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March 10, 2009

Here’s A Great PUMA Movie For Your Tuesday Lunch Hour!

by Jim Newell  

Hey so what’s going on with our old chums in crazytown these days? Oh how convenient, a reader e-mail: “Someone put TeamSarah on the Pumasphere.com blogroll. They also link to this incredibly stupid video.” Ha ha you MUST watch this magnificent film! It’s a standard recruitment tape for a suicide cult or the Dharma Initiative or whatever. TRUTH: “The PUMA movement was thought of as a bunch of disgruntled voters when in reality, it was the Taj Mahal of consciousness reforming political mathematics.” [VodPod]

{ 103 comments }

demtard March 10, 2009 at 11:57 am

Wow Chuck Schumer needs to lay off the sauce.

medievalist March 10, 2009 at 11:58 am

Good lord, they are batshit crazy. When do they start talking about Thetans?

Aardvark Gumbo March 10, 2009 at 11:58 am

“It’s no secret that we flaunt our perceptions on others with a vorosity(?) that is unequaled.” What language is this in?

MisterLoki March 10, 2009 at 11:59 am

uhhm…wow?

saggyboobedhag March 10, 2009 at 11:59 am

Did he say “fraudian” for Freudian?

ForTheTurnstiles March 10, 2009 at 11:59 am

[re=261502]Aardvark Gumbo[/re]: It’s this shit.

http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/integral-politics-integral-political.html

I’m telling you, this intelligent design crap is the future of the Republican Party.

glamourdammerung March 10, 2009 at 12:00 pm

I guess this explains why Clinton won the primary.

Oh nevermind, this is just more of “teh crazy”.

NoWireHangers March 10, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Can someone splice some porn into that seizure montage and put it back on youtube? Come on, I know one of you has the internet capabilities.

Gopherit March 10, 2009 at 12:01 pm

“The PUMA movement was thought of as a bunch of disgruntled voters when in reality, it was the Taj Mahal of consciousness reforming political mathematics.”

Exactly what I would expect to hear from a group that got it’s name from “Party Unity My Ass.” Go eat a monumentally stinky turd, crones.

el_chupacabra March 10, 2009 at 12:03 pm

u suck at premier

NoWireHangers March 10, 2009 at 12:03 pm

I get the whole “creepy cult of batshit crazies” part, but what about the mass suicide part? When’s that coming?

Toomush Infermashun March 10, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Wait….this makes PUMAs the new basis for the Ron Paul resurrection….right?…where’s that rum bottle… is it after anything o’clock?….

Dreadful Gate March 10, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Pure, unadulterated macular degeneration of the cerebral cortex. What is the sound of one hand furiously masturbating?

Aloysius March 10, 2009 at 12:04 pm

So was that an indoctrination film, or a cautionary tale about the danger of touching your feminine side too much? Because believe me, if I had a feminine side, I’d sit around touching it all day.

NoWireHangers March 10, 2009 at 12:05 pm

“Disgruntled Voters”

I really thought he said “disgruntled OLDS.” Damn. So close.

NoWireHangers March 10, 2009 at 12:07 pm

I’m pretty sure this was conceived in a lukewarm bathtub. Scented candles were lit, and the creator was drunk. A thesaurus and a new age self help book were mercilessly sacrificed and mutilated to write the voice over.

saggyboobedhag March 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

The overuse of video transitions is a warning sign in the same family of ALL CAPS writing. After the second bubble dissolve and the third vertical flip, I go to DEFCON: full whackjob alert.

Zorg March 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

WTF?!? The idea that somebody spent hours writing and editing this is just…so sad! Reminds me of the schizophrenic roomie ex-Marine I once, briefly, had who began a conversation with me by asking “Do you know what it’s like when there is too much milk sugar in the air?”

lovekills March 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Now I want the “master race”, more stem cell research

voyetra8 March 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

“Produced by Q’zeromen”

Mmmmhmmm. Bust out the purple sheets and black Nikes, folks. It’s time to reach the next level.

Sussemilch March 10, 2009 at 12:10 pm

It’s 2009. Parties are for drink, movements are for symphonies, and rallies are for baseball. I’m entirely out of sympathy or patience for anyone who isn’t making jobs.

hockeymom March 10, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Why the hell didn’t they use the circle wipe when the script was talking about circles? Poor producing and editing.
Also, I did not know that there are giant breasts with large nipples floating about in outer space. Weird.

MarieDeGournay March 10, 2009 at 12:13 pm

I want to get some French feminists to put out cigarettes on their hands.

Mustang March 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Did I miss something? Why are we watching a 9th grader’s power point assignment?

V572625694 March 10, 2009 at 12:16 pm

[re=261519]Dreadful Gate[/re]: Fappity fappity fap, one hears.

DoctorCulturae March 10, 2009 at 12:16 pm

“When one person rises above the crowd they are transformed by the truth. The crowd sees this as an intrusion and human instinct reacts with a form of suppression we teach ourselves to suppress.”

Meh. Puma grief & despair is not pretty to behold. Get thee to a nunnery.

shortsshortsshorts March 10, 2009 at 12:19 pm

PRRRR!!
GROWL!!!
FUCK MY ASS!!!!

PUMA 4eva

Gallowglass March 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Was that a voiced over powerpoint slideshow? They almost had me convinced but I can’t get behind such low production values, sorry PUMA.

Woodwards Friend March 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm

As I understand, when a PUMA sees an accident on the road they stop to help because they know they are the only ones who can help.

Gopherit March 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

[re=261517]NoWireHangers[/re]: I think that part comes when Hills gets taken away by a comet, or gets caught mouth-kissing Hopey in the oval.

Guppy06 March 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

[re=261532]hockeymom[/re]: Wait, boobs are involved? Fuck, now I’m going to have to watch the whole thing now.

ivenson March 10, 2009 at 12:22 pm

[re=261524]saggyboobedhag[/re]: Totally agree on the use of rudimentary level wipes. Even worse, though, is the crazy imagery between the wipes…STARCHILD…SOUPCAN…HAIRBAND…ALEX P KEATON….

Terry March 10, 2009 at 12:23 pm

[re=261500]demtard[/re]:

OMG, that’s the accent exactly. I had been thinking the narrator sounded like he might do commercials for law firms specializing in malpractice claims, but it’s actually the senior senator from NY.

Custerwolf March 10, 2009 at 12:24 pm

[re=261513]Gopherit[/re]: I thought it stood for People Unhinged Making Acronyms.

Boojum March 10, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Am I the only one who gets that PUMA = Cougar or has that been obvious to everyone forever?

WadISay March 10, 2009 at 12:25 pm

The voiceover by Ralphie Ziffaretto totally made the credibility of this piece for me.

Guppy06 March 10, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Anybody else having the urge to make lolPUMA captions?

d4g33z March 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm

And I still don’t know what PUMA stands for (if it is, in fact, an acronym). All this is lost on me. Sigh…

norbizness March 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm

After viewing that video i am filled with a sense of well-being and total contentedness and i just want to drive my car into a large gas station at 105 mph see you on the other side

bluevelvetelvis March 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm

jesus fuck…
so the PUMAs now have the Time Cube guy making inspirational videos for them.

Awesome. They should totally get together with Glen Beck’s insane We asSurround Them bullshit and get their Heaven’s Gate action on. Fucking A what a pathetic bunch of baby bitches.

El Pinche March 10, 2009 at 12:28 pm

I had to stop it had “..Taj Mahal” because I shart myself from laughing so hard.

“There are no republicans disguised as democrats…” Hahahaha , right.

Scarab March 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm

So… Puma is some sort of special effects video software from 1998?

Guppy06 March 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm

[re=261555]norbizness[/re]: I’m ready to sell Amway.

saggyboobedhag March 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm

[re=261548]ivenson[/re]: They’re called wipes? See, how little I know. And yet I know these people. I know them. Just as I know that their double-wides reek from the urine stench of 50 cats (and counting.)

bureaucrap March 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Keep in mind that the Taj Mahal is a mausoleum — like Burris’s, but with more room to write stuff.

BTW, a friend of mine was a co-worker of PUMA’s “founder”; according to him, the founder is just another twenty-something gayboy who was bored at work.

DoctorCulturae March 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm

[re=261555]norbizness[/re]: Are you Thelma or Louise?

PerhapsSo March 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm

[re=261525]Zorg[/re]: Ooh, did he tell you what it is like? Because I haven’t experienced that before.

Holding Out for a Hero March 10, 2009 at 12:33 pm

What in the name of all that is holy was that? Are these people serious? I need to start drinking early today to get those images out of my head

suchsweetthunder March 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm

If the Washington Times didn’t underwrite the video then there is no God.

Chain Tattoo March 10, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Wow. Living outside the circle. What a concept.
Does Hillary live outside the circle, too?
Maybe we can be neighbors.

loquaciousmusic March 10, 2009 at 12:36 pm

That new Depeche Mode video was so boring.

Mr Blifil March 10, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Why is the “from infancy” image a freaky scary looking 20-week old fetus monster? Are there not enough pictures of, I don’t know, babies? To pick from in the world?

Not only is the philosophy incoherent, it’s also trying to operate at the level of a dog whistle. Way to win hearst and minds, PUMAs.

ProfessorJukes March 10, 2009 at 12:37 pm

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It’s a sin, it’s a sin!
You needn’t take it any further, sir. You’ve proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I’ve learned me lesson, sir. I’ve seen now what I’ve never seen before. I’m cured! Praise god!

Make it STTTTOOOOPPPPP!!!!!!

Mr Blifil March 10, 2009 at 12:39 pm

[re=261524]saggyboobedhag[/re]: win

And I know whereof I speak. I’m applying gratuitous transitions to the cut I’m editing right now. Well, not RIGHT now, as I had to come here and comment after all. Also.

problemwithcaring March 10, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Now Hurry! Drink, children. Drink drink drink. No more pain. No more pain…..

Anonymous Office Zombie March 10, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Holy shit. I thought you were totally kidding about that whole “Taj Mahal of consciousness reforming political mathematics” thing.

El Pinche March 10, 2009 at 12:40 pm

[re=261551]Boojum[/re]: Make no mistake, my friends. There’s a big difference between a PUMA and a cougar. ….on average about 120 lbs. Cougars usually don’t smell like stale mold that gets caught in between body fat rolls.

psilage March 10, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Don’t be an inside-the-beltway “comprehender”. Step outside the circle.

themissus March 10, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Holy shit. All that’s missing is a crying baby panda…which would make as much as sense as the images of the robots or hemorrhoid pillow.

Boojum March 10, 2009 at 12:42 pm

That video is just in a new grammatical person: First person schizophrenic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person

barneyfunk March 10, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Oh gosh, I can’t believe nobody’s picked up on “The Circle” this dude keeps talking about! “Only the few live outside the circle”, “The Circle controls us”– He even keeps a familiar shaped circle on the screen for a few moments.

Wait– that’s not a circle, it’s the Obama ‘O’! Hah hah losers– you all live in Obama’s Orwellian O and only PUMA’S run freeeee!

The Gordo March 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm

That was, without a doubt, the most batshit crazy thing I’ve seen in a long while.

Bravo, crazy internet puma person. Bravo.

Mustang March 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm

[re=261590]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: Wonkette only kids around when the truth isn’t stranger than fiction.

psilage March 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm

“DO PEOPLE THINK YOU’RE STRANGE?
DO YOU??
…THEN YOU MAY BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!”
http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p1.html

DoctorCulturae March 10, 2009 at 12:50 pm

[re=261598]barneyfunk[/re]: Noted. I read it as PUMAs attempting to live outside their professed IQ.

psilage March 10, 2009 at 12:51 pm

“Specializing in Fraudulent but Profound Explanations for Inexplicable Manifestations Since The Future Began.”

Also now the music has stuck in my head by changed into “I Did It My Way” covered by the Sex Pistols.

mocowbell March 10, 2009 at 12:52 pm

uh-oh. Looks Bo and Peep are back.

Origami March 10, 2009 at 12:54 pm

They couldn’t find someone without a speech impediment to narrate this clip art slideshow? “PUMWA was twaught of as a bunch of disgwuntaled vowters when in wreality…”

stopmebeforeitypeagain March 10, 2009 at 12:55 pm

I liked it. That may be because I had no idea what the fuck that dude was talking about.

Double Scorpion March 10, 2009 at 1:02 pm

WHY NO USE OF STAR WIPES!

DoctorCulturae March 10, 2009 at 1:04 pm

[re=261591]El Pinche[/re]: Yes, but cougarity has complexity as well:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/57940/saturday-night-live-cougar-den

Aquannissiwamissoo March 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Did Larry Johnson narrate?

badmuthagoose March 10, 2009 at 1:08 pm

I knew the comments on this would make me laugh and I was not disappointed. I know a PUMA in real life. She really is just as batshit crazy as this video suggests. I could imagine her watching it and whispering “yesyesyes” with those scary eyes. She totally believes with all her being that:

1. Obama is the anti-Christ.
2. Hillary is a goddess, if not THE Goddess.
3. Everyone who does not agree with both 1 and 2 are demons of a lesser level than Obama, but demons nonetheless.
4. Everything everyone does leads to death and destruction. Except Hillary, because she’s a Goddess.

I wish I were kidding about all that, but I’m not. I can’t even talk to her anymore.

Uncle Glenny March 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm

[re=261579]Chain Tattoo[/re]: Outside the circle? My cats frequently think outside the box. Is that what they mean?

Aquannissiwamissoo March 10, 2009 at 1:12 pm

As Don DeLillo said in White Noise:

All plots move toward shitty powerpoints on u-tube.

illnoise March 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm

they’re looking to “Forward Real World Tools”… Tools like the “ripple fade” effect in a pirated copy of AfterEffects.

wildeoats March 10, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Okay, that was a really funny spoof. Now please post the real PUMA video.

Anonymous Office Zombie March 10, 2009 at 1:18 pm

[re=261606]Mustang[/re]:
I guess we who have yet to transcend the cirle using the our self-forged real world tools in order to move beyond the virtual trappings of politics and become metallic androids touching the water gate to Dimension X just don’t understand.

jodyleek March 10, 2009 at 1:22 pm

[re=261639]badmuthagoose[/re]: Well, you just tell that little missy that Obama is not the anti-christ…Tim LaHaye said so. Obama’s not popular enough, he said. So if those damn
PUMAs hadn’t broken off from the Dem party, then he would have been that much more popular
and we’d be that much closer to the second coming. Damn those rapture thwarting fat broads!

Aquannissiwamissoo March 10, 2009 at 1:23 pm

I didn’t know Commodore VIC-20s had that much video capability in their cassette tape memory system.

And I love how the images really have nothing to do with what the voice was saying, which has nothing to do with anything.

Has PUMA gone Warhol and Derrida without us even knowing?

DADA-PUMA ?

Gayer Than Thou March 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm

I lasted until 1:13 — the Warhol soup can. I would have quit earlier, but the cat was pretty. I like cats.

OffTheRecord March 10, 2009 at 1:34 pm

That wasn’t real, right? RIGHT?!??!

Oh god. Someone hold me. I’m scared.

Georgia Burning March 10, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Curse you Wonkette! I’m sure that video was putting some subliminal hypnotic shit into me so that I’ll drive my car into a tanker truck when some trigger phrase comes on the radio.

On the other hand, production value was still tons better than that looney Meg Whitman for Governor video, at least the PUMA-aliens-from-the-mothership know better than to use a $99 Chinese ebay webcam for their video

frailamerica March 10, 2009 at 1:50 pm

From the PumaSphere site: “Hillary Clinton, the best Democratic candidate for President in a generation”

Crazytown, indeed.

Woodwards Friend March 10, 2009 at 2:17 pm

[re=261722]frailamerica[/re]: You have to go all the way back to Ed Muskie to find a better one.

An Outhouse March 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Credit where credit is due:
The video does mention ‘real life tools’ at one point.

JadedDIssonance March 10, 2009 at 2:35 pm

I had a video game open in the background by mistake. The Smooth Jazz added a nice touch.

Fivetree March 10, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Wow, that was SO heavy. My question is: when do they swallow a whole bottle of clonazepam, shed their earthly skins and reunite with the Mother Ship?

Crow T. Robot March 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm

As a second rate intellectual (& proud of it!), I would like to apologize for the 3rd rate intellectual who wrote & or performed this “piece.” I didn’t let him in the club.

&, um buttseks.

TimeCubist March 10, 2009 at 3:08 pm

[re=261557]bluevelvetelvis[/re]: Hey!

So who are the hair-band guys?

NYNYNY March 10, 2009 at 3:11 pm

That was really really great. I really liked the penguins and the michelangelo parts.

chascates March 10, 2009 at 3:11 pm

He should have stayed away from the brown LSD.

cal March 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

Tomato soup!

The end.

Mustang March 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm

[re=261650]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: Amen!

FunkyPalmettoBug March 10, 2009 at 4:11 pm
grevillea March 10, 2009 at 4:45 pm

It’s a trap, PUMAs! Once you leave the circle(jerk), you will just be solitary wanker(ette)s.

teebob2000 March 10, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Fuck you for making me lose 2 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. (Had to stop at 2:00 after the steady progression of hideous grade school-quality post effects in the video or I would have gone all loopy, permanently.)

Who picked the insipid string quartet soundtrack that adds nothing to the message?

Who’s the New York-born jamoke reading the copy like a stage-frighted fuck? Did they just use whoever they found sweeping the floors at PUMA-HQ?

And what of the subtle subconscious suggestions? Like at 1:20 when they show the pretty young man with the voice-over saying, “we have GAY-ged ourselves into a coma.”

What the fuck does all this mean? It’s so pointless it’s upsetting.

Bitter-Elitist March 10, 2009 at 5:22 pm

[re=261557]bluevelvetelvis[/re]: That Time Cube shit shit may actually be the craziest thing I have ever seen on the internets. For serious. Also.

Scandalabra March 10, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Are they “rec-ing” this shit over on confluence?

Q' March 10, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Hello Fans,
I am still wiping away the tears of laughter reading about the response to the PUMA VIDEO. You actually made the whole affair successful as you actually responded to this surreal adventure.
I am a surreal artist (painter) and created the piece in such a manner. It was never meant to get as far on the chopping block as it did here. I am still snickering, because the replies on this site are incredibly funny. If you want to see my paintings your welcome to come to: http://www.maydayonthehudson.com and I promise I won’t open my mouth or write anything. This effort was done in one hour, but you have given me countless hours of enjoyment. If I was to publish a book, this is where I would go first. I think the world should experience this comedy, after all, I was your leading star! Regards – Q’zeromen…

FunkyPalmettoBug March 10, 2009 at 8:52 pm

Take your pills please Q.

DanginMpls March 10, 2009 at 11:13 pm

[re=262199]Q’[/re]: Somehow finding out this was done by a “surrealist” has taken all the fun out of it. Are you at least a PUMA surrealist? That would be some consolation.

Q'zeromen March 10, 2009 at 11:50 pm

No. I thought the essence was noble, but it got to become Utopian.
Kind of like Lennons (Imagine). I took a shot at it. I was amazed how
people flocked to it, and how many hated it. For me, it matured my artistic
senses in knowing how fragile an idea can be. It was fun.

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