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5
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From The Marching Morans*
[Via Susan at Kiss My Big Blue Butt (formerly Juanita's Beauty Salon)]
PS: Ach, but I shouldn’t just post someone else’s picture without adding anything.
PPS: Righteous Bubba clarifies that the picture is originally from Pandagon. This makes it necessary to add something else to the post.
Above: Via Central Florida’s News 13
Auguste said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:06
Among everything else that’s wrong, I just can’t understand the mind that decides to write a sign for public display and, uncertain about the spelling of the word “Maverick”, doesn’t say “Hmm, maybe I should look this up just to be sure I don’t make a compleat fuking jakas of miself.”
GOPnot4me said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:12
On nice days, senior McCain Campaign staff prefers to work in the solarium of McCain Campaign Headquarters!
Doctor Missus Marita said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:12
Obama: He’s not just social, he’s the socialest!
Anonymous said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:13
That’s orthenticity for you.
Also, John McCain didn’t have a dictionary for five-and-a-half years.
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:15
John McCain went without a pseudonym for five-and-a-half years.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:20
Via Pandagon.
mikey said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:20
I’m a maverick, he’s a maverick, she’s a maverick, we’re ALL mavericks.
Wouldn’t you like to be a maverick too?
mikey
Another Kiwi said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:29
There’s only ONE Brett Maverick and he’s Mel Gibson
Auguste said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:32
A picture can run around the world before 1000 words can get their boots on.
Michael Scott said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:33
Relax! Maybe someday their kids or grandkids will actually graduate . . .
. . . . from Barack Obama High School!
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:35
There’s only ONE Brett Maverick and he’s Mel Gibson
I bet you prefer Michael Bolton’s covers of “When A Man Loves A Woman” and “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay”, too.
Snorghagen said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:36
I live about five miles away from those geniuses.
Amanda Marcotte said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:36
FYI, I took that picture. There’s a cute story to go with it at the link. Cute enough, I guess. Well, not at all, but I talked to the people who put this up.
Amanda Marcotte said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:39
Thanks, Bubba. :) I’m glad it’s getting copied and sent around.
Mr. Wonderful said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:44
Auguste–
What makes you think they were uncertain about the spelling? Or about anything else?
J— said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:44
Learn to speak english!
Woodrowfan said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:45
He’s a muslin and a linenist!
nolo said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:47
At least they could spell Obama.
Vic said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:52
Woodrowfan, that is the greatest thing I’ve heard all week.
Snorghagen said,
October 5, 2008 at 1:57
The voters will not be suede.
J— said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:02
He’s a muslin and a linenist!
And he refuses to recognize the merits of serge.
Jennifer said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:03
Among everything else that’s wrong, I just can’t understand the mind that decides to write a sign for public display and, uncertain about the spelling of the word “Maverick”, doesn’t say “Hmm, maybe I should look this up just to be sure I don’t make a compleat fuking jakas of miself.”
You’re making the assumption that they have a dictionary. I’d bet $100 that 75% or more of the households in this country don’t. And in the ones that don’t have them, there are probably a good portion of people who don’t have or know how to use the internet, and even if they did, don’t know there are dictionary websites. And more to the point, wouldn’t access one even if they knew it existed.
Because, you know, learning is for fags.
George Smiley said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:05
Send McCain to Warshington!
Jennifer said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:06
In other news, maverick reformer Sarah Palin tried to evade taxes on $17,000 in per diem payments.
Yes, she’s just like you and me – a tax cheat!!!
J— said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:09
But will it affect the baize?
Sockpuppet #47 said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:09
I think the confederate flag says it all doesn’t it? Obama could ask for no better advertisement.
Anyone want to change their name to “mccane” and get on the ballot in all the southern states? It has to be worth a few hundred votes..
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:11
Anyone want to change their name to “mccane” and get on the ballot in all the southern states? It has to be worth a few hundred votes..
Speaking as a lifelong resident of the South, I think one could change his/her name to “Not The Black Guy” and pick up a round thousand votes in my homestate of Mississippi alone.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:14
“Half-Breed Muslin”? Does this mean there’s Polyester involved?
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:15
Among everything else that’s wrong, I just can’t understand the mind that decides to write a sign for public display and, uncertain about the spelling of the word “Maverick”, doesn’t say “Hmm, maybe I should look this up just to be sure I don’t make a compleat fuking jakas of miself.”
As my mother always says, consider the source.
mikey said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:18
Y’just gotta be highly suspicious of anybody with a double-wide trailer house and a really nice lawn. That’s just wrong.
I’ve spent lots of time in trailer parks, cooking, selling or doing crank, and jeez, man, if you didn’t have weeds and dog shit for a front lawn you’d have really questionable cred.
That “Muslin” place looks like it belongs to a cop with a gambling problem…
mikey
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:19
But will it affect the
baizebias?I used to sew a lot.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:19
But I sometimes suck at tags.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:20
But I sometimes suck at tags.
I felt for you.
Ken Lowery said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:21
Guys, remember, only black people are racist.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:22
Obama could ask for no better advertisement.
Sockpuppet: You’re not well-acquainted with teh Southland, are ya?
Matt T.: You live in Miss-sippi? Oh honey. I’m so sorry.
Another Kiwi said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:25
Very brave Amanda, to go and talk with them.
Matt T, I think that the Bolton songbook is an ever expanding Black Hole of music but the comparison of M. Bolton to Mad Mel in relation to the original Maverick is apposite.
Who is the socialest here? Mel or Michael
Rightwingsnarkle said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:26
Y’just gotta be highly suspicious of anybody with a double-wide trailer house and a really nice lawn
Well, it’s not really a lawn as most folks understand the term.
It’s the stuff they sell down at Home Depot for $39/roll – 6 feet wide, 30 feet long, easy to cut with regular scissors. The yard in the photo likely didn’t take more than 4 rolls, with plenty of trim left over to do the porch.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:28
Welcome to the Sub-Heartland. Y’all thought we were just makin’ shit up, didn’ cha?
WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:31
Karing about speling is eleetist.
I have read articles by Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system and a fervent advocate of Spelling Reform. While he did get Americans to drop the “u” from such words as color and catalog, his more extreme efforts did not get traction. Fortunately. These articles took twice as long to read because the words are difficult to decipher. Wikipedia offers this example:
“All shud see the butiful after-glo on mountains to the east just befor sunset. Fyn vu from Golfhous porch.”
J— said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:33
Y’just gotta be highly suspicious of anybody with a double-wide trailer house and a really nice lawn. That’s just wrong.
Welcome to Florida. More specifically, Barefoot Bay, Florida. It’s a deed restricted community in Brevard County, and the deed is very clear about lawn maintenance (see Article III, Section 2).
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:34
Melvil Dewey … a fervent advocate of Spelling Reform.
Well, no wonder his ideas never took hold. Dude couldn’t even spell his own first name.
WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:38
He was going to spell his name “Melvil Dui” but that didn’t catch on either.
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:38
Korekt speling iz fur ileetist!
SamFromUtah said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:40
Weird that Dewey left the word “mountains” alone in his Reformed Spelling.
Joe's Throbbing-Sixpack said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:42
yernt be talkin bout mah granny an mah grampa is yee? Jest on account o’ we doesn’t like no black varmints doesn’t mean they isn’t fine fokes
Now yall git on outa hyar cus my gril Sarah’s acomin on the television and ah gots mah axle grease all warmed up.
Smiling Mortician said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:44
Y’all thought we were just makin’ shit up, didn’ cha?
Nope. Not after I saw this. (Apologies if someone here already posted this. Can’t remember what perverted links I first followed that led me there.)
Smiling Mortician said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:46
Ah, hell. The link disappeared. Trying again.
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 2:57
“Hmm, maybe I should look this up just to be sure I don’t make a compleat fuking jakas of miself.”
Why should that even cross their minds?
I’m getting to the point where everytime I see a McCain sign in someone’s front yard, I see it as the homeowner saying ‘Kick Me Hard’. I just automatically want to toilet-paper their trees. Second instinct is to think that a racist must live there but then you realize that there is a world of stupid and self-righteous reasons that they’re supporting what will be the end of everything. But if all you have is hate, that can be OK.
Wonder how those yard signs will fare thru halloween? Fuck these people.
J— said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:01
According to a local resident commenting on a community forum, the guy in Florida took down the sign and replaced it with some official McCain signs and a homemade one that reads “Obama, speaks with forked tongue, Muslim.”
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:04
I haven’t seen this mentioned here or in any of the other headlines and it fits with this thread, so I’ll post it for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
A seventh grade teacher in FL tells his students what CHANGE means.
http://incertus.blogspot.com/2008/10/way-to-make-florida-look-good-buddy.html
Come
Help
A
N****r
Get
Elected.
He’s in a world of trouble. Good.
Sockpuppet #47 said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:16
Maybe the knives are starting to come out. After all, many people predicted that the racism would get extremely ugly towards the end.
This really is quite a low point for the rethuglican campaign. No wonder there are so many braindead racist shitheads seething with inarticulate rage.
This is probably only the beginning. Lets just hope there are enough decent people around to shame them into keeping their hate-holes shut.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:22
Smiling Mortician: That clip just sends me over the edge. That’s my nightmare of how most non-Southerners view everyone in the South. Oh, I know “The Heartland” and most everywhere else have pockets of ignoramuses, but this vid visits deeply Faulkner-level territory. That there’s some hard-core poor white-trash, who I like to think can’t get the ’86 Dodge truck in good enough working order to make it out to the polls on election day. Unfortunately, they’s enough nouveau-riche white trash around these parts whose SUVs and Mercedeses work perfectly well and deliver their nearly-equally ignorant asses to the voting booths.
Also: How can anyone use the “n” word and then claim to have voted for Hillary? Yes, well. Welcome to my world.
OTB said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:28
Muslin?
What a cretonne.
mikey said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:34
On the other hand.
My neighborhood is overwhelmingly Taiwanese. These are NOT poor people. They own condos, own businesses and live in comfort. I have no way of knowing, but I suspect that few if any of them are American Citizens.
They are OVERWHELMINGLY, perhaps unanimously for Obama. The are interested in the political process and engaged in the campaign. They are smart and educated.
And the just plain don’t understand. They don’t understand why anyone with a vote would support McCain. They don’t understand why Americans vote for politicians who don’t even pretend to consider their well being. Who don’t even VALUE their vote.
Sure, they come from a different democratic tradition, more fragile and much more subject to blatant abuse. But they understand what democracy is supposed to be about, and they have, quite honestly, a much better grasp of representative democracy than most Americans. They get that these people are elected by their peers and are supposed to remain ACCOUNTABLE to their peers for the duration of their service.
And yet they see them immediately pivot and offer their allegiance to the highest bidder, regardless of the human cost in their district. And they wonder – why does anyone with a vote allow this to happen.
And sadly, I don’t have a good answer…
mikey
Loneoak said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:34
10 to 1 those signs were hand written by K-Lo.
anangryoldbroad said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:37
Ya know,for such a well off country,with so much WIN! stamped all over all we do,there sure are alot of sad,lonely,mean,spiteful,or otherwise miserable human beings living,working and walking among us. Seems to me if we were so blessedly fabulous we’d also be alot happier in general.
I’m just sick of mean and greedy people ruining everything. They are why we can’t have nice things and it’s past time for them to stfu and let smarter heads take over.
MzNicky,I’m NW of ATL,you’re describing more than a few of my neighbors. That shit runs generations deep.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:40
anangryoldbroad: Hit shore do.
SamFromUtah said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:43
They are why we can’t have nice things and it’s past time for them to stfu and let smarter heads take over.
Yeah! Sing it.
Anonymous said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:48
My neighbor just put up a new sign (next to his McCain/Palin sign) that says
Christians
consider the unborn in you vote for
President
It was pre-printed, professionally done.
They got nothing left but this.
Loneoak said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:48
I have zero photoshopping skills (hell, I don’t even have Photoshop), but if I did I would put a shitmoat in both of those pictures …
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:52
consider the unborn in you vote for
Are they trying to pull in the zombie vote?
ckc (not kc) said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:56
…unborn, undead, unhinged,,,
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
October 5, 2008 at 3:57
I know, that crepe is totally lamé.
Me said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:07
Folks, remember just a few years ago, when you felt like a lone voice in the wilderness, that the world had gone crazy and was slipping out of your control, and you were the only one who felt the way you did? Hell, even before you had a sanctuary like this site to come to?
That’s how backwards-ass, racist shitheads feel right now. Yes, I’m enjoying it too, but just remember, they don’t have their wits or sense of humor to fall back on. In fact, they don’t have much of anything to fall back on, which is why they make retarded lawn signs that are proudly illiterate. These are the people who are feeling desperate now.
That should scare you a little bit.
Mr. Wonderful said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:09
“I know, that crepe is totally lamé.”
Really. And the sad thing is, those people think it won’t make a material difference. But i’ twill.
Some Guy said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:09
You idiot! That’s not Washington crossing the Delaware! That’s Crossington washing the Delaware!
Given how THOSE people enjoy nominating people who don’t threaten them with their intellect, to put it diplomatically; one has to wonder why they have not yet contacted Benji the Dog to inquire about running in 2012. Or perhaps the Hamburglar. Robble robble! No new taxes!
WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:10
This cracked me up.
For me, it comes down to being intellectually incurious, like our pResident and Bible Spice. They don’t know how anything works, so they fall for the thinnest of scams.
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:10
Anybody want to try photoshopping this:
Zombies
consider the undead in you vote for
President
onto this: http://www.pastis.org/jade/ete02/cinetor1.gif
and posting it back here for Anonymous at 3:48? I see a yardsign in his future, but I haz no photoshop skilz.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:13
These are the people who are feeling desperate now. That should scare you a little bit.
Yeah, and they all have guns.
Anyone else heard Obama referred to as “a holiday waiting to happen,” or is that a Southernism?
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:13
Most of us know damn well he’s a Satinist.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:14
And all these fabric-related snarkisms are pretty chintzy, if you ask me.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:17
Tragically, they were actually trying to be thought-provoking by comparing the senator to Obama bin Laden.
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:17
And all these fabric-related snarkisms are pretty chintzy, if you ask me.
We don’t cotton to insults around here.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:23
Quick question for you residents of the Pancreasland: does the Bonnie Blue Flag have the same negative/reactionary associations the Confederate saltire does? I’ve been meaning to work out a couple of base flags to invoke the South in a general sense (New Orleans, until the fucking suits got ahold of the culture war, was basically one of its crown jewels) without simultaneously doing legwork for the Klan. Something that shows a communion with Twain, Joplin, Johnson, Armstrong, and Faulkner, not the horrible planter reptiles that slaughtered more Americans than any other terrorists in history over the right to keep human beings as draft animals.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:25
Yeah, the whole thing is a baffling sham.
EnfantTerrible said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:33
This is exactly the reason that you don’t see many McCain signs;
Running short on shit for your moats?
Halcyon said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:38
anangryoldbroad:
Isn’t it interesting that around here (NW GA), you can accurately predict how racist an area is likely to be by inverse distance to an Interstate? I wonder how well that holds up in other areas…
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:38
The Pooth says: people are rightly wary of the violence and hatred of liberals.
Hmmm.
“I just automatically want to toilet-paper their trees.”
vs:
“Anyone else heard Obama referred to as “a holiday waiting to happen,” or is that a Southernism?”
Compare and contrast.
Some Guy said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:42
Not to get in the way of some trolling, but I see usually 3 McCain signs for every 2 Obama signs.
bayville said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:43
I didn’t know Amanda lived near Stanley Kurtz’s house. Poor woman.
OBTW, Senile Stan is back on the William Ayers trail.
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:46
Or perhaps the Hamburglar. Robble robble! No new taxes!
I urge you to give your support to the Bat-winged hamburger snatcher.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 4:49
You know, those cowardly fags. Super scary, even to the beautiful Aryan supermen who comprise the majority of Republicans.
You say this every fucking election, you Goddamn whore. McCain only ever showed better in the polls in the middle of the right-wing dog-and-Palin show in the convention; right now he’s 10 points ahead nationally in some polls, and states that haven’t voted for Democrats since Reconstruction are teetering on the edge. Several traditional swing states – NH, VT, IA, and NM – are all either effectively out of the race or fairly close to it. The make-or-break states for McCain are North Carolina (home of American hero Jesse Helms), Virginia (the country’s most military-dependent state, during the first election since the first election since 1968 in which the military overseas vote is looking like a Dem lock), and two of the states most prominent in the Rovian GOP majority sceme, Ohio and Florida. (The larger of the two – Florida – Obama has been winning since September.)
Indiana – a state whose Senate election in 2006 was between a Republican and a Libertarian – is within the margin of error in every poll; Missouri, the most conservative state in the northern Midwest, is on the fence; the western vote in Oregon and Washington is warming to Obama to the point that both states, in defiance of usual trends, are in the solid blue – and Georgia and Montana have been teetering for most of the race. But that’s just why you’re wrong; it is not what is important in this election.
No: what is important is Texas. In all of the other states mentioned, a major part of the incipient Democratic landslide has been from demographic shifts caused by Republican policies – the majority has become poorer, more urban, and angrier at the government. (No, Troofy, they’re not angry at Big Government – you try getting someone angry at paying $200 more a year when the party pushing against it has killed your son for the military-industrial bottom line.) In each of these states, the majority establishment was either Main Street GOP or conservative Democratic, meaning that the policies were generally Keynesian or non-radically classical.
In a historical sense, Troof, you and who you represent are doomed: even if you get your way for a century, you will still have created a populace that will eventually have no option but to rob and murder your descendants en masse.
But this does not explain Texas. No, Texas is a state that plays more strictly by your asinine rules: elections are about petty issues, the populace generally doesn’t know or care about the policy fundamentals behind the parties, and the average voter has enough credit that they aren’t going to fall through the floor if the Republicans go too far with deregulation and his plant shuts down. Elections there may as well be cowboy versus faggot, just like you try and force every election nationally to be about. And yet the Republicans hang on there by a thread.
Not because there are more poor people, more immigrants, more people in the cities. While there are, Texas is too big for that to be a major difference. And not that the right in Texas is novel – Eisenhower talked about its idiot oilmen agitating against the sensible tax policies of his day. No: Texas is the beating heart of your evil empire, and enough of tens of millions of voters have seen what you want out of them, what you want out of America, and what you want for yourself, and they’ve realized that there’s never going to be a point at which you’re satisfied. They see McCain for the anti-Christian anti-society fanatic he is, and – not being the rank idiots you like to think they are – they’re not fooled any longer about Palin being anything like lipstick on that stinking hog.
In Texas, Truthy, they’re playing by all of your rules, and you’re still losing. You want resentment? Try being told by a guy whose salary you pay (both through Congress and subsidies) that you’re a whiner for being out of work. Try living with a President who intentionally acts like being from Texas makes you an idiotic jackass. Try living with Karl Rove being treated like Thomas Jefferson. Maybe if you weren’t so fucking lucky that you don’t have to do any of that – that you’re not in the goddamn gutter you’ve been urging us to dig deeper and deeper – you’d know what resentment means. But you don’t. You never will.
You’ve lost, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and we don’t trust your kind any more. There’s your fucking resentment. And if you try to grab the reins again, we’ll cut your fucking hands off. And no, that’s not hatred. You don’t want to see what that is.
g said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:00
Oh, give it up Alec. We all are so used to Gary and the Trolls being wrong, it’s hardly work remarking on.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:02
I enjoy a good showboat now and again. It’s good for you.
Halcyon said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:04
Oh, I dunno. There’s always room for a well-said angry rant.
henry lewis said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:11
Bible Spice knows somehing about houndstooth and herringbone.
Arky The Islahomobamaist said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:20
Can I pur-suede you to see the humor in our comments?
All right, I’m getting on my own nerves so I won’t terry.
Nylund said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:24
The sign of a true maverick is to not even spell correctly. Troo mavrix maik hup theyer oan spellen gawdammett. Enny moran noes dat.
henry lewis said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:29
I owe Sadly No! a t.
henry lewis said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:30
just-in-time-proofreadin-R-us
Bina said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:35
Hi, I’m of the left. I like Groucho. And I’m a big fan of light weight summer suitings.
Yes, I’m a Marxist Linenist.
EnfantTerrible said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:36
Really, you guys – you are all such tulles.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:36
So easily he’ll go back in time and win for Dole and Fremont while he’s at it.
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:41
Not to get in the way of some trolling, but I see usually 3 McCain signs for every 2 Obama signs.
My condolences. It’s at least 4 Obamas for every McCain in Mpls/St Paul.
Me said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:43
Anyone else heard Obama referred to as “a holiday waiting to happen,” or is that a Southernism?
Well, I’ve heard the one about shooting four more so we can take the whole week off. Not sure if that’s Southern in origin.
Oh, and Truth? If you deign to show up here on November 5th, I will actually develop something approaching respect for you. Not actual respect. Something kind of like it. And then I’ll laugh at you.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:44
You’re all getting a bad rep as punsters.
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:46
Matt T.: You live in Miss-sippi? Oh honey. I’m so sorry.
No, I live in Georgia. The groovy little college town of Athens, but Georgia nevertheless. I was raised in Miss-sippi (and kudos for the proper pronounciation). Now you may feel sorry for me.
Another Kiwi,
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but if you really think that Gibson’s cinematic abomination is superior to the original James Garner/Jim Kelly shows, well, we’re not obviously from different dimensions anyway.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:47
To address the troll’s actual point: the main reason that even in fairly Republican areas people don’t want to put up signs is not some kind of fear. (Who remembers who that guy is who has steadily stepped up from having his own signs stolen to having members of his family beaten and claiming it’s from liberal extremists, all of which are more or less unique to him? He’s from West Virginia, if it helps, and I imagine he’s already shot his wife with a half-Muslim bullet.)
It’s because John McCain is as dull as a board. Putting up one of his signs might mean ‘I’m going to vote against Barack Obama’ – which is bad advertising for a whole other suite of reasons – but more usually it means ‘I am a Republican and will vote for them no matter what’, or, less tactfully, ‘I would swallow shit and call it caviar if the RNC asked me to.’ It’s effectively advertising that you’re a jackass without an independent thought to your name.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:48
I toile you to stop. Is it your only way of ticking away the moments?
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:49
You don’t pronounce it ‘miss-uh-sippy’? Huh. Now I know how those people who say ‘neh-vodd-uh’ feel.
David said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:50
Yep – you betcha and golly. They sure do grow ‘em smart down thar. So Mr. Obama is part muslin which, as any fool knows, is a material, like for tablecloths etc. They probably don’t know what a tablecloth is, preferring to eat off the sod floor. There really should be an IQ test to qualify one as to whether or not one can vote. Below 80 (which must be considered high in the household pictured) can watch all the comin’s and a’goin’s on the TV.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:50
Curried Wolverine with Iced Poops
Ingredients:
4 pounds bashful wolverine, tossed
7 pints poop
1 jigger familial coconut cream, fresh
7 tablespoons delicate trout tentacle
5 cups maple syrup
1 pound sesame
Pre-heat your George Foreman grill to 407 Farenheit. Breathily grease a cookie sheet. Place the wolverine into a large skillet. Use a food processor to mix the coconut cream with the poop. Stuff the resulting goo into the wolverine. Rinse – very discontentedly – the trout tentacle, maple syrup, and the sesame. Pile the latter combination on to the former. Leave raw. Serves 13.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:52
Ah, there’s that indefatigable doughtiness you 101st Fighting Keyboarders are famous for. No message board too profane – no blog too extreme!
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:52
You’re truly warped.
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:56
I bet you bashful wolverines are tough to find.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 5:59
Accrodding to the email I just got from The National Republican Trust PAC (whoever in hell they are), the strategy looks pretty much what we expected: Wright, Ayres, Farrakhan, etc etc ad nauseum. They really have nothing left but shit – watch it fly.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:00
I bet you bashful wolverines are tough to find.
They’re exotic, like this arugula I hear so much about.
rotten mcdonald said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:03
And all these fabric-related snarkisms are pretty chintzy, if you ask me.
It’s curtains for you, MzNicky.
GSD said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:06
McCain and Palin are going to try to wrap all of America in their bitterness and loserdom…..
Tough time paying for gas…..Farrahkan!
Losing your job…..Rev. Wright!
Worried about your healthcare…….Ayers!
McCain is going to bring himself down to the bottom of the bowl in a great sucking vortex of Rovian Schmidt turds.
Have fun Johnny, we’re all laughing right along at you and your loser cabal.
-GSD
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:07
What an interesting line of attack. Why don’t you guys go for it.
Really. Because, you know, the people who fought tooth-and-nail over which Democrat to elect to the White House aren’t going for Obama at all. And it’s totally a coincidence that Pennsylvania, a state in which Hillary Clinton won by a crushing landslide and which many commentators suggested Obama was specifically insulting in a major campaign moment, hasn’t been close to voting for John Sidney McCain III since July.
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:07
They’re exotic, like this arugula I hear so much about.
So, you’d have to go to Hawaii to get ‘em, then?
SamFromUtah said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:07
It’s curtains for you, MzNicky.
She’ll never quilt!
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:09
407 Farenheit
FAIL
I for one would welcome a recipe for Pin’s Tripe.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:10
You don’t pronounce it ‘miss-uh-sippy’?
It’s more like “MzSippy.”
Matt T: Athens Jawja is indeed a nifty college town. I presented a paper at an academic conference there a few years ago — first time I’d been there. Nice walking-around campus, good restaurants.
The doubleknitwittery of all these fabric puns is poplin out all over. Republicans are a bunch of seersuckers. That’s all I got.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:11
GSD: I don’t know, there’s a sort of Dadaist appeal in the idea of a presidential campaign which answers all questions with the name of a random black man.
And you can’t tell me “Gun-wielding black man Danny Glover; fabled voice of Afrocentrist wisdom Morgan Freeman; smart, well-dressed radical Sidney Poitier; Sammy Davis Junior, who killed both the American dream and Jesus.” wouldn’t have made a better response than any of the ones Palin has been using.
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:13
MzNicky,
Yeah, it’s a cool little town, though I’ve had my fill. If I could figure out someplace to go and/or something to do when I got there, I wouldn’t be here by this time next week.
Did you make it to the Grit? Everyone goes to the Grit, partly because of the food, but mostly because they think Michael Stipe might be eating there that afternoon.
WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:17
Well, either I have accidentally warped the fabric of space-time, or Republicans are just flat out of ideas.
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:18
I have no fabric puns, but in my imaginary version of “Reservoir Dogs”, the gang have all been assigned names like “Mr Taffeta” and “Mr Candlewick”.
After two ESBs with Bunnahabhain chasers it does not take much to make me laugh.
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:18
Trust me, Me, it does.
SamFromUtah said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:19
But we must employ Hillary Clinton’s strategy. –Republicans
And here my big problem with Clinton’s primary campaign was that her team was running it like Republicans.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:20
Matt T: I can’t remember the names of the places we went. It was walking distance from the campus along that main street. Nice Italian meal one night, another place was loud and had good girly drinks. Hell, I can’t remember where I ate last night let alone years ago in another town. My own college town is bigger and rowdier and we’ve got a colossal football stadium where our team regularly gets its ass kicked this season and we tend to drive off all of the best researchers.
As for teh rest o’ yuz, quilted curtains? Please. Jacquard this!
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:22
Alec
I agree. I think it’s a perfectly normal desire, and one should satisfy it every now and again.
Lesley said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:23
Those Bumfuck, America residents think not mowing the lawn makes them ‘mavricks’.
MzNicky said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:25
Obama is my rayon of hope. That’s all, I’m done.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:31
Curtains, I tell ya.
Lesley said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:33
Victory impossible in Afghanistan: senior British commander
War isn’t working.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:35
atheist: Thanks. I loves me some Marcotte, but I don’t read her often for the same reason I don’t read Taibbi often – for some reason Pandagon is one of those blogs I love but don’t regularly have the desire to read.
I personally like the idea that Palin was chosen to appeal to trolls (and ‘choad’ is a fine word that needs more using more often). I’ve got something in the pipe about the American culture of shame manifesting itself through demo-porno – those glib assholes who run arond taking lovingly voyeuristic photos of extremists and women at marches and protests – but in general, it’s noteworthy that in a few short years we’ve basically accepted shame as a primary social mechanism. When it was new, Jackass’s imitators aimed for extremely violent slapstick; nowadays, they just involve frat-boys embarassing each other and getting really put out by it. And almost every mainstream comedy is about someone making an ass of themselves in front of everyone.
The troll’s MO is ‘Ha ha, he’s angry because I said something offensive, how embarassing!’ It’s a stupid MO – in the early days of the Internet, before the culture of shame metastasized and forced its way into most people’s daily lives, the point of the better trolls was to make people you disagreed with look like idiots. What Sadly does was what trolling used to be; what Troof does is what it is now. We’re a culture that thinks the schoolyard joke about being a PT is the height of wit. Because eww, you’re voting! You must have opinions and everything! That is so not hot.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:35
Obama is my rayon of hope. That’s all, I’m done.
But you haven’t even tried bunting yet!
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:38
Duck! Here comes another!
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:39
I can’t help it – it’s in my jeans. Plus, growing up in jersey didn’t help.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:40
I’m gonna need some mohair of the dog to keep this up.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:40
But you haven’t even tried bunting yet!
You’re just clinging to God and gunny. You ought to try fabric softener.
1000 words said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:40
A picture can run around the world before 1000 words can get their boots on.
The corollary of this is that when the picture has finished running around the world, and comes puffing and gasping back to where we all started, we will have just finished lacing up our Doc Martins, and we will be ready to welcome it.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:40
Let me mull it over.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:42
I suppose this will through all into a fi of pique.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:43
Face it – you’ve been worsted.
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:49
You’re truly warped.
Woof!
Well, I love a good pun, but you can’t make a silk purse out of a lipsticked sow’s ear.
Here are some good signs to counteract teh evil signs:
Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally
I imagine most of y’all have already seen it, but I’m diggin’ those signs.
henry lewis said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:51
Of Russia, Sarah is an excellent seer, sucker.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:54
Please, no moiré
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:54
I wonder if there is any way to selvege this thread.
WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:54
Trolls wear sneersucker suits.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:55
Come on, henry. Didn’t you think she was tartan it up a little too much at the debate?
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:55
I was about to contribute a purler of a bad pun, but I retain some compunctions. Also scruples, and qualms.
I never can remember whether a scruple or a qualm is worth more.
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:56
Thanks alec. Interesting comic.
FuriousGeorge said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:58
Everybody knows that Obama is totally in the pocket of Big Quilt.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:58
Lesley,
From the comments of your link,
Well, not until we showed up…
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 6:59
Raw Selvedge would be a good band name.
Basil Fawlty said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:00
almost every mainstream comedy is about someone making an ass of themselves in front of everyone.
I agree that this is an entirely new phenomenon.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:01
Don’t worry about it, Herr Clyde. Just keep doing what you do best: scruting the inscrutable. I’ll keep busy effing the ineffable if you don’t mind.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:02
FuriousGeorge,
As long as he’s not trying to fleece me.
nonie said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:05
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:05
Can anyone spot me a Phifer?
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:06
Who will be couthing the uncouth?
I think that for the purposes of this thread Matt T. should say he lives in Georgette.
and that’s it. Bedtime for me. I’m starting to go against the grain.
gbear said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:09
Time for a new thread.
henry lewis said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:12
I’m starting to go against the grain.
You’re talking about corderoy, right?
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:13
Okay, this is to laff: I’m perusing a fabric site, and found this under the letter R:
heh indeed
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:16
For us, yes. For the Brits, no – and it’s worth remembering that Fawlty Towers wasn’t exclusively about some guy being an idiot.
And it doesn’t seem to have been as extreme and rapid in Britain as in here. With a tradition of class stratification, failing to know your place has always been a major source of shame; we don’t really have the same deal, or at least haven’t until not too long ago. It’s instructive to compare British reality TV – seems to be primarily about putting normal people together in unusual circumstances and watching the sparks fly – and American reality TV, in which people doing disgusting, distasteful, or crass things is completely obligatory. And almost all British comedy that makes the jump is based on someone being a jackass, idiot, or parvenu. Little Britain would be prime-time gold if it weren’t so goddamn English.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:16
Has anyone ever seen D.N. and Troofywooofy together? I didn’t think so.
Well! That settles that.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:24
Man, I don’t even give a shit about baseball and I still think this makes you a jackass.
And I’ll finally get laid, and that horrible rash will go away, and those elitists at Harvard will give me an honorary doctorate for my prop comedy, and I’ll get a pony and a Palin nip slip.
Pomo, troofy? I didn’t think you had it in you.
On another, less asinine note:
When he was eighteen, my dad decided he’d pull some shit on my grandmother while they were shopping for furniture for his and my mother’s new apartment. When she beckoned him over, she said, “Hey, Mike, feel this – it’s real nice corduroy.”
And he said “No! I hate corduroy! You always make me touch it, and I’m not going to! I’m a grown adult!”
The man has a beautiful knack for deadpanning, and this became one of my grandparents’ “Mike is a jackass” things almost immediately, and has become a running joke between my parents – they got married shortly before that, and they’re a very happy couple. They voted for Clinton, but nobody’s perfect.
Brandi said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:31
There really should be an IQ test to qualify one as to whether or not one can vote.
Tempting a thought though it is, Southern voting history would suggest otherwise.
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:34
Can I just mention, every time some wingnut disses Chicago, I get a warm, tingly feeling?
It just totally juices me, the way the wingnuts hate on my home town. Please, please keep up the Chicago hate, wingnuts! Wingnut hate is better than sex!
Matt T. said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:41
Hey, that reminds me. The Michelle Obama “Whitey” video once much-ballyhooed has been unearthed via John Cole. Here:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10570
It’s pretty ugly stuff, so don’t come crying to me if you can’t handle.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:42
Since we’re on a fabric thang tonight, I would like to share something connected to tonight’s leitmotif as well as another passion of mine, racing. Here then, the Parilla Racing Iron.
PeeJ said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:44
Well done Matt and Juan! Well done indeed.
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:51
I love Chicago. I kind of envision a future America whose political debate is between Chicago and Portland, and here we are stuck in an eye-gouging struggle between North Texas and Phoenix.
God damn America. God damn it, America.
Stumptown aka Portland said,
October 5, 2008 at 7:58
We would never debate with Chicago. We’d love to talk about it over some coffee. Or maybe a spirited discussion involving a few local brews would be fine. Debate sounds so…so rigid.
Another Kiwi said,
October 5, 2008 at 8:23
Matt T, sorry. I was trying to make a point about McSame’s faux maverickness.
Another Kiwi said,
October 5, 2008 at 8:25
And, wow, that Michelle Obama video is excruciating.
Anne Laurie said,
October 5, 2008 at 8:30
“Roving: A Name Given, Individually Or Collectively, To The Relatively Fine Fibrous Strands Used In The Later Or Final Processes Of Preparation For Spinning”
Watch out for that stuff, Candy… if I remember correctly, the ‘roving’ stage is the room where the textile factory workers contract cotton lung.
(Srlsy, ‘Rove’ is a fine old Norwegian name, and if I hadn’t had to live with Norwegian-American Politeness for 30 years, I would be more surprised that a coalition of Minnesotans & Seattleites hadn’t beaten a certain rogue Karl to death yeeeears ago.)
alec said,
October 5, 2008 at 8:31
Yeah. Looks like we were wrong all along about whether or not Obama was a sleeper agent for Shariugula.
Porlock Hussein Junior said,
October 5, 2008 at 9:13
@WereBear
Melvil Dewey (1851 – 1931), telling us to drop a superfluous U from some Latin words that didn’t have one in the first place? One could stretch to believe that that’s where Mark Twain got his spelling of color in Huckleberry Finn (1884); but Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) would be too unlikely a candidate for even an ignorant American to believe in as a victim of Dewey. I think Noah Webster is the villain you’re looking for.
Look it up in the encyclopedia; or as we classical purists spell it, egkyklopaedeia.
WIth a G? Yeah, look it up in the OED, purists.
What’s really noteworthy is that anyone could actually be slowed down by the existence of two minutely different standard sets of spellings in this arbitrarily spelled language. I mean, doesn’t everybody know about this and take it for granted from about the age of ten?
handy said,
October 5, 2008 at 9:20
One obnoxious, overrated Chicago phenomenon just went down moments ago.
I bet you abuse dogs, too. Oh, and, fargin’ Cubs!
islmfaoscist said,
October 5, 2008 at 9:53
Comin’ up next on The Violence Channel: An all-new “Ow, My Balls!”
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 10:50
Oh, crap.
Tina Fey as Bible Spice once again.
Video from teh GOS.
I had to stop halfway to catch my breath.
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words…you tell me | Mediabuzzard.com said,
October 5, 2008 at 11:18
[...] h/t [...]
Johnny Pez said,
October 5, 2008 at 11:22
Matt T., I don’t care how bad the “whitey” video is, I’m never gonna give Obama up.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 5, 2008 at 12:41
Fukuyama misses zombie Reagan.
Lesley said,
October 5, 2008 at 13:37
My favourite moment of Tina Fey doing SP:
“Gwen, we don’t know if this climate change hoosey whatsit is man made or if it’s just a natural part of the end of days.”
The real Palin very likely thinks this, though she’s clued in enough to know to keep it to herself before the election.
Nimrod Gently said,
October 5, 2008 at 13:58
“IM A MAVRIK” indeed. Why didn’t they just write “IM A KUNT”.
Lesley said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:05
the guy who played Biden did a great job, too.
I love McCain. He’s one of my dearest friends. At the same time he’s also dangerously unbalanced. Let’s be frank, John McCain – and remember, this is a man I would take a bullet for – is bad at his job and mentally unstable. As my mother would say “God love him, but he’s a raging maniac, ” and a dear dear friend.”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:22
Al Franken hates puppies!!
Gary Ruppert said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:25
“the violence and hatred of liberals.”
Best laugh I’ve had all week – thanks.
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:31
Lesley,
I liked that climate change bit, too. It’s the plausibility that makes it so uncomfortably funny. She had the wink down pat as well.
The other one that had me near pissing myself was,
That, and I swear to God, somebody on some post-debate thread said she might as well have pulled out her flute and asked about the talent competition. I wish I could remember where I saw it.
OTB said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:55
>I love Chicago. I kind of envision a future America whose political debate is between Chicago and Portland, and here we are stuck in an eye-gouging struggle between North Texas and Phoenix.
Amen, alec. This Chicagoan would love that. The global warming trend of ignorant sunbelt politics has got to stop, time for cooler northern heads to prevail.
Gary Ruppert said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:55
The fact is, that wasn’t me above, it was a fake.
The fact is, liberals are stupid, McCain and Palin are gonna win and it will be awesome. I just hope liberals, with their violent hatred of freedom, USA, the troops and white people don’t think about terroristing the Heartland. We are well armed.
LiberalDestroyer said,
October 5, 2008 at 14:57
Ha ha, I’ll bet Sarah Palin can play a tune onn a flute alrright, on my flute anyway, I’m voting for her shes hawte schwing!!!!1111
This Is Why They Love Palin | The Church, What's Left? said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:09
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WereBear said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:09
Should have been more clear that he favored that trend, but did not start it.
Yes, I <3 SNL for that skit, where they came out and had her say things you know she would, if it weren’t for those darn handlers.
Let Sarah be Sarah indeed.
MikeN said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:30
“Hi Dad.”
“Hi, son. You look a little down”
” Yea, with the employment figures tanking, and the car sales freezing because of the financial crisis, I might be getting laid off. And Susan’s job at the school is threatened because of the state cutbacks. Plus we found out Megan has a pre-existing disability, so if we lose our health-care plan from our employer, she might not be covered.”
“Never mind that, did you see this story about Obama and Bill Ayers?”
“Who?”
“Bill Ayers, the Weatherman.”
“Which channel?”
“Not that kind of weatherman- the group from the Sixties.”
“Like the Beatles?”
“No.no- a radical group- against the Vietnam War.”
“Right, Vietnam (again)”
“What was that?”
“Nothing, nothing- so what about this Ayers guy?”
“Well, this Ayers, he blew up a lot of things- like a statue of a policeman, twice- and they ended up blowing up each other when they were trying to make a bomb.”
“Sounds like a bunch of screw-ups- that McVeigh guy killed 300 people with fertilizer.”
“Then he went on the run, and finally resurfaced in the Eighties.”
“So the cops got him?”
“Well, no, they dropped the charges- but Obama was associated with this guy.”
“Obama was one of these Weathermen?”
“No, no, he was only eight years old at the time, but he knew this Ayers later.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, this Ayers was a professor of education at the University of Illinois, and he brought Obama into the Annanberg Challenge.”
“The Annapurna Challenge- like, running in the Himalayas?”
“Not Annapurna- Annenburg! named after Walter Annenburg! This was a radical socialist project.”
“Okay, so this commie Annenburg…”
“Annenburg wasn’t a commie! He was a wealthy
Republican businessman. Nixon appointed him ambassador to Britain. Don’t you kids know anything?”
“Sorry. So what happened with Ayers and Annenburg?”
“Well, there was this teachers’s strike in Chicago, so after that some people like Ayers figured it would be better to put power in the hands of parents and local people instead of the Teachers’ Union and the bureaucracy, so Annanberg gave them some money”
“Oh, that was good..”
“No, that was Communism! He brought in this Maoist who’d been to China…”
“For the Olympics?”
“No. this was 1977! Anyway, Obama worked with these guys on the Annenberg Project.”
“Right, 1977. And then?”
“Well, it didn’t work out, so it was shut down in 2002, but the point is, it says here that Ayers heavily influenced Obama’s views.”
“Oh, so does it say how he influenced Obama about the financial crisis?”
“It doesn’t say.”
“How about Iraq?”
“It doesn’t say, but…”
“How did he influence Obama on global warming?”?”
“It doesn’t talk about that…”
“”What about health care? I told you, I’m worried about Megan…”
“It’s not about that! It’s about what this Ayers guy was doing in the ’60s!!”
“Uh, right, the 60s…sorry, Dad. I’ve gotta run…Gotta see the bank about the ARM on our house… Jeez, we might be getting tossed out on the street… Bye, Dad, I’ll make sure to come by to take you to the polling station. (Uh, Nurse, I think his adult diaper needs changing)”
” Bye, son…Vietnam…hippies…Woodstock…zzzz.”
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ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:44
Consider yourself reported, MikeN!
Chris Moorehead said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:56
This is exactly the reason that you don’t see many McCain signs; people are rightly wary of the violence and hatred of liberals. You will see, though, that on election day, resentment of that very fact will lead to a large McCain vote.
Just last night, in an upscale downtown Toronto neighbourhood (way up here in Soviet Canuckistan) we had over a dozen cars get their brake lines cut, apparently because the owners had signs for the Liberal party (slightly-left-of-centre) on their lawns. Many of these cars had child seats clearly visible in the back. A number of the cars also had anti-Liberal slogans scratched into the paint.
Violence and hatred of liberals. Yah, sure…
Legalize said,
October 5, 2008 at 15:59
I declare myself to be one of the most socialestest members of this blog!
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 16:10
MikeN, that was brilliant!
g said,
October 5, 2008 at 16:27
MikeN I was just trying to write a comment on another post about responding to the Ayers thing. Then I saw yours. You put me to shame.You are brilliant.
Candy said,
October 5, 2008 at 16:34
The very idea of McCain/Palin being a team of actual substance made me laff until my ribs hurt. Dammit, Truth, I have a nasty cold coming on, and that was painful! If you’re going to be so funny, could you drop a warning at the top of your comment?
What? You say the humor was unintentional?
nevermind
Woodrowfan said,
October 5, 2008 at 17:02
Did you hear about the corduroy pillow cases?
No?
Gee, they’ve been making headlines!
(stolen from Bloom County)
(Lex) Palianated said,
October 5, 2008 at 17:11
Not half breed muslin! Fabric must be pure!
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 17:38
MikeN winz the thread
atheist said,
October 5, 2008 at 18:35
Oooooooohhhhhh…. yeah……
Ed Marshall said,
October 5, 2008 at 19:46
Yeah, Obama, is a super-villian, mobbed up, chicago machine pol. You are brave for even talking about these things, you are probably going to wind up in someone’s trunk.
Your candidate is losing by historic margins, to a crooked, terrorist, murderous Muslim named Barack Hussein Obama. Do we have that straight? What does that say about John McCain?
justme said,
October 5, 2008 at 21:46
Toofy? When you say
Just what, exactly, do you mean? Actually showing up and not being Alan Keyes is hardly some sort of vicious “tactic.”
wordyeti said,
October 5, 2008 at 21:52
I appreciate all the humor in the comment threads here; it;s about the only thing that can make that image of anger, ignorance and hate tolerable.
The most insightful comment so far is the one that likens the wingnut’s situation with that of the progressives back in the dark days of ’04-’06. Back when it was already apparent to most thinking, feeling humans that the GOP was shitting all over America, and ruining the country for generations — and yet, somehow, Bush managed to pull off a win against a bonafide war hero … during a war that was clearly being botched, tragically, every night live in living color on our TVs.
Back then, every damn day I needed the Daily Show and Sadly No just to keep myself functioning in the face of the clear destruction of my country.
The major difference, of course, is that what the GOP was doing to the country was a clear betrayal of the principles on which this republic was founded. What the wingnuts are upset about is that those principles will no longer continue to be betrayed, ignored, mocked and buried to the cheers of toothless ignoramuses and genetic mistakes.
And yeah, they don’t really have any real tools by which to react to this. Which is what makes the current line of campaign rhetoric by the McCain camp so christawful dangerous. Screeching about Obama being a race-traitor pal of terr’rists is NOT truthful. They know it isn’t. But at this point, they don’t really care about the possible fallout from inciting this kind of reckless hate … the fact that the cornered wingnuts are being told that their entire way of life is at stake, and that their children are going to be sold in the little child-whore markets of Derkaderkastan, and these people are just gullible enough to believe this horseshit.
If you’ve ever been around a redneck who is being proved wrong in front of other people, you can pretty much predict what comes next. With no real way to respond in civilized manners, they very quickly resort to punching, shoving, grappling, biting, gouging, etc.
Which begs this question: Is McCain willing to destroy the fabric of the country rather than lose an election?
Because that’s what he’s doing.
Sockpuppet #47 said,
October 5, 2008 at 22:08
“Is McCain willing to destroy the fabric of the country rather than lose an election?”
You are asking the wrong question. What Mcain is asking himself is “My ego, or the needs of other people?”
We damned well know the answer to that one.
Ed Marshall said,
October 5, 2008 at 22:25
No, Truth, I really wish I believed in this shady Chicago guy. The one that would send you to Gitmo on a meathook. Unfortunately, we just get Obama.
Simba B said,
October 5, 2008 at 22:42
plz not to feed fake troll kthx
Smut Clyde said,
October 5, 2008 at 23:09
Is McCain willing to destroy the fabric of the country
Has anyone made a ‘moral fibre’ joke yet?
Bitter Scribe said,
October 5, 2008 at 23:12
It was the Chicago Tribune—you know, that evil MSM paper that has never endorsed a Democrat for president–and other media that got Jack Ryan’s divorce record unsealed. Obama had nothing to do with it.
For all I care, Ryan and his wife could do it on second base during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley. But as for damaging a politican’s child, I sure didn’t hear any wingnuts worry about the effect on Chelsea Clinton when they impeached her father over a blowjob.
Bitter Scribe said,
October 5, 2008 at 23:43
I read the Wikipedia article you linked to, and all it says is that “some Obama backers sent e-mails” about the divorce. It states quite clearly that it was the Trib that got the records unsealed.
You might want to read the articles before you link to them.
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 0:37
I can’t tell if “The Truth” is actually trying to convince us of something, or if he/she/it is being obnoxious, or if he/she/it is really just a parody.
Lesley said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:22
people are rightly wary of the violence and hatred of liberals. You will see, though, that on election day, resentment of that very fact will lead to a large McCain vote.
Speaking of violence…the brake lines of liberal supporters in Toronto are being cut. Yeah, that’s um attempted murder. Vandalism includes graffiti, cut phone lines and cars keyed with a large L.
Now I wonder who might be doing that.
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:43
You realize that nobody – but nobody – actually buys the whole ‘Oh my god, someone said something terrible about me! The vapors!‘ routine, right? They either play along because they support you or ignore you because they don’t. It’s a pathetic verbal ploy and makes you look like a lying, cowardly idiot. Of course, so does the fact you are a lying, cowardly idiot, but there’s no need to buy a billboard to prove it.
I’m just waiting for you to strategically mistake one of our big words for the name of a deadly weapon and start crying about how we want to kill you because we’re hate-filled liberal lunatics. Projecting about that doesn’t work any better than projecting about your hilariously inept attempts to lock yourself into the closet.
MzNicky said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:55
atheist: Truth or Fake Truth — does it matter? It’s always scroll-time for me. Anything that merits singling out for special ridicule can be found in subsequent troll-feedings.
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:13
Oh! Oh! Yeah………
Kobie said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:30
Dear The Truth,
Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely,
Kobie
Kobie said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:31
P.S. I will laugh at you like the pathetic little ass maggot you are when Barack Obama is elected on Nov. 5.
Kobie said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:40
Can’t refute anything you say? That’s because 99% of what you post is moronic prognostication that is based in complete fiction. “Violence and hatred of liberals”? Prove it, asshole.
Nothing you post is of any substance — it’s all “Obama is from Illinois, so he’s dirty” and other useless drivel. Get fucking bent.
Kobie said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:43
President Obama.
Get used to saying it, Mr. “I Have Nothing Better To Do But Troll Web Sites I Disagree With On A Sunday.”
Simba B said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:50
Kobie—relax. Truth is fake, the product of an sad man with issues and lots of sockpuppets.
Simba B said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:51
s/an/a/
MajorKong said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:01
Kobie—relax. Truth is fake, the product of an sad man with issues and lots of sockpuppets.
I suspect Truth may not even be a person. It could just be a random number generator linked to a database of GOP talking points. Probably a Bushbot 3000 model.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:02
Wise users can find killfiles at my URL.
Lesley said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:03
The Truth Hi, Lesley. We are talking about the American election.
I know that you shitbag. I’m merely pointing out that what the cons do in America they also do in Canada.
Simba B said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:06
Wise users can find killfiles at my URL.
Sadly killfiles do not work with RSS readers.
Lesley said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:07
Righteous, I’m a complete ignoramus when it comes to using these scripts. Where do I copy that script to?
Simba B said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:12
Lesley—
Assuming you’re using Firefox, install Greasemonkey, then visit this link. It will add a little “kill” button next to all comments on this site, and when clicked, it will hide all comments by that name in the future. You can unkill a nym at any time, or do a one-time display of a specific comment (that’s what it means by “autopsy”).
There is another, generalized killfile script for all blogs, but I don’t think you need it to use this specific script.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:12
You use Firefox, add Greasemonkey, and the scripts will present an install dialogue when you click “Install” at userscripts.org.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:13
There are RSS readers that will kill items based on filters you set.
Tehanu said,
October 6, 2008 at 3:41
Oh Troofy. First you claim to be a Dodger fan — an overhyped, obnoxious team gets upset by a team with actual substance — which frankly makes me want to throw up, since I’m sure you would be horrified by the thousands of black and brown faces in the Dodger Stadium stands at every game. And then you claim that liberals are trying to ensure that unqualified voters storm the polls … when the main election cheating happening this year (as in previous years) is fucking Rethuglicans using foreclosure notices to deprive people who’ve lost their homes, thanks to thirty years of “free-market” Rethug crapola, of the right to vote as well. And you have the fucking nerve to post here? Get the fuck out of my country and take your authoritarian bullshit to someplace where you’ll fit right in, like Afghanistan.
MzNicky said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:23
Heysue Keerist, people! Quit feeding the fucking TROLLS already! Deprived of attention, they flee! Are you newbies to the Internets or what?
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:25
But, “The Truth”, if you are a program running on a server, and we set up a killfile script to render your comments invisible, then what concern is that of yours? You won’t stop running. You will continue to process your data until you reach an end state. Your operation will just become slightly simpler, when you stop recieving inputs.
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:30
I guess cities become evil when prominent black people are associated with them? I don’t know how these things work for you.
Nope: absentee ballots are trivial to verify compared to in-person voters (they leave a much larger paper trail). I guess someone who cheers when College Republicans throw out voter registration forms for being D or I just cannot imagine an election being run without savaging the basic idea of democracy.
‘The homeless’, in this context, are American citizens. They have as much right to vote as you do. Further, ‘illegal immigrants’ doesn’t, as you seem to believe, mean ‘Latins’.
Yeah, sure, OK. Pathetic is registering the homeless to vote and winning by historic margins; patriotic is throwing a national hissy fit over any attempt to investigate voter intimidation and active electoral fraud endemic in a machine-run state. I think if you people were any more pathetic you’d annihilate on contact with matter. And yes, that is me specifically threatening you with my personal stockpile of nuclear weapons.
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:30
Sorry, MzNicky
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:32
Definition of ‘failed troll’: someone who needs to borrow lines from Sarah ‘I Can See Russia From My House; Give Me The Nuclear Football’ Palin.
Jeez, man. That’s just desperate.
Lesley said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:39
oooh thank you muchly for that kill script. LIKE IT.
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 4:44
And yes, that is me specifically threatening you with my personal stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Also, my collection of shuriken. Don’t forget
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 5:12
Get it? Get it? It’s because, hilariously, niggers.
atheist said,
October 6, 2008 at 5:19
Damn, motherfuckers… this is tedious
Kobie said,
October 6, 2008 at 5:28
Simba B said,
October 6, 2008 at 2:50
Kobie—relax. Truth is fake, the product of an sad man with issues and lots of sockpuppets.
I know, he just caught me on a bad day.
And now he’s saying that since we can’t disprove that illegal immigrants and felons are voting, that we acknowledge that it’s happening.
I am waiting for The Truth to answer the questions regarding his habit of masturbating to hardcore goat pornography.
D.N. Nation said,
October 6, 2008 at 5:48
Take a biiiiiiiiiig whiff, Troof.
Bina said,
October 6, 2008 at 6:03
Au contraire, mon p’tit frere…Ryan was a typical CONSERVATIVE hypocrite. And I could not be more glad it was the arch-Repugnican Trib that exposed him and saved decent folks the trouble.
Mind you, Obama would have gotten elected anyway. Just as he’s going to do a month from now. And I, for one, will enjoy watching you skulk away from here whining about your own courage in daring to come to this den of…of…of…LIBERAL HATE! (mouthfroth, whine, yelp and other Tooth-y sound effects)
Bina said,
October 6, 2008 at 6:04
BTW, nice of you, Toothless, not to mention the role of Diebold. Or that Ohio crook who promised to deliver the election for BushCo. As I recall, he was in charge of the ballotboxes.
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 6:57
‘Sure, he’s a radical terrorist-sympathizing communist, but God damn it, he’s colored, and that is just a step too far!’
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 7:12
This is a rather silly way of putting the issue, which is that the state was the only one to act on the GOP tempest-in-a-teapot over voter fraud in 2006 (nice sticking to the narrative, kiddo, although you should probably avoid shrieking about how terrible we are at disproving it with our learnings when you don’t have a single goddamn case to cite – it just makes it obvious), and their action is ridiculously discriminatory against non-drivers and the poor.
Mind you, if you inhabit a world in which failing to own land is a personal failing more serious than blowing up office buildings, it’s fraudulent to even consider caring about that. But the people disenfranchised aren’t felons (you might note that, like many things we take for granted, voting is effectively a breach of parole for them, and the justice system takes breaching parole very seriously), they aren’t non-citizens (except under the surreal Platonic version of citizenships ‘libertarians’ like to suggest exists above and beyond the law and constitution of America), and they have done nothing wrong. Some of them agree with everything you’re saying – and you’d keep them out of the polls for no better reason than a fat right-wing sinecurist has told you to be angry at them.
The ‘voter fraud’ argument:
– is factually incorrect; no evidence it has taken place at any point in the last several decades exists
- is conceptually preposterous; it relies on massive amounts of complicity, incompetence, and fraud by people from both major parties, most third parties, and no party at all;
- is a rehashing of arguments used by Southern reactionaries explicitly designed to prohibit blacks from voting, and
-actually relies so extensively on those arguments that it involves bizarrely anachronistic concepts of citizenship and voter rights treated as assumed fact (getting violent about propertyless voters, who were novel in 1880 but not now; thinly-veiled rehashing of racial stereotypes and slurs; a concept of citizenship obsolete since the 1930s, which ironically coincided with the closing of the Mexican border and the modern ‘illegal immigrant’ problem)
- Only exists because Rove, in his infinite smarminess, felt it would be a winning strategy to import literal Klan propaganda, which evidently stirs the hearts of all good men in the defense of Southern womanhood
Besides all that, the voter-fraud bugaboo can, on the face of it, be immediately rejected on the grounds of the Department of Justice being transmogrified into a fraudster-hunting organization, and yet sitting through a major congressional election in which the people doing the hunting lost badly without actually bringing even accidental ‘fraud’ to light.
This is a general-purpose response. In general, a lot of the statements of the ‘voter fraud’ scare tactic (especially earlier, like 2006) are sophisticated enough not to directly cadge from hard-right campaign literature, most of which is written by creepy losers who still honestly believe Grant was some manner of hell-demon. This is just a case of that dynamic failing its user; Troof is relying on Rove to be smarter than him and failing, and he’s just managed to shove a pile of Lost Cause shit into his mouth and roll around showing off as if it’s a platinum goddamn grill.
mat said,
October 6, 2008 at 15:57
Speaking of strange bedfellows, Truth, how about John McCain getting caught 20 years ago fellating Charles Keating, head of one of the Savings & Loan banks that cost the American taxpayers over $150 billion because of their sleaziness and malfeasance?
Gosh, what a “mavrick,” this McCain. We certainly wouldn’t call him a “socialest,” but then again the free market economics that McCan has been touting all these years suddenly looks like a huge shitpile.
Of course, in your delusional state, Truth, these kinds of facts pass through you like cosmic rays.
So please troll away here, you silly little dork. I for one quite enjoy the comedic irony of the delusional piffle you spew out in the Sadly, No comments threads. Obama’s current 12-point lead in the national polls, coupled with his growing dominance on the electoral map, probably has you unhinged beyond belief. Should we warn those around you to hide the sharp objects in your kitchen and potentially toxic medications in your bathroom cabinet? We’d certainly hate to see you take a ride on the big adios to nowhere just because your beloved right-wing psychopaths are getting laughed out of office for probably the next decade.
Ken Lowery said,
October 6, 2008 at 16:56
It’s as if we regard homeless people as human beings worthy of respect, and consider them citizens merely because they meet all qualifications for citizenship!
Remind me again which party is supposed to be elitist?
alec said,
October 6, 2008 at 21:16
I was actually referring to OKC, but that works too.
Yeah, because Byrd exists that automatically makes recycling century-old propaganda true. In other news, George Wallace was a Democrat, ergo miscegenation is a communist plot to weaken our values.
Find Justice Department documents or give up, you sad little creature.
Yeah, sure, whatever you say kid. You successfully unmasked me as Robert Byrd, Weatherman fuhrer and Super Secret Klan Leader, and unveiled my despicable plot to win the clearly lost 2008 election from the jaws of our party’s tenuous 12-point lead. As soon as anyone who doesn’t drive – automobiles being the most precious right of the free man taken automatically from dangerous Negroes – is allowed to pull the lever, the radical left will take over the country.
You’re just tedious. Go on believing in this shit if you want; you’re just phoning it in and I no longer care.
kefauver said,
October 7, 2008 at 7:46
Muslin? Isn’t that a garment or fabric of some sort?
kefauver said,
October 7, 2008 at 7:50
Truth-
Voter fraud? Don’t even go there, assclown. The republicans are masters. See Ken Blackwell, Katharine Harris, GOP Caging Tactics, etc.
jennifer93 said,
October 11, 2008 at 18:41
They think Obama is a Muslin? I thought Republicans took him for a Satinist.