Elon James is pretty damned funny:
Black people are allowed to be dumbasses, too.
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Elon James is pretty damned funny:
Black people are allowed to be dumbasses, too.
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MikeJ
I wish he’d get a sound guy. The audio sucks.
You Don't Say
Is this an open thread? Good.
Latest polling shows Reid and Angle in dead heat. Arggggh!
asiangrrlMN
OK. He answered my question about the black woman calling into Dr. Laura, but as I ranted below–any minority that has anything to do with the current Republican Party and their ilk gets no sympathy from me. You watch them do that shit to everyone else, and you don’t think they are going to do it to you?
This episode was funnier than the last, but he’s still more ha-ha chuckle funny to me than flat-out guffaw roars of laughter funny.
stuckinred
Richard Engle is with the last US troops as they unass that fucker and head into Kuwait. Rachel is there and KO is the MC on MSNBC. AMF
Guster
Is this not an example of a white person saying ‘nigger’ wittily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqwj–wGEgY
soonergrunt
There’s an app for that. That’s hilarious.
asiangrrlMN
@Guster: For some reason, your link goes directly to the YouTube homepage. You fix.
@soonergrunt: You! How you doing? Does your latest news mean you’re free and clear?
Violet
Since this is a humor thread, I stumbled across this website for Tea Partiers and this is how they ask for donations:
They’re asking their fellow teabaggers to donate with their lives? I do not think their request means what they think it means.
LT
Did you leave the “White” out of his name on purpose?
Just Some Fuckhead
I looked at the last video you linked to and it wasn’t very funny.
Guster
@asiangrrlMN: Why does it do that? I’m baffled. I will fax YouTube my utility bill.
Well, this is it: http://bit.ly/setwO
Not sure it was worth posting twice …
JenJen
FYI all, MSNBC is airing excellent, and poignant, live coverage now of the last US combat troops leaving Iraq.
This is a good day, and I’m surprised MSNBC is the only outlet that seems interested in covering the importance of this moment, which has been a long time coming.
ETA: Didn’t see @stuckinred’s earlier post.
soonergrunt
@stuckinred: They should all be leaving. If the Iraqis can’t run their own country without us doing for them, then well, oh fucking well.
We should never have went there in the first place, but if anybody thinks that anything would be any different after Saddam Hussein eventually would’ve died, well, you would be wrong.
I was standing in Kuwait on March 20th, watching logistics units moving north past the PATRIOT battery that we were guarding, and I was thinking of my political science classes on colonialism and post-colonial states, conflict and nation-states, and government operations in counter-terror and anti-terror campaigns, and I thought to myself “nothing good is going to come from this. We’ll defeat the Iraqi army in the field, but what happens after that?”
I was the most pessimistic guy I knew, and I was certain that we’d have 3,500 to 4,000 KIA and 15,000 to 20,000 WIA and be there five years. In seven years, we’ve had 4,700+ KIA and counting, 30,000+ WIA and counting.
Christ, what a waste.
stuckinred
@soonergrunt: I’m with you but it’s a milestone nonetheless. On the other hand, I was part of the first withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam in September 1969 and it was complete in April 1975.
Here’s the math on KIA’s
1969 11,616
1970 6,081
1971 2,357
1972 641
1973 168
1974-1998 1178
Allison W.
@Guster:
lol! yeah that was witty and true. I liked this guy since his
‘Being White’ routine – very true also. sadly.
NobodySpecial
@Violet: I prefer to spend my Tea Party dough on this instead.
EvolutionaryDesign
@Violet: Speaking of tea partiers, “I’m Voting Tea Party!”
soonergrunt
@asiangrrlMN: Nope. It just means that the mass is not currently causing problems for my heart. The doctor said straight up “oh, no. We gotta get that nasty thing out before it does cause a problem.”
EvolutionaryDesign
@NobodySpecial: Dammit! Ya beat me to it!
Litlebritdifrnt
Re: The last combat troops leaving. If I get through tonight without bawling my eyes out it will only be through a monumental effort on my part. I had noticed an uptick in “homecomings” around here and thought that it was just my imagination, but obviously not. There has been at least one “homecoming” a week, with bedsheet signs everywhere. It does my heart good to know that the boys (and girls) are coming home at last.
It would seem appropriate to post this
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Landscape%20shots/?action=view¤t=DSC03677.jpg
NobodySpecial
@EvolutionaryDesign: Oops. 8)
Litlebritdifrnt
Cause it is a night to celebrate another one
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Landscape%20shots/?action=view¤t=DSC03677.jpg
and my favorite
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Landscape%20shots/?action=view¤t=DSC03657.jpg
Guster
@Allison W.: Yeah, that one makes me laugh, too. He’s about the only white comic (well, who I’ve seen) who talks about race like that.
Of course, him talking about having kids is what really kills me.
stuckinred
I ate the last mango in Paris
Took the last plane out of Saigon
Took the first fast boat to China
And Jimmy there’s still so much to be done
We shot the breeze for hours
As the sun fell from the skies
And like the sun hw disappeared before my very eyes
It was somewhere past dark-thirty
When I went back to the head
I read upon the dingy wall
The words the old man said
I ate the last mango in Paris…
….so much to be done.
Why don’t we wander and follow la vie dansante.
JGabriel
“Go enjoy white privilege.” (cut to photo of white man hailing a cab)
Brilliant.
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ItAintEazy
I’m glad he got to the point that always bothers me about these controversies, why do some whites feel that they are somehow being oppressed because they somehow can’t say nigger and coon as freely as black folks? Really, will their lives be complete if they can go somewhere in Compton and rap “Rat-A Tat Tat” without getting at least hard stares? Is that privilege really so important to have?
Well, the way I see it and as he said, white folks have had hundreds of years to use that word neutrally but failed miserably. They should just accept the fact that it make take another hundreds of years before it becomes okay for them to use it freely.
Stan of the Sawgrass
Gaw-DAYUM— this is one insightful, perceptive social critic! I wish I could see Elon’s variety of wit and intellect in ANY of the blovosphere’s ruminations about the fall of the odious “Dr. Laura.”
Why isn’t Elon on The Daily/Colbert? Or his own basic cable startup?
Face it, this is one goddamn funny nigger!!!
oh, wait….
asiangrrlMN
@Guster: OK, that was funny.
@soonergrunt: Fuck. More vibes whizzing your way.
soonergrunt
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks! I’ll take all the help I can get!
LiberalTarian
Yeah, that was pretty awesome. I wanted to go post it on my facebook and say, “see white people, this is why you can’t say … ” but, stymied again. Some arguments I can understand, but I can’t engage in. Sigh. It’s all good though. Being a woman means I have all kinds of historic outrages I can vent about!! Woo hoo!
Of course, some of my ancestry is Swedish, and some is English, so I am sure there are tons of people who would justifiably tell me to STFU. Like the Finns, and the rest of the world. Sigh. Nobody gets free poutrage.