The Crack Emcee seems to off the rails these days. Everybody is on his case about his attacks on Mitt Romney and his views in general.
Crack has a tough position. He is all too often asked to speak for all black people which is not fair. He is unique and really can only speak to his experiences and life story. Which colors his view as a colored fella.
He is having trouble because he is getting caught in the web of his own arguments. He has one dead horse to beat and he never misses a chance to beat it. Sometimes Ritmo and I go off the same way. We get a full head of steam and because we like to argue and will always find a way to justify our positions. The only difference of course is that I am always right so pay attention.
I like to go back to bedrock principles. You can't discriminate against a Presidential candidate because of his religion. Period. It goes for Mormons. Catholics. Muslims like the current president. Even Scientologists.
You need a good reason not to vote for him. Like that he is black. Keep it real Yo.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 252 of 252¡Ay, caramba, Chip!
I wonder if anyone noticed that the very first SNL sketch ever was a rip-off of that Monty Python sketch.
I didn't until years later.
Looks like my Nobel prize is in the same bucket as my NBA career.
One thing I perversely enjoy at Althouse is looking stupid or silly to someone and then swooping in for a retort. See for example this exchange a moment ago: link
I suppose this sort of makes me an asshole.
Chick, that's what I mean about chuckling at your comments.
It's not like you're FH over there.
Cody Jarrett said...
Crack's like that. He's trying to stick his face in GR's balls.
That'll make Sullivan really jealous.
Interestingly, if sitemeter is up-to-date with its report (which I don't think it is, for reasons I've never understood), traffic will be dramatically lower this month, like at mid-2000s levels.
Sunday or Monday will show the real numbers, but it's on track for sub-500K.
I suppose this sort of makes me an asshole.
There's "no sort" of about it.
Welcome to the club. You can pick up your embroidered bowling shirt and members only jacket at the check counter. Cody will be by later to handle the oath and the blood initiation.
El Pollo Raylan said...
One thing I perversely enjoy at Althouse is looking stupid or silly to someone and then swooping in for a retort. See for example this exchange a moment ago: link
I suppose this sort of makes me an asshole.
Yup, you're an asshole. But I lol'ed. :D Just as a side note, symmetry in physics or the idea of it is bullshit and should be abandoned because if it were true, we wouldn't be here since antimatter would have symmetrically annihilated regular matter during the first instance of creation. And since that didn't happen, that shows there was an asymmetric relationship of the amount of matter vs. antimatter, thus we are here to talk about. I win. :D
Icepick said...
I suppose this sort of makes me an asshole.
There's "no sort" of about it.
Welcome to the club. You can pick up your embroidered bowling shirt and members only jacket at the check counter. Cody will be by later to handle the oath and the blood initiation.
WTF? No secret handshake? You know, the one where you use your middle finger to tickle the palm of the persons hand you are shaking to let them know the what-nots and stuff?
WTF? No secret handshake?
Are you kidding?! In a club full of assholes? No way! Everyone would be stink palming everyone else.
Just as a side note, symmetry in physics or the idea of it is bullshit and should be abandoned because if it were true, we wouldn't be here since antimatter would have symmetrically annihilated regular matter during the first instance of creation. And since that didn't happen, that shows there was an asymmetric relationship of the amount of matter vs. antimatter, thus we are here to talk about. I win. :D
But suppose there's node separating separating matter from anti-matter, like nodes in atomic orbitals where the probability of being is zero. Furthermore, stipulate that there is no quantum mechanical tunneling or "leakage" between those worlds.
Hey meth, I was looking at an old Althouse thread the other day, from 2009 or so, I believe, and you were using the batboy icon way back then. I had forgotten that.
The first time I really remember Meth he was using batboy.
I always hated that damn bird on head thing and still do.
Sheesh. I miss a lot.
Not really, darcy. Nothing changed. The heat went up and then down.
El Pollo, if that were the case with anti-matter, I don't think they'd be able to detect the anti-matter that gets created in the big labs.
El Pollo, if that were the case with anti-matter, I don't think they'd be able to detect the anti-matter that gets created in the big labs.
Didn't you watch the video in class yesterday, IP? They never detect the particle per se; they just observe effects of the particle and reason backwards.
What's a grain of anti-matter in a sea?
Icepick said...
Hey meth, I was looking at an old Althouse thread the other day, from 2009 or so, I believe, and you were using the batboy icon way back then. I had forgotten that.
October 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Blogger Cody Jarrett said...
The first time I really remember Meth he was using batboy.
I always hated that damn bird on head thing and still do.
God dammit. I'm so confused and torn.
The only avatar that is ever acceptable is a picture of the commenter wearing his hat sideways.
Wait, that's not true - Darcy's avatar is always acceptable.
So a couple of 21 year olds were robbing a business in the middle of the night. They tried to steal the safe but it was too heavy. So they grabbed an acetylene torch to cut it open (since everyone knows the big big money is always in the safe, right?).
Oddly enough, the safe contained black powder.
Score?
Darwin 1, moron 21 year-olds 0.
I just wanna bring balance to the Force. Like Liam Neeson.
He also tried to bring balance to Gotham City, come to think of it.
It's not a good idea to have Liam be balancing shit.
So I'm being groomed by Meade now? News to me. I have no idea when that's happening since we hardly talk and, when we do, he's saying the same stupid shit you guys are.
Man, you guys are sick in the head.
When you lose this shutdown, will be able to admit you're delusional, even then?
You know, spotting delusion, is my specialty,...
Define "lose this shutdown", since every other time the media has said R's lost but R's always come out of it with election gains.
Not to mention, while you've been obsessing over the R's losing whatever, you've been completely overlooking how badly the D's have been tanking. And how badly Obama's numbers have been tanking.
Take away the ten points Barry starts at just for being black--and he's at about 20% approval on most things.
You know, spotting delusion, is my specialty,...
It's why there are no mirrors at Cracker Manse.
I did a chirbit of Althouse in Bela Lugosi voice talking back to Baron Zemo: chirbit
I suppose I could chirbit Crackerspiel in Lugosi voice as "Blackula."
Cody Jarrett,
Define "lose this shutdown", since every other time the media has said R's lost but R's always come out of it with election gains.
Keep telling yourself nothing's changed, Cody. That'll make it so.
Not to mention, while you've been obsessing over the R's losing whatever, you've been completely overlooking how badly the D's have been tanking. And how badly Obama's numbers have been tanking.
How many times do I have to tell you you can't beat a man who doesn't care what you think? He can leave office hated by whites and know he succeeded. You can't win.
Take away the ten points Barry starts at just for being black--and he's at about 20% approval on most things.
Sigh. You're hopeless,...
Ooops!
I forgot who I was talking to - you've got to hear it from the white man,...
Crack, I have several poll results right here on my laptop that back me up.
Hopeless? No.
I like how you overlook what I actually said: "democrats tanking".
There are a lot of Democrats that are beginning to get really nervous about how this is going.
You think they look at a poll commissioned by HuffPo that says the blame is spread about equally 33 to 35% I think it was? There are Democrats who have to start thinking about being re-elected. It's not going to do them a damn bit of good if they lose their seats here.
If you weren't so fucking simple minded and single minded you'd be able to understand this shit. As it is all you've got is yelling really loud, insulting everyone who doesn't agree with you and yelling "RACISM".
That's not macho. That's pussy bullshit.
Cody, I just got this from Hot Air and was about to post it, but since I know how much you guys hate hearing the truth from my site:
The whole idea behind the “defund ObamaCare” strategy, I thought, was that risking a shutdown would draw public attention to the new health-care law, which would in turn boost opposition to it and generate a groundswell of discontent that eventually forced Obama to cave. Maybe that’s happening; there’s no way to tell since there hasn’t been a major poll taken on O-Care since the shutdown. But the fact that Gallup and other polls find the anti-ObamaCare party’s approval dipping lately isn’t an encouraging sign that that strategy’s working. For all the justified trumpeting of this morning’s AP poll that O’s approval rating had dropped to 37 percent, the fine print reveals that Congress’s approval now stands at … just five percent. What exactly is our pitch to Obama right now? That he should abandon his signature domestic achievement because his numbers are falling — even though ours are falling faster? That can’t be the “groundswell” we were hoping for. In fact, ironically, the worse the GOP’s numbers get, the more Obama may feel inclined to stand firm in protecting the law. The public may not like O-Care but they don’t like its critics either.
Two: People will say that the dip in GOP favorability is partly the product of Republican infighting rather than the wider public souring on the party. And, per Gallup, that’s true,...
You can't win,...
Here's another bea-u-tiful thought:
The longer you hold out, the less Obama's going to like you, and the more he's going to kick you while you're down.
And - the more you make yourselves look like assholes (which is all you're doing) the less anybody's going to care about what happens to you.
Kinda like the situation I'm in, with you guys, but for lying instead of telling the truth.
Nasty business, politics,...
And just think - if you had taken my advice, and left the Trayvon Martin shit alone, you'd be free and clear now. Focus on the media's lies - leave the grieving blacks out of it - simple.
But no - not you geniuses.
Losers,...
Crack, one thing your little screed there doesn't bother to do is separate parties.
So that "5" is people like me--who hate Harry Reid (a well known Mormon you always give a pass to, because he's a liberal icon) as well as people like you who despise actual strong men of principal like Ted Cruz.
I also didn't know that doing what was right (or being "macho") involved so much moistening of the fingers and testing the wind. I thought standing on principal meant exactly that.
What you're proposing is some kind of French strategy. You're like the stupid cunts in the movie Braveheart, the ones that assembled the army just so they could ride over and get the English to give them an extra hundred acres of land. That's not brave.
Christ I think even the French would look at you and call you a coward.
The grieving blacks? You mean the ones that were fundraising off Travyon's corpse? Fuck you man. Fuck you.
Crack, you've become a joke. Worshiping or respecting a President who would kick people when they're down is disrespectful of even Obama.
You're either sick, or playing a sick joke.
News flash--"Congress" consists of a House of Representatives and a Senate. One of those--and only one--has a Republican majority.
So, I suppose you could argue that dividing by two tells us that only 2.5% of the public approves of the House of Representatives.
But that would be an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Here's a True Fact™: Obama's approval rating is in the fucking tank. That's an easily identifiable and interpretable number.
But his core of support among the terminally obtuse is holding steady, so there's that I guess.
El Pollo Raylan,
Crack, you've become a joke. Worshiping or respecting a President who would kick people when they're down is disrespectful of even Obama.
You're either sick, or playing a sick joke.
You know, as much as I hang out with you fools, you'd think - just once - it would occur to you WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE.
But no, instead of you guys following a sick, self-destructive strategy (of no strategy) you want to believe I suck Obama's dick.
Hey - it's your funeral - I'm just attending it,...
Don't argue with me - argue with Ace:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that doubling down on the fight card is the path to popularity and fortune. I'm just saying that when 27% of your own voters don't have a favorable opinion of their own party (and it doesn't measure conservative leaning independents), you've go some real trouble.
Here's my theory: The biggest problem the GOP has is people are upset with it for different and contradictory reasons. On one side you have people who think the GOP has become to conservative and shrill (this includes a not insignificant number of self-identifying Republicans, "moderates" and Democrats) while on the other side are conservative Republicans and independents who are really conservatives.
A move by the GOP to mollify and woo one faction will lead to greater alienation with the other.
It's the same dynamic we're seeing play out in the House GOP caucus. Boehner is trying to find a path that satisfies both sides of his caucus but each move he makes in one direction or the other costs him more votes than it picks up for him.
The advantage for the moderates in the House is that if push comes to shove, Boehner can cut a deal with the Democrats but the price will be steep come next year. It would mean betting that conservatives won't stay home or that enough moderates will suddenly flock to the GOP to replace conservatives who do sit it out.
In and out of government the GOP is in a real bind. They have to find a way to pick up new voters somewhere while hanging on to the ones they have. Threading that kind of needle requires a level of skill and luck the GOP hasn't demonstrated to date. In fact, evidence indicates they aren't even aware of the nature of the challenge they face.
I just told you what that'll be:
You're about to be made into a pin cushion,...
Two things:
One, what you're bleating about from "Ace" didn't actually come from "Ace".
Second: you left out the most important part. As you usually do. Because at heart you're basically dishonest.
"No doubt a bunch of people will read this poll and say it's time for the GOP to end the shutdown before things get worse. These will no doubt be the same people who opposed the shutdown from the start.
Here's the thing, no one looks good in the middle of a fight. That's ok because the goal isn't to look good in the middle but to win or at least to be able to plausibly claim a victory. Winning is the thing that makes people look good and it comes after, not during, the battle.
Imagine you're watching a baseball game and your team is losing in the bottom of the fifth inning. You may say, "things don't look good" but you don't say, "This could get worse. Sure there are 4 innings left but we better quit now."
Remember, this is a poll. There isn't an election for over a year. There's time to come back if things don't go well.
More importantly, how many people who say they don't have a favorable opinion of the GOP are conservatives? There are clearly more than a few people who are tired of the GOP looking for ways to avoid taking the fight to Obama or are upset at the way the GOP has focused on how to get out of the shutdown rather than focusing on the goal..delaying or defunding ObamaCare?"
And, since every poll shows a clear majority of people who hate the idea of Obamacare--with the numbers in some up into the mid and high sixties--defunding or eliminating that abortion will go a long way toward placating certain people.
Of course, there are always going to be a solid ten percent that just plain go with Obama no matter what, because they think he's black like them, so they let him destroy them for his own power.
There's another ten that are hardcore white liberals.
So he's always gonna have 20%ish to start.
So think about it...he's got job approval numbers of 37. With his 20 point head start, that's abysmal.
That puts his real numbers closer to Ted Cruz than not.
What Cody said. Plus this, which I posted at Lem's over the weekend:
The only poll that matters to a member of the House is a poll of his constituents. The fact that readers of HuffPo dislike generic Rethuglikkkans is of no interest to him. And I don't think all that many House seats are in play, tho I don't know for sure.
What I do know is that a lot of Dem Senate seats are in play. And what I think is that any and all pro-Obamacare floor votes are likely to hurt these senators very, very much.
Finally, what I also think is that Obama's tanking approval numbers are a sign of the general public's dislike of his (and Harry Reid's) unwillingness to bargain over a delay of Obamacare.
From these things I conclude that the Republicans are "winning" in the sense that this thing seems likely to inflict more direct electoral damage on Dems than on Reps.
Whether or not Obama hisself gives a fuck about Senate Dems or anyone else is irrelevant to my calculation.
Crack, you've become a joke.
Become?
Crack, you've become a joke.
No, jokes are supposed to be funny.
And a cheerful good morning to you to, Palladian!
LOL.
>:O
Crackers is relentless.
Except when looking for work.
Y'all know Obama is a Mormon, don't you?
1. According to the Mormons, everyone's a Mormon.
2. Why did you add the extra 'm', Mr. Haz?
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