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docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

I want Christie to stay in the debates, but only so that he can shout WHY THE gently caress ARE WE TALKING ABOUT FANTASY FOOTBALL at random intervals. Whether they're talking about fantasy football or not.

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Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
I'd hate to see Chris Christie open his mouth and say anything but I'd love to see Trump smack him down.

That brief Trump/Kasich skirmish was amazing.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.
The real question is if Fox even bothers doing anything but having their blonde anchors give them all sloppy blowjobs during the entirety of the "debate".

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

Christie was always entertaining as the guy who said "Can't we all just get along?" while making GBS threads on whatever question he was being asked at the time.

memy
Oct 15, 2011

by exmarx

Smoothrich posted:

538 is on another planet, they don't think Carson and Trump are real people as some kind of hilariously transparent editorial bias for an organization that says it's about numbers and logical prediction models instead of spin. So of course their coverage is all about Unskewing the Polls.

I guess reality has a corporate media bias

Uh, the first footnote says that this might benefit trump

Rocks
Dec 30, 2011

Matt Viser @mviser “Pain is part of life,” Bush says, talking about over prescribing pain killers.

What will come first - Jeb! dropping out or committing suicide

Zelder
Jan 4, 2012

When is jeb gonna kill his mom and gently caress his dad

StevePerry
Sep 5, 2003

don't stop believin

A Neurotic Jew posted:

Christie is so gross and annoying.

Zelder
Jan 4, 2012

Jeb gonna make it illegal to not say nice things about his daddy when he's president

All glory to the hw

H5N1
Mar 8, 2005

heil satan
I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign!

H5N1 fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 18, 2016

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Smoothrich posted:

538 is on another planet, they don't think Carson and Trump are real people as some kind of hilariously transparent editorial bias for an organization that says it's about numbers and logical prediction models instead of spin. So of course their coverage is all about Unskewing the Polls.

I guess reality has a corporate media bias

Historic data shows that early poll leads aren't predictive of the nomination, so 538 isn't focusing on the polls this early on. It's not that hard to understand~

A Neurotic Jew
Feb 17, 2012

by exmarx

Rocks posted:

Matt Viser @mviser “Pain is part of life,” Bush says, talking about over prescribing pain killers.

What will come first - Jeb! dropping out or committing suicide

Next Jeb Bush campaign slogan: "Was kann ich gegen Weltschmerz tun? Jeb!"

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

H5N1 posted:

I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign!

*slowly sips morning coffee, open to the possibilities of the day*



it's time........

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

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AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

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A Neurotic Jew
Feb 17, 2012

by exmarx
:lol: I love this poo poo. I mean, it's partly just reporters going out of their way to decontextualize what he's saying, but he's also just so bad at this

SnakePlissken
Dec 31, 2009

by zen death robot

H5N1 posted:

I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign!

Me too, bruddah!

He really comes across as a gentle kid who was too tall.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

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



Pinterest Mom posted:

Historic data shows that early poll leads aren't predictive of the nomination, so 538 isn't focusing on the polls this early on. It's not that hard to understand~

Careful now, Smoothrich is gonna come at you with a hammer, just like his idol.

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!
Off message there.

The current Republican message is that your life should be nothing but pain or else there's a chance some black guy might get some of the non-pain.

anime tupac
Oct 25, 2010

stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it

Patter Song posted:

The Klan were also enthusiastic backers of Prohibition despite having many violent drunks in its ranks. So most Indianans had little issue with the Grand Dragon of the Klan, a man named D. C. Stephenson, controlling every significant politician in their state...after all, the Klan politicians were tough on "corruption!" And the Klan is keeping the flower of white womanhood safe from the black horde!

That was, until Stephenson in 1925 brutally raped a young white woman and bit her over and over again, giving her a staph infection she soon died of. A woman who had been a head of a state program to combat illiteracy in adults. When Stephenson was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Klan-affiliated Republican governor of IN, happy to no longer be in Stephenson's pocket, refused to pardon him. Stephenson retaliated by releasing a list of every Klan-affiliated politician in IN (almost all of them) and descriptions of how he had controlled them. People left the Klan in droves and by 1930 the Klan was dead as a political force in Indiana.

See, the reason I read all these threads is that I occasionally do learn something from them, as is the case here. I knew about the different iterations of the Klan over time but had never heard of this dude specifically. He looks like someone imprinted a face onto an Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man

I mean, he was also odious in every possible way, but that goes without saying, so I choose to make fun of his face because I am a low-information socialist fucklord or whatever

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

Salt levels...rising. (Has a hunchback ever gone on to become president?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdomlk8-LoE

is that video really really quiet

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Patter Song posted:

Trump 24
Carson 23

Come on, Trump.

SnakePlissken
Dec 31, 2009

by zen death robot

anime tupac posted:

See, the reason I read all these threads is that I occasionally do learn something from them, as is the case here. I knew about the different iterations of the Klan over time but had never heard of this dude specifically. He looks like someone imprinted a face onto an Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man


A man who truly dehumanized himself and faced (Someone else's) bloodshed.

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!
Honestly, I think Bush senior would have a better chance of getting the nom on his deathbed than any of the GOPe candidates at this point, especially JEB!

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

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Arcanen
Dec 19, 2005

Pinterest Mom posted:

Historic data shows that early poll leads aren't predictive of the nomination, so 538 isn't focusing on the polls this early on. It's not that hard to understand~

Historic data of a statistically insignificant number of contests, especially given changing political landscapes. 538 and Nate Silver are the Bill Nye of statistics. Easy to digest and great for teaching the importance of a subject (e.g. statistics and general science respectively), but not remotely rigorous.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

That video isn't meant to be actually watched, they just released it publicly so Right to Rise could use clips from it in their ads :ssh:

A Neurotic Jew
Feb 17, 2012

by exmarx

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

Salt levels...rising. (Has a hunchback ever gone on to become president?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdomlk8-LoE

I will die happy if Jeb! tries to be angry like this at the next debate.

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Did no one run with the France thing? I just want to see a Drudge headline:

LE JEB! SACRE BLEU!

anime tupac
Oct 25, 2010

stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it

Smoothrich posted:

Trump is the moderate, Carson is the conservative.. 538 is a bunch of jock sperg idiots

Yeah, those 538 jocks! Nate Silver all shoving nerds into lockers and boning the popular cheerleaders! psshh

point of return
Aug 13, 2011

by exmarx

Pinterest Mom posted:

That video isn't meant to be actually watched, they just released it publicly so Right to Rise could use clips from it in their ads :ssh:

how is right to rise gonna deal with the hosed up audio though

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Do Not Resuscitate posted:

Salt levels...rising. (Has a hunchback ever gone on to become president?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdomlk8-LoE

Is that his official channel? All the videos that actually have more than 5 views have been massively downvoted haha

And I just contributed :twisted:

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Feb 19, 2005

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

point of return posted:

how is right to rise gonna deal with the hosed up audio though

Dub swelling music crowd applause noises over it.

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Feb 19, 2005

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mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."






if he means by fix "kill someone", that's the right color.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011




This was supposed to be a leading contender, and most of his videos have trouble breaking 1,000 views. He couldn't even get enough of his interns to upvote to make it less obvious that everyone wants to see him cry on stage.

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Feb 19, 2005

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Daduzi
Nov 22, 2005

You can't hide from the Grim Reaper. Especially when he's got a gun.
British comedian Frankie Boyle wieghs in on the election:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2015/nov/03/frontrunners-for-president-frankie-boyle

quote:

The absurdly long run-up to the US election has begun. This will be the second presidential election fought under new rules where there are no limits to campaign donations: a change brought in on the grounds of “free speech”, when the supreme court decided that the Koch brothers not being able to say, “We own the president,” infringed their rights under the first amendment. Personally, I think Obama will be quite lonely once it’s all over, not least because he has allowed the police to kill most of the other black people.

Differences between the candidates are usually so slight that what the Democratic frontrunner thinks is pretty much just what the Republican frontrunner thinks on the days that he remembers to take his meds. But in something of a format twist, Bernie Sanders – an old-school socialist – has crowdfunded himself into a credible position for the Democratic nomination. I sincerely hope he wins, if only so that we see the first inauguration speech made from inside a giant, bulletproof hamster ball. The Democratic frontrunner is Hillary Clinton, a ruthless, steel-haired troll doll. Hers is the face that would haunt a lot of Libyans’ nightmares, if they were still alive. Unfortunately for her election prospects, Hillary has never quite learned to introduce humour or compassion into her speaking voice and on a good day sounds like an android trying to trick the last human out of a bunker.

At last week’s Republican debate, the candidates accused CNBC of displaying liberal bias. One reading would be that the GOP candidates are now so rightwing that they make a giant media conglomerate look liberal. Let’s not forget that the essential message of a Republican candidate is a tricky sell. That you love America, but hate all the groups that make up America. That you love democracy, but hate people. Donald Trump, who at best looks like a plughole in an orangutan sanctuary, is probably only running for president because this dimension doesn’t have a Superman he can give a hard time to. His hair, looking like a slovenly, postcoital cat, is actually one of the least weird things about him. He is lacking in charm or wit and is almost ferociously inarticulate. The US public has identified with him strongly. It seems that the electorate, possibly bored with rational thought, is toying with the idea of cutting out the middleman and just electing one of the business class through sheer force of Stockholm syndrome

Rest of the article is worth a read too.

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