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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




for too long have the ewoks suffered under the inept rule of the olympian jupiter

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juche avocado
Dec 23, 2009





Squizzle posted:

i would like to announce here my candidacy for co-prince of andorra

u gonna challenge macron or the . .... Pope? is the Pope the other one, idr!!

juche avocado
Dec 23, 2009





Squizzle posted:

for too long have the ewoks suffered under the inept rule of the olympian jupiter

o i c

i support u in this :france:

juche avocado
Dec 23, 2009





I'll take things i primarily know due to Paradox map games/wiki sprees therefrom for $500, alex

i'll stop making GBS threads up yr thread now :v:

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007
wasnt "dick wolf" a problematic meme a few years back?

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
Yeah, the Penny arcade guys

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
potential campaign slogan: Awoouu (wolf Howl)

slouch
Mar 10, 2009


Drunkboxer posted:

wasnt "dick wolf" a problematic meme a few years back?

yeah i usually tell people that when they encourage me to go by "dick wolf" but so far nobody has remembered or recognized what i was referring to. even people who are penny arcade fans.

in other news - denton area goons i'll be attending the dsa fundraiser movie watching / beer drinking event tomorrow night. feel free to come to that and say hello to me if you would like. i don't intend on it being a campaign thing just something fun to do because ive been busy af for the last week. currently have some people working on a campaign logo for me and a campaign anthem that will hopefully be a real banger.

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


slouch posted:

yeah i usually tell people that when they encourage me to go by "dick wolf" but so far nobody has remembered or recognized what i was referring to. even people who are penny arcade fans.

in other news - denton area goons i'll be attending the dsa fundraiser movie watching / beer drinking event tomorrow night. feel free to come to that and say hello to me if you would like. i don't intend on it being a campaign thing just something fun to do because ive been busy af for the last week. currently have some people working on a campaign logo for me and a campaign anthem that will hopefully be a real banger.

Have a good time yall.

If you're interested in getting a dsa endorsement at some point later, here are the requirements for national endorsement. Conditions for local endorsement is up to each local.

https://twitter.com/demsocialists/status/867490376218804227?lang=en

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




question for the candidate

what is the most scandalous moral failing that no one can prove you know that tan parker does not demonstrate

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

slouch posted:

oh poo poo yall good fuckin news now you can deliver money directly into my rear end in a top hat


(the money actually comes to me as a check in the mail weekly)

I gave you $1.69 but I can TRIPLE-MATCH that if you get ur poo poo together, OP. Wealth b yond measure... At your fingertips

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Ruzihm posted:

Have a good time yall.

If you're interested in getting a dsa endorsement at some point later, here are the requirements for national endorsement. Conditions for local endorsement is up to each local.

https://twitter.com/demsocialists/status/867490376218804227?lang=en

Remember 2 try 2 win, OP

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


Vox Nihili posted:

Remember 2 try 2 win, OP

ya, if you are going in with the expectation of losing & just being a protest vote, national isn't interested. OP seems in it to win it.

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
be sure to mention in your platform that subsidized long term contraceptives both decrease abortions and save taxpayer dollars

Huragok
Sep 14, 2011

baw posted:

be sure to mention in your platform that subsidized long term contraceptives both decrease abortions and save taxpayer dollars

one weird trick to lower your taxes!

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.
s/he's running?

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

Huragok posted:

one weird trick to lower your taxes!

one weird trick to lower your taxes and gently caress

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer

slouch posted:

nah, run for mayor. it will be up for grabs in spring 2019

I'm not that loving delusional. I'll shoot for council though

ferroque
Oct 27, 2007

the gently caress kind of name is Tan

texans don't typically like tan people

StabbinHobo
Oct 18, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
looks like he won with 30 - 60k votes over the last several elections, and the entire population of the district is 164... so man good luck coming up with *at least* 40k supporters

slouch
Mar 10, 2009


Misogynice Job! posted:

the gently caress kind of name is Tan

texans don't typically like tan people

its some kinda weird nickname for nathaniel.


this week has been slow af because of the holidays. people are too busy "traveling" or "spending time with family" to volunteer their hard labor to my cause. in other news, my donation check arrived in the mail and i have received all yalls money. thanks a hundred to everyone who has been supportive. since it's goon money i figure ill just ask you how i should spend it. i have other financial support for most "serious" stuff (paying block walkers, business cards, flyers, hangers, and professional looking yard signs) so feel free to recommend the dumbest thing you could imagine a politician spending money on for their campaign

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


in proud lf tradition you should spend it on really nice pants

StabbinHobo
Oct 18, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
spend it *all* on fb ads targeting your zip code(s)

particularly people under 45 or hispanic or 'low-income'

make the ads as stupid as you possibly can so long as your name sticks in their brain

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

StabbinHobo posted:

spend it *all* on fb ads targeting your zip code(s)

particularly people under 45 or hispanic or 'low-income'

make the ads as stupid as you possibly can so long as your name sticks in their brain

This

Extremely targeted ads ftw

slouch
Mar 10, 2009


StabbinHobo posted:

spend it *all* on fb ads targeting your zip code(s)

particularly people under 45 or hispanic or 'low-income'

make the ads as stupid as you possibly can so long as your name sticks in their brain

would people be interested in having a mini contest with this? like anyone who comes up with any kind of facebook advertising content (plain text, pictures, video) that is amusing to me and not illegal i will pay to have run for my campaign. facebook ads can be placed for mad cheap and it's really easy to set them up. good / bad it doesn't matter as long as its got my name

i can always just make my own advertising though if other people aren't interested.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


StabbinHobo posted:

spend it *all* on fb ads targeting your zip code(s)

particularly people under 45 or hispanic or 'low-income'

make the ads as stupid as you possibly can so long as your name sticks in their brain

i have contacts in moscow who can help you out with these

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


slouch posted:

would people be interested in having a mini contest with this? like anyone who comes up with any kind of facebook advertising content (plain text, pictures, video) that is amusing to me and not illegal i will pay to have run for my campaign. facebook ads can be placed for mad cheap and it's really easy to set them up. good / bad it doesn't matter as long as its got my name

i can always just make my own advertising though if other people aren't interested.

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

slouch posted:

this was probably a dumb idea
FACEBOOK LINK CLICK HERE! ALL ACTIVITY ON MY PAGE IMPROVES FACEBOOK ALGORITHM RANKING.




this is me

greetings friends. my name is richard wolf. perhaps you've seen me white noise posting in the trimp thread where i like to empty quote bad jokes and defend mark zuckerburg. after two years of watching a racist dumbass campaign for and somehow win the presidency, ive been slowly growing more and more miserable. and then with this whole tax cut thing (and the inevitable slashing of whats left of our social safety net) looming over the horizon ive started to get angry. there was nothing i could do, though. im just loser failson who listens to podcasts while playing video games all day. i had nothing to offer, no unique skills, no special abilities, no connections - nothing.

but now ive seen political support for literal child molestor and 2 time state supreme court reject Roy Moore come back into his sails like nothing has happened. this broke my brain entirely

nothing matters. literally any rear end in a top hat can run for a political position and win. being under-qualified doesn't matter. being a criminal and a liar doesn't matter. hell you can be completely and totally unlikable seems to be a positive in a lot of peoples minds. there's nothing that can stop me from at least giving it a shot. so i asked my father for enough money to get on my state house of representatives ballot and just went for it. and now im doing what i do best (?) and talking about it on the internet.

The District
im in the campaign for texas house district 63 against republican Tan Parker
as you can see from that link, Tanny Boy has gone uncontested since 2014. his last democratic challenger got slightly less than 15% of the vote. my district is best characterized as a combination of rural farmland and wealthy DFW suburbanites. even though the demographics and voting history of this area go strongly against any democratic candidate - especially a young 20 something lefty college dropout - i am definitely 100% sure that i could win this election in a 20+ point landslide. lol

The Opponent
tan parker is an rear end in a top hat, plain and simple. he is currently the chairman of the texas house of representatives republican caucus so every vile piece of legislation that flows out of there has his fingers on it. otherwise he seems to try and keep a low profile. the biggest legislative knocks against him are his interests in 1. cutting taxes and liabilities for private / charter schools, taking money out of the public school system. 2. being extremely anti-union in a state where union membership is already very low. here's a bill to make it more difficult for teachers and other public employees to contribute to workers organizations. it does include an exception for police officers though. and this bizarre one which makes it so that minors need parental permission to join an organized labor union. and 3. his strong anti-abortion stance. though he did recently get into a bit of controversy by prioritizing a bill to give nascar free money over some anti abortion legislation which was funny. he is also a member of the house redistricting committee which recently got in trouble for "diluting minority votes" through gerrymandering. and then of course his donors are mostly energy companies and insurance companies but that's just par for the course.

The Platform
i'm still in the process of writing out and properly explaining what i think would be good texan policy for my website and facebook pages. here's the short list of basic stuff though









faqs

Q: isnt it a bad idea to talk about your campaign on a dumb internet forum? isnt this bad for your electability?
A: yes its probably a bad idea but i dont think it really matters anymore. decorum is over. professionalism will not hold me back from my true passion. (posting)

Q:is there another democratic primary candidate?
A: yeah but she seems nice and i don't know her platform very well. we both declared and registered yesterday so there's not much for me to say! i dont want to invite any potential negativity to my primary opponent

Q:whats the point of this thread?
A:i think it will be a fun way to keep track of my experience and workshop ideas. i can talk about my experience being a candidate, what its like to work with local party people, campaign finance poo poo. all of that stuff. plus i can toxx myself to make sure i dont become a lazy bum and give up campaigning to play video games all day

currently on my agenda:
1 - finish setting up everything i need to submit my campaign finance reports. this will probably not be hard done
2 - create an official website, facebook, and twitter account (yes i made a thread before getting this done. meeting with digital team this week and should be able to get this stuff rolling by end of week)
3 - set up with Act Blue to easily manage campaign donati-ahahaha done
4 - block walking with other candidates. gotta gain experience knocking on peoples doors and telling them the good news.
5 - much much more!!!


feel free to ask me anytghing or call me a cuck. whatever works

people asked to donate but i dont recommend it. if you dont listen to me click this image


holy poo poo my dude :patriot:

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

Grand Prize Winner posted:

in proud lf tradition you should spend it on really nice pants

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy
you don't need targeted ads just buy really nice pants and then post about your nice pants and people will share and re-share on their own

StabbinHobo
Oct 18, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
this is so small ball that there's no way he has security or drivers or anything. stick someone on him with a long lens for as much time as they'll volunteer. absolute worst case scenario you run a bunch of negative ads of him right in the middle of eating something. everybody looks stupid eating.

and you gotta find his social media accounts. even better dating site profiles.

edit: reach out to every candidate that ran against him in the past, primary or general, and get whatever they'll give. *somebody* probably hates him.

StabbinHobo has issued a correction as of 23:08 on Dec 25, 2017

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

you should get the republican vote by doing something to imply that you'd lower taxes

like legally change your name to mister lowertaxes or something

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

Tunicate posted:

you should get the republican vote by doing something to imply that you'd lower taxes

like legally change your name to mister lowertaxes or something

richard "lowtax" kyanka

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




campaign on govt funded injections of boner suppressant for armadillos so texas children dont have to see armadillo boners

Qwazes
Sep 29, 2014
Fun Shoe
Donated 24.20. 4.20 seemed a bit low, and 14.20 signaled the wrong things...

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


if soemone gives him 5 he'll have gotten 420 total. just sayin.

after that we clearly cant give any more though, unless its $270

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I can't sorry it's illegal

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

if soemone gives him 5 he'll have gotten 420 total. just sayin.

after that we clearly cant give any more though, unless its $270

Wow just skip right over 666 as though it's not the funniest number of all, shameful

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the foreign goons who cant donate money to him should be spending money on the facebook ads havent you been watching the news

my suggestion is an ad that says
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of the xth district
DICK WOLF

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slouch
Mar 10, 2009


Shear Modulus posted:

the foreign goons who cant donate money to him should be spending money on the facebook ads havent you been watching the news

my suggestion is an ad that says
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of the xth district
DICK WOLF

i believe this is illegal too. not sure 100% but paid advertisements sound like an in-kind donation which has to be reported like regular cash donations

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