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

From Slate yesterday

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/roy-moore-still-refuses-to-concede-alabama-senate-race-in-bonkers-video.html

These are the reason Roy Moore is refusing to concede (shield your eyes from the blinding light of massive ego on display).

1. “We are indeed in a struggle to preserve our republic, our civilization, and our religion and to set free a suffering humanity. And the battle rages on.”

2. “Because I believe the heart and soul of our country is at stake.”

3. “Today, we no longer recognize the universal truth that God is the author of our life and liberty.”

4. “Abortion, sodomy, and materialism have taken the place of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

5. “We have stopped prayer in our schools.”

6. “We have killed over 60 million of our unborn children.”

7. “We have redefined marriage and destroyed the basis of family, which is the building block of our Country.”

8. “We have even begun to recognize the right of a man to claim to be a woman, and vice versa.”

9. “We have allowed Judges and justices to rule over our Constitution, and we have become slaves to their tyranny.”

10. “Immorality sweeps over our land.”

I’m waiting for a thread that doesn’t turn into a who can be most negative pissing contest. Looks like it’s going to be a long wait.

Mmm hmm. On target, as usual, my friend.

Urgh, Rev. Run, no real surprise there, unfortunately. But just because he’s an outdated relic of hiphop-that-was doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of solidly progressive acts coming out of Hiphop these days.

No, you’re right, Gaebolga. Russell Simmons ISN’T Rev Run, and yes, they are brothers.

…The people telling other people to jump don’t say “how high”, Stefan. That’s the receivers. You’ve mangled that common, quite easily understood reference. I don’t think it’s fair to say that your entire political movement doesn’t understand language or communication, but, well, the evidence keeps piling up.

Hello all Mammotheers!!

(Takes deep breath, shuffles feet, fidgets, makes one last desperate wish that my paragraph breaks appear in my actual comment, and prepares to step into the light…)

I’ve been lurking here on the regular— as in, checking in almost daily sometimes— for years. Like, all the way back to the days when this site was still called “Manboobz.” However, for a whole host of reasons, (and many of them are actually deeply connected to the very raison d’être of this site) I’ve never felt comfortable commenting. Still, I feel like reading here so regularly has given me a sense of like-minded community during times when I’ve felt really alone and powerless, and I can’t thank y’all enough for that.
It’s been bracing beyond belief to be able to just lurk here. As an (hopefully former?) Official Lurker©️* I can tell you this, sans reservation: that David and your commenting community ARE making a difference, even for those of us who don’t take part actively.

But now I’ve reached the “aw fuckit” stage…at least, to a point where I feel like just jumping in here, finally!
The current combination of careening-off-a-cliff politics and this pervasive sense of impending sociocultural critical mass, intersecting with my own relevant personal issues, has left me feeling simultaneously more vulnerable than ever…AND more determined to fight back than I’ve ever felt.
(How to fight back most effectively, of course, is the question. But at least I’m ready?)

The things I read on David’s site feel like they matter now, more than ever. I know damned well that they matter to ME now more than ever. And, since I’m far from alone, that means they do matter, period…despite any messages I may get telling me that my issues, myself as an individual, and the issues of those like me don’t matter. (And there’s always the overriding message that everyone gets: that they certainly don’t matter when held up against the potential inconveniences of superwealthy white Christian men.)

Anyhow, I’ve already gone on way to long for what was supposed to be a brief introductory comment. Yeah. So I’ll just end by saying that you’re all awesome and so incredibly inspiring. And that I really do hope to comment more.

And FEEL BETTER DAVID!!

* “Official:Lurker©️ is NOT my creepy Sovereign:Citizen©️ name, just to be clear, hehe! Although I did consider changing my ‘nym to that after I wrote that, because funny!

So, anyone else annoyed about that whole Piegate thing?

I hate to defend Sarah Huckabee Sanders on anything, but it’s hard to imagine that Sean Spicer would’ve have had his pie making skills come under scrutiny.

I hate it when people attack right wing women in misogynistic ways. Not only is it really not helping the progressive cause in any way, but having to stand up for people I dislike makes me cranky!

It’s dumb, but no dumber than anything else on Twitter these days.

My opinion: she made the filling baked the pies, but she used frozen crusts. Add that opinion to the plethora of useless opinions that pass for “news” these days in the Age Of Misinformation.

The stupider thing is that using an official WH account to tweet this bs out is now considered the norm, since her boss blazed that trail.

Everything is stupid.

Re the FCC stuff, I have never been so angry or depressed since well, the Orange Turd was elected. I hate phones with a holy passion, but I did sit through a whole bunch of automation to get to an actual human being at my AG’s (Xavier Becerra) office.

I expressed that I wanted him to follow NY and Washington in filing suit against the FCC, that I was sick until death of my First Amendment Rights being spat upon, and of my country being divvied up and sold to the highest bidder by this fetid administration in DC. For the record, Becerra’s come down hard against this ruling, so one can hope he follows it with action.

I know Feinstein and Harris are against this, but my damn Representative is a Trumpie and will turn a deaf ear. She already has to my husband. I fully intend on going ‘game on’ January 1 and making she sure as hell doesn’t finish the year a Representative.

…I feel like my soul has been beaten by a plank. ;_;

@Manecki Neckbeard

Welcome ? I’m glad you stepped out of lurkdom! I was like you, a constant, regular lurker since at least 2013, then started commenting roughly a year ago! I hope you stick around ?

Tried to find a good “soul beaten by plank” image. Instead found tons of images of how to “plank”.

Also, Ann Coulter sure is good at self-owning today.

Satirical Christmas depression: