Joementum posted:

DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITIES

Listed in alphabetical order with their most significant political achievement.

• Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts
  

PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFINITELY NOT RUNNING OR ARE THEY!?!?!

• Elizabeth Warren - Professor of Native American Studies
  

ToxicSlurpee posted:

The problem the right runs into is that Romney is one of very few potentially electable people they have. They have a poo poo load of crazies and really old fucks and then bland, inoffensive, white bread R-Money. While the crazies are all cannibalizing each other Romney is just kind of hanging around, not doing much remarkable other than occasionally saying something dumb. Of course, the major issue is that, like you said, he already lost once. The Democrats would need to gently caress up hard to give Romney a win.

DOOP posted:

In this clownshow of a GOP primary, I realized that I miss Herman Cain. Like I unironically miss that man and wish he would re-enter. He just really wanted to be the Pokemaster and I appreciate that

Someone post smile.gif for me tia

Iowa Snow King posted:

No way would Bill have the bad taste to gently caress Ann Coulter

Caros posted:

Speaking of skeletor, are we allowed to make fun of her physical appearance now that she's gone on record saying her immigration plan would: ‘Not Admit Overweight Girls’? Or is that still uncouth? I'm asking for a friend.

She also refused a hug from an immigrant woman which prompted the whole thing.

Cigar Aficionado posted:

So what cabinet position is O'Malley angling for? State? Defence?

More White Noise posted:

Bobby Jindal is announcing on June 24.

PupsOfWar posted:

Require candidates to cosplay.

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

realclearpolitics is going to have to make their table larger to fit in all the candidates lol

Pillowpants posted:

Josh Brolin as Rick Perry
Donald Trump as Donald Trump
Vincent D'onofriio as Jeb


That's all I got. It's so hard to remember all these guys.

Joementum posted:

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Oh for gently caress's sake Britain

Cantorsdust posted:

Yeah, the former pose is how you would rest your gloved hands on the operating table, and the latter pose is how you would hold your hands when you have nothing to rest them on. Hands can't go below the waist or above the shoulders, so you tend to get into these weird arrangements.

edit: former as in the one with the fingers down, latter as in the one with hands clasped

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

Does that mean his campaign is only subject to maritime law? Imagine the possibilities!

TheDisreputableDog posted:

The widespread and almost casual way wait times were covered up are certainly a systematic issue and emblematic of people's general fears re: single payer government run systems.

The people doing it were literally like "Well, this is just how you get wait times down."

Meanwhile - you have vets dying of cancer. Dead vets' families getting callbacks for appointment setups after they died.

Like, only a handful of people were actually fired because of it and a bunch of bonuses were still paid out. It's the biggest load of horseshit.

But sure, Obamacare is at a record low approval rating because republicans made up death panels one summer in 2009.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

I guess to avoid bringing down the level of discourse I should just be posting pictures of Hillary and Bernie making silly faces. Thank you for this lesson.

Obdicut posted:

See, saying poo poo like this just makes you look like a moron. You think it's a zinger, I guess, but it just leaves people baffled. You have all the timing of Rand Paul's cultural references--there aren't any pictures at all on this page, or on last page, so if someone wants to understand your 'joke' they'd have to flip back through pages to find that, yes, in amidst the discussion, there were in fact pictures posted of people looking silly at some point. Ouch! What a corker.

To be clear: I want you to keep posting. You make yourself look like a fool, by doing ludicrously stupid poo poo like citing an article titled Public to Supreme Court: Don’t gut Obamacare to attack Obamacare. Whether you're a troll, just an idiot, or actually a liberal trying to make the GOP look bad by making ludicrously weak arguments, please proceed.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

I don't really think "one person said one snarky thing" is an accurate description of the last few pages, but okay, noted.

Obdicut posted:

For content:

Jill Stein is in 'exploratory' mode, with Cynthia McKinney looking like the only other Green in contention for the nomination. Is there any chance Stein doesn't run, and if so, why wouldn't she? She's not someone I can really figure out, nor can I figure out the Greens and their weird mishmash of valid positions and totally batshit views on science.

Deep Hurting posted:

Watching Donald Trump debate Hillary Clinton would be the maximum combination of hysterically funny and unbelievably retro, like a scene cut from Back to the Future part II.

a shameful boehner posted:

On Ted Cruz's ring, obviously.

god i can't wait until i need a new avatar and namechange, i want to forget that boehner ever existed

Feather posted:

Democratic partisans are pissing and moaning about Republican violations, too. It's one of the few cases where "both sides do it" is actually literally true. The other is "working for their corporate owners."

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Bernie already violated campaign finance laws as soon as he launched his campaign. He had Ben and Jerry's donate staff and ice cream, which are in-kind political contributions, and did not report them.

Joementum posted:

Bernie gets asked about his dual citizenship with Israel, which he denies having. Time for Bernie Birthers! Bernthers.

grah posted:

As an employee of a semi-governmental agency which is also a Union Shop, I am super curious how this could even work at my job. Cause there is no way in hell my union would give these people union cards, like ever. So, how would they at all be sneaky?

Not to mention my job carries a relatively high risk of injury or death, so these people would have to be properly trained in the actual jobs they're pretending to do. So if you want them to also be snitches they'd have to have some additional salary, and our salaries are all a matter of public record. So they'd technically have to have 2 jobs or something? I don't even know how this would work but I do know it would be an expensive as hell program to attempt to run, and that like most spiteful things like this it would catch almost nothing.

Sort of like how our mandatory random drug testing catches < 2% of all people tested and almost all of them are for weed, since that hangs around in one's system the longest.

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

No, it makes perfect sense. We'll improve government efficiency by hiring a bunch of extra staff who don't do anything productive so we can figure out which employees aren't doing anything productive.

bartlebyshop posted:

He reminds me of all the physicists I know who spend their days dealing with a bunch of particles that collectively all want the same thing and talk about how the economy and stock market just aren't that complicated, why haven't we just tried a flat tax yet?

Mo_Steel posted:

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Was just about to post this. On a forum with as long and storied history of cheap shots based on peoples' weight, I'd have thought more would remember the classics.

Joementum posted:

Lindsey Graham's choices for in-flight reading are not at all surprising. All of 'em, Katie!

Mr Hootington posted:

Nah there is. There seems to be a tendency to marginalize anyone not living in Los Angeles, New York, or any of the cities over 450,000.

Supraluminal posted:

Which is a pretty lovely attitude. People living in rural areas shouldn't get economically and environmentally hosed over for the benefit of people living in urban areas who are to ignorant or selfish to care. Everyone deserves a decent life and to be treated respectfully regardless of where they live.

Mr Hootington posted:

Which is too bad. Then again I still haven't had all of my idealism beaten out of me.

It is a difference I see in the parties to. Democrats gently caress you and want to help. Republicans are nice to you, but gently caress you when your back is turned. Then again I'm a white male so my picture of things are colored a bit differently.

Supraluminal posted:

Funny you should say that! I live in upstate NY.

They shouldn't get more attention. Everyone should get sufficient attention. You said:


Which is horseshit. People should think about what Iowans want, and about what people in upstate NY want, and what people in Atlanta want, and Santa Barbara, and North Dakota, and....

If all you're saying is that the primary calendar results in some weird-rear end distortions of American politics, I agree with you, but this discussion started getting a lot more general than that.

Concerned Citizen posted:

You could just re-run the election without electronic voting if it really wasn't repairable.

Iowa Snow King posted:

Do you mean perennial or did I just miss the joke?

ErIog posted:

One of the interesting bits of the "Dean Scream" story is that it demonstrates how far CNN has fallen in terms of credibility. They actually publicly apologized for focusing on that story so much since it turned out it was entirely a creation of the media. No way CNN would apologize for all the lovely reporting they do today. They'd have to give the ombudsman their own show just to handle it.

Cthulhu Dreams posted:

But they've got Fox news as well! To much terrible opinion dressed up as 'reporting' for one show?

Peacheshead posted:

Seriously, is there any chance of Joe Biden running? Who keeps deciding he should be included in polls?

ChickenRiceNPeas posted:

Following in his father's footsteps as "The Education President."

NinjaBucket posted:

I decided to run ... no idea how or if it's too late ... making it up as I go just like the rest. If I end up on the news that would be funny, pretty sure I am going to win though.

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Guavanaut posted: