I was really happy she won. She is, economically speaking, a genius.
Our plan worked! We paid all the news outlets to report an Obama victory, in order to distract from the black town cars now shuttling the Bush cabinet back into the authority chamber at the Executive Office Building. The media will continue to report that Obama “governs” and “executes laws” while he remains in our secure facility at a Blackwater-run compound in western North Carolina. Cheney is hunkered down with Wolfowitz and Feith in the E-ring, mapping out our upcoming invasion of Canada, not with the regular Army but with a special commando corps of Mexican illegal immigrants who we will deport shortly after they take the tar sands of Alberta.
In the meantime, we’ve hired Noam Chomsky to ghostwrite a radical screed called America: Cancer on Human History that we’ll publish as a co-authored work of Reed and Pelosi. That will marginalize the Democrats for at least two more election cycles - time enough to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a program to harvest the organs of gay minority Lady Gaga fans for transplantation into a race of green-eyed, creationist homunculi that will soon appear on school boards across the nation.
You know in your heart that we always win in the end.
No all voter fraud is bad. Regardless of party affiliation. But I think it is obvious that the election was not stolen. There was no chance of it being stolen. At worst there was some low level shenanigans at a local level not a widespread conspiracy. Obama won Ohio. No one stole the election from him. The sky did not fall. Whenever anyone here points out irregularities on the democratic side there is so much hand waving we should put up a Doper wind farm. But every major election there are the calls of “Oh noes Carl Rove is under my bed come to steal my vote!” I know I’ve been here long enough I should be used to it.
I’m reminded of the folks in 2001 who were bleating about how the whole Y2K computer problem was overblown because nothing happened.
Well, what happened is that thousands of programmers spent thousands of hours making sure that the problem was fixed BEFORE it crashed everything, you stupid fuckers.
So in this case - because a bunch of shitty, dirty tricks were exposed BEFORE they could negatively effect the election results; therefore there is no problem, let’s just ignore it from now on?
Moron. Naive simpleton.
Two years, dude; the next campaign starts right after the Congressional midterms. That’s how it is.
Can’t wait for the next season of this reality TV show… hopefully next time the vote can be texted and phoned in… and the season after that, we might can vote aswell, however at that stage, they should really include more acts into the show.
Didn’t work. All that money, all those lies, all that cheating. Didn’t work. Joy.
I actually thought that the voter fraud mythology was a conservative thing in the US. After reading parts of this thread I got curious and went looking for sites mentioning electoral fraud. I found a lot of fringe bullshit, some possibly-maybe, and the Wiki article.
“Despite many instances of electoral fraud internationally, in the U.S. a major study by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007[2] showed of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and of those few cases, most involved persons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility.” Electoral fraud - Wikipedia
I’m glad you were on the job. You did the country a great service by being on a message board.
I love the selective reading. I applaud rooting out corruption and voter fraud wherever it happens. But the shrillness of this thread is laughable. If it amuses you carry on.
No one here claimed there were no corrupt Democrats. But this thread isn’t about general corruption, it’s about a very specific set of actions taken exclusively by Republicans in an effort to try to subvert the vote, mislead voters, rig voting machines, toss out legitimate votes, and/or any other shenanigans they could come up with to win by any means other than actually running the better candidate and having the better GOTV effort.
It actually backfired. And it backfired because people like us have been screaming from the rooftops every time we hear of a case where they were pulling this bullshit. That kept people informed and prepared for what to expect. It also inspired them to make damn sure it was a failure. I’m betting more Democrats went out and voted than might otherwise have bothered just because they were pissed that someone was trying to make it so they couldn’t. Sometimes even if I don’t want to do something, if you tell me I can’t? Fuck you, I’m doing it!
Awww, poor you. Not sorry your guy lost.
No, it worked, just for the side that won. Even as I find myself satisfied with the outcome I still feel nothing but contempt for the fact that billions of dollars were spent on essentially nothing. A few new names, the typical 90% of incumbents, and an outcome long ago and easily predicted.
What the hell, it made for a good stimulus, right? Not even that, it fed the so-called 1%, and the Democratic dollars spend exactly the same as the Republican dollars. So, while a few may have won, with no change we all lost.
Yes yes, we get it…
The only good result for all would have been a “change”. Sorry that did not work out for you.
Worked out fine for me. I’m happy with the outcome in the abstract. My guy won. I’m speaking of the bigger picture. You know, the one that almost precisely reflects the last four years. And you know what a great four years those were.
I think you’re looking at this the wrong way; don’t look at the last four years, but the last two. The tea party thought they had a mandate to obstruct everything Obama did. This election changed something significantly: We showed the tea party they were wrong. They only took one part of one branch of government in 2010 but acted like they had a mandate to run the entire country. With this election we told them in no uncertain terms that the higher body needed to be in even stronger Democratic hands to prevent the House from continuing their prior treasonous behavior, and that just because they took that one part of the Legislative Branch, it was not a rebuke on President Obama, because we just re-elected him, proving we stand behind his ideas more-so than theirs. There will be changes.
I wish one could read the election results as some enlightened epiphany from the American people, but I’m afraid such thinking is optimistic.
Instead, we already knew exactly what the electoral result would be, way back in 2011 or earlier:
[ul][li] 45% for the Democratic candidate[/li][li] 45% for the Republican candidate[/li][li] 10% “independent thinkers” swayed mainly by the latest soundbite.[/li][/ul]
Tuesday’s result? Just as predicted.
As opposed to the prior eight? You know AD, my son’s joining the USAF in Feb – damn fuckin’ glad there’s not going to be any of that “change” you speak of.
Enough killing for profit.
Not sure I agree there… a big bunch of it must have ended up in small businesses that manufacture yard signs and the like. Granted, probably most of it went to whoever owns TV stations, which is generally not really middle class people, I’d suspect.
Perhaps I missed where I said anything about the previous eight years. Wait, let me look. Nope, didn’t say anything about them. But now that you mention it, I recall being very dissatisfied at the end of them. Yeah, very dissatisfied. That’s it. More like fucking disgusted. And you know that, yet you still tried to hang that albatross around my neck. Amazing.
Anyway,with expenditures of $6 billion estimated this year for all races, I’m finding the status quo somewhat dissatisfying. For that kind of obscene money there should have been something, right? Alas, no change. Business as usual.
What are you talking about?
We not only held onto the Senate, we picked up seats, completely baffling the Republicans who were certain they’d take control of that body. This sends a strong message on the direction the electorate wants the country to go. The tea partiers who ran for the Senate: NOT elected. Todd “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” Akin: LOST. Richard “Pregnancy from rape is something that God intended to happen” Mourdock: LOST. And little-known teabag Congresscritter Denny Rehberg from Montana also LOST.
We kicked the craziest of the batshit crazy tea partiers to the curb. Allen “78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party” West: GONE. Joe " There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing" Walsh: GONE. In total, NINE of 19 teabaggers elected to the House in 2010 were nuked into orbit. GONE.
We kept the GOP’s Great Black Hope, their Keynote Speaker from their convention, Mia Love, from winning a seat in Congress. She might not be out, but she’s down, and they do not have her to trot out to the electorate as their token to try to prove they really do care about black people.
Voters across the nation sent a clear message that the hate-fill, racist, homophobic Republican Party winning on issues of Civil Rights was a thing of the past by passing or protecting marriage of same-sex couples in all three states it was put to a vote in, for the first time ever. And both states asking voters to decide if marijuana for personal, recreational use should be legal, saw it pass with flying colors.
We destroyed the Right Wing attempt to give their wealthiest donors the ability to buy whatever government they wanted by making Citizens United moot, impotent. Their bank accounts were drained of hundreds of millions of dollars, stimulating the economy with that money by forcing them to spend it while giving them a return on their investment of exactly nothing.
We also saved The Patient Protection Act from repeal, saved Medicare from turning into a voucher program, and stripped House Republicans of any power they had to dictate the terms of the tax and spending cuts scheduled to take effect January 1st. There’s no edge of the cliff they can take us to that Democrats aren’t perfectly willing to let us go right over, because all we have to do is let the terms of the sequestration deal take effect, then tell the GOP in the House that they’ll have to start from scratch to reinstate middle class tax cuts and beg us to save their pet military projects.
And the pièce de résistance? Not only did we let them know that electing Barack Obama in 2008 wasn’t a fluke, but what we said by re-electing him was that we like his vision of America and the direction it should be taken and not that of the Plutocrats’.
A lot has changed.
I suspect the big change is it’s finally sinking into the GOP mindset that it’s over - that they cannot ever win like this.