Mosque Of The Red State Death
Posted on August 19th, 2010 by D. Aristophanes
Let’s be serious about the 999th most important issue facing the nation for three seconds – 3 … 2 … 1 … okay, screw that serious shit. Ahem. A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into an Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero. The bartender says, ‘What’re you drinking?’ and the imam orders him beheaded because sharia law dhimmitude Allahu Akbar alalalalalalalalala flabberty jabberty jabber etc. etc.*
You’ve been a great crowd! We’re here all week!
*Also the priest molests the bartender’s kids and the rabbi drinks their blood.
We have rightwing bigot concern trolls everywhere, whether we need them or not.
P.S. Not referring to Greg Sargent, just one of the asshole GOBPers who pretends to be above the bigot-farming.
~
Jesus protect me from your followers…
Oh, and love the title.
Priest says: “Bloody Mary.”
Imam says: “Virgin Mary.”
Rabbi says: ?
[Someone better acquainted with Jewish culture and lingo please supply an atrocious pun-chline here]
Great – already wrote out the “top ten reasons against the mosque” when someone “explained” to me that America was attacked because it wasn’t a Muslim nation. That hadn’t even occurred to me, dang it! Especially given the sheer number of non-Muslim countries that haven’t been attacked yet…
al-Qaida attacking non-Islamic nations = God dropping meteors on pro-gay nations. Both of them are taking their bloody time about it!
No one ever attacks us. We must not be special.
🙁
[Someone better acquainted with Jewish culture and lingo please supply an atrocious pun-chline here]
Manischewitz?
Sometimes you just have to take the bull by the horns.
Also, the San Jose Earthquakes are selling team gear at a Footlocker that’s located in the shadow of the Nimitz Freeway! Is there no decency?!?
Phhhft. I thought of Manischewitz but self-edited for superficial obviousness.
Sir Anerood Jugnauth… you are… NOT the father!
Phhhft. I thought of Manischewitz but self-edited for superficial obviousness.
Bloody Muslim Babies? I already made that joke …
Bloody Muslim Babies? I already made that joke …
Well, in classic “blood libel” terminology, there’s always “Bloody matzoh”.
Phhhft. I thought of Manischewitz but self-edited for superficial obviousness.
A technicolor dreamcoat? If there is not a drink by that name, there should be.
“Slightly bleeding Mary, but not too bloody, you know, because it can stain terrible, and you don’t want your nice bar here should get stained. What, rosewood, this is? Ach, very nice.”
You know, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
A martini with olives from a bulldozered Palestinian orchard.
I said “Bloody Matzoh” three times in my bathroom and Philip Roth appeared.
I said “Bloody Matzoh” three times in my bathroom and Philip Roth appeared.
I abreviated, but when I said B M three times Rush Limbaugh appeared.
I said Philip Roth three times and Chaim Potok disappeared …
A martini with olives from a bulldozered Palestinian orchard.
Those olives have been steeping for quite awhile, haven’t they? You have a commendable sense of historical resentment.
EBL – thank you! Don’t get me started on the unprovoked sacking of Troy.
Wait, wait, wait, I got another one! What do you call it when a bunch of Muslim filth moves into your neighborhood and Muzzies everything up with their dirty terrorist ways?
You call it Turban Blight! Bah hah hah hah! Get it because they wear turbans!
“Unprovoked”?! Come on, the city was asking for it, lying there like that.
You’ll notice those gates opened pretty quick when a horse showed up…
No Monty Python references for the next few comments, plz.
[Someone better acquainted with Jewish culture and lingo please supply an atrocious pun-chline here]
As someone who lives in the NYC radio market, it should have been obvious,
“Liven up the taste of those drinks with the *ding* flavor of Gold’s horseradish.”
I’ll see your Turban Blight and raise you Genie-trification!
Ooh – the problem here is that it was really the Burlington Technicolor Dreamcoat Factory!
Gold’s horseradish
That’s great, but what will the rabbi order after that friendly suggestion to enliven the imam and the priest’s quaffs?
– A Portnoy’s Complaint
– A vodka tonic, hold the getting-raped-by-Kossaks
– A You-Should-Be-So-Lucky Lager
Living in northern Minnesota we have Lutherans, Catholics, a few Baptists and us heathen savages so I have no idea how to make a Jewish joke.
Unless I shamelessly copy Mel Brooks.
– Crown Heights Royal
You remember Lucky Lager, Aristophanes? Impressive.
But it may be wishful thinking to hope for a rabbi’s punchline that would somehow reference the bloody Mary/Virgin Mary setup.
(Googling) Whoa, Lucky Lager still exists! Damn my provincial ignorance…
I abreviated, but when I said B M three times Rush Limbaugh appeared.
Mirth!
Living in northern Minnesota … I have no idea how to make a Jewish joke.
I know – you’re only allowed to make fun of Dylan, Franken and Norm Coleman, strictly non-denominationally.
Priest says: “Bloody Mary.”
Imam says: “Virgin Mary.”
Rabbi says: “Seltzer. I’m driving.”
Man, all it takes is a professional. Be here all week &c.
Haven’t seen any that actually said that for ages, but if you go around the end of the cooler in the store and behind, all those cheap cases of 11 oz stubbies with the weird names on them are really Lucky Lager. I know because they have those little rebus puzzles under the cap.
Screw that sharia law, I think we need to be talking about She-Ra law. You can’t just run a nation based upon the honor of some creepy old castle in another dimension! They’re going to come into our Fright Zone and take away our Right to Bear Arms That Turn Into Armaments!
Gonna be a long week, oy vey.
Priest says: Bloody Mary.
Imam says: Bloody Virgin.
Rabbi says: Stop rushing me! I should know from the best value on the drink list?
the unprovoked sacking of Troy
Any sacking of Aikman was provoked, & well deserved.
So you can tell her there’s a hot sun beating on the black top
She keeps talkin’ she’ll be walkin’ that last block
She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight
Well I got some beer and the highway’s free
And I got you, and baby you got me
Hey, hey, hey what you say Sharia Darlin’
Did you hear that a landing gear fell on the roof of a titty bar two blocks from ground zero? Now its hallowed ground and the dancers are no longer allowed to wear burkas. (rimshot)
Better brand of horsey sauce.
Better brand of horsey sauce.
Oh, yeah, that hint of Beaver flavor really knocks it out of the park.
“Screw that sharia law, I think we need to be talking about She-Ra law.”
What about She Wolf of the SS Law?
…And the rabbi says, “???? ?? ?? ??? ???? but with a twist.” Just then a gang of Evangelical Christians rush in and butcher everybody.
Lets hope that Sharia law never comes to the U.S. because then abortion and gay marriage will become illegal and this will piss off conservatives.
Oh THANK YOU WordPress for the brilliant use of question marks instead of the goddamn Hebrew characters. Speaking of Hebrew characters, these three Zionists walk into a bar mitzvah…
Oh, yeah, that hint of Beaver flavor really knocks it out of the park.
Oyster stout and two clamtinis for our table, plz.
Three Zionists walk into a bar mitzvah… and order three Manhattans, the Sufi next to them says what the fuck! The bartender told me I had two walk more than three blocks to get one of those.
עאאםא עאאםא
two=to I blame the liberal media
Substance, is ????? ????? secret code for the terrorist to purchase a Sparro’s Pizza near ground zero or something?
two=to I blame the liberal media
We are all the liberal media now.
Now, where’s my sweet Soros money?
FYWP and ???????? was whatever SubMc posted at 8:37. FYWP for screwing up a perfectly good joke. Now you have gone too far.
Goddamned Activist Judges!!
??? ???
justme, I hear ‘Dr’ Laura is pissed at you 😉
I’m much too sensible to add anything to this thread after four beers and a hot bath.
Moi? Why, am I stealing her First Amendment rights or something?
Oh, and
מזל טוב
Jeez. Thirsty were we? You’re going to be getting up to piss more than once tonight.
Routine. G’nite, Sadlynaughts!
It also brings up the question of whose hot bath it was, but I’ll leave that out for now.
Muslim YMCAs are the Imperial Russian Stouts of Randian Pearl-clutching.
Which reminds me: I should stop drinking (eating?) so many of them…
I think I’m going to start pronouncing Scalia like it rhymes with Sharia.
If you guys ever get your sh8 together you will have a Redstate Account on September 3 so you can open up two dozen or more windows, tabs and keep those troll blammin’ moderators busy with all th stuff you throw out at a
BONO FIDE ASSHOLE.
on his birthday!
Which reminds me: I should stop drinking (eating?) so many of them…
You’ve been eating Muslim Y’s?
the Imperial Russian Stouts of Randian Pearl-clutching.
NOM NOM NOM
Someone explain to me how this country became the world super power.
Someone explain to me how this country became the world super power.
We killed people and took their stuff. Also, there are some pretty damn brainy people in this land, but they tend to be shouted down by loons these days.
The fact is, this Burlington Coat Factory is sacred ground. It was hit by pieces of the planes and it would offend g_d to permit a false religion to plant the Seed of Doom and the Blood Curdling Yawp of Victory. New Yorkers who think its OK for Muslims to take over there city are not Real Americans.
Did somebody say seed of doom?
Huh, an improv thread…
An imam, a rabbi and a priest go to a strip club. The imam says, “Isn’t there an Islamic centre round here?” The rabbi says, “There would be if your people had a legitimate claim to the land.”
Massive bar fight breaks out.
Priest cowers in the corner, praying, “Dear God, who should I be rooting for this time?”
Priest cowers in the corner, praying, “Dear God, who should I be rooting for this time?”
Obviously, the strippers.
A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into an Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero.
Then they wonder what they’re doing in Hiroshima.
Then they wonder what they’re doing in Hiroshima.
Some drug-addled gasbag told them there was a Hindu temple there.
drug-addled gasbag
Drugs, of course! That explains this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA
Drugs, of course! That explains this:
Proving yet again that dirigibles shouldn’t freebase.
Pass the organic, heirloom popcorn, bitches.
The rabbi says “I’m not thirsty, but I would like to try the kvetch of the day.”
Pass the organic, heirloom popcorn, bitches.
Jeez, someone really pissed on Riehl’s battery.
“Conor – You are a pretentious asshole. Your pretension drips from you, just as does your utter lack of a clue and lack of a serious intellect. Be happy that you’re precisely the type of superfluous fool an Andy Sullivan would embrace. Go back to the Atlantic and kiss his ass. All you will get here is dumped on by mine.”
I lolded.
Should I actually comment on the post? Is there anything left to say?
The Rabbi orders a Bloody Murray.
A Polish imam walks into a bar. Then he walks into it again, and again. Finally, the bartender comes out and says “Door’s over here, pal.”
I should feel happy today. I don’t. I feel the loss this nation has suffered for the past eight years acutely. I’m not sure, but long term, I think I’ll mourn the needlessness of the Iraq War more than I will mourn the Towers falling.
Towers can be rebuilt. Wars cannot be unfought.
Blood Curdling Yawp of Victory
Wow. “Gary” had something good in his post!
I’m so naming my band this.
I didn’t realize utter lack of a clue was a liquid. Learn something new every day.
Also, I rate for 77south in the joke competition.
Priest says: “Bloody Mary.”
Imam says: “Virgin Mary.”
Rabbi says: ?
[Someone better acquainted with Jewish culture and lingo please supply an atrocious pun-chline here]
Rabbi says: “Two cents plain” (note: not seltzer)
Alterantive:
Rabbi says: “Chaim tea”
The Rabbi orders a Bloody Murray.
ooh, that’s good!
I should feel happy today. I don’t. I feel the loss this nation has suffered for the past eight years acutely. I’m not sure, but long term, I think I’ll mourn the needlessness of the Iraq War more than I will mourn the Towers falling.
I’ll mourn them both equally; flashpoints in a clash of civilizations that did not need to happen.
There’s a common point to both of them; an overwhelming majority of people in the “Muslim world” condemned 9/11, just as an overwhelming majority of Westerners condemned the Iraq war. There were one or two countries on both sides whose people were exceptions, but even there, support for the violence fell pretty quickly.
It’s a sad commentary of how little we control our fates. Most people on both sides did not want this war, but the jihadists over there and the right wing over here insisted on it, and that was all it took.
I should feel happy today. I don’t.
I don’t, either. I feel *slightly* relieved, but anybody who thinks this is actually over is delusional.
A Polish imam walks into a bar. Then he walks into it again, and again. Finally, the bartender comes out and says “Door’s over here, pal.”
Bush was a Polish imam?
I don’t, either. I feel *slightly* relieved, but anybody who thinks this is actually over is delusional.
I agree. This “war is over” shit is just more of the same “Pay no attention to what we’re doing in your name. Go shopping. Go to soccer games. Get wasted and have a one night stand. Whatever you do, don’t pay attention.” bullshit they’ve been doing since 2001.
Look at it this way, actor212, we may not be out of the pit yet, but at least in Iraq, we have stopped digging.
It’s a sad commentary of how little we control our fates. Most people on both sides did not want this war, but the jihadists over there and the right wing over here insisted on it, and that was all it took.
Well, sociopaths have lack of remorse and fervent passion for achieving their own ends on their sides. Not to mention excellent manipulation capabilities.
konserfatif intelekshewal:
“The November elections are like the battle of Poitiers or the seige of Vienna.”
I suppose it’s a refreshing change from Godwin.
Sorta on topic: Fred Clark nails it
Look at it this way, actor212, we may not be out of the pit yet, but at least in Iraq, we have stopped digging.
We still have 56,000 troops there. That’s actually more than we had in Nam when we called them “advisors”.
This “war is over” shit is just more of the same “Pay no attention to what we’re doing in your name.
Only two US companies have rights to oil fields over there…I wonder how this is going to play out over the next couple of decades…
Sorta on topic: Fred Clark nails it
That’s good.
I agree. This “war is over” shit is just more of the same “Pay no attention to what we’re doing in your name. Go shopping. Go to soccer games. Get wasted and have a one night stand. Whatever you do, don’t pay attention.” bullshit they’ve been doing since 2001.
So far, it’s been Vietnam in reverse. There are troops left, but only as advisers and the like; slowly and surely, they’ll be pulled out too. If the situation heats up again, we may get involved still, but we’ll do it covertly; I really doubt we’ll send troops in again, Iraq is still too much of a burn in the public’s mind.
(Which doesn’t mean that five years from now, liberal Hollywood won’t start coming out with Rambo revenge fantasies).
What alarms me is Bouffant’s post yesterday evening about how even as regular troops were pulling out, PMCs (Blackwater-types) were being increased to “fill the void.” Officially, they’re just being used to train people. Unofficially? Any chance of the U.S. government using them as their new muscle on the ground? I sure as hell would not be surprised.
“The November elections are like the battle of Poitiers or the seige of Vienna.”
Um…what?
First, does he mean the one in 732 (between the Franks and Muslims, and therefore more likely, since he’s out to paint Democrats as Islamofascists, I’m sure) or the battle of 1356, between the French and English?
Under either case, and under any interpretation of the siege of Vienna…WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE MEAN?????
Get wasted and have a one night stand.
Words to live by.
Only two US companies have rights to oil fields over there…I wonder how this is going to play out over the next couple of decades…
They were supposed to have a hell of a lot more, thanks to Cheney’s energy task force. The 2006 elections had a lot of those contracts revoked, if memory serves, which is at least one good thing the Democratic Congress has gotten done. If not undo the war, then at least make sure that those who orchestrated it don’t get the prize they were after.
Under either case, and under any interpretation of the siege of Vienna…WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE MEAN?????
He has no frame of refence here, Actor. He’s out of his element.
What alarms me is Bouffant’s post yesterday evening about how even as regular troops were pulling out, PMCs (Blackwater-types) were being increased to “fill the void.” Officially, they’re just being used to train people. Unofficially? Any chance of the U.S. government using them as their new muscle on the ground? I sure as hell would not be surprised
Not to be a cynical asshole, but do we really even need to ask?
This is so fucking transparent, but I guess it at least gives “liberals” and “moderates” the moral cover they need to go about their lives and pretend like things are better.
Walter, what’s a pederast?
what’s a pederast?
The seat of a pair of pedal pushers.
LT. BRADSHAW: Don’t get wise with me, Peeper. You’re lucky we didn’t burn you on the Anselmo pederasty case.
NICK: Look, you caught him didn’t ya?
LT. BRADSHAW: Yeah, but the punk got away, no thanks to you.
what’s a pederast?
The seat of a pair of pedal pushers.
I thought that was a pederstal?
The troops remaining are advisors and support, specifically troops to support the Iraqi security forces. If those guys aren’t taking fire in combat I will carve ‘fancy that’ in the side of my cock.
Give that cynical asshole a cigar – he’s probably right.
And, also, keep an eye on the PMCs, not just here but in general. As the world sinks deeper into dystopian cyberpunk territory, they might just be the new face of war.
The Vietnam trauma caused a transition from the citizen soldier model to the all volunteer, war plus tax cuts model – so that the Average American could go to war, but not pay the consequences in any way. The logical next step is to cut out the military altogether and privatize war. Maybe not altogether, but, for murky counterinsurgency operations that we don’t want to get our hands dirty in anymore – e.g. the kinds of wars we’ve been fighting and will be fighting in the future.
It’s happened to some extent in the last decade. If my own cynical asshole suspicions are right, though, the next decade is when it’ll really take off.
I will carve ‘fancy that’ in the side of my cock.
Thus making it available for sale in in high-end delis.
Give that cynical asshole a cigar – he’s probably right.
Oh, shit. Sorry, T&U. That was supposed to be a “she.”
I will carve ‘fancy that’ in the side of my cock.
Thus making it available for sale in in high-end delis.
Must. Con.Trol. Snarkasm.
Must. Con.Trol. Snarkasm.
I’ve got my wetsuit on, so go wild.
I will carve ‘fancy that’ in the side of my cock.
Thus making it available for sale in in high-end delis.
Must. Con.Trol. Snarkasm.
I’ve got my wetsuit on, so go wild.
*whew*
I’m pretty sure there’s not enough to go around, N__B…
Oh, shit. Sorry, T&U. That was supposed to be a “she.”
YOU BASTARD.
It better not be a cheap cigar, either.
I’m pretty sure there’s not enough to go around, N__B…
I’m too much of a gentleman to brag.
I pronounce this thread dead at *looks at clock* 9:38.
So unfortunate. Such a young thread…
I thought that was a pederstal?
No, that’s a country music instrument.
Priest says: “Bloody Mary.”
Imam says: “Virgin Mary.”
Rabbi says: ?
“Mary-schmary. Tomato juice and slivovitz. It’s a Bloody Miriam.”
I thought that was a pederstal?
No, that’s a country music instrument.
Or a confused Norwegian.
I pronounce this thread dead at *looks at clock* 9:38.
Just a sec.
Get me an fMRI, do a blood work up, and my Vicodin, dammit!
OT:
Creepy Dude and Dude With The Creepiest Mustache get pissy at each other. Hilarity ensues.
Creepy Dude and Dude With The Creepiest Mustache get pissy at each other. Hilarity ensues.
She was on Bill-o last night. I know, because I wanted to see how Fox was covering the Iraq withdrawal. BTW, they weren’t.
I couldn’t figure out who looked worse for being on. Coulter, for being there or O’Reilly, because it’s a sign of how desperate he’s gotten for ratings.
Also, he actually seemed like the reasonable one on the show. That was sad.
Hey! Rusty Humphries was totally gonna be my porn name!
Rusty Humphries was totally gonna be my porn name!
Only if you use an ill-maintained knife for your carving.
Hey! Rusty Humphries was totally gonna be my porn name!
Not Rusty Trombone?
After Coulter called Farah “swine” he had himself butchered and wrapped around a Muslim just for the conservalulz.
The Rudepundit, so quite obviously, NSFW etc, recently had this to say about Coulter. Lolz w/ truth.
Hey! Rusty Humphries was totally gonna be my porn name!
Apparently, someone beat you to it, right down to using it for porn.
Creepy Dude and Dude With The Creepiest Mustache get pissy at each other. Hilarity ensues.
Jesus Christ, I’m actually scared now. Up until now, it’s all been fun and games. But Ann Coulter is coming across as measured and reasonable.
What the hell has become of this country?
I bet you didn’t even have to Google that.
fucking her is like tossing a roll of pennies down
a wishing wellthe Grand CanyonNot to criticize my esteemed colleague and good friend, RP, but FIXED!
Jesus Christ, I’m actually scared now. Up until now, it’s all been fun and games. But Ann Coulter is coming across as measured and reasonable.
So, did you miss Pat Buchanan saying Newt Gingrich went “too far”? Because that’s when I *really* lost it.
I bet you didn’t even have to Google that.
He does right wing radio. I thought the joke was self-contained?
I guess my real question is, how far can the Overton Window be pushed? My sense is that we haven’t even seen the half of it yet.
I guess my real question is, how far can the Overton Window be pushed? My sense is that we haven’t even seen the half of it yet.
Well, there is no such thing as Peak Wingnut.
I don’t know. I really am worried.
I guess my real question is, how far can the Overton Window be pushed?
They’ll very close to having to redo the foundation and put up some jack studs already.
I guess my real question is, how far can the Overton Window be pushed? My sense is that we haven’t even seen the half of it yet.
Well, my hope was kind of that the teabaggers would be for the other side what the New Left was for us – the people who would finally push the envelope so far that they’d alienate the majority of Americans, and cause a shift in the other direction.
So far, it hasn’t happened. It still might, but I’m dubious. Which does kinda concern me also.
You stay classy, Roy Blunt.
Motherfucker.
I don’t know. I really am worried.
Five years from now on “Hardball”: And from the left, Ann Coulter, who feels that queers and n*ggers ought not to be exterminated. With some exceptions.
Right now, I’m less worried about the future political environment of this country (for once), and more worried about acts of violence against Muslims. (Or Sikhs, or Hispanics with beards, or pretty much anyone some ignorant dumbfuck decides is a terrorist).
On a brighter note, Jezebel has a post up re Marx/Engels slashfic.
Or Sikhs, or Hispanics with beards
Or Greek Orthodox priests.
On a brighter note, Jezebel has a post up re Marx/Engels slashfic.
I can’t stick around there too long because the ads give me seizures and I don’t want to look at Tracie’s self-indulgent, pale stomach all day (and OH GOD THE COMMENTERS), but that’s pretty great.
BTW, make sure you check it on weekends. Hortense is fucking awesome and could always use page hits.
Marine accused of exposing self, waving shotgun, shouting white supremacy slogans, while wearing child’s banana costume.
Right now, I’m less worried about the future political environment of this country (for once), and more worried about acts of violence against Muslims.
Why?
Marine accused of exposing self, waving shotgun, shouting white supremacy slogans, while wearing child’s banana costume.
I would have thought a Marine wouldn’t fit in a child’s costume.
Right now, I’m less worried about the future political environment of this country (for once), and more worried about acts of violence against Muslims. (Or Sikhs, or Hispanics with beards, or pretty much anyone some ignorant dumbfuck decides is a terrorist).
Or worse, political action against them.
Say what you want about the post-9/11 security measures, but they were pretty mild historically speaking. Compare it with what HUAC was doing to people in the fifties, compare it with the internment of Japanese Americans in World War Two, even compare it with the Palmer Raids of the interwar period, I mean, and it’s not nearly as bad as it could have been (internment being the worst instance).
But the door’s always open to things getting worse. Especially since the next Republican leadership, whenever it comes, will have to have been blessed by the teabaggers.
Why?
I feel like the anti-Muslim rhetoric has really ratcheted up after dying down for a few years. And the fact that Republican party leaders are using borderline eliminationist rhetoric and completely dehumanizing rhetoric about Muslims gives it more legitimacy than ever, I think.
Or are asking why I’m not worried about our political future?
I am, but in this instance, I find it more likely that random assholes will attack people than that Muslims will somehow be targeted by the government (more than they already are, of course).
Also, too, I’ve pretty much given up considering whether or not we’re on a slow slide into fascism. Because we are.
But the door’s always open to things getting worse. Especially since the next Republican leadership, whenever it comes, will have to have been blessed by the teabaggers.
Thanks for your optimism!
I feel like the anti-Muslim rhetoric has really ratcheted up after dying down for a few years. And the fact that Republican party leaders are using borderline eliminationist rhetoric and completely dehumanizing rhetoric about Muslims gives it more legitimacy than ever, I think.
Yes, it has. It wasn’t even this intense after 9/11 – probably because at the time, the White House did not endorse the idea that we were at war with Islam. But that was then; Bush and McCain are gone, crucified as “liberals” by the new conservatives, and these new conservatives are even crazier and more obsessed about it than they were nine years ago.
Hence I agree with T&U’s concerns.
the poll found 48% of Americans think there are places where Muslims should not be allowed to build mosques where other houses of worship would be permitted
What the fuck?
I’m training myself to never be surprised by the stupidity of the American people.
Seriously. It saves you a lot of heartache.
I feel like the anti-Muslim rhetoric has really ratcheted up after dying down for a few years. And the fact that Republican party leaders are using borderline eliminationist rhetoric and completely dehumanizing rhetoric about Muslims gives it more legitimacy than ever, I think.
Really? I think the anti-Mexican rhetoric is more frightening. Apart from the Park51 center and the occasional smear of liberalism by equating it to Islam, I don’t know that anti-Muslim sloganeering has been that bad.
the poll found 48% of Americans think there are places where Muslims should not be allowed to build mosques where other houses of worship would be permitted
This is, believe it or not, the same percentage as Americans who think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11.
It’s not just the stupidity…it’s the cravenness, the selfishness, the wrong-headed self-righteousness. Who the fuck are these people? What the fuck happened?
I can not BELIEVE no one’s hit this yet (he said, not having read the comments):
Enraged Bull Limpet said,
August 19, 2010 at 6:27
Priest says: “Bloody Mary.”
Imam says: “Virgin Mary.”
Rabbi says: “Mom”
Really? I think the anti-Mexican rhetoric is more frightening. Apart from the Park51 center and the occasional smear of liberalism by equating it to Islam, I don’t know that anti-Muslim sloganeering has been that bad.
Well, this is “the” identity politics election, of the kind we haven’t had in a while. Nigger in the White House, spics pouring over the border, and hajjis building a mosque near what conservatives think of as the site where We went to war with Them.
All these things flow into each other… the birth certificate, the border reform, the Park51 thing. But yes, I remain most worried for the Muslims, because 1) they’re such a small community compared to Mexicans – no electoral impact at all to protect them, 2) the crime they’re being accused of, 9/11, has such a huge emotional impact on America, much more than Mexicans crossing the border. Yeah, they’re definitely the number one enemy.
I keep thinking we’re evolving as a nation…I still think we may be…but te taking such a long time because roughly 1/3 of the population is bugfuck insane or irretrievably stupid.
Really? I think the anti-Mexican rhetoric is more frightening. Apart from the Park51 center and the occasional smear of liberalism by equating it to Islam, I don’t know that anti-Muslim sloganeering has been that bad.
I’m worried about the anti-Mexican rhetoric, too.
There are prominent people within the Republican party equating Muslims with Nazis…there are people asserting that ALL Muslims are radical, and that what happened on September 11 reflects the views of most Muslims.
People are fucking ignorant in general, and particularly ignorant about other cultures. Their fear is being stoked, and that worried me.
All these things flow into each other… the birth certificate, the border reform, the Park51 thing.
Yup. I guess it would be more accurate to say that the xenophobia coming from the right (and, fuck, plenty of Democrats, too) is scaring me, no matter who it’s directed at.
Alleged serial sex-offenders in glass houses shouldn’t throw
candystones.Good call – even if you only count the American dead & wounded, the two aren’t even close. Include Iraqi casualties (& millions of refugees) & it becomes like equating the Manson “Family” murders with the Titanic.
I guess what I’m really trying to say is: ICEBERGS DID WTC, SHEEPLE!
This is how conservatives win, even when they lose at the polls: by dragging standards themselves down to the lowest common denominator, then lobbying to dig even deeper underneath the new lower standard because LIBERTY & FREE MARKETS (i.e., Reagan in a meat-dream) told them to.
The New Normal is neither.
Also, what Eric Boehlert says. Too.
roughly 1/3 of the population is bugfuck insane or irretrievably stupid.
I still put the number at around 25%, give or take. This has been a consistent number in polls for a very long time. But there is a further percentage — and I haven’t the slightest idea how big it is — that can be pushed into bugfuck territory by hard economic times or just plain old fear. Unfortunately, at the moment there is a general feeling of fear and impending doom, thanks to the economy, and it has swelled that 25%.
Yeah, they’re definitely the number one enemy.
Even tho it would likely trigger a race war? You know, the whole “black Muslim” thing, particularly Muhammad Ali (who I would *LOVE* to see cut some promos shaming white America).
This thread is bringing me down. Don’t know if this has been linked or not, because I am too lazy to look,but I think we can come up with some more:
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roughly 1/3 of the population is bugfuck insane or irretrievably stupid.
I still put the number at around 25%, give or take.
y’all are talking about the Crazification Factor.
But there is a further percentage — and I haven’t the slightest idea how big it is — that can be pushed into bugfuck territory by hard economic times or just plain old fear. Unfortunately, at the moment there is a general feeling of fear and impending doom, thanks to the economy, and it has swelled that 25%.
Yup. And this is something I don’t think a lot of democrats understand. I mean, I keep hammering this point home, but it’s really, really fucking IMPORTANT. If the state can’t address people’s economic problems and is seen as failing in its current form, then we are fucked.
Self-indulgent stomach?
Self-indulgent stomach?
Yeah, I don’t know. I was just annoyed.
More fois gras, bitchez!
Even tho it would likely trigger a race war? You know, the whole “black Muslim” thing, particularly Muhammad Ali (who I would *LOVE* to see cut some promos shaming white America).
I’m not convinced it would. Are you so sure black voters would start a race war over a minority most of them are not a part of? This kind of crackdown wouldn’t affect most blacks, after all.
I’m not convinced it would. Are you so sure black voters would start a race war over a minority most of them are not a part of?
I don’t think they would, either.
Are you so sure black voters would start a race war over a minority most of them are not a part of?
No.
Not until some bigot got the idea “Well, we painted the President as Muslim so all blacks must be Muslims.”
It’s really not that large a leap. After all, scary black men are scary.
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Obama Keeps Shoving Things Down My Throat
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Obama fucked a nigger.
That’s Why I’m Voting Tea Party
I suspect they have more sense than to target blacks that explicitly, but maybe not. Nothing they do will surprise me anymore.
Obama won’t let the big cable companies fuck up my internets.
That’s Why I’m Voting Tea Party!
Personally, I’m hoping in the heat of the campaign, some Teabagger candidate (Rand Paul would be perfect for this) starts calling Muslims “sand niggers”.
The next time the republicans take power, we are probably done for. We can’t seem to get any democrats who are willing to fight publically on ideological terms with the republicans anymore, at least not at the nation level. Clinton would at least bust their chops a little through the 90’s, even if he didn’t do a lot legislatively (being on the defensive the last 6 years with the pigs in congress).
I want Huey Long back.
Anyway, Obama is even more center right than clinton, and he is not going to do anything much more than slap some duct tape on the cracking dyke. There is no one in the republican party’s national scene who isn’t batshit crazy; we couldn’t even get a george bush senior out of them anymore.
If they get one more Alito, or one more congress/president combo, they will wreck the country. Then it just becomes a question of whether they can run a competent police state (probably not), or if we get riots/civil war.
Either way, we do nothing about global warming/peak oil/overpopulation for 4-8 years.
Personally, I’m hoping in the heat of the campaign, some Teabagger candidate (Rand Paul would be perfect for this) starts calling Muslims “sand niggers”.
That, I can imagine. And they’d just be fucked up enough to turn it into yet another stand against “political correctness.”
There is no one in the republican party’s national scene who isn’t batshit crazy
I’m not sure I agree with this. For instance, there are six Senate races where the Senators in Congress supported a mainstream candidate, only to have that candidate shot down by the Teabaggers in the primary.
And it’s rare, but less rare than before, but you occasionally hear a Congressional Republican refudiate the Palinaughts. I suspect that as the campaign gathers momentum, there will be more and more of this. I really think the Teabaggers are in for a wake up call.
Then it just becomes a question of whether they can run a competent police state (probably not), or if we get riots/civil war.
Can’t comment on your timing.
Their ultimate accomplishment, definitely not a police state. Like I said; cyberpunk style dystopia. Think the Alliance in Firefly; government an arm of the corporations, welfare slim to nonexistent, no political opposition to speak of because what’s the point, really?
And it’s rare, but less rare than before, but you occasionally hear a Congressional Republican refudiate the Palinaughts. I suspect that as the campaign gathers momentum, there will be more and more of this. I really think the Teabaggers are in for a wake up call.
I hope you’re right. It’s true that most of their revolutions have run aground pretty fast (1980, 1994, 2002-04). But it seems like each time leaves the country mired even deeper in the shit, and with less and less prospects of a return to liberal government.
Their ultimate accomplishment, definitely not a police state.
Who says they’re competent enough to achieve their corporatist goals without destroying everything?
It’s true that most of their revolutions have run aground pretty fast (1980, 1994, 2002-04).
So did 2006-2008.
Then it just becomes a question of whether they can run a competent police state (probably not), or if we get riots/civil war.
I’ve been rather pessimistic in this thread, but I can’t get quite this pessimistic. Read about the ’30s. That was a lot scarier time, not just in the U.S., but all around the world. People who lived through the Depression (like my parents) would laugh in my face if I tried to say the current situation was anything like that.
Not that it can’t still get worse, of course.
I’ve been rather pessimistic in this thread, but I can’t get quite this pessimistic. Read about the ’30s. That was a lot scarier time, not just in the U.S., but all around the world. People who lived through the Depression (like my parents) would laugh in my face if I tried to say the current situation was anything like that.
Right, but back then, when shit hit the fan, populist outrage came out via the liberals (W. J. Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Huey Long, at long last FDR). Today, it only seems to come out through the teabaggers, which makes us sink even deeper in the shit every time.
That, and the liberal politicians we elect seem to have very little political will of their own. Moderate centrists the lot of them.
For instance, there are six Senate races where the Senators in Congress supported a mainstream candidate, only to have that candidate shot down by the Teabaggers in the primary.
I think that is just the window shifting. Those “mainstream” candidates would all happily vote to cut SS, medicare and warfare, go to war with Iran (given a few months of media circus to get people amped up), abolish the EPA, declare ketchup a vegetable, institute a flat tax, outlaw teaching evolution in schools, and so on. The only difference between a “mainstream” republican candidate (at the national level) and a teabag candidate is how low they will sink to pander to their base.
Obama cut vital Pentagon funding to weaponize sharks with lasers,
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I have an ingrown toenail. I mean, like, it hurts.
Think the Alliance in Firefly; government an arm of the corporations, welfare slim to nonexistent, no political opposition to speak of because what’s the point, really?
Yeah, but will I get to wear a cool coat? Because I’m actually okay with that…
My hope is that collectively, in the American psyche, they know that these people will be the end of us and will not elect them. The real question to me is whether they can get just enough people to give up entirely so they don’t bother opposing anymore that normal vote fraud efforts get them in. I mean, Bush II would not have been elected or re-elected without the fraud machine which seemed to get tamped down decently for Obama.
There is also the hope that they fracture their party into third party candidates.
Republicans really are incompetent – their non-comprehension of cause and effect (especially long term) make that inevitable. I am hoping they destroy themselves before they figure out how take the rest of us with them.
Priest says: “Bloody Mary”.
Imam says: “Bloody Virgin”.
Rabbi says: “Tin Roof Mary”
“What’s a Tin Roof Mary?”
“A Bloody Mary on the house”
four beers and a hot bath.
Limpet soup sounds boozy.
Also, the Rabbi orders a Shechita Mary.
First, does he mean the one in 732 (between the Franks and Muslims, and therefore more likely, since he’s out to paint Democrats as Islamofascists, I’m sure) or the battle of 1356, between the French and English?
Under either case, and under any interpretation of the siege of Vienna…WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE MEAN?????
I assume he means the Battle of Tours (which is near Poitiers but we don’t call it that), since it (and the Siege of Vienna) are the two best known instances of stalwart white Christians turning back the advance of the swarthy muslimofascist horde.
But who knows? Maybe he does mean Poitiers. They don’t like France. Maybe the thought of all those long Anglo-Saxon shafts piercing all those prancing Frenchmen appeals to him for some reason.
I realize this thread should be dead by now, but,
There is also the hope that they fracture their party into third party candidates.
That, I doubt. The only two factions right now would be the teabaggers and the “moderates,” and as far as I can tell, the dynamic between them goes something like,
“Gee, Fred, I really think you might want to try it this way.”
“If I tried it that way, I WOULDN’T BE A REAL AMERICAN, WOULD I, YOU COMMUSLIMUNIST UNAMERICAN RINO LIBERAL FASCIST!?!?!”
“Oh, I hadn’t thought of that. Carry on.”
Ever wonder why (especially in Europe) the far left always splinters into a million parties while the far right is always one, monolithic bloc? It’s because the far lefties, no matter how loony, actually sit down and discuss and disagree about shit. The far right doesn’t because it’s never about the ideals for them – it’s about being part of the crowd that represents Their People. Right now, that’s the teabaggers.
And that’s why people who get branded as “moderates” in the GOP have been getting run out of the party and never heard from again for the last forty years.
But who knows? Maybe he does mean Poitiers.
And he would be right. Poitiers, Charles Martel have been fixtures of the French ectreme right wing for decades. Hence Vienna and Poitiers being used by an Islamophobic are quite proper references to be identified by his peers worldwide.
Living in northern Minnesota we have Lutherans, Catholics, a few Baptists and us heathen savages so I have no idea how to make a Jewish joke.
being in West Central MN, I can add Hutterites to the list…
Poitiers, Charles Martel have been fixtures of the French ectreme right wing for decades.
I know nobody’s reading by now, but…At least the way history is taught to Anglophones, Charles Martel’s 732 victory over the Moors is called the Battle of Tours. The Battle of Poitiers is the name given to the 1356 victory of Edward the Black Prince of Wales over the French.
The Battle of Tours happened physically close to the town of Poitiers, but until today, I’ve never heard anybody use the same name for both events.
It’s entirely possible the Teahadists are being used, just like Saint Ronnie milked the pro-lifers and they didn’t catch on until ’87 or so. The Teahadists themselves seem mostly blind to the corporatist side of the GOP, and sure look fully blind about how they might get used.
Or, they’re going to take over the party and drive out the impure. Think that Blue Dog Dems are downers? Wait until more and more businessmen show up. (Well, sane ones.) The Dem party might become the part of all-things-left-of-but-to-include Eisenhwoer.
I know nobody’s reading by now, but…At least the way history is taught to Anglophones, Charles Martel’s 732 victory over the Moors is called the Battle of Tours. The Battle of Poitiers is the name given to the 1356 victory of Edward the Black Prince of Wales over the French.
The Battle of Tours happened physically close to the town of Poitiers, but until today, I’ve never heard anybody use the same name for both events.
The way it was taught to us in French, both battles were referred to as Poitiers; I’ve only heard English-speakers refer to it as Tours.
“Poitiers” is how it would appear in the French far right, therefore, where it’s become kind of a legend (like someone above mentioned). No doubt that’s where the people who reproduced the name got it from, and didn’t bother to check what the English version of it was.