That's a campaign tactic that's sorely underused: "Vote Yes on Issue 783, or play Skyrim alone forever!"
I'd have a little more leverage for my shame and scorn platform if I actually got online and played video games. So I could scorn people.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Nov 05, 2012 6:50:27 pm PST #28829 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Zenkitty - Nov 05, 2012 6:51:45 pm PST #28830 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Colbert just said that the best way to mobilize voters is shame and guilt, so you may be onto something, Hec.
Liese S. - Nov 05, 2012 6:53:51 pm PST #28831 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Okay, I have to stop working now so I can get up at 5:30 tomorrow to vote. But if it goes like I think it's going to, I'm then going to come home and cook sausage and eggs for breakfast because I think we'll have plenty of time before actual work.
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2012 6:55:36 pm PST #28832 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Colbert just said that the best way to mobilize voters is shame and guilt
A gluten-free donut would work for me.
Man, I gotta go to bed so I can get up early and vote and have the jitters all day and refresh 538 about a billion times and come home and drive Tim insane until it's called.
But I can't fall asleep because I have to get up early and vote and then have the jitters all day and refresh 538 about a billion times and come home and drive Tim insane until it's called.
t edit I love the "I have to go to bed so I can get up early and vote" x-post!
Consuela - Nov 05, 2012 6:56:06 pm PST #28833 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think people sometimes vote for what they want their interest to be. Sort of aspirational voting.
Bingo.
Also, when times are bad, people like to have someone to blame. (The GOP is really really good at that--and Obama gives them someone to blame whom they would have blamed anyway. It's not just "Blame the Harvard elitists for screwing up the economy, and the immigrants for stealing your jobs, and the lazy minorities for being on welfare." In Obama, they can point to someone who represents to them all three of those categories! He's a trifecta of bigotry-magnetism.)
Blaming someone is so much easier than realizing that the situation is complicated and everyone is going to have to sacrifice for a while until things get better. That's like telling my mother she has to walk to get her legs stronger. She just wants a pill, man.
Allyson - Nov 05, 2012 6:56:50 pm PST #28834 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My dad says global warming isn't a problem because it's happened before.
Group hug?
Cass - Nov 05, 2012 6:57:41 pm PST #28835 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Group hug?
No, it seems kinda sweaty.
Allyson - Nov 05, 2012 6:58:36 pm PST #28836 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Also, I have gallstones. So that's a problem, I guess. Fucking aging.
DavidS - Nov 05, 2012 6:59:45 pm PST #28837 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, I have gallstones. So that's a problem, I guess. Fucking aging.
Yeah, but when you do something really outrageous people can say, "You've got a lot of gall!"
And you can just nod and say, "Yes. Yes, I do."
le nubian - Nov 05, 2012 7:01:30 pm PST #28838 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm kind of where Hec is. I saw a youtube video over the weekend where they interviewed people in PA or OH at a Romney rally and these folks were complete idiots. I know you can find idiots at Obama rallies too, but the kind of racist bullshit of the people at the Romney rally was personally depressing to me.
And there was absolutely no internal logic to their statements at all. Your average 10 year old has better reasoning skills - and this is not an exaggeration. How can you complain about Obama's pastor and call him a Muslim without taking a breath? How can you complain that Obama won't work across the aisle when you hold him in contempt for things he did not do?
(still rage typing!)