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The president, speaking during a radio show interview about his debate performance:

Towards the end of the interview, Obama sought to assure listeners that he was still confident, alluding to an internet meme that features him: “As some of these emails that go around with my picture on them say, I can’t quote the entire thing, but ‘I got this.'”

I sincerely hope so, sir. [Open thread]

UPDATED TO ADD: Point taken about this topic being overplayed, peeps. I’ve actually missed most of the freak-out since I’ve been ass-deep in reconstructing my kitchen and making a living. I just thought it was cool that President Obama knows about the “Chill the Fuck Out” meme. My last word on the subject, pinky-swear.

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  5. 5.

    lamh35

    nope sorry, Betty, my eyes have been opened. there is no way he can come back from the nuclear blast that happened last week. There no more “this” to be gotten. I’ve seen the light now.

    Seriously though, it was pretty funny when I heard him mention those emails. He alwasy been our most tech saavy Pres anyway.

  7. 7.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    I hope Obama stomps Romney next time around, embarrasses him, makes Romney deeply, horrifically aware of his own hollow core. Probably won’t happen, but dude has got to come out swinging next time….

  8. 8.

    arguingwithsignposts

    But, but, but, not two threads down they’re shitting their pants because … Well, because tpit’s a day ending in ‘y’ near as i can tell.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Just this.

    I might add that perhaps Obama didn’t quite hear Lehrer or Rmoney a week ago because of the sound of his awesomeness.

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    Inveterate liar Willard Romney was going around the country trying to exploit the Benghazi attack by telling an anecdote about meeting one of the SEALs that died. Unsurprising to anyone who has followed that shady fucker’s career, Willard embellished the story a bit.

    The first sign of trouble came when the late SEAL’s friend had a different account of the story. In his version, the meeting was awkward and ultimately comical. Apparently, Willard introduced himself 4 times in the span of 20 minutes, never recognizing the mistake.

    But the final straw came today, when the SEAL’s mother said she “didn’t trust Romney”, and ripped him for using her son’s death to attack President Obama.

    Now, imagine Obama doing this. How would the beltway react?

  14. 14.

    James E. Powell

    We really need to start talking about something other than Obama’s debate performance and the polls.

    If Obama has “got this,” then let’s see it.

    If any of us could run the next big TV ad, what would it say?

  15. 15.

    r€nato

    @Hill Dweller: never mind how the beltway would react… how would the frothing-at-the-mouth Obama-haters – from Fox and Fiends to your local neighborhood deranged wingnut – react?

  16. 16.

    schrodinger's cat

    Another thing I learned from the thread below is that it is OK to make condescending remarks about the President, but making fun of the blogger who shall not be named sends many “concerned” Obama supporters to their fainting couches.

  17. 17.

    LGRooney

    Just as the .gif shows, he needs to come out from behind the curtain and kick down the podium, while grabbing the mic, and stating, before anyone has had a chance to comment, “I got this.”

  18. 18.

    Fuck ALL the chickens! (né Studly Pantload, t.e.u.u.)

    Here’s fun — Seems Mittens is being a name dropper by including in his stump speech the fact that he’d met one of the former Navy Seals killed in the attack on our consulate in Libya.

    Only, the fallen man’s widow is going on record stating that the way of their meeting was Mitt walking up to him and introducing himself four separate times at the same event, each time as if anew.

    And now the man’s mother has issued a request to Team Romney that they stop using her dead son’s name as a campaign prop.

    And we’re worried that a lackluster debate performance is going to to be the undoing of our guy? Pul-leeze — not so long as Mitt can continue to run around and be, well, Mitt.

    ETA: Ah, I see the local commentariat has already picked up on this.

  22. 22.

    Davis X. Machina

    @James E. Powell:

    If any of us could run the next big TV ad, what would it say?

    Any of us, here? I can’t imagine anything more calculated to lose the election…

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    @Hill Dweller: well msn.com had on the main site how CTW “decried” the use of Big Bird in a political ad. I thought that they asked them not to run it, huge amount of spin between decry and please do not. Kind of like when musicians have to send the lawayers after campaigns to cease and desist, in this case, I think the Obama campaign had the right to use the images, since the images/character itself were the focus of the statement. Then again, IANAL, and the copyright infringement line may/could have been crossed but that’s my understanding of it.

  30. 30.

    notoriousJRT

    I sincerely hope so, sir.

    This.

    When I think of what Obama’s peculiar challenge with media old and new, I am reminded of this quote by Ike regarding his role as supreme allied commander during WWII:

    “I walk a soapy tight-rope in a rain storm with a blasting furnace on one side and a pack of ravenous tigers on the other.”

    Someone said yesterday that Obama supporters need to resist worry and instead feel motivation. I, too, think it’s charming that the president is aware of the “I got this” internet tradition. But, truth be told he can’t have “this,” unless we have “it” with him. I try to remind myself when motivation starts to morph to worry that a couple weeks ago my “worry” was that the president’s domination of the polls and news cycles would lead to complacency among his supporters. It will be a battle to the wire; some people know Obama is best for this country, but in their “hearts” are looking for a reason to vote Romney. Let’s not help them with their rationalizations (she tells herself as she kicks in more for Obama at ActBlue).

  31. 31.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    But, but, but, not two threads down they’re shitting their pants because…Well, because tpit’s a day ending in ‘y’ near as i can tell.

    The word “All” in “All internet traditions” has vast explanatory power. For that matter, so does the word “internet”. Build the pants and somebody will show up to shat in them. It doesn’t matter where you build them.

    Personally, I blame Al Gore.

  32. 32.

    Felinious Wench

    He knows how bad the debate was. He knows he’s got to correct it. He knows how to correct it. He’s proven it time and time again. Which is why this freak out is so damn stupid. What in his history gives any indication that he’s going to allow this to happen again?

    So, open thread. I am completely shutting out the talking heads until the election. I know who I’m voting for, nothing can change it, and the rest is noise distracting me from my feline overlord and the other beings she allows to live in her house. That is not good for the peace of the kingdom.

  34. 34.

    The Dangerman

    I hope so; I was watching some program this morning and they said the Republicans will almost surely hold the House (not surprising) and will likely take the Senate (this is a change from recent thoughts, but, there it was). Romney with both Houses of Congress means the filibuster goes, Obamacare goes, Medicare goes voucher, and on and on. They will burn it to the ground.

  35. 35.

    Redshift

    @James E. Powell: I wouldn’t. Living in a swing state, TV ads are just a wall of noise at this point; they have to be maintained for parity, but they aren’t going to produce any big shifts.

    I’m gonna keep on knocking doors and talking to people. I’ve seen more volunteers join the local team I’m on in the past week than any week before this, so I think the grassroots response is more energy and determination.

  36. 36.

    James E. Powell

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Any of us, here? I can’t imagine anything more calculated to lose the election…

    Just trying to start a discussion. The discussion for the past week has been about performance, about Romney lying, about the press/media reactions, about polling. What happened to the reasons for voting for Obama? Aren’t those reasons good enough to be convincing?

  37. 37.

    psycholinguist

    Anybody catch Clinton today responding to that little weasel sonofmitt “child” comment from yesterday. It is pretty priceless. Bill “look, it is old moderate Mitt, where you been for two years BOY”. That’s how you do it.

  39. 39.

    Donut

    Can I declare a friggin moratorium on discussion of last week’s debate?

    Here is all we need to know:

    The bounce existed, but it is likely ebbing. The president knows he screwed up. He is working on improving. Mitt Romney hopes he has the wind at his back now. It remains to be seen if Romney has serious momentum or if Obama has dulled the positive spike Romney got. If yes, is it enough to swing the tide back? We don’t know. The race is where it was prior to the conventions, more or less, though some down-ticket races look a little tougher in some areas than they did a week ago. The next debate is tomorrow. Something interesting will probably happen.

    The end.

  41. 41.

    geg6

    I’ve been waiting for days for someone to put that graphic up. Jeebus. I don’t think I’ve ever detested my own side as much as I have in the last week.

    I gotcher back, O. You don’t have to do it alone because I’m with you every step of the way.

  42. 42.

    James E. Powell

    @Redshift:

    I get that. I think that for anyone who is committed or even leaning toward a candidate TV ads mean nothing.

    But we have seen TV ads change the press/media narrative. And that is what is holding Obama down. And it would be nice to see one of those from our side.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    @Brachiator:
    Did somebody say “scandal”? Another day, another Republican politician living his values to the fullest.

    For some insane reason, tea-party Representative Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee taped himself pressuring his mistress into getting an abortion back in 2000, the Huffington Post reports today. DesJarlais, now a pro-life Republican congressman, was a doctor at the time, and met the woman when she had a foot problem during a rocky time in his marriage. “You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one,” DesJarlais tells the woman, according to a transcript of the recording obtained by HuffPo. “This is not fair to me. I don’t want you in my life,” the woman says. “Well, I didn’t want to be in your life either, but you lied to me about something that caused us to be in this situation, and that’s not my fault, that’s yours,” DesJarlais responds. The woman counters, “Well, it’s [your] fault for sleeping with your patient.”

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/scott-desjarlais-recorded-abortion-call-with-mistress.html

  45. 45.

    Hill Dweller

    @psycholinguist:

    Anybody catch Clinton today responding to that little weasel sonofmitt “child” comment from yesterday. It is pretty priceless. Bill “look, it is old moderate Mitt, where you been for two years BOY”. That’s how you do it.

    I’m thrilled Clinton is helping the campaign, but there is no way in hell Obama could call Willard a “boy”. No way.

    Obama also has to smile while Willard’s family continues to call him a boy/child.

  47. 47.

    KG

    @shortstop: this.

    @West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.): the next debate is the “town hall” format. that means Romney has to interact with “actual”, “real” voters who are going to ask him questions. He has ducked answering questions from kids, so there’s no doubt that things are going to get awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwkwwwwwwwwwward for Romney in that debate. Romney isn’t good off script, from everything I’ve seen, so there’s a really good chance he’s going to get asked a question in a way he wasn’t quite expecting and he’s going to say something stupidly stupid.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    @bemused:
    One could think the creep factor has reached its zenith, but imagine the creep in the WH with a Republican congress.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    @KG:
    So, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched a “town-hall” style debate. How hard is it to stack the hall with supporters and how do they select and manage the questioners? i.e., can it be gamed?

  51. 51.

    Redshift

    @The Dangerman: The thing to remember is that success as a pundit depends on making outrageous predictions, not accurate ones. If they make nice reasonable predictions, they get no credit even if they’re right, because anyone could have predicted that, you know? But if they make outrageous predictions, the entire pundit class remembers the one they got right, and forgets all the ones they got wrong, and their career is made.

    Which is to say, the Republicans have almost no chance of taking the Senate, and less chance of holding the House than most pundits believe. Anyone making strong declarations to the contrary is just playing the pundit game, not speaking based on the evidence.

  52. 52.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Donut:

    Can I declare a friggin moratorium on discussion of last week’s debate?

    Better yet, how about a week long moratorium of no Andrew Sullivan posts from any Front Pager?

    Then maybe we might actually have some constructive dialogues around this joint.

  54. 54.

    ? Martin

    @Felinious Wench:

    He knows how bad the debate was. He knows he’s got to correct it. He knows how to correct it. He’s proven it time and time again. Which is why this freak out is so damn stupid. What in his history gives any indication that he’s going to allow this to happen again?

    Nothing. They simply don’t trust him.

  56. 56.

    hep kitty

    Funny, I hear ppl say, Obama should “attack”

    Well, Obama is really not the attacker type. But he’s good with facts. All he had to do was counter the lies with the facts, calm and cool, as he always does. I think that is why ppl were so stunned.

    Btw, I hope everyone knows that those critical of the President’s debate performance did not, for the most part (b/c I’ve heard a lot of them) call it a “game changer” by any stretch of the imagination or that they would stop supporting Obama. Everyone has said, he’s going to win this next one and the next. That said, the debate howlers seem to be the ones who want Obama to attack. He doesn’t need to. Not once.

    Except for Andrew Sullivan, cut them just a little break. They are still loyal supporters of the President. I exclude Andrew Sullivan b/c I have absolutely no respect for the man, whatsoever.

  57. 57.

    GeneJockey

    @r€nato:

    Not to worry. Today Gallup says that Mitt’s debate bounce is largely gone now, so pretty soon it will be back to ‘The Polls Are Skewed!’

    This week is tough though.

  58. 58.

    Spatula

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Another thing I learned from the thread below is that it is OK to make condescending remarks about the President, but making fun of the blogger who shall not be named sends many “concerned” Obama supporters to their fainting couches.

    No, dipshit, what you should have learned is that maybe you should be consistent: If you denounce and discourage and refuse to use racist language, then you should consider doing the same regarding homophobic language.

    Also too: The presidency of the united states is a public office, the president is a servant of the people, not a monarch.

  61. 61.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Redshift:

    The thing to remember is that success as a pundit depends on making outrageous predictions, not accurate ones. If they make nice reasonable predictions, they get no credit even if they’re right, because anyone could have predicted that, you know? But if they make outrageous predictions, the entire pundit class remembers the one they got right, and forgets all the ones they got wrong, and their career is made.

    And thus Privatize profits, socialize losses rears its ugly head yet again. Could somebody in America please think up a different business model before this kills us all. The Meteor is going to be fucking pissed when it finally gets here and there’s nothing left worth pulverizing.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    anybody watch CNN? Seems like Willard’s confusion on abortion is causing some stumbles. On MSNBC this am (’cause I like my epistimic sealed up tight!) they ran some of his statements on abortion, and not only were they toxic, it was Angry Willard doing the talking. I think that could bite him in the ass.

  63. 63.

    hep kitty

    @KG: Awesome for Obama. Crippling for Mitt. Can’t wait to see that one. Also can’t wait to see Working Class Joe kick Prep School Paulie up and down the stage.

  64. 64.

    bemused

    @trollhattan:

    Please, I’ve already been fighting the urge to vomit profusely every time the thought crosses my mind.

    As much as learning more about the real Mitt is horrifying, I sincerely hope more “heartwarming” stories like Mitt cashing in on the Navy Seal surface. I did hear Andrea Mitchell talking about it already today so the story may get enough coverage so even those who barely watch the news will know.

    Seriously, what is wrong with Mitt? How can anyone be this fucked up and get the presidential nomination? Oh, I know, it’s the Republican party but still……

  66. 66.

    TooManyJens

    @KG: I agree with you. I think there’s a good chance Mitt won’t be able to hide his contempt for the “town hall” participants. It wasn’t so much of an issue in the first debate, since all he had to do was not make another 47%-type crack, but when he actually has to submit to questioning by the riff-raff? It could get ugly.

  68. 68.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Okay, so a couple of you have said your tired of all the hand-wringing going on over O’s performance last week (and I just wrung my own hands, as it were at post #7 above).

    I am just so sick of the bloody smugness of Republicans and their mouthbreaking pundits/followers: Hannity’s rolling eyebrows, Coulter’s ever-constant booktour of venom, Romney spawn talking about how they “really enjoyed” the debate… Can a giant karmic ball of shit, please, come crashing down on thes buffoons sometime soon?

    KG (@ #47), will it truly be a townhall debate, or will will someone be screening the audience questions to assure Romney doesn’t get any brush-back pitches?

    And, trollhatten (@ #44), I did see that story you mention, and I just have to wonder what kind of woman would purposefully get physically close enough to that toad to get pregnant? I’m sorry to sound like a jr. high-aged kid, but the guy looks like Dr. Evil on a bad day. Gross!

  69. 69.

    Donut

    @Midnight Marauder:

    Better yet, how about a week long moratorium of no Andrew Sullivan posts from any Front Pager?

    I have long begged the gods to make something like this so, but alas they ignore me.

    (Reading “Sullivan” is an exercise in masochism, IMO. The guy has been phoning it in for years, hence the quotes around his name. He has the byline but hardly writes his own stuff. When it comes to just about any subject other than LGBTQ rights I personally find him … tedious).

  70. 70.

    David in NY

    I didn’t get it at first. Thought the “I can’t quote the entire thing” was just a memory problem, but that problem was mine. I forgot that the part he couldn’t quote was not family fare.

  72. 72.

    japa21

    @hep kitty: True, he is not the type that brutally attacks. However, he si the type that can slip in the knife without soemone noticing. And he does this best in a town hall format where he can be speaking directly to the questioner (or camera) get that smile on his face (not smirk like Romney) and say something like “Well that apparently is this week’s Governor Romney, as opposed to last week’s, as opposed to the week before, etc”

  73. 73.

    eemom

    If I could mainline this post, I could perhaps purge my brain of Finel’s concern troll clusterfuck below, and then I could properly appreciate Mr. Levenson’s lovely John Prine thread.

    Or, I could actually get some work done this afternoon.

  74. 74.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Hey, I guess I’m just an idiot on this point, but can someone tell me what button to press to get another poster’s name to pop up in blue? I’m sure it’s tiresome to have to read my, “Hey, Boopsie @ #99” business. I’ve tried to experiment, but I’m just not getting it. I apologize for my ignorance.

  76. 76.

    nellcote

    And then there’s the new, new internet tradition:

    MILBANK:Exactly, that’s when it should be done. The other thing that I think was going on here — I was out there in Denver as you were. You know what was up on every reporters’ screen that I looked at was Twitter.

    Basically the reporters were having a conversation with themselves rather than watching the debate, and this idea gelled early on that Mitt Romney was having a big night, Obama was having a lousy night, which was generally true, but it accentuated it, and basically there was a groupthink going on there that was — that was that this is a really big bad thing for Obama, and I think that we probably did our readers and viewers a disservice.

  80. 80.

    Ash Can

    @trollhattan: I recall reading somewhere that the attendees are all undecided, as far as the people running the debate are able to determine. How that will play out, I don’t know.

  81. 81.

    Hill Dweller

    @bemused: Apparently Willard’s exploitation of the SEAL’s death was a much bigger deal locally. The SEAL’s mother asked Willard’s campaign to stop using her son for his political purposes, but they ignored her. Only after national media got wind of it did they cease and desist.

    I’m hoping Willard’s shamelessness gets more national play. I especially hope the real description of the meeting gets more national exposure, because it reinforces the awkward, robotic image we all know.

  82. 82.

    eemom

    @Donut:

    He actually was kind of gone from the FP for a while. Dunno whose brilliant idea it was to re-feature him just when he achieved what is likely the most ludicrous display of self-caricature in his entire godawful existence.

  83. 83.

    lamh35

    @The Dangerman: what everything I seen has been saying that the downticket races have NOT seemed to be effected by the top ticket race.

    In fact, in some cases the downticket senate race is doing better than Obama, i.e. Obama is not dragging down the ticket.

    It would be interesting if all those new post-debate Romney supporter still plan to vote for Dems downticket. Although I jsut can’t see picking Dems all the way down, but Romney at top, I can see those “uncomfortable” with Obama doing so.

  86. 86.

    Geoduck

    @West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):

    can someone tell me what button to press to get another poster’s name to pop up in blue?

    There should be the word “Reply” next to every post, with an arrow pointing back to the post. Click on that, and the name should appear down in the Reply box.
    EDIT: Should of known I waited too long to answer that.

  87. 87.

    FormerSwingVoter

    My predictions for the second debate:

    Obama rides in on a velociraptor, wielding a broadsword. He’ll shout “Klaatu Barada NIKTO!” and shoot deadly lasers into Mitt Romney’s robot head, making him explode and winning the Presidency by TKO. Then the ghost of Chris Stevens will bring peace to the Middle East by teaching Iranian leaders how to high-five and everything will be perfect forever THE END.

  88. 88.

    gogol's wife

    Dear Betty, re Update: I thought this was a new topic too, and am glad both to see that graphic and to hear that the president is aware of it (how could he not be, but still!).

  92. 92.

    bemused

    @Hill Dweller:

    I just watched 3 videos where Mitt used this story. In none of them did he look the least bit sincere which is no surprise but it was his utter phoniness that is so staggering. In one he said, ” I was heartbroken”.

    He makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

  94. 94.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Speaking of links to other blogs, why oh why is Charles Pierce not on the click-through list?

  96. 96.

    Steve

    If Obama knows the “NOT BAD” meme, as demonstrated by his Reddit session, why would anyone be surprised that he knows the “I GOT THIS” meme? Maybe he pays Alexandra Petri to keep him updated on the Internet.

  97. 97.

    gopher2b

    Someone needs to use that Photoshop and put together a poster of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and a slew of other “surrogates” saying “Everyone chill the fuck out. We got this.”

  98. 98.

    Lurking Canadian

    @bemused:

    How can anyone be this fucked up and get the presidential nomination? Oh, I know, it’s the Republican party but still……

    I can think of roughly two hundred and fifty million reasons. Most of them are currently resident in the Cayman Islands.

  100. 100.

    Bobby Thomson

    @trollhattan:

    So, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched a “town-hall” style debate. How hard is it to stack the hall with supporters and how do they select and manage the questioners? i.e., can it be gamed?

    Can and regularly is. Stay frosty.

  101. 101.

    LanceThruster

    Mittens fired back,

    Got this, I shall!

    Or was it this…

    There’s a saying in Utah, this I got, uh, shame on…I won’t get got again.

  102. 102.

    trollhattan

    @Ash Can:
    Saints preserve us. They can find a hall full of undecideds? Everytime I hear one interviewed on NPR I’m ready to either tear my hair out of grab a bat and hunt them down.

  103. 103.

    Gindy53

    @hep kitty: “All he had to do was counter the lies with the facts, calm and cool, as he always does. I think that is why ppl were so stunned.”

    When someone is doing a Gish Gallop on you, it is pretty hard to get a word in edgewise, especially if you have a bag of hammers as a debate “monitor”.

  105. 105.

    Gindy53

    @hep kitty: “All he had to do was counter the lies with the facts, calm and cool, as he always does. I think that is why ppl were so stunned.”

    When someone is doing a Gish Gallop on you, it is pretty hard to get a word in edgewise, especially if you have a bag of hammers as a debate “monitor”.

  106. 106.

    hep kitty

    @trollhattan: Personally, I’d go for the latter.

    How do these people even manage to function in the real world without getting hit by a truck or something? How do you get that dumb w/o being republican?

  107. 107.

    Davis X. Machina

    @nellcote: Why should the debate press bullpen be any different than every college classroom in America?

    Technology thou art a two-edged sword.

  108. 108.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Open threadiness.

    Donations requested to help pay for medical care for a kitten severely burned in a house fire. The family lost their dog in the fire, but the kitten was taken to the University of Illinois veterinary hospital. Any surplus will go to the U of I emergency fund.

  110. 110.

    Donut

    @eemom:

    Various front-pages seem compelled, apparently by satanic forces, or some shit like that, to post on Another Useless Thing Sullivan Said Today.

    At least Brooks and Douthat are fun to mock. No matter what they’ll never do anything but defend the status quo. Sullivan probably should be firmly on the Democratic team, and he knows it, but just can’t go there. That is way less easy to lampoon/ridicule. It’s just kinda pathetic.

  112. 112.

    gwangung

    Various front-pages seem compelled, apparently by satanic forces, or some shit like that, to post on Another Useless Thing Sullivan Said Today.

    It’s more the case that a) world class athletes have amnesia—a closer gives up the gopher to lose one game, he comes back to snuff the opponents in the next seven games, and b) we are far less than world class as Dem supporters.

  113. 113.

    NR

    @The Dangerman:

    Romney with both Houses of Congress means the filibuster goes

    Hey now, you’re talking like the filibuster is a simple Senate rule that can be changed at any time and not an all-powerful, magical force that can never be defeated and forces a 60 vote threshold for all legislation. You’re crazy! Everyone here repeatedly assured me it was the latter all throughout 2009 and 2010.

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    buskertype

    I for one look forward to welcoming our benevolent Mormon overlords.

    (just trying to get on the record early.)

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    AHH onna Droid

    @Spatula: Fuck u spatula. U wouldn’t dare heterosplain like this on towle rd or joe.my.god as you would be pig piled by the regulars.

    You want a self-hating homo, try Andy Sullivan, 1990s vintage. He was a terrible human being then and is a terrible human being now and his seemingly successful reinvention as the married, moderate gay dad just makes me want to puke.

    And he hasn’t changed! He never grows up and never learns, but there always seems to be a fresh crop of suckers not yet wise to his shtick.

    In closing, fuck you, spatula.

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    A Humble Lurker

    @NR:
    Maybe the reason people kept telling you that was because the Filibuster can not be gotten rid of at any time.

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