The Republican party loves Labor Day so much that it’s gone and created a whole new special double version of it, on the same day. This one, however, celebrates the historical enemy of organized labor, the Noble Small Businessman. Everyone, quick, whip your cat’o nine tails at the nearest laborers to honor the owners of capital. “Today,” Richmond plantation master Rep. Eric Cantor wrote on the Twitter yesterday, “we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.” So yeah, he got Labor Day exactly wrong, but he knows that, and that’s why he’s generally considered an unlikable person.
Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.
— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) September 3, 2012
Let’s make several other Conservative Opposite Holidays!
- Thanksgiving: Murder Bomb Day.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Appreciation Day.
- Christmas: Stop the War on Christmas Day.
Actually “Murder Bomb Day” would pretty much cover them all.
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Shit goes in, shit comes out. You can't explain that.
I think you did.
Foie gras?
Sure you can. Just put an (R) in parentheses after it.
Well you can, but you get closer to "human centipede" territory.
Yeah you can. This guy is a fucking asshole.
I LOLed at the alt.text – what am I, four?
Four was a good age for me.
Ah, to be four again.
What a horrible human being.
…and what does that say about the people who vote for him?
Melissa Harris-Perry will not be amused…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/melissa-…
Money quote:
"I'm sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky!"
I ♡ MHP.
I'd totally have her babby. I'd even carry it for the whole nine months.
I wish she'd busted out the socialist card and said something to the effect of how would things look if there weren't so many poors. I mean, how much fucking money does one (rich) person and their kids need?
Another "Conservative Opposite Holiday"
4th of July = GOP Day
Freedom isn't free; sometimes we have go through the whole hiring process when one of our employees goes to war. It's a real hassle.
Memorial Day = Freedom Fries with your barbecue
Labor Day = Embrace Jerbs Creators
Since you can never have enough, I propose a new holiday:
'9/11 Day' [a.k.a. 'America's Mayor' day].
I suppose it could also be called, 'Rudy Tuesday' — but only when 9/11 fell on a Tuesday I guess.
Good bye, Rudy Tuesday.
Hey Cantor, what besides tax cuts for the rich and obstructionism have you built? You economy ruining, Dubya scroat licking, toady of Koch.
He wouldn't be offended by that.
Yeah, all you did was reword his Curriculum Vitae slightly.
Belabor Day. If you ain't be laborin', we will belabor your labor. Why not call it "Billionaires are Godz" day?
Well, if there weren't any bosses, there wouldn't be any one to labor for, right?
Well, at least until you got hungry enough. Then woebetide anyone who gots.
When did the laboring classes ever create any jobs? And let beatings continue till morale improves.
These people equate luck with success. Almost everybody works hard in life. Some make millions; most just get by.
Only losers measure success by household income.
I measure success by the amount of alcohol I can drink before violently puking outside the bar.
C'mon, man up; go big or go home. Puke on the bar.
Well, last time I did… also puked on the waitress…. it wasn't pretty..
Veterans Day – Celebrating the enemy.
Redeploy the troops day.
Yeah, make those lazy WW2 and Korean War vets earn their checks!
Veterans Day celebrates the fact that we keep making more of them, kind of the opposite of "Armistice Day."
Armistice Day is a commie holiday anyway. Imagine anybody thinking the end of a war is anything to celebrate.
That reminds me, Bin Laden day is coming up, anybody have any good picnics planned in the bay area?
I thought that was "Bush Kept Us Safe Day."
On my google calendar, they call it "Patriot Day" and it makes me want to rub shit on everything.
It's "Rub Shit On Everything WEEK" and that was celebrated last week in Florida.
I wonder where Cantor gets them Alien teeth.
I dunno, but shades like those should only be worn with a fez.
damn, I was thinking the same thing!
Marilyn Quayle.
New Years Day: Remember the Constitution Day; President's Day: Ronald Reagan wuz the Bestest Evah!!! Day; Memorial Day: War on Religion Day…..I believe we could go on and on….
This guy was never a patch on Al Jolson's ass.
Whole 'nother kinda cantor…
Holy shit Cantor. The other 364 days are "Management" Day.*
*a similar response from my mom when I whined there was no such thing as Kids Day.
The gift of prophecy! http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1965/08/29
Wait, an adult is allowed to speak words in a Peanuts cartoon? My world has crumbled a little.
Wah wah waaaah, wah wah wah-wah waaah.
I wish Eric Cantor would show up at a Labor Day parade in my home town. I'd show him a little appreciation.
How can they be a successful business that they built on their own when they don't have any employees and didn't use any banks or roads or get an education?
This was the same when I was at school back in ye olde England.
We were taught that Roman Emperor Hadrian built Hadrians' Wall; or that Admiral Nelson defeated Napoleon; or that William, Duke of Normandy built the Tower of London in 1078.
All of these are obviously not strictly true…. but where's the fun in retelling the history of the slaves/forced labour that actually DID build the Wall or the Tower or the cannon fodder sailors who defeated Napoleon?
I used to get in trouble all the time at school for pointing out this obvious shorthand to the truth.
That is a new, potentially award-winning bitch face that does not appear in the archives.
He's in his Leona Helmsley phase. Soon he'll go full drag queen.
OMG!
Those two!
Eye bleach, please.
Cantor looks like he wants to sink an icepick into Ryan's neck. Or like a jealous lover.
Yet another reason why I don't still live in New Jersey
Trust me, you don't want someone with that look of perpetual dissatisfaction in charge of your paycheck
"Uccchh!! What is this sweater, CHINESE cashmere?
Boehner does the weeping; Cantor, the gnashing of teeth. It' in the good book.
Memorial Day = Military Industrial Complex Day
Veterans Day = Officers Day
Secretaries Day = Board of Directors Day
Mothers Day = Our Collective Uteri Day
Martin Luther King, Jr Day = Robert E Lee Day. I wish that one wasn't so true around here, but sadly, that's what a lot of the assholes I know do. Blatant Racism is so fucking funny.
I once again call for a celebration covering the entirety of Sherman's March to the Sea.
Can't wait until the next Memorial Day when Rep. Cantor honors all the commanders in chief who bravely sent armies to war.
The image looks like how I imagine vagina dentata.
In this case, "toothy cunt" is pretty accurate
Washington's Birthday – General Cornwallis Day.
Cantor,"The peasants? I love the peasants; I am their leader".PULL! ARrrrg! "Dropped him like a stone."
Your move, Joe Hill.
What a turd. Cantor will give the working class a moment's thought, only if he can charge them time and a half plus meals for thinking about them.
The first thing I thought when I saw that pic was "what a dork!" Then I thought of that alien in "Aliens". They both apply.
What is it with these fucking douchebags???
CANTOR! UNIONS! WE BUILT THIS FUCKING COUNTRY, YOU SLIMY FUCKING THIEVING WEASEL!
Amen.
Where does capital come from?
In America? The banks.
Where do the banks get it? You and I save our paychecks when we can.
Where do we get it? From building this fucking country.
November 6, 2012 penciled in for Eric Cantor Voted out of Office Day.
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, 1984
It doesn't take Derrida to figure this one out: If you do not aspire to own your own business you are a failure. Your participation in a successful business of any size is ancillary at best to that success if you were not a creator/founder/manager of that business.
I specialize in turning companies around when the creator/ founder/ manager are running the company into the ground due to their inept decisions.
There is never one person that makes anything a success.
The one true 'right' any business owner has in America is the right to run his own business into the ground.
Lincoln's Birthday=John Wilkes Booth Day!
Well, I mean, in fairness, for him, Election Day = Miscount the Votes Day
Today we celebrate those selfish fucks who inherited their money from daddy and continue to do every thing they can to avoid paying taxes, screwing the little guy & stymieing the economy by not hiring or spending to get rid of the black guy in the White House. Eric Cantor
Fixed
Veterans Day becomes "Make More Veterans Day".
Memorial Day becomes "Make More Veterans to Memorialize Day".
Arbor Day becomes "Logging Day"
Groundhog Day becomes "Global Warming is a Hoax Day"
Hanukkah becomes "Who Needs to Conserve Oil Week"
Christmas becomes "Stop the War on Coal in Stockings Day"
President's Day becomes "Natural Born Citizens with Long-Form Birth Certificates Whatever the Hell Those Are Day"
Ramadan becomes "Eat Mor Chiken Month"
…
I'd rather have a Cantor snowjob than a Cantor blowjob, is all I'm sayin'……..
He not haz a purdy mouf
True story time. I was out running errands a while back and I passed a man on the sidewalk who from the side, looked like this toadstool. Before I knew it, my fist was balled up and cocked (I know, balls, cocks). Luckily he turned and I could see it wasn't Eric Cantor; owner of the most punchable face in Congress. I almost pretend-belted an innocent stranger! With votes!
"Eric Cantor; owner of the most punchable face in Congress"
Rick Santorum libel!
This pic resembles James Woods in a particularly unhinged role….
Without the Uncle Miltie attributes. Or so I've heard.
So thats what Sean Young saw in him.
Like the one where he's being looked after by top men?
Top. Men.
Hey, those are better than mine….
What a fucking douche bag. On labor day I went to a lecture about the Homestead Steel Strikes in 1892.
You could expand on that if you wanted to. I would be interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
They called in the PA militia in the dead of night to bust the strike. The strikers actually welcomed and planned a parade for the militia, thinking that they would remove pinkertons and stop the blood shed. But the militia was a state run private army for Frick (the Prick) and Andrew Carnegie. I actually grew up in Homestead so it was one of those things they taught you about (pro Union side) in 3rd grade. Then in 5th, then in 7th then in 10th…
Do they still teach it in schools? I thought that in the 80's they started eliminating anything about the labor movement from the history books.
When I lived in Pgh I used to love to go over to Homestead, and eat the Mystery Sandwich at Chiodos (sp?). Look at the old BW photos of Khrushchev driving by Chiodos waving, etc.
There was a house along the road running along the river with a plaque in front of it, stating that the house had been where the union leadership had holed out to get wireless messages about what was going on at the front lines. Every other house on the block had been torn down, but thank God they kept that one standing as a memorial.
The bitch of it is it's now a giant outdoor mall where the strike took place. Not one union job there.
Funny you should say that – in fact, Eric Cantor is planning to introduce a bill to rename Labor day in honor of the heros of the Homestead Strike.
It will be called "Pinkerton's Day".
I found that we were crossing the Homestead High Level Bridge on early Saturday morning 07/04/92 a hundred years and a few days short of the Pinkerton assault. I almost caused a traffic accident as I had to come to a screeching halt to get in the lane to go down to the old J&L works under the bridge. Although my son was only 4 the following Monday I brought him down to the closed Carnegie Works and walked for several miles along the river. One of the events I will always remember. He doesn't
Twatwaffles are offended by him.
jesus christ jim some of us are still recovering from the weekend.
"Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success."
So, NOT Eric Cantor and his colleagues then.
Grimley Lives!
Eric loves businessmen so much he will now bare his teeth and show us how to bite the head off a real live worker. Dick.
Labor Day="Someone best get in the kitchen and bring me a beer and a sammich" Day.
Republican glossary:
Cupidity = Success
Risk = Federal contracts, Small Business Administration Loans, Tax Breaks
Worked Hard = Union-busting, low wages, uncompensated overtime, illegal immigrant labor
Built A Business = Stashed cash offshore
Earned Their Own Success = Hired lobbyists, funded crypto-fascist politician's campaigns, spent millions on Super PACS
Labor Day = Capitalism Day
Not John Lennon's Working Class Hero
As soon as you're born you make them feel tall
By giving them the time and doing your all
Till the Koch is so big you feel nothing at all
A management lackey is nothing to be
You hurt them at home and you hit them at school
They hate you cause you're a kiss ass and not cause you're cool
That you're so fucking deluded you ignore the rules
A management lackey is nothing to be
When you've sucked and kissed Koch for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to whore as a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A management lackey is nothing to be
as annoying as i often find my fellow citizens, i'm not sure america really deserves eric cantor.
Wow, what a cool photo of Eric Cantor… but I gotta ask…. since when did science get around to breeding Jeff Goldblum with a donkey.
I never noticed. All he needs is a straw hat and a pull cart and he could be Algebra from the old Our Gang movies.
OMG! He's MUSLIM!
Totally see Jeff Goldblum in there, good call! He's even got the fly eyes.
I was going with David Tenant.
He's much better-looking and much more intelligent than Eric Cantor.
So is Jeff Goldblum.
Poor Eric can't be expected to get much right with his nose buried so very far up so very many arses.
Just be glad we do not celebrate Boxing Day or Cantor would require all servants to hock their meager personal possessions to by annual gifts for their betters.
Boxing Day = Day Cantor gets to beat up the help
Dear Eric,
You literally could not be more wrong about who Labor Day is meant to honor. You evil shitbag.
But Fox News is right on top of this War on Labor Day? Right?
Every fucking day is Bosses day. But thats not good enough, they have to get catty about the one fucking token labor day out of the 365 when you're supposed to at least pretend to honor the workers.
And not only that, there is a Bosses Day, which is on October 16….wtf.
You need to get that hammer and sickle tat and be done with this.
Honoring management on Labor Day is like thanking Dick Cheney and Karl Rove on Memorial Day.
Photo need fangs — Cantor, you can suck up all you want, but you'll always be, "our pet Jew" to your GOP cohorts. How about we change Labor Day to "Speed Up Production Line Day", and mandate overtime for the first Monday of September? Asshole.
Pet Jew and Young Gun, also. (they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, I know)
ETA: forgot to put quotation marks around "Young.."
"Cantor, you can suck up all you want, but you'll always be, "our pet Jew" to your GOP cohorts"
"I once knew a man named Aaron Eisenberg. He changed his name to Erik Colton. Nothing ever became of him." — Dorothy Parker
Hey whatever happened with that thing when Sean Young was stalking him?
Here's one for Eric:
Passover = commemorating the Passion of our Lord and Savoir.
Will there be Tuna and Pasta at the Thanksgiving murder bomb day?
Someone (I wish I could find a link) Tweeted in response to Cantor: "Today we don't honor Carnegie, we honor the men who fell into the molten steel".
[Though Cantor might point out that this is quite unfair. Carnegie took a risk setting up those steel plants. He might have lost some money. The moochers who worked for him didn't risk anything, except death, blindness, and loss of limbs.]
you know who doesn't work hard and take risks? coal miners. fuck em
They didn't built it!!!!!111!!!!
Makes sense to me-think about how many bosses and entrepreneurs gave their lives fighting for capitalism.
This asshole has just figured out that there are a lot of dumb white pieces of trash who mistrust unions and who figure themselves as the next Donald Trump ("Joe" the "Plumber" types). If you are going to get 67% of the white vote and capture the white house, you need to get as many ignorant white fucks as possible. Probably the same idiots who fear unions are the same idiots who fear sharia law, for the same reason.
Illiterati? Check
Religious bigots? Working on it
Non union low wage workers? Working on it
Tea Tards? Check
In related news, Todd Akin is working with Hallmark on a new line of Mother's Day cards for non-forcibly raped women.
No, those cards are for the rapists.
"Jesus thanks you, and I thank you, for making another Mother's Day possible!"
The cards for the mothers just say "We built that"
Somewhere a horse is missing a set of teeth. And screw you, Cantor, like you ever took a risk in your entire life.
On Valentine's Day, the GOP will be celebrating "Closeted Gay Hookup Day," as usual.
Easter: Jews-Turned-Christians-Can-Flip-Off-The-Jews-Day.
9/11 Day however will remain intact.
Let's all chip in and by Eric a dictionary, so that he can look up the term "labor".
At least this explains his understanding of how tax cuts affect revenue.
"Just lose, baby"!
[twisted reference for teh oldz. ]
You all realize that the other 364 days are Idle Rich Day.
How about a holiday where you celebrate by grunting, watching NASCAR and shopping at Wal-mart???
April Fool's Day = Eric Cantor Day
I won't call Mr. Cantor a pile of monkey feces for his little diatribe about Labor Day but just remind him that the soft supple flesh of management burns quite well when labor gets out the torches and pitchforks.
It's time we create a new holiday to honor these brave, patriotic job creators. I mean this is America nad we have a holiday to honor the filthy pig-libtards and their blasphemous unions. March-April could use a federal holiday. I propose the last Monday in March as "Job Creators Day." Let's celebrate and cherish these fine patriots and their brave attempts to evade paying taxes at all cost. AMERICA!
He looks exactly like he's about to sink those choppers into a jugular vein.
And every Sunday would be "Jeezuzz Loves Jeezuzz Loving Americans Day."
That was so unnecessary. And crass. And mean-spirited. And wrong.
Christ, what an asshole.
Facial expression of a drag queen if ever there was one. Erika Cantswallow was her stage name I believe.
That picture! I always wondered what the creatures in Alien would look like if someone flipped on the lights.
I've never had an ounce of anti-Semitism in my life, but this asshole could change all that single-handedly.
This Cantor bitch is looking mighty fugly these days. The only hottie is Pauly (bend over America) Ryan, but he's also a nut job and gov'met hater…even though he's only ever worked for dah gov'met.
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