Jane Hamster of FireDogLake: If Lieberman Becomes President, He'll Round Up All of Ned Lamont's Bloggers and Put Them in Gitmo
One benefit of a Lieberman vice presidential bid. Now, seriously, admit it: Sure he's pro-choice, but you're intrigued now, arencha?
You probably think she's kidding. You probably are quite wrong.Obviously, I have an elaborate nightmare where Joe Lieberman gets the VP nod, McCain wins, then dies -- and we're looking at a President Lieberman. At which point I and a host of others bloggers who supported Ned Lamont wind up in Guantanamo Bay. Now I may just be engaging in extraordinary cynicism here. But over the years, I've watched Arlen Specter set himself up as conscience of the Senate and rail against the administration's abuse of executive powers, at which point everyone invests him with the moral authority to adjudicate the situation and then he lets 'em off the hook.That's incoherent, of course (it is Jane Hamster), but what she's saying (I think) is that Arlen Specter has set himself up with the credibility to arbitrate constitutional questions, and if President Lieberman gives the order to arrest, deport, and jail Americans for no offense except supporting a political opponent, Specter would give his blessing and that finding would carry the day. Judges who don't think actual terrorists belong in Gitmo would, apparently, defer to Specter's hypothetical finding that noncriminal Americans do belong there. She is quite serious here. She has gamed this out. Sort of. Hey, stupid people can game shit out too.
... I sure hope this is just my dark thoughts getting the best of me. Because I do not look good in orange.How about a white number with nice long sleeves and big bold leather straps? Via NewsBusters. Amazing. As the bear says, "This isn't just about the hunting anymore, is it?" (NSFW joke told here at 8:10.) This isn't politics for the left. It's some sort persecuted-messiah psychodrama fantasia they're playing out in their own badly addled heads.* Politics are just the vehicle for acting out this consensual mass hallucination. If there weren't any politics to shape their delusions, they'd just be talking about Men in Black and Voice-to-Skull technology the same as any other muttering, eye-twitching schizophrenic. Casting these paranoid delusions in terms of political oppression gives them the veneer of sanity. But only the veneer. * Actually, now that I think about it, it's a bit like a game of Dungeons & Dragons without dice or graph paper. Like a role-playing game, each participant agrees to indulge the others in their shared mutual fantasy; each player agrees "You are a mighty warrior, and I am a rogue, and this kid over here is a wizard." The "game" works to the extent that each participant buys into, and reinforces, the conventions and assumptions of the agreed-upon fantasy world. The only difference, really, is that they're all playing the same character -- persecuted rebels for truth, hounded at every turn by an Evil Tyranny bent on killing them or shipping them off to the Salt Mines of Outer Tenubiah. And they get very pissy when someone comes in and disturbs their communal fantasy "political" cosplay, by speaking to them "OOC" (out of character). Hmmm... Maybe Michael Goldfarb is right.
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Someone needs to let her know that she is insignificant and that nobody gives a shit about what she has to say, including Lieberman.
Posted by: dan-O at August 20, 2008 06:28 PM (AEBFS)
Posted by: Ned Lamont at August 20, 2008 06:31 PM (1WR4H)
Posted by: BumperStickerPlover at August 20, 2008 06:35 PM (NnAGL)
Posted by: dulce at August 20, 2008 06:36 PM (a6rJl)
Posted by: Jane Hamster at August 20, 2008 06:36 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Lee at August 20, 2008 06:44 PM (TxTIh)
Projection is an ugly thing. It's actually amazing how often lefties let their deepest wet dreams about what they'd do to us Conservatives if given half a chance out for the world to see. Some of these people need to be quarantined from the internet for a couple weeks, just to watch their heads explode with all the crazy not getting out.
Posted by: TJ at August 20, 2008 06:44 PM (W4Ivi)
Posted by: David Ross at August 20, 2008 06:46 PM (GwV+j)
Posted by: Benson at August 20, 2008 06:47 PM (qzcNU)
Posted by: ace at August 20, 2008 06:48 PM (1WR4H)
Posted by: Fritz at August 20, 2008 06:51 PM (zAvxs)
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 20, 2008 06:52 PM (TUWci)
At which point I and a host of others bloggers who supported Ned Lamont wind up in Guantanamo Bay.
No, no, no, Lieberman would never be so gauche as to ship Lamont supporters directly off to Gitmo. He'll just monitor their library records and have the IRS audit them every other year. And maybe have agents follow them in trucks identical to UPS and Fedex trucks.
Posted by: Maetenloch at August 20, 2008 06:52 PM (hn7Rm)
One can only hope, Jane.
Posted by: grc at August 20, 2008 06:57 PM (YleVG)
Posted by: Achmed at August 20, 2008 06:57 PM (x7T2O)
So, are you implying that if Lieberman became President, he would treat his political foes in the same manner that the Clintons treated theirs?
Posted by: exdem13 at August 20, 2008 06:58 PM (fenBi)
I think the price of tin foil just went up again.
Posted by: David Ross at August 20, 2008 06:58 PM (GwV+j)
So, are you implying that if Lieberman became President, he would treat his political foes in the same manner that the Clintons treated theirs?
Watch it, exdem, or we'll put you on the list as well.
Posted by: Maetenloch at August 20, 2008 07:05 PM (hn7Rm)
Jane says "I do not look good in orange". Ha ha...gos that is funny.
Frankly, I would bet she looks pretty much bad in anything with all that armpit hair, the nose ring, and the flaming purple hair.
Perhaps if she were to put this brown paper bag over her head. Hmmm. Okay, let's put another brown paper bag over her head. Ah! Better. Okay, lead her into this room. Good.
Okay, start filming.
Posted by: HAHAHA at August 20, 2008 07:06 PM (rYaSa)
No, Jane, you're engaging in BUGS ON MY SKIN GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF THE GOVERNMENT BEAMS THOUGHTCRIMES INTO MY HEAD TO BRING OUT "BAD JANE" crazy.
There's a difference, you know.
Posted by: Sean M. at August 20, 2008 07:15 PM (e6v7s)
At which point I and a host of others bloggers who supported Ned Lamont wind up in Guantanamo Bay.
Good news, Jane: GWB is probably going to shut down the prison at Gitmo.
Bad news, Jane: These words "... in Guantanamo Bay." - if someone threatened you with that, they might not mean quite what you assume they mean.
Posted by: sherlock at August 20, 2008 07:19 PM (jdXw+)
Thousands will flock to my site. I'll moderate them mercilessly - culling the herd by banning all but the most insane (and fiercely loyal) readers.
I will then declare the United States of Amerikka a threat to our security and freedom. I will lead them in flight to the far northern border of Canada where I will start a cultish commune and install myself at the head. Worldly goods will be prohibited. I will confiscate all cash and valuables, hop a flight back to the U.S. and throw an awesome party for all the AoS morons with free hookers and Val-U-Rite vodka for all.
Posted by: Warden at August 20, 2008 07:19 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: sherlock at August 20, 2008 07:20 PM (jdXw+)
Posted by: g Hussein Keep Rockin' p at August 20, 2008 07:31 PM (9OT+1)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 20, 2008 07:32 PM (0+Ggj)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 20, 2008 07:43 PM (CiVat)
Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 20, 2008 07:47 PM (LRJ8a)
sherlock: Nice point on schooling the Leftard in the nuance of her statement. Going to Club Gitmo=US Govt paid vacation. Going to Guantanomo Bay="disappeared", or dropped onto the Cuban side of the fence.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 20, 2008 07:48 PM (fenBi)
" Like a role-playing game, each participant agrees to indulge the others in their shared mutual fantasy; each player agrees "You are a mighty warrior, and I am a rogue, and this kid over here is a wizard."
I put on my wizard hat.
Posted by: Grunt2Jag at August 20, 2008 07:49 PM (Yr6lx)
Nah Jane, he'd just use a cattle prod and a waterboard.
Personally, I don't see a "downside" to that.
)Posted by: GarandFan at August 20, 2008 08:15 PM (eJ32B)
328 exdem:
Or just dropped into the bay. You know, the water that the US Navy decided was good for a coaling station over a hundred years ago?
Only done from 300 feet sans parachute. Splash!
Or Splashetter!
Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 20, 2008 08:23 PM (TUWci)
Posted by: MrsPaulsFishSticks at August 20, 2008 08:28 PM (PBGAP)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 20, 2008 08:38 PM (6L459)
Posted by: Arthur at August 20, 2008 08:57 PM (ITyQ6)
We've already got that covered.
Posted by: men in black helicopters at August 20, 2008 09:13 PM (evdj2)
Warden: "blah blah blah blah free hookers and Val-U-Rite vodka "
Well, I know who I'm voting for.
Posted by: David Ross at August 20, 2008 09:21 PM (l9BCn)
This is a DeLuSiOn!!!eleven point eleven!1!!
Then again, is this really any worse than all the crap that she's spewed forth already?
Posted by: Merovign at August 20, 2008 09:44 PM (UXoQt)
Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 20, 2008 10:00 PM (hVoxN)
Not much.
Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 20, 2008 10:02 PM (hVoxN)
Jane, and all the other liberals out there, listen to me: You've got to go into hiding. Immediately! Don't wait for the election, it may be too late by then. Find a nice attic or basement somewhere and cut yourself off completely from contact with the outside world until further notice. Remember, IPs can be traced, so obviously you will need to stop blogging and commenting on blogs. Trust no one! If you do happen to catch a glimpse of a newspaper or website, remember that the corporate media is nothing but a Rethug propaganda machine, so don't expect to read the truth about your fellow travelers being rounded up.
One day, perhaps, it will be safe to return and tell future generations of the true horror of the Bu$h/McSame years, but for now, hide! Good luck to you all.
Posted by: Brendan at August 20, 2008 10:13 PM (2jQGY)
As far as Ned Lamont is concerned, friends, just look into his family tree and what do you find? Of course there's one Corliss Lamont, a well-known Communist Party hack/activist and apologist for Stalinist crimes against humanity. I'm not sure of the genealogical connection between Corliss and Ned, but it is close enough to be taken into account.
For you, Jane, honey, think about the real Gulag, the Gulag that never sunk into the the thought process of the American extreme left. Even if you get sent to GITMO, which is a mere fantasy of the paranoid left, you'll more than likely come out of that experience overweight, more paranoid than ever and pandered to by the less than credible American mainstream media. That situation was never experienced by the real victims of Stalin's Gulag, that paradise you and your likes seem to idealize!!
Posted by: Mescalero at August 20, 2008 10:54 PM (1n6H9)
Posted by: Dogwood at August 20, 2008 11:49 PM (Kj/7d)
Right. Like the Navy even has a ship that can hold nine people.
Posted by: bgates at August 20, 2008 11:54 PM (CFjXn)
Make me think of 2 quotes/instances"
Lyn Lear on election '06:
"When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner why the White House seemed so serene and at ease about the vote, he replied that, this time around, the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on martial law. He glumly noted that we are so far down the road toward totalitarianism that, even if Democrats do win back the Congress, it would take at least two generations before the last six years of damage to the nation could be reversed. Gore frankly despaired that any amount of time could ever return the country to where and what it previously was. This prediction left me reaching for some Fernet Branca."
and from Bill Ayers:
"Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it's a great country."
Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 20, 2008 11:56 PM (hVoxN)
Posted by: lemmiwinks at August 21, 2008 12:25 AM (Qv6BF)
As I posted over there, she could just see her doctor and get her meds adjusted. Or at least remember to take them once in a while.
Posted by: Jim C. at August 21, 2008 12:29 AM (H0BL1)
Posted by: Rix at August 21, 2008 12:39 AM (j453o)
Posted by: Roy at August 21, 2008 12:47 AM (dnNvo)
You can only come up with this sort of paranoid idea if you are the sort who would do EXACTLY THAT if YOU became president.
The left is nuts. But it's scary-nuts.
Posted by: Thea at August 21, 2008 12:51 AM (N0hv7)
Posted by: Dan at August 21, 2008 12:52 AM (ucWG2)
Posted by: amrobinson at August 21, 2008 12:55 AM (JXItK)
The only difference, really, is that they're all playing the same character -- persecuted rebels for truth, hounded at every turn by an Evil Tyranny bent on killing them or shipping them off to the Salt Mines of Outer Tenubiah.
or - they're just fed-up with their metrosexual boyfriends' inability to "drill, drill drill, now". Hint - go (incognito, of course) to a NASCAR race and find a real bull to ride.
Posted by: Roy at August 21, 2008 01:01 AM (dnNvo)
And robes, and robes -- gaaaah, FACE THE OTHER WAY MAN, OHGODNO MY EYES THE GOGGLES OF MINUTE SEEING DO NOTHING ONLY MAKE IT WORSE!
Posted by: Acksiom at August 21, 2008 01:25 AM (WaJuM)
"I know her name. I prefer Hamster."
Well, lefties do tend to make prodigious use of gerbils quite often. Hamsters probably suffice when cash is tight.
Posted by: Dumbocrats are Faggots at August 21, 2008 01:28 AM (QRBhQ)
The conceit here, as with many on the BDS left, is the belief that her thoughts are so subversive that somebody would actually see the need to suppress them.
Who misses Nixon more than these people?
Posted by: edh at August 21, 2008 01:48 AM (eyA+O)
We need to back off of this, you know, all about me, not about thee thing for a sec, okay?
NOBODY EVEN IN A NAZI DREAMWORLD THINKS THAT YOU ARE EVEN CLOSE TO BEING ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO EVEN BEING CONSIDERED CLOSE TO BEING POLITICALLY PERSECUTED. IN FACT, YOUR BIG FAT MOUTH PROVES OTHERWISE.
Posted by: Chants at August 21, 2008 02:13 AM (X9+ND)
I have a theory that seems to thoroughly explain everything odd about the Left. Especially the Firedoglake, DU, Kos lefties.
Drugs.
They are all taking what are obviously the best damn drugs that chemists have ever concocted. And lots of 'em. In high doses.
Really. Think about it. Seriously. Give it a minute. Let it sink in.
See ...explains every damn weird-ass thing those stupid fucks say and do, don't it.
Where they gettin' that shit is the real question.
Posted by: davis,br at August 21, 2008 02:43 AM (zewwG)
Posted by: Jim Treacher at August 21, 2008 02:43 AM (NV3P1)
Ia! Ia! Lieberman fhtagn!
Posted by: Glen at August 21, 2008 03:02 AM (HX/9W)
Reminds me of James Hansen, NASA's resident global warming fanatic, going around the media circuit whining about how censored he was by the Bush administration. Look how censored I am guys, I can freely appear all over the media and do a ton of interviews! Outrageous!
God help us all. Except God doesn't exist. So we're basically fucked.
Posted by: Seixon at August 21, 2008 03:50 AM (FxCbM)
Fox Mulder's poster was right, damnit! Wake up, sheeple!
Posted by: Sean M. at August 21, 2008 05:28 AM (e6v7s)
Now, now, the CIA had to get new product; I mean, crack is SO 90's.
I only wish that Jane and all her fellow travelers should be dropped off in China for a year with no passport. Talk about industrial strength stupid... Just Damn!
Posted by: SDN at August 21, 2008 07:23 AM (F2ojY)
If there weren't any politics to shape their delusions, they'd just be talking about Men in Black and Voice-to-Skull technology the same as any other muttering, eye-twitching schizophrenic.
They believe that the movie Minority Report was a documentary.
Posted by: Steve L. at August 21, 2008 07:40 AM (o0YD+)
Posted by: Charlie at August 21, 2008 07:53 AM (+uAKZ)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 21, 2008 08:41 AM (x5VrF)
Posted by: Brian G. at August 21, 2008 09:45 AM (3Kw3W)
Posted by: Christopher at August 21, 2008 10:20 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: mojo at August 21, 2008 10:21 AM (g1cNf)
Wow, I get to say it's old. I think this is my first time.
Ace says, Like a role-playing game, each participant agrees to indulge the others in their shared mutual fantasy
FrnakJ, in July 2007, says, Anyway, DailyKos is a bit like a live action role playing game where the Kwazy Kos Kids live in a fantasy world of danger and intrigue and they pretend they're doing stuff about it. The difference is that the Democrats don't pretend to care about the interests of people pretending to be vampires nor kowtow to their demands in the hope of good vampire press and donation money.
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