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… to those online friends & family members who have no memory whatsoever of any political events before, well, last Friday maybe.
(h/t commentor Wordsmith)
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… to those online friends & family members who have no memory whatsoever of any political events before, well, last Friday maybe.
(h/t commentor Wordsmith)
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Maody
Posted this on facebook. Hope it makes the rounds. 4 diverse friends have linked it in 5 minutes.
Angry Black Lady
Heh. I was just about to post this before the fascist flight attendants force me to turn off my iPad. Virgin America Hitlers, IMO.
stuckinred
@Angry Black Lady: Now now, you don’t want the electronics on the plane to go haywire!
stuckinred
Tweety is surprised by the lack of interest by Hispanics, especially those who are here illegally. What a fucking moron!
jwb
@stuckinred: Did he really say that??? Or maybe he’s just disappointed that the whole voting fraud angle isn’t working out.
El Cid
Via the GOS, this from MSNBC:
arguingwithsignposts
@jwb:
I’d be surprised if Tweety’s ever *met* any hispanics.
MikeBoyScout
Awesome vid.
merrinc
I saw this on the FB page for Billy Kennedy (Dem trying to unseat the odious Virginia Foxx) on Saturday. It’s very, very powerful. Fuck a bunch of paid actors reading scripts – this is REAL.
Omnes Omnibus
Facebooked. I generally do not use Facebook for anything political, but I’ll make an exception for this.
soonergrunt
@Maody: On my facebook, too.
stuckinred
@jwb: Yea, I actually listened to it twice. He just gets so excited that his ass over-runs his mouth. I’m sure he meant Hispanics would seem to have an interest in the issue but he just blurts out stupid shit as usual.
stuckinred
@soonergrunt: me three
Omnes Omnibus
Long line at the City Hall today when I went to vote. I was in line between a guy who is going to be driving people to the polls tomorrow and another one who is having foot surgery tomorrow. It took 50 minutes to move through the line, but there were volunteers there handing out cookies.
stuckinred
Sounds like KO will go after Stewart.
jwb
@stuckinred: me four.
WereBear
I love that video.
jwb
@stuckinred: Then KO is being an even bigger idiot than usual. Looks like Jon is having his show written for him…
WereBear
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, me too.
Basically, I run a cat blog, so conventional wisdom would have me be neutral, but the friggin’ Republicans killed a bunch of dogs and cats in the melamine contamination, and so no one is safe when they are in power.
No one.
morzer
@stuckinred:
Is the world ready for the KO/Rick Sanchez show?
stuckinred
@jwb: From the opening it looks like he’s going to speak to the false equivalency of Fox and MSNBC.
Ha, Howie Fineman just quoted Kid Rock!
gbear
@stuckinred: KO is pretty easily butthurt.
Rey
I voted early- Democrats only! Watching The Hangover on HBO. I plan to be hungover this time tomorrow as the returns come in. Good times ahead for the next 24 hours– Woohoo!!
Triassic Sands
The United States of Amnesia. Doesn’t remember. Or just doesn’t care.
Resident Firebagger
@jwb:
Stewart does engage in false equivalence from time to time. Don’t see what’s wrong with Olbermann pointing that out…
Omnes Omnibus
@WereBear: No war has broken out on my FB page yet. My wingnut cousin posted this over the weekend, “I’m going to a Halloween party. We were asked to wear the scariest costumes that we could come up with. I’m going as a Democrat.” I don’t have many wingnut relations, but the ones I do have are special. The weird thing is that she is only about 30.
TaMara (BHF)
Well thanks for that video, Anne. Powerful without being ugly. Truth is a powerful weapon.
Resident Firebagger
Coming soon: I remember which party occupied the White House when they gutted Social Security.
I’ll be voting Democrat tomorrow, but I just can’t be happy about it like you people…
General Stuck
I am all out of snark to describe this great country in the midst of a nervous breakdown.
stuckinred
@Resident Firebagger: And there is nothing wrong with people wandering over here from FDL and bitching away even though some of us left THERE so we wouldn’t have to hear it.
And take your fucking “you people” and stick in in Jane’s ass.
TaMara (BHF)
@WereBear: I have a question I’ve been meaning to ask you for a while. I have an adult male tuxedo cat and his mink black momma – they were the ones who decided to stay with me after I fostered the momma and her 5, one-day old kittens.
Every day, usually evening, he starts yowling to wake the dead, rolls on the floor, belly up and she comes running, bites his neck and then licks his head. None of my other cats participate in this behavior and I’m wondering if you’ve seen this a lot and what the heck it might mean.
Omnes Omnibus
@TaMara (BHF): Demonic possession is my guess. On the other hand, I know nothing about cats or demonic possession.
jwb
@Resident Firebagger: It depends on how KO engages Stewart. Given what KO was saying over the weekend, let’s just say I’ll be very surprised if he manages to make a productive move. He’ll probably just end up sniveling like the rest of the press corps about having his fee-fees hurt.
The Other Chuck
@TaMara (BHF):
The male cats I’ve had all seem to get vocal once in the evening and once in early morning around sunrise. I suspect it’s because that’s when they’re most awake and they just want attention. So if they get it, they learn to keep doing it.
At least you’ve got the other cat to shut him up. My other cat just ignores him.
BR
@jwb:
The only way I think KO can pull it off with what’s left of his dignity is to do turnabout and take the worst of Stewart and make a punchline of it.
WereBear
@Omnes Omnibus: I know what you mean. Young wingnuts just baffle me; haven’t they been paying any attention?
Maody
friend me, friend me! oh well, i don’t know y’all.
KO has the biggest head in history for a non-giant. wonder why he doesn’t use it much?
WereBear
@TaMara (BHF): It’s drama, I’d figure. Cats love drama.
He’s pretending to be in trouble and she rescues him, just like when he was tiny. It’s neat they still play together!
My James Bond will sometimes sneak into the hallway and yowl like his throat is being torn out. It’s my cue to call him in to bed and tell him I can’t sleep without him.
I had another cat who loved to sneak into the basement and play Long Lost Cat. The reunion scene was Oscar worthy, I tells ya.
TaMara (BHF)
@WereBear: That made me laugh out loud. I’m pretty sure he’s playing and she’s just annoyed beyond belief.
Damn kids, grow-up and don’t move out of the house!
2th&nayle
@stuckinred:
THIS is the reason we can’t have nice things!
TaMara (BHF)
@Omnes Omnibus: You may know nothing about cats, but if you’ve paid attention to the tea-baggers, I think you’re well schooled in demonic possession.
Omnes Omnibus
@2th&nayle: I thought it was the drinking.
stuckinred
@2th&nayle: thank you John Stewart.
Mnemosyne
@TaMara (BHF):
Charlotte is still 100 percent convinced that Keaton is her mommy even though he’s a completely unrelated neutered male. But she still goes over and plops herself on top of him so he’s forced to give her a bath.
Charlotte has also decided that she should get to bug Annie in Annie’s safe place on top of the bookshelves if she’s bored, but we’ve been trying to police Charlotte and make her get down if we see her doing it.
stuckinred
@jwb: It’s not what he did at all.
jwb
@stuckinred: So what did he do? Did he productively engage?
El Cid
@stuckinred: I thought he and Alter made coherent points which we would all agree with and would be rejected by the vast majority of pundits and on-air commentators — what “MSNBC” does (its partial roster of liberal-leaning hosts) is in no way comparable to a funded propaganda program for the Republican party and the far, far right and a demonizer of actual journalism such as Fox News. But it’s pretty easy to equate them as ‘well, you have Fox on the right and MSNBC on the left,’ and I didn’t really expect anything different from a rally promoted as being in no way whatsoever partisan and equally condemning of all ridiculousness.
WereBear
@El Cid: I actually don’t think of them as “left leaning” because they are simply the only ones who call out lies and make an effort to tell the truth.
If such things have become “liberal” then the Republicans have no one but themselves to blame.
stuckinred
@jwb: I think so.
El Cid
@WereBear: By my standard of ‘left’, pretty much no one is leftist. But I understand that it’s used functionally — i.e., if there’s a “right”, there must be a “left”, so those who are not ‘right’ and who oppose the ‘right’ must therefore be ‘left’. If Republicans are ‘right’, so it goes, then Democrats must be ‘left’. Therefore commonist and soshullist.
MattR
@El Cid: I did not watch Olbermann tonight but that sounds like a response to a point that Jon Stewart did not make. IMO, Jon made examples of Keith and Ed Schultz not because of the content of what they were saying, but the way they were saying it. Is it all surprising that a rally about restoring sanity and civility to our discourse would not be happy with a show that has a daily feature called “World’s Worst Person”?
jwb
@stuckinred: Well good for him if he did. KO pissed me off this weekend because he had an opportunity to engage and come back at Stewart with a thoughtful response but instead all he did was issue the usual journalistic snark.
WereBear
I feel the parties involved are talking past each other.
The sensation seeking part of the news does no one any good; now all news outlets have the same, local, “Will your kitchen sponge kill you?” attitude that does not inform anyone. If the populace has a lot of stupid ideas, it might have something to do with the fact that so much of the media is delivering them in that way.
I think that is what the Rally was about.
On the other hand, we have absolutely sociopathic ideas being pressed forward by complete idiots; and yet no one seems to pay sufficient attention. I think a certain amount of outrage is called for over that; heaven knows I can’t restrain myself when the subject comes up.
Who is supposed to point out the Emperor has no clothes, AND a raging case of moral leprosy?
jwb
@El Cid: The real scandal is that the “center” is too often cover for doing the bidding of our corporate overlords.
El Cid
@MattR:
Actually, I find that quite surprising. Personally I wouldn’t care at all if some Fox show had its own humorously slanted example of what they think is awful behavior of Democrats or liberals for the day. And I would think that would be the absolutely tiniest of things imaginable contributing to the breakdown of sane discourse in this country, which I really do see as part and parcel of right wing attacks on sanity and journalism for the past 30 years, whether anyone sees that as civil or not.