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Borgen, of Borgen Project, Revealed

Oh fuck YEAH bring it.
Remember when these maniacs from the Borg Planet attacked Wonkette’s comments? When was this? A year ago? Last month? Who can remember. But then they were gone, as if crushed by their robot godhead. And then, today, we received this delightful email. A picture, of the Borgen Project? Yes, please!

EVACUATE THE CAPITOL!
Hmm, 3,000+ pixels wide … we can really get our Borgen off with this picture.

YES YES YES DON'T STOP DON'T STOP
!

OH GOD OH GOD OH MY GOD
Al…most …. there.


UPDATE: There is no update.


4:10 PM on Mon April 27 2009
By Ken Layne
5025 Views

  1. chascates says at 4:13 pm, April 27th, 2009

    This is one of those Nigerian-type scams. Send him money & he’ll end poverty.
    His own!

  2. mrpuma2u says at 4:14 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Sorry no way is the borg jester in any way connected with the seminal opus of R.E.M. his eyes are both more sad and creepy then the ones on that album cover. Besides I don’t think Michael Stipe woulda hit that.

  3. bitchincamaro says at 4:17 pm, April 27th, 2009

    [Insert obligatory "cum in hair" comment here]

  4. PolicyWhore says at 4:17 pm, April 27th, 2009

    lolwut!?!

    The lack of symmetry that is this Borg queen’s face is angering me. Evolutionary and mating fail!

  5. Lazy Media says at 4:17 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Nice photography. It’s not hard to get the subject AND the Capitol in focus, with the right settings, but where’s fun in that?

  6. ManchuCandidate says at 4:17 pm, April 27th, 2009

    It’s either the crazy Sylar Eyes or the two caterpillars trying to meet on his Forehead.

  7. PolicyWhore says at 4:19 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Is he from Ohio? He looks like almost everyone I’ve ever met in Ohio.

  8. BillyClubb says at 4:20 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Is that hair or some type of fuzzy brown moss?

  9. freakishlystrong says at 4:24 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Rabbity..

  10. hobospacejunkie says at 4:24 pm, April 27th, 2009

    That gap between teeth in the right side of his mouth is begging to be filled…with a hard left uppercut. Borg deserves to fail for lack of humor in spamming comment sections. If this results in the deaths of millions due to lack of food security then so be it. The universe is a harsh mistress.

  11. Schadenfried says at 4:26 pm, April 27th, 2009

    ‘Tevs. He looks stoned.

  12. Texan Bulldoggette says at 4:28 pm, April 27th, 2009

    This is the epitome of one of those guys your mom would try to set you up with. Mom knows he’s uglier than a one-eyed tom cat, so she keeps telling you that he has a good job & a nice personality.

  13. Vartan84 says at 4:28 pm, April 27th, 2009

    ALERT!!! Kay Bailey Hutchison, that maybe sorta ok not really one time not-VP nominee of one John W. McCain (or as he’s known to the youngins: “Meg’s dad”) has been ASSIMILATED BY THE BORG!!! Texas is not safe! Freedom is not long for this world!
    http://www.theborgenprojectblog.com/2009/04/success-on-capitol-hill.html

  14. Enrico Fuente says at 4:30 pm, April 27th, 2009

    is it just me or does he look just a little stoned?

  15. StephanieInCA says at 4:34 pm, April 27th, 2009

    BLINGEE CONTEST PLZ.

  16. Come here a minute says at 4:34 pm, April 27th, 2009

    The United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals aim to cut world hunger in half by 2015 and eliminating it completely by 2025. An estimated $19 billion would eliminate malnutrition and starvation around the world. Our current defense budget is $522 billion, in comparison.

    The Borgen Project (borgenproject.org) provides lots of information about this issue.

  17. Mista Eko says at 4:34 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Unless Lohr entices Commander Data to join them, I don’t think we have anything to fear.

  18. pareene says at 4:38 pm, April 27th, 2009

    FYI everyone you can find out more at http://www.borgenproject.org.

  19. Deepthroat says at 4:44 pm, April 27th, 2009
  20. WagTehGod says at 4:44 pm, April 27th, 2009

    zomg they have hacked our commentz again with their bold typez.

  21. gjdodger says at 4:44 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I forget. Was this a Nadine thing?

  22. hobospacejunkie says at 4:45 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Has everyone gone Borg on me here? And why is all the text in bold? Maybe it’s just my browser. And isn’t that Pareene person hanging out at the wrong bar? Or has he been assimilated also?

  23. Vartan84 says at 4:45 pm, April 27th, 2009

    What the hell is this all about anyway, fighting world hunger or some guy with a caveman forehead? I’m serious, there is something off about naming such a thing after yourself. Millions of kids all over the world are dying of hunger, so I will just name a project after myself for everyone to worship which attacks this. It’s like picking any other insanely huge topic like “world peace” or “diseases” and spamming your name everywhere as the savior who might just do something about that awful thing! Only this kind of person would hire a professional photographer to follow him around Capitol Hill and take out of focus of him doing his important work, cause that sounds nothing but selfless. Seriously, how will all those millions of kids know who to worship when they get food from the UN tomorrow if they don’t have those great pictures to recognize him from?

  24. Brendan M. says at 4:46 pm, April 27th, 2009

    PolicyWhore: I was going to object, but he does look very Ohioan. For the record, though, I don’t look like that, and he is from Washington.

    The Borgen Story: In 1999, Borgen was a 21-year-old volunteer working in the
    Kosovo refugee camps, during the war and genocide. On the ground, Borgen saw
    a need for a powerful organization that could put pressure on Congress and the
    White House to step up efforts to address global poverty. The former
    Firefighter/EMT went on to intern at the United Nations in Geneva and after
    college he began developing The Borgen Project.

    Needing funding to start the organization, Borgen took a job living on a fishing
    vessel docked in Dutch Harbor, Alaska (same location as the Deadliest Catch).
    All of The Borgen Project’s early funding came from Borgen’s time working in
    Alaska, where the organization was developed and launched in 2003 from inside
    the fishing vessel that he was living on.

    Christ. I’m not going to make fun of this guy. I might follow him on Twitter, though! Probably not!

  25. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 4:47 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Schadenfried: Enrico Fuente: Dude is sooo baked. I’m going to hit him up for a donation.

  26. linernotesdanny says at 4:48 pm, April 27th, 2009

    This is the greatest website that has ever been, or ever shall be

  27. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 4:48 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I just might hit that. WIth a canister of Bug-B-Gone.

  28. hobospacejunkie says at 4:49 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Deepthroat: Deepthroat proves once again that Blingee tells the truth better than real life.

  29. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:51 pm, April 27th, 2009

    That looks like the kind of guy that would strangle a hooker he hired for a “massage” off of Craig’s List.

  30. Come here a minute says at 4:52 pm, April 27th, 2009

    UPDATE: The update is missing, and has been replaced with an extra bold tag or something!

  31. I think I saw him in “Bareback Power Bottoms.”

  32. Ken Layne says at 4:56 pm, April 27th, 2009
  33. WallyPipp says at 4:56 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Never take the brows of the Berry in vain.

  34. Mad Farmer Manifest says at 5:02 pm, April 27th, 2009

    The thing that gives me the giggles is that he chose this picture to reprsent himself. It was the best picture he was able to take.

  35. bureaucrap says at 5:03 pm, April 27th, 2009

    WAIT!!! — Are you saying that I can quit my day job, work the Hill (free reception food), attempt to pick up 24 year old legislative assistants, and get coverage from some of the most important blogs in the internet world, just by calling myself a “project”?

    Well, then — stay tuned for “Bureaucrapproject.org” (or should it be “bureaucraproject.org”), open for business and reception attendance in 15 minutes. Our mission: a comprehensive revision of the US Code to put all laws in alphabetical order.

    And I will never spam “wonkette”. Faux news, on the other hand, is another story.

  36. gurukalehuru says at 5:06 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I’m actually fairly cool with the Borgenauts, but what is up with the bold type?

  37. pondscum says at 5:08 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Deepthroat: Jeebus! I almost choked on a piece of apple with that one!

  38. Merry Christen says at 5:08 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I wouldn’t fuck that guy with Obama’s dick, Karl Rove pushing and Sara K. Smith taking the blame. I would, however, let him buy me a coupla drinks. Just sayin’.

  39. Mr Blifil says at 5:11 pm, April 27th, 2009

    He’s not exactly my favorite, but this cheap joke is an enormous disservice to young Peter Buck.

  40. wonderboom says at 5:13 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I guarantee he sends this pic to girls who were marginally nice to him in high school, with the caption:

    “Just livin’ the dream… What’s going on with you?”

    I promise he does. Promise.

  41. Sussemilch says at 5:24 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Is that a morsel of leftover lunch or does he have peasant teeth?

  42. prizepig says at 5:40 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Looks like his father was a three toed sloth.

  43. What, exactly, is the project? Helping him find a hairdresser who doesn’t hate him?

  44. Guppy06 says at 5:46 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Come here a minute: Old meme is old

  45. pdiddycornchips says at 6:06 pm, April 27th, 2009

    That dude is smoked up like a herring. Trust me, I know about this shit.

  46. NebraskashireGentry says at 6:09 pm, April 27th, 2009

    the group he’s president of (The Borgen Project on Capitol Hill last week) has a really specific name, to the point of being meaningless.

    commas, publicists!

  47. NebraskashireGentry says at 6:13 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Vartan84: the Borgens use Blogger. (amateurs.)

  48. Tommmcatt says at 6:19 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Brendan M.:

    That all sounds so…earnest. Yuck.

    I hate earnestness.

  49. Holy Cow!! says at 6:44 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Is he like the Borg?

    Resistance is futile maybe?

  50. ShamWow says at 6:49 pm, April 27th, 2009

    He looks just like my coworker who talks to himself incessantly and reeks of marlboros and fabric softener sheets.

  51. Jukesgrrl says at 7:46 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Hey, who can’t photoshop themselves in front of the US Capitol? I can photoshop myself on stage with Bruce Springsteen. Will people send money to me? How about if I photoshop Greta Van Sustern in bed with Sarah Palin and E-mail it to K-Lo? Will I get money then?

  52. Brendan M. says at 7:47 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Tommmcatt: I’ve noticed that about most Wonkette-enthusiasts. Denby and I do not approve. I appreciate earnest do-gooders, as someone who indulges in the practice occasionally myself. They should have a sense of humor, but they are not monsters.

  53. lawrenceofthedesert says at 7:52 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Ah, yes, Borgen — I loved him in Grant Woods’ “Kosovo Gothic.” Almost didn’t recognize him without the pitchfork.

  54. Studge says at 7:57 pm, April 27th, 2009

    “Now I’m not feeding off you I will rearrange your scales
    If I can and I can
    I wish to eat each one of you and you, me, you”

    The Global Food Security Act is made of people! PEEPOLE!

  55. Come here a minute says at 8:41 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Guppy06: There’s no meme like an old meme. And “meme” is an old meme, also.

  56. Is there an uncropped view showing me if he has a flag pin? Otherwise I won’t know if I should take him seriously or not.

  57. engulfedinflames says at 9:38 pm, April 27th, 2009

    dudes loaded.

  58. How many of those brainwashed girls who were commenting here did he do? I’m guessing the guy is hung, or it was really just him, acting like a chick.

  59. gurukalehuru says at 6:07 am, April 28th, 2009

    What is the life expectancy of a meme? Can they reproduce and evolve?

  60. Brendan M. says at 11:36 am, April 28th, 2009

    gurukalehuru: They are cultural viruses, so they can reproduce and adapt. They are like the swine flu, but (arguably) funnier.

  61. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:38 pm, April 28th, 2009

    Deepthroat: Awesome.

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