Voter fraud chic at The Gap; Update: Gap’s response
Fausta’s Blog spotted the perfect fashion accessory for Obamacorn canvassers — on display at The Gap:
Gap’s garbly response?
Here you go:
Dear gap.com Customer,
Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding Gap’s current “Vote for
___.” campaign.Gap has always stood for self-expression and individuality, and with one of the nation’s most important elections on the horizon, we’ve launched a program that encourages people to express their opinions and ideas. The Limited Edition Vote Buttons were designed by ten renowned artists, and the “VOTE TWICE!” button was designed by John Waters. Also, a portion of the proceeds from every button sold will go to “Declare Yourself”.
We value each of our employees’ and our customers’ unique ideas and opinions. It is not our intention to offend anyone in any way.
Thank you again for contacting us.
Sincerely,
Shelly
Customer Service Consultant
Ah, John Waters. Well, that explains everything.
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“VOTE TWICE”
is code for Vote 72 times.
I guess some people there, thought it would be “funny”. It isn’t. The situation, in our system of voting, is so corrupt, such displays just reinforces the valueless society we live in today.
And here I just thought it was a button for Thaddius Twice.
I work nearby a Gap in S.F. and was incensed when I saw this.
Could have been worse and said “vote obama”. (gag)
At the end of the day, the thing that stops this country from devolving into civil war is the universal belief that the people have recourse to the ballot box and the process of electing our leaders is valid.
The Democrats have been working at wittling away this central prop of our society since Florida 2000. This business of ACORN and the multiple voting could be the final kick that works it loose.
Then it’s Katie Bar The Door.
I have had the displeasure of being in two countries while they were dissolving into chaos. I have no wish to witness that sort of thing here.
Nobama
This one is much Cooler.
One word for the Gap
Competitors
Seriously?
man. Either way, unless we get a reign on the educational system from cradle to the grave we do not stand a chance even IF repubs win. They get to the kids when they are sooo young…
Actually the “psychology” here might helpful. It helps in “our side” saying the process is fundamentally flawed with bogus voter registrations, dubious counting practices, and “forced/coerced/bribed” votes of certain groups.
The more mainstream the notion is that the election wasn’t “fair”, the better chance we have to fight.
LIBS - Poisoning the American well while saying, “Who? What? Not me!” for eighty years running.
On October 30th, 2008 at 6:44 am, conservativesRus said:
“But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine it from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemies? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you … But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.”
“You’ve made your decision then?”
“[Happily] Not remotely! Because Iocaine comes from Australia. As everyone knows, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So, I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you…”
And so on.
Vizzini, from Princess Bride.
Let’s not get too clever for our own good. Either the election is corrupted, or it is not. Notions etc. can only cloud the water.
Actually Film – I wasn’t trying to be clever…I was just stating that even “the other side” knows and in their own strange way is acknowledging that it’s not an honest election process.
Them acknowledging that it’s not honest is a good first step.
That would be all well and good if they were actually interested in fixing it. But they are not, they are only interested in winning and winning at any cost.
The left would rather rule in H*ll than live in Paradise.
On October 30th, 2008 at 7:04 am, conservativesRus said:
I gotchya – I came across there a bit too acerbic or flip, didn’t mean to make light…
I think the potential this election has for bringing true horror (like North Korean or even Somalian horror) to the U.S. is so great that it’s hard not to repress a gallows humor at it all.
Okay, let’s all get one of these Vote Twice buttons and wear it proudly next to a McCain/Palin 08 button.
The wearer who is subjected to the quickest to an Obama thug or a CNN news crew wins an autographed picture of MM.
How long will it take to happen? 20 seconds?
Its also available on the website as a button for facebook.
Is the next pin at the Gap going to be “What Holocaust?” or maybe “Steal an old lady’s credit card.”?
And I like their clothes……
Idea#2 Get a Vote Twice button, Obama 08 button, ACORN button, Code Pink Button, and a clip board.
Go door to door looking official. Ask the person who answers if they are planning on not voting. Tell them if they do not want to vote you know someone who would like to use their vote for Hope and Change. Offer them a dollar or a cigarette.
Safety Note: People in the Twin Cities area should not knock on MNUSMCDavid’s door.
Do we really think that GAP is encouraging people to vote twice? Or are they maybe, as Rush used to refer to it, demonstrating absurdity by being absurd?
ACORN
Thanks FilmLadd for the Princess Bride reference this morning. Good start to the day!
Last year I wouldn’t have thought so. I don’t think they had any intent to do harm. Because of this years possible massive voting fraud, it just looks like a bad joke.
Here’s a nice summary of Acorn for you who really have NO IDEA what it is.
What is Acorn?- a lobbying group. Except they represent poor people instead of profitable corporations so they’re a much less successful lobbying group.
Acorn- what do they do? They started as a radical group dedicated to getting welfare recipients and underemployed non-welfare recipients together to demand socialist things like free lunches for kids and emergency room care. Now they lobby Democrats for terrorist things like raising the minimum wage and forcing the government to subsidize affordable housing.
Also, they organize voter registration drives.
Wait, what about all these CRIMES they have been committing? ACORN pays local losers in Florida $8 an hour to gather 20 voter registrations a day. So some of these losers are lazy, like all employees, and just make up the registrations. ACORN does try to find these made-up registrations and fire the employees who submit them, but, you know, sometimes they miss a couple. Also the law seems to say that ACORN has to submit all the registrations they gather no matter what, and even though the law is a little bit vague, they’re still trying to follow it.
Why do Republicans need to attack and delegitimize a damn voter registration drive??
Because a certain amount of passive voter suppression is built in to the Republican campaign strategy. If all the disenfranchised and disenchanted voters were organized and registered and informed, we’d probably be a crazy socialist 10-party country like Italy or something. The GOP engages in active voter suppression—voter ID laws and legal challenges—and the more passive kind built into the democratic process, like engendering cynicism about the democratic process.
Obviously convincing the guys who disagree with you to not vote is part of any party’s campaign strategy, but the GOP’s by necessity targets poor people and minorities, and the vast history of suppressing the votes of poor people and minorities is way grosser than any history of disenfranchising white protestants. To me! Maybe you have some totally oppressed landed gentry in your family tree so you may feel differently.
Vote twice? As if democrats didn’t already know this? Seriously, I think gap is trying to reach out to the wealth redistribution demographic.
On October 30th, 2008 at 8:40 am, b-cat said:
Thanks, I don’t know why my gallows humor is becoming so irrepressible lately…
All of the convolutions of the ACORN mess, maybe…
I find it unbelievable that people are so indifferent about this issue. Voting, at least I thought, is one of the cornerstones of American society. How can someone be so nonchalant about all of this?!! Unbelievable…and truly sad. I hope this is not a sincere attempt by the GAP to encourage voting twice and merely, as others suggested, an attempt at being absurd. My only fear is that many people wouldn’t get the reference and think YAY VOTE TWICE!
Watershed, who wrote that for you? Did the collectivist committee get together at the after-dinner Obamabot telethon party?
So how much is ACORN paying you per post?
The dead, illegal, homeless, mentally disabled and did I mention the dead voters… qualify as disenfranchised? Riiiight. You’ve become a parody unto yourself. Congratulations.
#27
You’re full of vinegar today!
On October 30th, 2008 at 9:00 am, watershed said:
It’s what’s for dinner.
Well, gotta go work so I can pay for your government funded ACORN activities Watershed. See you on the flip side.
Be careful – Atlas will shrug one day, leaving you to drink water from a feces polluted street puddle.
And begging for alms.
If I remember correctly, the initial raid on the Acorn office in Las Vegas was from a Democrat AG and Secretary of State…so how is this a strictly “Republican” attack on Acorn? I would think that both Democrats and Republicans would be all for accurate and legal voting? Or perhaps I am being to naive?
Except that Italian politicians don’t insult their electorate by pretending to be anything but self-serving and corrupt.
Strange how something like that – I just don’t find any humor in.
We’re not talking about some fringe lunatics selling buttons on the streets of NYC – this is corporate america. Corporations in this country have (had?) rights and should also consider the value of our gov’t system to provide an environment where it’s possible to be successful.
This sort of reminds me of the “small crimes” that Guiliani cleaned up in NYC, to help reduce the big crime. To me, a store that is listed on our stock exchanges, taking advantage of our laws and legal system, should not be party to this.
Any official news programs covering this? Is it slipping under the radar.
Sorry MM – but this blog isn’t official. It’s more important that the media – but not official in the “daily paper” sense.
I’d like to make my anger over this known – it’d be nice to provide news from a part of the mainstream media.
Watersheds, you are truly amazing. This post is probably your most successful demonstration of inductive reasoning. Gees! Go get some coffee and try again.
#31
The demoniaztion and hyperbole about Acorn is a soley Republican tactic. saying that (gasp) the fabric of democracy is a being threatened is a wldly irresponsible statement.
#34
Mock without any subtantive argument as a response. It’s your claim to fame, Familyman.
waterhead,
so if the rest of us go out and vote a hundred times each for McCain, you won’t have a problem with that? Or would that make us racist?
You’re a typical useful idiot.
watershed is just another name for an outhouse
#37
Nobody voted. This is about registration. you should know what you’re attacking if you’re gonna attack.
If you anticipate that Democrats will stand up and shine a light on the illegality of ACORN’s activities I hope you aren’t holding your breath… or am I?
What’s wildly irresponsible is your attempt to whitewash ACORN’s activities. I don’t blame you really that sort of thing works well over at DU or DKos. I pity you.
Democrats will stand up and shine a light on the illegality of ACORN’s activities
As said above, the initial raid on the Acorn office in Las Vegas was from a Democrat AG and Secretary of State.
So bang goes that argument, 30.
Its not all as black and white as Malkin wants you to think. She’s the irresponsible one, inflaming her orcs to hate something they really dont even understand.
You leave us no choice watershed. Your post are so completely disjointed. My claim to fame is being a highly successful contributing member of society. Since I am anonymous on this blog, your assertion that fame is a motivation is a specious argument.
Yes, the button is not only in poor taste but, supports felonius activity.
The reality is that canvassers from both sides could wear the button.
Watershed. Is your posting an attempt to enflame or to educate. You continuously fail on both accounts.
Right. And your claim to fame here appears to be reminding us of the fact that you are a highly successful contributing member of society in every other post.
FAX your displeasure to
CEO of GAP at
(614) 564-2077
ACORN is getting our tax dollars based on being non partisan which they are extremely far from being.
watershed is an idiot….don’t feed the idiot.
Don’t feed the troll…it multiplies.
It is better to highlight success than demonstrate failure.
Wasn’t the “droll” a small ugly doll from the sixties that only little children played with?
So bang goes your argument that “The demoniaztion [sic] and hyperbole about Acorn is a soley Republican tactic.”
You’d have willing suspend all disbelief to view it otherwise.
Cute.
Double cute. So, you’re the purveyor of truth? Where do you come up with this stuff? I see a future for you in stand up comedy.
familyman, you, like many others here, simply mock me as a knee jerk response rather than actually have anything to say about what I write. It kind of shows well, how you dont have anything to say.
So here’s your chance. Give me the familyman 101 on Acorn. Tell me why my post above is so wrong.
Goes for anyone else as well. I’m here to listen! Go google it and come back armed with INFORMATION.
Once again the left proves to us that they have no moral compass…morality is relative to them…anything is fair game. And they will always have an argument that proves this fact.
At least they are easy to identify.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
#51
I dont think you know what demonization and hyperbole mean. The dems have been taking care of the legal aspects of the situation without HEAVILY POLITICIZING them as some sort of “end of democracy” meme to scare people out of voting.
#54
Riiiight. Folksy!
ACORN’s efforts to flood precints with ineleible voters is not to provide fraudulent voters for individuals to vote.
They are used primarily after the polls close, you are a Democrat poll worker and your side needs extra votes. Many precints have poll workers exclusively from one party.
THAT IS NOT A FANTASY. That has occurred and people who were caught got prosecuted. That occurred in the Democratic primary.
Just this one time. Pleeeease.
#57
The fantasy is that the attempted registration of Mickey Mouse by a near homeless man somehow threatens democracy. That is the shame of Acorn.
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#58
Dont be scared of your fellow poters, they wont hurt you if you talk to the lib.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools (tools) do.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Since we are throwing around pithy quotes FamilyMan…
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Yes, of course. You could have stopped at: I don’t think….
“To scare people out of voting”… you don’t partake of the hyperbole, now do you?
They pay him commensurate with his skills and value-added, which is to say, a penny a line.
Did y’all like his line about ACORN forcing the government to provide “affordable housing”? IOW certain resentful people feel they have a right to have others pay so they can live in housing they themselves cannot afford.
It’s Freddie/Fannie redux. But Watershed still doesn’t get it.
Because Watershed is in favor of the legalized theft called “socialism”.
watershed –
Bullshite. Just yesterday you said here that you were just having fun with us.
You’re nothing but a turdish troll.
ACORN floods the registrar with obvious fake registrations to overwhelm them. They end up spending so much time tossing out the obvious Mickey Mouse types, the real fraudulent ones get spot checked, get a pass, and are there to be used.
Watch wildabeasts cross a crocidile infested river. Same principle. Overwhelm whose looking within a finite amount of time, and a large number get through.
Heck I saw a TAMMS clerk do the same thing to an inspector. He filled his records with lots of small things so the inspector would not have time to dig deep and see the REAL bad things. It worked.
ACORN is well oranized, deliberate and far from stupid.
You said SKILLS. Not to be rude fulldrool, I think you need more coffee/sarc
watershed, your post is wrong because LOBBYISTS as you call acorn use their money to push an agenda, acorn uses our money TAXPAYER MONEY to push an agenda they CLAIM is NONPARTISAN. they lie and break their promise just like barry, but because the press won’t cover it, it is just fine. btw in missouri we have convicted acorn multiple voters.
Yeah, but not impossible; besides, as long as a rich man/woman’s gold helps put food on my kids’ table, I’m fine leaving decisions of eternal life to the Creator.
Admittedly it does leave the possibility open for very tiny camels and/or very large needles.
Totally agree!!
So…let me use the same logic. In many places automatic weapons are banned why? I think it’s because “it’s possible for them to be used irresponsibly.
While I can name several valid purposes for owning an automatic weapon, I can think of no other purpose for an incorrect registration than voter fraud.
Your logical process here is completely lacking.
#73
Wanna talk about acorn? Try taking that on, then we can discuss whatever you want. That was really the topic.
The eye of the needle was a narrow pass where the overburdened camels load had to be removed to allow clearance in order to continue.
Further – watershed – ACORN is not the subject of this thread. Their tactics encourage the behavior that is the subject of this thread – the vote twice buttons at Gap.
Further, your assertion that Republicans want to suppress the vote is completely false. It’s nice that you can parrot the talking points of the Dems, but just because the Dems say something does not make it true.
I’d like for you to answer: Who should vote? How many votes should each eligible voter be allowed to cast? What is your logic for your voting process?
According to the original post, it appears the GAP does not take e-mail. You must call them.
The topic is whatever we chose. I think this thread is about campaign pins.
#67
Acorn is required by law to submit the fake registrations. They catch as many as they can.
Do you REALLY think MICKEY MOUSE is going to vote? It’s fake registration by a lazy near homeless guy trying to weasel out of working for a few bucks.
It’s an interesting form of shuck and jive when someone suggests that there’s nothing threatening about fraudulent voter registration. After all, it’s not fraudulent voting. Ha. Ha. Ho. Ho.
Fraudulent voter registration is the step that must be taken in order to vote fraudulently. Anyone who believes otherwise is foolish.
Hyperbole or no, you can see what people think about “the fabric of democracy” when their political opponents engage in fraudulent voter registration and then shuck and jive their way to a fraud-ridden election.
And you do understand it more fully than any of us exactly how?
Well obviously extrapolation, explanation and conjecture takes the pith right out of a pithy comment, familyman.
Campaign pins that you are saying specifically alude to Acorn. Good lord, you people are obtuse. Is it on purpose?
Familyman, you discuss what you want, sweetie. I answered your questions, though, remember? You were rather insistent that that’s how it works here.
c
Please please Rus, rational linear logic is not one of his strong points.
This isnt a tin foil hat conspiracy, people. You all seem to have a lot of them these days.
Its homeless guys making a few bucks by being lazy and writing some fake names down.
Fake registered name Mickey Mouse is not going to vote and in fact cant vote. Please tell me how that is a threat to our democracy.
“…all things are possible… .”
Then what about same-day registration/-provisional ballots? (You know, vote the same day one illegally registers.)
If ACORN were a Republican/conservative group would you still support it? I doubt it, as you guys have a conniption whenever someone mentions Fox News – even though they are not near as biased as NBC/PMSNBC, ABC, etc.
A interesting article about Gap (which is based in SF) falling sales from 2007
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2007/db20070123_054079.htm
conservativesRus Remember idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
Ignore the trolls.
Many but not all. Some of us are convinced that the staff has confused your medications. Now be a good boy or Nurse Ratched will revoke your internet privleges again.
I imagine one person who registers twice with, let’s say, two fake addresses can vote once each at two different polling places.
#87
I do NOT support the fake registration. What I am saying is that the hyperbole about the fake registration is a tactic by Republicans to supress votes. Check out my post #24 above.
One Mickey Mouse is of no consequence. 500 like him overwhelm a registar and all of the registered dead people slip by.
Yesterday ACORN subnitted over 5,000 resgistrations in Florida. After going through the first 400 to 500 and finding EVERYONE of them was fraudulannt the registar pitched the remainder. Good for them.
Unless you ae a Kool Aid drinker one has to ask this question. If a group like ACORN wants credability you would think their MANAGERS and SUPERVISORS would not want Mickey Mouse to go forward. Why do their managers allow them to go forward?
You would think ACORN, a national organization, would want their efforts to be considered top of the line. They are anything but. Well…… Why does their management not care?
Same reason the Obama campaign jsut raised 150 million in one month. 100 million was from the Internet, and most of that 100 million were from untraceable prepaid credit cards with obviously fraudulant names. Hmmmmmmm.
The strategy is the same. Flood the system with crap, overwhelm it and make it so stinkky no one can ever figure out what happened until AFTER the election is over in 5 days.
Voting for Obama is rhe equivalent of aiding and abetting a felon.
JSR, aren’t you moving to Brazil soon, you blame america firster, you?
That is just rediculous. This is about trust. Americans should be able to trust that when we give up our hard earned tax dollars to an organization that is supposedly non partisan that they be just that….non partisan. ACORN endorsing ANY candidate violates that trust.