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FaustianQ posted:Wow, this is really starting to sound amazing. I'm imagining monetary support, each as a card that supplies you with cash each round to spend on certain things, with restrictions on "platform/policy" cards, which change how you accrue votes and electoral support. Maybe you pander to the base to get the votes, picking up a host of "liabilities" that can hurt you down the road but allows you to pick a more optimized set of platform cards, or compromise with a punch of monetary support cards, narrowing your potential for liabilities but forcing you to spend like crazy to pick up the slack in base appeal. I'll throw in an idea or two, since this sounds kinda fun. I'm picturing a standard Monopoly-style board, with the four sides representing The South, The East Coast, the West Coast, and the Midwest, and as you campaign around the board, you land on different events or TV shows or whatever. The events could be bought using the "resources" posted above, like money or crazy points. If you choose to skip the event, your opponents all get a chance to bid for the event and one of them can win it instead. Each event would have different values, like a NASCAR event could be won by sponsoring a car for money, or by giving the opening prayer with Appeal. As the players finish circling around the board you add up the events you've bought to determine the poll leader. Do X amount of rounds. You can have similar things like Chance and Community Chest that can go either way. "A kid with an iPhone catches your campaign vehicle running a red light and posts it to YouTube" or "your libel suit against MSNBC is successful" or something like that.
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thuly posted:I REALLY want to make this game.
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Limbaugh is trying to claim that people praising Colbert replacing Letterman is a blatant example of statist groupthink and that anyone who isn't praising the decision is being ostracized, and implying that he is the only person in the media not blowing Colbert currently. Also he made sure to point out how little he cares about this thing he spent upwards of five minutes talking about.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Limbaugh is trying to claim that people praising Colbert replacing Letterman is a blatant example of statist groupthink and that anyone who isn't praising the decision is being ostracized, and implying that he is the only person in the media not blowing Colbert currently. Wow, he must be really upset CBS passed him over for the gig.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Limbaugh is trying to claim that people praising Colbert replacing Letterman is a blatant example of statist groupthink and that anyone who isn't praising the decision is being ostracized, and implying that he is the only person in the media not blowing Colbert currently. Sounds like it occurred to him in the middle of a rant how dumb it is to care about who replaces David Letterman. NO ONES MAD ABOUT THIS WHY IS NO ONE ELSE MAD ABOUT THIS!?!?! I would venture a guess that he also blames Colbert and TDS for his marginalization.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Limbaugh is trying to claim that people praising Colbert replacing Letterman is a blatant example of statist groupthink and that anyone who isn't praising the decision is being ostracized, and implying that he is the only person in the media not blowing Colbert currently. I'm a little bit upset about the move because I think that Colbert was doing some excellent work where he was and because I really like Craig Ferguson's show and wanted him to get the job.
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It's pretty funny considering that Letterman (most likely) hated Limbaugh's guts. See: Limbaugh on Letterman talking about how ugly Hilary Clinton is circa 1993 or 1994. I think it's been taken off of YouTube so if you can't find it: Limbaugh goes off about how grotesque and ugly Hilary is and Letterman coldly says that Limbaugh is the pinnacle of human physique. Limbaugh lost his mind
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BREAD AND CIRCUSES Your generous social programs have made you a hit with the voters, but come at the expense of worker motivation and productivity. Voter popularity +6 GDP -2 Taxes +2% STAND YOUR GROUND You take a hard line against gun control legislation, increasing your popularity in rural districts but harming your support in cities and within academic circles. Voter popularity +2 Crime -1 Press -1 Global image -1
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Can we seriously just make a "D&D: The Board Game" thread? Not because I'm sick of reading it here, but because I would read the poo poo out of it. 
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Phone posted:It's pretty funny considering that Letterman (most likely) hated Limbaugh's guts. See: Limbaugh on Letterman talking about how ugly Hilary Clinton is circa 1993 or 1994. The video is gone, but the transcript exists http://www.oocities.org/davidletterman82/RushLimbaugh1993Transcript.html
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Phone posted:It's pretty funny considering that Letterman (most likely) hated Limbaugh's guts. See: Limbaugh on Letterman talking about how ugly Hilary Clinton is circa 1993 or 1994. He tried to recover and get back on track and then Letterman shut him down again by interrupting and asking "Do you ever just say to yourself 'I am just full of hot gas'?". Limbaugh hasn't done an interview or appearance in a hostile or even neutral venue in the 21 years since then.
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FMguru posted:I was watching that night. Limbaugh gasped like a fish for about 20 seconds while the audience roared in approval. It's not the same incident but there was also a time that Limbaugh guest hosted on Pat Sajak's short-lived talk show. It's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w
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I'm super pissed Colbert is going to do boring late night bullshit I will never watch. Colbert Report is freaking amazing.
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Gozinbulx posted:I'm super pissed Colbert is going to do boring late night bullshit I will never watch. Colbert Report is freaking amazing. I think the first week after Stephen leaves, they should just run the entire show as normal. Same graphics, theme song, title, material, everything down to the letter as much as possible with Jessica Williams as host.
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Colbert should offer his show to Rush. Suggesting 'The Colbert Report with Rush Limbaugh' would be a great ego troll.
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skaboomizzy posted:I think the first week after Stephen leaves, they should just run the entire show as normal. Same graphics, theme song, title, material, everything down to the letter as much as possible with Jessica Williams as host. Oh man this would be great.
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skaboomizzy posted:I think the first week after Stephen leaves, they should just run the entire show as normal. Same graphics, theme song, title, material, everything down to the letter as much as possible with Jessica Williams as host. This but Aasif Mandvi instead of Jessica Williams.
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skaboomizzy posted:I think the first week after Stephen leaves, they should just run the entire show as normal. Same graphics, theme song, title, material, everything down to the letter as much as possible with Jessica Williams as host.
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I really want Jessica Williams in this role for just two bits: - "I'm colorblind. People tell me I'm white, and I believe them." and 
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FMguru posted:I was watching that night. Limbaugh gasped like a fish for about 20 seconds while the audience roared in approval. quote:LETTERMAN: Now, how does that happen? Because not everybody can get on a radio station at 16. My god please tell me someone can find footage of this interview. edit: quote:LETTERMAN: And today you have friends who are athletes, friends who are in sports, football, basketball. quote:LIMBAUGH: No. Let me tell you about Charles Barkley. He's become the best at what he is and what he does. He did it without any help, he did it overcoming a lot of obstacles, and he admires others who have done that, and, of course, I am one, and so we have this natural affinity for one another. We have a lot of things -- well, I've overcome my obstacles too, and am still in the process of overcoming them -- some in this audience, it sounds like -- but that's all right, that's all right. I honestly can't tell if he is just a really good troll or just so encased in this delusional fantasy world of his own fabrication. esto es malo fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Holy loving poo poo, can anyone reproduce that footage of the Limbaugh interview. I love watching that fat gently caress squirm.
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Man, all this time I thought he at least bootstrapped his way to a successful radio career. I didn't know his dad owned a loving radio station.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Man, all this time I thought he at least bootstrapped his way to a successful radio career. I didn't know his dad owned a loving radio station. Even with a rich dad, wasn't he on food stamps at one point?
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isildur posted:If she claimed, with a straight face, to actually *be* the Stephen Colbert character, I'd watch the hell out of that. That'd be the best way to take over, just spend the first week being Steven Colbert in every way.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:That'd be the best way to take over, just spend the first week being Steven Colbert in every way. Just have Steve Carrell take over for a week and do this. I would piss myself. mr. mephistopheles posted:Man, all this time I thought he at least bootstrapped his way to a successful radio career. I didn't know his dad owned a loving radio station. Very very very few people who believe in bootstrapping actually bootstrapped themselves. Usually the ones who pull themselves up know its a loving nightmare to actually do it and try to help others Rexicon1 fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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This article in Glenn Beck's rag sheet The Blaze is amazing for its pretty much even handed treatment of some startling facts about the Nevada almost range war this weekend. Some organizers of the militia showdown were going to ask the women folk to be the first to get shot, if the shooting started; dead women on international news would look the best for their purposes.quote:Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack revealed on Monday that he and other organizers who traveled to Clark County, Nev., to support Cliven Bundy during his land dispute with the feds planned to put women on the front lines in case the “rogue federal officers” started shooting. Women's rights right there ya'll.
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Glenn Beck is like a libertarian on Reddit who got his own TV show. He's crazy, but I find him endlessly amusing.
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radical meme posted:This article in Glenn Beck's rag sheet The Blaze is amazing for its pretty much even handed treatment of some startling facts about the Nevada almost range war this weekend. Some organizers of the militia showdown were going to ask the women folk to be the first to get shot, if the shooting started; dead women on international news would look the best for their purposes. What's the problem? Women and Cattle are both his property anyways.
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You have to be really twisted to wind up as a former sheriff in Arizona, home of Joe Arpaio.
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So the women would be some sort of "human shields". I wonder if anyone has ever thought of this tactic before?
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joeburz posted:I honestly can't tell if he is just a really good troll or just so encased in this delusional fantasy world of his own fabrication. I can't listen to Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin without getting incoherently angry, but at least with my local talking head (Jay Weber in Milwaukee) I'm almost certain he knows he's lying. He's not totally immersed in the bubble, and so when he pulls out the lies his tone of voice shifts and betrays it. Like when saying the UN IPCC council on climate change are liberal loons but the discredited hack scientist who started a competing N(non-governmental)IPCC with generous donations from oil companies is just as scientific as they are, even more. It's blatantly obvious he's bullshitting and he doesn't care, he's just a cowardly prick with no intellectual scruples. icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Was reading up about Limbaugh's early life on Wikipedia when I came across this in the controversies section.quote:On the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, Limbaugh said, "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time."[79][80] Same poo poo, pretty much! Also I have to really question the integrity of our nation's leaders if in college they willingly allowed themselves to be smeared with feces!  But it's really indicative of Limbaugh's whole mentality when "good time" translates to "needlessly inflicting misery upon others". Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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radical meme posted:This article in Glenn Beck's rag sheet The Blaze is amazing for its pretty much even handed treatment of some startling facts about the Nevada almost range war this weekend. Some organizers of the militia showdown were going to ask the women folk to be the first to get shot, if the shooting started; dead women on international news would look the best for their purposes. It's probably because Beck has been trying to "distance" himself from the whole nevada mess. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-want-nothing-do-you-beck-tells-those-threatening-violence-anti-government-standoff I have two theories on why. first is that Beck knows if poo poo the fan and if magic CW2 happened. He would be dead man, or if lucky imprison for life for helping fan the flames it. The 2nd is the more obvious one. He is Conman, and he doesn't want ruin his gig of being the new conservative "messiah". Both are dumb, but I find them amusing.
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Rexicon1 posted:Holy loving poo poo, can anyone reproduce that footage of the Limbaugh interview. I love watching that fat gently caress squirm. The only copy I knew of was on Youtube, and there's more than a few other sites linking to the same one. pengun101 posted:It's probably because Beck has been trying to "distance" himself from the whole nevada mess. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-want-nothing-do-you-beck-tells-those-threatening-violence-anti-government-standoff Beck has been "distancing himself" for a while. He looked straight into the camera and said that he was a part of the problem as to why the rhetoric in America has gone to poo poo, then realized it was a day ending in "Y" and continued on doing the same exact poo poo the next night.
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joeburz posted:My god please tell me someone can find footage of this interview Rexicon1 posted:Very very very few people who believe in bootstrapping actually bootstrapped themselves. Usually the ones who pull themselves up know its a loving nightmare to actually do it and try to help others The greatest recent example is, of course, Ann Romney talking about how she and Mitt's post-college years were so lean, they actually had to sell some of his stock in order to get by.
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FMguru posted:As I said I remember watching it. Letterman is just leaning back, seemingly only half-interested, and just sort of drops these casual bombs on Limbaugh without breaking a sweat. It's awesome. Its a shame Ann didn't get more time in front of a camera. She's a living breathing example of the income gap run awry and she never got smart enough or enough exposure to realize when it is time to shut up, shes a perfect force for progressive movements and I hope someone offers her a TV show.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:No matter what your politics are, this game looks like a boring piece of poo poo. How about a "Cards Against Humanity" expansion where they're all "pick two," the first one is the frame set by the dealer, and then players take turns trying adding the second card in an attempt to out-crazy each other. Dealer chooses the winner, and each "debate" is settled after five rounds. Whoever wins the most debates gets to lose to whomever just puts the most money on the table and gets to set the rules for the next game.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Man, all this time I thought he at least bootstrapped his way to a successful radio career. I didn't know his dad owned a loving radio station. ProperGanderPusher posted:Even with a rich dad, wasn't he on food stamps at one point? I'm not too sure about the food stamps part, but he failed repeatedly in his radio career and I do know for a fact he collected unemployment insurance at the very least for 2 or 3 stretches at a time. Perhaps welfare and food stamps too. Al Franken and Howard Stern touch on it in their books. The guy failed at and sucked at everything until he learned that being inflammatory and obnoxious generated ratings.
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Spaceman Future! posted:Its a shame Ann didn't get more time in front of a camera. She's a living breathing example of the income gap run awry and she never got smart enough or enough exposure to realize when it is time to shut up, shes a perfect force for progressive movements and I hope someone offers her a TV show. I bet she cried into her pillow for two weeks straight after election night.
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