Indignity, thy name is...

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x

This is from the "We the People" section of whitehouse.gov.

If not familiar, it's a site where people are allowed to post petitions and if they pass a certain threshold they will receive an official response. Evidently some folks were a little dissatisfied with the quality of the responses thus the petition titled:

"We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition."

Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie.


It's about 12k signatures from passing the response threshold. This tickles me to no end.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

 

Signing that the minute I get to my home computer.

[Hoser McRhizzy]

Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie.

adorable.    I love it.

side note: Good exercise to put the lie to social media/e-voting =s democracy/empowerment.

[LMNO]

Signing that the minute I get to my home computer.

Ditto.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  Perfect!

[Juana]

Signed/shared.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Site is borked for me, it won't let me sign.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I see you on there.  You're #11,185.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I see you on there.  You're #11,185.

I managed to make it work, but it took a while.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.

I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. 

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I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.

I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. 

I had the same issue with Firefox. It worked in Safari the first time though.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.

I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. 

Odd.  That's what was happening for me in Chrome, but then Firefox worked.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  I love that the US government can't make a website that works.

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I love that the US government can't make a website that works.

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