Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

How stupid are these people?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it’s a trap.

Let there be snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

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  1. 1.

    aimai

    I’m glad you did this, mistermix, I already signed the petition over at Digby’s place and I forwarded it around to my friends. I think its a fabulous idea–my comment “Support our Seniors! End Medicaid and Social Security and back Paul Ryan!” I’m pretty sure they are irony deficient and won’t notice how crazy that is, since they haven’t noticed how crazy the whole party is.

    aimai

  3. 3.

    MeDrewNotYou

    I feel like I’m standing on the sidewalk chanting “Jump! Jump! Jump!” to some delusional guy on the roof who thinks he can fly.

    Except in this case, I feel no guilt at all.

  4. 4.

    cmorenc

    Mr. I.P. Freely is going to be receiving tons of GOP fundraising emails at your email address mistermix.

  5. 5.

    fhtagn

    Beauregard Eagleburger has just signed up, and has pledged that Arizona will secede as well.

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I want to know when the Republicans are going to get off their asses and repeal the provision in the Constitution about banning titles of nobility.

    Let’s go whole hog.

  8. 8.

    karen marie

    I signed it, and I let them know that I thought it was only right to punish people age 54 who won’t have an extra $182,000 to pay for medical care on retirement because of their failure to become investment bankers or be born rich when they had the chance.

    I’ve been fighting my own insanity my whole life because I thought it was the right thing to do. Apparently I was wrong.

  9. 9.

    celticdragonchick

    My comment:

    I absolutely think that whining senior citizens and useless poor people are a drain on the producers in this economy. It is time for a Constitutional Convention that will give corporations the primary role in writing laws and running the country.

    I wonder if they will catch on that they are being trolled…

    As aimai said, they are irony deficient.

  10. 10.

    Valdivia

    I am so doing this. Do you think Juanita Galt is too transparent a nom de plum?

  11. 11.

    danimal

    Scrooge McDuck signed yesterday. This is a worthwhile project. Imagine some GOP staffer handing over the list of pseudonyms, fake comments and general trollery over to Harry Reid’s office. It could give the Dems a bit of a laugh.

  12. 12.

    erlking

    Ernesto Guevara supports this petition and the shared sacrifices it calls for. If cutting old people’s medicine is the price for cutting taxes on our Galtian overlords, that’s fine by me and the GOP.

  13. 13.

    fhtagn

    I think it’s time for Cornelius Vanderbilt to make his presence felt. Enough of this democratic nonsense. Let the true, pedigreed elite speak out and quench all debate.

  14. 14.

    maya

    Aynie Solsista signed the petition and further wants to know: “Which GOP candidate will beat Osama Ben HUSSEIN Obama in the 2012 election? I want to send him/her my entire IRA, both traditional and Roth, 401K, savings and checking account balances to that GOPerson.[ As of today’s accounting it all totals $137.42], but, I am willing to start from scratch in 2013 knowing full well that with a Republican comfortably installed back in the WHITE House, I’ll be on Easy Street hooking up with J Street in Jack Flash time. If you would be so kind as to tell me who I should send it all to. Thank you and may God bless you, Mr. Boehner,
    Aynie S”

  15. 15.

    asiangrrlMN

    At first, I thought this was a brilliant Democratic plan to force Boehner to make an untenable decision. Then I realized it was real and it made it ever-so-much sweeter. Lucille (Lucy) Liu is all-in. “Better to let 1,000 seniors die slow, painful deaths than for one corporation not to profit in any given financial quarter!”

  17. 17.

    fhtagn

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Those seniors were just Commie secret agents. I have it on good authority that hordes of Red pensioners have recently entered this country from Mexico to destroy our white Republic!

  18. 18.

    nancydarling

    Jonathan Swift signed on. “I fully support Mr. Ryan’s budget. I would add to my earlier suggestion that Irish babies be fed to the rich, we should also feed the lazy shirkers who drag our society down by drawing on ‘entitlements’ to our most worthy overlords.

  21. 21.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Keldor Skeletor, [email protected], just signed, and agrees with this petition as follows:

    “I think the Republicans’ plan to just let old people and the poor die in the streets is the best thing the party has come up with in years. H*ll, the old and weak and poor just diminish CEO profits. Let them eat dirt, that’s what I say.”

  22. 22.

    LM

    Isn’t signing for ironic reasons a subtlety too far? Reps are 100% irony-impaired, and they go power-mad with the slightest encouragement. Won’t racking up signatures just encourage their intractability in debt ceiling negotiations? Am I being dense about how, this far from election day, it’s good strategy to feed their delusions of support?

  23. 23.

    sukabi

    well, I did my good deed for the day… signed the petition as follows:

    Ima Hogg
    [email protected]
    KS

    Dear Mr. Boner,

    Please pass the Ryan Plan … this country has far too many old people and poors sucking at the public teat taking money that should be feeding the corporations and wealthy… they should have been born to a wealthy family. Cheers.

  24. 24.

    Cassidy

    “Hell yeah! Why won’t the old people just die already? I’m tired of them mooching off the rest of us. Also, I’m tired of poor people and blacks getting things like food and homes and education and health care. Stick it to’em Mr. Boehner. God Bless you!”

  25. 25.

    fhtagn

    “Clean out the GOP moochers, Mr Boehner. Those old white losers have had government in their Medicare for too long! The Tea Party and I are behind you every step of the way.”

    Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann

  28. 28.

    joeyess

    I signed this last night and I was perfectly serious in my comment. I wrote something to the effect that Medicare is going to bankrupt the country and people need to take personal responsibility blah blah blah…….. I wanted them to think they had a real Galtian serf on their hands.

    I even gave my real name and one of my gmail accts…. I’ll keep you all up to date from time to time as the emails roll in.

  30. 30.

    johnsmith1882

    Eugene Debs signed the petition, proudly. “Bust up the unions! Thugs and leeches on our wonderful capitalist nation. The upper class needs another tax break, they are the producers. We want our country back from the socialist usurper Obama!” So eloquent, that Debs.

  31. 31.

    gbear

    I just signed in as Wells Paultone and left this message:

    “I don’t want my hard earned wages paying to keep poor people healthy and sheltered. Please keep doing what your doing and ratchett it up even more if you can.”

  33. 33.

    Susan Kitchens

    Tom Foolery wrote:

    Congrats on your continued prosecution of the GOP war on old people. So much more effective than sending 1000 suicide bombers on a coordinated attack on 1000 senior centers—more like a NEUTRON BOMB on seniors! Down with seniors, up with corporations!

    The crazy — it goes all the way up to 11

  37. 37.

    RalfW

    @LM:

    Won’t racking up signatures just encourage their intractability in debt ceiling negotiations? Am I being dense about how, this far from election day, it’s good strategy to feed their delusions of support?

    I took this as an effort to encourage the GOP morons to self-immolate. So I signed with a close pseudonym, a disposable e-mail account, and a message about “We need to control Medicare!”

    Let ’em think going after the #1 or #2 most popular social benefit is not the third rail.

  38. 38.

    craigie

    My contribution to civilization:

    Dear Mr Boner –

    You are too right. Once we end Medicare, people will stop getting cancer just to avoid going to work. Just as the death penalty has ended murder, and denying women abortions has ended sex, so too can we end sickness.

    signed, Holden Magryne

  39. 39.

    Yutsano

    Hmm…I wonder if they’d take a signature for Euvegenia Doubtfire. Though I suppose considering their actions in Wisconsin they aren’t going to be too picky.

  43. 43.

    Xopher

    They’ll treat it as perfectly serious, and announce how much support they’re getting for the appalling Ryan budget. The humor is way too subtle for the collection of boneheads, mad(wo)men, and monsters that currently comprise the Republican Party.

    Don’t sign it, no matter how funny YOU think it is.

  44. 44.

    Paradox

    One E.V. Debs has added his signature to the list, also opining that “Old people can suck it!”

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