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Late Night Open Thread: Never Forget

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Tom Junod at Esquire summed up this whole past week on Wednesday morning:

I am watching Mike Huckabee on Fox.
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He is declaring that two years after being pronounced dead, the Republicans are back — and he’s comparing their resurgence to Twilight, or The Night of the Living Dead.
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That is, to a vampire movie, and a movie about flesh-eating ghouls.
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Thanks, Huck.

Seems quite accurate to me! On the other hand, I owe somebody here thanks for drawing the Noisettes to my attention:

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51Comments

  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    The sun still rose. And Dino’s political career is finally over. Plus we don’t elect another Senator here until 2014, when our dear lesbyterian millionaire is up again. She’ll cakewalk.

  2. 2.

    freelancer

    Okay, so just so we’re paying attention. If they’re gonna initiate the metaphor, they have to eat the whole narrative.

    The GOP is the braindead, brain eating horde and the Dems are the last vestiges of reason and humanity struggling to continue our desperate existence. Got it.

    I know who I’m rooting for.

  4. 4.

    suzanne

    @asiangrrlMN: To paraphrase my girl Whitney, hell to the yes.

    (I really need to teach my iPhone how to say “hell”. It keeps autocorrecting to “he’ll”. God, how plebeian.)

    I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

  5. 5.

    NobodySpecial

    The only reason he references NotLD is because the black guy gets shot at the end by law enforcement.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer:

    I know who I’m rooting for.

    Whoever makes the better mojito?

    EDIT: This is weird. My time changed on my computer but not on my cell phone.

  7. 7.

    Karen

    It’s ironic that he uses the comparison to zombie movies because I’ve often felt that the GOP/Teanuts and their followers are zombies. They will repeat the same thing over and over and even if you show they’re lying, they just repeat it.

    Ugh.

  8. 8.

    piratedan

    well its for certain that the Republicans can certainly use…. “more brains”…. just sayin’. Although I will say that their leadership is pretty damn sneaky smart, some of that rank and file…. hoo boy.

  9. 9.

    Linda Featheringill

    Some lady was knocking on my door at 4:00 a.m. looking for her boyfriend. Wrong house.

    That persuaded the animals that they were hungry. I fed them a bit and they all eagerly ate. It hasn’t been that long since the last meal. Honestly.

    But now, I’m awake. Yuck.

  12. 12.

    Linda Featheringill

    I was reading about Obama’s trip to India, etc.

    Do you think the current crop of office holders will conform to the rule of not criticizing the President when he is out of the country? I wouldn’t put much money on it to bet either way.

  17. 17.

    PeakVT

    Oh, goodie, an extra hour to surf and do sudoku tonight.

    I really need to move back into a SFH so I can make noise whenever I’m awake, which tends to be erratic.

  18. 18.

    Restrung

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Yes, lets hear again about how politics stops at the waters’ edge. These ruthless politickers couldn’t get enough of that when Cheney and Bush were jacking us for their favored few. it’s only funny if someone gets hurted.

  21. 21.

    Art Decko

    @Linda Featheringill: I’ll have to see if Japan’s deflation has an effect on the Rachada entertainment district here in Bangkok favored by Japanese businessmen. Citizen investigative journalism never sleeps.

    Thanks to BJ for reminding me about US daylight savings time. I am now 15 hours ahead of Seattle. And a shoutout to QA over at GOS inviting me to post here.

  22. 22.

    El Cid

    Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a mature Republican who wants to work with the administration where cooperation is possible.

    If Barack Obama is willing to go ahead and utterly destroy Iran as a nation-state, Graham is willing to support him.

    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A leading U.S. senator on defense issues says any military strike on Iran to stop its nuclear program must also strive to take out Iran’s military capability.
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    Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who sits on the Armed Services Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, said Saturday the U.S. should consider sinking the Iranian navy, destroying its air force and delivering a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard.
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    He says they should neuter the regime, destroy its ability to fight back and hope Iranians will take a chance to take back their government.
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    His remarks stunned many in the audience at the Halifax International Security forum.
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    Graham told the audience that newly elected conservatives would back “bold” action against Iran, reports Agence France Presse:

    If President Barack Obama “decides to be tough with Iran beyond sanctions, I think he is going to feel a lot of Republican support for the idea that we cannot let Iran develop a nuclear weapon,” he told the Halifax International Security Forum.
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    “The last thing America wants is another military conflict, but the last thing the world needs is a nuclear-armed Iran… Containment is off the table.”

    I’m sure he will find plenty of support among a variety of Democrats.

    I love this shit about how if the US decides out of the blue to blow Iran up as much as we did Iraq, this will let the Iranians ‘take back’ their country. No, they’ll all climb out of the rubble, hate the US with a passion shared by the rest of the world and the survivors of the ensuing chaos would be governed by either a meth-amped version of their current Islamic fundamentalist regime, or Iraqi-civil-war style regional fights between rival fundamentalist warlords.

    But at least finally this will teach the Muslim world that terrorism is ineffective and it will all decline and not threaten us any more. And it will make our task in remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan forever so much easier.

    This is a weak, unjust world, but if there were any shred of international law worth a shit, the US would face a complete worldwide economic embargo if it starts to go blow the fuck out of another nation in another instance of aggression.

    I really don’t know if anyone would do anything if the US carried out Graham’s manly, masturbatory fantasies. I don’t see any other nation doing anything but bitching and moaning and passing some UN General Assembly complaint, and I sure as hell don’t think that any protests here would be completely tame and utterly without impact.

    And the Republicans would still hate Obama with a passion.

  31. 31.

    gene108

    @suzanne:

    I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

    We can’t have that. If we did, our kids will forever think creationism isn’t science, global warming is a BFD, and would probably vote straight Democratic.

  33. 33.

    gene108

    Why are sports fans so fickle?

    When a team has a good win, they declare they are going to win it all and bad things the team did, but still somehow won, never happened and when the team has a bad loss, they want to fire the coaching staff, blow up the roster and rebuild from scratch.

    I’m a sports fan. I’ve done this roller coaster ride of emotions. It still doesn’t make sense.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @AB:

    Not that it matters much, but why do we not criticize the President when he’s out of the country?

    Tradition, based on the idea that, while we may argue about things internally, the country speaks with one voice to the world. It is similar to the situation in the Godfather where Vito slaps Sonny for indicating disagreement within the family while at the Sollozzo meeting.

  36. 36.

    PIGL

    Yet another reason I lurk here constantly, is the discovery of the coolest tunes.

    On behalf of those of who can longer read NME or Trouser Press or No Depression, or whatever it you kids read these days, thanks to all y’all for passing on the Noisettes,

  37. 37.

    bemused

    I’m just catching up on last night’s threads. Good stuff. I love the diverse mix of posters, topics and comments. A real melting pot although I’m told that’s unamerican now.
    Why do republicans hate trains and love their cars? They’re masters of the road in a car and it’s great fun to force those commie bicyclists off their highways.
    Pelosi is a kickass leader and female which is extremely threatening to rightwingers esp old white guys. Former Majority Leader Tom Delay is now on trial in Texas. If Pelosi was on trial in her state with the same charges, msm would be spending hours daily on the story. Tom Delay…crickets.

  38. 38.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Anyone else find it close to impossible to read a newspaper this week? Except for the sports.

  39. 39.

    Linda Featheringill

    @AB:

    Not that it matters much, but why do we not criticize the President when he’s out of the country?

    Don’t know when it started but the Repubs liked to throw that up during the Bush years.

  41. 41.

    wazmo

    @Yutsano:

    Sometimes the local tower’s timesource doesn’t get updated all that quickly. When I got up this morning the time was still showing as daylight time-about a half-hour later it flipped back to standard time.

  44. 44.

    El Cid

    @Linda Featheringill: No, the rule is that Democrats and liberals can say nothing critical of a Republican President when he’s out of the country, and they cannot criticize conservative US policies or Republican politicians when they themselves are abroad, else it becomes clear that they are horrible America-hating traitors.

  46. 46.

    joe from Lowell

    Cool.

    It’s like an update of Phil Spector’s Soul + Wall of Sound formulation, adding guitar noise.

  48. 48.

    xian

    the old expression is “politics stops at the water’s edge” and it has more to do with having a unified nonpartisan or bi-partisan foreign policy, regardless of domestic disputes, than with not speaking ill of the president when she’s abroad.

  49. 49.

    Tom Hamill

    If you like the Noisettes, I have a feeling you are going to *love* Janelle Monae. Archandroid is awesome.

  50. 50.

    Dr. WUW

    “They had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were young Republicans.” [Buffy the Movie, 1992. Spoken by survivor of vampire attack at dance in gym.]

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