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grantcart

(53,061 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:30 AM Sep 2012

Long time DU visitor, "Mr. Lesser of Two Evils" died early this morning.

Mr. Lesser of Two Evils (M'LOTE) was put out his miserable pathetic existence this morning after a long difficult illness that saw his strength decline significantly over the last few months. M'LOTE would visit DU from time to time. Sometimes it was because of the frustration related to a compromise that the President undertook in the face of a transient hostile opposition. Sometime it was accompanied by a malicious troll.

Early this morning Mitt Romney entered the room of M'LOTE who had been in a long time coma for some months and pressed a pillow extinguishing the last ounces of life from his waning putrid existence. Romney then flayed, beheaded, and quartered the corpse and sent it to 4 separate industrial crematoriums with subsequent releases of video tapes revealing what Romney is really about.

Romney made it impossible for any thinking, logical, compassionate person with intellectual integrity to ever again suggest with a straight face that there is any comparison between the basic governing philosophy between the two parties and these two candidates.

In the past it might have been offered with the highest of intentions (or something else) but from now on it cannot ever be offered in any form at DU except as comic relief.

Now should you see M'LOTE pop his head in from time to time, don't take it seriously. It isn't him. He is gone and dead to all DUers. If you see something that looks like M'LOTE you should treat it as some kind of comedic performance art, kind of like a Tony Clifton appearance after Andy Kaufman was long gone.

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Long time DU visitor, "Mr. Lesser of Two Evils" died early this morning. (Original Post) grantcart Sep 2012 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Sep 2012 #1
Thanks, grantcart. I'll strike up the orchestra: freshwest Sep 2012 #2
only if Bowles-Simpson died with him hfojvt Sep 2012 #3
Keep em comin Tony, keep em comin grantcart Sep 2012 #4
Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with indefinite detention. It's way past time for quaint Constitutional kath Sep 2012 #5
You trickster you! calimary Sep 2012 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author redgreenandblue Sep 2012 #7
Your post is a logical fallacy (non-sequitur). redgreenandblue Sep 2012 #7
I see what you did there. NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #9
He's in this very thread JNelson6563 Sep 2012 #10
No no they are staying in character like good ole Tony. Certainly no one could be grantcart Sep 2012 #11
K&R BumRushDaShow Sep 2012 #12
Recommended. Bobbie Jo Sep 2012 #13
You Better Believe It! He's Really, Quite Sincerely Dead. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #14
but did provide some good laughs before he/she left. grantcart Sep 2012 #17
Glad to hear it. mzmolly Sep 2012 #20
Love this OP malaise Sep 2012 #15
thank you grantcart Sep 2012 #16
excellent! I have no time for False Equivalence tap dancing. BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2012 #18
RIP. And good riddance. nolabear Sep 2012 #19
He did not have to die DonCoquixote Sep 2012 #21

Response to grantcart (Original post)

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
3. only if Bowles-Simpson died with him
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:09 AM
Sep 2012

and took 80% of the Bush tax cuts and the payroll tax cut down too.

And as long as "compromise" is redefined as "total capitulation after token opposition".

Romney and Republicans have always been awful, but that does not remove a single knife from my back.

kath

(10,565 posts)
5. Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with indefinite detention. It's way past time for quaint Constitutional
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:48 AM
Sep 2012

concepts that date clear back to the Magna Carta to be abandoned.

Response to grantcart (Original post)

redgreenandblue

(2,088 posts)
7. Your post is a logical fallacy (non-sequitur).
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:07 AM
Sep 2012

Lets say "A" is the "evil of Obama" and "B" is the "evil of Romney". "Obama is the lesser of two evils" would mean "A < B".

Your logic is: Since "B = infinity" it follows that "A < zero". This is false.

OR, what you are implying is: Since "B = infinity" it follows that the symbol "<" can no longer be defined. Also false.

The proofs are constructed trivially using counter examples.



grantcart

(53,061 posts)
11. No no they are staying in character like good ole Tony. Certainly no one could be
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:32 AM
Sep 2012

suggesting that in a serious way!!!

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
18. excellent! I have no time for False Equivalence tap dancing.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:36 PM
Sep 2012

At least here at DU I can be fairly free of it, now that the mittster has given us such a cartoonishly exaggerated illumination of the repuke philosophy.

And it ain't pretty.

I'm glad you specified DU, because there are still too many non-political people who remain uninformed and then complain loudly that it doesn't matter because they "all lie". Again, False Equalence thinking, and it drives me nuts.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
21. He did not have to die
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 01:21 AM
Sep 2012

But he kept eating the toxic BS spewed out at FireDog lake where Jane H. and the other people who get PAID by the GOP sling toxic mental fast food. I do not mourn his demise, because his little ego trips back in 2000, 2004 and 2010 cost a lot of good people their lives. He let W. In, which caused thousands aboraod, and here, to die. His 2004 crap allowed Kerry to get swiftboated, and he is the reason why in 2010, we got in all these fascist Tea Party twerps who have acted as a do nothing congress.

So, if I may, I call for a Grave Dance party:



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