First. Go vote.

I officially have too many bookmarks!

Here’s a word of advice on local elections from my father the lawyer: Always vote against judges any time they come up for election. Barring a scandal of some sort, they always win, but a lot of negative votes will give them something to ponder.

Seriously, research the local shit. People leaving that off is how we get people in charge of schools who think Jesus rode dinosaurs and people on city councils who think the biggest problem facing the city is that the homeless population isn’t harassed enough. Not to mention the various wingnut giveaways waiting to drain the state budgets and ensure the states have to gut unions and schools to “make the tough choices”.

And if you have a lazy liberal buddy who “isn’t sure” they want to vote this year, drag them out of the house, possibly at gunpoint (or since we’re effete liberals, butter knife point).

If you have a conservative buddy, Cask of Amontillado the fucker.

More bookmarking from the last thread.

OTOH, Wednesday morning the unskewed polls guy can claim that he was the only one to forecast the huge momentum Obama picked up in the last week of the campaign.

Not even Troofie McTroofiepants thinks Hawai’i will go R/R. I’m voting Jill Stein. But I am voting D downticket, and have, I hope, done good research on the other items on the ballot. Only 2 pages, fill-in-the-bubble paper that they run through a scanner before you leave so they at least catch total failures.

: Always vote against judges any time they come up for election.

but what if both candidates are judges? since i don’t know squat about any of the judges we vote on, i usually pick the challenger…and i ALWAYS vote for tim tingelstad just because i love that name…also, he’s been running for a long time and never wins…

Srsly tho, what happened to the Senate races?

Go vote or I WILL kill you. Not voting makes you worse than the hardcore right wingers who do vote.

Substance-

That’s some good shit, right there.

My favorite mango:

Romney is going to win, big time. Why? I can tell you in three syllables and a few numbers. The syllables are: Ben-gha-zi.

We so too can make Iran-Contra strike twice just by wishing hard enough. Sure, yeah, Reagan stole that election by conspiring with two foreign powers to prolong a major international incident and this is nothing like this, but uh… um… er… WAAAAAHHHH!

Second Favorite:

Who is going to win the presidency? I don’t know. Furthermore, nobody else does either. Everyone is biased; everyone has an agenda. Even those who imagine themselves to be neutral.

No one can know anything! Like, what if America is just a simulation of a dream happening inside a dead God? You don’t know! Ha, my skimming of my friend’s Philosophy 101 notes will surely win me this day!

I like how Dr. Helen takes for-fucking-ever to even admit she’s kind of predicted something.

@bbkf: I actually meant like the district judges that are up for election. It’s just a “yea” or “nay,” at least around here. People just auto-pilot over that section, so all of them get %90+ “yes” unless one of them’s been in the news.

And as long as we’re making fun of Mr. Unskewed Polls, I’d like to note that he had a link marked “UnSkewed Book Store” that goes to a big page full of Amazon affiliate links.

Yeah, he knows his 15 minutes are up.

We have a (state) constitutional amendment on the ballot to allow the Chief Justice to appoint judges over 70 (mandatory retirement) as “Emeritus” judges for 3 months. Since they already do this dance in other branches, I know how it works:
1) Hire retiree for 3 month “temporary” job. Since the retiree already has bennies, and they’re in a different column on the books, it looks as though they’re saving money. Also not hiring someone who needs the bennies. And the job.
2) At about the 85 day mark, the “temp” quits, and takes a week or so off.
3) Hire the retiree …
This has gone on for years for some people. I’m voting agin it. Also agin the one designating no less than 0.5% of tax money going to nonprofits for very general purposes. One source describes it as “walking around money.” Since needed services are being cut or reduced due to lack of funds, I don’t see why we should reduce available funds further.

NYTimes vs. NYTimes

“Toss up” States:
Massachusetts – current forecast 93.6% Dem
Maine – 92.2% Angus King
Missouri – 88% D
Virginia – 85% D

Loadpants has a hate-on for Nate Silver.

Some Mangos.

To listen to many of Silver’s defenders, questioning his methodology is akin to rejecting evolution or the laws of thermodynamics, as if only his model is sanctified by the god, Reason.

I wonder: What kind of scholarship do we have to look forward to when, in the words of Krugman, “facts really do have a well-known liberal bias” and a difference of opinion over poll-weighting foretells the end of science?

Yes, poll-weighting is the only difference of opinion Republicans have regarding science.

But I like to think that people are different, more open to reason, and that the soul — particularly when multiplied into the complexity of a society — is not so easily number-crunched. Obviously this is a romantic view out of step with the times. Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism, lamented long ago that the “age of chivalry is gone,” replaced by “that of sophisters, economists and calculators.”

Oh, Jonah is such a romantic. You mean sciency-types are hurting his manly feelings. Why won’t you stop oppressing him with your cold, hard numbers and let the poetry that burns deep within his soul flow forth?

In Dr. Perfesser’s defense, you cannot disagree with what she closes out with:

I don’t have a clue

Re: judges

If you live in Iowa, you might want to vote yes to retain David Wiggins on the state supreme court.

But I like to think that people are different, more open to reason, and that the soul — particularly when multiplied into the complexity of a society — is not so easily number-crunched.

On the contrary, the soul has been quantified to the point where we can measure your soulfulness down to ~3 picosouls.

On the contrary, the soul has been quantified to the point where we can measure your soulfulness down to ~3 picosouls.

I would prefer non-destructive testing techniques.

I already voted I already voted nyah nyah nyah nyah

The anti-Silver blitz has been fascinating. Michael Gerson has a good one in which he updates his readers on the current state of political science (in his mind).

But I like to think that people are… more open to reason

And he thinks that will induce them to vote Republican?

Not my country, not my dog in the fight (except indirectly), but I’m not sure Cerberus’s argument really justifies an Obama vote if you live somewhere safe-blue. By which I mean something like the Unskewed fruitloops’ Blue 179 levels of safe-blue.

A stronger turnout for Jill Stein as an actual real progressive is surely far more important than settling arguments from ignorant Rethugs (who were totally happy with the EC/popular vote split in 2000, let us not forget)?

An Obama EC win is of course far more important than either, and anyone who votes third-party in a swing state wants a kicking.

As It Happens has some fun election material over the last while. The Thursday program has Gary Johnson (entertaining interview) and Friday has Nate Silver, Errol Morris, the nitwit behind Citizens United, and of course an elephant that speaks Korean. Haven’t listened to Monday yet.

http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/

I mailed my ballot last week and checked it online today. Also, same sex marriage is going to pass (yeah, we’re the first to pass it by referendum). We’re sending Maria cantwell back to the senate, and Obama will win by a large margin. Or governor race is leaning for dem jay inslee, and pot will be more or less legal. My state crushes all the states. Only bad news: looks like a “public charter school” is goi g to pass.

Shorter Michael Gerson:

We pundits do TOO matter and if we say it’s too close to call and no one can say otherwise, then NO ONE can say otherwise! Cause our 100% failure method of going with our guts is so too superior to having an actual track record of success if we say so. Also, policy (as an abstract) suddenly matters when we want to distract from how bad we are at even just covering politics as a horse-race.

I mean seriously, he actually blames Nate Silver for useless pundits like himself talking more about horse-race bullshit than real issues like poverty.

Behold! A Tumblr to which people send their sexual fantasies about politicians.

“I can’t help but feel that Ryan was tempting Biden into bedding him over a table after the debate and Biden giving him a good spanking Ryan’d get off on”

On Christie: “I want to take that jacket after he’d worn it, cuddle up in it and then masturbate all night long.”

On Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper: “I think he would be very dominant and controlling.”

tsam said,
November 6, 2012 at 7:36

Bastiges! Our pot measure hasn’t been looking too good. ‘Course, no one spent a dime on it. And marriage equality didn’t even make it to the ballot this year because those fucking eastsiders and the hicks in the valley vote whereas most of the hipster slackers often can’t even remember where the fuck they live much less whether or how to vote.

Make you a deal, tsam: I’ll bring the cheap booze from OR and you supply the more or less legal bud and we’ll do ourselves some ass kicking.

And no, we won’t go to WA to get married. There’s no future in it.

Behold! A Tumblr to which people send their sexual fantasies about politicians.

Is this a variant on “Power is an aphrodisiac?” I am so not clickng that link. And I’m a long-time fanfic reader.

The anti-Silver blitz has been fascinating.

He’s disrupting their fantasies.

I took a look at the Breitbart site. There, the hapless Obama can’t even fill an auditorium while the dynamic and confident Romney draws vast crowds and surges ahead in the polls. From what I saw, they seem to be completely intent on convincing themselves that they’re about to win in a colossal landslide. For them, evidence to the contrary does not exist.

Strange, strange people.

I already voted I already voted nyah nyah nyah nyah

How often?

Make you a deal, tsam: I’ll bring the cheap booze from OR and you supply the more or less legal bud and we’ll do ourselves some ass kicking.

DEAL!

Are you not coming here to get married because you don’t want to get married or because OR wouldn’t honor it? How long have you two been together? I get the impression that its been a long time

Except I’ll smuggle it down there. If we kick ass we do it in a city that doesn’t suck. Spokane is not the place for that sort of thing

What’s weird about the right wingers declaring an easy victory before Election Day. Terrible strategy. Hopefully some of those pricks will take the bait and stay in with tv and a supersize bag of pork rinds!

Silver now gives Obama 92% chance of winning, puts the chances of Ohio going for Obama at above 90%, and – for the first time – shows Florida at better than even odds.

I’ve been burned too many times in too many elections over the last half century to ever completely believe favorable predictions, but I have to admit that this does sound pretty good.

More bookmarking from the last thread.

Who are all these wingnuts? Oh. PJM ‘columnists?’ Pfft. Paid echo chamber repeaters.

in the words of Krugman, “facts really do have a well-known liberal bias”

The more accurate phrasing would be “conservatives have a well-known anti-fact bias.”

Yes, the outcome on Tuesday is beyond any shadow of a doubt an enigma wrapped in a mystery concealing a perfect glittering gold coil of unicorn P00P.

TEEVEE ISREAL SH33PL3

PS – 2012 is the 4th anniversary of that fateful day when one lone valiant neckbeard spoke truthiness to Liberal Fascist empowerment …

NEVAR F0RGET:

It is not going to happen, liberals. Your echo chamber is reverberating now with your shouts of victory before you’ve won a single state. I almost feel badly for you, because when McCain wins, your astonishment will be overwhelming. I say “almost” because your ideology is nasty, anti-free speech, and absolutist, and every decent person will sigh in relief when it goes down to defeat once more.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.

Dear old twoofie… where is he now?

Actually, he’s probably out there somewhere predicting a Romney victory.

Looking at memeorandum just shows the desperation of the wingnut echo chamber and their last ditch plan to influence voters with their “we’re winning” meme, expecting that the remaining undecideds are waiting to see who wins so that they can “vote for the winner” (a voting strategy that I absolutely loathe, but is all too real).

As much as I hate giving Rush any clicks, and as much as just the image of him induces nausea, his “Everything Except the Polls Points To A Romney Landslide” forced confidence is the epitome of wingnut false bravado tonite.

Rush? The ‘everything’ to which you refer? It’s simply everything wingnut. Which, as I stated before, is possessed of a well-known anti-fact bias.

Also, I don’t want to discourage the casting of any D votes, but I have to acknowledge Chris Hedges’ Truthdig piece illustrating how we really are just voting for the lesser of two evils.

Snorghagen – he’s over at Balloon Juice, with a new name every day and trolling like his job depends on it. Which it probably does.

Dear old twoofie… where is he now?

It’s the site. He forgot to bookmark it, libs.

I’m thinking that the whole-hearted rejection of Silver by the RWDM is an attempt to put their fingers in their ears and sing “Jebus Wants me for a Sunbeam” to drown out the bad bad man.
Now, ordinarily they would shrug sheepishly on Wednesday and try to pretend that it never happened but this time I think that they are through that damn mirror and will hereby split from the US and live in USA2 where Romulan triumphed over the dark usurper and the kingdom has returned to the way of righteousness and, coincidentally, whiteness.

hereby split from the US and live in USA2

Spaces are waiting for them on Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON).

If you have a conservative buddy, Cask of Amontillado the fucker.

Buttchug version ending:

“‘Fortunato!’

No answer still. I thrust a tube through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.”

Spearhafoc, who can do anything, quoted Mama’s Little Baby quoting…well…

Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism, lamented long ago that the “age of chivalry is gone,” replaced by “that of sophisters, economists and calculators.”

…giving me an excuse to point out the context in which Burke originally rang those bells (in his proto-George-Will Reflections on the Revolution in France): waxing rhapsodic about Marie Antoinette (“and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision”) and isn’t it just awful what those poors did to her?

[L]ittle did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

The only good thing I can say about that particular spew is that it inspired one of the sharper couplets in William Blake’s unpublished poem The French Revolution:
“The Queen of France just touch’d this globe
And the pestilence darted from her robe”

I sent in my ballot a few weeks ago. Spoiler alert: I voted for Obummer.

because when McCain wins

This may be the echo chamber talking, but I’m confident McCain will not win tonight.

“Jebus Wants me for a Sunbeam”

It’s better than “Jebus Wants Me for a Buttplug.”

The fact is, liberals should remember that they are voting to relect the worst dictator since Hitler, and that will be on there conshense, but then again liberals don’t have those, just win and impoise gays and socialism.,

impoise gays

Gays don’t need me to impoise them. They already have plenty of poise.

The fact is, real Americans have lost rights and freedoms to the Usurper, and you cheer. Liberals hate freedom, espeically economic freedom and the freedom to choose, Obama gives us no choice but stATE OWNERSHIP of eerythin g

freedom to choose

No, I dig that. Trust me.

Transmetropolitan? Pogues? Comic book? I don’t get it.

Choosy mothers choose JIF. Less choosy mothers say “Fuck peanut butter.”

Choosy mothers choose JIF. Less choosy mothers say “Fuck peanut butter.”

Disreputable mothers let the dog decide.

No, I will not explain that joke.

Done. 6 am CST.
Bye bye Jo Walsh you scumbag

The politics of failure have failed

Today in our crazy Belgian time, it is Tuesday November 6th, which means for those of us stuck in the Dadaist States of America, that it’s election day.

How can I be in America if it’s Tuesday. If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium, isn’t that right?

BTW — how much ya wanna bet that Dem wins in NY and NJ will be chalked up to massive voter fraud in the wake of the storm. But if voter turnout amongst people who actually have to work for a living is so low that the GOP wins, the effects of the super-storm will only be noted as a snide aside by a reporter or two and thus be dismissed as “well that’s what the liberal media wants you to think because they don’t know how conservative real ‘Murkins are”.

Full disclosure: my (half) sister-in-law is named Sandy and she was supposed to be in Jamaica when the storm hit there. Which led to lots of jokes around the DAS house-hold about “Hurricane Sandy devastating Jamaica”. Suffice it to say that my wife and her half-sister don’t get along very well.

Completely off-topic — any of you Sadlys know a good place to get help with an XO laptop? My daughter’s XO has decided to insist on logging into any available mesh network and thus to NOT allow itself to log into an AP network. I tried the fix I found to create a file called lbs_mesh in the appropriate directory, but the machine won’t let me write to said directory, even if I am logged in as root and even if I change permissions that should allow me to write in said directory. And the other so-called fix I found just prevented me from seeing ANY network.

impoise gays

If a liberal were to impose Rachel Maddow or Portia de Rossi on me, I wouldn’t complain. My wife might have some issues with this, and I doubt if either Ms. Maddow or Ms. de Rossi would be interested (and their wives would also have issues with the situation as well, I would imagine).

The fact is, liberals want freedom to die so they can redistribute the wealth to their ACORN cronies like Dems always do.

I was so happy to leave Ohio when I moved to Canada.

I’d never voted in. US election until 2004, but now I wouldn’t miss a chance to vote.

It’s not so much about voting for the corporate cocksucker D’s as it is a chance to vote against the corporate cocksucker but also insane clown posse of racist, sexist, Bible-thumping, gun-totin homophobes of the R persuasion.

fuck em all and the dinosaur they rode in on.

I wonder: What kind of scholarship do we have to look forward to when, in the words of Krugman, “facts really do have a well-known liberal bias” and a difference of opinion over poll-weighting foretells the end of science?

The same kind you have now, in which one group looks at real data and the other makes shit up for money, Mr Buy My Book of History Pulled Out of my Ass. And seriously, for Goldbrick to moan about either scholarship or civility after publishing his “the other side are Nazis because VEGGIES!” doesn’t just take the cake, it’s also got the cake stand and the table tucked under its arms while making a break for it.

And speaking of blatant thievery, Romney had “Fanfare for the Common Man” play as he arrived in Columbus OH, which is wrong on just about every level you can think of.

you need to get the fuck out and vote

Just don’t get the two mixed up.

On second thought…

No but srsly folks. Is there an explanation for the total collapse of the GOP Senate efforts? A year ago it was totes looming large. Dem caucus was defending 23 seats versus 10 on the Repub side. Congressional job approval at the time was hovering at record lows, with Harry Reid garnering the lowest approval ratings of any of the party leaders. Like even lower than Bright Orange Boehner.

But now – a Democratic Senate is assumed – heck even some of the PJMedia Romney landslide folks accept it. 538’s forecast has better odds for a filibusterproof Dem caucus than for a Republican majority. What happened? And how can we ensure that it happens again?

The anti-troofie response.

D-KW – two words: Tea Assholes.

What happened, D-KW, is the GØP overplayed their hand. What happened is They thought the Overton window had moved so far right the teabillies were centrist. What happened is they believed their own bullshit and will be slain by their own hubris.

Well that’s awesome. Hoist on their own teatards. And with the tendency for conservatives to doubledown on losing strategies, it’ll be amusing to see what happens next.

to tsam, when he wakes up and gets his ass to work – We decided long ago that we didn’t want anything to do with an institution that hated us. That was a bit over 20 years ago.

One thing that will make me very, very happy is to see no more of those negative PAC ads that attack local members of Congress. I have never seen political ads that were less informative and more ridiculously, inanely tendentious.

And as much as I hate “equivalence,” I have to say that in this case, both sides really did do it. A Republican congresswoman, who as far as I can tell is a perfectly decent person, is being attacked because she used to be in the state legislature, from which she draws a pension! Jesus Christ, give me a fucking break and stop treating me like a moron.

My ballot involved completing arrows. I’ve never encountered that before, so I drew really good lines. From a few feet away (I’m tall) the arrows looked as if they were printed complete and solid along the whole length of the shaft.

When I fed the ballot into the slot, however, it was rejected. My lines were TOO DARK. They made me fill out a new ballot. Now I’m just creeped out.

Too dark, my foot. My lines were no darker than the arrows they completed … The black woman who accepted my ballot used the opportunity to make a joke about how being too dark is not a bad thing. It came off pretty smooth.

Done. 6 am CST.
Bye bye Jo Walsh you scumbag

I’LL DRINK TO THAT!

It came off pretty smooth.

A joke about votes not counting because they’re too dark? Man, some decent gallows humour at your polling place for sure.

I can’t remember the exact joke, D-K W, but that’s OK, the possibilities are clear enough.

But now – a Democratic Senate is assumed – heck even some of the PJMedia Romney landslide folks accept it. 538?s forecast has better odds for a filibusterproof Dem caucus than for a Republican majority. What happened? And how can we ensure that it happens again?

Akin, Mourdock and Thompson is really what happened. They just went too far. When you stand there and tell someone that rape baby is gift from God (a gift that just keeps on giving for the rest of your life, a living, breathing reminder of the second worst trauma a woman can endure), you just alienate all but that 25%. No fence sitting independant is having any of that shit. They’re also not trying to hide the fact that they want to take Social Security and give it to Wall Street and defense contractors. We’re seeing the real Republican party that is the legacy of Reagan. People are PAINFULLY slowly beginning to wake up to it all.

along the whole length of the shaft.

LOL

to tsam, when he wakes up and gets his ass to work – We decided long ago that we didn’t want anything to do with an institution that hated us. That was a bit over 20 years ago.

Fair enough–though it seems that is changing at an awesomely fast pace… Make sure I get an invitation.

20 years. Congrats, man! That’s pretty amazing.

One thing that will make me very, very happy is to see no more of those negative PAC ads that attack local members of Congress. I have never seen political ads that were less informative and more ridiculously, inanely tendentious.

Our close gubernatorial (gawd what a stupid word) race was LOADED with that shit. It’s Jay Inslee, a US Rep for like 12 years, I think, vs our attorney general, a snide, sneering little prick that signed on to the class action suit against the HCA. I will say that one VERY effective ad was showing McKenna at a teabagger rally in ’09, telling them how great they are…LOL

Shorter Peggy Nu-nu: Ignore the polls because yard signs = votes.

P.S.: I love how people went from “it’s still too close to call” to “Romney will win every State but Illinois, Hawaii, New York and California” within less than 48 hours.

I get all punchy just seeing that smirking little weasel McKenna’s face and I don’t even live in your state.

I get all punchy just seeing that smirking little weasel McKenna’s face and I don’t even live in your state.

i am fervently hoping that this is voter reaction to one l two ns in the polling booth…

I can’t believe Bachmann even has a chance in a place like Minnesota (a light blue state). Our craziest rep in my 5th district rep, Cathy McMorris Rogers, who is a teabagger stupid asshole, but she looks awesome compared to ShelleShelle

Snivel snivel, whine, cry

I think perhaps there is nothing worse than crying about being called what you are. Especially when EVERYBODY KNOWS it’s all political theater and that reality has little to nothing to do with it.

I can’t believe Bachmann even has a chance in a place like Minnesota (a light blue state). Our craziest rep in my 5th district rep, Cathy McMorris Rogers, who is a teabagger stupid asshole, but she looks awesome compared to ShelleShelle

sadly, yes, she does…between re-districting and the metric shit tonne of money she’s spent, it sounds like she has a good chance…

What’s the deal with Chris Murphy. I hope he’s running mighty good ads but just can’t afford to get them played in the NYC area. ‘Cause I’m constantly hearing/seeing Linda McMahon ads about how Chris Murphy is a generic lawyer who can’t even bother to show up to work while Linda McMahon has built jobs with her bare hands and with nothing more than gumption and hard, hard work.

BTW — do Dems really have such bad attendence records in Congress or is this just something the GOoPers have latched onto?

Speaking of ads, have any of you been seeing television ads for candidates you can’t actually vote for? There have been multiple anti-Todd Akin ads in Kansas. I can’t figure out if that PAC just didn’t realize where Akin was running or what.

have any of you been seeing television ads for candidates you can’t actually vote for?

WWOR won’t stop running ads for Lyndon Johnson. It drives me insane.

i’ve seen some for wisconsin, but thanfully none for sodak…the production values on those would just be too painful to watch…

WWOR won’t stop running ads for Lyndon Johnson.

I kind of like the “daisy” commercial.

I saw Murphy this morning at my polling place. Massive turnout in a dem precinct. He is a three term solid Dem. Surprise, the not showing up for work thing is bullshit. McMahan has been bombarding the airways for three years (she ran two years ago) with vacuous ads but Murphy although outspent, is holding his own. Bill Clinton did an event for him last week. Nate Silver has his chances at >90% Linda has created jobs but mostly of the Wrestilng Diva variety.

Daisy, Daisy
Give me your A-bombs, do
I’m full crazy
All for the fear of you…

I cannot vote, but my non-judgemental and non-denominational prayers are with you today, libs.

The Columbus Free Press calls bullshit on Ohio Secretary of State Husted’s excuses and platitudes about how his last minute “experimental software patch” to the e-voting system won’t have any effect on the OH vote count.

(Hat tip: Peter Neumann at ACM’s Risks Digest)

If a liberal were to impose Rachel Maddow on me

Mrs. Snob has a massive crush on both Rachel and Melissa Harris Perry.

And I do not understand the polling on Oregon’s marijuana initiative. If all the fucking stoners in this state actually managed to remember to vote it should pass easily.

Random “Political” Conversations I Picked Up On From Lunch:

“I’m not voting because Ralph Nader wasn’t running.”

“I usually vote the way my Dad tells me, unless I change my mind.”

It makes no sense because [wait for it] they’re all the same.

FYI: I work at a university campus, and these are supposedly scholars and honor students.

Why Wall Street hates Obama

Those record profits and salary disparities chapping their hides?

This guy Husted is like the villain in an episode of Scooby Doo. How could he possibly have thought downloading a mysterious software patch to the voting machines the day before the election was going to be acceptable to anyone? Did he just think nobody would notice?

Those record profits and salary disparities chapping their hides?

Well, it’s Obama’s fault, really. If he wanted Wall Street’s support, he shouldn’t have vetoed the Genuflect and Kiss the Ring of Jamie Dimon Act of 2011.

Did he just think nobody would notice?

Yeah, so? People noticed. I’ve don’t know that noticiing will make any difference whatsoever.

People “noticed” problems in Ohio in ’04 and all it took was a few well timed “haha look at the silly conspiracy theories those stupid Democrats are coming up with. As if the vote could have been tampered with! Poppycock!” editorials in the big national papers to shut that shit down.

I will not be surprised in the least if crazy shit happens in Ohio. Hopefully there’s either a massive enough difference that it doesn’t work, or other states balance it out.

And if any of you Ohio-resident wishy-washy-Stein-curious bastards tilt this I will hunt you down and shove a SparklePonyUnicorn up your ass.

Hell. If you work for Chrysler, you get the whole day off to vote.

Along with an email last week that called bullshit on Rmoney’s Jeep lies.

Ha-ha.

And for a little lighter fare, here is an election-themed comic.

Hrm… While I can’t stand the forums at DU, where people think repetitively posting smilies is witty and insightful, the site is usually a good portal to current news items elsewhere.

Today, it’s creaking under the strain:

Welcome to Democratic Underground

We are currently experiencing extremely high traffic to our website, and have been forced to turn off our home page and other site functionality to reduce the strain on our servers. We are doing everything we can to hopefully keep our discussion forums open. Please come join us!
Enter Discussion Forums

Maybe they should turn off the smilies.

And here is another one, except it’s not exactly light fare.

I like Jill Stein, but she really needs to serve in some capacity larger than town meeting rep first.

I will not be surprised in the least if crazy shit happens in Ohio. Hopefully there’s either a massive enough difference that it doesn’t work, or other states balance it out.

This is a very good, if not particularly reassuring, take on the Ohio situation.

I enjoyed these comics

There have been multiple anti-Todd Akin ads in Kansas.

That’s just trying to hang Akin around Romney’s pretty white neck and sink him. Not a particularly effective use of funds in Kansas, I would think, but then I’m not an election henchman.

This was my favorite web comic, evar.

And occasionally, this produces a moment of brilliance.

Oh, and I still read Calvin and Hobbes every day. It’s like comfort food for the funnybone.

I like Jill Stein, but she really needs to serve in some capacity larger than town meeting rep first.

If I thought she had a chance in hell of actually winning, I might worry about her experience. As it is, I’ll be voting for her from my safely Obama state.

Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs? Well, I’ve warned you silly Sadlies that this day was coming, and it’s FINALLY HERE! That’s right! ConservoMentum ’12 is upon us, unleashing a SPREAD of VICTORY all over you liberalizin’, socializin’ dorks! It sure has been a fun four years of Da Cool Coach rip-rappin’ some truths on you clowns, and you better believe that there was some knowledge in there that you jabronis just couldn’t handle! Just like your Error in Thief, Obummer! Badoodle-boo-yeah!

Da Cool Coach is gonna own tonight, ya chumps! Urban out.

It’s a sad thing about our truly fucked up system (and human nature in general), that the only people who can get anywhere near the levers of power are the ones who’ve sold their souls to the Great God Power. There are a few exceptions, of course, but the higher you go in the pecking order, the rarer they are.

I mean in that I’d like for the Green party to build some real power. I had ZERO green party candidates down ballot, that should never happen.

This is a very good, if not particularly reassuring, take on the Ohio situation.

How is it not reassuring? For Ohio to even count first Romney has to take Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Florida really is a toss-up, but Barry is ahead in the polls in Virginia. 538 puts it a t 73% and NC is 3/4 the other way. Barry’s odds of taking at least one of these is around 4:5. There’s an 80% chance that no one will care how close the ballot is in Ohio.

In that final 1/5 of the time, Obama still wins without Ohio if he gets Colorado, Nevada and New Hampshire. All states he is leading the polls in.

And even after all of that, keep in mind that he’s leading in Ohio too.

Well, the night is upon us- yet another night for the giggling, gaggling frog chorus here at Sadly, O!, to make quick with its misogynist rumblings and ramblings in support of its beloved Obambi. The last four years have been rough on us true blue Appalachian Reagan Democrats, the legitimate backbone of progressive thought and feminism in this country, and we’ve received nothing but scorn and mockery from Obambi and his cretins. I dare say a Romney administration would be just as bad, maybe worse, than Obambi Part II will be, but even I have to admit that Mitt’s math just doesn’t look good. In the meantime, I will be shining my boots and preparing to use them to stomp away from you and your misogynist twerps…and in four years, us Hillary supporters will do just that.

wingnut coworker doesn’t believe that there’s any voter suppression or intimidation going on. he doesn’t remember 2000 in florida or 2004 in OH. I barraged him with links and his reply was something to the effect of “its human nature” which to me sounds suspiciously like “both sides do it!”.

don’t know why I bother engaging these idiots. its like feeding trolls but you cannot killfile or disemvowel them.

and in four years, us Hillary supporters will do just that.

Excellent, we look forward to not seeing you again until then.

Quote of the day.

“I’m not very pro-pundit, I have to say,” Silver said. “If pundits were on the ballot against, like, I don’t know, Ebola, I might vote Ebola, or third party.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/nate-silver-colbert-report-pundits.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Holy sweet FSM — Iris is back… I’d MUCH rather have a visit from the lunch lady. At least she was honest about the crap she was dishing out.

I mean in that I’d like for the Green party to build some real power. I had ZERO green party candidates down ballot, that should never happen.

Sorry. I tend to be overly literal, unless I’m careful. You’re right. They’re only the “protest candidate” source now, which serves a purpose, but we really do need a real third party (at least), especially since I think (hope!) the days of Dem-Rep are coming to a close, what with both of them being pretty damn conservative.

Remember, folks, the Big Dance is tonight after the polls close, music provided by a special friend from way back when, someone we all know and love!

I mean in that I’d like for the Green party to build some real power. I had ZERO green party candidates down ballot, that should never happen. – tigris

When I was in grad school at Rutgers, the Green party decided to put a serious effort into running a candidate for mayor of New Brunswick. Of course, J & J and the Democratic political machine did everything they could to keep college students from voting, so the Green candidate had no chance of even making a good showing. And supposing the Green candidate won? Well, what kind of splash is a headline of “college town elects Green party mayor” gonna make?

If the Green party were serious about making a splash, they would have ran a candidate in next door Piscataway, which also has a large population of college and grad student types. But it lacked a single major corporate player to distort voting (it would have been a lot harder for the various actors who wanted to maintain the status quo to coordinate voter suppression efforts in Piscataway in the same way that a public/private partnership “development corporation” dominated by a single corporate interest could coordinate such efforts in New Brunswick). It also had a weakened (a key player in the machine had repudiated her previous — although a friend of mine who knows her said her stance was never so hardline as it seemed — hard-line “pro-growth” stance and became an independent), (relatively) unpopular (I even voted GOP in a local race or two because I agreed with the GOoPers more on local issues than the “pave over the township” machine that controlled the Dems) Democratic machine.

The Greens would have done well in Piscataway (a couple of elections later, a “reformist” candidate won the Democratic primary in next door Edison — even though the Edison machine had long ago cleaned up its act — simply because voters wanted to keep the machine on its toes and keep it from sliding back to its old ways: and the voters in Piscataway were in far higher dudgeon than those in Edison), and it would have been a major story “Greens do well in mayoral election in suburbia!” that would have built momentum for the Greens.

But somehow the Green party wasn’t thinking so strategically. In short, when I was in grad school I learned all I needed to know about the political sagacity and future of the Greens. When I (I get beaten by kids at chess) can do strategery better than someone … well, that means said person really sucks at strategery.

Iris, you are one confused woman. (Assuming you actually are female.)

Iris! Missed you!

And as for you, Cool Coach, you won’t fool me again. I’m still waiting around for my SPREAD of SUPER SARAH THE POWER PALIN that you promised me about three years ago. LC out!

Iris and Meyer! It’s like a troll reunion. I mean, Gary’s here too, but there was never a time without Gary.

Can Troofie be far behind? As was mentioned above, he has only to wander over from Balloon Juice (where I last saw him being Edward_75 or some such colorless handle.)

And can LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL be far behind his arrival? I think rather not!

Iris was a parody troll.

I think they’re all really Fenwick and Fenwick is really Jill Stein.

Linda McMahon Gives Master Class In False Flag GOTV
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/linda-mcmahon-sample-ballot-gotv.php?ref=fpa

FENWICK=CADRE69=JILLSTEIN?????

Its all making sense now…

to make quick with its misogynist rumblings and ramblings in support of its beloved Obambi.

This I really don’t get. I’m about as cranky a feminist as you’ll find, and while the S,N crew is motley and at times–to borrow an unforgivable and stupid and inane turn of phrase from the wingnuts–a little “politically incorrect,” I hardly find them misogynist. That is silly talk.

Wingnut logic: If you don’t like misogynist women you are are misogynist. Well, shit. We’re the real racists, too, so this fits.

Iris was a parody troll.

As may be, but every bit as annoying as a real troll.

Mrs. Snob has a massive crush on both Rachel and Melissa Harris Perry.

Well, tell Mrs. Snob she’s got competition.

The Unskewed Polls guy posted one final revision yesterday – downward – of his presidential prediction. Romney down to 275 EVs, but winning Ohio:

http://unskewedpolls.com/unskewed_projection_2012%20president_03.cfm

Actually, it’s Iris logic: you don’t agree with me, so you’re a misogynist.

This assumes, of course, that there is, or ever was, an actual person such as “Iris”, which point is in doubt.

BTW, while we’re walking down memory lane, isn’t it about time for somebody to remind T&U to go vote?

Is it too early to start musing on Paul Ryan’s future? Will he survive being a failed VeeP candidate better than the previous failed VeeP candidate? Could sinking into total irrelevance happen to a more deserving guy?

the Nutmeg State.

i did not know ct was ‘the nutmeg state’…neat…also, too…how can anyone be surprised by linda mcmahon being shameless? she married vince mcmahon, spawned two (that i remember anyway) little mcmahons and used to appear on wwf (or wtf it’s called)…srsly? between the buttwipe commercials (charmin, cottonelle) and people like this bint actually taking office, i again will say, i don’t think there’s any saving this country…

also, too…i AM wearing my lucky elvis earrings, but alas, did not don my lucky underwear* this morning, so if bronco bama loses, it’s my fault for not doing laundry last night…

*and yes, i AM wearing underwear…pervs…

@bbkf, and any other Miny-sodas,

Yes, Tim Tinglestad has a silly name. So did Hannibal the Cannibal. And Hannibal is much fluffier.

lol – on election day the first Google News hit for “Paul Ryan” is about teh Quitta from Wasilla.

also, too…i AM wearing my lucky elvis earrings, but alas, did not don my lucky underwear* this morning, so if bronco bama loses, it’s my fault for not doing laundry last night…

Math is hard. You saying bacon strips are lucky?

Yes, Tim Tinglestad has a silly name.

oooh, i never thought of him as being bad-ass…what an awesome juxtaposition…ooooh, soorry, dude! you got tim ‘the noose’ tingelstad!

text exchange between hubbkf and i after his dental appointment:

hubbkf: fuck! i have to get another crown!
me: shit…does he have any suggestions to make your teeth stronger?
hubbkf: more sex
me: well…i suppose…if it will help your teeth, i guess i can do it…
hubbkf: thank you

You’re a giver.

Once again, the Wingnut Reverberation Engine has taken over the top of Memeorandum’s main page with cries of foul over invented or meaningless: “One of our our poll watchers in PA got harrassed! There’s an Obama mural in one polling place! OMG Black Panthers! Muslim Liberal Socialist Brownshirts!!!”

But in the meantime, OH voters in Dem precincts can’t even cast their ballots, and PA pollworkers are illegally demanding photo ID from nonwhite voters, and you have to dig thr .

You’re a giver.

thank you…i like to think that…

hubbkf: fuck! i have to get another crown!
me: shit…does he have any suggestions to make your teeth stronger?
hubbkf: more sex

It’s a trick!!

Will he survive being a failed VeeP candidate better than the previous failed VeeP candidate

He’ll survive fine – a Romney loss will be blamed on
1.) Romney is a Rino
2.) Christie is a rhino
3.) 47% of americans are moochers, 3.5% are traitors.

He is the next GOP pres. candidate, and none of this pansy-ass, namby-pamby nice-guy Romney act. They’re gonna get tough, next time, by god.

(Lesson Learned: Tab then Space makes for a premature post…)

And you have to dig thru reams of raw data for those reports. Thank gord for Ari Berman at The Nation.

Ryan will get some sort of wingnut welfare, go work at a think tank (more like STINK TANK), or get a job on Fux News. He’ll also write a book, called “Young Sociopaths Patriots.”

And also for Tom Tomorrow! Too!

Yeah, that’s Oregon and New Mexico turning red in pure embarrassment for the poor deluded Troofie wannabe who runs the Geocities wannabe site that’s become a darling to all the octogenarians who want to pretend that they’re even remotely a majority anymore.

Hey, now… my workplace is a polling site, and an elderly white lady came up to me and asked me if I liked her earrings. They were made out of beer bottle caps and had “OBAMA” stenciled on them. Don’t be dissing all the octogenarians!

Ryan’s the Tea Party Hero! He’s going to be the one who could have saved the day, if only he had been nominated! Just give him a chance in 2016! In the meantime, he’s going to lead the opposition from Capital Hill to fight the illegitimate usurper in the White House! All we need to do is support his unwavering ideology and his uncompromising heroism, and anyone in the who questions his righteousness is a poopyhead liberal!

Will he survive being a failed VeeP candidate better than the previous failed VeeP candidate

He is the next GOP pres. candidate, and none of this pansy-ass, namby-pamby nice-guy Romney act. They’re gonna get tough, next time, by god.

Nah… NORRIS/NUGENT 2016!!!

Just give him a chance in 2016! In the meantime, he’s going to lead the opposition from Capital Hill to fight the illegitimate usurper in the White House!

Is he going to excavate a subterranean lair in the hill? I sure as hell hope he’s voted out of the house!

Oh, I’m sure Ryan will be taken care of. There’s rubes enough left that still believe that he’s not a stupid poopypants with the dumb and the poor understanding of anything and also poopypantses. But his time is over. The darling of the conservative movement, the golden child who will lead them to Galtian utopia – now one of the many that have failed Conservatism.

This is the guy who was the GOP go-to guy for all things Budget related. Their best and their brightest. Now he’s just Dan Quayle if he’s lucky, and probably closer to Snowbilly the Grifter.

NORRIS/NUGENT 2016

That is one jumped shark.

Sean Hannity makes a big deal about being a registered member of the Conservative Party. He’s not a partisan Republican, you see!

Earlier today he tweeted pictures of his completed ballot — party-line Conservative, with a vote for Romney at the top of the ticket. Now the tweet I saw is gone. Think Progress sez because illegal to do.

But consider what a twit this guy is. Worse than you may have thought.

But consider what a twit this guy is. Worse than you may have thought.

That is not possible.

It’s a trick!!

ggah! and i already agreed to it…dammit!

From way upthread…

Make you a deal, tsam: I’ll bring the cheap booze from OR and you supply the more or less legal bud and we’ll do ourselves some ass kicking.

How do I get in on this? Mushrooms? Mescaline?

ggah! and i already agreed to it…dammit!

Don’t worry about it, just lie back and enjoy your stronger chompers.

How do I get in on this? Mushrooms? Mescaline?

stripper pole…

It may be important to ask who that “more sex” will be with.

A bit moar about Ohio voting tech.

It’s a trick!!

Sounds like a treat to me.

It may be important to ask who that “more sex” will be with.

finally…a troll who makes a good point…i may be off the hook after all!

That is not possible.

Yeah. I think you’d have to go into some alternate* doubleplusbad universe to achieve that. Or maybe it’s just a failure of my imagination.

*Even more alternate than the one the wingers already inhabit.

“That is not possible.”

The thing that gets me is that he’s got a chip on his shoulder. If he can prove that he doesn’t vote straight (r), then his show and his life’s work is something other than it seems. He’s objective, independent … but no. He is what his critics say, a Fox hack. Voting Green wouldn’t change that, because when you’re a pundit, your work has more influence than your vote does.

PA pollworkers are illegally demanding photo ID from nonwhite voters

From Bughunter’s link:

According to the law, poll workers in Pennsylvania can ask voters for ID, but they are not required to show it in order to vote.

WTF? If they’re not required to show it, what’s the point of asking for it?

WTF? If they’re not required to show it, what’s the point of asking for it?

PA GOP passed a law requiring that the ID be shown, but it was challenged in court, and the (State Supreme Court?) ruled that it was too soon before this election, so the effect of the law is postponed until the next general election. In the meantime, the judge ruled they can “ask” for ID, but not require it… so, guess who they are “asking”…

Of course, how can this selective “asking” not be effective intimidation?

joke my board pres just told me:

obama is showing a lead in the polls…but romney will after his supporters get off work…

i immediately went in to my, oh stop…my side…it aches from laffter…because i am a humorless liberal who willnot TOLERATE any mockery of bronco bama…

Iris, shutup you whore. I hate bitches like you.

Does it present a threat to your job to inform him that he is dumb?

Loudly, with extravagant arm gestures?

Does it present a threat to your job to inform him that he is dumb?

Loudly, with extravagant arm gestures?

he would just consider it as a regular tuesday…

obama is showing a lead in the polls…but romney will after his supporters get off work…

Do the whorehouses close before 7 p.m.?

because i am a humorless liberal who willnot TOLERATE any mockery of bronco bama

On the plus side, you’re going to have the sweetest revenge by tomorrow morning.

I’d be more worried about voting problems in the Northeast.

On the plus side, you’re going to have the sweetest revenge by tomorrow morning.

i sure hope so…i will have to make a gift to him of the giant obama picture my sister gave me…

I like how Dr. Helen takes for-fucking-ever to even admit she’s kind of predicted something.
Dr Helen’s testimonial to epistemic closure (and how it saved her from a disturbing lack of faith in the Loyalty Test) is a classic. “I used to worry that real-world events would not match up to my desires, until I learned to limit my information to two sources that reliably only told me what I wanted to hear!”

Well, it looks like a Bush appointee at the Ohio Federal District Court has come down in favor of Rethuglican-owned software back doors.

Unlike the standard of evidence used to pass voter ID laws, the lack of evidence of fraud in this situation is indeed cause for dismissal.

I’d be pretty relaxed and happy right now if I were t worried about voter suppression. And bbkf’s shameful ellipses-abuse.

joke my board pres just told me:

He should totally write for the Daily Show.

And bbkf’s shameful ellipses-abuse.

you are just noticing this now?

you are just noticing this now?

Be fair, it’s easy to miss what with all the tagfail.

Teasing bbkf soothes me. You gotta take one for the team, bbkf.

I am making burgers tonight. And mashed taters. COMFORT FOOD!!!

Let’s all agree to agree.

Be fair, it’s easy to miss what with all the tagfail.

haha…i had been trying to get that into my response to dr. ken…

I am making burgers tonight. And mashed taters. COMFORT FOOD!!!

we are having baked pork chops and stuffing…also comfort food…aaaaand, i think some wine…most definitely wine…

Teasing bbkf soothes me. You gotta take one for the team, bbkf.

also, too…tease away, madam…

I’m going out for dinner and martinis. Or maybe martinis and martinis. Probably depends on whether the bar I end up at has TV or not, and if I can get them to change it away from Fox News.

I hope I survive.

hmmmmm…in some series of keystrokes which were destined to be a tagfail of some sort, i have made a search box open up on my screen…is this how some of you are able to find stuff in a thread so quickly? this is new to me and i will probably never ever duplicate those key strokes again…i am afraid to touch any keys now for fear it will go away…

I’m going out for dinner and martinis. Or maybe martinis and martinis.

well, this sounds yummy! perhaps i will purchase a lime and/or a cuke on my home and have a hendicks martini instead of wine…

I’m making Chicken Biryani.

bbkf, CTL-F is your magick key sequence that allows in-page searching.

well, this sounds yummy! perhaps i will purchase a lime and/or a cuke on my home and have a hendicks martini instead of wine…

Contest time: count the Freudian slips!

bbkf, CTL-F is your magick key sequence that allows in-page searching.

“Command-F” if it’s a Mac. “F” as in “Find”.

also, i would like to yell at smut for putting that pjm link in there…damn, i wasted about half an hour in the comment mangoes over there…they are a curious bunch…half looney-toon full on-revolutionaries who literally are itching to shoot their guns and the rest are philosophers of the most waxing nature…in either case, they really like to hear themselves go on…as far as the columnists themselves, do you think dr mrs perfesser is as annoying and cloying in real life as her writing? and roger simon? wtf? proof that any maroon can start their own online media empire…

CTL-F is your magick key sequence that allows in-page searching.

aha! looking at my keyboard, i am really wondering how the hell i managed that…thanks!

They are odd folks to be sure. Tomorrow is gonna be tough for them but hopefully they have already bought their 44 gallon drums of butt paste

And mashed taters.

i hear tell there was a bit of a kerfuffle down at the local vfw about how to make the mashed taters for sunday’s upcoming vet’s dinner…seems the lady in charge wanted to get sloppy and pretty much just use milk in them! i think the milk, butter and sour cream crowd overruled her though…i make mine with sour cream, butter, parm and lotsa fresh ground pepper…and mash them by hand…whipped potatoes are an abomination…

Fuck Nate Silver, I’m going with these guys.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/06/ayahuasca_2012_hallucinating_peruvian_shamans_see_an_obama_win.html

Holding thumbs and other protuberances for you libs.
DUM da dum dum. The whole world is watching.
Yeah, you bet – in Fear and Loathing.

Where’s Paul the Octopus now that we need him?

Tonight and every night: The Hallucinating Peruvian Shamans. Two drink minimum.

Tonight and every night: The Hallucinating Peruvian Shamans. Two drink minimum.

They’re not too bad, if you can ignore that the drummer and bass player are playing completely different songs and time signatures.

the rest are philosophers of the most waxing nature

Karl Popper’s position on the full Brazilian is not entirely consistent.

Bbkf, I like hendricks + lime juice + cointreau : white lady. V yummy

I usually regard Twitter as a total waste of pixels, but the #romneydeathrally tweets are hilarious. It’s like H. P. Lovecraft went into political reporting.

Sweetie and I are orf to teh polling place to save the world! W00t!!!!1!!

Where are all da white women at?

Romney has only prepared one speech: an acceptance speech.

He’s off-the-charts awesome. He’s probably smiling, too.

Meanwhile, McConnell is preparing his speech outlining how is single goal over the next 4 years is to limit Obama to 2 terms.

Romney has only prepared one speech: an acceptance speech.
He’ll just change all the dids to didn’ts and “wonderful, life affirming experience of Democracy” to “cheating darkies”.

Bbkf, I like hendricks + lime juice + cointreau : white lady. V yummy

will have a go at this…

Someone needs to turn that asshole on his back

I have no interest in seeing McConnell’s underbelly.

I hardly find them misogynist.

I’m pretty sure my unfortunate behaviour yesterday demonstrates that I am. *Sadface*

So is this the election megathread or what

d’oh its lemon for white lady, bbkf. not lime which is ok but not nearly as good

more of a summer drink I guess but I’ma still havin’ one! (or three)

I know Politico sucks, but this is a cool results map.
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012

I’m going crazy. These little reports of fraud and disenfranchisement have me SERIOUSLY considering murdering one or two of those assholes and planting their heads on pikes, hoping the rest of them get the fucking message. I care SO much less about who wins than I do about the process being clean and free.

oh god Romney’s going to steal it fuck fuck fuck I hate you all

oh god Romney’s going to steal it fuck fuck fuck I hate you all

You’re going first, COCKSUCKER

I’LL KILL YOU I’LL KILL EVERYONE

Wrap it up, Obamailures, Romney’s winning 19-3. That’s a good rugby score.

Romney has only prepared one speech: an acceptance speech.

He’s going to thank Mass for our tireless love and support, no doubt.

If you’d rather not give the clicks to the wankers at politico, the slightly less wankeriffic folks at TPM have a map too.

Hey–DEATH THREATS ARE MY THING. WORK YOUR OWN SIDE OF THE STREET GODDAMNIT

Where’s Paul the Octopus now that we need him?

Maybe with Quinn the Eskimo?

The Washington Post’s map ain’t too bad.

Bozo is positively loquacious tonight, I’ve never seen such a thing.

Romney’s winning 19-3.

Christ, he must have a horrible kicker. That’s two missed extra points.

FWIW Obama’s gonna score forty touchdowns.

It’s a trick!!

*Just returned from a cold ride to Mt. St. Helens (Windy Ridge). Trying to catch up withnthread

Fun Chart from Mother Jones…

TPM have a map too.

It’s just a little misleading this early on: SC with Teh Kenyan Usurper leading 85% to 13% with .1% reporting, LOL.

I really hate tv coverage. I’ve got MSNBC on without sound. The soundtrack is Mini__B watching a Russian cartoon of Mowgli on the laptop.

Hooray for very early returns!

Imma pour some bourbon and check again once we get closer to 50% precincts reporting.

ALRIGHT, I’LL SHUT THE FUCK UP THEN

West Virginia goes red, entire world detonates from shock

South Carolina called for the white guy. I never saw this coming.

Better map
http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

Obama up by 35% in NH Woot! Woot! Sounds better than 14 vote lead.

Obama has 85.9% in South Carolina with 0.1% reporting (must be a black precinct)

Donnelly’s moved ahead of Mourdock in IN! Also, the BBC are talking to Zogby like he knows about anything.

I’m going crazy. These little reports of fraud and disenfranchisement have me SERIOUSLY considering murdering one or two of those assholes and planting their heads on pikes, hoping the rest of them get the fucking message. I care SO much less about who wins than I do about the process being clean and free.

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I too am going to freak right out. Oy, oh well. Moving on.

That Pennyslavia thing – the redneck judge (I have heard things about the guy for years. Not good things) at first said “I don’t see anything wrong with voter ID laws.” on appeal the PASC sent it back (unanimously, iirc) with _strict_ instructions to the judge on what standards he must apply (which standards he had not initially). So he said “well they can’t _make_ people show ID BUT THEY CAN ASK TO SEE IT! Fucking fucknozzles THEY MAKE ME ALL STABBY.

Fuck you, Indiana. Fuck you, South Carolina. Fuck you, Kentucky.

Fuck you, Georgia.

That Pennyslavia thing – the redneck judge (I have heard things about the guy for years. Not good things) at first said “I don’t see anything wrong with voter ID laws.” on appeal the PASC sent it back (unanimously, iirc) with _strict_ instructions to the judge on what standards he must apply (which standards he had not initially). So he said “well they can’t _make_ people show ID BUT THEY CAN ASK TO SEE IT! Fucking fucknozzles THEY MAKE ME ALL STABBY.

One of my best friends is from PA, lives in Pittsburgh but votes in Erie (student). Apparently, he applied for an absentee ballot, and never received it… so he’s “sitting this one out.” Combine that with the machine fraud we’ve been seeing and the Pennsylvania GOP seems to be in fine form today.

West Virginia goes red, entire world detonates from shock

Odd thing, west virginny. In many ways but what I’m talking about is Dem. Joe Manchin is probably going to win the senate seat formerly held by Dem Robert Byrd. The other WV senate seat is held by Dem John (Jay) Rockefeller.

In Kentucky’s defense, bourbon is delicious.

I’m so terrified, I can’t be funny.

I’m also spinning my head around and close to spewing pea soup (well, hot chocolate) over the fact that more people actually think the lies they’ve been fed by the Smiler and his side-kick (who looks terrifyingly like Matthew Morrison from glee) are trufax.

What school does you friend attend in Erie? I went to school in Erie for a while, at Gannon University (at that time Gannon College), a Catlick school filled to gills with fucking Jesuits. Fucking Jesuits – i hates them i does. THAT was an experience.

What school does you friend attend in Erie? I went to school in Erie for a while, at Gannon University (at that time Gannon College), a Catlick school filled to gills with fucking Jesuits. Fucking Jesuits – i hates them i does. THAT was an experience.

LOL! I don’t actually know what school he went to (only been there once myself – nice place), but I do remember that he went to a public school, not a Catholic one. So, probably not yours.

In Kentucky’s defense, some bourbon is delicious.

Old Overcoat is not of the delicious variety. Fucking Canucks never speak precisely.

Adress, calm my friend. It is a long way from finished. The young people are voting for O, 2:1 apparently.

Oh, sorry, should’ve paid more attention – I was thinking about his high school because you said “Erie.” No, he’s from Erie (would’ve voted there by absentee ballot if he could have), but lives and goes to school in Pittsburgh, and the college is Duquesne. Also Catholic. And I believe he very much sympathizes with your outlook on Catholic schooling based on his experience there.

From Kos

5:02 PM PT: CNN projects: Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island for Obama. Oklahoma for Romney. No surprises.

5:03 PM PT: Updated CNN exit poll in Florida — Obama 50-49. With 11 percent reporting, it’s 50.8 – 48.5 Obama.

New Hampshire exit poll 50-48 Obama.

Pennsylvania exit poll 52-47.

5:06 PM PT: In Senate exit polls, McCaskill 51-44 in Missouri, Dem Sen. Casey 53-46 in Pennsylvania, Warren 52-47 in Massachusetts

In Kentucky’s defense, some bourbon is delicious.

In the alcohol department, I thought Kentucky was best known for its moonshine.

Or have the Dam’ Revenuers finally succeeded in shutting that down? 😀

Obama has 85.9% in South Carolina with 0.1% reporting (must be a black precinct)

AHEM!

Shut up

It’s really early, but if Florida continues at this pace, it is over.

It’s really early, but if Florida continues at this pace, it is over.

What’s this about pop music “star” Flo Rida?

Joe the Plumber loses 80/20 to Marcy Kaptor

Must have been Penn State, Behrend Campus. The only other schools in or near Erie are all private, most of them Catlick. To wit, Gannon, Mercyhurst, VillaMaria. Nearby in Meadville is … Allegheny College, a tiny, private college – I know nothing of their theosophologicalistic inclinations or penchants. Nearer by is Edinboro U., a small college with most excellent party principles!

Florida was the maid on Maude. I’m not sure why this is relevant now. Concentrate on the election will you. Jeeez!

Grayson back in the house. Alan West and Patrick Murphy in tight race

From Kos

#CTSen Exit poll extrapolates to Chris Murphy (D) 52, McMahon 46

Ah, I see, Chris. If he went to Cathedral Prep and was a good deal older than he probably is he might have been ogled by me when I lived half a block away. It was great fun to smoke a bol and sit on the porch when the boys would come running by.

FUCK YOU GIVE ME A BREAK. I WAS LIKE 19 AT THE TIME, HARDLY CRADLE ROBBER TERRITORY.

Exit polls for Warren in Mass.

Wait, what? Julie was the maiden on Mod Squad. But what the heck does that have to do with the walking speed of electrorap musicians?

Why oh why does msnumbnutsbc have on ANYONE other than Rachel? Wall to wall idjits, including thrill-up-my-leg.

Also too, DUQ (Duquesne U which is only remotely connected anymore to the beer) has (actually, make that had) a great jazz radio station.

*In truth, I have no idea what if any relationship the U has to the beer.

Bill’O already assigned blame – Christie teh turncoat.

BWA-HAHAHAHAHA

Time and tide wait for no Bill

In truth, I have no idea what if any relationship the U has to the beer.

25% of gross receipts?

Dinner/martinis aren’t for another hour+ — I hope I don’t destroy the tv before then. I think I’m gonna have to watch some DVRed stuff or something to keep from going bonkers.

Ooops I jinxed Florida.

Esquire requires Flakebook log-in to play at Pierce’s place.

Sorry, Charlie.

Bill goes out, Bill goes out. YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN THAT

lol, right now early returns makes thing look dum. SC is “called” for Romney even though Willard trails by 2,500 votes. ME is “called” for Obama even though Barry has 2/3 of Mitt’s total (18 vs 27).

Arkansas went RoRy, what a shock, but what about the weed bill?

Well, for one, I’m holding out for Jon and Stephen at 8pm. With luck, the East coast torrent of Sons of Anarchy will be available before then, so I’ll have an excuse not to watch any live coverage until then…

Ooops I jinxed Florida.

You motherfucker.

You know what to do.

Uh…can someone explain Maine to me please?

DKW – fivethirtyeight’s liveblog update at 7:21 EDT explains that kind of wackiness, if I understand it correctly.

Woo hoo! Chris Murphy wins the Senate race in Connecticut.

No one can explain Maine. ever.

Yay, us!
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D-KW are you watching Fux or what?

I’m watching here:
http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/FederalOffices/

The arcane stain of Maine is a pain to explain.

And TPM. But mostly just watching Florida.

Should I get more coffee or not?

Pros: I’m probably going to be up until four or five in the morning finishing this book and the presentation on it that’s due tomorrow (including the five-page paper). So, you know, coffee’s good.

Cons: between the last-minute homework (I know. STFU), the election and the coffee I’ve already had to drink, I’m already hyper enough without the injection of more caffeine, and besides, I’d have to get up and walk down two flights of stairs, with all the inconvenience that implies.

Mitt loses Mass?!!! UNPOSSIBLE.

58% of Florida in 2 seconds ago on twitter. O up by 3

Tigris – it’s called the ‘favorite son syndrome’.

Oh, wait, what, sweetie?

Just been informed y’alls snarking…

If one was given to swearing one might say FUCK YOU BILLO
“The white establishment is now the minority,” O’Reilly said. “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”

Heh.

#FL18 Patrick Murphy (D) back in lead over Allen West, 52-48 with 25% in. Expect this one to see-saw for a long time.

“The white establishment is now the minority,” O’Reilly said. “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”

They’re prepping in case they lose. A fuckton of “America voted for the Kenyan Usurper because he promised them things for free,” with the additional “this would never have happened if we hadn’t let all those fucking darkies into the country, only lazy fucking darkies want free things.”

The fact that the South and West fucking gorged themselves with Yankee money for a generation before anyone even began to consider allowing These People access to that money will go unspoken. As will the fact that it’s not “free” when we’re all paying for it, including These Filthy People.

Ha ha, I thought at first he was being uncharacteristically honest in admitting the white establishment “feel[s] that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.”

Murphy-West has tightened. 110,650 for Murphy and 108,846 for West.

Grayson has over 60% of his District.

Okay FL is tight enough that it won’t give us the answer before 9 pm. On to Ohio.

Any and all efforts at outreach beyond the White Male Christian Red-State base have failed, with rare exceptions like Cubanos in Florida which won’t last forever anyway. Bill O and the rest might as well be honest. It’s not like their base is going to allow them to reach out to the other people, not for years to come, anyway.

Bozo is positively loquacious tonight, I’ve never seen such a thing.

he seems almost giddy…a big giddy dork…

Look. Barack Hussein Obama will continue, in his second term, to be the best Republican president since Richard Nixon.
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Bill opens mouth, says dumb shit. You can’t explain that.

JP, you speak truth, brother…

Pennsylvania for O. Boo-fuckin’-YA.

BBC is saying MSNBC has called Elizabeth Warren’s race as a win for the lady…

Okay, further bad news in Florida. It’s basically tied – like within a tenth of a percentage point. BUT Santa Rosa County in the panhandle has returned no results as of yet. That’s a plus 30 or 40 K for Smiler the Robot. Still too close to call at this moment though.

Ohio, with under 10% reporting, looks promising. We may still have an answer before 9:30.

Loves me some Grayson!

LOVES ME SOME TAMMY BALDWIN!!!

Florida: 7 million votes in, separation of 1,149 votes. Shit be crazy

Alan Grayson is a magnificent bastard.

If it weren’t for all the mean snowbirds and rednecks in the panhandle, Florida would be a decent state.

With Pennsylvania and Ohio, which is called for bronco and looking good for bronco respectively, we don’t need the penis in the gulf state. Would be a nice 360 dunk over their big center to ice the game, however. Going forward, I will only speak in shopworn cliches and sports metaphors. If you all behave, you might get some nice mixed cliches.

I could get all loco and jump a shark.
Wisconsin called for bronco

The list of Romney must-win battleground states was pretty effin’ long. Looks like he’s managed to take Virginia. Florida is still a toss-up. His lead in North Carolina is small enough that it could still flip. New Hampshire is probably going to stay blue.

But – Ohio, while only at 20% reporting, has Barry plus almost 10% It shouldn’t be long until we know “for sure”.

The indefatigable Mr Silver has something from Florida

Yeah Wisconsin!!!

Good job guys!

Sherrod wins in Ohio.

I hope this bodes well for Bronco.

Hello fellow persons. Good leftist that I am, I was walking a picket line today.

Anything happening?

Over at the TPM site, the 9:28pm EST update for MN showed Rmoney in the lead with 666 votes.

I haz a giggle.

VC, anything of the damnable marriage amendment?

The arcane stain of Maine is a pain to explain.

I hear that it is lonely there, and one is chased around by the neighbour’s cat (not surprising if it is anything like our Mrs Spat).

Anything happening?

We’re having an election up ’round these here parts! Come on down! We’re calling balls and strikes (heh-balls) here, and the game is in the 3rd quarter.

Black man open door for white women, Fox News freaks out.

The indefatigable Mr Silver has something from Florida

Actually Micah Cohen. But bellwethers or not, the gap between the two candidates is razor thin – and still no results at all from Santa Rosa. What up with that? I’ll tell you what, like 40K votes for Romney is what. You won’t be able to call Florida before the morning. We’re looking at recount territory for sure – unless Barry seals the deal without Florida. And it looks like Ohio might just do that.

Warren wins. Awesome.

MSNBC calls it for Elizabeth Warren! GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!

Warren wins. Awesome.

HEY! I’ll handle the announcements, mmk?

unless Barry seals the deal without Florida.

He will.

Boston.com hasn’t called it yet, and they’re following it town by town
https://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2012/general/mass-us-senate-election-results-2012.html

Can he lose FL, VA and NC and still win, with OH and PA? I don’t know the math…

Mourdock LOSES LIKE THE LOSING LOSER HE IS!

With Wisconsin and PA already won, if he gets Ohio, it’s over.

HEY! I’ll handle the announcements, mmk?

No you won’t; BBC World Service, come back to the empirrrrreeeeeee

VC, anything of the damnable marriage amendment?

Sorry, I’m not actually from MN. That silly number just caught my eye as I was scrolling through the reportage. Seemed appropriate for Mitt.

Looks like bronco will snag Colorado, though it’s still a little tight.

Chuck Todd is fucking horrible. Dude cannot speak off the cuff AT ALL.

No you won’t; BBC World Service, come back to the empirrrrreeeeeee

We’re still mad at you guys. Haven’t you heard of the Tea Party? It’s 1770-1776 all over again!

Warren won my town woohoo! *shakes booty*

Chuck Todd is fucking horrible. Dude cannot speak off the cuff AT ALL.

At least he’s …NEW HAMPSHIRE CALLED FOR BRONCO!!…not a total fucking toolbag like Sharpton and Ed and O’Donnell. Oh, and Tweety the Interupter.

I voted. I wanna stay dranked. Tell me wot happan wen I wakes up.
TYIA

It’s gonna be a long night.

If only I were conditioned to function on the back side of the clock without sleep.

Oh wait….

ROMNEY–YOU’RE GOING DOWN, BRO.

Yeah, Ohio or Florida kills Romney’s chances dead. And while Florida is still too close to call, Ohio is pretty much there. With 30% of the precincts in, it’s Obama 52 to Romney 47. Stick a fork in her.

At least he’s …NEW HAMPSHIRE CALLED FOR BRONCO!!…not a total fucking toolbag like Sharpton and Ed and O’Donnell. Oh, and Tweety the Interupter.

I was about to say that, but got caught by your damn colonial spam filters.

Minnisota for Obama though 😉

I be drunkeded. Going to beddies with hope and changyshit in mind. Looking forward to wingnut tears.

I was about to say that, but got caught by your damn colonial spam filters.

We distrust outsiders. Don’t know if you know that about us yanks across the pond in the states.

🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/audioconsole/?stream=ennws

CNN is confirming Minnesota to Obama…. join us, we have foxes you can hunt!

And you have our hopes for avoiding the Rompocalypse. We sacrificed our little Teahadist, Nadine Dorres in the hopes of appeasing the gods for you…

Will there be pints? I like pints.

Team Rape (Akin and Mourdock) down.

Thank you FSM.

Another Kiwi, thanks. For some reason, this one’s got me riled up, and my husband can’t understand why. I think it’s because most elections are between scum and somewhat-less-than-scum, so you know what you’re gonna get. In this case, it’s like choosing between decent-enough-centrist and a dog-torturing sociopath* who has single-handedly destroyed more jobs than any previous presidential contender (and I include George Washington and his zero-tolerance policy on undocumented Hessian workers).

*HT Cerberus

Okay, I think Florida is going to Barry too. Currently it is essentially tied – Barry has a small enough lead that the zero result from Santa Rosa should cover the difference and then some. BUT the big batch of precincts remaining to be tallied are in Miami-Dade. Something like a quarter to half a million votes still needs to come in.

So it looks like Barry is going to take Ohio AND Florida – which not only wins it, but puts him over 300 Electoral College votes.

Team Rape (Akin and Mourdock) down.

Well, Team Rocket was always more entertaining with their cartoon villainy.

Team Rape (Akin and Mourdock) down.

HELLZ YEAH BABY! Hilarious because McCaskill was widely considered to be a dead duck until Akin started…talking and stuff.

zomg – Santa Rosa finally reporting. 3:1 in favour of Willard – but it’s not going to matter. There may be as many as half a million votes to be tallied in Miami.

I’m stuck with CNN right now. Wolf Blitzer is annyoing, but Al Sharpton is intolerable.

NH for Obama

I think it’s because most elections are between scum and somewhat-less-than-scum, so you know what you’re gonna get. In this case, it’s like choosing between decent-enough-centrist and a dog-torturing sociopath* who has single-handedly destroyed more jobs than any previous presidential contender

I know what you mean. I vote in France, too, and when that election comes around, I’m almost confuzzled about who to vote for. In America, where I’ve lived for the last twelve years, the choice has literally become between Enlightenment values and the fucking Dark Ages, which is the politics I’m used to. France – uh, though some of Sarkozy’s stuff has had me worried, for now at least both major parties still abide by the Enlightenment values and the world we’ve built over the last two centuries.

I want bacon.
End of story.

Bronco’s folks sure look smiley and relaxed.

Joe Deadbeat Walsh projected to not be able to make child support payments again.

Oh. ummm…

Earlier I reported that Romney wrote just one speech, an acceptance speech, presumably while smiling.

Obama is purported to have written two speeches. It’s safe to say that he hasn’t talked to God, and lacks the confidence befitting an American president.

So it looks like Barry is going to take Ohio AND Florida – which not only wins it, but puts him over 300 Electoral College votes.

That would be sweet. I’d love for him to win the popular vote too. I really want the wingnuts to hurt tomorrow.

Wisconsin for Obama… but you lookin’ at my pint?!

Bronco’s folks sure look smiley and relaxed.

I’m hearing about long faces in Mittsachusetts. Maybe he’d better start writing speech #2.

MN stupid marriage amendment getting bitchslapped, Batshit Crazy Michele Bachmann in a real fight for first time.

Fingernails ran away – cowards.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/subdued-mood

Oh this is a beautiful piece.is this some onion type shit?

Earlier I reported that Romney wrote just one speech, an acceptance speech, presumably while smiling.

So, I’m guessing:
1) It is INCONCEIVABLE to The Smiler that he would not get what is his due.
2) He doesn’t want to look weak or something, by golly, no!
3) He knows he could lose, but figures the ungrateful proles aren’t worth any extra work, and besides, he’s such a good off-the-cuff speaker.

I lean to 3), myself.

kg, nice catch.

Good for MA on the medicalmj front. wtf is wrong with fuckers?

Apparently Scott Brown is dragging his feet on giving his concession speech. It’s not clear whether he still thinks he can win, or he’s just being a WATB.

I really want the wingnuts to hurt tomorrow.

I hope you have all the relevant posts bookmarked.

Good times, that was.

I wonder if his speech will contain a mention of Indians and how white Elizabeth … SENATOR ELECT WARREN …looks.

Zombie! Where ya been, bro?

VCarlson said,

So, I’m guessing:
1) It is INCONCEIVABLE to The Smiler that he would not get what is his due.
2) He doesn’t want to look weak or something, by golly, no!
3) He knows he could lose, but figures the ungrateful proles aren’t worth any extra work, and besides, he’s such a good off-the-cuff speaker.

I would guess he is just not going to concede, because he’s such a prick.

Drinking.

Not a big surprise but still nice to see Joe Walsh get his dick kicked. He has the.most irritating supporters, fetching teabags.

Y’all need to step up and give Wisconsin props for sending the first openly gay woman to the Senate. Paleo knows what Imma sane.

It’s not clear whether he still thinks he can win, or he’s just being a WATB.

Maybe he and Mitt are writing together.

“drinking”

Seems to be catching tonight

Seems to be catching tonight

“tonight”?

Fuck yeas Tammy Baldwin

MN stupid marriage amendment getting bitchslapped, Batshit Crazy Michele Bachmann in a real fight for first time.

YES! we’ve been having whizzernet problems all night….srsly pissing me off…but this is good!

THIS is what happens when you piss women off! Go WOMEN!

srsly getting ready to slap some shit…

Well, Fuckers News atchally called it for Tammy, but AP pulled back, and no one else seems to be confirming. Course, as ZRM said, if Flocks called good news, (for us), it might be reliable.

AND MN IS OFFICIAL! Now just get Guano-Crazy Bachmann , I so had hopes I’d be redistricted into her district just to vote against her, but alas, twas not to be.

Minnesota, bishes!!

THIS is what happens when you piss women off! Go WOMEN!

you fucking know it…

Even in defeat, Akin is a dink.

Y’all need to step up and give Wisconsin props for sending the first openly gay woman to the Senate. Paleo knows what Imma sane.

Also gunning down the VP candidate! Well played, WI. Well played.

I just wanted to check in and see if the Great Liberal Freakout had begun.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Also gunning down the VP candidate! Well played, WI. Well played.

Well, we still have to see whether he keeps his House seat. He’s only on the ropes, not down for the count yet.

Oh this is a beautiful piece.is this some onion type shit?

oh, that is hilarious!

The truth about Troofie.

hey paleo…the maiden wine isn’t too bad…very fruity with an anise aftertaste…hubbk doesn’t like it so oh, well…

Just heard Akin’s concession. God what a fucking asshole. He gave his standard stump speech, complete with a slam for Obama “leaving four Americans to die” in Benghazi.

Hey, you liver-spotted diseased penis, your state just rejected your fucking policies. Maybe this isn’t the time to repeat them. Isn’t the God whose name you so often and shamelessly invoke supposed to value humility?

so, if i’m reading the numbers right, the marriage and id amendments will not pass?

Isn’t the God whose name you so often and shamelessly invoke supposed to value humility?

we HE is, but apparently if you’re a christian you get to pick and choose your virtues…

Elizabeth Warren acceptance speech fuck yes

Tim Kaine…crap!

Haha macaca Allen sent home, thumb in ass!

“crap!” in a good way, of course.

Colorado called for Obama by Denver Post (via BBC)

And yes, Macaca mcbuggered.

bbkf, need an actual name for teh wine plz? Might be up sweetie’s alley.

(Stop it all y’all pervs.)

I knew it weren’t gonna happen, but I’d hoped for more confidence by bedtime – I’ll give it a few minutes for West Coast results and then go to bed, dreaming of gumdrops and unicorns and sexpeace for all the little children. And sex. And my weight in gold..

Voter ID is in questtion, marriage amendment getting fairly slapped around, but still kinda early.

GOP is getting an ass-kicking in the Senate races.

Now we’ve gotta hold the Dems’ feet to the fire WRT changing the rules on filibuster.

OH for obammy?

Also gunning down the VP candidate! Well played, WI. Well played.

I don’t want all the credit, but the wife and I did move to WI from CA last year, so there’s that.

As a newcomer to this state my Tommy Thompson knowledge is limited. I liked Tammy, and Tommy seemed flat-out dumb. Seasoned, but stupid. Maybe crossing over into dementia.

jesus, our local returns machinery sucks balls hard…

Well, we still have to see whether he keeps his House seat. He’s only on the ropes, not down for the count yet.

I thought I had heard that his House seat is relatively secure…him losing that job would make me all tickly in my pee pee spot. 4shore.

Sorry, my bad

Maddow is getting a little giddy.

bbkf, need an actual name for teh wine plz? Might be up sweetie’s alley.

maiden wines…wildberry…which would explain the fruitiness…

Somewhat surprising about Oregon, CA and WA not shocking.

Night all! Bookmark it!

Like the ever awesome Charles Barkley said:

Sorry, Romney, but you’re goin’ down, bro.

As a newcomer to this state my Tommy Thompson knowledge is limited. I liked Tammy, and Tommy seemed flat-out dumb. Seasoned, but stupid. Maybe crossing over into dementia.

Nah, he was a corporate crony capitalist Republican with a mean streak, a drinking problem, and an estranged wife.

Bush levered him out of the Gov mansion by taking him to Washington. Where, it sounds, he made himself hated by everyone except the health lobbyists who made him a millionaire.

Yeah, he’s on the zombie’s shit list.

Sorry, Romney, but you’re goin’ down, bro.

Ann WISHES.

comedy central coverage is going to be gold, innit?

yow…a big jump in the mn amendment slap-down…

gaddammit i don’t have MSNBC

holyshit Paul Ryan DOES look like dude from glee.
Just saw a commercial kind of creeped me out

Bookmark it, libs!!!!

MSNBC CALLS IT FOR BRONCO WITH HIS AQUISITION OF OHIO

I heard about some of that stuff, Zombie, but what surprised me was how he came across. But then, there’s nothing unusual about that in his party.

Maybe hearing about him as a Bush admin pick somehow raised his profile with me; I know it sounds stupid, but that’s it. He seems kinda small now.

holyshit Paul Ryan DOES look like dude from glee.

i sincerely wish that hadn’t been brought up…guess i can cross him off my fantasy list…

Woohoo! I had to take a peek at MSNBC and it’s looking like Bronco won’t need FL, OH or VA to win, now that IA and OR have gone blue.

Suck it Trolls.

CBS is calling it for Obama with OH!

OH VA FL or CO gets it for bamz, I’m not goin to sleep now

i hope a certain snob from oregon is going to catch samantha bee’s segment on undecided voters…

Suck it, Husted! Suck it like it’s your mama’s titty!

Well, fuck. What am I gonna do with all these bookmarks now?

Well fuck me thats cool then, see yalz tomorrow. WOOT

Am I hallucinating? Fox News just called it for Obama.

Oh no… the show’s not over yet. The popular vote is still 1M in favor of Rmoney… we may yet have a lot of petulant wingtards to taunt…

I admit, I do bookmark alot of total bullshit, why should this be any different

Am I hallucinating? Fox News just called it for Obama.

rilly?!? they wouldn’t be messing around with that, would they?

Congratulations, colonial cousins. Let the Great Liberal Freakout begin indeed. It’s 4:19 here in the UK, but thank the great teapot you did the right thing for yourselves, and I’m glad I stayed up to hear this uplifting result.

The most adorable thing you will ever see. Watch the puppy.

KaPOW.
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FOX calls it for the Kenyan Usurper … & the Great Wingnut Freakout is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG.

This is great news for John McCain sadlyno.com!

Well, fuck. What am I gonna do with all these bookmarks now?

i’m sure a look at regretsy would give you some good ideas…also, too…you have GOT to change your nym…for no odd reason, i keep getting you confused with dkw…wth?

I suggest that there’s a lot of West Coast blue state votes yet to be counted, so O could still pull out a popular vote win as well.

Well, fuck. What am I gonna do with all these bookmarks now?

Yer gonna need them in 2014 when THE TIDAL WAVE OF REAL AMERICANS SWEEPS THE CONGRESS AND WATCHES LOTS OF NASCAR AND EATS WALMART BRISKETS

And CNN (what I’ve been following) calls it for Obama.

Still wanna know how my state (Florida) voted, goddamn it! But okay, I’ll take that. Four more years…

I’m SERIOUS, people. LOOK AT THE FUCKIN PUPPY

Time to trot out Springsteen for some impromptu caterwaulin.

Also, libs, this doesn’t make nate silver any les ghey.

I’m SERIOUS, people. LOOK AT THE FUCKIN PUPPY

… or we’ll shoot this dog.
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The fact is, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

November 7, 2012 at 6:23

I’m SERIOUS, people. LOOK AT THE FUCKIN PUPPY

I want to put it in my mouf.

There is a pint of Ballast Point IPA waiting for me down at the pub.

Ladies and gentlemen – fuckin’ aye.

Still wanna know how my state (Florida) voted, goddamn it! But okay, I’ll take that. Four more years…

I think he’s gonna get Florida. From what I’ve seen, it’s looking good for Bronco.

The most adorable thing you will ever see. Watch the puppy.

I CAN DO THAT.

VA is actually looking better, too.

So, is Romney going to send “the help” out to give his concession speech?

SUCK IT BEOTCHES!

There is a pint of Ballast Point IPA waiting for me down at the pub.

Fucking hobbitses. DONT YOU HAVE TO VOTtE OR SUMPIN? Slackers.

Teh Ho insisted that we switch to Fux as soon as it’s called for Obambi. It is amusing.

Omg, Fox News is freaking out.

Poor Rmoney can’t stuff 47% of that toothpaste logo back in the tube.
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Can’t wait for those “we must follow the Constitution to the letter!” types to hem & haw over the popular vote (assuming the numbers end up favoring Romney).

Spoiler alert: after a minute-and-a-half, the puppy figures he can chew on the doorstep without it springing back violently.

Helluva guy, that puppy.

So, the “what happens when everybody prays” question has been answered. Yay Jesus!

Also : SOCIALISM MANDATE.

damn…marriage amendment numbers are making me nervous…

Shorter Fox News: There’s not enough Republicans!

To which I say: you had plenty of them a few election cycles ago but you chased them out for ratings and profit.

I may just drink the rest of my booze tonight, because tomorrow’s wingnut tears will wash my hangover away….

Also : SOCIALISM MANDATE.

And look, who made this election a mandate on Kenyan-style Marxo-socialism?

We didn’t insist on it, but by golly that’s the battle they wanted to have.

holyfuckenshit you guys. they figured out how obama really won

There is a pint of Ballast Point IPA waiting for me down at the pub.

I’m favouring these delicious little suckers tonight.

Oh my my. 93% odds favouring the deepest pockets & Willard STILL fucked the pooch. All that Koch & Adelson money for naught.
ROFLcopterz!

Screw the weak stuff… I’m toasting with Glenmorangie.

Neat. Of course.

Wingnuts are completely losing their shit now. Bwahahahaha. Good job libs, we kicked their fucking asses!

“holyfuckenshit you guys. they figured out how obama really won”

Let ’em think that, just so long as they keep losing. Maybe the Kochs and Adelsons of the world can double down and lose again in 2016. Heh. Buy some quality candidates next time, if you can find any.

The fact is, Herman Cain or Michele Bachmann would have kicked Obama’s ass.

holyfuckenshit you guys. they figured out how obama really won

So did they.

to lose with all that money and all that cheating really has to make it sting ever so much more.

The fox douche squad is still clinging to the uncounted counties in FL and VA. LOL@LOOZERZ. SUCK IT NOOBS

The cannibalism begins: https://twitter.com/ToryAnarchist/status/266037226322923520

Congratulations on the lesser evil!

Congrats to CO (and others?) for legalizing a plant enjoyed by many.
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Drinks for everyone!

Whether they want them or not!

Goddammit, now I have to go delete all the bookmarks I made on Troofie’s posts.

If there’s anything amiss in Ohio, Fux Nooze, it isn’t going to be in Obama’s favor.

Oh my my. 93% odds favouring the deepest pockets & Willard STILL fucked the pooch. All that Koch & Adelson money for naught.

I’m thrilled that someone slapped Mittens in the face with the fact that there are some things you can’t buy no matter how rich you are or who your father was.

to lose with all that money and all that cheating really has to make it sting ever so much more.

Seriously. They sent out robocalls to minority districts in Florida and wrong voter information guides in Spanish in Arizona directing people to vote on the wrong day. They had tampered electoral machines turning Obama votes into Romney votes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Not to mention the usual voter suppression efforts, supposedly with a few people blatantly defying court orders. And still no dice for them.

Goddammit, now I have to go delete all the bookmarks I made on Troofie’s posts.

Remember how he was posting as soon as Obama won the first time pushing the “Jimmy Carter” meme? I do. 1 term disaster and such? Good times, good times…

Remember how he was posting as soon as Obama won the first time pushing the “Jimmy Carter” meme? I do. 1 term disaster and such? Good times, good times…

They’ll just move on to the, “He’s a lame duck now!” meme. Give ’em time.

Washington R74, Same Sex Marriage, 52 to 48 to approve with 50% in. Looks like it will hold.

I502, recreational maryjane HAS BEEN CALLED TO PASS

It looks like the news is good, even though that fucknozzle romney still won’t concede. Hooray!

good on y’all, tsam!

Wingnuts are completely losing their shit now. Bwahahahaha. Good job libs, we kicked their fucking asses!

I’m not usually the type to do this even when it’s warranted, but there’s one or two people that I’m really tempted to grab by the back of the neck and rub their faces in this until their nose bleeds. After four years of literally nothing but “I hope he fails” and fantasizing about the violent murder or suppression of those of us who had the gall to vote for someone else, damn if there’s not something cathartic about watching them lose. Again.

Imma move to Washington.

Speaking of which, wingnut tears, anyone?

The most adorable thing you will ever see. Watch the puppy.

I CAN DO THAT.

I can’t. Just goes to black screen.

Maine passes marriage equality, too!

fuck…with 60% in bachmann and graves are neck and neck…

It looks like the news is good, even though that fucknozzle romney still won’t concede. Hooray!

Obama: Dammit, just give the phone to Mitt

Mitt: I’m not here! I’m not here!

O: GIVE ROMNEY THE PHONE, YOU WEASEL

M: Somebody get Karl! Rove help me you’re my only hope!

O: Give Mitt the phone or I am coming over there and kick all y’alls asses.

M: DAMMIT I’m RICH! THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING.

Ann: You don’t have to concede to THOSE PEOPLE, dear.

O: Do I need to sic Chris Christie on you?

Compiled for your reading pleasure: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/07/1157578/-RedState-Freakout

We did gay marriage AND recreational weed AT THE SAME TIME. We therefore rule and all other states DRULE

Oh fuck it…at this point, it’s tradition to forget the tags on the first line, so I am just going to move on with my life.

Im a happy stoned out gay married mutherfucker right now.

News flash: The exit polling indicates that, of those who considered the economy the biggest issue, it was a tie between Romney and Obama.
There is no single issue here. Knock off the stupid finger pointing. The fact is that a majority of Americans in pockets of this country apparently like a social democracy. John Edwards is right – there are Two Americas. The Blue one is bigger than the Red.

WTF? Is this an intelligent comment on Redstate? Unpossible. Has to be a troll.

You don’t have to concede to THOSE PEOPLE, dear.

HA!@!

Im a happy stoned out gay married mutherfucker right now.

and i hope you signed up for a gay abortion tomorrow!

Gender gap apparently was visible too: men voted Romney, women, inexplicably supported Obama

really? hmmmmm…yep us women…go figure…always voting with our lady parts!

it’s an issue when the candidate can’t figure out how to articulate the pro-life position in a way that doesn’t creep the hell out of every woman in the country

this is so amazingly awesome! nailed it!

fuckfuckfuck…gap is closing on marriage amendment…53% of precincts in and a 47.86% yes vote…grrrrrr….

bachmann and graves are still tied….I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH WINE PEOPLE!!!

John Edwards is right – there are Two Americas. The Blue one is bigger than the Red.

It doesn’t occur to these fuckers that their strategies contain the seed of their own destruction. The GOP has always ruled by creating a 50% + 1 majority and setting it at the throats of the other 49% (though rarely as blatantly as Romney did in that video). In the last fifty years, it’s been White Men vs everyone else; in the Gilded Age, it was Northern (or just non-Southern) WASPs versus Southern WASPs and urban immigrants. It works well for a time. Trouble is, the makeup of the country is constantly changing, and if you rule by aggressive division, well, the people you’ve been shitting and pissing on for all these years remember all of that once they become a majority, or otherwise get empowered.

(In contrast to Republican rule-through-division, Democrats only seem to succeed when there’s broad grassroots-based consensus in their favor – e.g. during the New Deal party system in the mid-20th century, and, I believe, the years between Andrew Jackson and the Civil War a century before that. To be fair, it’s hard to argue that our strategy is any more effective than theirs when it comes to keeping power over the long term. But I would argue ours isn’t as inherently self-destructive – we don’t deliberately go out and create our own enemies like they do).

Maddow asked the reporter if they’ve been able to get someone from the Romney campaign to come out and explain why they think they still have a reason to contest Ohio.

“Because Willard locked himself in the bathroom and is trying to sever his lubricant lines, while Ann is on her third bottle of vodka” is an untenable answer, I guess.

Mitt Romney getting the news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cfrNmiRjc8

Inside Romney campaign headquarters:

Chris – Great comment.

There’s this smug libertarian dick on this other board I hang around who was real big on that 50%+1 shit. Every twist, every turn in the election he analyzed through the lens of whether it would crack his precious 50%+1. Now he’s making a big deal of being gracious while saying ” We can’t afford our current GOP moderate establishment anymore.”

Yeah, go farther right. Good luck asshole.

mitt’s fingernails have to be digging into his palms pretty bad about now…

Mitts giving a very gracious concession speech. The crowd is being civil too. I’m pleasantly surprised.

but he looks like he is ready to barf…or cry…or both…

”We can’t afford our current GOP moderate establishment anymore.”

The right-wingers they ran cost them billions.

Nite everyone.

Romney closes his concession speech with an entreaty to pray for Obama and for this great nation.

Isn’t “I’ll pray for you” the Christian version of “fuck you”?

The fact is, George W. Bush conceded in 2000 but took it back and won.

Isn’t “I’ll pray for you” the Christian version of “fuck you”?

yes, and he really looked like thats what he wanted to say.

Oh, that Mitt. Bless his heart.

Go team!

Mitts giving a very gracious concession speech. The crowd is being civil too. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Meanwhile, on Facebook, the bitch who was encouraging everyone to vote earlier today, it’s the best “revenge” for all they’ve “suffered” for four years, is now whining that it’s not fair how they’re calling states so early when not all votes were counted.

The fundiegelical who yesterday was saying Romney would win because polls be damned, he just had a feeling, is now complaining about how us rubes just don’t understand that we’re on an unsustainable course and he’s very worried.

The peacetime-officer-turned-businessman, surprisingly and uncharacteristically, shuts the fuck up. For now. By far the better course for him. Ditto the Christie/Romney-worshipping 1%er. Though I expect to hear from them by tomorrow.

The cake goes to the Colorado sheriff’s deputy who says he’s sad that this election has driven us further apart (yeah. Blame the guy who wrote off 47% of the country before even being elected, and the bastards who cheered wildly when he did) and that he is “truly shocked” by the results (you wouldn’t be if you ever got the fuck out of that National Review echo chamber and listened to what professional pollsters, people who faithfully called the 2010 election for the Republicans, have been saying for months on end).

God help me and all, but I for one am delighted.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Oh dear. He does give a mean speech, don’t he.

Bamz, that is.

I wonder if Tintin and Cerebus will be up to ferreting out the most delicious mangoes for us?

My take on Obama’s acceptance speech: He was telling the Republicans as nicely as possible, “Don’t be whiny little bitches.”

Gah! I did it again! That last fake Gary was me!

Hey tsam, wtf’s wrong with Spokane county? How come they h8 on teh geyz?

Glad to see that Bamz is up now on the popular vote as well as electoral.

Hate to say it but I hope the Secret Service is on the ball. You just know some nutter’s going to try to take a potshot at O.

Bachmann the Nut may be on the way out too.
here

Now she’s in front again

I hear Allen West is having a rough time tonight, too.

God, I hope he gets his walking papers.

Now she’s in front again

Marcus likes it either way.

Fuck yeah.

And Grayson’s back in, too.

YAY ! Well done, Yanks. You did us proud. I am so pleased to know that rational Americans outnumber the rightwing fuckwits. This is heartening.And thank FSM that their money and finagling were beaten too.
I’m proud of yez.

I think they’re all really Fenwick and Fenwick is really Jill Stein.

OBS: Thanks for the compliment! (Or I hope it was a compliment.) No surprise: I voted for Stein, other Green candidate, or for Independents, or write-ins down-ticket.

Re: electing judges. I always vote for wimmin judges, and write in women to replace the men. (I use ACLU pro bono lawyers, just to make sure they meet all the legal requirements.) Women are woefully unrepresented on the bench (at all levels).

Also, warmest greetings to all the Sadlynauts.

Don’t worry folks Eric Ericsson has it all worked out. It’s all God’s plan and he doesn’t get worked up about it. There’s just that cosy little nook on CNN when he can spout his rubbish. Smug sanctimonious git.

“Is it too early to start musing on Paul Ryan’s future? Will he survive being a failed VeeP candidate better than the previous failed VeeP candidate? Could sinking into total irrelevance happen to a more deserving guy?”

This evening, Ryan was crying in his beer while munching on his favorite snack… the bones of the stillborn!

Mitts giving a very gracious concession speech. The crowd is being civil too. I’m pleasantly surprised.
He did not blub like a gurl. OTOH, 1/2 the speech was counselling Obama to follow Romney policies (blah blah REACH ACROSS THE AISLE blah blah JERB CREATERS blah blah HONESTY) and it did not seem that he had fully grasped that the voters had *rejected* his policies.

Statistic of the night: It has now been 84 years since the Republicans have won the White House without someone named either Bush or Nixon on the ticket.

K-Lo Tweets: “maybe we will pay attention to white house policy now?”

Silly girl! Check your Wingnut Workbook – REALITY IS OFF LIMITS.

My take on Obama’s acceptance speech

Mixed messages there, accepting Republican framing in places (we don’t want a future in debt) but also mentioning global warming as a Real Thing.
He took the first possible opportunity to mention how he loved his wife more than every after 20 years together. He may get lucky tonight.

Somewhere, da Cool Coach weeps, “Badoodle Boo-Hoo!” Conservomentum ’12 sacked by uncharacteristically skinny defensive lineman. Bookmark this, loony libs!

Hey tsam, wtf’s wrong with Spokane county? How come they h8 on teh geyz?

We’re in Western Idaho. Lotta big dumb trucks and camo clothes over here. They h8 on everyone because GOD. DAMMIT

Wow. What a night. If I hadn’t had a pounding sinus headache all night, it woulda been sweet.

I expected to win. I didn’t expect the win to be that big. Whoa. So much for all ENTHUSIASM the wingnuts had. I guess in the end enthusiasm doesn’t trump math.

Nice way to wake up!

OBAMA RE-ELECTED.
Early voting results indicate he owes the traditional progressive coalition, so let’s hold his damn feet to the stovetop, fuck the ‘Grand Bargain’ bullshit. He’s not been terrible, surprisingly and pleasingly positive in many arenas, and I again have hope. But it’s up to us to tell him what we expect, and grade him on that.

MN MARRIAGE AMENDMENT CRUMPLED UP IN THE DUSTBIN.
I longed for sweet, smooth fundie tears to adorn my breakfast. Pancakes?

MN PHOTO VOTER AMENDMENT NOT ALLOWED.
I’m a cynic, and actually, thought this one would pass handily, as people are dumb. Must re-calibrate something…

CHIP CRAVAACK WILL WORK FOR FOOD
2010 Teabagger surf-pony Chip ‘Chip’ Cravaack has been sent back to Aitkin, where he will end up selling the extra ‘A’ to buy matches for heat.

TOMMY THOMPSON IN WI TAKES UP FULL TIME ALCOHOLISM
Yay Tammy Baldwin! I have a relation who knows Tammy pretty well and says she is very cool, and everything I’ve seen, she is, so GO GET ‘EM TAMMY. And, Thompson suffering has it’s own particular odeur of schadenfreude!

TEH BAD.

BATSHIT SHELLEY LIKELY STAYS
90% + counted, and she has a 1% margin, not sure of the re-count trigger, half a percent? She was a teabagger (Marcus’s ears perk up) before it was cool…

Good God, Fenwick’s back!

I just took a gander over to Townhall. The howled, anguished cries over there are DELICIOUS.

My freude has been schadened. Or maybe my schaden has been freuded.

Mmmmmmm sweet, sweet wingnut tears.

Looks like we may have gotten rid of Allen West.

He’ll hang around, I’m sure. Like the smell of vomit in the back seat of a taxi.

Looks like we may have gotten rid of Allen West.

omg, thank FSM.

I expected to win. I didn’t expect the win to be that big. Whoa.

I actually expected the win to be bigger, but I ain’t really sure how or why. Anyways, in regards to how big things are with black presidents, IT’S TWOO, IT’S TWOO!!!!

I think all the horse race nonsense really got into my head. Shoulda just trusted the gay nerd.

BTW Kenneth, Barry took the popular vote too. And it is going to be a larger margin than 2004.

OMG. Forget Nate. I made my prediction in March and still ended up closer than he did.

Hats off to you, Yanks.

I think all the horse race nonsense really got into my head. Shoulda just trusted the gay nerd.

NATE SILVER IS A NERD???!?!??

You want schadenfreude, read about the shortest-lived website ever.

I saw this on Kos under Things to listen for in the near future

No, ex-Congressman West, you’re saying it wrong. It’s ‘Would you like fries with that,’ not ‘Are you a communist sympathizer.’ Ex-congressman Walsh, would you please show him how to do it?

BTW Kenneth, Barry took the popular vote too.

I know. I’m psyched!

NATE SILVER IS A NERD???!?!??

Shocking, I know!!!!!

BTW Kenneth, Barry took the popular vote too.

Don’t tell Red State! They’re already calling to get rid of the Electoral College!

Of course they want to get rid of the Electoral College. Santorum told them that schools were full of socialism.

The fact is Nate Sliver will always be a liberal nerd.

You say that like its a bad thing.

Nyuk-nyuk.

Baboodle-boo, indeed.

I had the mispleasure of going in for a mandatory meeting at work at 7am this morning and hearing John Boner on NPR whining about their mandate against higher taxes and how this means bipartisanship for the near future – “bipartisanship” in his definition of course meaning “you and I agree to compromise on doing what I wanted to do all along”. Dickheads.

blah blah “reach across the aisle” my fucking ass. I’m not holding my breath for them to realize the fact that the American public just repudiated their whackjob Teabagger agenda. Trust me, they’ll double-double down now on the crazy.

Nyuk-nyuk.

Oh, I SO fucking hope all the dumbshits emigrate and/or go Galt now.

Buh-bye, losers. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Bookmark it, bitchez!

Badoodlie BooYah! Burp! Bleech! Bejeezus! Boing! Bleep!

Well that sucks, waking up to find a CUM stain.

from ZRM’s Oscar-nominated short subject:

M: DAMMIT I’m RICH! THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING.

For weeks now, I’ve been imagining Mitt as Montana Max in “Prom-ise Her Anything”, struggling in the grip of Buster and Plucky and shouting “You can’t do this to me! I’m rich! I’m important! I’m a Republican!”

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

Wikipedia sez (emphasis added):

The earliest known attribution of this quote was December 9, 1951, in what appears to be an op-ed piece in The Daily Oklahoman under the byline Elmer T. Peterson [2]. The quote has not been found in Tytler’s work. It has also been attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville.

So if you can’t brush, chew on that.

I just read a piece on Rove’s inability to accept Fox’s (Fox’s!) call for Obama, and his insistence that nonono, Ohio was going Romney. It occurs to me that he knew the fix was in when it, in fact, wasn’t, thanks to the increased attention Ohio was getting. We may have Husted to thank for not having to go through litigation and uncertainty. If he had been a little less blatant …

VCarlson — as a long-time Ohio voter, I believe your analysis is correct, it’s what I realized this morning. Husted tripped over his feet so many times, he had multiple noses up his ass by the opening of polls yesterday. Not only that, but when Blackwell tried to do the same thing in 2004, he was more successful because the incumbent was of the same party and could cover his ass. At least Husted wasn’t stupid enough to be in charge of the Romney campaign in Ohio — Blackwell, the Secretary of State and the guy who presided over the 2004 election, was.

And yet Ohioans are stupid enough not to pass a ballot initiative to have a non-partisan committee placed in charge of elections. I wonder what’s rattling around in my neighbors’ heads sometimes …

Oh. My God.

Why didn’t they just make my state of Connecticut red while they were at it? It’s their fantasy, they can do whatever they want, right?!

FWIW (not hardly anything), I clicked the link and, well, “Hello? Unskewed guy? 1996 called, they want their website back.” I didn’t know you could even get a site that ugly these days.

But I have to say, if you click the link “Do you still think the polls were skewed” he quite forthrightly and graciously admits he was wrong and compliments Nate Silver for calling 50 out of 50 correct. So, maybe not a total poo-head after all. Good on him.

I-502 won in Washington State. Don’t forget that! Hooray! Mazel Tov!

You know, I-502. They decriminalised Manischewitz.