Liberal schadenfreude is out of control
But I began to notice, both in media coverage and in social media networks, that Obama supporters were not just thrilled that our guy won—folks were insanely, morbidly happy that all Republicans were miserable. And they weren’t just picking on easy and legitimate punching bags like Karl Rove and Donald Trump. Lindy West of Jezebel wrote a blog post entitled “My Ten Favorite Kinds of Right Wing Temper Tantrums” in which she proudly declared, “I am just 99 percent completely fucking delighted by every single weepy right-wing temper tantrum. I can’t stop hate-reading. I can’t stop.” A blogger for The Daily Kos wrote, “So please know, my fervid conservative friends, that I am temporarily suspending the empathic sensibility that generally informs most of us on the left. I am not laughing with you, in other words, since you seem capable of neither doubt nor self-deprecation. I am laughing at you. You are welcome to join me.” Someone created a Tumblr called White People Mourning Romney. It isn’t particularly interesting or clever, unless you just like photos of your fellow Americans crying or looking disappointed, but people sent in dozens of submissions. …
If there is one thing in this whole country that liberals and conservatives can agree on, it’s that we live in a deeply polarized, angry, divided nation. Social media seems to encourage blasting our basest feelings to everyone we know, and it’s caused some of us to totally mute our human sense of empathy. If I had logged into 2012-style Facebook and Twitter at the depths of my own political despair in 2004, I can only imagine how painful it would have been to be see strangers and friends alike basking in my pain. Frankly, I think it would have made it even harder for me to let go of my political wounds and move on. It would have just made me that much angrier.
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I would have cheered and carried on too had Rombo won.
Then again I’m a crazed conservative, an uncaring boob who is a member of the Ruthless and Violent Wing of Amish Society, so that would be expected.
How long have the libs been preaching to us with their pointed fingers and tilted heads that they are sensitive, caring, and open to all people and their viewpoints? Bullshiite, they hate you and all their faux pretending just got blown away, again.
Bishop on November 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Party politics and elections in the grand scheme are meaningless, and probably have been for perhaps the past 10-15 years or so. The left does not mind losing election after election because it is focused on a strategic victory that has taken decades to achieve. 100 years; what started with Wilson is ending right here with Obama. Whenever they win, they waste no time in getting activists nominated to the courts, new entitlement programs passed and grow the bureaucracy as much as it can, mostly with like-minded civil servants who are there for life. And the RINO’s go along with it because, though they are not radical, they profit from being part of the system. It was Richard Nixon who grew the bureaucracy more than any president including FDR. He gave us the blood EPA and that alone will strangle us.
Couple all this with the hijacking 50 years or so ago of the public schools and higher education and eventually, you will have children who will grow up to hate America, its history and its institutions and anyone who defends them. This evil spawn are the ones in the media, journalism, the arts and in the courts. They will not bat an eye as the Constitution is shredded.
This is where we are today, and it is only going to get worse. Even when things collapse all around them, the true believers who elected this freak show will still blame everything from Bush and Reagan to capitalism and the Jews.
I am optimistic by nature, but I cannot in good conscience tell you that somehow we are going to get around all this and what I fear is to come. It will end, but it’s going to potentially become violent. I AM NOT PROMOTING OR CONDONING IT. I am just stating what I think by now has to be painfully obvious
Rixon on November 10, 2012 at 11:20 AM
It’s not out of control at all. They care less about electing their guy than they do about making the opposition unhappy. They’re hateful people, so this is merely par for the course.
mintycrys on November 10, 2012 at 11:20 AM
I share your attitude. It is helpful to know if a major movie has liberal propaganda in it, so that I can decide in advance to not see it. Two television shows that were over-the-top with the left wing propaganda were the hospital shows “Gray’s Anatomy” and “Nurse Jackie.”
Dextrous on November 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM
They may be laughing at us, but one thing that greatly confuses them is our cooperation. I have noticed that many Conservatives are simply saying, “Great, go ahead and raise taxes, increase regulation, you own this. More taxes, much more regulation! Cut off more land to development, energy, close more plants and mines and factories.”
The Libs, suddenly confused, really look at their “policies”.
Too Late now Libs, we are going over the cliff and you are not going to blame Conservatives for it. Dance with glee, Conservatives are on Strike. No Advice, no interference, Push Baby! PUSH!
Own it.
Bulletchaser on November 10, 2012 at 11:25 AM
The hate is there but it’s also the “cool” factor. Tossing your right to vote away on the hip guy regardless of the facts that surround them is reprehensible to me.
I wonder if they try to one up each other with who has collected the most food stamps. Good times.
salem on November 10, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Just posted this on Facebook – WOW – they do not like this article at ALL! High dudgeon!
djl130 on November 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM
I’ve said that on other blogs and usually get silence in return. They’re not quite sure how to answer. It shouldn’t be difficult at all to respond to that.
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 11:30 AM
I can only hope to occupy bread line space with her at some future date, I won`t be the one who is in shock thats for sure.
NY Conservative on November 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM
If Romney had won I would have been relieved. Maybe I could still have contacted this woman’s girlfriends and offered to suck it?
Seth Halpern on November 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM
It’s like I’ve always told people: voting was not laid out in the Constitution as a right, it was a privilege, one that was to be treated like a responsibility. The founding fathers understood that men only earned the right to vote hundreds of years ago as a concession from feudal lords to serfs because they were required to FIGHT AND DIE to defend their lords and the lands that they all lived on. They were given the privilege to vote because they had some skin in the game, as people like to say these days. If you were an educated landowner or owned property, that was usually seen as some semblance of responsibility in nobler times, and voting privileges were conferred accordingly. These days, simply being alive entitles you to health care, and it also entitles you to a vote, so because the vote is treated so trivially, people vote accordingly.
On a side note: I went to a public school in New Orleans as a child, and the white kids would bring in baseball cards to trade, while the black kids would bring in food coupons to trade like baseball cards. I always wondered if their parents knew about all of this.
mintycrys on November 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Who knew that conservatives were such a weepy, whiny lot?
Oh, wait. I did.
I only wish it were true that you were going to get out of the way.
urban elitist on November 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I think for some, maybe even many, making sure that “hateful bigots who want to return to 1950s morality” didn’t occupy the white house was the only goal. The fact doing so would reelect a man who can now gleefully continue his mission of relinquishing US superpower status was an afterthought.
Kataklysmic on November 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I agree. Everyone in the Senate and in the House should just vote PRESENT (isn’t that ironic?). Let them own this lock, stock and barrel.
Meh. Even then they will blame Bush and the evil 1%.
LIB = let it burn.
Rixon on November 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I wrote my Republican Congressman and asked him to give Obama everything he wants and to vote present.
This is your chance to install utopia. Go for it.
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 11:39 AM
I truly want the left to achieve their goals. Crush capitalism, expand statism and rejoice!
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Why should they? A weak incumbent President won on anti-challenger hate by a small margin against a mediocre candidate and campaign. The writing’s on the wall, and if public schools taught liberal children how to read, they’d have noticed it by now.
mintycrys on November 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Gee, who would have thought that Statist tools like our modern Democratic party would want to be able to implement all of their policies with no opposition?
Oh, right, everybody knows that, because they’re ****ing boring, predictable fascists.
Good Solid B-Plus on November 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Amen. It’s too exhausting trying to save the stupid from themselves.
salem on November 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM
That’s funny stuff right there.
slickwillie2001 on November 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM
That’s the problem right there. Has been for 50 years. Except the children were innocent and the teachers were Marxists.
Rixon on November 10, 2012 at 11:44 AM
What, you can’t feel the empathy just oozing from our liberal trolls, and columnists who use words like “hate-read”?
Good Solid B-Plus on November 10, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Thirded.
Kataklysmic on November 10, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Antonio Gramsci wins… now we’ll see how much the liberals enjoy their “prize.”
Laura Curtis on November 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM
We appreciate the effort. Sadly, he probably won’t listen.
You know, you had conservative Utopia during the Bush years and that didn’t turn out so well. Now that reality has repudiated your governing philosophy, it really is time to try and get your head out of the 1920s.
urban elitist on November 10, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Agreed. There are millions on the American Left that would sign up to the Bill Ayers final solution in a heartbeat. These are people that fight to allow a newborn baby to be thrown out with the dirty linen and die of thirst. Never underestimate them.
slickwillie2001 on November 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM
The bolded section is a meme. You are thugs and charlatans and I never experienced the claim. You are neither erudite, sensitive, humanitarian, liberal or progressive. Just look around the UN and all over. You are in for yourselves, looting the world, but not for the poor, just for you. Them you keep in modern day squaller plantations, uneducated/uninformed, so they vote for your promises. The Obamas live well.
On the Schadenfreude, none is greater than mine. You see the results all over and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I quit producing during Obama’s first fake promise and now work avidly to starve/hurt you.
The last laugh will be on you, you latrine rats. Laugh all you can, now.
Money does not grow on trees or in the banks. You laugh at those who feed you, but they are not lazy, nor dummies. They’ll show you who is the boss, soon enough.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Medicare Part D, massive deficit spending, and an all out push for amnesty =/= conservative utopia. George Bush had an R next to his name. That’s about it.
Kataklysmic on November 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Indeed, just don’t fund their Utopia. Let them own and fund it, and see how far they get.
I don’t suffer but ‘love’ nothing more than sheer fools.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Worst liberal propaganda is the manipulation of crime stats in the crime programs. In Atlanta last year every (And I mean EVERY) murder was attributible to blacks. However, you can have a CSI Atlanta or “The First 48, Atlanta” and have nothing but black perps, that would be racist! So they used “Re-enactments” with switched races to alleviate the Guilt. Even in New York, it is hurting TV programming. As the Washington Post Capehart. He writes:
“In short, 95.1 percent of all murder victims and 95.9 percent of all shooting victims in New York City are black or Hispanic. And 90.2 percent of those arrested for murder and 96.7 percent of those arrested for shooting someone are black and Hispanic. I don’t even know where to begin to describe the horror I still feel looking at those numbers. But the word ‘hunted’ comes to mind.”
What is a Director to do if 96.7 of all the Murder perps are monochromatic? Fake it! Instead of reflecting reality, just mix in a lot of Whites, after all its not racist if you denigrate Whites and attribute to them crimes they have not and do not commit. After all, they’re White! And you can make the smart and well educated police detective black, even though blacks sue and demand that entrance exams (See: New Haven Police/Firefighters/New York City Firefighters Suit) be banished because they can’t pass them, so they be racist!
Now you have the correct propaganda, Evil White murderers roaming New York and Crusading Black Super Detectives (like “Ice-T” lol) scientist/electronics expert solving the crimes! We will get an Emmy! And don’t get me started on “A Dolphins Tale”.
You should read the book “Hollywood in Blackface” by Paul Kersey” (Amazon has it). It lays out the whole propaganda show.
Bulletchaser on November 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM
My head is out. I want much higher tax rates … for everyone. Equality must mean equality. I want a crackdown on coal, oil and gas and confiscation of any private land deemed “environmentally sensitive”. I want a ban on construction expansion. I also think it’s necessary to implement a living wage.
Government authorities should also have the power to put price controls on food, ban certain foods deemed “unhealthy” and establish a board to control profits.
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Oh, gosh, it hurts so bad as I sit in my beautiful home eating steak, spending my time as I please–it hurts so bad that they’re LAUGHING at me and pumping their fists over their free $5 pack of monthly Ortho Novum. SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP.
Watching the glee on their faces as they paddle their sad little raft towards the whale’s mouth–OH, IT CUTS ME TO THE CORE.
They told me to “suck it” because they won the right to keep the helm of the Titanic–OH, IT ALMOST DETRACTS FROM MY WONDERFUL LIFE TO HEAR SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS.
Schadenfreude it up, libs. The past four years I’ve been feeling GUILTY from so much schadenfreude. The guilt is gone, so expect the next four years to be EVEN BETTER.
Polynath on November 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM
My head is always with the times. You ain’t seen nothin’, yet. You have no idea what will be upon you and yours, soon enough.
The moochers can’t help themselves. They are poor and dumb, and your type like them there.
It is your type that my wrath is after, the looters, the bureaucrats who exploit the down-trodden, for their own votes and Obama-lives.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM
C’mon, ue isn’t a deep thinker, just an elitist.
Kraken on November 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Decency lost.
Thugghery won.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM
You know you’re clinically insane, right?
But the Obama platform includes none of these. You’re like a little kid who imagines monsters under the bed, only less sympathetic.
urban elitist on November 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Thuggery
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM
The left has been taught that the ends justify the means so whatever action is necessary to achieve utopia is ok with the left.
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM
ue, some modesty would do you good, especially in your condition.
People here, much as you deride them, wished you well on a personal level. You’re not a nice person at all.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM
We’re all going to have plenty of fun watching this worker’s Paradise fail to live up to its expectations, which it inevitably will.
Greek Fire on November 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I didn’t say they were in Obama’s platform, although he would never put those in anyway … you think he’s stupid?
I said this is what I want, what I think we need to achieve freedom for the masses from the oppression of capitalism.
darwin on November 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM
inklake on November 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Just watch the next few weeks – yesterday was day one of what you have no idea that will hit you, you incredible fool.
I will have the last Schadenfreude. You have no idea how wonderful my nom is, and how well chosen.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Recall this.
You ignore it at your own risk.
The ant will have the last Schadenfreude.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Hate? Nah, just punish them.
Actions have consequences. And it’s just day 4, and counting.
Schadenfreude on November 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM
I warned everyone I knew that things were on hold til election, if Romney wins we would see economic upturn. If Obama won, look out. Layoffs and bad times ahead.
I am sorry I was right.
Lefties, go ahead and gloat. Not going to be so fun next year when you cant’ afford the eletricity for your 60 inch tvs.
conservativegrandma on November 10, 2012 at 12:09 PM
L.I.B.
VegasRick on November 10, 2012 at 12:09 PM
I too have emailed Klobuchar and Franken to push for not renewing the Bush tax cuts and raising the minimum wage, to block domestic energy exploration at all costs, to promote fairness.
I got a form letter from Franken, a more personalized answer from Klobuchar which supported my demands.
Good and hard.
Bishop on November 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM
You are correct, and I apologize. And I wish no personal ill on anyone here, and in fact, wish you all well.
But, when the talk turns to “give them their way so that the country will burn” or derides all Obama supporters as shiftless “takers,” or links Obama with a “final solution,” I do get a little riled.
And don’t tell anyone, but, while I think that the Republicans should make key concessions, Ialso think that tough negotiations over the budget will yield a better conclusion, for the nation.
Cheers
urban elitist on November 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Hammer one-strokes the nail. No one mentioned the eight hundred pound slave in the room. To oust the FBP without giving him the fullest measure of time would make the nation look racist. Put ya’ll back in your white guilt chains. Probably 25% of Barks vote.
The Big Fella upstairs works in mysterious ways. A strong united America is not what is wanted for what is coming.
BL@KBIRD on November 10, 2012 at 12:16 PM
What is this “budget” you speak of? Does this mean your Democrat controlled senate may actually pass one for the first time in four years?
Kataklysmic on November 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM
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