I heard on Rush Limbaugh yesterday that some of the Democrats are bent out of shape because some people, Rush and Bush included, call their party the Democrat Party instead of the Democratic Party. I know I do this.
I guess they want at least the idea of Democracy to be somewhat associated with them. Sell the sizzle, not the steak and all that.
But is it very democratic to dictate to others what you would have them call you? Oh, I think not. Dictatorly, that’s what it is.
But, since they want to be all democratic-like, what to call them should be decided in a democratical way.
By a vote. And vote we will. Now taking nominations. No profanity please.
What would be a good democratically chosen name for the party with the big smelly ass for a mascot?
The road company of Terence and Phillip’s masterpiece musical, “Asses Of Fire”.
Does the word “Asses” qualify as profanity???
How about the Dumb-ocrats? Or why don’t we go “subliminal” and just call them the Rats? Works for me.
Since their mascot is an ass, how about the Teddy K. party, The Billery Party or the Dean party. Asses one and all.
They could produce bumber stickers that say, “Got Ass?”
Democrap is an all-time classic.
We should just call them morons.
How about the NSDAP: the National Socialist Democratic Atheist Party
How about Socialist Party D. And we could change the other one to Socialist Party R.
Several prominent Dems go into a talent agency holding various props. Bill Clinton with a cigar, John Kerry with an old Vietnam-era radiophone with exposed wires, Nancy Pelosi with a San Franciscan, Jim Webb with a 4 year old Cambodian boy and a donkey for each of them.
The talent agent looked at them standing there and asked, “Well, what do you do?”
2 hours and numerous deviant sexual practices later the Dems were drenched with sweat and other bodily fluids and the talent agent was as white as a sheet with his jaw practically hitting the floor.
With a severely shaking voice the agent asked, “What…what do you call yourselves?”
“The Aristocrats!”
Since a female Jackass is called a Jenny, I think the little old ladies who comprise the DemoCRAPic party ought to be called Jennies.
Hmm… we ought to just refer to them as the ACLU.
It would be nice if we could call them History.
Hmmmm . . . big, smelly ass . . . Michael Moore swells irresistibly to mind. (No! No! Make it stop! AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!)
The Michael Moore party? Or Mike’s “constituency”, the Moonbat party?
As long as there’s a Kennedy running under its banner, we can call it the Cocktail Party.
“…party with the big smelly ass for a mascot?”
The Less-Than-Freshocrats? It describes their politics and playbook pretty well… :o)
Butt-Nuggets
The French.
I can’t speak for all, but you can just call us the “Majority Party” as far as I am concerned.
And if you’ve got a problem with the term Democratic Party, take it up with the corpse of Thomas Jefferson, or to a greater extent Andrew Jackson.
They’re not the Democrats, they’re the Democratics?
“And if you’ve got a problem with the term Democratic Party, take it up with the corpse of Thomas Jefferson, or to a greater extent Andrew Jackson.”
I would, but they are spinning too fast in their graves at the modern Democrats attempts to associate themselves with the Founding Fathers Democracy by pretending to be the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Something about all that Doppler Effect makes it hard for me to understand what they’re saying.
LOL, “party with the big smelly ass for a mascot”.
BSA Party? Big Smelly Ass? Not very origional but hey it sells!
I’ve always used the term “DEMONCRAPS” for obviously their ideals and standards are drawn from the very BOWELS of Hell.
Creating a new word out of several others is all the rage with the kids today, so how about “Smellyassocrats”?
It’s cruncheweesy.
Anon must be a real genius. He can’t distinguish between a group and an individual.
Here’s a tip: Some groups use a different derivation of whatever word the group is labeled with to refer to individual members of that group.
Especially when the label used is an adjective and as in this case, the term for the individual is derived from the group name, not the other way around. You see the term ‘Democrats’ refers to members of the ‘Democratic Party.’ Not Vice Versa.
As an example, would you refer to the “Jew Religion?”
Easy. The Dhimmicratic Party. As they are the trying to turn us all into a nation of Dhimmis. Nothing like good, old-fashioned capitulation.
Hmmm…how about Dhimmicrats?
Nuts. desert beat me to it…
LAP Dogs. Liberal And Progressive.
“Majority Party”
Um, when did you take the White House?
The elephant killers party.
Spacemonkey,
Being a simian with the additional burden of being extra terrestrial, I will forgive the fact that you don’t know the definition of the term “majority party.”
Cause, if you were an American human being, you’d look really really stupid right about now.
From time to time we all make posts that we wish we could take back. This is one of those times for you.
G Fresh, that was spot on!
much more refined than my suggestion of the “Asshat Party”
How about “Progs”–or maybe “Prigs”.
“you’d look really really stupid right about now.”
seattle slough, maybe stupid, maybe really stupid, but definitely not really really stupid.
Nah, I make mistakes, I move on.
SM,
I can appreciate that. And I’d have you know that I wouldn’t have been half the dick I was if you hadn’t been snarking on me when it happened.
In fact, I probably wouldn’t have mentioned it at all.
cheers
Limbaugh and his fans’ confusion is due to their inability to grasp English grammar. “Democrat” is a noun whereas “Democratic” is an adjective. Apparently, what confuses Republicans is the fact that “Republican” is both a noun and an adjective.
This dry explanation is offered in the hopes of educating the 30% of our population who desperately need it. At this point being a right-wing Republican is more than just an error in judgment, it’s a character flaw.
The Smugtarian Party.
Thank you unnamed grammar nazi for the explanation of the difference between Democrat and Democratic. Now, can you explain the difference between the Democratic Party and the Communist Party, spelling aside?
I’ve always used “Demoncrats”, but since the Jimmy Carter era, I guess we could refer to them as the “Extreamly Silly Party” (how could you not with Nancy Pelosi, Barbra Boxer, Chuck Schumer et al).
How about the “Tin Foil Hat Party?”
“Those who represent the Mentally Ill” or the “Mental Disorder Party?”
“The American Crack Suicide Squad?”
“The Pick-Pocket Party?”
“The So Full of S**t their Eyes are Brown Party?”
“The Leftist Inquisition?”
Again in reference to the grammar nazi:
“Democratic” is, as far as I am aware, the result of a popular vote, the collective will of the people, so on and so forth… given that simple explanation, could it be safe to assume that the GOP was the “Democratic” party for the last twelve years? If you’re going to whip out (or maybe cautiously expose) your almighty phallus of intelligentsia, maybe you should tak a look around to see whose have already hit the floor.
I was hoping someone would respond! And so cleverly, too.
Today was the first time I visited IMAO. I followed a link from a LIEberal, DEMONratic (is that how it goes?) website that claimed that Republican humor is lame. Judging from the blog entries and comments I browsed here, it is. The regular readers and commentators of rightwing sites such as this one were probably the children who laughed at wiping boogers on each other and then laughed at how funny “booger” sounds. When do the fart jokes begin?
Now that the political tide has turned the Democrats will free the country from the pit the Republicans have dug and pushed America into and get absolutely no credit from the right for the accomplishment. Republicans, who don’t get the subtle yet crucial difference between parody and satire, will continue to be as juvenile as they’ve always been (booger!), all the while generating heat when we need light.
You guys are lame. Too bad it took the country this long to realize that. I’ll leave you to your little Chuck E. Cheese-ballpit now. Booger! It gets ’em every time.
One last bit of moral equivalence: Can DrEvil can explain the difference between today’s Republican Party and the Italian Fascist Party circa 1938? I mean besides the transfer of wealth to the wealthy, the elimination of due process, the attack of nations purely for anticipated profit and the use of threats to make every point. See, anyone can to it.
–The Unnamed Grammar Nazi
The Unnamed Grammar Nazi was walking in the park when he saw his friend and her 5 yr old son sitting on a bench. He walked over to them and the 5 year old started pointing at him, he said, “if you keep pointing I’ll eat your fingers.” He kept pointing, so he stuck his fingers in his mouth and pretended to eat them. He then started crying. Nazi looked at him and said don’t worry I’m not really gonna eat your fingers. He replied, “I know that but where’s my booger?”
booger.
heh
ussjimmycarter,
Was your comment supposed to refute or confirm the theory that rightwing humor is juvenile? I could hear you giggling from here.
I also have to throw a yellow grammar penalty flag onto the field: 15 yards and loss of down for pronoun abuse. Your third sentence:
“He kept pointing, so he stuck his fingers in his mouth and pretended to eat them”
is all wrong. (Hell, if I’m the Grammar Nazi, I have to uphold my reputation) The first “he” is the subject of the sentence and so the other “he’s” and “him’s” would refer to the first “he,” which made it sound as if I was both pointing and pretending to eat fingers or the boy was both pretending to eat fingers. If you have to read a subsequent sentence to understand the context of a previous sentence, you’ve written a poor sentence.
No, this has nothing to do with politics, but, what the hell, in for a penny, in for a pound.
ussjimmycarter,
Was your comment supposed to refute or confirm the theory that rightwing humor is juvenile? I could hear you giggling from here.
I also have to throw a yellow grammar penalty flag onto the field: 15 yards and loss of down for pronoun abuse. Your third sentence:
“He kept pointing, so he stuck his fingers in his mouth and pretended to eat them”
is all wrong. (Hell, if I’m the Grammar Nazi, I have to uphold my reputation) The first “he” is the subject of the sentence and so the other “he’s” and “him’s” would refer to the first “he,” which made it sound as if I was both pointing and pretending to eat fingers or the boy was both pretending to eat fingers. If you have to read a subsequent sentence to understand the context of a previous sentence, you’ve written a poor sentence.
No, this has nothing to do with politics, but, what the hell, in for a penny, in for a pound.
To the Blog,
Sorry for the double post, I should have hit the refresh button again to ensure my last post made it to the server. This does give me the opportunity to point out a major difference between leftwing liberals and rightwing neo-conservatives: Liberals are man enough to admit when something goes wrong, neo-cons not so much.
To RedWhiteandTrue,
I see you attempt to run logic rings around me. Good try! Besides the fact that your stab in the dark missed (if proper names can be parsed, is the Lexus now the Cadillac of automobiles?), you are factually incorrect. In 2000, Al Gore had more popular votes than W., which by your own definition is “the will of the people.” I do have to give you some credit, though; the phrase “almighty phallus of intelligentsia” is damn good! I plan on using it but I’ll always cite you. Hell, I’m no plagiarist.
Just trying the name on for size. Nice!
Brava, Madamoiselle! Indeed you humble us. Must be educated or something.
I await your witty and wordy riposte, verpa.
Or will you choose to remain silent, playing the capricious deity?
Bated breath, cheri.
how about the USUMP? (Untimely SUrrender Monkey Party)
How about “traitors”?
Way up at the top is a suggestion for NSDAP. Add another A to get an anagram for PANDA. Reaarange the words and you have a new party name and a new (and suitably flawed) mascot. So perhaps Party of Atheistic Nihilistic Democratic American Socialists.
To get a more appropriate acronym, how about the Party of United States Socialists Inexplicably Exclaiming “Surrender!”
Grammer Nazi – You are ungrammatical, wrong, and worst of all, boring. Trying to explain why would be pointless. Troll elsewhere.
“Dhimmicrats” wins best of show.
PaleoMedic,
I’ve had some book learnin’; I guess it was all the semicolons that gave me away. I’m no Ph.D. but I know what I like, dry words with a deadpan delivery. I do think I can be witty although it takes some effort; the wordy part is easy.
I can see why you’d think I was capricious since I haven’t posted in over an hour. Truth be told I kept waiting for responses and got bored when there were none.
When it got too lonely in here I found another neo-con humor site to play in. You’ll be glad to know they were no funnier than you guys, although I admit that is a left-handed compliment. I even used the same name, so if you stumble across any of my posts elsewhere via The Tubes (thank you, Sen. Stevens! I always knew the internet wasn’t a truck) you’ll know it’s me.
I do wonder if I’ll be back, though. You guys are no fun to play with. No one ever tries to refute a point or explain a position. While I realize this isn’t the University Forensic Team, there should be some attempt made by one of the regulars here to present a convincing argument that can make me stroke my beard and say, “hm, interesting.” But you guys ARE the Booger League, all name calling with no substance. I have had good conversations with conservatives in the past and while we may not have persuaded each other to switch parties, we did base our positions on some examinable, debatable facts. You guys are just an echo chamber.
Sorry for ending on on a downbeat. Take care, mon ami.
–The UGNAHAPI (why does that look like the an Indian-derived name of a small town in upstate New York? Oh, well.)
I would have to say Commies, or if we’re going descriptive: Damn Dirty Commies.
Like the drive-by media and the PANDA, Grammar Nazi eats… shoots and leaves.
Not to be too long-winded, but the Grammar Nazi needs to be shown the error of his ways because being ignorant is no crime but remaining ignorant through willful denial of reality is just so wrong.
Fascism is characterized by a dictator, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism. The Republicans just lost the Congressional elections so it doesn’t appear that they are suppressing opposition, President Bush is criticized as much if not more than any other President in history and even though lefties like the Unnamed Grammar Nazi like to make the claim, there is no reasonable justification for calling the President a dictator.
Economically, fascism relies on control of the means of production. The state does not actually own the means of production but it regulates the economy so that it serves the interests of the state rather than the interests of the actual owners of the means of production. This is not a characteristic of the Republican Party in either philosophy or action. No, this attitude towards economic policy can more realistically be associated with the modern Democratic Party which has become hostile to capitalism and capitalists, and explains why they try to over-regulate industry. Who knows more about running a business, a business owner/ CEO with thirty years in the business or some politicians? Obviously, for those on the extreme left, their political betters in elected office know what’s best for everyone in every situation. Now, I will admit, that the elected officials who belong to the Republican Party have grown to resemble the Democratic Party in recent years, so any misunderstanding by ignorant leftists is understandable.
Finally, fascism is associated with racism, and group identity rather than respect for individual rights. In this country this has always been the domain of the Democratic Party. The Civil War, the Jim Crow Laws, the Southern Manifesto, opposition to civil rights legislature in the 1960s all came from the Democratic Party. Even today Democrats support separate and unequal treatment of people based on their skin color; they support discrimination against Asian-Americans as part of the phony “affirmative action” plans for higher education; this is just one example of their adherence to a philosophy that puts group identity ahead of individual rights.
The Democratic Party is not a fascist party but by any understanding of what fascism means the Democrats are a lot closer in ideology and in action to the fascists than the Republicans have ever been.
Now, Grammar Nazi, explain how the Democrats are not like Communists. I’ve already demonstrated how they are similar to fascist unlike Republicans, so prove me wrong if you can. Facts, history and logic, please, insults, opinions and fabrications are not very convincing, although I expect that is all you will present.
We need to find a location where “Unnamed Grammar Nazi”, Laff Riot and Seattle Slough can all meet, except that typically they would turn it into a circle jerk.
I find it difficult to believe they found their way here from a Leftie HUMOR site. They simply do not exist. Excepting of course those that are unintentional such as the re-elect Chappaquiddick Ted site.
Leftie humor…
“George W. Bush is so dumb.”
“How dumb is he?”
“He’s so dumb, he doesn’t speak very well and says things like nuke-you-ler.”
“Bwahahahahahaha! That’s effing brilliant! Did you come up with that just now? I’ve never heard a joke made about the selected-not-elected president being stupid before. You should write jokes for Al Franken’s radio show.”
“Dude, I’m his head writer.”
“Nice.”
What with the grammar nazis & others who incessantly whine about semantics, we’ll just call them the Peoples Republic of Whiny, Anal-Retentive Bitches.
Originally, the term fascism was used by an Italian political movement that ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (see Italian fascism). Later, fascism became a more generic term that was meant to cover an entire class of authoritarian political ideologies, parties, and political systems, though no consensus was ever achieved on a precise definition of what it means to be “fascist”. Various scholars have sought to define fascism, and a list of such definitions can be found in the article definitions of fascism.
As you can see it has become a word with no real meaning. It is really only used as slander. However CCCommunism has a very real definition, and consequences that are very deadly.
Just ask, oh nevermind.
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