Well, as long as you’re happy, I’m happy.
Damn! I knew that if I went to bed early I was going to miss all the meltdowns! 
I wasn’t happy with either candidate, and I didn’t vote for either one. But as a generally Conservative-leaning member of this board, I would like to say to the Liberal-leaning members:
“How about we go for a beer? I’m buying the first round. So…who do you think will win the NBA this year?”
(I have no dance.)
You know what, duffer. checks forum Just fuck you. Fuck every fucking Bush voter on this board. You’re fucking up the fucking lives of millions of fucking people and you don’t fucking care. We wouldn’t act like this if Kerry won. Yeah, go ahead asscake, do a Snoopy dance on the Bill of Rights, you’re probably a rich white male aren’t you? What’s good for you is good for everyone else right? And if they don’t think it’s good for them they’re just a bunch of PARANOID WHINERS. Even though like every single fucking gay person has said they’re scared to death of Bush, guess they’re all wrong. Is there anything you people care about besides your precious tax cuts and your Jesus minus the caritas? I’d like to know! I’d really like to know!
Call me a tinfoiler, call me whatever you want, but I don’t think Bush voters are even human beings by the definition most people would use. They aren’t empathic. They don’t care about other people. Have you even looked at the news sites from other countries, the photographs that show children’s bodies being carried out of demolished Iraqi homes? All bloody and messed up and stuff? How could ANYONE look at shit like that and cast a vote for the man that helped make it so? It takes a small mind, a petty little insular mind, to look at the carnage over there and say “yeah, I want more of that.” BUT OH YES IT’S ALL OKAY AS LONG AS HE DOESN’T RAISE MY TAXES WE CAN’T HAVE THAT BUSINESS UBER ALLES AND ANYWAY I DON’T SEE IT ON THE AMERICAN MEDIA SO IT DOESN’T EXIST.
I’d like you to know that your posts and the posts of the other Bush supporters in this forum have made me go into a panic attack. I bet all you Pubbies (oh dear is that an offensive term now?) think that’s really funny. I bet you’re all laughing right now. Well go ahead and laugh motherfuckers. I’ll concede you won the election, but you’ve done it at the expense of your humanity. There’s more people in this world besides you and your precious business-owning families, and some of those people aren’t even dark-skinned! So you can count them as equal members of the human race! Okay not really, you have just as much contempt for a poor white kid dying of cancer as you do for all those dead Iraqi kids. Actually contempt isn’t the right word. Apathy is the right one. And that’s a lot worse.
So in closing, FUCK EVERY SINGLE BUSH VOTER. I don’t care if you’re the majority, you’re WRONG. Absolutely motherfucking wrong.
Hey spark plug, check it again.
“My fellow SDMB Republicans, it is time again for the Republican Happy Dance”
What part of of that did you miss, sweetie pie? I’d say you were a shit, but I hate to insult anything my ass insists on expelling.
Try again, snookums.
Chiil, Continuity_Eror. I agree that Bus was a bad choice, but his supporters aren’t (all) evil; most of them are patriotic Americans who disagree with what they think Democrats stand for.
We have to learn from our mistakes; Kerry didn’t sell himself as a viable replacement for Dubya. He was not as aggressive as he should have been in fighting the lies and deceit of the GOP noise machine.
Don’t mourn, organize.
Evil? Nah. Ignorant? …
I’m not sure it’s time for a happy dance from anyone now, even those of us that voted Republican. Maybe we feel like the best man and administration is in place to address the issues (save Ashcraft) but with soldiers and civilians dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, a weak economy and unacceptable unemployment rate, broken fences with our international friends, the inability for everyone in love to have the right to marry and unreasonable constraints on medical research issues still at hand, I’d like to recommend Republicans and Democrats alike roll up their sleeves and find some way to fix the ills of this country. I’ll do a happy dance if and when fixes for these issues are in place, not one day before. I think many Republican have a real problem with a lot of things that happened over the past four years, just like those that voted otherwise, and I believe if we can get past all the name calling and venom that there’s some real common ground that we can begin to work from.
If ignorance means any thought or opinion that differs from yours, well, I guess I have to plead guilty. If, in 6 months you’re not posting, I’ll think of buying into the revocation of of our liberties.
Why would Republicans want to fix any of tohse things? Those are all your goals, from soldiers dying to the crippling of science in this country, that are things you voted for.
Bush wants outsourced jobs because they raise stock prices for his friends.
Bush wants permanent war because it kees his base fearful.
Bush wants to cripple science in this country to please the fundamentalists.
Bush wants broken relations with other countries because he’s a unilateralist who despises Europe.
Bush wants gays barred form equakity because that slo pleases the fundamentalists.
Sorry, every poroblem you named is what you voted for. Live with it for the next 4 years. Don’t ask for common ground when you and your party have shown such contempt for me and mine.
I intend to fight the GOP for the next 4 years.
Ignorance as in out of touch with reality.
gobear: I know this is an issue of great importance to you.
So please understand where I’m coming from: I think laws against sodomy are foolish exercises of the state’s police power, and I have lobbied against them in Virginia. I believe laws that target only same-sex sodomy are quite properly unconstitutional.
But I do not believe that all laws against sodomy should be considered violative of the federal constitution, and I believe Lawrence was ill-decided. I know this puts me on the opposite side of an issue that is not merely academic for you, and it pains me to do this. But the federal constitution is not the fail-safe correction mechanism for every ill-considered act of the state legislature.
I like you, gobear. I think you’re a thoughtful and intelligent poster. But boy do we ever see the issues and perceive the intent of our elected officials in a different light.
Also, please understand that voting for a party because you are more sympathetic to their overall goals doesn’t mean that you’ve given them a hall pass on every issue. Some things about my party of choice’s platform bother me tremendously and I’ll work with you and others to get those changed but I made my choice based on what I felt was the probability of obtaining a greater good.
I didn’t dislike Kerry, nor would I have been distraught had he prevailed (unlike my abhorance of Gore). I simply felt he was weak and not a good choice. Give me a better candidate next time.
The problem with this thread is that it is well documented that Republicans can’t dance.
A couple of quotes for our Democratic brethren and sistren:
*A minority is in a very awkward position. The individuals in it can’t afford to be just as good as the individuals in the majority. If they hope to convert the majority they have to be much better; and the smaller the minority, the better they have to be. They have to think better. They have to know more. They have to write better. They have to have handle controversy better. Above all, they have to have far more courage. And they have to be infinitely patient. * (Unknown)
*Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. * (**Unknown **)
I understand, and I’ll try to discuss it with you as dispassionately as I am able.
BTW, check your- e-mail. I owe you a debt of honor, and I require instructions on how to deliver your deserved prize. I recommend Yellowtail Shiraz if you’re into reds.
Now this was the sort of meltdown I was looking forward to.
Oh, but that is where you are tragically wrong. We do care. We just think you’re wrong.
“I love the sound of heads popping in the morning. It sounds like victory.”
Pardon me while I wet myself laughing.
Well, I am white and male, and I do all right.
No, what is chosen by the majority is presumed to be what happens.
No, they are liberals. Although you are correct, it is getting harder and harder to distinguish the two.
Well, yes, pretty much. Although I would tend to disbelieve that “every single fucking gay person” is as much as a hysteric as, well, some seem to be.
Shoot, you found us out. Nope, that’s more or less it. Just tax cuts and a stripped-down Jesus. Oh yes, and killing poor people, and feeding them to the cat. And nuclear war. We like that too.
Pardon me, I have to go beat my wife, rape the environment, and throw a poor family out into the street with nothing to eat and only a cardboard box to live in. I get stock options if I can get one more before the end of the week.
OK, you are whatever you want. Now call me a cab.
I find it helps if you drink excessively.
Well, it has its humorous aspects.
Thanks! I wasn’t really waiting for your permission, but still it was gracious of you and all.
Oh, I never had any - I voted for Bush in 2000 too.
Now you’re just talking foolishness.
That’s better.
Thanks, I love you too.
Regards,
Shodan
OK, now that Kerry has conceded and the threat of another recountapalooza is behind us all. I would like to say congratulations to the republicans on their victory, though it seems a bit…retarted…to say something like that about the presidency.
This was a bitter and at times stupid election and I hope we can all move on and spend the next four years sniping at each other and using all of the roll eyes smiles that we are allowed to use.
I would like to share my concerns about the next four years though.
- Bush needs to learn some tact. It’s time to make that uniter shit stick. However you want to paint it, this election was close with a lot of states going 49% to 50% one way or the other. The president needs to stop acting like he has a massive mandate from the people and start listening. I don’t want another four years of the same angry back and forth.
2)Bush needs to heal the wounds he has created with the rest of the world. I’m still not sure how he managed to piss away all of the support we had after 9/11, but it’s gone and we need it back if we are ever going to win the war on terror. The united states (if we can even call it that these days) is a part of the world and needs to act like it.
3)Hi opal. I hadn’t really planned on adding that, but I understand it’s something of a tradition around here.
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The republicans need to start admitting when they have made mistakes. I know it’s been talked about a lot, but the 380 tons of explosives is a good example. We may have destroyed a lot, but 380 tons is still 380 tons. Admit that an error was made and tell us how you plan to fix it. It’s what grown up people do.
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The religious right and Karl Rove needs to be put out of the party. They’re just creepy, and getting rid of them will make things so much better for everyone.
One last thing, pass me a beer. I won’t be drinking to the President, but I think the lack of a recount is cause enough to drink
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Don’t ask for common ground when you and your party have shown such contempt for me and mine.
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I realize “you and yours” is a common term but would just like to point out that in this instance it was used inappropriately.
I realize “you and yours” is a common term but would just like to point out that in this instance it was used inappropriately.
Dictator judges? What the fuck are those? Do you even know what “dictator” means? According to Webster’s, a dictator is “one holding complete autocratic control” or “one ruling absolutely and often oppressively”. Assuming you’re talking about Supreme Court justices (I don’t know what the hell else you could be talking about), what you’re saying makes absolutely no sense, and certainly isn’t in line with the idea of propping up foreign dictators that was brought up.