Drunk woman on YouTube upset over Obama reelection

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"15 fucking posts on Facebook and NONE OF YOU SHARED IT. I spend hours upon hours upon hours mining the news and finding things to post for you to share with other people and yet very few of you do it. I'm talking to all you namby-pamby pussies. GET THE FUCK OFF THE INTERNET. LOVE SOCIALIST AMERICA, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT."

The tinkling ice cubes in her shot glass really sell it.

(via @beschizza/@J_Champagne)

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Brian Riggins

The worst part is that “buttershots” is a thing.
- Navin_Johnson
  
  Candy treats for people who don’t know how to drink like pros.
hudger

Haha. The sound of ice clinking around her glass is classic.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I expect her to start yelling, “Heyyyyy Swampyyy!”
Supernumerary

I read an article on this elsewhere earlier today, where someone in the comments had linked to this woman’s Facebook profile. Giving it a read over was one of the most fascinating, depressing, and train wreck-y experiences.
- nem0fazer
  
  Any chance of a link?
  - Supernumerary
    
    I think I’d want to hear from Xeni, Antinous or someone on the BB staff as to whether that’s allowable prior to posting a link.
    
    That said, I haven’t watched the video yet, but someone mentioned she’d stated her name in it, and that’s how they found her Facebook page.
    - nem0fazer
      
      fair enough. didn’t want to troll her. just had an unhealthy curiosity that would probably be best not acted on
      - Supernumerary
        
        No, totally understood. Her settings don’t allow non-friends to comment, so I don’t think much trolling can be done. And other folks have linked (that’s what I get for hitting Facebook at work, but not YouTube), so indulge away in that morbid curiosity.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Public is public, more or less, as long as you’re not inciting anything other than lulz.
  - beohbe
    
    https://www.facebook.com/DogHouse2003
    
    This was right on her YouTube profile.
    - acerplatanoides
      
      egads. No, really, E GADS
      - ocker3
        
        Like she says, she’s working in a minimum-wage job for which she’s vastly overqualified, sounds like she’s got a lot of energy to spend on other things. She’s unhappy, blames the president, and really wants change.
        
        Not sure she knows what kind of change would positively affect her life though, too much fox news/drudge perhaps?
      - acerplatanoides
        
        quite right, but E G A D S
      - nachoproblem
        
        Is it slightly ironic that somebody from the party of “work” and “personal responsibility” wants to blame the President for her situation?
  - http://jonathan-peterson.com/ Jonathan Peterson
    
    https://www.facebook.com/DogHouse2003
kaellinn18

You all need to get off the FUCKING internet. Shut your accounts down! YOU’RE WORTHLESS!

Ahahahahahahahaha
- Petzl
  
  ”People that know me call me ‘kook’, and I like it.”
Prufrock451

NO – MUST – FIGHT – CONFIRMATION – OF – CONFIRMATION – BIAS
- Michael Rosefield
  
  CONFIRMED, over!
- http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
  
  she is actually very well spoken,
  actually s/left/right/g; and this sounds like any given anarchist rant.
  - http://profiles.google.com/substancemcgravitas Substance McGravitas
    
    This is what I listen to right-wing radio for, and there’s bonus swearing. Beats Limbaugh.
millie fink

Whoa, she’s gotta have big problems elsewhere in her life. At least I hope so . . . *shivers*
- DevinC
  
  That was my thought. When someone is screaming at me that they are unhinged, I take it seriously.
  
  She says she doesn’t have children, lives alone, and implies she doesn’t have a full-time job (at 6:30); she sounds very socially isolated, so much so that she’s investing a lot of her self-esteem in having her videos shared and opinions echoed.
  
  At 7:25 she hits the wall of her own self-delusion pretty hard. (Well, some of it, anyway.)
  
  Around 7:50 she starts describing the stuff around her computer, as if expecting to be judged by it and found wanting. That made me cringe.
  
  She spends a lot of time telling people she doesn’t care what they think of her, despite the evidence she’s provided to the contrary.
  
  This is really sad, actually.
  - acerplatanoides
    
    Madness and isolation are self reinforcing. I’m glad from my brief visit to her fb page that people are offering her visits and support.
    - DevinC
      
      I’ve been in group therapy programs, which makes me potentially the worst kind of armchair expert on human psychology, so I’m going to steer clear of any claim to understanding what’s going on in her head. But my lulz (and I can’t deny she supplies them in abundance) were cut short when I started hearing her say things similar to those I’ve heard from people with painfully low self-esteem.
      
      The video is funny. Really, really funny. It’s pretty hard not to laugh when someone levels their lance at a windmill and gets knocked on their ass, particularly if they don’t have the redeeming qualities of Don Quixote. I think, however, that anyone who thinks they’re incapable of such self-delusion is demonstrating exactly that capacity, and that the real joke here is of the cosmic variety.
  - benher
    
    You know, I was just going to skip the video and lol at the comments but after reading yours, I’m pretty much sure I have to go and watch it.
  - SumAnon
    
    Well said.
greybird

She’s got that conservative radio voice down real good. Just the right thoughtful pauses, then outburst!

I see a future here. Talent agents: Just look up her address and show up at her door! Or in her bedroom!
- http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty
  
  Perhaps some shuffling of papers before the outburst. Love it.
LikesTurtles

Why are people so convinced that anything they post on Facebook is going to make someone change their vote or other deep seated opinion? “Well I was all for marriage equality but then a person from my high school shop class who I haven’t seen in twenty years posted ‘The Bible says Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve’ on Facebook so now I hate the gays.” All a content limited medium like Facebook or Twitter can do for complex issues is make people feel a bit better about an opinion they’re unlikely to ever change anyway. It sure isn’t going to convince someone on the other side of the issue to suddenly change.
- ChicagoD
  
  I actually don’t agree with that. I think that when people who I know are thoughtful, intelligent people post things that surprise me, I consider what they post more than I do if it does not have their imprimatur. I don’t always agree, but it makes me consider it more than I would have.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    I tried to give it a shot. When I joined FB, I was tickled to re-establish contact with old friends from high school with whom I hadn’t spoken in over twenty years. The small talk was fun, the reminiscences over shared experiences and “what ever happened to whatshername” stories felt really good.
    
    But when political or philosophical opinions came up, it got depressing. I grew up in what has turned out to be a pretty socially-conservative semirural part of San Diego County, and it seems that the majority of my old friends who didn’t move out of that neighborhood have grown up to be admirers of Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Back in the 80s, my friends weren’t generally politically active, and other than a strident letter-to-the-editor I wrote to the San Diego Union-Tribune about Oliver North and Iran/Contra when I was seventeen, neither was I.
    
    So it was depressing to discover that my old friends and I had ossified our political feelings, having moved apart to the point where I couldn’t believe that the same geeky pals who had been beaten up with me by the high school bullies would be so stridently opposed to gay marriage, and they of course are no doubt shocked to realize what a godless Communist I’ve become since I moved to L.A. in 1991. Some of my best friends can overlook these “failings” of mine, just as I see past theirs. We are, fundamentally, the same people we used to be. But when it came to the vast majority of my old childhood friends I re-encountered on FB, the disappointment and frustration weren’t worth it. I’ve never wanted to live in a bubble or echo-chamber, but neither do I enjoy feeling like the only damned soul in the congregation.
    
    This wasn’t the strongest reason why I quit using Facebook, but it was the saddest.
    - http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog
      
      As long as I’m on Facebook, I’ll never need to join the John Birch Society, because I’m getting all their talking points anyway. Relatives, in-laws, ex-punks, ex-hippies, even still-hippies…
      
      Fluoride!
- Sagodjur
  
  This was my first thought about a minute and a half into the video. She seems to be ranting that people didn’t spread her posts around enough because she assumes they would have convinced Obama supporters or undecided voters to vote for Romney instead. That’s a lot of self-importance right there. She’s upset that people aren’t sheep in the particular way she’d like them to be.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56

I love how she thinks it is all up to her viewers to share and post her work.
- mccrum
  
  You either have convictions and you live by them or you don’t!
  - nachoproblem
    
    I don’t believe in anything, therefore the way I live is totally authentic to my beliefs.
- http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
  
  She confuses living by your convictions and philosophies with posting on Facebook.
  
  Lots of stupid people make that mistake.
- http://profiles.google.com/substancemcgravitas Substance McGravitas
  
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http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

I feel the same way about stuff I post.
lbigbadbob

Pro tip: She’s actually doing her best impression of Joan Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank.
- mappo
  
  I was thinking “Female Wingnut Sam Kinison” impression.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    And yet, I imagine her looking like Tanning Mom.
  - BunnyShank
    
    huh, I was thinking more bill hicks
    - wysinwyg
      
      Seems like her politics are more like Kinison’s. Bill Hicks was a Noam Chomsky fan and rabid anti-authoritarian. Can’t imagine this woman reads a lot of Noam Chomsky.
- eviladrian
  
  Reminds me of this Lydia Lunch bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch90vPQqlq8
  
  As an Australian, I’m always impressed by how articulate America’s crazy people are. Our newsreaders slur more than this lady.
http://www.spockosbrain.com spocko

One of the things she is pissed off at is that other people are not willing to be as aggressive in sharing as she is. That they are “pussies” for not shoving her views (which they say they believe in) into the face(book)s of others.
And because people didn’t use her methods and share her stuff her team lost.

It’s the Bullying theory of political discourse. Get your friends to not be afraid of offending anyone with their views and spread them all over because that will work and change people’s minds.

I see this a lot in RW media, they help teach people how to “talk to liberals, if you must” but it really isn’t talking to them, it is attacking them and “winning the conversation”

They might say they want a dialogue, but what they really want is a monologue where you are bowled over by their brilliant views and you say, “My god, you are right and I’m wrong. I never thought of it that way! I’m changing my mind right now!”
- acerplatanoides
  
  You’re quite right.
Handsome Bob

All that did was raise my blood pressure. Linking to that rant just elevated a drunk person with a personality disorder above the anonymity she so richly deserves.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=749833892 Florian Braun
  
  I tend to find public ridicule a much more effective tool for discouraging idiots than just ignoring them. If you ignore her someone might actually listen, if you ridicule her no one will dare.
  - acerplatanoides
    
    I find ridicule is used to end conversations and assuage ones own ego.
Glippiglop

With the election result confirmed, if I was staring into an abyss of 1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS then I might be inclined to get a little tipsy too, the poor woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rw1ioJ99vk
- millie fink
  
  Aw, poor Chuck. And now I feel even worse for his sparring partners!
  
  Strange to see such a tough guy act so afraid.
- Florian Bösch
  
  In Soviet America, the election roundhouse kicks Norris, in da face.
peterkvt80

“I don’t have children, I live alone”.
I wonder why?
- Henry Pootel
  
  That’s not “like” worthy, that’s sad really.
  - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
    
    I’ve often thought that it should be an ‘appreciate’ button.
    
    ‘Like’ is such a rubbish verb to cover varied conversation.
  - http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
    
    11 people liked that *eugh*
soylent_plaid

It’s like schadenfreude for my soul!
- http://twitter.com/MountAquaFresca MileHighBroheem
  
  Nicely said. I’m loving it.
Chuck

I may have found a relevant connection in the news…

http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-whitehot-sphere-of-p,30284/
- millie fink
  
  Ha, thanks!
  
  Shrieking “white”-hot sphere indeed.
http://horseisahorse.myopenid.com/ HorseIsAHorse

Where’s my free ObamaPhone? I just checked my mailbox again but it STILL wasn”t there.
- PlutoniumX
  
  I think you left it in your Escalade, along with some lobsters and multiple Xboxes. And strippers that accept food stamps. SWIPE CARD HERE.
- travtastic
  
  It should be in the mail with your next $20,000 welfare check!
  - http://horseisahorse.myopenid.com/ HorseIsAHorse
    
    Nah, I voted TWICE, so I’m gonna get 40 grand now.
knoxblox

“I spend all day making you shit sandwiches, and you have the GALL to say you’re not hungry?”
EeyoreX

Silly woman doesn’t know that unless she pays up for ads, only 15% of FB followers will see her informative videos. And thus the election was lost.
- acerplatanoides
  
  as usual, thanks/screw-you zuckerberg.
Petzl

GO TO SLEEP, VICTORIA JACKSON.
- millie fink
  
  Behold, the Very Special Victoria Jackson Election Reaction –
  
  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/victoria-jackson-reacts-to-the-election
- winkydog
  
  d’oh! hurriedly scrolling to the end to make this joke, surprised twasn’t the first comment..!
deadbot

“I spent eight months in a Palin group. For what?”

Exactly…
http://soundcloud.com/pocketsquare grumble-bum

Damn, I’m glad I didn’t have the internet back when I was an active alcoholic.

What’s kind of ubernutty about this rant is that after all of her unhinged anger is exhausted, the creator actually makes statements (Obama not a Muslim, not illegitimate, & 9/11 not a vast conspiracy) that are rather surprisingly SANE.
- http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
  
  She is actually well spoken, reading her facebook she has a real passion, its a shame this passion is all on the right, the left (at least in my country) has retreated behind an ivory wall of smugness and condescension.
  
  if only she would use her powers for good.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    How exactly do you use blame, bitterness and recrimination for good?
    - http://profiles.google.com/substancemcgravitas Substance McGravitas
      
      Ask a prosecutor.
Michael Rosefield

She sounds so unable to deal with the idea that she’s irrelevant and ineffective, able to respond only in increasing bewilderment and self-entitled anger; she really is a perfect Republican.
Jellodyne

I was going to watch the election on her Facebook, but decided to watch CNN instead. They put literally tenss of thousands of man hours into their coverage. Turns out some things are better done by a collective than an individual. Huh.
http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

Lovin’ it.
cepson

Ms. Palin? Is that you?
http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney

Someone’s made a brilliant remix of this, accompanying her fury with a delightful Lawrence Welkesque orchestral piece: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/obama-was-re-elected-woman
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OKEONAMLFIOS5WI7MPQY6SXBCQ IRMO

Anyone who thinks activism over the Internet will suffice for gettiing anything changed or done, should listen to this all the way through.

If you want something in this country to change, get off the fucking Internet and get out of your fucking domicile. Leftist? Find out what the Occupiers are up to and go occupy something. Right of center? Start showing up in person to republican events. (If you’re reading this here, you’re likely a moderate, and if you can’t help push the crazies out of the GOP, at least you’ll cost them money eating the catered food.)
http://www.facebook.com/albert.pham.54 Albert Pham

She made the video private, so here’s a mirror.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78cpieCcYtM
John T. Woods

Mirror…. MIRROR!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsu5u8rAWo&feature=youtu.be
- DevinC
  
  I had a feeling she’d take it down when she learned what kind of attention she was attracting, so I have a backup. But it is her intellectual property, and her most recent Facebook update said she’d be using YouTube’s takedown policy liberally.
  
  So to speak.
  - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
    
    Ha, who does she think she is? A corporation?
http://twitter.com/kp3horam Raging Wool

wow. this is scary. what is this crazy fear of socialism? i’m worried people like this could take the next step and cause harm.
- FoolishOwl
  
  Long story short, it seems that much of the right accepts an argument that socialism means absolute and total centralization of all power in the state, and that economic regulations, taxes, or any restriction on free markets or any alternative model of social and economic organization must inevitably lead to such a totalitarian nightmare.
  
  It’s pretty rare in the US for anyone to openly identify themselves as socialist or argue for socialism. When I do, I frequently run into these fixed ideas about what I must mean. The problem isn’t just that it gets in the way of discussing the history of struggles for socialism and what socialism could mean and what it could be. The problem is that the idea is that any deviation from a narrowly circumscribed model of social and economic organization will inevitably lead to a totalitarian nightmare. This gets in the way of any reasonable discussion of the problems we face and what possible reforms we might consider.
  - http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
    
    …and now you’re not.
    - FoolishOwl
      
      I’d written a sentence fragment earlier, which got posted by accident.
MurasakiMadness

I made the mistake of listening to about 10 seconds of the video. Umm…is it possible to suddenly develop PTSD over an abusive childhood, because I think that’s what just happened (?)
skeptacally

it sounds like a rather rough-to-live with mixture of mood disorder, anger management issue, and mental health problem. at least to these ears.

and, having had my own battles with mood disorders and mental health, not exactly yuk-worthy. not from where i’m sitting at any rate.
http://twitter.com/NeilOhNeil Neil H.

Brought to you live from a van down by the river.
IronEdithKidd

That’s a hella-big victim/entitlement complex this lady has. I’m entirely too familiar with this mindset. My mom has it, so does my SO’s mom. I will not be watching the remainder of this video as I have enough frustration dealing with this shit in person on a daily basis.
benher

Reminds me of that scene in the shining where she finds Jack’s manuscript.

Isn’t one definition of insanity repeating the same action ad nauseum but expecting different results?
Sveden

Butterscotch Schnaaps in case you were wondering what that noise was clinking in her glass.
http://twitter.com/intensitystudio Antonio Carrasco

I’m all for free speech, but maybe certain mentally ill people shouldn’t be allowed internet access.
Think about it–the nation didn’t seem this divided before social media came about. Now any nutjob with a webcam and a twitter account can spew endless amounts of hate and insanity into the collective consciousness of the nation.
http://twitter.com/amordecosmos amordecosmos

I loved how Stephen Colbert channeled her in his opening yesterday.
“YOU DON’T LISTEN TO ANYTHING I SAY… I’ve been bringing you the truth, hot and hard now, for seven years! And how do you repay me? Four more years of hopey change!”
http://twitter.com/MrsSheaWong shea wong

Mirrors keep getting knocked down, fresh one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKFaZSRNEM
Doug Sharp

My remix of this epic rant, titled “I’ll Fucking Kill You and I’ll Enjoy Doing It”
https://soundcloud.com/doug-sharp/ill-fucking-kill-you-and-ill
- http://horseisahorse.myopenid.com/ HorseIsAHorse
  
  Even better than the orchestra remix (which seems to have gone desaparecido).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500010887 Craig Clawson

at about 21 minutes in she goes off on the birthers, saying about how much time and energy they wasted…and whoa, apparently I’ve listened too long, because she’s making sense.
elix

This is what I picture the sysops of Conservapedia doing in the drunken privacy of their own homes in the early hours of November 7th. However, this lady, as several commenters have mentioned, actually seems to have connections with reality still intact. She might be a reasonable, relatively ‘normal’ person if she’s not expressing bitterness or passionate rage over the fact that a black guy is President and just got renewed for another four years. Conservapedia’s kind of missing those tenuous but attached ropes to reality.