# Fuck You, Voters
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 3, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326 "2010-11-03T14:09:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/1 "2010-11-03T14:09:09Z")
“Go die in a fire.” It’s become such a trite little phrase. We even have an initialism for it: GDIAF. It’s cute and hyperbolic. But when I say it to you, right now, I mean it from the very depths of my being. I am filled with such anger, such loathing, such disgust, such shame, that I want nothing so much as I want you to die, writhing in agony, as your flesh melts from your bones and you comprehend how truly you have failed as anything but a sack of excrement masquerading as a human being.
You have voted for lies, and fear, and hatred, and ignorance. They knocked the truth around, and tarted her up, and sent her to walk the streets as their whore. And you thought she looked a little bit like that girl you had a crush on in high school, so you handed the man $20 and didn’t ask questions and took her up to a dark, filthy room, where you fucked her on a bare mattress and tried not to notice she was crying.
You will reap what you have sown–but so will everyone else.
Good morning, America: I hate you.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/2 "2010-11-03T14:11:46Z")
So you’re pissed because the pot measure failed?
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/3 "2010-11-03T14:13:38Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> So you’re pissed because the pot measure failed?
I am. If it had passed, not even the GOP taking over the House would be enough to bring me down. But I’ve got nothing to celebrate now. ☹
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### Author:  [@Nightfall1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightfall1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/4 "2010-11-03T14:14:37Z")
Hey!!! The sun still came up in the east. Same old same old.
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### Author:  [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/5 "2010-11-03T14:14:51Z")
All that has happened is that the Stewart/Colbert rally to Restore Sanity has worked.
And sanity has been restored.
Remember, gridlock is good. Say it, believe it, embrace it.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/6 "2010-11-03T14:15:13Z")
Hey, don’t blame me. I voted for John McCain because I loved him in The Dark Knight.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/7 "2010-11-03T14:17:14Z")
Hey, I’m devastated by Alvin Greene’s loss too, but I’m not sure this is the time or place for erotica…
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/8 "2010-11-03T14:19:47Z")
Meh. 1994 pissed me off more.
Mind you, I’m still plenty pissed off. I wanted my HOOCH, dammit. More importantly, I wanted LESS, not MORE, hand-tying of the people we employ to take care of the people’s business (Prop. 26).
But we kept at least ONE person endorsed by Sarah Palin out of the Senate. And we didn’t get Whitman, either.
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/9 "2010-11-03T14:19:50Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> All that has happened is that the Stewart/Colbert rally to Restore Sanity has worked.
>
> And sanity has been restored.
>
> Remember, gridlock is good. Say it, believe it, embrace it.
The one upside to this is that the GOP can’t put all of the blame on Democrats now. They hold a chamber of the House, and have to actually participate in governance instead of just shouting “No!” Let’s see what they do. I give it 50/50 odds they’ll try to shut down the government.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/10 "2010-11-03T14:19:54Z")
Look on the bright side: inside of a few months men will start wearing hats again.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/11 "2010-11-03T14:20:34Z")
Dang, we didn’t even have lies, fear, hatred and ignorance on our ballot. Obviously, we don’t live in one of the _cool_ counties.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/12 "2010-11-03T14:21:56Z")
Eh, get used it. Even when the lesser bad people get elected, it’s for dumb reasons. You can only hope that the lesser evil people inspire the idiots with meaningless bullshit more than the greater evil people.
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/13 "2010-11-03T14:22:49Z")
Every Ballot measure in the State of Washington went the opposite of the way I wanted it.
The measure to privatize liquor sales failed. The measure to implement income taxes on incomes above $200,000 failed. A measure to require a 2/3rds vote to raise taxes passed (great, now Washington will be just as fucked as California is).
Democracy has utterly failed.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/14 "2010-11-03T14:26:44Z")
Minnesota re-elected batshit insane Bachmann.
'Nuff said.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/15 "2010-11-03T14:26:55Z")
My voting day was met with much ambivilence.
The House candidate I voted for won – and her losing was never even in the wildest of fantasies of the opposing party.
The the candidate for Governor I voted for got stomped like a discipline case at boot camp. And the the Republican and Independant left in the race are still up in the air.
I screwed up a bond referendum – I mistakenly started to scratch in the “No” when I meant “Yes” but I didn’t feel like going to get a new ballot, so I let the No fly. The referendum passed anyway.
And then the semi-bi-annual-whatever hot-button for me: Casino at the Ski Resort referendum. I always vote “No” just because that seems so incredibly un-Maine to me – and it has never passed – although I always said if it ever does I’ll still go play poker there …
… looks like I’ll be playing some poker at Sunday River in the near future.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/16 "2010-11-03T14:29:23Z")
> [@Nightfall1](#):
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> Hey!!! The sun still came up in the east. Same old same old.
Well, maybe, but now it’s a right-wing sun.
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### Author:  [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/17 "2010-11-03T14:29:34Z")
> [@Blalron](#):
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> Every Ballot measure in the State of Washington went the opposite of the way I wanted it.
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> The measure to privatize liquor sales failed. The measure to implement income taxes on incomes above $200,000 failed. A measure to require a 2/3rds vote to raise taxes passed (great, now Washington will be just as fucked as California is).
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> Democracy has utterly failed.
Ummmmm.
I think I would be on the same side as you for all of those, but claiming that you not getting the results you want is democracy utterly failing is ridiculous. Democracy failing is tanks on the streets. It isn’t people elected for two years with a different outlook on things.
You want these things? Next time convince more people of the efficacy of them.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/18 "2010-11-03T14:31:32Z")
> [@Blalron](#):
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> A measure to require a 2/3rds vote to raise taxes passed (great, now Washington will be just as fucked as California is).
Or you could keep taxes low and just try spending less of other people’s money.
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> You have voted for lies, and fear, and hatred, and ignorance.
They sure did. In 2008. They voted for lies like “hope and change”. They voted out of ignorance for a guy that actually said he’d fix the budget- “I’ll go line by line through the fedal budget and keep the things that work and fix the ones that don’t”. How do you not notice all the slime dripping off those words?! How could any reasonable American actually _believe_ a politician that says that?!
Now they have partially corrected that by voting in the GOP. Good for America. Next up: the White House. And try not to chow down on all the bullshit this time, will you?
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/19 "2010-11-03T14:33:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Meh. 1994 pissed me off more.
>
> Mind you, I’m still plenty pissed off. I wanted my HOOCH, dammit. More importantly, I wanted LESS, not MORE, hand-tying of the people we employ to take care of the people’s business (Prop. 26).
>
> But we kept at least ONE person endorsed by Sarah Palin out of the Senate. And we didn’t get Whitman, either.
Looks like a Dem clean sweep at the state level (at least the executive level) Seems like CA said fuck you to the rest of country’s voters too.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/20 "2010-11-03T14:40:32Z")
I’m actually…kinda…sorta…hopeful.
I’m disappointed to be sure. Disappointed that the failed politics of the last decade will rear its ugly head yet again. Disappointed that the party who considers itself “Conservative” in spending did its damnedest to bring the nation’s entire government and economic system to the brink of bankruptcy and that the OTHER party gets the blame for not fixing it fast enough. I’m disappointed that the Republicans governed for the past two years on a platform of “no participation and no compromise” and then got elected to do that again in the majority. And I’m disappointed in the Democrats for being so weak and so ineffectual in conveying a simple message in simple terms about what they’ve done and what they will do. I’m disappointed in all that.
But I’m hopeful.
I’m hopeful that Congress will actually do something bi-partisan in the next year. Oh sure, Joe Barton’s already saying that he’s got a list of 15 bills all ready to go in January (with bill #1 being repeal “Obamacare”). But I think once the Republicans get past their masturbatory fantasies and come up against a branch and a half that won’t pass such silly legislation, they’ll actually have to work on what will pass. And they’ll have to work together.
Or the entire system will grind to a halt. But I don’t think they’ll let that happen because it will be quite clear that it’s the Republicans doing that if it happens. They can’t play the victim card when they control the House.
I think we’re going to need to give it until March or April for everyone to get it all out of their system, but I believe this may be a unique opportunity to pull the right wing back towards the center and enact meaningful bipartisan bills.
Or they fiddle while the USA burns. :shrug:
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