“Amercia” is one reason why the Romney campaign needs a new copy editor. Here’s another.
that parallel structure will get you every time
and so will your family members apparently
That is not the Amercia of my dreams.
I don’t know, some Thanksgivings I just want to go all Dangerous Game on my kin.
Amercia - Land of the Free and Home of the Heavily Armed Granny Agnes.
Also it looks like there’s a kinky three-way going on in that stylized “R.”
LOL. Twitter exploded with the news this morning that the Romney camp misspelled the word ‘America’ on their new iPhone app - they went live with ‘Amercia’ instead. Some iPhone users took a break from tweeting about Amercia to actually download and use the app, fostering the creation of ‘Amercia Is With Mitt’ on Tumblr.
(Via Amercia Is With Mitt)
In Wisconsin recall, the right believes they can’t win legit.
One week before Wisconsinites vote on whether or not to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), a conservative group is engaged in dirty tricks that have shut down the Democratic challenger’s campaign phones.
According to multiple reports, independently verified by ThinkProgress, the following spam text message is being blasted out to many Wisconsin cell phones:
FRM:WI@obamasaliar.com
SUBJ:Union Puppet
MSG:Tom Barrett is a Union Puppet who will give Union Thugs everything they want. Call & ask why 414-271-8050
Of course, the number is Barrett’s campaign HQ. According to the report, “The influx of calls following this spam text message has shut down phones at Barrett’s campaign, just seven days before Election Day and right as get-out-the-vote efforts are ramping up.”
There’s no evidence that Team Walker is involved in any of this, but it gives you an idea of how confident the right is that they can win this — i.e., they aren’t confident at all.
Obama video mocks Romney ties to birther Trump.
This one’s kind of a hit and a miss for me. Sure, Donald Trump’s an insufferable blowhard and a clown. And sure, Team Romney’s decided that Trump’s birtherism isn’t all that big of a deal.
But the McCain stuff — isn’t this what liberals always do? We seem incapable of comparing one Republican to another without putting a halo around someone’s head. We’ve managed to wrangle ourselves into a position of constantly praising Ronald Reagan this way and now we’re going to start doing that with McCain?
Look, John McCain started backing off all the crazy shit only when it became obvious that it was hurting his campaign. Before then, he was all for the crazy shit. Hell, he even found a big ol’ pre-bundled package of crazy shit and made her his running mate.
Why can’t that be the message; McCain was awful, Romney is worse? Why does it always have to be “Why can’t [insert candidate we’re running against] be an angel like [candidate we’ve run against in the past]?” It’d be a lot harder for all the crazy shit to gain traction if we weren’t always trying to normalize it.
For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you. He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.
Dear Rick Scott: If you oppose democracy, you oppose America.
Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to November’s election. But that list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote, ThinkProgress has learned exlusively.
According to data from the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections obtained by ThinkProgress:
- 1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as “non-citizens” and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote.
- Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship.
- Another 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county.
- The bulk of the remaining 1200 people have simply not responded yet to a letter sent to them by the Supervisor of Elections.
You can see a similar letter sent to alleged “non-citizens” by the Broward County Supervisor of Elections HERE. (“The Supervisor of Elections… has received information that you are not a citizen of the United States.”) If recipients of the letter do not respond within 30 days — a deadline that is mere days away — they will be summarily removed from the voting rolls. The voters purged from the list, election officials tell ThinkProgress, will inevitably include fully eligible Florida voters.
In short, an excess of 20 percent of the voters flagged as “non-citizens” in Miami-Dade are, in fact, citizens. And the actual number may be much higher.
Poetic justice would be a Dickensian nighttime visit by the Ghosts of Memorial Days Past, with veteran after veteran lining up to explain to Rick Scott that they didn’t die so some vampire freak of a would-be dictator could pick and choose the voters most likely to vote for his party.
Of course, that’s impossible. So I guess I’ll have to settle for Scott being dragged out of the Florida Governor’s Mansion in chains — preferably by his ankles — to the nearest courthouse to answer for treason in this attempted bloodless coup.
Wait, that’s unlikely too? What the fuck kind of country are we running here these days, anyway?
The conservative PC zombie clone herd.
Remember the furor over liberal political correctness? Yes, some of it was over the top — but it was mainly silly, not something that actually warped our national discussion.
Today, however, the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which — unlike the liberal version — has lots of power and money behind it. And the goal is very much the kind of thing Orwell tried to convey with his notion of Newspeak: to make it impossible to talk, and possibly even think, about ideas that challenge the established order.
Thus, even talking about “the wealthy” brings angry denunciations; we’re supposed to call them “job creators”. Even talking about inequality is “class warfare”.
Krugman goes on to describe how this is most visible in attacks on education; “even talking about ‘immigration and ethnicity’ or ‘environmental history’ becomes part of a left-wing conspiracy.” It’s a Soviet-style rewriting of history, where “counter-revolutionary” (i.e., contrary to party doctrine) facts are airbrushed out of textbooks. He uses attacks on higher ed as an example, but let’s not forget the Texas textbook controversy, where the state of Texas decided it would be a good idea to produce the most poorly informed high school students in the nation. Or the Tennessee Tea Party demanding that kids stop being taught about slavery.
The idea is simple; remove all inconvenient facts from American life and rhetoric. And leave only those facts (or “facts”) that make conservatives look good. One people, one mind, one hive.
