# This video clip is how all the political threads make me feel. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657 "2008-09-15T03:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/1 "2008-09-15T03:12:30Z")
Here’s the clip if you don’t feel like reading, you lazy bastard: SFW, with sound. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFl-WQAXMto&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFl-WQAXMto&feature=related) Yeah, I don’t have to read them, so I’m just venting here. If you don’t like it, then suck my left nut. I actually like politics but the constant, relentless barrage of threads about the lamest of things is driving me nuts. And, if I do like a thread and start reading, the constant arguing and personal attacks just make me sad… it’s kool-ade for everyone! I don’t know what fuels it but it’s like a massive board war, and everyone needs to go fuck off and die until November. I can’t even imagine what the non-USA dopers are thinking, but it can’t be good. Shut uuuupppp, aaaarrrggghhh, there is no bathroom! ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/2 "2008-09-15T13:15:46Z")
Welp, I guess this thread is as good a place as any to talk about Sarah Palin. I often find myself wondering what opinions Dopers have of her, but really, you just don’t hear shit about her around here, do you? 😕 What do you think of Sarah Palin, **Autolycus**? Sorry, couldn’t resist! ---
**Author:** ![Dilton\_Doiley\_Philosopher\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dilton\_Doiley\_Philosopher\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dilton_Doiley_Philosopher_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/3 "2008-09-16T15:02:22Z")
Sarah Palin is NOT a tumah!!! …she is a tumah with lipstick! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/4 "2008-09-16T21:11:19Z")
I have to agree with the OP, except for sucking my left nut part as I haven’t any. Oh, how I wish there was a separate forum for politics. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/5 "2008-09-16T23:25:49Z")
I agree completely. I would love to see a separate politics only, or, better yet, election only, forum. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/6 "2008-09-16T23:32:01Z")
There is, indeed, no bathroom. Well said, **Auto**. I’ve been avoiding the political threads for the most part, but then the political threads find their way into everything. They’re like fucking fruit flies crawling into my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Goddamn fruit flies. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/7 "2008-09-16T23:52:44Z")
I think [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU) more accurately describes how I feel about the political situation here. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/8 "2008-09-16T23:55:48Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I think [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU) more accurately describes how I feel about the political situation here. RickBlock for the win, loser. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/9 "2008-09-17T01:36:01Z")
> [@KSO](#): > > I agree completely. I would love to see a separate politics only, or, better yet, election only, forum. Not a bad idea at all. As for **Autolycus** - I still remember the first time I met you here. You were behind that dumpster, timid, afraid, huge eyes, clearly had not eaten for a time, capable of speaking only in Portugese and hand signals and even in those only able to discuss ceramics and office supplies, but I took you by the hand and led you into the forums, and I said “Dopers, this is Autolycus— welcome him. Treat him as you would the son of my own concubine’s third favorite servant… put a ring upon his finger [nothing too gaudy, something sterling and just slightly goth-- just a hint of goth really, unless you have one of those with the hinge and fake nail cause those are cool… ooh, pewter poison ring! perfect! The small one] and put off-brand crocs upon his feet and give to him water and fire, for he is to be accepted as one of us, only with fewer rights and less respect”, because I cared for you. And this is how you repay me? You come into a thread that’s currently near a thread that I started and you judge **me** (and by extension my relatives and friends, living dead and imagined, including my currently regnant fantasy he-concubine David Cook, to yell at US for discussing politics? And yet not once do you have even the common decency to admit that Sarah Palin is a crazy wolf-bitch and McCain the dimwitted pimp she’ll ultimately leave in a shallow grave in the Mojave while off to trade her symbolic fading favors to metaphorical miners for their stakes? Not once do you acknowledge the righteousness of Lord Obama or even offer to have the tattoo placed on your calf? I should have left you behind that dumpster talking to the Brazilian kid about removing staples from bathroom tile! But the true glory of Obama is that even now it is not too late for your salvation… just say the words! You don’t have to mean them, just say them! Belief will come… OBAMA AKBHAR! SALAAM ALOHA! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/10 "2008-09-17T01:42:47Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > OBAMA AKBHAR! SALAAM ALOHA! SHHHHHHH! Later, later… ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/11 "2008-09-17T02:53:57Z")
When’s all this over? November? Someone wake me then. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/12 "2008-09-17T03:16:06Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > When’s all this over? November? Someone wake me then. You may be awoken by Obama’s hand in your pocket and the terrorists’ knives at your throat if a significant number of likely voters break a hip or can’t figure out that damn butterfly ballot. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/13 "2008-09-17T03:17:09Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > You may be awoken by Obama’s hand in your pocket and the terrorists’ knives at your throat if a significant number of likely voters break a hip or can’t figure out that damn butterfly ballot. I hope you’re joking. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/14 "2008-09-17T03:22:52Z")
Is he going for my wallet or copping a feel? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/15 "2008-09-17T03:34:03Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And this is how you repay me? I am in your debt for letting me suckle at your teat of awesomeness during my early days here. Therefore, I will reveal the shocking fact that I plan on voting for Obama. Palin could probably kill me with the moose hidden in her vagina, so I am afraid to belittle her publically. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/16 "2008-09-17T03:55:08Z")
> [@rand rover](#): > > you may be awoken by obama’s hand in your pocket and the terrorists’ knives at your throat if a significant number of likely voters break a hip or can’t figure out that damn butterfly ballot. they’re ten meters away!!that’s in the thread!!they’re in the thread!!they’re in this thread!!! ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/17 "2008-09-18T01:44:16Z")
It just seems as though the stupidity and partisanship has skyrocketed in the last couple of weeks. And God help us if McCain wins. I think perhaps I’m going to stay away from the Pit and GD until after the election. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-video-clip-is-how-all-the-political-threads-make-me-feel/463657/18 "2008-09-18T04:42:15Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > they’re ten meters away!!that’s in the thread!!they’re in the thread!!they’re in this thread!!! Could it perhaps be said that nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure? But yeah, I’m getting a bit bored of this election cycle. No debates yet, and no Ron Paul supporters left to keep it interesting. It also doesn’t help that I just moved to Texas, and I’m pretty sure my vote for Obama isn’t going to make much difference here.