November 30, 2004

Speaking of angry guys... "Screw you, America Sometimes the fish in the barrel deserve to die " A post election rant from Clif Garboden that crystallizes sentiments that many of us blue staters feel right about now.
posted by kamus 20 years ago
  • Sounds like someone needs some serious medication.
  • The worst thing about this crapola is that he had the unmitigated balls to quote Zappa.
  • I dunno, Lafe, he sounds pretty serious already. I guess he could be writing a book or something.
  • What is a "blue state"?
  • since this is dated 11/17, I assume he just copied the 1000 or so other people who wrote the same exact thing in the preceding two weeks.
  • I agree with him - why should we reconcile our differences? What is the point of cozying up to the Republiban? In case you hadn't heard - Bush and Co. DON'T CARE, and they're going to view any sign of reconciliation as weakness. And the Zappa quote was dead on.
  • you slack-jawed inbred flatlanders... Yes, this will change many minds. You go, angry guy!
  • This oughta be good.
  • Maybe someday we can just stop talking to each other completely
  • It's too late to change minds. So I say let 'er rip!
  • I have no problem with holding Bush voters personally accountable each time we take another step into the political and economic disaster we all knew was coming if the imbecile won a second term. I know my family get togethers will never be the same. "So you lost your job, your insurance, your social security, your daughter is in Canada getting an abortion, and now you have to go fight in Korea? I'm sure someone warned you something like that might happen...." Having said that, I'd like to recommend this rant about the idiocy of framing this as a red state/blue state dichotomy. As the link says, "if you thought you felt isolated and alienated from the rest of the country sitting in your blue state on November 3rd, how do you think liberals in Alabama felt?"
  • Eh, I got three paragraphs in before I realized amberglow, EB, et. al. write better crap then this ... and I've had the great displeasure of reading their rantings on this for 27 days in the blue. Unless there's some mention of either socks, bananas, Monkeys, or girls-with-glasses that I missed, color me unimpressed. Hmmmm. Girls-With-Glasses. Anybody else want to partner up and give SuicideGirls a run for the money? Doh! Somebody's already done that (NSFW). Darn.
  • Mackerel: being a liberal in Texas, I can relate to those poor bastards stuck in Alabama. Travis Cty. was one of the few that Kerry won in Texas. Irony: it's also the state capitol.
  • Welcome to three weeks ago, population: that guy. Right now we're too busy worrying about what'll happen when the economy tanks.
  • Sure it's late, but it's a fun read. I think that many of us on the good side of the populace still feel like this. And yes, many monkeys can and do offer better rants, however, very few of us have access to the audience that this guy does.
  • I loved it...reminded me why I'm so pissed off... and, I agree with Mackerel, we've got four years now to hold these assholes responsible for the mess we are in (and the greater mess that is coming). We need stuff like this to be published EVERY DAY so we don't forget! If we don't stay angry for the next four years we're liable to let this happen again. Ok...let's all go watch "Pump up the Volume"
  • Anger is not a strategy. Bush was absolutely right about one thing in his debates -- a litany of complaints is not a plan. The Democratic party must either present a convincing alternative, or the Republicans will dominate for the next few presidential elections. Personally, I have little hope of the former. I laughed at Grover Norquist's article about this once, but I am increasingly starting to see it as prophecy.
  • I haven't got any differences.
  • North to South: Give us our money back. (language may be NSFW)
  • People in the blue states that voted 51-49 for Kerry are sooooo much better than the people in the red states that voted 51-49 for Bush. Your entire country is split, and the sooner you get over this red state/blue state bullshit the sooner you can stop your slide into oblivion.
  • although i was aware of the term "red state" / "blue state" I never heard it so much as I did this election. Bad meme! Bad!
  • what rocket88 said
  • Stop our slide into oblivion? That is pretty damn unlikely, even had Kerry won (or Bush lost).
  • Blue States = Blue Laws?
  • freethought is back! Isn't it amazing! And you thought he had no stamina! *starts sentence with "and", expects rebuke from some dickhead* (not fuyugare, I hope)
  • And I think evey sentence should start with "and", And I will consider the tomcat Jefferson And I will praise what he wrote And point out how possibly out-of-date it all has got.
  • Ah, Wolof. No person ever criticized my language so harshly, but at least I know the judgements were in almost-pseudo-good-fun and were coming from someone likely-clueful. AND what of my stamina? I figured my one-line snarking was growing tiresome decided to lurk ABOUT. BUT what of it?
  • And end with "and" But what about "but"? Of that I can't stand
  • Jubilate Beeswacko