Because why not: Roger Fidelity's own election day thread, one to the public

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Inspired by Ned's suggestion that we have rival election day threads

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

hi rog

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago)

That was my suggestion, you nit.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago)

howdy roxy! sorry couldn't make it Halloween, got dragged elsewhere.

CORRECTION: this thread wasn't Ned's idea

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago)

beat me to it, but what's a nit? are they the eggs that crab lice lay on pubes?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory-
Veruca: Can it, you nit!

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

in australia nits = headlice

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

At least it's not a Knid.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

i think they're the eggs crab lice lay on pubes

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) A Vermicious Knid at that, too.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Snozzberry? What's a snozzberry?

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE ELECTION

― Dag Nabbit, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Where lies fancy bread? In the heart, or in the head?

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago)

"So, Salt, what kinda business you in?"

"...Nuts."

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Which John Kerry am I today? John "Find Them And Kill Them" Kerry? Or perhaps John "Purple Heart? No Thanks! War is Like, Totally Messed Up, Man" Kerry?

Which John Kerry are YOU voting for?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Aren't they all the same?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

you can waste some voting time with the 'give bush a brain' game, the one liners are pretty comical

www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3067907/graphic1.swf

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty. Father, why do these words sound so nasty? Masturbation can be fun. Join the holy orgy kama sutra everyone.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

The one that's not Bush

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago)

you ever end up buying any PS2 games?

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm voting for John "I lost my best friend to war and took the lives of innocents when I was younger than you are" Kerry and John "freedom from fear" Kerry

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm voting for john "forbes" kerry.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago)

(kingfish - i was about too, then the 'San Andreas Fog' enevloped the house, and sweet Jessica, bless her little heart, has not been able to peel herself away from the goddam machine. The less said about the San Andreas Fog the better, I'm afraid. It's...consumed her.)

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago)

roxy - I voted for Michael "he's not Bush either" Badnarik!

www.badnarik.org

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago)

I think you voted for bush.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Michael "privatise the police" Badnarik?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I told ya, I ALWAYS vote for bush. Beats cock.

but no, in this election, I voted for the only candidate I'd feel comfortable running the country I live in. This was actually my first time voting. I'm not big on mob rule, you see.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm voting for the canidate that has a lower projected crude oil price

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago)

I think you shouldn't have bothered voting.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha. has she done the base-jumping bits yet?

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago)

RJG - why?

Kingfish - Who knows. I stopped paying attention LONG ago. I know she's strangely obsessed with jumping in the water and grabbing at fish

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago)

ineffectual.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahaha, for all the big talk you voted Libertarian. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if the righties are going to bitch about Libertarian "spoilers".....

Don't the Libertarians get more votes than Nader?

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

haha, okay, I could take it back--rog's vote may prove to be effectual.

it'd be good if JFK beat GWB, by a narrow margin (1 vote), in tennessee.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)

ok i'm home from work. going out to the steakhouse at 7 (my boss is taking all us monkeys out!) but i'll be checking in all night. Let's fight!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Aw, why fight, Roger? We're going to let you live in John Kerry's America. It'll be okay.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I decided today that I hope he DOES win, so when everything inevitably turns inexplicably shittier, I can get one of those "Don't Blame Me, I Made Fun of People Who Voted for John Kerry" stickers for my car.

Time will prove me right. If he DOES win.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)

: )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Right, because if it was a "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Badnarik" sticker, people would just point and laugh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago)

i voted for the libertarian candidate last time. this time i wisened up.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago)

and take pictures to post online and email to friends

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Why doesn't it surprise me that Roger is the type to put bumper stickers on his car?

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Before / after a trip to "the steakhouse"?

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago)

TELL ME MORE! TELL ME MORE!

http://www.chucksconnection.com/grease/grease01.gif

― #1 fan, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

i recycle them, though. Of course there is a Badnarik sticker on there now, and the ever present NRA sticker, but I also have a relatively benign In Out Burger sticker. I try not to make it look tasteless. I keep it to a minimum. Most bumper stickers are so horribly pompous and lame.

Shiiiiit, ninja, I love the steakhouse, but only when the boss man is paying.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

You rival Aja for the best character of all time.

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago)

TELL ME MORE! TELL ME MORE!

http://www.chucksconnection.com/grease/grease01.gif

― #1 fan, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes! An anonymous poster. SCORE.

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Are you Dan Quisenberry of the Kansas City Royals?

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 30 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i'll be back a little later

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― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago)

enjoy your tax hike

wow you must make a fucking ton of cash as a truck driver to be in the top 1% of earners, Roger

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

It's a big truck.

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago)

You freely admit you are voting in this (and i know you'll hate this) flip-flopper, this opportunistic, condescending mystery man, based soley on the fact that he ISN'T someone else?

Let me tell you a story.

My coworker Tom is Massachusetts born and raised. Known about Kerry pretty much all his life as a result. Way back earlier this year, I asked him about Kerry and what his exact profile was, what he was like, was he well loved, etc. And Tom's point was a simple but effective one:

"Kerry isn't elected because a lot of people really like him. He's elected because the other guy is always worse."

It's looking like that's what's going to happen here. And if the choice is quite simply the difference between two evils in the end, I will choose what I believe is the lesser.

To my mind, Bush answers for much. He answers for ignorance, willful ignorance, in questions of science on a national level. He answers for shallowness, in the sense that 'taking a stand' becomes 'never moving from it.' He answers for lack of responsibilty, for blaming everything that could happen in his administration and to his administration on others than who he picked, approved of, defended. He answers for incompetence as demonstrated in the haphazard idiocy that is the Iraq invasion and occupation, where political expediency constantly came to the fore first and foremost with dire and continuing consequences. He answers for bigotry with the support of the FMA, one of the most pernicious and revolting ideas ever seriously considered to be enshrined as a *core part of the Constitution.*

He answers for the dead. He answers for all the dead. He answers for them all and he can only find an answer by proclaiming that because Saddam and Osama and the like are, inarguably, murderers he himself is a stainless white knight, pure and wonderful and never ever EVER wrong.

He answers for saying "Bring them on." And now how many of my fellow citizens are dead, maimed, have lost friends and lovers and spouses and parents and children? And how many in Iraq found that the land of milk and honey promised by an adminstration that placed its faith in inaccurate intelligence, in political operators, in pie-in-the-sky dreams, is in fact less that now?

He answers for that and so much more. Hopefully he will answer tonight. If not, a pity. But he will answer. And by god if I won't feel the greatest satisfaction seeing him and all the lickspittle buttkissing power-worshipping ignorance-encouraging toadies that tried to ride every coattail of his no matter what price principles or their souls suffer in the answering.

Let them burn.

If Kerry fails more spectacularly on all these kinds of fronts, let him burn too. But the hunch, right now, is that he would not. He is yet untested in the role. Bush is. AND LET HIM BURN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago)

so, I don't get it. You all agree with me? You freely admit you are voting in this (and i know you'll hate this) flip-flopper, this opportunistic, condescending mystery man, based soley on the fact that he ISN'T someone else?

I know, it kind of sucks, but what do you do? Andrea Dworkin had a piece in the Guardian on Monday saying how much she deplored lesser-of-two-evils politics, but that this time, she was voting for Kerry on exactly that basis. She came across like a pretty pompous hypocrite, actually.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Who was it that called Libertarians the "Now that we're grown up, we can eat ice cream for DINNER if we want to!" party? That's pretty genius.

Badnarik is a joke. Look over his website, please. If the impassioned endorsement from Doug "Host of 'The Man Show'" Stanhope on page 1 doesn't convince you that Badnarik is a true champ, a quick scan through his absolutely idiotic takes on gun control and law enforcement should do the trick.

And as for this:
"Come on, folks, you're smarter than this"...

Roger, you've talked about your love for Ann Coulter on this board. Give me a fucking break.

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I liked that post, Ned.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago)

You realize that that photo of him 'hunting,' itself an obvious ploy to 'appeal' to sportsmen, was taken with him holding a gun that the assault weapons ban would essentially make unavailable to anyone?

really? they're going after two-barrel shotguns with the assault weapons ban? or was he using a full-auto AR15? or are you full of crap?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Did Roger just say up there that he's marrying his grandmother?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago)

enjoy your tax hike, Mr Rogers

I don't make 200K or own a cardigan. Am I a pansy-ass liberal? I am whatever you say I am.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago)

chuck schumer just won the NY senate. glad i left that awful place

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago)

$104 million went into 'advertising' in Ohio for this fiasco

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure everyone of all political persuasion agrees too much is spent on this.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:16 (twenty years ago)

otm

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.economist.com/images/20041030/20041030issuecov.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah--not the incompetent, please

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Swisher Sweets. Mmmmmmmmm...

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Clearly Roger voted 80 million times.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

You mena Badnarik is winning?

you bitter bastard. This is your precious democracy in action. Lap it up, brother!

There's a part of me that LOVES chaos. Being on a sinking ship excites me in a perverse way. That's why I'm laughing so hard - not at any of you, per se - but at this entire catastrophic situation.

I mean, really, personal opinions aside - what a disaster!

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Git.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd argue further but CLEARLY WE'LL ALL BE DEAD SOON.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Holy christ Jenna Bush is SO superhot

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Fuck off, look at the thing she came from.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Would you shag a lump of fresh poo? No. Same deal.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

NBC projecting Kerry to win Penn.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Bush is totally taking Ohio. I think it's over, folks. For better or worse.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago)

look for me as the next american al qaeda

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I'd be offended if I thought you had the balls you pussy

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago)

God.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago)

It's one thing to wish death on Roger's mum, but trashing his threads? Come on.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago)

How bald will Jon be in 2008? We can watch cartoons on his head by then I bet!

― Mary H Christ, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:14 (twenty years ago)

I must remember this tactic next time I disagree with somebody.

erm, moderator?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm on Roger's side*, please clear away the silly nonsense pictures.

* AAGH OMG KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago)

wait, is roger american?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:19 (twenty years ago)

He's a gypsy

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:25 (twenty years ago)

no way, you're kidding! he doesnt seem like an american to me. he calls people pussy all the time and is very interested in whether people have balls or not. that doesnt seem very american!

― *@*.* (gareth), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:29 (twenty years ago)

have you seen his photograph?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nesplayer.com/Goonies/movie/Fratellis/sloth.jpg

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:36 (twenty years ago)

I meant the bad one.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago)

post of the year, that is

xpost - not that one, the one before

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:38 (twenty years ago)

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― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago)

though i do see where he is coming from. on occasion, i have been a little bemused by the hivemind thing that goes on here, people disagreeing with me, all banding together and stuff. im a working man too, i dont like how those people all disagree with me sometimes. who do they think they are? sometimes, i tell you, i feel like the only one to tell it like it is. well, aside from roger, anyway

― *@*.* (gareth), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago)

roger called me a pussy liberal i get mad and make fun of him

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I am glad, we're allowed guns.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:42 (twenty years ago)

are you glad because we're allowed guns?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago)

yes, I am. aren't you?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

i don't think i am glad, no.

did you see the Rich Hall thing on BBC2 last night? that independent guy (forget which state) talking about how 'people should be allowed F-16 rocket launchers as long as they're used responsibly, and no-one is hurt. we should have them for if the government tries to turn us into slaves'

a pot not so much cracked as blasted into a trillion smithereens, and as far as i could tell, despite Hall's sharp wise-cracks, for real.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah, and the guy that said europe should be airdropping food, to whichever state they were in.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors

― the editors, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

and the guy that said europe should be airdropping food, to whichever state they were in.

oh my yes. it answered a lot of questions (more than Moore - if only Hall was as 'commercially popular' as Moore).

then threw up a thousand more.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

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