The 2012 "Election" thread

[kelley]

i've been saying for years that karl rove is the ernst roehm of the thuggish GOP base. he's a tool who mistakenly took his short-term influence for real power. what we saw on tuesday night was a shaken rove proclaiming his loyalty to the cause while standing before a ritualized electronic firing squad.

[DrVolin]

An evoting night of the long knives. Interesting thought.

[kelley]

thank you, doc. let's keep this analogy in mind while recognizing how elites of whatever ideological hue consolidate power.

[Fresno_Layshaft]

You guys should pray the Republicans don't learn from the Conservative movement that has had incredible success in Canada. They are every bit as slimey, but are much smarter. They keep the religious zealotry to a minimum and keep all of their minions on a very tight leash. Canada is one of the most conservative countries in the world now, much more so than the US, and the brilliant part is no one here even noticed it happened. There's nothing sacred here, and money speaks very loudly.

[Luther Blissett]

What is the ecosystem that Rove was operating in on Tuesday night? He really thought -- nay, knew -- that he'd done his homework, I respect the shadenfreude of his Fox News meltdown but it spoke very differently to me...it wasn't a "just desserts" moment: he got the rug pulled out from under him. He had been planning the operation for 2 years and someone made the call to pull the plug. I could mix a few more metaphors, but you grok.

I am very interested in who was in a position to make that call behind Rove's back.

What do you make of the desk crew manning Fox News that night, as compared to the other networks' pulling out all their heaviest hitters and biggest stars? I'm no Fox News expert, but I had never seen either of those people before Election Day.

[2012 Countdown]

Anyone listen to The Young Turks' 11/8/12 broadcast? Cenk nails the whole fucked up situation AGAIN.

Fuckhead lying POS Obama and the paid dive taker Dems are already giving away the queen.

FUCK YOU OBAMA. FUCK YOU establishment DEMOCRATS.

[Luther Blissett]

I think here's the deal as it sits now. America is sick of these motherfuckers. They're sick of being told what to do. The red to blue electoral map is crazy interesting. For instance it points out where Lawrence Kansas is and Omaha Nebraska right above it -- all in this sea of red. Yet in those red areas there are plenty of liberals or people just sick of what the right wing lies about and perhaps are all dying off. Sorry about that guys, we all gotta die. But all the counties still appear bright red.



It's a mystifying map. Rich liberals just pored over this thing today at the bar. The wingers have lost their base. I think that they will double down into something akin to brownshirts, but I also think that a lot of us are going to be doubling up to make this joint a more perfect union.

As far as I am concerned we have a mandate as constituency to force Obama's hand as far as drone bullshit et al and have the ability to shame the religious right into obscurity once and for all. This really, no matter what, is our chance to really change shit once and for all. This is it insofar as the 60's, 70's and 80's defined liberalism for those of us who were. The wingers and their corporate owners are already plotting the demise of probably an entire city, false flagged and all that.

They lost. And as wingers they are brought up and believe whole cloth that when they lose they really didn't. But they lost in myriad ways, not just the people we put in place but on the issues. They lost and they are losers and always will be. Sorry wingers, you'll still find a leftie to feel sorry for you cos that's just the way we are.

There are no people in those bright red counties.

cartogram uses shades of purple to indicate each counties’ vote intensity for the Democratic or Republican presidential candidate.

Also, put most simply, most non-voters are aligned with the American Political "Left."

[barracuda]

[82_28]

Anyone listen to The Young Turks' 11/8/12 broadcast? Cenk nails the whole fucked up situation AGAIN.

Fuckhead lying POS Obama and the paid dive taker Dems are already giving away the queen.

FUCK YOU OBAMA. FUCK YOU establishment DEMOCRATS.

Again, let me reiterate what at least I think about this and on a whole spectrum of issues: At long last we have gotten through to the right that they are losers, dead beats, thugs and most of us can't stand them. Here, check out Maddow. I think the following is well worth watching:

[82_28]

OMFG!!!!! The right has so unhinged people! At least if they won something eventually the indecency laws would go away and we could enjoy Brian Williams say "fuck" on the nightly news.

[vince]

Freaky! Don was using this as the basis of last night's "Over The Edge: Your Brain Is The Devil"... didn't know it was part of a bigger rant!

[82_28]

I've searched quite a bit for the "old wives tales" about what it means for one to only cry out of one eye. Specifically the right eye. But isn't it weird that Obama is only wiping away tears from his right eye?



There appear to be superstitions. They range all over the place I guess going way back to Egypt. Anybody know anything?

Yeah, 82_28 is going there.

[barracuda]

Stop it. Those are obviously tears of blood.

[justdrew]

Freaky! Don was using this as the basis of last night's "Over The Edge: Your Brain Is The Devil"... didn't know it was part of a bigger rant!

there's a version of her rant with nice dinner music in the background on FMA, cute

I was thinking of making a mashup of her and the other dude up thread, so it sounded like they were swear at each other, but decided it wasn't worth the time.

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82_28, you can see a tear running down the left side too, he only wipes away on the right side.

[82_28]

Freaky! Don was using this as the basis of last night's "Over The Edge: Your Brain Is The Devil"... didn't know it was part of a bigger rant!

there's a version of her rant with nice dinner music in the background on FMA, cute

I was thinking of making a mashup of her and the other dude up thread, so it sounded like they were swear at each other, but decided it wasn't worth the time.

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82_28, you can see a tear running down the left side too, he only wipes away on the right side.

And the plot thickens!

Too bad she didn't show her face on camera, because that would be one hell of a BLR soundbite mashup between her and the guy from Mullican Flooring and stand in for the US Army for a stint or two, god bless their hearts.

Maybe Obama conceals the fact that he can wield the Eye of the Sparrow after all and she slipped on an arrow.