Wednesday, January 19, 2011

How I Foolishly Lost $5.00


In the Sekrit Liberal Conspiracy Headquarters office pool.

So George Soros, the ghost of Barack Obama's Luo tribesman father, and I were sitting around the cafeteria doing what Liberals do (this being Wednesday, we were talking about how sad it was that the technology did not exist to let us each have a gay human/animal hybrid Karl Marx clone baby) when the following question came up: Having worn their own lies, hypocrisies and fuckups like a massive shit fedora for several consecutive weeks now, which time-tested dog whistle was the new House Majority Party going to use to put the Republican base back to sleep?

Withing minutes, the grid was done, the money collected, and all eyes were on our email in-boxes.

Would it be the classic "Filthy Usurper with Feet Arrogantly up on the People's Desk?"

Perhaps something icky and "job killing" was being "jammed down our throats" again?

That plush, luxury "prison" built in Illinois with "Stimulus dollars"?

Nefarious Muslims gathering every Friday in the streets of New York City to block traffic?

The Kenyan Classic?

The $200 Million-dollars-a-day profligacy?

And then, ten seconds later, we had a winnah!

The Chicago Way !!!

Bread winner with your tax dollars - and, it's getting worse!!!

Bread Winner....

Bread Winner...Making Babies!
And so forth...

Lot of caps? Red Letters, bold face and Exclamation!points? And all in Giant Persuadamond font, so you know it has to be true? These wizards of the forensic arts do not miss a trick (although mine arrived without eagles rampant on sparkly flag logos, so I guess they had to economize somewhat.)

Dang.

I had ACORN and "Death panels" in the office pool, but I should have know better: "Scary, Undeserving Brown People" has been the perennial and prohibitive favorite of the Right for over a century, and betting against them going with "Welfare Queen" when they need to change the subject is stupider than betting against Seabiscuit.

It's like betting against the Seabiscuit...in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap...from the movie "Seabiscuit"...having already seen the movie "Seabiscuit" a million times.

Just goes to show that it rarely pays to be a hunch bettor.

5 comments:

Capt. Bat Guano said...

Hey!? They forgot the fucking Cadillac. They may be losing their touch or are they just getting sloppy.

Anonymous said...

how sad it was that the technology did not exist to let us each have a gay human/animal hybrid Karl Marx clone baby)

Now that's just ridiculous. Being a librul, you would have aborted it.

gruaud said...

What used to surprise me was that these conservative tropes worked on the base every time. What surprises me now is when one of them actually wriggles free from the relentless propaganda catapulting.

StringonaStick said...

Ah, it all makes sense. All the racist crap they've shoveled since Obama took office was just the prelude to bringing back an old fave; the lack of Cadillac is merely temporary I'm sure.

Anonymous said...

OMG! They're breeding! Them, the Others, those people.

Please clarify who put out such a crude, blatant photo-caption. A member of the new House Majority? Jeez, this country is in a sicker place than I thought.