So this is about the best thing I’ve seen in a couple of days: White People Mourning Romney
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So this is about the best thing I’ve seen in a couple of days: White People Mourning Romney
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(h/t commentor Freelancer)
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Doghouse Riley, on his way to a masterful fisking of George Eff Will’s latest dribble:
… The Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Ltd., is the most valuable sports franchise in the United States, and second in the world. It’s owned by Jerral Wayne “Asshole” Jones, who made his money by being born wealthy and increasing it. Mr. Jones is therefore what is known, in some circles, as a “jobs creator”, though he created neither The Dallas Cowboys, nor the search for natural resources, his other hobby, and cannot perform either highly remunerated function without assistance. No one I’m aware of argues that either pursuit would go unfunded if Jones did not exist.
And Jerry Jones is widely, if not unanimously, considered to be the worst human being to own a professional sports franchise. Even if you don’t know anything about professional sports franchises, just imagine what the competition must be like. He is also the General Manager of Cowboys football operations. As with everything else he touches, Jones has been highly successful at this. So long as other people were doing the work.
The Cowboys suck, but they’re worth billions. The Cowboys are worth billions, but it’s the taxpayers who built the largest domed stadium on earth so they’d have a place to play. It was projected to cost $650 million, and actually cost $1.3 billion, give or take a few fabrications.
Now, then, let’s talk entitlements…
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Apart from making glibertarians and other rightwingers cry, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Some folks might have thought about this front page just a beat longer, don’t you think:
Ah, those lovable British tabs!
Discuss (this or anything).
Department of Unfortunate Juxtapositions (Open Thread)Post + Comments (63)
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Here’s a little break from politics. I was wondering if Spotify had a subscription deal, and here it is. For some reason this made me laugh: You mean I could subscribe for 5 years and it would be 60 times the monthly price? Where do I sign?
Anyway, here’s an open thread for anything but politics.
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I knew that this is now A Thing, because the acquaintance-since-college who inspired the phrase “squid- cloud of butthurt” around the time of President Obama’s first election announced late last night that they & spouse are absolutely going Galt, this time for real no backsies, and that couple has always conscientiously refused to have a thought that was less than third-hand. But the epical, category-defining Squid-Cloud of Butthurt frontpaged by LGM’s Robert Farley is one very special snowflake indeed:
… [T]oday starts a new course for my life. I’ve soured on electoral politics given what happened last night. I believe now the best course of action is outright revolt. What do I mean by that?…
…I’m choosing another rather unique path; a personal boycott, if you will. Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I will do the same in person. All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt
I strongly urge all other libertarians to do the same. Are you married to someone who voted for Obama, have a girlfriend who voted ‘O’. Divorce them. Break up with them without haste. Vow not to attend family functions, Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas for example, if there will be any family members in attendance who are Democrats…
If I meet a Democrat in my life from here on out, I will shun them immediately. I will spit on the ground in front of them, being careful not to spit in their general direction so that they can’t charge me with some stupid little nuisance law. Then I’ll tell them in no un-certain terms: “I do not associate with Democrats. You all are communist pigs, and I have nothing but utter disgust for you. Sir/Madam, you are scum of the earth.” Then I’ll turn and walk the other way.
Buttons. Boy, you can have a lot of fun with this. I plan to make up a bunch of buttons, and wear them around town, sayings like “Democrats are Communist Pigs,” or “Welfare moochers steal from hard-working Americans,” “Only Nazis support Seat Belt laws” or “No Smoking Ban: Nanny-Staters go Fuck Yourselves.”…
For now, off to my first assignment: Telling all my friends and family who voted for Obama to “fuck off, don’t ever speak to me again you slimeball mother fuckers.” Wish me luck!
(I seem to remember at least one simulacra of this guy in the huckster room or the late-night room parties at every comix/StarTrek/sf-fantasy convention I attended between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s, but perhaps that was before The Internet Changed Everything.)
Anyways… Eric Dondero is a very angry man! Perhaps someone should introduce him to Shelly Dankert? Surely such a meeting of freethinking intellects would be magic, in a hyperrationalist way — the greatest coupling of slans since the Roark/Taggert courtship…
And “noted bloggist B-Skillet over at the Christian Men’s Defense Network” could throw the batchelor party! (Who says Gawker is nothing but hipster-friendly celebrity gossip and kitten videos?)
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Politico has a story up about the finger pointing and blame game of Team Mittens and the Wingnuts. These “flow-of-wingnut-tears” stories will be common in the coming days, but one part stood out for me (emphasis added):
Multiple Romney sources buzzed about one number in particular: 15 percent. According to exit polls, that’s the share of African-Americans who voted in Ohio this year. In 2008, the black percentage of the electorate was 11 percent. In Virginia and Florida, exit polls showed the same share of African-Americans turned out as four years ago, something that GOP turnout models did not anticipate.
“We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more from the African-American community than in 2008. Somehow they got ‘em to vote.”
Here is the thing that Team Mitt and Team Wingnut failed to understand: that when you insult folks and dismiss them, they tend to get mad and they tend to want to kick your ass.
Mitt and the Wingnuts have run a four-year campaign that is only a blond hair’s width away from calling the President a nigger every single day. They are focused like a laser beam on promoting white rage and using every dog whistle they can think of to get the message across. White folks heard them and so did people of color. Team Mitt is surprised that African-American turnout increased over 2008, but that is only because they are incapable of thinking of these folks as people.
As I knocked on door after door in a black neighborhood in Columbus, it was clear that folks heard the Mitt/wingnut code-talking and that it pissed them off. They heard the endless disrespect of the President and the general contempt for anybody who is not white that has become the core message of the modern conservative movement. They heard it and they decided to kick Mitt’s ass in the voting booth.
Mitt’s “Vote for me, I’m white” strategy made my job of getting Obama supporters to the polls really easy.
Cheers
What to do when the people you dismiss, kick your ass…Post + Comments (113)
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Sorry for the flurry of posts today, but I feel reinvigorated. That election last night has me FIRED THE FUCK UP.
And let’s make sure that we fucking win the midterms and throw those God Damned Republicans out of the house.