US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

j0hn d., what do you think about the taxpayer bailout of radiohead

And our solutions aren't thousand-page bills that no one has fully read, after being crafted behind closed doors with special interests. In fact, many of our proposals are available online at solutions.gop.gov, and we welcome your ideas on Facebook and Twitter. I understand that Stephin Merritt has been asked to write a song cycle incorporating many of our proposals, but has declined. Fucking, whatever.

Hi K-Lo: "To understand the State of the Union, we must look not only at where we are and where we're going but where we've been. The situation at this time last year was truly ominous." -- pathetically unpresidential RW Reagan

that's different. reagan was a man's man

this guy is a fucking nightmare. a good reminder to all you cynical nitpicks what your alternative is.

Mordy, email K-Lo with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QFLsxeEl5I

i'm voting for Lady Gaga

Maybe this is just me, but girl on the lower-right hand corner of the screen when McDonnell is talking, ws.

americanswereshockedonchristmasdaytodiscov. . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The President and I agree on expanding the number of high-quality charter schools, and rewarding teachers for excellent performance. More school choices for parents and students mean more accountability and greater achievement. A child's educational opportunity should be determined by her intellect and work ethic, not by whether she has the black vinyl bag edition of Headache. Shit, there were only, what, 2000 of those pressed? I have one, though. Way out ahead of that curve. Bought it at Wuxtry in Athens. Spring break, 1988. Good times.

I cannot possibly live in a country in which Vampire Weekend outsold Whitney Houston's last album. My friends, this is unacceptable.

Re: Citizens United [Daniel Foster]

UPDATE: A reader put me onto this, and CNN just confirmed it. They have Associate Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing the words "no, that's not right," when the president suggested that the Citizens United decision overturned a "century" of law.

We'll have to check the tape, but very unusual for a Supreme Court Justice to register a reaction at the State of the Union!

Yeah I am disappointed that McDonnell has spent so much of this speech talking about his rare collection of test pressings.

As our Founders clearly stated, and we Governors understand, Whitney is awesome. Fuck an indie band imo.

Already posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMKD1Mi8o0

And Justice Alito is mouthing, "Fuck an indie. Susan Doyle best incarnates the spirit of the Establishment Clause."

Now, we should pledge as Democrats, Republicans and Independents--Americans all---to work together to leave this nation a better place than we found it. God Bless you, and bring back shitgaze.

j0hn has gone all Rufus Hipster Runoff Firefly on us

all you cynical nitpicks

continued renditions, escalating in Afghanistan, free money for banker thieves = "nitpicks." God bless you, you're the nightmare, bnw.

SCOTUS reaction shots were great, but military shots better. reaction to DADT repeal looked like botoxed military action figurines. full dress but no expressive human capability.

i heard sufjan stevens was in the gallery and i don't know why they cut his inspiring real american story out of the speech

Oooh, McDonnell took 12 minutes, his boys checked the fuck out of there.

Hahaha Brian Williams is calling out the placement of the token black and Asian people behind McDonnell.

continued renditions, escalating in Afghanistan, free money for banker thieves = "nitpicks." God bless you, you're the nightmare, bnw.

love for bnw but Morbius is OTM. it is not nitpicking to give a shit about torture & war, no matter how many times people in the pro-Vampire-Weekend camp claim it is.

Whitney is awesome. Fuck an indie band imo.

SHE WILL NOT QUIT
I WILL NOT QUIT
WE WILL NOT QUIT

hahaha, talk away people, am swapping Morbs for Morpheus!

i think far as military and SCOTUS go, they have a general understanding that they don't react to the speech, don't applaud - doesn't matter what's being said

I used to be pretty relaxed about stuff like war and torture but then i saw bomb blown up to 96 point futura

yeah i'm not surprised the military dudes didn't react

j0hn has gone all Rufus Hipster Runoff Firefly on us

man what'd I do to deserve this, I spend all night bringing quality material only to be tarred with this brutal brush

already redacting my campaign trail showtunes riffs in retaliation

my impression was that the military dudes are supposed to stay stone-faced the whole time

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j0hn d. i for one support your work tonight--kudos to you

btw i'm pretty sure i heard, in the footage of Obama walking around chatting post-speech, someone talking about Jersey Shore

dude I like comedy/novelty tunes way better than Broadway, pay attention.

The Difference Between the President's Speech and Governor McDonnell's [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The president had some optimistic salt on his. McDonnell exuded it in his.

someone make gross gif of McDonnell exuding salt, plz

he exuded salt? is that a symptom of dehydration?

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/temprain/slug_4823.jpg

He needs to conserve water to cool all the offshore drills.

yeah i'm not surprised the military dudes didn't react

they are too busy going over the coup plans in their heads

continued renditions, escalating in Afghanistan, free money for banker thieves = "nitpicks." God bless you, you're the nightmare, bnw.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

all this gets much much worse under a McDonnell. if I'm Vampire Weekend, you guys are trying to dish some abstract noise record that you and 14 other people have heard. you will never have enough people listening or caring about it to make anything substantial happen. so get with the watered down version or stfu.

I don't like it when K-Lo uses 'exude' or similar in sentences, and on that note zzzzzzzzz

he exuded salt? is that a symptom of dehydration?

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a: yes!

GOP: "the president asks too much and we propose to deny any bill before reading it because we are blessed in america with... and we should be blah blah blah... terrorism... we want opportunity, freedom, everything good AND limited government... don't forget to help haiti"

so get with the watered down version or stfu.

An actual cynic in da house, ladies & lackeys^

also excellent path to dictatorship, bnw

do you also feel like pissing on Zinn's grave?

well where is it?

my vote for best comic line of the thread goes to Morbs tho, I lol'd v. hard here

Why aren't my stories on?

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:05 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also:
so get with the watered down version or stfu.

seriously this is so hopeless and horrible that outright fascism would be preferable

and who made Howard Zinn the spokesman for the common man?

he wrote a book, man!

some Obama libs correlate w/ "love it or leave it" Archie Bunker hardhats 40 years ago

yeah but Archie Bunker at least knew to put zings first instead of being really grave & Serious Business about it