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.
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