… as long as she’s really dead, and can’t beat him about the head & shoulders complain:
RNC: Today we remember Rosa Parks, who helped make our "Southern strategy" of coded racism such a big success.
RE http://t.co/jwSNaGtNvE
— billmon (@billmon1) December 1, 2013
Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism. pic.twitter.com/uxIj1QmtkU
— RNC (@GOP) December 1, 2013
RNC: "And tomorrow we remember the Roberts Court's bold stand and its role in fighting to stop people like Rosa Parks from voting."
— billmon (@billmon1) December 1, 2013
To quote Jimmy Breslin, “Class tells when there is no class.”
different-church-lady
Racism has been ended? Did I miss a memo or something?
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
so racism is all done now. Thanks, Rosa!
Violet
Good lord they are utterly clueless.
NotMax
Can’t spell class without…
Oh, it’s too easy.
Alison
They later clarified:
https://twitter.com/GOP/status/407216474122498048
It is to LOL.
Ash Can
@Alison: Oh, well that fixes everything.
Good grief. What a bunch of useless ninnies the RNC is.
Aji
@Ash Can: If only. “Useless ninnies” I can handle; they’re ineffectual, so they may be pains in the ass, but they don’t do much damage.
With this crowd, it’s intentional.
scav
RNC/GOP ESL FTW.
Redshift
Twitter had a fine time with #RacismEndedWhen after that. Quite a fine collection of mockery.
SiubhanDuinne
@scav:
LOL GOP WTF
YellowJournalism
Racism has ended? Guess I should put those white sheets back on the bed, then.
Hal
And once again shit flows from rinse pubics mouth so effortlessly. Rosa parks ended racism. Nothing to see here since the 1960s. Asswipe.
Kay
This is kind of neat. The arrest report.
“and would not move back”
Karen in GA
Of course racism is over. I wish all the blacks would realize that, stop bitching, stop planning drug deals on their Obamaphones, get off welfare and get jobs!
The blacks are the real racists!
/brother-in-law
/I’ve just made myself sick
Schlemizel
Thank gawd racism has ended, now maybe you ni66ers will quit whining about being denied equal opportunity. Be quiet and get in the back of the bus damn it.
EDIT: @Karen in GA:
two great minds with pretty much the same thought – we might have the same brother in law!
Shalimar
@different-church-lady: It has been a wingnut radio trope for awhile now that racism against blacks is over, though naturally all blacks are now racists themselves. Limbaugh listeners don’t attend Klan rallies personally so they have decided they aren’t racists.
debbie
@Alison:
This is practically a replay of Ari Fleischer’s tweet about Obama getting to use more than 140 characters. They’ve lost the brains God or whoever gave them.
different-church-lady
Today we remember the RNC’s bold stand and their role in ending sanity.
danielx
The stupid, it burns…
p.a.
Isn’t it just like the blahs and lieberals to keep whinging about something that ended in 1955. Next thing you know they’ll think they an knock on real Amurcans doors to ask for help after car wrecks.
danielx
Today we are yet again (unfortunately) reminded of the existence of Reince Priebus, clueless douche waffle. Clearly he missed the memo about how 75% of his party regards Jim Crow as the good old days.
Schlemizel
@debbie:
If I thought for a moment there was a God responsible for what passes for a brain in people like ‘ol Reinhold there I’d go from being a passive atheist to openly hostile anti-theist. But my guess is that any omnipotent being worth his or her weight in burnt offerings would have already turned them into cockroaches as an apology to the rest of us.
JPL
Halelujah
rachel
Michael Steele, the RNC chair that saw the Republicans do quite well in the 2010 election, was booted out on his ear after it was over. This putz is still in there after their brand tanked in 2012. Hmm… I wonder why.
Belafon
@danielx: I’ve been having one of those fights on Twitter with two people who think that since Democrats were the real racists, they still are. And their one good piece of evidence is that when Republicans finally got control of the Mississippi senate, they finally ratified the 13th amendment, because the Democrats in Mississippi are definitely representative of the country at large.
Aji
@rachel: No, you don’t. Wonder, I mean.
SiubhanDuinne
WOOT!! (O/T)
ruemara
Now that racism is ended I can take off this blackface.
…
HOLY SHIT! It’s permanent!
gene108
Obama’s a fucking glory hog. He thinks he ended racism, when he was elected President, when it was really Rosa Parks in 1956 that did it (and she didn’t even need a teleprompter to do it!).
Arclite
Yeah, they fucked it up, but I’ll give them (tiny) props for trying to do the right thing.
Aji
@Arclite: How so? You seem to think the original tweet was simply a mistake. It wasn’t. It was their usual deliberate attempt to shift the discourse further rightward by positing “ended racism” to get people to internalize it as a meme.
No props, tiny or otherwise. This is not a nod toward antiracism, it’s the usual ratfucking.
Smiling Mortician
@Aji: Sad but true.
Little Boots
it’s the new, improved southern strategy
Little Boots
@gene108:
does he? does he really?
Little Boots
@ruemara:
I loved that Buffy episode.
or was it twilight zone?
Karen in GA
@Schlemizel: Maybe, if your brother-in-law is a walrus-looking guy with sons he lies about because he has just enough self-awareness to suspect that “Looks like the Feds will offer a deal” and “His parole officer is pleased” aren’t “proud-parent bragging” so much as “damning with faint praise the idiot sons and the schmucks that raised them.”
If not, then you have my undying sympathy anyway, because I’m sure yours is just as bad in his own way. Stupid comes in many forms.
MomSense
Earlier today @nerdywonka was posting an awesome pic of Rosa on the bus combined with a photo of Pres Obama sitting in the same seat on the same bus.
The thing that always sticks with me is that we tend to view what Rosa Parks did as a spontaneous action but there had been years of careful organizing so that they were ready to turn that action into the successful bus boycott. I am not diminishing in any way what Rosa did as she is one of my great heroes, just lifting up that it takes perseverance and organizing to create social change.
So I helped my friends sign up for health and dental insurance! Yay! There were some tears (of joy) followed by lots of praise for our Kenyan Muslim Usurper followed by spicy food to celebrate.
Son covered completely by CHIP. Health insurance after subsidies $54.37 per month with a $400 deductible and a $1,000 out of pocket max for a PPO Silver plan with cost sharing. Dental just under $100 per month
Mom can now see a doctor and treat her diabetes!! Dad can get his root canals. I think I will have a lifetime supply of chana masala and mutter paneer.
Website worked perfectly and the phone call was incredibly pleasant.
I blame Obama.
seefleur
@Ash Can:
RNC = Repuglican Ninny Conclave
gogol's wife
@MomSense:
Every morning when I groan at the New York Times’s screaming headlines about the “disaster” of Obamacare, my husband says, “The Democrats are going to get so many votes from this! People are getting health insurance! They’re going to vote for the Democrats!” He’s a smart guy, so I try to listen to him, but I worry that he’s wrong. But stories like yours make me feel a little better.
Mr Stagger Lee
Paul Walker dies and U-boat commander Priebus draws breath, the FSM is so unfair.
Origuy
An Indo-American Silicon Valley CEO claims discrimination doesn’t exist in the Valley.
And the people who clean his office are Mexican.
Little Boots
@Origuy:
o to the oy
Little Boots
@Origuy:
in other words, narcissistic silicon valley ceo thinks he’s just peachy.
aimai
I spent some wasted time today trolling twitchy and getting into an extended discussion with a woman about why complaining about “Moochelle” and the “9 kinds of pie but not humble pie” served at the White House for Thanksgiving was probably inappropriate and rude. She stopped responding after a while but I saw another comment from another guy stating as a fact that the Obama’s had probably “never eaten anything that wasn’t paid for by someone else” in their lives. I realized I was seeing the tip of a crazy right wing meme, not surprising somehow but still shocking, that argues that the President and Mrs. Obama never earned any money in the private sector and therefore all of their salaries and spending are somehow analagous to welfare. Just when you think you’ve gotten to the bottom of the barrell, they blast on through.
aimai
@Origuy: Interesting fact about Turkey: they rank their students, all of them, from 1 to 10,000 or whatever and the top students get a financial free ride. So that Turkish guy? He had it easier than most Americans who are digging out from under mountains of private university debt.
Smiling Mortician
@Origuy:
Embellished just a bit.
JPL
@MomSense: I listened to two or three minutes of Mike Rogers on MTP. (that could be a record for me) It appears that the new line the repubs are gonna use is that health care is now worse for the 85 percent who had it, just because the President was concerned about ten or fifteen percent.
MikeJ
@aimai:
When white people cash a paycheck it becomes their money. When black people cash a paycheck it’s just because some white person gave it to them. Or so goes what passing for thinking among Republicans.
MomSense
@gogol’s wife:
I think the potential is definitely there for the Democrats to gain a lot of votes–so that we can accomplish more good things to help ordinary people! The big caveat is that WE have to make it happen. These friends of mine were ready to just pay the penalty having heard that Obamacare was a disaster. I told them that I would go to their house and help them sign up so they could find out for themselves.
I feel like we each need to help five friends sign up for ObamaCare. I know my friends are going to tell all of their friends how great it is. Hopefully they will encourage others to sign up as well. We have to make this happen! Maybe I’ll start a new hashtag. #help5savelives
Roger Moore
@scav:
Do remember that the Republicans put RNC PR BS (what you get when you remove the consonants from the RNC chair’s name) in charge.
Little Boots
white, black, brown, an asshole is an asshole. and a rich asshole is an asshole with way too much political power.
MomSense
@JPL:
The Repubs are going to keep throwing things at ObamaCare to see if anything sticks until 20 years from now when we have single payer and protesters scream “keep your government hands off my ObamaCare”.
I don’t think we can compete with the right wing noise machine since it is amplified by our “liberal media” so the best we can do is just each of us help people to access ObamaCare so they find out for themselves.
MomSense
@aimai:
I see that same meme all the time. I especially love “Barack Obama hasn’t worked a day in his life” blah blah blah. Makes me so mad I could spit.
Ben Cisco
More proof that even Twitter is too much to handle for someone who doesn’t have the brains the Prophets gave a targ.
Little Boots
wait, there’s a reince preibus in the world?
El Caganer
@Little Boots: And I’m told it gets about 40-45 mpg. Or maybe I’m thinking of Prince Rhebus.
Another Holocene Human
@Belafon: Fannie Lou Hamer.
danielx
@aimai:
Gosh, wonder how Paul Ryan fits into that meme…
Villago Delenda Est
Rinse Prebus really needs a onceover with a clue by four.
Villago Delenda Est
@danielx:
Jim Crow, my ass. That’s considered a poor substitute for the Confederacy, to include chattel slavery.
Yatsuno
@Ben Cisco: Targ Anti-Defamation League on Line One for you Emissary…
Nutella
@Origuy:
One of the comments on that article:
Yep, no racism here at all.
Paul in KY
@rachel: Must be his cool name. Sounds sorta like a Nazi (which, in Repuub circles, is a good thing).
Mr. Steele’s problem was that his name had that liberal-douch ‘e’ at end. If he’d been like a man of action (say, Joe Stalin) it would have been ‘Mike Steel’! They wouldn’t fire a ‘Mike Steel’.
LAC
@MomSense: But remember, we are supposed to talk to them and get them to see the error of their ways and embrace them…oh, fuck it, the Monty Python weight dropped on their heads, it is!
Howlin Wolfe
@Roger Moore: otherwise known as “disemvoweling”.
Howlin Wolfe
@Roger Moore: You meant when you remove the vowels. Didn’t you? At least someone read your comment, Roger!
JustRuss
@gogol’s wife:
Problem is, most people already have health insurance so they’re not using the exchanges, all they know about ACA is what the media tells them. And the media is saying it’s a disaster. I’m hopeful that by the next election the truth will come out, but between red states sabotaging it and the media bias, I’m not sanguine.