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Author Topic: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée  (Read 1581215 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4290 on: September 15, 2015, 11:36:03 pm »

Baffler 2036: Already bought and paid for by the American Ostrich Association, and cannot be corrupted further.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4291 on: September 15, 2015, 11:45:53 pm »

As a paid shill of the Big Ostrich, what ostrich initiatives can we look forward to?
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4292 on: September 16, 2015, 01:01:46 am »

As a paid shill of the Big Ostrich, what ostrich initiatives can we look forward to?
A really big chicken in every pot!
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4293 on: September 16, 2015, 01:28:42 am »

Respect out of fear is really not the kind of respect that should be gained from others though....... From our enemies, maybe, but from our allies and friends, no.
Pfft...somebody hasn't read their Machiavelli.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4294 on: September 16, 2015, 01:47:02 am »

Respect out of fear is really not the kind of respect that should be gained from others though....... From our enemies, maybe, but from our allies and friends, no.
Pfft...somebody hasn't read their Machiavelli.
Machiavelli is overrated.  Of course when you publish a book that says "leaders should do all the amoral things that they already do" you're going to be a hit with the upper class.
it's called satire
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4295 on: September 16, 2015, 01:55:56 am »

If Trump was Swedish he'd be recommissioning the Wasa.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4296 on: September 16, 2015, 01:56:58 am »

-snip
it's called satire
Its called "I really wanted to say that and I had an excuse".
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4297 on: September 16, 2015, 06:08:08 am »

Guys, you started with a gross misrepresentation of Machiavelli and you somehow managed to become even worse...
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4298 on: September 16, 2015, 09:05:44 am »

Well, Trump started as a gross misrepresentation of a Presidential candidate and just keeps managing to become worse, so it's a fair cop.


I, for one, look forward to our globe-spanning empire led by a 73-year old battleship and a 69-year old batshit insane guy.
I'm beginning to think he watched Battleship and thought it was a documentary. "Hey, if those guys could kick a bunch of space aliens' butts, then they should be able to stop illegal aliens!"

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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4299 on: September 16, 2015, 09:06:59 am »

Guys, you started with a gross misrepresentation of Machiavelli and you somehow managed to become even worse...
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I'm beginning to think he watched Battleship and thought it was a documentary. "Hey, if those guys could kick a bunch of space aliens' butts, then they should be able to stop illegal aliens!"
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4300 on: September 16, 2015, 01:26:37 pm »

I'm telling you all now -- if I get laid-off and I'm still jobless come November, I'm voting Trump just to take the country down with me. Plus, maybe there will be some jobs in the Trumperial Guard.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4301 on: September 16, 2015, 01:52:56 pm »

It just occurred to me that Trump's inaugural speech will most definitely include him saying "you're fired" to Obama at some point.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4302 on: September 16, 2015, 02:51:58 pm »

My Trump vote plan is similar, though more a celebration of the vacuous nightmare we have made for ourselves.
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4303 on: September 16, 2015, 03:36:32 pm »

I have to admit, if by some impossible accident he winds up with the nomination, I might be laughing too hard to aim at the right bubble on the ballot and may, in fact, unwittingly vote Trump.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
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Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« Reply #4304 on: September 16, 2015, 03:38:58 pm »

Anyhow, the first round is starting in an hour and a half, so, if anybody outside the US wants to watch it, the webstream that CNN will do should be available.
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