Ha!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA1MKvMUkAAduoR.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
Dunno who either of those people are :(
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
Perfect because Cruz himself looks like a butter sculpture. One that's been out just a little too long.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
cruz not already knowing about butter cows is going to make that heartland vote all the harder to win, i mean it's like dude has never been to a goddamn state fair
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Wait, if every single Republican politician is apparently running for president, then who will run the country!?!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
running the country is already privatized, no biggie
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
http://abstractforpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/chip-ivory-dead-gold-the-notorious-b-i-g-x-macklemore-ryan-lewis-290x290.jpgSay what now?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/24/ted-cruz-health-insurance-obamacare/70384334/
lol Ted Cruz is signing up for obamacare, beautiful
― Clay, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't know how anyone could ever in good faith vote for a person who displays that degree of cognitive dissonance within such a tiny little snapshot of a profile. It's like...do you actually believe in anything?
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
a question that i would perhaps ask of an actual frontrunner for the office as well
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
oh man, asking someone running for president what they believe in is the biggest softball question you could possibly ask! i'm sure they have a 25-minute response memorized and probably a 25-minute patriotic mixtape to accompany it in their suit pocket
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
ted cruz believes in america, he believes in you and me, he believes in pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, he believes in hard work leading to real opportunities, he believes in freedom, he believes in the american dream, etc etc etc
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
he just believes in ted cruz. yoko and ted cruz.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
asking someone running for president what they believe in is the biggest softball question you could possibly ask!
i seem to remember both Ted Kennedy and John Kerry having trouble with this one, though. Must be something in that Dirty Water...
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Cruz in that article was like somebody doing rails while they talked about their anti-drug initiatives.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
the washington post weighs in with a hard-hitting profile piece:
from the first handful of paragraphs:
...the man who would be president...the steely man of principle...The son of a Cuban man who saw what happens when freedom is stripped away swore that “I'll die before I let it happen again.”...the crowd stood as one, roaring with admiration and hope...sending an unpopular but vital message...His Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, calls him “off-the-charts brilliant.
then,
...Beneath Cruz’s mesmerizing speaking style — midnight-smooth delivery, never ruffled, even as he drops lacerating lines about the evils of Obamacare — and his unthreatening appearance — suits, slicked-back black hair, baby-faced complexion — how the senator would govern remains unclear. Is he a rigidly uncompromising originalist or, as Cruz argues more like Ronald Reagan, who preached conservative populism but governed as a dealmaker?
followed by a story about how badboy ted cruz refused to rat out his friends after a legendary badass prank that they pulled - even after the principal threatened to take steps to deny his admission to Princeton! way to strong tall ted cruz!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/03/24/ted-cruz-principled-or-smug-know-it-all/?hpid=z1
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
way to strong tall ted cruz!way to strong tall ted cruz!way to strong tall ted cruz!
i should be a proofreader, i'm really good
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
alan dershowitz knows off-the-charts brilliance when he sees it
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't call his Mister Rogers-ish smarm "midnight smooth" exactly...
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/2/15/ronaldreagan.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Hah so I just learned not only were the students required to go to that Ted Cruz rally, but if they didn't they were going to be fined $10.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
worth it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
freedom isn't free
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
is it possible at this point to get rid of obamacare as a practical matter or has the current system of insuring become too intwined w/ it that even w/ popular support, legislative support, and executive support it would be too difficult to get rid of it?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
it's not going anywhere
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
we're FIVE years in already!
i'm not asking if it's likely to disappear. i'm asking if it's even possible, or whether it is too institutionally embedded to remove, even if the will were there.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
like what happens to the ppl who are currently signed up? is the idea that they'd just find new coverage? or revert to older policies?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
They die.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
u mean they take on a lifetime of debt
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
who knows man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
well this is why theyll be able to cope with a hastened demise. Single-payer would just spoil them horribly.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I heard J Toobin on Fresh Air last night calling Cruz "a very smart guy” who just happens to say a couple of crazy pandering things now and then.
btw guys it's going to be Jeb.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
keep thinking there must be someone besides jeb hes an even more comically establishment candidate than romney, the gop cubbard is bare
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
there's going to be an amazing charisma vacuum with Jeb and Hillary (akin to '88 Dukakis/Bush as I've said before)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
so you thought W and Gore just projected white-hot lava.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
people were clearly charmed by Dubya's "aw shucks" schtick
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
which Jeb does not have
i never cease to find that amazing xp
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
people are stupid. and they like someone who is stupid, JUST LIKE THEM
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
see, I don't think he is truly stupid. Never did.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Whatever happens it will be incredibly entertaining to watch.
Who was it here who characterized the successive surges of the 2012 non-Romneys as the "Angry Birds trajectory"? So apt. Perry, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum...
Conservative salivation over Cruz is delightful and life-sustaining. The dude is so obviously non palatable to the country as a whole. Yet because conservatives feel like they've been served milquetoast moderates without success, they're saying, why not try an election where they get the hard-line nominee they want? To which I say, yes, please. This nifty chart has him to the right of Goldwater: here. Please PLEASE GO THERE.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
these ppl are not conservatives, they are 16th-century crackpots.
sorry if i don't find "entertainment" trumping the spectacle of Jeb-Hil's double-sealing of America's doom.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
These people are just all so smart, I wish we could elect them all president.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
as Bubba and Bamster have proven, you can be smart and a fucking criminal president.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
So many smart criminals, I wish we could ellect them all president.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gykJie9.gif
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
still feels deeply weird to be contemplating another bush in the white house, would've seemed downright impossible eight years ago. otoh that's probably what some ppl said in 2000.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 26 March 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Nah ppl dumb as rocks, W could win again if he ran today.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
HRC's political obituaries were written in 2008. Tot Nixon, again.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link