“In the South, there’s a saying: “If you want to get that boy’s attention, you gotta hit him upside the head with a two-by-four.” Well, the sound you heard on election night was pine on skull.”
Here’s a fun video blending retweets from @fart on the night of the election with photos from whitepeoplemourningromney, matched to an excellently chosen soundtrack:
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Note that instead of accepting the election results, many of these infantile Republican voters now want to secede from the Union.
dailydot: That awkward moment when the Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler (which owns Jeep) calls you out on Twitter.
Detroit Free Press: “The larger question is: Why is this coming up at all at this late stage of the campaign? The answer is simple, political experts say. Both sides have known from Day One that this campaign would hinge, in large part, on the saving of Detroit’s signature business, and it’s still in Romney’s eleventh-hour interests to change the narrative that Obama gets the credit, especially in blue-collar parts of the battleground state of Ohio. No Republican president has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney — in most polls — trails there. [...] Melissa Miller, a political science professor at Bowling Green State University south of Toledo, said she doesn’t think the Romney campaign would be making the claim if they didn’t think it was going to help them, though she thinks its effectiveness is very much in doubt. “He’s probably put some fear in the minds of some people who work for Jeep, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re being told right there on the factory floor — by management — that this is a false claim,” she said.”
Romney Style: How to Destroy Your Campaign’s Credibility in Five Easy Steps:
“A reminder: Mitt Romney has had to absolutely kowtow to this man. [...] Does Mitt Romney—or any Republican, for that matter—care in the slightest that Trump is a rotten boil on the political landscape? Do they give a damn that the Republican brand has so thoroughly been reduced to pandering to the least common denominator of their base, all the rest of reality be damned? Of course not. No matter how big a fool this dimwitted, Palinesque publicity hound makes himself, Mitt Romney will still shake his hand, and Paul Ryan will still hold private fundraisers with the man. [...] Welcome to the modern Republican Party. These are the people who are chosen not to be shunned, but to speak for the party, and guide the party, and raise money for the party, and appear on television for the party, and hold the reins of party leadership. Congratulations, Republican Party. Whatever depths of vapidity and grifting you might have been aiming for, I’d say you’ve managed to get there and then some.”
Obama spoke about his grandmother, Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, during the debate. She died on Nov. 2, 2008, right before he was elected.
KitchenAid’s Cynthia Soledad sent an email to several media sites that read, in part:
“During the debate tonight, a member of our Twitter team mistakenly posted an offensive tweet from the KitchenAid handle instead of a personal handle. The tasteless joke in no way represents our values at KitchenAid, and that person won’t be tweeting for us anymore…”
MISTAKENLY posted an offensive tweet? Because in other situations dead grandmas are sometimes funny? Is that supposed to resemble an apology or a description of Kitchenaid’s tactics? And — wow — that person doesn’t get to tweet anymore. Fuck Kitchenaid and Romney’s buddy who owns it.
Dennis G from Balloon Juice catches a Twitter trend in anticipation of David Gregory interviewing Willard and Anntoinette Romney:
#DavidGregorysToughQuestions has become a trending topic on Twitter as folks try and guess the lame ass questions Gregory will have asked Mittens. Some are quite funny. Most are—sadly—all too possible when it comes to the MTP host. I cannot think of a more deserving Beltway media wanker to mock.
Here’s a sampling:
You might think this is an exaggeration – but you’d be wrong. Here are two actual questions Gregory asked of Mittens:
Gregory brandishes a “Bin Laden is Dead. GM is Alive” bumpersticker, and Romney lays down his line of bullshit on GM (if only they had gone into bankruptcy when Mitt said to do it, we’d have saved $20 billion). Gregory’s follow-up: “What would the Romney/Ryan bumpersticker be?”. Every reporter should hang their head in shame when this guy is called a journalist.
[...] Gregory is just unable to ask a follow up. He asks about Clinton, Mitt gives the answer quoted above, which just begs you to ask about one of the dozens of criticisms Clinton made in that speech, and Gregory’s next question is “What’s it like to be the first Mormon running for President?”
Damn the liberal media — so unfair to the Republican Party!
“I just wanted to call to say congratulations to the entire Mars Science Laboratory team and really all of JPL on last Monday’s incredible success,” Obama said during the phone call that was patched into a loudspeaker at mission control in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
“I understand that there’s a special ‘Mohawk guy’ working on the mission?” Obama jokingly asked, which was promptly followed by a roar of laughter from JPL.
Think Progress wonders if Mitt Romney is buying Twitter followers:
“Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign may be buying up Twitter followers to pad the former Massachusetts governor’s online presence. @MittRomney has already attracted more than 100,000 new followers on Saturday, far more than his average 1,000 – 6,000 per day, and the new followers “seem to have major trouble with spelling simple English words, have names that sometimes seem to be random assortments of syllables, and have no (or very few) followers themselves.””
Heh. Is Mitt outsourcing / offshoring his Twitter followers — is this an ESL situation? Why does Mitt Romney hate America?
“@BarackObama, by contrast, has been growing steadily, adding 16,000 to 30,000 new followers per day: Former GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich experienced similar Twitter embarrassment in August of 2011, after it was reported that as many as 92 percent of his Twitter followers were fake. In that case, a “former Gingrich staffer has supposedly alleged that he bought his followers.” It’s still unclear what’s happening with Romney’s account.”
This would be the least surprising bit of news on how the Romney campaign is spending its massive amounts of money, actually. Now he’s Bain Capitalizing Twitter. The Romney campaign would also like to buy Mitt the White House — we’ll have to wait and see if that’s as easy as buying Twitter popularity.
“I can’t get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away. I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm‘s way. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.
“[...] I say all the time that every moment we have to live our life is a blessing. So often I have found myself taking it for granted. Every hug from a family member. Every laugh we share with friends. Even the times of solitude are all blessings. Every second of every day is a gift. After Saturday evening, I know I truly understand how blessed I am for each second I am given.
“I feel like I am overreacting about what I experienced. But I can’t help but be thankful for whatever caused me to make the choices that I made that day. My mind keeps replaying what I saw over in my head. I hope the victims make a full recovery. I wish I could shake this odd feeling from my chest. The feeling that’s reminding me how blessed I am. The same feeling that made me leave the Eaton Center. The feeling that may have potentially saved my life.”
According to Josh Fruhlinger at Wonkette, RNC Political Director Rick Wiley has been sending “Obama’s campaign manager like four or five Tweets a day making fun of his lousy campaign and calling him “bro.”" Seriously:
The RNC does important stuff! Fruhlinger reports that “Jim Messina’s been taking the high road so far and not responding.” Why would anyone respond to such an idiot? Told you conservative pinheads like to spew trash on Twitter.
Tip: Bro, try gluing some of that chin beard where your eyebrows should be.
Jesse Taylor: Pandagon– The actual statistics:“About 34 percent of food-stamp recipients are white, while 22 percent are African Americans and 16 percent Hispanic, with the rest being Asian, Native American or those who chose not to identify their race, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
The Raw Story: “Media mogul Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce story Sunday, saying he thinks Scientologists are “creepy” and possibly even evil.”
Watch Katie Holmes and Scientology story develop. Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people.— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) July 01, 2012
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“[...] Murdoch’s Scientology comment generated a surge of Twitter traffic, prompting another tweet: “Since Scientology tweet hundreds of attacks. Expect they will increase and get worse and maybe threatening.
““Still stick to my story,” he added.
“A short time after his Scientology tweet, Murdoch was asked his views on Mormonism — in the spotlight currently as Mormon Mitt Romney takes on President Barack Obama for the White House.
““Mormonism a mystery to me, but Mormons certainly not evil,” the News Corp tycoon replied.”
Mitt Romney talks about debt as if that's what is causing unemployment. Sheeple nod their fleece in agreement.— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) May 16, 2012
But how many dumbass teabaggers will buy it? All of them. When you’ve got nothing going on for your side, you lie.
This tweet from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) probably wasn’t intended to be important, but it’s an astonishing message.
Let’s back up for a moment. At issue is a 2007 law, set to expire on July 1, which keeps the interest rate for federal Direct Stafford Loans at 3.4%. If Congress fails to act, the rate will double, affecting more than 7.4 million students, who’ll face, on average, an additional $1,000 in debt. President Obama and congressional Democrats are fighting to keep the rates where they are, and Mitt Romney agrees with them.
Congressional Republicans have balked at the proposals, and today, Boehner is arguing that this is all Democrats’ fault anyway — they’re the ones who “included an expiration provision that placed the looming increase in the middle of an election year.”
Democrats wanted to lower student interest rates. Now, they want to keep the lower student interest rates. As far as Boehner is concerned, this means Dems “voted to double” interest rates.
