Senor Tambor, spurred by the Cerulean Cherub, mournfully contemplates a Schism in the formerly United Front of the Online Left, the Friendly Alliance that used to exist before Twitter shat fartbeams on our once-edenic comity.*
I know.
Even I, who am kind and gentle, and kind, and gentle, like the butterfly softly fucking the bunnyrabbit, consensually of course, have been subject to Cruel Internet Remarks.
Thers will fall in line and vote for another warmongering corporate-Zionist Lobby owned neolib
in the name of "feminism." Yeah. Hillary.
This comment responds to a post where I said that I think the United States should boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia because of that country's homophobic laws and horrifying, systematic homophobic violence. So you can see where this fellow is coming from.
Whee.
Whee.
I can of course shrug off this sort of thing, given that WhiskeyFire Enterprises, Global, netted upwards of NINE MILLION DOLLARS last year, as well as fourteen ping-pong balls and a packet of Cheeseburger Doritos.**
Moving on. I've given Drum grief over the years, mostly regarding Iraq, and occasionally because I felt like being an asshole (hi mom!).
Whatever.
But the right-wing response to Drum, and Atrios (!) is kind of awesome. Weird. But awesome.
Welcome to my world, Kevin. Just so as you know, this rule goes also for Obamacare, the economy, foreign policy, firearms law, and absolutely every other area of public policy. I have been called a “racist” for so long now that I’m almost looking forward to a Hillary presidency so that I can be called a “sexist” instead.
Gosh.
What fascinates here is the recognition that Holy Tabasco, wingnuts are stupid. As a rough approximation, 95% of all right-wing cultural production is about What Liberals Really Want, and How Obama is a Socialist Racist.
The nitwit in the block quote above has no clue that the One True Reason he's being yelled at is that he is a goddamn moron, someone who actually wrote:
Obamacare will now go into effect, and Americans will soon feel entitled to its fruits. Those who doubt that this will have a deleterious effect on American republicanism have clearly never been bribed with their own health care.
"Bribed with their own health care."
Great Snot!
This is moreover a person who thinks, oh, this:
Britain once had an Empire that stretched across one quarter of the globe; it provided the world with a common language, many of its institutions, global trade, and cricket; we did Great Things at home and abroad. Now, we wrangle over whether state spending should be 39 or 40 percent of GDP, and we hold the prime minister personally responsible for hospital conditions hundreds of miles from London. It’s debilitating.
A nation that now provides free healthcare to all the inhabitants of the island it can semi-plausibly claim to rule by Ancient Right is "much diminished" because it can no longer inflict incomprehensible sports on conquered inferior races.
Wait -- I had a thesis --
(Rummaging)
Oh yes.
Fuck you.
(Checking)
Yeah, that probably covers it.
MAS. Oh and this Steve M post which is kinda what I said but without the bad words.
*There is no trolling in this opening sentence. None. I checked. Twice.
**These exist. MollyI & I once had a full fucking crate of them in our garage; it's a ghastly story, actually. No time now though for a full telling.