Today’s entertainment: watching right-wing crazies completely lose their fucking shit

 Holy Shit! (Religion), Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Nov 072012
 

I’m enjoying watching the conservative meltdowns and End Times gnashing of teeth. This is what happens when you pour all your hopes and dreams into a single person, believing they’ll change the world into what you want. It’s also what happens when you think that your vote has some sort of divine power and is blessed by an omnipotent sky god.

I want you to hear me tonight, I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist, I am not saying that at all. One reason I know hes not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes. President Obama is not the Antichrist. But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.

via Huffington Post

Of course, the only one paving the way for the Antichrist is a lefty.  Religious conservatives could never usher in an age of evil, right?  And then we have these gems from Twitter:

“Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.” —Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012

“This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!” —Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012

“The Democrat Party voted God out and replaced Him with Romans 1.In the Good vs. Evil battle…today…Evil won.” —Victoria Jackson (@vicjackshow) November 7, 2012

“I can’t stop crying.America died.” —Victoria Jackson (@vicjackshow) November 7, 2012

via Gawker

So…hilariously…delicious!  And here’s the topper, some highlights from Fox News where you can see them internally clawing their faces off with incredulous disappointment.

Michele Bachmann: just another idiot “end-timer”

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Jul 192011
 

Not only does this bitch want to see all gays roasting in ovens, she’s one of those batshit-crazy Christians who thinks Jesus is in his car and driving over here this very minute.  Surprising?  Hardly.

You know what?  We’ve been in the “last days” for centuries now.  And it really means nothing, folks…not a goddamned thing.  Stop making fools of yourselves and wasting your lives expecting the world to end tomorrow.  It’s getting embarrassing.  (Though I must admit it’s often entertaining…)

As GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann R-MN surges in the polls, more information is coming to light about her past that reveal the depths of her political and religious extremism. The Bachmanns’ counseling clinic practices discredited and damaging ex-gay therapy to “cure” homosexuality.

Slate’s Dave Weigel has reported an audio recording of Bachmann praying for the notoriously anti-gay ministry You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, run by the radical preacher Bradlee Dean. Bachmann offered the prayer in 2006 though the recording was uploaded in 2008. In it, Bachmann predicts, “We are in the last days,” and says, “The harvest is at hand” — a Biblical allusion to the Rapture when some believe God will take saved Christians from the earth and leave the non-believers to face several years of torment and tribulation before the second coming of Christ

via ThinkProgress

Outbreak of outrage

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Nov 122010
 

One of the best letters to an editor I’ve ever seen.  She asks all the right questions, then ends her letter with a real zinger.  Bravo!  And now we can add to this list the fact that Bush has admitted in his own stupid autobiography that he personally approved water torture, a criminal act.  Do Americans give a shit?  Take a guess.

November 3, 2010
Where was outrage over things before health care?

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a president.

You didn’t get mad when Dick Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy and push us to invade Iraq.  Or when a covert CIA operative got outed.  Or when the Patriot Act got passed.  Or when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.  Or when we spent $800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.  Or when George W. Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than previous 42 presidents.  Or when over $10 billion in cash just disappeared in Iraq.  Or when you found out they were torturing people.  Or when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.  Or when we didn’t catch Osama bin Laden.  Or when Bush rang up $10 trillion in combined budget and current account deficits.  Or when you saw horrible conditions at Walter Reed.  Or when we let a major city drown.  Or when we gave more people who had more money than they could spend over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.

You didn’t get mad when 200,000 Americans died because they didn’t have health care insurance.  Or when lack of oversight and regulations caused U.S. citizens to lose $12 trillion in investments, retirement and home values.

Now you get mad because a black man was elected president and tries to ensure that we can see a doctor when we are sick.

Barbara Korn

Lahaina

via The Maui News

Apathy check

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Nov 022010
 

Fuck, I’m in a rotten mood today.  Can you smell the poo in the air?  The midterm election shitfest that’s happening right now?  I’ve been trying to avoid reading too much about it lately but it’s really hard to ignore, like a giant turd you’ve stepped on and can’t seem to scrape off your shoe.  Everywhere you go, there it is–stinking up your day.

I have a feeling the right wingers are going to score big.  Everyone’s predicting that, of course, but to me it just seems natural.  America fell for Obama’s promises of change and hope, and because Americans are impatient and fickle, they elected him with the unrealistic expectation that he was going to change the world overnight.  (I was under no such delusion.)  Naturally he didn’t come through on a lot of promises, which fuels the batshit crazy fire of the right wing nutjobs–the people who are masters at media slurs, voter manipulation, hate/fear mongering, and the dirtiest of dirty election tricks.  These fuckwads are so enraged that a black man (with a terrorist middle name, no less!) has been elected to the sacred office of President that they will stop at nothing, and I think their efforts are about to pay off.

On the other hand, I have this feeling that if the racistbigothomophobes do manage some big wins today (or even a Presidential win in 2012), it won’t really make a difference.  We only have two parties to choose from, both of which are full of lying, corrupt shitbags bought and sold by corporations.  If Obama couldn’t get much done, why should someone on the other side be able to?  And do they really want to do anything besides remain in power?  It’s really not a choice we have, it’s simply picking one of two heads on the same fat, bloated beast.  Apparently this is the best we can do.

Hey, any country which gives an imbecile like Sarah Palin so much attention surely can’t be aiming too high, can it?

Latest Republican dirty trick: hire the homeless to run as 3rd party

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics), Unfuckingbelievable!
Sep 102010
 

The Arizona G.O.P. has officially become King Turd in the toilet of dirty politics.  The Dems have pulled some whoppers in their time, but I’ve never seen anything as slimy as this.  Granted, any left-leaning voter who pays a reasonable amount of attention will see through this and not let it sway their vote, but it’s just the intent behind it that astonishes me.  The fact that this Steve May guy went through all this trouble reveals a lot about his character.  And they wonder why people have such apathy about elections!

Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.

And get a load of this shit!  He holds a “media event” at a Starbucks in the hipster part of town to challenge those who say these are fake candidates.  Which they are.

“Did I recruit candidates?  Yes,” said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket.  “Are they fake candidates?  No way.”

To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known.

“Are you fake, Benjamin?” he yelled out to Mr. Pearcy, who cried out “No,” with an expletive attached.

“Are you fake, Grandpa?” he said to Anthony Goshorn, 53, a candidate for the State Senate whose bushy white beard and paternal manner have earned him that nickname on the streets. “I’m real,” he replied.

via NYTimes.com

Maybe I’m taking this too seriously, I can’t quite decicde yet.

But wait, there’s more.  My buddy Troy who lives in Phoenix tells me this Steve May guy is–you guessed it–a gay Republican.  Well fuck a duck, isn’t that just the icing on the fat-free Starbucks bran muffin.  I did some Googling, and sure enough, he is indeed a big ol’ homo.  How utterly disappointing.  Is there anything quite so pathetic as a self-hating gay Republican?  I mean, really.  So not only is he that, but he’s pulling these ultra-scummy tricks on the public as well, hoping to cheat himself into getting a few votes.

What.  An.  Asshole.

Attention, gays: Jeremy Walters thinks AIDS is your punishment

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion)
Aug 182010
 

This nutjob is running for office in Iowa.  He basically said that God rains AIDS down on the evil homosexuals because they are the filth of the earth.  Stay classy, Republicans!  (P.S.: Straight people get AIDS too, you clueless asshat.)

Jeremy Walters, who is running for the State House in District 67 in Iowa, posted a rant on his Facebook page against gay people. He included the classic homophobic rhetoric that AIDS is God’s method of punishing gay people.

Here’s his post:

via 365gay.com

How Obama’s election drove right-wingers completely batshit

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
May 282010
 

This is fascinating.  Living in conservative Phoenix when Clinton was elected, I remember a lot of people saying, “This is it, this is the end of Amurrica!”  Limbaugh went ballistic, beginning his show each and every day with a dramatic intro stating “America held hostage!”  Things didn’t go this far, though–when Obama was elected, there were arsons, cross burnings, random attacks on black folks, and ropes were being hung from trees.  White-power groups saw an influx of new membership, racial epithets were being spat at public figures, and redneck assholes called for his assassination.  What the hell, America?  Get a goddamn grip!

I’ve said it many times:  Obama’s election brought some racist emotions to the surface for a lot of people–some of it deeply buried, some of it just simmering, waiting to be triggererd.  I personally know some people who think he’s a Muslim (because Muslim=terrorist in their eyes) or a dirty Commie Socialist Nazi.  To them it was the end of the fucking world.  It’s just absurd and disappointing.  That’s why I just might have to check out this book…

Among a certain subset of those Americans, however — especially those who opposed Obama precisely because he sought to become the nation’s first black president — it went well beyond the usual despair. For them, November 5, 2008, was the end of the world. Or at least, the end of America as they knew it.

via www.alternet.org

Wisconsin douchebags burn Obama in effigy (white hoods optional)

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
May 222010
 

Wow, these guys must, like, totally feel empowered and stuff.  So awesome, I mean, like, burning things that look like people really, you know, sends a strong, like, message and stuff.  You know?

Christ, what unmitigated twatocity.  But reverse the colors (black guys burning an effigy of a white President) and you’d have the building surrounded by police and the A.T.F. would be gearing up to storm the place and burn it to the ground.

As country music played and a pack of Marlboro menthols sat idly by, some bar patrons at a local watering hole in West Allis, WI burned an effigy of Barack Obama and cheered.  Wisely, they took video.  Here it is.

via gawker.com

O happy day!

 Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Jan 202009
 

So I’m sitting here at work, wanting to watch the inauguration but the company’s network is too jammed to let any decent streaming video through.  (My PC at home is recording it via Hulu.com, hopefully it’s working…but surely it’ll be available on any number of DVDs being hawked by networks trying to make a quick buck.)

Anyway, I’m trying to figure out how I feel about today.  Part of me is jubilant:  “Finally we’re getting rid of that slimy little criminal puppet!  Finally the embarrassment I’ve felt for my country is beginning to ease!  Finally there’s a glimmer of hope that maybe we’re not completely screwed after all!”  I’m also indulging my mean-spirited side and relishing the thought of Republicans around the nation squirming in their seats as waves of fear and loathing wash over them.  This worldwide celebration must be making them physically and spiritually ill.  When was the last time the world celebrated the election of a Republican this way?  It must be filling these right-wing blockheads with dread and despair and embarrassing defeat.  It’s delicious, and I hope they feel this way for months to come.  They’ve earned it.

Then there’s the other side of me saying:  Oh shit…this country is so desperate for a change that they’re expecting miracles from Obama, and look at the fucked-up mess he’s inherited from the aforementioned puppet. People are going crazy over this, their hopes are getting unrealistically high. And knowing how much blockage he’ll encounter from the Republicans, they may be headed for a lot of disappointment. So it’s a mixture of optimism and wariness of being too optimistic. The hype and expense of this event is unbelievable…  Rush Limbaugh is calling it “the Immaculate Inauguration.”  I hate to say it, but I sort of agree with him on this one.  It feels like blind hope with unrealistic expectations.  But maybe that’s just me being a cynical, late-30′s curmudgeon. :)

We can’t trust that the Dems won’t screw him over as well, either.  After all, we’ve been burned by the “change” mantra before, right?  The Dems won their majority a couple of years ago with big talk about ending or severely limiting the war, and instead they’ve fed it and kept it alive beyond all reason.  Is Obama really going to do great things?  And more importantly, will his fellow politicians allow it?  I guess we’ll find out soon enough.  We have to give him a chance, but we should also pay careful attention.

Temple of Doom

 Heterosexually Challenged, Holy Shit! (Religion), Idiots & Assholes (Politics)
Nov 132008
 
Wow, Utah is really feeling the heat with this California Prop 8 business.  The Mormons campaigned relentlessly to get it passed, funneling money into their efforts from Utah and elsewhere, even going so far as to pressure Mormon-owned businesses to donate to the cause (is that even legal?).  Now they’re facing a boycott of the entire state along with protests in front of Mormon churches.

“While those who disagree with our position on Proposition 8 have the right to make their feelings known, it is wrong to target the Church and its sacred places of worship for being part of the democratic process,” Farah said.

Oh, so suddenly YOU don’t like being singled out and targeted for your beliefs and way of life, hmmm?  Doesn’t feel good, does it?  Cry me a river.  We’ll leave your churches and temples and compounds alone when you get your evil tentacles the hell out of our bedrooms and voting booths.  YOU DON’T BELONG THERE.

The church had said in a statement after Tuesday’s vote that “no one on any side of the question should be vilified, intimidated, harassed or subject to erroneous information.”

What?  After all those LIES you spewed into the California media claiming that “public schools will be forced to teach gay marriage” (and other nonsense) unless Prop 8 is passed?  Oh, that’s rich!  Fuck you, Farah.  Fuck you right in the ear.

Some are claiming that it’s wrong to target the entire state of Utah, because not everyone there is Mormon.  They’re also saying that “innocent bystanders” will be financially hurt by the loss of tourism and the Sundance Film Festival.  Yeah, well that’s tough.  You non-Mormons need to be out there protesting as well, because they just fucked your state out of millions of potential tourist dollars.  This is what happens when religion meddles with affairs of the state, folks.  And it wasn’t even their state!
If you religious types want to play in the world of politics, you’d better be ready to deal with the consequences.  Personally, I say TAX these churches (all of them) and their real estate and put that money towards our national debt.
And if you’re curious as to exactly who donated money to help get this passed, there’s a complete list online for your reading and boycotting pleasure.
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