Orrin Hatch on the Senate floor, you guys: “President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for a hipster fedora and a double skim latte.” Wow, he traded in an entire category of his coalition for a single hat and coffee drink! Is that a “Fair Trade” of the sort that the hipsters love so much? Ha ha ha… eh… kill us now? [Buzzfeed]
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Orrin Hatch Calls Obama A Hipster With A Funny Hat And Coffee
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I was unaware that the UAW had moved into coffee slinging.
Did he borrow that fedora from Matt Drudge?
No, from James O'Keefe…
Are you sure Orrin didn't say "pimp hat and some purple drank"?
Sugar, water, purple!
Oh, snap.
(I wouldn't put it past them.)
More like a mulatte.
*snort*
That was pretty evil of me, eh, I_P?
If by "evil" you mean "devilishly good" then I agree.
At least you didn't say blahpuccino.
Orrin prefers the dope-pio.
Hipsters don't wear fedoras, Orrin. Douchebags wear fedoras.
Now you've got to learn how the Venn diagrams works – while it's true that not all douchebags are hipsters, all hipsters are douchebags. And they were fedoras, along with unkempt facial hair and clashing colors.
Douche bags don't wear fedoras; they wear Ed Hardy wool-knit caps 365 days a year.
And that fucking beard/facial hair/whatever it's supposed to be that looks like they drew an outline on their jaw with an eyeliner pencil.
I like my coffee blah.
Doctor! There's all this Santorum coming out of my Hatch!
Put two aspirin between your knees and call me in the morning.
Oh Orrin. Don't you have some dead hipsters to posthumously baptize or something?
Dead hipsters, great name for a band (a hipster band)
The dude from Women is a Mormon?
He's just sayin' the POTUS has got a couple of shirts with a deep V, that's all.
He should have riffed off the recent musical performance:
"Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunchbucket of the Dem Party for
2 turntables and a microphone."
You know a trend is over when Republicans start talking about it. Thank God Hipsterism is dead, though.
It was doomed the moment it caught on.
Obama moved the White House to Williamsburg?
The Obamavicher Rebbe
I keep telling people that his name is Baruch Hussan(like the groom) Obamavich
Brooklyn, or Colonial?
Yeah, but he like totally did it before it was cool to do such a thing. Of course.
Orrin, please. Everyone knows fedoras are so 2009. Hell, hipsters have long since moved past the conductor hat in my area.
This may catch on. Or was that last year?
So, the trucker caps are done? That's a relief.
Meanwhile, the GOP is still appealing strongly to those required by their doctors to wear helmets.
Helmets or tin foil hats?
They line the helmets with tin foil. Y'know, just in case.
Hipster fedora? If he means the hat that high school girls wear to Young Life meetings to look worldly, then Utah preserves its reputation as the unhippest state in the Union.
Orin won't be scorin' with teh double skinny crowd.
He'd have been more persuasive if he had said "double skim late-y." As it was, he seemed entirely too familiar with the drink.
So, by Sen. Hatch's definition, hipness is defined by 1992.
Why couldn't they have had hipsters when I was in high school? Instead I just got socially ostracized for listening to weird music and wearing converse instead of k swiss. No fair.
I had my last fedora in 1962. Thank dog for President Kennedy eschewing the wearing of hats. As for shoes, the best I could get was Keds. Usually it was whatever store brand they sold at either White Front or W.T. Grant's.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…"
Orrin, Orrin, for crissakes, you know what happens when you drink one Coor's Light. Now put that damn thing down before you start trying to quote more poetry. Mormons don't quote stupid-ass poetry, you know that!
Those crazy darkies…
This is pure haberdashery I say.
Utter poppycockery, indeed, good sir.
Republicans traded the pinstripes of the titans of industry for the comforting straps of straight jackets and tricorner hats of the tea party.
Can you be in the Senate and be incomprehensible?
Happens all da time.
I think it's a requirement, at least to get the GOP nomination.
Dan Quayle?
"Can you"? I thought it was mandatory.
An allowance? It's damn-near a requirement.
Well, Romney should be able to capitalize on Brock's failings. Soon, all hard hats and lunch buckets will be flocking to teh GOP tent.
From the same guy who said the rich have suffered enough in this country.
What. An. Asshat.
And the Republicans seem to have traded the pinstripes and tassel loafers crowd for the wifebeaters and work boots crowd.
Don't worry, the workboots crowd may be useful worker ants/cannon fodder, but the Rs haven't forgotten that pinstripers are their real masters, nor will they, ever.
He's just jealous because normal people can drink coffee.
i have never seen barry in a hat.
i would like to see barry in a hat.
I would like to have barry in for a chat.
And Michelle too, at that.
Hipster Libel!
Oh, sister. Do a Google image search for "young obama cigarette" and prepare yourself.
SQUEEEE!!!
Yes, that's pretty much been my reaction, too. :)
Would you like to see Barry in a hat?
Do you think that he is one cool cat?
Would you like to see him in socks?
Do you think he is a fox?
Would you like Michelle to join the fun?
Would that be a good day, before it is done?
Orrin has a jonesin' case of coffee envy. Yum, yum, it's DELICIOUS, Orrin!
Jumpin' Jesus on a Pogo Stick!
These were "prepared remarks"????
Can't this guy be fired from the Senate for being a giant dork? We can call it the "Lieberman Clause."
~
Instead of singing Al Green, Obama is going to start singing Arcade Fire or some shitty band no one has ever heard of. Ironically, of course.
i think it was the decemberists that got the wingtards panties in wad.
but of course, that was 2008. they may have moved on.
Bon Iver. Oh God help us all if he tries an a capella rendition of "Beth/Rest," amirite?
Obama's 2011 best album is Kaputt, actually.
“President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for a hipster fedora and a double skim latte.”
And he's all hopped up on goofballs too!
*Now* the Republicans have gone and alienated the Fedora Hat Coalition AND the Lovers of Lattes! These people just don't want anyone voting for them, do they?
Interesting idea this, to define political positions by a combination of headgear and beverage. I'm a Viking helmet and peppermint tea man myself – used to be a sombero and absinthe when I was younger, but I've mellowed.
I'm a minimalist — bedhead and black coffee.
I'm going with a cheap plastic rain cap, and 5-hour energy drink.
Fez and Sierra Mist here.
Lilly Daché and gin.
Steelers ball cap and pint of a dark, local microbrew.
What's the point of being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
http://vi.sualize.us/view/ff227b917cf8c0a87f06411…
My face is far too narrow and long for a hat. I've always been jealous of people that can pull hats off. Any hats, really.
a.) Share with us the hat you *would* wear if you could. None of us can tell the difference if we haven't actually seen your face! (on here)
b.) I actually share w/ you my envy of others who pull off the headgear so much more effectively. However, now I've noticed your avatar has changed again. It is similar to trying on different hats, no?
c.) Beverage?
Unfortunately this reminds me I have to go to Salt Lake the end of next week to chill with bunch of
hipstersengineers. Maybe I should swing by Orin's office and see if he want's to join us for a few Polygamy Porters. Obvs, with the PP why would you stop with just one.Orrin has traded in the "fiscally responsible" category of the Republican Party for a belt with an onion in it.
We had to say dickety because the Orrin had stolen our word for lunchbuckets.
It's still considered very attractive by many stylish elders.
He's trading his MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron
That's a tremendous leap for a Horrin Atch: from 1948 all the way to 1992 in one swell foop.
and by the way, the fuck was this about?
bamz moving laterally within the democratic party base is something of concern to orrin hatch because why?
President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for a hipster fedora
In Obama's defense, 1950s hard-boiled detectives are an all important swing demographic.
Yeah, Mickey Spillane and Walter Winchell wore fedoras the hat Hatch is pretending to care about is actually called a trilby. That's what he gets for having an envious loser 27 year old write for him.
"1950s hard-boiled detectives are an all important swing demographic."
And what about us dames?
a hipster fedora and a double skim latte.
Orrin, Orrin, you Jurassic geezer…fedoras are so 2009, and even McDonald's serves lattes these days.
And the Reeps really don't get how out of touch they are…
Pretty sure, it was a redeye,blah
Breaking news: President Obama spotted ironically wearing a hard hat, carrying a lunch bucket.
Did said lunch bucket contain an ironic can of PBR?
Hatch is still alive?
No. It's just that Dick Cheney hasn't had the heart to tell him.
Hey-ooo!
To quote Dorothy Parker, well maybe not since the "still" would indicate previous animation, and with Hatch that is debatable. .
Essentially.
Tell us about your underwear, Orrin.
No, I take that back.
You see, a brother wears a fedora like this….but White folks…they wear a Seed Corn hat like this.
It's like some kind of crazy reverse Apollo Theater Stand-up comedy act.
If your first name starts with an O,…………………….you might be a redneck.
Or blah.
He really wants to see Barry trade in the fedora for a white jacket, serving food at the country club.
today we are all Hipsters with a Funny Hat and Coffee
This is the trailer park version of "food stamp president". Fedoras! Elitism. I bought a fedora once and I looked like an idiot wearing it. If you're going to rip liberal elitism, get it right. I obsess over whether the knot on my tie has the proper 'pop' to it. Double windsors are good but they need to be loose.
In my last days in Corporate America the office dapper dresser appraised me with arched eyebrows and said "You wear the kind of ties that someone would wear only because he has to wear a tie." I dunno what he found to complain about in my Disney Collection. Daffy Duck was a classic.
The trick is if you make the knot pop enough you won't have to tie it around your neck so tight. I go with silver ties, they go with everything.
At least he didn't call Barry a blipster.
COOKIE MOUNTAIN LIBEL!!!!
Has all the earmarks of a Frank Luntz talking point: catchy, easy to remember and repeat endlessly, and patently false.
Fedora? Everybody knows a real hipster wears a pork pie hat!
TRILBY LIBEL!
Yay!!!!! Finally, the corner of Wonkettia where we can talk style.Trilby, thank you.
“President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for a hipster fedora and a double skim latte.” ….The delivery here is crucial…or crucified….Ba da Bing, ba da blat…..Hatch's sotto voce has dovolved into pseudo vocca….
Orrin Hatch has an oral hatch.
Honestly, the thing that amazes me the most is that Orrin Hatch seems to almost -but not quite- know what a hipster is.
I mean, who drinks lattes any more? That's so 1990's. It's all about the fair trade organic loose tea, or else bourbon. Or both at the same time, yum.
Also too, while ironic hard hats are rare, they do exist, at least in Williamsburg. Ironic lunch boxes are much more common.
That reminds me, where did I put my tricorn fedora with the teabags stapled on the brim?
"Hipster fedora and a double skim latte": is that code for "fried chicken and watermelon" or "malt liquor and menthol cigarettes?"
I loved how they went with the meme on The Wire and made super-badass Omar a fan of KFC and Mountain Dew. And Honey Nut Cheerios.
(BTW, why do I remember stuff like this and can't remember what I was going to buy once I get to the grocery store?)
pleeeease regale us with your extensive knowledge of hipster culture, white male republican mormon senator from utah.
President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for a hipster fedora and a double skim latte.
Meanwhile, the Repubicans have traded in women, Latinos, union members, seniors and students for a fat-ass in KKK robes riding a Rascal.
And in November, President Obama will be wearing that hipster fedora and knocking back the double skim latte as he cruises into the White House for four more years, over the corrupt, stinking bodies of Republicans.
Man, he only named one of the well-known characteristics of the tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show.
That looks good. I'll have the sushi, thanks. Can I have a single malt scotch with that?
WTF does that even mean … if anything. What a hipster doofus.
Utah, site of Sundance Film Festival, is devoid of hipsters.
[wanking motion]
Yeah, I caught this dried-up foreskin on the teevee machine today. He also bloviated at length about how our corporations can't make enough moneez under Obamer with all his regulations, and such and so forth, and all…….
We should wash that guys car with rocks.
First of all, Orrin, it's "double skinny latte". Second, I know plenty of blue collar workers who drink them. Yes. Obama and his party have abandoned the poor working stiff. As opposed to your party, which so exalts and protects labor. Fuck you.
I see Senator Hatch is a member of the "You-Damned-Kids-Get-Off-My-Lawn!" caucus of the United States Senate.
Yes, these kids, today, and their enema man, and snoopy-poopy-poop dog, and too-big-pants and whatever else the very, very urban youths are into, these days.
What a snob, amirite?
double skim latte
But Uncle Orrin, all the cool Mormon kids are ridin' these over at Snowbird…
and Hatch is an old queen who wears funny underwear with an-al bum cover.
I agree.
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