Just Some Fuckhead - December 14, 2009 | 10:20 pm · Link

I don’t get it. Is it a Republican dating site?

CJ - December 14, 2009 | 10:22 pm · Link

Because this clearly makes libruls angry. Wasn’t that the whole goal?

C Nelson Reilly - December 14, 2009 | 10:24 pm · Link

Makes you wonder what’s on GOP.pm

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

That’s brilliant.

I love me some damned liberals.

mr. whipple - December 14, 2009 | 10:26 pm · Link

@freelancer:

heh, indeedy!

Just Some Fuckhead - December 14, 2009 | 10:27 pm · Link

the animated Michael Steele was saying “Notice something different?” as I took that screen grab

The bound victim is an adult?

valdivia - December 14, 2009 | 10:28 pm · Link

OT but still comical. That Connor guy who subs for Sulli is pimping the new improved conservative way to make America Great Again! Do these people ever give up?

dSquib - December 14, 2009 | 10:30 pm · Link

why isn’t Steele popping up for me?!

DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal) - December 14, 2009 | 10:31 pm · Link

Fuck that is WIN! I am laughing my ass off and glad that I wasn’t drinking anything!

amorphous - December 14, 2009 | 10:31 pm · Link

The only way adding the old Michael Steele gif to every website is if he were to say “FaceSpace” instead of “MySpace” at the end. I would quite literally die.

Middlewest - December 14, 2009 | 10:35 pm · Link

For completism:

http://gop.am/ROIh

Max - December 14, 2009 | 10:36 pm · Link

OMG! This is nothing but win.

It is pee your pants funny.

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link

I posted this in the other Epic Twitter Win thread, but I figured why not shared the hilarity here as well?

http://gop.am/PNxO

Tsulagi - December 14, 2009 | 10:42 pm · Link

Michael Steele was saying “Notice something different?”

Yeah, “Man” seeking a “Woman,” and age 18 being the lower search number.

freelancer - December 14, 2009 | 10:42 pm · Link

Who the fuck pitched this? and who the fuck greenlit it?

“That sounds excellent, Chesterton. Yes, this will really get a wrench stuck in the gears of those liberals. We’ll show them that they’re not the only ones who know how to use the Net. BTW, did you ever see the movie the Net with Sandra Bullock? Quite spooky. We’re lucky to live in a world where no one uses ‘The Net’ for nefarious, evil, or subversive purposes, ‘cause that would be doubly-spooky. Now, let’s get this thing unwrapped!”

wmsheppa - December 14, 2009 | 10:43 pm · Link

This one was just too easy… Joe’s found a new home!

http://gop.am/n47U

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

Just doing the obvious:

http://gop.am/yLVY

Belafon (formerly anonevent) - December 14, 2009 | 10:48 pm · Link

I’m trying to figure out how to post this on facebook but keep the younger facebook friends from viewing it.

jl - December 14, 2009 | 10:50 pm · Link

“In before somebody creates a GOP-themed Goatse.”

I think this would be very useful and may save our Democratic Republic.

I have not idea how this works or what you dang kids are up to, but the results speak for themselves.

Anyway to archive this stuff in a special B-J section before the GOP shuts this promotiona goldmine down?

mr. whipple - December 14, 2009 | 10:52 pm · Link

@Scott de B.:

HA!

keithly - December 14, 2009 | 10:53 pm · Link

This must be an outcome from the GOP Operation: Rabbit retreat.

beltane - December 14, 2009 | 10:55 pm · Link

@Scott de B.: What has our country come to. The communist party makes way, way more sense than the Republicans. Heck, they are more rational than Firedoglake.

AB - December 14, 2009 | 10:57 pm · Link

@arguingwithsignposts:

In before someone sends links to /b/

Oh god, giving this weapon to 4chan…

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 10:58 pm · Link

@Notorious P.A.T.:

http://gop.am/iQdQ

Brilliant.

Chad S - December 14, 2009 | 10:59 pm · Link

http://gop.am/KUKu

scudbucket - December 14, 2009 | 11:00 pm · Link

http://gop.am/iKc4

AB - December 14, 2009 | 11:00 pm · Link

Oh, there’s this interesting statistic in their homepage on the bottom left corner…

So, to contribute to their creation, here’s:

DailyKos: http://gop.am/2QhU
The Daily Show: http://gop.am/kMHI
The Colbert Report: http://gop.am/rANn

Aaaand…

© 2009, GOP.AM.
207 happy GOP.AM URLs and counting.

So awesome.

arguingwithsignposts - December 14, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link

@AB:

© 2009, GOP.AM.
207 happy GOP.AM URLs and counting.

This is really pissing off the liberals. So many keyboards ruined with liquid refreshments.

Chad S - December 14, 2009 | 11:05 pm · Link

http://gop.am/QaCU

I literally could do this all night long as long as google keeps spitting out teh links.

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 11:06 pm · Link

@arguingwithsignposts:

This is really pissing off the liberals. So many keyboards ruined with liquid refreshments.

Keyboards? I wish. I’m going through monitors left and right over here.

freelancer - December 14, 2009 | 11:08 pm · Link

@wasabi gasp: oh, bless your demented heart!

kommrade reproductive vigor - December 14, 2009 | 11:08 pm · Link

@Just Some Fuckhead: Oh shit. I laughed so hard it fucking hurt.

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 11:10 pm · Link

More than appropriate:

http://gop.am/A2sP

And I love this. Also:

Original URL Length: 23 characters

GOP.AM URL Length: 18 characters

shortened by: 5 characters

THERE IS TOO MUCH WIN FOR ME TO HANDLE TONIGHT! (there is a link here, BTW.)

+5

amorphous - December 14, 2009 | 11:16 pm · Link

Pedobear is pretty obvious here.

Tsulagi - December 14, 2009 | 11:16 pm · Link

Don’t forget Jesus…

http://gop.am/vfBm

jl - December 14, 2009 | 11:18 pm · Link

Can anyone link to self-starting embed of the Gunther Merry Kiss My Ass song?

Dec 6
Merry Kiss My Ass
Posted at 23:22 by Tintin

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/26880.html

Zam - December 14, 2009 | 11:19 pm · Link

Wasn’t the point of this to piss off liberals? Because this has given me more joy than I thought was possible.

mr. whipple - December 14, 2009 | 11:20 pm · Link

http://gop.am/OWEH

freelancer - December 14, 2009 | 11:21 pm · Link

Homage to one of the funnier threads this year…

http://gop.am/mycN

kommrade reproductive vigor - December 14, 2009 | 11:23 pm · Link

@Zam: Maybe he meant “Make the liberals laugh so hard they piss themselves.”

mr. whipple - December 14, 2009 | 11:27 pm · Link

http://gop.am/xYtc

Zam - December 14, 2009 | 11:30 pm · Link

Well it looks like you found a way to turn the mood around here more positive.

The Sheriff Is A Ni- - December 14, 2009 | 11:34 pm · Link

@Midnight Marauder: I’ll raise you Jesus times infinity: http://gop.am/9Pxx

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 11:39 pm · Link

@amorphous:

Original URL Length:
13 characters

GOP.AM URL Length:
18 characters

shortened by:
-5 characters

I cannot begin to tell you how much I enjoyed that.

A GOP URL SHORTENER! http://gop.am/gopurl/remote USE IT AND ANGER LIBERALS! #tcot #goptech

Famous last words from Todd “OBAMACORN” Herman.

TCOT, indeed.

+6

Hob - December 14, 2009 | 11:40 pm · Link

Mr. Steele’s new co-spokesperson:
http://gop.am/yQrZ

A dynamic team of new economic thinkers:
http://gop.am/mfES

And the parent company of their cutting-edge web consultant:
http://gop.am/PK62

LightsOut - December 14, 2009 | 11:43 pm · Link

http://gop.am/rjTi

Notorious P.A.T. - December 14, 2009 | 11:44 pm · Link

These are all too funny )

Midnight Marauder - December 14, 2009 | 11:44 pm · Link

@jnfr:

I need all the laughs I can get tonight.

Well you have come to the right place.

http://gop.am/Wkol

And because you are wondering:

Original URL Length: 42 characters

GOP.AM URL Length: 18 characters

shortened by: 24 characters

Ruemara - December 14, 2009 | 11:47 pm · Link

Bob is my witless, I think the GOP has absolutely lost it’s mind. And I am here to savor it. Thank you, thank you, Goddess Uzume, for the gift.

mr. whipple - December 14, 2009 | 11:53 pm · Link

http://gop.am/cNc9

kommrade reproductive vigor - December 14, 2009 | 11:54 pm · Link

http://gop.am/KNtq

OK, must go to bed. Hope I can stop laughing before the S.O. stuffs a pillow in my face.

gnomedad - December 14, 2009 | 11:55 pm · Link

With a hat-tip to JenJen:
http://gop.am/RKM3

Notorious P.A.T. - December 14, 2009 | 11:57 pm · Link

http://gop.am/OwI5

freelancer - December 15, 2009 | 12:01 am · Link

@parksideq:

Thanks. I’ve won a couple times tonight, but it doesn’t make this one any less glorious. Oh wait, one more:

http://gop.am/vYfV

Don’t hit me. I bruise.

Notorious P.A.T. - December 15, 2009 | 12:03 am · Link

No kids for this one:

http://gop.am/MQEr

I gotta see that Nick Cage “Wickerman” remake.

Evan - December 15, 2009 | 12:04 am · Link

Okay, so why does Michael Steele only pop up on the original link?

Because I need Michael Steele in all of them.

scav - December 15, 2009 | 12:05 am · Link

http://gop.am/AWgu

scav - December 15, 2009 | 12:09 am · Link

http://gop.am/Z9wJ

Ked - December 15, 2009 | 12:11 am · Link

Giggles, all, I’m sure.

But seriously – who in their right mind clicks on a deliberately obscured url? Are actual people that trusting? Darwin awards in progress.

A couple weeks ago I spent several very long days helping a local organization clean a virus out of a network with 1300 computers and a few dozen servers. Someone had clicked on something without thinking, it infected executables on a few servers, and the next morning everyone had it. Oh, sure, their fourth-tier crappy antivirus didn’t help matters. If it were some home user I’d just laugh, but when someone destroys that much productivity, exposes that much information… well, there need to be real consequences for active stupidity.

So I’m not clicking on any of these, though I’m sure the typical BJ crowd isn’t linking to malware pages or phishing sites, and anyone who sends me a url like this in real life is landing on my spam list.

arguingwithsignposts - December 15, 2009 | 12:15 am · Link

update to add, it doesn’t appear to be an official GOP product from that marketing company, but it sure as hell is branded that way. And who is this registrant?

Ked - December 15, 2009 | 12:17 am · Link

@Martin: Oh! Oh! No! Linux!

Nyah. Why pay stupid money for an overrated interface that doesn’t work the way my brain does?

arguingwithsignposts - December 15, 2009 | 12:20 am · Link

@arguingwithsignposts:
Never mind. Here’s his twitter feed.

But I wonder:

KEEP FINGERS CROSSED - I may be launching the coolest thing in internet advocacy in a LONG time tomorrow. #fb #tcot #tlot

Ked - December 15, 2009 | 12:22 am · Link

@Midnight Marauder:

I suppose. It’s the end of a long day, and this is just a pet peeve. I appreciate that people want to turn off their brains sometimes, but the web is the wrong place to do so.

arguingwithsignposts - December 15, 2009 | 12:24 am · Link

@scav:
Reading some of his tweets, he doesn’t sound that brilliant, but if so, there’s another word for him: ratf**ker.

ETA: that’s one helluva way to piss off the entire Internets.

Martin - December 15, 2009 | 12:25 am · Link

@Ked:

Test webpages against Mac browsers on a non-Mac. Can’t? Thanks for playing. Want to see me run Firefox on Mac, Windows, and Linux simultaneously on my laptop while running multiple instances of Apache? All while never having to compile code to get anything running?

Worth every penny.

scav - December 15, 2009 | 12:28 am · Link

@arguingwithsignposts: so we’re sure that donate button really goes to the real gop? What is this “our gop” of which he speaks?

parksideq - December 15, 2009 | 12:34 am · Link

This has literally made a shitty day into an awesome night for me. I salute everyone that made this thread possible (except Michael Steele, he’s just a douche).

ETA: I hope the GOP never realizes how much they fail at technology. Then again, technology symbolizes progress, and we all know how much they hate that.

Comrade Darkness - December 15, 2009 | 12:39 am · Link

@Ked: I keep a separate browser for random surfing. Off branded, so low target, and all java and plug-ins disabled. Why miss out on the fun?

r€nato - December 15, 2009 | 12:44 am · Link

http://gop.am/TqTv

Dave L. - December 15, 2009 | 12:52 am · Link

Figured it out!

http://gop.am/n47U

parksideq - December 15, 2009 | 12:55 am · Link

Lemme give this a shot:

http://gop.am/mGG3

mtraven - December 15, 2009 | 1:02 am · Link

Oh come on, it’s not like the GOP doesn’t have an intellectual side.

Midnight Marauder - December 15, 2009 | 1:06 am · Link

http://gop.am/LZvf

And look at Political Media’s brainchild in action!

Original URL Length: 129 characters

GOP.AM URL Length: 18 characters

shortened by: 111 characters

Political Media.
Inside Politics…Outside The Box.
Making Long URLs…Conservative Since 2009.

Sly - December 15, 2009 | 1:17 am · Link

For the Trifecta: http://gop.am/Vjj3

Mithras - December 15, 2009 | 1:19 am · Link

Folks, to get the GOP wrapper + Michael Steele action, you first pass the URL through http://hammerandsteele.com then submit the result to gop.am.

For example, here’s the Socialist Party link from upthread. It’s pretty good:

http://gop.am/Wfro

The Republic of Stupidity - December 15, 2009 | 1:20 am · Link

Awwww, man…

Thas what I git fer bein’ a responsible adult ‘n takin’ care o business ‘n blah blah blah…

I missed this whole thread…

Talk about hittin’ tha jackpot…

Mithras - December 15, 2009 | 1:28 am · Link

(trying again to avert moderation purgatory)

Folks, to get the GOP wrapper + Michael Steele action, you first pass the URL through http://hammerandsteele.com then submit the result to gop.am.

For example, here’s the Socialist Party link from upthread. It’s pretty good:
http://gop.am/Wfro

Hob - December 15, 2009 | 1:29 am · Link

@kommrade reproductive vigor: Hell yes, they’ll call it hacking… or hijacking… or snarko-terrorism. And half of them will actually believe it.

Just to take the grotesquely inappropriate 9/11 metaphor a little further: this would be like someone saying “no one could have predicted terrorists would hijack airplanes and use them as weapons”... if that someone had founded an airline that catered to thrill-seeking passengers by handing them the controls upon request, and only offered flights within the New York city limits. And the stated purpose of the airline was to annoy liberals.

This Larry Ward will go far in the Internet media dimension. Oh my God, what if he teams up with Andrew Breitbart? How will we handle all the awesome?

Hob - December 15, 2009 | 1:34 am · Link

BTW, Larry Ward and Political Media is not a put-on – at least not a deliberate one. But if this doesn’t seem like the work of a clueful web media company, that’s probably because web-tube-place-sites are not really their core specialty. At least a few years ago, they were mainly into spam.

(edit: One impressive feature of their site is a Code of Ethics page that doesn’t say anything about what the code is.)

andrewsomething - December 15, 2009 | 1:50 am · Link

And who is this registrant?

http://our.gop.com/lward99

This seems to be the genius behind this.

Morbo - December 15, 2009 | 1:51 am · Link

XD

That is all.

asiangrrlMN - December 15, 2009 | 2:02 am · Link

@Steeplejack: I love you, Steepman. No, seriously. That’s just PRICELESS!

asiangrrlMN - December 15, 2009 | 2:06 am · Link

@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal): Wow. That’s infuriating. I hadn’t heard about that (the Oklahoma part). Hm. I’m going to look at Tunchie again. That’ll make me smile.

mandarama - December 15, 2009 | 2:20 am · Link

I love you people. That is all.

mandarama - December 15, 2009 | 2:28 am · Link

@freelancer (itouch):

Aww! That’s a good thing, since more than half of us are the same people.

Would that make it self-love? Because I’m thinking that’s a great topic to shorten using gop.am!

freelancer (itouch) - December 15, 2009 | 2:41 am · Link

@mandarama:

onanism is a noble vocation. Bit messy though.

LightsOut - December 15, 2009 | 3:04 am · Link

Hey, someone who’s not lazy (ie not me) should prolly get some screen captures of the best entries (eg Tunch infiltration) before the links are inevitably, sadly deactivated.

mary t - December 15, 2009 | 4:28 am · Link

http://gop.am/XpVp

Notorious P.A.T. - December 15, 2009 | 6:05 am · Link

@r€nato:

Republican anti-abortion activist
Neal Horsley admitted to having
sex with a mule

Well, at least he owned up to it.

Tom Betz - December 15, 2009 | 6:15 am · Link

@Wile. E. Coyote

Oh, that URL is just FULL of win! It even brought out the Chairman!

r€nato - December 15, 2009 | 6:39 am · Link

My god… it’s full of win…

you guys are the best. I want to have all of your children. Never mind that I don’t have any bleeding ovaries. I’ll gestate it in a box.

noncarborundum - December 15, 2009 | 6:58 am · Link

Who knew Armenia had a GOP?

JenJen - December 15, 2009 | 7:31 am · Link

@gnomedad: Bwaaaaaah!!

slightly_peeved - December 15, 2009 | 8:01 am · Link

My contribution

r€nato - December 15, 2009 | 8:18 am · Link

@slightly_peeved:

that would be awesome if the pics weren’t blocked. I haven’t seen that site in ages. It is timeless.

arguingwithsignposts - December 15, 2009 | 8:58 am · Link

@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
as i predicted.

harlana pepper - December 15, 2009 | 9:06 am · Link

Thank you, just, thank you

Exurban Mom - December 15, 2009 | 9:45 am · Link

So sad. The only link I clicked on that didn’t come back broken was….Joe Lieberman’s website all wrapped up in pretty GOP.am wallpaper. Go figure.

Svensker - December 15, 2009 | 10:26 am · Link

@Kirk Spencer:

SMARTech Corp of Chattanooga TN has been the GOP’s webservice provider for at least a decade now. Allegedly, about a year, year and a half ago they had some shuffles in their company personnel.
About a year, year and a half ago the GOP websites started becoming jokes.

Liberty U grads strike again!

So sad it’s all over, but that was sure fun.

Steeplejack - December 15, 2009 | 11:17 am · Link

@Shade Tail:

I got a screen capture of Tunch’s incursion at 160 and e-mailed it to Cole. Perhaps he will post it.

Rob - December 15, 2009 | 11:26 am · Link

snicker

Terms of Use:

GOP.AM was created as a free service to make posting long URLs easier. If you use it for spamming, illegal purposes or to promote lude content, your GOP.AM URL will be disabled. This service is provided without warranty of any kind.

KevinNYC - December 15, 2009 | 11:39 am · Link

Rob,

“lude content” I think some of these qualify. I’m pretty sure they meant “lewd content.”

DRS - December 15, 2009 | 12:57 pm · Link

Oh, and I am sure it’s been done, but worth doing again:

http://gop.am/9z7f

Frames gone mad! Started with a bit.ly redirect to gop.am and then just kept redirecting the new one over and over.

They do check for “gop.am” but not for gop.am/whatever…

GOP URL Shortener Short-Lived - December 15, 2009 | 1:09 pm · Link

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[...] John Cole writes: [...]

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[...] John Cole: This GOP URL thing could turn out to be teh awesome, as some of you have pointed out: [...]

RyanEnder - December 15, 2009 | 9:00 pm · Link

Oh, I do love this so…

http://gop.am/SwIN

Grand Ole Meltdown - Locker Partner - Disruptive Social Media and Music Management - December 16, 2009 | 10:59 am · Link

[...] began using it to share distinctly unconservative links, such as the American Communist Party, a bondage website and a webpage advertising a sex toy that looks like Obama, Wired reports. And no doubt quite a few [...]

Bob - December 16, 2009 | 12:53 pm · Link

This one is priceless!

http://gop.am/VUUd

Elf M. Sternberg - December 16, 2009 | 1:15 pm · Link

Sweet and obvious. Someone call Larry Craig:

http://gop.am/7rxq

Jeffrey James - December 16, 2009 | 11:19 pm · Link

http://gop.am/2Sie

TheCuriosity - December 17, 2009 | 6:51 am · Link

Funny that they went and filtered out the wetsuit example in the OP, but you can still get things like tubgirl in it (lemon party has been filters, though.)

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[...] the link was broken, so it looks like they’re on it. But, here’s a screenshot from Balloon Juice if you feel the need to have Michael Steele’s enthusiastic approval of your taste in [...]