterns, methinks.

    A link, perhaps? Now I’m curious.

  34. 34.

    Ripley

    January 6, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    I don’t have the direct link, but these were pasted at rumproast.com:

    You idiots wouldn’t know reality if it hit you in the face! You have no idea what the power of the PUMA is but you will find out when we get you votes thrown out for cheating! http://pumapac.org/2009/01/06/wonkette-is-cheating/
    Your time is numbered so enjoy the lead while it last fucktards! ps: we are also taking down rumproast and any other blog that has asked you to vote for them

    Here’s the one from the Wonkette post:
    ……………………………………………………..
    MurphyPUMA says at 4:19 pm, January 6th, 2009
    – Reply

    Goddamn right we are fierce! We will fight you until you are begging us to stop. We concede that you have won your precious liberal blog category however we will crush the rest you cheating bastards.
    Here is Puma PAC’s Suggested Slate of Blogs for the Weblog Awards.

    REMEMBER: Vote Once A Day!

    Best Liberal Blog: The Confluence.
    Best New Blog: Uppity Woman.
    Best Individual Blogger (she’s FUNNY!): Rachel Lucas.
    Best Small Blog (vote AGAINST dumbtoast): Nice Deb.
    Best Hidden Gem: Deadenders.
    Best Food Blog: Cake Wrecks.
    Best LGBT Blog: Pamshouseblend.

    Bring it on, we wont back down!
    ………………………………………………..

  35. 35.

    Ripley

    January 6, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    Whoops – format screwed up. The "Vote for" parts were in her comment.

  36. 36.

    Anton Sirius

    January 6, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Re: Brian J / 28

    So Malkin’s argument is that Dr. Gupta isn’t qualified for an unnecessary position… huh. That would make him, what, non-sentient?

    At least she still has her mad cheerleading skillz to fall back on if this pundit gig doesn’t end up working out for her.

  37. 37.

    Ninerdave

    January 6, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    @Brian J:

    I mean, seriously? Why are people like this?

    Because outrage sells, and when you don’t really have much to be outraged about you have to make shit up.

  38. 38.

    Incertus

    January 6, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    @Ripley: I’d bet that Pam Spaulding would be less than pleased to be lumped in with some of those other morons.

  39. 39.

    gwangung

    January 6, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    Meanwhile, why is Michelle Malkin so goddamn stupid and/or dishonest

    Because it’s a prerequisite to be a darling of the wingnuts. See her "argument" about Japanese American concentration camps. She ignored any contradictory evidence that didn’t fit her politically correct thesis.

  40. 40.

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    January 6, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    @sidereal: Ha! Thanks for pointing out Muphry’s Law.

    I think the most common instance of it is people hassling other posters for their poor "spelling and grammer".

  41. 41.

    Ripley

    January 6, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    @Incertus:

    You got that right.

  42. 42.

    JL

    January 6, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Red State has nothing else to talk about. In order to exist they have to design patches and scour the web in order to point out petty shit.

  43. 43.

    p.a.

    January 6, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    I can hear Rich Lowry’s starbursts from Virginia.

    "Yeah babe I know that it gets dark, down by Luna Park

    But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark

    That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark"- Graham Parker, You Can’t be too Strong

  44. 44.

    Mentis Fugit

    January 6, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    I tried to post this comment to RS:

    Given

    1. the Duncan quote, "in the Facebook, with the Twittering",
    2. no other context to indicate Crowley meant to write "change.gov",
    3. that change.org headlines itself as "a social action network", and
    4. the very first comment remarks, "And they’re still fighting the hippies."

    there’s a pretty good chance Crowley meant to write "change.org"

    Note, no profanity, no sarcasm, no ad hominahomina. Didn’t matter – I got this:
    HTTP 500 – Internal server error

    Is that their way of saying I haven’t registered? That’s five minutes of my life I want back.

  45. 45.

    cleek

    January 6, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    @Mentis Fugit:

    IIRC, even once you clear the registration hurdle, they make you wait a day to post. and then they ban you as soon as you express dissent.

    the reason nobody comments there is because nobody can.

  46. 46.

    OriGuy

    January 6, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    I think the Aqua Teen Hunger Force could wipe their asses.

  47. 47.

    TR

    January 6, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    This is all they’ve got? Bitching about the Office of the President-Elect nonsense? Seriously?

  48. 48.

    Jay C

    January 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    @Brian J:

    It ain’t "people", Brian, it’s Michelle Malkin: the same one who recently cited Stanley Kurtz’s anti-Obama hit-piece screeds on NRO Online as sterling examples of "investigative reporting". Which in her mind [sic] probably puts RedState up there with the Wall Street Journal as "journalistic" biggies.

  49. 49.

    Gemina13

    January 6, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Now, I agree that Duncan’s quote wasn’t the most profound or the most coherent; however, Crowley might want to make sure he at least gets the url of the website he’s incorporating into his slam against Duncan, you know, correct.

    Obama’s site – the site of the fictional “office of the president-elect” the delusionally grand Barack Obama made up from thin air – is Change.gov, not Change.org, which is a hippie social networking site dedicated to Changing The World in 140 Characters or Less. Nice try, though.

    All that just to say, "Hey, dumbass. Try getting the .url right next time"?

    Hot ripostes. They’re doing it wrong–OH JOHN RINGO NO wrong.

  50. 50.

    Mentis Fugit

    January 6, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    @cleek:

    So what you’re saying is that the server 500 error saved me from wasting even more time. I can live with that.

    Just for a giggle.

  51. 51.

    Delia

    January 6, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    I mean, it’s not so clear from teh excerpt… but in context it looks like change.org really is the right URL.

    There’s one thing you should always do before you press the submit button and set your words in little electrons for all time and eternity. You should check teh google machine and make sure that they’re right. If the RedState Commando had carried out this simple function, which takes less than a minute, he would have discovered that both url’s, change.org and change.gov, belong to the Obama people. Change.org is where all the people in the country can send their ideas in for what they think should change. Change.gov is the url for the Obama-Biden transition team.

    It’s not really that hard.

    Oh wait. I’m not a member of RedState Strike Farce. Maybe it is.

  52. 52.

    Tsulagi

    January 7, 2009 at 12:23 am

    This is how I picture the prototypical RSSF trooper, but of course complete with the coveted RS patch on their uniform and official RS coffee mug in hand.

    Get a laugh too thinking of them with firearms without Cheneying themselves. I’m thinking to try cutting down the incidences of peppering each other, or themselves, their field manual calls for their cammies to be in fluorescent orange or red color. Truly special wingnut operators they are.

  53. 53.

    Zuzu's Petals

    January 7, 2009 at 12:32 am

    @dmsilev:

    I really think it’s obligatory to post the Official RedState Strike Force Shoulder Patch for all of these posts. Just to remind us of the …um …awesome power of the 101st Chairborne.

    -dms

    Yes, and it should be blinking…to alert us that a major news flash is on the way.

  54. 54.

    Zuzu's Petals

    January 7, 2009 at 12:40 am

    the fictional “office of the president-elect” the delusionally grand Barack Obama made up from thin air

    Wow, they couldn’t even get that one right.

    Far from being fictional, made up from thin air, or the subject of delusions, it is specifically authorized by the Presidential Transition Act of 1963.

    What a bunch of twits.

  55. 55.

    Zuzu's Petals

    January 7, 2009 at 12:48 am

    @Delia:

    I loved it when Dick Cheney mixed up "org" with "com" and sent everyone to a Soros site during the 2004 VP debate.

  56. 56.

    demimondian

    January 7, 2009 at 12:48 am

    @Zuzu’s Petals: I’ll be switched. I didn’t even realize that there was such an act!

    That’s cool.

  57. 57.

    Bubblegum Tate

    January 7, 2009 at 1:13 am

    @Tsulagi:

    I can’t believe you would disparage Dark Helmet like that. He’s one of the greatest movie villains ever, whereas the Red State Strike Force members are more like this

  58. 58.

    Paul Crowley

    January 7, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Are they really calling Obama "delusionally grand" for, you know, acting like he’s going to be President of the United States of America in thirteen days time?

  59. 59.

    Tony J

    January 7, 2009 at 11:59 am

    OH JOHN RINGO NO

    You mean this work of genius?

    I’m thinking to try cutting down the incidences of peppering each other, or themselves, their field manual calls for their cammies to be in fluorescent orange or red color.

    Are you kidding me? BDU in those shades are vital if they’re really going to make-believe that they’re Trackers. Minus the fit young bodies, years of training and efficient leadership, of course.

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