You know, I generally hate to gloat but:
The mistake we all made was in getting our hopes up.
The only mistake you made?
Dismally, people asked each other how long they had stayed up the night before. “Until 4.30am,” said my friend Jim. “Long enough to start crying like a girl.”
The first email I received the following morning read: “Fucked off, dejected, our hopes have been blown to shit.”
Signed: G. Soros.
The next one read: “As REM once sang: ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it.’ Only unlike REM, I don’t feel fine.”
Such creativity. Such depth.
“There’s going to be a brain drain from this country which will leave the Red-State [Republican] morons to fend for themselves,” wrote an American on the Guardian talk-boards.
And spend their own money on themselves, to boot.
I rang my cousin in Chicago. “I’m good,” she said. “Well, no, actually, not great.” The hope thing had prospered there, too. “We thought we were going to win. Bruce Springsteen … the youth vote … ” She had to get off the line then; there were commiseration calls waiting.
It was Bruce on the line. He’s crying like a girl.
[Warning: obligatory ‘Bush is Hitler’ reference coming up]
“Ach,” says Oliver James, the clinical psychologist. “I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, ‘Why doesn’t anyone see where this is leading?'”
Hmm..I recommend an intensive round of therapy.
There might be a feeling that a dirty bomb exploding in London is more likely to happen with the policies pursued by a Bush government.
Quite right. Just ask the Spanish.
This sense of powerlessness was also raised by American psychologists, who, anticipating high levels of disgruntlement among voters, were on standby yesterday to analyse the fallout.
And, today, they are being treated for depression, hysteria and suicidal tendencies.
“I am deeply ashamed to call myself American,” wrote another, while, “I’m ashamed to be English,” countered a third, in a competitive orgy of shame. Lots of people talked about powerlessness. “And that,” said one, ominously, “won’t lift until we get our own general election.”
And I bet John Kerry would still lose that one.
Naah, I was only kidding. I love to gloat really.
Yup, yesterday was a beautiful day wasn’t it? 🙂
I kept visiting michaelmoore.com because I wanted to see his reaction… This morning, I got it. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out.
Anyhow, I hope that all of the people who are devastated by the outcome of the election really do move away… They only have to go to Canada… We would be so much stronger without them…
That said, their are things I totally abhor about the Bush administration… The Patriot act should have been a “time of war only” act… But all in all, we needed to keep him around for a while longer… My message to all of the terrorists is this: Prove you’re manhood. Go to falujah and fight the Americans them. Every one we kill in Iraq is one who didn’t get to fly an airplane into a building…
David, Tony,
Careful, there are some around these here parts (see why liberty-lovers should celebrate from yesterday) who aren’t into the gloating thing. Apparently it means you’re statists who can’t wait for your freedoms to be curtailed whilst the IRS/Treasury empties your wallets.
It’s the sheer hysteria of the anti-Bush crowd that astonishes: the total loss of either maturity or perspective.
Even some of the commentators on here have been sounding like the front three rows of a Judy Garland concert on hearing that Dorothy has died.
As for this stuff from the Guardian, it makes one think that even if George Bush were the anti-Christ, it would have been worth supporting him, just to enjoy the agonised self-pity of the Left.
Just to think.. that people didn’t do what Bruce Spingsteen and Barbara Sterisand told them to. What ever is the world coming to?
With all the Goerge W. loving going on here why don’t y’all just post naked pictures of Goerge W. so you could turn this metaphorical circle jerk into a real circle jerk.
Della writes:
“With all the Goerge W. loving going on here why don’t y’all just post naked pictures of Goerge W. so you could turn this metaphorical circle jerk into a real circle jerk.”
Della, dearest, you’ve rather missed the point. It’s less that we love George Bush than that we so enjoy hearing people like you squealing.
Stupid, stupid Americans. You show ’em an animation of Bushitler morphing into a chimpanzee, and still they aren’t persuaded by the quality of the argument. There’s just no reasoning with some people.
GCooper
“It’s the sheer hysteria of the anti-Bush crowd that astonishes: the total loss of either maturity or perspective.”
[pendant] I think you mean to use ‘both .. and’ rather than ‘either .. or’ in that quote[/pedant]
I know, I know, it’s pretty embarrassing. But hey, at least the Democrats waited until _after_ the election befure losing their perspective and maturity.
Hey Della…
You’ve got a purty mouth….
Squeal now!!! Squeal like a pig.
LP came in a very close 4th (only 17k behind nader, who is far mroe well known). Not great but not bad, hopefully some people noticed.
If you are a socialist contemplating suicide due to the results of the US election, I have one bit of advice.
The proper way to slit your wrists is to slice down the length of your arm … not accross.
Remember: “Across is for show, down is for go!”
J – When you prefaced your comments twitting G Cooper with the word ‘pendant’, were you referring to hanging chads?
I’m still waiting for the Guardian to explain why they tried that stunt in Clarke County?
Did it have something to do with the quality of the crack they were smoking?
GCooper,
I ain’t squeeling honey. Don’t be suprised when he crushes liberty in the name of “freedom”, maybe you’ll squeal then, probably squeals of delight.
“the total loss of either maturity or perspective.”
They can’t lose what they never had.
Brain-drain. My god, how pathologically clueless does someone have to be to believe this? Who are these brains we’ll be losing? Maureen Dowd? Leonardi di Caprio?
Verity:
LOL 🙂
Children
Your gloating and posturing – indeed pretty much of everything I’ve read on your grubby little blog – is very funny and intensely moving. Your politics are intellectually decadent, your posturing that of someone masturbating in front of a mirror.
It’s not big, it’s rarely clever, but it’s genuinely touching to know that people like you still exist. Really. Go forth.
Martin Hazard,
squeal now.
Ahh…not quite so much red-mist up here in Canada…but the whine was pretty bad. Even the reporters looked like they were going to cry.
Dear wanna be Leftist Overlords:
People are tired of your whining, snibbling, hateful, elitist pandering. Pull yourselves together and think with your heads for a change.
Regards,
Evil Capitalist
Martin,
For a non-contributor who’s own personal postion or ability to even present one is entirely unknown, your presumption of superiority and condecention is rather comical, but not particularly credible. I do not presume that there are no childish arguments on this or any other arena of discussion, in fact I have yet to see a discussion in any part of life free of them. I do, however, find your post to be one such childish outburst, based on its lack of substance and close-minded elitist tone. Perhaps in the future you could show the maturity of actually having a rational argument.
good day sir
I think the moonbats are mourning the loss of many of their arguments against the President. No more “selected not elected” etc. How sweet it is!
I love it I love it I love it!!!
Whine! Squeal! Bitch! Moan! Lefties! Die a dishonorable death, you arrogant pricks!
and I didn’t even vote for Bush
Smells like . . . victory
Evan Thomas of Newsweek said a few months ago that the MSM would be worth 15 points to John Kerry. I believe his prediction was right on. (He later downgraded that to 5) Without the MSM, Kerry might well have posted a 34% vote turnout on his own. That would have made Bush’s margin 66%. Even if his later prediction is used, Kerry posted a 44% number to Bush’s 56%. Not bad for a dumbass cowboy!
Unlike the snivlers and whiners some us are secretly happy.
We now have another four years to heckle George Bush and his party, while giving the rest of America another four years to pull their heads out of their asses.
Everybody should write a letter of thanks to the Guardian. After all there was a major swing in favour of the President in Clark (spelling) county Ohio.
The Guardian letter writing campaign to this country was the most likely cause of this swing.
The left are not happy, all the rigging they had to do to win in Pennsylvania (the vote rigging in Philadelphia) and Wisconsin (the Illinois voters comming up to vote in Milwaukee), and they still lost the election anyway.
Wait till they find out that Harry Reid (the antiabortion Mormon) is going to be the new leader of the Democrats in the Senate.
Now that will confuse the Guardian readers.
If they lose the North East Regional Assembly referendum (yes some British news), well then…………
There wasn’t a ‘major swing’ to Bush in Clark County. It was the same as the rest of Ohio and lower than across the USA as a whole.
Another urban myth is strangled in its cradle.
I apologize for my mistake concerning Clarke county. I did not check the numbers and was simply following what I had been told.
Just checked out michaelmoore.com. Does the man have no shame…(no need to answer that one)
To use the memory of dead soldiers to express his feelings at the outcome of a fair and conclusive election is beneath contempt.
The arrogance of the man is staggering. Not only does he feel the he has the right to voice opinions for those tragic individuals and their familys. He also thinks he can attempt to make the American public ashamed for having the temerity to vote for someone he personally disagrees with.
He should learn from Kerry and show a little dignity in defeat.
Della:
When can we look forward to you departing facist America for some country where freedom as you define it is still exists? Like Cuba.
The Left in America is so in need of medication. Reach out and touch your straight jacket.
My God I loved that sniveling little British chicklette’s mourning about Dubya’s win. It was decisive and it was not close. Get. Over. It.
The reality is that if Americans would not let the bad guys prevail in Europe in the 40s, we sure as hell are not going to let them prevail over here.
The election was about security. That means we are going to kill those who desire to kill us before they can succeed.
OBL and the appeasers don’t get it. We Americans would rather die than live our lives as fearful sniveling pussies. Take a look at the county-by-county map of election results. It is damn near a 4-1 ratio of red counties to blue. The message? OBL and all of the apologists can just suck our big collective American dick!
No terrorists left alive over there means no terrorists to be able to come over here. The liberal whiners should be glad that we are choosing to eradicate terrorism overseas, because if we let the fight come over here, there would be an awful lot of presumably decent muslims dropping like flies behind the counters of 7-Elevens and convenience stores from itchy, nervous American trigger fingers. And that wouldn’t make us look very good in the eyes of the touchy-feely, ooiee-gooey EU, now would it? Not that we really give a shit how we look to the EU.
Hell, half of us can’t tell the difference between peaceful Chinese or Vietnamese folks that just want the American dream; how in hell are we going to tell the difference between a peace-loving Pakistani or a bomb-building Syrian?
Goodness will prevail. The only thing that I can think of to speed it up would be for the likes of Mikey Moore, the Baldwins, George Clooney, Barbra, et al to move to Europe and do their whining over there.
Strangler:
From the left leaning Slate’s Andy Bowers:
“Kerry won every Gore county in Ohio except Clark. He even increased Gore’s winning margin in 12 of the 16. Nowhere among the Gore counties did more votes move from the blue to the red column than in Clark. The Guardian’s Katz was quoted as saying it would be ‘self-aggrandizing’ to claim Operation Clark County affected the election. Don’t be so modest, Ian.”
http://slate.msn.com/toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2109217
Another fatuous pronouncement ripped to shreds.
Bush is a Larry Niven style “Puppeteer”, he is trying to breed a safer muslim (Kzin) by making them fight an overwhelming foe and remove their most aggresive genes from the pool.
Not bad for what the left call a chimp.
Dearest Thomas,
A) I don’t actually live in America, I live in Great Britain, a country where in many ways people are freer than in America, however we don’t tend to pass off our country as the exemplar of a perfect society unlike certain other countries I could think of.
B) Just because I don’t particularly like Mr Bush it doesn’t follow that I don’t like America.
C) Do you mean the Cuba where America imprisons people without trial, or the Cuba where Cubans imprison people without trial?
USA Today (‘Brits’ campaign backfires in Ohio’): “on Election Day, Clark was the only one of Ohio’s 88 counties — and among only 5% of all 3,113 U.S. counties and independent townships — to turn from Democratic blue in 2000 to Republican red this year.”
Another attempted rebuttal is strangled in its cradle.
Della said
Please back up that statement with specific examples!
Dearest Amelia,
In the Frasier institute Economic Freedom of the World: 2004 Annual Report both contries get the same total score for freedom, Britain scores better than America in “Legal structure & security of property rights” and “Freedom to trade internationaly”.
In the Heritage foundation Index of Economic Freedom 2004 Britian scores better then the U.S. with a mark of 1.79 vs 1.85. Britain scores better in Fiscal Burden of Goverment, and Informal Market, and gets the same score as the US in every other major category.
In the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 Britian scores better with a CPI of 8.6 vs 7.5 for the US.
If we look beyond economic matters at the freedom not to be murdered then Britain scores better than America with a murder rate in England and Wales of 1.5 per 100,000 vs 5.87 for the USA.
If we look a more esoteric variety of freedom, the freedom to have an adequate toilet flush then Britain scores better than America, in the US you are only allowed 1.6 gallons per flush, in Britian there is no limit.
Della you have renewed my faith in the anglospere! I am honestly thrilled that you have more economic freedom! Who knew? All we hear from this side of the pond is that your individual tax burden is higher, that a bigger percentage of the British people are bureaucrats, that the EU taxes the British people without representation, that your libel laws chill free speech and that your gun laws punish the law abiding citizens. Also I was thinking that you were a total troll -glad to see that you aren’t.
…apart, of course, from the six litre (1.6 US gallon) maximum imposed by the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999.
You are right, I’ve obviously not been keeping up to date with the laws in regard to water fittings. At least it is no worse than the US.
As you can see in this important debate, toilet flushing was one of the first priorities of the Blair goverment after they got elected. They had a keen an eye for priorities then as they do now.
And spend their own money on themselves, to boot.
Actually, red-staters spend an awful lot of blue-staters’ money.
It won’t work, because the problem of islamic supremacism is not genetic in origin, it’s koranic.
I don’t actually live in America, I live in Great Britain, a country where in many ways people are freer than in America, however we don’t tend to pass off our country as the exemplar of a perfect society unlike certain other countries I could think of.
Della, do you mean ‘freer’ as in the theives and rapists who break into your home and pillage and violate everything you are and have get to stand before a judge and sue their victim for violence against their persons? Do you mean ‘freer’ as in waiting months for cancer treatment? That’s funny, because I know for a fact that if Brits of your persuasion were to follow the advice another Guardianista poster wrote in after-election mourning that the next step they should take is to find a Bush supporter and slap him silly, said slapper would find himself on the recieving end of a gun, courtesy of prevalent Conceal/Carry laws, and the words “eat this” ringing in his ears before they learned the truth of Afterlife.
And in Texas, the words ‘he needed killin’ is still a valid defense. You and your violent leftard ilk have been warned.
B) Just because I don’t particularly like Mr Bush it doesn’t follow that I don’t like America.
I give you joy of your hatred and posit that just because a majority of votes (the highest majority in history I might add) went towards Bush, thus indicating TREMENDOUS liking, doesnt follow that we will find Leftard hatred persuasive in years to come. Get used to it. Consider it as annoying as waiting for British health services…just one of those irritating facts of life.
C) Do you mean the Cuba where America imprisons people without trial, or the Cuba where Cubans imprison people without trial?
Do you mean the America that has had sanctions on Cuba for decades now and refuses to parlay with a Communist dictator? Do you mean the Cuba whose ruler is Castro? Do you mean the Cuba that goes out of its way to kill any native who seeks to leave its shores Maybe you ought to venture out of your little parochial shire and visit south Florida where there is a significant Cuban refugee population and they will tell YOU about “American Cuba.”
Just remember, Della : BUSH WON BUSH WON BUSH WON.
I find it really rather strange that so-called libertarians can be gloating about a Bush victory.
I cut my wrists everyday because i like to. I drink the blood because i am thirsty…thirsty for attention that is..
i want to