(De)motivational posters on election day

November 6, 2018 • 11:00 am

by Grania

Rather than patronise everyone here by encouraging everyone in the US to vote, here’s a few carefully curated demotivatonal posters and tweets. Please add your own  if you have any good ones.

 

This one may be hard to achieve.

https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1059799708728725511

Out of the mouths of babes

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1059835249776058368

A horror story from Rick Wilson

How to win hearts and minds

Don’t try to impress people with facts on Twitter (for the record, Docm77 is a German Youtuber)

 

 

36 thoughts on “(De)motivational posters on election day”

        1. Does Trump even know how to play cricket, and do those women know he’s wearing cricket whites? The style does look kinda like the Ben Carson one!

    1. I’ve gotten a ton of robocalls in the past week, almost all Republican/Conservative. It’s not unusual were I live, but it always scares me a bit.

      Most of them sound like SNL skits – I can’t believe anyone takes them seriously.

  5. My having voted early and speakin’ of others’
    incivilities this specific day today, I am
    d e e e e p this one within the severest
    throe of … … inventorying 119 pieces of
    ≥ $5k equipment under my Department’s accountability
    and apropos onto anyone’s taking inventory
    in re this very .electing. day and
    its purpose thus from our darling and
    late Ms Parker:
    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/128166-inventory-four-be-the-things-i-am-wiser-to-know

    “ Inventory ”

    “Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

    Four be the things I’d been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”

    Were I her I ‘ld’ve changed one word within
    its last line to another thusly:

    “Laughter and justice and a sock in the eye.”

    Justice: Now and Always within … … .my. inventory.

    Blue

    1. Better off without doubt? I cannot off the top of my head think of a more anti intellectual, anti science, anti truth thing to say.

      1. The habitués of the Algonquin Round Table were known for their facetiousness, especially Dorothy Parker.

        Though she wasn’t particularly lucky in love, I doubt she actually wished to be rid of it or curiosity or her trademark freckles for that matter, either. 🙂

        1. Well she did say that she didn’t care what people wrote about her as long as it wasn’t true.

      1. See your white-supremacist congressman, Steve King, made a “joke” at a campaign stop in Hampton, IA, the other day, saying Trump would get two more Supreme Court appointments once <a href="https://twitter.com/RubensteinAdam/status/1059501070664241156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1059501070664241156&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wonkette.com%2Fres%2Fcommunity%2Ftwitter_embed%2F%3Fiframe_id%3Dtwitter-embed-1059501070664241156%26created_ts%3D1541439714.0%26screen_name%3DRubensteinAdam%26text%3DRep.%2BSteve%2BKing%2Bjust%2Bnow%2Bin%2BHampton%252C%2BIowa%252C%2Btalking%2Babout%2Bthe%2Bcourts%252C%2Bsays%2Bafter%2Bthe%2Belection%2Bmaybe%2B%25E2%2580%259Cwe%25E2%2580%2599ll%2Bhave%2Ba%2B7-%25E2%2580%25A6%2Bhttps%253A%252F%252Ft.co%252FJHeuTMwZ3Z%26id%3D1059501070664241156%26name%3DAdam%2BRubenstein"Kagan and Sotomayor elope to Cuba."

        Not often a single line can hit the quadfecta of homophobia, misogyny, Hispanic-bashing, and red-baiting all at once.

        1. It must be what some considerable number of Americans expect in a leader. Perhaps as many as 35% of Americans and 50% of Iowans.

  7. facts on Twitter

    What?!? What is a “fact on twitter”? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

    Google says:

    No results found for
    site:bls.gov “total private sector employment” [label of the supposed unreferenced “fact” chart] “2015” “2016” “2017”.

    Also: twitter.com/DPRK_News is a parody site; I was fooled by it once.

    1. At 7:22 Pacific CNN is saying that Dems are on track to take the House by a good margin. They may lose seats in the Senate but that was a long shot anyway.

          2. Maybe a little. But the house is huge. It means there’s a way to fight back. The House has supena power. They should be able to force testimony of Trump’s cronies and control the agenda. Remember Trump’s tax returns? They could be made public within months.

  10. I’m so looking forward to watching House committee hearings on White house corruption for the next 4 years.

    1. I’m hoping, by that, you mean for at least two years after the current White House occupant is out of office. 🙂

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