Comments on: Joe The Plumber’s Phone Is Ringing

By: Wax Mundane

Wax Mundane — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:50:25 +0000

I have single handedly discovered the exact point of origin of the “Swine flu”.
It’s Rush ” Radio Daycare” Limbaugh. Can anyone name a bigger, filthier Neo-con
Fascist PIG? He’s the “Original Omnivorous Ungulate”.

By: George Bush

George Bush — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:33:07 +0000

I knew terrorists were going to attack America, but I let it happen anyway.

By: Newbie McNoob

Newbie McNoob — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:52:06 +0000

…but instead of the first five guys who played Dr. Who, you hear that familiar scrapey, sireney sound, and out of a materialized Port-a-San comes Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, John McCain, and Mitt Romney

Even though I’m not a Sarah Jane Smith fan, the above analogy is semi-tolerable so long as Sarah Palin isn’t likened to Sarah Jane Smith,

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:02:18 +0000

Don’t stop now, Republicans! Stay on this winning path!

By: Newbie McNoob

Newbie McNoob — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:44:04 +0000

I hate it when a link I post breaks. Oh well, copy and paste in address bar if you want to. Or skip it. Either way I can’t be arsed to repost it.

By: Newbie McNoob

Newbie McNoob — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:36:45 +0000

Another way to see it would be as The Five Doctors, but instead of the first five guys who played Dr. Who, you hear that familiar scrapey, sireney sound, and out of a materialized Port-a-San comes Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.

In one of the new series episodes, the Daleks planned the “destruction of reality itself”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey's_End_(Doctor_Who)

Sounds like the potential 2012 GOP platform to me.

By: John Kerry

John Kerry — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:02:22 +0000

I’m chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. I have more policy influence than all federally elected Republicans combined.

By: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:59:41 +0000

I wasn’t sure I’d win, so I threw in a little treason by making a deal with a hostile foreign government holding American citizens to not release them until I was inaugurated.

Later, I would sell them weapons. Meanwhile, the morons who support and venerate me criticize the guy I beat for being insufficiently supportive of Israel.

By: Hans Von Spakovsky

Hans Von Spakovsky — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:57:52 +0000

Ha. You think you know about voter fraud. The real election rigging action is on the inside.

By: ACORN

ACORN — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:50:43 +0000

We’ll always welcome you, Barack! Help us commit vote fraud!

By: Rev. Wright

Rev. Wright — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:50:06 +0000

Will you come back to my Church once you no longer have to pretend not to agree with my sermons for political reasons? It’s lonely under this bus!

Oh, and GODDAMN AMERICA!!!!

By: Tony Rezko

Tony Rezko — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:49:18 +0000

Ohh! Don’t forget me!

By: Blago

Blago — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:48:55 +0000

After you pardon me at the last minute of your failed term, Barack, you could even get a radio show!

By: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:48:23 +0000

Don’t worry Barack, being a failed one termer isn’t so bad. You can make a career out of hating Israel, for example.

By: Barack Obama

Barack Obama — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:47:45 +0000

I’ll be joining you in 2013, John!

By: John Kerry

John Kerry — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:46:51 +0000

I faked my own injuries, exageratted my record, then lied before Congress about “war crimes” I could never substantiate. I also participated in a radical leftist group that once plotted the assassination of Richard Nixon, among other things.

I’m also a giant fucking loser with no political future left. I wasn’t even picked for Secretary of State!

By: John McCain

John McCain — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:43:02 +0000

I too am a war hero, but my opponent never once questioned it, and went out of his way to remind audiences all across America of my honorable service, while beating the paste out of me on the actual issues of which I had only the most tenuous grasp.

By: John Kerry

John Kerry — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:41:47 +0000

Despite my being a multi-medal winning genuine war hero who went out of his way to seek out a combat assignment, my reprehensible opponent portrayed me as a coward and convinced a large number of credulous morons that this was so.

By: Two

Two — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:38:53 +0000

“Who to Rassilon’s tower would go, must choose above, between, below.”

By: Cerberus

Cerberus — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:32:11 +0000

I’m still constantly amazed at how accurate the lack of empathy theory is for explaining right wingers (of all varities, as if there were any difference between the fundies and the libertarians on substance). They really have absolutely no ability to begin to grasp that other people aren’t exactly like them and that opposing viewpoints aren’t a matter of applying their wants and desires to “evil” rather than “good”.

It’s constatntly amazing how evident this principle is when they try and take down the assumed authority figures, assuming naturally that we are equally authoritarian in our hero worship and that legacy protection is the highest good. I think this is why they also see mockery as hate speech or “attacking” because when they pull the projection and the liberal looks at them sideways and begins cracking up, without that empathy to comprehend that another person may have a whole nother way of looking at the world, they have to justify it in their worldview. Thus, conspiracy theory filters wherein laughter are authoritarian counterattacks that are absent context.

I would almost feel sorry for these people. What a frightening world it must be to be that horrendous and literally unable to escape themselves as they displaced that by sheer deficiency on everyone they met. I can empathize, but I can only imagine how horrific that’d be on a mind not protected by the layers and layers of delusion they use.

On the original topic, I think we’re seeing the flare-up between the libertarian more money for the rich and the Rapture Ready crowd that has been threatening for awhile now. The Rapturists figured out that they were most of the base numbers and want some real control and the money crowd wants to block that not realizing that their own philosophy is just as discredited. As the base gets smaller, the Rapture crowd will have more and more power and I’m really hoping the money crowd keeps fighting the good fight so we can drown them both in the bathtub and allow a real leftist party to form.