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Fumesucker

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1. The Wingularity approaches South Cackalacky..
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 11:28 AM
Jan 2012
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/05/16/the-wingularity-is-nigh/

This punchy term nicely captures the way that rightwing argumentation has become gradually detached from independently recognized reality and into a state of total unselfawareness. The pace of change is also accelerating. Just weeks before the election I never could guess that wingnuts would organize nationally around an act that they call teabagging. Imagine being the traveler from the future of three months hence trying to convince Americans of our semantically awkward future. How would you even start?

Thanks to the magic of talk radio and the internet, these guys can talk to no-one but each other for extremely long stretches of time, so they have no idea how crazy they sound. The time could come in the very near future when it becomes totally impossible for any ordinary person to have any idea what they are talking about. They will be beyond ordinary logic, beyond spoof. The wingularity will have arrived.

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The Wingularity approaches South Cackalacky.. Fumesucker Jan 2012 #1
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I was there. In Iowa; Itchinjim Jan 2012 #4
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You're doomed. Itchinjim Jan 2012 #6
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