What good is a conservative fever dream if no one can make a buck off it, right?
The people behind WND, perhaps the pre-eminent online purveyor of conservative fever dreams, on Sunday created an “Impeachment Store” section for their website’s online retail “superstore.”
The timing couldn’t be better. Several members of Congress have recently discussed the possibility of President Obama’s impeachment. The issue made it all the way to the pages of The New York Times this weekend (hey, even the Grey Lady needs to fill pages in August?), and WND Books on Tuesday is set to publish a book titled “Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama from Office.” In an interview last week, one of the books co-authors told Buzzfeed that “Impeachable Offenses” had already pre-sold nearly 100,000 copies.
So, what’s for sale in the Impeachment Store? Right now, beside “Impeachable Offenses” (including autographed hardcovers), shoppers can choose from three different impeachment themed bumper stickers. One reads: “Honk For Impeachment.” Another says: “Lights On For Impeachment.” And then there is the classic: “Impeach Obama!” Shoppers can also purchase a “special report” titled “The Case for Impeachment,” which is, according to the product description, “an insightful summary of how President Barack Hussein Obama’s purposeful actions have jeopardized America’s ability to defend herself, undermined our free enterprise system, corrupted our democratic institutions and transferred massive amounts of power and wealth from American citizens to extremist special interest groups, whose loyalty lies not with our Constitution but with a global socialist movement.”
Yeah good luck with that.
Here our previous President started two different wars of choice, contributed to the death of thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and was caught repeatedly lying to the American people about the reasons he started those conflicts, and yet HE didn't get impeached.
What has President Obama done that even REMOTELY compares to the things done by George W. Bush? Oh, I forgot, George W. Bush had the right color skin.
NPR's Frank James brings some perspective:
Based on what we know now, President Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be a lottery pick in next year's NBA draft.
The Teabaggers can buy bumper stickers and batshit crazy books until their bank accounts are bone dry, but in the end it simply won't mean a thing.
Personally I think it just about as likely that the President will be impeached as it is that the Republicans will finally get Obamacare repealed. In other words, don't hold your breath.
If they were honest with themselves, they would have only one bumper sticker stating "I have wet dreams of impeachment".
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of losers!
The impeachment of Bathhouse Barry is going to come.
ReplyDeleteProjecting any? Your comment is both reougnant and revealing. You gave your inner fears away there, fella.
DeleteSo Anon 4:42 What is your big fear against gay people? I noticed you've been here before waving your fear of teh gay. And your chosen meme that the president is gay seems to be ongoing. And that you MUST think being gay is the worst thing in the world. Interesting . . . . A little unsettled about your sexuality---are you?
DeleteThat you, Bradlee Dean? Nice 'do.
DeleteMan up, 4:42. There's nothing wrong with being gay. Absolutely nothing at all.
DeleteBut to be a closeted, self-loathing, "slobbering while dreaming of a big fat one in your mouth", homophobic, hypocritcal, "hyperventilating as you fap obsessively while thinking of a tall, dark man" bed-wetter like you? Yeah, face it: You are ALL fucked up.
I hope that you don't have any younger siblings or any nieces or nephews, because you won't be able to pray that shit in your mind away.
Your sheets are showing 4:42 p.m.
DeletePerhaps this will go over as well as the "stop on the highway with your high beams on For Palin" movement did. The two folks that actually did that were never recognized in the annals of modern history.
ReplyDeleteOh God, I had FORGOTTEN about that.
DeleteOther NBA lottery picks have missed 10 shots in a row. Since I'm too lazy to look them up and these stats are handy, I'll tell you the numbers from what is considered by many to be Michael Jordon's worst shooting night as a pro;
DeleteMay 26, 1997 - Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals versus the Miami Heat
45 minutes played, 29 pts (11 off free throws), 9 for 35 shooting (25.7%), 0 for 8 from 3pt, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal.
He missed 19 of 21 shots at one stretch.
And on defense, Jordsn gave up 25 pts, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 3pters to Tim Hardaway on the night.
You wanna hear the rest of the story? Later in the game , Jordan scored 18 points in a row by himself. The Bulls won the series and the the NBA Championship. Jordan won 6 NBA titles and about a million awards like League MVP and lots of trophies and made a bazillion dollars, too.
My point: I think even on his worst night, Jordan was still pretty damn good, even when everybody was gunning for him.
Likewise, on President Obama's worst day as a leader, he still kicks the shit out of anybody and everybody on the GOP, the TeaBagger idiots, the Neocons, and even the players on his on team that want to read their name in the paper without playing their asses off in crunch time.
Full Disclosure: Jordan actually wasn't an NBA lottery pick, because his draft class preceded the NBA lottery, when the worst teams picked first in each round. But he wasn't even drafted 1st or 2nd in his own class. Akeem (the Dream) was 1st pick, and is a Hall of Famer, top-50 player of all-time, and yada yada yada. And I think 2nd pick was some clunker from Wasilla that had fat thighs and a pervy, predatory, pedo poppa, and the No-Skiller-from-Wasiller should've been a brick mason instead of a pretend basketball player, mom, or politician.
Joseph Farrah & his News of the World-knockoff, WND, make $ selling crap to read or pretend they can read, wear to Wal-Mart or the flea market, or stick on their cars to cover the rust spots for low-life, low-brow, low class, low-down-on-the-down-low idiots, just like Sarah. And that's pretty goddam low. Actually, that's as bad as it gets.
There's a reason we call it WingNut Daily.
DeleteBeing willfully ignorant is a matter of pride and a ful-time occupation. To stay this stupid requires a lot of hard work.
ReplyDeleteParting noodlebrained nimrods from their Big Gubmint checks seems to be a lucrative business these days.
ReplyDeletePT Barnum would be proud.
"Based on what we know now, President Obama is as likely to be impeached as * I am * to be a lottery pick in next year's NBA draft."
ReplyDeleteThere, fixed it.
I'm 52, female, chubby, have a bad knee, and never was able to master dribbling or shooting a basketball. THAT'S how likely President Obama is to be impeached!
I'm 51, with good wheels and a quick double cross-over, ankle breaker move on top of incredible post-up moves down on the block over taller guys with my towering 5'9" height advantage, and if you are drafted #1 and Philly trades up and gets us both. Well, it's not only more likely POB runs for a third term and gets 65% of the vote... Whatever, I got lost in my analogy and dreaming of punking LeBron if he tries to bring that shit in on me... Anyway, no way in hell Obama is impeached any more than Romney in a landslide.
DeleteWhat WND is selling, Beefy the Bull will give you for free out in the pasture if you bring your own bucket and shovel. But those idiots just eat that shit up, literally.
lol.
DeleteThank you Gryphen for keeping up with this; sometimes the hatred makes me tired. I find myself wanting the destruction of too many people, and that isn’t good. I’m still very strong, but society frowns on beating folks over the head, lol.
ReplyDeleteI’ll be around in the morning; maybe we can talk about religion.
Darlene, you need to get some genuine simulated combat fatigues (Wal-Mart $12.93 tops and bottoms), some "walking in cowshit" boots like Quitter was wearing in G's earlier post, then gain about 60 lbs so you'll have a prominent gut and join the TeaBaggers for a month. Then, after sitting around a campfire with mud and grease "warpaint" on your face, holding your crotch when you talk "big man talk" while waiting for the blacks to attack in the Great Race War, then I'm betting you'll be more tired than you and I are right now. Haters gonna hate. Haters gonna lose. Every time. Chin up. Chest out. (Elbows back. Tongue waggling. Stop that! You look like you're imitating Baldy on the sidewalk in Manhattan). Those idiots wear me out sometimes, too. But I NEVER think I would want to trade places with them!
DeleteAnon 7:24: I'm not Darlene but thanks for the pep talk.
DeleteI love that they'll be spending their nickels and dimes to dress up their rusty old pickups with these silly bumper stickers.
ReplyDeleteUntil the government shuts down and their social security checks dry up.
Here's something to ponder, teabaggers, when you get all hot and bothered about impeachment:
less than one year ago, we all held a national election to see who would be the president and vice president from 2013-2017. Guess who won, with a five million vote margin? You guessed correctly! Our great President Barack Hussein Obama.
And his Republican opponent, who beat almost a dozen other GOPers in endless primaries, now admits he never even wanted to run for president.
So, when you think someone else should be president, who should it be?
The answer, dear friends, is that it will be Joseph R. Biden. I'm afraid that you won't have another chance at the White House until the 2016 election. And, with the way you're going, it may be 2020, realistically.
I'm sure that Clarence Thomas' wife and her nasty group are fanning the impeachment flames. A couple assholes that should be impeached are Clarence Thomas and his buddy Scalia. I'm amazed that Obama has accomplished as much as he has with so many GOP jerks trying to obstruct him on anything and everything.
ReplyDeleteNew Batchit Bachmann book is out.
ReplyDeleteYou are lookkking nutty Michele, and Markkkus you still just mahhhvelicious! Got any sharp rings in that manbag?
Bachmannistan: The 5 craziest revelations in the new Michele Bachmann tell-all
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2013/08/bachmannistan_michele_bachmann_tell-all_biography_crazy_revelations.php
yup. the ''foster girls'' need to step up and talk. IF IN FACT there were some, my M-I-Law was foster in next county over and she'd run 30-40 girls a year through her house. Some 1-2 days others 9-11 months. so shelly's big claim is bullshit. foster mom my ass
DeleteThe bumper stinkers forgot one: Honkies for impeahment.
ReplyDeleteRacist bent, no doubt about it! No word of 'impeachment' when Bush was in the office and he actually had a war he went into for now proven 'zero' reason!
ReplyDeleteThese Republicans are a mess! Can hardly wait to see what happens to them across the nation in upcoming elections.
Well, anon@7.15a - Nothing will happen to Republicans across the nation UNLESS we Dems get the vote and get out to vote ourselves.
DeleteWe lost big-time in 2010 because we didn't get out the vote and the Republicans did. Our job is NOT done; 2010 proved that. This election - 2014 - will prove if the Republican party can gain seats. They may be dead on the presidential level but they're sure alive on the local, state, and congressional level.
We DEMS have to rock the boat next year. We cannot stay home.
Actually, Sen Kucinich Read articles of impeachment in the senate and then the articles were read to the house.
Deletemake that Representative Kucinich
DeleteMr Obama has committed a crime worthy of impeachment - he has failed to investigate the war crimes of the Bush Administration. However, I would not hold my breath waiting for the Republicans to bring that one up.
ReplyDeleteThere is some guy who stands on a major street corner nearby in the Detroit suburb in which I live, with an "Impeach Obama" sign, and he's been doing it since Obama's first month in office. He's been joined by a few other nutjobs recently. I just give him the finger every time I pass by, but there's really not much I can do. Clearly, he won't entertain a reasonable discussion.
ReplyDeleteWhich brings me to my second point: never say never. I thought the Repubs would never impeach Clinton; it was just crazy. I wouldn't put it past the TeaParty Repubs in the House to pass a Bill of Impeachment. The Senate, of course, would not convict him, but he's still be the third President to be formally impeached under that circumstance.