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Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

There's going to be a massive uptick in Palin Parody porn views after tomorrow.

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

JHVH-1 posted:

Sounds perfect for Trump. They have a lot in common.

Let's ride the trump crazy train to infinity and beyond

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

some 538 article from last year says there hadn't been much recent data on approval ratings on the lady (presumably if she does show up in ames tomorrow we'll get some in polls released just before the iowa caucus), but it looks like her approval ratings gradually flattened out. still, among republicans it looks like lower +20s in fav% minus unfav% is where she's been at for the last few years. maybe something new came out since that article but whatever

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-receding-of-sarah-palin-in-one-chart/
she's a quitter and non-republicans definitely don't like her so i hope a palin endorsement is what's gonna happen tomorrow, it would help contextualize trump as just another conservative culture warrior

the real gift from god would be a trump/palin ticket announcement but that seems like too much to ask for

SirPablo
May 1, 2004

Pillbug
I mean, I guess I see why Trump would want that endorsement. But she is a loser in many ways. You don't make America great again by putting losers on your team.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
Like Trump was going to get Branstad. Palin is exactly the kind of endorsement Trump would get and it serves his circus gongshow.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

If Palin still polls +20% favorability wouldn't that make her the most liked Republican this election? I recall seeing a poll earlier that had Carson as leading the polls in favorability at a net 0%.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Not a Step posted:

If Palin still polls +20% favorability wouldn't that make her the most liked Republican this election? I recall seeing a poll earlier that had Carson as leading the polls in favorability at a net 0%.

Many of the candidates have very high favorability ratings among republicans. Cruz and Rubio come to mind. Something like +50 net.

quadrophrenic
Feb 4, 2011

WIN MARNIE WIN

Not a Step posted:

If Palin still polls +20% favorability wouldn't that make her the most liked Republican this election? I recall seeing a poll earlier that had Carson as leading the polls in favorability at a net 0%.

0% among general voters. Which is still a far sight better than the -20% that Palin has

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

Jewel Repetition posted:

Just saw in the endorsement primary that Graham endorsed Jeb, did we talk about that?

skaboomizzy posted:

Graham endorsing Jeb! right now is the saddest thing I've seen this election cycle. Tiny room, shriveled old white men behind them, Graham sounding like he's trying not to cry after being told his dog has cancer, all while there's an inset showing the Dow is dropping 390 points and counting. It's exquisite in its melancholy.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Montasque posted:

There's going to be a massive uptick in Palin Parody porn views after tomorrow.

Nailin' Palin was a porn masterpiece

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
Cruz birthers are passing around this 'video' from 2013/14 of a Foxnews Reporter saying Cruz is ineligible to run for President and using it as FACT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_SnL0OrNo

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Wow, I just watched this and I'm going to watch it again tomorrow back to back with Trump's endorsement for a hilarious contrast.

Winkie01
Nov 28, 2004

Its a drat shame she retired to some dumb fantasy sports bullshit :rip:

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
Graham's endorsement was pretty much a T.S. Eliot Poem or Simon and Garfunkel song, whereas I estimate Trump's endorsement will be a golden god standing under gigantic magnifying glass that focuses all the world's love directly onto him.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
Freepers dug this up from 2013:

Ted Cruz Failed To Disclose Ties To Caribbean Holding Company

quote:

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz potentially violated ethics rules by failing to publicly disclose his financial relationship with a Caribbean-based holding company during the 2012 campaign, a review of financial disclosure and company documents by TIME shows. The relationship originated with a $6,000 investment Cruz made more than a decade ago in a Jamaican private equity firm founded by his college roommate.

When Cruz later reported the financial relationship in 2013, he failed to comply with Senate rules requiring full identification of the holding company and its location, triggering an inquiry by Senate Select Committee on Ethics staff and a second amended disclosure. After additional inquiries by TIME this week, Cruz said he is now in the process making further corrections to his disclosure.

Cruz told TIME Thursday that the initial failure to report the financial relationship was an oversight that he corrected last May on his own initiative in his first filing after his election to the Senate. “It was an omission that was inadvertent,” Cruz said.

For being the greatest lawyer ever Ted Cruz sure sucks at paperwork.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Xenophon posted:

lol at including a charger though, I JUST CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS!

I put it to recharge for the night, but in the morning my Jeb! was still low on energy. :sigh:

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
I've been reading Freep, and after a while you start thinking "hm, these guys aren't so different from us, they just like the other party." Then you find this thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3385469/posts

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Jewel Repetition posted:

I've been reading Freep, and after a while you start thinking "hm, these guys aren't so different from us, they just like the other party." Then you find this thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3385469/posts

Some rear end in a top hat on Freep posted:

You want to know the other reason Putin laughs?

These are the defense ministers for the following NATO countries:


Albania, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Italy.
Huh, I guess the one thing they all have in common is a vagina so that disqualifies them from working in defense.

I love how the right fetishizes, admires, and constantly talks about how well Putin's doing. It all seems weirdly sexual.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Sharkie posted:

It's just another day on the job for president Jeb. The economy's been on an upswing ever since his stunning defeat of Hillary last fall. Isis is on the run. And just last week his dad and brother both admitted that he'd surpassed them both. Yep, it's a fine spring day for this president. Maybe he'd get a few rounds of bowling in before meeting with...

The red phone on his desk rings.

"Hello? Who is this? This phone is for emergencies only, I --"

It's The Voice.

"LOSER! You're a loser! Low energy! You're not presidential you weak little-"

Jeb slams the phone down. His heart is racing. Who was that? What the hell's going on? And that Voice, the one that whispers round the corners of his mind...

He buzzes for his chief of staff. He feels like he needs a drink, of milk.

The door to the oval office swings open. No one comes in. Jeb gets up and sticks his head outside. Where's the secret service? Where's everybody? Jeb wanders the halls...walking at first, the running. Increasingly frantic. Throwing open doors to empty room after empty room.

"Hello! Anybody! Where...where are you!?"

The Voice answers.

"They left cause you're weak! They left cause you didn't have the energy to keep them!!"

Footsteps echo down the hall. Jeb collapses. No. Someone is coming. Jeb knows who it is, but facing that thought is like facing the heart of the sun. He can't. He tries to look away. To hide in his mind. The footsteps grow louder. The Voice grows louder. Closer. A shadowy figure turns the corner and Jeb's eyes are fixed on it. The Voice.

The Hair.

The Hair turns the corner and the walls of the White House collapse. Jeb notices they were only ever cheap plywood. A fake white house. This whole time. Jeb whimpers in the boundless darkness and wets himself, unable to turn away as the the voice and the hair and the great smiling, hateful visage grow closer, filling his mind from corner to corner, burning out the safe dark places in an endless chemical flare bigger than the sky, golden and huge and eternal.
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"Do you think he's happy, George?"

"Yeah, I guess so. We keep him busy. Sometimes he calls himself President. Kinda cute, really. Heh heh. Bout the only thing he does is smile and nod. And these pictures. Now I don't know what the heck this's 'sposed to be, but he draws the drat thing all the time."

George holds the drool stained crayon drawing. It's a tangle of yellow lines, buoyant and inscrutable, a web that circles into into itself and builds into a pompadour of golden squiggles. Meaningless.

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Those Trump rallies… I couldn't put my finger on it until just now. They're Juggalo gatherings without the face paint. Low production values with a high profit ratio (merchandise) that targets the same socio-economic background, minus the meth.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

If forced to vote for your favourite picture from this election, what would you vote? I'm stuck between furious trump with priest's hand on his face and crestfallen Cruz missing out on standing next to kim Davis

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

Stoat posted:

If forced to vote for your favourite picture from this election, what would you vote? I'm stuck between furious trump with priest's hand on his face and crestfallen Cruz missing out on standing next to kim Davis

Mendicant
Sep 22, 2015

by zen death robot
is anyone a bit flabbergast at 'rand paul'. rand like as in "ayn rand"

Lancelot
May 23, 2006

Fun Shoe
It's short for Randolph.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Cigar Aficionado posted:

No. People started inching away when she quit her Governorship in mid 2009. She continued to haemorrhage defenders as her life became a reality TV show (what with her actual reality show and her baby factory daughter), and even the tards jumped ship when she delivered a sincerely crazy speech at a conservative convention last January.

this. my guess is he using her as an endorsement and maybe promising her a job in his New Order. He will also probaly talk poo poo about gay or abortion to plaicate the religious right. maybe even make the muslim ban permanent.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Zwabu posted:

No one is dumb enough to announce a VP pick without having been nominated yet, has this been done?

Reagan did in 76.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Trump has hyped this endorsement too much for it to be Sarah Palin, if you ask me, but Trump made his name in puffery, so for all I know he could be announcing the endorsement of the Ames dog catcher.

Lancelot
May 23, 2006

Fun Shoe

Dapper_Swindler posted:

this. my guess is he using her as an endorsement and maybe promising her a job in his New Order. He will also probaly talk poo poo about gay or abortion to plaicate the religious right. maybe even make the muslim ban permanent.
mods please change my username to "poo poo about gay"

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

Anyone thinking the endorsement is too hyped to be a wet fart should remember the 100 black pastors.

Bucswabe
May 2, 2009

Platystemon posted:

Trump has hyped this endorsement too much for it to be Sarah Palin, if you ask me, but Trump made his name in puffery, so for all I know he could be announcing the endorsement of the Ames dog catcher.

I just finished reading Double Down, and it reminded me that just a couple weeks before the 2012 election, Trump hyped up a major "announcement". It ended up just being him offering to pay a charity $5 million if Obama released his college transcripts.

So yeah, this could be pretty much anything.

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

Bucswabe posted:

I just finished reading Double Down, and it reminded me that just a couple weeks before the 2012 election, Trump hyped up a major "announcement". It ended up just being him offering to pay a charity $5 million if Obama released his college transcripts.

So yeah, this could be pretty much anything.

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AllanGordon
Jan 26, 2010

by Shine

Bucswabe posted:

I just finished reading Double Down, and it reminded me that just a couple weeks before the 2012 election, Trump hyped up a major "announcement". It ended up just being him offering to pay a charity $5 million if Obama released his college transcripts.

So yeah, this could be pretty much anything.

That got a lot of coverage iirc.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

If you are looking for a endorsement from Christianity, you either go for Jerry Falwell Jr or Billy and Franklin Grahm. Since Franklin stated he will not endorse a candidate, Jerry Falwell Jr is a win for Trump.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

quote:

 "I think the American people want a steady hand at the helm. They want someone they know and trust. They don't want to wake up every day wondering if the latest polls might set off the Commander In Chief into a frenzy of tweets."
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http://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463532705/cruz-questions-trumps-temperament-as-commander-in-chief

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007


Ted Cruz would be a great Lemony Snicket.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

im glad trump has decided against making cruz his veep, the sculptor in charge of his vice presidential bust would have to forego the traditional medium and use a bowl of mash potatoes to capture his features accurately

(because he is a horrifying meltman, you see)

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

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



Zwabu posted:

BE SURE

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YOUR

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A day is gonna come soon when people have no idea what movie this is referencing.

:smith:

abelwingnut
Dec 23, 2002


Thump! posted:

A day is gonna come soon when people have no idea what movie this is referencing.

:smith:

thank gently caress gently caress that awful garbagepiece

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Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

quote:

“I think it [would] be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who’s held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion,” Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said on CNN’s “New Day.”

“He was a TARP [supporter] — and it goes on and on and on,” Mr. Tyler said. “Donald Trump claims he’s changed all those views, but … if it was Sarah Palin, let me just say I’d be deeply disappointed.”

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/19/ted-cruz-camp-blow-sarah-palin-if-she-endorses-don/



I can't remember the exact quote but years ago Cruz said that Palin got him elected which makes this endorsement sting

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jan 19, 2016

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