# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/21 "2010-11-03T14:44:46Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Minnesota re-elected batshit insane Bachmann. > 'Nuff said. **RE** -elected batshit insane people don’t count, in what was marketed as a revolution. Look on the bright side here, which is that the results were about what you’d expect in this economic climate, and take a moment to especially enjoy that the Tea Party gifted the Senate to the Democrats. Thanks, guys! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/22 "2010-11-03T14:46:11Z")
Meh. Gridlock is good. They either cooperate or perish. On the state level, everything came out pretty much the way I wanted it to. Meg Whitman blew $150 million on nothing - HA-HA! ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/23 "2010-11-03T14:47:31Z")
Putting all of the artful arguments and bold statements and reasoned rhetoric aside… Neener, neener neener… Oscar Meyer Weiner… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/24 "2010-11-03T14:48:00Z")
> [@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… > > Good morning, America: I hate you. Stay classy, dude. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/25 "2010-11-03T14:51:09Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Or you could keep taxes low and just try spending less of other people’s money. Even so you have to cut spending first, _then_ lower the taxes… ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/26 "2010-11-03T14:53:27Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Stay classy, dude. Tell you what - when you stop lying and deliberately misattributing quotes, then trying to weasel your way out of it, you might just have the right to comment on the classiness of others. Until then, cram it, sparky. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/27 "2010-11-03T14:57:04Z")
I don’t know what’s worse: Voter Apathy or Voter Irrationality. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/28 "2010-11-03T14:59:06Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Good morning, America: I hate you. Why didn’t you just leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/29 "2010-11-03T15:01:54Z")
Absolutely none of what I voted for passed. But I kind of expected that, living in Arizona. C’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/30 "2010-11-03T15:11:56Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Ummmmm. Starting a post with Ummmmm… or _Um,_ or anything like that is annoying. By the way, you missed the hyperbolic humor in **Blalron** ’s post. [QUOTE=villa] [QUOTE=Shodan] Stay classy, dude. [/quote] Tell you what - when you stop lying and deliberately misattributing quotes, then trying to weasel your way out of it, you might just have the right to comment on the classiness of others. Until then, cram it, sparky. [/quote] That, however, is an excellent point. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/31 "2010-11-03T15:14:12Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > The measure to privatize liquor sales failed. What were the battle lines in that debate? After I moved away and came to a state with private liquor sales, I’ll admit it was a little odd to see a two-page, color ad in a newspaper for Jim Beam and Absolut (and all the rest). Apart from that, I don’t really notice much difference. (Actually, alcohol sales here almost seems more restricted, since you can’t get beer and wine in grocery stores.) I thought this election was supposed to be all about limiting government, getting it out of the areas where it doesn’t belong. So why did Washington keep government-run liquor stores? ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/32 "2010-11-03T15:18:18Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > 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. I’m right here with you. Fuck those other-side of the lake(and mountains ftm) assholes. Fuck them in their stupid ass ears. I’m also appalled at the collective greed and stupidity of the people in this state and nation in general. [QUOTE=average dipshit WA voter] “Sure, let’s let Mercer Island get richer, our kids don’t need an education, little shits. Besides, one of these days I’ma win me that lottery and I aint givin no one nothing! Fire Department? Fuck 'em, get a garden hose and fight your own fires! Just don’t lay a finger on my Butterfinger!” [/QUOTE] I take some solice that McDermott and Inslee are still around. I’m still not relaxed about the Murray race though, not till it’s all said and done. I swear to gods that if Rossi gets elected, it’ll be war against the east-side. ETA: Just so people are aware, the voters themselves declared GDIAF on themselves, by voting against funding for our fire departments. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/33 "2010-11-03T15:20:09Z")
I’m not too upset. O’Donnell and Angle lost, so the circus didn’t actually come to town. 2004 was the height of the anti-gay marriage furor. Since then, it’s died down. People can’t sustain that level of vitriol and spite. My guess is that this wave crested last night and will now die down and a few years down the line people are going to say, “Tea party? Huh,” the same way they feel kind of baffled at how gay marriage was sooooo important in 2004 and now, six years later, the fever is just gone except for a handful of nuts. This country is becoming more tolerant and more liberal with every passing generation. Yes, there are peaks and valleys, but the right is losing. You can’t just be “anti” forever. It can work as a short-term strategy, but not long-term. Liberalism, tolerance, and sanity are winning. It doesn’t always look like it, but it’s true. Setbacks will happen and it’s incredibly easy to get discouraged, but we will win. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/34 "2010-11-03T15:21:03Z")
Guam can breathe a sigh of relief. Hank Johnson was re-elected He’ll be keeping a close eye on their island in case of capsizing ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/35 "2010-11-03T15:28:13Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > This country is becoming more tolerant and more liberal with every passing generation. Yes, there are peaks and valleys, but the right is losing. You can’t just be “anti” forever. It can work as a short-term strategy, but not long-term. It is indeed strange, but also the only thing that keeps me from jumping in front of a train, that liberals lose about 90% of the battles but win 90% of the wars. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/36 "2010-11-03T15:31:35Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > 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. ☹ I’m disappointed too. Maybe next time. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/37 "2010-11-03T15:31:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Meh. Gridlock is good. They either cooperate or perish. It seems though that one of the parties has no intention of cooperating. Cooperation might mean that something is done, and they want to show that the government is ineffective and cannot get anything done. The way that they’ll succeed at this is to not cooperate and screw things up even more. Then, in 2 years time, they’ll be able to say: Look! See how screwed up things are?! Vote for us and we’ll fix it! The fact that they held the house for the past 2 years and participated in screwing things up in the first place will be lost on the majority. What are the priorities for the country for the next 2 years? Economy? Jobs? Deficit? No. [Republican leaders have begun gathering evidence for sweeping investigations of Barack Obama’s environmental agenda, from climate science to the BP oil spill, if as expected, they take control of the House of Representatives in the 2 November mid-term elections, the Guardian has learned.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/31/republican-onslaught-obama-environment-agenda) [Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) says the top two priorities of a GOP Congress would be to repeal health care and to investigate programs of the Obama administration.](http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2010/10/gop-rep-barton-we-will-investigate.html) [McConnell says top priority for GOP congress is to make Obama a one-term president](http://www.americablog.com/2010/10/mcconnell-says-top-priority-for-gop.html) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/38 "2010-11-03T15:31:49Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > Guam can breathe a sigh of relief. > > Hank Johnson was re-elected > > He’ll be keeping a close eye on their island in case of capsizing Jokes get less funny the more you repeat them. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/39 "2010-11-03T15:32:11Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > 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. I see it a bit differently. Both parties live election-to-election. The Republicans have no need to participate in governance. They will roadblock, filibuster, and absolutely block any progress for the remainder of Obama’s term, so that they can point fingers straight at the White House and oust him from office and replace him with Bobby Jindal, Glenn Beck, or Richard Shelby. ETA: In other words, what **Euphonious Polemic** said. Get ready for the Congressional witch hunts. The snotty little kids have their toy back. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326/40 "2010-11-03T15:34:58Z")
I was disappointed that Prop 19 failed, even though i’ve never smoked weed in my life (yes, i know, i’m uncool). I know the measure wasn’t exactly very well written, but this was definitely one of those cases where passing it was still the more intelligent option, IMO. As for our governor’s race, i was ecstatic to see Meg Whitman lose. I’m not especially enamoured of Jerry Brown or anything, but Whitman was just about the last person in the state of California that i wanted in Sacramento, and i’m happy that she spent $140 million of her own money and still couldn’t buy the job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-voters/559326.md?page=3)