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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Post-Apocalypse
« Reply #15120 on: December 06, 2016, 02:16:06 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.

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« Reply #15121 on: December 06, 2016, 02:22:25 am »

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« Reply #15122 on: December 06, 2016, 02:23:04 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.

Fuse them together? What? Wouldn't that just make them invisible?
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« Reply #15123 on: December 06, 2016, 02:33:32 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.

Fuse them together? What? Wouldn't that just make them invisible?

No, what you're looking for is a teleporter accident that fuses the two. Unfortunately, the two are so polar opposites that they'd self destruct almost immediately into gibbering insanity.
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Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Post-Apocalypse
« Reply #15124 on: December 06, 2016, 02:40:18 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.

Fuse them together? What? Wouldn't that just make them invisible?

No, what you're looking for is a teleporter accident that fuses the two. Unfortunately, the two are so polar opposites that they'd self destruct almost immediately into gibbering insanity.

Point of order, Hillary is the middle ground between Trump and Sanders.
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« Reply #15125 on: December 06, 2016, 02:41:58 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.

Fuse them together? What? Wouldn't that just make them invisible?

No, what you're looking for is a teleporter accident that fuses the two. Unfortunately, the two are so polar opposites that they'd self destruct almost immediately into gibbering insanity.

Point of order, Hillary is the middle ground between Trump and Sanders.

I guess... in the sense that a beach is a middle ground between a grassy meadow and an alien planet.
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« Reply #15126 on: December 06, 2016, 10:24:50 am »

The gap between Sanders and Hillary vs the gap between Sanders and Trump or Hillary and Trump suggests that the middle ground between 1 and 10 would be like 3, maybe 4? Though this is of course going by "practical!Sanders" and "possible!Trump" in the sense that what Sanders wants would be closer to -6 or -7, but there is no way he'd be able to get full on Socialist policies instated, nobody likes him enough to go that far out of their comfort zones to get behind him and help him do things. Trump has more of a weird position/attention uncertainty relationship, whereby the usual state of a candidate being less certain when unobserved is inverted, and paying closer attention to Trump makes it more and more impossible to actually predict what he will say or do.

He would normally sit at a 10 if unobserved, and was only acting as a sock-puppet for neocons. Observing him puts him in a superposition of being liberal and conservative at the same time, so things he says can go from all the way down around 5 or 6 up to 15+ and even beyond that range if observed closely enough.
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« Reply #15127 on: December 06, 2016, 10:38:35 am »

How about we compromise and fuse the candidates together using a Philadelphia Experiment type device? You can be ruled by a thing that has both Trump and Hillary's heads coming out of a lump of fused flesh. And it can rule for 16 years, since it's technically two people.
It will rule forever, so long as '16 never ends.

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« Reply #15128 on: December 06, 2016, 11:23:52 am »

The gap between Sanders and Hillary vs the gap between Sanders and Trump or Hillary and Trump suggests that the middle ground between 1 and 10 would be like 3, maybe 4? Though this is of course going by "practical!Sanders" and "possible!Trump" in the sense that what Sanders wants would be closer to -6 or -7, but there is no way he'd be able to get full on Socialist policies instated, nobody likes him enough to go that far out of their comfort zones to get behind him and help him do things. Trump has more of a weird position/attention uncertainty relationship, whereby the usual state of a candidate being less certain when unobserved is inverted, and paying closer attention to Trump makes it more and more impossible to actually predict what he will say or do.

He would normally sit at a 10 if unobserved, and was only acting as a sock-puppet for neocons. Observing him puts him in a superposition of being liberal and conservative at the same time, so things he says can go from all the way down around 5 or 6 up to 15+ and even beyond that range if observed closely enough.

So, you're saying Trump is an electron?
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« Reply #15129 on: December 06, 2016, 11:24:28 am »

The gap between Sanders and Hillary vs the gap between Sanders and Trump or Hillary and Trump suggests that the middle ground between 1 and 10 would be like 3, maybe 4? Though this is of course going by "practical!Sanders" and "possible!Trump" in the sense that what Sanders wants would be closer to -6 or -7, but there is no way he'd be able to get full on Socialist policies instated, nobody likes him enough to go that far out of their comfort zones to get behind him and help him do things. Trump has more of a weird position/attention uncertainty relationship, whereby the usual state of a candidate being less certain when unobserved is inverted, and paying closer attention to Trump makes it more and more impossible to actually predict what he will say or do.

He would normally sit at a 10 if unobserved, and was only acting as a sock-puppet for neocons. Observing him puts him in a superposition of being liberal and conservative at the same time, so things he says can go from all the way down around 5 or 6 up to 15+ and even beyond that range if observed closely enough.
Interesting. An Inversion of the Romney Uncertainty principle.
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« Reply #15130 on: December 06, 2016, 11:33:31 am »

The gap between Sanders and Hillary vs the gap between Sanders and Trump or Hillary and Trump suggests that the middle ground between 1 and 10 would be like 3, maybe 4? Though this is of course going by "practical!Sanders" and "possible!Trump" in the sense that what Sanders wants would be closer to -6 or -7, but there is no way he'd be able to get full on Socialist policies instated, nobody likes him enough to go that far out of their comfort zones to get behind him and help him do things. Trump has more of a weird position/attention uncertainty relationship, whereby the usual state of a candidate being less certain when unobserved is inverted, and paying closer attention to Trump makes it more and more impossible to actually predict what he will say or do.

He would normally sit at a 10 if unobserved, and was only acting as a sock-puppet for neocons. Observing him puts him in a superposition of being liberal and conservative at the same time, so things he says can go from all the way down around 5 or 6 up to 15+ and even beyond that range if observed closely enough.

So, you're saying Trump is an electron?
I'm saying if Trump is unobserved he will hold certain positions with fair reliability, but if you pay attention to him then the likelihood of him appearing to agree with you, disagree with you, or flat out contradict himself tends towards infinity.
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« Reply #15131 on: December 06, 2016, 11:39:39 am »

Physics jokes aside, here's Trumps SCOTUS shortlist (insofar as 21 people is a short list)

They're all conservatives obviously, but SCOTUS nominees have a tendency to turn liberal. The CNN list isn't heavily detailed, so, you're gonna have to do your own research if you want to find out more on them. Except for that Ted Cruz wildcard, everybody already knows him, and everybody hates him. If it weren't for the fact that he was briefly floated as a SCOTUS judge or he suggested that he'd like to, I'd have thought that CNN put him there as a joke.

The gap between Sanders and Hillary vs the gap between Sanders and Trump or Hillary and Trump suggests that the middle ground between 1 and 10 would be like 3, maybe 4? Though this is of course going by "practical!Sanders" and "possible!Trump" in the sense that what Sanders wants would be closer to -6 or -7, but there is no way he'd be able to get full on Socialist policies instated, nobody likes him enough to go that far out of their comfort zones to get behind him and help him do things. Trump has more of a weird position/attention uncertainty relationship, whereby the usual state of a candidate being less certain when unobserved is inverted, and paying closer attention to Trump makes it more and more impossible to actually predict what he will say or do.

He would normally sit at a 10 if unobserved, and was only acting as a sock-puppet for neocons. Observing him puts him in a superposition of being liberal and conservative at the same time, so things he says can go from all the way down around 5 or 6 up to 15+ and even beyond that range if observed closely enough.

So, you're saying Trump is an electron?
I'm saying if Trump is unobserved he will hold certain positions with fair reliability, but if you pay attention to him then the likelihood of him appearing to agree with you, disagree with you, or flat out contradict himself tends towards infinity.

Then he's an elect-ron!

lol. Okay, probably stretching the joke a bit much.
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« Reply #15132 on: December 06, 2016, 12:05:33 pm »

Physics jokes aside, here's Trumps SCOTUS shortlist (insofar as 21 people is a short list)

They're all conservatives obviously, but SCOTUS nominees have a tendency to turn liberal. The CNN list isn't heavily detailed, so, you're gonna have to do your own research if you want to find out more on them. Except for that Ted Cruz wildcard, everybody already knows him, and everybody hates him. If it weren't for the fact that he was briefly floated as a SCOTUS judge or he suggested that he'd like to, I'd have thought that CNN put him there as a joke.


Going through their Wikipedia pages, none of them sound particularly bad. Or, at least, few of the cases I understood the descriptions of seemed like unreasonable decisions.
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« Reply #15133 on: December 06, 2016, 12:49:26 pm »

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« Reply #15134 on: December 06, 2016, 01:27:11 pm »

So, an observation that Trump is treating his transition and very likely the Presidency like a reality show.

I know that people have said that this whole election has felt like a reality show, but this observation follows it's logic to it's end. I've never really watched the reality shows (I did watch some of Survivor, but didn't become a fan of it, or reality shows), though I've heard of things like epiliptic trees and jumping the shark and doing all kinds of wierd stuff.

Basically, the implication is that he'll become more outrageous, and as we've seen, he never backs down, EVER, not even his campaign staff could get him off of tangents that other people would just apologise for and move on. He's already slammed the gauntlet down at China, the real test would be his first month or two in office.
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