Moment of Epiphany

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez earns the first ever lifetime emeritus Political Douchebag award.

Why he earned the award:

Besides destroying the Venezuelan economy, polarizing Venezuelan society and singlehandedly destroying the only enterprise that actually did something for Venezuela, aka PDVSA, homeboy has taken it upon himself to quiet down any and all dissent in the media.

As it stands now, it’s practically a capital offense to say anything negative about the guy. He recently shutdown a cable TV station for airing views that were contrary to his.

Today, Chavez clearly demonstrates that he is an uneducated buffoon in the fashion that only a douchebag can.

Globovision (article in Spanish) has reported that Chavez said he will defeat the “Yankee Empire and fascism anywhere it exists” which must mean that he is planning on stepping down or something.

Now, Chavez is trying to take over the banking system, which is the last remaining bastion out of his control.

Enjoy your award.

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I think I need to thank today’s recipient for 2 things:

1. Reminding me that I needed to add a “Social Media Douchebag” award category
2. Proving my point for me

So, thanks dude.

Why this person wins today’s award:

I sent out a tweet today, sure, it was snarky, but it was in response to the hypocrisy that I see in the #tcot movement on Twitter. In case you don’t know what #tcot is, it stands for “top conservatives on twitter” or some such other douchebaggy name like that. I don’t know what it takes to be a top conservative, but the whole sentence makes me think of things you do to preserve meats and whatnot, but I digress.

Here’s my original tweet:

Is it a requirement that you be a hypocrite to be one of these #tcot tea bagging douchebags?

Here’s a link to my tweet

For the record, these same #tcot people were the ones that last year were saying that anyone that disagreed with the president was an America hating communist or something like that. These same people, now do nothing more than disagree with President Obama.

I may be wrong, but if you’re the same people that were angry that people were disagreeing with President Bush, then shouldn’t you also support and agree with President Obama?

Enter today’s Social Media Douchebag award winner: Drew McDaniel

He “retweets” which is to say he resends my message, only it’s not my message. This is what he sends:

RT @rafaelmarquez: Is it a requirement that you be a hypocrite to be one of these #tlot Democrat “D-bagging” douchebags?

Here’s the link to his tweet.

Proper “retweet” etiquette calls for not changing the meaning of the original tweet. Meaning, he can edit out some vowels etc. to make my tweet shorter, but it’s really bad form and douchebaggy to completely change the meaning of the tweet.

I immediately sent him this message:

@drew_mcdaniel Dude, that’s not what I tweeted, I’d appreciate a proper retweet, thanks! #tlot

link to tweet

I haven’t heard anything from the guy since.

So, I’m awarding him a Social Media Douchebag of the day award for completely changing the meaning of my message, crediting me with his nonsense, ignoring proper retweet etiquette and not properly retracting his gibberish.

I’ll give myself an honorary mention for this whole incident as well.

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