It starts out fairly anodyne — Ol’ Miffed Romney talking to his base. (Not “the” base of uncouth teatards, his base of Lehmann Bros. execs or the like.) But very soon, he becomes … what is the word? Unhinged? Yes, unhinged. Because people think they are “entitled” to not starve in the streets of America. Really, listen to the snarl. It’s … it’s fucking gross, actually. Has a candidate for American president ever spoken about his subjects the voters with such repulsion? (He goes on to say he will NEVER be able to make the 47 percent of us who are too poor to pay income taxes into anything other than shit-slime, but it’s that first sneer that really digs into your brain like “Call Me Maybe” or something. Whether or not he ever bothered to pay his own, of course, is still anyone’s guess.) Seeeeriously offputting video, after the jump!
Who else loves the American people as much as Miffed Romney?
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Fuck you Mitt Romney. I pay plenty of taxes with civic pride. You wouldn't understand.
If Harry Ried is right, Mitt is part of the 47-48 percent that pays no taxes. Ergo, he ought to be voting for Obama, too.
We pay plenty of taxes, aren't on welfare and we're voting for Obama. And there are plenty more where we come from.
I'm simmering on a low boil right now. This is seriously Romney's "whitey moment".
I can't snark about it, just can't.
It's hard to be snarky while feeling very stabby.
Sure you can. It is just hard to when you want to reach through the intertubes and smack the smirk off his face.
It's weird that this is being compared to something that Michelle Obama was libeled with, but never ever said. The actual, non-lie comparison would be Barack Obama saying that certain people cling to their guns and religions because they don't see any solutions in anything else. The big difference is that Obama, even in that statement, did not exude the very specific and very well-explained contempt that Romney did.
I'm stunned.
I want to cry.
And then I'm gonna get really mad, and send Obama a donation.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for Mitt Romney no matter what…there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to bailouts, to tax breaks, to deregulation."
/fixed
/OBAMA 2012!
As a single person without kids who claims "1" on their deductions, I am tired of supporting fucks like RMoney who don't pay their fair share. Get a job Mittens, your capital is getting tired of supporting you.
This is his, "Whitey, Kill" moment.
More like his "clinging to guns and religion" moment
More like "just an average day on the campaign trail."
This is, indeed, his "I'm still voting for the white guy" moment.
Except Barry was accurate–there are people who cling to guns & religion out of fear/ignorance/whatever. Romney is saying half the American population are moochers & free loaders. Colossal dick weed.
I have more problem with people who believe they are "entitled" to use Swiss bank accounts to evade US taxes.
Seriously, what a dick. He has no concept of who pays what in taxes, and probably doesn't know that his sainted Reagan scrapped income taxes on the lowest earners to save money (!). Clearly, he doesn't know what the lazy 47% do pay in taxes.
Now I hate him with the heat of a thousand Joseph Smith lynchings.
Mormons: America's trailer trash before we had trailers.
Rmoney thinks that $250K a year income is middle class. Maybe in his world, but not in ours.
Willard cares deeply about the middle class as he defines it, not the middle class as we might want or wish him to define it.
Which may be the most plausible explanation for why Romney refuses to show his tax returns in public…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/21/mitts-big-…
Thanks for this posting; it more concisely summarizes the situation than most articles on this topic.
But the bottom line is that he pays considerable less taxes than middle class (I am thinking in the $50 to 150K range) salary and wage earners who PAY TWICE AS MUCH or more than RMoney because of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and freedomz.
And I am not apologizing for the cappy thing.
RATES, always remember we're talking about rates, not dollar amounts.
So Twitt thinks I am a loser because I don't make enough money and don't pay enough in taxes? Calling the pot black (LMAO) is not a good strategy for the kettle. The issues of HIS tax returns and how much tax HE pays, which have been dormant, now are revived.
Hey, if it worked for the Nazi's…
I really want, during the debates, for Obama to ask him how he can claim to love America but keep his money off shore to lower his tax liability.
It would be even cooler if an audience member during a town hall called him unpatriotic for doing so.
Rebecca, you just want me to leave work early and throw myself into a tub of Vodka, don't you????? No worries, it has been that kind of day already.
Yes, please and pics also.
LOL. LL, it won't be pretty, believe me.
Just call me “Curious in NYC”.
I hear it works as a skin treatment too. Is there nothing Vodka can't fix?
I have a friend who uses it to clean his computer screen, but then he's an alcoholic.
Well, that is just a waste then. I mean, what he uses up on the screen.
Vodka and duct tape fix everything.
real men use Gaffers tape, Duct tape is for amateurs
Argue semantics all you want, I STILL say Rock'n'Roll didn't exist until there was gaffers tape, and didn't hit the garage until it was called duct tape.
Drink a couple of vodkas to CELEBRATE. This is going to kill Mittens.
It's surprising: I actually AM capable of loathing him more than I did 20 minutes ago.
Day's not over yet.
He made me stabby.
With votes, right?
Oh yes, a whole icepick full of votes.
But, do you loathe him more than you did four years ago? Oh, wait…….
They are teasing a part 2.
It's been a long 20 minutes.
And loathe him as much or more than Cheney, Bush 43, et al. Did not think it possible.
Dunno…Cheney & his devil offspring (the non-gay one) are vile, loathsome creatures. Them & Romney are like a 3-headed hydra.
I'm hoping this is Mittbot's "helmet in a tank hatch / spandex windsurfing outfit / supermarket scanner puzzlement" moment.
Oh my God. People think they are entitled to food! Are there no workhouses?
Let them eat cake!
Let them eat snake, fuckers.
Let them eat roadkill squirrel!
A few years ago -there was a squirrel eating warning- saying the brains could give you something like mad cow. It seems that squirrel is good eating- or so I was told at the Atlanta drinky thing.
Yeah, I had a cat once who dragged flattened squirrels from the street in front of the house, up onto the porch, and then looked around like, hey, look what I killed. Reminds me of Bush's Mission Accomplished moment every time I think about it.
The cake is a lie! Like Mitt's tax returns!
"If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
Just don't expect to be buried by the government.
No problema. I think somebody else goose stepped their way to a final solution of that whole burial issue.
Soylent Green is entitlements!
"And die in my back yards (one of several) so that I can use their bodies for fresh food, if not for me then at least for my servants. No sense in wasting the poorz.."
Unbelieveably stupid fuck.
When do we bring back debtor's prison?
for rich people- it is called Allenwood low security
Stupid libtards–the Constitution does not include a right to free air.
Oddly enough, it mentions phlogiston once or twice.
Let them eat bootstraps.
(Sorry. I'm gonna keep saying this till somebody quotes me.)
As AncienReggie said —
"Let them eat bootstraps"
Too soon? It's a great line, I just haven't found a better spot to steal it yet. :)
Oh yes, please let me vote for the guy who thinks that I am lazy and ignorant!
I love how it cuts on 'whether they like the guy or not.'
Gosh, Mitt, I think a lot of people are figuring out they don't like you.
Coming from a guy who relies so heavily on ignorant voters, that is pretty rich.
I don't have a problem with Mittens believing this, if he'd only OWN IT in his campaigning and advertising. But I guess that's my beef with all Republicans.
Beef? Did you say beef? I'd love some of that but Rmoney's just gonna take it away from me
Ron Paul, crazy as his is, is one of the few Republicans who actually campaigns on most of his actual views. Well, except his views on minorities and being rady to run for the border.
Isn't Romney one of those people who don't pay income taxes?
True story. I gratefully enjoyed a windfall this year, and this year alone, and had to pay 36% on it, which is MORE THAN TWICE what this jerk pays. I normally fall in the most median of median incomes, and more than five times below Rmoney's "$250,000 middle-class income." Now who is the welfare cheat?
Well, it is your own fault for not taking proper precautions in case you should one day have a windfall and not have some kind of tax shelter already in place. You aren't just automatically entitled to not pay taxes, you know.
ETA: congrats on your windfall. I wish you many many more.
Don't expect him to complain about his own 47% of the 1%.
3,000 fraction-of-one-percenters earned over $two mil in 2011 and paid zero federal taxes due to capital gains and tax-loss carry forward. Mitt thinks that shit is great.
Under the Rayn plan, the 1% would pay 1% of their income in taxes. How fukkin' quaint!
OBJECTION!! Paris Hilton absolutely loves the American people, or at least, a very large number of them, both individually and in group sessions.
Well…she did agree to play a role in "Repo!: The Genetic Opera," where she portrayed a shallow and sociopathic heiress who is a failed actress and has a sadoerotic fixation on plastic surgery. So honestly to her credit I'd say she probably has thousands of times more self-awareness than Mittens.
If the rumors are to be believed (probably) she is also absurdly racist.
Then again, Mitt Romney is an actual influencial figure who panders to racists for political cachet, which is just as bad in practical terms.
But, but some of her best bootycalls are black!
Pretty sure you're thinking of Kim K.
Not that I blame you. They* all look the same to me, too.
*That is to say, heiresses who are mostly famous for being rich and also having sex on video.
"but it’s that first sneer that really digs into your brain like “Call Me Maybe” or something."
Why did you have to do this to us? Ugh now it'll be stuck in my head for hours.
Don't know if this will help or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCOC1YwNwZw
No, no it does not; and in fact for showing that I think I must link to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anzzNp8HlVQ
Damn. Way too many Lion's Club dances just came back up.
Well, i could do worse; I could link to someone singing about Friday, Friday,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=OzOaLvwrb…
Does he really believe that the government provides food, housing and healthcare for half of the population? And that the only reason people vote for Obama is to keep all the freebies? And how does he explain that all the Obama-loving blue states are the wealthiest ones?
Meanwhile, the single biggest accepter of government aid is Rmoney's BFF: corporations.
"Does he really believe that the government provides food, housing and healthcare for half of the population?"
No, Romney doesn't believe that. But he'll pretend like he does because so many republican voters believe it.
I think he does. Because Mittens' politics and policies are entirely predicated on maximizing his own self interest and preserving the prerogatives of wealth and privilege, he is incapable of imagining that others might see things differently and vote according to their conscience rather than their wallet.
I think the free abortions must be declared as income, or something, for what that's worth.
Pretty sure he's counting people in jail.
Wait, you mean I can get those for FREE?! Those con-artists have been charging me a dollar each time!
The government does support a huge number of people, but they're actually defense contractors and not welfare recipients.
And people call me "angry" and "reptilian"
Even covered with dung, you would be a more compassionate human being than Romney!
Ew.
You mentioned Romney.
I think that has more to do with your scaly skin, though.
Dermatitis. It's a curse.
That's outrageous. There's nothing angry about you.
David Icke on line three.
I've had some severe (lol) differences with you, but you, my friend, are no Mitt Romney, and thank Space Allah for that.
Oh I didn't mean you guys…well, maybe the reptilian I've seen here…but I've been called a rattlesnake by other, less polite bloggers.
Oh who am I kidding? This place? Polite?
We mean it in a loving and supportive way.
Yes, we are mean in a loving and supportive way.
Thus spake Godzilla.
And suddenly, Kashmir by P Diddy is now playing in my head.
I could do worse, I suppose…
Out of boredom, I caught the last 20 minutes of Godzilla on TV the other night, with that song playing over the closing credits. What a lousy piece of graffiti over a great song. "Unh-hunh. Yay-uh." I can't believe P Diddy got Jimmy Page to participate in playing that on SNL, but Jimmy doesn't seem to have is brain engaged at all times.
It's a pity he sobered up.
Somewhere in that room is a Chanel-clad trophy wife surprised to hear that 47% of Americans are black.
And the truth is white poor Repugnicants are a large part of the 47%, and adding in all the subsidy programs, that's a lot of Whitey (R-Welfare).
The hungry and sick are people, too, Mitt.
But, are they entitled?
Well, if we need lessons on being entitled, Mitt's got the expertise.
Yes, they are. They are entitled to die in the streets.
Probably not on rich peoples' streets, though.
Yes, illegimately so. The American body just doesn't know how to shut it down.
The sick hungry corporations are people. The hungry sick people don't have any ID and will be turned away at the polls.
Mitt will thank them (poorz with no healthcare etc..) not to die in place where he might have to step over them. What an asshole.
Give me your corporations, your rich,
Your huddled masses of housing derivatives yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your 47% non-tax-paying scum.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed back out to sea,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door but only for the 1%ers!"
Not our kind of people, though.
Are there no poorhouses? No? Well, let the hungry and sick build their own damn poorhouses, then! They can borrow money from their parents if they have to.
Well-groomed colostomy bag Mitt Romney was forced to call half of Americans shiftless layabouts by Bams' "class warfare."
Forced into it, he was.
"Well-groomed colostomy bag" is perhaps the best description of this vile organism I've yet heard. Cheers.
The people too lazy to:
not get sick
not get maimed in war
not get old
not lose their job
not be born to a CEO of American Motors
can vote for that Kenyan – Mitt doesn't want your vote!
Just don't forget your ID cards (sneer and snicker).
Mitt Romney's not going to waste his time worrying about the happiness and welfare of the 49% who pay no Federal Income Taxes because they're too poor. He's far more concerned about ensuring the happiness and welfare of the .01% who pay no Federal Income Taxes because they're too rich.
Because they are not rich enough, yet.
Mitt Romney really has no idea why he wants to be president of you people. Which is the only thing I have in common with Mitt Romney.
Mitt's Dad was rich, then served the people. Mitt is rich, too, thanks to Dad. Dad is dead; Mitt wants to honor Dad.
Important difference: Mitt's Dad was a politician because he wanted to serve the people; Mitt is a politician because he wants to honor his Dad.
Do all Presidents and/or candidates for the Presidency have daddy issues? Gah!
Romney, Bush II and Gore all had politician fathers they were trying to live up to, while Clinton and Obama both never knew their fathers, with one absent and the other dead; so sources say yes.
I guess this could explain why I never got into politics, even though, like my dad, I'm peripherally interested in it. My dad (like me, after him) was too busy making music, having fun and playing outside with his family.
Mitt is a politician because he wants to
honorprove that he's better than his DadDidn't he say once that anyone who pays as much in taxes as his dad did on all of his wealth didn't really deserve to be President, because of incompetence? That was sorta weird.
Very weird. And no, Mitt, someone who is rich yet pays as little in taxes as you do does not deserve to be President, because it means that you are an anti-patriot that hates America.
Really??
I don't know that he wants to honor his dad — and if he does, this is a horrible way to go about it — more that he's ambitious for its own sake and president is the next rung up, so he figures that's where he has to get.
Maybe it's not pathological, but it's certainly without any drive to make the country better or to right any wrongs or to accomplish anything beyond a personal goal. Which is a huge difference between himself and President Obama — he wanted to fix stuff. Mitt just wants to be president — the agenda will take care of itself once he's in office.
Zactly.. He thinks he should be president because he's Mitt , and it's his rightful place in the universe. Something to do with some Mormon prophecy as well, I believe.
I'm suspecting it has more to do with a Mayan prophecy, if it has anything to do with any kind of prophecy.
Considering how cluelessly entitled he acts, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if deep inside he thinks he is to be the embodiment of the White Horse Prophecy.
A lot of Mormons are just take-care-of-our-in-group xtian-lite, but some of them are serious about the theology, and seriously crazy.
If Willard knows he can't win 47 percent of the nation, why doesn't he just use this as his stump speech? Sounds like a winner to me, said nobody.
This would be where Obama looks over at Romney and asks, "How am I
losingnot blowing this asshole out of the water?"Sucks to be an intelligent black communist Muslim in America.
The real question is: how is it that someone can hear these statements by Romney DIRECTED AT THEM, and still vote for him? Because plenty will, and there's something wrong with them.
Well, you see, unlike those LAZY people, they only use government benefits because they NEED them.
Ah, you just described my mother.
That's it exactly.
This campaign has gone about as far as it can on racist sentiments.
It's a phenomena, no doubt about it. The basic fact is these people view the world entirely in abstracts. This and one other reason makes sense to me as to why they vote Republican. To them, Mitt Romney isn't talking to THEM, they are part of the "good guys". He's talking about lazy black people, lazy hispanics, lazy women, etc who "want things" from the government. Therefore they will argue that it doesn't matter if they have health insurance or not because if the government OFFERS it to them that's offensive. I have actually heard right wingers make this argument before. To them, letting the rich have every god damn thing they want is good because taxation is theft and rich people are victims. This sort of logic has many, many holes in it but it explains how idiot poor honkies vote GOP. The other is religious: authoritarianism. If their pastor says so, that's what they believe, end of story.
"To them, Mitt Romney isn't talking to THEM, they are part of the "good guys". He's talking about lazy black people, lazy hispanics, lazy women, etc who "want things" from the government."
"I wasn't talking about Joe. Joe's a good guy… his kids are nice… I didn't mean him. I meant the OTHER n*****s — the ones who are making all the trouble." — stupid people who have somehow mastered the ability to rationalize
"how is it that someone can hear these statements by Romney DIRECTED AT THEM, and still vote for him?"
The peasants weren't supposed to hear this. I'm sending the YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnB0NZzl5HA to everybody I know.
True, but they did hear it, and you can bet they still will vote for Romney. Some of them will even say that he was right even though they know it was directed at them!
They'll vote for their candidate, "no matter what"? Horrors!
Yes. there is something wrong with them, it's called racism
You forgot, Kenyan.
Y'know, the Obama camp said they had a few tricks up their sleeve to roll out in the fall.
Just think: this is the FIRST one. What's next? Video of Mitt bathing in babby blood from poor children?
{don't do it, don't do it}… BLOOD LIBEL!!
And you showed such restraint, too.
Don't worry, em. We know you tried.
No, it's been long enough that it's funny again. By the way…I miss that goofy hardhat with lamp eyes robotic bastard…we need the terror bot to explain and understand the RBot…especially when he's speaking binary.
Or drinking the tears of hungry orphans.
I'm counting seconds until Nov 6th.
I'll take the firsts, then.
I call shotgun.
As long as Mitt comes in second…
I'm counting the second till October 3. I cannot wait for the debates.
Oh we get your tax policy mr. $omneys. Mine go up and yours go down. Even us below 47% can understand that!
Really, are we soooooo stupid that we don't understand that there are a fucktillion of other taxes and fees besides Federal Income tax???
Yes, there are really people so stupid they believe that.
And no matter how many times they're given the facts they're still going to believe that half the country (basically the non-white half) is living it up on everyone else's dime.
Wha??? Other taxes. Whatsa fees?
This. This this this this this. The idea that the ONLY taxes are federal taxes. That noone ever seems to point out that when federal taxes go down, or are blockgranted, then LOCAL taxes go up, and yes this includes on renters who pay property taxes through their rent. And yes, I'm in Cook County IL where we pay fucking 11+% in sales tax because these fuckers keep starving the big black democratic cities.
I just added 'fucktillion' to my lexicon.
That was pretty what I thought he'd say behind closed doors except stupider.
Yeah seriously: "Before the campaign even begins, I'm starting 47-49 points down on my rival, and the only way for me to actually pull this thing off is to secure the allegiance of 98% of voters who filled out a 1040."
What a way to make people excited about your prospects of winning the presidency!
I always thought his campaign was idiotic but that HE was smarter than that. I stand corrected.
Well, he's not smarter than a hidden microphone.
…or at least to figure out that if you are giving a speech to a large group of people there is likely to be one somewhere in the room.
ISWYDT
This. There are no "secret" mics at these kind of events, anymore. This is not something he told his wife over the phone in confidence.
How does he not see the videocamera recording the entire fucking thing? There's like four or five parts in this report alone, with a promise of more to come. The cam's not shaky (like an O'Keefe joint) so the thing was on a tripod or something, and the focus on Romney is too clear for it to be an iPhone or something like that.
I'll bet that room was pretty quiet after that. Unless they edited out the thundering crescendo of By Joves and Quite Rights. Hup hup, huzzah! To the Tsar!
Romney: Gentlemen?
All: To evil!
*clinking brandy glasses*
you may be coming in too late to get the up votes you deserve on this. but I gotta tell you, this made me spit out my coffee.
Romney can't win without convincing some Obama voters to vote for him instead.
This video should do the trick.
Oh and Mitt? I'd like to see your tax returns just to satisfy myself that you have indeed paid income tax. I know you haven't paid FICA or Medicare taxes — those are for the little people — but I'd like to know if you are one of the so-called 48% who don't pay income taxes. Thanks.
Or possibly keeping even more Obama voters from voting in the first place!! Let's call that, "Plan A".
"And that's just what Obama starts off with! Christ, think about the thoughtful, the intellectuals, the well meaning, the givers, the ….well, just think of the uphill battle I have to drag this cross up for you one-per centers, it makes me sick!…."
"…You had goddamn better make it worth my while."
And yes, people are fucking entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. And the government should give it to them. That's the government's most basic fucking job, you sniveling prick. To somehow suggest that the government should not provide its' most basic services, the main reason to have a government in the first place, shows that you should be allowed nowhere near any position of government power, shit-for-brains.
Do you get the sense that in school his sons wrote in: "anyone but my dad" in the nurses office for their emergency contact.
Since she's even more entitled and vicious than he is they probably wrote off their mom too.
I wonder if the horse took their calls. I hope it did, as I don't want to hate horses too.
"I wonder if the horse took their calls."
Nay.
Emergency Contact:
Consuela Ramirez
hehe
But don't expect her to answer. Leave a message and she'll call you back muy rapido.
so that's where Tagg/Tart/Titt Romney learned his Spanish.
More likely they listed their gardener as such.
Barb, I am not a shrink, but I wonder if Mitt would be a bit more human if he had at least one daughter in that brood?
I was wondering about family dynamics. From George Romney's Wikipedia entry :
Interesting – he's the youngest child and the only one to fall into the baby boom demographic.
Ah, I get it now. I am a center-middle. He is the last-baby.
Paul Ryan was a youngest kid too.
"LaFount"???
We like Presidents with daughters. It is humanizing. Even for W.
I don't really remember W interacting or appearing with his daughters at all. Of course, that could be just because I held him in such contempt, I never watched either of his victory parties.
Probably. I must display my non-dramatic insider knowledge: Somebody I know who was friends with Romney's sons said old Mittster was never around for any family events.
Don't hold back SorosBot. Tell us what you really think. (Also, please have my babies)
Thanks, though I think my girlfriend might have a problem with that last part.
I think your lack of a uterus might also object.
There is a documented case or two of women without uteri carrying a child(really bad endometriosis ). Just make sure your obstetrician does cesareans, boys.
Recognize this sort of argument? I do, but it's a complete turn around from an old Marxist argument: the producer vs. the parasite. Now of course Marx when making this argument was referring to workers as producers because they uh…make things. Managers on the other hands were parasites because they extracted value from what others make while making nothing themselves. Thomas Frank I think brilliantly demonstrated how this argument has been co-opted in "What's the Matter with Kansas" as part and parcel how a fire-breathing socialist state became SO right wing. Essentially these assholes now say the manager is the producers because uh…something about risk or another and workers are parasites. This also goes into 'we built that!' and other shitbag 'individualist' credos….amazing isn't it?
So, are you Kenyan, too, you Marxist dialectical materialism apologist?
I look forward to Dinesh D'Souza's next book: "What's the Matter with Kenya?"
Good point, that's exactly the backwards argument they make. My quibble with Frank is that Kansas is not a model of populist behavior. It went for the non-Republican candidate for President only twice between 1860 and 1900–in 1892 it went for Weaver of the People's Party and in 1896, of course, WJ Bryan, the Democrat. Since 1900, over more than 25 general elections, it gave its electoral votes to Democrats Wilson (twice), FDR (just twice) and Johnson (once). So while the point is a good one in terms of right-wing populist appeal, I just don't think Kansas is the best example.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of
sciencesocialism?(Honestly, though: Fanfuckingtastic comment. I'd upfist you a dozen times if it'd let me.)
I love you forever for this. In a platonic way!
Yes, because there is a 100% employment rate (with good salaries) for white men living in rural areas. The 47% of people who don't earn enough to pay income tax all must be urban, female and black, right?
You know, before this video, I thought Mitt was probably just a nice guy pandering to the loony base of the Republicans. Turns out he's just a full-on douche-canoe. Well done, Mitt, well done.
Last guys don't finish nice. Anybody got the odds on when he's gonna start throwing around the N word?
I don't know if Mormons drop N-bombs. Snowbillies, sure… but Mormons? That would fuck with my view of Mormons worse than Orgazmo did.
"when he's gonna start throwing around the N word?"
Or when he's gonna get caught on tape throwing around the N word.
Urban, female, and black here. (And also employed and tax-paying…. oooo) Mittens has less of a chance of getting my vote than fuckin' McCain, and I'm practically a socialist. I didn't think there was a continuum of "men I would unvote for so fucking hard" but, tonight, I realized there is.
I raise my half-drained glass to you, and will be stealing "douche-canoe". /bullhornblackdynamite
Reason 304 why I like the wonkete. I couldn't ever have guessed you were female or black or anything else. S'beautiful.
I just sorta figured that Chuckie was an evil doll.
Y-y-you mean you're NOT that Japanese Liberace guy with the bell pepper?
Pssst…Mittens, most red states have more people receiving welfare and not paying taxes than blue ones do. Also, too, your good buddy L'il Ricky Santorum says that highly educated elites are NEVER Republicans, because apparently WE'RE evil, too! So am I to gather that I'm an ivy leaguer with a post graduate degree, but I don't pay taxes or work? Cause that doesn't really make much sense….
Or it would if I were a Republican who retroactively retired from an "investment" firm funded by blood money….
Oh, silly. There you go with facts again. This is the Republican Party, where facts don't matter and 99% of us lose.
In fairness he essentially only said, "God damn 47% of America.."
I know, right? That's LESS THAN HALF.
Actually what he said was FUCK 47% of America but he said said it in Mormonspeak.
I think I heard a dog-whistle.
That wasn't a whistle. More like a siren.
Not only is he snarling, but he mixes in whining — "the President starts out with 49%." Again, proving my theory that these psychopaths swing seamlessly from bully to victim to bully…
I'll admit it: The government makes the payments on my Maserati and 7,000 sq foot beach house. All I had to do was go to the Department of Human Services, tell them I voted for Obama, and sign an affidavit promising not to work for 4 years.
But you did have to agree to ONLY eat The Government Cheese, right?
True. Their selection of aged brie is TERRIBLE.
Dammit. Where do we get cedar cheese?
And cakes we like?
I'll admit it: The government makes the payments on my Maserati and 7,000 sq foot beach house.
So that's your car? Well, I'll be damned…. we must be neighbors.
Oh, and BTW, James O'Keefe: eat your fucking heart out.
Nice.
Bwahahahahaha!!!!!
The first honest statement to come from the man. If only he would just own it and say it more often. America should hear what the Republican take on the world is, straight, pure and to the point. Maybe a few more folks might realize they're being played for suckers by the bastards.
I keep reading that Conservatives' advice is for Mittens to be specific about these daring 'Republican ideas.' Well, wish granted.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
…and kick 'em in their freeloadin' balls!
-Mitt Romney
The reality is, if we were intoduced to them individually, we would all hate about 49% of Americans. Still, if you want to be president you have to at least pretend.
You have a point. I've never been introduced to Mitt Romney, and I already hate him and everyone he's ever claimed as a friend.
I hate everybody.
"The reality is, if we were intoduced to them individually, we would all hate about 49% of Americans"
True, but I would probably hate them for reasons unrelated to their not paying taxes.
I already hate the ones who are voting for Romney.
Also have to say I had to check the 46% figure. Despite many of years of working with/for the poors, I had no idea the number of households too poor to pay income tax was that high. We should really do something about income inequality in this country.
I think that number has gone up to the high forties the last few years because of a) the recession and b) we have so many credits and deductions in the tax code now. But someone around here probably knows a lot more about these matters than I do.
the percentage is normally about 35-37%, 47% was an anomaly thanks to the great recession. It also includes retirees, students and people on disability who have to file for various reasons. When you get right down to it, most people pay income tax and they all pay FICA if they work. And we can thank that serious soshalust Ronald Reagan for the earned income tax credit
And everybody pays sales tax.
A large percentage of that 47%– not sure precisely how big– is from people who work and have taxes withheld that are reimbursed through the Child Care Credit, effectively cancelling their withholdings.
You know, single moms who have to support a babby…This is who Mitt hates with a passion.
I found that shocking, as well. Since graduating from college, I've only ever had two years where I didn't have to pay federal income tax. One year, I was unemployed, and the other year, I was living abroad. Even my incredibly shitty salary right after college was taxed at at least 15%.
Thank you, Mittens, for lowering my already incredibly fucking low regard for humanity. You are proof that god doesn't exist.
Ugh, this guy makes me sick to my stomach. But what makes me even more ill are the number of the so-called 47% who are going to vote for this bastard anyway, just because he's white.
And because they don't realize that they're a member of the 47% that Romney is talking about. In fact, considering how much they pay in SS taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and other fees, most members of this 47% probably have no idea they're members of this 47%.
But what makes me even more ill are the number of the so-called 47% who are going to vote for this bastard anyway, just because he's white.
Comment made to me by a French friend recently: "Why isn't President Obama winning by a landslide already? It has to be because he's black, surely?".
Why yes it is, Valérie.
Dear Mittens:
Although for many years I was indeed too poor to owe income tax, please be assured that during that time I still paid plenty in sales taxes (which as a business man who is an alleged knower of math should know, they are a bigger hit to poors than non-poors such as yourself, assuming you don't just live off gifts and graft that is), not to mention the sin taxes on my precious smokes (you're welcome, schoolchildren).
In conclusion, blow me.
Signed,
Jerri
Easy, that'd be Paris Hilton. Another Eastwood liberal…
Christ, what an asshole.
Something tells me Christ would want nothing to do with him.
Even Muscular Christ?
Muscular Christ would slap Mitt twice, tell him to quit whining, and then make him do 20 push-ups.
You could gather any 47 poor people, combine their tax outlays, and in any year they paid more taxes in gas, cigarettes, alcohol, property, sales taxes, Social Security and employment than Mitt Romney paid out in any year.
Rmoney made something like $15 million dollars for doing NOTHING. That''s just the dividends on his investments for doing NOTHING!
When did doing fukkin' NOTHING become more valuable than actually working?
He goes on to say he will NEVER be able to make the 47 percent of us who are too poor to pay income taxes into anything other than shit-slime
He, um, does realize that about 23% of these folks are the rural rednecks, aka his other base?
2/3rds of that 47% pay payroll taxes (and thus still probably pay more of their income in federal taxes than Rmoney). More than half of the remainder are elderly, and have no income.
Except for their Social Security checks, which were, you know, their money to begin with.
Yeah umm… I think he forgot all those red states that suck up the highest % of returning federal tax dollars (ie welfare). Oops. Who is left to vote for him?
23%: The other, other white meat.
Mitt thinks I support Obama because I don't pay taxes, but I do patriotically pay my fair share.
You know who does support Mitt? My Mom. She's retired now. She's one of the 47% Mitt thinks will only vote for Obama. I better fill her in on these new rules.
Retired? You mean L A Z Y. Mitt probably couldn't beat personal responsibility into her with switch.
My dad too. Loves Romney. Is totally against entitlements….except of course his Medicare, Social Security, and the fact that he can claim Homestead Exemption on his house and, and, and.
And Mittens, 1.5% of those not paying taxes earn over a million a year. They must be too busy creating jerbz one must guess.
Says the man who's never been hungry a day in his life. Well, except that one time the mailman was 10 minutes late delivering his stock sale check, and Mitt's stomach growled and he thought he was having a heart attack. Luckily, a little chateaubriand fixed that right up.
Drunk off of the ironing board, right?
Chateaubriand is not a wine, but rather a type of double-thick tenderloin steak that's renowned for its flavorful quality. One traditional preparation calls for it to be cooked whilst wrapped in a lesser cut of steak, which is discarded when done.
You would totally know this if you weren't a worthless peon/parasite who is beneath Mitt Romney's notice and probably going to vote for Obama anyway.
Can you get Chateaubriand with food stamps.
Based on the "I was behind a woman with food stamps" stories of the right, the ONLY people buying prime cuts of meat are those using Food Stamps .
Also, they can be used for alcohol. Because that features in the stories as well.
One certainly could, as long as one was not terribly hung up on eating several times within the same two-week period.
Only if you're a strapping young buck.
big talk from an asshole who doesn't pay any taxes either!!! keep walkin' keep walkin'!!!!
So he's saying to independents who pay taxes to vote for him unemotionally even if they don't like him because they can BECOME like him through doing so? This also involves falling asleep next to a pod and waking up Republican, correct?
Oh also, too, also—would this be his awesome new resetty plan-y thing? "Fuck you poors"??? Cause I think we already knew that.
anodyne — so all that Lit class schooling was worth it.
OK dose any of this really surprise anyone at the Wonk? Mitt is a cold hearted bastard that will say or do anything to get elected.If you don't make a minimum of $250,000 a year he has no interest in being your president.How he expects to be elected by the 1% is bad math,and will resort to every dirty GOP trick in the book.
And if you make $250K a year you're one of those poor "middle class" suckers.
Hideous privileged asshole is hideous.
And an asshole.
A is A
What a fucking cunt, he is, MrLL pays a shitload of taxes, he should be a Romney voter, white, old, rich but thank fucking Christ he used to be a hippie and would never vote for such a fucking dick.
From what you've posted on here before then you're five-percenters … like me. I'm white, too. Should be a Republican, I suppose, but they're so fucking detestable and the antithesis of what I believe that words can't express my disdain for them.
I like your husband.
I like him too, he made his own money , his family were lower middle-class, but he is very talented and made his way in Hollywood starting painting scenery and doing props on indies, so he's a real union guy as well and ended up as a very well-known Production Designer on some pretty influential action and comedy films. He loathes the GOP, he would sooner pay a lot more in taxes if it meant single-payer healthcare etc, he's like a European style Social Democrat.
I believe you and I would get along just fine.
OK, time to donate a few weeks of beer money to Mother Jones. (I feel entitled!)
And after seeing that, I believe Mitt thinks he's "entitled" to be Preznit. What a complete tool. I hope that all Americans get to see that fine little clip….what a complete out-of-touch dickbag. I paid more in taxes (as a percentage) in the last 10 years than you have dickbag – so fuck off!
"Had he been born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot of winning this."
Mitt, even your Mexican parent had a better chance of winning the presidency than you do. Where was Orly Taitz back then?
I love the idea that life would be so much easier for him if only he had been born to an immigrant of color.
Okay, maybe he is stupid.
Wait a minute… if 47% of Americans are moochers and only 28% of Americans are colored folks then… Wait… does not compute… Heavens to Kolob!
Besides not paying taxes, they send their money overseas through their Western Union accounts.
Send their money to other countries?!? Why those poors are BASTARDS.
Romney's base: The Psychopathic vote. From "The Neo-Demography".
That's it, my dead-ass grandfather is going to be voting Obama this year. Sorry, grandpa!
Can my long gone Granny catch a ride to the polls with him?
Careful, the GOP will be raiding you for voter fraud, because you even mentioned it.
Grandpa will be proud.
I'm with you. Every ancestor I know the name of is going to vote for Obama three or four times. Voter suppression my ass.
But but but? What if they've been baptized retroactively? Don't they have to vote for Mitt then?
Not if they're pissed off at him for making them Mormon. I know I would be.
Entitlement IS an interesting concept. It implies that one receives privileges to the disadvantage of everyone else, and that others are unable to fight back.
You know, like a vulture capitalist becoming a near-billionaire by putting people out of work. Or winning the Republican primaries by vastly outspending his opponents and going overwhelmingly negative against them. Or economic proposals that would help him at the cost of most everyone else. Or committing a hate crime against a gay classmate, or avoiding the Vietnam war while living in a mansion in Paris. Or forcing the family dog into a container on the roof of his car, making the dog so sick that he shat himself. Or mocking NASCAR fans for wearing cheap rain ponchos.
“Entitlement” means one who isn’t used to having to abide by accepted standards of behavior.
Truly, it is WE who are the entitled ones.
On the other hand, it does sort of make him an expert on being entitled…
I hope Mitt didn't think last week was going to be the toughest of his campaign.
Cuz, I dunno, this sorta reeks a lot and it's only Monday.
He forgot to call them "vermin" and mention his plans for dealing with them once and for all.
Some sort of "solution" is in the offing?
A solution that would put an end to the problem once and for all. Something final, if you will.
So that was his agenda in wanting the car companies to go bankrupt — he wanted to get everybody to take the train.
Mittler!
Huh, Mittens, I would have thought you'd know that a significant portion of your base are low-income white people who depend on the government but hate the idea that black people might do the same. Pander to those people, Mitt! Pander!
See – he isn't being racist. Classist maybe, but not racist.
Well, he used the “personal responsibility” dog whistle, which is obviously meant to elicit images of welfare queens in the inner city. Of course, where I grew up, most people who had no sense of personal responsibility were white, knocked up by age 15, on welfare, and PROUD supporters of the GOP.
Same here in Missouri. …and believe me the white folks here who fit Mitt's description of the odious 47% will not realize that they are part of it.
The world is made for people who are not cursed with self awareness
I just think he is an equal opportunity hater. Anyone who isn't him, or at least as rich as he is, might as well eat shit and die (after voting for him, of course).
Gee willekers, Willard. If you get rid of the 47 percent, what will you and your cohorts do when you need organ transplants?
I think they've made a couple of movies imagining that future.
who will clean the toilets? Do the laundry, care for the attack dogs?
It is so unfair. How can those who don't pay income tax understand how hard a person like Mitt Romney has to work to avoid paying any form of tax. Those who make less than then the $200,000-$250,000 of the middle income simply cannot appreciate how hard it is to wake up each morning knowing you have billions of dollars to shelter from Uncle Sam.
"The reason that I'm not worrying about people to poor to pay income tax," added Mitt, "is that we're doing our job to make sure that at least 10% of them are purged from the voter rolls before this November."
Good thing Republicans are working hard, nationwide, to make sure poor people have a difficult time voting this year.
This has been another episode of Uncle Rockefeller's Summer Cottage.
Except the Rockefellers did some good things with their money, Nelson was a centrist and now they're Dems. Mittens is just complete turd.
A few weeks ago, a French bajillionaire announced that to dodge François Hollande's proposal to raise the top marginal tax rate on those making more than 1 million euros/year to 75% (makes me hot just thinking about it), he was going to pursue Belgian citizenship.
He was pilloried by members of the Socialist Party in the press as "unpatriotic," "a loser," and "a parasite." Liberation, the French left-wing daily, headlined its story on him with the headline, Casse-toi, riche con!, or "Go fuck yourself, you rich asshole" (playing off an earlier Sarkozy quote).
Why oh why oh why can't we have that here in the ole U.S. of A?
I am going to use that phrase to post on a Romney site " Casse-toi, riche con!" I love it.!!
He doesn't even sound sincere when he's talking to his people! Sounds more like some handler told him, "Ok, sneer here. It'll make you sound tougher and the base will love you."
As the former Mr. Tessie once said about his spoiled rich prince of a boss, "He has to hire somebody to take a shit for him".
BWAAA-HA-HA!!! *snerk*
Wow. It's not what he said (typical GOP bullshit), but how he said it.
Mittens has unofficially started his "Why I Lost The Election (Because All Those Poor People Didn't Vote For Me)" Tour.
And so goes the Douche-bag Death Spiral…
Surprised no one has yet said BUT…BUT…BITTERS CLINGING TO GOD AND GUNS DERP DERP DERP!
57 STATES!!
Tele…
Wait a minute…
*checks note written on palm of hand*
Teleprompters, and such!
Today we are all Sally Fields, accepting our Romney Awards: "He hates us! He REALLY hates us!"
Dog-whistling and blaming shit on minorities is time-honored, but I have never heard a candidate for any office make 47-49% of the population the "enemy," which is exactly what he just did. New low, and how can he expect to be accepted as a leader with a shocking attitude like that? Yeah, 47-49% of the electorate is bitterly disappointed at the end of every election, but we're supposed to at least pretend that our elected officials govern with the interests of those who didn't vote for them in mind. This is leadership??
His tact, it is sub-Nixonian.
As is his charisma.
"how can he expect to be accepted as a leader with a shocking attitude like that?"
Yes, how?
*cough*voter suppression*cough*outspending Obama 20 to 1*cough*
All snark aside- fuck you Mitt. That 47% you speak of was a one time anomaly caused by your party's greedy, rapacious policies that crashed the world economy and threw everyone out of work in 2009. The normal number actually sits at about 35%, not 47% when the economy isn't on the ropes and a good many of those 35% are retirees who have to file, students who have to file and and people on disability who have to file. Most of the rest do in fact work and pay FICA which is actually a much larger portion of federal revenue than the federal income tax (more of that stick it to the lower and middle class tax policy of the last few decades. So basically what Mittwit is doing is insulting grandma, badmouthing Billy the college student and slamming Sam the Iraqi war vet who lost his legs fighting for Mitt's Oil buddies. Like I said, Fuck You Romney and your little buddy R-Lyan the sociopath too
This x 1000.
It's on Huffpost and apparently Thurston and Eddie have yet to comment, can't wait for the spin…."we didn't say that, YOU said that!!! And we are NOT losing!!!!".
This would be Mittens' Lehman moment, BTW.
Good christ, the man has already had several Lehman moments. We have to be up to WaMu and AIG moments by this point…
CountryWide?
The Hindenburg?
"Is that what YOU say, or is that what THEY say?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5vCwytJO4
Somebody at the RNC is saying, "Oh Fuck. Another week of trying to explain it away!"
See? MITT: JOB CREATOR
Why does EVERY day have to be 'The Day That Mitt Romney Lost The Election.'
Chill the fuck out, Mitt.
Now now — let Mitt go on with his strategy. The best way to get a message across is to repeat it, after all. He should be saying this every day in his stump speech.
A month on Lake Winnepesaukee (or "The Winnie", as his people call it) is just the tonic.
FlownOver compelled to channel Jeff Spicoli:
YOU DICK!
Since this is Rosh Hashanah I'll ask Mitt's forgiveness for what I am about to say. Fuck you you motherfucking piece of pus on a stick. And fuck you too also asshole.
Shanah Tovah to you and Casse-toi, riche con! to Mittens. And we have until Hoshana Rabbah to get in the good book(or not as I don't really believe in that- yet I will be attending Hoshana Rabbah services)
AND the horse you rode in on…..
Keep talkin' loser… keeeep talkin'.
So if any of you lazy entitled 99% vote for Mitt, you're just asking to be the dog on top of his car for four years. Got it?
Can I just shit on him now, instead?
That sneering contempt is the closest thing to honesty you will ever get from Mitt Romney.
Wish i could upvote this a dozen times, like i do at the polls on election day.
Maybe you could get more voter IDz?
There was a time when things like Lucky Ducky comix seemed like satire rather than a concise summary of candidates' actual policy statements.
Life follows art. (My favorite strip, and I go back to Pogo.)
Disagree; Bloom County is still the best.
Hah! " I met the enemy and he was us!"….top that, flatbeak!….
"Reagan sucks!"
So is this what Herman Cain was referring to when he said "Lucky Ducky". (The more time goes by, the more I think he was punking the Republkian Party.) ( And the rest of us, too.)
Yes, Mitt. It's the POOR in this country who think they're entitled to a whole bunch of things.
There is seriously not enough fuck you in the universe for this loathsome excuse for a human being.
Um, Mittens? Those people vote too. You venal, corrupt motherfucker.
I'm sensing a bit of partisanship here amongst the Wonketariat..
Not at all. We are dispassionate observers of life's cavalcade.
Nah, what you are experiencing it a basic human reaction to vulgar indecency. That just so happens to have a liberal bias.
Hey! Poors should go hungry! Man they're lazy!
So just ignore them! And vote me, maybe!
And pollsters and columnists – they debase me!
So pack it in folks! 2016, maybe!
Shocking! People think that they are entitled to a liveable wage. It's shocking, I tell you, that the people in this country would love to be in the wage range where they might be able to have the problem of paying taxes in America.
Wait a minute…I thought it that Romney thought that it is a good thing not to have to pay any taxes in the United States. Isn't that the purpose of his off-shore accounts?
You know, I don't remember Jimmy Carter hitting back quite this hard.
You can't say "tard" on Wonkette, Editrix.
That's a rule for commenting radicals, not editrixing ones.
The third video mentions that his consultants have worked with Netanyahu. This is a significant admission since Netanyahu has been tearing up the US airwaves lately trying to skewer Obama's foreign policy, etc.
"I mean let's face it, a dog thinks it's entitled to be fed when it wants, walked when it wants, get free vet visits and flea medication, have its recreation and emotional needs provided for. If it thinks its going to ride with us inside the car too, on a cross country trip?! Come on. The dog will go on the roof, and like it."
Maybe we have this all wrong … maybe the Romney campaign released this video. It could be a desperate attempt to shore up support by the "let them die" contingent!
All snark aside, I want to say thank you and many wet kisses to whomever it was recording this and giving it to David Corn.
This really could be the final nail in the coffin. Yippee!
Or as Joe the Veep might say, "This is a big fucking deal."
"Has a candidate ever spoken about his people with such revulsion?"
Yes
Nixon
And at least Nixon was self made and did some positive things (like China) for this country. Mittens, not so much
Yeah, but Nixon hated _everyone_, including himself.
Republicans in general are an unpleasant bunch, but I think Nixon was certifiably, hospitalizably, *nuts*.
Well, I was going to say "Idi Amin" but that does seem melodramatic. However, Amin was notorious for saying his citizenry was irresponsible.
But delicious.
If that's the height to which Mitt aspires he's already a great man. His motto: "I'm not much worse than Nixon." That'll win voters and produce statues.
Prez O did as he MOCKED hard working tax paying Americans in fact democrats launch an attack on those same taxpayers
No he didn't, you idiot.
WRONG get used to ……………………………..yes he did..
he mocked the 2009 tax day rally..
He mocked you soooo terribly, my lowering your taxes and fighting to make sure they stay that way. Fuck on off, now.
Prez O did as he MOCKED hard working tax paying Americans in fact democrats launch an attack on those same taxpayers
he mocked the 2009 tax day rally..
You are contradicting yourself.
If you expect to be taken at all seriously here, you might want to put some effort into writing sentences that have a passing familiarity with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Also, that have content which is not completely batshit insane.
tessie ….I don't care what you think.. it seem to me you have personal problem thus not my not my problem..
Ah, the classic "no UR crazy!" reply. Very impressive, but so far you're only at about .04 TimeCubes.
Try harder.
I see. You care so little about my opinion that it took you all of 10 minutes to reply to my post and tell me that I'm not your problem — is that the story you're sticking to?
It's OK if you don't care what I think of you; everybody else here thinks you're an imbecile, too.
Goddammit, did Editrix leave the gate open again?
"Prez O" — his correct name and title is "President Obama"
"did" — needs a comma after "did"
"hard working" — should be hyphenated, "hard-working"
"tax paying" — should be hyphenated, "tax-paying"
"Americans" — needs a period afer "Americans"
"in" — the i should be capitalized, as it is, or should be, the beginning of a sentence
"fact" — should have a comma after "fact"
"democrats" — proper noun should be capitalized, "Americans"
"launch" — past tense, should be "launched"
"taxpayers" — should have a period after "taxpayers"
Wow, 10 spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors in a post totaling only 19 words — and no content to speak of.
You're not trying very hard, are you?
lmao.. who cares….. I don't
Then stop replying.
The passive aggressive whining about how you have to make a big show about how much you supposedly do not care is very telling.
Just for the record, I care. Sloppy writing is indicative of sloppy thinking.
Dear Serf: The peasants are revolting…
Oh, c'mon! He loves the American people as much as Rush Limbaugh loves his listeners…
A solution does suggest itself, and the cue is a place. Let's see… Times Square, no; Tahrir Square, not quite…ah yes. Place de la Revolution.
Now, where did I put those knitting needles?
Is that you, Mrs. LaFarge?…
Zuccotti at dawn.
What, the thing you drive over the ice at the hockey rink?
*shrugs*
OK.
What the hell, the NHL isn't using 'em.
After his craven profiteering off of the attack in Libya, I didn't think it possible for him to sink any more despicably lower. He has proven me wrong once again.
And so soon!
And after Mitt loses the election, the post-mortem from the right will include the analysis that his campaign just held too much back and wasn't giving the American people the tough no-nonsense talk that they were really yearning for. Which will, of course, be the fault of the spoiled, entitled masses and their puppetmasters the elite media who twist every little gaffe into a huge outrage.
And that he wasn't far right enough. Because everyone knows that pretty much everyone is a wingnut—just there a few of us libruls buzzing around like trouble making gnats.
Yessir. It will be all Romney's fault (hey dipshits, it was YOUR primaries that selected him!). They will double-down on the same hate speech that is responsible for them to lose, and the party will collapse after they lose again in 2016 and again in 2020. Poof, goodbye.
Consceding 47-49% of the vote and calling them all, basically, assholes, is not a winning strategy, maybe he thinks he can win by just having the votes re-tallied on a Republican computer like Ohio did in 2004.
Sadly, suppressing & rigging votes is the GOP's best chance of winning, & I'm sure plans are afoot in swing states to accomplish what Mitt's charisma & integrity never will.
You see? When Romney says what he really thinks, then that's when he gets in trouble… he has to lie ( and the Republican party has to cheat and steal votes away from people) and be vague or else he won't be able to trick that middle 10% into voting for him.
In all fairness to Mittens, the fine print on my food stamps application DOES say that in agreeing to become a U.S. government freeloader: 1) I will not seek employment; 2) I can only earn money through scratch-offs; 3) I must drink more go go juice and; 4) I'm required to change my last name to Boo Boo Child.
Admit it, Mitt: you didn't really wanna be Prez to begin with.
Yeah, but Rafalca sooooo wants to be First Horse.
If only Ann would stop nagging him, "I wanna be First Lady!"
On the bright side for his campaign, at least he locks up the sociopath vote with this little bit. Seriously, the guy deserves to have a nervous breakdown after Hopey drinks his milkshake in November.
If we look closely, we can see a screw vibrating loose. Stand back.
So 47% to 49% of us think we are entitled, whereas Mitt and his pals KNOW they are entitled. I see.
So I went to 12 years of public school, 4 years at a land-grant college and another five at a land-grant college in graduate school; where I had two years on a federal grant, one year on a VA internship, and two years as a teaching assistant. Then I worked 13 years for a state government before going into private practice. Gosh, I feel bad now. I need to learn to take personal responsibility. Good advice, Mitt, and fuck you very much. I wonder how many votes I could jam into his ear canal.
When I was little my dad earned $1 a week too much to qualify for medicaid so we had no health insurance until I was 10. I went to 13 years of public school, got scholarship, workstudy and loans to go to an almost Ivy League College, got loans to go to medical school (one of the most expensive in the country at the time), some of which had an over 15% interest rate, then did a 3 year residency in pediatrics. Ended up working at an inner city health center (starting salary in 1985 for an MD was $35,000) and struggled to pay back $50,000 in loans over 10 years. I've been there for 27 years taking care of poor immigrant (some legal, some not) and minority kids, many of whose parents work alternate shifts (to avoid babysitter/day care costs) at shitty minimum wage jobs so they can pay for food and clothing and gasoline and housing, which eats up a hell of a lot more of their paycheck than it would Rmoney's. Poor greedy bastards – wanting things like health insurance to make sure their kids can get seen if they are sick or get preventive care to keep them well, and WIC supplements to make sure their babies and toddlers don't suffer from malnutrition. And how dare they ask for access to affordable birth control so they can keep from having too many babies.
I second the sentiment – fuck you very much, Willard. And just think how many votes we can jam into his ear canal if we work together…
Now, this is a case where I can say "Thank you for your service" with no qualms at all.
Public servants reprazent! I'm about $35k in the hole to life, and I'm 40, I don't own a car anymore (thanks 2000s) and I've never owned a house and I probably never will. I live in a marginal part of the hood in the Midwest, but I came up in Anacostia when I was real small, back when ketchup was a vegetable and all the kids I knew played in the parking lot and ate government cheese. I've been working as a public servant for about half a decade now… I was a hipster zine/coffeehouse/bookstore/temp/maid type for two decades before that.
I used to clean toilets for people like Mittens. He can kiss my black ass.
Unlike Lord Mittens, you two appear to have souls.
I was just able to watch the video. Damn. What an entitled, mean, nasty excuse he is. This race is close? HOW? I don't want an answer to that, I haz a sad.
Mean people suck.
so do old white ladies who think michelle obama doesn't look like a first lady.
Sad to say, there are quite a few of those. And they have the nerve to go to church. Imagine …
So do stupid people, but at least they can't help being stupid.
Because poor rural whites have hubris and misplaced pride rather than Christian humility.
Good news: TPM is now on this, too. The wider it gets, the better. Mitt's fucked.
This has been on just about every blog I've got bookmarked for the past hour or two; at least online it's everywhere. Hope this means he really is fucked.
Yeah, but it's important to remember sometimes that us 'leetist lieberals are in our own echo chamber.
ETA: It's possible no one who doesn't already hate Romney will hear this.
Hiya, emmelemm– just checked Google News– for MS or right wing media, it's on ABC, the NY Daily News (!), the Daily Caller (seems to spin it as Romney bravely being candid, at a cocktail party), Politico, the Financial Times, & UPI. That's just the first page.
Watching the Today show…. it's gone lamestream!
Mentioned on the News Hour… Dunno about network news, though.
I'm 99% sure it was on NBC news tonight. (I was at the gym and not wearing glasses so the assholery was less vivid.)
Awesome. Now I just hope it's really true that the boys of the NYPD choir's still singing Galway Bay and the bells were ringing out for Christmas day.
It's hit the front page of the New York Times, that libtard paper of record.
I do not think Mitt Romney needs to worry about people voting for him based on "emotion -whether they like the guy or not".
Quite the reverse is true.
How many times does the Republican Party need to implode before their adherents realize what a bunch of awful dumbfucks they are? I can't even say I am enjoying watching this…I am far more shocked at their utter hatred, their obvious distaste, for a large portion of the very people they are wanting to represent. It begs this question: why do they want to rule? I think I know the answer: shut up spareme and polish my shoes, my car, and my silver.
ugh. besides Rmoney's meanness, you can hear, in the background, the capitalist pigs at their troughs. Disgusting. I hope this gets out.
Oh it's all over the Twitter
It's on the teevee!
Even better, you can hear the "Help" gathering up utensils and moving around the tables. I used to a Banquet Manager for a major hotel chain. Right now I can say I would have lost my job over an "accidental" food spill on a wealthy patron's lap. My staff and I worked our asses off to make sure these stupid ass events went off as promised and for him and his ilk to have the temerity to diss the people actually serving his meals? Be careful what you eat! Things have been know to have accidentally fallen on the floor, dumped in the garbage and foraged out. Shit happens.
And spat on, don't forget that one! :-)
Even when I moved into sales it was sometimes really hard to deal with wingnuttery. I once had to have lunch with a client who was so racist I had to excuse myself to the ladies' room to avoid hurting her.
Also being one served those-who-think-they-are-my-betters as a corporate event planner, my first thought is one of us made that video.
Do not fuck with us.
There's another part where Mitt say he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth and didn't inherit anything.
Your dad was CEO of American Motors, he was governor of Michigan, he was a millionaire, in the 1960s, he was Secretary of Housing, he ran for President, you went to prep school, then France, then Harvard.
Silver spoon.
But he did have silver boot straps.
Actually, he says that he WAS born with a silver spoon in his mouth – and that silver spoon is the ULTIMATE silver spoon: being born in the good ol' USA.
Apparently a silver spoon up his asshole, too. For scooping out the treasured lumps. By his negress nanny, no doubt—the lazy bitch.
That is one of those Romney statements that is carefully chosen to deceive while being literally true. Of course Mitt didn't inherit anything. His father died in 1995, when Mitt was almost 50, and already a multimillionaire.
So the question is what Mitt got from his father when he was young, not when inheritance became an issue. And as we know from Ann's 1994 interview with the Boston Globe, he at least got lots and lots of American Motors stock. Enough to live on while at BYU with lots left over.
You've got to watch that weasel every second!
[Edit: Mitt uses this "I didn't inherit anything" line constantly. And it really pisses me off. So I reserve the right to post this particular aperçu a couple more times on other threads.]
A little internet research shows that what Romney did inherit was something about $2 million, which he donated to Brigham Young University to name a department after his father. His net worth by then was something between $50 million and $100 million, so a deductible donation of $2 million, perhaps even counted against his tithe to the LDS church, was not going to hurt him at all.
He also seems to regard the fact that his father was the Governor of Michigan, president of General Motors and one of the most respected public figures in the nation as just something sort of incidental to his life, as if that kind of family connection has nothing to do with opportunities for education and networking.
And finally, he really has no sense whatsoever of what financial ruin might be like: that is, from his youth well into middle age he always felt free to take big risks knowing that if he failed the worst he would suffer would be the embarrassment of going to his dad to bail him out. Very few men with a wife and five children enjoy that sense of safety in their financial dealings, which of course makes it all the more infuriatingly ironic that he is so ready to pull the meager safety net out from under half the population.
But, see, he didn't inherit anything – technically, if you use the most literal meaning of the word "inherit" – so he made all his money all on his own merit! And yes, he got into Harvard and named CEO of Bain all because he was just so awesome and not because of who his daddy was.
You're exactly right. God's honest truth. In 1993-94, I had a little extra cash, about $5K, and I seriously considered investing in Apple. But having been brought up by Depression era parents, I said, nah, too risky.
Don't most of the super-rich make their GRANDchildren, not their children, their direct heirs? It has something to do with avoiding TAXES. I wouldn't know for sure, though, since I'll never have to worry about such a thing.
Well, you do have to hand one thing to Mitt Romney here. He looks and sounds way less ill-at-ease, awkward, and stilted, than when he's forced to associate with the peons at campaign events.
I was always curious as to how he might behave when amongst his own people.
Breitbart's read: "another phony media rampage against Mitt Romney."
And yet he's still dead.
Today's essay question: Romney tape and Breitbart's Acorn Tape. Compare and contrast, with special attention to issues of distorting edits.
Gotta say, I agree with the Ouija blog on this one.
Movies You Won't Find In Mitt's DVD Collection #1: http://i2.listal.com/image/1036898/600full-creatu…
Mrs. Deanbooth just shouted from the other room that on the TV news Chuck Todd is defending Romney. How, I can't even imagine. That the 47% number is "true"?
I look to Ezra Klein for pie charts and bar graphs tomorrow. Chucky needs to go over to CNN and play with John King's fancy map.
Chuck equivocating is more blahbitty blah to keep the horserace alive.
And I have never seen a smaller knot on a tie than around Todd's lardy neck. Half Windsor on a wide collar cut-away, minimum, or GTFO!
Yes!Think proportionally, Chucky.
Jonathan Capehart has a column about it coming later tonight.
Missed you LL. Welcome back to the land of snark.
On one of the video clips, he boasts of his international team of Rovian consultants who've done races in Armenia and Africa–oh, if there is a god, let it be Somalia or Zimbabwe. Willard even outsources his own campaign. Now, that's dedication to your, your, um, what would you call it?
The fourth stanza of the national anthem of Armenia:
Death is the same everywhere,
A man dies but once,
Blessed is the one that dies
For the freedom of his nation.
Go for it, Karl. We're behind you all the way.
Kate Middleton and Mitt Romney need to learn to be more careful about exposing parts of themselves that they would prefer not become public or at least about not doing things even in private that can become very embarrassing if there is a camera present.
He's like Ronald Reagan but without the charm, wit, speaking ability, etc.
[etc...] intellect…
Let's not get overexcited and use Reagan and intellect in the same sentence.
He like Richard Nixon, but without the charm, wit, integrity…
True that, but he is his own John Mitchell.
So this is what Mitt meant when he said these things should be spoken of in quiet rooms… wow he was right.
Mr. Stansbury and I did everything a young pair of teenaged sweethearts could do, wrong. But we soldiered on, struggled and built a nice life for ourselves. We're nowhere near "rich" but were able to get our daughter through college and have some of the little nice things that money can buy (although our priorities always seem messed up by normal standards, you know a fool and his money…). I have never felt anything but gratitude for our good fortune and try to share as much as I can, I certainly have never begrudged paying my taxes, it is my duty as a citizen (remember that word Republicans?). If I believed in God, "There but for the grace of God go I", would cover it.
Oh and go go go Mother Jones.
ETA I would like younger stupid eejits like me and Mr. Stansbury to have the same fucking opportunity we did.
Everyone fucks up. Lots of times. The measure of a person is whether they fuck up and start to blame black people or liberals or etc and so on, or whether they stand up and admit they fucked up.
Although people with huge familial family-based hyperfortunes will never have to make that decision because they're backstopped by said fortunes. GWB. Willard. These people tend to be complete cunts.
At least we don't cling to guns and religion like *some* people.
Soon we'll be clinging to pitchforks and torches though.
Expect tar and feather futures to soar.
And lampposts. Have we enough?
And copious amounts of votes. Let me tell you, they can give you a mean under-the-fingernail paper cut.
Looks like all those rich folk were eating off Ironing boards as they drew up plans to create a new virus to kill of the untouchables.
And this comes from a man who pays half the taxes he should BECAUSE HE IS GETTING A GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENT / SUBSIDY via the tax breaks engineered into the tax code.
And so my job is not to worry about him.
I really want to say somethign clever, but all that's going through my head is fuckyouyoufuckingarrogantselfentitledfuckpaysometaxesandgetthefuckouttamylife.
That works for me.
i have to admitt that when he dribbles his drivel – i realize that i'm not so bad after all, i just hope he doesn't babtise me when i'm dead, and i have to wake up in his solar system. now that would make me a believer in hell.
As someone else said, kudos to the brave, intrepid soul who got this video. This is going to do major, major damage to him.
Yeah. This guy is the guy that's gonna solve the problems in the Middle East. Uh-huh… Next thing you know, he and Lizard Cheney will be starting a war with Czechoslovakia.
No, I think their threat to level Prague will work as well as it did the first time.
Even if Mitt had to buy the country to make it possible since Czechosolvakia doesn't even exist.
Good luck. On the southern border of Bohemia there are signs saying "Gateway to Poland!" With arrows.
I don't think much of Mittens' abilities, but I really don't believe that he can be so pig ignorant that he isn't aware that the poor pay proportions of their income similar to more affluent people (other than those like him wealthy enough to avoid taxes) when sales and payroll taxes are considered. So, I have to conclude that he is so obsessed by the desire for power that he will say anything that he thinks will help to get it. And speaking of entitlement — he thinks he is entitled to the presidency, despite the ever-increasing evidence that he simply isn't up to the job of national leadership and decision-making. So, he lays into some poor kid who thinks they might be entitled to not go to bed hungry. Nice.
Mrs. Rafalca also has an overly developed sense of entitlement.
He's certainly running his campaign like one of his businesses and it will end just the same.
Mitt was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Apparently he was born with a golden stick up his ass.
Is that the type of "big stick" that Half-Govenor Dumbass of the Northwoods refers to?
Movies You Will Find In Mitt's DVD Collection #1: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2fdwS3Y1VhU/S3lUQxcgAZI…
"I can– I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected. But my own view is that if we get a "Taxageddon," as they call it, January 1st, with this president, and with a Congress that can't work together, it's— it really is frightening."
Why should this multimillionaire be worried about a 'taxaggedon'? Will he be reduced to begging in the streets if he is no longer able to wriggle out of paying his privileged, lower rate? Will any of the multimillionaire's he's addressing? What is so fucking scary about paying your fair share?
And if he can never predict what the markets will do, why is he trying to tell people that the markets will respond more favorably to a Romney presidency than to 4 more years of Obama? Unless he has some sinister plan to undermine the markets & blame Obama…
Look, I don't know about the rest of you suckers, but I live on the beach in a house paid by welfare. I haven't worked in years and I use food stamps to buy boxed wine. Life is great! Obama 2012!
Welfare golf carts rule!!1!
I don't live on a beach in a house, but I am able to enjoy a very nice Cabernet Sauvignon in my tent placed on the beach just below Mitt Romney's LaJolla getaway. I take a little vacation while he's in town because he's such a fussy asshole, but otherwise, party at my tent! BYOB for God's sake. My "entitlement" only stretches so far.
… and breitbart is dead …
Given how this is ricocheting around the toobs, I'd say zee goose, she ees kooked.
what's cool is that a bunch of us who pay our 35% are going to vote for Obama too…partly because the dicks like romney who only pay their 15%…
Oh, Lordee, "the brazen, unabashed "those people" (47percenters) moment", that will live on in infamy, like the Willie Horton campaign ad, like Annie dancing horsey Leona Helmsley Mrs. Mittens "you(those) people moment. AND THESE 2 ARE MARRIED! Ha Ha Ha what a coincidence! He has been saying this in your face "I will not apologize for being successful" mantra all along. This underground super secret vid is just grittier and more ugly, but really, meh, more of the same from Mittens & the Mrs."Pour me anotha hot toddy, Jeeves, you are such a dear!"
Why do I get the funny feeling that the campaign professionals working on Team Romney are letting the leaks fly, knowing they're on a sinking ship, and hoping to shift the blame to Romney as they polish their resumes for the next campaign job?
It kind of reminds you of the last few weeks of McCain's campaign, doesn't it? Except that this is occurring almost two months from the election. Should get even more interesting as everyone starts to run for cover.
I'm making popcorn right now!
Ryan/Christie 2016!
*Shudder.*
But think, that would make either President H. Clinton or Biden inevitable; and either would be awesome.
And then he added, "Indentured servitude was the best thing that ever happened to Irish-Americans. They knew their place back then, and that place was the pigsty."
"And, The Blacks? Well, they never had it so good as when they were in the fields. I mean, they got free meals and room & board for Pete's sake!"
We're stuck with our insane history, no matter how the Texas Bored of Education tries to rewrite it.
Lilburn Boggs had a point…
It is going to be more than that 47% of Americans who vote against you, Mr. Romney.
We don't want to see you anywhere NEAR the White House.
You are not only cynical and vacant, you are frightening.
I have a real problem with people who are entitled to buy off our elected reps to set the rules their way so they can run up corporate debt, put it in their own pocket and close factories, all while claiming they are doing good things for the country.
Why did that Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate who had had electro-shock therapy have to withdraw from the National ticket and not this (Happy New Year!) putz?
The MittBot 8400 won't rest until all lazy ass American men have six or more wives.
Interesting day to revisit this video: "I've been poor. I've worked from the time I was 12. My parents were driven out of Old Mexico when I was only 5. My people were revolutionary refugees. They had to be fed by the United States government and housed by the United States government. I know what poverty is I've been up through it." – George Romney
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45934570#…
If only the United States government had sent the whole family back…
I don't really know much about the late George Romney, but what little I know indicates that he would be appalled by his son.
I think George is rolling around Kolob…
Most interesting, though in response Mitt would insist that his father was brainwashed.
I saw what you did there!
I'm seeing a re-make of "The Godfather Part II": The tale of George Romney, a self-made auto company president and governor, a person who paid his taxes and revealed his income, who gave a shit about black people, who realized the military was bullshitting about the Viet Nam War, and who headed an entitlement bureaucracy in the federal government, interspersed with the story of how his privileged son's Presidential campaign devolves into complete chaos.
well i can see – in spite of being laid out with a flu all afternoon – things are still going well.
If I were clever, I could think up a tongue twister about fuflans not being a flu fan, but I'll spare you the extra suffering & hope you are well on the road to recovery. All this Romney fail should at least be good for morale…
The sound of Mitt's voice is so calming and reassuring, like a mantra. The more he talks, the more I approach nirvana!
Bold words from a dude who wrote off 70+ large on his My Pretty Pony.
Tomorrow's FoxNews exposé: SECRET PAYMENTS TO ROMNEY CAMPAIGN FROM OBAMA!
lol Speaking of throwing away money: http://www.gopmall.com/images/products/4941.jpg
There has to be a good way to chop that.
Yes. Into very small pieces…
Ooooh, oooh—Hardball had both the Obama Campaign's response ("Rmoney is an evil snotty turd who hate America and her people") and Thurston's.
Howell didn't even try to deny it, he just blathered about concern for all those poors and stuff. Or rather, "Mittens does so too like teh poors and this is Obama's fault, anyway!"
The poor, Mitt? You mean the people you're talking about here:
…[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
I must say that's not the way I expect someone who cares about the poor to talk. It is, rather, the voice of someone who holds the poor in complete contempt and is indifferent to their fate.
Why yes, Mitt. In the richest country on earth I DO think that people are entitled to food, housing, and healthcare. I grew up poor and worked from 16 on, full or part time every year but two. I have more money than I ever knew existed, even if I do have only one house, no car elevator and no dancing horse. I pay income taxes, every year, and I suspect that is more than you can say. So fuck you very much Mitt. I am one of the 53% you figure are yours by right, but you ain't getting my vote.
Haha more fool you. Shoulda been born to money.
EASY!!!!!
My wife was. I married well, which is more than she can say.
I dunno, sounds like Mrs. doc did petty well for herself
Considering we know more about a Zombie Apocalypse than we do about the taxes that Mitt Romney has paid, I would like to know if Mittens is part of the 47% that doesn't pay any Federal income tax… oh wait, he is, because since he doesn't have a JOB then he only pays capital gains taxes.
His money works harder than Romney does.
I have been greatly disappointed that no one has made an issue of the fact that Romney hasn't held a job for most of the past decade. Where does he get off spouting about hard work and the work ethic? What the hell has he been doing? Isn't he supposed to be job creating or something with his Bush tax cuts?
I am sure he has been retroactively employed.
He's created lots of jobs in the "Explaining away and spinning the latest insulting, moronic, incompetent Romney statement" industry.
Let them eat road salt and mice…
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01052005
Hey Mitt, its 51%, so say goodbye!
Top 10 states that have most of these moochers:
Mississippi
Georgia
Arkansas
New Mexico
Alabama
South Carolina
Louisiana
Texas
Florida
Idaho
from http://taxfoundation.org/article/states-vary-wide…
That is 9 out of 10 states that are RED. Bastion of conservative ideology – responsibility, family values, fiscal conservatism. Mainly Confederate states, if you check the geography.
And the one that ain't red is New Mexico, which gets a pass from me because GREEN CHILE
The D.C. public tv channel WETA-UK has been showing the classic 1976 BBC series I, Claudius. It's a lot like watching a capsule history of the GOP from Reagan to Bush (Augustus to Caligula), only without a comparatively sane Claudius figure.
That is my favorite PBS series of all time. To this day John Hurt is my fav actor after that. The fall of the Roman Empire yes indeedee. I will check & see if it is playing here. I should just buy the damn thing with my food stamps and entitlements after all these years! Gubbermint, would you please buy me "I Claudius"? Please?
It's my fave also, and has aged like a fine Andalusian brandy. I hope it starts a trend, after which I'd love to see PBS affiliates air the old Doctor Who's (might as well wish for the return of Bob Marley, but one can dream).
It's awesome; and the twelve-year-old, poor cable-less me loved it because, like some other shows on PBS and nothing on the networks or UHF, it had fleeting breasts.
And it had Patrick Stuart, back when he still had hair. Amazing.
Mnemosyne is a funny goddess. I recalled seeing boobies too, but the mammories must have been playing tricks because I haven't sighted nary a single udder in the repeats. Or maybe they've been edited out for today's more sophisticated viewers?
I used to look forward to Monty Python just to catch the occasional glimpse of Carol Cleveland's curvy thighs. Make it so!
I rewatched it recently on YouTube – and the whole series is up there, or at least was about a year ago, after I finally read the books – and there are definitely boobies in the first episode; there may not have been any after that one however.
So, you're telling us that you had memories of mammaries?
He was such a rat-bastard on that show!! He killed Postumus!
I haven't seen it, but it seems to me that a character named Posthumous is bound to have a pretty short lifeline anyway.
Speaking of PBS, fleeting boobies, and adolescence, I am reminded of my favorite documentary of all time, The Human Animal. It was also just a really well done human behavior documentary, probably a little responsible for my undergrad interest in psychology.
And yet on the other thread people say nothing good came out of the 70's!
Did you all see Rome on HBO? The young Livia, the future poisoning lady of I Claudius was married to Octavian the sadist in Rome. She liked the sadist stuff more than he did! To connect her young character to the future murderess Livia was chilling
"…only without a comparatively sane Claudius figure."
Move Claudius before Caligula and it works: Claudius=Clinton.
Heh. My uncle is in that show.
He had good "toga legs"?
Breathtakingly awful, even by the standards of Lord Romney, Grand Duke of Snottingham. It's this kind of attitude that sparked the French Revolution.
Speaking of, even Lady Pegs Nooninghamshire has stopped being shocked by seeing brown people and has turned her defiantly non-laser like focus on this clusterflock.
Oh fuck that mormon asshole. I support Obama because he drinks.
This is the end of the election & the Mittens campaign, as it was the end of Poopie Bush Sr. campaign & the election when Poopie Sr. couldn't answer the girls question at the debate, about knowing and understanding poor & unemployed people who can't get a job. Poopie Bush Sr. looked at the questioner like she was an alien from another planet & could not even comprehend her question (a lot like bumbling empty chair crackpot Clint Eastwood), then Clinton stepped forward & did his " I feel your pain & I get you" spiel. I said in that moment, "that's the end of the election, Clinton will win." And I am saying it now: Back to the private sector with you in November Mittens Bain boy.
from your mouth to god's ear and she may drag some libtard coattails.
Son of a Bitch
Dang, I live in fucking Tribeca NYC and can't get shit from the gummint, besides paying less in federal tax since Obama was elected (taxes schmaxes — I want free chocolate!!!). Obviously, I need to put out for Jerry Nadler more often.
It's getting chilly outside. Bring me my Mittens!
I don't know what that means.
made me laugh anyway.
I always wondered what went behind the closed doors of the rich and powerful. I kind of figured they were all butt fucking each other in giant vats of butter flavored Crisco. Turns out there just planning on how they can fuck us over.
I bet we don't even get the butter flavored Crisco as lube.
I think people are making way too big a deal out of the fact that he said this in a room full of campaign donors with the belief that anybody too poor to have federal income tax liability was safely out of earshot.
You guys, he totally would have said these things in front of the poors, it's just that this is the first time he was in a sufficiently quiet room to discuss any of it.
Watching Ed show and he doesn't get it…. 47% isn't just the poor, it's retired people, lot of small business people, etc……
As for Mitt, who would have known he was such a jerk? ?? ???
I used to respect Mitt, but that was before he informed his so-called friends that we couldn't watch the "satanic" Davey and Goliath show on his dad's Magnavox TV-stereo console. What an asshole.
That was Ned Flanders!
"Squeal like a pig!"? Oh, wrong Ned.
"As for Mitt, who would have known he was such a jerk? ?? ???"
Everyone who has ever met him, I would imagine.
Here it is folks! Back to the future! Poopie Bush Sr./Clint Eastwood bumbling empty chair/ cannot connect to human beings on any level moment, & the day Clinton won the election! It was the end of the election in 1992 & those sucky 47 percent moochers underground Mittens vid end of Bain boy's campaign now! History DOES repeat itself! Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffbFvKlWqE&pl…
Amazing how nothing changes….. thanks for the link
I was watching MSM news, ABC, CBS or NBC (I can't tell the difference) and they gave this story a good amount of time. They even mentioned Mother Jones. I hope this doesn't die for long time.
I just checked out what news agencies were carrying this… this is big. Everyone except FOXNews.com.
Good. I was thinking this would be overlooked, if not erased from "official" history altogether.
Dickless duplicitous piece of shit: say one thing to your friends to look tough, then in public, you're a complete pandering pussy.
A Children's Treasury of Free Republic Comments on the Mother Jones videos
When did Mother Jones start writing campaign Ads for Romney?
Can’t disagree with anything Romney said there, except I think its more like 50 percent instead of 47 percent. Instead of saying this to private donors he needs to say this to EVERYONE because its true and this is what Obama wants, the more people reliant on Govt the more votes he will get
He could have said that they bitterly cling to their EBT cards and their Section 8 housing vouchers.
it is completely accurate except it leaves out the part about hating America, which is also integral to supporting that idiot Zero.
Spot on. Romney told the truth – dog vs the fleas
Romney left out one important fact. ALL obama SUPPORTERS ARE evil!
I hate to admit it, but the more I see of Romney, the more I like him.
White liberals are a bigger threat to this nation than any other group.
I think most obama supporters are communist scum of the earth.
This could give Romney victory. I wonder if his team leaked this.
The dems are too ignorant to know this is exactly what Romney wants people to hear.
Good, hook in mouth. Fish about to be caught. Brilliant way to get an issue front and center. Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant.
Romney better not appologize for what he said either.
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And then there's someone who just HAS to be a librul troll:
How about draft dodgers? I've always thought guys who ducked out of service during the Nam were exceptionally evil ~ unless they had a very good excuse ~ like a bent ….., or pinoidal cyst, or one eye, or a steel patch in their skull, or….. you know, a real excuse.
well i don't know about those other comments but i am certainly touched that someone thinks we are evil.
I'm only like 3/4 evil.
Like the president, I'm 3/5 evil.
"White liberals are a bigger threat to this nation than any other group."
It's flattering that I'm even more dangerous than the Muslims to the wing nuts.
They might have a point. Just this morning I was thinking of overthrowing the square establishment by throwing my first editions of Charles Bukowski at it. How's about them apples, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith?!!
Confession time: I had negative thoughts today about our beloved job creators.
I so ashamed.
I had impure thoughts about…
HEY!! Never you mind who!
Organic?
Don't tell them that I'm also an atheist; that would make me a true threat to the nation, like Ben Franklin.
You don't believe in magic underwear, Zombie Jesus, talking gold plates in a hat or virgin births?
GASP!
Someday we'll have an atheist president… and some wingnut will probably shoot him… for God.
Hey now, we've already had an atheist President; his name was Thomas Jefferson, but for some reason that part of his biography often gets ignored.
Anyone who wrote "Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty… and fart proudly!”" is alright with me.
I hate to admit it, but this one came dangerously close to nearly being funny. Almost.
That one was clever enough that it made me think it might be some well-disguised snark-fu.
I also call bullshit on the suggestion that anyone on that site can spell "integral", much less use it correctly in a sentence.
So basically these cretins just double down on the stupid and the mean-spiritedness.
GWB. Two terms. Doubling down on stupid is the name of the game.
Wow…you caught a comment thread from the freeper wingnut mastubatorium! I do find it gratifying that freepers think we're evil, especially given their places as racist, bigoted, fascistic, inbred, fat, scooter-riding, pasty, fat assholes. I actually know ways to drive freepers nuts, demonstrate how similar they are to Communist regimes. Mao Zedong for instance thought that there was a conflict between man and nature and that man had to subdue nature by building factories and polluting (examples include the infamous Dalian Bay disaster where a large body of water was BLACK) the environment. Environmentalists are also cracked down with imprisonment, beatings, etc. Of course the USSR forcibly absorbed trade unions and imprisoned trade unionists who didn't go along with them. Then of course neither country had workers rights, both outlawed pornography, etc. It's fun to demonstrate how similar these groups are…wingnuts and Commies.
Btw, Ms. Schoenkopf (or should that be MS. SCHOENKOPF?) — excellent graphic.
Yes! Absolutely perfect.
When they told Mitt he should "go out and fire up the base," they forgot to tell him which base.
He assumed that, in the phrase "fire up the base", base wasn't a noun, but an adjective.
Mitt's etch a sketch is rebooting.
I'd like to put a boot up Mitt's etch-a-sketch.
I think the Obama campaign just shattered it.
Try shaking that loose you greedy muthafucka.
Oh, really, it's not problem, Mittens. 'Cause we don't care for your ass much either. Now, why don't you just go crawl back up in the box in which you were shipped, m'kay?
This was the last shark, right? The fat lady has sung, and boy is she soaring.
Sire, the peasants, they're revolting. And, here, here today, comes Honey Boo Boo to roll you're greedy ass over…again.
Honey Boo Boo is the gravy train Sarah Palin wished she'd had.
Rand Paul/Honey Boo Boo 20??
You know it gets so old listening to these fuck faces use the "producer versus parasite" bullshit. Not only is it false to say managers and boardrooms are the 'actual' producers and workers are the parasites (because they demand wages and benefits for selling their labor) but it's stealing from Karl Marx. So let me get this straight, this class of absolute anti-communists have pretty much built their entire 'individualism' based upon the deluson that the guy who sits in the CEO office is the real producer. I really wish they'd learn how to construct their own ideas, not just make everything the diametric opposite of lefties…
"I really wish they'd learn how to construct their own ideas, not just make everything the diametric opposite of lefties… "
I take it you don't spend much time on assbook?
Mitt's fans don't just post the diametric opposite of lefties, they post the diametric opposite of reality.
somebody actually posted there that Mitt was "humble" and a "self made man".
Are these the people I see on the other side of the mirror?????
The idea that managers are simply parasites that can offer workers nothing of value is just as much a cartoon as the crap that the most useless of them believe about workers. I hope one day we will live in a social democracy.
Totally agree…it's that kind of myopia that makes Marxism silly and unrealistic. The basic point is beyond just being reactionary, conservatism like Marxism is an industrial philosophy so much of its tenets are little more than "you're smelly" insults to Marxism. It gets even funnier when you consider Ayn Rand pretty much did little more than hold Marxism up to a mirror and make childish pronouncements to seem like she was doing something different. This is also the problem with conservatism and why its become so wingnutty over the years: since Marxism is more or less dead there isn't the check of left-right juxtaposition so they have to blow very weak changes up to the Nth degree. Because there is no longer a prominent Marxist ideology they also have to become somehow MORE reactionary and well…just be bigger assholes to compensate for the fact that on balance conservatism is completely empty on ideas; it's more or less a zombie or a vampire philosophy that needs a good staking (and not the kind of staking Marcus Bachmann is used to, either….). That's my highly simplified analysis.
If I'm not mistaken, this Mitt Romney guy might be a bit of a cock.
He's the full uncut John Holmes version.
Diphallia (also known as Penile Duplication)
Nah, his dick goes full circle, right up into his ass….
I can't believe people are making comments about 70's styles – look around you. I'd rather be stuck with a thousand lime green refrigerators than Nickelback lyrics on my chest.
These lime green refrigerators that you speak of — would any of them contain any *actual* limes?
And perhaps just a teensy weensy bottle of Tanqueray?
$: – 9
Rethugs had 4 plus years after the McCain/Palin crap campaign of all time, to come up with some Anitchrist from Rethug/USA! USA! Central Casting, & all they could come up with was Thurston Howell III, but sans the magnitism? Haaaaaaaaaaaa, Rethug evil genius's: wad up?
If anyone was reading about this, and thinking to yourself, "You know what this story is missing? Some footnote involving caligulean sex parties that hammers home just how self-indulgent and out of touch these guys really are"? Well, you're in luck.
(I wanted to post this in the wonkville content mines, but apparently the error message I get in chrome has now metastasized to all of my browsers.)
Ah, "scantily clad Russian women." I knew we had to get Russians in the story somehow.
So Mitt can poop on them!
-Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/Roborom%20…
Mitt es un pendejo.
The story now occupies a prominent place on the NYT website (sorry for withholding the link; I'm almost out of free clicks, and I'm too much of a moocher/looter/tapeworm to pay for that shit).
Also big, big on LA Times.com front page. Washington Post gave it the stingiest coverage. Too busy with links to naked British royals. Katie Graham would have another reason to get her tit in a wringer.
Totally serious here. Rmoney's tax rate is less than the percentage of GDP the govt takes in as tax revenue. That makes him a freeloader in my book.
So release your tax returns and STFU until you pay your fair share.
Wait a minute, so this guy is trying to woo the, and I quote, "…five to ten percent that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not."
This unlikable meatbot is trying to appeal to independents' emotions? There's a reason why Spock didn't do the fandance, dingus. They put it to Uhura because, not only because she still had great legs for a senior citizen, but because she was a fucking human who understood emotion. Unlike you, Mittbot.
I have two relatives currently visiting from out of town. Both are registered independents, both make more than $200,000 combined with their husbands' incomes. Both had mentioned earlier in the week that they disliked Romney (they both also made a point to mention that they can't stand his wife), so they wouldn't vote for him even though they often vote Republican. I intended to make a quick headline check on the internet this evening and found this incredible story. When I ran out into the family room with the news, they both joined my long-time Democratic mother screaming with laughter. So, yes, even the people he intends to appeal to hate him.
I see from Google News that The Daily Callgirl wrote something about this, but I refuse to let my router connect to that cesspool. Anybody want to take one for the team and see how hilariously fast they're trying to spin this story?
The headline of their six year-old political savant Alex Pappa's piece is "Romney: Diehard Obama fans think they are ‘entitled to health care, to food, to housing,’" which transforms 47% of American voters to "diehard Obama fans." It's the miracle of the loaves and fishes all over again!
I earned this beer.
I think I'm entitled to Jameson's whiskey.
Take it up with Jenna Jameson, then; since she thinks the Repubs are so great.
You and my wife – in fact she believes all Jameson's bottles belong to her…
Thank you, Jesus. I owe you.
Tomorrow we are all Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Thank you Mittens!
Reminds me of Sartre's quip,"Hell is other people." Ergo, Mitt is an overblown fish-eyed flatulent commie French existentialist.
You learn so much on Wonkette. I knew that Sartre was an overblown fish-eyed commie French existentialist. But I didn't know that he was flatulent.
Though I knew that he was a gasbag, perhaps that counts.
lol I found that out from a biography of the drop-dead gorgeous and much wiser Albert Camus.
Well….Mitt (R)Money did spend some time in gay paree.
Ooh la meh?
Captain Asshole is on msnbc right now, trying to explain his liddle problem away. Oop – its over, FAIL.
Flop sweat is all over this guy….
Was it my imagination, or did he just turn away from the press conference in mid grin 'n answer and saunter off – still grinning.
Well, that was definitely how he left the last one on Libya. He probably thinks it "projects confidence" rather than "oozes douchiness".
I think that's the old white equivalent of dropping the mike
I watched this too, even his hair was fucked-up.
Ann Romney just beat the tar out of him with her 10 pound gold necklace she wore the other day. He did look ruffed up.
I finally had a chance to watch this, at home, and, holy shit! Scumbag, liar,panderer, all of the above? Kiss those 5 to 10% independents goodbye
Not to harsh anyone's buzz but I hope Team Obama has some super duper spies to sus out any pathetic James O'Keefe type punks because they are putting on their pimp hats as we speak in order to record President Obama.
I'm sure that Obama assumes that every moment he speaks in public is being recorded. Especially after the GOP ground the "cling to guns and religion" remark into the ground. And that was just from a transcript, if I recall correctly.
Once you become President I think there's an expectation that every fart is recorded, much less every word.
As to that incident, there was some tape, but I don't think the tape ever went viral for whatever reason (probably sound quality). There was no video.
And, of course, Obama wasn't blasting half the country as losers but trying to tell a questioner why some people are hard to persuade with logic. Slightly different scope, but expect to hear it linked to Romney on every false equivalency segment for the next month.
His childrens' farts are being recorded, too.
Yes – and also, as Jon Chait points out, Obama was urging his listeners to reach out to such people, to recognize their struggles and sympathize. Recognizing that a President has to be President of all Americans.Romney is peddling debunked factoids to justify writing off half the country as not worth caring about.—
Sorry if this was already posted- the video was shot at Mark Leder's house, then they all had an orgy break… http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-se…
So you're saying this guy Mark Leder isn't all bad, even if he does like Rmoney.
Orgies ARE a redeeming feature, but probably his only one…
But just think who you are orgying with. Like, eewww.
Yes, well, there's that…
http://www.suncappart.com/?employees=leder-marc-j
The Mittbot does not have "sex" as we humans traditionally think of it. Ann simply plugs a cable into his USB port.
Coming up next: Mitt Romney drowning puppies.
Oh, man- I must have an outdated program- it says that next up is footage from the Romneys' semiannual fetus BBQ/family reunion.
…just to illustrate his plans for the size of government.
I have no doubt that this creature regards anyone who pays taxes as a sucker — or would, if he gave it a moment's thought.
Gave it a moment's thought? This man's life is devoted to tax avoidance so that nobody can say he was stupid enough to pay a dime more than absolutely necessary…
SCSI port, maybe?
Wait until they release the Romney video featuring the live boy and the dead girl. That should do it.
Does the 47% of the people who would never vote for Mittens include 94% of The Blacks and 75% of The Browns that would never vote for him either/too? I'm thinking it's more like 83% of Americans that will never vote for this a$$hole…..
I can haz the House of Representatives, Two?
Honestly, this is shaping up much more like 2008 than 2004, pundits be damned. If we keep pushing, this could very well be an epic election, more epic than anyone could have even imagined.
BTW, this race isn't as close as topline numbers make it appear. What support Mitt does have in polls are weak/leaners. You've got to get down in the weeds to see how much the president is actually crushing Romney. A stiff wind could bring his support tumbling to the floor.
I want what you're selling, regardless of cost.
Too early for an October surprise? I think not!
Negropolis, I'd love to see Nancy shove that speaker's gavel up Boehner's ass.
"A stiff wind could bring his support tumbling to the floor."
Do you think maybe this could be that stiff wind? Well, maybe not, but the way Romney is unraveling, it's needing a milder breeze every day.
I like your thinking about the House. It's time to pile on and run up the score. Orange Satan has a tip sheet of House races. I suggest picking a few races in LeanD, Tossup, and/or LeanR and throwing five bucks to as many of these Dims as each of us can on ActBlue.com. Those look like the races where we can put our thumbs on the scale enough to tip the balance.
I hope this is more epic than epic, cuz I am sick to death of what has happened to this country through all my adult years, since I graduated college a few months before Reagan was elected. Romney is nothing but the pure and undeniable distillation of greed, entitlement, racism, hubris and evil that Reaganism always has been.
Upfisted specifically for "Orange Satan".
What's the likelihood of getting back the House?
Very slim, that was, up until a week or two ago when things have been moving our way. Pundits are still saying we're likely to get a maybe a dozen at the monet when we need 25 for control. However, if we run up enough of a margin with the national vote, it'll flip seats that weren't even at play locally.
I've even seen conservative estimates that we may only net five seats, which would seem absolutely crazy to me in a presidential year even if it's close. Hell, there are two (maybe three) seats here in Michigan alone that we could pick up. It's just a gut feeling, but I'm feeling that we'll be picking up more than a dozen seats, particularly if the president is able to replicate 52% of the national vote.
Redistricting + voter suppression + death of Blue Dogs as a group = a lot harder to get to 25. As nuts as so many freshman have behaved, the GOP did a good job in several states of strengthening their hold on their districts (I'm thinking of places like Ohio, where O will win but because of redistricting and the census Dems actually lost a seat before the election cycle ever began). Many of the shifted districts migrated from blue to red states, too. If Texas ever gets sorted out, there could be a couple pick ups there, Illinois is good for a couple of shifts (Joe Walsh for sure, maybe as many as 3 others), but Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin may not give any despite Obama's personal strength.
Still, the worse Mitt does the better we get a shot at turnout wins in marginal districts. Plus there's a decent shot at keeping the Senate, although without filibuster reform not sure what will get done.
I guess I'm just looking at it from my home state perspective. The GOP has been in control of all or most of redistricting for the past two or three Censuses, here, so they had squeezed about as much blood out of that turnip as they could. I also think the voter suppression bull is actually going to work to our advantage. We caught it early enough and stopped it in enough places that we kind of energized our base, so it might be a wash. I think it'll have the largest effect in PA, but PA is polling so blue that it's not going to change the outcome.
BTW, we have more than a decent shot at keeping the Senate. Heck, we were still looking to hold unto by two or three seats before the likes of Akin.
Looks more like 1996 from where I'm sitting: Romney is Dole Redux.
President Obama replies: "47 percent of IPA's are just okay, but no matter the quality we brewed this!"
It's on the front page of the nytimes online! America! Fuck yeah!
Holy shit, even David Brooks takes him down:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-…
Oh my. <clutches pearls>
Anyone catch the bit about WISHING his parents were Mexican???
Birth Certificate libel??????????????
Yeah, that was fucking insulting, as if George Romney would have achieved what he did as a Mexican. Well, maybe as a white Mexican, but no fucking way as a brown Mexican.
To expand on Rebecca's Best Patriot's List:
Every President in the 1800's except T.J. Jefferson & Lincoln (ok, I feel sorry for the Garfield guy that got clocked)
Karl Rove
Lee Atwater
Kathy Lee Gifford (Queen of secret sweat shops for her crappy clothes)
Ann Romney's Dancing Horses Ass
Jesse Helms
All Dixiecrats
Blue Dogs
"Corporations are people too Meh Friends" Supreme Court Ruling
Dirty Harry (& gazillion sequels)
Dick Army & Freedom Works
Joe Lieberman
Carly Fiorina
Nicky Haley
Tea Party for the worst protest signs, spelling & diction of all time
This is such a great sign that Palin did not make either list.
Fuck you, Mitt. You are going to lose this election and the chorus will be heard around the world.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir libel!
Now, if we can just slip somethting in during Cocktober…
I can't remember the term now, but in gaming its akin to the finishing blow.
A coup de grace? Mortal Kombat's fatality?
Ah. Yes. I should have known that but hadn't had coffee yet.
Somewhere in one of her subterranean lairs, Ann Romney is kicking herself for not emulating Laura Bush by plowing full speed into a car driven by her high school crush.
She shouldn't have had to do that, 'cause Mitt already did something similar in his youth.
Redundancy is a Romney watch word. Nixon clone, Bush redux, Cheney unchained.
Thirteen Words:
Debates
"Mr. Romney will no longer be answering any questions from the press."
Where was our Wonkette Live WARBLOG??? I want my registration fee back.
Live warblogging would be a bit insensitive when covering a dead campaign, don't you think?
Too soon?
There are more secret vids! They are leaking them out one by one, painfully & slowly. Stay tuned!
Well it was coughing up blood last night!
Well, you can stick a fork in ole Mittster, cause he is DONE!
Word
Up
Conspicuous Consumption? I can't SPELL.
I think Mitt really saved the day with his masterful press conference this evening. He was basically like hey, I was speaking off the cuff. i didn't express my self well.
He answered three questions and then walked off. So that was smart. Get the pool reporters out of the bar at 10:30 Eastern for press conference and then walk out while they are still shouting questions at you. Way to defuse a tough situation, Mitt. You are sure to get favorable reporting from them now.
If reporters don't ask him if he is seriously writing off 49% of the country and calling them freeloaders every day until he answers it straight, they don't deserve to draw a salary.
Is having a spine a job requirement for them again? Awesome.
That sound you hear is H.L. Mencken laughing his ass off in his Baltimore grave.
Nice.
Is rugged individualist/f*cking wanker Paul Ryan going to pay all of his "govt. handouts" back now?
Speaking of things that should not be, the people behind the RoboCop remake (is nothing sacred?) have released photos of the new suit and it looks like complete shit. Thanks, Hollywood, for ruining another one of my beloved childhood memories.
Time to reboot Clooney's bat nipples. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7gz69MqD51qzozj1….
I just watched Robocop for the first time about a month ago, at The Viking's insistence.
Pretty cool movie.
"he will NEVER be able to make the 47 percent of us who are too poor to pay income taxes"
Yeah, and Santorum will never get the smart people to vote for him; we know.
I'm thinking he really believes that shit, too. There are a lot of Americans on Welfare, Housing Assistance, undeserved Disability and Food Stamps; most are white, by the way. I believe the number that really don't want to work and who want to game the system is a way smaller percentage: maybe ten or 12.
The first time this spoiled little ass-basket has made an intelligible statement all campaign…
and it's THIS.
He surely didn't studder at all on this. stutter? studder? it's early.
Look on the bright side Mittens:
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."~Oscar Wilde
Oh and,
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" ~Oscar Wilde http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-plNbpIlC8
Hi, everybody! Did I miss anything???
Oh, nothin'
Mittens stepped on his dick again, but no biggie.
Just the cole slaw. Too much mayo in my opinion.
nail in coffin…
Now we know what percentage of "you people" we're talking about. Fuck you very much for the clarification, Mitt!!
I'm just gonna leave this cliched yet oh-so-funny video here: http://meemsy.com/v/3721
Anything that makes Jennifer Rubin complain on Twitter that she didn't think the Obama campaign could sink any lower has to be good.
Did she really complain about that video?!
That shit is still funny. From the part where Hitler calls Mitt an amoral sociopath (!) to the end, I was laughing out loud.
"Seriously, I thought there was a bottom to the Obama campaign's sleaziness. I was wrong." She also tweeted at Josh Marshall "this video pushes Mitt past the 270 threshold. #presidential." Whatever she's on, I want some.
"RESIGN NOW!!1!" Outraged winguts are going to riot in the streets over the 10,000th Hitler parody video, because it besmirched the reputation of Jennifer Rubin! That's some serious delusion right there.
Oh god, that was funny.
Tears, i was laughing so hard.
I loved it. It passed the "post on Facebook" threshold for me
well no wonder she was pissed.
i'm fb'ing it too. thanks for laughs opus…
And there are still seven weeks left. Romney's staff should be noting which Dairy Queens have "Now Accepting Applications" signs in the window, it will come in handy.
So ….any plans for Obama's inauguration night?
My job is to not worry about those people.
To be fair, it's awfully hard to backpedal in golden flip-flops.
Christ, that's a Drudge-Siren headline.
This might take a moon walk, like, actually on the moon.
A moment of silence, please, for the recent grads of Pat Robertson's Regent University, Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, and all the BYU grads who won't be working as staffers and interns in the White House during the next four years. If working at Dairy Queen was once good enough for this democratic-socialist, it's now good enough for them. [Cue Taps]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xrlf3taEo
This is what happens when you sit in a plane next to Dan Senor.
For some sick reason, I always read his name as Don Señor.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
One of the nicest compliments I've ever received was from a very tough and brave elderly Basque lady (who'd seen it all and back again countless times) in a San Sebastian bar, who after an evening of drinks and gab addressed me as "Senor." It brought me to tears, because I knew I wasn't worthy of such respect. Dan Snore would have no idea what I'm talking about, because he has no sense of honor and is a mere corporate shit heel.
I think you should write that screenplay. Does it end as "he turns away, on the tarmac, leaving her to board the plane. A single tear run her cheek to fall to the ground below"?
This is "Macaca" times eleventy billion.
Love it. Last weekend my cousin pointed out to me how many times I use the "word" gazillion. I'm switching to yours. More poetic.
Earlier in this post, someone said "fucktillion" Love that so much…
Hey look, Mittiavelli is doubling down on his video on the teevees.
The debates are going to be absolutely must see teevee.
I will remind all how the prez mocked hard working tax paying Americans and then unleashed the democrats to attack them.
the prez should have never mocked them
Shut the fuck up you ridiculous bartbot troll.The people at the Wonk don't hate America we love this country;we hate trolls like you.Go back to Kevin,and Rodger and tell them you have failed.What a Douche!Then go vote for your Mormon ungodly pagan candidate.And burn in hell with all your Fucktard bitch boy friends! Must really suck for you to support a non christian Mormon fucktard as Mittens.You clowns are so going to lose.Looks like another 4 years of bitching from you racist cock suckers because a black man is the PRESIDENT!! SUCK ON IT YOU TEABAGGING TROLL!!
sbj… lmao.. why do you hate your fellow American?
I have no intention of voting for either twins of failure.
a news flash for you the tea is dead.
if you going to research someone at least get it right.
register unaffiliated and vote third party
Please call 911. I've just swallowed a pretzel and the dogs are looking at me in a most queerful manner.
Chew!
You can do it!
Chew, Sir, chew!
Feeling much better now, thanks.
i see you guys are the welcoming committee.., so far I am not impressed… in fact you cracking me up.
I must ask are your republicans or democrats it is getting harder every day to tell you dead beats apart.
This cartoon made me smile: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2012/09/24/120924…
Has a bit of the Charles Addams about it… http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-H-t-Wz1VNU/TMuXQDf1xLI…
Yes, so it does…
Can we complain about the War on Hallowe'en, the way the Christers complain about the "War on Christmas"?
These people should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps from debtors prison. And if they can't manage then their orphans will be given the same opportunity as John Galt analogue Oliver Twist, a silver spoon and a 95% head start!
Hat's off to you, Mother Jones.
James O'Keefe, if you're reading- THIS is how it's done.
I can foresee no way in which this can possibly backfire.
Yep, everything's going swimmingly. In fact, tomorrow Mitt is unveiling his new campaign slogan, "Forward."
I thought it was going to be "Iceberg? Where?"
Surprisingly, Mitt's saying that in a Michael Caine cockney accent isn't playing well with focus groups, but Mitt is insisting on sticking with it. The rich are a funny lot.
If it were Michael Caine cockney, it'd be "awight electorate! we're all kosher wiv tax cuts and that, ain't we? Sahnd."
His campaign (well, half of it) have now changed the slogan to "Downward"….
Oh tess, don't tempt the gods this way. The taper was Jimmy Carter's grandson, who was tired of hearing Mittens defame his father.
As I understand it, he wasn't the one who made the tape but arranged for the person who made it to meet up with the author of the article at Mother Jones. But yeah, that connection is going to be used against them.
If he's ever had the slightest bit of trouble in his life, they'll try to make it about that: “Carter's grandson, who has as many as three warrants out for his arrest (for failure to appear in court to show cause why he should not be jailed for unpaid parking tickets) refused an interview request from Fox News…”
Which would be Romney's best strategic move: Glue the President's lips together just before the first debate, or glue his own lips together now?
Glue the President's lips to the USS Reagan and pose with a thumbs-up and shit-eating grin.
How much income tax do you pay mittens? Maybe your self-hatred is justified; YOU ARE IN the 47%!!!!!$(@!
I have hopes that Reid will drop that bomb soon. Maybe I am niave.
Indeed: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-ro…
Yeah, that’s EXACTLY the kind of thing I imagined they discussed in their nice quiet rooms.
Paul Ryan: "Duuude?"
Jonathan Chait breaks down the false equivalence:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/real-romney-…
OT: Haha, if I see Max on Michigan Ave. on the way to work this morning, I'll high-five him for you-all:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/fox-and…
LOL
Is Max Rice saying that somebody at Fox News perused him for weeks and prepped him to appear on the show because they thought he had an opinion they could use to provide a manipulated view of the news?
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Meh, I need to vent, sorry if this has already been posted…
But why the fuck is this video so newsworthy? He has done nothing more than state what the Republican base has firmly believed and espoused for at least all of my adult life, as attested by my email inbox. The strength of this belief is only equaled by the belief by such Republicans that it "doesn't count" when they themselves cash their government checks.
Whose minds are actually going to be changed by this "shocking revelation?"
Meanwhile, whoever made this video is almost certainly unemployed now, because people still expect minimum wage earners to keep million-dollar secrets. At least this wasn't an Apple factory worker.
The issue is not whose mind is going to be changed it is who is going to make a redoubled effort to get out on 11/6 to vote for Obama and who in the middle of the Republican Political Spectrum and considers himself to be an Independent is going to say, "Fuck it, might as well wait for 2016." Close elections are not won these days by who gets out the vote, they are lost by who doesn't and Mitt has just killed off a lot of 'likely', but privileged white males in the 34 to 59 demographic.
As to who made the video, I'm speculating it was an original or copy of the staff members whose job is to make a record of the candidate's appearance. The major candidates and even minor congressional candidates all retain at least someone to make an audio of the speech. Several times a Congressman has been speaking to a bunch of reporters and one of the recorders thrust into the melee is held by a guy I know whose job it is to do it for the campaign. Regarding the Romney tape, did s/he defect, lend it to the wrong person, leave it in a McDonalds – it may take years before we know.
Then the camera wouldn't be at waist-height, behind some glasses/tumblers.
It looks and sounds like the camera was hidden in the bar.
(Hell, find who it is and hire them to pour liquor for a Drinky Thing.)
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I know, I'm late to the party. What an entitled shit weasel this asshole is. I work, I pay taxes and I'm voting for Obama. Fuck you.
Ditto.
Even David Brooks throws Mitt under the bus today in his op-ed piece "Thurston Howell Romney."
Well, that's that. Mitt''s done.
See you in 2016, wingnuts. LMAO.
This video is truly a wonderful New Years gift. Maybe we'll get another one next week for Yom Kippur
Well, I'm doing OK Doctor, sort of. I saw this video where Mitt Romney said …
Oh!, You saw it too.
Good, I thought it was a bad acid flashback.
I think it's worth contrasting Romney's hastily thrown together press release where he doubled down on these remarks with a certain other set of remarks, delivered by a different presidential challenger, to the people of Philadelphia, PA, on March 18th, 2008.
Like Romney, this candidate was responding to the release of controversial remarks that threatened to derail his presidential bid. Unlike Romney, they were not the candidate's own remarks. Unlike Romney, this candidate did not respond immediately, but spent several days crafting this deliberate response. But unlike Romney, Barack Obama's response was so well-crafted that it helped his bid for the presidency, and was compared by pundits of various ideological slants to JFK's 1960 speech on religion.
Don't get me wrong, I think these remarks are really, really awful -it basically generated an unforced "make or break" moment for Romney, late in his campaign. However, where Obama rose to the occasion, Romney's reaction in a late-night press conference to double down on the statements constitutes a piss-poor reaction, rather than a deliberate response, that really sinks whatever glimmer of a chance there might have been to get over this issue.
I just have to say I have never in my life made it a point to watch Scarborough or ever say "I wonder what they're saying on Scarboough's show?" This morning, all that changed.
Mr. Romney finally speaks from the heart.
He will dismiss 47% of Americans as beneath his consideration. He will be the President of the 53% (or whatever percentage of the population votes for him.)
This was no gaffe.
A gaffe is when one misspeaks.
This was not a mistake.
Mr. Romney was telling it as he believed.
For the first time, we hear a man speaking confidently, eloquently, because he is saying what he believes.
Who knew. We had thought he was just a candidate uncomfortable with oratory. No, he was a man who was hiding what he really believed and unable to do it artfully.
Yes, Mr. Romney has finally told the truth.
And that is the problem.
Goodbye, Mr. Romney.
Go away.
Go to your multiple homes, or to Switzerland or to the Caymans or wherever else you can be with your millions (or is it billions?)
Go away and don't come back.
Please.
I feel perfectly comfortable imagining President Romney "saving" Medicare, Social Security and other safety net programs. He really understands the people of America.
Now, excuse me while I ask my parents for money to pay for my tuition.
Chet Sirens!! Here are Mitt's new videos: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/romne…
nice grab chet!
Well, the editor was all over MSNBC last night letting everyone know he would be dropping new beats all week, so…
Next the video of Mitt putting a kitten in a microwave.
Brian: Oh, well, the birds, then.
Man in crowd II: What birds?
Brian: Any birds.
Man in crowd II: Why?
Brian: Well, have they got jobs?
Man in crowd III: Who?
Brian: The birds.
Man in crowd II: Have the birds got jobs?!
Man passing by: What's the matter with him?
Man in crowd III: He says the birds are scrounging!
Yet this Democrat earns 1,000% less than you, Mitt, and pay 30% more in taxes. What category does that put me in? Oh, right — AMERICAN.
David Brooks just called him Thurston, too: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-…
David can't go all the way and call him a useless piece of shit, but I think Romney won't enjoy reading it just the same.
wow. that's just…
wow.
Ha!
I love the smell of Republican self-destruction in the morning…
I would like all corporations that are taking government subsidies to stop taking them right now. Quit living off of the American people you lazy bums. Yes, I AM looking at you, oil companies. As a taxpayer, I am tired of supporting you, especially since you give nothing back…
A GAO study found that in every year from 1998 to 2005, approximately 55 percent of large corporations paid no corporate income tax. ** But just 2.7 percent of large corporations reported no net tax liability in all eight of those eight years.
so apparently – judging by the number of comments – wonkette is where a significant number of libtards turn for late breaking news.
78% of Americans think Mitt Romney is a pompous twat. I bet he doesn't care about them either.
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.'"
Oh – and this: "Jesus answered, 'If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'"
And this: "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."
And this: "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'"
(Matthew 25.35-40 ESV)
Yes, but you see, Jebus was only talking about voluntary private charity. He just failed to make that distinction, so the "christian" right helpfully clears it up for us.
Fucking contemptible condescending loathsome hollow venal soulless shitsack. GAH!
More than 16 million elderly Americans avoid federal income taxes solely because of tax breaks that apply only to seniors
"Dependent upon government, who believe that government has a resposibilty to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it. "
Then Romney added "HA HA HA HA! Psych! Parasites and freeloaders…."
Hey Mittens…you're fly is open.
Where's Psychwench when we need her?
I'm a neglected middle child too
My dad left when I was 12, and we lost everything. I guess I better put together an exploratory committee.
Same here; my dad is all happy just spending his day painting or tending his garden and I generally get along fine with him, so politics can't be for me.
My father stayed in my life, but was a rageaholic psychopath. I guess I should at least join the Republic party.
Hey, when your choices are squirrel or sewer rat, fat squirrel wins every time.
But any brain/spinal column eating is risky, it turns out – who knew?
Squirrel is good eating, but brains are for zombies.
I was not one of the pro-squirrel-ers, but I'm sorry to report that I have eaten squirrel.
I'll just leave this here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/48356…
Mike Huckabee said that he once cooked a squirrel in a popcorn popper when he was in college. It's a true story!
gun toting could use a campaign manager.
:(
I'm the youngest too, but I'm not a total fucking dickweed conservative. That honor goes to my eldest brother, who was the 2nd of us 5 kids.
Well swish your bushy tail!
So his Dad paid more than he owed on taxes?
There existed deductions, evasions and shelters that he *could* have taken advantage of, but didn't. So, by Mitt's standards? Yes.
I've always had a crush on Patricia Quinn, who played the slutty and tragic Livilla. I didn't realize til the other day that she was Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I loved that series as well, loved it so much that I read the books, too. It's amazing how well the story was told simply with inexpensive interior sets, great acting and great writing.
Here's another good one from '80s PBS that some of you might remember — Sam Waterston as Robert Oppenheimer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(TV_mini…
http://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Sam-Waterston/d…
Not too long ago, the new target of ire was "hipsters on food stamps".
So you can really get your poverty-shaming on from both directions at the same time. Not only should you feel bad if you buy non-nutritious crap like soda, or baked goods (??????), but if you buy things that are not crap, you are a strapping young [slur for an African-American male] and/or welfare queen. Or at very least, an hipster who doesn't really need to be on food stamps and are totally abusing the system by giving a shit about your food. Hell, if you use your oven or store the food in a refrigerator, that makes you a welfare queen, too.
If from this double-bind you somehow conclude that the only way you could be poor and not offend peoples' sensibilities is not to eat food at all, well, Mitt Romney approves that message.
Exactly. Dog brings in dead varmints as off they were gold, frankincense and myrrh.
IClaudiusAntiquityTittiesApalooza!
OMG, she was Magenta? Wow, gotta go revisit that
Eh, he was a lot of things but true atheism seems like a stretch – although I don't doubt today he'd be firmly in the Darwin/Big Bang/Flying Spaghetti Monster crowd. Ronald Reagan was either an atheist or a Satanist, I'm just not sure which. And I'm pretty sure that the only God Warren Harding worshiped was JP Morgan.
…but the idea of Jefferson banging the slaves is a wingnut wet dream. Easy to overlook the other trifling issues, like atheism etc.
They also like to invoke him to justify secession and nullification, ignoring the fact that the law he was protesting when he said those things was essentially the love-child of SB1070 and The Patriot Act.
Somebody Photoshopped the hundred dollar bills in their mouths.
I'm a Mencken fan, but for my money the best commentary on the imbecility of the news media is AJ Liebling's collection of his New Yorker column, "The Press." Though written in the forties and fifties, his observations on corporate ownership and bias still hold true, and remain way ahead of their time (and he's funnier than hell). You can buy it on Amazon for a pittance. http://www.amazon.com/The-Press-A-J-Liebling/dp/0…
Just got done reading the latest New Yorker, article on Upton Sinclair getting shot down in his gubernatorial bid in California. Another good read. Thanks for the pointer!
Thanks, I'll have to check that out. I've read a couple of books about Sinclair's campaign and the story reeks of deja vu, doesn't it?
The great British film historian Kevin Brownlow's 1990 book "Behind the Mask of Innocence" has a lot of fascinating info about the corporate propaganda campaign against Sinclair.
I thought the books were great too. Loved Robert Graves.
Owners of "the property" have been shopping around a remake for several years, but it's probably too literary for the studio's tastes. No need to remake it, since the original production is fine as it is. The novels are a hoot, as was the author Robert Hughes from what I've read (Anthony Burgess has some good snarky observations about his cultish followers in one of his memoirs).
Sam Waterston was a pretty good actor before he turned into a granite statue somewhere along the line. He was very good in the almost forgotten Rancho Deluxe with Jeff Bridges back in the '70s.
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He is prez of all Americans. Thus as prez his mocked was uncalled for.. and in fact his mocked created what you libs hate the most tea party movement.
why do you hate your fellow Americans?
The only thing that was quite obviously off about the "Oppenheimer" series was that Oppy had a rather stilted, European accent that is very apparent in clips of the real man. Waterston didn't even attempt to reproduce that.
Newsroom Ugh!
why? you are a waste of time.
i don't care. the real question is ….why do you hate your fellow American?
Oh, please, prove to everyone here how little our opinions matter to you by replying to every comment in this thread as soon as they're posted.
Now fuck off back to little green footballs or wherever it is you were excreted from; you're way out of your league here.
Yes, yes, I know, we all know — "you don't care".
Is that what people in the Industry call the 'money shop'?
The Sham-Wow guy?
Sure, he may smack you around some, but you'd never have to sleep in a wet spot. The soppability index on those Sham-Wows is off the charts.
Oh the memories.
You probably love war too, don't ya? Don't ya?
Then why are you here reading and replying?
One of the old Great War poets – a 47%er….
Ronald Reagan was either an atheist or
aSatanist, I'm just not sure which.fixed
I'm the youngest of five, but we were socialists.
I suppose I'm the least socialiest of the batch, tho.
I dunno Soros. Have you ever had Surfin' Bird stuck in your head in a continuous loop for 72 hours straight?
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