Words Fail Me

The Republican Party's official Twitter account co-opted Rosa Parks for propaganda purposes? Oh God. (Also? Racism is over. Done with. Kaput. So stop talking about racism.)

The University of Alabama possesses a number of the Small Minds of the Day

Dudes, if you're going to Photoshop a black guy's head into your photo, you might want to switch the hands too. (Via.)

Welcome to the face of the Republican party

Don Yelton, a Republican Party official in North Carolina, thought it’d be a good idea to appear on “The Daily Show” and defend his party’s new voter-suppression law. It didn’t turn out well for him or the state GOP.

Yelton, who’s practically a caricature of himself, told Aasif Mandvi the new state voting law is intended to tilt elections in Republicans’ favor, used the “n” word, referenced “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything,” and said, in all seriousness, that one of his “best friends is black.”

Though Yelton resigned from his post, he told a local television station that he stands by his comments. “This is being picked up in Raleigh, across the state,” he told WLOS in Asheville. “They’re trying to say, ‘Look at this guy. He’s racist.’ The whole question isn’t about racism.”

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Rush Limbaugh explains the problem Republicans face

"We got one factor here that nobody knows how to deal with, and that's race, the race of the president.  That's what's got everybody stymied and shut down on our side.  That's what's got 'em palpably afraid to say or do anything."

Racism makes everything so simple! Via.

Yoholand: An Alternate Universe Where Imbecility Leads to Stability

Remember when Representative Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida) compared the Tea Party efforts to defund Obamacare to the Civil Rights Movement?

“It only takes one with passion — look at Rosa Parks, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King. People with passion that speak up, they’ll have people follow them because they believe the same way, and smart leadership listens to that.”

Yoho followed that up with this doozy about failure to raise the debt ceiling:

“I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets."

That quote earned this headline from Business Insider: "Tea Party Congressman Wins An Award For The Stupidest Thing Said About The Debt Ceiling". But anyway, today comes news that Yoho has made it into the Urban Dictionary!

Yoholand: An alternate universe where the largest economy in the world defaults and global markets are [surprise!] stabilized."

Why should everyone have the same opportunities?

Although Obamacare tries to extend health coverage to Americans, it’s missing two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers who are eligible for help. The NewYork Times reports that also missing are more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance.

Why? 

“Because [these people] live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help … People shopping for insurance on the health exchanges are already discovering this bitter twist." 

 Jesse Jackson once had a thought on this phenomenon:

"If this were Germany, we would call it fascism. If this were South Africa, we would call it racism. Here we call it conservatism."

"50 Years After March On Washington, Some See Rap Music As A Problem"

Oh, Fox News! *shakes head fondly*

I think I've discovered the marketing angle that Fox News employs: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones we'll concentrate on."

Ted Yoho is the Small Mind of the Day

The other day, Representative Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida) brought up an Affordable Healthcare provision that allegedly imposes a 10% tax on tanning bed use. Yoho maintained that this is a “racist tax” that discriminates “because of the color of my skin.”

Over here is Yoho’s account (with audio), during which he’s chatting with John Boehner:

[Boehner] goes, “I didn’t know [the tax] was in there,” and I said, “Yes, it’s a ten percent tax.” He goes, “Well, that’s not that big of a deal.” I said, “It’s a racist tax.” He goes, “You know what, it is.” I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin, with two non-dark skin people, and I asked this to him, I said, “Have you ever been to a tanning booth?” and he goes, “No, no need.” So therefore it’s a racist tax and I thought I might need to get to a sun tanning booth so I can come out and say I’ve been disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin.”

BTW, you may be wondering just how white Ted is. Oh, he's just sort of white.

Hmm. I guess he's actually fairly white.

Oh, who am I kidding? Ted Yoho's whiter than a motherfucker.