The Rude Pundit: Mitt Romney Touches Things

[meegbear]

It was a day of miracles, Father's Day 2012, for Mitt Romney on his campaign bus tour (motto: "We're rolling over the United States&quot . He went to the magical store of Wawa in Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, which is in America, goddamnit. Real America. Not the fake America of New York or California, where they vote for black Muslims from Hawaii, which is just a town in Kenya. If you've never been, a Wawa is a convenience store that sells sandwiches. You know the truck stops with Subways in 'em? Yeah, that's pretty much Wawa except a little cleaner.

But, by gum, Mitt Romney was gonna show he was a man o' the people and that he can join them in their sneeze-guard covered condiment bars o' normalcy. See, Romney had ordered his hoagie on the Wawa touch screen ordering system, which Wawa installed in 2001 in order to catch up to local competition, Sheetz, which had had the touch screen hoagie ordering system already. A motherfucker doesn't need to talk to a person to get his ham and cheese on a roll.

The touch screen was fuckin' fantastic, according to Romney, who had to tell the crowd about it at a rally later, "You press a little touchtone key pad… You touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, and there's your sandwich. It's amazing!" Romney probably loved it because it meant that someone got fired. Christ, no one tell him about ATMs.

The miracle of the touch screen is actually the miracle of the free market, gosh darnit: "It was a technology, he said, that had been fostered by competition—competition he said the federal government lacks in delivering its services to Americans. He said the government's lack of competition and bureaucracy was hurting the United States in keeping jobs that are moving to other countries."

Who wants to be the first person to tell Mitt Romney that touch screens were developed from government funding of projects by engineers at the University of Kentucky and the University of Illinois and the University of Delaware, and that's just in the U.S.? Yep, if it wasn't for those innovations and innovators, backed by government entities like the NSF, Romney would have had to speak to a human being to order his meatball hoagie with pickles (seriously, that's fucked up).

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[Gregorian]

1. I can't help but see a comparison to this-

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Subway doesn't make Chateaubriand? How about Boeuf Bourguignon?

[TlalocW]

3. Candidates like Romney need to be given an intensive course

In current technology. Otherwise, they gush about stupid shit that's been around for decades.

Geeze, I can remember going to an Arby's in Mexico City in 1994 that had touchscreens, and admittedly we thought it was kind of interesting, being college kids and all, but we didn't gush about it.

TlalocW

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. "You press a little touchtone key pad" -- "touchtone?"

Romney apparently doesn't know the difference between a telephone and a touch screen. I'll bet he's never had to deal with customer service where he has to endlessly press touchtone keys to get to a live person and has his butler do it. Maybe the last time he ever had to dial a phone for himself was as a kid in the 1960s on a rotary dial.

[DonCoquixote]

5. The best sub stores

always have people to hear you out.

Wawa was never a good place to get food anyway, more like a dirty 7-11.

[DebbieCDC]

6. This reminds me of George HW Bush and the price scanner

at a grocery store checkout counter. He found the technology so amazing!!!

[spin]

7. That was the first thing I thought too. (n/t)