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Don’t try to dig what we all say

by DougJ|  March 20, 20143:54 am| 43 Comments

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Oh my Jah, these are unintentionally funny. I think they’re best enjoyed with no introduction.

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  1. 1.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 20, 2014 at 4:06 am

    Too severly hip.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 20, 2014 at 4:08 am

    He has that face-wanting-a-fist thing down really well.

  3. 3.

    jank w

    March 20, 2014 at 4:10 am

    how the fuck does this guy have any kind of paying job? and why dont non apologists for plutocratic wealth get that same opportunity? because duh…

  4. 4.

    PurpleGirl

    March 20, 2014 at 4:13 am

    Please give me an example of a regulation that keeps the “job creators” from hiring people. With the tax cuts throughout the early 2000s, every rich person should have been able to hire a personal assistant and every corporation should have been able to hire hundreds of people. Why haven’t they? Huh?

  5. 5.

    Helen

    March 20, 2014 at 4:19 am

    Republican Pajama Boy!!

  6. 6.

    Jewish Steel

    March 20, 2014 at 4:33 am

    Viscerally repulsive. On a par with GWB’s fake ass Texas twang.

  7. 7.

    Sly

    March 20, 2014 at 4:50 am

    Only a Republican Hipster would put 87 octane into an Audi A4.

    If spending an extra five bucks per fill-up is breaking his wallet, he should sell that car and buy something cheaper.

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    PurpleGirl

    March 20, 2014 at 5:15 am

    @Sly: They hired the actor, they had a script writer, a camera person, a prop person… what they they neglected was continuity, someone to check that the gas pump they positioned every thing by was the correct type for the car they rented. Production fail.

  9. 9.

    hoodie

    March 20, 2014 at 5:52 am

    Do they really think anyone will identify with that prig? He’s a soccer mom with facial hair.

  10. 10.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    March 20, 2014 at 6:17 am

    At least he whines like a Republican.

  11. 11.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 20, 2014 at 6:19 am

    @Sly: I know where we can find a slightly used farm-field tested Subaru…

  12. 12.

    Jamey

    March 20, 2014 at 6:54 am

    I call bullshit. Where in Greenpoint is this guy gonna park his ride?

  13. 13.

    Alex S.

    March 20, 2014 at 6:54 am

    The republican worldview is incompatible with hipsters. Hipsters like to work in teams, or self-employed, in shared office-space, in a coffee shop and so on… They certaintly don’t beg to some ‘job creator’ for a job. Also, hipsters don’t really like cars. They’d rather use public transport or bikes.

  14. 14.

    HeartlandLiberal

    March 20, 2014 at 6:55 am

    I know this guy is just a dumb actor, spouting his stupid lines.

    But I actually know some people like this, younger about this guys age, in computing technology, who really think like this. They are of course Libertarian fanboys of the Rand family, first working for the father when he ran for president, and know consuming every utterance of the younger spawn Rand as if uttered from some oracle on high, with absolutely no consciousness that they are feeding on bullcrap.

  15. 15.

    TR

    March 20, 2014 at 7:34 am

    Yeah, he sounds just like every twentysomething I know — deeply concerned with how the job creators are suffering under undue government regulations. Classic hipster stuff.

  16. 16.

    Mathguy

    March 20, 2014 at 7:35 am

    @Steeplejack (tablet): The word you’re looking for is Backpfeifengesicht.

  17. 17.

    patrick II

    March 20, 2014 at 7:36 am

    As much much as republicans complained about pajama boy, you knew they hilariosly jealous. So they had to get their own. (Much like they had to get their own presidential candidate of color — Jindal, Cain, or female — Palin. Peole say politics is like high school, but sometmes it is more like pre-school.

  18. 18.

    Biff Longbotham

    March 20, 2014 at 8:17 am

    Guess we’re substituting punching a hippie for punching a (fake?) hipster now. Also, too, why don’t we bust on the related ads featuring phantasmagorical Asian, Hispanic, and (most plausible of all) African American Republicans.

  19. 19.

    R. Porrofatto

    March 20, 2014 at 8:40 am

    I dunno. If this guy is an actor then he missed the class on “Memorizing Lines.” And Goopers ridicule Obama for using a teleprompter?

  20. 20.

    Hawes

    March 20, 2014 at 8:56 am

    “I’m a Republican, because I never take the time to check whether my fucked up a priori beliefs match the evidence from the real world.”

  21. 21.

    LuigiDaMan

    March 20, 2014 at 9:01 am

    What a jerk! Luckily (’cause one of my gigs is as a professor) almost no other millennial think like this jerk.

  22. 22.

    LuigiDaMan

    March 20, 2014 at 9:01 am

    What a jerk! Luckily (’cause one of my gigs is as a professor) almost no other millennial think like this jerk.

  23. 23.

    Shrillhouse

    March 20, 2014 at 9:17 am

    His believability went out the window when he said “My friends…”

  24. 24.

    Schlemizel

    March 20, 2014 at 9:22 am

    I work with some 20-something computer wonks and these ads scare me. Seriously this exact kind of shit comes out of their ‘libertarian’ pie holes. When I discuss reality they all end up agreeing that the GOP is not the answer but then go right back to the “drill everywhere, deregulate everything” bullshit because they seriously believe the free market is a panacea and the Dems are anti-free market. I despair, but then that what I do

  25. 25.

    ellie

    March 20, 2014 at 9:32 am

    Apparently he is not an actor, he is a real person who actually thinks (and probably says, in real life) these things. Here are a couple of links:

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/can-hipster-glasses-save-the-gop-20140317

    And, of course, a Gawker thread on the matter:
    http://gawker.com/the-gop-hipster-is-a-pampered-babbling-sack-of-horse-1547362023

  26. 26.

    John PM

    March 20, 2014 at 9:40 am

    @PurpleGirl: OSHA. You can’t hire new employees until some of your existing employees have been killed or horribly mangled.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 20, 2014 at 10:17 am

    @Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937: An astute observation.

  28. 28.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 20, 2014 at 10:20 am

    @Schlemizel: IT is a fucking desert of twits who have no fucking idea that the history of computers is all about the evil federal government looking for solutions to difficulties and financing pointy hairs who found ways to resolve those difficulties, which in turn opened up vast new opportunities for growth, totally contrary to Galtian doctrine.

    Twits.

  29. 29.

    aimai

    March 20, 2014 at 10:38 am

    @PurpleGirl: I think the actor himself was sabotaging the video spot. If this is for real, that is. Because he refuses to make eye contact with the viewer. It was like watching film footage of a hostage who is madly signaling “I am under duress” with morse coded eyeblinks.

    Oops. I am so totally wrong that its not even funny. I just read the gawker article. Apparently this asshole is a true believer. Just a hideously bad actor, unable to take his eyes of the cue cards.

  30. 30.

    Bill in Section 147

    March 20, 2014 at 10:58 am

    It is perfect branding for the Republicans.

    The world and its entirety should be tailored to fit my immediate needs.

  31. 31.

    chopper

    March 20, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    Sooo much of my paycheck ends up going to gas.

    you don’t ride a fixie? nice try, “hipster”.

  32. 32.

    dollared

    March 20, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    @Sly: Only a 27 year old Republican would drive an Audi A4. Because Daddy paid for college and no student loans.

    What a total outreach fail. I actually think the talking points are effective. But their agency had to default to luxury car? So fucking Republican.

  33. 33.

    Kerry Reid

    March 20, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    Glad to see that the GOP tradition of attracting only the shittiest of actors to their team is continuing.

  34. 34.

    Paul W.

    March 20, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    @aimai:

    Yeah, also gas prices have reached their lowest point in the last 3 years.

    I’m just gonna go with the earlier “quote” about how he’s a Republican because he doesn’t feel the need to investigate whether what he “believes” is actually true.

  35. 35.

    wenchacha

    March 20, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    For all the guffaws after “Pajama Boy,” somebody didn’t make such a great selection with this dud.

    This ad is obvious in its tone, like about 100% of Republican commercials. They ought to be able to come up with marketing that doesn’t want to punch hippies, but I don’t think they can even do it. Did anybody focus-group this thing?

  36. 36.

    KS in MA

    March 20, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    @wenchacha: My guess is, you can tell you’re a Republican if you think this guy is attractive.

  37. 37.

    EthylEster

    March 20, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    This looks familiar. Oh, yeah, I knew I had seen it here before.

    Posted by Elon James White at 5:05 pm, March 18

    Pay more attention, DougJ.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    March 20, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    @dollared:

    At 27, I was driving a used Toyota Camry that I inherited from my brother. And I didn’t have any student loans, either.

    So, yeah, the dude’s a total whiney douchebag.

  39. 39.

    flukebucket

    March 20, 2014 at 2:37 pm

    The guy looks like a Bitcoin hoarder to me

  40. 40.

    Mike Nilsen

    March 20, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    I work in IT, but am fortunate to be in a group of mostly oldsters (for IT people), with no douchebro-tarians or fake hipsters (redundant?) in sight. Well, maybe one, but he’s gone now. A couple of Old Fogies, though.

  41. 41.

    trnc

    March 20, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOp_77i58Ks

  42. 42.

    trnc

    March 20, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    Also, too:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster%20doofus

  43. 43.

    Brutusettu

    March 20, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    Remember, Republicans promising a jobs bonanza if Republicans are elected is not a promise.

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