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Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
DVD of Crash is the most offensive thing on that list imo

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Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH
l would literally rather have Lex Luthor be president

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







lex luther was a competent in case anyone forgot

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

I'm hoping for Dr. Doom....at least he has a doctorate.

HOTLANTA MAN
Jul 4, 2010

by Hand Knit
Lipstick Apathy
A politico reporter asked Darrell Issa about the Comey memo and he literally gave her the middle finger and walked away

Kalli
Jun 2, 2001



I'm pretty sure Jeff Sessions is actually Mumm-Ra

That guy is upset he left out Hank Scorpio.

Hank Scorpio was a good man who treated his employees well, he is a better man then any of those Republicans.

Kalli fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 17, 2017

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
Jeff Sessions is a Keebler elf man

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

It would be very cool if we had special election protocols after impeachments

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
It defaults to the most prominent politician who looks most like a crazy grandpa

COME ON DOWN BERNIE

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
These GOP fucks are going to stand by Trump until they get their healthcare and tax bills through then they'll give him the boot. Democrats will say how it's a Sorkin-esque return to normalcy while the middle class continues to erode and poor people continue to die.

swickles
Aug 21, 2006

I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just some QB that I used to know

FizFashizzle posted:

lex luther was a competent in case anyone forgot

Wasn''t there an alternate timeline where Lex Luthor defeated Super-Man, became ruler of the world, and turned it into a glorious Utopia?

Also, its not like everyone slides up a spot if Trump leaves office. Pence becomes President, then selects a Vice President that is confirmed by Congress (both houses). Its how Gerald Ford became President without ever actually being elected.

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

Hot Diggity! posted:

These GOP fucks are going to stand by Trump until they get their healthcare and tax bills through then they'll give him the boot. Democrats will say how it's a Sorkin-esque return to normalcy while the middle class continues to erode and poor people continue to die.

:cripes:

They passed the ACA. They voted to a man against its repeal. What more do you want them to do that doesn't involve time travel?

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

swickles posted:

Wasn''t there an alternate timeline where Lex Luthor defeated Super-Man, became ruler of the world, and turned it into a glorious Utopia?

Also, its not like everyone slides up a spot if Trump leaves office. Pence becomes President, then selects a Vice President that is confirmed by Congress (both houses). Its how Gerald Ford became President without ever actually being elected.

Superman Red Son. Superman lands in the Ukraine rather than in Kansas and becomes Stalin's commy ultimate weapon. Eventually defeated by Lex Luthor by writing a note and putting it in Lois Lanes pocket. It's better than it sounds.

Silly Burrito
Nov 27, 2007

SET A COURSE FOR
THE FLAVOR QUADRANT

Bad Moon posted:

Superman Red Son. Superman lands in the Ukraine rather than in Kansas and becomes Stalin's commy ultimate weapon. Eventually defeated by Lex Luthor by writing a note and putting it in Lois Lanes pocket. It's better than it sounds.

And that note was dickbutt.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

Shangri-Law School posted:

:cripes:

They passed the ACA. They voted to a man against its repeal. What more do you want them to do that doesn't involve time travel?

Grow

A

loving

Spine


And stop acting like the end game of politics is Trying Hard, Moral High Ground and Decorum

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


Spoeank posted:

Jeff Sessions is the vessel for Hitler's soul

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

Shangri-Law School posted:

:cripes:

They passed the ACA. They voted to a man against its repeal. What more do you want them to do that doesn't involve time travel?

The ACA loving sucks, so maybe make part of their platform going for single-player instead of Bomb Syria, but what would I know, I'm getting hosed by insurance companies right now, so we'll see where this all goes.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
Like seriously, the democrats need to stop going whelp nothing we did wrong here everything is great full speed ahead while the republicans gerrymander every state to put every democrat in the cointry into one mega district and while they rear end gently caress the country while giving the double birds to the democrats

And the democrats are like well we need to just reach across the aisle and appeal to their sense of morality and that'll convince them

gently caress that. The democrats have been loving up, hosed up in November, and are continuing to gently caress up

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
You can't trot out wet rag boring as gently caress corporate shill hillary Clinton and run the same campaign playbook as one of the most charismatic politicans ever

Like obama got re-elected and dems got slaughtered down ballot and they didnt stop and think "hmmm maybe its just obama"

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


*leans in an whispers*

bernee woulda won

by splitting the rural lovely white vote

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

*leans in an whispers*

bernee woulda won

by splitting the rural lovely white vote

I didn't realize that the W would have an * on the electoral map

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

swickles
Aug 21, 2006

I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just some QB that I used to know

Spoeank posted:

Like seriously, the democrats need to stop going whelp nothing we did wrong here everything is great full speed ahead while the republicans gerrymander every state to put every democrat in the cointry into one mega district and while they rear end gently caress the country while giving the double birds to the democrats

And the democrats are like well we need to just reach across the aisle and appeal to their sense of morality and that'll convince them

gently caress that. The democrats have been loving up, hosed up in November, and are continuing to gently caress up

I honestly thought the Trump presidency would result in a new third party that split right wingers, but now I am thinking it will spur a left leaning third party that promises to actually do something.

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

swickles posted:

I honestly thought the Trump presidency would result in a new third party that split right wingers, but now I am thinking it will spur a left leaning third party that promises to actually do something.

and loses

swickles
Aug 21, 2006

I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just some QB that I used to know

Well duh. Or we could be at the point in history where a new party replaces one of the major ones. The Tea Party never came close because it was too fringe. The Democrats have been doing nothing for decades now.

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

swickles posted:

I honestly thought the Trump presidency would result in a new third party that split right wingers, but now I am thinking it will spur a left leaning third party that promises to actually do something.

Join the DSA. It ain't perfect by any stretch and experiencing some major growing pains (but with how fast it's grown that's to be expected). Meetings are good and we've got a few lower level elected officials.

Basically we gotta be entryist. Our voting system and election structure sucks and Democrats seem hell bent on resisting any move to the left because then they would have to stand for something.

HOTLANTA MAN
Jul 4, 2010

by Hand Knit
Lipstick Apathy

Hot Diggity! posted:

Join the DSA. It ain't perfect by any stretch and experiencing some major growing pains (but with how fast it's grown that's to be expected). Meetings are good and we've got a few lower level elected officials.

Basically we gotta be entryist. Our voting system and election structure sucks and Democrats seem hell bent on resisting any move to the left because then they would have to stand for something.

lmao if you ever think the DSA is going to be anything beyond a useless money pit for white-guilt woke slacktivists

The one DSA meeting I went to they tried to draft a charter and within twenty minutes it devolved into a heated argument over pronouns.

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

lmao if you ever think the DSA is going to be anything beyond a useless money pit for white-guilt woke slacktivists

The one DSA meeting I went to they tried to draft a charter and within twenty minutes it devolved into a heated argument over pronouns.

Yeah, but the DNC lost to Trump, so what's left to lose.

HOTLANTA MAN
Jul 4, 2010

by Hand Knit
Lipstick Apathy

Probably Magic posted:

Yeah, but the DNC lost to Trump, so what's left to lose.

A party with the word socialist in the name is never going to win in the United States of America, regardless of how optimistic their pie-in-the-sky bullshit sounds

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


It'd be a lot easier to just get more hard-left dems in at the House level tbqh

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

A party with the word socialist in the name is never going to win in the United States of America, regardless of how optimistic their pie-in-the-sky bullshit sounds

The most socialist president we ever had got four terms.

In all honesty, I'll probably just keep showing up and voting straight D every election, but it'd be nice to have some kind of movement in the left that wasn't immediately sabotaged by their own side. Fox News outright promoted the Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street got... poo poo on by everyone, even the press and politicians who should've been on their side. Gee, wonder how we got to this point.

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

lmao if you ever think the DSA is going to be anything beyond a useless money pit for white-guilt woke slacktivists

The one DSA meeting I went to they tried to draft a charter and within twenty minutes it devolved into a heated argument over pronouns.

Pretty weird that they would do that as there's an established structure in place that carries from chapter to chapter. The Chicago chapters are very active in community activism so dunno man.

And dang, $50 if you want to be a paying member. Such a money pit!

HOTLANTA MAN
Jul 4, 2010

by Hand Knit
Lipstick Apathy

Hot Diggity! posted:

Pretty weird that they would do that as there's an established structure in place that carries from chapter to chapter. The Chicago chapters are very active in community activism so dunno man.

And dang, $50 if you want to be a paying member. Such a money pit!

for someone who lives paycheck to paycheck in somewhere like the south where minimum wage is like 7.50 yeah, 50 bucks is a lot to join a political "party" that hasn't done poo poo beyond make tshirts and spam on twitter

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

It'd be a lot easier to just get more hard-left dems in at the House level tbqh

Or even left Dems. But poo poo we saw the party majorly gently caress up an extremely winnable Senate election in Wisconsin because they didn't give Feingold all that much support.

FUCKFACE MORON
Apr 23, 2010

by sebmojo
A bloated moron
Is in the Oval Office.
Bernie would have won.

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

Spoeank posted:

Grow

A

loving

Spine


And stop acting like the end game of politics is Trying Hard, Moral High Ground and Decorum

They haven't cooperated with Trump on anything. Name one thing that he accomplished that he would not have without the help of Democrats. I was genuinely worried that under Schumer they would cave, but they haven't. Even when Obama was President they passed all his signature laws without Republican votes. The compromises were there to win over the votes of shitheads like Joe Lieberman. The party has grown much, much more liberal in the last decade.

And come on, guys, the ACA isn't everything we need, but it was a huge step forward and a law that all liberals can be proud of. I know that idealism by definition involves high hopes, but measured against where we were to where we are now, the improvement has been great. For the first time, Medicaid became a comprehensive single-payer program for the poor. The individual market finally got some structure and substantial patient protections. Millions of Americans are better off. Compromised laws that pass are better than perfect laws that don't.

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

for someone who lives paycheck to paycheck in somewhere like the south where minimum wage is like 7.50 yeah, 50 bucks is a lot to join a political "party" that hasn't done poo poo beyond make tshirts and spam on twitter

khalid kamau just won a city council seat in Georgia by a landslide. Also fwiw they do also have low income memberships at $20. Sorry you didn't have a good experience with them but they are doing things and are getting more involved locally and getting people into office.

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.
When you learn you might be paying a grand in medication fees for one prescription, it gets ya in a guillotine mood, so you'll excuse me if tonight I don't see all the wonderful virtues of "pragmatism" that actually gets nothing done.

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Never count on Republicans to do the right thing

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 06:02 on May 17, 2017

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Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

A party with the word socialist in the name is never going to win in the United States of America, regardless of how optimistic their pie-in-the-sky bullshit sounds

Yeah, because socialism is so strongly tied to our mortal enemies, the Soviet Union. No one could win with a bunch of Russian baggage hanging around their neck. We used to kill people for less than that.

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