Thursday, September 20, 2012

One Year Ago Today

clooney's new movie: less giamatti in the ads

what's happening with clooney's new movie?  at first it was scenery-chomping paul giamatti all over the ads and now hardly at all?  did they do some testing or something?  weird.  i appreciate that clooney treats film making like a social event, but i can't help but wonder what it would be like if he actually put some effort into it. 

this has to be a joke

rodney c. johnson.  it has to be a joke, right?  rod(ney) cock johnson!  seriously, it's too scary to contemplate any other possibilities.


fox news finds the world's worst doctors: ablow edition

fox news channel draws the stupid like a black hole.  its medical ass clowns make eric bolling look like a sparkling intellect, and now keith ablow plumbs sad new depths of bigotry and ignorance.  good for ed shultz for taking the opportunity to kick fox and bill o'reilly for their love of vile hatemongers. 

dadt in the 2012 campaign

dadt's repeal is good for everyone, and greater still because it drives asshole conservative bigots insane.  now here's the question: will obama and the democrats run with this civil rights victory and use it to cudgel the republicans, or will they wuss out and give in to the hate?

ed shultz is having too much fun with bill o'reilly

big ed is savaging bill o'reilly again tonight on his show over taxes.  this is the sort of fun shit obama could have been enjoying all along if he wasn't in bed with o'reilly's masters long before inauguration day.  bill o'reilly is a clown, an evil, repulsive clown.  make him your enemy and the vast majority of people will love you for it.  obama was never a liberal or progressive or anything other than a corporatist buffoon; it probably never occurred to him that he could get reelected being any other way.  

please jeebus, let chris christie run for president

okay, not run, more like like lurch, but still, i would love to see that fat turd run for president.  seeing his asshole act flame out brilliantly would be priceless entertainment.  hell, his nomination would guarantee an obama reelection for better or worse.

tbogg the attention whore

tbogg is a low-effort interwebs snarkster, beloved bassett hound walker and all-around rock-ribbed establishment democrat at heart, and today he soils himself to get in on the obama-fluffing bashing of the not-sufficiently-reverent ralph nader.  a fluffy internets joker attempting to make fun of someone like ralph nader probably shouldn't put 'attention whore' in their title because it seems a little obvious who the attention whore is.  yeah, it's kinda sad, but even though he plays a harmless joker on the webs, he's a good party guy at heart.  a serious thinker type like nader isn't welcome at the cool kids table because they don't want in on the jokes, i guess.  but seriously, ralph nader vs. tbogg.  who's accomplished more with their life and done more for the average american?  and for all we know, nader might be a real card.  or not.  but it's okay because tbogg's only a little scared of people who don't wuv barack obama, and he will be back to making fun of a cockbag like jonah goldberg soon enough and his peed-his-pants fear of scary ralph nader will be forgotten.  there's some funny shit in the comments of tboggs drivel, though, and some of those proud firebaggers aren't as stupid as the average balloon juicer. 

bill o'reilly wants to cut spending so he doesn't pay more taxes

o'reilly's a dick of astoundingly unbelievable idiocy, but aren't at least some of his audience aware enough of their surroundings to understand that he's willing to fuck them dry over ten cents?  maybe not.  nursing homes are waiting rooms for death.  o'reilly's audience might like the attention from the loofah-wielding closet case.

10% cuts in all government expenses?  what a fucking moron.


elizabeth warren is cool

if she keeps running well and getting the love, then she might be the bright spot of 2012. 

establishment democrats are every bit as stupid as teabaggers

i know it's not right to pick on the stupid or ignorant--my daughter tells me that all the time--but this circle-jerk of ignorance and obama-fluffing is just too much to ignore.  over at ballon juice--the rosetta stone of rock-ribbed establishment democrats, right-wing democratic fools and third-tier obama fluffers--dennis g. loses shit and warns against participating in the political process beyond what he believes is appropriate because some americans like ralph nader and cornel west might just not be sufficiently worshipful of barack h. obama and his presidency.  he's actually absurd enough to use the word geniuses in the title of a post so littered with ignorance, misinformation and rampant asshattery.  it's sublime.  of course, imani gandy gets so wet and sticky that she jumps into the comments and starts biting at any ankles she can find while furiously rubbing herself in appreciation in a following post of her own.  this shit is so fucking pointless that i expect to see it crossposted on lawyers, guns & money.

i understand that dennis g. is an establishment guy.  low-level establishment guys--and balloon juice is about the lowest level you can get--do their jobs and don't ask any questions.  you're essentially a cheerleader for a team not many people like, but you get out there and flash some leg regardless.  dennis g. will support the team and the captains because that's just what he does; he's not capable of doing anything else.  he doesn't make value judgements or have his own opinions.  he knows that even the talk of primary could make his guy look bad, so the people talking primary get the screechy insult treatment.  he wants to seem so reasonable, so responsible that anybody who might object is clearly some sort of monster.  ralph nader is a bad guy because he might not love obama enough.  he's a bad guy because dennis g. says so.  he cost al gore an election because that's what the democratic party says, and dennis g. says so.  it's foolishness of the highest order, but it is the way our political system works.  in this country politics is intramurals.  the only dangerous opposition is anyone who doesn't want to play to dennis g.'s rules.  he's out there doing his best to keep the idiots in line, and he will lie and pout and cry like a bitch if they don't.

ralph nader didn't cost gore the election; that's a zombie lie that will never die as long as tools like dennis g. have breath in their lungs.  joe lieberman cost him the presidency.  bill daley did.  warren christopher did.  al gore did.  nader delivered votes in florida and took votes from bush.  without nader, bush may have actually won the election!

i've been on these assholes for a while.  it's politics as usual, but this politics is now plainly killing all of us.  sure, it was hard to see in the 70's, and dennis g. is no where near bright enough to have seen it then, but if he's still an establishment guy now, then he's every bit as bad as rick perry or the run-of-the-mill brain-dead, racist teabagger.  a primary may hurt obama, but obama has ignored a large segment of his 2008 voters.  he's governed as a hard-right corporatist, so it's not a stretch to say that ralph nader and cornel west have a point when they say that obama does not represent them and, except for empty campaign rhetoric, apparently has no intention of ever representing their interests or their political positions.

it was good to see some pushback in the comments.  of course abl and the barking morons were out, but that's their playground.  the irreparable fractures in the democratic party are a good thing, with the dennis g./imani gandy douchnozzles on one side and actual free-thinking liberals on the other who will eventually be in different parties.  the moderate republicans are welcome to obama and his acolytes while the liberals attempt to herd cats and form a true leftish (center-left) major party.  not a great outcome, but better than the solid right-wing (democrats) and far-right (republicans) parties we have now.

the fundamentalist republicans long ago abandoned the position of always voting for the republican; they put morons on the school board and worked them up the ladder to change the complexion of the party.  it took 40 years, but they self-selected for borderline-retarded jeebus-lovers, and now lunatics like orin hatch look like moderate republicans.  dennis g. doesn't want that to happen to the democratic party in the opposite direction with actual liberal men and women of ideas and principles taking over the party from within.  he wants you to vote only for the party pick because that is what keeps his people in charge.  if anyone actually votes their beliefs, at some point we could end up with a party that thinks jerkoffs like dennis g. are right-wing stooges.


big gay al joins the big gay army

don't-ask-don't-tell was one of the stupider things bill clinton did, and he did lots and lots of stupid and damaging things, but now it's over, and all the haters and bigots and homophobes can get over it and go fuck themselves.  this is gonna be such a non-issue for the actual service members.  it's only value was keeping that hate alive in cold withered hearts of the teabagger-types and now it's done.  bye bye.  big gal al and the rest of us are cool with it. 

new uaw deal with gm is a pretty good thing

the labor agreement between general motors and the uaw looks pretty good at first blush and should help with negotiations with chrysler and ford in the future.  getting the second-tier pay up a little is a good thing since that two-tier wage system sucks bigtime.  the health care stuff looks good, too, and both sides made a good deal.  every labor victory is a do-or-die situation in this economy in 2011, so it's one and done if the good guys lose.  the best thing about the labor deal, though, is that the conservatives hate it and it's giving them that same pain in the balls they get when they watch vh-1.  whether it's stuart varney practically tearing up on fox news or conservatard blogs squirming around cause they just don't get math, the paroxysms of the right do almost as much good as a righteous labor victory.


rick perry should stop talking about palestine and israel

i know it seems impossible, but talking about palestine and israel makes perry sound even dumber than usual.  when he says appeasement or democratic israel without a trace of irony, he makes george w. bush sound like mark twain.

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