I’ve been drinking Ardbeg and working on a talk while studiously avoiding all the news (my wife is watching it, but I’ve got headphones on to block the idiot chatter)…but twitter just exploded and I looked up to see CNN showing a mob of black children dancing, so I guess the election agony is finally over. Yay, Obama.
You’ve got 4 more years to secure a place in history as something other than a backpedaling compromiser. Push. Do something. Something other than killing foreigners, please.
Thanks America, from an Aussie.
Go Bazza!
I was on edge for awhile, but I’m just relieved and exhausted now.
Thanks America, from a Chinese.
The popular vote worries me slightly though. The count still shows a Romney lead in popular vote, what happens if Obama actually loses the popular vote? Would this make his job even tougher in second term?
Well, the election must be over and Obama must have won because I just heard my father exclaim “WE ARE FUCKED!” from downstairs.
Mittens can still run for Grand Effin’ Idiot on Planet Kolob.
Yay OBAMA!!!
You’re a laugh riot on Twitter, Prof Myers. I’ve been missing all the fun!
FUCKING FUCK YES! I can tell you, from Britain, FUCKING FUCK YES!
Ohio had me worried for ages, and I’m disappointed in Disneyworld, but YAAAAAAAY! OBAMA! OBAMA!
Hmmm…maybe the pro-rape voter wasn’t such a catch after all. Oh well, easy come, easy go. Better luck next generation!
Anyone on twitter needs to promote #trumpisaclown
And like I said on twitter, Ardbeg win.
On behalf of myself and the guys I work with – the general feeling is “Phew!”.
More thanks from Australia.
Not to rain on the parade (well it’s raining here) but until Rmoney gives his concession speech I’m not accepting it. I made that mistake 12 years ago. And last I checked, Obama is still losing the popular vote by nearly 200k. I’d say it was karma, but I know there’s no such thing. Based off the current numbers, he’s going to win the rest of the states but still lose the popular vote.
I want to run outside with both middle fingers in the air shouting, “FUCK YOU REPUBLICANS!” but as I said, it’s raining and cold.
All I can say is, whew! At least the next president is not Romney.
There will surely be some challenges to the vote in the coming days. Karl Rove is sputtering on Fox because only 73 percent of the Ohio results are in and we all know how Florida rolls.
While no great fan of Obama, I do admire the man and most of what he stands for. Because he is rid of the worry and busy-work of standing for re-election in his second term I am cautiously hopeful that he can begin to flesh out the potential of the promises that buoyed him to the White House four years ago.
Best news of all? The campaign is over! Ominous cloud on the horizon? Sullen Republican challenges.
As of now it doesn’t look like the two houses of Congress are going to change substantially and that means Obama will still have to deal with a recalcitrant legislature. To that extent, prepare for the same old same old.
I’ll be staying tuned, and I know that the Horde will too. Interesting news will be coming over the next days and weeks giving us ample opportunity for discussion and snark.
We live in interesting times, don’t we?
hey, even more interesting…
Colorado just LEGALIZED MARIJUANA!
Seriously?…
Yay, the two rape apologists, Atkins and Murdouck(?) lost. Yeah, that MRA vote isn’t what it used to be.
REALLY REALLY:
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_21941918
Thank the FSM. I do believe we’ve all just been caressed by a noodly appendage.
Now, if only Willard will show a little class in his exit strategy.
. . . and Massachusetts passed med weed. Small steps but at least in the right direction.
Ha!
Well, that one is going to be interesting to watch!
….
Maine passes same sex marriage equality!
looking like a good night overall.
After months of saying that I wasn’t going to vote for Obama*… I voted for Obama. Romney scared the ever lovin’ shit outta me.
I’m elated because that motherfucker lost.
*I live in New York, so it’s not like Obama wouldn’t carry my state.
Go Colorado! America’s doing well today.
I think Florida will vote Ooboomoo, I mean, Disneyworld!
I’m surprised Florida isn’t a blue-state in general actually, considering its location/inhabitants/fact it’s a popular holiday destination for Europeans
Jezebel is enjoying the Obama win.
The collection of animated gifs in the comments is fun.
Washington State will likely legalize pot also, along with Colorado.
Rain or snow? Tough choice. Microsoft is hiring mechanical engineers in Redmond, WA.
Lots of six-degrees-of-freedom joints need to be studied, or so I’m told.
I’ve got multiple sources saying Tammy won wisconsin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan was re-elected to congress :(
Microsoft is hiring mechanical engineers in Redmond, WA.
FWIW, a old buddy of mine worked for MS as a project manager up there for about 6 years.
he really liked it.
I’m still waiting on the results of our senate race. 91.1% counted, and the asshole is up by 516 votes O.o
now it’s 91.3% counted, and the non-asshole is leading by just over 4000 votes.
this back-and-forth is costing me years of my life, i swear
Better there than in Blair House!
One thing I’m waiting for is the timing and the content of Mitt’s concession speech. That is likely to be as revealing as his Etch-A-Sketch campaign.
Mitt? Are you there, Mitt?
@Ichthyic:
Thanks for that info!
It’s GOTTA beat sitting dead-still in traffic on Hwy 101 near Palo Alto at 10AM. Gettin’ crazy here in the Silly-Con valley.
#20 Talk about a Rocky Mountain High.
It’s GOTTA beat sitting dead-still in traffic on Hwy 101 near Palo Alto at 10AM.
been there, done that.
(Santa Cruz commute over the hill to SV)
Best thing that could happen now is that Obama could lose the popular vote, and we could have enough Democrats angry about Bush in 2000, and enough Republicans angry about Obama 2012, that we could finally kill the electoral college.
Mitt? Are you there, Mitt?
twitter says he is refusing phone calls from the Obama campaign.
I can’t see why at this point, it’s not even close.
been there, done that.
also spent time in Seattle.
I’d recommend it.
you get used to the rain.
#36 I heard Rmoney has only prepared one speech and it wasn’t one where he congratulates a black man for winning.
Alverant @ 12
I like this!
*snicker*
@Ichthyic:
Funny! I lived in Santa Cruz for a year (worked in Scotts Valley at Watkins-Johnson with all the hillbilly engineers… but what a GREAT reverse commute… ten minutes through the trees along Hwy 17. Never should’ve quit that one, but my pro golf career was calling… AHEM. Cough.)
It looks like Nate Silver may have correctly predicted every state. Yay for maths!
It was fun seeing Karl Rove arguing with Fox News when they called it for Obama. The denial of reality is strong with that one.
The ‘weed deed’ sounds more like decriminalization rather than full legalization–certain restrictions/limitations apparently still apply.
Another thing to be listening for in the coming days is commentary relating to how the Rethuglican animus towards women, immigrants, gays and people who are not classic WASPs has isolated them from the younger members of American society.
Speaking as a 61 year old and recalling the burgeoning liberalism of my youth, I am heartened. There is a growing hope in me that a more inclusive population is growing.
I grew up with a very bigoted father and experienced violent treatment of minorities in my community during my formative years. I’m so glad that I didn’t drink that kool-aid. (Thanks, Ma. Thanks a lot.)
Minnesota is still waiting for the results on Bachmann (she’ll probably be reelected) and our ballot measures on gay marriage and requiring photo ID for voting.
but my pro golf career was calling…
O.o
and how did that work out for you?
:)
Drunk posting with Prof Myers!!!
Anybody want to play beer pong?
Huh.
Looks like all the people who told me I was going to Ruin America® by voting for Jill Stein in California instead of Obama were wrong.
Drat. Foiled again.
Etc.
@4, @12: Yes, the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral is a bit unsettling. And some commentators have pointed that out as being potential for continued gridlock for Obama (not to mention a carbon copy of the Senate and House makeup of the past two years.)
The MittBot 3000 is a spoiled child who was denied his favorite toy.
@Ichthyic:
Um… it was oka… oh hell, it was a fucking disaster.
At least I’ll be competitive in the Assisted-Living Seniors Open, some day.
<3 twitter.
er, that’s exactly the opposite of how those words usually get used. legalization = legal and regulated/restricted; decriminalization = legal and unregulated
“Romney can’t read his concession speech until he finds his seer stone and hat.”
Myers gold on Twitter.
LMAO
Jafafa Hots @ 49:
Kudos to you for having the guts to vote for Jill Stein. I couldn’t quite do it at the national level, but did favor Greens at many lower positions here in ma’ lil’ corner of Southeast Michigan.
92.7% counted; non-asshole leading by 3706 votes
Interesting coverage from Romney headquarters in Boston.
As the jumbotrons switch through the various networks and the tabulations appear the crowd has gotten very quiet. Boxes full of little American flags have been passed out and they are wiggling about with a vapid vigor over the heads of supporters that aren’t talking much, not cheering at all, mostly being quiet (for once). But they are waving those little disposable flags, oh, yes.
There also seems to be some confusion concerning whether or not Mittens will show up or not and whether he will have anything thing to say before tomorrow.
Stay tuned.
At least I’ll be competitive in the Assisted-Living Seniors Open, some day.
I lived in Palm Springs for 10 years.
don’t retire there.
even if you REALLY like golf, and you know they have over 200 golf courses there.
just… don’t.
(Obama’s pulled out slightly ahead–a hair’s breadth–in the popular vote)
Donald Trump appears to have launched a one-man Twitter frenzy of rage:
it’s a SHAMESTRY!
lol
shave your fucking head, donald.
For the older people here.
When told it is time to deliver his concession break, I picture Romney reacting like Herman Munster, stomping his feet and bellowing; “I don’t wanna! I don’t wanna! I don’t wanna!”.
Should I check Freepland and the WND for shits and giggles?
NBC has been saying that once the votes are counted in the west, Obama will win the popular vote, by a per cent or so.
My big hope is that the republicans will again fail to understand why they lost, and keep up with the cheezy Vegas double-down strategy to the point of ruin.
Wow, Jerry Brown got old.
…romney still refusing to concede.
Wow, Jerry Brown got old.
governor moonbeam is now governor “get off my lawn!”
@Ichthyic:
One of my friends lives in Palm Springs (yes I do have a gay friend, believe it or not, despite my character flaws and general hetero-unpleasantness).
I like warm weather, but I’d probably opt for Tucson in retirement, ‘cuz it’s hella cheaper.
The people richer than me bought the election! And we are being denied!
@Janine #63
Thanks for the Herman Munster image. Gawd I remember that. LOL
Not all is won…Michele Bachmann is hanging on…
Come to think about it, Trump the Chump would probably look a hell of a lot better with a chrome dome. Might even get marginally more respect from those who have a hard time coming to terms with hair.
Well, George W Bush “won” in 2000 because somebody on Fox News declared him the winner, and it just snowballed, and conservatives just can’t change their minds about anything. So, even if the popular vote were to go against Obama, the conservatives are hoisted, well and truly.
Conservatives have got to be feeling lost and confused and betrayed right now. Mitt had better get up and give a good speech to them—I hope he has the decency to patch things up like McCain did. Obama, of course, will give a gracious speech promising to be the president for all Americans.
Good luck to President Obama, and may his second term be a better one.
MSNBC reports that Romney will speak at 12:55 ET.
The MittBot 3000 will be speaking at 12:55 Eastern Time.
Well…
Romney has reportedly made a congratulatory phone call to president-elect Obama.
Romney is slated to speak in about five minutes.
I can hardly wait.
Hi, Janine!
Romney’s call has been reported as being “short and polite” by CNN.
Yeah. I’ll bet it was short.
Aha! Romney has finally! rung Obama.
Speech shortly, I hope. Want to see that crowd squirm.
romney is conceding right now live.
It has to be said.
God is in control and everything happens for a reason.*
Romeny lost.
Todd Akins lost.
The Morlock in Ohio lost.
I’ve pointed it out before. God hates fundie xians.
(Well Bachmann. I suppose we could blame it on the other xian god of the underworld.)
* I don’t think we will be hearing this for a hew hours until the fundies forget what just happened. With memories like fruit flies, it won’t take a day for that to happen.
I want to thank the zombie eyed granny starver.
Rmoney has conceded.
feralboy1 2@ 64:
Yes, one would hope they would continue in their clueless ways, but they are beginning to scratch their heads, trying to rethink their strategies to bring in more minorities.
As I’ve heard one commentator mention, Lindsey Graham had said something to the effect that there simply aren’t enough old, white men to keep up GOP successes anymore (ie, they need to tap into new methodologies to brainwash minority and youth electorate).
Romney: Hello Mr. President. Congrats.
Obama: Thank-you, Mitt.
Romney: I suppose Treasury Secretary is out of the question?
Obama: Uh, yes, no fucking way.
Romney: Right. Just checking.
Thanks for the millions of dollar spent!
The magic has been washed out of the underwear.
I’ve been following the popular vote.
It’s going to be close, no doubt about it.
But the west coast went strongly for Obama and has 43 million people. Obama might well pull ahead in the end.
NBC has Obama now leading the popular vote, and it promises to get worse as the remaining votes are mostly California.
And in Oregon’s 4th district, wingnut congressional candidate Art Robinson is going down 59-40. This is a guy who, two years ago, blamed Obama for the Wall Street bailout and insisted that the government had taken over the health care system.
Yeah.
I’m looking forward to continuing my series on losing presidential candidates with They Also Ran Good: Mitt Romney.
Yeah.
I think this would have been his victory speech if he had won.
Honestly, even though I am rather relieved that Romney didn’t actually become the President of the United States, I still feel kind of scared that he actually got as much popular vote as Obama.
I always thought that in a saner universe, the election should be between Obama and somebody with policies on his left, then I can probably understand the closeness of the popular vote. But Mitt Romney winning so many votes is kind of…scary.
My neighborhood is papered in Romney and local Republican signs. I walked outside, popped the cork on a bottle of Brut and let out a jubilant “Woo-hoo”!
Looks like Romney just conceded.
(As pleased as I am that Romney lost, even more relieved that Ryan is out of the picture as a VP.)
Already happened.
More good news. It looks like not only can you get gay married in Washington state but you’ll be able to serve pot at the reception!
(Obama leading pop vote by roughly 50K votes.)
Candy Crowley reports that the silence in Romney head quarters has been broken by quiet refrains of God Bless America.
This is not surprising.
Ah! Here’s the loser.
A gracious start, giving deference to the entire Obama family.
Thanks his wife. Says she would have been a “wonderful first lady”. Thanks his sons.
Thanks his campaign manager and the crew.
Thanks everyone for the hard work, prayers and “humblism”. (is that a word?)
Mentions integrity and family. Jobs. People before politics. Confesses belief in “the people”.
Mentions founding principles as being the only true values.
Joins in prayer with his wife and all present for the values of America.
Invokes supernatural blessing on America.
Goes upstage to embrace family and other co-conspirators. Waves and smiles. Poses for pictures. Leaves.
Crowd very quiet. Flag waving falters. Crowd remains fixed.
Now a weak chant begins.
End of campaign.
(You don’t have to go home folks, but you can’t stay here. Cue the roadies and janitors.)
Yeah, not good.
The problem with living on the edge and having lots of close calls is obvious. One of these days, there will be a call and it won’t be close, it will be you.
Oh well, at least the New Dark Age is put off for 4 years. I spent months preparing for it. Now what am I going to do with the spinning wheel and the horse?
When will the turdblossom concede?
Just adding another drunk incoherent post to the happy gathering. Wheeee. Looks like 502 (marijuana legalization) is passed in WA, Maria Cantwell kept her senate seat, and the Democrat won the governor’s mansion. The same sex marriage initiative is too close so far for my comfort but so far passing. My county was red as usual, thank FSM that Sea-Tac outvotes us. And hefeweizen is a glorious thing.
The reupublicans have not won the White House since 1928 without somebody named Nixon or Bush on the ticket.
Whoa.
anareenseer @ 92:
Agree, most definitely. It is a bit scary; tends to dull my enthusiasm.
Chris Matthews,
*sigh*
A quiet congrats to you guys from down under. Cheers.
Everybody leaves but Romney, who has a Charles Foster Kane moment.
“Don’t worry about me! I’m WILLARD MITT ROMNEY!
So, who is the 2016 Republican front runner?
Put the spinning wheel on the horse and go to market! There are bound to be some end o’ the world types who will buy both. One for spinning thread, the other for the freezer.
Interesting. Observing the scariness of the close call here– especially of the popular vote, and the seemingly bottomless determinism of the far right social and economic psychosis that seems to be almost viral among the electorate, it doesn’t bode well for 2014 midterms, or 2016,… unless there is demonstrable change that can carry a political momentum.
Well, shoot the moon! Wanna run with me?
Obama’s victory tonight is going to be fuel for the far right, just like his first victory four years ago. Nothing has changed in that regard.
A month a ago I would’ve said Christie, but I’m guessing he’ll feel the brunt of Republican anger and scapegoating.
Rubio if the party figures out that they’ll never win without the Latino vote.
Ragutis, you used the wrong quote!
*snort*
(Still no definitive call for Florida. Jeesh,..what IS it about Florida?????)
Janine @112:
Yep,..without a doubt.
huh.
*thinks*
pretty damn close, I would guess.
Also marijuana in Colorado, medical marijuana in Mass, Elizabeth Warren, and gay marriage!
*Squee*
(sorry, usually lurk. Also usually not up this late)
Oops. Clearly I was trying to quote Janine @ 108:
@119, I don’t know, but we should try to split the ranks of the religious wingnuts. Stoke some infighting between the catholics, protestants, and other protestants.
ftfy.
Who mourns for Sheldon Adelson?
More important for progressives to think about is who will be the Democratic front runner in 2016.
Remember, if you care about progressive causes going forward, this election is only step one.
checked on the RR’ites. they were just being unentertainingly mopy
Snakes, mosquitoes and love bugs. Not to mention nearly all real estate subject to flooding. Oppressive heat and sink holes. Not to mention indigenous redneck population. Wicked redneck. But the beaches are nice. Nearly 90% of the population lives within just a few miles of the coastlines, both coasts. Actually, the interior is pretty cool, especially for zoologists and botanists.
(I lived there from ’71 to ’79. Best thing I did was to head north.)
So far almost every single high profile race or question is going or has gone to the good guys.
My faith in just over half the American population has been restored.
And Nate Silver kicked ass. So Science wins too!
Does this mean the Pope can give Thomas S. Monson a magic-underpants wedgie?
CBS just talking about how the GOP can’t win without the votes of Hispanics, women and other minorities. How is that possible without a near complete rejection of what it means to be a Republican and support radical conservative values and policies? Seems mutually exclusive to me.
And Christie actually redeemed himself (somewhat, though as you say, not necessarily within the GOP) by acting as a real, appreciative human being in his reaction to Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy
Mrs. Wrasslin’Linda Mahon has lost the Connecticut senate race to Chris Murphy.Well, tonite the wingnuts, Thugs and TP’s can just eat Mitt. But tomorrow’s another day. They still have far too much control in Congress. Everyone keep their powder dry! We are going to be fighting 1850’s mentality for some while to come.
But Amphiox, Nate Silver is a fag and fag cannot kick ass.
(It hurt my fingers to type that out.)
Woohoo. Chalk up a big win for Communism!
(well, of you believe the guy from Noo Joisey I met in Hong Kong, trying to convince me that Obama was a communist. Which I didn’t. I wanted to say that I thought Fox had declared Obama a Socialist, but I was on holidays and too relaxed to engage beyond vague “oh really?”s.)
Lovely gent. After hearing him praise John Howard’s tough stance on “the Islam’s”, I hope he has noisy democrat neighbors tonight.
You got me there, Crudely. So true.
Yeah, it’s scary that Romney got so many votes, but look at it another way. He spent bazillions of dollars, he took any position at any time, he lied out the wazoo, he got all the crazy people to vote for him, he did anything he could to get elected, his friends blocked the vote, and he still lost.
Actually, writing that paragraph, it’s still scary that he got any votes at all. I meant to say it was like W Hush in Florida, when he lied, cheated and stole, with all his friends helping, and squeaked through on a technicality.
I’m going to say it’s like hurricane Sandy, then. Scary, dangerous and deadly, but we survived. Or maybe a terror attack.
More important for progressives to think about is who will be the Democratic front runner in 2016.
progressives that ran against Obama for the nomination this year were never mentioned in the media, but I haven’t forgotten they existed.
what about Darcy Richardson?
who do these guys endorse?
http://www.pdamerica.org/
you want to see a progressive run for POTUS? better get your fucking ass in gear, like, tomorrow.
the election is only 4 years away.
Alexander…@ 131:
Couldn’t say it any better.
The President draws nearer!
(Blazing Saddles)
As lukewarm as I’ve felt towards Obama, having sat through two Nixon elections, two Reagan, and three Bush, I feel pretty good.
“So what’s Mitt going to do with his magic underwear?”
“Looks like he’s going to have to change it.”
Yeah,… for the past 48 hours, I was really expecting this would end up at the SCOTUS,…again.
Anyway, so I decided to count how much political junk mail I got this election. 102 pieces, plus conservatively a dozen that I threw out at the beginning. Overwhelmingly Republican. Life in a swing state. I’ll have to count robocalls and polls next time.
That’s a pretty good assessment. I love it. But then again, I surf and fish.
Thats probably the greatest compliment for the US this time around – even with all the crap being pulled it didn’t have to go to the courts!
Now, as Obama delivers his acceptance speech, my national right wing apoplexy meter is pegged and smoking. Just imagine the level of angst in all those red states including my home state, Wyoming (muffled sob).
Prepare for a sudden rise in temperature throughout the interior of the nation.
*breaks out fire suppression devices*
–Hard to argue with good advice like that.
What a relief. I decided to go to bed before hearing any projections, but woke early and turned the radio on just before 6am here – a few minutes after Robomormon conceded.
Obama’s being very emollient in his victory speech, but he did note the long lines to vote, and say:
A nice hit at the voter suppression efforts.
Now, my fellow humans assigned to the American granfalloon – FFS get on with building a progressive movement that will ensure a candidate and party who will take the fight to the enemy!
– Hey, Obama mentions inequality and global warming! Will he actually try to do anything about them in his second term?
Charlie Foxtrot @ 142:
Yep, exactly. Also, thanks to the monitoring at problematic election sites across the country.
( A damn shame that we have to be so vigilant in this chest-beating ‘bastion of democracy’.)
Nick Gotts #145
Considering the House remains Republican controlled and the Democrats don’t have enough Senate seats to override a filibuster, Obama can try but whether he’ll get anything through Congress is iffy.
Rodney Nelson@147,
Quite true – but the trying is an essential step on the way: getting these issues into public and political discourse.
I’ll be checking YouTube tonight for Fox News highlights – need more schadenfreude!
97.7% counted, the non-asshole leading by 2952 votes.
and I don’t think I’m going to manage to stay awake until they’re done counting
(also, wtf California? Y U NO abolish the death penalty?)
Obama calls for love and duty and patriotism.
Well, two out of three ain’t bad. (sorry if you get the impression that I am not patriotic; I am, but patriotism sleeps with jingoism and that frightens me more than burglars and serial killers).
Seriously, this man does have a vision of a nation united despite its differences. That’s realistic. We are, after all, a nation of immigrants and children of immigrants and a wide diversity is unavoidable. There is no sense striving against that.
“We are not as divided as our politics suggest”. Thus says Obama. I dearly hope that one statement can sink in.
Ugh: Obama ends with a burst of God-talk.
I know right? I keep thinking “This dude? This worthless, fucked up douche of a person got 53 million votes? Really?“.
Well, now I have a ballpark on how many people that I hate, I guess.
Obama’s victory speech juxtaposed against Robomney’s tepid address: a perfect study in contrasts.
Obama’s popular vote lead is gradually rising: now 49.6 to 48.9; and the Dems have now got 51 Senate seats (a net gain of 2 so far).
(Republican somewhere striking off item on ‘to-do’ list of making Obama a ‘one-term’ president…. Next.)
yup.
Romney could have said many of the same things Obama did, even in defeat.
instead, he “prayed” for Obama and schlepped off the stage like a big schmo.
loser.
complete and utter loser. Hope never to hear his name again.
Lying is central to their platform, so I bet the Republican party will remain basically unchanged for quite a while. The lesson they’re probably going to take away from this (after lots of inconsequential infighting) is that they need to lie more (and more convincingly) to people who aren’t old, straight, white, Evangelical dudes.
I agree. Ugh.
But it has become custom; it is expected; it is a sign, an advertisement of unity predicated on artifice to reassure the insecure among us, however unfortunate and rife with idiocy and superstition. Really, it is only conspicuous in its absence.
In a nation of diversity it is unavoidable. Everyone craves to be catered to. Slogans are endemic.
le sigh
Did Chris Matthews just say “dicking around”?
Ich..@ 157:
‘zactly. I don’t want to hear P. Ryan’s name either.
(Looks like Obama is running just under about 1 Megavote, of the pop vote right now.)
consciousness razor@158,
I think more likely they’ll draw the lesson that MOAR VOTA SUPPRESHUN is required.
consciousness razor @ 158:
Yeah,.. I agree. I don’t see how else they could influence the electorate in any other way without alienating the kooks in their base.
More likely? I’d say both are very likely. :/
And I’m too tired to express that in a way that avoids a conjunction fallacy.
Bully for Elizabeth Warren. I so want to see her run for prez.
Definitely happy about that. She’s pretty awesome.
MOAR (devious and conniving) VOTA SUPPRESHUN…..
(Little doubt of that–continued escalation. The crap just never seems to f’ing end, does it?)
Oh yes!! So glad to see Liz Warren win!!!! She is awesome–scares the hell of the conservatives.
An interesting observation made by Rachel Maddow on NBCNews’ coverage:
The party that has been in power every time the country has just started to emerge from a great financial crisis, which is what will be happening from 2012-2016, has always gone on to dominant electoral politics for 20-30 years afterwards.
If this turns out to be true, then tonight is even bigger than one might think at first glance.
Two other observations of note:
In almost all the most high profile races in which thanks to Citizen’s United obscene amounts of anonymous money got pumped into the Republican side, they lost.
In the states with the most stringent voter suppression attempts by the local Republican administrations, voters came out and stayed in line, and waited as long as it took to vote. And in the states were this was most prominent, Ohio and Florida, it looks like Obama and the Democrats will win.
The precedent these results will set in terms of the practical practice of politics going forward may prove significant.
The southern anti-vagina anti-gay strategy is finally dead and gone for good- not enough angry white guys left -victory for demographics!
Let the Republican Party entrench to the right their bigotry, misogyny, and general insanity, if they wish. All the demographic indicators are moving against them and will move even further by 2016.
This year was their best shot, and even with Citizen’s United and wholesale voter suppression, they lost.
Try the same in 2016 and they will lose by even more. Try it again in 2020 and they will be landslided out of existence.
So if they want to hitch their wagon back to the Tea Party and cleave even more rightward, I say to them, go right ahead and drive that oxcart off the demographic cliff and into the dustbin of history. That way lies electoral obliteration and the world will not miss your party one bit.
OK, I’m pissed.
In my city in the San Francisco Bay Area, looks like a Tea Party asshole is going to win and serve as mayor.
Nobody KNOWS he’s Tea Party, he was a late entry and never mentioned it, nobody brought it up but I did some research and found that he is virulently anti-gay, calls Obama a muslim, and has pledged to “take his ministry to the public schools and city hall” (yes, he’s a preacher)
A totally dishonest scumbag. Got his congregation to pay for his campaign materials, got them to go out after services every Sunday and take down other people’s signs, etc.
I gave this info to the current mayor and others, but it was too late. They knew he’s a snake, but had no idea he was this disgusting.
The previous mayor started a “faith-based” program to involve churches in the city. This guy joined that as a preacher, that was his entry into politics. Now he is claimed HE started it, the liar, and is about to replace the man who DID start it.
(That man is not overtly religious, it’s just that this is a very religious community and he wanted to get people involved.)
So now I have work to do, compiling all of the (apparent) new guy’s sleazy racist and homophobic comments and getting them out there so people know. It was too late to do that before the election.
This guy is a fucking scumbag and he may be serving for 4 years, but I am damned sure going to make sure everyone in the Bay Area knows about this amoral piece of shit.
Amphiox,… hopefully, good news. Time will tell.
Hard to say though, given the essential character or declining level of information/education/knowledge, etc., etc., possessed by many an average voter these days.
Obama has been declared the winner, Romney has given his concession speech. (and a fairly well made speech it was, also, IMO) and “the people have spoken”. What they said will be debated over by the pundits for the next couple of months.
conservative estimates are that the big money pacs spent a half billion dollars in ad buys just in the presidential contest alone. Congressional races aren’t included in that number.
And by and large they aren’t getting what they wanted.
As a green card holder in TN (who has to pay taxes but doesn’t have the right to vote), THANK YOU!!!!!
And mikeyb, @170 – damn straight! :)
Now… Warren 2016!
Amphiox @ 171:
Ah,… to sleep, perchance to dream. A scenario I would love to see in my lifetime.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/11/obamas-return-to-white-house-as-romneys-return-to-1954.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20%2846%29
A moment of happiness for Tammy Baldwin, first openly gay US senator. Not to mention first female senator from Wisconsin.
A moment of sadness that the Republicans haven’t lost convincingly enough for the moderates to kick the extremists to the kerb, tempered by happiness at the thought of the intra-party shitstorm that Donnolly will have kicked off by defeating Mourdock.
Well, the seed is planted, as one could say. But progressives will need to water it with vigilant political activism, going forward.
I suspect the Republican Party is neither that stupid or that self-destructive to actually do this. So they will either change, or try to pretend to change and fool the electorate. If they go the first route, then perhaps we will see the restoration of a healthy two party system where either party could present a viable choice. If they go the second route, then it will be the job of progressives to make sure they do not get away with their lies.
AP is reporting the marriage amendment failed in Minnesota! Woo!!!1one!
Obama is now leading the popular vote by over a million; 49.8% to 48.6%.
Boehner or Ryan, I guess.
I liked Obama’s speech, especially the mentioning of climate change and the “gay or straight” bit.That was good!
Now, now, let’s not get cocky (no pun intended). The right wing has not instantly evaporated. They are still out there. They still have money, power, and the will to use them. They can still be trouble.
@kreativekaos, 177,
Following your link there is this from Borowitz:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/11/the-republicans-closing-argument.html
Eloquent and revealing. Doncha just love honesty? Even more when it exposes mean and nasty principles? I sure do.
Yeah, they have not evaporated.
If an anti-gay tea partier can be elected mayor of a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, things are still shit.
Nobody will read this probably, but if you do, a warning. The Tea Party months ago switched to a strategy of getting people elected LOCALLY. School boards, town councils, etc. – and doing it by HIDING their tea party affiliations.
They are planning from the bottom up. It will be DECADES before we are rid of their political influence.
A note on libertarians… they can be useful.
Obama’s lead in Florida: 43,170
Johnson’s vote tally in Florida: 43,389
Source: Guardian at the time top right.
Akira MacKenzie #183
FIFY
Nearly half the voters went with a right-wing, religious-fanatic, homophobic 1%er. The Religious Right and the Corporate Plutocrats still have huge amounts of money and lots of hate for the rest of us.
Jahafa Hots (btw, nice nym):
True, but the evidence is that our recon drones, continuously updated with new software intelligence, have significantly enhanced detection capabilities. Estimates of future capabilities are encouraging. Detection rates are expected to increase.
Fear not and be of good cheer.
Which particular Morlock would that be?
—-
While I don’t suspect anything could mean such a thing, by all means, let’s him and him fight.
Who you callin’ a drone!
probably was supposed to be Mourdock, and just got the state wrong
alright: 100% reported, non-asshole up by 3000 votes. so either she’s won, or the fun of the recount starts in the morning. In any case, I’m calling it quits for the night. really this time. :-p
Hee heeee! Not you, Jafafa.
Feeble Star Wars reference, but you got that, didn’t you? ;^>
In Australian news: Markets rise on Obama’s election victory
Looks like the only swing state that swung for Romney was my present location, North Carolina. Indiana also swapped from blue to red. The voting map is identical to the last election save for these two.
probably was supposed to be Mourdock, and just got the state wrong
damn, now i have…
“Hi, I’m Rupert Morlock, welcome to my underground lair.”
rolling through my head.
From what I am aware of at this moment it looks like SSM has fared well this cycle. I’m not up to the moment on all the potawana decisions but at least two states are showing some intelligence.
My fellow Americans are impressing me. If only the entrenched government agencies would follow suit. Perhaps we need to work and wait some more. And pummel them with our will.
It’s a labor of love, I tells ya.
Romney has given his concession speech. (and a fairly well made speech it was, also, IMO)
bah.
the only good thing about Romney’s concession speech was that it was blessedly short.
he could have been gracious in defeat, but all he was was barely polite.
nothing to encourage anyone.
hopefully he will just be entirely forgotten in a week.
Woo!
Mister “if I died and was replaced by an emotionless replicant awkwardly impersonating humanity, noone would ever notice any difference” lost the election!
Congratulations from Sweden!
This from MSNBC:
Fred Sainz, vice president of communications with the Human Rights Campaign:
Look at me, a straight, white man of European descent, doing a happy dance!
Also:
Don’t bogart that joint, muh friend, pass it over to me.
I once rented a trailer in El Dorado, Arkansas. I started finding seeds and other traces of pot in various places around the trailer. I suspected there was more. After an exhaustive search I found a four-finger bag of weed inside of a “secret compartment” in the closet of an unused bedroom.
This boy was so happy he started doing the Eagle Rock up and down that dock!*
*please see Jamie Brokett, Ballad of the USS Titanic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
This maximum dude used to play for free at the Student Union at the University of New Hampshire. I was fortunate enough to be there. The Eagle Rock reference comes at the end of a thirteen and a half long rave like you seldom hear.
Enjoy all these things, dear Horde. Progress is slow but it does come with small pleasures that, combined, enhance life and increase freedom, which gives life its meaning.
Even more when shared.
Congratulations America! I’m really delighted you guys didn’t let the Mittbot near the nuclear arsenal.
When are the FEMA camps for Republicans opening? When is Shari’a law going to be declared? Come on Obama, no need to hold back now!
I just watched the German news coverage. I tried to spot the black person at the Republican party, couldn’t find them.
So, plain relief over here in Germany (91% of people would have voted for Obama). It seems like conservative chancellor Merkel doesn’t even try to look like she’s sorry the conservative candidate lost…
Congratulations to all those who managed to pass or block ballots and who kicked the pro-rape cround in the ass.
But I have a question: watching the long lines of people queuing up for voting: How would you manage if actually like 70-80% of people voted?
anareenseer @92:
In the civilised world, he would be. I also literally laughed out loud when I read this xkcd, as it labels people who have actually been elected to the US congress as “far left”, when anywhere else they would be thought of as being on the centre right or (in the most extreme cases) centre left. It’s just scary how far to the right the Overton window is in the US.
twitter is overflowing with rethuglicans gnashing their teeth and saying they want to leave the US…
where the hell would they go?
who the fuck would want them?
Obama’s now nearly 2 million ahead in the popular vote, and his share has gone just over 50%. So Rethugs whining about the injustice of it all will have to fall back on what so many of them actually think – that only white males should vote. (After all, that’s what the Founding Fathers decided.)
The really important question is: which Ardbeg?
Well, I hear that there is lots of space in places like Greenland, Antarctica, the Sahara and Atacama deserts. It’s not like any one is holding them back.
The lesser of two weevils.
Knowing next to nothing about Warren, I googled, and only needed to get as far as “Elizabeth” – her name came up as the first option. Looks like an impressive person – but the Republicans would surely demand to see her great-great-great-grandmother’s long form birth certificate.
Fuck no! Greenland and the Sahara already have permanent inhabitants (not sure about the Atacama) – what have they done to deserve an influx of racist scumbags? As for Antarctica, will no-one think of the penguins?
They could accompany Newt Gingrich to the moon, I guess – after all, the magic of the free market is surely going to create a moonbase any day now.
Given these people’s records on women’s and homosexual’s rights and their beliefs regarding the age of the earth et cetera, places like Afghanistan, Nigeria or Iran might be interested. It should not be too difficult for Republicans to make the jump, after all, you can easily stay in the Abrahamic fold, just transfer your bigotry across.
Sending Republicans to the moon could not possibly end well
Yeah, I actually don’t think America has any “far left” in play, at least not any far left that has any power in national stage – because I haven’t heard any. Considering how much I hear about the far right, I will have to assume that there is none – or close to none.
Thanks a lot! Thanks for making the world a better place, at least for the next 4 years. And congratulations to Maryland and Maine!
Congrats from France kids! That one could have sucked big if it had gone in the wrong direction :S
A little fun with some polls here:
Left: 85% Obama – 1% Romney
Right: 75% Obama – 9% Romney (to be clear, some of our conservatives would not vote Obama because he is too much on the right).
In total, the French would have voted 67% Obama and 5% Romney;
54% of the Front National voters would go for Obama! That’s a fucking right wing extremist, nationalist, homophobic and racist party. And they still thought that Romney was a religious loon with moronic ideas on defense.
Just to be clear, my country is very, very far from perfect in politics. But I think it illustrates well that at least half of the political scene in America is just fucking nuts (and the left isn’t always better to appeal so much to right-wing extremists here).
@211:
Point taken, Nick. Indigenous populations should not be so carelessly polluted.
Perhaps we need to wait for the Hundred Year Starship. Why, such an luminaries as Bill Clinton are behind the project. If we could just make it big enough and send it far enough . . .
*takes up slide rule to figure volume, thrust and time dilation factors*
Well, seeing as the die is cast and that it’s a bit after five AM, I say good night, good morning, good day to you all. Quite a night, eh?
As I used to tell my daughters when they were small, sleep well, because tomorrow just might be a big day.
Congratulations and thanks from Belgium!
Just model it after the Ark and tell them it’s biblically accurate so STFU about getting just enough space to stand up with no chance to fall over.
They were opened years ago and now hold enough thugs to explain why the commie atheist moolsin gay fascist icky furrinor won — real ‘merkins are all locked up and so are prevented from voting (and lynching those who voted wrong).
They are still working out the implementation problems in the FEMA camps, where it is in effect…
Tip: Watch to see which book that icky furrin gay fascist commie moolsin is sworn in with — teh hole babble or teh [pack of lies written by hitler, satan, and Obama that must not be named]. That’ll be a clew as to how far along the problem-solving has succeeded, and hence when Shari’a law will be declared.
So, statistics say:
55% of women
60% of 18-24 yo
93% of blacks
69% of hispanics
voted for Obama
52% of men
55% of 65+ yo
58% of whites
voted for Romney
Can we now stop pretending that a dominance of old white guys is not a problem?
Thank fook. I checked the news at 12:30am GMT and it all seemed up in the air. I didn’t realise how tense I’ve been over the past week until I heard the result…thanks, US; sincerely, Most Of The Rest Of The World.
Same here – but over the last several months.
Yep, the wind generated by the sigh of relief from the rest of the world is on it’s way.
Congratulations, USA. The alternative was worse.
Check this article from Time on why Obama won. He had data, facts and maths. And he used it well.
http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/
@222
What the fuck is wrong with
45% of women
4o% of 18-24 yo
7% of blacks
31% of hispanics
that they voted romney?
Republicans have been the biggest obstructionists in history in hopes that Obama looked bad enough to be a one term president. Now that they’ve failed, will they continue to hinder all efforts to help America just out of spite?
Well US, it seems like a tiny majority of your citizens has shown that you still deserve to run your own country … No serious electile dysfunction this year ;)
Some general remarks from a Euro-Liberal Euro-trash observer:
– Well, “Colorado Rocky Mountain High” will never have the same meaning again.
– Same-sex equality wins. One ban shot down, two pro-laws approved and a third still a possibility. So does that means that the relinuts will accept that “the people” have spoken and it’s not just the will of “some activist judges”?
– The first openly gay person to get elected into the Senate and her preference was never a real issue during the campaign? Good show Wisconsin.
– Blatant anti-woman stances will cost you a senate seat … Looks like some improvements have been made over the last century after all.
– Democrats may have lost House seats in non-battleground states because these were ignored in the campaign. Once again shows that the electoral vote just doesn’t work. Even a “split the EV per state by percentage of votes received” would make the election that more “about everybody’s vote”.
– Faulty voting ballots, hours of waiting in line, voter suppression, need to register on the day itself … are you sure that’s describing the most important election in the largest Western Democracy and not the going-ons in one of those countries that had their first democratic elections since the Arab Spring?
– Wondering what kind of nutbaggery Paul “Public Advocate” Delgado will be sending to my spam-catcher account.
In short, the “secondary” choices made this election even more about Hope than those of 2008 … and it look like Hope did if not win, at least not go down in flames.
Well, thank goodness for that. It seems the clusterfuck is delayed slightly, albeit nowhere near being averted yet.
@Jafafa Hots,
Thank you for voting with your conscience – I would have done the same. I do agree with PZ that the Greens need to build from the local upwards, but it is not fair to accuse any voter of “splitting the vote” because that is laying responsibility on them for decisions over which they have no control. If the electoral system discourages people from freely and independently voting for their favoured candidate, then the fault lies with the system, not the people.
@mikel:
God will not be mocked! Poorly-aimed, poorly-timed vengeance will be his!
Thought I’d share…
http://didmittromneywin.com/
Thanks, Lofty. If you click on http://natesilverwrong.com/, you get the message:
(Silver called every one of the states so far reported correctly, and Florida looks likely to make it a clean sweep.)
@230 (Alex the Pretty Good)
Just one note:
Votes for Representatives and Senators is not decided by electoral votes – they’re actually a straight, winner-takes-all vote (except Vermont, which has a weird 50%+1 rule.)
Yes. Another in the series of simple answers…
Two lines from R-Money’s concession blathering (as reported in The Grauniad) struck me (my emboldening):
Is the first a swipe at the obstructionists in Congress?
The second is just plain insulting. Most people don’t rape children — don’t rape anyone — and think raping kids is exceptionally wrong. As is covering-up and lying about it… And then demanding tithes (untaxed) to continue…
(In the middle — omitted from the above excerpt — is standard boilerplate blither about the importance of teaching and education.)
Katherine Lorraine@234,
I think you’ve misunderstood: the point was that because of the electoral college system, the bulk of the political effort goes into the “battleground” states, which affects all contests in the remainder.
Brace yourself, Alabama!
@222 and 228: Heck, what’s wrong with 55% of men and 58% of whites that they voted for Romney? It’s not in their interest either. And it’s sure as shit not in the interest of the 55% of people age 65 and older who voted for him.
That.
Ship B ?
With coordinates set for the Sun ?
twitter is overflowing with rethuglicans gnashing their teeth and saying they want to leave the US…
where the hell would they go?
Somalia. The government there is much as they describe to be the ideal.
@Nick Gotts:
Ohh… perhaps I did.
I wish I owned a US gun shop for the next year or so. The “Obama is coming to take away my precious, precious guns!” crowd will probably be out buying guns and ammo in large quantities, just like they did in 2008-09. The guys at Colt, Federal, Winchester etc.etc. are probably all rubbing their hands in glee at how much they’re going to fleece the paranoids for.
Now Republicans and Democrats have an opportunity to work together on the issues they agree on – murdering civilians with drones.
Democratic voters: Thank you, congratulations, and please work on getting a more liberal candidate next time.
The rest of you: (you know who you are) WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING*?!
truthspeaker – don’t talk bollocks. You know the Republicans would rather be carpet-bombing or nuking them.
Really, I’m happy for the results (mostly), but the best part, at least for me right now, was watching Karl Rove implode on Fox.
The sad faces of many at work today are feeding into my schadenfreude nicely.
I’d hope they’d shut up about everything for a while but I’m sure that’s not the case.
Rev.
Your coworkers should be happy.
If Mitt had won he would have outlawed coffee.
American electorate to bigoted, ignunt, racist, xenophobic, queer-hating, classist, militaristic misogynists: “Suck it, fuckbags.”
[crosscomment from the Lounge]
One of the right-wingers I know: “Obama only won because he let all the illegals vote. And they suppressed the GOP turnout. And they fiddled with the voting machines. And Romney wasn’t conservative enough.” Not verbatim, not all at the same time, but all said in the last hour. [turns up Zen — currently playing some Bach organ music. at high volume]
A couple reasons to feel good deserve mention this morning.
First, a lesson in how to communicate to a broad and diverse audience without eating shoe:http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/07/14980822-rape-remarks-sink-two-republican-senate-hopefuls?lite
And in the Good Ol’ Granite State,
See http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121107/NEWS06/121109406
In addition,
See http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121107/NEWS06/121109404
This can only be good. The ladies are showing their strength and are being recognized. This trend is growing not only in that small state, but across the country. As I’ve said before, small steps in the right direction are better than broad strides in the wrong one.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have fallen in love with more than one woman from New Hampshire and, with but a single exception, am still delighted that I did.
This along with various states passing SSM proposals and eminent domain restrictions please me. Its good to see Democrats embracing change via Federalism.
Several posters up-thread noted the Trump meltdown on twitter. Well, Trump scrubbed his Twitter feed of his most obnoxious comments, but Salon had the foresight to screen-grab them earlier.
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/07/donald_trump_loses_it_calls_for_revolution/
“We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”
“We should have revolution in this country!”
“House of Representatives shouldn’t give anything to Obama unless he terminates Obamacare.”
etc.
We call this the “B Ark”.
Well, Trump scrubbed his Twitter feed of his most obnoxious comments
So much for the courage of his convictions.
Got a chance to look at the Trib. In Illinois news, Teabagger and hypocritical person behind on his child support payments Joe Walsh lost to dem. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs serving in Iraq. Walsh tried to minimize Duckworth’s injuries in service, which didn’t go over well.
And for the first time since I moved to Illinois, I have a democratic congresscritter, who edged out the incumbant rethug by 2,400 votes.
Since there is no federal policy for state issues, MD is as relevant as ever. A total non-sequitor and bit of idiocy. Might as well hang up its politial trolling now that the election is over.
Let’s enjoy some words of wisdom from right-wing pundits … before reality slapped them:
Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal): “All the vibrations are right.” “Romney is stealing the election while we’re not really noticing because we’re too busy looking at data.”
Karl Rove (Wall Street Journal, and man behind the curtain): “Mitt Romney will be declared America’s 45th president. Let’s call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.”
Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard): “As president, Mitt Romney will have the extraordinary opportunity to rescue America from the spirits of the shady night of a decadent liberalism.”
David Martosko (Daily Caller): He predicted Romney would win 296-244, including Pennsylvania, “partially because Hurricane Sandy will depress some turnout in Obama-friendly Philadelphia, and because the new Black Panthers have been warned this time.”
There’s more, but maybe this is too much fun for one day.
Canadians, you know what to do. I look forward to the election of someone who is not Harper so we in the US can start thinking fondly of emigration again.
via BB, because Jennifer Ouellette is just that awesome:
http://freakofnature.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/particle-physicists-unwilling-to-call-election/
BB quote from here: http://boingboing.net/2012/11/07/particle-physicists-not-yet-wi.html
Video of Karl Rove melting down is available here:
Talking Points Memo link. Scroll down for the video.
No federal policy and law enforcement for marijuana sales, really?
No federal policies proposed in the past for the definition of marriage, really?
No recent relevant Supreme court decisions regarding eminent domain, really?
It was so lovely to see right-wingers assuming that Romney would take Minnesota because the marriage equality proposition would bring out droves of Romney voters.
Then Obama kicked Romney’s ass in Minnesota, and Minnesotans decided they didn’t want to be anti-gay marriage after all.
Case in point: Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review tweeted: “George Will is right. Romney will take Minnesota, and on account of the marriage vote.”
Not only that. For the last two weeks, local terrestrial radio kept playing an ad that claimed that Tammy Duckworth was a Rod Blagojevich stooge who would implement his policies in the House.
Bill O’Reilly on Faux News: “… the white establishment is now the minority” and the country is “not a traditional America anymore.” And this is from the Faux News anchor who was arguably the most repetitive when it came to bashing liberals for noting the racism within the right wing? Way to prove us right, Bill.
Todd “legitimate rape” Akin, in his concession speech: “We believe life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness come from almighty God, not an almighty government.”
BTW, it is so odd that Paul Ryan won his House seat back in Wisconsin. So I guess he does have a job after all. Really, Wisconsinites? You should have kicked that guy out.
And BTW, it is so sweet to see the look on my mormon neighbor’s face when God did not make sure that Romney won. Head asplode time.
I would just like to point out that Obama won more than 47% of the vote.
The best part is Meghyn Kelly’s exasperated “But you know how the science works! They know the counties and the makeup of the remaining electorate.” Some tiny surviving fragment of intellectual dignity wouldn’t allow her to be party to it.
But Meghyn Kelly still did the long walk to the computer room in order to question them about the numbers.
So much fun to watch the turdblossom wilt.
I hope that dubya had fun in the Cayman Islands.
Best election coverage, The Colbert Report:
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-november-6-2012-andrew-sullivan
And she’s participated in similarly stupid acts all along. But that brief moment in which reason resisted was most enjoyable.
I missed that. She actually told Karl Rove, architect of ‘our ideas create reality’, that he knows how the science works?
Heh.
Hehehe.
Falls on the floor and rolls while laughing. Laughing my fucking ass off.
But she is smart enough to remember who pays her salary. Do not want to make the aging pirate king, Rupert Murdoch, and his head morlock, Roger Ailes too upset.
Ah, the continuing enshrinement of foolish dead white men who hated them*, and the continuing assumption that all that is good arose from them. Libertarians never fail.
Savoring the sweet sweet tears of the deluded!
Why so serious?
Thinking about Janine’s links to music … am reminded of Romney’s tin ear for music, am reminded of his shifting from Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man to Kid Rock’s Born Free.
Now that’s a sin.
Does he have to hurt me even as he’s getting ready to exit the freakin’ political stage?
The fact that the words were uttered there is marvelous. I think people should save that clip and insert it in response to any of their dismissals of expert projections for global warming, sea-level rise, etc. Just Meghyn Kelly’s voice: “But you know how the science works!”
Joe Walsh and Todd Akin both lost. To women.
First openly gay senator elected (who happens to be a woman as well).
SSM initiatives in 4 states voted the “right way”.
Recreational marijuana legalization in 2 states. (Still can’t believe it didn’t pass in Oregon, they’re bigger stoners than we are in WA)
I like where this is going.
What I’m scared of is how many anti-women and anti-gay bills there are going to be in the next few years in backlash by the Right. Let’s hope the people buck that trend.
Lynna, that was just the MittBot 3000 trying to reach out to all of the hip young adults who love Mr Loaf and The Nuge.
More good news from Florida, the voters defeated an amendment that would have provided state funding for religious institutions:
Fanfare
Arrgggh. Paul Ryan is still going to give us headaches:
And the zombie eyed granny starver shambles on.
80 corporate jets descended on Boston last night as the super rich supporters of Romney landed there in order to attend what they thought would be a victory rally. The 80 jets were about double the usual number the airport sees.
Wasted jet fuel. Add that to the millions down the drain for Sheldon Adelson, for the Koch Brothers, and for mormons everywhere.
Concession Of A Salesman
no, just standard Republican reaction post-election:
Republicans won? “we have a mandate, therefore no compromises”
Democrats won? “this is no mandate, this is a time for cooperation and bipartisanship”
LMAO. Oh, ho. Perfect analysis.
Even uncool Paul Ryan called Mitt out on his musical taste, noting during his RNC speech that Mitt had elevator music on his iPod.
One more note for Janine: Mitt doesn’t call young adults “young adults.” He calls them, mormon style, “youth” or “the youth.”
The uncool zombie eyed granny starver lovse Rage Against The Machine. Missed out on the meaning of the songs.
I guess it is easy enough, Tom Morello is an amazing guitarist.
?
Do I really want to learn more mormon concepts?
From Janine’s link @287:
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-concession-14544479#ixzz2BYqiF67t
They refused to credential most of the foreign press? Effing tribalist Romney.
American exceptionalism at it’s finest.
Janine @292
Even ex-mormons have a hard time dropping mormon lingo. Case in point, this thread: How can they continue to interview the youth alone behind closed doors?
For Janine’s mormon education: “For the Strength of Youth” is a famous/infamous pamphlet designed to convince the youth that “Homosexual and lesbian behavior is a serious sin.”
Discussion here: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,616894,618251
I am such a mean old bitch. I could not stop laughing as the fools of the American Patriarchy Association pondered why they lost so badly.
From The American Conservative:
They went on to note that all those brown people voted Obama in, so what can you do?
Can someone explain Florida to me? That is, are they ever going to call it or are they going to recount or what? I know it’s irrelevant for the result, but am curious…
No one can explain Florida.
Republicans are sorry they lost. Republicans want to win in the future. Republicans do not want to change.
It is the twilight of the (white) gods!
From Janine’s link @297:
Twilight of the White Gods cannot come too soon. Actuarial tables are also on the side of the Democratic Party.
As a rule, we LGBT people hate, hate, hate education.
Ted Nugent melts down on Twitter:
Former SNL member Victoria Jackson melts down on Twitter:
I see she believes in repetition.
Stay classy Mississippi:
I Can’t Stop Crying
Lynna, be fair, not all of those students are from Mississippi.
The Nuge shitted in his pants so that he did not have to be a warrior. If only he were a Mormon, perhaps he could have joined the MittBot 3000 in France.
I Can’t Stop Crying
The picture is from a year and a half ago. It is Brian Brown of NOM.
From my liberal embeds inside Goldman Sachs, I bring you this news:
What? They turned off the heat out of spite?
I always think of them as “Gold in Sacks” ;-)
Facebook posts from True Believing Mormons, courtesy of an ex-mormon who still has believing relatives:
I am sick of Christians and they’re persecution complex. The world doesn’t kowtow to their every belief so they are persecuted. Bleah.
Today,I woke up in a country that re-elected a black President, despite the fact that his first term was less than stellar and that he presides over a country with nearly 8% unemployment. If you think about it, this may say more that is hopeful than having elected black man in the first place.
I awoke in a country where maybe, just maybe, people will be able to get medical care they need and not have insurance countries laugh in their face.
This morning, I awoke in a state where gay and lesbian couples can affirm their commitment to each other and have it recognized by the state–they can marry.
I awoke in a state where a bright young person can realize their dreams of an education, whether or not their parents possessed the right paperwork to reside here.
So again, on the day following election day, I am a wee bit proud of my country, fucked up as it is.
And now I am walking on eggshells so as not to offend the smackasses who are saying that this is the end of civilization. I want to tell them that if they want to leave, I’d be happy to help them pack.
GET THE FUCK OFF THE INTERNET!
No. If that were the case, feudal overlords would suffer as well as the peasants. We can’t have that happening at Gold in Sacks.
Hurricane Sandy knocked out the steam system in the part of Lower Manhattan where the Goldman Sachs building is located. It’s not back on line yet.
Thank you, Lynna.
I am still listening to that video. It is so fucking unhinged and I am mean enough to find it hilarious!
@Janine
You may regret posting that. She has convinced me that Obama is evil and Romney is fantastic, and I think her rhetoric and eloquence may convince most people on this blog.
I love how she understands the English healthcare system. That’s my favourite part. That’s what turned me.
GO DISEASE!
Someone up-thread asked us to explain Florida.
Florida was a mess before the November 6 election day voting began.
Link.
In addition to problem noted above, broken voting machines, broken ballot scanners, reduced numbers of polling places, and reduced polling hours were all prevalent, especially in high-population-density areas (where most of the minorities live).
More here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-florida-vote-20121106,0,1320003.story
Al Sharpton video on voter suppression: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/#49702183
Another Al Sharpton segment on voting in Florida: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/#49667498
Boehner is talking and it appears he is the same obstinate ass he always was. Apparently “common sense” still means following reaganomics and cutting social programs, while leaving defense alone.
or it could end like this…
perfectly plausible.
Yep, the wind generated by the sigh of relief from the rest of the world is on it’s way.
oh, another hurricane for the East Coast. I’m sure they’ll be very thankful.
;)
if you eliminate the obvious (they always voted republican, so, inertia), then I’d guess the second major factor would simply be age.
old people tend to vote republican, for a variety of reasons.
Glenn Beck.
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
From the Miami Herald:
From The Maddow Blog:
SC @327, That Glenn Beck presentation closely mirrors what I’m seeing on Facebook from True Believing Mormons. (See post #315.)
All that emergency prep won’t hurt Beck’s bottom line either. He sells preparedness goods.
Link.
Republicans are about suppressing just enough of the vote to make a difference. They failed for the most part simply because they underestimated the determination of people who really wanted to vote.
Astronauts can vote electronically from the space station. You would think that Florida could fix it’s voting process.
…laments the end of his career as a schlock jock for the GoP.
and the orchestra of tiny violins is right there with him.
“…And being reassured of total destruction followed by cosmic totalitarianism cheered me right up! Hope it helps you, too! Hugs and kisses!”
How fucking bad is the House of Representatives? And why are those jokers still in power?
Link.
Cockroaches.
The GOP is working on fixing Florida’s voting problem. They had it in 2000 but their fix didn’t work in 12.
Anything, anything to get out of those three-hour-long, soul-sucking church services.
Oh, wait. The era cosmic mormon totalitarianism would mean “sacrament meetings” that go on for eternity. Maybe a few breaks for procreation of “spirit babies.”
What’s going on with the American people?
It is so much when when reality shatters hateful little fantasies.
Hey, did you know that liberals have tun the US for the last thirty years and that conservatives only get a short time to clean up the mess before they are swept out again?
*snicker*
Nate Silver was right, and I was wrong.
In other words, he pulled the numbers out of his ass.
I expected better of Dean Chambers than to simply admit defeat in the face of reality.
Well, maybe “better” isn’t the right word.
Crudely Wrott
7 November 2012 at 12:48 am
I just popped over to one of the libertarian/gun-rights forums I used to hang out on in my libertarian days (until they became so extreme and sociopathic I gave up on them well before giving up on libertarianism itself).
They’re… not taking it well.
Sample posts:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=0o945igeaok08gfij3jvf1v6q0&topic=36886.msg742601#msg742601
wut
GET THE FUCK OFF THE INTERNET!
*snort*
Well said. Although he must not know of Tom Morello as The Night Watchman–it would REALLY hard for him to misinterpret THOSE lyrics.
Janine @ 328:
Lawyers, Guns and Money– beeeaaautiful! Couldn’t be more appropriate as satirizing the severe, modern Rethuglican mentality (think: Nugent, for one of many)
I’ll have to pull out my Zevon album (yes ALBUM) Excitable Boy, and reacquaint. Nice job on the musical suggestions.
I guess life’s not so good to them these days.
Anyway, it was a great night for gays and tokers, and even though I’m neither, I like the direction this country is going in.
Nice to see that Obama finally mentioned global warming in his speech last night. I would’ve liked to have seen him talk about it during the campaign, but on the other hand I suppose that might have cost him enough votes in places like VA and OH to lose the election. I hope that’s a sign of his priorities in his second term.
Hmm, that didn’t come out quite right, did it? It doesn’t matter who or what I am; what’s important is that the world became a bit more free last night.
@346: Or at least, a bit less oppressive. OR at least, not became any more oppressive.
Janine: Hallucinating Liar
7 November 2012 at 6:44 pm
I think two things were happening there:
The first is something that seems common to a lot of extremists and single-issue obsessives on all sides. First, they take one issue that they think is the only thing that matters (either because it is the only thing that is important, or because – in their world view – everything important derives from it). Secondly, they invoke a lot of slippery-slope / excluding the mean / etc fallacies, such that anyone/thing who doesn’t perfectly fit their utopia is the antithesis of it. Hence if the government taxes your property, or restricts what you can do with it, then you don’t have full control over it, hence you don’t have control over it, hence you don’t have real ownership of it, hence the government does, therefore COMMUNISM!!!111!!!
The second issue is that a lot of these libertarian/ Objectivist types seem to view America not as a country or nation (or even a federation of those), but as an ideology. Specifically, an ideology defined by (their interpretation of) the Constitution. Hence someone who disagrees with (their interpretation of) the Constitution “hates America”, and if they go further and try to change society they are “trying to destroy America”. (This is presumably also the source of the “we are Real Americans” meme, and the implied accusation that people who disagree with them are not Real Americans).
(Btw, how do I do Comic Sans in posts? I feel I ought to be using it when quoting/explaining wingnut idology, if for nothing else to make sure no-one mistakes it for my own views).
<q cite=”comic sans”> should give
I got comic sans but not the way I expected it. Let me see if <q cite>comic sans</q> does it: .
BTW, preview is broken.
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If so, the problem is at your end; works fine for me.
<q>COMIC SANS</q>
Seems to work for me.