Double shot of GOP crazy, by request.
Feel the Moorementum:
Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who lost his job after erecting a monument of the Ten Commandments outside the state’s courthouse, plans to announce in mid-April that he is setting up a presidential exploratory committee, an aide told CBS News.
And “136 Characters Perfectly Sum Up State of Modern Republican Politics“:
bkny
MinuteMom
Freedom Fighter
good grief… her fantasy life must be something else…
Zifnab
@bkny:
Think S&M Wonder Woman.
The Dangerman
Which can only lead to the questions: How fucking whacked out do you have to be to be banned by Sarah Palin? Should these people be allowed to roam free and/or breed?
Zam
I never knew bitching about shit you don’t like on the internet and over the dinner table made one a freedom fighter.
dmsilev
Suggested slogan: “Roy Moore: For when Rick Santorum is just too sane”
Also, a Roy Moore Presidential run *has* to be peak wingnut, right? I mean, he clocks in at roughly 1500 milliKeyes[*] of crazy, just short of the threshold to start drooling on oneself.
[*] As mentioned the other day, I’m now measuring crazy in units of Alan Keyes.
Zam
@The Dangerman: Uhh I would think any of the signs of liberalism would get you banned. Perhaps her grammar was too good.
Ash Can
Am I the only one who thinks the worst thing about that tweet is the apparent fact that this person has kids?
FlipYrWhig
@Zam: “Free, dumb fighter,” perhaps.
Roger Moore
@Zifnab:
Wait. The shackles, corset, and lasso weren’t enough S&M gear already?
Violet
An earlier tweet from that woman:
I think I should stock up on popcorn for this next election.
Violet
@Zam:
Hey! She did more than bitch at the kitchen table. She went to rallies!
KG
as I said in the last thread:
in years past, I always liked to watch some of the crazier candidates on both sides, because, well, it was entertaining in between paying attention to the serious candidates. This cycle seems to be lacking serious candidates… unless you really stretch the meaning of that word.
freelancer
His campaign song is going to be a cover of Rebel Yell as done by the church group that wrote and performed the Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin.
Zam
@Violet: So I must assume that because one time I saw Ronald Reagan in a parade as a baby I am some sort of Supreme General to the Prophet himself?
dmsilev
@Violet: Giuliani? Really? I thought he had been declared a counterrevolutionary saboteur and airbrushed out of all the photos from the
May Day ParadeCPAC.dms
taylormattd
That traitor Sarah Palin! She’s such a lamestream, moderate flunkie!
FlipYrWhig
@taylormattd: She’s squirmish.
taylormattd
@Zam: You must have missed the fighting 101st keyboard commandos on the right who helped invade Iraq. Or for that matter, those in the left blogosphere who “fought!!!!!” for the public option by writing diaries at Daily Kos.
SpotWeld
Imagine the turmoil you could start if you told the Tea Party that Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin/Roy Moore were going hold a huge rally at the corner of the Jefferson Memorial
taylormattd
@FlipYrWhig: You did that wrong. Here is the proper usage:
licensed to kill time
@SpotWeld: Or the Lincoln Monument.
FlipYrWhig
@taylormattd: I refudiate that usage, how about because it’s the work of lamestream
lexidictionaires, also, too.pragmatism
In the midnight hour she cried- “moore, moore, moore”
With a rebel flag she cried- “moore, moore, moore”.
He lives in his own heaven
Collects it to go from the seven eleven
Well he’s out all night to collect a fare
Just so long, just so long it don’t mess up his hair.
FlipYrWhig
@pragmatism: How do ya like it, how do ya like it, Moore Moore Moore?
pragmatism
@FlipYrWhig: i likes it old testamenty and ten comandmenty.
scav
I’m fully expecting hordes of the above freedom fighters to pour into the city streets, shouting jubilantly and firing their small arms into the air when the govt shuts down. I also expect every crowd of same over 5 strong found wandering near a statue (of any sort) to be pursued by Fox media teams broadcasting live.
El Cruzado
@dmsilev: But is it a measure of being, like mass, or of emissions, like radiation?
It’s one thing to say that Roy Moore’s crazy is about 1500 milliKeyes, and another to say that his ramblings can be measured at 1500 milliKeyes/hour (or is it measured by number of words?).
Just trying to be scientific about it.
El Cruzado
@SpotWeld: Also if you choose the right corner (and yeah, I know what you meant) you might get a few of them drowned in the Tidal Basin.
Jay in Oregon
@Roger Moore:
Some guys like it when she ties them up and makes them tell the truth…
Omnes Omnibus
@El Cruzado:
It is all of those, and none of them, at the same time.
harokin
It bums me out that I can’t play Barracuda on Guitar Hero without thinking of Palin.
Billy Idol OTOH doesn’t bother me at all. I hope Roy takes that song and makes it his own. He can have “Moore Than a Feeling” too. But not “More Than This.”
khead
Well, Moore will definitely get the support of the folks in Giles Co, VA.
gex
@Omnes Omnibus: The area of milliKeyes research that is most fascinating is how these are used to hold off the wingularity.
dmsilev
@El Cruzado: It’s an emission rate. Alan Keyes emits a certain (large) amount of crazy per hour, and other people are measured against that yardstick.
Dosages should be calculated in Keyes-hours. Top scientists are even now trying to determine the conversion factor between Ke-hr and the SI unit for crazy-dosage, the PalinTweet (PaTw). Estimates I’ve seen are that one PaTw is roughly 0.1 Ke-hr. Or, put another way, 10 Palin Tweets delivers the same crazy dosage as listening to Alan Keyes for an hour. As you can imagine, research in this field is very slow and extremely dangerous for the researchers.
dms
Rabble Arouser
@KG: As in “Seriously, those are the candidates?”
quaint irene
Well, hell. The Donald produced his birth certificate to show ‘just how easy it is.”
Unfortunately, it’s not a legal certificate. It’s a copy from Jamaica hospital, and not issued from NY state, as it’s supposed to be.
And his mother was born in Scotland? Is he really eligible,(according to the idiots in Arizona) to run for president?
R-Jud
@dmsilev: I paid a lot of money for the wine that just came out my nose, pal.
James Hare
@dmsilev: so is there any idea what is a “safe” Ke-hr dosage? Is it cumulative? This is important research.
Tax Analyst
I wonder how many
moremoore tablets Judge Roydy will bring down for us after he’s elected. Just how many new “Thou Shalt Not’s” dance around in the head of a pin-head?joe from Lowell
What if enough crazy, far-right characters enter the Republican race that Sarah Palin looks moderate and sane by comparison?
Why, then we’d be reduced to running against her intelligence, knowledge, competence, and qualifications.
Tax Analyst
Maybe that picture of “MinuteMom” is her actual size. She could be a very, very, very small mother, thus a “minute” (phonetically spoken as “my-noot”)mom. That could also explain her fascination/fixation on birth certificates and other minutiae.
FlipYrWhig
@dmsilev:
It has also been known to lead to Grand Mal Hasselbeck.
dmsilev
@James Hare: Current guidance from the CDC is for a maximum annual dosage of 10 Ke-hr for a mentally healthy adult, and a cumulative lifetime limit of 100 Ke-hr. At-risk population classes such as Fox News viewers are recommended to keep their annual exposure below 1 Ke-hr.
dms
The Dangerman
@dmsilev:
I’m familiar with the standard measurement tool for PaTw radiation (the Gag Her counter), but how can one safely measure a Ke-hr?
scav
@dmsilev: ok, ok, so if Keyes is something like your standard candle, am I way out of line in thinking we can maybe assume that the background rate of emission of Ke-hr left over from the Big Bang is on the order of, oh, say, 27? Have you found any Pulsar equivalents yet? Sincere congratulations on this fine and dangerous effort in understanding wingulonomy.
Catsy
@dmsilev:
This is a work of pure art.
Edit: FYWP
The Other Chuck
How many Moore times, treat me the way you wanna do
How many Moore times, treat me the way you wanna do
When I give you all my love, please, please be true
different church-lady
I’m surprised these people don’t just go all the way and wear superhero outfits.
different church-lady
@dmsilev: I don’t understand why people use Keyes as a standard: he appeared to be the only person in the entire Borat film who showed even a glimmer of realizing it was a put-on.
The Other Chuck
Keyes is not actually stupid. He’s just nucking futs.
dmsilev
@different church-lady: I lived through the Keyes v. Obama Senate race. Trust me, Keyes is nuts.
dms
hal
So tired of “mom” people. Minutemom, grizzly mom. Yes. Being a mother is the hardest job in the world, but the act of giving birth doesn’t endow you with extra special knowledge and abilities. Get over yourselves. Yeesh.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@The Other Chuck:
oh moses baby
how was i to know
that something wasn’t right enough here
oh baby jesus
i shouldn’t have let you go
commandments taken out of sight yeah
show them how you want it to be
tell them baby jeeze need to know, oh because
my liberalness, is killing me
i must confess, i still believe
when i watch the news, i lose my mind
give me a sign
hit me baby, one moore time.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@hal:
sure, blame the mom-fuckers
drew42
For some reason, I feel this other tweet from MinuteMom truly sums up the state of modern Republican politics:
“Hubby just went out to buy a mega million ticket. Wish him luck!”
LongHairedWeirdo
“MinuteMom, freedom fighter.”
Is that like “Freedom fries”?
different church-lady
@dmsilev: I don’t doubt he’s nuts. I just don’t think he should be the gold standard for nuts.
BL1Y
Roy Moore came in 4th place in the gubernatorial Republican primaries in Alabama.
Not even the people of his own state consider him a viable candidate.
While I don’t like people like this embarrassing us, I do so love it when we get to publicly renounce them at the ballot box.
Platonicspoof
@dmsilev and all the other punny people:
I’m e-mailing John about quarantining this thread to an external hard drive in a lead-lined case.