November 04, 2004

GORG BUSK WIN

From the Guardian, which relentlessly jeers at Bush’s poor language skills:

Emma Brockes on how George Bush's victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression ...

Everybody's depressed; further evidence that Bush isn’t a divider! (By the way, Emma, tell your editor he owes Mark Steyn £50). And in the Sydney Morning Herald, Sarah McCoy alleges election theft:

I know a LOT of people in the US, some of whom voted for him in 2000 and NONE of them voted for him this time - very suss!

UPDATE. Look what's up for sale on eBay ...

Posted by Tim Blair at November 4, 2004 02:16 PM
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"But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans. (You were expecting maybe Unicorns?)

That is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune that can come to us on Earth." (from Kerry's concession speech)

Now try to imagine the meltdowns of outrage in the ABC/SBS/SMH, etc. if Bush had said that.

Posted by: cuckoo at November 4, 2004 at 02:22 PM

THANK YOU Sarah McCoy! Because it just wouldn't be a Republican win without SOME dipstick repeating that old Pauline Kael verbal eructation...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at November 4, 2004 at 02:43 PM

I can't begin to describe how much I am enjoying all of this lefty teeth gnashing. I've slept poorly over the last week and got next to no sleep last night, so I should be in bed now - but I just don't want this lovely day to end! I keep finding leftist gems all over the Web - Bush will be impeached (yeah, sure, a GOP Congress will be raring to draw up articles of impeachment), the Diebold voting machine company fixed the election, Republicans won because of "fear and hatred," Daily Kos thinks "Screamin' Howard" Dean should become the next DNC chairman, etc. Life is beautiful!

Margo Kingston was already devastated by the Aussie elections; with Duyba reelected, I wonder how she'll find the strength to get out of bed every morning.

Posted by: Donna V. at November 4, 2004 at 02:54 PM

"...how George Bush's victory caterpillared liberal Britain into a butterfly collection..."

Posted by: A at November 4, 2004 at 02:55 PM

LOL on the eBay sale! I loved the big "L" displayed by the fat slob!

Posted by: The Real JeffS at November 4, 2004 at 03:14 PM

but but.. shrub's black helicopters circled over the electronic polling booths and used complicated technology (which i dont understand) to alter the votes in his favour!

Posted by: rosceo at November 4, 2004 at 03:19 PM

Sarah McCoy wrote, "As REM once sang: 'It's the end of the world as we know it.'

And I feel fineee...

Or as Jonathon Swift wrote,

Life wasn't meant to be easy,
But take heart child, it can be simply delightful.

Posted by: jafa at November 4, 2004 at 03:23 PM

Margo's gonna take another month off.

Posted by: Brian at November 4, 2004 at 03:24 PM

It's getting tougher and tougher to come up with crazier shit than these people.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at November 4, 2004 at 03:29 PM

Nonono! Bush won by magic!

What wasn't expected was that once I filtered out all that background noise, I started hearing a calm, resonable, and powerful head-voice saying things like "Kerry doesn't have the experience we need in these troubled times." and "Give Bush a chance to make it better."

Anyone who knows me KNOWS these are not my thoughts!

CLICK!, as it were.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 4, 2004 at 03:29 PM

Maybe that should be our next Grauniad write-in campaign: Getting Puce a job as editor. He should feel right at home, for multiple reasons.

Don't miss the "Questions from buyers" thread near the bottom of the auction...you'll need an Ebay account to see more than 5 of them, but they're worth reading. Too funny.

Posted by: PW at November 4, 2004 at 03:31 PM

Any stories yet about AfricanAmerican voters being headed off at the polls by Massa Bush's whip-wielding, bloodhound-leading Simon Legrees? (BTW Jafa, it's GB Shaw - "Back to Methuselah" - not Swift).

Posted by: cuckoo at November 4, 2004 at 03:32 PM

Pixy Misa, maybe the logo for the Dems next election should be "Shields Up". That'll remind everyone that BusHitler's mind rays will brainwash the silent majority if they don't take care.

Posted by: Lofty at November 4, 2004 at 03:35 PM

Indeed. Private Eye didn't call it The Grauniad for nothing.

Posted by: walterplinge at November 4, 2004 at 03:37 PM

Someone posted the "Questions from Buyes" at LGF, so for those who don't have EBay accounts, go here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 4, 2004 at 03:41 PM

The Guardian has nothing to do with liberal Britain. The Guardian is socialist, not liberal. Socialists have stolen the noble label "liberal" from individualists, in Britain and America (though not France, interestingly, where George Bush would be described as an "ultra-liberal").

True liberals believe in setting people free and in individual rights. The Guardian believes in enslaving them in super-tax-paying and welfare dependency. It believes in armies of goverment inspectors and regulators checking up on Britain's shrinking private sector. It has been in paradise since Blair was elected (though you won't guess it - socialists always find something to whinge about).

I'm willing to believe that SOCIALIST Britain is in despair today. Good.

Posted by: PJ at November 4, 2004 at 03:56 PM

Emma Brockes on how George Bush's victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression ...

catapaulted into caterwauling

at least their depression is collective, nothing beats a good collective for socialists

Posted by: ilibcc at November 4, 2004 at 04:05 PM

Thanks Cuckoo, GB Shaw eh.. Was it also he who said,

If at 20, one is not a communist,
then one is heartless,
If at 40, one is not a conservative,
then one is brainless.

Or something like that...?

Posted by: jafa at November 4, 2004 at 04:07 PM

I think that is usually attributed to Churchill, jafa.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 4, 2004 at 04:15 PM

Everybody on Earth who can read english should hit that link from Pixy Misa.

I said I wasn't going to gloat, but I just had to send that story to all my friends this morning. That stuff is seriously deranged. High Magi!?

The ones who live in the mansions with the hell-hounds in the yard and the 7-foot tall hairless black doormen?

Oh, those High Magi! You can stop watching the skies, America; you now need to shield, people, shield. And screen.

Posted by: seashell at November 4, 2004 at 04:26 PM

Isn't it pathetic that there are still these dazed Kerry/antiBush supporters wandering around the 'net, still spouting their rhetoric?

Newsflash to Moveoners: you lost. No one is interested in your blather. You don't even have a mainstream political party to represent your views, either in the US or Australia - they (including the Oz Greens who were superceded by Family First) were all dumped by voters and will need to 're-invent' themeselves just to survive (which means dropping all the things which are dear to the far left).

The only audience you have now is Castro, Chavez, Bin Laden, and all the other freaks, so why not go and introduce yourselves to your new sponsors?

Posted by: Bruce at November 4, 2004 at 04:37 PM

THis is good:

"Time for the left to start working through the Kubler-Ross stages of accepting death. Their philosophy is certainly dead and they need to deal with it.

1. Numbness
2. Denial and Isolation
3. Anger
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

"

Posted by: Bruce at November 4, 2004 at 05:01 PM

Come to think of it, waking up as Americans must be the worst kind of hell for people like Maureen Dowd and James Wolcott. To even share a nationality with evangelicals and values voters must make one's blood freeze.

Posted by: AST at November 4, 2004 at 05:50 PM

Bruce, I think this election loss is moving them from stage 3 to stage 4, actually, which might be good news. A depressed lefty will at least shut the hell up, and maybe let the grown-ups handle things amongst themselves.

Posted by: PW at November 4, 2004 at 06:07 PM

Usually, and incorrectly, attributed to Churchill.

Guisot: 'Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head'

then, Clemenceau: 'Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head'

Is it time for the following update?: 'If you're not a moonbat at twenty, you have no heart; if you're a moonbat at thirty, you have no head.'

AJN

Posted by: AJN at November 4, 2004 at 06:15 PM

including the Oz Greens

Slight OT probably but this from Andrew Bolt is a fascinating read.

P.S. I thank God for all you US citizens who voted for George W Bush. Now let's not waste the advantage, and I'm not just talking about the WOT. Now is the time to do whatever each of us can to re-educate whichever poor deluded lefties we know, or might get to know, who don't have completely closed minds. The above-linked article could be useful for that sort of thing.

The divide that exists now between left and right or, more accurately, between totalitarians and freedom loving individuals, is only secondarily to do with politics. Primarily it's about world view. So start white-anting their world views and the presuppositions that shape them. They learned the garbage they believe. Therefore they can unlearn it.

Posted by: Janice at November 4, 2004 at 08:07 PM

Janice says:

Now is the time to do whatever each of us can to re-educate whichever poor deluded lefties we know, or might get to know, who don't have completely closed minds. The above-linked article could be useful for that sort of thing.

Re-educate them? -- Why not? Best to use the lefties' favorite methods, eh?

They knew anyway this fascist Howard government has already built a few concentration camps for "refugees", so why not kill a few birds with one stone and relocate any feral moonbat in to Woomera?

It's only for their own good anyway... :-)

Posted by: JPB at November 4, 2004 at 08:29 PM

this fascist Howard government has already built a few concentration camps for "refugees", so why not kill a few birds with one stone and relocate any feral moonbat in to Woomera

What? Have you got something against them making use of the facilities that have been sitting there empty for ages down the road at ex-HMAS Coonawarra? Not that I'm in favour of interring our lefties and trying the brain-washing thing. Compulsory re-education never changed a single person's mind as far as I can tell - or at least not for long.

You do know where ex-HMAS Coonawarra is, don't you?

Posted by: Janice at November 4, 2004 at 09:31 PM

Bush's victory is a great and massive achievement,
one of the great victories of all time to add to his and the US military's victories in Afghanistan and Iraq ( and what ever is next), I thought he may have won by a greater percentage but a win is win and the greatest number of voters for any candidate 60 million. Kerry was a terrible candidate but he had a 15 point advantage with assistance from the US media who covered up every one of his glaring inadequecies and his ridiculuos policies, fake stories against Bush and in the last tried to steal the election through fake exit polling, there needs to be Congressional hearings into the top networks to see of there was some collusion to try and steal the election for the Democrats through bogus exit polling.
Bush wins, the Democrats are finished, the mainstream media is finished, the UN is finished

Posted by: klein at November 4, 2004 at 09:35 PM

Janice: It was a joke. Tasteless, perhaps; yes...but then it's not that far off some of the left wing blogs' rants.

Cheers,

JPB

Posted by: JPB at November 4, 2004 at 09:46 PM

World's Thinnest Book?


(Jubilation! I finally got the link technique!)

Janice, did you really mean you wanted to "inter" the moonbats? If so, I'm in. Will bring shovels.

Posted by: Jim Whyte at November 5, 2004 at 02:58 AM

I missed the auction thing, and it's been pulled from eBay. Anybody get a screenshot? The Q&A are spectacular.

Posted by: Ken Summers, Perversion Catalyst at November 5, 2004 at 03:00 AM

Ahhhhh, sweet, SWEET schadenfreude!

Posted by: BarCodeKing at November 5, 2004 at 04:38 AM

How can they say GWB is not a "uniter" when he's plunged an entire island into a collective depression?

Posted by: julie at November 5, 2004 at 11:26 AM

It was a joke. Tasteless, perhaps

Me too. At least I was trying to joke and was probably tasteless. Must try to get over my aversion to emoticons.

Posted by: Janice at November 5, 2004 at 08:32 PM