# Fuck You, Voters **URL:** \ **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:** 14
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/261 "2010-11-05T02:53:19Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Yep, cleared up, thanks. > > Sorry to shatter people’s notions of monolithic conservatism, but I disagree with CM. I’m concerned with the best practical results, and I don’t think the case has been proven for UHC yet. Cue Euphonious Polemic bringing up an old argument that he didn’t understand þhe first time around In 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . But the shitstorm we have for healthcare has proven to be too expensive, and to deliver poor quality care while omitting 40 million of our citizens. In 2008 when McCain was running, he too agreed our health care system was bankrupting us and hurting our ability to compete. He offered some changes and said that he would develop a major changes to it. Both parties know our system was a cancer eating away at us. This anti Obama care is just political. They know our system has to be redone. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/262 "2010-11-05T03:00:57Z")
Gonz, did you have a point? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/263 "2010-11-05T03:03:31Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Lobo, I have shit out turds that have more brains and common sense than you do. I imagine you must have shit out quite a bit of your brains in order to get to the state you’re currently in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/264 "2010-11-05T04:08:09Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > What seems clear to me is that we need to find a way to lower the cost of healthcare for the people who show up sick at the ER because they don’t have insurance. One way to do that might be to find a way to get them access to a regular doctor so they can stay healthy and/or resolve health issues while they’re still small and manageable instead of waiting until they are in expensive trouble and have no choice but to seek emergency care. Well said, **moejoe**. I simply can’t understand why this isn’t talking point #1 in favor of HCR. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/265 "2010-11-05T06:44:08Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > To those who are upset at the lies and fear-mongering and rape of rhetoric that you see going on now, all I can say is “You reap what you sow”. This very same type of behavior has been coming from the left since at least the late sixties. It goes on in spades here on this very board. Now the right is fighting back, and they’re doing it by fighting fire with fire. I don’t particularly like it myself, but with the windstorm of insults, hatred, lies and distortions coming so relentlessly from the left, the right really has no other choice if they want to stay in the game. I think this post wins the award for “funniest unintentional satire” in the entire thread. and to add at least something to the thread, what is it exactly that the newly elected republicans are going to do to fix things? I seriously would love to know. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/266 "2010-11-05T13:40:59Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > “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. Ya know, I disappeared from the 'dope for a week for the sake of Get Out The Vote activities, and my guys won. You could have done the same thing instead of bitching about the results later, but let’s face it: inability/unwillingness to take effective action is epidemic in this country. It explains why people are so fat; it explains why Ron Paul represents Kentucky. Get off yer ass! ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/267 "2010-11-05T14:04:11Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > It explains why people are so fat; it explains why Ron Paul represents Kentucky. > > Get off yer ass! And this post explains why so much of your excess fat from your ass has wound up in your cranium. You don’t even know that name of the teabagger who got elected–the important thing is not details like his fucking name, it’s just who he hates and and how much that you support. Go, Ruined Pole!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/268 "2010-11-05T14:06:30Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > And this post explains why so much of your excess fat from your ass has wound up in your cranium. You don’t even know that name of the teabagger who got elected–the important thing is not details like his fucking name, it’s just who he hates and and how much that you support. Go, Ruined Pole!!! Who says he supports the TPers? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/269 "2010-11-05T14:07:33Z")
Just a WAG ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/270 "2010-11-05T14:12:50Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > And this post explains why so much of your excess fat from your ass has wound up in your cranium. You don’t even know that name of the teabagger who got elected–the important thing is not details like his fucking name, it’s just who he hates and and how much that you support. Go, Ruined Pole!!! Sorry, Rand Paul. Sheesh! No, I didn’t support the teabaggers if that is what you are implying. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/271 "2010-11-05T14:35:53Z")
Meanwhile, back at the OP [Kraut](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110406581.html?hpid=opinionsbox1) has a good piece today explaining the pwnage. > [@](#): > > Similarly, the massive Republican swing of 2010 was a reaction to another rather unprecedented development - a ruling party spectacularly misjudging its mandate and taking an unwilling country through a two-year experiment in hyper-liberalism. > > A massive government restructuring of the health-care system. An $800 billion-plus stimulus that did not halt the rise in unemployment. And a cap-and-trade regime reviled outside the bicoastal liberal enclaves that luxuriate in environmental righteousness - so reviled that the Democratic senatorial candidate in West Virginia literally put a bullet through the bill in his own TV ad. He won. Handily. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/272 "2010-11-05T14:55:58Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > Meanwhile, back at the OP > > [Kraut](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110406581.html?hpid=opinionsbox1) has a good piece today explaining the pwnage. No. [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/node/17417732) has a pretty good piece about the election. I wouldn’t baste a roast turd with Kraut’s offerings. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/273 "2010-11-05T15:33:25Z")
Hyper-liberalism? Bahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/274 "2010-11-05T15:46:42Z")
It’s awesome that Smashy is so stupid he thinks Krauthammer is insightful. Lol. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/275 "2010-11-05T15:56:43Z")
Kraut even thinks cap-and-trade was a \*Democratic \*idea. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/276 "2010-11-05T17:40:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Kraut even thinks cap-and-trade was a \*Democratic \*idea. :rolleyes: The public is against it. The GOP is trying to give Americans what they want. The Democrats unquestionably were not, the last couple years [Feel free to educate yourself](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/poll-70-percent-of-americans-reject-cap-and-trade-98033709.html). The Obama Administration and Pelosi and Company passed a healthcare bill against the wishes of Americans, and they paid the price (remember ‘Deem and Pass’?). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/277 "2010-11-05T17:48:03Z")
Had they gone full-on UHC they would have gotten more popular support. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/278 "2010-11-05T18:46:13Z")
So is \*\*Crafter Man \*\*going to explain why other people who owe him nothing need to act to bring about something he wants or what? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/279 "2010-11-05T18:50:00Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > The public is against it. The GOP is trying to give Americans what they want. When did \*that \*start? Why did they propose cap-and-trade themselves originally, then? > [@](#): > > The Obama Administration and Pelosi and Company passed a healthcare bill against the wishes of Americans, and they paid the price (remember ‘Deem and Pass’?). The polls disagree with you, amigo, that is, when the questions are more nuanced than “for/against”. Far more people think the bill didn’t go far \*enough \*than too far. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/280 "2010-11-05T20:47:33Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > When did \*that \*start? Why did they propose cap-and-trade themselves originally, then? > > The polls disagree with you, amigo, that is, when the questions are more nuanced than “for/against”. Far more people think the bill didn’t go far \*enough \*than too far. Smashy only accepts \*“facts” \*told to him by the right wing echo chamber. He lives in a fantasy world. I wouldn’t bother trying to actually reason with him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326.md?page=15)