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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: Photos That Make...Oh, Just Fuck You, Mitt Romney
You know, the Rude Pundit could have been an actual superhero, flying around and saving people and defeating villains, like the Trader, a Wall Street executive who was bitten by a vampire squid and now sucks the funds out of the pockets of poor people with fanged tentacles of doom, and if someone had come to him and said, "Hey, we want your approval to sell these pins with a cartoon version of your face on them," he'd have said, "Go fuck yourself."
The pins, as you might or might not know, are from the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, or, as it might as well be known, "That Time Mitt Romney Held Up the Luge Track with His Bare Hands." They were made in China, blah, blah, blah, globalization bad 'cept when it's good.
What the Rude Pundit wants to focus on is the fact that someone came into Romney's office suite overlooking the Fountain of Brigham Young's Face or the Museum of Joseph Smith's Turds or whatever the fuck they have in Salt Lake City. And that toady said something like, "Umm, Mr. Romney, remember how you said you wanted pins made with a caricature of your face that emphasized your manly chin? We've got the mock-up of those."
And then Romney - who would really later be governor of Massachusetts and now really thinks he might become president - of the United States, no, really, hilarious, right? - looked at those pieces of self-aggrandizing shit and said, "Well, golly, those are great. Mormons everywhere...I mean, Americans will want to shell out their hard-earned money for jewelry with the mug of a glorified administrator on them with stoned-smiling anthropomorphic critters partying and talking to me there, too. Put them into production. On the cheap, though, over in China, so we can maximize profit. God bless Mormons...I mean, America...I mean, me."
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/07/photos-that-make.html
Patiod
(11,816 posts)then realized "OMG, these are real!"
Yikes
Just yikes.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)It's a wild ego on a rampage. Run!!!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)I also originally assumed they were photoshopped.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Narcissistic much, Mitt?
Wow. Just breathtaking.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)And the fact that there's no baseball in The Winter Olympics? Hell to the no; because it was all about HIM! MITTMITTMITT!!! MEMEME!!
Mother of God.
He really IS a twit.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)As my grandmother would have said, "That boy ain't right."
malthaussen
(17,230 posts)... riding in to save the People. "Are we there yet, Mitt," indeed!
-- Mal
Johonny
(20,941 posts)My keyboard and monitor would have been drenched if I had been drinking anything!
Vanje
(9,766 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)But a sticker will do...
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)form to indicate his approval for these to be made (and I'm guessing he did since they all 'sport' the official Olympic logo), he is even more impressed w/ himself than I thought.
I'm only guessing about the initial approval process since he also signed all sorts of official bain documents when he was no longer 'in charge'.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)K&R.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Some kinda ugly pins.
mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)I'll bet he hears cartoon music in his head, too.
mikey_the_rat
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)I thought it was a pin representing his dog asking him "are we there yet mitt?" from the roof of the station wagon.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)florida08
(4,106 posts)'we love you mitt'? Must have been designed by Bain Capital
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Unlike the less fortunate psychopaths, their wealth and access mean they don't even have to try and hide it. There is no need to even develop a mask of superficial charm, humility, empathy, etc...
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)I saw these on MSNBC last night. Good Lord.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)WTF?