terminal-boredom.com
Terminal Boardumb => Non-Music Shit => Topic started by: nefitty on July 19, 2016, 06:23:24 AM
-
I figured some of you guys would have thoughts on this epic shit show called the RNC. I've seen more organized Halloween parties thrown by drunk teenagers. Anyways, so far we've seen Trump's wife basically plagiarize her speech and a group of delegates hate-walk out of the hall. Throughout, people probably less important than my stoner neighbor babbled incoherently about some golden Aryan American past they wish to return to, you know, back when lynching wasn't so frowned upon. All of this and worse in honor of this fuckin' fog demon that presents himself as if he was the Fanta-shaded wrestler America needs (Steve Austin please save us):
(https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TH2OAuhcMznmgPeDaMCkjd37cVM=/600x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6809649/Jul-18-2016%2022-26-44.gif)
-
Never (tried to)watched one of these before so not sure how much of a shit show this was compared to ones past and based on what the commentators were saying, it seems conventions are always pretty scrambled.
Turned it off after that Marie and Donny Osmond act some idiot senator and his wife did. Truly a parade of idiots and a massively depressing spectacle.
-
My favorite peripheral bummer is G.E. Smith And His RNC Band.
Rudy Giuliani is a legit crazy person.
The speech stealing thing will probably be a boost.
We're all going to die immediately.
-
The headliner (or first speaker was Charles in Charge) who talked about hard work because getting rich at 12 playing the Fonz's cousin is really indicative of a work ethic.
I listen to a lot of NPR at work and flipped it to the station at various times last night to be slightly horrified and slightly humored and then really pissed. Even the NPR interviewer couldn't hide his outrage when a woman was still convinced Obama was an African. And what's worse Muslims or atheists?
I understand why people are upset. Fuxk, I hate the Democrats almost as much as I hate the Republicans. They both shit on working people, but listening to the duck dynasty guy? Or trump himself who has never worked a day in his life?
It's all redundant and I can't sleep. Looking forward to watching Bill Maher cover it the next couple days
-
First thing I thought of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc5NyO1QkGE
-
Melina Trump didn't plagiarize. She was just dropping an excerpt from her TIDAL exclusive spoken word Michelle Obama covers album. It's to help with the 'urban' vote.
-
Waiting for user:giantleech to give a fair and unbiased account
You fucking pinkos
-
The extent of Rudy Giuliani's cognitive dissonance is mind boggling:
"When the [police] come to save your life, they don't ask if you are black or white, they just come to save you"
Right, so all the bullets ending up in dead black people must be really fucking racist, cause I guess the cops are colorblind
The vast majority of Americans today do not feel safe
3 minutes later: I changed NYC from the crime capitol of America to the safest large city in the United States There's also the conveniently ignored trend that the violent crime rate in the US has dropped 20% since 2008.
One America! What happened to there is no black America, there is no white America, there is just America. What happened to it, where did it go? How has it flown away?
Perhaps that one America, which only ever existed in your imagination, flew away on the albatross that was your systemic violation of constitutional rights for minorities known as stop and frisk
-
Open carry law.
Some (many, probably) of the attendees are carrying guns.
I'll be shocked if there isn't a scene.
-
All of this and worse in honor of this fuckin' fog demon that presents himself as if he was the Fanta-shaded wrestler America needs (Steve Austin please save us):
If Steve Austin suddenly elbow-dropped Trump from the RNC stage scaffolding, and followed it up with a Stone Cold Stunner before getting plugged by the Secret Service, most of the audience would erupt in cheers and the threat of a Trump presidency would be ended forever.
-
Open carry law.
Some (many, probably) of the attendees are carrying guns.
I'll be shocked if there isn't a scene.
Actually I guess it wasn't that bad with open /carry. NPR interviewed one side armed to the teeth who fwlt rather our of place. He felt alone, so lone and empty...
-
It looks like guns aren't allowed inside the convention itself. But with protesters hanging around outside and tensions running higher than usual, I dunno. Even police officials asked the governor to put a hold on the law until the convention's through. Seems obvious.
-
All of this and worse in honor of this fuckin' fog demon that presents himself as if he was the Fanta-shaded wrestler America needs (Steve Austin please save us):
If Steve Austin suddenly elbow-dropped Trump from the RNC stage scaffolding, and followed it up with a Stone Cold Stunner before getting plugged by the Secret Service, most of the audience would erupt in cheers and the threat of a Trump presidency would be ended forever.
Stone Cold refused to do racist and sexist storylines during his time in WWE, supports gay marriage, and spoke out against xians opposed to same-sex marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM)
-
I'm worried about my friends.
This is from a musician and scene figure who has been doing cool shit in the Cleave for 15+ years.
"I'm seething right now I'm so angry. At what's happening to my city. Of course we've all been hearing about various fringe groups descending on Cleveland during the RNC. Reality set in today as I was leaving work and was greeted by a civilian militia group from Southern Ohio. There were 15 or so walking around W 25th in Ohio City in tactical gear and all carrying assault rifles. I lost it. I got in their faces. I told them to get out of my city, my neighborhood. I told them they didn't belong here. I told them to shove their 2nd amendment up their asses. They said they were here to keep the peace. I said they were here to do the opposite. To incite. To agitate. To kill. I'm not OK. I'm not okay with what's happening here..."
One positive thing that happened is a good friend met the guitarist from The Dicks downtown at a protest cuz he was wearing his Dicks shirt.
Watched some of the trainwreck last night. What an indictment of our country that these people are even this close to the seat of power. I wouldn't trust Donald Trump to manage a Burger King.
People were so desperate to find something non-shitty that they were praising Mrs. Trump's speech. Before the plagiarizing was revealed, it was an awful and disingenuous speech already. Does anyone believe anything these people are saying? I've got a bridge to sell you, it's in Hell. It's hot and it might collapse. But it'll be yours.
-
Unfortunately, it does seem like it has the potential to be a powder keg. How could a militia justify being there? Fuxking hell. I guess I didn't think about people like that looking to mix it up with protestors.
Do I really have to vote for Hillary? I guess this shit is proving I may have to. I still don't think this orangutan can win. No chance in hell, but the mere possibility has me mentally packing my bags to cross the closest border
-
All of this and worse in honor of this fuckin' fog demon that presents himself as if he was the Fanta-shaded wrestler America needs (Steve Austin please save us):
If Steve Austin suddenly elbow-dropped Trump from the RNC stage scaffolding, and followed it up with a Stone Cold Stunner before getting plugged by the Secret Service, most of the audience would erupt in cheers and the threat of a Trump presidency would be ended forever.
Stone Cold refused to do racist and sexist storylines during his time in WWE, supports gay marriage, and spoke out against xians opposed to same-sex marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM)
Damn, that's pretty fuckin' cool.
-
Unfortunately, it does seem like it has the potential to be a powder keg. How could a militia justify being there? Fuxking hell. I guess I didn't think about people like that looking to mix it up with protestors.
Do I really have to vote for Hillary? I guess this shit is proving I may have to. I still don't think this orangutan can win. No chance in hell, but the mere possibility has me mentally packing my bags to cross the closest border
It sucks but I really hope people don't sit this election out. I don't want this thing to even be close, because you know if it is and it goes to Hillary, fucking Trump will demand a recount and throw all his money at disrupting the results for as long as he can.
-
Do I really have to vote for Hillary?
No. You don't.
-
The WWE inspired walk on from the fog was mind blowing. People eat this shit up. Pretty sure I saw some older women in the audience about to cry. His general image when I was a kid was as a Wall Street/real estate 80's yuppie scumbag who went bankrupt. And who cheated on his wife. Amazing that people are falling for this shit.
And what's with Repubs always loving "outsider" status? If I went to a doctor, I would want a doctor who went to medical school and has some practice in the field. Not a real estate agent who thinks he can do a better job because he's not a "med school insider". Same with politics. America is dumb/insane.
-
Do I really have to vote for Hillary?
No. You don't.
Obviously you're free to vote for whoever you want. Statistically speaking, does a third party candidate have a chance of winning this presidential election? Barring some unforeseen game-changing event (e.g., a giant meteor hitting one of the convention centers), you're effectively helping to elect the major candidate you're most ideologically opposed to. The choice between Hillary and Trump for me is like a choice between eating rotten vegetables and eating dog shit, but the sad reality is that's the choice about 40% of a disenfranchised electorate is facing this November.
I guess if there's a lesson to be learned, we end up with the candidates most of us deserve. Direct grassroots involvement in party politics (or lack thereof) aside, roughly only 60% of Americans at best vote in presidential elections; 40% midterm elections; and less than 20% in local elections. The corporate doucheballs who get elected by the voters who bother to show up then rig the game (via gerrymandering, closed primaries, superdelegates, etc) to cement the status quo.
So I'm going to bite the bullet and cast my vote for Cersei Lannister in a pantsuit. I fully intend on getting involved in local progressive politics, and chip in for the campaigns of Green candidates in the next few elections. Hopefully I don't spend all of that time drinking Old Crow and playing with records instead.
-
Prolonging our inevitable violent death ---
HRC winning, shit sucking more ass on all fronts BUT Roger Clinton's back, baby!
Continued uptick in the maiming and torture of Earth & its residents, but Billy C. on city sax again.
Guaranteeing our immediate violent death ---
Trump winning.
-
Prolonging our inevitable violent death ---
HRC winning, shit sucking more ass on all fronts BUT Roger Clinton's back, baby!
Continued uptick in the maiming and torture of Earth & its residents, but Billy C. on city sax again.
Guaranteeing our immediate violent death ---
Trump winning.
Second only to Chomsky's critique. I can't believe I had forgotten about Roger.
-
Barring some unforeseen game-changing event (e.g., a giant meteor hitting one of the convention centers), you're effectively helping to elect the major candidate you're most ideologically opposed to.
No, voting for the candidate I'm most ideologically opposed to would effectively help said candidate. That is how voting works.
*THE MORE YOU KNOW*
-
All of this and worse in honor of this fuckin' fog demon that presents himself as if he was the Fanta-shaded wrestler America needs (Steve Austin please save us):
If Steve Austin suddenly elbow-dropped Trump from the RNC stage scaffolding, and followed it up with a Stone Cold Stunner before getting plugged by the Secret Service, most of the audience would erupt in cheers and the threat of a Trump presidency would be ended forever.
Stone Cold refused to do racist and sexist storylines during his time in WWE, supports gay marriage, and spoke out against xians opposed to same-sex marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C02nmifrM)
Damn, that's pretty fuckin' cool.
President Stone Cold would probably be very good on social issues, and he would be an excellent debater yelling "wut?" each time his opponent paused. His antipathy toward xians would be hilarious on the big stage.
That said, he'd probably pick some mope like Scotty Too Hotty as his running mate...
Did any of you vote for Bob Backlund in '96? I was going to but wrote-in "Clogged Toilet" instead... fo real...
(http://static0.thesportsterimages.com/cdn/864/856/90/cw/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MrBacklund.jpg)
-
Paul Ryan is currently leading the congregation, errr convention, in prayer.
What a beautiful moment.
Someone drop a fucking bomb on that arena.
That would be even prettier!
-
Prolonging our inevitable violent death ---
HRC winning, shit sucking more ass on all fronts BUT Roger Clinton's back, baby!
Continued uptick in the maiming and torture of Earth & its residents, but Billy C. on city sax again.
Guaranteeing our immediate violent death ---
Trump winning.
a boot stamping on a human face (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SZFRvuJ2a0) -- forever
-
Kudos to being able to stomach more than a few minutes of this shit-show.
I'd rather watch Backlund Harvard Step Test on an endless loop...such a stud!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETTjaRJLoM
-
I never realized how much Bob Backlund ripped off Joe Nanini's look, circa Call of the West.
-
Do I really have to vote for Hillary?
Because she's proving to be such a weak foisted candidate, because voter turnout is so low, if you live in a swing state with a large electorate that's been a gamechanger in past elections, and if this state is under Republican governance, and if this state is Florida, then it might not hurt to consider holding your nose because in politics it can always get worse.
-
But no, probably not. There's a majority democratic coalition. The last two general elections were landslides.
-
phugggg...that old WWF clip explains it all...No surprise a scam-artist like Trump is associated with it. WWF was so shitty back then, and I didn't have cable, which you needed for all the cool mid-south and southern wrasslin. Rhodes, Flair...fucking legends...WWF purposely put shit matches on their syndicated shows...and someone Mcmahon took his shit show to the top somehow...I'm just glad that we will have WWIII before idiocracy when Trump gets elected...
-
I'm not nearly as scared of Trump as I am of Pence. He is a religious wacko. To make things worse, Trump has already been saying he plans on handing a lot of power over to the VP.
-
But no, probably not. There's a majority democratic coalition. The last two general elections were landslides.
From what I gather as well, if trump were to be elected the markets could very likely go into a tailspin therefore Hillary's 'war chest' will be significantly larger than Ronald McDonald. Quite realistically though, I can't see him holding his ground in a debate. I don't like her but she is much more politically saavy and knowledgeable about everything really than he is. He's going to fling a lot of shit at her but I can't see him validating his own presidency in any realistic way
-
Trump has already been saying he plans on handing a lot of power over to the VP.
Of all this walking abortion's sins, his laziness is possibly the most reprehensible. Even more than being willfully ignorant of the world at large, his desire to hold all the power while treating it like a rainy-day plaything galls me the most.
Just kidding, his racist and xenophobic "ideas" piss me off the most.
Wait, no, actually it's his conning of his own "base."
Hold on a minute, it's actually....
-
Worth reading (and shuddering):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
-
Trophy Wifey finally admitted to lifting parts of her speech from FLOTUS. Or at least, her speech writer took the hit. More to come tonight!
-
Worth reading (and shuddering):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Roy Cohn was his lawyer? That's...disgusting...and makes perfect sense!
I can't vote, so I'm gonna cling to the conspiracy theory that Trump is just being manipulated by Bill and Hillary.
-
Worth reading (and shuddering):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Damn, yeah, an article that would otherwise just be pathetic and funny becomes terrifying in light of his presidential run.
-
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn2oCBcXEAABNhV.jpg)
we had a good run, civilization
-
Surreal. Scary. Twilight Zone. That's all I can think of after watching tonight's fiasco. Dumb people all over the country are eating this circus up.
-
Surreal. Scary. Twilight Zone. That's all I can think of after watching tonight's fiasco. Dumb people all over the country are eating this circus up.
The people in that room are the dumbest people alive.
-
Worth reading (and shuddering):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Damn, yeah, an article that would otherwise just be pathetic and funny becomes terrifying in light of his presidential run.
Don't forget the follow-up: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-threatens-the-ghostwriter-of-the-art-of-the-deal
-
At least Gawker had the good sense to catch a show at Now That's Class: http://gawker.com/gawker-goes-to-a-punk-show-1784015966
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtfVOyVsf0
-
At least Gawker had the good sense to catch a show at Now That's Class: http://gawker.com/gawker-goes-to-a-punk-show-1784015966
Not wanting to be associated with Williamsburg, several more members of the audience threw themselves into the mosh pit
-
https://twitter.com/sil3ncio/status/756313153076600833
-
Roy Cohn was his lawyer? That's...disgusting...and makes perfect sense!
Yeah. I was like: but not that -- Oh.
Wow.
-
"David Rees @david_rees 7h7 hours ago
Trump sounds like he's writing lyrics for Crass one moment, Skrewdriver the next"
-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?postshare=6571469217990690&tid=ss_tw
-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?postshare=6571469217990690&tid=ss_tw
Did all the reporters take the Spring off or something?
-
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vL8Dz4mGv1g (https://youtube.com/watch?v=vL8Dz4mGv1g)
-
Haha. I almost posted that here. Liberal bro humor vs. GOP bro humor. They're funnier and much more easygoing than he is.
Wait. I wanted to post a different video. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy47dgjMk-A
-
Also watched the Alex Jones/Young Turks fiasco a couple times yesterday. Much more entertaining. Alex Jones is basically a pro wrestler.
-
Third and final post: Videos of liberal guys mocking Trump rallies aren't helping anything.
I think The Daily Show helped secure George W. Bush's second term.
Smug attempts at clowning intelligent, angry politicians and commentators who know the game by now... Hey, a paycheck's a paycheck, but you'd be a horse's ass if you think it's making a diff with all those "clueless" Republican voters you're teasing on TV, a medium largely watched by conservative Middle Americans.
-
I see your point, but funny is funny.
-
I love how Alex Jones creates the drama by walking in like a total dick, then walks away all shocked like he can't believe they flipped out on him. He's a great actor.
-
Agreed with Eric....not sure what good comes from making fun of Trump and his ilk. Sure it's funny but it's basically more preaching to the choir. I know it feels good to think "I am right and these people are idiots" but that kind of thing just galvanizes the other side. I don't think any conservative ever watched a Stewart takedown piece and thought to change their mind or re-evaluate their own thinking. Worst thing about it is that it still treats that campaign like it's a joke and not a real threat.
By all means, keep patting yourself on the back
-
If Eric Andre seals the election for Trumpp, it will be worth it. Black Lives Bladder!
-
I love how Alex Jones creates the drama by walking in like a total dick, then walks away all shocked like he can't believe they flipped out on him. He's a great actor.
Have you seen that footage of him and a small film crew "infiltrating" the Bilderberger Shlamozzle? It's pretty amazing. They convince themselves that they're about to be killed by Der Biderberger SS because the lights in their hotel room flicker.
It might be the very definition of Paranoia. Or just being a stupid fat-assed carnival barker. Maybe they took acid that evening, I wasn't there.
Regarding what's accomplished by making fun of Trump supporters: probably nothing, but I'm sure FOX News, Gavin MacInnes, Milo Yiannopoulos and other comedy geniuses will take the high road to Chuckle City - Population US ***at the Democratic Convention.
-
Seriously, though, I hate to see EA fail. Love that guy.
Late Saturday night I lay awake thinking about Trumpp and Hillary and Bernie instead of making love to my wife like I shoulda been. I've been feeling a sickening dread the past couple weeks thinking about Amerikkka and the chance that DT might win the general, and pigs shooting black people left and right and getting away with it and turds blabbing about how all-lives-matter and cops is heroes etc.: the usual. Then I thought, wait: how is a Trumpp victory possible? How does he have the numbers? My man Barry won by a landslide in '08, with the same right-wing pieces of shitt voting for... who was it, now? Romney? Baby-O even beat the '04 Nazi ticket with the moose lady and the wonky son, whatsisname... Trike? And her baby-havin'-baby, apologizing to JC all over the tv with jock-semen still up in there, toolin around. All them babys and she still couldn't beat B.H.O.. So in the best of circumstances, how do the pugs pull the numbers to put DJT over? It doesn't add up. It's still uggly that anybody would vote for him but why'm I worrying? So I figured, well, he's the perfect bogeyman, and he can't win but he doesn't care (he'll melt it all down into a book deal or a church or themepark) so when Hill inevitably wins in November, we'll be all relieved and thank god this MOR, corporate mercenary won 'cos she's "ours." There's no time for a third-party ticket to suck votes from her, which is why Burnie stayed in the race, right? So his people don't flock elsewhere? Burnie knows the score and doesn't care. Hillary doesn't even have a message -- it's just "Hillary!" They're playing like it's a done deal. Bill sidling up to Loretta on the jet plane, knowing it looks bad, not giving a shitt: it blows over within a couple of news cycles.
More lulz would be nice, honestly. Even better would be if HRC did something interesting and worth thinking about.
-
the whole shit is rigged from top to bottom. its more obvious now than ever. clinton, like obama, just is a release valve to give people the illusion of choice and the feeling that theyre getting the lesser of two evils. i dont think trump even wants to win, he is just building a brand. romney was the same, his own party didnt even like him. the only reason trump will get any votes is because many people treat voting like theyre rooting for their favorite sports team and will vote straight republican, and the other reason being "anybody but that hillary witch". considering black man hussein obama got elected and the fear vote wasnt enough to keep him out of the white house, i have to assume hillary will beat trump as well. personally, i think they both fucking suck, but from a native american perspective, i will vote democrat because its in my best interests to do so.
-
Obviously every generation has felt this way at one point or another, but it seems like everything's about to burst.
The DNC leaks that insinuate Russian involvement, juxtaposed against Trump's relationship with Putin... Hey, at what point does a pub like the Times discern between conjecture and conspiracy theory?
If Trump somehow does get elected I can imagine fairly crazy and violent protests in cities all over the country, and a heretofore unknown political unrest w/ potential upheaval in the House & Senate.
-
More lulz would be nice, honestly.
While everybody's knees are jerking to the tune of "Stop Trump!" Wikileaks has promised more. More leaks and fallout, one last hurrah for Bernie's irascible seed in Philly. Like DWS getting shouted down today with taunts of "Shame!," like in Game of Thrones. What other shenags did the cast of Veep get into? Tune in to the Truman Show for one more week, then we'll all unite to defeat the WWE.
-
The Russian involvement angle is a canard as weak as David Brock's "Bernie bros." Putin doesn't care about US politics. Hackers typically mask their IPs by scrambling it through Russian servers.
-
i dont think trump even wants to win
My dad actually tried to pitch this same theory to me, citing Melania T.'s plagiarized speech as calculated self-sabotage. Seems dramatic and convenient in a "Law & Order: SVU" plotline sort of way, especially considering how many powerful / dangerous assholes have hitched on to him. If it really is a ruse, maybe he's a hero? Nah.
If Trump somehow does get elected I can imagine fairly crazy and violent protests in cities all over the country
Seems like this'll be the case regardless of who wins.
-
trumps policy seems to be flat out nuts, either the guy is dangerously ignorant of how things work or he is straight up lying. he certainly doesnt seem to be preaching what the higher ups want him to say. he's saying alot of crazy shit, for sure. i think he is trying to tell everyone what they want to hear, pat everyone on the back. what he would actually do if elected is another story. a hero? not even fucking close. but it is sort of entertaining watching him straight up steal the party from the republican leadership. i really wish the dem leadership had backed bernie 100% because he would have had a much easier time defeating trump than clinton will. almost literally noone likes her, her main selling point seems to be that she is not trump.
-
honestly, one of the things i like about her is that she is a woman. its about damn time we have a woman as president.
-
Thing about conspiracy theories is some of them turn out to be true, to varying degrees. I would not be surprised given that Trump announced running for president within a week of attending a Clinton fundraiser, and his past statements about hijacking the GOP.
Lots of Washington folk are confessed TV junkies. I recall reading somewhere that when asked about the verisimilitude of House of Cards, Obama replied to the effect of "It's a lot more boring than that. Just me and a number of white guys in a room being boring." Clinton's response? "It's exactly like that." Who's lying?
The DNC have been incompetent and derelict to a stunning measure during the primary cycle and hopefully Bernie is good medicine. There was a live cast immediately cut this morning when people started booing Sanders as soon as he invoked Hillary. They're gonna pretend it didn't happen and he's got a do-over speech planned tonight. Looks like the Dem convention will shape up to be a parade of asses as well. As Jeff Weaver retorted when DWS called him one, it's the party's mascot.
-
honestly, one of the things i like about her is that she is a lizard. its about damn time we have a lizard queen as president.
-
American politics is basically just the NFL or WWE at this point. Its pretty obvious Trump doesnt really want to be President, he's already said he would leave most of the governance to Pence if he's elected.
We get the government we deserve no more, no less
-
The sports metaphor is apt, and 2CS is right: each side is playing a different sport. At this point in history more Americans are apt to watch soccer than pro wrestling, which is a sign of something, probably something stupid, because soccer is stupid, but I digress, and my metaphors suck.
You don't need a conspiracy for the theories to be true. The system is in place and all it takes is savvy, self-interested actors to play it. I assume Trumpp has been improvising the whole time. He doesn't even have advisers. He's gonna build a wall!
-
He's gonna win so much we'll get tired of winning! He's gonna bomb the shit out of them!
Soccer is so stupid. What kind of game is all clutch like that? 0-0 now let's settle this with penalty kicks. Snooze.
Day 1 Dem Con: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-hacking-democratic-convention-226112
Poor Bernie must be exhausted. IMO, the apt metaphor is Illuminati dog and pony pageant. Patiently awaiting fresh Wikileaks bombshell. Hope it's incriminating enough to shut down the whole thing.
-
Wait, that's not a metaphor. That's exactly what this is.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-russia-hack/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-russia-hack/index.html)
It was supposed to be the boring convention -- but the Democrats suddenly found that their Philadelphia party had turned into a Cold War-style espionage thriller.
-
Trump scares me enough to think about doing acid again.
-
Trump scares me enough to think about doing acid again.
You might be better off with a pacifier.
BABY, BABY, BABY, BABY...
-
Can't believe I attempted to talk about politics at all, let alone on here.
-
Main headline on my news homepage today: "Trump's New Derisive Nickname for Clinton-Rotten".
Very mature.
I am waiting for it to start getting like this:
Candidate Number One: "You go poo poo in the pants!"
Candidate Number Two: "I no go poo poo! You take pees!"
Candidate Number One: "I no take pee. You always go poopie in pants!"
-
This election is so conflicting. Hillary's only positives are that she is a woman and she isn't Trump. Trump has said some outright villainous things: he would torture, he would assassinate families of terrorists, build a wall along the US/Mexican border, punish women for getting an abortion, taxcuts for the rich, and ban all Muslims. At the Republican national convention, they called Hillary a satanist sympathizer and called for her jailing and execution. I hate to say it, but his discrimination of Muslims is reminiscent of a certain someone. I hope I am being hyperbolic, but I honestly believe I am not. I'd rather Bernie or Stein were at the helm, but I'm not voting 3rd party and letting in Trump. Do we really want a stacked Supreme Court that would spend its time ruling against Unions, reproductive rights, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities? If there is an argument that Hillary is worse than Trump, I haven't heard it.
-
You're thinking of Sinclair from Living Single.
-
This election is so conflicting. Hillary's only positives are that she is a woman and she isn't Trump. Trump has said some outright villainous things: he would torture, he would assassinate families of terrorists, build a wall along the US/Mexican border, punish women for getting an abortion, taxcuts for the rich, and ban all Muslims. At the Republican national convention, they called Hillary a satanist sympathizer and called for her jailing and execution. I hate to say it, but his discrimination of Muslims is reminiscent of a certain someone. I hope I am being hyperbolic, but I honestly believe I am not. I'd rather Bernie or Stein were at the helm, but I'm not voting 3rd party and letting in Trump. Do we really want a stacked Supreme Court that would spend its time ruling against Unions, reproductive rights, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities? If there is an argument that Hillary is worse than Trump, I haven't heard it.
John Sinclair is famous for The Jungle. But he might be making a comeback with It Couldn't Happen Here. It's the story of how Fascism could rise in the US. Seems instructive these days.
upton sinclair. john sinclair is the hippie who managed the MC5
-
Honestly couldn't tell if he was kidding. He's a teacher. Awesome.
-
Haha, years of conditioning. I teach first grade, relax.
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i05eXluAQ18
Milo sucking that Trump dick.
-
Whoops! I wrote '08 and '04 up there when I meant to say '012 and '08 LOL :P
Back in '04 it was Johns Sec of St Kerry and Edwards losing up a storm vs. Dick 'n' Busch -- I almost forgot them!
The DNC tonight was tight, a pro theater job. Bernie was better at conceding than he was on the campaign trail! HRC should try whatever he's having, maybe it's those spray steroids that Dave from Depeche uses to keep his vocal chords buff in 101.
Juggerdeeznuts.
-
The only Milo that matters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5HEkdMEQg
-
Thanks Leech. Now I feel better.
-
This election is so conflicting. Hillary's only positives are that she is a woman and she isn't Trump. Trump has said some outright villainous things: he would torture, he would assassinate families of terrorists, build a wall along the US/Mexican border, punish women for getting an abortion, taxcuts for the rich, and ban all Muslims. At the Republican national convention, they called Hillary a satanist sympathizer and called for her jailing and execution. I hate to say it, but his discrimination of Muslims is reminiscent of a certain someone. I hope I am being hyperbolic, but I honestly believe I am not. I'd rather Bernie or Stein were at the helm, but I'm not voting 3rd party and letting in Trump. Do we really want a stacked Supreme Court that would spend its time ruling against Unions, reproductive rights, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities? If there is an argument that Hillary is worse than Trump, I haven't heard it.
Upton Sinclair is famous for The Jungle. But he might be making a comeback with It Couldn't Happen Here. It's the story of how Fascism could rise in the US. Seems instructive these days.
That's Sinclair Lewis who wrote "It Can't Happen Here" dogg. Probably most famous today for writing "Babbit" or maybe for "Arrowsmith."
-
I just straight up suck. Looks like you should all vote for Trump.
-
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2c/19/7e/2c197e8ad97e93f21de28a44bd01fe2b.jpg)
Earl Sinclair from Dinosaurs.
I'm voting Nader.
-
You are all wrong- it is adult film actress Sparky Sin Claire who spoke so eloquently.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KXKuBHrjaXQ/T0vaVKX-BTI/AAAAAAAAAR0/gETy8xJaKFM/s1600/Inked+Life_My+First+Ink.jpg)
-
What kind of porn star names him- or herself Sparky?
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hzaBHnNI_I
Vic Berger is the exact hero descendant of the first socialist in the US house that we need in these trying times. I can't stop laughing at this one
-
What kind of porn star names him- or herself Sparky?
Listen Ass Invader, find out for yourself.
-
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YN35S major endorsement
-
Uncle Bill gave quite a speech at the DNC tonight. That same old shit about how they met across from each other in the library at Yale. What a pussy hound! He did a good job though.
-
Also love how the whole premise of that story is that he was a huge pussy hound but this one was different. She came up to him!
-
Uncle Bill gave quite a speech at the DNC tonight. That same old shit about how they met across from each other in the library at Yale. What a pussy hound! He did a good job though.
his "you muslims that love america and hate terror have to join us" bit was incredibly retarded
-
Okay, both Real Clear Politics (boxplot of polls) and FiveThirtyEight are now reporting Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio in contention. If you live in any of these states and are considering voting third party to satisfy your own conscience without regard for the structural/constitutional reality of the binary two-party system, cool. Enjoy it. Trump plans to use executive powers to impose over 20% tariffs on China, potentially causing a trade war and bringing us down some notches on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Start stockpiling seeds. Beyond that, the dysfunctional gridlock that could ensue, the threat of jeopardizing NATO relations, a GOP controlled congress and White House, and more, is something you can look forward to.
I hold both parties in contempt. As a dem apologist who volunteered for Sanders and thinks Hillary is a neoliberal fraud, I still feel it morally incumbent on me to not only vote blue in Florida, but to whip and corral my local coalition. Because if this is real and not some Orwellian/Brechtian theater, Trump is a singular threat to civic institutions we take for granted. He's also riding a very real wave of racist/anti-immigrant sentiment. Redeploy circular firing squad of the left in February when everything's back to normal. In less than 100 days, election will be determined by turnout. Polling stations should make it easier by printing ballots that say "Trump" and "Not Trump."
Thoughts?
-
Most of the millennials I talk to are in the "I wanted Bernie, but I will take Hillary" camp. Thank god. But the other night I saw a table full of kids going full-on Trump. The reasoning? "Trump has made way more money than Hillary, bro!". They stopped to look up his rating on Forbes.com. I thought it was the old folks falling for this shit, but even the kids are doing it. This is going to be a crazy election and it's coming up quick. The consequences could be dire.
-
He's also riding a very real wave of racist/anti-immigrant sentiment.
Make Murica White Again!!
-
Okay, both Real Clear Politics (boxplot of polls) and FiveThirtyEight are now reporting Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio in contention. If you live in any of these states and are considering voting third party to satisfy your own conscience without regard for the structural/constitutional reality of the binary two-party system, cool. Enjoy it. Trump plans to use executive powers to impose over 20% tariffs on China, potentially causing a trade war and bringing us down some notches on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Start stockpiling seeds. Beyond that, the dysfunctional gridlock that could ensue, the threat of jeopardizing NATO relations, a GOP controlled congress and White House, and more, is something you can look forward to.
I hold both parties in contempt. As a dem apologist who volunteered for Sanders and thinks Hillary is a neoliberal fraud, I still feel it morally incumbent on me to not only vote blue in Florida, but to whip and corral my local coalition. Because if this is real and not some Orwellian/Brechtian theater, Trump is a singular threat to civic institutions we take for granted. He's also riding a very real wave of racist/anti-immigrant sentiment. Redeploy circular firing squad of the left in February when everything's back to normal. In less than 100 days, election will be determined by turnout. Polling stations should make it easier by printing ballots that say "Trump" and "Not Trump."
Thoughts?
Agreed. I voted for John Anderson in 1980 and still feel personal responsible for Reagan
-
Three months ago, I would've voted Hillary just to thwart Trump. At this point, I can at least see some utility in a Trump presidency, as I think a bottoming out will finally motivate people to change this country for the better instead of celebrating "at leasts." Shit's not getting any better here before it gets much worse. Or you can to wait for the gradual climb to totally humane politics, which won't come to the fore in our lifetime, or our kids' lifetime, or their kids' lifetime.
I don't know that I'm voting at all now. This country makes me fucking sick. Have a nice day.
-
If we elect Hillary Clinton, best case scenario: The country spends months patting itself on the back for making history (again). She passes or attempts to pass some token lifestyle bills -- gay marriage, abortion, gun control, maybe some college debt relief, so on -- and if those efforts aren't shut down in an even more partisan congress than the previous eight years (unlikely), we'll keep tying yellow ribbons 'round oak trees while she (likely) increases or maintains the intensity of drone strikes in already war-torn areas and pulls some backroom corporate deals that'll fuck over American trade and what's left of bluecollar USA while she pays lip service to the workin' man. Also: She loves Israel, so we continue to alienate Palestine and then there's the other MidEast trauma and we basically nurture more terrorist cells. But we got our first female president, and at least it's not Trump! On the other hand, if Trump gets elected, National Lampoon GOP fucking rubberroom barroom brawl politics and everyone hates us and we hate ourselves and there are demonstrations in city streets, House & Senate suddenly become alive with anger & righteousness, people begin voting in elections other than the presidential, shit starts hitting the fan, democracy suddenly becomes a democracy again. Maybe poor people in the Midwest & South finally realize that Republicans loathe them and are using them? I dunno, probably not. Have you guys seen the new season of Kimmy Schmidt?
-
I voted in one presidential election. It was '00. I was 18. I voted Nader, because he was as close as the mess got to me. That was "voting my conscience," which is a funny phrase. In 2016, voting my conscience means I'm not fucking voting. None of these people could give a rip. And neither can I. My conscience tells me that this country gets what it deserves and none of it matters very much. My girlfriend and best friend is Muslim. Trump wants to ban Muslims from America. That measure would easily sink in Congress after it was introduced, and it'd invoke some worthwhile ire in the public sphere. Clinton will continue to fuck Palestine, however indirectly. That will pass in Congress with little oblique hits in the papers and most people won't notice. Clinton will be another four (probably eight) years of status quo. I'll still be broke. I still won't be able to afford healthcare. I'll still be angry, and I'll still hate rich people. It doesn't matter! None of this does.
-
That Eric Andre video I posted previously in the thread really pissed me off, too. This is how we fight dirty? Some candid dumbass coming at young GOP guys with a "gonzo" idiot stance? The Daily Show tripe has been done to death ten times over and if you're just filming this shit and editing it to suit your comedic, hackneyed political need, then you're just as much an asshole as the other side. I don't want any piece of this.
-
You're like 100% right Eric, but you live in a solid blue state so you could write in your own name with impunity, or whatever. JH, I think I've deduced you're also in NY.
Your state voted to expand Medicare, so your healthcare should be free unless I missed something since I left a little under a year ago.
I understand the hesitation to vote for anything. I don't believe there's really such a thing as not voting. It's in the best interests of the system you disdain to abstain. Roughly 9% of America decided on these two presidential candidates. Turnout for local elections is under 20%. Voting in a swing state is strategic, a Hobbesian choice in which you'll never get to vote for someone who's even close to politically aligned with you. We live in a centrist constitutional republic. A lumbering, incrementalist dinosaur. Recall the last time we had an incompetent baby in office? His trigger happy cohort provided false Intel and started digging into the Middle East. Trump could very viably stretch executive war powers to deport Muslims. Maybe I was being a bit alarmist, but the first rule of realpolitik is it can always get worse. Hillary is so corrupt she could face impeachment. This is all pretty specious speculation, I mean who knows with these dreadful options?
All I'm saying is, a truly conscientious vote considers the collective. Those who wish for a state of nature scenario, something along lines of the violent collapse of society, don't usually take into account that this means the death of most disabled people, let alone the fact that we're the world's only superpower and the rest of the world depends on our leadership now more than ever, that the unraveling of global alliances could give ruthless dictators carte blanche to run aprowl. I'm not saying status quo's not bleak or that the system ain't contemptible or that you aren't correct to be cynical. I'm saying that I rather hold the system accountable than jettison it entirely. But I honestly dunno. To say it doesn't matter is to isolate yourself from the fascinating, precarious times we live in. In an unseasonably hot, violent, economically unsustainable world, I rather engage. Being resolutely aloof to these preoccupations is a choice you're only able to make because of the system, you know that right?
-
^ desultory fucking drunk rambling.
-
More, there's a chance dems will regain a senate majority this year (5 seats, 4 before Hillary tapped Kaine), a 74 year old avowed socialist won 48% of a major party's delegation, helped pass the most progressive platform in history and invigorated a lot of people to vote downballot, the majority of America are democrats who want these progressive ideas enacted and will vote locally and I would hate to see that energy go away. Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream. If we're not already fucked in irrevocable, manifold ways by then.
Climate and income inequality = primacy, but unfortunately we're not likely to see any meaningful action on either with Clinton. What if Trump's elected and is a total badass?
-
A direct plea to I AM NOT MARTY FELDMAN: I will reward you as best I can (not in a, you know, SEX way, but some other way) if you use your ZOG-given right to vote against Trump.
I hear and understand exactly (I think) your frustration but this has gone beyond a joke, this whole Trump running for office shlamozzle.
I agree that Eric Andre's capering was utterly pointless, but the rest of the world can't vote in this election - yet there are a lot of people who will be utterly remorselessly irreversibly FUCKED if somehow Trump is elected. A lot of them probably live pretty close to you. We all might as well be living in the same fallout shelter if Trump is elected.
I know, I know...and yes, I AM drunk, but a lot of people scoffed at the very idea of George W. Bush being elected to the highest office and OOOPSIE! It happened.
-
"Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream."
This is the good news. Those college girls who wet their panties over him wearing "Feel The Bern" t-shirts are eventually going to take over this country. And they will want a similar politician to vote for. He's the first in what I think will be a series of guys like this on the left.
-
The presidency is still functional. Obama was functional. Problem is congress is bought by capital. He was also the first great agentive stride toward populism in his party since the 60s. He personally commanded every single drone strike, when he could delegate the task. He took less vacation days than any president in history. He cried in public, and tongue fucks you even when he lies. Sad thing is Bernie is his natural successor, and empirically the more popular candidate, but they crushed him with capital. Now whoever sits in that (functional) seat will be held accountable if they pivot right, which HC will most likely do. But at the very least she's intelligent and industrious, she's got home brewed servers and a vast network of goons/spies, she's deleting 33,000 emails and destabilizing regions. Trump is just a big, dysfunctional baby with no grace and he loves cops.
Eric lives in New York, he should probably vote for #JillNotHill.
-
"Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream."
This is the good news. Those college girls who wet their panties over him wearing "Feel The Bern" t-shirts are eventually going to take over this country. And they will want a similar politician to vote for. He's the first in what I think will be a series of guys like this on the left.
I don't understand this. How exactly is running for president not mainstream? McGovern? George McGovern? The guy who lost to Nixon? Boy, ya blink your eyes and ya lose track of American politics.
-
"Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream."
This is the good news. Those college girls who wet their panties over him wearing "Feel The Bern" t-shirts are eventually going to take over this country. And they will want a similar politician to vote for. He's the first in what I think will be a series of guys like this on the left.
I don't understand this. How exactly is running for president not mainstream? McGovern? George McGovern? The guy who lost to Nixon? Boy, ya blink your eyes and ya lose track of American politics.
It is, but they lifted the cap on special interest donations set by Obama and used every surrogate in media, politics and functionary role to beat Sanders. They spent unconscionable amounts of money to get 53% of the delegation from a prole-funded old, Socialist Jew. That's how bad a candidate Hill Dog is, that she's losing Obama coalition states and even New England to Trump.
Yeah, George McGovern. The grassroots campaigner who lost to Nixon thanks to a divided left. Same way Brexit and the domino effect is happening in Europe. How is Merkel going to convince come election year that Germany should keep footing the bill for Greece and Spain? And Holland is already insinuating withdrawal. That's not good. Europe is relatively small and when divided war-prone. Parliamentary systems, while having some advantages, are less stable than representative democracies.
McGovern also ran when RFK was assassinated. RFK is a better example of a democratic populist.
-
"Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream."
This is the good news. Those college girls who wet their panties over him wearing "Feel The Bern" t-shirts are eventually going to take over this country. And they will want a similar politician to vote for. He's the first in what I think will be a series of guys like this on the left.
I don't understand this. How exactly is running for president not mainstream? McGovern? George McGovern? The guy who lost to Nixon? Boy, ya blink your eyes and ya lose track of American politics.
It is, but they lifted the cap on special interest donations set by Obama and used every surrogate in media, politics and functionary role to beat Sanders. They spent unconscionable amounts of money to get 53% of the delegation from a prole-funded old, Socialist Jew. That's how bad a candidate Hill Dog is, that she's losing Obama coalition states and even New England to Trump.
Yeah, George McGovern. The grassroots campaigner who lost to Nixon thanks to a divided left. Same way Brexit and the domino effect is happening in Europe. How is Merkel going to convince come election year that Germany should keep footing the bill for Greece and Spain? And Holland is already insinuating withdrawal. That's not good. Europe is relatively small and when divided war-prone. Parliamentary systems, while having some advantages, are less stable than representative democracies.
McGovern also ran when RFK was assassinated. RFK is a better example of a democratic populist.
Okay. Just asking for obfuscation. I would just like to reiterate that for everyone who doesn't really wanna hold their nose and vote for Hillary, I would like to remind those people that your decision or indifference or whatever has global repercussions.
RFK? What year is it? The son of a millionaire? Sanders has already realized the potential of McGovern by not winning. His supporters are sore losers. The turd who Hillary is running against has said he will imprison and/or repatriate Muslims. Are you gonna exhume Hubert Humphrey? Who lost to William Henry Harrison?
It's now my Birthday, BTW and I don't even get to vote in this stupid election.
-
"Eight-sixteen years from now a Eugene Debs or George McGovern or Bernie Sanders type will be political mainstream."
This is the good news. Those college girls who wet their panties over him wearing "Feel The Bern" t-shirts are eventually going to take over this country. And they will want a similar politician to vote for. He's the first in what I think will be a series of guys like this on the left.
I don't understand this. How exactly is running for president not mainstream? McGovern? George McGovern? The guy who lost to Nixon? Boy, ya blink your eyes and ya lose track of American politics.
Just realized I didn't really answer the question. This will be reductive lest boredom. In a partisan republic politically mainstream means center. The center moves. In the Great Depression FDR's New Deal was just left of center, he was the outsider candidate, until it worked and made us for three decades the most income equitable we've been this century, and the dems the party of the working class. In the 1970s under Nixon and Ford's watch, deregulation of financial among other types of private sectors began, which worsened dramatically under Reagan, another outsider candidate. The reason he's popular, as Bill Clinton is, is only the poor saw the negative effects of their deregulation and removal of safety nets (unions, etc.) immediately and there was short-term prosperity for some. Bill was so good at it he preserved his legacy and got W to take the hit for the 2008 collapse which was all his fault, just ask his former economic czar and labor secretary Robert Reich. If there was one last gasp before Reagan ushered in the conservative mainstream era it's watching Jimmy Carter pull political suicide by warning about climate and telling people in a debate that we need to consume and produce less giving Reagan the obvious riposte that we must consume and manufacture more.
Anyway, that age of conservatism never really ended and FDR's New Deal is now considered far left. With Obama there were significant foreign policy strides (waiving unconditional support of Israel to attempt two state solution negotiations, which when they fell apart Sec. Kerry imposed economic sanctions on new settlements in Gaza and set a timeline for UN classification as an apartheid state if Netanyahu doesn't get his act together in x amount of years, climate conference) which were small, incremental victories for the left (telling that BO had highest staff turnover rate of any modern president; he'd routinely refuse to listen to economic advisers if they disagreed with him). Still, his biggest hurdles and failures were doing barely anything to regulate financial markets, protect unions, fix tax code and trade deals to be equitable etc. just like his conservative predecessors. These are most difficult things to do because rich people don't care about the poor and have Washington in their pocket. Obama has gotten very good at lying to people that the economy is better than under Bush, when actually it's worse than ever, employment stats are dated, reductive and quixotic, and wealth concentration is limited to a very few selfish people (400 -- the top one tenth of one percent -- control almost as much wealth as the bottom 90, and the middle class is barely distinguishable from the poor with little upward mobility) Visualized, income inequality from the turn of the 20th to now is a bell curve. In the 70s wages also stagnated; if the minimum wage kept up with inflation and cost of living it would average $25/hr. VCs play with money and rarely create opportunity or jobs or social utility. With Clinton or Trump it'll probably get worse.
Why Trump is worse is as demonstrated by polarities of Reagan and FDR, outsider candidates tend to move the needle a lot. Because they usually come on the heels of economic issues, volatile reform can dominate, and they tend to do the most good or bad. Trump looks pretty bad. Think GOP is using a fringe lunatic to sign their bills. Global alliances are fragile now.
Just look at Brexit. They have the Chunnel, a marvel of the world, and it's totally worthless and congested now.
BS supporters aren't sore losers, they're on the right side of history. Democracy was undermined by capital this primary cycle in unprecedented ways. Press colluded and complicit.
-
Oh and happy birthday.
-
If Trump does get elected and appoints a couple of Supreme Court justices that make Scalia look like an extreme liberal that would be really cool.
-
There's a stark choice this election: one Trump, or two humps.
-
Oh and happy birthday.
Thanks, and you're probably right on all counts.
Do they still close the bars on election day?
-
Looks like Trump's seemingly engineered swan dive from credibility renders all this moot. He's a plant. There is effectively no election this year. Looks like racism and xenophobia are not that popular after all and neither is instability so we can all get back to sleep and die Neoliberalism's slow death.
-
i dunno, isn't wikileaks about to expose evil harpy kilary once and for all?
she'll be on death row for high treason by october.
jump forward to inauguration day. trump rips off mask to reveal true self to be...elvis. assange is made first govenor of new fifty first state, australia. we're all gonna be great again!!!
woof.
-
Don't worry about the election, the Donald sez it's all rigged! BTW if you wanna come to the U.S.A. you gotta take an ideological test, ok?
-
Don't worry about the election, the Donald sez it's all rigged! BTW if you wanna come to the U.S.A. you gotta take an ideological test, ok?
Yeah, but don't tell a fib! If you are a member of Baader-Meinhof or whatever, just be honest about it and we can process your application much quicker...
-
Termbo hall of fame. Those were different times.
If we elect Hillary Clinton, best case scenario: The country spends months patting itself on the back for making history (again). She passes or attempts to pass some token lifestyle bills -- gay marriage, abortion, gun control, maybe some college debt relief, so on -- and if those efforts aren't shut down in an even more partisan congress than the previous eight years (unlikely), we'll keep tying yellow ribbons 'round oak trees while she (likely) increases or maintains the intensity of drone strikes in already war-torn areas and pulls some backroom corporate deals that'll fuck over American trade and what's left of bluecollar USA while she pays lip service to the workin' man. Also: She loves Israel, so we continue to alienate Palestine and then there's the other MidEast trauma and we basically nurture more terrorist cells. But we got our first female president, and at least it's not Trump! On the other hand, if Trump gets elected, National Lampoon GOP fucking rubberroom barroom brawl politics and everyone hates us and we hate ourselves and there are demonstrations in city streets, House & Senate suddenly become alive with anger & righteousness, people begin voting in elections other than the presidential, shit starts hitting the fan, democracy suddenly becomes a democracy again. Maybe poor people in the Midwest & South finally realize that Republicans loathe them and are using them? I dunno, probably not. Have you guys seen the new season of Kimmy Schmidt?
-
separation of termbo and politics PLEASE
-
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/55413530/ay-caramba.jpg)
-
WHAT. FUCK ALL POLITICIANS! DON'T FUCKING VOTE!!!