Bachmann-Eyezed
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 5:30PM I know I've already plugged the maximum lolz tumblr "Bachmann-Eyezed" which only uses "100% real Michele Bachmann eyes" to change up famous people and uh things. But because I check it daily for updates and the joke will undoubtedly be shortlived, I thought I'd share my six favorite movie centric editions.
Not to be confused with John Wayne Gacy, y'see.
three more eyed photos and a bit of political commentary (you have been warned) after the jump...
This one made me laugh the very hardest. Burlesque is joy.
And two more: Morgan Freeman just because it's so very wrong and Fright Night because that vampire flick is totally okay with being comic.
Now if only a meme would crop up which would sufficiently make the scariest presidential candidate Rick Perry look ridiculous. Sigh. So sick of all these fatcats decimating the middle and lower classes to increase their own wealth and their string-puller's wealth and getting congratulated for it by the poor people who need the help they've been tricked into thinking is hurting them (i.e. government programs).
Congress has become so shameless and anti-people, and our President is unfortunately not-so-good at negotiation and irrationally optimistic about the basic decency of his opponents ('here have what you want even though it harms the country! wait u don't want that anymore? hmmm, well, what else can i give u? u need give me nothing in return! can't we all be friends?') that it's sometimes just frightening to imagine what new lows we could yet reach for as a country.
Bachmann-Eyezed takes request and since they didn't take mine which I thought was abso-brilliant, I've mocked it up myself.
The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth with Michele Bachmann eyes
Burlesque, John Wayne, Pan's Labyrinth, Star Wars, politics
Reader Comments (16)
You always seem a bit hesitant to get political, but you one of the best at summing up the state of things.
Does it make you feel better that neither Bachmann nor Perry has a chance of winning? I'm certain of it.
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Decimating? Explain how Bachmann does this? I went to one of her rallies...she isnt crazy. Passionate, yes, not crazy. She has values though that she sticks too...I commend her for that
That's funny, conservative troll. I went to a Bachmann rally, and I thought she was a loon who talked in empty platitudes. I stood next to a bug-eyed follower who kept talking about "colored people" and "migrants" and slapping her slobbering bug-eyed six year old who was dressed like JonBenet Ramsey. Later everyone gathered around their Lexus SUVs and railed against Obama for being a "socialist." Tea Partiers smile just like mindless middle-aged and elderly Hitler Youth, but they won't be satisfied until they've completely destroyed the country.
Oh Nathaniel, if I ever win the Mega-Super-Uber Lotto you'll be my first hire. I don't even think I'll give you a job: just do yourself, but more so.
Caught me! We all want to destroy te country, and here I thought I could fool you bellinda. No actually I'm not even an endorser of Bachmann, but she has valid points. Under Obama the national debt has icreased dramatically and his idea of taxing the rich a ridiculous high amount will wind up with an incredible amount of jobs being lost? Why are all the jobs and companies going overseas? Because Obama is taxing the he'll out of the rich and big businesses. I agree they need to pay their fair share, but when almost forty percent of the population is not responsible for virtually any taxes, there is something wrong there. Obamacare dangerously mirrors a socialist program. Also, nice work insulting the crowd at the rally. Im sure everyone who subseibes to Rachel maddow is perfect.
Oh Luke. Business started going overseas long before Obama took office. Most relocated after the Clinton and Bush tax breaks. Obama isn't taxing the hell out of anyone because the tax rates have remained the same as under Bush -- in fact, he made a deal to prolong their tax breaks AFTER THEY EXPIRED.
For the record, I'm no Obama fan. I voted for Ralph Nader THREE times. And no, it wasn't his fault Gore lost. Gore failed to fight hard enough to win. And if he isn't careful, Obama is gonna be our next Jimmy Carter. Which is unfortunate because this fresh batch of Republicans makes Ronald Reagan look like a tree hugging lesbian.
Um, don't wanna get in the middle, but when Belinda and Nathaniel are talking about "destroying the country," they mean the fact that the country was almost destroyed already by Republican ideas like deregulation and corporate craziness. You know, like two or three years ago.
Technically, Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama triangulated us into deregulation and corporate craziness. Which is why Nader says they're basically different wings of the same party. The Corporate party.
Technically I said "Republican ideas," not just Republicans. And dude, yeah, If you voted for Nader, you're partly to blame for eight years of Bush. Especially if you live in FL.
Luke -- Capitalism is not an appropriate system for healthcare. It has it's uses, capitalism, but profit is antithetical to keeping the nation well. Bring on universal health care. The insurance companies are totally holding our entire country hostage. We have worse health care AND we have to pay exorbitant rates for it. People are basically paying insurance rates as high as monthly rent and there's still chances that their coverage will be denied? Why? Because when you believe that capitalism is the only way to go you MUST therefore accept that profits for these companies are more important than the people they could be helping. If they pay for medical treatments THEY MAKE LESS MONEY.
The only people who benefit from capitalism controlling our health care system are the corporate CEOs of the companies involved. EVERYONE ELSE SUFFERS.
I'll never understand why people have allowed corporate interests to trick them into thinking that their neighbors well being and their own is less important than corporate profits.
and rich people and corporations pay less taxes than they ever have... hence the deficit. spending too much is not the only thing that causes deficits. there's also having no income to support the programs we need like, oh, policemen, firemen, teachers, environmental protections (cuz trust me, it's not in a corporation's interest to not pollute your water and soil and kill your children. It costs them money to make sure they aren't creating a trail of disease and pollution and death so why should they do so when profit is all in capitalism?)
Bravo, Nathaniel!
But basically i want to say this sorry for getting blustery. It's just something i feel passionately about. I actually believe in capitalism. But not as a sacred religion to use in all facets of life. When profit is antithetical to something working, like health, you don't choose capitalism to run it. I don't understand why we can't have a capitalist country but understand that government is there to provide for things that can't be profit based, like a poor child who gets cancer. It's not in capitalism's best interest to keep that poor child alive (they can't make a profit because the parents can't afford the medical attention) but it certainly is in the government's interest because the government is by the people and for the people and there is strength in numbers.
I'd rather pay higher taxes and no that no matter what harm befell me i would get medical treatment and to know that if no harm befell me my taxes would go to treat someone who did have something horrible happen to them.
I guess i get frustrated because i don't understand why our nation is always harping on about christianiaty and yet basic christian principles are considered evil because they are in fact, more interestied in caring for our fellow man, than making it a dog eat dog, every man for himself, competition.
Oh Jim, Democrats have been making 'Republican' ideas their bread and butter since Clinton. To get a since of what Democrats ideas used to be applied in an socio-economic catastrophe (wars and unemployment rising, health care and standard of living declining) you need to compare FDR to BHO.
Nathaniel, I believe the problem is we've reverted back to the Old Testament. The legend of Jesus is being de-interpreted as if the New Testament never existed. Not unlike the Batman franchise reboot, which is about to be de-rebooted.
EXCELLENTLY put, Nathaniel. And no apologies necessary - you are often at your best as a writer on these subjects, passionate and lucid. (A rare combination nowadays, apparently.)
If I may mention (as a native of Detroit) - jobs have been bleeding out of this country since the 1980's. In the 90's for instance, the town of Asheville, NC gave Gerber Corp (yes, the baby food company) a huge tax break for agreeing to stay in town. They got the tax break, then shut down the plant and moved to Georgia. This past year, Pfizer announced it was closing down the "world headquarters" it opened less than 5 years ago (tearing up huge swaths of neighborhoods in the process of building an enormous office complex), because their tax credit for moving here had come to an end.
It seems insane to me that we talk about a lack of income as a country, and yet we maintain two endless wars overseas (wars without any defined goals at this point); it's as though the country was the man or woman at the casino who is spending their rent money to gamble. If we're going to talk about cutting out waste, that has to be part of the conversation and it hasn't been yet.
And I don't think at this point there is really any difference between Democrats and Republicans, having seen presidents of both parties come and go over the last decades, while our country continues to decline. This is one of the biggest illusions, the biggest lies that voters have fallen for over the last 40 years - that there is any substantive difference between the two parties beyond surface style.