Apathy Sketchpad

Twitter have, for the US election, launched a sub-site which constantly feeds you the latest tweets from or about the candidates. It’s pretty good, but by far the most entertaining thing is the horde of Republican trolls who appeared out of nowhere with absurd opinions when the McCain mob realised that every single post was pro-Obama. Here are a few from around now:

moms4prezpalin Looks like Obama is an anti-semite, just like Buchanan http://tinyurl.com/4fl7e8 #

wataboutRONPAUL Obama winning in polls by morons who play Second Life who are too lazy to vote anyway. Who cares. McCain will still win. #

Yes, what about Ron Paul? Since that’s the question literally nobody is asking.

captured1 because you don’t think clearly enough to vote. Media lies constantly, Banks have OUR MONEY-not theirs – Whats right? McCain is ONLY choice #

I have literally no idea what this one is about.

omgiamgoingnuts The only way obama wins – he cheats. Period. ACORN #

McCain’s supporters do seem to love using the word ‘acorn’. None of them ever feel the need to explain what it might mean. Don’t they know about confirmation bias? Obama supporters aren’t going to look it up if it might make Obama look bad. I have looked it up, but I don’t understand what the problem is.

mjelli01 McCain has one powerful thing on his side – people that pray!!! Good Night #

Please rely on that.

NObama4thisMama Obama sued Citicorp (a bank) on behalf of ACORN to give out loans to the underdeserving. They foreclosed which led to the downturn. FACT! #

It’s nice to know economics is so simple. FACT!

jdbegg I am a real vet, disabled for that matter and Obama/Biden won’t do squat for this country. #

Essentially, you’re argument is that you understand politics because you were patriotic or stupid enough to get yourself badly injured in a war?

teddyroosevelt I’M NOT ANGRY. I BELIEVE SENATOR OBAMA IS A GOOD MAN, JUST NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT. DOES THAT MAKE ME AN ANGRY MAN? #

No, the fact you shout all the time makes you an angry man. teddy is a bit of a single-issue troll: every one of his tweets is about what he calls the “THE LONG UNANSWERED QUESTION, WHAT HAS OBAMA DONE TO QUALIFY HIM FOR PRESIDENT?”. (A real smart tack when your VP pick is Sarah Palin.) It remains unanswered because he cannot read, only write. I suspect his computer has a keyboard but no screen. Similarly,

ogerme Name one significant Barack Obama accomplishment, since being appointed to the U.S. Senate. #

I replied to this to say “He put the Federal Checkbook online — which Palin promised to do not knowing Obama already had.” Ogerme hasn’t tweeted since. This was about two weeks ago.

zettytwine is an interesting case because they’ve protected their updates but have no followers and follow nobody, so nobody can read anything they write. Presumably it still appears on the election feed, though.

mylittlehadji Does Obama support Sharia laws in the US??? Think about it folks #

No?

letstalkchange McCain’s idea for withdrawing troops was to do it after winning. Obama voted to lose a war. And this is good judgment? #

You really think that Iraq is something you win or lose, don’t you? You’d rather ‘win’ a war than ‘lose’ it, even if winning is actually worse?

…and so on. There’s so many of them out there, and many of the dumbest have had their accounts suspended already. They’re good fun though.