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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 05:29 on Jan 22, 2016

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

"I have no experience."
half of iowas republicans: LEAD US!!

a helpful bear
Aug 18, 2004

Slippery Tilde
Wait is that chart Joe posted not Photoshopped????

Fuckt Tupp
Apr 19, 2007

Science
Carson said on Glenn Beck that he would "intensify" the drug war and that marijuana was a gateway drug that gets people hooked on more dangerous drugs "legal and illegal."

There you have it. We can't legalize marijuana because people might get hooked on more dangerous drugs that are already legal. The genius of Ben Carson, ladies and gentlemen.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

a helpful bear posted:

Wait is that chart Joe posted not Photoshopped????

http://www.scribd.com/doc/286605246/Bloomberg-Politics-Des-Moines-Register-Iowa-Poll-Oct-23-2015-release

Page 11

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

Internet Webguy posted:

Carson said on Glenn Beck that he would "intensify" the drug war and that marijuana was a gateway drug that gets people hooked on more dangerous drugs "legal and illegal."

There you have it. We can't legalize marijuana because people might get hooked on more dangerous drugs that are already legal. The genius of Ben Carson, ladies and gentlemen.

hahaha Carson apparently hasn't been told that nobody cares about marijuana anymore

memy
Oct 15, 2011

by exmarx

31% of Iowa Republicans find the fact that he performed research on tissue from aborted fetuses to be an attractive quality

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

memy posted:

31% of Iowa Republicans find the fact that he performed research on tissue from aborted fetuses to be an attractive quality

wonder how many of them simultaneously think PP is evil

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
There is a special place in my heart for the 2% of Iowa GOP Caucusgoers who said they find "he approaches issues with common sense" to be "very unattractive". :)

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Is this real life?

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
Iowa is a bad place. GOP primary voters are bad people. It's a poisonous concoction.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Among Iowans polled at the end of that document there is a question about TPP and both side's affiliates are about evenly divided between two opinions or none. On Benghazi nobody's unsure - very polarized. We're all TV-addict hayseeds- what happened, Ike?

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
Armstrong Williams, a Ben Carson 'adviser' wrote an op-ed earlier this month, about how the Nation of Islam may help calm the violence in Chicago:
http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/255970-the-nation-of-islam-could-be-chicagos-savior

Freepers gonna Freep they just found out about this and of course they are going mental.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



I need to frame this, it's glorious

Full Battle Rattle
Aug 29, 2009

As long as the times refuse to change, we're going to make a hell of a racket.

cheetah7071 posted:

Is this real life?

The extremist wing of the GoP has been slowly taking control for a while now, and this is the kind of stuff it leads to.

People are talking about the weight of 'dank memes' on the election, and this chart is like 'chain emails from my racist relative' on family feud. These things aren't harmless - large groups of people start believing this crazy poo poo and they vote

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Full Battle Rattle posted:

this chart is like 'chain emails from my racist relative' on family feud. These things aren't harmless - large groups of people start believing this crazy poo poo and they vote

That said, the conservative mass mailer was invented by Richard Viguerie for the Goldwater campaign, so we've got plenty of data about the limits of its effectiveness and reach.

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

Thump! posted:

Of course loving MacArthur is Trump's favorite General.

I would have guessed Patton.

neonnoodle
Mar 20, 2008

by exmarx
What attracts you to Ben Carson?

45% I am so stupid that I forget how to breathe sometimes.

78% I am so stupid that my socks are sewn onto the end of my pants so I won't lose them like last time.

81% Is this the Golden Corral?

9% [ANSWER GARBLED OR OTHERWISE UNINTELLIGIBLE]

Xenophon
Jun 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer

goddamn

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
I can't believe Ben Carson is the only non Muslim running for president.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe

:stare:

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

Maybe Trump should build a wall around Iowa.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

AfroLine posted:

I can't believe Ben Carson is the only non Muslim running for president.

That chart is a bit confusing, but it's actually saying that 73% of Iowa republicans like the fact that Carson said that he didn't want a Muslim in the white house.

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
oh, yeah?

Xenophon
Jun 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer

Patter Song posted:

At some point Rubio needs to start actually campaigning. Over the 31 day month of October he will have spent 2 days in IA, 2 in NH, 3 in NV, and 2 in SC (where he is today and tomorrow). 9 days out of 31 this month in the early states isn't very impressive. Jindal's the incumbent serving governor of Louisiana and he's basically moved to Iowa, and ditto NJ governor Christie with New Hampshire.

this was pages ago but I can't resist the joke "well he's had to be in DC so he can be present for votes"

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

neonnoodle posted:

What attracts you to Ben Carson?

45% I am so stupid that I forget how to breathe sometimes.

78% I am so stupid that my socks are sewn onto the end of my pants so I won't lose them like last time.

81% Is this the Golden Corral?

9% [ANSWER GARBLED OR OTHERWISE UNINTELLIGIBLE]

13% Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn [vol]

Xenophon
Jun 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer
he's been transparently ignoring his actual position for years in order to prepare to run for president, you see



the fucker

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

rscott posted:

Do they not play MSU, tOSU or UM this year?

This may be really late, but the Big Ten now has 14 teams, in two divisions, East and West. The East has Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State, all very good teams. The West has seven teams without any one or two big powers, so any team could really go undefeated. However, that West division champion will have to play UM/MSU/OSU in the conference championship.

Iowa got the absolute luck of the draw this year. Northwestern, who was also undefeated, had to play Michigan and lost 38-0.

AsInHowe fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 24, 2015

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Devor posted:

13% Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn [vol]

Of the full 2016 field, Marco Rubio is the only one Romney identified as a fish person.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger

Aliquid posted:

the man is a truly incredible off-the-cuff speaker

True.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

Xenophon posted:

this was pages ago but I can't resist the joke "well he's had to be in DC so he can be present for votes"

Rubio has been hanging out with his constituents... old billionaires.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Joementum posted:

Of the full 2016 field, Marco Rubio is the only one Romney identified as a fish person.

Who would win in a battle between the fish people of Innsmouth and the lizard people from Pluto?

rscott
Dec 10, 2009

AsInHowe posted:

This may be really late, but the Big Ten now has 14 teams, in two divisions, East and West. The East has Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State, all very good teams. The West has seven teams without any one or two big powers, so any team could really go undefeated. However, that West division champion will have to play UM/MSU/OSU in the conference championship.

Iowa got the absolute luck of the draw this year. Northwestern, who was also undefeated, had to play Michigan and lost 31-0.

I forgot what adding Rutgers and Maryland did to the conference, and I guess no one thought Wisconsin would be this bad either

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Joementum posted:

Of the full 2016 field, Marco Rubio is the only one Romney identified as a fish person.

thank you for reminding me of fishconsin

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Actually, I forgot that Chris Christie was still running (because who cares) and that Romney called him "Pufferfish".

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

rscott posted:

I forgot what adding Rutgers and Maryland did to the conference, and I guess no one thought Wisconsin would be this bad either

The idea was that, with Big Ten TV contracts coming up and Big Ten regions getting the Big Ten Network on basic cable, adding a team in the NY and DC markets would raise the value of the TV contracts and get more forced cable TV subscriber fees in those giant cities.

Sports-wise, Maryland's good at basketball only and Rutgers is an embarrassment in everything. It's screwed up the schedules in basketball by having too many teams, forcing fewer home-and-home matchups for rivalries (Michigan and Michigan State play each other in Ann Arbor only this year). For football, the East division is very top-heavy with UM/MSU/OSU and four bottom teams, and those traditional East teams miss out on playing West teams while having two filler games on the schedule each year.

Adding Rutgers and Maryland was a horrible decision that works only if you are very short-sighted and money-loving.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
I'm glad my alma mater hosed up things for the NCAA. Go Scarlet Uh, knights maybe? I think that was it. Only time I went by the stadiums were for the buses to take us to do door to door campaigning.

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
I can confirm as another Rutgers alumni that Rutgers is terrible at everything. It's just that sports allows us to put our awfulness in the national spotlight.

fakeedit: also football games causes massive gridlock and a sea of awful people wearing red clothing. /end derail

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

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



Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I would have guessed Patton.

He did mention Patton, actually. It's really fitting that those two, and the animosity with Eisenhower, are the only ones he can name.

It's very Patton-esque of him to completely overlook the bigger picture of, well, everything.

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Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001


i'm giles corey and i'm sayying "more surveys"

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