"Let's face it, when we feel victimized we give away our power to whomever or whatever we blame -- ironically giving power to politicians who we'd never want to have that power."
October 21, 2008 2:11 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: Two weeks left. Avoiding going to far into HuffingtonFilter is going to have to be part of our coping. -- cortex
Please, someone, send that boy a Midol, or a pacifier, or something...
posted by VicNebulous at 2:16 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by VicNebulous at 2:16 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
Without this post, I may never have seen Jon Stewart's "Fuck all y'all" line. For this I am grateful.
posted by Mister_A at 2:22 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by Mister_A at 2:22 PM on October 21, 2008
I've been telling my friends...remember when you were a kid and it was 19 days to Christmas, or one month left until summer break, or when you were a freshman in college who went across your state and your sweetie was 200 miles away and you couldn't see her for a month? And you'd be all like, "I would give anything to go one month into the future!" Well, I feel like that for the Obama administration to be official.
posted by vito90 at 2:22 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by vito90 at 2:22 PM on October 21, 2008
John's Stewart's line was awesome! I endorse this plural usage of 'y'all.'
posted by inconsequentialist at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by inconsequentialist at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2008
Maybe we could get some kind of RSS feed for the Huffington post installed on the frontpage.
(Also if we could just flash up the charts from 538 every time we load a page that would save me a lot of clicking)
posted by Artw at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
(Also if we could just flash up the charts from 538 every time we load a page that would save me a lot of clicking)
posted by Artw at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
Great, now I feel like a victim. Why did I read this again?
posted by cjorgensen at 2:36 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by cjorgensen at 2:36 PM on October 21, 2008
"Y'all" is always plural, being a contraction of "you all", as in "All of you people I'm looking at right now." It resolves the ambiguity in English that results from "you" being used for both the second person singular and plural. One of the most annoying mistakes an actor can make when doing a Southern accent is using "y'all" to address a single person.
posted by vibrotronica at 2:39 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by vibrotronica at 2:39 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
South Carolina doesn't have early voting, but it kind of does in that you can vote absentee by going up to the Office of Voter Registration and giving a reason why you can't vote on election day and you can vote then and there. I am an attorney, so in 2004 I volunteered to monitor a polling place in Florida with the Kerry/Edwards legal team, and so I voted absentee at the Office of Voter Registration about two weeks before the election. In 2004, I walked right in off the street and voted in about 10 minutes.
I am monitoring a polling place in North Carolina this year, and so I went to do the same thing yesterday. Got to the Office of Voter Registration at 10:25 on a Monday. I was the 22nd person in a line running outside the door of the office. I finally voted at noon, and when I left there were 54 people in line outside the building. This is on October 20th in a state that does not have early voting!
Part of this is because I live in a city in the South, but I'd say about 2/3 of the people in line were black. Of the 1/3 who were white, half of them were young hipster looking people that you know were going to vote Obama.
The feeling in that crowd was palpable. The sense of purpose. The historic nature of what was happening. People walked out of that office smiling and people in line would look them in the eye and smile right back. I only saw one older white couple leave the line the whole time I was there. A meter reader walked by and someone in the crowd said "You know why we are in this line, so you need to know when to turn a blind eye." I left the line at one point to put more money in my meter, and when I got there my meter was red and the meter reader was standing about two feet from my car (which has an Obama bumper sticker on it) passing the time of day with a guy sitting on a stoop and pretending that my car parked at an expired meter didn't even exist. I put in a quarter and went back and cast the most important vote I will ever cast in my life.
That was a really good way to cope until election day.
posted by ND¢ at 2:47 PM on October 21, 2008 [9 favorites]
I am monitoring a polling place in North Carolina this year, and so I went to do the same thing yesterday. Got to the Office of Voter Registration at 10:25 on a Monday. I was the 22nd person in a line running outside the door of the office. I finally voted at noon, and when I left there were 54 people in line outside the building. This is on October 20th in a state that does not have early voting!
Part of this is because I live in a city in the South, but I'd say about 2/3 of the people in line were black. Of the 1/3 who were white, half of them were young hipster looking people that you know were going to vote Obama.
The feeling in that crowd was palpable. The sense of purpose. The historic nature of what was happening. People walked out of that office smiling and people in line would look them in the eye and smile right back. I only saw one older white couple leave the line the whole time I was there. A meter reader walked by and someone in the crowd said "You know why we are in this line, so you need to know when to turn a blind eye." I left the line at one point to put more money in my meter, and when I got there my meter was red and the meter reader was standing about two feet from my car (which has an Obama bumper sticker on it) passing the time of day with a guy sitting on a stoop and pretending that my car parked at an expired meter didn't even exist. I put in a quarter and went back and cast the most important vote I will ever cast in my life.
That was a really good way to cope until election day.
posted by ND¢ at 2:47 PM on October 21, 2008 [9 favorites]
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when she referred last week to the patriotic values of "the real America" and the "pro-America areas of this great nation."
A step in the right direction, but fuck you still & forever.
posted by snofoam at 2:48 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
A step in the right direction, but fuck you still & forever.
posted by snofoam at 2:48 PM on October 21, 2008 [1 favorite]
How to cope?
I voted. Can't you see my awesome sticker?
posted by clearly at 2:54 PM on October 21, 2008
I voted. Can't you see my awesome sticker?
posted by clearly at 2:54 PM on October 21, 2008
Sarah Palin can spend the time reading up on the job she's in the running for. No time like before you accept the nomination the present!
posted by elfgirl at 3:00 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by elfgirl at 3:00 PM on October 21, 2008
How to Cope Until Election Day: don't read the Huffington Post, or a thousand other political sites that will boil your blood and whip you up into a fervor.
Seriously, as much as I agree with the political leanings of the Huffington Post, visiting there just leaves me pissed off at the world five minutes later because every story is OUTRAGE OUTRAGE OUTRAGE.
posted by mathowie at 3:06 PM on October 21, 2008
Seriously, as much as I agree with the political leanings of the Huffington Post, visiting there just leaves me pissed off at the world five minutes later because every story is OUTRAGE OUTRAGE OUTRAGE.
posted by mathowie at 3:06 PM on October 21, 2008
I like the fact that decreased sex drive and libido are primary concerns for the writer. I've never though of politics as necessarily sexually exciting, and to be honest, few heated debates get me ... heated in other ways, too. Maybe I'm the odd one out, though.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:08 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by filthy light thief at 3:08 PM on October 21, 2008
Scratch "I like the fact" and replace "I was amused by the fact" - I wasn't taking some pleasure in another person's pre-election suffering.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:10 PM on October 21, 2008
posted by filthy light thief at 3:10 PM on October 21, 2008
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when she referred last week to the patriotic values of "the real America" and the "pro-America areas of this great nation."
A step in the right direction, but fuck you still & forever.
Excellent. Democrats will react as above, and the "base" will recoil in digust from her wussiness and lack of fortitude, with cries of pandering to the liberal media. Every step she takes has the feeling of deep and irretrievable failure.
posted by jokeefe at 3:16 PM on October 21, 2008
A step in the right direction, but fuck you still & forever.
Excellent. Democrats will react as above, and the "base" will recoil in digust from her wussiness and lack of fortitude, with cries of pandering to the liberal media. Every step she takes has the feeling of deep and irretrievable failure.
posted by jokeefe at 3:16 PM on October 21, 2008
« Older Blood of the Lamb, motherfucker. | So you ditched your car - here's help with public... Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by longsleeves at 2:16 PM on October 21, 2008