Yes, it's so hard being a white man. I alone feel the burdensome chains of responsibility and privilege, the lonely struggle of hoisting and carrying the establishment my forefathers have borne for centuries.
Clearly disappointed with the election result, 18-year-old Georgia republican Kristen Neel joined the throngs of American Twitter users claiming they were moving to Australia to escape Obama's presidency.
Unfortunately, she got a few facts wrong.
"I'm moving to Australia, because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says,'' she tweeted.
Neel's tweet quickly went viral as bemused Aussies retweeted it more than 1400 times, many pointing out that Australia actually has an atheist, female Prime Minister.
"Our Prime Minister is a woman, an atheist who lives with a man she hasn't married. I don't think you'd like it here,'' tweeted Ian Cuthbertson, TV editor at The Australian.
"I think you meant Antarctica. Move there,'' tweeted @post_rock0.
"Congratulations on being the dumbest person in the world,'' tweeted @Patrickavenell.
On the republican long count calendar? Somewhere between when slavery was abolished and when all these uppity women started to march for the right to vote.
On the republican long count calendar? Somewhere between when slavery was abolished and when all these uppity women started to march for the right to vote.
The GOP continues to eat its own guts out. Even aside from the obvious advantage that a fractured GOP represents for the left, I have to take this as a good sign in that it seems like there are at least baby steps being taken towards pushing out the toxic ideologues.
mingol
Singapore
July 2005
NOV 08, 2012 06:51 AM