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Late Night Open Thread: Values

by Anne Laurie|  October 31, 20122:32 am| 29 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes

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Perhaps you feel that your life is not worth the living; you have done those things which you ought not have done, while leaving undone those things which you ought have done. And yet, no matter how flawed your character, you can be grateful that you are not among the following:

You are not Shashank Tripathi:

New York City Councilman Peter Vallone told BuzzFeed Tuesday that he’s asked the Manhattan DA’s office to look into charges against a Twitter user, Shashank Tripathi, who spread misinformation during Hurricane Sandy.

Tripathi, who tweeted during the peak hours of Hurricane Sandy, resigned as the campaign manager for New York Congressional candidate Christopher Wright Tuesday evening. Tripathi, who goes by the pseudonymous @comfortablysmug on Twitter, also issued an apology to the people of the New York saying his actions were “irresponsible.”

“I’m glad he apologized,” said Vallone, a former assistant district attorney who represents Astoria, in Queens. “I think the consideration of criminal charges will assure this kind of stuff doesn’t happen again.”…

You are not Kristina Sesek:

… Documents from a recent Romney poll watcher training obtained by ThinkProgress contain several misleading or untrue claims about the rights of Wisconsin voters. A source passed along the following packet of documents, which was distributed to volunteers at a Romney campaign training in Racine on October 25th. In total, eight such trainings were held across the state in the past two weeks and 17 since late September…

The training also encouraged volunteers to deceive election workers and the public about who they were associated with. On page 3 of the packet, Romney poll workers were instructed to hide their affiliation with the campaign and told to sign in at the polls as a “concerned citizen” instead. As Kristina Sesek, Romney’s legal counsel who just graduated from Marquette Law School last year, explained, “We’re going to have you sign in this election cycle as a ‘concerned citizen.’ We’re just trying to alleviate some of the animosity of being a Republican observer up front.” …

And you are not gay Republican Kyle Wood of Wisconsin, immortalized by Wonkette as the “new backwards B girl!”:

… Wood claimed Pocan’s partner had sent him a bunch of threatening text messages too, which apparently did also not exist. Pocan and his partner are mulling a lawsuit.

Luckily, Wood had some inspirational words for the Daily Caller, before recanting his entirely bullshit story:

“I will not be bullied, intimidated or threatened into abandoning my moral values,” Wood told TheDC late Wednesday.

Insert, as they say, your own jokes here…

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  1. 1.

    Narcissus

    October 31, 2012 at 2:40 am

    “ur like a jew 4 hitler”

    Not my favorite Prince song ever

  2. 2.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    October 31, 2012 at 2:42 am

    But both sides do it,
    This I know,
    Because right-wing Jesus freaks
    Tell me so.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    October 31, 2012 at 2:44 am

    Words fail. They really will go nuts on November 6th.

  4. 4.

    Nemo_N

    October 31, 2012 at 2:46 am

    Someone with a loud twitter account should ask when is Mitt going to donate a good chunk of his cash to the Sandy relief efforts.

    I get the feeling he will wait to open the wallet until the last minute to look good, so it’ll be good to goad him before he does so.

  5. 5.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 2:46 am

    breitbart is still dead. There is that.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    October 31, 2012 at 2:49 am

    @amk: I imagine he’s having Tea in hell with Osama Bin Ladin having a moment like the Warden in Shawshank Redemption wondering how in the hell could a stupid uppity n’clang like Obama could ever have bested them……

  7. 7.

    ranchandsyrup

    October 31, 2012 at 2:50 am

    This is what momentum looks like in a post truth society. USA?

  8. 8.

    Alison

    October 31, 2012 at 2:50 am

    @Yutsano: Truth. Since the polls here on my dear Left coast close at 8pm, I imagine screams of IMPEEEEEEEAAAAACCCH to flood the land by, oh…8:02.

    I’m giving them those two minutes to finish chugging their Bud Lites.

  9. 9.

    Lindershaw

    October 31, 2012 at 2:52 am

    @piratedan: I thought we were going to be talking about The Shashank Redemption.

  10. 10.

    piratedan

    October 31, 2012 at 2:56 am

    @Lindershaw: great film, but I still think guys like Breitbart and bin Laden completely underestimated our President for his resolve, his intelligence and his perseverance…. although in reflection we’re about to see something like 45% of the country cast their vote for a lying bag of **** who will apparently say anything to anyone in hopes of being elected.

  11. 11.

    1badbaba3

    October 31, 2012 at 2:59 am

    Insertion jokes? Fuck yeah.

  12. 12.

    scav

    October 31, 2012 at 3:15 am

    So Shashank Tripathi did get yelled at by someone with enough oomph to make him uncomfortable. Slightly reassuring — although it was probably more along the lines of a “For Pete’s Sake, I’m running for office here!” type lecture. Nevertheless, a consequence for running a misinformation campaign during an actual crisis. One may live in hope.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    October 31, 2012 at 3:18 am

    Not fun: Get up at night to use the bathroom, go back to bed, and realize “gee, that toilet tank seems to be taking an awful long time to refill.”. Get up and take a look, step into pool of water on floor.

    Gaah.

    Well, I’m awake now.

    (turned out to be fairly simple, the valve at the bottom of the tank wasn’t seating properly at the end of the flush cycle, but not really what I want to deal with at 2 AM, and now I’m thoroughly awake.)

  14. 14.

    scav

    October 31, 2012 at 3:25 am

    @dmsilev: Hello down there. and ouch. I’m trying to sleep myself only the brain will not shut off. If I could only find my cntrl-c or off switch or plug. . .

    but at least I have dry feet.

  15. 15.

    sm*t cl*de

    October 31, 2012 at 3:36 am

    you have done those things which you ought not have done, while leaving undone those things which you ought have done

    Well that accounts for the problem with the trousers.

  16. 16.

    Valdivia

    October 31, 2012 at 3:44 am

    back from China and safely home in DC, luckily my flight was one of the first ones to make it in from Chicago where I connected. I managed to sleep an hour after being up for 36. Now I am awake and ready to begin my day. Hate jetlag!

  17. 17.

    the farmer

    October 31, 2012 at 3:44 am

    Shashank Tripathi: His bio describes him as “My Interests: Finance, Gin, Politics, Books, Food, Fine Clothing, Meeting Strangers…

    Congratulations, you’re Patrick Bateman.

  18. 18.

    dollared

    October 31, 2012 at 3:54 am

    A bit confused, Anne. These three people all have long careers ahead of them as right wing tools. Wingnut welfare will assure them of a significantly larger lifetime income stream than I have enjoyed.

    So what’s the problem?

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    October 31, 2012 at 4:41 am

    in honor of the campaigns being run by the other guys….

    LIAR,LIAR

  20. 20.

    Splitting Image

    October 31, 2012 at 4:57 am

    Well, I came through the Great Storm of 2012 safely, although my power was out for about ten hours. I was curled up with a cup of tea and watching The Return of the Pink Panther when it happened.

    I had to leave Mr. Sellers until the morning, so I lit some candles and curled up with Terry Pratchett instead. Unfortunately my power was still off yesterday morning, so I had to go out to just to get a hot meal and another cuppa.

    There seemed to be a fair number of branches blown off by the wind when I was downtown yesterday, but otherwise we got off pretty easy. There was apparently one fatality though. The wind blew a Staples sign off its hinges and it hit a woman passing by.

    I blame Mitt Romney.

  21. 21.

    kay

    October 31, 2012 at 5:33 am

    We haven’t seen any GOP poll watchers in my county in Ohio. We expected to see some, because media breathlessly printed press releases from corporate backed groups that “a million” (or some other nonsensical made-up number) were coming. If there are “a million” GOP pollwatchers out there, they’re doing a good job hiding themselves.

    We’re already observing early vote.

    In any event, they can’t hide their affiliation here, because they have to submit an entry signed by a judge with the sponsoring org listed.

    If a Romney employee bothers you inside a polling place in Ohio, ask a pollworker if you can see the entry they submitted.

    If they haven’t followed the rules, they have to leave.

  22. 22.

    debbie

    October 31, 2012 at 8:00 am

    Can we add the Wisconsin philanthropists, the Einhorns:

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/author-of-voter-fraud-billboards-steps-forth-m67deg6-176362521.html

    They’ve finally acknowledged that they paid for the billboards popping up in Columbus, Ohio minority neighborhoods.

    I wonder if we’ll ever know the total number of billboards they paid for.

  23. 23.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 31, 2012 at 8:34 am

    How do you know I’m not Shashank Tripathi?

  24. 24.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 31, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Well Shashank Tripathi, should have a come to Jebus moment, change his religion, and become a GOP Governor.

  25. 25.

    Uncle Cosmo

    October 31, 2012 at 8:56 am

    @Lindershaw: Immdiately I saw this thread I was determined to suggest sentencing Tripathi to a few hundred hours of scrubbing out salt-slicked subway tunnels–preferably with his tongue on the third rail–& calling it the Shashank Redemption. But you & partdan beat me to it, ya sumbidges…you snooze you looze I guess.

  26. 26.

    The Moar You Know

    October 31, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Staying truly anonymous on the interwebs is actually really hard, as the soon-to-be-convicted Tripathi has found out.

    Too bad there’s not any way to lean on his employer. They’re probably processing his bonus check as we speak.

  27. 27.

    Tone In DC

    October 31, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    LULz.

  28. 28.

    Jay in Oregon

    October 31, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    @scav:

    So Shashank Tripathi did get yelled at by someone with enough oomph to make him uncomfortable. Slightly reassuring—although it was probably more along the lines of a “For Pete’s Sake, I’m running for office here!” type lecture.

    The few articles I read all referenced the fact that he worked on Wright’s campaign, so I presume that someone in the campaign found a still-running bus to throw Tripathi under.

    We’ll see how the criminal charges pan out.

  29. 29.

    Ron Thompson

    October 31, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    This is not Dion and the Belmonts, though the person who made the video obviously thought it was and included numerous pictures of Carlo, Fred, and Angelo. This is a record released in 1963, three years after Dion and the Belmonts went their separate ways. The artist credit should be “Dion”, and he is backed here, as on most of his early-sixties solo records, by the Del-Satins, from Detroit.

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