2011: This Year In Crazy

Monday, December 26, 2011

2011: This Year In Crazy

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By Joé McKen at 11:44 PM ET | »

Just in case you’d forgotten, here’s Tom Tomorrow with a reminder of just how insane this past year has been:

‘This Modern World’ (by Tom Tomorrow) 2011 in review (part 1/2): (January) Republicans redefine rape (only if it was “forcible”); (Jan 8) Rep. Giffords shot (gun nuts cry victimhood); (Jan 10) Glenn Beck claims Sarah Palin needs more security (and an attack on her could “bring the republic down”); (February) South Dakota consider bill (later withdrawn) justifying homicide in defense of fetus; (also) heavy snowstorms make Rightists ignorantly attack Global Warming yet again; (and) Americans cheer as (US-supported) Mubarak is overthrown; (Feb 7) deficit commission co-chair calls Social Security “a milk cow with 300 million teats”; (Mar 7) Alan Simpson bitches about young people; (April) Republicans wages war against Planned Parenthood; (also) Donald Trump stakes short-lived presidential run on Obama’s birth certificate; (April 2) BP awards execs safety bonuses; (May 1) Bin Laden killed; (May 26) Sens. Wyden & Udall fear-monger in support of PATRIOT Act; (May 26) Obama signs 4-year extension of said Act; (June 16) Weinergate explodes

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‘This Modern World’ (by Tom Tomorrow) 2011 in review (part 2/2): (summer) Obama tries to strike “grand bargain” with obstructionist Republicans; (August 12) Herman Cain recites ‘Pokémon’ movie song lyrics to crowd; Republican audience cheers thought of people dying due to lack of health insurance; (Sept 20) DADT repealed; (Sept 22) Republican audience boos soldier for being gay; (Sept 24) video of cop macing OWS protestors goes viral; (also) pundits begin realizing most people only care about jobs; (Sept 30) Anwar al-Awlaki assassinated (teenage son also assassinated weeks later); (Oct 29) freak East Coast snowstorm = more idiotic Republican Global Warming denialism; (Nov 1) U.S. House reaffirms “In God We Trust” national motto; (Nov 9) Herman Cain poorly defends himself against molestation accusations; (Nov 21) “Super-committee” fails to reach bipartisan deficit-cutting compromise; (Nov 30) Michele Bachmann says gays can marry others of opposite sex; (Dec 15) defense spending bill legalizes indefinite detention of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil; (December) desperate Republicans consider presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; (2011) fucking crazy year, yo

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So … 2012, anyone?

(via Political Irony)

Tags: Tom Tomorrow • This Year In Crazy • This Modern World • 2011 • Republicans

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