You guys are probably tired of my pointing this out, but real-life conservatives are the living embodiment of the Matt Bors’ Nazi cartoon. It’s all our fault, *WE* were the ones who taught them the “groomer” slur would be effective because (checks notes) we quoted them accurately.
My big hope with this “groomer” bullshit, as well as with the actual Don’t Say Gay laws and the other laws being passed in some states that overtly outlaw abortion, is that the Right, in its rage-fueled insanity, will overreach. They tend to get high on their own supply and barrel forward thinking a majority of people agree with them. But although normies can be swayed by a well-crafted if dishonest message, most people do NOT in fact agree with them and when conservatives overreach the normies sharply draw back in disgust.
Also, when you fuck with Disney….well. Don’t mess with the Mouse, he’s a stone cold capitalist and will kill you before he’ll willingly lose a dollar.
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I thought it was cute EE has braces. Like anybody really gives a fuck how his pork face looks.
* I initially wrote "perscription, perhaps subconsciously acknowledging the palliative nature of the daily REBID. I'll be honest, weekends are hard sometimes. I smoke extra weed to compensate.
Seems like just this past week that ol' Newt Gingrich was saying "Anybody who quotes what I said last weekend is a liar." But neither Newt nor Son of Erik have anything to worry about--the so-called liberal media goes to great lengths to avoid reporting on the crazy shit conservatives do and say.
Again need to point out: Erick is an unreconstructed Middle Georgia racist, who resigned a makework job as Macon City Councilman to go be a racist full time on air. He's a "Christian" like Robert E. Lee was a "Christian".
(Macon still thinks its 1983 and Reagan is still President. Best thing about it is that Atlanta is 85 miles northwest on I-75. )
I'm actually surprised Erick Ericksen, who twice called a Supreme Court Justice a goat fucking child molester, is not demanding credit for pioneering the pedos and groomers slur. I mean, it's been around forever, I first heard it in the seventies, but I don't expect him to be aware of that.
Whilst awaiting the second coming, so to speak, of Alex Cockburn's Press Clips, Boehlert was as good as one could get. Possibly -- probably? -- due to his nature as a human being, he was, for my taste, insufficiently cynical and for, whatever reason, wouldn't make the connection that the mainstream repeatedly, continually failed out of profit-oriented choice which is to say something of a moral failing. Reporters are presumed to be honest but what you can call Big Journalism's profit model was to spew bullshit which is to say they lie as part of the job. Of course, I, a non-professional, can of course be wrong on this but the pieces fit well.
As for Erick, Son of Erick and a 4H-winning sow -- he has his mother's face, no?? -- again: as a practical matter, there's no truly decent Republican and too few conservatives (or no meaningful influence) to matter. So, sure: sliming Boehlert. They roll on gratuitous hate if no other reason because that's what their audiences want. Which is to say my hate for them and what they do is a response to their acts, something of a normal reaction. Awful garbage for decades now. And they don't let up, they don't get better.
"...because Erickson is a stinking piece of shit." Which is to say he's no outlier there.
MJT is a piece of shit, but at least she's (probably) mentally ill. Erickson is just a straight forward piece of shit.
Boehlert was a good follow on Twitter, and he wrote one of my favorite obituaries of Al Weisel (Jonathan Swift) for Media Matters when Weisel passed 12 years ago. I'm glad we had both of them, even if it wasn't long enough.
This was excellent. Erickson's been a stinking piece of shit for so long.
I read his post on Herschel Walker after this one and it had this line: "Remember, 427,205 Republicans stayed home in January 2021 because they thought the race was going to be stolen."
Curious where he got such a specific number, I did a Google search and got a handful of hits. Surprise, all from Erick Erickson, who's been repeating it often, and a few more where he was quoted -- always with the bit about how they stayed home because they believed it was going to be stolen. Thing is, if you add up all the Republican votes in the General election for Senator in Georgia, and subtract the Republican vote in the Runoff, you get less than half Erickson's number. (Same if you subtract it from Trump's tally.) On top of that, Democrats saw an almost identical drop in turnout from the General to the Runoff, and I doubt it was because they thought the race was going to be stolen by Democrats. I'm beginning to suspect he pulled the number out of his nether bifurcation. You can never, ever, trust them when it comes to data of any kind.
For reasons I cannot fathom, the name "Peter Griffin" comes to mind whenever I see a picture of "Ham Face". How does that saying go? "Art imitates life" or is it "life imitates art"?
ETA: Seriously, what IS with all these people being cartoon characters?
Roy, thanks for your defense of Mr Boehlert and for putting Erickson in his place. He really is an even more loathsome, less talented piece of shit than Jonah, isn’t he? It seems impossible, but…
That moist slab of pink mystery meat lies about literally everything! I know this is a minor point in the crap Ham Face spewed but I wore the "braces" he whines about. I finished my rounds of Invisalign over a year ago and now just wear the retainer (at least 10 hours a day). The aligners are plastic and are not sharp. Seems silly to have to point it out but they will not make you say something you didn't intend to say. I noticed a slight sibilance when I spoke, nothing more. What a grotesque specimen of humanity he is.
I'm fairly sure Bohlert didn't celebrate the deaths of people from AIDS, or defend Oliver North's perjury before Congress, or say "axe" instead of "ask" when referring to Blacks, or just outright make stuff up when it was convenient. But do go on, Mr. Erickson.
I'd be proud if my relentless Marxism somehow hurt his tongue but I'm pretty sure I wasn't even thinking about him.
You guys are probably tired of my pointing this out, but real-life conservatives are the living embodiment of the Matt Bors’ Nazi cartoon. It’s all our fault, *WE* were the ones who taught them the “groomer” slur would be effective because (checks notes) we quoted them accurately.
My big hope with this “groomer” bullshit, as well as with the actual Don’t Say Gay laws and the other laws being passed in some states that overtly outlaw abortion, is that the Right, in its rage-fueled insanity, will overreach. They tend to get high on their own supply and barrel forward thinking a majority of people agree with them. But although normies can be swayed by a well-crafted if dishonest message, most people do NOT in fact agree with them and when conservatives overreach the normies sharply draw back in disgust.
Also, when you fuck with Disney….well. Don’t mess with the Mouse, he’s a stone cold capitalist and will kill you before he’ll willingly lose a dollar.
"shaking his wattles"
Money quote - as in worth this months subscription*
I thought it was cute EE has braces. Like anybody really gives a fuck how his pork face looks.
* I initially wrote "perscription, perhaps subconsciously acknowledging the palliative nature of the daily REBID. I'll be honest, weekends are hard sometimes. I smoke extra weed to compensate.
Seems like just this past week that ol' Newt Gingrich was saying "Anybody who quotes what I said last weekend is a liar." But neither Newt nor Son of Erik have anything to worry about--the so-called liberal media goes to great lengths to avoid reporting on the crazy shit conservatives do and say.
Good to know that even Hamface’s orthodontist thinks he’s a noncompliant incompetent.
Again need to point out: Erick is an unreconstructed Middle Georgia racist, who resigned a makework job as Macon City Councilman to go be a racist full time on air. He's a "Christian" like Robert E. Lee was a "Christian".
(Macon still thinks its 1983 and Reagan is still President. Best thing about it is that Atlanta is 85 miles northwest on I-75. )
I'm actually surprised Erick Ericksen, who twice called a Supreme Court Justice a goat fucking child molester, is not demanding credit for pioneering the pedos and groomers slur. I mean, it's been around forever, I first heard it in the seventies, but I don't expect him to be aware of that.
Whilst awaiting the second coming, so to speak, of Alex Cockburn's Press Clips, Boehlert was as good as one could get. Possibly -- probably? -- due to his nature as a human being, he was, for my taste, insufficiently cynical and for, whatever reason, wouldn't make the connection that the mainstream repeatedly, continually failed out of profit-oriented choice which is to say something of a moral failing. Reporters are presumed to be honest but what you can call Big Journalism's profit model was to spew bullshit which is to say they lie as part of the job. Of course, I, a non-professional, can of course be wrong on this but the pieces fit well.
As for Erick, Son of Erick and a 4H-winning sow -- he has his mother's face, no?? -- again: as a practical matter, there's no truly decent Republican and too few conservatives (or no meaningful influence) to matter. So, sure: sliming Boehlert. They roll on gratuitous hate if no other reason because that's what their audiences want. Which is to say my hate for them and what they do is a response to their acts, something of a normal reaction. Awful garbage for decades now. And they don't let up, they don't get better.
"...because Erickson is a stinking piece of shit." Which is to say he's no outlier there.
MJT is a piece of shit, but at least she's (probably) mentally ill. Erickson is just a straight forward piece of shit.
Boehlert was a good follow on Twitter, and he wrote one of my favorite obituaries of Al Weisel (Jonathan Swift) for Media Matters when Weisel passed 12 years ago. I'm glad we had both of them, even if it wasn't long enough.
This was excellent. Erickson's been a stinking piece of shit for so long.
I read his post on Herschel Walker after this one and it had this line: "Remember, 427,205 Republicans stayed home in January 2021 because they thought the race was going to be stolen."
Curious where he got such a specific number, I did a Google search and got a handful of hits. Surprise, all from Erick Erickson, who's been repeating it often, and a few more where he was quoted -- always with the bit about how they stayed home because they believed it was going to be stolen. Thing is, if you add up all the Republican votes in the General election for Senator in Georgia, and subtract the Republican vote in the Runoff, you get less than half Erickson's number. (Same if you subtract it from Trump's tally.) On top of that, Democrats saw an almost identical drop in turnout from the General to the Runoff, and I doubt it was because they thought the race was going to be stolen by Democrats. I'm beginning to suspect he pulled the number out of his nether bifurcation. You can never, ever, trust them when it comes to data of any kind.
“unless any time something bad happens to a conservative it’s automatically the fault of the left”
Why not? It works for Centrists.
For reasons I cannot fathom, the name "Peter Griffin" comes to mind whenever I see a picture of "Ham Face". How does that saying go? "Art imitates life" or is it "life imitates art"?
ETA: Seriously, what IS with all these people being cartoon characters?
Roy, thanks for your defense of Mr Boehlert and for putting Erickson in his place. He really is an even more loathsome, less talented piece of shit than Jonah, isn’t he? It seems impossible, but…
That moist slab of pink mystery meat lies about literally everything! I know this is a minor point in the crap Ham Face spewed but I wore the "braces" he whines about. I finished my rounds of Invisalign over a year ago and now just wear the retainer (at least 10 hours a day). The aligners are plastic and are not sharp. Seems silly to have to point it out but they will not make you say something you didn't intend to say. I noticed a slight sibilance when I spoke, nothing more. What a grotesque specimen of humanity he is.
Bohlert vs. Limbaugh, eh?
I'm fairly sure Bohlert didn't celebrate the deaths of people from AIDS, or defend Oliver North's perjury before Congress, or say "axe" instead of "ask" when referring to Blacks, or just outright make stuff up when it was convenient. But do go on, Mr. Erickson.
What he was talking about? First off, does he call invisalign braces? And is he claiming that it caused him to say a racial slur on the air?
(I guess the slur could have also been based on gender, sexual identity, disablity, etc.)