is it just me
or are the assholes just getting thick on the ground these days?
Read the whole thing. I just LOOOVE “Joel” as it calls itself. Excerpts:
(upon being confronted with some uncomfortable truths) “I got up without (well, much of) a word and went in the kitchen and started washing dishes rather than start an argument at my hosts’ table”
Yeah, you showed HIM! And you got those dishes CLEAN!!!
But the best part is “But…I don’t know, it just seems like lately conservative conversation has become much more vituperative and…well, stupid”
Good lord.
Look, “Joel”. Nobody here thinks Palin is god. Nobody here thinks Palin is even the best person for the job of President, because frankly, until you are put to that test, nobody can know. On the other hand, we’re not anxious to blindly follow the bullshit of the mainstream media and agree with them on the stupidity of “Her Moosehunteriness”. yeah, that’s what you said, wasn’t it? No, that’s not disrespectful. Not at all. yep, that’s what you probably call reasoned discourse. Wait, there’s a perfect phrase for it: ‘Vituperative and… well, stupid” It gives me great joy to use your own keystrokes to describe you.
The individual in question made slanderous comments about a vice presidential candidate, and insuilted myself, readers of my blog, and then continued on to comment using my name AND the name of other commenters to the blog to continue to act up.
Maybe I should have gone into the kitchen and washed dishes with malice aforethought.
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Yea, Joel sure got it all wrong.
Not to encourage Palins opposition, but a few of the calmer oppositions’ arguments actually had weight to it – even though I said nothing about it. I do protest the idiotic ‘Palin sux’ arguments (ie she’s stooopid) that the press has inserted into the public discourse only to have many people ape those words.
The BIGGEST thing that set me off in this post was when someone pulls a…
‘Moby’.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moby
Nothing pisses me off more than when someone says they are for soemthing only to surrepticiously undermine that self same position. That is VERY disrespectful to me (Oh wait! Its a JOKE!. can’t you take a JOKE?!). It also is something a sneak would do.
I hate sneaks.
Especially when they smile to your face and give your reputation a mauling when you are not around. Nothings more pleasurable than to corner a sneak at a work xmas party with the intent of ripping his arm off and beating him with its bloody end.
Hypothetically speaking.
I am guessing that Georgeh may have been a ‘Moby’.
My favorite President of my lifetime is Ronald Reagan. I realize for all his greatness as a President, he still was a real human being with flaws. He was divorced, but to the best of my knowledge, neither he nor his ex-wife aired their dirty laundry in public.
Sarah Palin may be another American like Ronald Reagan. I think (and hope) that she’ll say what she thinks, and not what some opinion poll tells her we want to hear.
It’s not so much that Sarah Palin (or any other politician) is “good” or “bad”, but that she’s just…irrelevant.
Sarah Palin may be another American like Ronald Reagan.
My gut says she won’t be, but only because she’s been burned too badly, too early. There’s a hurt defensiveness to her — not a whining hurt, but a once-burnt-twice-shy thing — that I don’t think Reagan ever had, and I honestly don’t know if she’ll ever get over it. Which is a darn shame, because if she could/can get past it, I think she can go far. I’d follow her.
Yes, peregrine, integrity may well be irrelevant. We may yet change that.
What I still cannot really understand is the level of outright hatred the left, and some on the right, have thrown at this woman. It’s frikkin’ insane. This isn’t “I hate her position” or “I disagree”, it’s a truly disgusting level of, hell, insanity. That it’s not enough for a bunch of them to go after her, to try and destroy her family…
Joel, go in the kitchen and fix me a sammich, bitch.
Neanderpundit,
Waaaah! You’re mean, so Joel MUST be right.
I’m gonna go do the dishes now, and you can’t stop me~!
Emily? Whooosh.Never in the history of this blog has a commenter been more obtuse and ignorant of the facts than you.
And with a wave of Emily’s hand, we are all a bunch of Neanderthal-Pundits.
Hmmm…. I like it. Thanks!
Sounds kinda familiar though….
“she’s just…irrelevant. ”
Her book is the number one seller and she’s irrelevant?
Irrelevant in what way, Peregrin? As a Candidate for presidency for 2012? As a power broker for 2012? As a bookwriter? As a conservative icon?
Broad brushstroke you are making there. It is also very incorrect.
You can do my dishes ANY day, Emily. ;)
If I had the guts to actually leave a URL instead of typing in “deleted” so it appeared I had a blog, my comment might have remained.
Sorry to beat a horse that’s been dead for some seven months, but this is the fictonet so… I have all kinds of responses to this BS – I couldn’t quite bring myself to care enough to type them out, but what I would like to put out there is that I think we (as non-soc/comms) need to stop bickering about the little things (IS Palin a fool? WAS GWB the worst thing to happen to our civ libs since McCarthy?) and get on point – the point being that we now have a closeted Marxist in the so called White House (ror). I’ll never stop being amazed at how easily people get sidetracked by the insignificant crap – by getting worked up over the little things that don’t matter, we play into “their” hands – divide and conquer is “their” game. We really need to get over the pettiness so we can fight the good fight (though i don’t have high hopes on that one). I really hope I’m proved wrong, but there doesn’t seem to be any hope for this country. People need to wake up and smell the coffee – the repubs and demunists are nearly one and the same – neither party has any of our interests in mind – they have THEIR interests in mind. They’ll say whatever it takes to get them re-elected. Catch a clue! The last candidate worthy of MY vote was Goldwater. We need to focus less on getting “our side” (whatever the hell that happens to mean) elected and focus on dissolving the union – States rights is where the focus ought to be. We need to hamstring the Leviathan!