And There Arose a Great Gnashing of Teeth

Ok, more political BS, then I swear I'm done till the next major election or the next time a politician screws up. I'm sort of killing time waiting for my laptop to arrive, since Fujitsu keeps pushing back the bloody ship date.

Anyway, Obama won, we have our first black president, and the Democrats control everything just short of being filibuster proof in the senate (which I think is a good thing).

Now, myself being fairly liberal (ok, very liberal), you might suspect that I'd wax poetic about Obama and how great this is going to be. But I won't because I have no clue if the next 4 years will be shit or not. I figure, based on what I saw of the two parties and candidates, that this is the better alternative, that's all.

But what I do know, being a denizen of the internet, is that the reaction from internet conservatives and Republicans is astonishing in its hate, bile, and unfiltered rage.

Back in 2004, a hell of a lot of butthurt liberals I chat with online were semi-seriously saying they were going to "move to Canada" since Bush won. Well, about .00001% of them actually followed through, but it was an indicator of how disappointed they were with the election results.

But now, with the Republican party basically being rebuked by the voting public, the reactions are like the liberals in 2004, only amplified ten fold and sprinkled with blatant racism and end-of-days armagedon speak.

Some fun highlights from the several days post-election I spent trolling conservative boards and blogs:

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• "Obama the magic lawn-jockey"  ~No, that's not racist at all~

• "That's it, I'm going to leech SSI for all I can and then move to lithuania before the liberals ruin the country"  ~Aparently Lithuania is to conservatives as Canada is to liberals. Also, lol at the hypocricy of the anti-welfare crowd.

• "That uppity anti-christ ain't my president."  ~Tough titty dude, he kind of won. By a lot.

• "Get your guns ya'll, the only way we'll survive the next four years is through an armed march on Washington to get the commie usurper off the throne."  ~I'm still trying to figure out what throne he's talking about. Maybe the commode in the east wing?

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That's just a tiny taste of the fun and exciting things Republicans are saying. Additionally, with the more sane members of the conservative voting public, a bit of finger pointing and blame-gaming has begun, where they try to decide who gets thrown under the bus (early bet's on Palin) and who gets to stick around and rebuild the GOP.

The really fun character to come out of this besides Bible Spice/Caribou Barbie is Joe the Not-a-Plumber. Joe is an awesome guy, who's terrified that the $250,000 imaginary plumbing business he doesn't have the money or credit to purchase will be beyond his grasp if he has to pay around $900 more a year in taxes. Even better, his family once was on welfare, and that was ok because he and his family had paid into the system. But government handouts and taxation are bad. At least Joe gets a book deal out of the whole mess. Hypocricy can pay well, I guess.

Also, a big dummy managed to get himself removed from his football team for a facebook comment about Obama that reads "All the hunters gather up, we have a nigger in the White House". And you thought conservatives were classless!

It's been a fun time, and I look forward to even more fun and excitement and even more stupid shit coming from all sides, although especially the right. There's nothing like complete and utter ideological failure to really get the good reactions going.