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Nancy Pelosi sweeps from the upper right corner in stealth and drops seven buckets of napalm on Pete Hoekstra, a martyr. But just before Pete passes, as the fire consumes his eyes, he grabs Texas Rep. John Culberson by his tattered lapels. “I… I want you to take this back, to my family,” Hoekstra whispers to Culberson — his comrade, his Brother — and hands him a BlackBerry. “It is… locked… you have to press… star + send… what?… no no no…. ’send,’ I said… the little green telephone button… no, you have to press… press them simultaneously… there you go… now you must Twitt…” He dies. But Culberson knows. [Twitter]


1:23 PM on Wed June 17 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. zenferret says at 1:26 pm, June 17th, 2009

    How can you out snark that?

  2. Boojum says at 1:27 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Please don’t post this all day long. It is making me sad, for the stupids.

  3. Sunfire says at 1:27 pm, June 17th, 2009

    The Congressman and I are in agreement that his party is repressed.

  4. I think when the White House asked twitter to delay shutting down for maintenance Iran was just a convenient excuse. They want to keep twitter up all the time to expose Republican officials as the insipid founts of inanity that they are.

  5. 19kevin8 says at 1:29 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I think teh stoopidz just made me blind.

  6. freakishlystrong says at 1:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Y’know, in fairness, when I see Iranian students being brutalised in the streets by an authoritarian, theocratic regime, I DO think of Republicians…

  7. NoWireHangers says at 1:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Jews murdered during the Holocaust, African Americans tortured under slavery, Native Americans slaughtered by Europeans and the American government…HOUSE REPUBLICANS UNDER A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.

    We shall overcome…

  8. sati demise says at 1:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    zenferret: gad, the Republicans are fighting for a new election?
    Are they a bit late with this revolution? ‘ D clampdown shutting off amends’-can anyone translate this statement?
    How will Barry respond?

  9. Humpback says at 1:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    “…last night’s D clampdown shutting off amends”? I’m thinking “D” is David Letterman, and since his show successfully lampooned his protesters, then “amends” must be a new term for right-wing-nuttery.

  10. magic titty says at 1:32 pm, June 17th, 2009

    He wouldn’t piss on the Iranian people if they were on fire.

  11. Come here a minute says at 1:32 pm, June 17th, 2009

    The Republican twatting is like a neverending guano faucet! #tcot

  12. BillyClubb says at 1:33 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Well many of them are oppressed, but if they would just come out of the closet things would be easier.

  13. NoWireHangers says at 1:33 pm, June 17th, 2009

    A queefing twat tweets better than this twit.

  14. nappyduggs says at 1:34 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Now that I have seen two of these in a row, I am dead inside and have to start cutting again. Neat.

  15. Well, since they want to draw parallels between the GOP and Iran, I say we bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb McCain.

  16. Monsieur Grumpe says at 1:35 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Why is it when I read these twitters that I hear it in the voice of Captain Kirk (Shatner) doing one of his passionate speeches near the end of a Star Trek episode?

  17. qwerty42 says at 1:36 pm, June 17th, 2009

    So, maybe is it a huge plot by Ahmadinejad and Pelosi to have people killed in Tehran so the Republicans will proceed to twit the stupidest things possible about their own brave stand?
    Have they decided they really aren’t a “party” any more, but a performance art troupe? and everything is just for laffs now?

  18. Internally valid says at 1:37 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I’m not a lawyer, but my guess is that “ignorant douchfaces who recently drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy” are not a suspect class.

  19. Noodle Salad says at 1:37 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Steny Hoyer was just driving a motorbike around the floor, cold beating Republicans with a collapsible baton.

  20. Extemporanus says at 1:37 pm, June 17th, 2009

    “…last night D clampdown shutting off all amends.”?

    Please allow me to translate that for ya: “D” stands for “Douchebag”, and “amends” is short for “all men’s dick sucking.”

  21. Monsieur Grumpe says at 1:38 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Humpback:
    I took “amends” to mean congressional pages primed with roofies. I could be wrong.

  22. Morbo the Annihilator says at 1:38 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Omitted from the G-rated above the line version:

    Culbertson weeps for his dead lover…

  23. 4tehlulz says at 1:38 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Noodle Salad: That’s the first useful thing he’s done all year.

  24. Mr Blifil says at 1:38 pm, June 17th, 2009

    OK I’m only a few blocks away from the Capitol. I’m renting a motorbike, and a spiffy black motorcycle outfit, and beating the shit out of Republican members of Congress with pipes, while I pull wheelies and one-eighties on the house floor. And if anyone reports on my activities they will be disappeared.

    Whatever twats the emerge will finally be compelling, and the distinguished gentleman may be able to sell advertising on his, which is his main goal obviously.

    Note to DHS: I will not actually attempt any of the above described activities. Unless I am currently engaging in double psychology…in which case…

  25. Extemporanus says at 1:39 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Humpback: My Tubez! There klogged!!1

  26. Mr Blifil says at 1:39 pm, June 17th, 2009
  27. norbizness says at 1:40 pm, June 17th, 2009

    There’s social media, and then there’s sociopathic media.

  28. his latest Remember the Afghans used video cameras to help defeat the Soviets in the early 1980s

    Notice how Culbertson fails to point out that those video cameras were given by the CIA to…OSAMA BIN LADIN!!!

  29. gjdodger says at 1:41 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Monsieur Grumpe: Why is it when I read these twitters that I hear it in the voice of Captain Kirk (Shatner) doing one of his passionate speeches near the end of a Star Trek episode?
    Beats me. Shatner is much better at feigning dramatic outrage.

  30. Serolf Divad says at 1:42 pm, June 17th, 2009

    If I gathered up all the contempt in the world and stuffed it into an envelope and mailed it to Hoekstra and Culberson, that still wouldn’t adequately express my true feelings about these steaming turds.

  31. Extemporanus says at 1:43 pm, June 17th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: That was downright Seussian.

  32. x111e7thst says at 1:44 pm, June 17th, 2009

    nappyduggs: Who needs an excuse?

  33. Hooray For Anything says at 1:45 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I don’t remember CNN discussing the brutal repression of Republicans during that time. Yet another failure of the MSM to do their jobs!

    Also, I hear the Republicans are asking everyone to wear pink to show support their valiant efforts to fight back against the brutal repression of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Kristol, at this very moment, is composing an editorial calling for the bombing of the Obama White House

  34. NebraskashireGentry says at 1:46 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I thought Michael Shaara was dead.

    but it seems he writes for Wonkette, under the name Jim Newell.

  35. TedTheLightBulbSalesman says at 1:47 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Someone forgot to close their tag…

  36. So, in this analogy, is ACORN like the Basij, running around shooting Republicans and beating them do death? Please say yes.

  37. paintitblack says at 1:54 pm, June 17th, 2009

    zenferret: WIN! OTOH I could say: stop posting teh stoooped, it burns. OTOH, keep posting crapulous sociaopathic twatting (props to norbizness)for snarkilicious timez. Obvs wingtards in congress haven’t learned the “jewish” definition of schmuck.

  38. tunamelt says at 1:56 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Don’t stop Tweeting the revolution, guys.

  39. Morbo the Annihilator: It’s the 300, only this time the effeminate giant leading troops into battle against them is wearing grandma pearls.

  40. GDuvall says at 1:59 pm, June 17th, 2009

    ph7:

    Well, that and rocket launchers. Six of one.

  41. Mr Blifil says at 2:00 pm, June 17th, 2009

    gjdodger: Ee Plegnista!

  42. Lascauxcaveman says at 2:01 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: Go for it! (It’s good to be a D these days.)

  43. BklynIlluminati says at 2:05 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Anytime a Republican twats teh interwebs dies a little inside

  44. Join us as we reveal: The Story Behind the Tweets.

    Will read again.

  45. LittlePig says at 2:09 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: Only the chiefs and sons of chiefs can read the Ee Plegnista!

  46. sati demise says at 2:15 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Noodle Salad: Afterwards: molotov cocktail hour!

  47. SayItWithWookies says at 2:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    As a person who benefited from — you know — actual advances in civil rights and all, I wonder how Michael Steele is reacting to his fellow partymembers making asses of themselves.

    Not that I, as a melanin-challenged male, am unaware that it’s obnoxious and pathetic and boorish to pretend you’re Rosa Parks — but as head of these goons, Steele might be in a special position to convey his appreciation of this Neanderthal appropriation of a legacy that people really and truly suffered and died for, is all. At the hands of idiots like Culberson and Hoekstra.

  48. BlueStateLibtard says at 2:46 pm, June 17th, 2009

    You dipshit for brains, you ARE a voting MINORITY, when is that ever going to sink into your thick caveman skull?

  49. rev_matt_y says at 2:47 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Monsieur Grumpe: You have just made Twitter much, MUCH more enjoyable for me, thank you.

  50. johnnypantalones says at 2:52 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I’m bored at work, so I decided to troll Culberson via Twitter, and he actually responded to me:

    “Pelosi lib maj totally controls all bills, all debate all amends; no one even can offer an amend she won’t allow to be heard”

    To which I responded: “yes, which is because you are now in the minority party. This is how government works, John. Take a Civics class.”

    Childish? Yes, but it is rather fun to get a response, however idiotic, out of a sitting US Congressman when you’re trolling them out of boredom. Though then I remember that he’s a Congressman from Texas, it becomes significantly less cool :(

  51. magic titty says at 2:57 pm, June 17th, 2009

    johnnypantalones: Any response from him, such as “dont mes w Txas” ??

  52. WadISay says at 3:02 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Haha, Culberson, when u r a nail, everything looks like a hammer.

    SayItWithWookies: Maybe this is a good time to ask for Culberson’s support of some civil rights or voters’ rights legislation. Naw.

  53. johnnypantalones: Haha..he can’t be this stupid, can he? His responsive twat: “the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect & to violate which would be oppression.”

  54. Double Scorpion says at 3:07 pm, June 17th, 2009

    johnnypantalones: Did you just start a TwitterBeef™ with a retarded congressman? You sir are an American treasure!

  55. johnnypantalones says at 3:08 pm, June 17th, 2009

    See, I’m torn: he’s either completely ignorant of how the legislative body he was elected to work in actually fucking works, or he’s pretending to not know so he can stir up a bunch of bullshit about oppression and grandstand.

    The former is the more likely option, but it’s hard to tell. Part of me doesn’t want to believe an elected official is this fucking dumb, but yet here we are…

  56. chascates says at 3:09 pm, June 17th, 2009

    From 2006:
    A Texas congressman named John Culberson of Houston introduced legislation that would give official sanction, for the first time, to “border militias”:

    The Border Protection Corps Act, introduced on July 28, would authorize access to $6.8 billion in unused Homeland Security funds to form volunteer border militias that report to their respective county sheriffs.

  57. johnnypantalones says at 3:11 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Double Scorpion: Perhaps Politico will report on my row with the special needs Congressperson and I will WIN THE DAY????

  58. johnnypantalones says at 3:13 pm, June 17th, 2009

    chascates: lol, ok, he is that dumb! Mystery solved!

  59. One Yield Regular says at 3:15 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Poor, poor Twitter. Whatever gains in prestige it might be making as a result of Iranians fighting for democratic process are immediately undermined by House Republicans fighting for “Who can be the most crassly inappropriate?” one upsmanship.

  60. AKAM80TheWolf says at 3:39 pm, June 17th, 2009

    I stopped reading at the first sentence because it was so perfect. I printed it out and read it over and over until I fell asleep. A martyr!

  61. BlueStateLibtard says at 3:46 pm, June 17th, 2009

    johnnypantalones: He’s completely ignorant of how the legislative body he was elected to work in actually fucking works. Amazing but true.

  62. sati demise says at 3:53 pm, June 17th, 2009

    One Yield Regular: fight on, Republicans.

  63. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 3:55 pm, June 17th, 2009

    These House Republicans are so oppresed I think they deserve their own department at Columbia.

  64. AKAM80TheWolf says at 4:12 pm, June 17th, 2009

    BlueStateLibtard:

    He’s only interested in how a young page’s legislative body works.

  65. zenferret says at 4:16 pm, June 17th, 2009

    The revolution will not be twitterized.

  66. This is the twatwaffle spawn of Tom Delay’s mid-decade gerrymandering of Congressional districts in Texas, who sent all of the people in his district who had e-mail addresses an e-mail on the day Delay resigned about what “a great American patriot” Delay is and how he was done in by the “Liberal media” rather than his own illegal activities. He also liked send articles from the Moonie Washington paper to people here in the Seventh Congressional District. He also told an audience at a Houston public meeting that “George Bush has a heart of gold.” His stated goal, which he refers to as his “eyes on the prize,” is restoring the Constitution to its original form. Guess that means restoring slavery and the 3/5 census rule and eliminating women’s suffrage — you should Twitter him and ask for a clarification..

  67. Dean Booth says at 5:48 pm, June 17th, 2009

    One time I posted a comment on Wonkette and it didn’t display. In those tense 20 seconds before I refreshed, I was like the Iranian protesters, wondering if my voice would be heard.

  68. sati demise says at 8:41 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Dean Booth: my hat is already off to you sir. so true.

  69. DustBowlBlues says at 10:31 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Just when the Iranian uprising was causing me to take back all the nasty things I’ve said and thought about twitter, the Rs remind me why I hate it. 140 characters when you’re staging a popular uprising? Power to the people! 140 characters because you can’t think of anything meaningful enough to require more? Republic bullshit.

  70. President Beeblebrox says at 10:32 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Zorg: Of course, including those bound to service for a term of years but excepting Indians not taxed. Original intent, ftw!!1

  71. DustBowlBlues says at 10:34 pm, June 17th, 2009

    Dean Booth: A second round of appreciation. Republics live to be victims–while they’re victimizing others. They suck.

    When Rs use twitter, can we refer to it as twatter?

  72. schvitzatura says at 1:16 am, June 18th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: You left one out, @sanuzis #douchetard, he’s double the twatterage of Culberdumb…THE COMEBACK STARTS NOW!

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