Taxes! They are necessary! Which is exactly the sort of thing a socialist Harvard law professor like Elizabeth Warren would say, for socialism, but the kids on the Internet are going wild over this video of newly-minted Massachusetts Senate candidate Warren explaining why it is evil for greedy millionaires to complain about taxes that support public services and infrastructure that enable their businesses to function. We had sort of taken that proposition for granted, but she says it with some conviction and small words, which means that now pundits can declare to everyone’s relief that she is good at speaking to “average voters,” i.e. morons, even though she is from Harvard. Hooray, watch out naked demon person Scott Brown!
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GO LIZ!!
We need more intelligent people in office.
one would be a good start.
We've already got Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Barbara Lee, Patrick Leahy, Henry Waxman, Raul Grijalva, and numerous other stalwarts, you know.
Isn't there some old saying: Put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of shit, and you have a barrel of shit. Put a spoonful of shit in a barrel of wine, and you have a barrel of shit.
What I'm saying is our current government is a barrel of shit.
Put a spoonful of shit in a barrel of pinot noir and it'll be about the same. Provided that's clean barnyard horse shit. Seriously, take a good sniff next time you've got a real pinot in your hand.
What you *actually said* was "One would be a good start."
If one would be a good start, we have quite a few more than one, although that doesn't mean we should sit around on our collective tuchus and wait for attrition and Republicanism to remove what little we have left.
I love her. I'm thinking of becoming a Masshole just so's I can vote for her.
I'm thinking about writing her in in Cali. For anything!
For anything!
President comes to mind…
This country will NEVER elect a woman President.
She's too smart to fall for that. We haven't conned a tenured professor into that job since ol' Woodrow (and he was a politician before he went into academia).
If elected, I expect she'll burn out in one term dealing with all the bs all the time. Not that she won't help for that one term, but there's so much crap that has nothing to do with what she cares about that I expect it will drag on her.
Upfisted for the "Masshole"!
Needz moar capital punishment.
Win.
Good point. She's brilliant, but has she killed anybody? If not, how do we know she has what a leader needs?
now if Perry was shown cutting the heart out of a death row inmate and then eating it…i'd take him seriously. until then he is just another "tough on crime" Republican pandering to the base instincts of his base.
So this is where Barry's balls are.
Well played.
Watched the video and she gave me a woody hard enough to cut diamonds.
If it lasts more than 24 hours, be sure to call me.
Hey, what? I'm curious.
I still think most Americans led by Grover Norquist and his ilk won't understand anything other than they're try to take my money to teach the heathen science shit to my kids and give them blacks welfare money to spend on weed.
Prof. Warren then went on to explain to these same voters why you shouldn't swim during an electrical storm, smoke while filling your gas tank, or clean your gun when it's loaded.
In other news, water is found to be wet.
Who knew?
On the smoking while filling gas tank, I live in GA and I swear that does need to be explained to people here. Cause they stupid. Or suicidal. Or both.
I just drive to the next gas station. More often than you'd think.
Cause they stupid. Or suicidal. Or both.
Well, they are living in Georgia.
Well, fuck me blind. Seriously, now?
Dear god. Sparks, flame, fuel — this combination does not seem, in any way, nerve-wracking for them?
Totally serious. You would think they'd see the potential downside, but that would require reasoning skilz. And no guvmint is gonna tell them what to do!
In upstate New York, too, where I went to elitist college. It is disturbing.
Explosions is awesome, duh.
i worked at a gas station in Wisconsin for three years. it's not just Georgia…
"excuse me? could you not smoke next to the inflammable material hoses?"
It's so flammable, it's IN-flammable!
A portion of the assembled voters then proceded to shoot each other as their gas tanks exploded in an electrified swimming pool.
…but, but, Job Creators!
And Carley & Meg are Job's daughters.
/ staggers to parapet and leaps
No, don't jump! Carly and Meg are the spawn of Santa!
Clearly she is worse than Hitler, because of these commonsense explanations of fundamental truths.
i.e. indoctrination!
On the upside, trying to paste a little mustache on photos of Warren will just look silly, not scary.
White Privilege: Use it when you can!
Oh yeah, like all them r3tards that really need to see this will actually bother.
She is far too intelligent and sensible. (Another) TeaTard/FAUX News/Reep attack in 3…2…1…
And very clear in describing the difference between shit and Shinola.
She's smart, and a Harvard professor, so clearly an America-hating eleeeeetist
Go Liz! What's with the weird music at the end?
Cheap, amateur filmmakers wholly unaffiliated with the politician's exploratory committee just can't help themselves. They've *always* got to toss in the weird music and/or inappropriate graphic/sfx.
It's royalty-free pablum that comes with Apple's Soundtrack program. Some kids just can't help themselves. I'll bet there was a rough cut entirely underscored with that drivel.
Have the Corporate Democrats found a way to knife her in the back yet? She must have worked as a dominatrix or stood in the vicinity of an angry black dude at some point in her life.
She could be my dominatrix…
First time I saw her on The Daily Show I thought about how
hotsmart she is.'sokay; smart = hot.
shmartot
Smart is hot. But would it kill her to get a little rack enhancement? She's awfully, uh, skinny.
(Yes, I am a man.)
sure does.
Maybe it's because our big brains tend to override a lot of the basic bio programming, but I've always found smart people devastatingly sexy. MUCH sexier than the dumb bimbo/himbo types with great bodies and empty heads.
Oooooh, nothing cuter than a scrawny nerd with glasses and a goofy smile!
I'm in love.
You been talkin' to all my exes, ain'tcha?
Of course they have…that's why she's running for office instead of running the Office for Consumer Affairs….fuckers.
Actually, I b'leev that was the Repuglycunts, dear.
Is there a difference? Oh yeah, lip service from the Corporate Democrats.
They're all busy talking about what a great guy Scott Brown is.
I’m smitten!
Me too. Damn, life is hard, when there's so many smart, hot women (and men) to fall in love with!
The participial form of "smitten" is "smut."
She makes a lot of sense. Loser.
Where's her centerfold and pick up?
For Brooksley! Kick his fucking ass, Liz!
Elizabeth is like the smart girl in class who everyone had a crush on where Meg is like the fat bully who got rich by stealing everyone's milk money.
My bad, this is not a metaphor, I'm sure I just described both of their actual childhoods.
You musn't apologize for truth telling. Except, of course, if you're a Democrat.
*sigh*
Well this will never catch on. Sensibility I mean.
Nobody in this country got rich on their own…
…they just inherited it.
Gee that would mean that a lot of rich (and their Koch Sucking Teabagger followers) are just self centered narcissistic sociopaths who have no concept of how things work.
Winner, winner chicken dinner!!!
You're supposed to engage in demagoguery and fear-mongering, not facts!
Needz moar Michael Bay exploshuns!11!
Plus, naked.
Run, Liz, run! No, I mean run, honey, there's a naked man in a pickup truck bearing down on you.
I am a straight female, but I would make sweet love to Elizabeth Warren in a New York minute.
but not for a minute, amirite?
(sorry)
Pix or GTFO.
An amazing number of Wonkettes are becomingly decidedly bi-curious, I, for example, would fuck the dickens out of Rachel Maddow.
I haz teh bisexualiteez. I highly recommend it.
I heart Elizabeth Warren.
The right has demonized smarts as so much "elitism" and has co-opted the "regular folks" label by either pretending or actually being (e.g., Louie Gohmert) as fucking stupid as they presume those regular folks to be.
Elizabeth Warren, in contrast, is wickedly smart and able to communicate to others without her education, experience, and smarts, about complicated issues (granted, taxes are necessary if we want nice things doesn't seem overly complicated, but it's a Teabagger world). It's a fabulous gift (Bill Clinton has it and if he wasn't so conservative, I'd like him more).
As a law professor myself, I can say it is also rare in academia where too often the goal seems to be to convince everyone you're the smartest one in the room using the most confusing language possible.
I second that – having gone through too many interviews with faculty where I felt like my efforts at clear communication (the supposed goal) marked me down in their eyes, and read way too many law review articles that desperately try to intellectualize basic ideas.
Not that I'm a frustrated wannbe academic who now (a decade plus after getting my JD) going back to school again to get a PhD because I keep getting passed over or anything.
And I'm an academic in the South, so a double layer of not saying directly WTF you mean. I just tell people "Look, my appointment letter didn't come with a decoder ring, so if you don't tell me what you want, I'm not going to go out of my way to parse what it is you're too ridiculous to just say directly." I
I'm the direct one.
Good luck cracking into academia. Overall it's a good gig if you're like me and loved being a student and want to keep learning for life. But some of the BS is depressing.
Yeah, Southern lawyers are almost as bad as Indians (natives of the subContinent) at not saying what they mean. Had cases in Texas where the gentility just killed me – I mean, we knew they were bastards, they knew they were bastards but no one could just say it.
I'm that guy who everyone in practice thinks should be a professor, every professor I work with likes, but doesn't quite fit the academic profile (no clerkships, no extra letters after my name, don't check all that many boxes and wasn't far enough the food chain at my firm to be a "name" for any school). Eh, I'll get there eventually.
Holy shit, Sue, you're a law professor down here? And I thought I had it bad down here.
Yes, there's the extra special challenge to live in a state where so many people rail against "the courts" without a clue as to how they actually work. What can I say? I came for the teaching job.
This is the reason I don't want Elizabeth Warren as a Senator – I want her in a position with actual power.
Like a community organizer?
I want her in any number of positions.
And the wingnut response to this is:
"It has elecrolytes."
Hey, don't knock electrolyes! It's what plants crave!
Brown/Brawndo 2012!
Saw this yesterday. She is my MOTHERFUCKING hero, for sure. Donated to her campaign.
If anyone would like a preview of how the smarmy shitheads in the national media will treat her candidacy, check out this clip of her on Morning Joe on Wednesday:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc_tv-m...
The part that pissed me off starts around 3:20, when Mark Halperin is given a chance to ask her a question and throws her a foreign policy curveball about future threats from China's military. She tries to make the point that China's economic power is a much bigger threat and Halperin just doesn't want to hear it. He's so smarmy about it I wanted to beat him into a coma with an aluminum bat. Just a giant fucking asshole.
Let me just run to the sporting goods store for you.
Halperin was an asshole, and Warren fielded the question quite well–didn't let the twatwaffle throw her. OOH, can the little law professor lady handle a question about bombs and guns and tanks? Yeah, sure. Fuck you, Halperin. With an AIM-9 Sidewinder.
Nothing more than Socialism people! Next thing you know, she will be insisting that this country was founded on the ideas justice and domestic tranquility and that the government is suppose to promote the general welfare of the people and preserve the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.
Socialism! Next thing she will be promoting Sharia law. Just you wait.
You are too sarcastic for your own good, young man.
Limbaugh played this clip today (I was riding with a 'bagger: my truck is down!) and he went on a tirade of 'NO ONE GETS RICH ON THEIR OWN?" And about roadways being a shared resource he said "WHO BUILT THE VEHICLES ON THOSE ROADS?" And then went into a repeat of her very worthwhile premise but interjecting 'our country' into the 'No country (one) gets rich on their own' and pressed on that this meant she & the extreme left (the 'Democrat party) believe the United States was a bully and stole things to get where it is (which is literally true) and on and on and
….
MY HEAD EXPLODES!!!
His normal listeners do know see the illogical claims he makes, the straw man, the specious reasoning…MY HEAD IS STARTING TO HURT AGAIN!
Must. Fix. Truck.
Yeah, that's about the only lesson you're going to get from listening to the Big Fat Idiot. Fix your truck.
OK, Rush. Let's see how rich you get without a Federally-regulated broadcast infrastructure.
There is not enough Like in all the facebooks in the world to give to this video.
Intelligent. Eloquent. What more could we want from our female politicians?! That's right – MILF factor!!! And she gets a nice high one from me. But then, I'm a sucker for chick's with glasses. Ya, sadly, even those from our frozen State.
US-show us your tits-A! US-show us your tits-A! US-show us your tits-A!
Using logic, mathematics and science, that's a winning formula?
I can't get excited about this one candidate in a race I can't even vote in, when there is a 50-seat gap between Republicans and Democrats in the House that must be overcome if we want to do anything more than tread water with Obama or drown with a Republican President from 2013-16. That is the one and only issue for me in 2012, and somebody better be working on it, from the top down and the bottom up. Having 1 or 2 people in Congress (or just in the Oval Office) whose stump-videos and lib-show guest-shots give us woodies is not the point.
party pooper…
I know, I'm bein' a jerk about it…
You being a jerk is about eleventy-hundred times better than most ordinary mortals being not jerks.
That is ridiculously nice, thank you!
See? Limeylizzie knows the maths.
And that person in the Oval Office is who?
Taxachussettes! Socialism! Math!
NO!!!!!!
Ah, we Bay Staters are pretty geeked about the possibility of taking down Scott "Puddy" Brown. Ewarren is smart and feisty. Balls the size of……wait for it……Texas. BadaBOOM!
Yes, she would be a much more fitting occupant of Ted's seat, than Mr. centerfold pickup truck. I'm feeling pretty excited about it.
She'll just end up hunched over a bar in some seedy section of Boston, whispering sweet uglies to a shot glass in between shouts of "Keep 'em comin' and pour 'em like you don't own 'em ya Mick bastard!" I've seen this kind of thing before.
It wasn't long ago she was doing that at the Cantab in Cambridge.
2016
You're all thinkin' it… I'm just sayin' it…
There is only one explanation as to why this woman knows what she's talking about…SHE'S A WITCH!
In The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, Cass Sunstein, that notorious accursed commie, lays out this argument pretty rigorously, and emphasizes the point that the Court system, which protects the teabaggers' beloved property rights, is particularly expensive, and that the upperclasses benefit from this disproportionately to their population, and therefore need to pay even more taxes. In other words, the teabaggers won't listen to him, either.
there now that wasn't so difficult, was it? fuck.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I absolutely love this woman.
No snark, not even a bit, when I say that this woman could quite possibly save the Senate and maybe Obama if they front-bench her. She doesn't apologize for her intelligence, but comes without the ego that infects so many highly intelligent people.
I said it before, but if there is any state capable of correcting an electoral mistake (i.e. Scott Brown), it is Massachusetts. Don't fail me, now, MA. How you let a pick-up-driving redneck through the deep blue is beyond me, but you can correct this abberation.
Speaking of Mr. Brown, how long before he smears Warren, by tying her to Rachel Maddow as he is wont to do?
We Massholes will try not to let you down, Negropolis.
Allow me this one outburst: There is a society, Ms. Thatcher. Suck on that, bitch.
She's brillant. I hope Michele Bachmann watches the video. Or, forget it.
I'm greatly looking forward to voting for Elizabeth Warren. I'm looking forward to that even more than I'm looking forward to voting against Scott Brown.
Thank you for this. I just sent her campaign $50 and a couple of cock pics.
My head is spinnin'
But I can't get enough
Got the feelin'
It must be love
Don't do 'em! Don't do stupid, corrupt, expensive, homicidal things! Holy shit! Why did't anybody else think of that???
It makes my heart beat faster to know that, given the timing of my citizenship application, I'll be able to cast my first-ever vote for US Senator for a kickass lady like this one.
Welcome to this fucked-up land, calbrit!
One of us! One of us!
Organize.
(But your district is probably already as blue as they get, right?)
You say that like its a bad thing, rather than a desired trait.
Real lambecs (the ones most liquor stores in the US won't stock, not the fruit flavored ones) are the same way. Tasted one with a group of pretty knowledgable folks, and we all were repulsed (except for the one who enthusiastically raved it reminded her of a horse barn that hadn't been mucked out in a while).
Mrs Dewey always complains that it smells/tastes like dirt. Now I can correct her!
That's not shit. That's terroir.
Thank you for explaining the reasoning. It was escaping me.
You are correct on both counts, Sir.
Actually, Limeylizzie is highly literate and completely innumerate.
Eleventy-hundred apologies.
Pas de probleme.
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