I donno, TBogg, maybe I need hearing aids. Far as I can tell, the silence is deafening.

Please liberalz, come watch our movie so you can accurately make fun of it.

Better yet, see it a lot, and make LOTS of fun of it!

PLEEEEZ see our movie! Tea baggers are too stupid to find what multiplex it’s playing in!

Marketing is more blind than Madame Justice. And far more stupid, apparently.

Mind you, the only reason I’ve been commenting here is to be develop a certain rapport, a camaraderie if you will, so as to better ask the very important question: Have you ever considered a really fine set of encyclopedias?

Who is John Galt?

Flash mob failure?

Then again, what did they expect from a bunch of delusional “Rugged Individualists”?

Aaaaand the second version of that ad is up in the same spot!

I’m clicking on it like mad just to drain the dickwad’s pockets further.

You can tell that they don’t expect to make money off the film itself — they’re already marketing the tie-ins. (Be Dagny Taggart and get the Rearden metal slave bracelet!)

I never thought of this before, but it occurs to me that galt must be a combination of gall and guilt.

Whoever is running their PPC campaign has money to burn.

I can’t wait for it,
And this might just be me now,
To see Asshat Shrugged.

Have you ever considered a really fine set of encyclopedias?

Which volume goes Galt?

Or the porno version, Atlas Shagged, whose main characters are Rank Hardon and Tagme Bagger.

Or perhaps that’s the Austin Powers version.

I imagine that most of the potential fans have not been in a theater in 30 years, and find handicapped seating very limited.

Most will just have to wait until AMC broadcasts this in about 2023.

If they live that long.

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And so on, and so on….

That’s a sure sign of something. (Lack of interested viewers, mostly.)

I doubt it will ever be on AMC, but it should be on DVD by about the day after tomorrow.

I looked at the ad. They want $159 for that clunky piece of crap?

It looks like something you would find at a street vendor marked at $8, and you’d argue them down to $3 before deciding you didn’t know any women you disliked enough to give that horribly ugly uncomfortable piece of crap to, and walk away, while the barker cursed at you for wasting their time. And it’s made of aluminum? Isn’t that a really poor metallic choice for jewelry? Won’t it end up irritating the wearer’s skin? Ah well, it will probably fall apart well before it gets to that point.

They don’t mention the country of manufacture, so it’s probably made in China.

It’s actually on at the AMC near us, but we declined the request to attend.

Comments on the Atlas Shrugged website hawking the bracelet are interesting. Many complain about the crappy design of the clasp. And these are the Randroids who actually ponied up $159 to buy this piece of shit. Obviously, the gonifs who are selling this thing are not troubled by altruism or concern for the parasites they are screwing.

So, the faux Randians are being robbed by the real ones.

That’s poetic right there.

“John Galt is coming”

Is that another Atlas Teabagged advertisement on my screen? I am doing a screen save. If it is a real ad, Great.

But it could be a Breitbart forged ad. I am doing a screen save. When I boot up this Post from another tab, I get the Kitchen Tune-up ad.

Libertarian Canadian just told me she supports Canadians who don’t vote because voting “supports a rotten system”. People not voting have given us the a corrupt rightwing government for two terms already. The con government is dismantling the foundations of our society. This cow claims to be progressive and feminist but she won’t vote for an opposition party – there’s even a leftwing one doing well in the polls – or even buy health insurance (public, cheapest health insurance in the world) until she needs it. I rarely need to see the doctor, haven’t had an operation in years but I faithfully pay my health insurance premiums as I do employment insurance, because a) I understand I may need it and b) I appreciate the benefit of doing so for the society.

I think I loathe libertarians more than I do conservatives.

I just noticed that the World Atlas on my coffee table is by Rand McNally. Coincidence?

Jenny @10 Atlas Shelved is more applicable right now I think.

People who bought this piece of crap also bought-

* Sarah Palin is a serious Presidential candidate
* Obama was born in Kenya
* Taxcuts create jobs
* Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

In other words, the Going Galt folks know a lucrative vein of rubies to mine when they see it.

Lesley, I assume that by now you and many other non-sociopathic Canadarians have laughed – bitterly, perhaps – over this?
A new past horror dredged up with every click!
However, I’m… afraid… for that kitten.

Your link isn’t working but I am familiar with shitharperdid.ca

There’s another web site Angry Bairds. Baird is one of Harper’s cabinet ministers. Looks like he is not going to be re-elected in his riding. A couple of cabinet ministers appear to be at risk, could be more.

Hahaha, I wish I didn’t know about Angry Bairds – like I need another time waster, despite its educational merits.

Sorry about that dicey link. Don’t remember where I got it originally, and it worked in pre-post test. Probably something intended as a mirror site, maybe for U.S. use. Anyhoo, your direct .ca link seems to work fine down in these here parts.

For fifteen years Harper has demonized and vilified liberals. Now he’s begging for Liberal votes and putting up faux pages like liberalsforharper.ca, piggybacking on that other great organization, jewsforhitler.com.

Hell, The King’s Speech is on DVD already. They make more money (and make it faster) that way.

The marketing angle here is not to find a wide base (though they could probably be happy with that if it happened) but to find the narrow base of real suckers who can be counted on to shell out dependably for junk that, in concept and execution, is somewhere below the standard set by the Franklin Mint. It’s not too different from the reasoning behind magazine ads for nose-hair clippers: the people who respond to them become a database for other wretched crap made by third-world slave labor.

And many rugged individualists will be trying desperately to boost a copy from their local Target or WallyWorld because it belongs to them, damn it.

They say it’s “American made,” but that could be somewhere in South America. [on edit] No – sorry it’s “proudly made in the U.S.A.”

What made me giggle is that they seem to be going for some sort of snob appeal by noting that it’s made of “Aluminium.” I’ve never read AS (Anthem was plenty for me, thanks), but isn’t it supposed to be ‘Murcan? If so, why the Brit spelling?