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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Saturday Night In-Before-Cole Open Thread

Saturday Night In-Before-Cole Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  January 31, 20158:58 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Clown Shoes

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I sold $6 million worth of "I Fantasize Constantly About Lurid Home Invasion Scenarios AND I VOTE" bumper stickers at Iowa Freedom Forum.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) January 30, 2015

this has to be a deliberate troll right RT @ilanagain: Chris Christie’s PAC is http://t.co/tARceP2LrA — or LMFAO, in acronym form.

— darth™ (@darth) January 30, 2015

“When the trolling becomes fact, print the trolling.”

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  1. 1.

    David Koch

    January 31, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    BWHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHH

    Christie campaigns on “leadership” but denies any “leadership” in Bridgegate.

  2. 2.

    Iowa Old Lady

    January 31, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    What’s most satisfying about Christie’s fall is that he screwed himself by being who he is.

  3. 3.

    Zinsky

    January 31, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    America cannot afford to have Chris KrispyKreme or the Huckabee family, in the White House! They will eat this country into bankruptcy! Have you seen those porkers, for Chrissakes?!

  4. 4.

    srv

    January 31, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    You people are such fat ass bigots.

  5. 5.

    Tree With Water

    January 31, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    I understood the Liberty Valance reference, however I had to google the acronym. Bravo.

  6. 6.

    Yatsuno

    January 31, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    @Zinsky: There are many other reasons to be opposed to Christie and the Huckster. Fat shaming does not have to be included in that.

    And Huck is never going to see the inside of the White House as a resident. There aren’t enough white male Evangelists in the country for that.

  7. 7.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 31, 2015 at 9:20 pm

    @Zinsky: Huckabee and Christie each have positions that are vile, and they are both bullies; Christie is just less subtle about it.

    There’s no call to fat shame them, and it’s offensive.

    ETA: Or what Yutsy just said.

  8. 8.

    GregB

    January 31, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    There is no need to fat shame when there is such a bounty of dick-head shaming to be had.

  9. 9.

    Tree With Water

    January 31, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    Between Terry Schiavo and the following story alone, a person would have to be high on crack to believe Jeb Bush will be elected to the presidency. Huffy Post is reporting:

    “..As a politician, Bush has not embraced marijuana. He spent much of his time as Florida governor championing jail instead of treatment for nonviolent drug offenders, and pushed for mandatory prison sentences for drug offenders — with the exception of his daughter, Noelle, who has struggled with crack cocaine use..”.

  10. 10.

    Suzanne

    January 31, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Fat is not Christie’s problem. And can we stop talking about it?

    Quick, someone tell me I’m being PC.

  11. 11.

    stibbert

    January 31, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    LMFA.Org is comedy gold, tho it don’t approach the Santorum-definition.
    My land-line’s been getting lots of calls lately, requesting donations to Fraternal Order of Police Foundation or Nat’l Assoc of Chiefs of Police. I always ask the (always male) caller if he recognizes the names ‘Darren Wilson’ or ‘Patrick Lynch’. None of them ever click to that, so then I ask them if ‘FTP’ means anything to them, then wait ’til they hang up. I guess I’m an old now, FTP/STP was a watchword in 1972, but it’s just crickets nowadays.

  12. 12.

    danielx

    January 31, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    I sold $6 million worth of “I Fantasize Constantly About Lurid Home Invasion Scenarios AND I VOTE” bumper stickers at Iowa Freedom Forum.

    Jeebus, if I’d known it was that easy I’d have done it myself.

    Nice quiet evening at Chez X, fire in the fireplace and late night dinner coming up – Italian sausage parboiled in beer with onions before going under the broiler, to be served on Gonnella rolls with sauteed green peppers and onions and (in my case) Gulden’s spicy brown mustard. Snow coming down like a white curtain, and, as was the case during more than one afternoon at IU Bloomington, listening to Low Spark and feeling the exact opposite of disgruntled.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 31, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Short of more revelations, I don’t think Christie has fallen within the confines of the GOP. It’s his “victim of the liberal media” schtick that got him back to rightwing rockstar status. I don’t think he’s electable (at least not in this cycle) but he’s set himself up for some sweet wing nut welfare while– if he can keep some perspective over the next ten or twelve years– he can rehab his image and cultivate the elder statesman posture and win back (to the extent he ever lost them) the MTP/Politico crowd for a future run. He’s very young for a pol.

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    Pogonip

    January 31, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    Didn’t Huckabee have that weight-loss surgery? I remember some years ago he launched a program to encourage Arkansans to eat better and exercise.

    OPUS: There’s got to be something besides eating less and exercising more…

    TV: Honey, there just ain’t another way.

    OPUS: Oh, shut up, Oprah.

    That cartoon ran before the surgery became popular.

    A fair number of women I work with have had that surgery. With one exception, they all regained most if not all of the weight. So I don’t know if it’s the answer for most people or not. I think the underlying problem is that office life has become so sedentary–you don’t even get up to go to the files anymore–that to maintain anything approaching a normal weight you pretty much have to stay on famine rations, and few people have the discipline to stay hungry for years. And then real life outside your work is increasingly sedentary as well. Look at me. Am I scrubbing walls or floors? Am I training? No’ I’m sitting here typing.

  15. 15.

    M. Bouffant

    January 31, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    Srsly, the picture on the LMFAO splash page was the best they could get?

  16. 16.

    Zinsky

    January 31, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    This is what someone should have told both Butterball Christie and Pork Chop Huckabee!

  17. 17.

    Pogonip

    January 31, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    I know, I know–“you’re always training!”. While I would not discourage anyone from thinking “What would I do in an emergency?” that’s not QUITE as strenuous as a couple of hours in the dojo.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 31, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    @Zinsky:

    I’m sorry, I honestly don’t mean to be cruel, but the two sons’ heads just look as though they had been badly photoshopped onto the bodies. Ears coming directly out of the shoulders. No necks at all.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 31, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    @Zinsky: Way to double down.

  20. 20.

    Anabasis

    January 31, 2015 at 9:59 pm

    Chris Christie is fat.

  21. 21.

    danielx

    January 31, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    Oh, this is good. Does anyone in the conservative machine know the story of the frog and the scorpion?

    Grover Norquist Turns on His Anti-Tax Bae Sam Brownback

  22. 22.

    Tree With Water

    January 31, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    @danielx: Fuck you, Grover. You and the governor are married at the hip, and there’s not a divorce alive who can do anything about it.

  23. 23.

    Howard Beale IV

    January 31, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    @Pogonip: Nope-no surgery, though he gained back a quarter of his weight loss, according to Wikipedia.

  24. 24.

    Howard Beale IV

    January 31, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    @danielx: Norquist is an neo-anarchist-remember-he wants to kill government.

  25. 25.

    danielx

    January 31, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    @Tree With Water:

    Also, too – like Grover Norquist ever gave a flying fuck about the condition of the poors.

  26. 26.

    Howard Beale IV

    January 31, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    @Pogonip: Males who have the gold-standard surgery (Roux-en-Y + Vertical Banded Gastroplasty) tend to do better than females in keeping the weight off over the long haul.

  27. 27.

    Mike G

    January 31, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Anyone else nauseated by the constant overuse of the word Freedom by right-wingers?

    Like the communist countries’ strenuous invoking of “People’s”, it only serves to highlight the exhausted state of their empty, manipulative ideology.

  28. 28.

    mai naem mobile

    January 31, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    @danielx: if there was a god Grover Norquist would be on a plane with with his family, with mechanical problems from unregulated airlines when it crashes and the whole lot of them get third and fourth degree burns but they don’t get picked up for several painful hours by emergency services because the gubmint doesn’t have the funds to have the equipment and personnel to pick them up right away. This would be followed by a long stay in an unregulated.hospital where they all pick up superinfections and lose some limbs. The Norquist family would.then.be kicked out of the hospital because their insurance refuses to pay the bill because they’re out of network even for.an emergency. This would be followed.by the.hospital emptying out Grovers bank accounts of all funds for the.multimillion dollar bill. Grover will also be losing his house to the hospital. Medicaid ofcourse won’t be around because Grover wanted to keep all his precious earnings and not pay a dime of taxes. The cherry on top would be Grovers.inability to sue the airline because the courts are way overburdened because of inadequate funding.

  29. 29.

    danielx

    January 31, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    The cherry on top would be Grovers.inability to sue the airline because the courts are way overburdened because of inadequate funding.

    Don’t forget tort reform, Grover loves that shit too.

  30. 30.

    Howard Beale IV

    January 31, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    @M. Bouffant: They should have gotten a more current picture of him.

  31. 31.

    Howard Beale IV

    January 31, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    @Mike G:

    Anyone else nauseated by the constant overuse of the word Freedom by right-wingers?

    Same thing with “Liberty” and “Patriotism”.

    Of course, the ultimate corruption has been the Second Amendment-seems the preamble about a well-regulated militia has gone missing in action.

  32. 32.

    chopper

    January 31, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Way to double down

    i see what you did there.

  33. 33.

    Doug r

    January 31, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    @Suzanne: Fat chance

  34. 34.

    Zinsky

    February 1, 2015 at 7:42 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: The picture is on the Huckabee Foundation website. I kinda doubt it is Photoshopped!

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 1, 2015 at 8:16 am

    @Zinsky:

    Oh, I know it’s not ‘shopped. I’ve seen the picture for years; I think it may have begun life as the Huckabee family Christmas card. It’s just, those two lads — well, their heads look ‘shopped.

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