Doug Jones Victory Dog Dance Party! Open Thread for laughing at Roy Moore

Even better than the Juicebro tweet:

Yes, some white supremacist fake news site really posted that headline, before the polls had even closed. So glad I saved the screenshot. ^-^

Already said this on the other thread, but yay! I hope this is a sign of things to come.
Re politics generally, I just finished reading John Safran’s Depends what you mean by extremist, and what struck me (among other things; it’s a fascinating read) is how Islamophobia has brought together a depressingly wide range of people. I initially found it astonishing that groups like the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia had a lot of people from Asian and African backgrounds, for example. But having read Safran, it seems that a shared hatred of Muslims (plus a tweak to the meaning of “racism”) is more than enough.

But for now, back to “yay” and dancing dogs!

@Valya,

Their wave is losing her energy.

I like this very much and I hope you’re right 🙂

NRSC Chair Says Jones Should Vote With GOP To ‘Truly Represent Alabama’

Whatever Gardner’s smoking, it seems strong.

In other words, it’s not so much that white men are terrible. It’s more that Republicans are terrible. Although, yeah, too many white men are indeed terrible.

Maybe so. I don’t think so. Look at the vote numbers:
There were ~100k fewer turned out to vote Sen. Jones than voted for Clinton last year.
There was ~700k fewer turned out to vote Moore than voted Trump.

That’s a lot of not terrible people.

In non- political news, it seems New Zealand really doesn’t like sleezebags:

New Zealand’s ‘good character’ rules could cost Matt Lauer the $9 million lakefront ranch he bought there

@WWTH

“In other words, it’s not so much that white men are terrible. It’s more that Republicans are terrible. Although, yeah, too many white men are indeed terrible.”

Could say the same about white women in your other post though. Not to sound argumentative, but I’m struggling to reconcile your other post about white women with this one. Maybe it’s how I’m reading it?

RE: the POC vote

A full 30% of the electorate was black, in a state where only 26.38% of the population is black. Hahahahahaha, eat that any asshole that wants to surpress the black vote. And a big hug to all the POC who pushed to get out en mass to vote against Mr. “family values”.

Something neat (and non political) following on from the urban exploring discussion in the last thread: Houses that weren’t houses.
Always loved the whole hiding in plain sight thing, like LA’s oil rigs do. 🙂

In more site appropriate news: Alt-Right women are just now figuring out that Alt-Right men are misogynistic trolls who want to control them

Note: this article is nowhere near as good as David would do it.

My first thought on seeing Roy Moore on a horse was that he looked like a sack of potatoes someone tied to a horse.

My first thought on seeing Roy Moore on a horse was that he looked like a sack of potatoes someone tied to a horse.

Mine was that he looked like a Barbie doll on a toy unicorn.

Honestly, you’d think he’d remember that he has knees and knees can bend, what with how often the disgusting rapist tells children to come sit on them.

RE: Roy “no, not Rogers” Moore on a horse – it’s absolutely clear that he has no idea what he’s doing, and that he’s terrified of the horse and the horse is in distress. I felt awful watching that, as he used the reins for balance and flopped around, sawing wildly.

RE: Doug Jones – seems like a good man. It’s ironic, isn’t it, that his background as a federal prosecutor actually worked against him with regards to the white vote. How telling is it that, what? thirty years later, they’re still calling him a “n****r lover” in exit polls.

One thing about Alabama bigots, they’re not shy. You don’t have to spend any time wondering.

RE: next steps. Yes! By all means, celebrate. Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we get back to work. There is always another election coming up faster than you realize. Complacence is our enemy.

But for now, yes. Breathe. This was a big one.

Finally, BIG shout out to African American voters in Alabama. THANK YOU.

it’s not so much that white men are terrible

In descending order of Power, Privilege and Terrible….

White Men
Men
White People

#2 and #3 may shift position depending on situation

That’s the terrifying part:they aren’t throwing their traditional values under a bus. they’re voting for them.

They would actually rather vote for a child molester than for someone who supports people who aren’t… well, who aren’t THEM….

E.T.A. forgive my self-absorbed lack of empathy… WELCOME BACK DAVID!!!

@wwth

Not even sure if the industry likes him – finding out who finances Allen’s movies is really not easy. I think if anything they tolerate him because somehow he got a (very undeserved) reputation for “Art,” and artists aren’t like mere mortals. /immense sarcasm.

If you call his work art – I call it (well, at least the stuff he stars in as well) boringly neurotic. I want to see someone whining about failure and futility, I’ll go to the pub. 😛

Edit to add: daughter says his last one – Cafe Society – wasn’t too bad. She saw it on a date night with her hubby.

I do think we should all use these elections to fight against brogressivism. They love to whine about how the left needs their white dudely selves and how we shouldn’t make them feel aggrieved by focusing on things like rape culture, police violence against black people, trans rights and other things that give aggrieved white males the sads because it’s not all about them and their pet issues 24/7. But look what happens when black voters and in particular black female voters turn out in huge numbers. Democrats win. Can we fucking finally get the Democratic party, the whiny brogressives and the “liberal” media to concede that we need everyone else more than we need agrieved dudebros who want keep preserve white male privilege even in supposedly progressive movements and organizations.

@WWTH yes, and the way to do that is to encourage more women – progressive women, I hasten to stipulate – and people of color (who are not David Clarke) to run for office.

I absolutely don’t begrudge Doug Jones this win; I think he ran a great campaign and is eminently qualified to be in the Senate. That said, I would love to see more POC representing their districts, whether they always vote in lockstep with Democratic aims or not.

@personalpest:

Roy Moore isn’t going away–he’s too stubborn for that, and this election has raised his profile tremendously. His fundamentalist followers will embrace him as a martyr[…].

They have been for years. Remember, this is the same man who was actively thrown off the bench by a higher court twice because he kept insisting on trying to put a Ten Commandments monument at the courthouse, despite the constitution and lots of case law against it. And then refusing to take it down after the higher court had said to remove it. The man’s an old school theocrat through and through.

Also, as noted, he was removed as a judge twice, because state judges can be elected in Alabama, and people re-elected him even after he had demonstrated no respect for the law of the land and cost the state money in legal fees as well as construction fees. Roy Moore is Exhibit A for ‘why would anybody ever think a public election for judges is a good idea?’