It's Also Time We Put an End to Suffrage

Radley Balko | 11.3.2010 10:34 AM

More fun at last weekend's rally.

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Silentz 14 years ago

I'm ashamed of my nation.
1. Silentz 14 years ago
  
  Okay, maybe just the dumb part.
  1. JW 14 years ago
    
    So, you're ashamed of your nation, after all.
  2. kiwi dave 14 years ago
    
    No, no, these are the *smart* Americans
Lint 14 years ago

This is depressing.
1. Joshua 14 years ago
  
  Why? So our president has kinesthesia! So what?! It just makes him a better basketball player.
Voros McCracken 14 years ago

As I mentioned on the other thread, I really liked this one.
1. wylie 14 years ago
  
  No hat-tip for Hmmm though. Wtf, Radley.
2. Southerner 14 years ago
  
  It still can't top the petition to end women's suffrage video. What I liked best was the part with the supers reading "Smart Chick" and "Not A Smart Chick" over the one warning her friend not to sign it and the friend deciding she will anyway; also, how the guy kept repeating "end women's suffrage; END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE" louder and louder in case anyone missed what his petition was intended to achieve.
  1. Alan 14 years ago
    
    Thanks for that link to the End Women's Suffrage video.
    
    How do I meet that smart chick? Smart *and* cute!
  2. Cruz 14 years ago
    
    That skit was funnier when The Man Show did it:
    
    http://www.kontraband.com/vide.....-Suffrage/
hmm 14 years ago

So already posted this yesterday and today.

Scooped^2
Kristen 14 years ago

OH! You mean KEYNsian!

(my boss, here at the US Government, never heard for Keynes)
1. hmm 14 years ago
  
  Or Keynesian.
  1. Kristen 14 years ago
    
    Oooohhh! The typo pigs finally caught up to me! Now go back to all my other comments and point out all my other typos.
    1. hmm 14 years ago
      
      I was board and if you hadn't used caps to denote a highlight I wouldn't have noticed. Consider this more a crusade against caps lock being used as a means of inflection more than anything.
      1. hmm 14 years ago
        
        That is unless you're making fun of someone using caps lock with caps lock which is perfectly acceptable. But could lead to a spiraling caps lock sarcasm vortex that may never end and destroy the world.
        
        Kristen 14 years ago
        
        Typing caps is much faster than typing < i>Keynes< /i>ian.
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        I'm not sure the efficiency argument will hold water. Especially considering you had time to correct my "board" comment.
      2. Kristen 14 years ago
        
        Bored
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        hehi
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        or nehi
        
        Timon19 14 years ago
        
        Knee-high.
? 14 years ago

I can't make it! It's too real, man.

Do we find out if sissy Hitler guy is dressed as (one of) Stewart's (writers') "Gaydolf Titler" joke? That's somewhat insubordinate of him, maybe, if so. So I can assume not, right?

B) Did anyone get the damn joke?
Warren 14 years ago

High-Lariats
Anonymous 14 years ago

Retards at a gay pride parade don't know what they're talking about? Le whore-er!
Rewrite 14 years ago

If I like Kayaks made in Honolulu, does that make my a Hayekian?
1. hmm 14 years ago
  
  No. It makes you a Kaylulu.
Dello 14 years ago

Sign my petition to end of the suffrage of women worldwide.
1. West Texas 14 years ago
  
  Only if you'll work with me to ban hydrogen hydroxide.
  1. Dello 14 years ago
    
    Sign me up!
  2. Kristen 14 years ago
    
    I thought it was dihydrogen oxide?
    1. hmm 14 years ago
      
      YOU"RE ON A ROLL!!
      1. Kristen 14 years ago
        
        You're 😛
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        Caps lock was on. I figured you'd know this. I was testing your efficiency theory. I still find it unconvincing.
        
        wylie 14 years ago
        
        Funny, that's not how my CAPS LOCK works.
        
        Dello 14 years ago
        
        I use a chin strap (or sometimes bobby pins) to lock my caps down.
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        Good point. It might have been shift. Thank you for pointing out the flaw in my experiment. I will need to revisit the assumptions.
        
        Kristen 14 years ago
        
        Mine neither, wyl. It is, however, how it works when I hold down the Shift key with my fingie.
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        I think we have a to now test both of these with respect to their use as emphasis.
        
        Fuck you just doubled my work. DAMN YOU!
        
        hmm 14 years ago
        
        no clue how that "a" snuck in there.
        
        wylie 14 years ago
        
        no clue how that "a" snuck in there.
        
        You're Italian, right? "Have-a some pizza." etc
Trey Garrison 14 years ago

I like turtles.
1. Lint 14 years ago
  
  And excessive makeup?
Andrew S. 14 years ago

I'm not sure whether this should make me laugh or cry. I laughed, but it's still a bit sad.
hmm 14 years ago

The irony of this is how many signs professing intelligence were present at the rally. Finding even a few retards in a sea of people who think themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the country is priceless.
1. Leftard 14 years ago
  
  Give peas a chance!
2. Gilbert Martin 14 years ago
  
  "The irony of this is how many signs professing intelligence were present at the rally"
  
  People who feel the need to proclaim their own intellegence usually aren't all that smart.
3. Psychic Octopus 14 years ago
  
  Especially the way they correct every single last misspelling or misconception at a rally from the opposite side as part of their argument to intellectual superiority.
West Texas 14 years ago

I am still partial to the preachy screechy mom in the the red shirt. So fucking indignant and moralistic and no clue at all.
1. hmm 14 years ago
  
  I have several friends with wives that remind me of that lady. I get in trouble with my wife for trolling them at parties.
  1. Lint 14 years ago
    
    When she gets visibly angry, just turn and say "U mad?"
  2. wingnutx 14 years ago
    
    Apoplexy is seriously underrated as a spectator sport.
2. wylie 14 years ago
  
  I like when she says "..come November..". You can tell she wanted to include the date, but couldn't think of it in time. Too much outrage, I guess.
  1. Kristen 14 years ago
    
    Which makes it even more delicious that the fucking date was on her fucking sleeve!
    1. Sy 14 years ago
      
      Half my dates usually end up with someone's sleeve getting fucked.
3. Rich 14 years ago
  
  It'd be even more amusing if she were to become an anorexic or libertarian after being clued in.
joshua corning 14 years ago

Funny as hell...

But in all fairness you could probably do a similar video at a tea party rally and cherry pick similar funny bits.
1. Will 14 years ago
  
  True enough.
  
  Stupidity and ignorance transcend gender, ethnicity, age, and political affiliation.
  1. Alan 14 years ago
    
    True.
    
    Still a funny vid, however. Bravo!
2. Corduroy 14 years ago
  
  Am I supposed to be less depressed by that fact?
3. CarolinaJoe 14 years ago
  
  There is a difference though -The Tea Party folks aren't holding rallies to smugly assert their intellectual superiority.
Will 14 years ago

My buddy sent this to me the other day. Like many others, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. That Stewart and Colbert cater to hip college kids, twenty-somethings, and self proclaimed intellectuals makes the people on this video look all the more doltish.

Aside from the fools who can't distinguish the difference between Kenyan and Keynesian, I find it hard to believe that the guy who KNEW that Keynesianism is an economic theory could not determine that all the wildly destructive demand-side macroeconomic boondoggles of the Obama Admin are textbook examples of mindless Keynesianism taken to the extreme.
1. CoyoteBlue 14 years ago
  
  DAMMIT what more does he need to do to prove it to YOU people!
  1. Ass of Catalonia 14 years ago
    
    Some people say cucumbers taste better pickled.
de Tocqueville 14 years ago

Told ya'
Zombie 14 years ago

I'm starving out here!
1. zeebs 14 years ago
  
  +1
Mango Punch 14 years ago

Anyone have the link to reason's coverage of the rally? I can't find it on the site.
1. jv 14 years ago
  
  http://reason.tv/video/show/restoring-sanity-rally
Ben Rosengart 14 years ago

What do you get if you cross a Kenyan and a Kansan?

A Keynesian.
apstorm 14 years ago

The name Keynes makes me think of Liet-Kynes from Dune. I think this just proves I'm a geek.
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Oregon Scott 14 years ago

The video is now marked "private," so I can't share with my friends.
????? ?????? 13 years ago

Thanks

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