DUmmie FUnnies 12-30-04 ("How have you handled the past two months on a personal level?")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | December 30, 2004 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Remember the Robert DeNiro character, Max Cady, in the movie, Cape Fear? Well, right now, while reading this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Be honest: how have you handled the past two months on a personal level?” I feel just like that character when he was loudly laughing right behind a terrified family in a movie theater. The only difference is that instead of a movie theater, I am laughing LOUDLY at the Drama Queen pain the DUmmies are expressing over the election results. So, put on those really loud Hawaiian shirts, light up those cigars, and LAUGH at the self-pitying antics of the DUmmies. As usual, the pained DUmmie commentaries are in Bolshevik Red, while the… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!…comments of your humble correspondent are in the [brackets]:

Be honest: how have you handled the past two months on a personal level? I said this in another thread: I haven't slept well for nearly two months now because of this election. I can barely eat, and I've lost ten pounds. I'm tense all the time, I move rapidly between depression and anger, and I feel like I'm isolated. Is anyone out there feeling like this? Or am I just taking this too hard? How has everyone else been since the election? What is helping you through it?

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

I know where your pounds went. I haven't slept well for nearly two months now because of this election. I eat all the time, and I've gained ten pounds. I'm tense all the time, I move rapidly between depression and anger, and I feel like I'm isolated.

[And I move rapidly between jubilation and elation, and I feel vindicated.]

No, I know where her pounds went. I've been the same way. All I want to do is eat and I've gained 12 pounds since the week before the election.

[NEWSFLASH!!! The election has been over for nearly 2 months. It is safe now to lift your face from that bag of marshmallows.]

I believe that our country will overtly become fascist and to live in a society like that is not in my vocabulary. I have two teenaged sons, a business and a very comfortable home, and am torn about shedding my "stuff" and relocating, resisting (and possibly spend my years meditating in a camp somewhere), or will I not have the courage and become like those in Nazi Germany just accepting?

[Just to feed into this DUmmie’s paranoia, they should have a French voice making announcement over a loudspeaker on Inauguration Day in D.C.. Then, ala Casablanca, the French voice is replaced by a German voice making an announcement starting with “ACHTUNG!”]

I am continually nervous and frightened. I grew up in a democracy, and living under a dictatorship is something I never mentally prepared for. My heart races, my hands shake, my feet sweat, and I wake up many times in the night. It doesn't seem to get better over time, although the depression is gradually replaced by anger and fear.

[Have you caught jock itch yet?]

I feel like a German of the '30's. I wince and grimly look around me and feel... very uncomfortable. It's hard to focus on work, I feel like our whole paradigm is about to change.

[Paradigms SHIFT, not change. Get your DUmmie talking points right.]

When I saw the election turn during the night of Nov 2 & 3, I kind of went into shock. When I woke up the next morning and my husband told me Kerry just conceded, I felt like my guts had been ripped out. I'm NOT OVER IT!! And I never will be. But I know it's going to get a whole lot worse for our country before this nightmare is over. I feel like I've always been "married" to America, and then find out this "spouse" is a serial killer/rapist, on hard drugs, with a huge gambling problem that just wiped us out, before he ran off with my children into hiding, and his brother, the judge, just stuck me with child support payments that I can't pay, and I may go to jail if I don't come up with the money, which I can't, because I lost my job. << I know that sounds pretty melodramatic; but all those feelings of betrayal, desperation, injustice, hopelessness, outrage, insanity, loss, grief.... I feel them all at the same time.

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

I can't stand to get up in the morning without checking DU. I abandon my own message board to wait here for news. My fingernails - GONE. I forego make-up to check DU before I leave the house. Dishes tend to pile up for a couple of days now. I feel hopeless, disgusted, angry, motivated all at once. I email politicians and media people all friggin' day. My online friends are sick of hearing me talk about this stuff. I sleep until I can't sleep anymore, but still wake up too early. I am frustrated because people don't understand the magnitude of this or its importance. They don't know, and they don't want to know. I finally crumbled and cried (can't remember what development set me off; it was about 2 weeks ago).

[Somehow I get the feeling you WON’T be a New Year’s Eve Life of the Party person.]

And I am angry. I am angry that we are not taking to the streets like they did in Russia. I am angry that we do idiotic things--like standing in front on an empty house--when we should be taking our country back. Why are our leaders so ineffective?

[Don’t be so down on yourself. That freezing in front of Kerry’s empty townhouse bit was GREAT comedy relief!]

Nervous, irritable....a bit withdrawn, smoking too much, weird sleep patterns. I think I've lost weight; I know I'm vitamin-deficient in all sorts of ways, not much appetite. I know I don't laugh as easily as I did before the election. I know I'm not taking as much pleasure in fun silly things as I used to. Likeminded people help. The 'Return of the King' EE helps; oddly enough, so does exquisitely depressing music like Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. (And sometimes 'Dr. Strangelove...' and Sabbath's 'War Pigs') Drafting endless letters to various political figures (two of which have actually gotten e-mailed) seems to briefly alleviate the symptoms.

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

It's been hard, frankly. I get a white hot surge of rage sometimes. What the hell is wrong with this country anyway? I live in Southern California. People in the red states hate us. They've got political power, thanks to the effing Electoral College. I've got relatives in Texas who are laughing up their effing sleeves. Where the hell are all the Democratic leaders? We gotta DO something about this. This sucks.

[Have you considered a Prozac overdose?]

I feel like I'm in the f*cking Twilight Zone. There is this big smelly Elephant sitting in the corner of my house but I can only talk about it with a few people. I think realizing the major media outlets have completely gone to the dark side is what really hit me hardest. I was a basket case for the first couple of weeks after the election - little sleep, distracted and feeling like I was going nuts, but since then I've learned to deal with this new bizarre reality I find myself in. Thank god I found DU. My wife has also helped calm me down a bit. I've never been one for conspiracy theories and this election fraud issue has always just seemed like elementary connect the dots - which is why seeing so many people in denial of it just boggles my mind.

[That big smelly Elephant sitting in your house just left one hell of a big pet deposit on your floor.]

dazed and confused...starved for the truth...angry, passionate, patriotic, fearful,determined, anxious and ready to fight like hell for the dignity and integrity of our vote! So much to deal with...it has truly been one hell of a ride...

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

I REALLY needed Kerry to win the elction, for me personally as well as for the country and the world. I hoped that getting GWB out of office would free me so that I could move on with my life. I live alone and have isolated myself terribly. I have been utterly unable to work or do anything to either be productive or make any money for over 2 years now. I have been hanging out in places where I sometimes/often see no hope for myself.

[Those heroin shooting galleries do tend to have that effect on you.]

Depression, preoccupation, nightmares, distraction, apathy, misery, hopelessness, insomnia, poor eating habits, social avoidance, repeated thoughts of expatriation and various and sundry other personal upsets.

[So where’s the downside for you?]

i am pissed though at being called idiotic yesterday on TV by Novak. if you missed crossfire, he called "us" in other words believers idiots. and said the recount is over and so it the election - and we are all looking for Kerry to come to our rescue. its things like that that bother me. that make me think every word we type is being looked at. all of this will be repeated by some moron on a freeper board. and taken out of context. makes me crazy.

[Hee! Hee! And may I place your name on the DUFU Ping List, DUmmie roenyc?]

I will never give up! Yes, I've put on weight, I'm drinking heavily and smoking pot when I can find it. I'm on antidepressants and stomache medicine. I vary between anger, sadness, and a numbness that pervades my soul. I have 2 Kerry, 2 DU, a Bush Knew, a What Mandate?, and a Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry bumper stickers on my car and I will continue to taunt the ignorant Bush voters with their stupidity and remind them of their responsibility for the next 4 years of fiasco at every opportunity.

[Take another hit on that pot and INHALE deeply.]

must we air our dirty laundry to the freepers can't this be posted in the lounge, where the freeps might not venture?

[You must! You must!]

I try to tell people that this election was not fair & free....They say.."I did not here this on the news" .Then I tell them the news is owned by corporations and its in there best interest to keep the king in power bla bla bla .....they ask were is John Kerry? I keep screaming but no one wants to here me , they tell me to GET OVER IT .....I know in my heart I'm not nuts and neither are the rest of us who are convinced of the fraud . Yet most people have no idea what happened and how the election system is set up. For many you vote, they count votes then there's a winner. I really think ignorance would be bliss..once you learn the facts about this its hard not to be totally effected.

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

it didn't sink in until the electors were certified. i was sure that the truth would set us free, and gulped down the truth every day here at du. i was sure we would be saved. but, once those electors were certified, it sank in. just in time for christmas. i had a horrible holiday, and took the family down with me. i am so torn. i fight within myself all the time to keep my sense of self. when you are the mom of 5 kids, that is already hard. but i have taken the misdeeds of the * administration personally. this is my country, and it feels like my kids have grown up to be axe murderers. either this is my country, and it is my duty to be a part of how it acts, or it is not my country any more. lose, lose.

[“I BELIEVE that John Kerry will be inaugurated on Jan. 20!!!”]

I was on the freeway on my way to work thinking Kerry wouldn't concede until ALL the votes were counted, my sister calls me and said he conceded. I was so upset I turned around and didn't go to work that day. All I could do was cry for the next few days. Then I got very angry at Kerry and Democrats, America and our political system. I withdrew from all action committees, TrueMajority, Moveon.org, etc. I decided that I would not do anything political ever again.

[< Max Cady> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! < /Max Cady>]

Not going out. No movies. Spending very little money. Feeling like the bad guys are winning and the Fundies are on a rampage. Playing video games - World of Warcraft is very immersive and I don't think about the Real World. Feeling helpless and wishing there was something more substantial I could do other than give money to places. Wondering where do we go from here. No matter what happens it will not turn out well - at least for some time.

[Perhaps you should consider posting to one of those dopey “I BELIEVE!!!” threads.]

. Feeling powerless SUCKS. I haven't been able to concentrate since the campaign got going. Every time I settle down and try to get some work done, there's a voice in the back of my head, saying "That criminal is still in the white house, whattaya gonna do about it?" and "He's going to destroy SS and you're mom's gonna be moving in with you," and "How can we prove fraud, can it be proven, how can you relax if it happened?"

[It sounds like the Son of Sam is talking to you.]

[TruthWillWin]

I REALLY needed Kerry to win the elction, for me personally as well as for the country and the world. I hoped that getting GWB out of office would free me so that I could move on with my life. I live alone and have isolated myself terribly. I have been utterly unable to work or do anything to either be productive or make any money for over 2 years now. I have been hanging out in places where I sometimes/often see no hope for myself.

So typical of the thinking of many Democrats. A complete disregard for the concept of personal responsibility. It's someone else's fault for my problems and I'm going to rely on the government to save me.

[imskylark]

"(2) People never lie to exit polls."

Yeah, right. I remember Boortze (spelling???) telling people to lie in the exit polls. People lie all the time, why would this be any different?

[cgbg]

What is so hilarious about the whole "exit poll" nonsense is that the Dummies appear totally uninterested in the methodology behind exit polls and the many scenarios which can cause significant error.

For those who don't know the fatal flaw in the Ohio exit poll was that many (approx. 200,000) newly (and fraudulently) registered Democrats did not show up with fake ID to vote. Since the exit poll samples are based on registration percentages they were off by approximately 2-3% in Ohio.

It is not just the Dummies who worshipped at the alter of the exit polls. Britt Hume and other media types spent all election night whining about them.

Polls are only as good as the methodology behind them. Anyone who relies upon them is very foolish. Political professionals use polls as one tool in a large toolkit. They would never consider them as a sole data point for drawing any type of conclusion during or at the end of a race.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Don't tell me....let me guess....the car is a Yugo.....

More likely a Mini Cooper.

[KJC1]

I agree with you 100%. The sinister tone and frequency of violent innuendoes are increasing rapidly over there. I hope I am wrong, but I fear the clanging will get even louder once all hope of "overturning" this election are officially dashed.

[Annie03]

""Feeling powerless SUCKS"

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over the perfect Rovian Storm, and that our lives had become unmanageable."

ROFLMAO

[granite]

DUplicity Abounds

In the state of Washington, the county of King has come up with over 3500 over-votes, or more votes than voters who participated. This amount is significant because it is more than enough to change the results for the 4th or 5th time.

In Ohio, all the errors put together do not amount to a hill of beans and can not affect the outcome.

Today the DUmmies are so full of hypocrisy and themselves, they are reduced to having nothing so say either way without getting flamed from within.

The state Republican Party obtained a list of the people who voted in King County as part of a larger request for information designed to show systemic problems with the election.

The data showed that 895,660 people voted in the state's largest county. That's a problem, Republicans said, because King County tallied 899,199 votes -- 3,539 more votes than there were voters.

"We want the names of those people now," Rossi said. "You shouldn't be able to certify an election with 3,500 mystery voters."

Since Rossi wants every vote to be counted and all 'fraud' to be uncovered, let's take this opportunity to educate Republicans and the MSM to the issues in Ohio.

Fine, if they want to see why King County has an extra 3,500 votes, then let's get them to ask why some counties in Ohio had 1700% voter turnout!

 You are only making yourself into a clown, Rossi. Stick a fork in it. It's done.

Are we clowns in Ohio, I think not.
Seriously, I think some consistency is called for here. Election fraud should be a bi-partisan issue as the right to vote is one of our most dear rights.

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said King County officials are "in defense mode" and dragging their feet.

"If King County can't explain it, this could be the bombshell that blows up the election," Vance said. "This is the most glaring thing that we've see so far, if it is not adequately explained. You got more votes than you've got people."

You might want to be very careful using words like "bombshell". In the state of Ohio there have been numerous counties and precincts that had a tremendous amout of over voting. In several precints there was 1700% voter turnout! In your zeal to find just a few more votes for Mr. Rossi, you might end up losing the election for Mr. Bush.

 the difference is,
in WA the 3K votes irregularity, if true and corrected, would definitely tip the election. In OH, all the irregularities that were mentioned taken together would not have tipped the election.

As for getting MSM interested in those "extra" votes in King county - be careful what you wish for. You will install a Republican governor in WA and (see 1st paragraph) will not cause much difference in OH Bush margin.

[MontanaBeth]

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #521.

#521 my lucky number!

[hattend]

Wow...worse than Lorena Bobbitt!

Hope they're rotting in jail somewhere.

BTTT

[William of Orange]

another 'gem' I found on the DUmp:

That's why I haven't been posting much lately. I just want to wake up one morning and find out it was all a bad dream and justice has prevailed. Then I see Georgdolf Bushler's hideous face on my t.v. and the nightmare comes flooding back. I'm trying to shake it off but it's so exhausting and depressing. I'm not at all looking forward to the new year.

OMG these people are way beyond sad and pathetic, the next 4 years will be hell for them /snigger

[speed_addiction]

Wow...worse than Lorena Bobbitt! Hope they're rotting in jail somewhere.

Nope. She did not do a single day of time. I did not find out she was behind it until a year later. Until then I had been thinking it was related to a weed deal that went BAD in Mexico where I got shot along with two Mexican Feds (crooked bastards shot by me). When I did find out she had been behind it, I was under federal indictment and looking at a possible 20+ year sentence. I did not think it right for my daughters to have both their parents in jail.

I was sentenced to 13 years but under appeal it was reduced to 60 months. By then I had done 74 months. If not for US vs Apprendi I'd still be locked up. I am not lamenting the time I did. If the Feds had not been under handed in the way they handled my sentencing I would not have cried about it. But my sentencing was very unconstitutional and I sought recourse. Evidence was brought into my sentencing hearing that purposely kept from the jury. I felt I should have sentenced only for what the jury convicted me of. This IS America after all.

[Purrcival]

Re: Arnebeck lawsuit

"I would hope the average sixth grade student could rebut this steaming pile of..... :-)"

Most definitely. I could take the points in the Arnebeck lawsuit, dry them out, crumble them up, and fertilize the grounds of all of the sKerry estates with them.

[Purrcival]

"It never even occurred to me to curl up into a little ball and starve myself for the rest of the year, or to get out of my car and scream at people with "Clinton/Gore" stickers on their VW's. "

A big "Amen, brother" from me, Dan, to your whole post.

[Purrcival]

Re: DUmmies attacking poster refuting their exit poll arguments:

Typical. The DUmmies eye anyone who doesn't have the same lockstep mindframe as a "freeper" - their ultimate insult. But I don't expect anything else from a group of people who are constantly searching for conspiracies under every rock.

[bray]

Not to mention those exit polls were done in the morning when most Republicans were working. They did not include the afternoon, evening or absentee voters and they are more accurate the actual count?? Only to a braindead wishful CommieCrat!! It's tough when the Silent Majority smacks you down.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[valleygal]

The 'Return of the King' EE helps;

Ironic since evil is defeated in both ROTK and the election. :) I always saw Kerry as Wormtongue.

These people are so delusional, it's sad. They wouldn't accept the truth even if it was proven to them. Even I wasn't that despondent when Clinton was re-elected. I just kept doing my countdown to 2000 with Rush and got over it.

[NRA1995]

"I have been utterly unable to work or do anything to either be productive or make any money for over 2 years now. I have been hanging out in places where I sometimes/often see no hope for myself."

To quote Garth Brooks:
Well, I guess I was wrong
I just don't belong
But then, I've been there before
Everything's all right
I'll just say goodnight
And I'll show myself to the door
Hey, I didn't mean
To cause a big scene
Just give me an hour and then
Well, I'll be as high
As that ivory tower
That you're livin' in

'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away
And I'll be okay
I'm not big on social graces
Think I'll slip on down to the oasis
Oh, I've got friends in low places

[Purrcival]

"Polls are only as good as the methodology behind them. Anyone who relies upon them is very foolish. Political professionals use polls as one tool in a large toolkit. They would never consider them as a sole data point for drawing any type of conclusion during or at the end of a race."

Actually, I heard Neal Boortz interviewing Dick Morris shortly after the election. Morris said he had been working with exit polls for 30 years and they were nearly always far more reliable than the one after this election. But this one was so far off because of a poorly-weighted sample. He postulated that the Kerry campaign may have attempted to skew the early results by finding out who was conducting exit polling, where they would be, and when, and then contacting supporters in those precincts to vote at specific times and to be sure they were interviewed. Morris thought that it might be possible that the Dems were trying to make the early voting appear to be so overwhelmingly in favor of Kerry, that it would discourage Bush voters in states farther west. If that's true, then the early results would have been leaked on purpose, for that purpose.

[lutz]

Daaaaamn!! That should be made into a movie! Some producer is going to be crying as much as the book publishers who miss out on PJ's DUFU book for not picking up that story!

[speed_addiction]

Daaaaamn!! That should be made into a movie! Some producer is going to be crying as much as the book publishers who miss out on PJ's DUFU book for not picking up that story!

When I was 12, I was spending the summer at one of my uncle's ranch like I did most years. He had a massive heart attack while I was there. This man was one of the most highly decorated Texas veterans of WW2. He lived hard and loved every minute of it. He worked putting out wild well fires, merchant marines, even as a hire gun a couple of times. He died in the pick-up truck while my cousin and I were driving him to the hospital. I was in the bed of the pick-up with him when he died. At the very end, he smiled and said, "Damn! That was fun." I said, "What?" He answered, "Life." He passed out and died a few minutes later.

I made it my mission in life to live a life worthy of making those my final words also.