The weirdness of the Beltway journalist mindset
I swear to God, I do not get the Villager mindset. Look at Howard Fineman’s latest column:
I’m not sure the rest of the world sees the White House as “the place to be” any more. And that will have unsettling consequences for all of us.
Obama’s role as the elegant, path-breaking, intercultural celebrity is not enough to reverse a steady erosion of our global dominance — especially not if he’s seen merely as a new hood ornament on an economic clunker. […]
I was in London and Paris last week while Obama was making his first trip to Asia. I kept paging through the local papers for stories about the trip. They were only few — almost none. He was all but invisible, except when bowing deeply to the emperor of Japan. There weren’t many stories about the United States, either.
In the business world of London, the talk last week was all about the money pouring into China, India, and Brazil, and to a lesser extent, Russia. […]
In Paris, the headlines and the political talk I heard and read did not focus on our president or our prospects, but on the selection of a new — and no longer merely symbolic — leader for a United Europe. Europeans were talking to each other directly; Americans were not, as far as I could tell, very much a part of the conversation.
Good Christ.
If there is one thing that drives me completely bonkers about American elites, it’s their nationalist narcissism. They believe not only that America has the right and the duty to be the “dominant” country in the world, but that every other country in the world should be talking forever about how wonderful we are. Heaven forbid that Europeans actually concern themselves with… European politics! Egad! Why are they not discussing the glories of Ronald Reagan!
I actually feel sort of sorry for guys like Fineman. Their very manhood is defined by whether the United States government makes them feel powerful. This was why they were such boosters initially of the Iraq war: because sending others to kill and be killed in triumphant imperial combat gave them a vicarious thrill of feeling stronger than people in other countries.
As for me, I couldn’t give less of a shit if foreigners think America is the bestest country in the whole wide world. I’d like to have a government that provides for national defense (note: this does not mean empire building), that provides a good social safety net for its citizens and that generally tries not to muck up the environment for everyone else. Oh, and that tries to make sure that major financial crises don’t level the economy and stuff. But really, that’s all. I don’t want to rely upon my government to make me feel adequately endowed; after all, I’ve received several email messages informing me that I can get $.99 P1LLZ!!!! for that sort of thing.
I mean, come on, man, look at this. How can you not feel embarrassed to write this nonsense:
I’m not a “declinist.” I have faith in our special destiny and re-generative powers.
Our “special destiny”???? What kind of “special destiny” is that? Who endowed us with this “special destiny” and what have we done to deserve it?
Look, man, the fact that your mom and your dad happened to conceive your pasty white ass on the hunk of soil known as the United States of America doesn’t make you Luke Skywalker. Grow up and get real.
I am a declinist. I have faith in my special chair and its magic fingers.
wouldn’t that make you a recliner-ist?
Our special destiny: Being like Superman + Captain America + Ronald Reagan + Sarah Palin except like a dude + Tony Hawk. With a soundtrack by Bon Jovi!
I’ve got a special purpose.
wouldn’t that make you a recliner-ist?
It depends on whether one’s chair position is dorsal or ventral.
I am sure Mr. Fineman was talking about American stupidity and his editors changed “density” to “destiny” by accident. Really.
Does this mean if we get our ass kicked, it’ll grow back? Seems like a good thing…
Ooh, that’s right, regenerative powers. Add Wolverine into the equation. Or at least WOLVERINE!!!!!
“special destiny and re-generative powers”–sounds to me like he is projecting his sexual inadequacy onto our Preznit.
Guess the side-effects of the V got to him and he had to go off it for a few.
American Exceptionalism= sticking our collective fingers in our ears and saying “Lalalalalala I can’t hear you!” to rest of the world.
“Look, man, the fact that your mom and your dad happened to conceive your pasty white ass on the hunk of soil known as the United States of America doesn’t make you Luke Skywalker. Grow up and get real.”
I for one think Luke Skywalker would be a liberal. That whole force thing sounds kinda progressive to me.
Our “special destiny”???? What kind of “special destiny” is that? Who endowed us with this “special destiny” and what have we done to deserve it?
Why do you hate America?
Shorter Shorter: “How come Eyurop no longer fers my massive, American, PENIS” also
FYiphone “Fers” = “Fears”
Every destiny is special, in its own way.
I have faith in our special destiny and re-generative powers.
Sounds like a description written on the back of a Pokemon card.
“I have faith in our special destiny and re-generative powers.”
Veiled PENIS reference.
Veiled PENIS reference
That’s what I’ve come to realize about these guys over the last few years — that despite their lofty pretensions, they’re really driven by very base emotions and desires. If they feel their package is inadequate, they get itchy to start a war.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Translation: “You know, fascism was pretty cool with all its talks about destiny and national regeneration from decadence, if you just forget all about that nastiness about the Jews.”
Europe needs to bow down once again to the MIGHTY AMERICAN PENIS!
Pathetic. Of course, any nation that would knowingly harbor Fineman (or Cohen, or Will, or Palin, or Krauthammer…) or provide him with a media soapbox *deserves* to decline, swiftly and humiliatingly.
Obama’s role as the elegant, path-breaking, intercultural celebrity is not enough to reverse a steady erosion of our global dominance —
You know, if it weren’t for the 12 years of the Clinton administration and almost 5 years of Obama, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
America’s rich people are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful rich people I’ve ever known in my life.
Are they still flogging that poor horse?
Any special destiny America ever had has been negated by also producing Creed and Jonah Goldberg.
So, let’s get over ourselves already, shall we? because in a few billion years, the sun will fade, turning the Earth into an ice ball, and then expand into a gas giant, obliterating every shred of evidence any people like Howard Fineman ever existed, even at the molecular level, so you know, so long and thanks for all the fish.
Brad, as dumb and low as Howard Fineman can get, he will always have Mark Halperin to look down upon.
In the business world of London, the talk last week was all about the money pouring into China,
Of course, in reality, money pours out of China, on net.
Any special destiny America ever had has been negated by also producing Creed and Jonah Goldberg.
Special density beats special destiny every time.
Do none of these fucks perform the simple task of re-reading their spew? I understand he probably doesn’t have to pass his column by anyone beyond a proof-reader (if that) but shouldn’t the sheer foolishness of that paragraph leap from the screen & electrocute him on a second read?
And here, Mr. Fineman shorters himself (Worth getting out of the proverbial boat this time):
Does that make him an “anecdotal concern” troll?
Haz eye bin eat-ed by WP?
Too bad I can’t remember any of it. Whatever.
On the off chance it was the fault of my sausage-like fingers, the important part, wherein Fineman shorters not only himself, but the entire Wash. Media Village:
Worth getting out of the proverbial boat. For once.
Also, the quality of food is on a decline, as evidenced by my dining experience yesterday evening. On a brighter note, Asians make great dogwalkers.
In the business world of London, the talk last week was all about the money pouring into China,
I didn’t know tea was so expensive over there.
On the off chance it was the fault of my sausage-like fingers, the important part, wherein Fineman shorters not only himself, but the entire Wash. Media Village:
Shorter M. Bouffant:
Scuze mah fin-GAHS!!!!
And btw, STILL can’t pass a health care plan?
hey, remember when health car reform was DEAD DEAD DEAD and we bookmarked it?
You’re such a twit.
Our “special destiny”???? What kind of “special destiny” is that?
It’s like “manifest destiny,” only without all the Indians and buffalo and deserts and shit.
‘Scuse mah sausage!
I didn’t know tea was so expensive over there.
Oh, they make lots of things in China now! Like um… india rubber. And uh… paper fans. And vases!
Only need 51 votes now.
No one likes us
I don’t know why.
We may not be perfect,
But heaven knows we try.
But all around
even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one
And see what happens.
We give them money,
But are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful, and they’re hateful.
They don’t respect us, so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them.
Only need 51 votes now.
What, are the Republicans back in power?
Dear troofie,
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
More Beltway mind-set.
Did some moron say Even lib Chuck Todd?
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Ha-ha, snooze-lose, beat ya to it at 1:07.
P.S. Can anyone tell I have tomorrow off? And Friday? AND MONDAY!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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I’ve never had doubts about my re-generative powers. My tail ALWAYS grows back.
Adult conversation? Here?! BWAHAHAHABWAHAAHA
Well, that’ll learn me not to click all of &trade32®©’s links.
And that’ll learn me to check for semi-colons.
How many seats will Republicans pickup?
Republicans never pick up the seat. Or put it back down.
™³²®© for victory!
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Thundra, sorry you have to work Thursday. Isn’t that some holy day for ‘Murkin heart-landers?
Suck on that one!
Oh, is this that mature adult conversation I’ve been hearing about from someone?
1994 all over again? You promise? 1994 was a totally awesome year. Maybe not politically or economically, but I had a great time personally. Had this one shirt I really loved. Man, that shirt was sweet. If eternal recurrence can bring me back that shirt, then colour me Nietzschean.
What you did to that man’s book on Amazon.com was inexcusable, btw.
We will plead the necessity defense; we have to prevent another such asault on literature.
M. Bouffant said,
November 25, 2009 at 2:02
Thundra, sorry you have to work Thursday. Isn’t that some holy day for ‘Murkin heart-landers?
I will have to attend the Sarah Palin Turkey Slaughter, as part of my work release program.
(Note: Actual Sarah Palin Turkey Slaughter video has been removed by the wimps and losers at YouNoTube. Just like many of my other favorites. *SNIFF*)
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And BTW, Palin is on track to outsell both Bill and Hillary Clinton in terms of book sales in the first week. Bet that must really piss you off. She beat the Clintons!
Totally. And if all the people who accidentally bought Going Rouge, believing they were buying Going Rogue, had made the right purchase then Palin’s sales would really be rocking a llama’s ass right now.
And BTW, Palin is on track to outsell both Bill and Hillary Clinton in terms of book sales in the first week.
Ah, but will they read it?
So, do any libs on here regret nominating Hopey instead of Hillary?
Why do I have the feeling that if Hillary was president, the question would be:
So, do any libs on here regret nominating Hillary instead of Hopey?
I’d have voted for Hilary Putnam, but only if he ran with Saul “Chick Magnet” Kripke as his running mate.
The Dash Board: Our young man celebrates gaining more than a pound in the past two weeks, a significant victory in the War on Evil Poo.
The Answer is teh Democrats will pick up all the Republcian Maoderate seats after the wack-a-loons drive the Republican Party slightly to the right of Mussolini
What is it with Republicans and their Gay Sex Metaphors?
Hurray!
He looks so happy. Just like me, right now!
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Thank God for Joe Lieberman! He’s finally getting back at you for what you did to him in the primaries, and good for him! He really knows how to stick it to his enemies.
To get back on topic, if Mr. Fineman is looking for a reason for America’s decline, he need look no further than the quoted statement above. When “knowing how to stick it to one’s enemies” is considered a positive trait in a politician and statesman, instead of … I don’t know, intelligence, or competence, or tenacity, or integrity, or the ability to get shit done or something, there is something fundamentally wrong at the core of that country.
I regret in my deepest heart of hearts that we did not nominate the Satanically-formed twenty-foot-tall chimera formed from the DNA of Kucinich, Alinsky, Marx, and a triceratops.
The Answer is teh Democrats will pick up all the Republcian Maoderate seats after the wack-a-loons drive the Republican Party slightly to the right of Mussolini
More moderates? Hey, that’s so awesome. Excuse me a moment. HOORAY SUICIDE!@
PS Poor Troofie is dying here. If you’re watching, Coach Urban Meyer, please come in and save the day.
I’m on vacation. Badoodle-doo-fuck yourself.
Yeah, we’re gonna ram our real conservatism up Grayson’s ass. Maybe pump it a few times so he can feel how firm our principles are, and our throbbing desire for constitutional values…
Pardon me, I need a Wet-Nap.
How many seats will Republicans pickup? said,
I bookmarked and bookmarked and bookmarked some more,
I bookmarked til all of my marked books were sore!
And every damn time I turn to them to check
I see your foresight’s a mecha cyclopean wreck.
Blatherskite.
I’m on vacation. Badoodle-doo-fuck yourself.
Jesus hates quitters.
That’s right, libs, there will be no Republican “Joe Lieberamans”.
There already is. His name is Joe Lieberman. Zing.
Excuse me. I have to get to work on Mr. Olbermann’s monologue for tonight.
I regret in my deepest heart of hearts that we did not nominate the Satanically-formed twenty-foot-tall chimera formed from the DNA of Kucinich, Alinsky, Marx, and a triceratops.
Well, try building the damn party next time. A Kucinich/Alinsky/Marx/triceratops DNA Party candidate totally had a chance to be on the town council here, but NO.
When “knowing how to stick it to one’s enemies” is considered a positive trait in a politician and statesman, instead of … I don’t know, intelligence, or competence, or tenacity, or integrity, or the ability to get shit done or something, there is something fundamentally wrong at the core of that country.
This. Who needs competent administrators when you’ve got vindictive rich bastards?
Exsqueeze me? Asphinctersayswhat?
Gore Vidal once described Rumsfeld (conducting a State Department briefing) as “a phenomenally gifted stand-up comedian.” I regard Lieberman as the most brilliant performance artist since Kaufman. It’s just a shame he’s wasting his talents on something as ultimately inconsequential as American politics.
And I have an equally meaningful question for you: What is the ratio of leprechauns to unicorns?
Yet another simple question for libs:
If you want my body and you think I’m sexyCome on sugar let me know
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Oh yeah, you called?
Did Pope shit at Strawberry Hill?
Is Wu-Tang Clan Catholic?
Duh, FRANCE.
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Actually, between increasing civil and women’s rights, giving today’s immigrants the same opportunities yesterday’s immigrants had, taking a more progressive stance on gay rights and embracing science, I’d say America as a whole is pretty darn awesome. Now, some of the people in America? Not so much.
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Go blow an eagle.
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Oh, my, yes, darling, just the bestest ever!
There. Do I win?
My ancestors weren’t immigrants, they were PIONEERS. Big difference.
Explain.
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Duh, FRANCE.
Double duh, Hotnymphostan is the greatest country in the world.
…and no cutting and pasting from Wikipedia!
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Sometimes people just won’t walk into your clever rhetorical traps so you end up standing on the street corner, screaming yourself rubicund with the totally awesome pre-prepared zingers you had been saving up to spring on your unsuspecting interlocutors. I feel ya, dawg. I feel ya.
Well my ancestors were the inspiration for Oregon Trail. Every time a 2nd grader in 1984 traveled to the next landmark or a buffalo, another .07 clinked in the Baxter family coffers.
IT’S A RHETORICAL TRAP!!
Parody troll grows boring.
As it does every day between when it is born and the evening in which reality consumes its liver.
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Double duh, Hotnymphostan is the greatest country in the world.
Where is that, in relation to Hubristan?
Perhaps my association with the Frau Doktorin will entitle me to permanent-resident status.
Oh look, the turd is back. And speaking of turds it looks as though diaper fetishist David Vitter is at it again. Seems he is no longer content to shit in his diapers, he’s branched out to shitting in women’s underwear too.
That’s a republican with an open mind.
Well, my ancestors were hillbillies who hid up in the Appalachians and married their own first cousins for several generations, giving me the excellent teeth and bone structure I have today.
But even we were immigrants. We were immigrants twice, kicked out of Scotland to Ulster and then fleeing Ulster to Pennsylvania.
And I bet we were here well before Trolly-pants’ family climbed up the gangplank.
It’s really a shame that Freebeeristan is a Muslim country.
By “our special destiny” I presume he means being in hock to China?
my ancestors were immigrants. An fought in wars for this country. And I know where you live and I’m coming over there to show you your ears, you cheap cunt.
Seems he is no longer content to shit in his diapers, he’s branched out to shitting in women’s underwear too.
I’m pretty sure that’s a pre-existing condition.
he’s branched out to shitting in women’s underwear
You’d think they would notice.
the talk last week was all about the money pouring into China,
Do Chinese parents tell their kids to clean their plates because there’re people starving in America?
Louisiana sex creep David “Diaperman” Vitter
Alice Miller should study the childhoods of these Republican clowns. Whatever on earth went wrong seems to apply to a lot of them.
My ancestors weren’t immigrants, they were PIONEERS. Big difference.
Explain.
It means instead of being mere furriners they were ALSO land-stealing Indian killers. Plus: donkey humpers, because a man’s got to do SOMEthing to stay warm.
Well g-dawg, your ancestors sound like they were God-fearing patriotic men and women. Too bad you didn’t inherit any of their virtues.
The Scots-Irish and all the peoples of the British Isles are the original Americans. Of White American Civilization, which is the Real America. What happened to you? Do you despise your heritage and inheritance so much that you decided to “stick it” to your forefathers? Do you really feel that badly for a bunch of tee-pee dwelling, child-sacrificing savages that you condemn our Nation and our God given Manifest Destiny?
In the history of civilization only the strong survive. The indians were weak and therefore we took what was theirs and established Our Great Nation. You think that’s cruel? Life is cruel, GET OVER IT!
There, Fiksted it!
Also, with republican ghey explained.
My ancestors weren’t immigrants, they were PIONEERS. Big difference.
Which meant they lived off of Native American welfare programs. Slackers.
And we still celebrate those slackers to this day. What’s wrong with this country?
Plus-sized donkey-humpers are people too.
If I may:
We’re going to clean out our closet of secret libs like Snowe, Collins, Graham, and Crist.
Real conservativesRelatively liberal Democrats will take their seats.Plus-sized donkey-humpers are people too.
Surely some percentage of them are donkeys.
Here is what America thinks of your “messiah.”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124484/Obama-Approval-Slide-Finds-Whites-Down-39.aspx
And a good indication of what is to come in 2010.
Seems he is no longer content to shit in his diapers, he’s branched out to shitting in women’s underwear too.
He loves the feel of cold nylon on his big butt.
Plus-sized? The donkey’s I’ve known – ah, memories – have been quite svelte.
“Re-generative powers” has been addressed, but still: apparently the epitome of the United States is not the Statue of Liberty, but instead Wolverine.
Plus-sized? The donkey’s I’ve known – ah, memories – have been quite svelte.
We’ll have to agree to disagree, you filthy pervert.
The power of the market to ship jobs to other continents is America’s X-gene.
Aww fuck, I missed Scott’s post. I’m sad now.
Still, though: when does the US get its adamantium skeleton?
Heaven forbid that Europeans actually concern themselves with… European politics!
Also, Sarkozy. Berlusconi. Obama will have to work a lot harder if he wants to provide as much gossip material as them.
Seat Up types:
Life is cruel, GET OVER IT!
Life (by which I assume you mean death, because you’re twisted around 180° from reality) is random/arbitrary. Only humans have the choice to be cruel.
Seat Up types:
Life is cruel, GET OVER IT!
Mrs. __B wants me to leave the seat down.
Oh, so I guess America is just white people now, huh?
Plus-sized donkey-humpers are people too.
Surely some percentage of them are donkeys.
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives humping donkeys over the rocky roadsteads of the parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their donkeys as a result of the interchanging of the mollycules of each of them, and you would be surprised at the number of people in country parts who are nearly half people and half donkey.
…and you would be surprised at the number of people in country parts who are nearly half people and half donkey.
We all know how this ends: http://xkcd.com/419/
Courtesy of the great Watertiger, get a load of George Hutchins’ campaign web site. http://www.georgehutchins.com/
Har. Epic Fail, indeed.
Har. Epic Fail, indeed.
Under “Economic Plan”: “more better jobs”.
Though they get points for not spelling it “moar”.
My special purpose!
Har. Epic Fail, indeed.
What’s up with that “bag o’ Skittles” color scheme?
My eyes!
Um, Mr. Hutchins, what the flying fuck does that mean? Also, too: punctuation PHAIGHL!
George Hutchinsis hosting a “Drinking Racially” bash for Thanksgiving.
not only did I get the name wrong but it was covered by comment 4 or so.
*slinks away*
Upon closer reading, that’s mighty close to performance shtick. Hope his service in Iraq didn’t eff up his brain, ’cause that’s not the work of a sound mind.
When white people had a 90% majority in Our Republic the crime rate was low. Most people didn’t even bother to lock their doors as the commandment “love thy neighbor as thyself” was practiced by most Americans. Before the late sixties you could knock on your neighbor’s door and ask for sugar for your morning cup of coffee. Such was perfectly acceptable and commonly practiced at the time.
Now that white people have only a 70% majority, not to mention the illegal aliens population and the negro ghetto culture, to do so is not well advised. The proverb more guns = less crime is true. However I will go one further and say more white people = less crime.
Hutchins’ website is what bigotry would look like if you broke it into pieces and stuck it in kaleidoscope. A Jesse Helms Republican inviting the darkies to vote for him is especially … Well, I’m sure he thinks it’s very clever.
One of the commenters pulled the source tags. Also.
Based on his website, my guess is that George Hutchins is running for U.S. Congress in 1998
Most people didn’t even bother to lock their doors as the commandment “love thy neighbor as thyself” was practiced by most Americans.
Is there no end to those Abe Lincoln rumors?
Before the late sixties you could knock on your neighbor’s door and ask for sugar for your morning cup of coffee
I’m glad that we’ve matured as a nation past these disgusting shows of sucro-cafe-fascism.
Before the late sixties you could knock on your neighbor’s door and ask for sugar for your morning cup of coffee. Such was perfectly acceptable and commonly practiced at the time.
Hilarious. How funny to see you mess up this old chestnut of a cliche! The cliche is that housewives went next door to borrow a cup of sugar from their neighbor because they were baking and ran out. Not to go next door to get a teaspoon of sugar for your breakfast coffee. You don’t even know your stupid cliches. Much less anything at all about crime statistic.
What you DO master is vile disgusting racism. You’re all about that.
Now you have to practically shove the barrel of your gun up their nostril before they hand over that sweet sweet sugar.
However I will go one further and say more white people = less crime.
Not from my perspective.
Now you have to practically shove the barrel of your gun up their nostril before they hand over that sweet sweet sugar.
Shoving your PENIS down their throats can be even more effective. So I hear.
your ancestors sound like they were God-fearing patriotic men and women.
No, actually they were people who the British crown and the Calvinist religious right of their century drove off their land, burned their homes and stole their sheep. They weren’t a bit “patriotic” – they didn’t have a country to be devoted to, and the United States didn’t exist.
Then they spent generations in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee without caring or thinking about the concept of “America,” and they fought against the United States government.
Your myth-making is both ignorant and presumptive. Stick to your own ancestors.
Us too.
the commandment “love thy neighbor as thyself” was practiced by most Americans.
Translation: I’ll give a white guy a handjob, but those darkies? No way.
Shoving your PENIS down their throats can be even more effective. So I hear.
Yeah, well, that doesn’t work for everyone.
The Hutchins website truly IS Website FAIL.
I liked this part:
You don’t think America IS the greatest country in the world, do you, libs?
Nope. Why should I? And who’s so pathetically insecure that they need to belong to the Bestest Evar Kuntree In Da Wurld, in the same way that little kids get in fights over their sports teams? Don’t you have anything to be proud of, yourself? Or are you just trying to skim some glory from having been born in the richest, most aggressive country on earth?
A pair of rusty scissors and everyone can have their own.
Before the late sixties you could knock on your neighbor’s door and ask for sugar for your morning cup of coffee.
Those were truly lawless days when any ruffian with a coffee mug would feel unjustly entitled to the sugar earned by the sweat and toil of honest citizens.
Shoving your PENIS down their throats can be even more effective. So I hear.
Yeah, well, that doesn’t work for everyone.
Don’t go crying for a government handout of PENII just because you made the wrong choice while you were still composed of two separate cells. We’re all about personal responsibility and smart choices, especially for spermatozoa-Americans.
Nymchange fail
I went to my neighbor’s door and asked to borrow a fresh diaper and he was more than happy to oblige so I have no idea wtf this asshole is on about.
I went to my neighbor’s door and asked to borrow a fresh diaper…
Is that you, David Vitter?
Before the late sixties you could knock on your neighbor’s door and ask for sugar for your morning cup of coffee.
Then came the hippies!
I heard excerpts on the local radio station today. Money quote:
“The hippies are capable of extremely hard work, even though they tend to approach work as the rest of us do sport.”
Private acts of charity are what makes America the most generous nation on the face of the earth. Do I agree that we the people should care for the poor? Absolutely! Caring for the poor through sincerity, from the kindness of ones own heart. That is the proper way to care for the poor, through private acts of charity.
Religious organizations, private charities and individual Americans are extremely generous in caring for and providing for the poor of Our Republic. No government coercion is necessary.
A pair of rusty scissors and everyone can have their own.
Hey, I’ve got some rusty pruning shears, let’s see if the neighbors will loan me a cup of PENIS! It’s For Baking!
Do I agree that we the people should care for the poor? Absolutely! Caring for the poor through sincerity, from the kindness of ones own heart. That is the proper way to care for the poor, through private acts of charity.
Yeah, but what if the poor people we’re talking about are Negroes?
That is the proper way to care for the poor, through private acts of charity.
Paul blows hobos down by the bus depot.
Caring for the poor through sincerity, from the kindness of ones own heart.
Volunteering at the Mission food bank this Thursday, are you Paul?
excellent point. i suppose that changes everything.
BBBB for the win!
“Volunteering at the Mission food bank this Thursday, are you Paul?”
Actually the Church I attend has a Rescue Mission ministry. Where the poor and the homeless are served hot food and get to hear the gospel preached.
Paul blows hobos down by the bus depot.
That’s a rather gauche way of putting it. I’d rather you say “Hobos ram their powerful agendas down his throat behind tastee freeze, etc…”
Paul blows bums; hobos have too much pride.
Anyone watching Frontline right now?
Paul blows hobos down by the bus depot.
Tongue-twister needs work.
On reflection, I could have phrased that better.
I’m not sure the rest of the world sees the White House as “the place to be” any more.
Unless Obama has radically rebuilt the Lincoln Bedroom to allow more room for guest sleepovers, that is probably a good thing.
Tongue-twister needs work.
That’s what the hobos all say to Paul.
How ’bout- bozo blows hobos by the depot.
I have never said that I personally hated the negro or any other non-white race. All I have said is that America has historically been a White European Nation and that I desire for her to remain as such.
It’s been a pretty dull place since Nixon spiced it up with the bowling alley.
Actually the Church I attend has a Rescue Mission ministry
Nice way to weasel out.
so you’re not volunteering. You probably never volunteer, and you probably don’t give targeted donations to the Rescue Mission ministry the church you “attend” carries out.
And holding people hostage to listen to proselytizing in order to be fed is NOT charity – it’s coercive proselytization.
What a fucking creep you are.
Boom boom boom, let’s go back to my room
If you’re not watching Frontline right now, turn it on. There’s this Elmer Fudd talking banking lobby flack flailing around about how there was a small percentage of consumers “confused” about rates, etc. and how the new law is teh awesome, “end of story”
All I have said is
that America has historically been a White European Nationa lie“nd holding people hostage to listen to proselytizing in order to be fed is NOT charity – it’s coercive proselytization.”
I’m sorry you consider the salvation of lost souls to be something negative. I will pray for you.
You must admit the fact is, white people are smarter, better, more fit than the blacks and our country was great before they started agitating for their freedoms, which they have yet to earn the way we did, by hard work.
And holding people hostage to listen to proselytizing in order to be fed is NOT charity – it’s coercive proselytization.
Coercion huh? Hey, would this involve the prospect of some kind of agenda being stuffed somewhere? If so, plz forward newsletter.
Lest we forget this about Man-on-mantarakis (posted on a previous thread):
Paul is not bothered by Tancredo being a chickenhawk- remember when the shitbag claimed he was in the National Guard, and was being sent to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, which is not a National Guard unit? I can’t fathom how such a gormless, dishonorable lying sack of crap could even show up here again.
Well, it is a word.
(Educaiton, however, is NOT a word. Which tells you something about the folks at CareerAdvisor.com)
1. George HutChins educes feelings of violent nausea in people with more than three brain cells.
2. I educe from the George Hutchins bumper sticker on your car that you have a fine wetsuit and dildo collection.
freedictionary has a third definition: (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) the exhaust stroke of a steam or internal-combustion engine.
Some sort of veiled mechanical cyclops reference, I assume.
I don’t believe in American Exceptionalism, but I’d like us to keep in mind that given that much of America’s material wealth is based on that, and increases or declines in material wealth are the only things most voters use to judge their leaders, so there’s going to be political hell to pay when the time comes that we can’t fight this off anymore. To paraphrase Jim Bouton, I’m not sure who will come out on top, but it’s sure to be the worst person available.
All I have said is that America has historically been a White European Nation ….
No, historically America has been A’ananin (Aane), Abenaki (Abnaki, Abanaki, Abenaqui), Absaalooke (Absaroke), Achumawi (Achomawi), Acjachemen, Acoma, Agua Caliente, Adai, Ahtna (Atna), Ajachemen, Akimel O’odham, Akwaala (Akwala), Alabama-Coushatta, Aleut, Alutiiq, Algonquians (Algonkians), Algonquin (Algonkin), Alliklik, Alnobak (Alnôbak, Alnombak), Alsea (Älsé, Alseya), Andaste, Anishinaabe (Anishinabemowin, Anishnabay), Aniyunwiya, Antoniaño, Apache, Apalachee, Applegate, Apsaalooke (Apsaroke), Arapaho (Arapahoe), Arawak, Arikara, Assiniboine, Atakapa, Atikamekw, Atsina, Atsugewi (Atsuke), Araucano (Araucanian), Avoyel (Avoyelles), Ayisiyiniwok, Aymara, Aztec,Babine, Bannock, Barbareño, Bari, Bear River, Beaver, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Beothuks (Betoukuag), Bidai, Biloxi, Black Carib, Blackfoot (Blackfeet), Blood Indians, Bora,Caddo (Caddoe), Cahita, Cahto, Cahuilla, Calapooya (Calapuya, Calapooia), Calusa (Caloosa), Carib, Carquin, Carrier, Caska, Catawba, Cathlamet, Cayuga, Cayuse, Celilo, Central Pomo, Chahta, Chalaque, Chappaquiddick (Chappaquiddic, Chappiquidic), Chawchila (Chawchilla), Chehalis, Chelan, Chemehuevi, Cheraw, Cheroenhaka (Cheroenkhaka, Cherokhaka), Cherokee, Chetco, Cheyenne (Cheyanne), Chickamaugan, Chickasaw, Chilcotin, Chilula-Wilkut, Chimariko, Chinook, Chinook Jargon, Chipewyan (Chipewyin), Chippewa, Chitimacha (Chitamacha), Chocheno, Choctaw, Cholon, Chontal de Tabasco (Chontal Maya), Choynimni (Choinimni), Chukchansi, Chumash, Clackamas….
And that’s only through “C”!!
Back in the good old days, the homeless were so desperate for money you could give them a quarter for a blow job and still get change!
Mr. Bastard, I don’t recall mentioning that I was enlisting in the tenth mountain division, and I don’t recall mentioning the division’s name either. All I said was that I am enlisting in the Mountain Infantry. I didn’t give any other info. You my friend are twisting what I have said to paint me out to be a liar, which I assure you I am not.
The acheivements of White society? Awesome. Blacks? Not so much. Parasites.
Once a long time ago I read some interview with Lou Reed complaining about how dated “I’m Waiting for the Man” sounded. He was complaining that you couldn’t even get a blowjob for $26 any more.
I would like to point out that our negro friends lead the nation in the production of funk, and without their help we would surely degenerate into a society of jive suckas.
Sir, your definition of “funk” is what I call third world classless trash.
The problem with America’s younger white generation is that they think it’s cool to be black. Many of them imitate the negro in dress and in speech, not knowing the destructiveness to our once great American culture.
Real music such as played in the 1950s, songs like ” The kids in Bristol” now that is good music. My all time favorite song however has to be “Goodnight Saigon” by Billy Joel. That is a great song about American patriotism and sacrifice in wartime.
White kids now a days prefer all things negro to those of their own race. All these young white women dating black men. Such things should not be. White America needs to wake up and return to our past greatness before it is too late.
Heard on the street (late ’70s or early ’80s): “$20 for a blow job? You’d better talk to some girls on Hobart.”
(I’ve always lived in up-scale neighborhoods.)
Mr. Bastard, I don’t recall mentioning that I was enlisting in the tenth mountain division, and I don’t recall mentioning the division’s name either. All I said was that I am enlisting in the Mountain Infantry. I didn’t give any other info. You my friend are twisting what I have said to paint me out to be a liar, which I assure you I am not.
The thread:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/26441.html/comment-page-13
The setup:
#
Paul Mantarakis said,
November 12, 2009 at 5:50
In case you missed it, I am 10th Mountain Division at Ft. Drum and I am going to be deployed. They have mountains over there so it helps. How many of you liberals have served? None of you, I bet. Shut up. On today, of all days, shut up.
The takedown:
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Major Kong said,
November 12, 2009 at 12:25
In case you missed it, I am 10th Mountain Division at Ft. Drum and I am going to be deployed.
The 10th Mountain Division is an active duty unit. You said you were National Guard.
Killfiles – quite a bit more productive than trying to catch someone out who really does not give a shit.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38746
Mr. Mantarakis, your language in your previous post has convinced me that y’all, in fact, be trippin’, and I’m afraid I must say that I ain’t down with that.
However, I must take umbrage at your thesis: there is currently a movie playing in theaters that’s about vampires, which are believed to be the opposite of negroes: very pale, well-dressed, and utterly depressing. If the young’uns were indeed addicted to “all things negro”, I highly doubt that said movie would be having one of the best openings of all time. Also, Coldplay. Also, High School Musical, also.
Foo’.
Yep, ol’ Trolly gets few drinks in him after a hard day at his Internet business & it’s “the blacks” this & “Meskins” that, till he passes out on the keyboardLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Killfiles – quite a bit more productive than trying to catch someone out who really does not give a shit.
You’re right- the honorless shitbag won’t go, even after a thorough evisceration. I just wanted to point out what a lying-ass anal cyst he was.
That Mr. Bastard was a name stealer. I am enlisting in the infantry. I did not mention any specific unit.
Shorter Fineman: “Where’s Poochie?”
Earlier today M. Bouffant pointed out a Palin impersonator in Indiana. Two more, from two separate events in Florida today. The Villages and Orlando. The Orlando event also had a George W. Bush impersonator, who according to the Sentinel, was first in line waiting to get in to see Sarah (see the captions to images 21 and 22).
As Doghouse Riley says, Ghost Dance phase.
Of which there is one (1) unit: the 10th Mountain. Or were you referring to joining the Volkssturm in the Alpenfestung?
Another typical wanna-bee asshat, lying about being a big, manly, “warrior”. Typical rightwing shitbag.
AFAIR, the basis for “white” society was laid by colored folk. You know, Greeks (logic), Indians (math), Native Americans (agriculture), Chinese (Noodles and Gunpowder), Blacks (Agriculture). Whites (as in Europeans) have proven themselves adept at exploiting these things. Now, we’re going to prove our incredible awesomeness by completely destroying our own habitat through global climate change. U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Working hard like white people to earn their freedoms? Hmmm. That would be slaughtering all the white people that couldn’t be enslaved.
Forgot: Blacks laid the foundation for all modern music. As a Musician myself, I have to consider that one of the most awesome of accomplishments.
Oh, and Cheney was a Dick which no-one can deny. Also.
Earlier today M. Bouffant pointed out a Palin impersonator in Indiana. Two more, from two separate events in Florida today. The Villages and Orlando.
It would be hilarious if some drag-Palins showed up at these events to rile the rubes.
Another typical wanna-bee asshat, lying about being a big, manly, “warrior”. Typical rightwing shitbag.
It’s funny how he whines about someone nymstealing, when no nymthief would give a rat’s ass about his curriculum vitae.
This achievement (note misspelling in troll’s original comment) of Black culture is a comment on the asshole.
And the troll is so butthurt, he changes nyms. I don’t think we’ll see Paul Mantarakis around here anymore.
You libs should ask Native Americans how much they have been “blessed” by “diversity”.
Well, it’s what they get for letting all those honkies in the country in the first place. Nasty, squabbling, petty little people, your average white person.
You libs should ask Native Americans how much they have been “blessed” by “diversity”.
…as opposed to fucked by the white man?
In other news, Mr Paul Manateekocksuckass of Bigot’s Gob, Pennsyltucky boasted of the superiority of caucasian culture while simultaneously slandering nonwhites. His self-awareness was recently found in a car trunk at the airport. -30-
Nasty, squabbling, petty little people, your average white person.
Very true. Which is why my Irish ancestors got so upset when they started being considered “white” a few decades ago.
I’m not the same person as Paul.
But you’re cut from the same cloth.
If “diversity” is such a blessing, why aren’t Native Americans the happiest race on earth?
If “hamburger” is such a food item, why aren’t lobsters sold by the billions?
Disneylandians are the happiest race on Earth.
…bred out of the gene pool
diagram, please.
Special destiny? I thought Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters covered that turf, before he invented the Opti-Grab and got incredibly rich.
ANOTHER very, very simple question:
If the entire population of West Virginia immigrated to Vermont, what do you think would be the reaction of the native Vermont populace?
…stocking up on banjos
I imagine the Vermonters would be pleased, as they would be able to scare the West Virginians with their strange new devices called “computers”, then scam them out of their money so that they don’t make lightning bolts come out and kill them.
A “pickup” is either a truck, or the built-in microphone on an electric guitar, or the act of picking up someone or something. It is not a verb.
No doubt our troll is one of those illiterate morons who want English to be the only language used in the U.S. while showing they can’t even speak or write it properly themselves.
My ancestors weren’t immigrants, they were PIONEERS. Big difference.
You mean they were no-good dirty COMMIES? No wonder you change nyms on a regular basis.
Oh, poor white men. Poor, poor white men. If their sense of natural superiority isn’t reinforced at every turn, then they are OPPRESSED!! OPPRESSED!! Jesus in a loincloth, we’re trying to exterminate them because we won’t kiss their ass and tell them that they’re the greatest human beings EVER.
Nobody can answer my simple questions.
velcro (and a note pinned to your shirt)
Conservatives want less taxes except for those lucky ducky poor people, less regulations except in the bedroom and the OB/GYN office, and less government military-industrial complex not included, English as the official language don’t worry Palin, you got nothing to worry about, and less immigrants following the Biblical precept of ‘fuck you, I got mine’; and so do most Americans if you don’t count the minorities, gays, wimmins, city folk, college smarty pants, people from ‘the East Coast’, people from ‘the Left Coast’, Mooslims, Jews, liberals, moderates, conservatives to left of George Will….
Wiley thinks the world would be better off without whites, don’t you, willey? Hmmm?
Well, at least ONE…
You still live in your mommy’s house and blame it on your stupid fake disease, don’t you?
Is this one of the simple questions? … velcro
Maintaining our White majority can be done. It is really simple actually, if only we had politicians with the courage to enact it.
step 1: secure our southern border. permanently deploy 40,000 national guardsmen and triple the size of the Border Patrol to 60,000 officers. Build a wall stretching from the gulf of Mexico to the pacific ocean (this will admittedly be expensive, however it is a far greater use of our tax dollars than the welfare programs they are currently going to.)
step 2: Enforce the law against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. A penalty of ten years in federal prison should be sufficient to deter any would be treasonous employer from hiring illegals. Without jobs available the majority of illegal aliens will self deport.
step 3: Deny housing and medical services to any illegal aliens.
step 4: Round up and deport any and all remaining illegal aliens.
step 5: Reduce legal immigration to traditional levels of around 200,000 per year. And then only from White European Nations.
step 6: Declare English the official language of the Republic.
These six simple steps will be the answer to Our Republic’s illegal alien question, and help to maintain our White Majority.
on every street corner in Times Square, there would be discount dentures for sale and unibrow tweezing and MILF porn would really be about Mothers and ventriloquism would be considered artistic and there would be a car on cinderblocks in front of every hotel and…
You still live in your mommy’s house and blame it on your stupid fake disease, don’t you?
Anybody got an idea what Troofie is blathering on about here? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Didn’t think so.
Look! I corrected my spelling! I hope nobody notices how I fucked up back there.
Carl Sagan’s Seething Wraith Granola
Ingredients:
1 seething wraith
1 Mizithra cheese
1 coffee cream
6 sticks calm poisonous coral hoof, reliably glazed
3 cans
1 ounce sage
Sacrifice a nearby ringed seal or a creature of similar size. Discard remains respectfully. Cream the seething wraith with a large fork. Use a food processor to mix the coffee cream with the Mizithra cheese. Stuff the resulting mixture into the seething wraith. Find some white Zinfandel and drink it. Crisp – very feudally – the poisonous coral hoof, flour, and the sage. Mush everything together. Leave raw. Serves 14 enemies with unchanging stomachs.
Oooohh, Paul, you’re so sexy when you talk about our White Heritage like that! I’m getting all tingly!
You guys had better not start spoofing me again or I’ll have another meltdown like the one I had a couple months ago.
I made up an insult! Ass pie means Asperger’s! Get it? I win!
Obviously Troofie’s feeling the strain of failure after failure in his amazing predictin’ bidness. Just to make him go completely apeshit and accuse chestnuts of being lazy, here’s a little something he may have forgotten. I believe it goes a little something like… this:
Boy, I sure am proving the superiority of the White Race. If I keep it up, maybe Paul will go out with me.
Maintaining our White majority…
if serious, pathetic – if parody, pathetic
I’m going to make a pitiful attempt at bullying a regular commenter on Sadly No to prove….uh….to prove…..what a vindictive loser I am? No, that can’t be right.
Republicans have had adamantium-implanted skulls for a long time now. It’s the only thing that explains why their heads don’t explode on a regular basis.
If I keep up this “ass-pie” bullshit, I’ll make these libs respect me!
So fuck you all.
velcro… and a note to Mom
God created Admantium and Eveorium, not Adam Antium and Steve.
“if serious, pathetic – if parody, pathetic”
Explain to me what exactly is pathetic about having pride in one’s race? Affirmative action is payback against white males for being successful. To even mention the white race in a positive context brings hysterical cries of “racist” from liberals.
Blacks have black entertainment television. You liberals don’t complain about that. But heaven forbid if someone made a white entertainment television. The left would be screaming racist! Eric Holder would call a judicial hearing.
So explain to me this liberals. Why is it ok for blacks to be proud of and to celebrate black culture, but it isn’t ok for white people to be proud of and to celebrate white culture?
Answer this and I will at least have respect for you for defending your beliefs, however foolish and misguided they may be.
Somehow this reminds me of WWII, when Japanese snipers used to try to goad American soldiers into giving away their positions by shouting “To Hell with Babe Ruth!” It might have worked if you were a die-hard Yankees fan, but even for some of them, it must have been lame as hell.
This is why Troofie (or whateverthefuckhescallinghimselfnow) is, and always shall be, the lamest troll ever.
And this is why ‘Clever’ Nym #328 goes into the Badger Pile. Have fun screaming into the void, Wile E. Maybe you can think of something that’ll actually cause a “Great Liberal Freakout.”
I never even said “LLLLL”, that was a liberal spoofer.
Wait a minit buster. What happened to the “why are you calling me troofie that’s someone3 else” (wide) stance?
I want to eat an ass-pie soooooooooo bad, I wish I could admit it in public…..oops.
I didn’t say anything! Niggers! Fags! Libs! Health care is failing! Bookmark this! LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! I never said that either! Badger is a poopyhead!
I want another man’s dick in me SO BAD.
Stop spoofing me, libs!
Stop lipping me, spoons!
Make us, you fucking closet homosexual dipshit.
nuts to the face, liberals! nuts. to. the. face.
Answer me this question liberals.
Why is it ok for black people to have pride in and to celebrate black culture, but it isn’t ok for white people to have pride in and to celebrate white culture?
If you answer this simple question I will at least have respect for you for being willing to defend your beliefs however misguided they may be.
What kind of a name is “Paul Mantarakis”, anyways? Doesn’t sound very authentically American to me.
Miigwech Grace!
Shop Lipperman’s, Smoots!
Cop Lieberman’s boobs!
All white people have one single culture that should be celebrated. And I am too in the National Guard…I mean the U.S. Army…I mean the Ku Klux Klan…ummm, I’ll come back in.
No SHAMNESTY for Greek ILLEGALS!!
Ass pie. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
This guy’s obviously never been to an Ocktoberfest or a St. Paddy’s parade.
Answer me this question, libs, if you’re so smart?
What’s 2+2? Hmmmm?
No, seriously, I have a remedial math test coming up Monday, and I need to pass if I’m gonna make it to 6th grade.
Or a Ren Faire or an SCA gathering.
I had a girlfriend who used to make ass pie. Ironically enough, it tasted like blueberries. Go figure.
In non-troll news:
Hoffman reconcedes.
Spathe, Lipperman Boors!
Bookmake, this Libs!
This guy’s obviously never been to an Ocktoberfest or a St. Paddy’s parade
Or a Ren Faire or an SCA gathering.
Wait, so Paul Mankaboobis isn’t the freecreditreport dot com guy?
Shit. There goes that bet.
Ever been to a Scottish Games, Paulie?
Lots of white folks, including men in kilts, celebrating the hell out of one of the whitest-whitey-white cultures there is.
What the hell are you even blathering about?
You don’t LIKE watching a Carnival parade? Here, check it out:
http://tinyurl.com/3b6zra
That’s some fine multicultural-izin’, ah tell yew whut!
Yeah sure, Cut & Paste Troll. We’ll get right on it.
Oh boy. Cut-and-paste from American Stinker. That’s going to change a lot of minds.
Ah, and Troofie trips the logorrhea alarm. Isn’t it amazing that this idiot will pass up the low-hanging fruit offered by a new Tintin offering in order to do his thing here? Failtroll is faily.
This Progressive Constitution needs more Van Der Graff Generator if it ever hopes to succeed.
I think the Constitution means what it says and says what it means.
seems straightforward – why the extended bullshit?
This Progressive Constitution needs more
Van Der Graff Generatorcowbell if it ever hopes to succeed.Fixed.
As a veteran (I served in the same infantry division as Markos “Great Orange Satan” Moulitsas), I am fascinated by “Paul Mantarakis”/”HmswRp?” pretending to be a soldier. Or, more accurately, pretending to be somebody who is Going To Be A Soldier When He Grows Up.
Sack up, little chickenhawk! They’ll take almost anybody these days. As long as you have a bit of high school, and not too many nazi tattoos, you’re in! You’ll earn nearly as much as you currently pull down as fry cook, plus you get to shop at the PX. You’ll have difficulty with the PT test, of course. But I’m confident that, after basic training and a few remedial courses, you’ll be able to manage almost as many push-ups as the average woman recruit.
You’ll have to watch your racism, though. You’ll be surprised (on the extraordinarily remote chance you actually do go and serve) to learn how very color-blind the military is. (Not perfectly so, perhaps; but more color-blind than anything you’ll have experienced.) Lots of your fellow soldiers will be black or hispanic. Chances are your boss will be as well. But white, black or brown, none of them will have much time for a useless, smack-talking sack of shit whose weight they’d need to carry.
No, on second thought, it’s probably better for you to stay a Pretend Internet Soldier. You’ll be a lot happier and safer that way; and so will the real soldiers.
Truthie aside, I am still boggling at the bizarre circle of fail in our press corps over the Japan thing. I understand how the wingnuts failed so terribly considering I imagine they avoid anything Japanese for fear of catching gay Hollywood cooties.
And I know that the Villagers are insulated old men who are myopically petty and moronic.
But seriously, how did none of them understand the basic rules of protocol in Japan? Especially after 20 years where Japanese culture has not only been ascendant in our own, but f-ing huge in our culture. How did so many of our media elite go so far through life without knowing that Japanese people bow as greetings or for practically ever interaction outside rude gestures. It’s like the first thing one learns about them. It’s like if they threw a tantrum because Obama accepted a cup of tea in Britain.
They should all be fired for that alone, regardless of the pettiness that led them to freak out that a greeting was a submission to foreign royalty.
Better press plz.
This Progressive Constitution needs more
Van Der Graff GeneratorHOT POOP if it ever hopes to succeed.phycksed!
tell me that last one was nym steal. Because that is just to perfect a veiled penis reference A’P’C
Shorter Troof:
Just so you know, I’m over my creepy internet man-crushes on Tintin and Actor. I’ve moved on.
To Badger. SUCK IT LIBS! The constitution says I can stalk any man I want! Bookmark it!
This Progressive Constitution needs more Van Der Graff Generator if it ever hopes to succeed.
“Childlike faith in Childhood’s End” is the track that came immediately to mind.
I’m still going through my copy of the Constitution looking for “enhanced interrogation”, “warrantless wiretap” and “indefinite detention”.
I can’t seem to find “unitary executive” in there either.
In non-troll news:
Hoffman reconcedes.
In what sense, Charlie, is Hoffman not a troll?
When English is the official language, using “less” instead of “fewer” will be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.
My goodness, that Mr. Obama with his bowing! What must the other nations think? Would that D–k Cheney were Commander-in-Chief now; he would have stood erect and throbbing. Paul Mantaray is right!
Joe Max @7:53… A sterling example of Brazilian Exceptionalism!
Is it time for the troll to get on the West Virginia/Vermont trip again?
Jesus. Y’know, it probably wouldn’t be too awful as a troll, if it didn’t use the *exact same set-up* every time.
ROD
What’s so wrong with having special dentistry?
Cheney, who was only a Vice President, stood straight and tall as a rod in front of the Japanese Emperor.
If he had bent over, the stick up his ass would have shattered and surgeons would have spent hours if not days picking splinters from his sphincter.
Conservatives want less taxes
Are these the guys who’ll be moving to Vermont and Manhattan?
Cheney, who was only a Vice President, stood straight and tall as a rod in front of the Japanese Emperor.
Did he tell him to go fuck himself?
“Or if the entire population of West Virginia AND Kentucky combined moved to Manhattan…”
There are already several hundred thousand West Virginia and Kentucky natives in New York. Manhattan has always had a very diverse population both ethnically and regionally. As Jim Comstock, the late editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly once told Jack Paar “We send more issues to Manhattan than the New Yorker sends here.”
This guy’s obviously never been to an Ocktoberfest or a St. Paddy’s parade.
Fuck that! What’s TOMORROW all about???
Or if the entire population of West Virginia AND Kentucky combined moved to Manhattan, don’t you think there would be a movement among native Manhattinites to exclude Kentuckians and West Virginians?
West Virginia = 1.8 million
Kentucky = 4.2 million
That’s 6 million people.
That’s plenty of huntin’ during tourist season, altho we might have to raise the kill limits to six does and two bucks.
Fixed for ya, jackhole.
Taxi drivers everywhere feel a chilly drop of sweat trickle down their spines when they hear that voice.
I have faith in our special destiny
Howard Fineman, DDS
Oh, DEStiny!
Couldn’t have said it better myself, spot on. Keep saying it!
I’m a “declinist.” I look forward to an era as a second rate power, where domestic policies are our largest concern and nobody in the world much talks about us anymore. Unfortunately we may also be learning Chinese, but you take the bad with the good.
When did eminent domain become a progressive thing? I’ve heard as many objections to Kelo from liberals as from conservatives, because the issue at hand is the government condemning land and then giving it away to commercial interests.
I look forward to an era as a second rate power, where domestic policies are our largest concern and nobody in the world much talks about us anymore.
Those views sound suspiciously similar to those of Washington and Jefferson et al., you disloyal person.
Who gives a shit what the Japs thought about Cheney? WE defeated THEM in war, we get to do what we want.
News flash: 1945 was 64 years ago.
Real wage growth declined under Reagan every year but one.
The standard of living in 1989 was better than our standard of living in 1981–this is an undeniable fact.
Who gives a shit what the Japs thought about Cheney?
The person who gets a boner thinking about how Mighty Cheney didn’t bow, and that sure showed THEM. You care so much about what the rest of the world thinks of the U.S. it’s pathological. Waxing wroth about declining prestige fucking defines “giving a shit”.
“Jap” is a racist term that was used not only for citizens of Japan, but our own citizens who we forced into camps and robbed of their property for no good reason. Even John Bolton wouldn’t go around using that word, but our Troofy knows more about international diplomacy than anyone. Just swing your dick around and act like an asshole, that gets respect from everyone, doncha know?
I want to project a STRONG image of America, not a weak-kneed one to the world.
The latter is what Carter, Clinton, and Hopey did–the former is what Reagan did.
Yeah, we can’t call them “Jap” but they can call is “gaijin”.
IOKIYNW (It’s OK if you’re not white).
I want to project a petulant, whiny image of America! Waaah! You’re not the boss of me!
Just like America will give Japanese immigrants full citizenship after a few years, while Japan would never give citizenship to a non-Japanese American, or any foreigner for that matter. But nobody calls them “racist” or wants a boycott of Japan. Again, IOKIYNW.
So why is it, libs, when Japan has immigration and citizenship policies with the intent to make sure Japan stays Japanese, or China has policies that make China stay Chinese, or Saudi Arabia limits immigration and citizenship so they stay Saudi, it’s OK, but if Sweden were to institute a policy that only let a limited number of West Europeans immigrate, it would be “racist”?
I have a feeling libs can’t answer that one, lol.
I wish I was a third grade bully again. Well, I wasn’t really, but I wished I was back then too.
Has Mr. Fineman ever travelled outside the US before?
All I can say is if the US is declining in its (military? imperialist?) power, that decline began with Bush, not Obama. And if the US really is declining, all I got to say is good riddance to hubris!
I think liberals are OK with other countries having racist immigration policies. I’m such a tool.
I love to come here and argue with the imaginary liberals in my head.
Or maybe we liberals think that not having such a racist immigration policy is a good thing and that becoming less racist is even better.
Fineman definitely has some ridiculous statements in that column, but I think it’s misleading to say that the article was about Europeans not thinking about America. What it’s really about is our declining role in the world from everything to foreign affairs, business, and science. That’s not a crazy topic to think about. One concern for a lot of regular people is that the US doesn’t produce products anymore, jobs have shifted overseas, and big surprise the investors are as well–so what does this suggest about those “great” jobs left in the US? Well they might soon be leaving as well. The dollar is under constraints because of Empire Building liabilities that were formerly called assets. Here’s the full quote that the blogger chopped up with ellipses: “In the business world of London, the talk last week was all about the money pouring into China, India, and Brazil, and to a lesser extent, Russia.
The cash under discussion wasn’t from American investors, but rather Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe — and even trickles from one BRIC to another.
Every fund manager who was living in or passing through London bragged about just having been to — or about to leave for — China.”
–Fineman isn’t outraged that Europeans aren’t writing and talking about the US, he’s pointing out a transition that’s taking place in business.
I’m not calling Fineman a genius, or saying that his line “I’m not a “declinist.” I have faith in our special destiny and re-generative powers.” was anything less than hilarious, but I am saying that a cursory glance at the actual article shows that it’s about more than this post suggests.
None of those hot anime girls would ever give me the time of day in real life. I hate them.
“Europeans were talking to each other directly; Americans were not, as far as I could tell, very much a part of the conversation.”
Gee, I wonder if that might be because the rest of the world suffered eight fucking years of unilateral bullying from the US? The rest of the world grew up while the US jerked off to its own money and military strength.
The tortoise and the hare is a suitable parable for the United States:
What the hell are you carrying on about? You sound like one of those little kids who is always looking to see if their siblings got more of less of something, then crying “He got more than me?” and acting as if you are on a crusade for justice though you never notice when you get more.
We Are The 801,
Nice, but I prefer the Warner Brothers version:
Japan would never give citizenship to a non-Japanese American, or any foreigner for that matter.
So why is the sea boiling hot?
The world needs to understand this message: American leaders bow to NOBODY.
Of course not. As Bush demonstrated, holding hands and hugs are preferred.
The world needs to understand this message: American leaders bow to NOBODY.
Oh boo hoo. Suck it.
Reality Check said,
November 25, 2009 at 22:06
I think liberals are OK with other countries having racist immigration policies.
Yep. Then we get he best and brightest from all over. Or at least we did, until the dumbasses at BushCo put a crimp in it, and taught them to go elsewhere , or stay home. 🙁
I’m such a tool.
You’re on a roll! Right twice in one post! 😉
g said,
Fixed that for you. Thank me later.
Smut Clyde said,
I see what you did there.
Soon America is going to be crying out for real Reagan-esque, strong leadership
Like in Lebanon.
I feel my dick getting harder already.
I fear you have not grasped the whole pancake.
Reality Check said,
November 25, 2009 at 22:53
Carter and and Bush and Reagan and Clinton
bothand Cheney had FAILED foreign policies, and Hopey ( Bush III) is following in their footsteps.Yep. Same ‘ol, same ol’. Maybe the next one.( After we’re too broke to afford the empire ?)
I ignored as much as I could.
But this being Smut, I doubtless overlooked more than I disregarded.
Me being a dumbass, I forgot a link anyway.
“Their very manhood is defined by whether the United States government makes them feel powerful.”
And then you get those whose manhood is defined by whether the government of Israel makes them feel powerful. Around here we call them “Zionists”.
Clinton both had FAILED foreign policies
He’s right! All those dead soldiers in the 90s…Clinton, all that peace and prosperity….I mean, wow! What a horrendous foreign policy!
Me being a dumbass, I forgot a link anyway.
“A string of kewpies is a toy for Heather”, Keats explained.
Killfiles – quite a bit more productive than trying to catch someone out who really does not give a shit.
Not completely unproductive; at least the troll enjoys it when someone notices the self-contradiction in one or another transparent lie.
I can’t argue with more happiness in the world. Or so I say before doing just that. GET OFFA MY LAWN.
“A string of kewpies is a toy for Heather”, Keats explained.
V. M na gC. R.
Hey! Remember when Troofus went completely insane on Sadly No after Election Day, and swore he was working all day on something that would put us all in our place? Remember how he ranted on for hours and hours about his big reveal, and when he finally posted it… it turned out to be the Wikipedia page on Jimmy Carter, with Carter replaced by “Obama”?
Not that this is Troofus again, with his same old tired obsessions about Race and Carter and lying and namestealing again, is it?
Do you know what would really wind him up? He thinks he can just lie and cheat and shout his way out of any contradiction and idiocy he indulged in yesterday… so why not really bookmark this? Those Amazon reviews where he spammed about Sadly No? Post a link to this thread, and remind anyone who wants to know just what a “special” person this white knight defender of the rights Whitest knights actually is…?
Ronald Reagan was a sick mofo and a total moran (wingnut spelling) surrounded by sycophants, criminals, closet cases and the best cocksucker Hollywood ever knew, Nancy Davis. Her father was a sick, racist mofo (I guess she likes the emotionally damaged. After all, look at what she did to her own children). Reagan was a xian who didn’t go to church, was notorious for raping starlets in the 1940’s and then married a woman (shotgun wedding) whose religion was Christian Dior and whose shallowness and emotional iciness are legendary.
Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the end for America, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. He was a demented tool of the multinational corporate tyrants who DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT AMERICA AND AMERICANS. Under the control of these quite evil people, Reagan was the affable idiot who convinced other American Idiots (Thank you, Billy Joe Armstrong, for that powerful phrase) that destroying American businesses, sending jobs overseas to exploit others and to scare our citizens into settling for poor wages and poor working conditions, destroying the teaching of critical thinking skills, encouraging vile and inhuman superstitions such as those espoused by Jerry Falwell (dead and good riddance), Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, James Kennedy (dead, too), Rod Parsley and other truly Unamerican assholes who happily will die one day as well.
Ronald Reagan is the Trojan Horse that assured America’s decline. I am thrilled that he is being consumed by the worms as we speak.
Boy you folks are fun!
I actually grew up in the 1950s and ’60s in that bastion of Whiteness, TexASS, back when Whites were still always on top–in every sense.
Damn, they were mean! And stupid! Yet they thought they were the crown of creation. Our top religicos used to have endless theological discussions about whether it was a sin for teens to dance.
To get an idea of what the White race, subspecies USA, is like, read about how they snuck into northern Mexico (soon to be TexASS) back in the 1830s and swore allegiance to the Mexican government to get to stay, then revolted and took it over when enough of them had collected there to do the deed.
Whereupon they proceeded to treat Mexicans like cowpies for the next 150 years.
I think the world is sick of White people. You have to lock your country up tight when we’re around or we’ll steal it every time.
What endowed us Americans with a “special destiny” you ask? Such impious internationalist cosmopolitanism! It was the 9 Mormon principles and 12 revelations of Moroni that the American founders EXPLICITLY referenced in the CONSTITUTION!
Glenn Beck has a PLAN! A 100 year plan to deprogressivize the Nazified New Jerusalem!
Holy shit!
The Glennster links to S,N!:Brad!
The big time!!!
Dianasatyr! Amen to that. I currently live in Texas (and did from 6 mos. to 32 years, returning in my mid-forties) and as a gay white guy, I think the world is sick of white people, too.
I know I am sick of straight white guys, which is quite a quandary for me because I am sick of Rick Perry…
I guess so long as he stays in the closet, then I need not suffer from cognitive dissonance.
Oh, and fuck the two Texas Senators. Both of them are evil to the core.
<i>Clinton both had FAILED foreign policies</i>
He’s right! All those dead soldiers in the 90s…Clinton, all that peace and prosperity….I mean, wow! What a horrendous foreign policy!