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Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
It's possible someone might want to continue to get emails from the Jindal campaign, just not ones begging for money.

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AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord

AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Jan 22, 2016

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

W-what? Am I reading Jindal's fundraising note right? Pay me $100 or I'll spam you?!

Get the gently caress outta here.

Also a pledge to stop requesting money from his biggest backers. Clever.

StevePerry
Sep 5, 2003

don't stop believin

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

W-what? Am I reading Jindal's fundraising note right? Pay me $100 or I'll spam you?!

Get the gently caress outta here.

It gets better. That offer amounts to a three-day pause in emails.

quote:

"Pretty good, right?” Mr. Engle added.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Soon Jindal will be showing up at people's homes and refusing to leave until they give him whatever cash they have in their wallet.

"Look Jindal, $27 is all I have, please, just go!"

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
I now it sounds like a threat, because seriously, who wants to get an email from Bobby Jindal? but non-profit radio stations do the same thing during pledge drives "we just need 5 more callers then we'll shut the gently caress-up about donations until the 6 o'clock drive time block."

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

W-what? Am I reading Jindal's fundraising note right? Pay me $100 or I'll spam you?!

Get the gently caress outta here.

Is it spam if you asked him to send you mail first?

NotJesus
Jan 17, 2007
$100 is actually a loving steal considering everything that money will get you:

* A one-year subscription to Jindal All the Way, the magazine of all things Bobby Jindal;
* That one photograph of Jindal in which he doesn't inspire pity or ridicule;
* A signed copy of Bobby Jindal's book My Funniest Tweets;
* A small vial of holy water, a crucifix and a thimbleful of chrism - all part of Bobby Jindal's Emergency Exorcism Kit;
* A notepad (which is actually Bobby Jindal's book My Funniest Tweets, because the pages are all blank);
* A chance to win a dinner with Bobby Jindal at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
("Dinner" will be a roasted garlic & parmesan pretzel from the SeeSaw Pretzel Shoppe at the Quicken Loans Arena.)

I am sending $300 right now!

NotJesus fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Oct 2, 2015

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Montasque posted:

In other news: Ben Carson Jokes About Days Before Cops 'Would Shoot You' at Durham Speech, New Hampshire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oixsh5ctQvg

some youtube commenter posted:

DrStrangel0ve2 2 hours ago
Ben Carson wants to replace taxation with religious giving - A PILLAR OF ISLAM WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


Doctor Butts posted:

some youtube commenter posted:

DrStrangel0ve2 2 hours ago
Ben Carson wants to replace taxation with religious giving - A PILLAR OF ISLAM WAKE UP SHEEPLE

gently caress yeah carson is my new main dude. as an atheist, i assume this means i have to contribute $0/year of my income to the federal government with no downside right?

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




homeless poster posted:

gently caress yeah carson is my new main dude. as an atheist, i assume this means i have to contribute $0/year of my income to the federal government with no downside right?

what percentage of republicans would publicly renounce all religions and be barred from attending religious services in exchange for paying 0 federal taxes?

Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


Malloreon posted:

what percentage of republicans would publicly renounce all religions and be barred from attending religious services in exchange for paying 0 federal taxes?

not many i suspect, but the fact that religious contributions are voluntary and basically untraceable means you'd see a groundswell of people withholding 0% of their income for federal income taxes in favor of religious contributions. churches are already tax free anyway, so it's not like they have anything to lose by fudging the amount of money their parishioners are contributing.

or you'd get an organic outgrowth of theocratic fiefdoms where churches are able to strongarm people into contributing whatever amount they want or else they won't sign off on their annual religious contribution form. then you get the underground market of institutions that have qualified for religious/church status who are willing to "sell" their signature on their religious contribution forms.

either way, this is much better than our current income tax system

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



homeless poster posted:

then you get the underground market of institutions that have qualified for religious/church status who are willing to "sell" their signature on their religious contribution forms.

Wouldn't there be enough competition in that market to drive the price down to the cost of supplying it?

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
Has anyone said anything surprising about guns yet?

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



You know, Jesus was friends with tax collectors. Let's go back to the Roman system where we auction off the right to rob the people in a given area at swordpoint.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!




lol

Someone doesn't realize that Zakat is for giving directly to the poor, and not just tithing the church.






Wait, gently caress is Islam friendly to the poor than Christianity!?

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Thump! posted:


Wait, gently caress is Islam friendly to the poor than Christianity!?
Very few people actually know what's in their own holy books, despite the Bible and the Koran being two of the most widely published books to ever exist, so the entire thing is a wash.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Chamale posted:

You know, Jesus was friends with tax collectors. Let's go back to the Roman system where we auction off the right to rob the people in a given area at swordpoint.

Chuck Schumer puts a bill up for that every few years.

Bizarro Kanyon
Jan 3, 2007

Something Awful, so easy even a spaceman can do it!


Someone mentioned this earlier but Chris Christie did extremely well in his interview on the Daily Show.

He knows how to play to his audience very well.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Someone mentioned this earlier but Chris Christie did extremely well in his interview on the Daily Show.

He knows how to play to his audience very well.

Probably did him a lot of good with all the early-State Primaries Republican voters who watch TDS.

Civilized Fishbot
Apr 3, 2011

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Probably did him a lot of good with all the early-State Primaries Republican voters who watch TDS.

I get the feeling that you're being sarcastic, but the New Hampshire primary is known for a moderate/establishment voter base that probably does include quite a few TDS watchers (not that that could save Chris Christie).

Robotnik Nudes
Jul 8, 2013

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Probably did him a lot of good with all the early-State Primaries Republican voters who watch TDS.

You know that video clips from TV shows get reposted to other websites later, right? The TV show doesn't go away if you missed it when it aired. Not anymore, thanks to this marvelous age of information.

point of return
Aug 13, 2011

by exmarx

Robotnik Nudes posted:

You know that video clips from TV shows get reposted to other websites later, right? The TV show doesn't go away if you missed it when it aired. Not anymore, thanks to this marvelous age of information.

Probably did him a lot of good with all the early-states Republican primary voters who watch TV shows on websites.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Robotnik Nudes posted:

You know that video clips from TV shows get reposted to other websites later, right? The TV show doesn't go away if you missed it when it aired. Not anymore, thanks to this marvelous age of information.

Yeah, and I think the narrative is going to be "look at that RINO, feeling all comfortable at the LIEberal Daily Show, where he belongs."

Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Someone mentioned this earlier but Chris Christie did extremely well in his interview on the Daily Show.

He knows how to play to his audience very well.

he did "extremely well" because he got to talk at a host who has been on the job for 3 days and has all of the interviewing chops of the editor of a middle school class news paper. regardless of how you feel about his jewishness, if that interview had been with stewart, it wouldn't have gone "extremely well" for christie

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice

Golden Bee posted:

Has anyone said anything surprising about guns yet?

I'm genuinely curious about what would happen if Trump said something after the shootings today in the vein of 'We ought to at least keep track of who has guns, and deny them to actually insane people.'

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

Feral_Shofixti posted:

I'm genuinely curious about what would happen if Trump said something after the shootings today in the vein of 'We ought to at least keep track of who has guns, and deny them to actually insane people.'

Boosted would kill himself.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Mrit posted:

Boosted would kill himself.

It is not dead, which can forever post/
And in strange forums, even the toxxed may boast.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Nazareth posted:

We've been singing the swan song of the Republican Party to no avail since Obama was elected in '08. The thing is, the Republican Party is not going to die. It's going to shift and evolve as it and the Democratic Party has over the years. I wouldn't rule out the GOP just yet, even though outwardly it looks like a cocaine-fueled shitfest.

Right. People have been predicting the death of the Republican Party for fifty years now.

Lycus
Aug 5, 2008

Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.
Thinking about those posts from late 2008/early 2009 about how the Republican Party is going to break up and there's going to be decades of Democratic supermajorities is just hilarious.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Lycus posted:

Thinking about those posts from late 2008/early 2009 about how the Republican Party is going to break up and there's going to be decades of Democratic supermajorities is just hilarious.

The same crap happened around 2004, there's at least a couple books published around then about how the GOP would dominate National politics for the foreseeable future

the best is the one by Zell Miller who just comes off as a rambling incoherent old rear end in a top hat, which I guess he is

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Lycus posted:

Thinking about those posts from late 2008/early 2009 about how the Republican Party is going to break up and there's going to be decades of Democratic supermajorities is just hilarious.

While those were dumb, that's kind of how it happens. One party loses support and goes into the wilderness for awhile until issues change and voting blocs shift. This generation, I think, is a little slower on the button because of more solidified politics and networks, plus gerrymandering making unequivocal immediate change unnecessary.

But it's coming. It could literally be until 2032 if the Dems miss their wave in 2020, but it's coming.

edit identity politics loving sucks, i really enjoy how fluid things were in the 50's and 60's

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

a young boy is waving the american flag. suddenly, it zooms on his face as the picture goes black and white. the boys face morphs into the grotesque melting visage of Ted Cruz, and the flag morphs into the canadian flag. "o canada" begins to play in reverse, revealing its satanic message. "make america great again, not canada" says donald trumps voice.

Oh god yes

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Lycus posted:

Thinking about those posts from late 2008/early 2009 about how the Republican Party is going to break up and there's going to be decades of Democratic supermajorities is just hilarious.

The Republicans infighting is actually good for them and is prepration for this, even if they themselves don't realize it. They're finding out what is going to get them elected in ten or so years, with the gerrymanderign and only a little over half of Americans sick of them they have all the time in the world to figure this poo poo out before it actually matters. Meanwhile the Democrats continue trends that are also making them unelectable, just at a much lesser rate.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
The coolest thing would be if both parties became populist, in the veins of Trump and Sanders respectively.

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
some kind of

national socialism or

democratic socalism

Dolash
Oct 23, 2008

aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,


Aliquid posted:

edit identity politics loving sucks, i really enjoy how fluid things were in the 50's and 60's

Ah yes, America in the 50s and 60s, when "Identity politics" were not a contentious issue.

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

Aliquid posted:

edit identity politics loving sucks, i really enjoy how fluid things were in the 50's and 60's

Is this the latest Bernie supporter 'thing'? It keeps popping up, and it's really stupid.

DivineCoffeeBinge
Mar 3, 2011

Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company

Mrit posted:

Is this the latest Bernie supporter 'thing'? It keeps popping up, and it's really stupid.

People saying "identity politics suck" has been happening pretty much since identity politics became a thing.

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Vlex
Aug 4, 2006
I'd rather be a climbing ape than a big titty angel.



Absurd Alhazred posted:

It is not dead, which can forever post/
And in strange forums, even the toxxed may boast.

This post/username combo isn't get the love it deserves.

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