Good morning, everyone – well, I was gonna pull a Tbogg and threaten to quit this popcorn stand(so Athenae could talk me down and stroke my ego a little), but Ms. A isn’t answering her phone, and all my letters are coming back with “not at this address” stamped on them, except for the last one, which bore the legend “Who the fuckare you, anyway?”.
Probably the commie Post Office workers preparing for their upcoming every-Saturday Baccanalia.
Anywhoo, since there’s no one to tender my resignation to, I might as well go to work and pray someone’s still paying the electric bill for the containment building,
The blogs have been all a-fire with snark about the GOP’s effort to rebrand themselves, so let’s look at Freeperville’s attempt to get in on the remodeling craze, shall we?
First up –wrestling with their image!
The WWE’s Tea Party Wrestler Is Making Conservatives Hit the Mat
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:09:41 PM byArthurio
CONNOR SIMPSON 5,918 ViewsF EB 20, 2013
The WWE’s new bad guys
in town are not-so-loosely inspired by the Tea Party, and that has
conservative commentators not-so-quietly complaining that the company is
bringing back a movement already under siege from Karl Rove — this time
in one of the country’s most curious of conservative spotlights, and as
a couple of outwardly racist xenophobes who want to send Mexicans back
across the border. Even if that was kind of the whole point.On
the February 11 episode of Monday Night Raw — frequently the highest
rated cable show in the country — the fake-wrestling franchise
re-introduced “Real American” Jack Swagger, after a few months off, with
a new gimmick. He had longer, messier hair, a mean scowl, and a
newfound hype man. Swagger’s faux-manager, not so accidentally named
Zebadiah Colter, sported a bushy hunter’s beard and wore a beige vest as
he yelled to the crowd: “What’s wrong with America?” Colter then
explained that he “doesn’t recognize” today’s America. He said he saw
people with faces “not like mine” and heard people that “can’t even talk
to me,” and he screamed out again to the Nashville audience and the
Americans at home: “Where did all these people come from?” And then
Colter, who’s used other surnames to fit his gimmick in the past, threw
out some catchphrases familiar to any Tea Party observer — “We, the
people” was prominent — and made a point to stress, over and over, that
he and Swagger were “real Americans.” Oh, did the crowd ever boo.
Swagger and Colter are supposed to be the WWE’s big new bad guys, and
they drew “heat” from the crowd, as wrestling people say. They hated
him.
To: ArthurioKind of makes me glad I cancelled the cable.
To: ArthurioExcept he got busted for pot yesterday so he fits Occupy better.
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posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:16:10 PM
bystruggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: ArthurioJust another TV character being used to slime and insult conservatives. What is so new?
To: Arthurioand how many FReepers thought the McMahon family would not do something like this? lol
To: ArthurioAnd he was arrested yesterday in Mississippi for weed
possession..f’n idiot..the only reason why Vince McMahon is doing this
is revenge for the Tea Party not supporting his RINO wife
Ahh, rebranded Republicans. They’ll run Rick Santorum or Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin or some random guy from the local cackle factory in the next election. “We don’t hate everyone — we just want everyone dead!”
I have wonderful memories of branding when I lived in Wyoming. I always got the horse that wanted to go play in the creek bed instead of cut, but any day spent falling off a horse and flirting with closed head trauma is good day in my book! Great fun with lots of noise when the yearlings bellowed, the smell of burning hair, and we followed it up with a big Rocky Mountain Oyster feast.
What could possible go wrong with branding?
Just sayin’.
Don’t you DARE shoot that duck.
“Until we understand Unity and Omerta..” Yes, because making the Republican party more like the Mafia is the road to success. Sigh.
I love how the Iraq war is apparently now a thing liberals were roaming at the mouth for.
I feel like freeperville is filled with agent provocateurs. Or at the least really should be.
Who DOESN’T have an interociter?
I’ve been using mine to make hot chocolate!
Tommy, I’m glad you’re still doing these posts. The Obsession is one of my first stops on Monday morning, and my week doesn’t feel complete if the post isn’t there.
Fantastic spew this morning. My favorite is, “I doubt even most liberal women felt comfortable w Fluke’s comments.” And how using that much birth control must, ipso facto, mean that she’s “servicing” many men. Whoo boy.
TommyT, you’re my hero for doing this distasteful but necessary job. Next time you feel like giving up, let us know and we’ll chip in for some new hip-waders.
It’s staggering to think that the freeperati aren’t just Stephen Colbert-style jokesters, that these knuckleheads really believe what they’re posting. Most of them, at least. And the way they can pivot from “Karl Rove is our latter day prophet” to “Karl Rove is the anti-christ” (for example) is nothing short of amazing. The binary nature of their thinking makes Univac look dithering.
Thanks Tommy. And please don’t shoot the duck.
The scariest thing about the Freepers is they vote.
Schrodinger’s duck is at the same time shot and non-shot.
That’s just how I roll…
Tommy
I definitely loved reading your post. You have a great deal of wisdom and really gave me something to think about with a couple points you touched on.