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[Orange Wizard]

Oh, really? I thought Sander's thing was how the status quo needs to change. Voting Hillary is status quo as far as I can see.

[TheDarkStar]

Yeah, but the alternative is to vote for someone who wants to do the opposite of what Bernie wants to do.

[Frumple]

Oh, really? I thought Sander's thing was how the status quo needs to change. Voting Hillary is status quo as far as I can see.

Nooot exactly. She'd still be pushing several (most, really) things in the same direction he wants to, if perhaps more slowly, and Sander's thing is how the status quo needs to change in a particular direction, not just change, period. He wouldn't support, say, Cruz (or Trump, if anyone ever figures out what the hell he'd do, policy wise), just because the guy was also anti-establishment (to some degree, anyway) and would shake things up. Sanders is like the exact opposite of a "burn things down today to build tomorrow"* kinda' person, and would definitely recommend supporting some that's at least mostly okay over someone that proposes a lot of odious shit and happens to hammer the anti-quo drum at the same time.

*Err... well, in the sense of not burning things down. The exact opposite of that would mostly be the republican party, where "burn the future down to build today" is pretty close to gospel. Well... literally gospel in some cases, but you get what I mean.

[Max™]

Nyarlathotep 2016
No more years!

Wait, the Crawling Chaos is running in this cycle?

Crap, that might toss a wrench into my hover-platform goal.

Hmmm, I'd still say I'm the best bet here, as I've got like a 5% chance of not going directly to supervillain projects once elected, unlike Gnarly and... whoever else is running.

Vote Me in 2016: What's the worst that could happen?

[Rose]

Vote lucifer.

[Orange Wizard]

Vote lucifer.

Vote Antichrist.

Hang on, isn't Obama the antichrist? Stupid term limits, you should just keep him.

[Max™]

Antichrists? How quaint, charming even!

Wait... nevermind that... I just noticed I don't have a party affiliation! Shit, that could be a problem. Could go with Schrodinger's Party: my positions exist in a superposition of funny and tragically stupid states until observed maybe?

Nah, fuck it, the Hover Platform Party is better.

America needs someone they can really look up to, and that someone could totally be me, hovering like 15 to 20 feet off the ground.

[Orange Wizard]

If you could actually hover, that'd be pretty convincing.

[Shadowlord]

Hovering is easy when you're dreaming

[TheDarkStar]

It's the hover platform party, though. So all Max™ needs to do is find a personal hovercraft and he's set.

[Mephansteras]

Or promise to make hover platforms a mainstream part of American life. Campaign promises are pretty cheap, after all.

[Egan_BW]

Literally look down on the American people while promising that they will literally rise up to the literal heights of your own glory.

[Max™]

Or promise to make hover platforms a mainstream part of American life. Campaign promises are pretty cheap, after all.

Well naturally once I have one it will be easier to convince the manufacturers to make more or I'll make jokes about their bald spot and drop water balloons on them.

[Shadowlord]

Oh man. The best quote from this excessively long article was right at the end:

After the Trump meeting, Senate GOP leaders briefed their conference in Mansfield room near the Senate floor. Former Trump rival Ted Cruz didn't say much there, other than a joke, according to a senator in the room.

"To be honest with you, I didn't want to come back," Cruz said.

Arizona Sen. John McCain responded: "We didn't want you to either."

[Max™]

If McCain had been funnier than he was "angry old grandpa" maybe he would have done better. People like to laugh.