I doubt it's going to be J. Bush.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
republican class looking p rough maybe thisll be the year they finally nominate a wingnut
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
can't wait!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.milwaukeemag.com/Media/Editorial/Staff%20Blogs/Web%20features/Walker%20GIFs/it-s-up-here-walker.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
I honestly think the voting public would be more enthusiastic if we replaced human candidates with corporations (yeah yeah, corporations are people, etc). like, vote for Apple and let them make decisions for the country. Or vote for NASCAR.
it's a ridiculous idea and would probably trigger the apocalypse but i'm guessing a Doritos vs. Bass Pro Shop presidential election would see record voter turnout
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
why not get the middlemen out of the way and just go ahead and let corps make the decisions
that's pretty much what is happening
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
then we'll all be able to directly invest money into our favorite elected corporations, and finally the market will be free
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Pitchfork vs Koch Bros
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
having a corporation be in charge of the country wld be genuinely fascinating im ready for this historic experiment
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
voting apple btw they have the best combination of empathy, vision, and efficiency while still understanding (tbf like all corporations and everyone) that rich ppl are better than poor
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
We did try corporation rule from the 1870s through 1932.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
voting apple because their campaign would offer anyone who voted for them 20% off their next Apple purchase over $1000
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
oh man, the corporate synergies that would be possible...bipartisan corporate synergy
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
"Going forward, we will leverage the Constitution as we make a good faith effort to connect with targets!"
― bollnality of weevil (brownie), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
idk the one w the money tends to win
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
like who do you see out-spending Jeb?
McKinley.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Surely brownie meant:
"Going forward, we will leverage the Constitution as we make a good faith effort to connect with Target!"
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Scott Walker is carefully positioning himself as the alternative to Jeb that the wingnuts will embrace, who the Big Money republicans can still work with. That strategy might possibly work, but it all depends on the wingnuts coming through for him and they prefer to scavenge shinier objects.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
if Jeb Bush is the nominee he will eventually sound like Scott Walker.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
there was no difference between Romney and Cain and Gingrich and the other morons last time around.
No real difference b/w Obama and HRC for that matter.
mmm I can think of a couple differences
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
or are you strictly talking policy+rhetoric
i.e. death threats against the Republic.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
finally the elites will get to just pick who they want.
Sorry but LOL this has been the way it's been for a long long long time.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
sure but now they are abandoning even the pretense of requiring the approval of the masses
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
jeb will be the nominee
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
People are always making the pretense accusation, though; I wouldn't be surprised if it's been around for centuries. I mean, the whole Electoral College thing is a deliberate obstacle before the masses.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
something called the Three-Fifths Clause too iirc
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I can't imagine they would nominate Walker; he might be their fantasy candidate but he has no chance in hell of wining the general election (just like Bernie Sanders doesn't have a chance).
― akm, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
finding more than a handful of presidential elections that weren't picked and more or less decided by elites might be kind of challenging
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
they may have all been picked and decided by elites, but usually there's some rabble-rousing involved. neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
walker seems very not ready for primetime from what ive seen, hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him as far as navigating the actual campaign
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.
IDK, Hillary seems to have a strong following among the Tumblr set.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Also the PUMAs from 2008 are probably still around.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
http://luckovich.blog.ajc.com/2015/03/10/311-luckovich-hillarys-pen-pal/
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him
may i introduce you to a coupla presidents named Bush
plz plz 'shop a photo of Thrillary in a NASCAR jacket with all her corp pimps' logos on it.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Hillary's email circus is actually making me excited about the election. This issue won't take her down.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 12 March 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i trick myself into thinking that lots of people are disappointed with the way the democratic side of this is shaping up, but then i see polls like this:
http://i.imgur.com/hLr7KvD.jpg
http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/15110_nbc-wsj_march_poll_3-9-15_release.pdf
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
i guess it's more accurate to say that lots of people ARE disappointed (21% of likely democratic voters is a large number), but not enough to make a difference.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
I'd be surprised to hear that a majority of Republicans would favour their past (and future) Clown Car Season to a nice smooth coronation.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
"disappointment" is a helluva drug
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
The week before the email story broke Hillary pocketed $300,000 for a Silicon Valley speech she gave to “women in technology.” Her campaign—no matter what the pundits say, and however she may pay for it, she has one—spun it as a preview of her 2016 ‘message.’ If so, she has a mountain of work to do. A month after the president struck a new and widely applauded populist chord in his State of the Union, Clinton managed to sound like the old consensus-seeking Obama. She actually vowed to restore bipartisanship in words so corny it hurt to hear them: “I’d like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, get them into a nice warm purple space where everybody is talking and where we’re actually trying to solve problems.”
She recited the usual Democratic economic litany but took care not to offend the odd technology billionaire who might be listening. Given the venue, one might expect as much, but weeks later she offered up the same riff, worse actually, at an Emily’s List gala where she called for a “new participation age” and for America to “help more people start small businesses and invest in the…entrepreneurs that will create the new jobs of tomorrow.” Also, Hillary said she’d cut “red tape.”
The Emily’s List audience was worshipful and Hillary tried her hardest to be more spontaneous and “real.” That meant two lame pantsuit jokes, another about her hair and one about the color of that Internet dress. Talking about Sen. Barbara Mikulski she said, “We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues … for hardworking families they’re one and the same.” Listening to it all a second time, I felt bad for her.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/15/hillarys_meritocracy_problem_the_gop_will_paint_her_as_an_elitist_and_the_right_can_make_that_charge_stick/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
“We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues.
- Abraham Lincoln
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
The uniting color she's thinking of is not purple it's green.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
hillary clinton is the fucking worst and this campaign is going to be terrible
― marcos, Monday, 16 March 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
no, the fucking worst is going to be all your friends who don't really follow politics and are #ReadyForHillary
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
No doubt about it, this is gonna be a grim campaign, akin to bush v. Dukakis
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Yoo-hoo! Hillary!
Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html
― Aimless, Monday, 16 March 2015 04:06 (nine years ago) link