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[roxy]

So when the President of the United States released his birth certificate, I may have blacked out for a few seconds--minutes. America, America, God shed something on you, 'cause you sure need it.

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[toldthestars.livejournal.com]

And now begins the countdown to people hollering that it's forged...3, 2, 1...

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Right? Fucking disrespectful bigoted idiots.

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of this whole 'Birther' (REALLY, AMERICA? REALLY?) mess is when Trump proclaimed that he would personally verify its veracity. Thanks for having our back, Donald.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really appreciate it, Donald. Like to show my appreciation in person....

[looneyboy83.livejournal.com]

Donald Trump is a stupid stupid man. he's wasting time and money with his stupid ideas. he's just blowing hot air up his own asshole to make himself look more important and gain more followers because i'm guessing his business ventures are not doing so well.

I will thank him though, because he's making the GOP look like a bunch of losers and idiots

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

oh! please forgive my breaking in on an important and serious discussion to say i so fangirl you for "down is where i came from" at AO3. now i'll shut up and make a serious comment to roxy.

p.s. the donald is such a twerp.

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

Somebody pinch me. This seriously cannot be happening. What's next? :(

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*sighs*
One step forward, five steps back--the USA Tango.

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

My favorite responses came from @JohnFugelsang and @JamesUrbaniak. The first tweeted: Birthers aren't racist; they just demaded the brown guy w/funny name show a birth cert & never asked it of a white guy. as well as: We demand to know if the President got good grades, say people who voted twice for Bush. and Donald Trump is the first man in history to try and take credit for someone else proving he's a liar.

Dude, I couldn't write it better. It's like this country must have some sort of retarded, pointless, always insulting type of drama, just going on 24/7 or it will wither up and die. We're pretty much the nation of junior high popular girls. "Oh, well, I heard that he's not even from this country!" "No way!" "Yes, way! It's totally true! The Donald said so!"

Meanwhile, Urbaniak & co. started coming up with alternative slogans for the *gag* "Birthers," now that their particular cause has gone up in smoke. Some were:

via @MarcFaletti: Obama isn't a citizen, he's a buttery hard candy. #werther
via @Weezbag: Obama avoids couples quarreling on the street #wideberther
via @JamesUrbaniak himself: Obama actually born in Australia. #Perther
via @jumptheSnark: Obama 2012 to use "I Just Want To Celebrate" as campaign song. #RareEarther
via Urbaniak again: White House secretly manipulated AMPAS Best Actor vote. #Firther
And then the last two are both from @jumptheSnark again: BREAKING: Obama likes to dress up in a fat suit and William Howard Taft's old clothes, and walk around White House. #girther
and: Obama secretly a hilarious comedian! #mirther

So, you see, the ridicule and disgust are out there, just, sad as it fucking is, not on the newscasts, which serves as a good example for why I cannot stand to watch televised news anymore. I want to punch every talking head right in the mouth, repeatedly, especially after some wave of horse shit like this "Birther" crap.

But, instead, I just laugh, cos otherwise I'd be a.) weeping, and/or b.) packing my shit and trying to find someplace else to move where there aren't crazy racist retards who run everything. . . wait-- wait: I'm being told those people are everywhere. Well, shit. :/

*attempts to comfort virtually*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure if it'd make a difference if more time was given to the folks who realize this is all ridiculous. Some folks are determined to prove that race makes a difference and that one is smarter, better, and more human than the other. As for this new demand--this country never liked Clinton for being smart, and elected Bush twice so, yeah, the fucking idiots run the asylum.

[orbiting-saturn.livejournal.com]

I was going to post my own response to this, but I think rednihilist said better than I could.

packing my shit and trying to find someplace else to move where there aren't crazy racist retards who run everything. .

Let's all become Canadians!! I hear that there are racist people there too, but the socialists out number them, so what does that matter? Besides, it is the only place in the world where Hockey RPF actually makes any sense and I wouldn't have to go "Huh?" when I see it posted on my F-list.

[beeej.livejournal.com]

I am so annoyed with all the people saying, "why didn't he do this two years ago?" HE DID! Idiots.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Should never have been a question. *shakes head*

[tabaqui]

It makes me want to raaaaaaaaaaaaage all over ever GOPer i meet. And not one of them apologized. Racism in the air so thick you can cut it with a fucking knife.

He is *our President* - show the man some fucking respect, you inbreed jackasses.

Now, of course, it's all 'how did that (weirdly named black) guy get into Harvard? Huh? Huh? Hoooooooooow?!!!'

*hates*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I knew it was going to be tough going, but I guess I was hoping for the best. Well, they haven't shot at him, so I guess that's a plus.

[elsmoka.livejournal.com]

This is a special kind of crazy.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's loads of special all right--and not rare in the least bit.

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i just don't even know anymore, roxy. it's appalling, the number of republicans and independents who said, in that recent poll, that they doubt obama is really an amurrican. i mean, i grew up in the '50s, right? i remember LBJ and the Great Society and the end of segregation and so on, and i believed in progress and the advance of enlightened thought. and now here we are, in 2011, with racism and xenophobia and homophobia and all that crap just breaking out all over. it hurts my heart, and it scares me -- how far will the american taliban get before we swing back toward progress?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think this is as far as we go. It's appalling, the number of racist bigots who swear up and down, and truly *believe*, deep in their hearts of hearts, that they are not only not racist, but wonderfully tolerant when they are no such thing.

[bluemeridian]

Just... yeah. Seconding what everyone else has said. When the bias is so fucking blatant, I don't know how they sleep at night. How the hell do they justify this in their head? What sort of logic do they operate on?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Racists and bigots don't need any kind of justification--they're doing the Lord's work.

[nashmaveric.livejournal.com]

Erm... why? I must confess that nobody over here cares that much about our president's birth certificate. ::is curious:: What's so important about Obama's?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

What is so important about Obama's is that most people in this country don't want a Black man in the highest office in the land. They were hoping to prove that he wasn't a natural born citizen because only a citizen can be president.

*shakes head* Assholes.

[mobiusklein.livejournal.com]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/trump-unable-to-produce-certificate-proving-hes-no,20250/ I think this might cheer you up a little. Before all this, I just found Trump a sometimes amusing, sometimes irritating self-promoting blowhard but the crap he pulled is some of the nastiest batch of lies, code words and cynical pandering to the worst elements of the American character ever.

The irony is that McCain was born in the Panama Canal area but it was handwaved. Not a damn thing was said about his birth.

With the GOP first playing games with first stirring it up and then whining about how Obama's wasting time with showing something they've been mewing about for months, they really need to look in the mirror and say "Hmm, I think I know why we've been having a hard time recruiting minorities."

Ha!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

the crap he pulled is some of the nastiest batch of lies, code words and cynical pandering to the worst elements of the American character ever.

Yes, lord. It's harder and harder to believe that there's any agenda here but turning back the clock to the past.

[digitalwave]

God, sweetie, this whole business just makes me so incredibly ashamed.

We should be busy celebrating that we have such a talented, smart, kick ass president in office right now who's working his butt off trying to fix the mess this country is in. Instead we keep having to deal with these idiots who hide their racism behind their rhetoric, all the while loudly declaring their 'patriotism'.

I want to kick Trump's smarmy face so badly I can taste it and you know I'm not a violent person.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Ugh--you kick, I'll hold--happily.

[neros-violin.livejournal.com]

So upsetting. I actually cried when it happened because... for so many reasons that I'm not going to list because I'll just start crying again. I'll just settle with ... this is a bad day for the U.S. and its citizens. I have no idea what's happening - I was pretty politically aware this time ten years ago, even fifteen years ago, and I think I can say with impunity that It - it being every single shitty thing that's happening in the country right now, from birtherism to racism to anti-choicers defunding Planning Parenthood at the state level since they weren't able to accomplish it federally - has not been this bad since I started paying attention.

[epicallytired.livejournal.com]

See, you clearly don't remember the '80's.

It's always been bad. This is just a different brand of fucked up than it was last time or the time before.

Sometimes i just want to throw things at my country.

[ferdalump.livejournal.com]

This country and a whole lot of people in it can really suck sometimes.

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[tyffi.livejournal.com]

Back then when the US bill of rights was signed, they should have made sure there was a line that says "Only Caucasians can be president". *shakes head*

And then there are still US people out there wondering why Europe makes fun of them.

BTW, I don't even have a "birth certificate". LOL

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Hah!! I'm pretty sure that was implied. ;)

[lexalicious70.livejournal.com]

I give Obama so much credit for class and restraint. After all this ridiculous bullshit, I would have held up the document on TV and given the haters the overall finger! LOL but that's me.

With everything else that needs our attention, what do we focus on? This crap! And Donald Trump needs to just . . . GO AWAY. or something.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that he should let go of a little of that restraint....

[cha.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit stunned.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Girl, every right thinking person is stunned. Unbelievable!

[xinsidemyskinx.livejournal.com]

What happened? All i've seen all day is the royal wedding then i was at work yesterday

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

It's all about this fucking idiot Donald Trump (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0427/Obama-birth-certificate-released-Donald-Trump-claims-credit) and other racist idiots who wish that Obama wasn't an American citizen because then he wouldn't have the right to be president and they could correct this gross injustice of having a Black man in the highest office and could toss his ass out of the White House.

[jakrar.livejournal.com]

And Trump puffs himself up and TAKES CREDIT for this disgrace, and then decides he wants to see the President's college transcripts. And after that, he and the rest of them will yammer for something else, and something else, and something else.... And these are the people who VOTED FOR BUSH! The coke junkie without a brain in his head! *explodes internally*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

The coke junkie without a brain in his head--hell yes to that. The man was a constant source of national embarrassment!!!

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

If you can stand it, Gary Trudeau did a wonderfully funny week of strips on Trump and his delusions starting here.

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2011/04/17

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I will check it out! :)