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Even Hipsters are Abandoning Obama — But What Is a Hipster, You Ask?

Hipsters are Abandoning Obama How Ironic

Hipster may not be a term all readers are familiar with. But in case you were wondering, the typically liberal subculture is now reportedly abandoning the president, too.

Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as a “subculture of men and women typically in their 20‘s and 30’s that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter.” They can typically be spotted wearing skinny jeans and faded T-shirts from Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, with messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs on the streets of Brooklyn, Chicago or San Francisco.

Hipsters usually don’t care too much about politics, but the group was particularly enthused in 2008 for the biracial, young, and Facebook “Likeable” Barack Obama. However, The New York Observer (NYO) now reports that the president has become a punchline in clubs and art galleries, with hipsters having trouble seeing how they can throw the same support towards Obama in 2012:

“It is hard to remember now, but the summer and fall of 2008 in the city were as if an old-timey party convention had met Burning Man, and it seemed like all the political clubs in town had been swept aside in favor of open-mic nights from a generation of supposedly apathetic and skeptical hipsters. They passed around Obama speeches like they were bootlegged concert tapes. They carried around dog-eared copies of The Audacity of Hope. They quoted the 2004 convention address like it was poetry. Even supposedly blasé Williamsburg sported a Shepherd Fairy two-toned Obama poster, with the word “Progress” stenciled in bold font below.

But now the progress posters have begun to wither. A new poster, featuring the president’s image superimposed over Frankenstein’s monster’s face, has been spotted around the neighborhood.”

NYO’s David Freedlander was able to infiltrate deep into the grungiest corners of Brooklyn to find that from the New Kings Democrats to The Barack Obama Democratic Club to Brooklyn for Barack, the drumbeat from the Oval Office just doesn’t get Hipster juices flowing like it once did:

“’That time we felt that Obama was more or less this outsider, this new young proponent for change, and he really engaged the younger, 20-something crowd, and we felt that this was someone very different, someone that was kind of an intelligent, amicable leader that we could get behind.’

And now?

‘It’s hard to get everyone to rally back around him this time. We see mild victories here and there, but it’s not the complete overhaul we were expecting.’”

One political analyst told Freelander that while the excitement may have declined towards Obama, he sees the hipster base perhaps being reinvigorated depending on who the Republicans nominate:

“’The newness and the excitement is gone, and it would be hard to rekindle just because of the historic nature of the election,’ he said. ‘But it’s definitely still there. Talk to me if Michelle Bachmann is the Republican nominee; then  you’ll see how fired up everyone will be.’”

Or they could just go back to being apathetic about politics. Time will tell.

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  • suz
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:13am

    hipster don’t know much. they scream when they feel something…so, now their feeling something.

    who cares?

    problem is they vote their feelings and that’s why we are where we are BUT maybe it will pay off this time.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:16am

      Most who voted Obama were voting their feelings. They voted –and will vote again– according to a sense of belonging to a social group. If hipsters turn anti-Obama because other hipsters are turning anti-Obama–well that’s just FIIINE with me!

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    • Applehead
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:45am

      They are what Glenn called “Useful Idiots” that were misled by their college professors into thinking that progressive-humanism is glamorous and will do good for all with communist/marxist skewed delusional end result thats not reality!!! Americans in their 40′s and older have seen the evil and impoverishing effects in their reality that has been hidden from these sheltered punks!!! The look on their face when they find out they‘ve been deceived would be quite satisfying if we weren’t all in misery with them! Sometimes I believe that God is going to give us a good as* kicking so that us free Americans can see how blessed we have been and to teach us a lesson we won’t forget for generations!!!

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:56am

      The story is about how they are ABANDONING Obama.
      A once pro Obama group–highly connected through social media– are showing signs of ABANDONING Obama.

      Gee, I can tell so many here are really out to win in 2012!

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    • RIGHTHOOK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 7:07am

      I think they are questioning how quickly and effectively Obama’s barber is “greying” his hair. Another staged ploy to pretend he has some sort of aged old savvy and wisdom. LOL!!!

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:02am

      @Applehead

      You guys don’t get it do you? I‘m a 20 something and I’m very unhappy with the way things are going. I’m an independent too. I come to this site because I value the input of the older generation on today’s issues, but here’s the thing: it’s your guys fault things went like this anyways. You backed two stupid wars (that I fought in) that bakrupted us, signed off on Bush’s massive expenditures, then blow off the young crowd like we‘re a bunch of idiots that can’t see whats going on. You want a conservative president? Reach out to the younger generation instead of just calling us entitled little jerks.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:29am

      Scrubpuppy, well said.

      I was formulating a post already as I was reading down through the comments and your post prompted it. We were all “young” once, no matter what generation we belong to. We were finding our way in the world, determining our place in society. We saw things differently than older generations. We had a sense of belonging with those like us, we even had our own words and music and style that no other group could understand. It is not stupid or idiotic…It is life.

      Scrubpuppy, it was not “our” guy and Obama is not “your” guy. We are ALL in the same boat here. The general trend is young adults are more liberal and as you age you become more conservative. That is just the way it works. I used to be a pot smoking hippie, now I am a Bible thumping minister. We never quit growing and learning. I just wanted to tell you these things because I want you to not be guilty of the very thing you warn us against. Do not think your generation is any smarter or better able to lead than older generations. We were all where you are now, and we have grown past it. People are simply individuals. I will not call hipsters, or any other group, idiotic, but dont make the mistake of thinking you are better or smarter than anyone else either.

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:38am

      All I want to get across is that you older tea party folks should understand that the younger generation is craving leadership right now, and we have none. Unfortunately, the tea party isn‘t an option for most of us since it’s been hijacked by the religious right. All the young people want is someone who cares about the same things we do. Jobs for our friends (I‘m employed but most of my friends aren’t), no internet laws (because we’re all nerds), and less wars to fight in. Thats why Ron Paul gets such a massive spike with us, whereas we see Bachman or Perry as polarizing figures that are just going to make the Left/Right divide much worse.

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:39am

      Oh, and thank you for your understanding Trainer. It‘s good to see we’re not dismissed outright.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:21am

      so basically, they are lib hippies minus the long hair. I point these types out all the time to my two pre-teen daughters. I let them know that one day they will look for a man to marry. When they do, stay far away from these weak minded cowardly sort. These are the type (like the meterosexuals) that if threatened, would piss down their own leg, and run off, leaving you to fend for your self.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:54am

      Scrub

      Why not attend a TEA party event. maybe then you will see some group you can fall in with. At 8/28 in DC i did see many of your age group, but not enough. most were playing frisbee in the surrounding parks. Please stop putting the onus on the Conservative Older Generation, the DEMOCRAT blame game does not work here. I look forward to seeing You at a TEA Party rally.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:58am

      My understanding is that a Hipsters windpipe can be caved in using the slightest of force.

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    • pavnvet
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:58am

      @ scrubpuppy- First, thank you for your service to this country. Secondly, you are right that many of us old folks sat by and let this happen.. We were too busy letting, “the other guy” watch the store.

      Being in a managerial position, I always said to my subordinates that there were three type of people in the world. Those that made things happen. Those that watched things happen. And, those that wondered what happened. Today, as it pertains to politics, I have finally taken my own advice and am trying to make things happen. However, as evidenced by the number of eligible voters that do not go to the polls, there are still too many that will sit around and wonder what happened.

      The old cliche that the younger generation is the country’s future, is no less true today than it was fifty years ago We must do everything we can not to paint every young person as a liberal that thinks only with their heart. The answer is engagement and understanding, not estrangement and ridicule.

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    • NO YOU CANT
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:24am

      Hipsters, you have been lied to. Obama is for more central government. One law for everyone. A true Liberal should want choice.
      We are a Constitutional Republic- and WE are the original revolution baby!
      Less Federal gov means more freedom of choice.
      Californians can be Socialists & Floridians can be Conservative.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:37am

      Voted Obama because it was “COOL”
      black man in the WH, “COOL”
      We’ll make History “COOL
      He’ll give us free stuff “COOL”
      Ain’t so “COOL” no mo..
      Unless your Hollyweird, then he’s still “COOL”
      Remember the “Weirds Pledge” ?? “COOL”

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 11:49am

      @SRUBPUPPY

      Thank you for reminding me of what I thought 40 years ago. Thank you for your service in the military. Anyone who has served has paid the cover charge. Take us to task. We need you to join the TEA Party. Not everyone is a far right wing Christian. Some are not Christians at all.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:37pm

      If these hipster dufuses really did value intelligence, then why didn’t they vet Obama in 2008? “Dreams of my Father” was likely written by Bill Ayers. Obama voted “present” 130 times in his brief tenure in the Senate. He believed the troop surge in Iraq would not only fail be increase the violence. No executive experience. No real experience in the private sector. Maybe skinny jeans cut off the circulation to the brain?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Scrubpuppy? Our fault things are like this? So have you spoken up against affirmative action in your schools? You went to the tea parties in 2008 to demand government rein in spending and looked at taxes sensibly? You’ve demanded your economics professors educate you about the sustainability of entitlement programmes in this country? You’ve spoken to your parents about their home loans and whether they bought “too much house” for their ability to pay it off? You did your part right? You Know why you’re craving leadership Scrubpuppy? Because your enabled, entitled generation doesn’t foster leaders, it fosters “social justice”. It expects goverment to do “things” for them. It demands government stop “bullying” in school, pay for student loans, pay for healthcare..ad nauseum. I read recently that employers have a difficult time with young employees because they get bored with jobs easily. They expect to be promoted quickly and compensated handsomely for entry level jobs. As a result, they’re transient jobs and leave jobs frequently and quickly. Additionally, because they’re coddled throughout school, they have poor problem solving skills. You demand leaders Scrubpuppy? Your generation is bereft of them because your teachers and peers failed you. You “young people” are more concerned about a homosexual’s “rights” than building careers and legacies. Please don‘t insult our intelligence by quoting exceptions like Zuckerman he’s an aberration not t

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:32pm

      “Tea parties hijacked by the religious right” Scrubpuppy? Really? When did fiscal responsibility, smaller government and the end of arbitrary taxation become religious themes? You’ve never gone to a tea party have you sport? You’re just bleating the soundbytes that the marxstream media and your indoctrinated peers shoved down your throat. You are utterly clueless about the tea parties. Then you demand leadership? Clearly you like others thinking for you…you like being led.

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    • dawgGoodie
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:34pm

      It will pay off when they don’t vote, which they often don’t. These are the US versions of the thugs in England who have been lead to believe that they are entitled to welfare without effort. They have been taught this not by the government, but by their families as the welfare state now span generations. People in New Orleans who waited for government checks instead of leaving felt that their city “would take care of them”. Two weeks in the Super Dome and how did that go? These are the Obama supporters and for the sake of American let’s hope they stay at home.

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    • Hemingway in Cuba
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Mormons often want prospective converts to pray about “feeling” truth. Maybe Hispters are prime candidates for a couple of missionaries to show up for discussions.

      Isn’t this what most of those who vote with their feelings – there are no facts, despite the proof against them – but they feel that it is true. Sounds like the Obama 20008 campaign in a nutshell.

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    • Ignatius J. Reilly
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 7:45pm

      @scrubpuppy

      run for office if you want to lead. any office will do. it’s a ground up sort of thing, innit.

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on August 26, 2011 at 11:18am

      SUZ, you’re exactly right. “Well I don‘t FEEL like it’s fair!!” Even though, truth be told, it‘s what’s logical and IS that matters.

      We need to teach some self-discipline- I think these whiners should all read this.. — http://markamerica.com/2011/08/22/a-time-for-self-discipline/

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  • teapartyconservatism
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:12am

    Wouldn’t it be great if you could undo the laws Obama passed, cancel the debt he caused, and return trillions to our Treasury? Well you can!

    Politically disregarded law, Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”

    Exempting a citizen (the minimum requisite then was US birth to a US father) from being a natural born citizen, proves they are not equal. Only US birth to US citizen parents (plural) is greater, thus defining a natural born citizen; as confirmed by Supreme Court binding precedent in Minor v. Happersett, 1874.[1]

    Obama’s Kenyan father precluded his eligibility! Impeachment isn’t for a usurper, it ignores the damage and the Senate may not cooperate. The solution is to prosecute Obama (aka Barry Soetoro, Harrison J. Bounel, Barack Soebarkah) for using an alleged fraudulent Social Security number and birth certificate to usurp the Presidency.[2]

    That way if he resigns and is later pardoned, we can still undo the damage. Demand your state and federal elected officials prosecute Obama now!

    That makes sense to me. What do you think?

    1. TeaPartyConservatism, “Obama Is Not An Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com/ (8/18/2011).

    2. Dr. Orly Taitz, JD., “Obama’s fraud, 3 hour Roth radio interview,” http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/5172 (8/18/2011).

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    • Cat
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 7:19am

      @TEAPARTYCONSERVATISM

      The tunnel is deep my friend.
      Make sure you have ALL lights on before stepping inside.
      The connections are wide and tight.
      However, there is a rat, ratting on the rats.
      It’s interesting, but the dots do connect.
      Leo Lyon Zagami (”Google it”)
      Some think he’s a loony.
      Maybe, but it is odd that he understands the dreadful colors that I’ve seen up close.
      Listen carefully, and listen with a strong heart.

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    • Edct
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:48am

      Your are right about nobama, but there is no one in Washington with enough guts or patriotism to save this country…they are all political whores who want to keep their power and money at the expense of the future America…that is the sad truth.

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    • Cat
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:02am

      @EDCT

      In the winter of 1984, while sitting at a twelve place oak and marble dining table, under three chandeliers worth more than my home at the time, the children around me chattered.
      Their words were concise, cold and calculative.

      In the presences of those children, I could merely listen.
      A handsome boy, who, as a tot, saluted in the spirit of his father’s funeral, discussed odd, unmanned aero devices and foreign borders.
      A chubby boy, who beat his neighbor to death with a golf club, discussed a national plan to care for the sick.
      A beautiful girl, who would soon control more property around the world then anyone at the table, discussed a curious advertising campaign that would accomplish nothing except generate revenue.
      A boy, who would marry into influence, discussed offering war machines to Arabians in exchange for access to even greater influence inside the Vatican.
      A petite girl, who’s great, great grandfather completed Place Vendôme, discussed the development of a one million square foot shopping mall in north America.
      I felt abandoned.

      Those were the children of the rich and the powerful.
      None at that somber table saw themselves that way.
      The Kennedys, Smiths, Shrivers, Hiltons, Zagamis and Bourbon-Condés, were describing the future.

      And … It all came true.

      Want to take control?

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:11am

    obama and michelle are welfare king and queen..

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:10am

    Hipsters, hippies, hypocrites…They’re all liberal loons.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:35am

      The prog campaign managers know perfectly well that their voters are emotional FOLLOWERS. They appeal to their emotions and sense of belonging. That’s how they win elections.

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:09am

    Hope you NYC hipsters know how to swim.

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  • powedj
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:57am

    Hipsters are those idiots who went hiking on the Afganistan/Iran border.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:13am

      good point………

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:52am

      You mean Iraq/Iran, right?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:45am

      You can see what Bama has done for THEM….

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:26pm

      No…Scrubpuppy believes you’ll find the people to lead in places like California where “medical marijuana” is doled out to those great numbers of pain-afflicted college students that all of a sudden appeared on the landscape. The same bunch that spend more time with their head down looking at their iPods rather than looking up at the world. The same bunch that believe “texting” someone that you want to break up with is preferred because then you don’t have to look at them or deal with their being upset. Personal responsibility is a quality of leadership..unfortunately it‘s a quality that’s being bred out of Scrubpuppy’s generation and replaced with “social justice” and “let the other guy do the right thing”.

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  • Slayer
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:56am

    Limbaugh asked a great question the other day:

    Do you know anyone who didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 who WOULD vote for him now?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:17am

      They are getting hard to find now that they don’t have Bush to kick around anymore

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:14am

      Socialist‘s are Socialist’s FIRST, DEMOCRAT”S are Socialist’s FIRST.

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    • cosette
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 11:41am

      @ Republocorp- Not for lack of trying,but it’s getting sooooooooo old!. P.S. Maynard G Kreps! LOL!!!! You’re dating yourself as am I. LOVED that show!!!!!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:21pm

      COSETTE seems like yesterday…..

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  • Slayer
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:55am

    Three years of Obama – the VERY BEST the Democrats have ever had to offer – has given us:
    
- $14 trillion deficit
    - US in a depression
    - ruined economy
    - US credit rating downgraded
    
- ignores the War Powers Act
    - gas/food/clothing prices skyrocketing
    - 5 wars, one with a record death toll
    - foreign policy disasters

    - raiding the public pension fund to avoid the debt ceiling

    - lost 800+ seats for his own party
    
- poll numbers in the toilet
    
- 44 million Americans on food stamps
    - Over half the states suing to get out of Obamacare. 

    - 1 in 4 mortgages under water
    
- ATF gunrunning scandal unfolding
    ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:09am

      As a hipster of days gone by might say:
      Right on!
      I can relate!
      Dig it!
      That‘s where my head’s at!
      I’m in the groove!

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:31am

      Oh Chuck…you get an E for effort. Just call everyone Bro and you’ll be fine.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:03am

      I‘m pickin’ up what you‘re puttin’ down, bro.

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  • discardofevil
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:50am

    Obama voters = illegals, dead, dogs, cats, baby killers, global warming freaks, unemployed you owe me motto types, socialists, commies, and marxists. Did I leave anyone out?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:20am

      Maynard G. Krebs

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:54am

      Wow, haven’t heard that name in years, but it fits.

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    • OLDBIKEFIXER
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:10am

      You forgot Morons, Idiots, “Stoners”,and adults who still live with their parents.

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    • cosette
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:12am

      Discard, As an avid animal lover and ardent devotee of Dogs 101& Cats101, I must take exception to your grouping said animals in with your long and excellent list. Do you know that a dog or cat has the cognitive ability of a toddler? Obama supporters? Not so much. On behalf of my precious kitty I will accept your apology. I understand the offense was unintended.

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    • Applehead
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:04am

      SCRUBPUPPY, I’m with you on the Bush stuff and I at the time thought he was a very good President but my opinion has changed! He did everything you said he did! The good preacher or minister was correct also on how most in their 20′s bc more conservative. I also believe after the indoctrination wears off and you get out and get a job and see how your tax money is spent. When you get older and have children its likely that your opinion on religion will change also and you will see the importance of God in your life and understand the closer you stay to him the more peace you will have personally! The teaching of Jesus Christ are what keeps us from doing the evils of other religions bc of the fear and love you have for him!!! When your young it‘s not cool to love God but as you get older you will see that you can’t do nothing without him! The Devil takes advantage of the young mind bc its easy to deceive and hasn’t made the mistakes that are some hard learning experiences that makes you grown in wisdom! Thank You for your service to our country!!!

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:37am

    Disappointed because the free government ride is over. Mommy and whoever daddy is have lost their job too. The freaky art gallery, the gay club, the thieving charity and the yellow rag newspaper and magazines have closed down. No more free money for morons. The wacko donors are broke. BOO HOO! This time do not vote to prove that you are not a racist, vote to prove you are not an idiot – RICK PERRY.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Your last sentence was as thought provoking as it was funny. Should be a bumper sticker.

      “This time do not vote to prove that you are not a racist, vote to prove you are not an idiot”.

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  • SacredHonor1776
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:28am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Ij-9TWBXw&feature=channel_video_title

    Is this guy a hipster?

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    • timel0rd
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:42am

      I laughed when he appeared on the screen and matched the Urban Dictionary definition to a T. I agreed with most of what he said actually, aside from his insane views of the military and Israel.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 5:47am

      I was going to watch it but the ‘safety mode’ was on and wouldn’t let me watch it without turning it off. But from what timelord posted, he sounds like a Paul voter.

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  • SavingtheRepublic.com
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:27am

    ~~^^~~^^~~
    Hipsters are snotty wanna be hippies, the children of hippies the entitlement generation who are now raising zombies of their own. Doesnt really matter who or what they are called and whether or not they will be there to re-elect Emperor Obama. They will get swayed to him again when he starts with the heavy blame Bush, GOP, conservatives, Wall St and TEA party game.

    Lets assume though he doesnt get them back, again it doesnt matter b/c there are so many uneducated, unengaged, nanny state benefactors out there that will get duped into re-electing the Emperor. Anyone in opposition is demonized and the in-fighting has already started btwn those of us with a grasp on reality and the obamapaulbots. Its the Emperors dream, while the obamapaulbots are demonizing anyone who isnt on board with the Paul doctrine the Emperor will be there sweeping the gimme gimme generation off their feet right to the voting booth with more lies and empty promises. http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • snyper99
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 5:21am

      you are very spot on,and thats the scary part, i bring up current political issues at work , and 80% of anyone listening either does not believe me or they dont have a clue as to what im talking about.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:20am

    the hipster is your typical spoiled brat who grew up playing soccer and trying to remember all of mommys boyfrnds names..lol dangerous lil imps

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  • Cold War Vet
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:15am

    I think of a hipster as one of those street people who have these big, nasty mats of hair full of dirt and bugs that has not been washed for a year. And a stench so overpowering that it could make you gag, even though you are 20 feet away. Wallowing in the gutter, begging for change, talking to the sidewalk and howling at the moon. Or perhaps a troll on the Blaze.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 3:05am

      You got it way off. If anything, hipsters are predominantly metrosexuals who value their image highly. I think you mean hippies, but that description doesn’t fit any hippies I know either. Ah well.

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  • Cold War Vet
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:10am

    They got the empty suit they deserved. The most worthless, and most damaging president in our full American history. The president so bad that he even made Carter look good! The outrage! The unconstitutional usurpation of an Idi Amin-style dictator wanna-be! The lies! The total lack of transparency (a massive lie) and the crooked backroom deals! The theft! The corruption!

    Our great American Republic has suffered enough! Whaddya say? You wanna join the good guys and save our great republic? Live free with opportunity and some prosperity? Or do you just want to take the easy way out, and wallow in the cesspool of the liberal-progressive sewer?

    http://neuezeitgeist.wordpress.com

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  • Enciloon
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:07am

    I consider myself a hipster. Their definition is a bit off though. I look at myself as hip and cool but more because I haven’t worked in almost 2 decades and get the taxpayer to pay for most of my lifestyle. Most of my friends are similar minded. They also don’t talk about the part where part of being a hipster is to have disdain for those that want us to work to bring in money for our lifestyles. This is a major part of being a hipster and leads to us posting our venom towards baggers

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    • wisehiney
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:48am

      You call that a lifestyle? Happiness comes from achievement, not sloth. You will find out the hard way that you get out of EVERYTHING exactly what you put into it. Wallow on.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:59am

      @wise: i think you’re missing the whole tongue-in-cheek tone there.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:17am

      I you yourself think you are cool and hip, you probably aren’t.

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  • Riccy102
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:06am

    What the 20 something, NY (spoiled) Liberal kids want, doesn’t exist in reality. That guy they were taught about by their Lib teachers is just a figment of their imaginations. The guy who carries a daisy instead of a gun, and makes love instead of war. Maybe the “hipsters” should all just pursue a career in writing for crazy Lib cartoons and other types of passive media. That way they can show off their intellect, and it won’t cost the rest of us. An Obama presidency is = to 4 yrs in purgatory.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:58am

      Hard work makes people mean spirited, greedy , selfish ,puritannical, and rabidly right wing.How else to rationalize your drone/slave like existence? Long live the 21st c enlightened nanny state a coming to the USA..Entitlements galore-and less work in a highly tecnologically advanced civilization!

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Rose Ellen, you are delusional. You are describing yourself, not the hard working citizens of this country. Where in the hell do you think the tax dollars come from that Obama and the rest of the Democrats are handing out as “entitlements”? Clearly, you are the mean spirited, greedy people. Shame on you!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:37pm

      LOL…Rose-Ellen…that’s great material..use it in your stand-up act. But put the bong down first sweetie.

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  • stripe
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:05am

    If all this Hope and Change are so good for me how come my butt hurts?

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:03am

    Hipster?So that is what they call Idiots now days.I Never can keep up with the new PC tag lines.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:00am

    It’s funny how reality gets in the way sometimes. People without jobs, people losing jobs, graduates desperate for jobs, apology tours, gold sky high, oil sky high, a devastated housing market, cars that cost 45K instead of what might be expected at 20 plus. All those old cars and car parts gone with the govt. plans that didn’t work. Yes, you can take a somewhat younger, biracial, relatively attractive, big smile, smooth talker in a cool suit one year and look at him a few years later and say “Oh, gosh, what were we thinking in 2008?”

    Surprise!

    He and his followers from Chicago (Illinois is in a financial mess) don’t seem to be able to run a business let alone a country. Sending them back to their academic jobs and protection worked for them. Having them in charged didn’t work for the rest of us. Let’s worry less about pretty speechifying and more about survival and thriving again.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:22am

      You forgot college graduates sueing because the can’t get a job, or have a job at McDonald’s.

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    • Applehead
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:07am

      The states that are messed up the most are all run by liberals! Thats all the evidence you need that Liberalism/Marxism/Progressivism are a lie!

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  • mharry860
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:48am

    So by the description Hipsters are douche bags. Funny how the lingo changes with time.

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    • Johnny916
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:58am

      Yes! I was a hipster in my teen days. Very fun but I don’t miss it.

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:03am

      Another word for airheads.

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    • kindling
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:20am

      I always thought Hipsters were old people that can still go out and dance and party. The youth even steals titles now.

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    • Johnny916
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:26am

      You can say Hipsters are like beatnicks and hippies.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:23am

      What’s the saying? They’re only air heads because someone broke the vacuum?

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:47am

    Hipsters=sheep

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  • MartinLutherBling
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:43am

    Dat be da butt, Bob!

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  • drhunt
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:40am

    Hope and Change is now Fear and Loathing…it just takes some people a little longer to realize it.

    I’ll ask the trolls that will no doubt respond…a rhetorical question.

    If you were the POTUS and wanted to collapse the free-market system here in the US, and turn it into a big France…but do it without the majority catching on until too late…would you do anything any different than what Barry Soetero has already done?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:44am

      Absolutely! First I would…no he did that. Then I would…… no he did that. But then I would get my wife to…. crap – they did that too. I guess he is just one step ahead of us.

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    • drhunt
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:49am

      82nd-Hooah!

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  • randy
    Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:39am

    The Hipsters deserve Obama

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    • vennoye
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:58am

      Yes they do!! They thought he was the latest fad american idol……..they knew nothing about politics or how things operated…..he was just cool!! Now they have learned that his policies have given their age group the largest unemployment rate in history…..not quite so cool any more!! Still aren’t quite to reality yet, but then the road to 2012 is a long one!! Am afraid they are going to grow up a lot between now and then.

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    • Enciloon
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:10am

      He lied to us about some things. One of my friends works at burger king and he led him to believe that he would give him a new job and make him rich. While he has taken some money from those that work and given to my friend, he still works at burger king. I tell him all the time he should quit and collect welfare as I do.

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