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Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Things are going to be okay in November.

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Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Casimir Radon posted:

Ken is a Mormon, let that sink in.

I prefer the company of progressive Christians over most non-believers, personally.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Inferior Third Season posted:

They become president?

They work with the party they most align with in Congress and collapse under pressure because they have absolutely no connections to anyone outside of their tiny party.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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skylined! posted:

I'm gonna copy/paste this to Facebook if that's OK

:same:

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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BigRed0427 posted:

I'm hoping they remain very active in politics in some form. I don't want them to go away all together.

Barrack and Michelle Obama are going to outlive Bill and Hillary Clinton. Think about that.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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sportsgenius86 posted:

Pence looks like a lego grandpa

I think he's Clayface.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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TheScott2K posted:

There's the Tech shooting.

Every time someone asks me what year I graduated from VT there's an awkward pause and "ohhhh..."

My room mate was a junior at Columbine in 1999. All anyone can do when they hear something like that really is to pause and say "oooh".

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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The biggest question on everyone's minds is: what is Hillary drinking tonight?

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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So was Kaine's mission to get a soundbite out of Pence or what?

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Anyone who turned eighteen this year was born in the same year that the Lewinsky scandal broke.

gently caress, I was in fifth grade when that happened.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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I remember hoping that Al Gore would lose the election because his Joe Lieberman championed video game censorship laws. I was also thirteen.

Instant Sunrise posted:

the media coverage surrounding the lewinsky scandal was basically my sex ed

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

God I pity the world's middle school teachers when that story broke. Tryna do a nice unit about civics and now you gotta explain what a blowie is

I don't think I knew what a blowjob was until I started seventh grade in 1999. I think I was out of high school by the time I had any grasp about what the scandal was. I know that I heard countless jabs at the Clintons when I was a kid, but had no idea what any of it meant. It was just white noise to me.

Star Man fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Oct 6, 2016

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Cop Porn Popper posted:

Technically Bryce, at least until november 8th and a Hillary win.

Though it is somewhat strange to consider that if Hillary wins 2 terms, there could be kids turning 18 and voting who have no real memories of an old white dude being president. Kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :3:

Oi. I was thirteen when Dubya was elected and I have no memory about the Clinton administration aside from the 1996 election and the Lewinsky scandal.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Are you younger than me maybe? Kids' level of sexual knowledge was really really different before internet porn really got off the ground. I was in sixth grade in 1996 and even though we were cool city kids only the ones with older siblings got even close to guessing what the adults were so upset about.

I'm two or three years younger than you are and I was the last kid on earth to finally understand why I was always laughed at for answering "no" to the question "are you a virgin?" in 1996.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Are... are you PT? :haw:

I had to look that one up :v:

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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I would not at all be surprised if Pence wants to get Trump to drop out of the race and take his place as the nominee.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status/784203449076424705

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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I think the only way this election could reach its peak insanity is if Gary Johnson wins Utah. I don't care if no one in Arizona or Georgia votes for Trump and Hillary wins them--Johnson winning Utah would be the star on top of this Christmas tree.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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MonkeyOnFire posted:

Clinton now at her highest point (so far) for this election on 538's Polls-plus. :sad:

The nowcast has Clinton winning Arizona. Say it isn't so!

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Night10194 posted:

Pence has dehumanized himself and faced to the bloodshed, I see.

Well, he certainly dehumanized someone else and wore their face to bloodshed.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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This was on my Steam front page today. Wonder if I should live out a fantasy with it or not.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/507010/

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Has this been posted? These needs to be (re)posted.

http://www.trumpisnotateamplayer.com/

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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If only we had a benevolent, technocratic dictator that would appoint the right people in positions of power so that we could avoid the chance of a fascist like Trump being elected. Then people from places that I don't like or am ashamed to be from can't have any say in the electoral process and only us in the white and liberal professional class with our one Black or Hispanic friend in the beating heart of the great and wonderful City can have things run smoothly.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Yaws posted:

Poor Julian Assange. He thought his leaks would turn the election and his man is going to lose in a likely blowout

Julian Assange wants the kind of person that would likely have him imprisoned for releasing leaks for president.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Dead Cosmonaut posted:

If you've lived in Colorado for awhile you'd know. The best way I can describe it is the following: It's becoming the next California.

Mostly because Denver and Boulder are being filled up with people from California who are trying to get away from the coat of living there.

I think Nevada's next. My sister lives in Reno and keeps trying to get me to move out there when I finish my undergrad next year. I have a feeling that she's going to get priced out of being able to live there within the next five years.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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I would love it if the final debate devolves into an episode of The Jerry Springer Show.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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poo poo like that makes me terrified that Trunp's quip in the last debate about not accepting the results on Election Day might not be an empty threat. There is no way in hell that he is not in cahoots with Putin.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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greatn posted:

Look a little closer

I hate Trump as much as the next D&D goon and his fixation on Ivanka is creepy, but for all I know, she was standing up from her seat while her dad had his hands on her shoulders first.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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There are days where I tell myself that I may be from Wyoming, but at least it's not Ohio.

Welp, that's my story.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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milk milk lemonade posted:

Your story is that you're proud to be from a state so terrible no one bothers to live there?

At least we have a view.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Gail Wynand posted:

How does it feel to have the name of your main mountain range translate to "Big Titties"

Awesome

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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milk milk lemonade posted:

Okay great so does Idaho, doesn't explain why you don't live in a place like Colorado or Utah instead of a state with the population of a small city whose primary exports are cows and pictures of barns

I'm sure the ~12 million people living in Ohio are crushed they can't trade their lackluster views for a shot at herding goats or being the assistant manager at a truck stop

If there's one thing I miss about living in Wyoming after living in Denver for the last three years, it's that I miss being from a place where people don't act like they're better than you because of where they live. We're poo poo, but at least we know it and leave it at that. Anyway, thanks for dragging my unfunny statement on for this long. I'm glad you liked it :haw:

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Grouchio posted:

2. Do you have descriptive opinions of other states you frequent if any? Why is Indiana so conservative compared to Illinois for instance?

It's never because the whole state votes Democratic. It's all confined to major metropolitan areas.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Kilroy posted:

Maps like this always make me wonder: what's to stop a state from electing their electors based on something like a state-level electoral college? Like, whichever candidate wins the most counties in that state is awarded all the electoral votes, for example? If you did this you'd make enough solid-blue states reliably Republican that you'd hand the Presidency to the GOP on a platter regardless of how the demographics play out in the near future. What are the odds that enough Republican state houses try this that it actually tips the balance of power to the GOP to such a degree that is impossible to overcome?

Nebraska and Maine have electoral votes that aren't bound to the popular vote to the state. I imagine there are Republicans that wold love it if every state was like that.

Tom Guycot posted:

So whats going on in this area?:

Its not Chicago, its not the twin cities, its not Milwaukee, its not even really Des Moines, the only thing I can think of in that area at all is Madison and thats along the edge.

I have no idea because I know nothing about those places aside from being able to point to them on a map. Teton County in Wyoming went for Obama in 2012 and that's where all of the richest fucks in the state live.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Instant Sunrise posted:

yeah. it's wyoming that's the republican stronghold. :v:

The Republican stronghold whose last governor was a Democrat that served two terms and nearly threw out the Republican incumbent in the US House in 2006 in a 50.1-49.9 split.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Mister Adequate posted:

Those people are crazy, I don't know what's up with them :psyduck:

Because to them, the GOP delivers.

The GOP is addicted to fossil fuel money, and they'll turn the earth into swiss cheese for every flake of coal and every drop of oil they can if they can make a buck off of it. And in order to do it, they need people to run the machines that drill for resources and those jobs are the only ones around that pay. And the Republicans have done a pretty good job framing the issue of environmentalism into an attack on the rural working class.

As long as people in places like Wyoming and North Dakota believe that their only source of a meaningful income is under attack, they'll never be won over by the Democrats. It doesn't matter if they actually believe that global warming is a communist hoax or a real threat. It's their jobs that they perceive that are at stake, and they're right, because a leave-it-in-the-ground policy means that those mining jobs vanish. And the liberal base in this country would rather watch them starve to death in the mountains and die than help them at all besides encourage them to move to cities where they'll be making no money and paying for a cost of living several times higher. But gently caress em, they vote for Republicans and since it's not cool to hate people that are not white or women or gays anymore in liberal circles, it's the next best thing to hate on is an underclass that votes in a way they don't like.

But no one in any other industry wants to set up shop in a cheap place and try to get people to work there. poo poo, the only reason people are coming to Denver is because the tech sector got a foothold here during the recession because it was a cheap place to do it. The legal weed's just a bonus.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Comey is on Putin's payroll imho

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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cant cook creole bream posted:

Why does all of this piss me off so much more than the other election stuff? Not even Pnuemeleven was that annoying.

Because Election Day is next week and this poo poo is breaking out now.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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https://twitter.com/kenbone18/status/792907212565929986

I don't know if Ken Bone realizes that Lindsay might be making fun of him with that outfit.

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

I objectively and sincerely want Chris Christie to put a gun in his loving mouth and pull the trigger and if it could be on television so I could TiVo it that would be cool

This was the best I could do.

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Jun 1, 2008

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

Nah, at the Bud Dwyer suicide someone tried to convince him not do it

That would not happen if Christie tried to off himself

I tried :(

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