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Why do I have this mental image of all the gangs in The Warriors gathered for Cyrus’s speech?
But Abe, the Warriors was cool (except for the Kizz like Yankee “Furies”). This rally seems not so much. Although I am sure there were fantasies of hunting down conservatives as they fight their way to
Coney Islandwhereever the fuck conservatives elites non union members live.There was disappointment, too, in what President Obama and Democrats in Congress have accomplished, most notably in the area of health care.
What could go wrong?
“Make it single payer,” said Paul Blujus. “Take the profit out of health care.”
Because that has worked so well with postal delivery and public education, hasn’t it?
How does that happen? Things that would have sounded utterly ridiculous just a year or so ago seem to keep happening. We live in extremely interesting times.
#4,
Official Motto of ObamaWorld: “Nothing succeeds like failure.”
This paragraph really struck me:
what stuck me more was how NPR had to pretend both rallies were different than they actually were – there’s no facet of reality anymore what is acceptable in its raw unvarnished state
The post office is going to post a loss of in excess of $6,000,000,000 for the year.
NPR biased?
Shocking.
it’s not that they were biased it’s that they had no choice in the matter for so they could preserve the narrative – the tail is wagging the dog anymore
Oh lordy, there’s those secret code words again that only enlightened Proggries can ferret out.
The “Dylanologist” AJ would be right in his element with these ilk.
#11 Okay… I’ll accept that, since you certainly are an expert on having no choice in the matter for so they could preserve the narrative.
Well, maybe the fact that so many were made to go, and didn’t really want to be there, accounts for all of the garbage they left strewn about. After all, being committed environmentalists, we know that the real leftists would never drop so much as a candy wrapper or an unburned roach.
That and, the people whose job it is to clean it up are all union members. Gotta show solidarity with the brothers by helping out with the job security and the overtime hours.
Trash it and they will come (and clean it up.)
Abe : “CAN you TAX itttttt!!??”
Are these idiots just … lost?
I appeared there were a lot of people bused from the Detroit area. Lots of unemployed folks with time on their hands.
ohnoes those people are in charge of other people’s medication
Did you guys read the comments over there? The First comment is excellent. But there was also this:
“He also mentioned that he was given both communist and socialist newsletters and propaganda at the event.”
I bet there were even some entrepeneurs around, selling “Capitalism is teh suck” t-shirts
–or something like that.
hi nishi nishi I have a musics for you
halloween is my favorite by the way there’s ghosties and candy and also punkins
Look! It’s happyfeet’s beard.
ooh look it’s Abe running around calling people fags
ooh look it’s Abe running around calling people fags
I don’t call people fags. Just cartoon characters.
Devil’s Night, how appropriate.
that’s an unusual way to roll
i don’t mind the costumes liberal wear when they tricks some treats..
it’s the smell they leave on my porch
Stuff (empty houses, warehouses) used to burn on Halloween in Philly and Camden too. To a newly arrived observer these local “traditions” were kinda shocking revelations back when . . .
My name is Jeff, not jeffie.
Yep. This is 87,000 people. Right.
Sorry. Not a soul less than 300K and 500K is perfectly plausible. You really are a gullible bint, aren’t you?
Well, given the choice between calling someone a Boehnerfag and calling a frivolous little pikachu what cultivates an effeminate persona a beard-seeker, the latter comes easier. That’s just how I roll.
“my name is happyfeet ”
You’re not really a cartoon penguin, you know that, right?
you never seen me dance
my name is sparticus
you know i allus called you Jeffie G, because of my beloved Jeffie P, jeff percifeld……Jeffie G and Jeffie P. :(
you were both web-rapstahs.
Jeff….all the bad people are on your side….the old people, the the stupid people, the creepers and carny barkers, the scammers and WECs and christofascists and bankstahs and oligarchs….sure they have a right to be stupid….but they they don’t have a right to have to have you defend them…
please come back
I don’t see where the bankstahs and oligarchs are really all that solidly on Team R at all – that Buffett pansy turned himself out like a fierce fierce eager eager whore whore for Team Socialism
Bill Gates too
also most of your bank people really especially Goldman
like soros, bloomberg, heinz-kerry, sandlers, jeffie immelt, kennedys, et al
like soros, bloomberg, heinz-kerry, sandlers, jeffie immelt, kennedys, et al
Let her ramble. Children eventually get tuckered out and go to sleep.
“Rise above your bigotry! DO IT MY WAY, you cracker mothafucka!”
Has anyone ever really learned the story of one of these random nutters who lost their shit online? I’m not kidding. I think it’d be fascinating.
For instance, do they start acting out in public eventually? How long per day are they glued to the screen? What happens when people in the real world get a look at their online activities?
This was a great documentary about a couple nutters from online chatrooms. I bet there are at least 100 equivalent stories with blogospheric loons like nishi or semanticleo or actus.
That doc looks very interesting, bh. Clearly, anyone who trolls blogs persistently – as opposed to someone who may just be in some sort of funk – has deep personal issues. But I suppose Deb Frisch would be an example of what you’re talking about.
Bill Gates is scary…
Yeah, I was thinking about her as well, Abe. Did the internet allow her a “risk free” chance to indulge in transgressive statements that she never would have jumped to in real life? But then, having done so online, she needed to expand the behavior off the internet?
Or, was it just coincidentally timed with the alcoholism and other issues that would have had similar results anyway?
You see the same progression with Kate. From initially being a socially retarded dork to her current bizarre behavior. Will it stop here or is it feeding something she’ll need more of, possibly in real life? Or, does it actually require some catalyst or secondary factor like personal trauma, some addiction issue or emergent mental problem?
(Yeah, check out the documentary. It’s great. A lot of people, even some very bad people are just… deeply, deeply pitiful. Just sad and desperate for any form of human interaction.)
but not every time
Dude, seriously, speak for yourself. There has been a clear progression. If you actually like her, don’t indulge the behavior.
nishi is as normal as you and me
You’re not normal either.
Do you see her estimation of Jeff’s political views or the development thereof as remotely on the mark hf?
In light of this:
You may want to reconsider this:
She insults everyone who comments here. Everyone.
Even Jeff ’cause he’s not enlightened enough to tell us all to STFU.
I don’t her estimation of Jeff’s political views being out of step with… the general progression of American political life generally – I think she a lot accurately conveys the viewpoint of her tribe, and in a way what’s actually often a little more nuanced and honest than most
I don’t *see* her estimation I mean
I think she’s a fucking lunatic with a deep seated aversion to reality.
The viewpoint of her tribe? I don’t know what to make of that, since one tribe will tell me that there are demons living in caves deep beneath the earth and another will say there are aliens who come to abduct and anally probe random human beings. The question is whether there’s any truth to these tribal stories or whether they’re ridiculous piles of shit.
Her tribe is The Lunatics. They’re insane.
You see the same progression with Kate. From initially being a socially retarded dork to her current bizarre behavior. Will it stop here or is it feeding something she’ll need more of, possibly in real life? Or, does it actually require some catalyst or secondary factor like personal trauma, some addiction issue or emergent mental problem?
It’s hard to say. Dorks tend to grow more assertive in adulthood because the consequences are fewer and because they tend to cluster together to cultivate a kind of high school do-over alternate reality. Hence, hipsters. You get the sense with Nishi that she just loves identifying with a tribe which enables her to feel superior but because she’s a freak she expresses it as a freak would. I don’t sense anything particularly threatening in her. Just ickiness.
I think they’re a lot less ridiculous than I’d like them to be – whoa bout the time Team R is asked to unite under the banner of Sarah Palin in 2012 I think it’ll be not long at all before we’re all gonna be wishing nishi’s views had been wholly ridiculous.
America’s crass descent into nekkid tribalism is nigh upon us.
nishi understands that better than most I think.
How does one “understand” a prediction which has not come to pass? It’s a puzzle.
nishi’s tribe is The Griefers. No, principled core, just contrariness.
She makes me yawn.
not all that puzzling really – the prediction already came to pass when America elected empty hopeychange – now it’s Team R’s turn to embrace an empty suited tribal totem for president and bam it’s welcome to thunderdome
He see’s the future. He can’t articulate anything past or present, but the future is crystal clear.
That’s just crazy talk. Dude, ask us Irish Catholics if tribalism is anything new.
Answer, no, not at all. American history is replete with past and current examples. You can pretend that Palin is something new in that regard but you’d be dead wrong.
we’ll see I guess but what then are the lessons out of Delaware
And if when the country eschews Palin as candidate for the presidency or she herself stands aside because she honors her claim that she will run only if no-one else steps forward to tackle the issues she thinks predominate, what then?
that would be awesome
hopeful
nishi thinks it rawks and that the moocher tribes are the future. She’s a dumb one.
Sarah Palin leaves more substance in her toilet than the whole Obama family brought to the White House. Could she field dress a dirty socialist? You betcha.
I really don’t get happyfeet on Palin. Her shortcomings are the same as his. It isn’t her views, but the fact that she’s too slow-witted to successfully spar with unfriendlies. It requires more than being right to inspire confidence. It takes being able to disembowel someone who is lying or hostile. Bush sucked at it too.
I hereby renounce any design I may have had on our little white house.
“It isn’t her views, but the fact that she’s too slow-witted to successfully spar with unfriendlies. ”
I don’t know, I kinda liked “palling around with terrorists”…
Feets, I always enjoy your posts. You and I seem to be pretty similar in our political beliefs, as well (except for your Palin-is-an-unserious-idiot obsession).
But for you to upbraid Abe Froman on his calling people fags is hypocrisy in the extreme. You throw that term around quite frequently. It doesn’t do you any credit, either. In fact, it makes you sound ignorant, when I know that you are not. Not attacking you, I’m just sayin.
about the only people I call fags are America’s ruling class for example the senators and also the representatives and also the president as well as the current governor of California and also the current ceo of GE which, it’s a term what is a lot aptly employed in that context I think – but I don’t care if people call me a fag it’s just a weird exchange of views I thought given the context
and what’s weird is the idea I wanna hook up with nishi is a Darleen concept and me I’ve always just said I like her commenting cause I think she brings a point of view what is otherwise lacking
This is a bit off topic. I think the post was about whether nishi is more like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club or Kathy Bates in Misery.
And, yes, both those viewpoints are normally lacking in most political discussions. Of course, this is normally considered a feature not a bug. For instance, no one ever complains that we don’t have anyone here who talks about Bilderburg conspiracy theories in Klingon.
There really isn’t a context in which that isn’t an offensive word, feets. Including when you put it in someone else’s mouth.
I think she’s sort of an original really. We’ve been at this a long time and there’s really nobody quite like nishi what’s come along.
ok fine I will bow to the PW word police and no longer say fag or homo or cocksucker or pansy or poofter … I’m sure there’s others but I won’t say them ones either I promise… just remember felcher is JD’s not mine
If she was any more unique she’d be trying to sell us Madonna’s pap smear.
Heh. Great scene.
I should watch that movie again.
Here’s a comparison. (h/t ace)
Of course these union folk/commies/socialists are are the good people, but one wonders at how culturally cutting edge and relevant they are.
Incurable dishonesty is original?
There are reasons why the words used are “Progressive”, “Conservative”, and now Classical Liberal.
Ok, maybe as a link then.
I don’t know, I kinda liked “palling around with terrorists”…
That was great. But giving speeches is roughly equal to thinking of the perfect comeback two hours after an argument.
In the spirit of the progressive use of language I’ve simply redefined “hoochie” to be a term of affectionate endearment and respect.
maybe I should have said regression Mr. geoff – I just mean more and more people want to use politics as a vehicle for tribal validation – and when that happens it a lot subsumes any idea of using politics as a vehicle for limiting the role of government – even if limited government is claimed as a value… cause the animating idea of American politics is becoming that we want a government what affirms that our tribe is the dominant tribe – I see that in nishi’s comments a lot – I also see it in how you can’t divorce Palin’s appeal from the incredibly persistent and ubiquitous sentiment that “she has the all right enemies.”
Technically, there are more than six billion “originals” in the human race. Each of us is unique, just like everybody else.
geoff I don’t have many words left please please please don’t take that one away
A unique perspective, feets. Did it come from Solzhenitsyn? Why no, no it didn’t.
Monty Python, perhaps.
maybe I should have said regression Mr. geoff – I just mean more and more people want to use politics as a vehicle for tribal validation – and when that happens it a lot subsumes any idea of using politics as a vehicle for limiting the role of government – even if limited government is claimed as a value… cause the animating idea of American politics is becoming that we want a government what affirms that our tribe is the dominant tribe – I see that in nishi’s comments a lot – I also see it in how you can’t divorce Palin’s appeal from the incredibly persistent and ubiquitous sentiment that “she has the all right enemies.”
I suppose that anyone who thinks that is some kind of cutting edge insight would be inclined to suggest that the people of this Earth are six billion snowflakes.
Because while we’re freezing to death powering the State, surely we’ll be commiserating on how our tribal proclivities invalidated what could have been our overwhelming majority vote.
Put another way, in the sea of bandaided organizations we call government, the excellent has never been the enemy of the good.
I don’t think it’s a cutting edge insight at all at all I think it’s a lot obvious which is why I think the idea that Sarah Palin should be our next president is so patently stupid as to be kind of offensive – she’s an obviously narrowcasted persona what – while she can obviously win a plurality in a Team R primary process – is nevertheless equally obviously repellent to a majority of Americans
So we’ll be commiserating on how a candidate can obviously win a plurality in a [highly resurgent] Team R primary process yet remain nevertheless equally obviously repellent to a majority of Americans.
Got it.
no we’ll be commiserating four more years of Obama
Because two-thirds of a third kicks the crap out of, well, an emerging political revolution.
No, obviously we’ll be commiserating the spectre of four more years of Obama over six years before the possibility of such a thing arises.
vote your tribe is not a political revolution it just makes us more like Europe
I bet Obama couldn’t beat Meg Whitman.
Chillbillies are just that lethal to classical liberalism.
she’s an obviously narrowcasted persona what – while she can obviously win a plurality in a Team R primary process – is nevertheless equally obviously repellent to a majority of Americans
That’s just retarded. She’s repellent to a small tribe which reflects America only in the sense that they are culture makers and the weak-minded like yourself who inhabit their environs. Do you have any idea how many people I know who are both better educated and more successful than yourself who think Sarah Palin said she can see Russia from her house?
Argument by projection is circular, feets.
feets, if Palin wins the nomination, Palin wins the nomination.
– feets, I doubt theres a commentator that’s read PW in the past 6 months that isn’t aware of your personal issues with Palin. The question is why repeat yourself endlessly.
– Her record and personal appearances speak for themselves and what she does in the future will follow her true abilities in that regard.
– Seems like you just need to regurgitate ongoing nightmares you’re subject to or ‘sumpin.
– Palins not as bad as you attempt to make her sound, and a good deal better than a lot of GOP hopefuls. As an alternative to Bumbblefuck I’d take her in a heartbeat, which I suppose isn’t saying all that much, since I’d take almost any Conservative over that POS any day of the week.
I’m saying there’s no *if* Palin wins the nomination anymore – it’s hers if she wants it given the field as we know it – what I’m saying is she can’t win the general
#98, feets.
…because of #101.
Feets, I didn’t mean to come off like the PC police. I am no one’s example on how to speak or behave.
I just thought that I would opine that it doesn’t do you any credit. It sounds low class and ignorant.
Profanity and slurs have a place in language, and they have more impact when aren’t used as placeholders or punctuation.
You’re just smarter than that. I know you are. Say what you mean, don’t just name call.
I don’t know what #98 means exactly Mr. Howard also they said there would be no math.
Umm, ah, I’m dumb…I guess. So I need to maybe ask questions.
We vote as a block (district, precinct. Tribe?)for a person to represent us in government. Isn’t that the way it works?
Happyfeet, are you worried about Palin the individual, or that Palin the candidate can’t win? I think we may have wildly divergent ideas about what qualities are important in a POTUS.
alright I will stop not because it’s very important to me that people understand that happyfeet is very high class and also sophisticated but because you asked nicely
I don’t think she can win the general either. The problem is that you argue this day in/day out. And while I may agree that 12 x 12 = 144, it becomes unbearable when you show your work each time and you arrive at the right answer by drawing a clump of monkey shit next to an asparagus spear.
the math portion is optional
the idea I wanna hook up with nishi is a…
given
– Well, predictions are in my playbook, but just to put it plain, I don’t think you can say that “any” candidate can’t win, except in special circumstances like Peanutman versus Reagan, ir some such like that.
– Personally I think Rudy would be pretty hard to beat, and Palin as a 2nd would be a bad-ass combo.
Maybe McCain was propped up because of the failshit nature of the US monetary system as it was known pre-11/08. Ogabe is as much a fall-guy candidate as anything.
That latter fact isn’t going to repeat in ’12. #98 is the outcome of #101, feets, and the math is arithmetic.
Lee we’re dispensing with the idea of voting for thinkings and rationality and ideas and a Plan – “commonsense conservative solutions” is not a Plan – it’s a slogan – a slogan not unlike other slogans for example the “hope and change.”
I don’t care about Palin the individual except for her alarming lack of self-awareness. I know for a fact she can’t win a general election against an incumbent president what controls the media and to the enthusiasm of whose base she’s some exotic chillbilly varietal of meth and I think four more years of bumblefuck would be fatal to my little country and to me that’s very sad.
– I honestly believe the Left couldn’t believe their luck when the GOP selected McOldFart.
I think that’s what is going to happen BB., I don’t know about Rudy, but if Palin runs I bet it will be as VP again.
I was never told there existed the banjo ukulele. When will these mad scientists stop playing God?
And, yeah, this has somehow again turned into a Palin thread. I’ll learn my lesson one of these days.
What? How is sensible conservatism more a slogan than a prescription for a nation on bloody political life support?
That’s because nishi does so in Romulan.
No, she tried second fiddle back in 2002, luckily she didn’t win that time, that gave her the opportunity to be on the commission, and her principled resignation, gave her the opportunity
to run for governor, when the previous administration capsized. She’s not going to try for that
again, the knives in her back from McCain’s team, are still too fresh
Mr. Hunter the dirty socialist media put a thumb on the scale for McOldFart and they’ll do the same for that Palin woman – Daniels won’t get a hearings – especially not if establishment Romney whores like the townhall people have anything to do with it – and the white trash christers are already rehearsing about how candidates are mistaken if they think our issues will take a backseat in 2012 cause of the fetuses and also the gay marriagings and also my god next thing you know those people will be asking us to bake them cupcakes… that’s what the hostility to Daniels means and I think everyone knows that that’s what the hostility to Daniels means and that it’s not a cutting edge insight.
I’m trying to think of something hopeful but isn’t the internet supposed to do that for me to where I just have to click on it? I think it’s brokened.
– I don’t know why Rudy did what he did. I just don’t understand, except to say he just doesn’t want to dedicate himself to the whole ball of wax. That’s his right of course, he’s not obligated, but it certainly disappointed a lot of people who were prepared to support him all the way.
– The worst of it is we need someone like him that has common sense and isn’t a robot to some deep seated ideology, but more important, someone that people will just naturally follow. Born leaders are few and far between.
– America’s Mayor could so easily fit into America’s President. Damn shame.
if Palin runs, it will be for the presidency and the presidency only. I don’t see her as a VP candidate again.
But that is precisely what nishi is attempting to do with this.
Steal his words and make them be what she wants them to be not what he intends them to be. Attempted mind-rape, and only attempted because our host is well armed against that type of attack.
Mr. geoff all I can think to say for so I don’t get in trouble is … by what measure is Sarah Palin not already an exponent of the establishment… didn’t I see she was planning some sort of play date with Michael Steele?
By measure of the fact that they hate her guts.
feets, the precious few candidates that aren’t exponents of the establishment really aren’t electable.
…just as they hate the guts of any American who is not of their rarefied class.
– I don’t give a fig what nishi does, she’s just not important in any world I occupy, which is the case for all the trolls.
– I don’t take them any more serious than I would a group og 5th graders yammering for more recess time. They’ve shown themselves countless times to be caught in some kind of mental frustration loop like Sponge-bob’s running back and forth from the candy machine to the bus stop. No ‘there’ there.
I think you can come from a statehouse and not be a national establishment Team R guy if your name is Mitch and you ride a motorcycle and you make good sense on the spendings.
by what measure is Sarah Palin not already an exponent of the establishment
How about by the measure of endorsings what were at odds with the Republican Politburo?
they seemed pretty calculated to me and it’s possible she already regrets Delaware
– Palin has single handily almost embarrassed the GOP pld boyz club almost out of existence. Steele just ounctuates that embarrassment. I think the old guard is all but finished. The T-party is the organizing cry for a new order on the right.
Calculated? Monkey shit times an asparagus spear equals 144 again.
– Sure feets. Just like when Lamont was going to trounce Lieberman.
It’s also possible that nishi is mart and hot, and that the Seattle Seahawks will win the Super Bowl.
No, she knew what shew was doing, now some like the crew at Patterico, insist on pounding her into the ground, following the media template, but she can’t be held responsible for that. They have dialed
the Crapstorm upto to ‘Eleventy’ as they did two years ago, as they did with the Tea Party, as they
have done to every figure that matters, and they will in time, come for Mr. Peabody
yes I think her endorsements were very calculated – Fiorina comes to mind and Meghan’s coward daddy also – this is a woman being very careful not to antagonize powerful insiders and her base – has she endorsed a single non-lifeydoodle? I rather think I would have heard.
Karen Handel.
She endorsed Handel, who was generally more moderate, but less corrupt than Deal, who will be ‘unexpectedly’ indicted right before the election. Devore was a truly lost cause, McCain she
genuinely respects,
that is very nice to know thank you I applaud that and it makes me think better of her
oh. Handel already lost it says
yes I think her endorsements were very calculated – Fiorina comes to mind and Meghan’s coward daddy also – this is a woman being very careful not to antagonize powerful insiders and her base – has she endorsed a single non-lifeydoodle? I rather think I would have heard.
Math and monkey shit.
that doesn’t really say non-lifeydoodle to me at all – does that track with what you know to be true?
“has she endorsed a single non-lifeydoodle? ”
What, you have a litmus test?
I like my litmus just so
just to be clear I take back the it makes me think better of her part
of course… :/
“I like my litmus just so”
Don’t we all. We’re unique that way…
The real downside to a Palin run for president is I’d feel compelled to vote for her, just to see happy’s head explode.
there’s math involved
litmus test-i only fart in elevators…
but if u smile at me and pretend u can’t smell it makes me want to push a button for u so u can escape faster…
“there’s math involved”
Calculation, horrors!
And the formula is x + x = Palin is a cumslut hoohie lifeydoodle
Griefer algebra.
“i only fart in elevators…
but if u smile at me and pretend u can’t smell it makes me want to push a button for u so u can escape faster…”
Griefer manifesto.
Here’s part of my tribe.
Now happyfeet, and pdbuttons are griefers? Gimme a break.
pdbuttons is a national treasure.
i only- i wish!..
i farts lots- i have a leaky condition.. freedom?
my fav leak is when i’m all alone–just me and my half blind dog
and my clicker.. and i- leak? for change and put the blanket o hope over my head and ..i can hear the/my half blind dog a’whimperin’ in the corner and as i inhale i think..
i need more more psychiatrist{exhale} i hope their plane didn’t crash….on them way to vienna
Well, I thought it was a great analogy for a griefer.
You’re entitled to your opinion of the people.
’tis not the shower i mind..
or the water..
’tis havin to look /stare in the mirror…
and come to grips..
fart
wasn’t national treasure a horse
I think it was a Cage movie.
secretiat was a horse.. of course/of course/but if i wanted to run for the roses-
i certainly wouldn’t wear these jean..
hey/ does my ass look fat?
fart
Here’s a tribe.
oh looky, griefer is banging his favorite hobbyhorse again… don’t get any splinters now, ha hear?
actually we had a nice discussion and we exchangered views about where our little country is going and buttons farted
my hobbyhorse had major springs and had a pull thing that when u pulled it it said “howdy!” or “neigh neigh neighbor”..but when my mommie didn’t butter my toast right and my hobbyhorse said
“kill” well- lets just say mom should have paid alot more attention to me..
we have pictures of me at christmas.. i’m the little tyke who is stabbing open his gifts..
bor
think happyfeet and pdbuttons are a match?
simpatico?…
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if u’ve fallen-and can’t get up {‘lil’ doggie!}
press- no- text- i can’t get up john lennon fat beatle.com…
and if ur dirty dog down in the gutter hopeless and haven’t a friend in this world and call me-desperado- and squek-help-
my reply would be/ u got a cell phone? u lucky lucky bastard
“I think she a lot accurately conveys the viewpoint of her tribe…”
The trouble is that the tribe of sci-fi believing, eugenics promoting, sufi pretenders only numbers in the low single digits.
oh national velvet. and the unity suxs. ein reich ovber der foothead or cupcakes
“oh national velvet”
Liz Taylor movie?
Seabiscuit.
I think I see where happyfeet’s POV boils down to: We are totally fucked because the people what want to keep us down are everywhere and they can read our minds and see the future so no matter what we do they’ll get there first and we’ll just keep on being fucked.
Which, happyfeet? That’s what they want you to think.
how do I know you’re not on their side?
Wow, that’s like one of those creepy hand drawing a hand drawing a hand things…
I’ll vouch for McG. There is no way one of them could ever sound as authentic. They don’t have it in them.
Besides, he buys me beer.
I’d vouch for McG too, but I’m their hidden agent, so that probably wouldn’t work.
Somehow, I always knew, sdferr.
Damn cranky-d, I gots to get a better mustache I reckon.
It’s the glue you’re using to hold it on. I’ve seen it slip a little sometimes.
How do you know that or anything else about anyone. Talk is cheap. Lies are easy, at least at first. The price of action is colossal. Actions speak but what they say must be read by the results more than intentions which are only [just?] words too.
In the end it always comes down to a leap of faith. Believe or believe not, there is no try.
I think happyfeet is yearning for a pair of those magic sunglasses Rowdy Roddy Piper had in They Live.
ht at all at all I think it’s a lot obvious which is why I think the idea that Sarah Palin should be our next president is so patently stupid as to be kind of offensive – she’s an obviously narrowcasted persona what – w
What was patently stupid, was the Barack Obama candidacy. Everyone here (except nishi and He who shall not be named) knew it was a disaster. From his experience, to his lack of intellectual property, to his history as a senator (running for president since day one) … we all knew he would suck.
She’s not my first choice (or second or third), but after what we’ve got? She’s lightyears ahead. She has the temperament of someone who makes decisions. She doesn’t have a socialist agenda, which guides her every principal.
I just find the hate amusing. I think you need to step back. Not think about her for a few months. I barely think about her ever.
Facts not in evidence. Not by a long shot.
If you could really assign probabilities like that, you’d already have more money than Bill Gates, playing the stock market and horse races. I’m concluding that you just don’t have the least fucking clue what you’re talking about.
I second what Carin hath spoken. Sarah Palin would not be my first choice as Republican nominee either, but neither would a Romney, Huckholio or anyone else I’ve heard mentioned seriously. Likely we’ll have another must-pinch-nose nominee; I just hope it’s not a thing found in the same dry well as was the Dole and McCain and, yes, the George Bush(es). We need a strong, tough person. Where the hell is Condoleezza when you really need her ?
Why the hell do people keep saying “happyfeet, you’re smarter than that” — goddamn, isn’t it clear by now that it really isn’t?!
Disemvowel the griefers already. Everyone ignore them, particularly when they babble in baby talk.
Another thread yanked off to one lackwit’s obsessions.
“…and the white trash christers are already rehearsing about how candidates are mistaken if they think our issues will take a backseat in 2012 cause of the fetuses and also the gay marriagings and also my god next thing you know those people will be asking us to bake them cupcakes…”
happyfeet,
I just don’t see any real evidence of this. Regardless of how much you dislike Jim DeMint or Sarah Palin, it is folly to believe that the religious right has somehow taken control of the agenda of conservative politics.
Beath deeply my friend. Get a grip on yourself…Come back to reality…
You forgot to put “again” on the end of that sentence. I still remember the 1980s, at least.
not taken control – but they’ll insist on lifeydoodle nonsense in the platform again and perpetuate Team R’s schizophrenic relationship with individual liberty
it used to be a cute way of patronizing the lifeydoodles, but now it’s just blatant hypocrisy, and people recognize that I think – especially younger people – it does a lot to mire our politics in the failshit spiral of fail it’s locked into
remember – for all her decision making skillz – the Palin hoochie hasn’t decided to endorse a single non-lifeydoodle –
and she needs to keep her rancid christer ideology away from the party of tea I think – but I think that battle’s already been lost lost lost
it used to be a cute way of patronizing the lifeydoodles, but now it’s just blatant hypocrisy, and people recognize that I think – especially younger people – it does a lot to mire our politics in the failshit spiral of fail it’s locked into
Bah. The stupid people are the ones who either a.) think abortion can be banned or b. think there’s a threat of it being banned. There’s stupid on both sides. Though your brand of stupid is unique to you and nishi. By the way, have you actually seen any polling on youth and abortion my back bench marketer friend?
I’m sorry, I refuse to heed or otherwise consider the wisdom of any sentence that has the nonword “lifeydoodle” in it. That’s just how I roll.
lol – the kids are voting in droves for white trash christers they love them so – Sarah Palin is already president
Was that supposed to be an answer to my question, cubicle clown?
I don’t see how stating ones dislike for abortion, and committment to ending the federal funding of, is the equivalent of promising to outlaw it.
Like Abe noted, no reasonable people are talking about outlawing abortion-including Palin.
Did she do so in Alaska, or even try to? I don’t think so.
Her position is Reagan-esque in this regard. Ronnie taled about respecting life, etc; but never supported legislating that morality.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/4 @ 9:59 am #
Bob, that is the reality he lives in.
Just accept it and ignore it – there’s no ‘there’ there, so to speak.
– While feets continues to beat that dea lifeydoodle horse, the biggest irony of all is slick Willey was to the right of Palin on abortion, based on the actual things she’s said and done in lieu of feet’s fevered imagination.
– His position, which he stated on many occasions was “abortion should be available when necessary, inexpensive, safe, and rare”. I think I recall her saying something to the effect she didn’t think tax dollars should fund abortions, she’s against tri-mesters except in extreme cases, and she doesn’t support drive through abortion clinics at WalMarts.
– How that makes her more anti-abortion than Clinton isn’t very clear, but I’m sure feets can read her mind.
Mr. Bob if Sarah Palin can’t find a *single* pro-life individual running for office what is suitable for to help with the spendings then it’s clear as day that what she’s about is co-opting the tea party to push a social con agenda –
turn it around – what message would it send if the Palin endorsed a pro-choice person what was balls out rocking on the mark when it comes to the spendings? It would be a very very very hopeful message I think, though it might could cost her the nomination she craves so so badly.
hey I was turning a new leaf today Mr. Hunter but I tripped
sorry
yes Abe that’s all I had time for too many people standing around the cube more later
I am doing researchings brb
– I think your leaf got caught in your desk drawer feets.
– In any event if the lifeydoodle hootchie became Prez and tried to wholesale outlaw abortion, never fear, the SCOTUS lefty judges would have a shit-fit and overnight discover the “Congress shall make no laws respecting coat hangers” clause part of the living document. So you’re safe.
<C. Montgomery Burns voice>
Excellent.
</C. Montgomery Burns voice>
it’s a little confuzzling cause i can;t find any sources I trust what really speak to the question…
ok. scary scary. but let’s look at one in particular… this Ken Buck person. The Palin congratulationsed him in August. But he apparently beat her grizzled mama. DeMint endorsed Mr. Buck in July, so he must be decent on the spendings and a lot passably lifeydoodle.
Now we see this…
so I ask you – does the evidence not show that the Tea Party is moving Team R further right on lifeydoodle issues?
I think it does.
oops too much bold
Notice how no one can speak about the One Nation rally and how it fittingly demonstrates what the lef tis like? All because one rude person won’t accept the advice he so desperately needs?
Yeah I did notice that.
She put a Planned Parenthood member for her own state’s Supreme Court, you twisted Mogwai,
None of that has anything to do with my question. Furthermore, there isn’t an anti-abortion stand possible that’s any more psychotic than support (a la President Fuckstain) for dumping the living result of botched abortionings in the garbage. The truth is that you’re just a weak-minded sheep suffering Stockholm Syndrome from playing footsie too long with dirty Angelenos. Learn to argue like a rational being already.
Mikey we yimmer yammered about the One Nation rally across like 4 threads already – just go to the home page and refresh there’s a brand new One Nation rally post
The truth is that you’re just a weak-minded sheep suffering Stockholm Syndrome from playing footsie too long with dirty Angelenos.
There may be some truth to this.
Part of the problem may be the pool of people that are fiscal and social conservatives is far larger than the pool that is fiscally conservative and not socially conservative.
Most of the not socially conservative crowd lean towards the social justice mindset.
I think Mr Avalon, and you, are ignoring what she’s actually said about abortion and governance.
http://www.ontheissues.org/governor/Sarah_Palin_Abortion.htm
I realize that it is from the last campaign, but couldn’t quickly find anything more definitive and recent.
The whole notion of a “Palin standard” for abortion legislation is kind of hyperbolic and feverish, IMHO; especially since she never tried anything like it as governor of Alaska.
But YMMV.
Another part of the problem is that nearly 30 years of prosperity left the upper middle class in a fundamentally unserious mindset about government. People should be thanking God that “white trash Christers” took the mantle for fiscal austerity and limited government even if it was mindlessly tribal while all manner of materialistic and prosperous yard apes took to making money while oblivious to where it comes from as revealed in their voting habits.
Most of the not socially conservative crowd lean towards the social justice mindset.
Are there polling results that support this? I’ve long believed that there’s a huge population of people who don’t want the government in their wallets OR their bedrooms.
30 years of prosperity left the upper middle class in a fundamentally unserious mindset about government
I think this is true but also I think education generally and also a bias away from vo-tech specifically is a lot involved.
I don’t know if it’s all that hyperbolic Mr. Bob inasmuch as the facts seem to support the notion.
This isn’t your website, and your hobby-horse isn’t the subject of the thread. Start your own blog where you can flog your deadhorse to your heart’s content, you babbling nitwit.
well then say something about the One Nation rally
me I thought the One Nation rally did very little to answer the question of whether or not there is indeed a “Palin Standard” on abortion to which many “Tea Party” candidates are ascribing
meh.
Jeff knows all this…..hes just invested in the anti-meritocratic meme that the 40 percenters deserve self-representation too.
The result of a half century of IQ baiting by the conservative party in America is that conservatives can no longer compete in a meritocratic republic.
So they are not going to compete.
Palin won’t, Angle wont, O’Donnell wont– their line is that the media is unfair– but the truth is they can’t campete. Jeff knows this.
They are taking their ball…..the christianist or ‘judeochristian’ base and going home.
They are not going to play.
Douthat understands this perfectly….that is why he is allus searching for alternatives to the traditional Jeffersonian meritocratic values of “talent” and ‘virtue’.
Obama is the avatar of Jefferson’s natural aristoi.
Palin and Bush are the conservative avatars– god, country, and ‘commonsense’.
Fifty years of selection for anti-meritocratic values resulted in the election of a president so godawful stupid that he didnt understand that when muslims are DEMOCRATICALLY empowered to vote, they vote for Islam.
And you can throw all the radar chaff in the world, Jeff, and it won’t make a bit of difference.
The Millenials will write the history books…….and you will be teabaggers.
bi la kayfah
I dunno happyfeet,
Just because 6 tea-party backed candidates hold an absolutist position on abortion, and also happen to be endorsed by Palin; does that somehow make it “the Palin standard”? Especially when she doesn’t pronounce that standard herself? She’s also not the titular head of the tea-party.
Unless you choose to count her own personal choice to not abort a down-syndrome pregnancy as an implicit “endorsement” of a standard she’s never publicly talked of forcing opon others. I can’t even see how you’re getting from point A to point B on this.
Linda McMahon has specifically said she want’s no outside endorsements.
Mark Kirk in the ideological mold of Mike Castle-why would she endorse him?
You know who else is talking about a “Palin standard”?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/225258_The_Palin_abortion_standard_ma
Kinda of motivates me to think about that characterization a bit more.
Palin won’t, Angle wont, O’Donnell wont– their line is that the media is unfair– but the truth is they can’t campete. Jeff knows this.
Is it a lack of self-awareness or abject stupidity which deters you from seeing all the morons across the spectrum who inhabit the political landscape?
Obama is the avatar of Jefferson’s natural aristoi.
Tee hee. Heh heh. Ha ha ha ha ha.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Stop it! Yer killin’ me!
Abe, the problem is that the right has devolved to a purely religious party.
And as the judeoxian demogrphic shrinks, you lose the consent of the governed.
Seriously — which of you guys is pretending to be Nishit?
“Obama is the avatar of Jefferson’s natural aristoi.”
That just nails her brand of insipid faux-intellectualism-slash-total fucking cluelessness so hard that the nail went all the way through the board and out the other side.
Whichever one of you it is, I doff my cap. Well played!
Stop it! Yer killin’ me!
we dont need to.
you are dying off on your own.
Kate’s social darwinism is showing again.
The nitwit has now summoned the lackwit.
Or is it the other way around?
another thread lost to the griefers’ obsessions.
I guess we will see Mr. Bob and I don’t want to get too overwrought about it cause without roadmap-endorsing lifeydoodles like marsha blackburn we would be berefter of hope than we already are but I think it’s a good thing to note at least.
Abe, the problem is that the right has devolved to a purely religious party.
I’d say that’s more true of the Democrats. Only you harbor the delusion that it isn’t a religion.
I think she’s just trying to guilt a Christian into making babies with her.
Poor dear. So much conflict bouncing around in her brain meats. ‘Tis sad.
“Obama is the avatar of Jefferson’s natural aristoi.”*
My favorite of the bunch is watching nishi repeat her crazy act in this Jake Tapper thread. What a freak.
Fifty years of selection for anti-meritocratic values resulted in the election of a president so godawful stupid that he didnt understand that when you kill off the productive sector, you can no longer afford the “free” shit you use to buy votes from the lazy.
Fixed that for you, you blinkered halfwit.
Holy shit, bh. But whaddya want? She’s a Michigan grad. One of those schools which has a reputation that far exceeds the actual quality of enrolled students. Sort of makes for an odd mix of arrogance and intellectual insecurity. It also says something about her capacity for cognitive dissonance that she prattles on about meritocracy while singing the praises of a president who has shown scant indication that he doesn’t owe the high points of his resume to affirmative action.
“I’ve long believed that there’s a huge population of people who don’t want the government in their wallets OR their bedrooms.”
Well, I identify as a social con, and I’m not interested in your bedroom. I just want people to know there are consequences to what you do in your private life I don’t want to shoulder.
Yeah, Abe. We also have to remember that nishi doesn’t know how many Supreme Court justices there are, thinks the Civil Rights Act was almost thwarted by Republicans, thinks Obamacare was a political boon for the Dems and predicted that the Dems were going to bring up immigration reform right before the election.
She probably has a very idiosyncratic meaning for merit.
Well, I identify as a social con, and I’m not interested in your bedroom.
I think a big part of the problem here is in labeling. There’s a vast chasm between the social conservative who doesn’t want to pay for other people’s “lifestyle choices,” and the social con who doesn’t think those “lifestyle choices” should be legal in the first place.
I, like many, identify as a not-social-conservative who leans toward the leave-me-the-hell-alone mindset. Seems like we really aren’t that far apart.
Kate’s natural aristoi in all their glory:
DavidLebedoff has Kate and her ilk pegged.
Oh, as a friend’s wife is a Michigan alumni, we should say that this is a fun generalization pulled into service to smack the nutjob around.
“the social con who doesn’t think those “lifestyle choices” should be legal in the first place.”
I would suggest the numbers of those folk are greatly exaggerated.
LBascom, as long as we can agree that “legal” doesn’t equal either “desirable” or “immune from criticism or consequences” I think you’re right.
I like that Lebedoff passage, Ernst.
Yes, legal is different.
Oh, as a friend’s wife is a Michigan alumni, we should say that this is a fun generalization pulled into service to smack the nutjob around.
Yeah. I’d never want to saddle the school with nishi as being a typical graduate. It just made too much sense in getting at her psyche.
I like that passage, but it sort of sounds like WASPs since the beginning of time.
She did so not just cite Andrew Sullivan on something other than Sarah Palin’s uterus.
The problem is ……dear Jeff…..that America is not a secular nation. It is a judeoxian evolving to a secular nation.
And the only demographic you capture is…….. the greys.
Witness the composition of your commentors.
…says the thirtysomething teenager. Domo arigato, Mrs. Failboto.
Witness the composition of your commentors.
Show me someone your age who routinely comments on blogs and I’ll show you someone with a pathetic, empty life. Also, there’s the inconvenient reality that you’ll never be acquainted with that a great many people are liberal when young and then they get married raise a family and grow the fuck up.
Maidda Odon (or is it Odom?)?????
Yup. You got it right Maida.
It’s all the rich crackers who owe you a living, not your own personal effort! Your kids? FUCK THEM! OBAMA AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WHO CARE WILL TAKE CARE OF THEM SO I DON’T HAVE TO! WHERE’S THE F’ING RIPPLE?
Maida: “Yeah, unions! Stick it up those working peoples butt’s! Because they owe us for working their asses off 16 hours a day, and then PAYING us to drink beer and smoke pot while we curse them out for THEIR efforts to employ us, while we do SHIT for mucho dinero.
OBAMA DOES IT BETTER! You stupid working honky mother fuckers!!!!!
Obama tells me I get it for NOTHING (except if I don’t vote for him!)
Hugo Obama! Go, Mother f**ker!!!!!!!
Mr. Avlon has a book to sell.
the problem is that the right has devolved to a purely religious party.
No it hasn’t.
I can do that too.
isn’t that kind of weird how he puts cable news personalities on the cover?
cable is bad for America. Except for I wanna see that one show with the zombies.
Oh, rolling stone. Yes, Tea Party people are all old white freeloaders on motorized chairs.
Let’s go with that.
If nishit ever makes it into a history book, it will not be a flattering picture painted.
Don’t worry, Happy… if that failshit hoochie Palin defies your wishes and decide to run for Prez in 2012 (thereby threatening the very fabric of the space-time continuum, no doubt) I will buy you a T-shirt so you can express your personal viewpoint as to her undesirable qualities. What size do you wear?
wearing a sears poncho
I love that T-shirt picture. A beta male and an ugly fat girl are progressivism personified.
I love that T-shirt picture. A beta male and an ugly fat girl are progressivism personified.
Maybe Happy and nishi already have that shirt…
That’s basically what he’s been doing for a year now.
The Great, Deft, Eternal Comeback of the Nishi:
“Yeah, well, you’re old.”
Feel its power, bitches.
Feel it.
related
Might as well drown ’em while they can still remember who they are, right?
I’m quite gratified to see that people older than me are still putting points on the board in the NFL.
Being 40-something is the new 38ish.
um, but who votes in larger numbers? hmmmm?
What’s for supper, grandma?