Corey - December 14, 2009 | 9:42 pm · Link

As I’m reading this, Maddow’s doing a segment on “the Family”. After a day like today, this is the one-two knockout punch. This country is utterly, truly fucked.

Left Coast Tom - December 14, 2009 | 9:45 pm · Link

Aside from the Technology Fail, I don’t really see the point. I use URL shorteners when I want to send someone a gazillion-character URL inside what I hope is a readable message. URL shortening and pissing off someone who sees my message seems incompatible.

SpotWeld - December 14, 2009 | 9:46 pm · Link

So they set up a useless twitter widget, and break it at the same time.

No wonder they loved a guy who almost killed himself with a pretzel

John Cole - December 14, 2009 | 9:46 pm · Link

@jeffreyw: LOL. Paul Brown was one of my best friends from undergrad. I meant Michael Brown.

WereBear - December 14, 2009 | 9:47 pm · Link

You just can’t make this stuff up.

amorphous - December 14, 2009 | 9:51 pm · Link

Technology has a well known liberal bias.

jeffreyw - December 14, 2009 | 9:53 pm · Link

Where’s South Of I-10 tonight? I promised her gumbo.

beltane - December 14, 2009 | 9:54 pm · Link

Even if it did work, why do they think their stupid little gags piss off liberals. The only thing that truly pisses off liberals is Joe Lieberman.

Belafon (formerly anonevent) - December 14, 2009 | 9:55 pm · Link

My oldest is making me relive 1984. I had to dig up the following quote on Doublethink:

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

George Orwell could time travel.

Notorious P.A.T. - December 14, 2009 | 9:59 pm · Link

These people are imbeciles, yet they possess more strategic acumen than the Democratic party leadership.

freelancer - December 14, 2009 | 10:00 pm · Link

@Sly:

Fuck yeah it is.

http://gop.am/LEnH

Sly - December 14, 2009 | 10:10 pm · Link

@freelancer

I thought NAMBLA might have been too much. I’m getting too nice.

For some reason, the link doesn’t highlight in either Firefox or Chrome. Same NSFW warning applies: http://gop.am/7WYa

http://hammerandsteele.com/ for extra lulz.

Elie - December 14, 2009 | 10:10 pm · Link

@Notorious P.A.T.:

Its the same hand behind each puppet – whether Democratic or Republican puppet. To keep it from getting too boring, the puppets play different roles but the show always ends up the same way… (Its the Hand, not the puppet—very sad to say)

sigh

amorphous - December 14, 2009 | 10:13 pm · Link

@Sly:

http://hammerandsteele.com/ for extra lulz.

oh dear god, why did i not know about this?!

if you listen to steele all the way through, you can hear the director in the background when he’s done. so much delicious fail.

freelancer - December 14, 2009 | 10:16 pm · Link

@Sly:
@bago:

Been gutlaughing at my own joke for a solid 3 minutes, but I think if we put our heads together, we might win:

http://gop.am/kmx9

(its gonna take a bit to load)

ALSO, your link doesn’t highlight because the word you used to hyperlink is in ALL CAPS.

valdivia - December 14, 2009 | 10:17 pm · Link

I know this is totally OT and probably not a very popular thing to say tonight that feelings are so raw. But this Booman post I think reminds us all how we got here. Merely a month ago Reid pushed for a PO in the Senate bill and a lot of people made him the hero and vilified the WH for pointing out to Reid that doing the bill this way (PO up front instead of attached in conference) would create the wrong dynamic. Reid said he knew what he was doing (remember when he said Lieberman would not be a problem?) Fast forward—it turns out Reid had no votes, had no clue how to play strategically and he killed the ability to attach the PO in conference. But all we will hear now, having forgotten the warning that came from the WH about the danger of putting the PO up front instead of in conference, is how this is Rahm or Obama’s fault when in truth Reid alone promised he would have the votes when he never did. I know, I know sausage making and all that but for all the spinelessness of the Dem caucus, this was a total unforced error by front-loading the issue of the PO at the most vulnerable time.

Mojotron - December 14, 2009 | 10:19 pm · Link

More subtle. Only NSFW if you embiggen the image.

This is going to crash from all the 4channers making Gramd Old LemonParty links.

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 10:21 pm · Link

This is one of the most absurd things I’ve seen in a while. Not infuriating disgusting revolting atrocious, because that would be Joe Lieberman. Obviously.

But this…first of all, it’s been discussed to death, but for the life of me, I will never under stand the “YEAH, BUT IT PISSES OFF LIBERALS!” thing. I mean, do they really think a URL shortener is going to piss off liberals? Who are these so easily aggrieved liberals that would take affront to a URL shortener? And why are you making URL shorteners a part of your long-term strategy to Regain Power From The American Electorate? That does not seem effective to me, but what do I know about running competent national political organizations? Probably about as much as the clowns who made this, that’s how much.

And the actual site itself. “Making Long URLs…Conservative.” That is the actual slogan for this thing? Making long URLs…conservative. Wow. Who is the wunderkind that signed off on this masterstroke of human intellect? Not to mention that the picture on this site—oh wow, the picture. Yikes.—is of children riding on a carousel, which does not sound bad when you first hear the idea. But when you see the idea, in real life—with your eyes—that same wunderkind decided to use a picture of a carousel that featured a ride that looks like the Goatse.cx man. In the most prominent part of the picture.

And for those of you not aware of all internet traditions, you can Google that term at your own peril. There’s a reason I didn’t link to the wiki article; I don’t want that blood on my hands.

+4

gnomedad - December 14, 2009 | 10:24 pm · Link

OMG, I hadn’t waited for Michael Steele to come out until now. This is awesome!

South of I-10 - December 14, 2009 | 10:25 pm · Link

@jeffreyw: It looks perfect and delicious! How was it?

Notorious P.A.T. - December 14, 2009 | 10:35 pm · Link

Hahahahaha! You guys are cracking me up ) It took me a moment to get the one at #22. Must be time for bed.

jeffreyw - December 14, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link

@South of I-10: It was delish, I would caution y’all if you follow the recipe (link in the comments on the set) it will be pretty hot. I roughly doubled the recipe which called for 4 tablespoons of the seasoning mix (link also in the comments), I tossed in 2 and a half, then thought to taste it. I had put in plenty. 8 tbsps would have had Mrs J squawkin. LOL

aceckhouse - December 14, 2009 | 10:45 pm · Link

@freelancer:

Complete and utter win on your part, sir. Time Cube was a stroke of brilliance.

TheFreshBrew - December 14, 2009 | 11:54 pm · Link

You can’t make this stuff up?

http://gop.am/B3Yf

Mark - December 15, 2009 | 10:41 am · Link

I assume that the Republicans chose the “.am” suffix because it looks like an abbreviation for America. It is, of course, actually the domain suffix for Armenia. Why not just use gop.us?

nitpick - December 15, 2009 | 6:34 pm · Link

This one’s new.

http://gop.am/Uk8X