Riling Them Up
The Republican National Committee knows how to rile up its racist base, that’s for sure.
Boy Howdy – you could have heard them dragging crosses and gathering fire. Poor victimized white people.
From Art Robinson comes “This is America, not Africa, either you are American or not, if not, leave the USA!”
Someone should tell Artie that Christmas isn’t an American holiday either. But Santa and Jesus are white, so THERE.
Terry Crowder is super upset because fake war on Christmas and ‘MERIKUH and “You can’t celebrate Christmas even using the “C” word is wrong and offencive [sic] to other cultures but you can promote Kwanzaa? America is truly going down the tubes when when not everyone is treated equally. Where is the “DIVERSITY” when you omit Christmas”
I seriously doubt that even one African American is going to scamper over and vote Republican because the RNC recognized Kwanzaa, but I’ll bet a whole bunch of them see how welcome the gesture was.
Yeah, I’m helping spread the word.
Poor Terry and Art must live under rocks or someplace equally dank and silent if they missed all the decorations and music and advertisements and lights and sales, and CHRISTMAS-this and CHRISTMAS-that, that I was just bombarded with everywhere I went starting shortly after Halloween this year.
1Poor, poor pitiful American “Christians” need to take a look at some other countries and find out what real religious oppression is. When we’re tripping over Christmas every five feet, it ain’t omitted, Artie boy, though a lot of it has nothing to do with Jesus. (Maybe these people would like to outlaw singing Jingle Bells or Winter Wonderland?)
2Cry baby! And over nothing at all! My God, what would this hunk of DNA do if he ever had to live through something like, oh I dunno, say like what our vets have had to experience from WWI onward. He’d never, ever make it.
3Will the racists survive until Cinco de Mayo or Immigration Reform, whichever comes first?
4Oh my. If this is the reaction to Kwanzaa, what do they have to say about Juneteenth?
Poor Art. Personally, I’m still celebrating Christmas and will continue to do so until Epiphany — and no one yet has tried to stop me.
5This is hilarious. The Republican Party brought this ugly girl (teabaggers) to the party – now they are stuck dancing with her.
6Sigh. Recently a lady in Sweetwater said “And remember to keep Christ in Christmas.” We had a nice long discussion about that, including the fact that we really don’t know when Jesus was born etc etc, and then I added “We aren’t having any problems about that in Austin. Are you?” She seemed surprised, said, no, they weren’t having any problems in Sweetwater. I think they think that something awful is about to happen. I do wish I knew what it’s like to celebrate Kwanzaa. I think I’m going to go return the gift that’s sitting on the bed. Or work on my novel. Or something.
7Truly hilarious, Cheryl. The sorry Tea Bags actually have some expectation of being taken home after the party. Wait until they discover it’s a gohmert wedding, when the divorce comes before the betrothal. A cart-horse sort of affair and they’re all horses’ gohmerts.
Rafael earned 2 million for doing as he was told and reading his bedtime story. But that is all he has coming under the gohmert-nup. Uncle Charles and David are withdrawing the dowry. No money, no party and no future in 2014 for the Tea Gohmerts.
8Oh, and I saw an ornamental black Santa face the other day. Just saying.
9Are we working on a definition for “gohmert”? to gohmert? gohmerted? gohmerting? a la gohmert? like a gohmert? What are the synonyms?
10When someone tells me to put the Christ back into Christmas. I respond with ‘put the Mass back in Christmas’. It’s a made up Catholic word to celebrate MASS.
Therefore, you better get yourself to a CATHOLIC church…none of that other make believe religions…..
I don’t believe in the above…it just makes a good argument for the idiots.
11We have the living definition, Loopy Louie. “gohmert” is basically a substitute for all eight parts of speech with obvious meaning for which Mama would give us one of her soap scrubbings, if we used the alternate word for gohmert.
Polite translations could be stupid, racist, crazy, unbelievable, lying, reprehensible, etc, but often a frustrated cussword would better express our disdain. There are many things which are not so polite which we might like to call the racist Tea Bags, so we rely on “gohmert” which embodies the whole range of stupid, racist ………
12Wow. Just wow. I can’t even repeat some of the comments on that post. I expected whiney, ever-so-oppressed Christians and thinly veiled racism but some don’t even bother with the thin veil. Some days I despair for this country.
13The Repub base is just that — base.
141.morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
2.of little or no value; worthless: hastily composed of base materials.
3.debased or counterfeit: an attempt to eliminate the base coinage.
4.characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing.
Thanks to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/base?s=t
(second definition)
RA, might we add #5, lewd and lascivious, given the GOP fascination with vaginal probes and bestiality?
Seriously, we say health care for all, the GOP base says probe. They’re like Rand Paul playing doctor without a license.
We say marriage equality and the base wander off fantasizing about bestiality. WTG – What the Gohmert?
15The Repugs have absolute fear of anyone who is different in any way from their prescribed thought system. That fear translates to hatred and that brings us to the baggers.
16Any attempt to introduce relevant facts to the discussion results in epithets, obscenities and insults. If there are any moderate Republicans left, try as they might to present themselves as tolerant, they can’t shake the
hatred.
So, “You can’t celebrate Christmas even using the “C” word is wrong and offencive [sic] to other cultures but you can promote Kwanzaa?”
Easy fix. Crowder should feel free to celebrate Kristmas since he is a good Kristian and one other thing with a “K.”
17@PKM, @LynnN, others,
18As much as I agree with your views I dont want Dems to move away from language precision when describing GOP/T Party. Innuits have dozens of words for snow, because it is that important in their lives. Same for Polynesians describing ocean currents and their properties. Because it is so important to understand the T to defeat them we must evolve a language that quickly and efficiently descibes them. Comparing an unknown to an accepted standard is good. “That one is a Ghomert.” means a much different sort of whacko than saying “That one is a Cruz.”, although admittedly not very much.
Polite Kool Marxist — You are right. I should have included #5. As for your definition of “gohmert”… right again.
Dis Gusted — The Mass part of Christ’s Mass got left out loooong ago. It’s sort of how we got the “Merry” in Merry Christmas that the current crop of ignernt (gohmerts?) are insistent upon. I’m going to borrow freely your suggestion to put the Mass back in Christmas. Love to see those Kristian (thanks LynnN!!) Knickers get Knotted.
19Christians need to figure out how to put the Christ back in Christian.
20Seems a lot of progressives are giving the RNC plenty of feedback. Gotta give ’em credit for publishing the contrarian views. Doubt many are swayed, but at least some will be made aware that differing opinions exist.
21My wife had the temerity to wish someone Happy Holidays on facebook and almost immediately received a nasty e-mail from her unckkkle demanding that she use Merry Christmas instead as the government was turning us all into pagans and didn’t she realize that it was now illegal to use the word Christ on college campuses because Obama is trying to turn us all into Moosllums….. unlike I would have done she simply ignored him and laughed at his ignorance. Republicans are a disease and should be treated accordingly.
22Lead story at Crooksandliars.com
23Our own JJ with this story!!!
If we really want a definition for “gohmert” perhaps we should ask Dan Savage to lend a hand. (He did so well with “santorum.”)
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