“Steve, what day did you send out the election-related merchandise email newsletter?”
“Oh, months ago! Back when it made any sense for someone to buy a design that would be rendered obsolete tomorrow! Sorry just a sec I need to go write a… thing.”
Everyone loved my texts from Mitt Romney in September, but no one told me how to make him stop. Even when I had no cell signal after the hurricane, Mitt somehow kept reaching me. Here they are. I really hope he doesn’t get elected, or he’ll keep talking to me.
Mitt Romney won’t stop texting me.
UPDATE: All these on more on the Texts From Mitt Romney Tumblr!
After delaying the Republican National Convention (RNC) to avoid damage from Not a Climate Change Event Isaac, the Republican National Committee (for some stupid reason, also RNC) has released a highly compressed schedule for the RNC (Convention, not Committee). In response, we here at Slacktory have compiled a helpful guide to the most important parts of the Convention so you can catch all your favorite Republicans!
Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012
4:00 PM – Roll Call for Nomination of President of the United States
The delegates from each state will be called in alphabetical order to submit their vote for the Republican nominee. Listen closely for the sound of Ron Paul devotees’ outlandish scenarios and ludicrous hopes being dashed against the rocks of political reality. This is the primary business of the convention! This is why we’re here, and it’s like the third thing they do on day one. For some reason, no one goes home after this.
Read about Santorum’s surge and the Ron Paul Memorial Memorial in the rest of the RNC schedule. »
Matt Romney (not Mitt’s son) is a fictional character based on a simple idea: What if a typical email-forwarding blue-collar guy from your small hometown ran for president?
Matt Romney mostly exists as a Facebook page and a Twitter account. The schtick is that an embarrassingly out-of-touch adult (a “Don’t Dad”) discusses how he’d run the country, which looks horribly familiar to those of us with backward upbringings, and I assume laughably absurd to everyone else.
Political sketch comedy is a hard genre not to be awful at. UCB is doing a great job of it! Of… of not being awful! Their series “Vetting Mitt’s Veeps” treats each possible Mitt Romney VP candidate as a wacky character that may or may not line up with their actual persona. So it’s more about humor than commentary, which is wise.
How we live now: Everything that happens gets a Tumblr and a Twitter.
Amercia Is With Mitt! is a single-topic Tumblr of images made with, and mocking, the Mitt Romney campaign’s iPhone app. Because that app prominently misspells “America” as “Amercia”. And it still hasn’t been fixed.
After Newt Gingrich’s sweeping victory in NC, Mitt Romney’s status as hair-apparent to the nomination is less certain, especially in light of the Iowa recount that might vindicate Rick Santorum, of all assholes. Now, the candidates move to Florida, home to the complicated politics of old people, rednecks, and some other stereotypes whose members we’d rather not offend right away. Join me and my guests Burt Bradford and Jason Oberholtzer, editor of I Love Charts, as we watch the debate on NBC or on the web and break things down like osteoporosis. Heyoooo! The fun starts at 8:45PM.
As the campaigns pick up speed, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of who is telling the truth and who is blatantly making shit up. Our most important goal here at Slacktory is to keep you informed, I went on a fact-finding expedition to dig into some of the most controversial claims made by each candidate. This is what I dug up.
Claim: Recently, Mitt Romney said that he created 100,000 jobs while in the private sector with Bain capital.
Reality: Not all of those jobs were directly related to his time at Bain. For example, about 5000 of those jobs were related in some way to the upkeep of Mitt Romney’s hair, including a team of Professional Temple Grayers imported from Sweden. Another 1000 of those jobs were just his wives that he put on the payroll.
It just started posting this afternoon. It’s got 5 followers as I write this, it had two under an hour ago, therefore by November 5 the POTUSMitt Twitter account will actually win the election.
The bio: “100% human being. Absolutely not a cyborg. Loves tap water, beige, America, and being indoors.”
https://twitter.com/#!/POTUSMitt/status/160090481521475584
https://twitter.com/#!/POTUSMitt/status/160084399138947072
More people read these “best Twitter jokes about the news” posts than vote in the Iowa Caucus…es…uses.
https://twitter.com/#!/RonPaul/status/154383017786351616
https://twitter.com/#!/BorowitzReport/status/153966819261157376
https://twitter.com/#!/ReformedBroker/status/154393695846809600
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