None of the Above

Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:30 pm by JM Ashby


Artist – Rick McKee

In other news, Pennsylvania is picking up where Virginia left off in the War on Women.

Right now, a similar but even worse bill is poised to strike Pennsylvania women courtesy of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (HB1077). This one mandates that the image screen be turned toward the woman’s face, though she will be allowed to avert her eyes (so kind). 113 of the 203 representatives have already signed on to the bill.

Small government!

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  • muselet

    Who the hell raised these men? Did none of the men proposing these slut-shaming laws have mothers? Do none of them have women in their lives whom they love?

    This is your basic male domination porn legislation.

    Couldn’t agree more.

    –alopecia

  • http://twitter.com/j_scottthomas Scott Thomas

    Just got to be in CONTROL!

  • mrbrink

    If you want a little slice of comic gold right now, I’d recommend watching less than five minutes of Trump’s face in the boardroom of this season’s Apprentice.

    Hilarity! That sorry sour-puss motherfucker just looks miserable. Like a guy who won the lottery, blew all his winnings in a year, and had to go back to his old supervisory job overseeing the kill room at the meatpacking plant for half his original salary.

    In just one accidental passing glimpse of Trump in his fake boardroom, I saw a man so bitter and so scorned, so slighted, still fuming and publicly humiliated for the umpteenth time mere months after getting his ass handed to him by the President of the United States for all to see.

    You can almost see his thoughts sitting there waiting for the next fake employee to come through those double doors, hearing the phrase, “…and you fired Gary Busey…Busey…Busey.” Fade to a room full of laughter. All eyes on him, but for the wrong reasons. Haunting, tormenting, echoing through his every waking thought. His inner-Tourettes shouting back, “how dare that uppity cocksucker insult ME?!” over and over and over.

    This is the face of a guy who over the course of the past few months has been involved in assassination talks.

    Someone, at some point in the past few months has had to have been the one with the sound mind to tell The Donald, like some hack-Consigliere, “It just isn’t possible, Donny.”

    With a sigh, and reality setting in, Donald Trump settles in to life back at the meatpacking plant. There’s a processing halt in Kill Room 4. Another non-union worker has been seriously injured. It’s time for The Donald to get to work.

    • eljefejeff

      scary but you very well could be right.

      • mrbrink

        If you think that’s even the least bit scary, I apologize for the confusion.

  • D_C_Wilson

    As a resident of Harrisburg, I can’t say that I’m surprised that our esteemed state representatives are completely oblivious to how this backfired so badly in Virginia.

  • eljefejeff

    btw don’t know if anyone has linked to this but Matt Taibbi has a great article in Rolling Stone. He totally nails what the republican party has become
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223

    • mrbrink

      Yeah, I disagree with the premise of that article. Taibbi forgets that even though these particular Republican candidates are choking the political life out of each other in trying to win the party’s nomination right now, their default positions are all lock step crazy. They haven’t run out of enemies, or “others” to point to as objects of their fear and anxiety. And they’re unconvincing in attempting to smear each other because at the end of the day they all still despise their version of liberalism and Barack Obama. Taibbi writes as though they’re cannibalizing the party, but the real party, the 2016 lurker-cowards, know they have no chance this time around. These contestants for the GOP nomination are the fringe. Look at em’. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul? It’s the table 9 of the GOP, and the flies have yet to settle on a pile of shit because there’s no leader telling them who to vote for because the party’s leaders don’t really care. There’s no grass roots movement in any direction and the only thing the base-heads can even come close to figuring out on their own is: “Who’s the real conservative? Is it you?! Or you?!” So the rabble are just pulling levers and pushing buttons like lunatics running around a McDonald’s playground unsupervised. But they’re not unsupervised. They’re being watched like a social experiment and notes are being taken. So no actual party leaders are coming to the rescue this year and right wing America is playing out their own version of Lord Of The Flies as a consequence. It is a sight to see, but make no mistake– They haven’t forgotten who their real enemy is and they haven’t lost anything. Right wing conservatives dominate in this country because the one thing they’re good at besides pathological lying, projection, and relishing their denial is showing up on election days. I think Taibbi mistakes a wounded animal for dead in his piece and finds time to have a premature laugh over it.

      “Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet.” ~The Wolf

      *And on a side note, I like Matt Taibbi. I’ve read every article that has ever been printed in RS with his name on it. I’ve read two of his books from cover to cover, but his blog has turned into the place where Ron Paul wackaloons troll and feed. I try to avoid it if I can.

      On the other hand, if you really want to read a brilliantly written piece on the real republican party’s backdoor agenda, the one being forcibly implemented while we’re laughing at this distraction that is the GOP nominating process, the link Ashby posted at the top is one for the ages, and much more important in the grand scheme of things.

      • eljefejeff

        You say you disagree with Taibbi’s premise, but what are you presuming to be his premise? That republican’s aren’t lockstep crazy? I don’t think he ever said that.

        It’s just that this nasty primary season is an inevitable result of the course they’ve steered themselves into over the past several decades. Romney and Huntsman would’ve been decent nominees because they would’ve appealed to independents, but Romney was forced to go full on right wing and Huntsman was never given a chance. I also disagree that the strongest potential candidates sat this one out because they didn’t think they had a shot against Obama. I think they knew they’d get torn to pieces in their own primary and would render themselves unelectable for the general election, which is supported by Taibbi’s article. And btw, I’m actually not a huge Taibbi fan. A lot of times he really reaches, IMO.

        • mrbrink

          The premise is that the GOP has run out of “others” and have nothing, or no one left to hate and distrust but themselves. Frankenstupid’s monster is on the loose, for sure– Smashing up debate stages and rampaging through Apathy city. But this GOP primary is nothing but a top-down hands off social experiment. If Chris Christie, or Jeb Bush were running, they’d be running away with it and it would already be a done deal because they’d have right wing media moral support. They’ve begged them to run. None of these candidates really have that top-down consensus telling the herd which way to move.

          There’s a reason turnout is low. Probably several, lack of GOP media moral support being one, but you have to remember that president Obama is the best politician in modern history. It’s a very high bar, and the non-crazies know it, but not Taibbi. He seems to think that Obama should be as beatable as the far right does(he’s personally done much to nurture that crazy idea)and that this GOP primary contest is the disappointing new rule, rather than the passing exception. I think it’s the latter.

          Because there’s really no grassroots movement in this primary. Movement conservatism with no movement? That’s a new concept. No one wants to knock on doors for any of these jerkoffs. So it’s all ad-buys, ad buys, ad buys. And Romney was never going to get base-support on the count of he’s a Mormon. He’s been wasting his time trying to be as unelectable as possible to the rest of the country. He’s losing independents and moderate establishment conservatives mostly because he’s gone full-retard like the others and they’re tuning out. That should tell you something right there about the power and sway of the 30%ers represented on that stage. That stuff might work to get elected on local levels, but for the presidency, it’s a loser. If he’d try to be more of a leader, more of a cat-herder, or a grown-up voice of reason, able to rub two coherent thoughts together, he’d have more support where it counts from the broader GOP(probably peel off some conservative democrats, too)and they would pull together to convince the 30%ers it’s either him, or Obama. But he’s tone deaf with no concept of time and space and tries too hard to get into the cool kids’ party and it shows. His crazy should be more confined to a secret wink and a nod.

          But from the vantage of the lurker-cowards looking ahead to 2016, why waste time, energy and resources trying to defeat the best politician in the country? They’re just standing back waiting for 2016 watching the B-team’s inevitable failure. It costs them nothing to be cowards lobbing bombs from the sidelines building their legends.

          Ron Paul had it half-right. These candidates are ALL fakes and pretenders and he’s just an unwitting accomplice in this fake primary– “Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”