Whinybutts
First up, this article I saw on IMDB today... Apparently, the latest Simpsons episode? (Which I have not yet seen.) You know, the one the mainstream media made a huge deal about because Homer was voting for Obama? And the voting machine kept changing his vote to McCain and then it devoured him? Yeah, that one! Well, after getting so much praise and "haha" from the mainstream media, it turns out that Nelson (the resident bully character, if you're not classy enough to watch Simpsons) spouts off the horrific and hurtful phrase: "That's so gay." Oh my! Call the FCC! Call the Supreme Court! Call the ACLU! A Simpsons cartoon character has made a homophobic remark!
"Are you serious?" You ask. "Absolutely," I reply.
I call Simpsons an "equal opportunity parody show". It makes fun of, quite literally, everyone. Democrats, Republicans, homosexuals, Christians, hindus, illegal immigrants... The list goes on and on. Some things I find a little over the top, but, for the most part, it really doesn't bother me a whole lot when Simpsons makes fun of Republicans and voting machines tipped in their favor because I've seen plenty of jokes at the Democrat's expense, too. I take jokes about Christians in stride because I see jokes about other religions, too. So when I see something like that, I can't help but tell everyone to stop being so sensitive. My gosh. Homosexuals are probably the single most offended minority on the planet... (Although blacks are very close behind with their whole "a sale on black furred pets is racist" remark.)
It's a constant thing with liberal minds... The perfect example of their double-standard mentality. They claim a Republican majority in Congress is bad for the country because it doesn't provide for fair debate of the issues, but when it's a Democrat majority in Congress, the country has been done a great service. When Christians and Republicans are made fun of, it's lauded as being some of the best humor around... But when homosexuals are made fun of, suddenly, the sky is falling and we need anti-discrimination laws passed so nobody can do that anymore. It's crazy!
Which leads me into the best thing I've seen post-election... A quote from the awesome Ann Coulter:
For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.
Ain't that the truth? I mean, I know she's the kind of person to say this kind of stuff to make people mad, and I think that's awesome, but, to be honest, I'm not going to do that. She's just making a point. I, however, am going to try to treat the position of President of the United States with all due respect. I may think the guy is the single poorest choice for this country and that Joe the Plumber would have been a vastly more successful pick, but he is the President of the United States now. I'm not even going to wonder if there were any illegal votes, seeing as how McCain clearly thought Obama had legitimately won and set an example by graciously conceding on the same night and not weeks later, demanding recount after recount in a vain attempt to further antagonize his supporters and deface his opponent. I will most likely not agree with anything that man passes and I still vehemently believe that he will plunge this country into a time not seen since the Great Depression, but I will not give in to "Obama Derangement Syndrome" and loathe the guy. If the guy passes something I agree with, I'll praise him... If he doesn't, I'll scream about it, but I'm not going to hate him just for the sake of hating him.
We crazy Christian conservative Republicans are better than that. The liberals in this country and in the rest of the world may have no scrap of dignity... They may have prepared posts for a McCain win that is made up of nothing but a derogatory explitive pasted 500 times over... They may blame President Bush for hurricanes and oil prices and our "declining image abroad" due to the "useless war that wastes American lives" and they may call him the worst President in American history (even though they are terribly wrong), but I won't succumb to that kind of thinking just because we Christian conservatives now have someone who is poised to rewrite the Constitution and tax religious institutes into oblivion and destroy this economy and all our livelihoods for a blatantly socialist agenda. The liberals may be whinybutts, but I'm not!
I also, by the way, did not go and riot, nor did I ever threaten to if we lost, just for the record.