While nothing can compete with the most famous photograph of America 2010, Wonkette operative “Jeff S.” claims he took this picture at a NASCAR homeless encampment, and that he “thought the guy was making an interesting point.” Uhh, sure! When the teabagger’s lard ass finally bursts through the bottom of the five-year-old WalMart lawn chair, it will be worth more than Barack Obama (in real terms). But what about voting?
If you “vote,” you should either put a ballot in a bucket decorated with a toilet seat — an “Alabama restroom” — or you can just shit in a bucket outside where your fellow slobs are watching cars drive around in circles, and call that “voting.” Same result, either way.
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After all that mexican food last night, I took a massive vote this morning.
Be right back, I gotta drop off a ballot at the voting booth.
Almost forgot the “hanging chad” joke.
[re=607793]comicbookguy[/re]: LMAO
I see empty containers of Bud Lite. This is further proof that lite beer causes brain damage.
Real men wear Depends. The South shall rise again Mr. Layne.
If they hadn’t gone through those two 12-packs of Bud Light they wouldn’t have to shit in a bucket.
But what do the empty Bud Light boxes represent? I ‘fused.
I had a bout of loose votes last week.
I’m impressed — this bunch learned how to spell.
1. I used to think NASCAR was just driving around in circles, but for the last year have been learning about it and it is actually quite complex.
2. That is a pretty creative toilet.
3. These are probably not Teabaggers, as Teabaggers usually do not litter. I would guess that these are local government officials in Chicago. But the sign is spelled correctly, so it is really hard to tell.
4. Has anybody else noticed that Elena Kagan looks like Jabba the Hut’s ‘Mini-Me’?
I know that picture just screams Palin for President.
[re=607802]The Unfairman[/re]:
Freedumbs.
Out on the dirty boulevard, eh Ken?
this assemblage is a unique instance of contemporary american post-modernist conceptual folk art and will be featured at the whitney, then auctioned by christie’s. starting bid is to be set at $60 million dollars, which makes the entire piece indeed worth more than the sitting president (though the chair on its own is either worthless or priceless, or both).
[re=607810]Holy Cow!![/re]: Still life with crap-bucket.
So that’s why they have that curtain at the voting booth. I’ve been doing it wrong.
I wish I could put my vote in a nice container like that. I’d do it on teevee.
Chair/Palin 2012!
Wow, I’ve never wanted to shoot someone with “votes” more than whomever made these “artistic political messages”.
A very subtle bit of semiotic analysis is on display here. What is the referent of ‘this’ in the phrase “This chair”? The object beside the sign is not, in fact, a chair. It is a former chair, an ex-chair, but not a chair: for a deconstructed chair is not a chair. And what is Obama worth, anyway? If he were a slave, he could be sold and then the suggestion is that the price he would fetch is less than some chair or former chair. But, alas, slavery has been abolished. Ah, the teabagger mind! It just keeps giving.
Staged. Bud Light is too high brow for this crowd. Needz moar Natty Lite.
These are objet d’art, obvs. Objet d’art d’tbag.
According to Obama’s released tax returns, that chair was worth over 5 million dollars in 2009 alone.
[re=607825]Buzz Feedback[/re]: I dunno, though, isn’t Bud Light Lime apparently he the beverage of choice all True Patriots (that love torture and also making up lies about soldiers deaths, for PR reasons)?
Oh, if only it were empty cases of Bud Light Lime.
Stand up against the elitists. The founding fathers shat into buckets.
Rand Paul’s has a helicopter mount and an electrified barrier that extends underground.
[re=607825]Buzz Feedback[/re]: Fuck that shit; Papst Blue Ribbon, baby.
[re=607834]JMP[/re]: PBR is good with a splash of Clamato.
Its an amazing commentary on the tragedy of not getting what you want, when you want it. They are saying that if you vote, but your candidate loses, that means your vote wasn’t worth shit. In the South, things either “kick ass,” or “aren’t worth shit.” They live in a dualistic, manichean universe down there. Anyway, the tableau presents the yearning for complete control over the universe, and satisfaction of your every whim. Your vote would be worth something in a true narcissistocracy, because under that form of government, your vote would be the only one that matters, and you would determine the outcome of every election, all by yourself. In other words, if things don’t always go exactly your way, your vote is shit, and you are living in tyranny, and slavery, and Obama is a poopy-head broken chair.
If only this was the receptacle for NASCAR teabag votes, America would be a better place for it.
[re=607834]JMP[/re]: PBR: bringing smug young liberal hipsters and smug elderly conservative rednecks together like nothing else ever has or will, except trucker hats and ugly flannel, that is.
[re=607808]Brick Oven Bill[/re]: “That is a pretty creative toilet” LOOK OVER THERE BILL SOMETHING SHINY!
Is that the fabled Fountainhead?
[re=607808]Brick Oven Bill[/re]: No, they don’t usually litter.
The artiste is a real “chair is half empty” kinda guy. Where he sees an empty chair, I see aluminum tubes that can be made into any number of helpful devices. Like a fountain, or wrestling cage, or one of those Inhofe “series of tubes” internets.
[re=607833]Troubledog[/re]: What’s really elitist: the toilet seat on the bucket. The Founding Fathers did not have Toilet Seats!11!!!
Obviously, these people are the target market when Bible Spice says, “We are tired of being talked down too by our President.”. A picture taken farther back would have revealed an RV with a flagpole proudly festooned with a Dale Earnhardt number 3 flag and a Confederate flag.
1. I used to think NASCAR was just driving around in circles
It’s about driving around in circles and hoping someone crashes and/or catches on fire. People who try to convince you they watch NASCAR just for the racing will probably try to tell they watch porn just for the acting.
“Alabama Restroom”?
You really have never visited a fly-over state, have you, Ken?
That’s the formal dining room.
[re=607889]Joshua Norton[/re]: fuck the porn, there’s no porn near as exciting as five-abreast down the stretch at talladega devolving in a series of smashing careening instants into a 22-car pileup. yee-haw! deconstruction as it was meant to be. none of that fancy french stuff.
[re=607889]Joshua Norton[/re]: Our Boy Scout troop used to get to go to NASCAR races as a “reward” for community service stuff we did. Indeed NASCAR is totally about mindlessly watching cars run around in a circle and hoping one or more of them crashes. It is far too loud, dirty, hot and everyone is far too drunk to really do anything else. Also the first time we saw video porn was at one of the NASCAR “camping grounds” where an enterprising free market enthusiast was hoping to sell some TV satellite stuff to the drunks there.
so much depends upon
a yellow
commode
glazed with
urine
beside the silver
chair frame
Prommie: Wow! “Narcissistocracy” represents, perhaps, the greatest neologism work in the 21st century to date. “Dicktard” also.
BTW: How do you flush that toilet thingy to clear the votes?
[re=607825]Buzz Feedback[/re]: Sigh. Natty Boh isn’t a sponsor, y’all! Bud Light is consumed at Nascar races to honor the favorite son of the sport, Junior, although he no longer drives the Bud car. He’s since been replaced by reluctant sex symbol Kasey Kahne who says, completely deadpan in the commercials: “It’s time for a nice Bud Light.”
Um, not that I follow it or anything.
[re=607822]Chain Tattoo[/re]: This chair is passed on! It’s passed on! It’s no more! It’s ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet it maker! … This chair is off the twig! It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off it’s seatin’ material, run down the curtain, and joined the bleedin’ junk pile in the sky! THIS IS AN EX-CHAIR!
[re=607925]McDuff[/re]: No, its just pining for the fjords.
Disclosure is very important for blogs. So, let’s just put this on the table: That was commissioned art. An anonymous, mullet-wearing patron promised the artist a six pack and two bags of fried pork rinds.
[re=607930]Cmoney[/re]: Actually, it was probably a six pack and a Frito pie.
Walker Evans* weeps angel tears in heaven now.
The FSA Photographer not the Nascar driver.
Sad teabagger chair
Hobnobs with a piss bucket
Pass me a Bud Lite
That’s a Deibold toilet. You go to take a dump and find it’s already full.
Vote early; vote often!
[re=607902]Gorillionaire[/re]:
You make it sound like drinking heavily is a bad thing. Fie!
[re=607845]Prommie[/re]: Bravo!
This I didn’t make up, but it fits: NASCAR – Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.
Also, one time I saw an Earnhart 3 decal with angel wings. Then I briefly tasted my own vomit.
[re=607791]comicbookguy[/re]: Thanks, that made my afternoon.
[re=607808]Brick Oven Bill[/re]:
1. Not
2. Very
3. Funny
4. At All
Man, I really gotta go pull the lever.
Is that one of those new fangled electronic voting toliet seat/buckets? I think I can see why people are complaining about them.
In my day, we had chairs like that one and loved it. Whiners.
In my 40 + years at the low end of the US economic structure, I’ve never had to take a dump in a 5-gallon bucket. I’ve done it in corn-fields many times, and wiped with a cob. Squatting on your heels is, in fact, the natural thing to do. The bucket thing is too colorful to be true.
Anyway, republifux don’t want poor people to vote! Last time I voted in the USA, I had to get up at 4 am so as to go vote before work.
[re=608058]zhubajie[/re]: Happens more often than you would think on non union construction sites. If you are union you get Porta Johns. Yet another reason unions are ruining ‘Murrica.
Not very original. We all gave Andres Serrano our tax monies to put Jesus in a jar of piss years ago.
This work is busy, lacking focus, inviting ambiguity over whether the Bud Light bottles are part of the composition, and it’s sort of overreaching. It just screams MFA project.
You all laugh, but we would have a far more robust democracy if the lines for voting resembled those at women’s bathrooms during large public events.
[re=608069]x111e7thst[/re]: Unions may be ruining America, but non-union construction workers are apparently ruining the groundwater supply.
[re=607907]chaste everywhere[/re]: Wow. We get William C. Williams refs on this thread and Don Marquis tribute on another. This must be Early 20th Century American Poetry day on teh Wonkettes.
After I vote, I’m proud to show everyone my brown-stained finger.
[re=607845]Prommie[/re]: Like Daoism! Except the for the last 90% of what you said.
[re=607799]chascates[/re]: it had to be more of a splatter than a real shit . add peanuts and you get “pebble dash”
[re=608052]jus_wonderin[/re]: yeah , and diebold makes them . which means they are rigged both ways …. something about a forced colonic in favor of republicans ….
[re=607828]TGY[/re]: or just objet d’tbag . more down home and to the point
The layers of meaning in(side) that bucket alone stagger the mortal mind, not to mention the clearly torched lawn chair – and the used-looking between the chair’s (nonchair’s? unchair’s?) legs.
Used looking condom, I meant to say
[re=608102]rmjag[/re]: From what I can tell, Republican men enjoy things being shoved up their ass.
the robert frank of the new recession.
god.
[re=608002]Oblios Cap[/re]: But you should drink better beer than Bud Lite! Jeez, even Cost Cutter beer is better. Save up for Rolling Rock or Milwaukee’s Best or something.
[re=607907]chaste everywhere[/re]: the pure products of America go crazy(er)
LOLrus has died, & whatever has become of his bucket!
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