Sunbattery
Van Helsing, Right Wing News:
Phoenix Rising
Oh, I like them. Or wait, is that ‘Phoenix‘ in the sense of unsophisticated or spite-driven white people and their easily manipulable resentment against a protean1 Other? Oh, I like them.
Despite punishing 107° heat, an impressive crowd turned out across from the Arizona State Capitol Saturday for the Phoenix Rising demonstration in support of countermoonbattery, American sovereignty, the rule of law, and in particular, SB1070. Not even the blazing sun could melt the festive spirits.
‘Countermoonbattery’ is a new one, and I guess they can just keep adding prefixes and suffixes to ‘moonbat’ until they create a whole agglutinative language out of the word. Or else just devolve into howling and pointing, which is easier and ultimately gives the same result. But I’m glad to see ‘not even the x could y their spirits,’ as I’ve been making a collection of such phrases.
As with most Tea Party type events, there was no shortage of incisive signs:
Above: Um…
Above: Signs suggest a narrative in which the problem is other than immigration
Uh, ‘Penix Rising’ demands the plugging of the wide-open boarder. Man, Teabaggers are weird.
A great time was had by all. Give it up, Dems; if Phoenix summer swelter can’t put a lid on America’s resurgence, you can’t either.
Hey man, stop ramming your ‘resurgence’ down our throats.
1 Hours after writing this, I am compelled to nip back in here and add that yes, of course, indubitably, ‘Protean’ ought to be capitalized, since Proteus is a mythological figure — “the immortal old man of the sea” in The Odyssey. And that I did capitalize it, but found that it combined with the neo-poststructuralist capitalization of ‘Other’ to create a false proper noun that looked to me like one of those second-water psychedelic hippie ensembles that rock critics are fond of mentioning, but that nobody in the entire world seems to listen to anymore. I speak of Moby Grape, Mother Earth, Spirit, and The United States of America. I speak of Quicksilver Messenger Service.
So 100 crazies show up in the hot sun of an Arizona afternoon to protest….what, precisely? That they’re crazy?
I like the Phoenix song. Wolf Parade meets Unrest.
You really can’t get past “Van Helsing”.
This guy is totes posting from mama’s basement.
So 100 crazies show up in the hot sun of an Arizona afternoon to protest….what, precisely? That they’re crazy?
They’s messikins and black kids in elementary school here! That’s agin the Confederate Consistution!
demonstration in support of countermoonbattery
Wouldn’t it have made, you know, sense if he just wrote “demonstration against moonbattery”? Why all the extra words?
ResistNet on DADT:
“Backroom deals have been cut in both chambers.”
“Backroom deals have been cut in both chambers.”
OMFG I don’t even know where to begin…
MOONBATTERY COUNTERTOPS! These libs are rolling in filthy lucre!
Isn’t flying at night kind of one of the defining features of bats? Such that a “moon” bat is, well, all bats and not really crazy at all?
Even their epithets are self-contradicting, fucking toons.
Why all the extra words?
He gets paid by the word?
…demonstration in support of countermoonbattery, American sovereignty, the rule of law…
American sovereignty means never having to say Israel was wrong.
“countermoonbattery”
i’ve heard on good authority that Conservatives come up with the vast majority of new words in the english language.
Actually, I’m sure it was a cute play on the military term “counterbattery”, where artillery fires on artillery that has revealed itself by firing. Though it is more normally called counterbarrage.
Ok, I’m probably giving them too much credit here. I do that sometimes to avoid weeping for humanity.
I looked up the word “tea party”. It said “countermoonbattery.” …”Countermoonbattery”. This cannot be a real word, I said.
American sovereignty means never having to say Israel was wrong.
Win.
Why all the extra words?
There’s a meter ticking, dammit!
Countermoonbatteries, by which is clearly meant voltaic piles from the moon to which counters have been affixed.
There’s a meter ticking, dammit!
Wait. Are we doing measurement puns again?
”Countermoonbattery”
Y’know, I gave my love a countermoonbattery once. She locked the bedroom door, and all I keep hearing is “It keeps going, and going, and going!”
Are we doing measurement puns again?
You’re on the list now.
Give it up, Dems; if Phoenix summer swelter can’t put a lid on America’s resurgence, you can’t either.
It doesn’t put a lid on their golf game either, har har, but that doesn’t contradict the notion that their brains have fried inside the pans, either.
“Backroom deals have been cut in both chambers.”
OMFG I don’t even know where to begin…
Alternating DP? That is unusually egalitarian for conservatives.
Or probably just a VBSR*. Which is very typical for Republicans.
*Veiled buttsex reference
…clearly …. piles from the moon
You could see them that clearly, eh? How close were you?
Why is this issue of open homosexuality in the military so
crucially important? To have a strong military, there must
be unit cohesion, order, discipline and high morale. History
and common sense have proven that open homosexuality
destabilizes the military and weakens military readiness.
Shorter “Conservative Resurgence;” faggots are the reason Israel treats the Palestinians and Lebanese with such consideration and mercy.
You’re on the list now.
What list? What’d I do?
Alternating DP?
Is that like alternating current, but in moonbatteries?
American sovereignty means never
havingbeing allowed to say Israel was wrong.Fixed for better job-keeping accuracy!
Give it up, Dems; if Phoenix summer swelter can’t put a lid on America’s resurgence, you can’t either.
In fairness, it’s a dry heat.
Backroom deals have been cut in both chambers. Earlier this
week, leaders from the White House, the homosexual activist
community and the 111th Congress announced a so-called “Repeal
Deal” they believe will get this bill through.
Backdoor deals … cut… chambers
Too easy.
Repeal deal… now that sounds kinky.
These votes came up with virtually no warning
Yeah, who actually backs up their campaign promises, amirite?
and now we have
just hours remaining to launch our own grassroots response.
Start the crotch rocket count-down! T-1 minute, 21 seconds!
If it’s a grassroots response, why does it need launching? Where’s the poutrage?
Of course, that was the purpose of the Administration’s
deceitful tactic – to remove your and my voice from the process!
What if it’s just you and a couple of other closet cases talking to each other in a giant echo chamber while everyone else in the world goes about their business because they don’t fucking care?
Nahhhhh.
What I want to know is, why does someone in the second picture have a California state flag? Did they get lost on the way to Sacramento?
You could see them that clearly, eh? How close were you?
Train the Hubble on that mofo, no atmospheric interference.
Assuming the lens calibration is possible, I mean, the moon might be too close-range…
You got me, I’m not a frigging lens expert here.
Ha hahahha
Hahhahahahaha!
ha
oh shit.
INCISIVE SIGNS
HAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHA
OMG, I’m going to die laughing.
What I want to know is, why does someone in the second picture have a California state flag? Did they get lost on the way to Sacramento?
Dou you know the way to San Jose?
What I want to know is, why does someone in the second picture have a California state flag?
It’s the BEAR flag. Maybe that’s the wingnut method of trolling for strange.
Obvs, they should have gone to Disney gay days instead. Talk about bears!
It’s significant to see protest-as-social-event taking root on the right. Hopefully this means the media will fast-track them to the cone-of-silence they relegate all left wing protests since roughly the 1968 DNC but I doubt we’ll be so lucky. Instead, these self-reinforcing group therapy sessions only facilitate the burning sense of victimhood among history’s winners to metastasize into things even more ugly.
Dou you know the way to San, Jose?
Don’ axe me, mang, I juss werk here, mijo.
I wonder if they want to go back in time and kill all of the liberals weenies who allowed all of those cities in the great state of California to be named with Mexican words and stuff.
Is this perchance another one of Woodstocks for Teabaggers? Jus Askin’, cause the I could say “don’t touch the countermoonbattery acid.”
Follow the link to the rally itself. The gallery of speakers is impressive.
http://www.phoenixrally.com/
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Aw, dammit. That’s what I get for being late.
I wanted to say that.
Of course, that was the purpose of the Administration’s
deceitful tactic – to remove your and my voice from the process!
Well, between this
http://www.gallup.com/poll/127904/Broad-Steady-Support-Openly-Gay-Service-Members.aspx
and this
http://www.gallup.com/poll/135764/Americans-Acceptance-Gay-Relations-Crosses-Threshold.aspx
I’d say your voices have been weighed, measured and found wanting. The public is with us by an overwhelming majority (enough to dent the conservative base, which is practically unheard of), and the trend on the broader issue of homosexuality is definite and in our favor. Sorry to disappoint you, but this is one battle you’re going to lose all the way.
Like the man said, “The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”.
“The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”.
VBPR?
Here is a video. Complete with overhead shots showing the huuuuge crowd. Yep, we liberals might just as well hang it up now.
Here is a video. Complete with overhead shots showing the huuuuge crowd. Yep, we liberals might just as well hang it up now.
Jesus Christ. Could these dudes possibly be bigger stereotypes of themselves???
I don’t dislike the sentiment, but it only “bends” that way because millions of people of conscience went out to fight for it. To the extent anyone comes to see it as self-fulfilling is where I take issue.
The social progress on acceptance of non-hererosexuality is great, but it’s tempered with significant moves backward on say, torture or police brutality.
“The arc of his tory is long, but it bends towards justice”.
Like a divining rod
Like the man said, “The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”.
I can only hope the same proves true on all the other issues of our day. But this is one where I’m not worried at all. We’ve already won, it’s just a question of when.
“The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”.
VBPR?
Bends towards the left, indeed!
This isn’t summer in AZ. That’s at least a month away. Last weekend was just a warm spring weekend. Pfft. The temp never even made it to 110. Come back in August and tell me how tough you are.
Or better yet, hike from Phoenix down to the border and show those pansy Mexicans you can hike through the desert to protest them trying to find a better life.
That’s about the size of the carnival at my daughter’s elementary school. The carnival was more of a highbrow affair though.
I think that guy in the background even has one of those Bubba Keg cups.
Yep, we liberals might just as well hang it up now.
I would love to stand at the back of one of these, screaming, “ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!” just once.
That’s about the size of the carnival at my daughter’s elementary school. The carnival was more of a highbrow affair though.
Yes, but did you have Bubba Keg cups?
I don’t dislike the sentiment, but it only “bends” that way because millions of people of conscience went out to fight for it. To the extent anyone comes to see it as self-fulfilling is where I take issue.
I agree. Sadly, during almost the entire health care debate, it seemed to me that Obama and the Democrats in Congress lost sight of that fact completely, as they did with Guantanamo. The entire first year in office was just “well now let’s sit down and talk about this, I’m sure once we explain it to them they’ll agree and vote with us and we can all hug and be American together.”
I’ll commend them for striving to be correct. They are making sure Phoenix goes down in flames.
… goes down in flames before rising. Dammit.
They are making sure Phoenix goes down in flames.
I think that happened when the Lakers beat them in the playoffs.
Also, if you scroll down a couple links below the video there is a link to a video of the rally protesting the law just for comparison sake.
Shouldn’t one of the resident comic afficiandos have posted a Jean Grey link by now?
Here ya go, DKW
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I don’t dislike the sentiment, but it only “bends” that way because millions of people of conscience went out to fight for it.
Read in its original context (and the intention’s still fairly clear out of context), it’s intended as a message of hope, not complacency, and it is talking about the people who fought for it.
Of course, the whole “give it up Dems” thing gets me as well. It seems to me the Republicans were in charge of everything a few years back. What makes these people think that this time the Republicans, if elected, will do something about the borders.
What makes these people think that this time the Republicans, if elected, will do something about the borders.
Because they really really REALLY mean it, this time!
Also, they’ll ban abortions. Also.
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w00t. If that’s what deportin’ messicans is all aboot, I’m all for it.
When your countermoonbatteries run out, don’t try to replace them with sailormoonbatteries; they won’t work.
Of course, the whole “give it up Dems” thing gets me as well. It seems to me the Republicans were in charge of everything a few years back. What makes these people think that this time the Republicans, if elected, will do something about the borders.
That’s what makes Bush a liberal, Sirius! This time it’ll be different! The teabaggers are real conservatism and real America coming to power, which is totally unlike what happened in 2000, 1994, 1980 and 1968, and that’s why this time everything’s going to be all right!
You win Actor, shorter and more to the point.
(Ban abortion… LMAO. As if the party would ever stick its neck out on anything that controversial unless there was money involved).
The teabaggers are real conservatism and real America coming to power, which is totally unlike what happened in 2000, 1994, 1980 and 1968, and that’s why this time everything’s going to be all right!
They ought to change their party symbol to either Yosemite Sam or Wile E Coyote.
What makes these people think that this time the Republicans, if elected, will do something about the borders.
What are they supposed to do? Change their opinions to fit facts? I don’t kedoodling think so!
They ought to change their party symbol to either Yosemite Sam or Wile E Coyote.
Yosemite Sam, of course. He has the guns.
They ought to change their party symbol to either Yosemite Sam or Wile E Coyote.
Coyote being a colloquialism for someone who smuggles Latinos across the border, I feel like that might send the wrong message. Of course, it could also go completely over their head, like so many other things in life…
I was leaning towards Yosemite Sam, mostly cuz of, yea, the guns, but also because he always has these cruel and devilish plans that are foiled not by bad design but by that long eared galoot, which makes him go bonkers and start shooting himself in the foot.
But I threw Coyote in there cuz, you know, pacifist liberal here. And he’s more pathetic. Also.
I’d go with Yosemite Sam. Wile E. Coyote Supergenius wouldn’t want to hang around with those nitwits.
Yosemite Sam, of course. He has the guns.
Plus, he’s already working for them!
Wrongful.
They ought to change their party symbol to either Yosemite Sam or Wile E Coyote.
Yosemite Sam, of course. He has the guns.
Agree. Sam also played a Confederate Colonel, if I am not mistaken.
A better John Bolton.
if Phoenix summer swelter can’t put a lid on America’s resurgence, you can’t either.
Uh, it’ll still be spring for three weeks. How about organizing an August protest, so these old fatties can tea partay in 120 degree heat?
Uh, it’ll still be spring for three weeks. How about organizing an August protest, so these old fatties can tea partay in 120 degree heat?
Dude, that would be gross. On the upside, you could make a lot of money selling ice-cold Mountain Dew, as long as you could stand the stench.
so these old fatties can tea partay in 120 degree heat?
It would take armies of undocumented workers to scrub out the strange bacon smell…
It would take armies of undocumented workers to scrub out the strange bacon smell…
Between that and the diabetic sweat, it would smell like IHOP up in there!
I’m still laffing at Jonah:
Frum: Was Richard Nixon more or less socialist than Barack Obama?
Goldberg: Uh, I would have to say less.
Frum: A President who imposed two wage and price freezes?
Corvus totally beat me to the punch…
What I want to know is, why does someone in the second picture have a California state flag? Did they get lost on the way to Sacramento?
They took a wrong left turn at Albuquerque.
A better John Bolton.
AHHH! Man, don’t do that. I haven’t had any drugs in almost four months, my brain is no longer equipped to take such things.
I don’t know. Sunbatteries sound like they could revolutionize the renewable energy market.
stryx said,
June 7, 2010 at 22:10
But it’s central to his point!
I can imagine the little hamster in the cage in Jonah’s brain, spinning furiously as Jonah tries to calculate: ‘Mom knew Nixon. Can’t call Nixon a socialist. Besides, he’s a Republican. And I have to keep me narrative intact.’
“Um, less!”
I guess I should be proud of having done the right ones years ago.
INCISIVE SIGNS
Bloody Emos.
The default response for sane people. The video is really worth, uh, not watching but listening to. Jonah squirms.
I guess I should be proud of having done the right ones years ago.
I dunno. I took most of them yet still find reality a serious drag. Perhaps I’m still adjusting.
Shouldn’t one of the resident comic afficiandos have posted a Jean Grey link by now?
I’ve been posting them…in my head. It was seeing Jean in a particularly form fitting suit (Kubert, I believe) that made my wife comment “Yeah, you read it for the articles, er, um story, right?”
I dunno. I took most of them yet still find reality a serious drag. Perhaps I’m still adjusting.
Nah. Reality is pretty much a bastard.
The part that gets me is “summer swelter”. It makes me wonder if the birds flew off to the fallout shelter.
It makes me wonder if the birds flew off to the fallout shelter.
Well, we know the jester stood on the sideline in a cast.
Well, we know the jester stood on the sideline in a cast.
W’s been riding Segways again, huh?
Aw damn, man, we missed it. It’s the lyric *before* “summer swelter” that is relevant.
Helter Skelter, man!
To change an old line in a song somewhat
‘mad dogs and teabaggers out in the mid day sun.”
Now that fucking song is going to be stuck in my head for, like, four days.
Now that fucking song is going to be stuck in my head for, like, four days.
On the plus side, that’s only half the time it takes to actually listen to that sprawling bore of a song.
On the plus side, that’s only half the time it takes to actually listen to that sprawling bore of a song.
And yet, you’d still be halfway thru In A Gadda…
On the plus side, that’s only half the time it takes to actually listen to that sprawling bore of a song.
I like you. You’re a snarkglass half-full type.
Now that fucking song is going to be stuck in my head for, like, four days.
I find that this can drive any annoying earworm right out my headholes.
I find that this can drive any annoying earworm right out my headholes.
And replace them with the even more terrofying image of Ozzy Osbourne in World of Warcraft???? No thank you!
The citizens of the Great State of Arizona are at the State capitol to show the illegal alien swine that they are not welcome in Our Nation. These illegal aliens are not brave and courageous for supposedly trying to find a “better life” for their families, which in illegal alien lingo means drug trafficing and kidnapping. They are criminals and unwanted parasites, leaching off the material success of people better than themselves.
Without illegal aliens Our Nation would have less problems with crime, poverty, unemployement, drugs, drunk driving, high health care costs ect…
May God Bless and Protect the Brave Patriots bearing the Arizona heat to stand up for Our Republic and Our American Culture.
The citizens of the Great State of Arizona are at the State capitol to show the illegal alien swine that they are not welcome in Our Nation.
When you leaving my country, you immgrant scum?
Cuz my kind was here before the Mayflower.
In the immortal words of Tbogg, it’s a dry stupid.
I guess they took their cue from the 105 degree brush-cutter George W. frightening away Al Qaeda back in 2001.
I find that this can drive any annoying earworm right out my headholes.
Yeah, uh, that really isn’t any better.
I bet it smelled like bacon for MILES around that rally,,,, damn. 2,000 old white overweight bigots frying in the Arizona sun! And I bet every single one of them has an illegal doing their yard work, their cooking, or their cleaning…
Yeah, uh, that really isn’t any better.
!!!!!!!!!!
leaching off the material success
echoes of a true Gary.
If I may quote a Mr. or Ms. Darkstar3618:
I RATE FOR SABBATH
!!!!!!!!!!
Lo siento. The only dudeband that gives me a bigger headache than Black Sabbath is AC/DC. Many have lost any affection for me after hearing that sentence…
“Linkin Park sucks fat chode compared to? sabbath”
Well, that is an excellent point. I may have to revise my statement, as Linkin Park is in the top five most vile bands of all time.
100% dude-free
Didn’t you like some Seattle stuff??? A crucial link in the chain.
TU, in your honor I will listen to Nickelback tonight on my car CD player after work. Followed by Oasis and Jet…
Cuz my kind was here before the Mayflower.
mine weren’t.
but, umm, they brought beer….
Didn’t you like some Seattle stuff??? A crucial link in the chain.
Oh, I know. I’m not discounting their influence. I just can’t stand to listen to them. I think there might also be a personal reason for this (and for my hatred of AC/DC), but that’s better discussed in therapy.
TU, in your honor I will listen to Nickelback tonight on my car CD player after work. Followed by Oasis and Jet…
I think you and I have different definitions of the word “honor.”
Before going off the boat, I pictured lots of fat, white, men – wearing various versions of flag-smeared clothing. I was right. And was Wilford Brimley in the front row there?
Moon Batteries
http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/Moon-Batteries
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I’ve been locked inside your Heart Shaped box for a weeks
I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Now that’s just mean.
And was Wilford Brimley in the front row there?
Yes. Hence the diabeetus sweat. Also, too.
Now that’s just mean.
Ugh, right? Luckily, I don’t have speakers at work.
Now that’s just mean.
Better?
“Why is this issue of open homosexuality in the military so
crucially important? To have a strong military, there must
be unit cohesion, order, discipline and high morale. History
and common sense have proven that open homosexuality
destabilizes the military and weakens military readiness…”
That’s why Alexander the Great was really called Alexander the MARVelous! And Julius Caesar- well, everyone knows the Ides of March was a gay holiday.
“Like the man said, “The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice”.
That makes no sense at all. I guess he read about the wheels of justice and decided to cleverly paraphrase it? I visualize a rainbow, but that doesn’t make sense either.
There’s a photo of a man shouting into a black megaphone, (or maybe drinking from it. Hard to tell). To his right is a woman holding a sign about White People’s rights, and she seems to be shouting also. Is she shouting at the megaphone guy, or he at her? Cause they are the only people in the photo that can be seen clearly.
Not to mention the whole THIS.IS.SPARTA! sthick.
“Now that’s just mean.”
Better?
That’s pretty tame Rusty. Try this. NSFW
http://www.girlband.org/artists/rockbitch/playvideo.aspx?youtubeid=bliMSjBe_zU
I’m still marvelling over Frum and Goldberg. I’m not sure Jonah realizes how savagely he was taken apart. He kept falling back on his magical Ace-in-the-Hole, the miracle excuse he built into his magnum opus – and in doing so revealed it yet again for all its dishonest hackery.
Shorter Goldberg
It really is one helluva smackdown. Personally, I despise Frum – but wowzers. And Jonah’s reactions – it’s not just Jonah’s usual weasly squirming and dodging and ignoring things he himself has only just said mere seconds ago. It looks like there’s an internal struggle to avoid that recognizing that what he’s doing is actually wrong.
See, that’s the real kicker, and you have to go on a couple more minutes after SMcG’s linked video stops (which is a helluva lotta Goldberg and Frum to sit through). Goldberg admits that the really deranged nuts using “Marxist” and “threat to the Constitution” type attacks are wrong – and that even though he’s shrugged it off as “not a big problem” – he’s presented with evidence that – yes, in fact it is. And it all comes immediately after he’s admitted to essentially doing the same thing.
Frum manages to force Jonah into enough self-awareness that it might have caused him some serious trouble. It’s lucky for Jonah that he has no conscience at all.
That’s pretty tame Rusty. Try this. NSFW
Whoa!
hai. I’m back. While I catch up on the thread, please enjoy this.
Frum manages to force Jonah into enough self-awareness that it might have caused him some serious trouble.
Mmmmm…nah. Wingnut welfare tastes too yumzy.
Far far too late for this, but Pupienus’ link looks like just another day at church to me.
Just the other day I had to sit and listen to my father-in-law quote O’Reilly (YA RLY) on how the number of priest abuse cases isn’t any worse than the rate in the general population…and refrain from saying “Yeah, but the general population doesn’t have an entire hierarchy hiding them from the fucking cops, do they?” I nearly exploded.
You…You, I like. Moar plz.
OMG –
Just got around to SMG’s link. Wow, Jonah does indeed get DESTROYED. Love the end “I don’t think it’s antithetical to democracy, I don’t think it’s evil, I don’t think it’s leading to people being rounded up and put in camps” – You just lost the base, Jonah.
Sheesh, fans of 70’s rock just can’t catch a break around here.
Best footnote evar.
I wonder if they’ve really thought through this whole “Phoenix Rising” thing…