Up all night. Too tired to scan the manosphere for weird reactions to Obama’s victory.
But here are some scenes from last night as a couple of backwards white dudes attempted to come to terms with the new demographic realities that enabled Obama to win the election despite getting a smaller percentage of the white vote than Michael Dukakis did in 1988.
Karl Rove, on Fox News, responded to the new realities with good old-fashioned denial, arguing with the number-crunchers for Fox after they called Ohio as a win for Obama. Rove must have thought he’d bought the election good and square!
Bill O’Reilly, meanwhile, responded with, well, there’s really no other word for it than racism:
Also, while we’re talking demographics, here’s a nice pithy breakdown of the gender gap, from ABC news:
Women favored Obama by 11 points while men backed Romney by 7; the gender gap has been bigger just once, in 2000 (when men were +11 Bush and women were +11 Gore). Add in marital status and the gaps become garish: Married men for Romney by 60-38 percent; unmarried women (younger, more Democratic, more aligned with Obama on social and role-of-government issues) backed the incumbent by 67-31 percent.
Grouchy entitled white dudes, get used to it.
@Falconer
I live in the Kingdom of Wessex, so no Wal-Marts. There’s a 24hour ASDA (A part of the Wal-Mart family they proclaim, and possibly multiple portals to sensory hell) over in the next town.
@ Kathleen
That reminds me – California people (not sure how far south this particular chain reaches), be aware that Nob Hill Supermarkets/Raley’s is currently indulging in a spot of union-busting. You may want to show the workers some support by boycotting the stores for a while.
Aw man. Hope this doesn’t catch on.
Because if some ignant motherfucker decides that it’s a good idea to pull out a speech about mooches around me, I will start a fight with his fool ass.
<— may have a reputation for confronting strangers who are rude to service staff
And Eric Dondero is interviewed by NY Magazine.
Also, this is pretty funny.
Libertarians are liberal?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahahahhhh……
Heheh. Suuuuuure you will, buddy. Suuuuuuure.
cloudiah: Gods, I hope I don’t live in the same town as that whiny gasbag!
Eeek! I’ve just been watching CSI and some dude was defending taking crotch-shots of women at the mall, and he said it wasn’t his fault because the women “all wear see-through tops, mini-skirts and show their bellies”!!!
HE IS CLEARLY OWLY.
It’s hard not to shop at Wal-Mart if the other grocery stores are more expensive. Aldi’s is cheaper, but they don’t have everything you might need. I get as much possible from Aldi’s and then anything else from Walmart because it’s too much gas to go to three other grocery stores to buy what’s on sale, when Wally World will just ad match them all. Food prices keep going up, so what can people do?
Wal-Mart also donated clothing and toiletries to my family last year, so even though they do a lot of bad, they do some good. I guess I’d feel guilty to criticize them too much when they helped my family, and their corporate offices provide nice jobs in Arkansas. They pay so much state taxes that they hold a lot of sway over the Ak state legislature. They were the power behind making Benton country wet, much to the dismay of Missouri liquor store owners on the state border.
Don’t get me wrong. I know it’s not a saintly business by a long shot, but they do have some good qualities.
Today I am wearing skinny jeans and a sweater that covers my belly and goes up to my neck. I guess I’m actually a man?
In other news, Orson Scott Card is still an asshole:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2012-11-08-1.html
Who wants to mess with this guy by sending him emails with confusing or intriguing subject lines?
SUBJECT: Left my keys at your place
SUBJECT: I’m engaged!
SUBJECT: Guess what…
SUBJECT: Ice cream party!
SUBJECT: Run, they’re after you!
SUBJECT: Sleeping with your wife
SUBJECT: Want a puppy?
SUBJECT: Where to hid the body
Etc, etc.
It’s like the Buckingham Palace guards.
Most fiction writers realise that reality is not what they write. Not him apparently.
Subject: Better get tested, mine was positive.
@chibigodzilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0 (please embed, please embed)
The rest of it reads like Bored Sticky, have we found his secret identity?
God DAMN I said please!
What’s he even referring to?
So why did Romney keep getting away with that “half of the companies Obama funded failed” lie?
Yeah, he even did so badly that the Mainstream Media-Industrial Complex got a hostile governor from the opposing party to praise his efforts. They are sinister, powerful, and everywhere.
“With horse-race stories removed, 15% of campaign stories about Obama were positive, 32% were negative and 53% were mixed. For Romney it was 14% positive, 32% negative and 55% mixed.”
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/winning_media_campaign_2012
tl;dr: Orson Scott Card is still a douche.
Oh, Orson Scott Card. Nostalgia Chick was so right about you.
Oh dear dog. Get over it. One election didn’t go your way and you’re coming completely unglued. What a douchebag. Cut yourself off from family and friends because one single election didn’t go the way you wanted it to? This is not normal and it is not a healthy response. Yeah, the black guy got re-elected. Take a deep breath and say it out loud. See? The flesh did not melt off your face.
I don’t recall the Democrats freaking out like this in ’04. (Yes, there was a lot of freakout, but not to the extent of disowning their families and friends. More like “oh dear dog wtf just happened? I can’t believe people were that stupid.”) This guy…
Crap. My brain hurts now.
Here’s the same thing, only really cute:
Yes, because emotional blackmail is the best way to sway people’s political decisions.
Also this
LOLZ
Orson scott card is reacting a lot more rationally than a shit load of other mormons around these parts, actually. A lot of them are telling their kids that the End Times are near and tuning up their food stores.
We survived Bush. You folks will survive Obama. Take a deep breath and get the fuck over it.
I didn’t pitch this big a hissy, Frietag, but that was probably because A) there wasn’t the social media presence then, and B) I was so depressed for about a week afterwards that it was all I could do to drag my sorry butt to work. So melodramatically disowning my in-laws or whipping eggs at F150’s with those little crossed-out flipflops stickers was out of the question.