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It's Also Time We Put an End to Suffrage

Radley Balko | 11.3.2010 10:34 AM

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More fun at last weekend's rally.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. Silentz   15 years ago

    I’m ashamed of my nation.

    1. Silentz   15 years ago

      Okay, maybe just the dumb part.

      1. JW   15 years ago

        So, you’re ashamed of your nation, after all.

      2. kiwi dave   15 years ago

        No, no, these are the *smart* Americans

  2. Lint   15 years ago

    This is depressing.

    1. Joshua   15 years ago

      Why? So our president has kinesthesia! So what?! It just makes him a better basketball player.

  3. Voros McCracken   15 years ago

    As I mentioned on the other thread, I really liked this one.

    1. wylie   15 years ago

      No hat-tip for Hmmm though. Wtf, Radley.

    2. Southerner   15 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   15 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   15 years ago

        That skit was funnier when The Man Show did it:

        http://www.kontraband.com/vide…..-Suffrage/

  4. hmm   15 years ago

    So already posted this yesterday and today.

    Scooped^2

  5. Kristen   15 years ago

    OH! You mean KEYNsian!

    (my boss, here at the US Government, never heard for Keynes)

    1. hmm   15 years ago

      Or Keynesian.

      1. Kristen   15 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   15 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   15 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.

            1. Kristen   15 years ago

              Typing caps is much faster than typing < i>Keynes< /i>ian.

              1. hmm   15 years ago

                I’m not sure the efficiency argument will hold water. Especially considering you had time to correct my “board” comment.

          2. Kristen   15 years ago

            Bored

            1. hmm   15 years ago

              hehi

              1. hmm   15 years ago

                or nehi

                1. Timon19   15 years ago

                  Knee-high.

  6. ?   15 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?

  7. Warren   15 years ago

    High-Lariats

  8. Anonymous   15 years ago

    Retards at a gay pride parade don’t know what they’re talking about? Le whore-er!

  9. Rewrite   15 years ago

    If I like Kayaks made in Honolulu, does that make my a Hayekian?

    1. hmm   15 years ago

      No. It makes you a Kaylulu.

  10. Dello   15 years ago

    Sign my petition to end of the suffrage of women worldwide.

    1. West Texas   15 years ago

      Only if you’ll work with me to ban hydrogen hydroxide.

      1. Dello   15 years ago

        Sign me up!

      2. Kristen   15 years ago

        I thought it was dihydrogen oxide?

        1. hmm   15 years ago

          YOU”RE ON A ROLL!!

          1. Kristen   15 years ago

            You’re 😛

            1. hmm   15 years ago

              Caps lock was on. I figured you’d know this. I was testing your efficiency theory. I still find it unconvincing.

              1. wylie   15 years ago

                Funny, that’s not how my CAPS LOCK works.

                1. Dello   15 years ago

                  I use a chin strap (or sometimes bobby pins) to lock my caps down.

                2. hmm   15 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.

                3. Kristen   15 years ago

                  Mine neither, wyl. It is, however, how it works when I hold down the Shift key with my fingie.

                  1. hmm   15 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!

                    1. hmm   15 years ago

                      no clue how that “a” snuck in there.

                    2. wylie   15 years ago

                      no clue how that “a” snuck in there.

                      You’re Italian, right? “Have-a some pizza.” etc

  11. Trey Garrison   15 years ago

    I like turtles.

    1. Lint   15 years ago

      And excessive makeup?

  12. Andrew S.   15 years ago

    I’m not sure whether this should make me laugh or cry. I laughed, but it’s still a bit sad.

  13. hmm   15 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   15 years ago

      Give peas a chance!

    2. Gilbert Martin   15 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   15 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.

  14. West Texas   15 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   15 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   15 years ago

        When she gets visibly angry, just turn and say “U mad?”

      2. wingnutx   15 years ago

        Apoplexy is seriously underrated as a spectator sport.

    2. wylie   15 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   15 years ago

        Which makes it even more delicious that the fucking date was on her fucking sleeve!

        1. Sy   15 years ago

          Half my dates usually end up with someone’s sleeve getting fucked.

    3. Rich   15 years ago

      It’d be even more amusing if she were to become an anorexic or libertarian after being clued in.

  15. joshua corning   15 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   15 years ago

      True enough.

      Stupidity and ignorance transcend gender, ethnicity, age, and political affiliation.

      1. Alan   15 years ago

        True.

        Still a funny vid, however. Bravo!

    2. Corduroy   15 years ago

      Am I supposed to be less depressed by that fact?

    3. CarolinaJoe   15 years ago

      There is a difference though -The Tea Party folks aren’t holding rallies to smugly assert their intellectual superiority.

  16. Will   15 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   15 years ago

      DAMMIT what more does he need to do to prove it to YOU people!

      1. Ass of Catalonia   15 years ago

        Some people say cucumbers taste better pickled.

  17. de Tocqueville   15 years ago

    Told ya’

  18. Zombie   15 years ago

    I’m starving out here!

    1. zeebs   15 years ago

      +1

  19. Mango Punch   15 years ago

    Anyone have the link to reason’s coverage of the rally? I can’t find it on the site.

    1. jv   15 years ago

      http://reason.tv/video/show/restoring-sanity-rally

  20. Ben Rosengart   15 years ago

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

    A Keynesian.

  21. apstorm   15 years ago

    The name Keynes makes me think of Liet-Kynes from Dune. I think this just proves I’m a geek.

  22. nfl jerseys   15 years ago

    how

  23. Oregon Scott   15 years ago

    The video is now marked “private,” so I can’t share with my friends.

  24. ????? ??????   13 years ago

    Thanks

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