Oh my Jah, these are unintentionally funny. I think they’re best enjoyed with no introduction.
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Oh my Jah, these are unintentionally funny. I think they’re best enjoyed with no introduction.
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Mustang Bobby
Too severly hip.
Steeplejack (tablet)
He has that face-wanting-a-fist thing down really well.
jank w
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…
PurpleGirl
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?
Helen
Republican Pajama Boy!!
Jewish Steel
Viscerally repulsive. On a par with GWB’s fake ass Texas twang.
Sly
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.
PurpleGirl
@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.
hoodie
Do they really think anyone will identify with that prig? He’s a soccer mom with facial hair.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
At least he whines like a Republican.
Mustang Bobby
@Sly: I know where we can find a slightly used farm-field tested Subaru…
Jamey
I call bullshit. Where in Greenpoint is this guy gonna park his ride?
Alex S.
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.
HeartlandLiberal
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.
TR
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.
Mathguy
@Steeplejack (tablet): The word you’re looking for is Backpfeifengesicht.
patrick II
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.
Biff Longbotham
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.
R. Porrofatto
I dunno. If this guy is an actor then he missed the class on “Memorizing Lines.” And Goopers ridicule Obama for using a teleprompter?
Hawes
“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.”
LuigiDaMan
What a jerk! Luckily (’cause one of my gigs is as a professor) almost no other millennial think like this jerk.
LuigiDaMan
What a jerk! Luckily (’cause one of my gigs is as a professor) almost no other millennial think like this jerk.
Shrillhouse
His believability went out the window when he said “My friends…”
Schlemizel
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
ellie
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
John PM
@PurpleGirl: OSHA. You can’t hire new employees until some of your existing employees have been killed or horribly mangled.
Villago Delenda Est
@Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937: An astute observation.
Villago Delenda Est
@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.
aimai
@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.
Bill in Section 147
It is perfect branding for the Republicans.
The world and its entirety should be tailored to fit my immediate needs.
chopper
you don’t ride a fixie? nice try, “hipster”.
dollared
@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.
Kerry Reid
Glad to see that the GOP tradition of attracting only the shittiest of actors to their team is continuing.
Paul W.
@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.
wenchacha
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?
KS in MA
@wenchacha: My guess is, you can tell you’re a Republican if you think this guy is attractive.
EthylEster
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.
Mnemosyne
@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.
flukebucket
The guy looks like a Bitcoin hoarder to me
Mike Nilsen
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.
trnc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOp_77i58Ks
trnc
Also, too:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster%20doofus
Brutusettu
Remember, Republicans promising a jobs bonanza if Republicans are elected is not a promise.