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

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… as long as she’s really dead, and can’t beat him about the head & shoulders complain:

To quote Jimmy Breslin, “Class tells when there is no class.”

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  3. 3.

    Violet

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

    Good lord they are utterly clueless.

  7. 7.

    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.

  12. 12.

    Hal

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

  14. 14.

    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

  15. 15.

    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!

  16. 16.

    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.

  17. 17.

    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.

  20. 20.

    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.

  21. 21.

    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.

  22. 22.

    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.

  24. 24.

    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.

  25. 25.

    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.

  29. 29.

    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!).

  31. 31.

    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.

  36. 36.

    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.

  37. 37.

    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.

  39. 39.

    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.

  41. 41.

    Origuy

    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.

  44. 44.

    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.

  45. 45.

    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.

  46. 46.

    Smiling Mortician

    @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

    @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

    @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

    @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

  51. 51.

    Little Boots

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

  52. 52.

    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.

  53. 53.

    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.

  62. 62.

    Nutella

    @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

    @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

    @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!

  67. 67.

    JustRuss

    @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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