Spot the Hilarity

[Doktor Howl]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/23/19644154-nbcwsj-poll-faith-in-dc-hits-a-low-83-percent-disapprove-of-congress?lite

This article clearly describes why America is retarded.  It is not the government, incidentally, or either political party.

[Suu]

Everybody is blaming somebody else for their mistakes.

We the people voted these assholes in, and now we're wondering what's going wrong.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The zimmerman bit?

[Lord Cataplanga]

But there's a twist: Two-thirds of self-described liberals believe the court is too conservative, and nearly seven-in-10 self-described conservatives see it as too liberal.

Why is this a "twist"?
This isn't very hilarious, just confusing.

[Doktor Howl]

Everybody is blaming somebody else for their mistakes.

We the people voted these assholes in, and now we're wondering what's going wrong.

DING DING DING.

Also, we're demanding that they stop fucking around, and start fucking around.   

[hooplala]

I used to fight it when the Dok said individuals could be rational but groups couldn't be... I should have listened.  Over and over again I should have listened.  It's so fucking clear its like Delta Burke splashed across a windscreen.  Not sure how I missed it.

It reminds me of the uncontrollable urge to view our own feces...  my feces, my feces is a work of art, but YOURS... yours is disgusting shit.  Is that similar?  Probably not... but it feels like it correlates to me, and really... nowadays, feelings are all that matter, right?  Not funny things like, oh... FACTS.  Facts are suspect.

I felt like I had a point when I hit "reply".

[Doktor Howl]

I used to fight it when the Dok said individuals could be rational but groups couldn't be... I should have listened.  Over and over again I should have listened.  It's so fucking clear its like Delta Burke splashed across a windscreen.  Not sure how I missed it.

It reminds me of the uncontrollable urge to view our own feces...  my feces, my feces is a work of art, but YOURS... yours is disgusting shit.  Is that similar?  Probably not... but it feels like it correlates to me, and really... nowadays, feelings are all that matter, right?  Not funny things like, oh... FACTS.  Facts are suspect.

I felt like I had a point when I hit "reply".

It's really simple, Hoops.  We're going to take those OTHER guys and send them home with a fucking rupture.  We're going to SHOW THEM ALL.  We never stop to consider that there's more to the legislative process than what is essentially internet flame wars & trolling.

Arizona has pioneered this, and now the rest of America has it.  You'll have it soon, too.

[hooplala]

I used to fight it when the Dok said individuals could be rational but groups couldn't be... I should have listened.  Over and over again I should have listened.  It's so fucking clear its like Delta Burke splashed across a windscreen.  Not sure how I missed it.

It reminds me of the uncontrollable urge to view our own feces...  my feces, my feces is a work of art, but YOURS... yours is disgusting shit.  Is that similar?  Probably not... but it feels like it correlates to me, and really... nowadays, feelings are all that matter, right?  Not funny things like, oh... FACTS.  Facts are suspect.

I felt like I had a point when I hit "reply".

It's really simple, Hoops.  We're going to take those OTHER guys and send them home with a fucking rupture.  We're going to SHOW THEM ALL.  We never stop to consider that there's more to the legislative process than what is essentially internet flame wars & trolling.

Arizona has pioneered this, and now the rest of America has it.  You'll have it soon, too.

If not already... Canada is circling the bowl, just like everywhere else.

[Doktor Howl]

I used to fight it when the Dok said individuals could be rational but groups couldn't be... I should have listened.  Over and over again I should have listened.  It's so fucking clear its like Delta Burke splashed across a windscreen.  Not sure how I missed it.

It reminds me of the uncontrollable urge to view our own feces...  my feces, my feces is a work of art, but YOURS... yours is disgusting shit.  Is that similar?  Probably not... but it feels like it correlates to me, and really... nowadays, feelings are all that matter, right?  Not funny things like, oh... FACTS.  Facts are suspect.

I felt like I had a point when I hit "reply".

It's really simple, Hoops.  We're going to take those OTHER guys and send them home with a fucking rupture.  We're going to SHOW THEM ALL.  We never stop to consider that there's more to the legislative process than what is essentially internet flame wars & trolling.

Arizona has pioneered this, and now the rest of America has it.  You'll have it soon, too.

If not already... Canada is circling the bowl, just like everywhere else.

No, see, I go to Canada pretty frequently, and you guys are sane.  So the level of weirdness you are experiencing SEEMS horrendous.  To properly understand the forces at work HERE, you have to BE here.  Reading about it or watching it on TV is like watching Private Ryan and assuming you have a good feel for the Normandy landings.

It's actually insane, Hoops, and the most horrormirthy part about it is that we have become so acclimatized to it that it has become PREDICTABLE or at least NOT SURPRISING.  We hear another legislator harping about how women's reproductive rights are the same as the Boston Bombing, and we just giggle a bit.

I suspect the UK is the same way, but I don't ever go there, so I don't know.

[Doktor Howl]

That bit about the women's reproductive rights isn't hyperbole, by the way.  Wendy Davis has been branded a "terrorist" for opposing the new Texas bill.

Not compared to one.  Directly called one, by the rest of the Texas legislature.

[hooplala]

I used to fight it when the Dok said individuals could be rational but groups couldn't be... I should have listened.  Over and over again I should have listened.  It's so fucking clear its like Delta Burke splashed across a windscreen.  Not sure how I missed it.

It reminds me of the uncontrollable urge to view our own feces...  my feces, my feces is a work of art, but YOURS... yours is disgusting shit.  Is that similar?  Probably not... but it feels like it correlates to me, and really... nowadays, feelings are all that matter, right?  Not funny things like, oh... FACTS.  Facts are suspect.

I felt like I had a point when I hit "reply".

It's really simple, Hoops.  We're going to take those OTHER guys and send them home with a fucking rupture.  We're going to SHOW THEM ALL.  We never stop to consider that there's more to the legislative process than what is essentially internet flame wars & trolling.

Arizona has pioneered this, and now the rest of America has it.  You'll have it soon, too.

If not already... Canada is circling the bowl, just like everywhere else.

No, see, I go to Canada pretty frequently, and you guys are sane.  So the level of weirdness you are experiencing SEEMS horrendous.  To properly understand the forces at work HERE, you have to BE here.  Reading about it or watching it on TV is like watching Private Ryan and assuming you have a good feel for the Normandy landings.

It's actually insane, Hoops, and the most horrormirthy part about it is that we have become so acclimatized to it that it has become PREDICTABLE or at least NOT SURPRISING.  We hear another legislator harping about how women's reproductive rights are the same as the Boston Bombing, and we just giggle a bit.

I suspect the UK is the same way, but I don't ever go there, so I don't know.

Well that was a level of horror I wasn't prepared to digest today.

[hooplala]

That bit about the women's reproductive rights isn't hyperbole, by the way.  Wendy Davis has been branded a "terrorist" for opposing the new Texas bill.

Not compared to one.  Directly called one, by the rest of the Texas legislature.

Yeah I saw one of them tweeted that a terrorist was interrupting the democratic process, or some shit like that.

[Doktor Howl]

That bit about the women's reproductive rights isn't hyperbole, by the way.  Wendy Davis has been branded a "terrorist" for opposing the new Texas bill.

Not compared to one.  Directly called one, by the rest of the Texas legislature.

Yeah I saw one of them tweeted that a terrorist was interrupting the democratic process, or some shit like that.

Yes, because "interrupting the democratic process" now means anything other than "getting the rubber stamp out".

No shit.

The Obama administration has attempted to read the riot act to a congressman, for suggesting that the NSA might have better things to do than to listen in on our phone conversations.

So it's not just one party anymore.  The system is so off balance that the horror cascades along no matter WHO is in.  It's self-generating, now.

WOOOO WOOOOOOOOOO!

[Doktor Howl]

Well that was a level of horror I wasn't prepared to digest today.

Further proof that you are Canadian.

WE, sir, are up for any program!

ETA:  Or pogrom.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Everybody is blaming somebody else for their mistakes.

We the people voted these assholes in, and now we're wondering what's going wrong.

DING DING DING.

Also, we're demanding that they stop fucking around, and start fucking around.   

The "democracy" we're offered is the problem. We are only given the option to vote for whoever is groomed and presented to us by big money sponsorship, so we can hardly blame the voters when the bastards who run are the bastards that get in, now can we? Because the third option is not to vote, and oh my do I remember a shitstorm when I announced that I wasn't voting.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, because the process itself is fucked, and no matter who you vote for, you end up with a creep, a shill, or a charlatan in office.

There are a very, very few exceptions, but for the most part, all politicians have their primary allegiance with Capitalism, which means that their motives are to "boost the economy" by increasing revenue flow to the richest at the expense of everyone else.