Ghouls on Twitter: Gosh, We Sure Hope Bush Dies
Twitchy has 50 tweets from soulless ghouls drooling over the thought that George H.W. Bush might die.
I wonder how many of these people are being supported by welfare paid for by you and me. My guess would be most of them. Money well spent, huh?
Thanks (I think) to Chuck Bartowski.
I’m starting to hate a lot of stuff about this country.
If Texas secedes, I wonder if they’ll let me come back.
Patterico (62908f) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:35 pmwhy are we amplifying these people’s voices what purpose does it serve
our politicians suck ass, so every single time one of then dies or is dying you’ll be able to find people expressing these kinds of opinions
every
single
time
happyfeet (88d97f) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:54 pmone of *them* dies i mean
happyfeet (88d97f) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:54 pmCivility, it would be an interesting concept to consider, but it never is observed on their side, is it.
narciso (3fec35) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:56 pmLet’s hope liberals will be kinder than you conservatives were when Teddy Kennedy died.
Bill Schmalfeldt (fc8502) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:57 pmA weird sentiment from a slimebag like you, Bill.
SPQR (768505) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:01 pmthis isn’t a crisis of civility this is a purely mechanistic phenomenon we are seeing because social media enables the quick n easy aggregation of utterances from various and sundry riff raff
but this sort of utterance is nothing new in itself
happyfeet (88d97f) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:03 pmi just wish one of these h8rs would bring me a bean burrito
happyfeet (88d97f) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:04 pmSome people hate Republicans – this is bad. They probably don’t even know why they hate Republicans. It’s not about a war. All of thisprobably makes them feel superior.
It’s also not very serious, just a bad reflection on those people.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:09 pmActually I don’t think GHWB is in serious danger, unless that hopsital is very bad with infections. His family should hope they keep him there in the intensive care section as long as possible.
People actually don’t die in there from non-inevitable causes..
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:11 pmThe last time anyone on the Left was civil was…………….
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:19 pmSomebody made fun of Teddy Kennedy when he died? What for?
Birdbath (716828) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:20 pm“Somebody made fun of Teddy Kennedy when he died? What for?”
Birdbath – I made fun of the philandering, homocidal, alcoholic, imbecile while he was alive, but I stopped when he died.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:37 pm11. askeptic -2003, Zell Miller campaigning for Mr. Bush?
mg (31009b) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:54 pmZell was not a man of the Left, even though he was a Democrat.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/27/2012 @ 3:55 pm15. askeptic – 2012, Jane Fonda losing the bags under her eyes?
mg (31009b) — 12/27/2012 @ 4:09 pmJust bring plenty of ammo. As soon as we secede we’re invading northern Mexico to go dove hunting. And if we have a good enough time, we’re keeping it.
Which might upset the cartels the Obama administration has armed to the teeth.
So, like I said, just bring ammo and you’ll be OK. And bacon. BBQ’d dove breasts are nothing without bacon.
Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:14 pmWhat a bunch of sore winners. H.W. was a crummy Pres.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:18 pmOK, but he was a decent enough Avenger pilot in WWII and that’s enough for me not to wish him to die.
Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:20 pm5. I think it musta hurt Ted when the Pope blew him off.
Burn mofo.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:22 pmCan we admit there’s a pattern here? We of course can’t expect leftists to be civil. They demonize others as a matter of necessity, because otherwise they couldn’t tell each other that they’re high-minded and ethical and all for stealing other people’s stuff.
The people they’re stealing from stole it first, they tell themselves. And anyway they’re not really people but something less than that.
So it starts.
Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:27 pm19. Fabulous resume. Hear he’s stable and pegged to pull thru.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:29 pmI’m pretty sure Californians will be the first group an independent Texas secures the border against.
Sigh.
Patterico (62908f) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:31 pmI’d be willing to bet that only 2 in 5 of them know that there was a President George Bush before W.
Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:02 pmComment by Patterico (62908f) — 12/27/2012 @ 2:35 pm
If they know your employment history, some re-education may be required.
askeptic (2bb434) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:04 pmComment by Patterico (62908f) — 12/27/2012 @ 5:31 pm
Right of Return – Once a Texan, always a Texan!
askeptic (2bb434) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:06 pm“…wonder how many of these people are being supported by welfare paid for by you and me.”
I don’t care what they hope for, as long as I’m not forced to pay their bills at the point of a government held gun.
Dave Surls (46b08c) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:35 pmIf Texas secedes, I wonder if they’ll let me come back.
I’d hate to have to choose between Texas and Alaska. So much in this country would fix itself if only San Francisco would secede.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:36 pmIf they could just tow CA, OR and WA west of the mountains out to sea….
kbob_in_katy (b132af) — 12/27/2012 @ 6:49 pm29. Altho anytime over the next 20 years is ripe for the Big One, have a little concern for inside 2 weeks from today:
http://solen.info/solar/
Post mortem will appear here:
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/eventlist/index.phtml
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/27/2012 @ 7:15 pmPatterico, I’ll keep a corner here open for you and your family, but I can’t keep it forever.
SPQR (768505) — 12/27/2012 @ 7:33 pmLos Angeles has gotten stale and I don’t think it’s one of those things where you can just microwave it with a wet paper towel
happyfeet (b6f0da) — 12/27/2012 @ 7:45 pmThis thread’s topic reminds me of a discussion I got into with a devout liberal a few years ago, around the time of the attempted murder of the Congresswoman from Arizona. He was trying to pin the blame for her shooting on the right, even though it eventually came out that the assassin had a history of leftism, at least during his years in high school.
I then noted that one of the heroes and icons of liberal America and the Democrat Party, John F. Kennedy, was murdered by an ultra-liberal. By a person aligned with a belief system that the left has long coddled (“The Soviet Union’s heart at least is in the right place!!! Fidel Castro at least provides free healthcare!!!”). And that Kennedy’s brother was killed by a person whose background also has been long associated with caressing and stroking by the left, namely a human of Palestinian origins.
Once again: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Mark (94cc2f) — 12/27/2012 @ 7:53 pmLee Harvey Oswald didn’t have any good intentions. H wasn’t that stupid. This was a person fascinated by the Rosenberg spy case, and not because he thought they were innocent, I don’t think. He was somewhat stupid about the way the Soviet Union worked and the Cold War. Most likely, he intended to escape across the border to Mexico, and then be rewarded. Because surely the Soviet Union wanted this, just like Stalin wanted to murder Trotsky.
Now before he had had a problem. He couldn’t get back into the spy game. They didn’t assign him any tasks. By killing Kennedy, he’d prove how good he was.
The only question is, if some Texas Democrat gave him the idea that the KGB wanted this to happen.
Sammy Finkelman (64e777) — 12/27/2012 @ 8:39 pmSirhan Sirhan was motivated by loyalty to the Arab cause. He didn’t ask any questions about the validity of the Arab cause, either.
Sirhan was a joiner (or a would be joiner, with no connections) and all he thought about was contributing something to the cause without much, if any, thought as to morality. The cause itself didn’t promote morality and ethics. The rhetoric used, that he might hear, always justified extreme measures. Hijackings and terrorism had already started in other parts of the world
He didn’t have much understanding how he could help it, and in a rather primitive way, he took Robert F. Kennedy to be a very pro-Israel politician, although that was boilerplate, and the same thing other politicians said, and missed the fact he had little chance of actually getting the nomination, and thought he could affect things by killing him.
Sammy Finkelman (64e777) — 12/27/2012 @ 8:40 pm“We of course can’t expect leftists to be civil.”
– Steve57
That’s rich, coming from you.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:03 pmFinkelman, we have only the word of a faux KGB defector that Oswald was stupid about how the Soviet Union worked.
SPQR (768505) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:07 pmIt’s amusing to compare Ted Kennedy with George HW Bush.
They lived completely different lives and showed women in particular completely different levels of respect and justice.
Rubbing hands with glee at Ted Kennedy’s death would be horrible, but soberly discussing his life honestly… not really so bad, in my opinion.
Of course I’m sure there were people on the right who took it too far. I’m not surprised to see someone on either ‘side’ try to position that as some kind of justification. Anything to avoid personal responsibility.
It’s not two sides. It’s millions of individuals, and you are responsible for yourself.
Dustin (73fead) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:08 pmI would never in a million years associate leftists/democrats/progressives with being civil – the world that I would use to describe them is thuggish.
Sheriff Bart (ff5655) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:35 pmLee Harvey Oswald didn’t have any good intentions.
So why was he so smitten by Communism? Why did he buy into a belief system supposedly dedicated to helping the proletariat, the working man, the quietly suffering masses yearning to breathe free.
Another gauge of how truly ass backwards (and hollow) so many liberals are — in which they buy into the idea that left-leaning emotions, because in their mind such biases stem from a big heart, therefore absolve one of all sins — is to observe the way they continue to get gauzy eyed over (1) JFK, in spite of greater knowledge about him coming out through the decades (per below), and then, decades later, respond quite similarly towards (2) Bill Clinton.
JFK apparently would have made Bubba Clinton look like a prude. Yet they’re both embraced by much of the left, then and now. This is worth keeping in mind if only because it illustrates that while a percentage of the right/Republican Party will rationalize away the shoddy, corrupt qualities of rightwing politicians, conservatives are no where near as bad in that department as the left is.
Mark (94cc2f) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:55 pmSammy – What is Sirhan Sirhan’s twitter handle?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/27/2012 @ 10:02 pmI don’t know whether you are uncertain about whom to credit for this, or whether any credit at all should be given for such a find.
It was me, but posting from a different IP address. I was visiting family in So Cal over the holidays, and am now back at home.
Chuck Bartowski (ad7249) — 12/27/2012 @ 11:28 pmSteve57 (#17), we also like jalapeno peppers with that dove; stuffed peppers with dove breast, wrapped in bacon and BBQed.
John Q. Public (1c6f07) — 12/28/2012 @ 5:32 amDaley– also cheater (Harvard exams) and addled witness (William Smith rape trial). All this from the Lion of the Senate!
Birdbath (716828) — 12/28/2012 @ 7:14 amThe cure for the West Coast states would be to ship back all Californians who moved out of state with their profits from selling their inflated priced homes before the bust, then build a wall to keep them and the Mexican illegals in. Wait a decade, then reclaim the land and bury the dead.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 12/28/2012 @ 7:59 amHe was the first president for which I was old enough to vote. I wish him no harm and a speedy recovery. However, if his death is imminent, I hope he passes peacefully, surrounded by all his family, December 31, 11:59 pm.
All that Estate Tax saved for his family will warm my heart.
Em (0af170) — 12/28/2012 @ 1:57 pmMost of the 50 tweeters don’t know that George H.W. Bush isn’t George W.Bush.
Big Robert (0c7121) — 12/28/2012 @ 2:18 pm“then build a wall to keep them and the Mexican illegals in”
PCD – They would probably fly right back out again under their own power.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/28/2012 @ 2:23 pmTejas would be missing a couple of restaurants and a couple of dozen employed people if that rule had been applied to me.
We’re not all the same. As a matter of fact, some day you Tejicans will be glad I’m on your team. I can spot a Kali fifth columnist loooong before somebody who’s never been amongst them can.
What’s important, and let not lose focus on this, is invading Mexico and the BBQ after the victory dove shoot.
Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/28/2012 @ 3:19 pmSomebody somewhere made an imflamatory comment on twitter! Gasp! Everybody on the left must be degenerates (can we confirm that these twitter accounts are registered to communists/democrats?
Ned Ryerson (05f7c7) — 12/28/2012 @ 3:47 pmSteve….I’ve got this great BBQ recipe left over from the Great Spotted Owl Hunt – but it requires old redwood firewood.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/28/2012 @ 3:59 pmOK, so as long as (a) they bring ammo for the dove hunt or (b) they chop up the decks they built around their hot tubs and bring the redwood lumber, then we let them in?
I’m cool with it.
Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/28/2012 @ 4:06 pmComment by SPQR (768505) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:07 pm
Finkelman, we have only the word of a faux KGB defector that Oswald was stupid about how the Soviet Union worked.
Are you talking about the person James Angleton claimed was faux?
But in any case what I meant was he didn’t understand the way they approached the Cold War.
He thought (I think) that if the United States was the enemy of the Soviet Union, they’d appreciate him killing the president.
Sammy Finkelman (f1bb90) — 12/31/2012 @ 9:20 pmComment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/27/2012 @ 10:02 pm
Sammy – What is Sirhan Sirhan’s twitter handle?
He’s in a California prison – he doesn’t have a twitter handle! Who do you think he is, Charles Manson? (who smuggled in a cell phone)
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/charles-manson-had-cell-phone-under-prison-mattress-126154
There is another Sirhan Sirhan on Twitter, maybe more, but not Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
Sammy Finkelman (032a0d) — 12/31/2012 @ 9:47 pm40. Comment by Mark (94cc2f) — 12/27/2012 @ 9:55 pm
SF: “Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t have any good intentions.”
So why was he so smitten by Communism?
Ambition. There are fewer people who want to join the bad guys than the good guys, so he felt he had greater chance of becoming somebody important. And to rise, he’d mostly have to do evil things, rather than difficult things, and even if some of it was difficult, there was less competition.
And in the Rosenberg case, the Communists looked well organized.
Why did he buy into a belief system supposedly dedicated to helping the proletariat, the working man, the quietly suffering masses yearning to breathe free.
He didn’t buy into that at all. Where do see one thing that he bought into that? He just repeated lies he knew to be lies. He tried to be a propaganist for Castro – that led nowhere.
When he said “police brutality” on November 22, 1963, do you think he believed it?
He thought the Communists would help him, since he was on their “team” and asked for a certain lawyer who had defended Communists.
Sammy Finkelman (bcd7c8) — 12/31/2012 @ 9:56 pmJ. Edgar Hoover used to think (or right) that all the Communist were motivated by the thought they were doing the right. I think that was a complete misunderstanding of Communists.
Sammy Finkelman (bcd7c8) — 12/31/2012 @ 9:58 pm“He’s in a California prison – he doesn’t have a twitter handle! Who do you think he is, Charles Manson? (who smuggled in a cell phone)”
Sammy – The topic of the thread is Ghouls on Twitter. WTF do Sirhan Sirhan and Oswald have to do with the topic?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/31/2012 @ 10:01 pm57. In comment 33, Mark argued that JFK was murdered by an ultra liberal – also that Sirhan Sirhan came from a background associated with caressing and stroking by the left.
I argued that neither of them was motivated by anything like liberalism,or even leftism, and I went into what I though were their motives.
The bottom line is that those assassinations are not a precedent for hating George Bush the Elder.
And they had nothing to do with American politics, as ordinarily understood.
Sammy Finkelman (67ff63) — 12/31/2012 @ 11:22 pm