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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Hey You Guys Reince Priebus Is “Down” with Rosa Parks!

Hey You Guys Reince Priebus Is “Down” with Rosa Parks!

by Anne Laurie|  December 1, 20136:01 pm| 67 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

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… 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.”

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  1. 1.

    different-church-lady

    December 1, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    Racism has been ended? Did I miss a memo or something?

  2. 2.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    December 1, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    so racism is all done now. Thanks, Rosa!

  3. 3.

    Violet

    December 1, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism.

    Good lord they are utterly clueless.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    Can’t spell class without…

    Oh, it’s too easy.

  5. 5.

    Alison

    December 1, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    They later clarified:

    Previous tweet should have read “Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism.”

    https://twitter.com/GOP/status/407216474122498048

    It is to LOL.

  6. 6.

    Ash Can

    December 1, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    @Alison: Oh, well that fixes everything.

    Good grief. What a bunch of useless ninnies the RNC is.

  7. 7.

    Aji

    December 1, 2013 at 6:35 pm

    @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.

  8. 8.

    scav

    December 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    RNC/GOP ESL FTW.

  9. 9.

    Redshift

    December 1, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    Twitter had a fine time with #RacismEndedWhen after that. Quite a fine collection of mockery.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 1, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    @scav:

    RNC/GOP ESL FTW.

    LOL GOP WTF

  11. 11.

    YellowJournalism

    December 1, 2013 at 6:48 pm

    Racism has ended? Guess I should put those white sheets back on the bed, then.

  12. 12.

    Hal

    December 1, 2013 at 6:50 pm

    And once again shit flows from rinse pubics mouth so effortlessly. Rosa parks ended racism. Nothing to see here since the 1960s. Asswipe.

  13. 13.

    Kay

    December 1, 2013 at 6:53 pm

    This is kind of neat. The arrest report.

    “and would not move back”

  14. 14.

    Karen in GA

    December 1, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    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

  15. 15.

    Schlemizel

    December 1, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    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!

  16. 16.

    Shalimar

    December 1, 2013 at 7:02 pm

    @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.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    December 1, 2013 at 7:02 pm

    @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.

  18. 18.

    different-church-lady

    December 1, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    Today we remember the RNC’s bold stand and their role in ending sanity.

  19. 19.

    danielx

    December 1, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    The stupid, it burns…

  20. 20.

    p.a.

    December 1, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    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.

  21. 21.

    danielx

    December 1, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    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.

  22. 22.

    Schlemizel

    December 1, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    @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.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    December 1, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    Halelujah

  24. 24.

    rachel

    December 1, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    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.

  25. 25.

    Belafon

    December 1, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    @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.

  26. 26.

    Aji

    December 1, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    @rachel: No, you don’t. Wonder, I mean.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 1, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    WOOT!! (O/T)

  28. 28.

    ruemara

    December 1, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    Now that racism is ended I can take off this blackface.

    …

    HOLY SHIT! It’s permanent!

  29. 29.

    gene108

    December 1, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    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!).

  30. 30.

    Arclite

    December 1, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Yeah, they fucked it up, but I’ll give them (tiny) props for trying to do the right thing.

  31. 31.

    Aji

    December 1, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    @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.

  32. 32.

    Smiling Mortician

    December 1, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    @Aji: Sad but true.

  33. 33.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    it’s the new, improved southern strategy

  34. 34.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    @gene108:

    does he? does he really?

  35. 35.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    @ruemara:

    I loved that Buffy episode.

    or was it twilight zone?

  36. 36.

    Karen in GA

    December 1, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    @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.

  37. 37.

    MomSense

    December 1, 2013 at 8:17 pm

    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.

  38. 38.

    seefleur

    December 1, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    @Ash Can:
    RNC = Repuglican Ninny Conclave

  39. 39.

    gogol's wife

    December 1, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    @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.

  40. 40.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    December 1, 2013 at 8:20 pm

    Paul Walker dies and U-boat commander Priebus draws breath, the FSM is so unfair.

  41. 41.

    Origuy

    December 1, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    An Indo-American Silicon Valley CEO claims discrimination doesn’t exist in the Valley.

    My executive staff is a microcosm of the Valley: My CTO is Australian, my COO is Canadian, my head of sales is Turkish, my CMO is American, my head of engineering is Indian and my head of services is Chinese. When I hire, I simply look for the best candidate. I don’t care where they come from. I care what they can do. And given the incredible amount of talent, I don’t have to look very far.

    And the people who clean his office are Mexican.

  42. 42.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    @Origuy:

    o to the oy

  43. 43.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    @Origuy:

    in other words, narcissistic silicon valley ceo thinks he’s just peachy.

  44. 44.

    aimai

    December 1, 2013 at 8:24 pm

    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.

  45. 45.

    aimai

    December 1, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    @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.

  46. 46.

    Smiling Mortician

    December 1, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    @Origuy:

    When I hire, I simply look for the best candidate. I don’t care where they come from, as long as it’s not from anywhere around here. Eww!

    Embellished just a bit.

  47. 47.

    JPL

    December 1, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    @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.

  48. 48.

    MikeJ

    December 1, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    @aimai:

    “never eaten anything that wasn’t paid for by someone else”

    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.

  49. 49.

    MomSense

    December 1, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    @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

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    December 1, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    @scav:

    RNC/GOP ESL FTW.

    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.

  51. 51.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    white, black, brown, an asshole is an asshole. and a rich asshole is an asshole with way too much political power.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    December 1, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    @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.

  53. 53.

    MomSense

    December 1, 2013 at 8:36 pm

    @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.

  54. 54.

    Ben Cisco

    December 1, 2013 at 8:40 pm

    More proof that even Twitter is too much to handle for someone who doesn’t have the brains the Prophets gave a targ.

  55. 55.

    Little Boots

    December 1, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    wait, there’s a reince preibus in the world?

  56. 56.

    El Caganer

    December 1, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    @Little Boots: And I’m told it gets about 40-45 mpg. Or maybe I’m thinking of Prince Rhebus.

  57. 57.

    Another Holocene Human

    December 1, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    @Belafon: Fannie Lou Hamer.

  58. 58.

    danielx

    December 1, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    @aimai:

    Gosh, wonder how Paul Ryan fits into that meme…

  59. 59.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 1, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    Rinse Prebus really needs a onceover with a clue by four.

  60. 60.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 1, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    @danielx:

    Jim Crow, my ass. That’s considered a poor substitute for the Confederacy, to include chattel slavery.

  61. 61.

    Yatsuno

    December 2, 2013 at 12:37 am

    @Ben Cisco: Targ Anti-Defamation League on Line One for you Emissary…

  62. 62.

    Nutella

    December 2, 2013 at 2:32 am

    @Origuy:

    One of the comments on that article:

    Racism is a thing of the past, we admire the Asians and Indians that pay their own way, however we are sickened by the freeloaders from mexico that infest out schools with illiterate needy children. We welcome all responsible people.

    Yep, no racism here at all.

  63. 63.

    Paul in KY

    December 2, 2013 at 12:39 pm

    @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’.

  64. 64.

    LAC

    December 2, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    @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!

  65. 65.

    Howlin Wolfe

    December 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    @Roger Moore: otherwise known as “disemvoweling”.

  66. 66.

    Howlin Wolfe

    December 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    @Roger Moore: You meant when you remove the vowels. Didn’t you? At least someone read your comment, Roger!

  67. 67.

    JustRuss

    December 2, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    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!

    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.

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