Wonkette
- 56% OF AMERICANS ARE SOCIALIST COMMIE MARX-MAOIST STALINFURRIES: Hey looky here, the Newsweek magazine says that 56% of Americans support “nationalizing large banks at risk of failing,” while only 29% support the Responsible Centrist option of giving crappy insolvent banks run by actual hell demons all the money they want forever, on their own terms. Who knew that a majority of Americans are in favor of gay abortions and giving AIDS to our children? [Newsweek]
TRAITORS!!!
why do Americans hate our right to give away all our money to plutocrats? They’re people too!!!
I bet you if that poll question was worded, “Do you want to see an economic system similar to that of Europe?!?, it would have yielded a different result.
All these Mexican half-breed muslin acorns are lookin’ to teh societyisms ’cause their lazyied and don’t want works. They just want teh chek.
Europe is such an awful place. Did you know they carbonate WATER there? Is nothing sacred?
The Cold Sea: and CELLPHONES, to call their tattoo people.
Who knew that taking control of banks away from the sociopaths known as executives would be popular. Next you’ll be telling me that firefighting should not be managed by the arsonists who started the fire in the first place.
…not giving AIDS to children - giving ‘aides’, as in Commissars, to children… how else are they going to grow up as loyal, right-thinking, arugula-eating half-breed Socialist Muslins??
“…hell demons” my ass. You need to whip the “filthy cock jackals” meme out on these creepy bankers, Jim. It’s Friday. Also.
…while only 29% support the Responsible Centrist option…
Gold!
But nationalization is against America’s culture of loserism and failure, so it still won’t happen, despite the Will of the People. Well, the strong wishes expressed anonymously by the people who can’t be arsed to just pull their worthless cash out of their Citi accounts.
Well, the Swedes nationalized their massively failed banks in the 90s and they still have Billionaires in Sweden — maybe not as many as in Arkansas, but for a country with the same population they have a much higher median standard of living. Of course they’re socialists and not really people, certainly nothing like the Jesus-fearing churchgoers that make up the minority of real Americans.
This would mean something to me if I believed that either the people giving or responding to the damn survey actually knew what the fuck they meant by “nationalization.”
problemwithcaring: I think it means USA FTW !!!!
right?
problemwithcaring: It means doing the Swedish model, duh. Who’s not in favour of models? Vanity Smurf is on the program.
qwerty42: +1
NewAlgier: Depends on what she looks like….
Eugene Debs got 6% of the votes in the 1912 Presidential election in which only about four states allowed women to vote. We need to put a friendly face on socialism. I say socialism with a small ’s’, meaning little or no central planning but regulated industries.
When we mention the party of Reagan and hear most people hiss we’ll have made some progress. Instead of liberal or socialism being a scare word I want to see people blanch on hearing the word conservative, right-wing, or evangelical.
This can’t be right. Why just this morning John Boehner was saying that Obama’s policies are becoming wildly unpopular. Maybe that’s just among wolf furries.
Slightly o/t, but I have to say, if today isn’t the official “bottom”, it’ll serve.
Early this morning, after sending a
cheerypleading email to an architect/colleague, reminding him to keep my firm’s phone number handy should any new projects come off the boards, I picked up a national trade mag to see this same guy lamenting the very state of affairs those in the design and building trades all seem to be sharing. Talk about a buzz kill. sheesh. Paging Dr. Dewar’s.On a highly relevant side note, can we look into making every Friday Furry Friday?
bitchincamaro: All those folks who were laughing at the 2.6 multiplier government contractors get are now in the reception area, shoes shined, résumés in hand.
NewAlgier: This Swedish model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Bikini_Team
Why do Americans hate America?
(hint: it’s because they’ve had to live here for the past couple of years)
Hmmmm. Y’all are the world’s self-proclaimed arch-capitalists, yet want to nationalize the stupid worthless banks.
Here in Canuckistan, we’ve long since grown immune to you calling us “socialists,” yet ALL of our banks are solvent and in the hands of the shareholders who own the bank stock.
Then again, we have rules against fuckheads plundering the banks, which y’all might wanna try sometime. If you want a refresher course in “capitalism,” feel free to ask us “socialists” how that shit actually works.
We can also offer cheap tutorials on how to provide semi-adequate universal health care, but y’all wouldn’t be interested in THAT. Hell, even Hopey has foresworn single-payer, because having a profit-hungry middleman between doctor and patient is in your Constitution or some such shit. Until that fucks up too, and then you’ll be screaming to “nationalize” all your doctors. Or outsource your health care to China ‘coz it’s cheaper.
Welcome to the United States of Wal-Mart.
Canuckledragger: Stupid showoff ‘nucks.
Canuckledragger: Stop rubbing it in
Canuckledragger: Sure…you just want us to pledge our souls to your Distant Foreign Monarch like you’ve done, then everything will be ‘ok-eh’?…. and the next thing you know we’ll be overrun by jackbooted Mounties in their BLOOD-RED uniforms - WOLVERINES!!!
Canuckledragger: And why in the hell do you make it so hard for us Americans to emigrate there? I’ve taken all of the online tests and I’ll never have enough points. Under Bush I at least hoped I’d have a chance as a political dissident but now it’s hopeless.
I’m willing to pay a ‘health insurance’ penalty to live there year round even if I never make landed immigrant or resident wombat or whatever it is.
Stalinfurries = french-kissing gay bears? OW MY EYES!!
chascates: You can blame the prick in charge here right now, a lardass known as Stephen “Steve” Harper. For the first time in our long history, we’re sending back US military AWOLs. We took in the United Empire Loyalists, Civil War deserters, Underground Railroaders, Viet Nam dodgers and deserters, but now, for some unknown reason, y’all aren’t welcome here. I’m involved with the local chapter of the War Resisters, just as I was 30+ years back with Amex [American Expatriates] to rectify this. Even staunch Tories can’t believe we’re doing this, so it doesn’t even play to Steve’s base here. It plays to George Bush’s base, but Steve ain’t figgered out there’s a new Sheriff in town. [Though Hopey's no likelier to approve of US military high-tailin' it to the tundra.]
Of course, there IS a shortcut to landed immigrant status. Just be rich. Easy, n’est pas? [I'm truly fucking sorry and ashamed, because you'd be welcome to crash on my couch any time, so long as you leave your sidearms at home. On the slightly more upbeat side, Steve's toast come the next election. Perhaps that'll change shit and you'll be on my couch after all.]
Canuckledragger: Many thanks for helping on the war resistor issue. I realize it’s only a small percentage of people that are the ‘Harperites.’ In the meantime I can dream of a quiet, peaceful life amongst more enlightened folk:
http://www.recreationland.net/recreation_land_for_sale/ontario/Lake_Front_For_Sale/File_1_-_Quiet_Cabin_Getaway_on_159_acres_of_land_west_of_Thunder_Bay,_Ontario/sm/index.html
There is a reason why it costs so much to fly over and have a vacation in Europe…It is so much nicer than this shithole!. A grand tour of America for a European involves a visit to Graceland and the Mall of the Americas. The Metropolitan Museum elicits a “meh” from those jaded Socialists.
George Carlin would be having a field day with all this commie/fag/junky stuff
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about mudflaps
My guy’s got ‘em.
chascates: Hey, I don’t know if you caught it the first time I tipped you this, but my sister is selling her cheap crappy 5th-wheel camper nigh the mighty Elwha River .
You mentioned previously you wanted to bag it all and go fishing. Email at my place of business if you want the deets. It’s not Canada, but it’s about as close as you can get. Literally and figuratively.
Lascauxcaveman: Hi, I remember and I appreciate it. It looks like pretty good living there. And I’m still mulling it over. I don’t have any real possessions and could easily fit in a 5th-wheel. I’m studying here in Austin to pass my Apple software and hardware certs and hope that might give me some leverage wherever I end up. And I’ve been checking out the great Northwest. I can’t commit to anything now but I appreciate your offering. A friend has a converted bus I’m trying to borrow for my Tom Joad thing and may end up that way.
If you turn this into a country where bankers can’t screw their depositors, where the rich can’t eat the poor and where lovable con men can’t steal old people’s savings, Ronald Reagan will come back from the dead and terrorize you.
fuckinredneck: hey, don’t know it ’til you’ve tried it….
If Karl Marx had had an XBox the world would have been a very different place.
Canuckledragger: Sorry, I support sending AWOL U.S. soldiers back. They signed up, they’re not our problem, and there’s no draft anymore. Same with U.S. old people who want cheap drugs: they can move here and pay our taxes if they want our drug prices. Otherwise, fuck their Republican asses.
shanemacgowan: I’m as good with links as Geithner is with bankrupt banks. This is the Swedish model I was thinking of.
CaliforniaMike:
Reagan continues to haunt us.
chascates: Apple? Iszat some kinda computer or something? Won’t find many of those up here in the woods.
Just kidding. If you do make it up this way you can show me some stuff on my iMac, like a Garage Band lesson and some stuff with my .mac account I’ve never used for anything.
Bearbloke: - don’t knock it, either!
Also.
rocktonsammy: Which is nothing more than we deserve for being fooled by him twice. We need to exorcise him from our system, which means barbecuing Rush Limbaugh and feeding all the poor of Honduras.
Vanity Smurf: I once had an economics professor from Sweden who was essentially banished from that country for being to right-wing, but he vouches for the temporary bank nationalization there and its current applicability here…
Scandalabra: Ghey.
… Awesome, but ghey.
CaliforniaMike: How about merely hog-tying Rush and feeding all the poor jaguars of Honduras?
Bearbloke: I like the way you think.
Canuckledragger: I saw Harper on CNN, after my Canuck friend ranted about what a conservative he is. But he talked articulately, didn’t drool and seemed reasonable. He didn’t even mention abortion or gay marriage–not once.
In the USA, he’d be a socialist terrorist. I’m feeling a lot less sorry for Canada, even if it is a boring, cold country.
But our neighbors to the north can’t be too smug, not as long as they allow the baby seals to be clubbed to death. Once that point of moral inferiority goes, we’ll have to contract out the govt’ of the US to a bunch of cold, boring people who do it better than we do.
DustBowlBlues: Seal goes into a bar. Bartender says “What’ll you have?” Seal replies, “Anything but a Canadian Club.”
Canuckledragger:
Hey, our fizcal system is okay, but I was told that if AIG went belly up in Sept and in the middle of our less than exciting election then it would have taken down a major Canada City bank (initials CIBC and our stupidest bank) because they had a lot of dealings with them. Of course, I’d be pissed because I have my checking account with them.
Canuckledragger: Is Canadia accepting unemployed executives from Wachovia Bank? At this point, they are reduced to cleaning their yachts with chilled Perrier rather than the distilled, tiny tears of Mexican illegals. Getting very, very grim around here.
I, for one, would welcome SOCIALIST COMMIE MARX-MAOIST STALINFURRIES overlords or Canadians.
and totally off topic, did anyone ever figure out if karl rove was really lurking around here at wonkette? and if so who he is? this has been keeping me awake nights.
chascates: But he’s married. What’s he doing alone in a bar? I’m telling.
heathenish: So long as there is Craig’s List, Rove will never have any temptation to lurk here.
Canuckledragger: What’s all this nonsense about ‘Canada’, and it having a ‘gouvernment’… my Honduran maid’s Honduran maid mentioned something about this ‘Canada’ gouvernment-thingie having an EPIC FAIL CLUSTERFUCK last December, and dissolving into a puddle of whale-blubber-flavoured tears; she even saw it on The Daily Show back them… so tell us, you ‘Canadian’ you, what the hell happened, and why didn’t the Gouvernour-General just execute everyone who displeased her?
S.Luggo: I think those unemployed executives from Wachovia are doing just fine with their million dollar bonuses shelled out right before they went under.
Bearbloke: Point.
In the 18th century, the Gouvernour-General tried that with the Acadians, but they just came back … speaking much poorer French. And ruderer. Beware of what you wish for.
OT, but Limbaugh made a really dumbass joke about Dead Ted Kennedy, i.e. “The Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill,” which is not bad, considering the humor challenged environment in which he lives and breathes, but my question is this: coming hot on the heels of that (retarded republican but i can’t remember which one it was)’s comments on Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s immminent death, doesn’t this point to a trend?
The latest Republican talking point is “Democrats should die.”
I certainly hope america doesn’t institute a single-payer health-insurance plan.
Sure its swell and works like a charm in many other countries, but only if you are sick and weak.
Please, consider my stock portfolio.
We, as americans, need insurance companies.
gurukalehuru:
“Lieber tot als rot”
Well that explains why FOX News has spent the entire evening pondering the question “Why is everyone supporting Obama and why do they like him so much when he has destroyed the economy in just under two months?”
Who would have thought that the American people are so stupid that they won’t listen to the sane counsel of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and support the people who got us here in the first place.
I know everyone here is deep into their fifth or seventh gin and tonic, but somewhere, true americans are rising in righteous anger to support Kathy Shaidles’ godgiven right to be on some television show.
http://www.warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry090212-084727
Wow, that broad fascinates me.
http://snipurl.com/dbv3c
Did you know Mark Steyn quotes her in his book?
Did you know Mark Steyn is some kind of important conservative book writer? From Canada?
Just another drone in Japan: Damn, so Canada City has its very own Michelle Bachman/Malkin. Is she hot?
gurukalehuru:
Smokin! You would so go for her.
NewAlgier: Nearly all the AWOLs here have done at least one tour. What they signed up for and what they experienced weren’t the same thing. They’ve BEEN there; they’re NOT cowards, but they don’t wanna be in some future Nuremberg dock. Try talking to one, then we’ll chat again.
DustBowlBlues: Steve’s a ‘moderate’ pod person, a Republican replicant itching for the majority government that’ll let him shed his disguise. Then it’s a return to the death penalty, bans on abortions, no homo weddings, blah blah blah. If you think out treatment of seals is bad, don’t investigate our treatment of our First Nations brethren. Death by neglect is our ‘final solution.’ It is to puke.
ManchuCandidate: Yeah, they just floated a buncha paper to raise another billion-plus for liquidity’s sake. I once worked with a ‘risk manager’ there who invested in a rock’n'roll project that tanked size LARGE. Nice guy, but such a dumb fuck you wonder how he ever got that corner office.
Bearbloke: Hiding behind the GG’s apron is precisely why Steve’s gonna flame out come the next election, and it won’t be long in coming. There’s something about putting your party’s political fortunes before the needs of the people that doesn’t sit well with voters. Plus, he just passed a budget that has his own Alberta [read Texas] base thinking he’s a dope smoking, abortion-loving homo. He’s toast.
Just to be clear, y’all, my point was NOT that Canuckistan is a Utopian Workers’ Paradise, because there’s no chance of that in MY lifetime. My point was that a bunch of dope-smoking, fag-loving, abortion-having, cheap-meds-ingesting, semi-polite ’socialists’ in the tundra have ways of balancing the national chequebook that y’all might wanna study. It means somewhat lower profits and slightly higher taxes for the capitalist sharks, but you won’t have a tsunami of people turfed from suburbia to sleep in their cars due to subprime meltdowns and health-care related bankruptcies. It’s WAY less costly to prevent problems like y’all are having than it is to fix ‘em.
And government, like all else, IS all about the Benjamins, ain’t it?
When Robin Williams gets well, he’ll put on a big fund-raiser. Something on TV with Willie Nelson, and maybe bring out all the big guns like Jerry Lewis.
Canadia could have a big fund raiser for the U.S. on Television Canadia. Diane Krall and Malajub and Les Replacements together on the same stage. Also, one in Iceland, one in Zimbabwe ….
Problem solved.
Canuckledragger: It’s WAY less costly to prevent problems like y’all are having than it is to fix ‘em.
Yeah, but that’s not the American way. If we believed in preventing problems rather than fixing them, we wouldn’t have spent the last eight years fucking up Afghanistan (not to mention that security thing that led us into Afghanistan), Iraq, New Orleans, our relations with the rest of the world, our banks, our mortgages, our industrial base, our borders and our civil rights. I mean, how could we test our mettle if we weren’t constantly throwing ourselves off a cliff?
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Let’s see…economy in the toilet, Obama President for 45 days- totally his fault. George W President for almost 9 months, worst attack on America in history- totally not his fault.
Perfectly logical
Hooray For Anything: NO ONE could have predicted….that Obama would be blamed for Bush’s fuckups.
Hooray For Anything: 45 days of AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE by Soshialist Muslin Tyranee! IMPEACH THAT ACORN MORAN NOW!!!11!!
Comrade Barry is ruining America. Just ask the stockbrokers. Who is more trustworthy than those fine gems of humanity?
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
Did we know we were electing teh communists? Hey, they couldn’t be any worse than the capitalirapists, could they? At least we don’t have to look back over our shoulder and see Cheney’s leering face while we feel the pain.
Hooray For Anything: It’s worse than that. According to the great minds of current Conservatism, The dot com recession that started in March of 2001 is all Clinton’s fault, while this one that started in March of 2008 is all Obama’s fault. Strangely enough, that is not what 01 and 08 have in common.
Canuckledragger: Just admit that you are a communist, who wants to come over and ruin our women with your loose morals, bland personalities, pot smoking and polite ways, and ruin our men with your French morals, bland personalities, pot smoking and polite ways.
And then, once it is all over, you will turn us back over to the Queen, and she will impose Cheney as Lord High Governor, and a 1000 years of terror will begin.
Also.
Canuckledragger: Can someone explain this sport called ‘curling’? It looks like the round thingie is actually some nasty turd and the players, who are armed only with brooms, don’t want to get their brooms all nasty so they just kind of ‘whoosh’ at the turd to make it go into the other fellows’ end zone. And from what I’ve read all the players must be disabled so that one shoe is taller than the other.
im sorry, i have worked for the US government, and i have worked for a US bank. combining the two would be some unholy, godless chasm of bureaucratic stupidity that would make Brazil seem like a documentary about a happy place.
chascates: The brooms melt the ice to provide a thin layer of water for the stone to travel on. More sweeping, more melting, faster stone. Wanna slow the stone down so it won’t overshoot the target? Stop fucking sweeping, moron. It’s sort of like shuffleboard or “jarts” but with a lot of painful, sweaty, senseless effort, and no real reward for your trouble. Kind of like getting Meghan McCain to agree to let you bone her in the ass. At the end of the day, was it really worth it?
Mr Blifil:
Jarts worth it? Fuck yeah! Throw em straight up in the air and see how long you can stand there before they puncture your skull.
Wow, that’s almost a metaphor about something.
Canuckledragger: Steve’s out after the next election? Are you sure? Didn’t he illegally take over the government with some kind of coup, like closing palyment rather than face a no-confidence vote? He sounds like Bush Jr. er, Bush III. No thanks.
Thank the galactic dust for Canuckledraggers and people like ‘em. My peeps are Maritimers going back to the 1750s. Candidly, I wish there was a way for me and my son to parlay that into citizenship. If only my mother were born on the OTHER side of the border…..grrrr.
MortSinclair: Well, in my more Imperialist moments, I’ve always thought it a HUGE mistake for the US to not have seized everything south of the St. Lawrence, when we defected the ‘British’(read:Canadians) back during the War of 1812. So, once the Qubequois finally get sick of the dumbfucks in Alberta and join the EU, you Maritimers (including Newfoundland, but NOT Labrador) are welcome to become part of the US. We expect you to become all to become Conservative-to-Liberal Democrats (and Greens) in the US political spectrum, and we want you to DEMAND to retain your Canuck-style health care & help fight to get it for all US citizens. In return, we can have all the guns you want, and you can talk all the crap about ‘the Frenchies’/'les Anglais’ you want, in public…