Do you work for someone who voted for Obama? Quit your job. Co-workers who voted for Obama. Simply don't talk to them in the workplace, unless your boss instructs you too for work-related only purposes. Have clients who voted Democrat? Call them up this morning and tell them to take their business elsewhere. (http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/11/the-end-of-liberty-in-america-only.html)
Fox has a history of labelling Republicans as Democrats when they fail the ideological litmus test, are indicted as felons, are caught soliciting gay sex from underage pages, etc. Here, Chris Christie, Republican governor of New Jersey, is labelled a Democrat for his crucial an absolute mortal sin of treating Barack Obama as a human being and engaging federal relief efforts when New Jersey was FLATTENED BY A HURRICANE.
(The twitter account I linked is fake, and way funnier than Chris Christie's real twitter account - but, remarkably, says nothing the real twitter account doesn't. It's just more rude.)
Ahhh. I a) didn't realize Fox did that particular stunt, though b) it doesn't surprise me in the least, and c) I didn't remember what party Christie belonged to anyway.
It's a little bit... concerning... when a channel that calls itself "Comedy Central" is more reliable for news than a channel that calls itself a "news" channel.
So he's having buttons made that say "Only Nazis support Seat Belt laws"? So we can hope that's he'll Darwin himself very soon - or at least discover how inadequate private health care really is.
I just hope it's a one-person one-vehicle accident. I'd hate for him to hit another passenger--you can permanently injure or kill someone that way and it's not very difficult.
(About time to do the yearly reread of Making Light on the topic, I think...)
I don't need to read that - a couple of years ago I was in what could have been a nasty accident. I was a car passenger, just climbed in, hadn't bothered to do up my belt ('cos we were only going a couple of hundred yards), we moved off. Then my driver had to do an emergency stop (idiot pulling out in front without looking). We couldn't have been doing more than five, maybe ten mile an hour - but I got concussion from whacking my skull into the windscreen. I've ALWAYS belted up since. Anyway... I know it's evil of me, but I really hope this idiot quickly ends up in a wheelchair, drooling while some underpaid Hispanic careworker feeds him from a jug.
Well, true. But he's still an asshole. The seat belts buttons are the sort of thought that only comes from someone who doesn't truly realize how fucking useful seat belts are in the event of an accident.
It's not limited to belting up for your own benefit, which is why I linked it. Anecdotes about people who were properly belted in being killed by unrestrained passengers, discussion of the actual costs of care...
Anyway... I know it's evil of me, but I really hope this idiot quickly ends up in a wheelchair, drooling while some underpaid Hispanic careworker feeds him from a jug.
...yeah, it'd be so awful for him to be handicapped, drooling, and fed by an underpaid Hispanic careworker. Is it wishing that on him that's the evil thing, or just dismissing everyone else who has to do more work and has to pay for his care?
FYI, I did read the article - what I actually wrote was that I don't NEED to read it. As for the rest of your comment - FYI, I have a son-in-law who's an underpaid (though not Hispanic) care worker; I do not 'dismiss' him or his work. I simply put in 'Hispanic' because I imagine that being touched by a brown-skinned immigrant-looking person would be that idiot's personal Hell.
Ah, you were just working on the theory that nothing says "people should assume you weren't born here and aren't a real American citizen" like being... sorry, like being brown-skinned, or like being Hispanic? That particular isn't clear.
theweaselking thinks I am being oversensitive and reading malice where there is merely poor communication. It's a not unfair assessment; but I will say it's wrong. I'm not reading malice. I'm reading yet more racist bullshit, and that racist bullshit gets spewed far too often and casually, and if you are going to start uttering it then it is worth labelling it as shit you do not believe or you will, in fact, get called on uttering it.
Second: anyone else in the accident. The ambulance dispatcher. The EMTs. The surgeons. The nurses. The other people at the hospital who get charged more to make up the shortfall. The physiotherapist if he makes it so far. The nurses. The careworkers. Anyone else who needs the care of the above and has to wait any longer or receive any less time or attention because you got the outcome you wished for in that jackass's car accident. And you think you get a cookie for not dismissing the work done by one "brown-skinned immigrant-looking person"?
Anecdotes about people who were properly belted in being killed by unrestrained passengers,
One of the reasons that my dog is belted in too these days, our safety as much as hers. Also, she seems to think attempting to chase motorcycles from inside the car is a perfectly okay thing to do, regardless of the presence of other passengers or drivers in the seat she's trying to go through.
This. (I hear they're thinking of making pet seatbelts or carriers mandatory, here...) Our dog's gotten to the point where she views the seatbelt being put on as OMG Best Promise of Best Treat Ever.
(I mean, there are a lot of Best Treats Ever! But a car ride is always one of them, because we take her nice places.)
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Date: 2012-11-09 02:47 am (UTC)(The twitter account I linked is fake, and way funnier than Chris Christie's real twitter account - but, remarkably, says nothing the real twitter account doesn't. It's just more rude.)
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Date: 2012-11-09 02:56 am (UTC)I just used the C Word
Date: 2012-11-09 02:58 am (UTC)This is Infotainment. I wish people would stop thinking they were really news. News is their name... not their job.
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Date: 2012-11-09 04:54 pm (UTC)(About time to do the yearly reread of Making Light on the topic, I think...)
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Date: 2012-11-09 04:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-09 06:02 pm (UTC)Anyway... I know it's evil of me, but I really hope this idiot quickly ends up in a wheelchair, drooling while some underpaid Hispanic careworker feeds him from a jug.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-09 06:46 pm (UTC)Anyway... I know it's evil of me, but I really hope this idiot quickly ends up in a wheelchair, drooling while some underpaid Hispanic careworker feeds him from a jug.
...yeah, it'd be so awful for him to be handicapped, drooling, and fed by an underpaid Hispanic careworker. Is it wishing that on him that's the evil thing, or just dismissing everyone else who has to do more work and has to pay for his care?
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-09 08:11 pm (UTC)As for the rest of your comment - FYI, I have a son-in-law who's an underpaid (though not Hispanic) care worker; I do not 'dismiss' him or his work. I simply put in 'Hispanic' because I imagine that being touched by a brown-skinned immigrant-looking person would be that idiot's personal Hell.
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Date: 2012-11-09 11:17 pm (UTC)Either way, mighty white of you.
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Date: 2012-11-09 11:30 pm (UTC)Second: anyone else in the accident. The ambulance dispatcher. The EMTs. The surgeons. The nurses. The other people at the hospital who get charged more to make up the shortfall. The physiotherapist if he makes it so far. The nurses. The careworkers. Anyone else who needs the care of the above and has to wait any longer or receive any less time or attention because you got the outcome you wished for in that jackass's car accident. And you think you get a cookie for not dismissing the work done by one "brown-skinned immigrant-looking person"?
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:39 pm (UTC)they are so cute in an overgrown 7th-grade bully sort of way. by which i mean they're pimply and disgusting.
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Date: 2012-11-10 11:13 pm (UTC)One of the reasons that my dog is belted in too these days, our safety as much as hers. Also, she seems to think attempting to chase motorcycles from inside the car is a perfectly okay thing to do, regardless of the presence of other passengers or drivers in the seat she's trying to go through.
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Date: 2012-11-10 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-11 12:25 am (UTC)(I mean, there are a lot of Best Treats Ever! But a car ride is always one of them, because we take her nice places.)