The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make...Oh, Just Fuck You, Mitt Romney

[meegbear]

You know, the Rude Pundit could have been an actual superhero, flying around and saving people and defeating villains, like the Trader, a Wall Street executive who was bitten by a vampire squid and now sucks the funds out of the pockets of poor people with fanged tentacles of doom, and if someone had come to him and said, "Hey, we want your approval to sell these pins with a cartoon version of your face on them," he'd have said, "Go fuck yourself."

The pins, as you might or might not know, are from the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, or, as it might as well be known, "That Time Mitt Romney Held Up the Luge Track with His Bare Hands." They were made in China, blah, blah, blah, globalization bad 'cept when it's good.

What the Rude Pundit wants to focus on is the fact that someone came into Romney's office suite overlooking the Fountain of Brigham Young's Face or the Museum of Joseph Smith's Turds or whatever the fuck they have in Salt Lake City. And that toady said something like, "Umm, Mr. Romney, remember how you said you wanted pins made with a caricature of your face that emphasized your manly chin? We've got the mock-up of those."

And then Romney - who would really later be governor of Massachusetts and now really thinks he might become president - of the United States, no, really, hilarious, right? - looked at those pieces of self-aggrandizing shit and said, "Well, golly, those are great. Mormons everywhere...I mean, Americans will want to shell out their hard-earned money for jewelry with the mug of a glorified administrator on them with stoned-smiling anthropomorphic critters partying and talking to me there, too. Put them into production. On the cheap, though, over in China, so we can maximize profit. God bless Mormons...I mean, America...I mean, me."

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/07/photos-that-make.html

[Patiod]

1. I just assumed they were photoshopped

then realized "OMG, these are real!"

Yikes

Just yikes.

[Daemonaquila]

15. Me too. Then the dawning horror...

It's a wild ego on a rampage. Run!!!

[Tom Ripley]

17. They are astonishing, aren't they?

I also originally assumed they were photoshopped.

[Aerows]

2. Dear God

Narcissistic much, Mitt?

Wow. Just breathtaking.

[progressivebydesign]

3. That confirms it: Narcissist. This was ALWAYS about "HIS" Olympics. n/t

[nolabear]

4. And "Mitt Happens" didn't sound a little, you know, odd to him?

And the fact that there's no baseball in The Winter Olympics? Hell to the no; because it was all about HIM! MITTMITTMITT!!! MEMEME!!

Mother of God.

He really IS a twit.

[nolabear]

5. You know the longer I look at these the more they creep me out.

As my grandmother would have said, "That boy ain't right."

[malthaussen]

6. He wants to be Ronnie Raygun on his white horse...

... riding in to save the People. "Are we there yet, Mitt," indeed!

-- Mal

[Johonny]

7. Peter Griffin wants his chin balls back

[lunatica]

23. LOL!

My keyboard and monitor would have been drenched if I had been drinking anything!

[Vanje]

8. K to the fricken R! nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

9. Okay, I want an "Are we there yet, Mitt?" pin... with a dog strapped to the roof of a car.

But a sticker will do...

[xxqqqzme]

10. If he really had to initial some

form to indicate his approval for these to be made (and I'm guessing he did since they all 'sport' the official Olympic logo), he is even more impressed w/ himself than I thought.


I'm only guessing about the initial approval process since he also signed all sorts of official bain documents when he was no longer 'in charge'.

[bullwinkle428]

11. This really is megalomania that knows no bounds.

K&R.

[nc4bo]

12. Did taxpayer dollars pay for that shit too?

Some kinda ugly pins.

[mikeytherat]

13. So...creepy animals talk to him?

I'll bet he hears cartoon music in his head, too.

mikey_the_rat

[hifiguy]

26. The Benny Hill sax tune would be most appropriate.

[bongbong]

14. The upper left one

I thought it was a pin representing his dog asking him "are we there yet mitt?" from the roof of the station wagon.

[myrna minx]

16. I can't believe these actually exist. I'm stunned.

[florida08]

18. aw hell..gag me with a spoon

'we love you mitt'? Must have been designed by Bain Capital

[Tom Ripley]

19. Another narcisstic psychopath of privilege

Unlike the less fortunate psychopaths, their wealth and access mean they don't even have to try and hide it. There is no need to even develop a mask of superficial charm, humility, empathy, etc...

[Angry Dragon]

20. Willard is still selling them out of his basement

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. just lost my lunch

[Brigid]

22. So this wasn't a joke.

I saw these on MSNBC last night. Good Lord.

[lunatica]

24. I just heard the entire world say

WTF?

[Arugula Latte]

25. Vote for Mitt. His chin is a scrotum.