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Obdicut
May 15, 2012

"What election?"

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

My counter suggestion: top 20 on stage all at once, the only person with a microphone is the moderator, whoever shouts loudest gets to speak

Rand Paul starts with the mic and you have to get it away from him.

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Moritastic
Oct 25, 2005

I don't wanna explode!

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

My counter suggestion: top 20 on stage all at once, the only person with a microphone is the moderator, whoever shouts loudest gets to speak

Clearly it needs to be a wrestling style royal rumble, complete with their own entrance music and over the top theatrics.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



Walker 2016: "At least I'm not Voldemort"

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Hillary's Iowa office has started a quilting project.

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

My counter suggestion: top 20 on stage all at once, the only person with a microphone is the moderator, whoever shouts loudest gets to speak

My counter counter suggestion: WWE Pay Per View cage match, last one standing is GOP nominee.

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

Cantorsdust posted:

My counter counter suggestion: WWE Pay Per View cage match, last one standing is GOP nominee.

It doesn't work if they're all heels though

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Cantorsdust posted:

My counter counter suggestion: WWE Pay Per View cage match, last one standing is GOP nominee.

"IS THAT!? IT IS! JOHN MCCAIN HAS JUMPED INTO THE RING AND IS HELPING GRAHAM! HE HAS A CHAIR! AND CRUZ GOES DOWN! WHAT A BRUTAL TAG TEAM BEATING!"

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
A Rick Santorum campaign rally in Carroll, Iowa.

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Joementum posted:

A Rick Santorum campaign rally in Carroll, Iowa.



Is this the same one or is this a new one?

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Gravel Gravy posted:

Is this the same one or is this a new one?

That's the widely reported one from Monday. Santorum is currently touring a food tray factory.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

Cantorsdust posted:

My counter counter suggestion: WWE Pay Per View cage match, last one standing is GOP nominee.

We have this perfectly good elimination chamber that no one's using right now

We'd have to fit like five candidates to a pod but that's a feature, not a bug

richardfun
Aug 10, 2008

Twenty years? It's no wonder I'm so hungry. Do you have anything to eat?

Ok, which of the losers in the polls asked them to sign their name to that?

KiteAuraan posted:

"IS THAT!? IT IS! JOHN MCCAIN HAS JUMPED INTO THE RING AND IS HELPING GRAHAM! HE HAS A CHAIR! AND CRUZ GOES DOWN! WHAT A BRUTAL TAG TEAM BEATING!"

:golfclap:

Weltlich
Feb 13, 2006
Grimey Drawer

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Oh good she's transforming into Merkel.

We should be so lucky.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
I fully admit I don't know poo poo about the EU, but isn't Merkel one of the big pro-austerity people?

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Weltlich posted:

We should be so lucky.

Ukraine wouldn't though

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

An Angry Bug posted:

I fully admit I don't know poo poo about the EU, but isn't Merkel one of the big pro-austerity people?

Could be wrong but I think she's just pro austerity for non-germans.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

poo poo, you beat me to this.

If they want to do this, it should be done Weakest Link-style, where each time a candidate is declared the weakest link they fall through a trapdoor built into the floor under their feet.

Obdicut posted:

Is she trolling the misogynists?

I'd be disappointed if she wasn't.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Mr Hootington posted:

Trip Report!

Rick Santorum is mocked a lot. I can understand this with 1 Iowan showing up in Hamlin. 3 more showed up late, so in actuality it ended up being 4 Iowans. The headlines read better as 1 Iowan.


-Wants a fair flat tax
-Wants a lower corporate tax rate

He got torn up on the Sunday shows this past week for the fair/flat tax. It was pretty drat funny, as you don't see that one get called out as often as it should (especially by Chris Wallace).

https://screen.yahoo.com/politics/rick-santorum-win-gop-presidential-190658618.html

edit

Mr Hootington posted:

-Belieces Shi'a Islamic Fundamentalists from Iran are trying to usher in the 12th Imam I asked how this was any different from American's who believe we are living in end times or trying to unify Israel to begin the end times. He says it is different because those people are not in power and building nukes.

Uhhhh, has Santorum every been to the United States of America before?

Mr Hootington posted:

-Social Security- He thought this could be fixed back in the 00's by switching people after a certain birth year to personal SS accounts, but that is not viable anymore.
-Said how Reagan started a lot of the SS mess

:eyepop:

Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jun 10, 2015

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Bernie gets asked about his dual citizenship with Israel, which he denies having. Time for Bernie Birthers! Bernthers.

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

Joementum posted:

A Rick Santorum campaign rally in Carroll, Iowa.



I love small-town restaurants covered in college and sports pennants

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

AsInHowe posted:

I love small-town restaurants covered in college and sports pennants

Only when they're actually local. Look at those teams.

Ogmius815
Aug 25, 2005
centrism is a hell of a drug

AsInHowe posted:

I love small-town restaurants covered in college and sports pennants

I'm pretty sure that's an elementary school cafeteria.

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

Aliquid posted:

Only when they're actually local. Look at those teams.

They are local, I assume. Those are typically pennants from places that the customers/residents of the town attended or came from.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Oh cool, Ben Carson has some ideas about government reform.

quote:

Republican presidential contender Ben Carson said Wednesday that if elected next year he might implement a “covert division” of government workers who spy on their coworkers to improve government efficiency.

The pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-candidate told a crowd of Iowa Republicans he is “thinking very seriously” about adding “a covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do.”

Great idea! What could possibly go wrong here?

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

Joementum posted:

Oh cool, Ben Carson has some ideas about government reform.


Great idea! What could possibly go wrong here?

Who watches the Iowans?

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Jazerus posted:

Walker 2016: "At least I'm not Voldemort"

Walker is more popular than Scott?
:wow:

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Joementum posted:

Bernie gets asked about his dual citizenship with Israel, which he denies having. Time for Bernie Birthers! Bernthers.

I've been wondering when the tide might turn from "Standing with Israel is American as Apple Pie" to "Jews all have dual loyalties."

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Someone say Show us your Jew Gold to Bernie and film it

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

AsInHowe posted:

A girl pointed out to me last night that the expression on Ted Cruz's face reminds her of the creepy men who leer at underage girls, and now I can't unsee that image.

So his campaign theme won't be "Aqualung" and I think that's terribly unfair.

703
May 11, 2007

Contains Carbon Monoxide

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I've been wondering when the tide might turn from "Standing with Israel is American as Apple Pie" to "Jews all have dual loyalties."

I haven't seen anything about this interview except the dual citizen question... I saw a comment on twitter (god help me) which said he had a interesting point he made on Palestine, anyone know what that might have been?

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Delta-Wye posted:

Here's an old article from when he also signed its repeal: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/us/florida-scarlet-letter-law-is-repealed-by-gov-bush.html

I'm surprised I hadn't heard about this before, it does seem pretty hosed up. Was it one of those things that wasn't always enforced? Or was there a page of just adoption ads in local Florida newspapers?

"After state courts had ruled that the Scarlet Letter law was unconstitutional, even the lawmakers who supported it originally said they favored its repeal. Indeed, the new bill passed both houses unanimously before Mr. Bush signed it today. "

Bush loving loved signing Unconstitutional laws didn't he? I think even the republican judges in Florida were starting to hate him during the Terry Schaivo ordeal because after signing laws that were blatantly unconstitutional he kept doing everything possible to interfere with her being taken off of life support. The only thing that comes close to his level of bullshit is the case from a year ago where a pregnant woman died but the state (guess which one) forcibly kept her body on life support because of the fetus. Even though the fetus had no realistic chance of survival.


Jeb read The Scarlet Letter and his takeaway from it was "America needs to do this to today's whorish women."

DrProsek posted:

I agree, were he around today MLK would have problems with both parties and would probably do the only moral option available and join a socialist party.

If MLK hadn't been killed I imagine politics might be a little different today. Imagine MLK in place of Jackson and Sharpton. And unlike Sharpton MLK wouldn't likely offer to be a snitch.

Pohl posted:

Cruz claims to be Cuban. The Hispanic people in this country don't loving care. To them he is a poser.
He might get some Cuban votes, but lol at him picking up the Hispanic vote.

"Guy's I'm Cuban, I embrace it so much I don't go by my first name because I know I'd never have been elected by Texas Republicans otherwise."

If nobody calls him Rafael at one of the GOP debates I'm going to be sad.

ATP_Power
Jun 12, 2010

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.


Chokes McGee posted:

We have this perfectly good elimination chamber that no one's using right now

We'd have to fit like five candidates to a pod but that's a feature, not a bug

Then the finalists have to compete in a ladder match to secure the nomination.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.
Carly Fiorna said a thing:

Obdicut
May 15, 2012

"What election?"

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

Carly Fiorna said a thing:



Wow even the female candidate is falling for it.

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
Yes Carly, the fact that you spend 99.99% of your time and energy attacking Hillary Clinton over the most insane poo poo has absolutely, positively nothing to do with your gender. Liberals are the real sexists for ever suggesting such a thing.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/carly-fiorina-democrats-dont-think-you-count-as-a-woman-if-y#.bxeVLQXwy

quote:

Fiorina said she was “not running because I’m a woman.” She said identity politics only further divides us as a nation.
“I’m not running because I’m a woman,” said Fiorina. “I’ve never been a token in my life. I just happen to be a woman. And I think the point of this nation is that everyone, regardless of what they look like, or who they are, or where they come from, every American should have the opportunity to use their God-given gifts and fulfill their potential.”

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Obdicut posted:

Wow even the female candidate is falling for it.

Carly's job is to say the sexist things to take the heat off of everyone else

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.
Even ignoring her sexist jab at Hillary, she's hilariously wrong.

Hmm. Carly has laid out such proposals as ___________ and _____________ and don't forget about _____________________

on her website: https://carlyforpresident.com/meet-carly


Also, lol at her crowing about how NARROWLY she lost to Babs Boxer, you know, a politician who's never got more than 57% of the vote in any election and managed to to pull 53% in one of the biggest Republican wave elections of all time (2010).

BI NOW GAY LATER fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jun 10, 2015

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

MaxxBot posted:

Yes Carly, the fact that you spend 99.99% of your time and energy attacking Hillary Clinton over the most insane poo poo has absolutely, positively nothing to do with your gender. Liberals are the real sexists for ever suggesting such a thing.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/carly-fiorina-democrats-dont-think-you-count-as-a-woman-if-y#.bxeVLQXwy

I'm not a token, honest, I just happen to belong to a party that honest-to-God thought Sarah Palin == Hillary Clinton.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!
And here you can see Caniditus Fiorinus, in her natural state of being: locked in mortal battle with another candidate's day old instagram account, losing.

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Evil Fluffy posted:

Jeb read The Scarlet Letter and his takeaway from it was "America needs to do this to today's whorish women."

Floridians are lucky he was reading Hawthorne, rather than, say, Jonathan Swift.

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