US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

Love the generally held belief that the only thing keeping Boehner from going over the edge is his long history as a total hack.

this is sort of standard Usenet troll practice: claim that you used to be with the side you're arguing against

cant be emphasized enough imo

it's on the same spectrum as concern-trolling, i think.

It's been said on several other threads but seriously, stay away from the comments sections of online news stories, especially ones as tied up in insanity as birther stuff. This way lies madness...

if Trump makes it to the primaries, I would register Republican just to vote for him

actually I've been tempted to register Republican for a long time now, under the idea that if I can convince enough people to follow my lead, we could utterly ruin and/or transform the party

sadly, I don't think I have enough pull to convince enough others to come with me to make it worthwhile but it would still be entertaining

they just had story on the CBC about the "birthers" and Obama producing his birth certificate etc - basically called them closet racists!

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my mom convinced me at (temporarily) register republican when I was 18 so I could vote against reagan in the 1976 primary. fat lot of good it did in the long run, and my she never did move to canada as threatened "if that ACTOR becomes president."

might be persuaded to give it a go again. operation chaos.

yeah, be careful what you wish for. and what kinds of crazy nonsense folks will fall for from a front runner.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkbrjozbOf1qz83umo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1304031085&Signature=1%2BWxsECJNQUzjGB1an0smoA%2BDtw%3D

im not the first person to make this observation but theres something sort of... thematically appropriate about this country's first black president being forced to show a form identifying himself,

Um, yeah - the consensus over here is Presidentin' While Black. This woman's take was good: http://elleabd.blogspot.com/2011/04/pull-over-that-ass-is-too-black.html

can someone please drop a safe on Scalia already

In a 5-4 ruling . . .which fell precisely along ideological lines

NO KIDDING?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkbxmp2WC61qackuso1_500.jpg

hahaha fuck yeah

so glad ego trip is back in the game

he's gettin SO FUCKIN COOL just in time for you slugs to vote for him again

Not much of a drinker, but if I get my work done early, I've sometimes pop two NyQuil capsules and then jelly-belly my way around the office, giving people hugs and whistling "Patience" by G'n'R. There's this one guy I detest, though, and once I found his chair empty so I just gurgled up a nice one and spat on it. Immediately afterwards I got paranoid and rubbed it into the upholstery and walk- sprinted away. As I wiped my finger on my sock I bitterly realized that the whole process probably resulted in me getting more spit on my clothes than on his. Hmmm. I don't want to physically assault him; trying to chip away at him psychologically wont work - he's one of those people so removed from any social loop that nothing offends him (Example: Me: "You're wearing neon yellow suspenders and a sweater your gramma knitted you and your fly is undone you dumb bastard." Him: "Well I'm SOOOOORRY...I guess I don't conform to your standards of "COOOL" and "FASHION", hmph!").
I think I'm just gonna steal his fucking stapler.
-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), February 1st, 2002.

Sadly, that 5 to 4 Supreme Court verdict on behalf of corporations will likely be repeated in the Wallmart case.

x-post- how about this line in that Presidentin' While Black blogpost:

I don't understand how you validate the extremists in the "other" party while always scornfully chiding the so-called extremists (ahem, perhaps actual progressives?) in your own.

Not that it makes sense to suggest that most "progressives" are somehow the leftwing equivalent of birthers, but in my dream world Obama would acknowledge the House Progressive Caucus (and its budget proposal) and others and try to work with them and not just attend fundraisers with Goldman Sachs types. Alas, I will be one of those dupes Morbs rails against and will hold my nose and vote for him again.

Do you live in a swing district? If not, you don't have to vote for him.

well, swing state

even i'm not voting for him at this point.

(i live in oregon though so i can do whatever i want and it doesn't matter)

a token liberal district in Virginia(a state with a Republican governor and a right-wing attorney-general who is challenging the health care law, which went Dem for first time since LBJ last time)

so you're cool then.

My state is so much fun: our latest experiment in lunacy.

Virginia sorta matters

As much as I play mr. 'lol third parties' people in safe states should do whatever they want with their pres vote - I mean it's statistically unlikely but not impossible that alfred's Florida vote swings the election, but essentially impossible that Morbs' New York vote swings the pres election, cause when New York is in play the GOP has already won.

so yeah there is a point where 'your vote doesn't matter' even theoretically

I want swing-staters to withhold their duopoly votes if they plan to save America; everything else is meaningless. If I vote in 2012 and there's no one better than Cynthia McKinney, I will simply skip voting for the CorpoCapo office.

and I want a pony

if you vote for me, I will give iatee a pony

it's not about ponies, it's about having one scintilla more of personal consistency when you refuse to participate in a mass charade. Things are going to have to change from below the POTUS level first. (As I've said before, I don't believe they will. Tra la.)

how come this

I want swing-staters to withhold their duopoly votes if they plan to save America; everything else is meaningless. If I vote in 2012 and there's no one better than Cynthia McKinney, I will simply skip voting for the CorpoCapo office.

is tiresome & old, but this

and I want a pony

is fresh material?

it's a pretty young pony

also DJP U O iatee 2x pony, I have written your name in for prez in both '04 & '08

I am not gonna eat the pony aero

I didn't win, though

unless I'm elected, I won't have access to the resources necessary to implement my "give iatee a pony" platform

actually maybe I will eat one if I get two

I do not support this Eat A Pony program, I thought the whole point was for iatee to demonstrate the viability of alt transportation modes by riding a pony to work

wait, I meant a pony keg

why are all politicians so full of lies

ponies > mules > "be adult and vote for assholes"

iatee to djp: "you cannot front on your constituents by sending this to their doors and demanding the acknowledge that you made good on your campaign pledges"

http://a2.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/51/56589730fc0d4596bcdbf7f3b3a65149/l.jpg

The 2000 election was enough reason for me never to stunt vote (or not vote) ever again. I mean, I'm in one of those states that they just mark blue before counting has even begun. There's no question where Illinois will go. But I'm a big fan of amassing as many "surplus" popular votes as possible, should the other side try to pull a fast one. Again.

lots of new voter restriction laws happening on a state level

er, being proposed, for the time being

even in 'safe' states; there's one in the works up here

http://minnesotaindependent.com/80819/republicans-introduce-voter-id-constitutional-amendment

perhaps a lot of democrats will have the choice to stay home in protest made for them!

in the Things More Interesting than Republicrat Presidents Dept, Taibbi talks to Spitzer on sweetheart loans for Wall St wives:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/talking-real-housewives-of-wall-street-with-eliot-spitzer-20110422

is minnesota still considered safe?