This is your GOP on Drugs
May 13th, 2008 | by Jet Netwal |
What do you get when you’re losing, want to copy the winner’s message and are too lazy to do, erm, what’s that called again? Oh yeah, RESEARCH. So, what do you get?
You get the GOP. From Huffpo:
Leave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle’s “change” mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact that their failed policies have messed up the world to such an inhuman extent that many Americans now live their daily lives in a state of free-floating panic and paralyzing anxiety.
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What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that “the change you deserve” is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, a drug that many of you might have started taking as a result of all the…you know — terrorism. (Hat tip to Bluestem for catching this gem.)
Effexor, also known as Venlafaxine, is approved for the treatment “of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” Its common side effects are very much in keeping with the world the House Republicans have striven to build: nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and - and I swear I am not making this up - “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps.’”
Oh, I’ve got your brain zap, pal. His name is Obama. It’s a continual source of amusement to me to see the scramble to rig up some sort of pig called change and foist it out there like “change” is some kind of magic genie dust word that will automatically make people forget being lied into a war costing trillions while tax cuts for wealthy, a nose-diving dollar, corporate bailouts, unfettered spying, lying and torture, sellout crap like the Dubai port fiasco, a recession, and no health insurance for kids happened.
Change is not a slogan, dude; it’s Middle America’s gut check. There is no way in hell you can dress up the GOP and expect the majority to dance with it. America is dumping you, sweetie. Go lie to (and with) somebody else for the next 30 years.
Take two Effexor while you’re at it. Bzzzzzzzzzzt - brain zap!!
