Good idea, that. We shall now see what autospam creatures will be lured into our web.
Problem is, now I have to make this post about something. Let’s go with the bigger and harder five-year-plan for Romney’s accession to the throne from the National Review. (For those of you living in saner parts of the world, the National Review is the Rosetta Stone of American conservatism, or used to be).
How about the latest cover, so you can understand my snide remark about five-year-plans? If this isn’t a US version of those dreadful Soviet propaganda posters of 50 years ago or so, I don’t know what is. Look at this shit, just look at it;
Don’t believe me? You should;
What the hell is that all about? Discuss.
Ah…the joy to be had from being a throbbing, pulsing member of a vibrant yet hard-to-please political movement!
(Could there be some relationship, as well, to the comments that follow title and main post?)
Gosh…Notice how, though both staffs are perfectly erect, Mitt’s is so much thicker? Who knows how long it really is? And the poor tovarich has only one of them, while Mitt carries at least five more in reserve, already tilting upwards in anticipation.
To be serious, though, I’d never realized until this very moment that the role of Mitt is being played by Leslie Nielsen. Silly of me, that: there have been so many clues, after all…
As a member of Gunny’s blog, my head is throbbing and my pulse is pounding after reading this exclusive post.
As for the magazine covers…Wow! Pure Communist Art. Show it to pretty much anyone in any country in the world, and they’d instantly know it.
Is there anyone with more than two grey cells in the Republican Party?
I am not, nor ever have been, in a propaganda poster for the Communist Party…
…I would love to see what NRs readership make of this!
Oooh, this could get verrrry interesting.
Consider the billowing condoms: how, while both ride suggestively high up on the shaft, only Mitt’s is engorged and distended to the extent that obverse and reverse almost seem to represent two different emblems of potency. (Either that, or he has 98 stars on his pennant…)
Come campaign season, a toothsome tumescence – some swollen and swaggering style and vision – is bound to rub the American people just the right way, filling them with a manhood large and dominant.
Whey hey – willy gags!
Looks like the Graun is pursuing a light hearted and mildly risque weekend too with Wolf and Aitkenhead.
Nat, Leslie Nielsen….yes, perfect.
I just tweeted this — it is howlingly funny.
Umm. . .I’ve held for years that an awful lot of American graphic design never seems to have got out of the fifties* (some magazines’ covers and layouts are absolutely dire) but I see I’ll have to put that back another couple of decades . . .
Apropos that cover itself, here’s an interesting link (via Digby) to an old Cato Institute whitepaper about how to dismantle Social Security. In summary, it advises explaining to the banks how they’ll profit from it so they’ll pay for the campaign. But what’s interesting is that it recommends this strategy as a useful and proper application of (what it sees as) Leninist political crowd control.
Gunny,
How’s the spam harvest going?
Ooooh, Natasha, you always do get that application exactly right. And proper. And useful too, I might add.
Jeebus, Madame, the topic is politics, all right? Politics, and maybe spam. All right, spam and politics together. Maybe a recipe for a spam-on-politics sandwich wouldn’t be too off topic but that’s about as far as I think we should take it. Those mods can’t be all that far behind, you know…
Natasha, are you chastising me? ME? Oh dear, you must be forgetting what I keep in my closet… But then I suppose I must be sensitive to Gunny’s Standards. That should be “cl*set.”
Zilch, on this thread, so far.
Still getting slammed on the “perfect person” thread, though the pace is winding down noticeably.
Entirely manageable. Curious though.
This is hilarious – Howard Roark and sidekick ready to rebuild America – with the
subliminal truth eerily peeking through: the rebuild will be managed by a dogmatic and centralized regime.
Gunny, do you have Google Analytics? That will tell you where the traffic is coming from.
No, but I’ve got a bright red bicycle.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Lancashire humor. No way to explain it.
I’ve tracked a few now and then from the IP addresses. All over the place. Canada, France, Eastern Europe is a big one, Russia too.
Missouri, even.
Been real quiet today. Just three so far, which is about the usual background level.
WP makes it really easy to hook up analytics, there’s a plugin for it. You just need to sign up at google. It will give you the page or the search terms they landed on your site from.
Chances are that some other website or blog linked to the article, when you get that much unusual traffic.
Am I the only one who thinks the author of that mag cover used a photo of Michael Palin when he was mean to be drawing Romney?
Gunny:
I wonder as spam software improves if they pick a perfectly innocuous word as a trigger.