Sharron Angle’s not the only one who looks Asian. According to the DSCC, Pennsylvania Sleestak character’s opponent Pat Toomey is a no-good red Chinaman because he supports free trade practices. Was a country of 1.3 billion people just reduced to a gong sound effect, the color red, and a picture of a fortune cookie? Yes, it was. This is an ad from the “progressive” political party, by the way.
The economic growth and modernization in China over the last 30 years has lifted literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and if you don’t think that’s an unmitigated great thing then fuck you, I hope a Chinese person does “steal your job”.
Yes. And having good relations with China and other countries is pretty important to people who are young and want to have a viable, modern career in a viable economy in their country. And Democrats in the Senate who try to deal with China in trade and diplomatic affairs in Asia and across the globe probably don’t want to be putting out ads like this with these funny “Me Chinee!” stereotypes. But it looks like their campaign arm just did, so whoops!
And if neither party in this old Western democracy has the wherewithal to stand against offensive, xenophobic crap, we deserve to be taken over by China.
But anyway, funny gong sound! You guys did a good job with that! You’ll all have plenty of work still coming your way when your party is defeated in November! [Modeled Behavior via Andrew Sullivan]
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I guess 30 seconds wasn't enough time for them to photoshop Toomey with slanty eyes and buck teeth, or make some reference to "Yellow Fever." Ah, so.
Am I the only one who sometimes feels that being slowly strangled to death might be preferable? As long as someone attractive did it in a relatively kindly fashion.
Yes. By "death panel," I think they mean that electric chair I'm going to be volunteering for in short order.
Like Carradine? Erotic aphixiation's the shit.
What? Too soon?
I believe the DSCC just took Mr Noah's advice from Slate to appeal to the "unenlightened" in a non-elitist way.
wow. this really has been a great day for american exceptionalism.
"Pat Toomey: he'll screw you long time."
What no clips of Jerry Lewis doing his Chinaman bit? Me Wrikie Velly Much.
or the wondrous Mickey Rooney doing his Japanese could work, in a pinch.
The odd thing is that when a guy from our Chinese office came over here, he didn't know what a fortune cookie was… I assume they're an American invention.
Straight outta San Francisco!
Tru dat!
Something closely resembling a fortune cookie first emerged from a Kyoto, Japan dojo (Japanese for "kitchen") in the early 19th century, though back then, the little slip of rice paper was just sorta shoved all tampopo-like in the cookie's crumby little crotch.
The modern incarnation of what round-eyes recognize as a proper fortune cookie — with its distinctive "vagina" shape, tongue-coating "taste", and baked-in "in bed" joke set-up and "winning" lottery numbers — made its triumphant Stateside debut at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate park around the turn of the 20th century, and was the wee-handed work of Japanese immigrant (and Japanese Tea Garden designer!) Yoko Koko Makoto Ono (or some such Japanese-y-sounding shit.)
The more you know!
I always thought dojo meant something like "school". All those karate kids practice in the kitchen?!
Something closely resembling a fortune cookie first emerged from a Kyoto, Japan dojo (Japanese for "kitchen") in the early 19th century, though back then, the little slip of rice paper was just sorta shoved all tampopo-like in the cookie's crumby little crotch.
The modern incarnation of what round-eyes recognize as a proper fortune cookie — with its distinctive "vagina" shape, tongue-coating "taste", and baked-in "in bed" joke set-up and "winning" lottery numbers — made its triumphant Stateside debut at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate park around the turn of the 20th century, and was the wee-handed work of Japanese immigrant (and Japanese Tea Garden designer!) Yoko Koko Makoto Ono (or some such Japanese-y-sounding shit.)
The more you know!
Ture, why should China bother invading when you can get the milk for free so to speak. So they'd have all the people and indirect control over the most beligerant and powerful military in the world.
I just hope that in the race to the bottom, the good guys win. Oh, crap.
I was going to say that maybe it's okay to play dirty if everyone else is, and then I was willing to concede that the gong thing was a bit much, but it wasn't all that terrible overall, and then all of a sudden, the thing with the fortune cookie at the end, and all I was left with was a hearty "Fuck all y'all".
And having good relations with China and other countries is pretty important to people who are young and want to have a viable, modern career in a viable economy in their country.
Pat Toomey could have "good relations" with Chynna, Carnie, and Wendy, but I doubt that would lead to the creation of new jobs in Pennsylvania.
Who needs Joementum when you have the opportunity to root for the Comeback Sleestak?
Repubicans can carp all they want about "job killing taxes", but taxes are like a single wave against the tsunami of consumer/market choices in Wal-Marts and purchasing departments across the country. Same goes for Demoncrats who think we can stop outflow of jobs by changing a rule or two.
We're addicted to cheap crap from China. Also addicted to porn. And watching DWTS — go MILF Bristol!
I don't agree we are addicted to cheap crap from China. I think we buy cheap crap from China because that's all we can afford, since the War Against The Working Class was declared by the Raygun Regime and we started rewarding companies for moving jobs out of the United States.
We've created an entire generation in this country that think this is normal, and if we don't stop the trend now, we might as well shut off the lights and call it a day.
Pretty vile, DSCC. And don't be surprised when the landlord raises your rent next month.
I rive in Phirry, can't wait tir this erection is over.
Make friends with someone who works for a local TV channel. They'll all be getting big bonuses this Christmas.
The other thing they could do to enrage the average Pennsylvanian is mention that Toomey stood idly by while tubs of lard were shipped overseas.
I'm more saddened that even progressive candidates have to resort to "DEY TUKK ER JAHRBS!" to win (see: Barbara Boxer ads in CA), but this is terrible. Remember your base is and forever will stem from educated college kids, you stupid party. College kids who are more and more asian every passing year.
/DSCC better stay away from drinking coke for the next few weeks
Great, now you've inspired a new Sestak ad:
"Pat Toomey is Chinese. His campaign is a joke. On November 2, will he go pee-pee in your Coke? Vote "Democratic*"
*Candidate does not actually believe in Democratic ideals.
Why is there this weird, xenophobic, lingering belief the Americans "deserve" jobs more than other people? Everyone "deserves" to have a job and feed their families, no matter what country you had the good (or bad) fortune to be born in. Why do we think we should pick and choose who starves?
Sorry for the lack of snark, but isolationism really chaps my ass.
Especially since, in many cases, we had the opportunity to prevent said movement of jobs. Thomson Consumer Electronics stopped producing picture tubes in the US, for example, because they could not compete price-wise with its competitors in China. So they built a plant in Mexico. Had us real 'merikunz just paid a little extra for US made TV's, the jobs would still be here.
Ah, yes, I remember when Thomson closed the plant in Bloomington, Indiana!
You sound a bit like Carly Fiorina there. The way I see it, everyone should have jobs and opportunities wherever they live. But it shouldn't be a race to the bottom, with our corporate overlords free to travel the world to find the most desperate people who will work for the cheapest–and then pit workers in one country against another. Make the CEO and board of directors actually LIVE in the country where their workers are located. Let them see what it's actually like living in India or China, and then they can talk about how great outsourcing is.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of sweat shops or $2/week pay – I certainly think companies should demand fair working environments no matter where their production is. And some companies that outsource do an amazing job of this (see Patagonia). So if a company like that wants to hire Vietnamese workers for a living wage, then we have more employed humans able to live and function, and to me that's a good thing. I imagine we're probably on the same page.
Pandering bullshit like this ad drives me crazy, and I always hold out hope that the Democrats are better than this…
Unfortunately, that's not whats happening. The reason these companies are moving to Vietnam or Bangladesh is because they don't have to pay their employees a living wage ( or perhaps, a competitive wage is a better term) with the American worker that had that job.
I've been to both and if I had to sum them up in one word: vibrant. I'd live in either place in a hearbeat over my Shitburg US America suburb, and I may yet do that.
Oh really? I agree with you, we don't deserve jobs but guess what? We didn't lose these jobs because of self entitlement, you're blaming the victim. We lost these jobs because the fuckheads who run the companies saw an opportunity to cut costs by setting them up in a totalitarian country which would force it's people to work them for practically nothing (sort of like the $5 a month barracks dwellers in shiny, wealthy Dubai, DEFEND THAT) and allow them to pollute so fucking much the clouds waft across the Pacific Ocean and pollute the West Coast so we get shat on double time. Yes, you're right it is the fault of Americans for demanding we work for more than .50 an hour from our wallstreet overlords and therefore the people of China should get forced to do it instead; suck a dick. By the way, if these were Chinese companies with Chinese factories reaping the fat, I'd have no complaint but they aren't and you know it…so your analogy is bullshit.
http://ourfuture.org/files/images/WallStreetTeaPa... And just what does Pennsylvania actually produce, that the Chinese would want; aside from coal, meaty blonds, LNG, Will Smith, Reeses' Pieces… you don't think we could sell 'em all those 400# type 2 diabetic 8 year-olds once sees at all the Chinese Buffets around Hazleton and Lancaster… hey, WAIT just one dog gone second???
Ah, Pennsylvania, my home state. At least the casinos are booming. My buddy Frank Sobotka described it best (spoczywaj w pokoju)…
"We used to make shit in this country. Build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."
Yeah… this one line, of all the awesomeness that is The Wire, pretty much made me break down in tears as I realized how fucked we all are.
Me… I cried when my real daughter, Felicia, got whacked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JK8j0KNLl0 Being from just above The Rocks in The Paris of Appalachia, we'd call that a reach-around, an'at…
"Pat Toomey: He's working to bring jobs to China…in bed!"
"Pat Toomey voted to give China special trade status…in bed!"
"Pat Toomey helped cost Pennsylvania nearly 100,000 jobs…in bed!"
"Pat Toomey is against cracking down on China's unfair trade practices…in bed!"
"Pat Toomey: 'It's great that China is modernizing and growing…in bed!'"
"Pat Toomey: He's not for you…in bed!"
Just as I was beginning to think that the whole thing was bullshit – BOOM! the fortune cookie. Fortune cookies do not lie.
Just like what happened when the Chinese purchased "The Onion" a while ago, only to realize it was a worthless piece of crap, and then sold it back for a pittance. Maybe we'll get lucky and the same will happen to us.
I see Jack is calling out the Democrats for being gigantic racists, again proving that he is actually a right-winger. I read that somewhere.
You have to admit, it is pretty bad how Toomey forced American companies to use Chinese suppliers and American consumers to buy their products.
I thought the dog shit ad was funnier. But seriously, folks, the only question oughta be, why haven't the Democrats been running ads like this since, well, forever. Something about not bringing a knife to a gun fight. Just sayin'.
Right I agree with you 100% and it's not like this ad is being used to gin up xenophobia, Jack just extrapolated while he was peeing his pants. What this ad brought up and yes I take issue with the gong is the proclivity of wallstreet shitsticks like this honkey-dorey Toomey here sending factory jobs overseas to undermine unions, take off the reigns cutting pollution and then have young girls and boys alongside unfortunate faceless Chinese people be forced to work them for little to no pay. So you have dirtier factories, forced slave labor and child labor working them (it's like the 19th century which is the goal of all wingnuts to take us back to) and Jack here shits a brick over a gong and a fortune cookie. Stay out of politics, Jack you don't have the stomach for it, apparently. Oh and flipping out and practically screaming for Democrats to be defeated by the likes of Pat Toomey so they can finish the job over here they started under Bush and make us into a copy of China is well….pretty weak, honestly.
Really, all you need to is that the DSCC is involved. The same geniuses who spent big money on advertising for Ben Nelson after he fucked over — oops — voted for health care reform.
Didn't watch this clip, don't watch them when I'm on the Tube. Thank God for "fast forward". Anyone who watches political ads is just a clazy plick.
Maybe by exporting their stink bugs to us?
Workers in industrial plants used to be freaked out because their jobs were going to Mexico. Now the Mexicans are freaked out because their jobs are going to China. At least the Mexicans have narco-terrorism as an established growth industry that has to be done domestically. Chopping off the heads of cops in Monterrey just can't be outsourced.
The Dems: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory since, well, ever.
There is a right way and wrong way to deal with the whole China thing. I'm one of those dirty, blue-collar sympathizing unionist who believe that we have to make trade more equitable with a place a huge and manipulative as China, but this is so fucking over the top and straight up racist that if Sestak loses, I really won't care.
Great job closing your electoral gap and then going straight-stupid, Dems. Ugh.
Yes and I think you're over reacting, also. I watched the ad and the imagery was a bit stupid and maybe, maybe a little racial but this is Pennsylvania, afterall. You know what? Democrats HAVE taken the high road on this China thing for too long…you bring up the Chamber's money supply visa vie their Citizens United spending spree and what does it get you? I'm fucking furious at the SCOTUS, I'm fucking furious at that demon blob Karl Rove and I'm fucking furious at those useless fleshbags in the Chamber. You know what? I'll overlook a little offensive imagery in an ad that brings up Pat Toomey at his own personal benefit sacrificing American jobs, underming union brothers and sisters and seeing China treat their own workers so well they're jumping out of buildings while working those manufacturing jobs while the factories emit unholy amounts of pollution and the proceeds all go into the pocket of those fucking Koch (it's pronounced cock) brothers and the others like them so they can light their Cuban stogies with $1000 bills and chuckle over their inhuman greed and rat like misanthropy…so yeah, I do care and so should you.
Come teach English in China.
Everyone is pissing into the wind on this one. The gripe is actually with the millions who are too dumb to reach with anything but the broadest and most offensive strokes.
I mean, fuck, this is what it takes win elections. What's Sleestak Lightning supposed to do? Use his lofty perch on the high road to watch Mr. Derivative turn us into England?
Jesus Jack tell us how you really feel…by the way, I assume since this entire post was dedicated to attacking Joe Sestak and the Democrats and not corporate wallstreet lobbyist whore Pat Toomey on the merits I'm guessing just like the MSM you're skipping reviewing the factual content. Was the sound effect and imagery a little over the top? Probably but let's compare it to Personhood Colorado's Obama ad…oh right, you're not covering it! My mistake. You know, I could sit here and mock you all day for getting so upset over some slightly offensive imagery and demanding Democrats bring a parasol to face Republican bazookas, but I won't because I'll probably be banned. "All is fair in love and war" oh and until the evil Chinese government (yes I said evil, and I'm not a Manichean, either) stops forcing children, minorities and prisoners to labor in capitalist factories and women to service their American overlords that Pat Toomey and his wallstreet nobility class shitbags helped to set up…I say gong 'till you drop…but human rights means more to me than PC, what say you?
Oh and what I was getting at previously concerned the Chamber of Commerce (gong! political ad money for wingnuts!) lobbying to prevent Al Franken's policy of banning American companies from selling goods made by forced labor and child labor (hmm, I wonder if the Chinese lobbied the Chamber or if it was quid pro quo considering the massive expenditures they're throwing at Democrats, god only knows how much the Chinese goverment gave them) let's just say my observation was astute. I'll be damned before I get upset at Democrats using the GOP's new fealty to Chinese cheap labor against them, I mean fuck me, what are we talking about here?
Yes let's ask the average Chinese worker how much of a miracle it's been. Oh sure, it's set up a whole generation of corrupt industry bosses but what about the Chinese people? Does any of these free trade hacks know how much they actually get paid? Or if they receive medical care or proper rest in between triple and quadruple shifts to support this miracle? I didn't think so. You know what I'd LOVE to see? American unions branching out and unionizing our brothers and sisters in China against the corrupt suck ass wingnut corporations and corrupt Chinese bosses; it would be AMAZING. But it will never happen because the authoritarians found the one society their utopia could be built from: millions of slaves toiling their metaphoric fields while they sit in their giant glass mansions and private islands dodging taxes or tariffs since they "took care of those" sipping mint julleps and fanning themselves for heat….think that analogy is so off? Go research Chinese labor since the capitalist-communist miracle and then get back to me.
"Go research Chinese labor since the capitalist-communist miracle and then get back to me."
Ummm…I think I agree with you. Can I take a pass on the homework?
Jesus Jack you pissed me off so much I had to respond repeatedly to this single post…so I guess job well done, eh? Seriously, read my counter points though and go research my claims, I'll agree on principle that a gong and fortune cookie is sending all the wrong signals to all the wrong people but contextually and with content I'll side with Sestak all day long against this hyper-sleaze Pat Toomey; just like I side with Alex Sink even if she is too conservative for my liking against hyper, uber corporate criminal sleaze Rick Scott. Get some perspective here, the Chamber has declared war on the Democratic Party and the Chinese are helping fund their lies in AMERICAN POLITICS. If I were the DCCC I'd take the gloves off too, this is practically a foreign funded takeover of our government with the possible exception that the wingnuts are too sleazy and backstabby to let China dictate our trade policy through campaign funding; but I'm not holding my breath on that one, either.
Honestly, could you stop doing what is just short of cutting and pasting a response.
Also, this is Wonkette. Find teh funny, or GTFO.
This is an example of why I tell my students not to emigrate to the US. I hope the ad gets repeated on China Central Television.
You know, for most of their history, the Dems were the party of organized racism. Even after the Southern Jim Crow sorts jumped ship to the Reps, lots of Dems kept their anti-Chinese racism.
Amazing. Sixty years of wasting sh*t loads of money playing army here, there, everywhere, a generation of mismanaging our country the way every 3rd world sh*t hole is mismanaged, and somehow US reptilian and demonic party members think it's China's fault that the US is turning into a 3rd sh*t hole! It's your own fault, guys. You did it to yourselves. If you want to avoid the coming Bosnian style civil war, go to China or Brazil or someplace, while Americans are still fashionable.
If China takes over, does that mean we'll have jobs again? I could use one of those. I can sew the fuck out of a shoe.
No, you are going to be ruled by the likes of George Bush, Bill Clinton, Dan Quayle, for the rest of your life. Learn to raise your own potatoes and onions.
Bullshit. I call unmitigated bullshit.
The ad was ham handed and racist.
That does not mean, in turn, that the American working class should be shouldered with the burden of lifting the Chinese from their self imposed misery. The Chinese have an internal market of 1.4B consumers. If that can't keep their factories running then screw 'em.
Chinese workers are paid about $1/hr. In order to be able to live on that paltry and artificially low salary they are given food and housing subsidies. Why is it unfair, then, for American workers to expect action from their government that will allow them to keep their jobs at a rate high enough to also afford food and housing. Raise the tariff on Chinese foreign goods high enough to bring the prices of their crap to the level it would be if their workers were paid the U.S. minimum wage and add to that what the cost would be if the Chinese actually installed pollution controls that the rest of the industrialized world uses.
I'm betting that if you asked your average Walmart drone whether they'd prefer to continue working there selling Chinese plastic crap or whether they'd prefer working in a factory for $15/hr. making American plastic crap, they would choose the latter.
Those jobs are leaving China for Vietnam. You'll need to invent new industries, which will probably mean a good education in math and science. Creation Science and pi-equals-3-cuz-the-Bible-says-so math won't be good enough. Probably you'll have to learn the metric system, too.
Now, this is really getting serious….we need Christine O'Donnell to reveal her sources on the Chinese Invasion, and we need it now…
http://www.endtime.com
No, lots of Chinese people unwisely still admire the US and think it's a model to imitate. That's one reason so many young fools are buying cars.
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