Alt-Righters respond to debate with rape jokes, conspiracy theories, intimations of violence

I want to try some of my own, but meanwhile here’s some good ones:

12 years. You were a slave for 12 years and in all that time, you did nothing. You did… NOTHING. For 12 years, folks!

The Hunger Games are rigged, folks. Everyone knows Katniss won because she played the woman card. Nasty woman. Very rigged

damn you, Violet! *shakes fist, goes back to Twitter*

eta @Hu’s on First: saw both of yours; disturbing, tremendously disturbing stuff. Oh halp.

@Mish: *evil chuckle*

Note to self: Don’t trust any gum Mish gives to me.

Here are a few derived from the book which has my namesake:

“That Veruca was a nasty girl…she clearly had blood coming out of her where-ever”

“Wonka had some good ideas but mine are so much better…for starters, I’d build a YUGE wall and the Oompa Loompas would pay for it”

“That Charlie kid? Way too soft! What was Wonka thinking in giving him a factory? Think he could last a week against the competition? Sad!”

“Violet? She gained a massive amount of weight…it was a problem”

“Augustus…there’s a person who likes to eat. There are some people, like me and like him that eat too much when under stress”

“Say what you want about Mike, but that kid sticks to his guns! He is most likely to make America great again.”

This is one derived from A Whole New World:

“Street rat?! Why doesn’t little punk just get a job, I bet he’s really a jihadist…and his mom? She is no beauty even though she tries to act queenly. Bunch of losers!”

Twitter tells me the thing on Hillary’s podium is a vanity light–which makes sense if you look at the side-by-side pictures; Donald has a shadow under his chin and Hillary doesn’t. I don’t know if having one is a matter of personal preference or a masculine/feminine thing (i.e. men with wrinkles and shadows look older and ‘more serious’).

I’d give you one but it ate mine up too…I was merely spreading the virus

Nidi

I like her stances on social issues and domestic policy. Establishing a very positive relationship with Bernie post-nomination helped a great deal.
I still harbor a great deal of skepticism regarding her foreign policy: I’m not fond of her belligerent, overly-eager track record when it comes to military intervention.

I’ve actually been digging and delving into her issues page – I’ve even read several of The Briefing links on some of the specific policy pages. All pretty good. You can sort of track her long-term commitments to women and children’s welfare, health and education. You can also see her determination to get the various things that she proposed as senator 10+ years ago but which failed to proceed to legislation done as president.

As far as her “belligerence” goes, you have to remember what happened internationally during the 90s while Bill was president. Bosnia. Rwanda. The UN, the whole international community and, from Hillary’s perspective, the US in particular, failed to act in time to prevent truly horrendous genocide and ethnic cleansing. (For those too young to remember, in Rwanda they killed almost a million people in 100 days.) That had a big impact on her according to someone I read the other day. No one can say that quicker action on the USA’s part back then could or would have made a lot of difference. But it’s easy to see how someone in her position would want to avoid that helplessly-standing-by feeling in the future.

@ Chaos-Engineer too right!

I’m picturing a film where Bill has been kidnapped by international arms dealers to try to blackmail her, and she thinks there’s a mole in the Secret Service so can’t go to them for help, so she goes on a brutal, no-holds-barred rescue mission, and ends up in a fist fight with the head of the gang on top of a building and punches him backwards over the edge and lands in a dumpster and she says something like “Time to take out the trash” and then her and Bill kiss in the rain.

Thanks for the detailed response, Alan.

I didn’t actually know about nuclear missile submarines. Big boys, fancy toys, it seems.

Oh Jesus, has anybody else seen this bit of hilarity? Even Trump’s donation ticker is fake.

@Mish

@Kat, whenever you mention your family, I want to find you and hug you or give you a big roll of bubble wrap <3

I appreciate the sentiment, Mish. Hugs and bubble wrap are always welcome!

@Violet B
Welcome back!

@BaronJenks
Kickass plot. And then kissing in the rain! Breakfast at Tiffany’s comes to mind — but your female lead is a bit more empowered than Holly Golightly.

(I adore Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Audrey Hepburn was so charming. But I’m still angry that her character put her cat out in the rain. Not to worry! That cat gets rescued. But I haven’t forgiven the movie maker. Not gonna.)

@Croquembouche of Patriarchy
Your female lead is even more empowered!

Good pitch, BaronJenks, but could Hillary have Elizabeth Warren as wisecracking sidekick? I’m looking for some Bechdel compliance here.

all the blatantly illegal activities Trump is guilty of committing.

@ Kat

This is a staple of the ignorant right (hmmm… can I coin a new term for them: “igno-right”…?) that “we know it’s technically illegal, but we have to do it, it’s the only way to save the country from liberals/globaliss/race mixers or name that threat”

As many mistakes as the Trump campaign has made in the general, I think him saying he might refuse to concede will end up proving to be the worst. With Trump already being down in the polls before the final debate, having the media put all its focus on whether or not he’s going to be a sore loser is not a good look for him. It’s kind of hard to imagine that the people who are somehow still undecided will want to vote for someone who’s cast in the ungracious loser role before all the votes are even cast.

I’ve also noticed lately that we’ve stopped getting the Bernie or busters who plan to vote Jill Stein in here. I haven’t seen it much elsewhere either. Did a lot of them finally get that Trump is so awful you simply cannot claim equivalency between the two?