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28 Oct 2010, 3:05 am

I normally try to keep my straight up C&P posts to a minimum, but this one was just too good to pass up:

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Republicans Kind of Suck … Which Is Why They Will Win Huge in November
Because in the Democratic land of epic, mega, ultra, apocalyptic levels of sucking, those who kinda suck are king.

This election season has been hard on pundits. The Democrats are going to get massacred in November, and it’s really obvious to pretty much everyone exactly why — which makes writing political commentary like trying to come up with a long-winded explanation for why two plus two equals four.

Here’s my attempt.

Doesn’t it suck when you have a dog that barks all night? Everyone hates that. It’s annoying. It can even drive you pretty crazy if it goes on long enough. People hate that.

Know what also sucks? A zombie apocalypse. That’s when society collapses due to some spreading zombie virus, and most of your friends and family are dead, and you have to scrounge for food to survive while the walking dead threaten you around every corner. People also hate that.

So, we’re all agreed that a barking dog and a zombie apocalypse both suck. Everyone following so far?

Now let’s look at what led us to the political situation we’re in. During the second term of the Bush presidency people just got fed up with Republicans. They were idiots, they were no good at the whole fiscal conservatism thing (which is sort of the whole point of them), we had these wars that seemed to be going nowhere, and the economy was beginning to fail. They sucked, and people were sick and tired of them.

Thus people turned to the Democrats. And Obama.

Let’s just say they also sucked.

AMERICANS: “So, the economy is pretty bad and there’s high employment. You think you can do something about that?”

DEMOCRATS AND OBAMA: “We can spend a trillion dollars we don’t have on pork and stuff.”

AMERICANS: “No … that’s not what we want. We’d really like you not to do that.”

DEMOCRATS: “You’re stupid. We’re doing it anyway.”

AMERICANS: “That’s not going to help us get jobs!”

DEMOCRATS: “Sure it will; millions of them … though they may be invisible. You’ll have to trust us they exist. And guess what else we’ll do: We’ll create a giant new government program to take over health care.”

AMERICANS: “That has nothing to do with jobs!”

DEMOCRATS: “We don’t care about that anymore. We really want a giant new health care program. We’re sure you’ll love it.”

AMERICANS: “Don’t pass that bill. You hear me? Absolutely do not pass that bill.”

DEMOCRATS: “Believe me; you’ll love it. It has … well, I don’t know what exactly is in the bill, but we’re sure it’s great.”

AMERICANS: “Listen to me: DO. NOT. PASS. THAT. BILL.”

DEMOCRATS: “You’re not the boss of me! We’re doing it anyway!”

AMERICANS: “Look what you did! Now the economy is way worse, we’re even deeper in debt, and we have a bunch of new laws we don’t want!”

DEMOCRATS: “You’re racist.”

AMERICANS: “Wha … How is that racist?”

DEMOCRATS: “Now you’re getting violent! Stop being violent and racist, you ignorant hillbillies! And remember to vote Democrat in November.”

So the Democrats sucked. But not just plain old, usual politician sucked, but epic levels of suck where it’s hard to find an analogue in human history that conveys the same level of suckitude. It was sheer incompetence plus arrogance — and those things do not complement each other well. We’re talking sucking that distorts time and space like a black hole.

It’s Godzilla-smashing-through-a-city level of suck — but a really patronizing Godzilla who says you’re just too stupid and hateful to see all the buildings he’s saved or created as he smashes everything apart. Or, to use Obama’s favorite analogy, you have a car stuck in ditch, so you call the mechanic, but the only tool he brings with him is a sledgehammer. And then he smashes your car to pieces and charges you $100,000 for his service. Finally, he calls you racist for complaining. Obama and the Democrats have been so awful, it’s hard for the human brain to even comprehend.

But the Democrats will counter that the Republicans also suck. And while this is true, it’s not really going to help them. As I pointed out before, both a dog incessantly barking and a zombie apocalypse are things that everyone would agree suck. Yet no one during a zombie apocalypse, while hiding out in a boarded up mall, would turn to the other survivors and say, “We don’t want to kill all the zombies; then we’d have to go back to being woken up at night by that annoying dog next door.” But this is the best argument the Democrats can come up with. “Remember how awful the Republicans and Bush were? You hated them. You don’t want to go back to that.” Yes, why would people want to go back to when 6% unemployment was considered high?

People do remember how much the Republicans suck, and they know where it tops out … and that is nowhere near as bad as the Democrats are today. Like with the barking dog, it’s annoying, but you know it’s not going to cause the collapse of civilization as we know it. Not so with the zombie apocalypse; who knows how bad that could get if left to continue? Same with the Democrats and Obama; people have never dealt with anything this horrible their entire lives, and they aren’t that curious to see how much worse it can be.

So the Republicans kinda suck, and that’s why they’re going to win huge this November. Because in the land of epic, mega, ultra, apocalyptic levels of sucking, those who kinda suck are king. Or at least are going to win in a landslide.

Because once the zombie apocalypse is over, the annoying neighbor dog is going to be music to your ears.

For a little while, at least.


http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/republican ... -november/

I like to think I have my clever and humorous moments, but I really wish I could write politics half as funny as this guy. Just to be clear, I'm not putting this forward as representative of my own feelings, just as something I thought was really funny.


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28 Oct 2010, 3:15 am

That sums this election cycle up rather well! :)


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28 Oct 2010, 3:39 am

am i the only one here on the wrong planet? what planet are the people from, who believe the health care status quo [before reform] is such a bleeping great thing? who think that 47 million uninsured is a great thing? who think that insurance companies are just great? who think that wall street can do absolutely no wrong and that main street should just shut up and obey their wall street masters? who think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that we jail more people than all the other countries on earth? who think that there's nothing wrong with this country that even more corporate welfare won't fix? who think turning america into a big 3rd world banana republic is just fine? who really believe that republicans are moral exemplars? why, god, why?



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28 Oct 2010, 9:23 am

auntblabby wrote:
am i the only one here on the wrong planet? what planet are the people from, who believe the health care status quo [before reform] is such a bleeping great thing? who think that 47 million uninsured is a great thing? who think that insurance companies are just great? who think that wall street can do absolutely no wrong and that main street should just shut up and obey their wall street masters? who think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that we jail more people than all the other countries on earth? who think that there's nothing wrong with this country that even more corporate welfare won't fix? who think turning america into a big 3rd world banana republic is just fine? who really believe that republicans are moral exemplars? why, god, why?


No, you're not the only one.

"3rd world banana republic," :lol: , followed by :cry:



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28 Oct 2010, 9:41 am

I vote that we put Bill Clinton back in office. It may be unconstitutional but it gets RESULTS.


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28 Oct 2010, 12:30 pm

auntblabby wrote:
am i the only one here on the wrong planet? what planet are the people from, who believe the health care status quo [before reform] is such a bleeping great thing? who think that 47 million uninsured is a great thing? who think that insurance companies are just great?

The problem is the majority don't realize how evil and unfair our healthcare system really is. The majority haven't yet been forced into extreme debt and poverty due to medical bills. It's simply not a high enough priority to those who aren't experiencing the suckiness first hand. You can never count on selfish populism to help out the minority.

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who think that wall street can do absolutely no wrong and that main street should just shut up and obey their wall street masters? who think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that we jail more people than all the other countries on earth? who think that there's nothing wrong with this country that even more corporate welfare won't fix? who think turning america into a big 3rd world banana republic is just fine? who really believe that republicans are moral exemplars? why, god, why?

They think the Republicans have somehow had a change of heart since the Bush years and no longer support wall street above all else. :roll: They also don't realize that if the much hated TARP (signed into law by Bush, not Obama) was blocked from passing and all the biggest banks were simply left to fail, main street would be hurt even worse than wall street. In their laissez-faire utopia we'd be sitting at Great Depression level unemployment rates (20-25%) rather than the current 10% unemployment.

Part of me wonders if "Great Depression Part II - The Sequel" was simply allowed to happen through laissez-faire non-intervention policy the people would finally learn their lesson. Part of me doubts that though. Nobody ever learns anything through history. I also don't know if people would be able to handle that level of suffering these days.

An employment crisis of the degree we're currently experiencing simply isn't going to go away overnight regardless of which party is in office. Here is a good figure for some perspective...

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28 Oct 2010, 2:57 pm

auntblabby wrote:
am i the only one here on the wrong planet? what planet are the people from, who believe the health care status quo [before reform] is such a bleeping great thing? who think that 47 million uninsured is a great thing? who think that insurance companies are just great? who think that wall street can do absolutely no wrong and that main street should just shut up and obey their wall street masters? who think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that we jail more people than all the other countries on earth? who think that there's nothing wrong with this country that even more corporate welfare won't fix? who think turning america into a big 3rd world banana republic is just fine? who really believe that republicans are moral exemplars? why, god, why?


I'm with you too. There's no reason (save for greed, of course) that people in what is supposedly the most advanced nation on Earth should be bankrupted and left for dead, just because private companies, in whose short-term monetary interests it is to deny claims, are the sole arbiters of whether people who really need help receive it or not. Yet, that is exactly what has been happening under the privatized system. Unfortunately, the dominant mentality in the United States still seems to be the Cold War knee-jerk reaction that socialism is always bad, and that healthcare is not an inalienable right but a privelege and commodity. I'm afraid that until the majority of Americans start to adopt a more caring attitude toward their fellow countrymen, or until the Democrats grow some juevos and stand up to these neo-McCarthyite Republicans (both of which I'd characterize, optimistically, as happening when pigs fly), we're stuck with a system that treats patients as piggy banks instead of human beings.



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28 Oct 2010, 3:13 pm

auntblabby wrote:
am i the only one here on the wrong planet? what planet are the people from, who believe the health care status quo [before reform] is such a bleeping great thing? who think that 47 million uninsured is a great thing? who think that insurance companies are just great? who think that wall street can do absolutely no wrong and that main street should just shut up and obey their wall street masters? who think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that we jail more people than all the other countries on earth? who think that there's nothing wrong with this country that even more corporate welfare won't fix? who think turning america into a big 3rd world banana republic is just fine? who really believe that republicans are moral exemplars? why, god, why?


No you're not the only one, I feel the same way and am in the same boat. It seems our system is being ruled more and more by rich elitists...as crazy as that sounds.


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28 Oct 2010, 4:02 pm

Pistonhead wrote:
I vote that we put Bill Clinton back in office. It may be unconstitutional but it gets RESULTS.


For real.



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28 Oct 2010, 5:11 pm

Internationally we liked Clinton. Why did you guys have to get rid of him? Because he was creative in his use of a humidor?


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28 Oct 2010, 5:44 pm

22nd amendment.



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28 Oct 2010, 9:29 pm

I think we are in a 1994 situation, I just hope it isn't a literal 1994 situation where the Republicans take control of house and senate, get too relaxed, and start doing the kinds of things that their own base can't stand. The tea party movement at least shows that people are fed up with Dumb and Dumber and having to settle for Dumb - hopefully that'll mean something over the next few years.



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28 Oct 2010, 9:38 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Pistonhead wrote:
I vote that we put Bill Clinton back in office. It may be unconstitutional but it gets RESULTS.


For real.


You guys sound like you'd have gone for FDR...


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28 Oct 2010, 9:56 pm

Losing 54 seats wouldn't be that bad considering it's possible they could lose north of 80.



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28 Oct 2010, 10:22 pm

Dox47 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Pistonhead wrote:
I vote that we put Bill Clinton back in office. It may be unconstitutional but it gets RESULTS.


For real.


You guys sound like you'd have gone for FDR...

We need a NEW New Deal. We'll create jobs by demolishing 20 major American cities and forcing their inhabitants to rebuild them. Prosperity!



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28 Oct 2010, 10:39 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Pistonhead wrote:
I vote that we put Bill Clinton back in office. It may be unconstitutional but it gets RESULTS.


For real.


You guys sound like you'd have gone for FDR...

We need a NEW New Deal. We'll create jobs by demolishing 20 major American cities and forcing their inhabitants to rebuild them. Prosperity!

Or we could conscript 20% of the population to go help build some giant monument in the middle of Kansas. Or maybe the people at Fort Detrick could release the new zombie apocalypse virus they recently invented. Zombies generally don't need to find work as they just wander street eating people's brains and stuff.