Obama Wants “Net Neutrality” So Wingnuts Erupt “Don’t Mess With My Internets!”
If Obama declared he was in favor of oxygen, they would all hold their breaths.
Net Neutrality
If Obama declared he was in favor of oxygen, they would all hold their breaths.
Net Neutrality1 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 8:57:58am |
Here’s the outrageous plan:
I'm urging the @FCC to keep the internet open and free. Here's my plan to protect #NetNeutrality for everyone: http://t.co/3y3YLQD6MB -bo
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 10, 2014
2 | missliberties Nov 10, 2014 9:05:20am |
Wingnuts need an education.
Let’s remember that most of these folks aren’t bad people they have been misinformed at heroic levels to associate the O word with all things evil.
Ted Cruz tweets. Net nuetrality is the obamacare of the interenets. Wingnuts follow like zombies.
May I also add that Ted Cruz is the ebola of Congress.
3 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 9:08:29am |
FACT: President Obama is urging the @FCC to prevent internet service providers from blocking legal online content → http://t.co/3y3YLQD6MB
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 10, 2014
4 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 9:15:27am |
You mean a good thing for people who aren't rich? I can see why you hate it. RT @SenTedCruz: “Net Neutrality” is Obamacare for the Internet
— Jay Skarlow (@RockabillyJay) November 10, 2014
5 | Skip Intro Nov 10, 2014 9:16:49am |
“Obama wants” is all it takes to get the loons to stop baying at the moon and post their opposition.
6 | CriticalDragon1177 Nov 10, 2014 9:20:28am |
Vicious Babushka,
These idiots really don’t know what’s good for them. It seems that they’ll oppose anything the government does as long as Obama is in the white house.
7 | Kragar Nov 10, 2014 9:30:23am |
So in other words, its great, but Republicans are committed to fucking it up @SenTedCruz— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 10, 2014
8 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Nov 10, 2014 9:49:39am |
re:
#7
Can Cruz or any other Republicanteabag point to something, anything, about Obamacare that they honestly object to?
9 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 9:50:38am |
It’s no coincidence that Ted Cruz compares Net Neutrality to Healthcare. In RWNJ world, the best service goes to the highest bidder.
10 | Targetpractice Nov 10, 2014 9:50:54am |
re: #8 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
re:
#7Can Cruz or any other Republicanteabag point to something, anything, about Obamacare that they honestly object to?
It exists.
11 | iossarian Nov 10, 2014 9:51:15am |
“X is the Y of Z” really is the touchstone for know-nothing politics, isn’t it?
Simply plug in three unrelated values for your go-to frenzification of the day.
“The estate tax is the Roe vs. Wade of civil liberties.”
“Citizens United is the Martin Luther King of freedom.”
12 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Nov 10, 2014 9:51:39am |
I bet this new thread was promoted to change the subject from how great Chuck c. Johnson was at pointing out Breitbart’s error and how he’s won all the journalism awards everywhere.
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13 | iossarian Nov 10, 2014 9:52:02am |
re: #8 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
re:
#7Can Cruz or any other Republicanteabag point to something, anything, about Obamacare that they honestly object to?
They honestly object to the fact that it’s a redistribution of wealth, but they won’t actually say so.
14 | Mattand Nov 10, 2014 9:55:44am |
The libertarian intelligentsia over at Ars Technicha, many of whom consider Obama as bad as or worse than Bush, are hailing this is a great move.
If that group, which is the peak nexus of tech and “Ya know, Ayn Rand makes some good points” thinks it’s a good idea, the GOP should listen.
Regardless of how much their party hates the idea of working with a black president.
15 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 9:55:46am |
re: #8 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
re:
#7Can Cruz or any other Republicanteabag point to something, anything, about Obamacare that they honestly object to?
It was signed into a law by a Blah Democratic President.
16 | Targetpractice Nov 10, 2014 9:55:58am |
Of course, if Cruz actually compared Net Neutrality as the White House proposes it to the ACA that regularly ranks high when people are told about all the good things it does, his argument would collapse like the Hindenburg.
So instead, he compares it to Obamacare, that phantom and horrific law that the GOP has spent years of valiant effort trying to “save” us from.
17 | Kragar Nov 10, 2014 9:58:25am |
“Gamergate is the Obamacare of ethics in journalism.” #DefinitionsbyTedCruz— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 10, 2014
18 | bill d Nov 10, 2014 10:01:23am |
IF THE INTERNET PROVIDERS WANT TO TREAT ME LIKE A 2nd CLASS CITIZEN IT IS MY FAULT FOR NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH TO BECOME AN ELITE
19 | bratwurst Nov 10, 2014 10:04:19am |
I didn’t think there was any way I could dislike the Ted Cruz wing of the GOP more…but if they want to climb into bed with Comcast (et al) strictly to spite Obama, I was very wrong indeed.
20 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:04:35am |
palate cleanser:
On this date in 1978, @BadlandsNPS was officially designated a national park. Retweet to wish them happy birthday! pic.twitter.com/OroyGzerbn
— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) November 10, 2014
21 | Zamb Nov 10, 2014 10:06:14am |
Don’t forget guys, Obamacare is the holocaust of healthcare plans therefore net neutrality is also genocide.
22 | Mattand Nov 10, 2014 10:07:48am |
re: #21 Zamb
Don’t forget guys, Obamacare is the holocaust of healthcare plans therefore net neutrality is also genocide.
You know who else liked Obamacare and net neutrality????
23 | Zamb Nov 10, 2014 10:08:57am |
re: #22 Mattand
You know who else liked Obamacare and net neutrality????
Confirmed fact Net Neutrality was the brainchild of the Nazis
24 | Skip Intro Nov 10, 2014 10:09:41am |
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
palate cleanser:
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That’s what you see. To the GOP, that could be the world’s largest open pit mine, and it should be.
25 | nines09 Nov 10, 2014 10:10:18am |
These people cannot even dress themselves and they are winning? They don’t even know what “Net Neutrality” means. Here’s your razor. Now go do to yourself what I want to do to you.
26 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:10:31am |
re: #24 Skip Intro
That’s what you see. To the GOP, that could be the world’s largest open pit mine, and it should be.
and when done mining…LANDFILL!!!!
27 | dog philosopher Nov 10, 2014 10:10:45am |
Obama urges net neutrality; Cruz calls it ‘Obamacare for the Internet’
obama asks visitor to take a seat; cruz calls it ‘obamacare for your ass’
28 | nines09 Nov 10, 2014 10:11:21am |
re: #24 Skip Intro
That’s what you see. To the GOP, that could be the world’s largest open pit mine, and it should be.
Red Rocks in Colorado would make a nice gravel pit. Sell it.
29 | Skip Intro Nov 10, 2014 10:11:26am |
30 | Feline Fearless Leader Nov 10, 2014 10:11:29am |
31 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:12:01am |
President Obama just announced his plan to protect #NetNeutrality. Join our @Reddit_AMA at 2pm ET → http://t.co/8t5Td18AXG
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 10, 2014
32 | Kragar Nov 10, 2014 10:12:30am |
re: #28 nines09
Red Rocks in Colorado would make a nice gravel pit. Sell it.
Obama’s refusal to turn our national parks into strip mines proves he is anti-business.
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33 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 10:12:54am |
“@mcgregormt: No blocking, no paid prioritization, no throttling. PBO on net neutrality: http://t.co/VR2zvcXHF6 pic.twitter.com/5uRZfJMSdv”— Nic (@07lovechild) November 10, 2014
34 | nines09 Nov 10, 2014 10:13:18am |
re: #32 Kragar
Obama’s refusal to turn our national parks into strip mines proves he is anti-business.
/
I see no reason why we cannot use our streams and rivers as natural open sewers.
35 | dog philosopher Nov 10, 2014 10:13:52am |
obama urges massive iraq troop increase; cruz calls it ‘obamacare for islam’
36 | nines09 Nov 10, 2014 10:14:36am |
re: #35 dog philosopher
I thought Cruz and his party had accomplished that mission?
37 | Skip Intro Nov 10, 2014 10:15:33am |
re: #34 nines09
I see no reason why we cannot use our streams and rivers as natural open sewers.
That’s what The Founders did, and it didn’t hurt them. Clean air and water is just another Communist myth from the pits of hell.
38 | Feline Fearless Leader Nov 10, 2014 10:16:45am |
re: #35 dog philosopher
obama urges massive iraq troop increase; cruz calls it ‘obamacare for islam’
That’s because ISIS is no longer a threat after the election. Wait 18 months and they will be on the verge of destroying America again.
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39 | dog philosopher Nov 10, 2014 10:19:06am |
obama mentions 60s desegregation of resaurants; cruz calls it ‘obamacare for hamburgers’
40 | nines09 Nov 10, 2014 10:19:40am |
re: #37 Skip Intro
That’s what The Founders did, and it didn’t hurt them. Clean air and water is just another Communist myth from the pits of hell.
Native brown trout streams in the Marcellus Shale gas pad areas were highly protected. Until Marcellus gas Pads showed up. What trout?
41 | klystron Nov 10, 2014 10:22:52am |
GOP leaders warn if @BarackObama reforms immigration the era of bipartisanship will end. We've heard that before. http://t.co/dMe7sy3GVO— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) November 10, 2014
42 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:22:54am |
Followup on someone’s post earlier downstairs:
43 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:23:39am |
44 | Decatur Deb Nov 10, 2014 10:23:41am |
re: #34 nines09
I see no reason why we cannot use our streams and rivers as natural open sewers.
Been done. We called it ‘Pittsburgh’.
45 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:24:26am |
I blame Obama!!!
Propeller blade breaks off, slices into passenger airliner at Edmonton Int'l Airport: http://t.co/7SkC3CpKzS pic.twitter.com/MsKaoPz77H
— ABC News (@ABC) November 10, 2014
46 | Targetpractice Nov 10, 2014 10:24:51am |
re: #41 klystron
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So if the President takes action in the face of GOP opposition, they’ll oppose him even more?
HA!
47 | klystron Nov 10, 2014 10:25:07am |
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
Didn’t “era of bipartisanship” already die back in 2009?
I’m pretty sure someone took a flamethrower to it to make sure it couldn’t come back as a zombie then.
48 | Mike Lamb Nov 10, 2014 10:25:41am |
49 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 10:27:11am |
Definition of the “GOP era of bipartisanship”: Everything will be fine if you just agree with everything we want.
50 | Targetpractice Nov 10, 2014 10:27:14am |
re: #47 klystron
I’m pretty sure someone took a flamethrower to it to make sure it couldn’t come back as a zombie then.
Then put a bullet in its head with the ACA to make sure. Before pulverizing the corpse during the debt ceiling talks of 2011 to make doubly sure. And finally shot it into the sun with the government shutdown to be absolutely sure.
51 | Skip Intro Nov 10, 2014 10:30:08am |
re: #49 Dr. Matt
Definition of the “GOP era of bipartisanship”: Everything will be fine if you just agree with everything we want.
And once you do, we’ll demand even more.
52 | BlueGrl21 Nov 10, 2014 10:30:48am |
This is one of the few things myself and my Republican friends agree about. But we’re in tech and some came from internet startups. Amazing how a bit of education and experience can mold a person’s mind.
OTOH, I would LOVE to debate one of these “free market’ idiots over net neutrality. I would really enjoy hearing the theory of why an open, free internet is hurting the free market. It’d be shooting fish in a barrel.
53 | Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Nov 10, 2014 10:31:11am |
re:
#41
GOP leaders warn if
@BarackObama
reforms immigration the era of bipartisanship will end.
BWWWWwwwwaaaaaaaahahhahhhhhaaaaaahahahahh
54 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 10:32:15am |
But. but, but the Democrats are RACISTS!!!
#GOP activist #DePass apologizes after joking on Facebook that gorilla is related to #MichelleObama - http://t.co/lNmOUMmehK #politics— MIP @SXMProgress 127 (@MakeItPlain) November 10, 2014
55 | Higgs Boson's Mate Nov 10, 2014 10:33:16am |
re: #11 iossarian
“X is the Y of Z” really is the touchstone for know-nothing politics, isn’t it?
Simply plug in three unrelated values for your go-to frenzification of the day.
“The estate tax is the Roe vs. Wade of civil liberties.”
“Citizens United is the Martin Luther King of freedom.”
You’ve just described the basis of a wonderful wingnut meme generator.
56 | Targetpractice Nov 10, 2014 10:36:05am |
In fact, as I remember it, “bipartisanship” didn’t make it through the President’s first month in office. Or have we all forgotten how the GOP stamped out of the White House when their calls to solve the recession with more tax cuts and deregulation got circular-filed?
57 | Higgs Boson's Mate Nov 10, 2014 10:37:06am |
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
palate cleanser:
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National Parks are the Ebola of strip mining!
58 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:38:36am |
re: #56 Targetpractice
In fact, as I remember it, “bipartisanship” didn’t make it through the President’s first month in office. Or have we all forgotten how the GOP stamped out of the White House when their calls to solve the recession with more tax cuts and deregulation got circular-filed?
The night of Obama’s first inauguration, when McConnell and Friends met and discussed how to make Obama a one-term president. Bipartisanship in action!!!11!!
59 | Timothy Watson Nov 10, 2014 10:40:24am |
RONNY APOLOGIZING TO FOREIGNERS!1!!
So sorry we kept it a secret. That was Ronald Reagan’s message to Margaret Thatcher when U.S. troops invaded the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 without telling the British leader first.
The American president called the British prime minister as the invasion unfolded to apologize for having kept her in the dark, saying “I’m sorry for any embarrassment we caused you.”
The issue was particularly sensitive because Grenada was part of the British Commonwealth and recognized Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
60 | Backwoods_Sleuth Nov 10, 2014 10:40:25am |
Imagine being lost on a nature hike in the woods Split into teams: ObamaClintonWarren & BoehnerCruzGohmert which would you follow to safety?
— Njean Curl (@Njeanous) November 10, 2014
61 | Kragar Nov 10, 2014 10:40:29am |
pic.twitter.com/7C7D70lrTJ— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) November 10, 2014
62 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:40:46am |
re: #49 Dr. Matt
Definition of the “GOP era of bipartisanship”: Everything will be fine if you just agree with everything we want.
You’d think that, but what i and others observed was that the closer Obama compromised to the GOP’s initial position, the farther to the Right they moved. Call it the Political Uncertainty Principle - you CHANGE their position simply by trying to ACCEPT it.
63 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:42:45am |
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Boehner, Cruz, and McConnell would just do the opposite of whatever Obama did.
64 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:44:04am |
re: #61 Kragar
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“Hello, Central Casting? I need a Slack Jawed Yokel. Ooo, muttonchop sideburns? Yeah, he’ll be GREAT!”
65 | Decatur Deb Nov 10, 2014 10:44:17am |
re: #63 Blind Frog Belly White
Boehner, Cruz, and McConnell would just do the opposite of whatever Obama did.
Don’t know what this lady expects for an answer. Obama, Clinton and Warren could follow me out of the woods. The others are bear food.
66 | Higgs Boson's Mate Nov 10, 2014 10:44:18am |
re: #62 Blind Frog Belly White
You’d think that, but what i and others observed was that the closer Obama compromised to the GOP’s initial position, the farther to the Right they moved. Call it the Political Uncertainty Principle - you CHANGE their position simply by trying to ACCEPT it.
Exactly. The ACA as proposed was more conservative than the plan that Nixon intended to put forth back in 1972.
67 | Kragar Nov 10, 2014 10:46:11am |
re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White
“Hello, Central Casting? I need a Slack Jawed Yokel. Ooo, muttonchop sideburns? Yeah, he’ll be GREAT!”
“We need these arms to defend our pure bloodlines.”
68 | CriticalDragon1177 Nov 10, 2014 10:47:31am |
re: #21 Zamb
Don’t forget guys, Obamacare is the holocaust of healthcare plans therefore net neutrality is also genocide.
At this point I might not be surprised if someone on the far right actually said that, and meant it, literally.
Radio Host: Obama Will Outkill Pol Pot, Mao & Stalin
Youtube Video
69 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 10:47:55am |
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
If I had to resort to cannibalism, the Boehner-Cruz-Gohmert team are slower, fatter, and intellectually challenged.
70 | Higgs Boson's Mate Nov 10, 2014 10:48:25am |
re: #65 Decatur Deb
Don’t know what this lady expects for an answer. Obama, Clinton and Warren could follow me out of the woods. The others are bear food.
Before leaving the woods I’d take the good time and trouble to dig a pit trap and line it with sharpened sticks. Bet I could bag BoehnerCruzGohmert all at once by baiting it with a picture of Ronald Reagan.
71 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:48:54am |
re: #66 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Exactly. The ACA as proposed was more conservative than the plan that Nixon intended to put forth back in 1972.
I finally got tired of my Wingnut cousin liking’ anti-ACA posts on FB, so I aske him point blank (on a post he liked) why it’s so important to him to take affordable health insurance away from 10 million Americans who hadn’t had it, to make my wife and I with our preexisting conditions unable to get new insurance if we had to, and to put millions of Americans in danger of bankruptcy from unexpected illnesses.
We’ll see whether he responds. I expect “We’ll have to agree to disagree”, which is Wingnut for “I can’t answer that, but it’s got Obama in it so I have to oppose it with every fiber of my being!”
72 | Decatur Deb Nov 10, 2014 10:49:18am |
re: #69 Dr. Matt
If I had to resort to cannibalism, the Boehner-Cruz-Gohmert team are slower, fatter, and intellectually challenged.
Whole new take on the word “jerky”.
73 | Feline Fearless Leader Nov 10, 2014 10:49:26am |
re: #65 Decatur Deb
Don’t know what this lady expects for an answer. Obama, Clinton and Warren could follow me out of the woods. The others are bear food.
Unless they’re Chicago Bears - they can’t catch anything.
:p
74 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:49:30am |
re: #69 Dr. Matt
If I had to resort to cannibalism, the Boehner-Cruz-Gohmert team are slower, fatter, and intellectually challenged.
And Boehner would have a nice, smokey, marinated in bourbon flavor
76 | CriticalDragon1177 Nov 10, 2014 10:52:27am |
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
@Njeanous I would definitely Obama Clinton & Warren. Boehner Cruz & Gohmerts idiocy scares me.— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) November 10, 2014
77 | Blind Frog Belly White Nov 10, 2014 10:55:16am |
re: #75 Decatur Deb
LGF endorses cannibalism !!1!!
I can nibble, you can nibble, he can nibble, she can nibble - wouldn’t you like to be a can nibble, too?
78 | sagehen Nov 10, 2014 11:01:18am |
79 | Romantic Heretic Nov 10, 2014 1:56:09pm |
re: #25 nines09
These people cannot even dress themselves and they are winning? They don’t even know what “Net Neutrality” means. Here’s your razor. Now go do to yourself what I want to do to you.
The teahadis shouldn’t be allowed to play with anything sharper than a rubber ball.
80 | lostlakehiker Nov 10, 2014 2:03:04pm |
re: #33 Dr. Matt
“Throttling” can be compared to slow checkout lines at the supermarket for those who are buying a cartload of groceries, and fast checkout lines for those buying a gallon of milk.
“No throttling” is a wasteful rule. If we were all identical copies of each other, we’d want throttling. It’s a perfect example of the golden rule. Whoever has a short, simple internet task should get it filled through the quick checkout line. Whoever has a huge task should expect to go through the not so quick line.
That way, everybody gets their smaller tasks filled quickly, instead of having to wait, and wait, for their turn to get a few thousand bits sent.
81 | Interesting Times Nov 10, 2014 3:47:16pm |
re: #80 lostlakehiker
Oh dear. You couldn’t be more wrong. I suggest you read this so you can learn what’s really at stake:
82 | bratwurst Nov 10, 2014 4:52:28pm |
re: #80 lostlakehiker
“Throttling” can be compared to slow checkout lines at the supermarket for those who are buying a cartload of groceries, and fast checkout lines for those buying a gallon of milk.
“No throttling” is a wasteful rule. If we were all identical copies of each other, we’d want throttling. It’s a perfect example of the golden rule. Whoever has a short, simple internet task should get it filled through the quick checkout line. Whoever has a huge task should expect to go through the not so quick line.
That way, everybody gets their smaller tasks filled quickly, instead of having to wait, and wait, for their turn to get a few thousand bits sent.
Your perfect record of being a shill for the corporate wing of the GOP remains intact.
83 | Dr. Matt Nov 10, 2014 6:28:33pm |
re: #80 lostlakehiker
“Throttling” can be compared to slow checkout lines at the supermarket for those who are buying a cartload of groceries, and fast checkout lines for those buying a gallon of milk.
“No throttling” is a wasteful rule. If we were all identical copies of each other, we’d want throttling. It’s a perfect example of the golden rule. Whoever has a short, simple internet task should get it filled through the quick checkout line. Whoever has a huge task should expect to go through the not so quick line.
That way, everybody gets their smaller tasks filled quickly, instead of having to wait, and wait, for their turn to get a few thousand bits sent.
Worst fucking analogy ever. Are you pretending to be an assclown?
84 | Varek Raith Nov 10, 2014 9:11:07pm |
re: #80 lostlakehiker
“Throttling” can be compared to slow checkout lines at the supermarket for those who are buying a cartload of groceries, and fast checkout lines for those buying a gallon of milk.
“No throttling” is a wasteful rule. If we were all identical copies of each other, we’d want throttling. It’s a perfect example of the golden rule. Whoever has a short, simple internet task should get it filled through the quick checkout line. Whoever has a huge task should expect to go through the not so quick line.
That way, everybody gets their smaller tasks filled quickly, instead of having to wait, and wait, for their turn to get a few thousand bits sent.
So you’re fine with what Comcast did to Netflix?