Go Here.

As in here.

Immediately.

Even if it's all virtual, just reading those words and seeing that picture - it's worth something.

(Thank you, once again, Dwight Supremacy.)

This Says It All

On-screen blurb on Good Morning America: "Furor Over Palin in Finals".

After two and a half terms of George W. Bush, that is what causes furor? Illegal wiretapping? Whatever. Torture? Yawn. Sarah Palin as an actual candidate for Vice President? So?

Wingnuts trying to prove something (What, exactly, btw?) by making a lot of phone calls to a "reality" show? Outrage!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Fellow 'murcans

Via Mr. Sullivan, this little glimpse of idiocy, brought to us by George Packer:

A Republican poll watcher who only gave her name as Lorna said, “I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not ever approve of distribution of wealth, and I am not a socialist, this country is not socialist, we are founded on Judeo-Christian principles. I will riot in the street if I have to. I have never been so ashamed of the way Obama has diminished the Presidency. He calls certain people enemies. He doesn’t dress properly. He talks about certain networks. He is just what he is—a Chicago agitator.”

That is just so breathtakingly stupid. What a selfish, idiotic drama queen. You will riot in the street? Diminished the Presidency? Really?

"I do not ever approve of distribution of wealth." Fine, you selfish bitch - I assume you're paying for all of your health care out of your pocket. Have fun doing that if you ever get really sick.

"I am not a socialist." Just stop it you morans. Do you even know what a socialist is?

". . . we are founded on Judeo-Christian principles" (or just Christian if there are no Jewish voters around):
A.) Wrong
B.) That is not the opposite of socialism, you fucking idiot.

"He calls certain people enemies" - Oh heavens. She must be referring to the time Obama said "Yer either with us or against us".

"He is just what he is - a Chicago agitator". Oh, snap. Way to puke up the Fox garbage, lady. Can you explain what that means? (Oh and Lorna, fuck you for using Chicago as a negative. You stay put in Puritan Shithole, VA - some of us like it here.)

Finally . . . "He doesn't dress properly."

I'll echo Mr. Sullivan: "He doesn't dress properly?"

Lessons Learned

1. Facebook is not the place to be right now. I don't need to see what some of my "friends" are saying about the election. (Oh dear - Did Keith Olbermann hurt someone's fee-fees? Was he shrill and rude? My heavens!)

2. From driftglass:

When you have spent two generations and billions of dollars building a Base of reprogrammable bigots, imbeciles and Christopaths, the full, focused power of pure, relentless, omnidirectional, bald-faced lying is truly breathtaking.

3. USA Today is dumb . . . but we already knew that. This morning The Nation's Doormat has a photo of Boehner giving the thumbs-up with the caption: Republicans ready to rule. Rule? Did he get elected king? I know, rules of order and all, but still. And what's with this headline: GOP picks up Senate seats, but not enough. Not enough?? Ladies and gentlemen, your librul media.

4. What Peter Daou said: Dear President Obama and Democratic leaders: for the next two years, listen to the bloggers

5. This, a thousand times. Revisited by driftglass on Friday and excerpted by athenae today. I do like athenae's message of "keep going". It's true.

GODDAMMIT

Wisconsin . . . WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?