Rant 11-15-12 - They are all crazy.

They are all crazy.

Every one of them. Batshit lunatics the lot of them.

Losing to the black guy – twice – seems to have broken their brains, which were to be honest, not functioning at peak efficiency prior to the election, but now the lunacy glows like phosphors in the dark

There are the large number of people asking via a White House petition web function to allow their states to succeed (peacefully this time – ha) from the United States. The professor suggests a proper answer to these lunatics is to post a picture of Uncle Billy Sherman on the top of any reply the White House gives (they won’t do that because they are decent human beings at the core – the Professor makes no such claims for himself).

In an interesting demonstration of what can happen when you combine modern electronic devices and a person judged too crazy to be allowed in the Georgia Tea party is recently the state house of Georgia was treated to a two hour video lecture by said lunatic where he claimed that Obama is using secret mind control technique to force this nation to conform to the tennates of United Nations something or other 21. This is straight utter moon bat moonshine from the pages of the John Birch Society and that anyone sat still for this in the state house in Georgia is mindboggling even if they are Republicans. Well at least when they were doing that they didn’t have time to try to redefine rape.

Paul Ryan has emerged from his sulk to blame his defeat on the vast numbers of urban voters that showed up at the polls on Election Day. Paul these people are citizens and your dog whistle ‘urban’ ain’t foolin nobody. After this outburst the professor understands that Mr. Ryan has taken to the woods to kill animals with edged weapons.

The Insufferable Mitt Romney meantime has surfaced and proved one that the views he expressed during the infamous 47% tape really are his and two he wasn’t faking it when he expressed surprise at losing the election.  Reports are that during a conference with his major donors Mitt said the reason he lost was that Obama gave gifts the voting groups that came out for him. In its amazing tone deafness it’s a priceless moment – he came within inches of saying Obama bought the election with beads and trinkets. Which the professor is sure is what he thinks.

Thanksgiving will not, as many have noted, a very happy time at the Romneys. It will be best for all concerned to allow Mitt to quickly eat his food and find someplace to sulk.  

Meantime the former very model of a modern major general one Petraus has resigned from his position as head of the CIA as the news came out he was having an affair (at least one so far) with a woman about half his age. There are twists and turns to this story including a wing nut FBI agent and the sort of spiteful jealousy between women that can make a good feminist like the professor lose all hope for the future.  We are not sure exactly why he resigned but the Professor is beginning to think that the only reason men do anything is so that at some point they can be powerful/famous/rich/infamous/whateverness enough to have sex with a woman half their age. Somewhere Freud is saying ‘I told you so.”

Meantime rich owners of businesses are acting like dicks and making noise about layoffs and reducing hours to punish the unwashed for re-electing Obama. The most prominent one of these folks is the owners of poppa john’s pizza who is saying he will reduce hours rather than pay for his workers insurance – a cost that comes to about 15 cents a pizza – now this is per him. This is also a man who is giving away 2 million free pizzas for some NFL stunt. Somehow this is supposed to make people more probusines? The mind boggles again. Many folks think the rich are insuffurable whiners, this is only confirming that opinion.

While ealier this had been grimly amusing, the continued freak out by the right wing is now simply tedious, sad and bit frightening in its impliations for the future.

Not such a rant 11/9/12

Schadenfredue on Toast.

The defeat of Mitt Romney in the general election has made many on the right wing distressed and upset and feeling like their understanding of the world has snatched away from them they are sorrow filled creatures trying very hard to cope with immense grief. It would take a truly horrible person to find this amusing but alas the Professor is at his heart a black and evil man and this tear stained meltdown of the lords and ladies of the right wing is ever so amusing.

Where indeed does one begin – this is a veritable buffet of Schdenfredue – there is the tumbler of White people morning Romney’s loss – showing face after shocked face. It’s amusing but a bit sad as these folks honestly believed the gibberish served them about the Kenyan Marxist Nazi Usurper eater of aborted babies with the bad drug habit and there are lost faces in there.

What is actually more enjoyable are the humiliation of the pundits, those such as George Will, and Dick Morris who predicted a landslide (not just a win but a landside) for Romney, along with the website Politico whose war on Nate Silver (who after all was only doing math) would in a sane world mean that nobody would ever take anything they say about anything seriously again as in “it’s raining outside” “Are you sure, let me go look. Nope not a drop.”  This will not happen as these folks were all wrong in the right way so they will be just fine. Still to read their predictions now is an exercise in nasty evil joy.

There was the live TV meltdown of one Karl Rove who threw a fit when Fox News announced that Obama had won Ohio and re-election and ended up being lectured to by a Fox News anchor person.  It seems Karl took some 390 million dollars of right wing billionaire money and managed to piss it all away (except of course for his fees which we presume will be enough for Mr. Rove to retire on) with no results.

There was Bill O’Rilley’s mourning the death of the white establishment, neatly forgetting that for many years the Irish were not considered members of the white establishment and showing such over the top sense of I’m the victim here that one wanted to seal it in plastic for future study. He also is a prime indicator that the gop will learn nothing from this – his ‘they want things’ comment shows not only is he an out of touch old fool, but a bigot as well.

But the king of Schdenfredue was the man Mitt Romney himself. It seems that he and Ryan and the whole staff really believed the horseshit they were shoving out to the rubes. There is a line in the 80’s film Scarface where Scarface is told the secret of being a successful drug dealer is “never get high on your own supply.” In this case the entire crew were wasted on their own stuff and spent the last few days of the campaign looking for munchies. It is one thing to feed the marks a story to keep their moral up as the race entered the last few days it’s another thing entirely to start sucking down the kool-aide yourself.

This story alone makes one extremely glad the Obama – whatever his many faults – won. A man this easily fooled by himself would end up attacking say Iran and wondering how on earth did the middle east end up in flames.  Presidents require people who will tell them the unvarnished truth and they need to be able to accept it.

Other small things:

The Romney campaign had a fireworks display ready in Boston Harbor for when they won. The fireworks were quietly disassembled and taken back to the warehouse.

Campaign workers found out that the credit cards made out to the Romney campaign stopped working after midnight on Election Day. Man couldn’t run a campaign to save his life but he’ll be damned if the peons get a dime more out of the campaign funds then they he felt they deserved.

The twitter hastag #romneydeathparty ended up a telling a bizarre lovecraftian horror story with Chuck Norris in the role of Narlotep the crawling chaos.  Culthu Reylli!

It’s reported that Romney had only written an acceptance speech before the polls closed and had to scramble to come up with a new speech.

Post Election Rant 11/7/12

While The Professor is not overly fond of Obama’s presidency with its love of killing via robot, the reluctance to do anything about the Banks and Wall Street to prevent what happened from happening again (we read that Wall Street is trying to bundle Rents in a manner similar to all those mortgage securities – what could possibly go wrong with that we wonder) and its all too clear desire to start the gutting of social security – we are pleased at the result, if for no other reason we will never have to deal with One Mitt Romney as a candidate for anything ever again. Rarely has a more despicable human being run for high public office – his self-centered, amoral, willing to say or do anything to get his way, clearly despising the great unwashed and his ‘yeah I’m lying my ass off what are you going to do about it?” manner kept stepping on the Professor’s wick.

Now while the weeping and rending of garments on the Republican side begins one of the things that utterly amazes me was that historically this election was theirs to lose. The economy is and remains stagnant with at best moderate recent growth (which may or may not last) the left was dispirited by Obama’s many many attempts to placate the right wing and the corporate powers that be – mostly via the means of hippy punching or tossing the left under the bus and the country was looking for a new direction. This is not a confident nation by any means these days – the signs of decadence and decay are visible to the dullest of observers and a change in course was wanted.

What the GOP gave us instead was Mitt Romney the world’s most insincere insurance salesman who reminded too many people of the guy who laid them off a while back when the company was downsizing. Mitt who slanged 47% of the American working class while at an event sponsored by a multi-millionaire who was also known for hosting sex parties. Mitt’s temporary boost from the first debate did not last (it will be one of the great unknowns of this election as to what Obama was thinking prior to the first debate and what would have happened had the Obama that had shown up at last two debates had been there for the first debate) and I do think that Sandy showed the utter shallowness of Mitt’s soul to one and all. Not that that changed folks minds  it just made folks who were voting against him more determined than ever to a) vote and b) get other folks who felt the same out there voting.

This is course not to slight the effect of Ann Romney’s aggrieved entitlement and contempt for the help had. Ann was supposed to the person who humanized Romney in the end she became a joke about a horse.

The Professor welcomes Alan Greyson back to the House and wishes Allen West good luck in whatever insane thing he plans on doing now.  Digging your way to china with a spoon is our suggestion.

Ms. Bachman alas retains her seat by a narrow margin. But as this was the first year she faced any real opposition for re-election the prospect of a Bachman less House in the near-future looks good.

Going forward, not a single GOP candidate for anything will ever answer a question about rape.

Nate Silver by virtue of going 50 for 50 on his picks of the states is the big winner of the night. The pundits and talking heads reacted to him like vampires confronted by garlic. They made faces waved their arms and tried to pretend he wasn’t there.  The existence of Nate and his damned accuracy should mean that these folks will need to actually do some leg work when they talk about what America thinking rather than simply making it up but the Professor is not optimistic that will occur. George Will, for example, is already a prominent climate change denier – one hardly thinks that this little slap in the face by reality will change his way of doing things.  

Still the internet’s vast capacity to retain things out there means that their absurdly wrong predictions are theirs for always and always ready for use when they attempt to be sage wisdom dispensers.

Karl Rove on air tantrum when Fox News called Ohio for Obama is an instant classic.

All Donald Trump needs now are a cap and bells and some pointy shoes and he can be America’s court jester.

Bill O’Reilly’s lament over the end of the White Establishment is also a moment of high sick comedy.  Between wars, sucking up to the rich and Pat Boone the end of the White Establishment can’t happen soon enough.

And of course the real work begins now with a GOP dominated House bound to continue the hissy fit they began in 2010 and just enough beltway types whispering in the president’s ear that putting the grand bargain together now – before the new more progressive Senate is installed is the way to go. It never really ends alas.

But for the moment it’s a very good day.