I actually heard some Republican someone or the other expert on NPR say something like ’Maybe a brokered convention would be a good thing for us at this point' in an interview yesterday evening. I had the biggest grin on my face after that.
I actually heard some Republican someone or the other expert on NPR say something like ’Maybe a brokered convention would be a good thing for us at this point' in an interview yesterday evening. I had the biggest grin on my face after that.
I want it to happen. Half of my interest is actually watching a brokered convention. It sounds awesome when it happens to the other side.
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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular
Brokered convention is unlikely I think.
The chances of it go up depending on the results out of Arizona and Michigan, but recent polling suggests that they're both probably going Romney.
Hey guys, I just realized. Romney is actually Arnold Rimmer. He takes credit for everything good that happens, refuses to take any blame ever, seems to be running because he should want to be president rather than actually wanting anything to do with the presidency, has that same stupid smile when he's being insulted. It's uncanny.
The sad part is, Rimmer is a hologramatic projection of a dead guy yet still comes across as more human than Mittens.
Before I go to bed, something generally meaningless for the campaign. But it's a lolRomney moment as he offhandedly reminds everyone he's so rich he has no idea what it's like looking at things from those seats everyone paid to sit in:
Romney was at Daytona last year and said he also has been to the track in New Hampshire. Does he follow the sport?
"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans,'' he said. "But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.''
I don't follow your sport, but I'm friends with the people who own your sport. That makes me relatable, right? Guys??
I'm almost wondering at this point if he's possibly autistic. He knows these people have a connection to NASCAR and he knows he has a connection to NASCAR, but his brain is utterly incapable of grasping the difference in tone between them.
"We need to look at the situation with gas prices today," Santorum said. "We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because they were looking at $4 a gallon gasoline."
"We need to look at the situation with gas prices today," Santorum said. "We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because they were looking at $4 a gallon gasoline."
"We need to look at the situation with gas prices today," Santorum said. "We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because they were looking at $4 a gallon gasoline."
WE WENT INTO A RECESSION IN 2008 BECAUSE OF GASOLINE PRICES.
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...right, all those people would have been fine with their sub-prime mortgages if only they could have saved $20/month on gas!
Yep, it wasn't 8 years of mismanagement by the Bush administration and a Republican Congress, no sir.
Damn you gasoline.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Yep, the immediate effect of the housing/fianancial bubble bursting was sub two dollar gas because the gas price caused the crisis.
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Do these people not understand that gas prices tanked because no one in the developed world had any goddamn money for a two years and they're only returning to pre-recession levels now?!
Hey guys, I just realized. Romney is actually Arnold Rimmer. He takes credit for everything good that happens, refuses to take any blame ever, seems to be running because he should want to be president rather than actually wanting anything to do with the presidency, has that same stupid smile when he's being insulted. It's uncanny.
The sad part is, Rimmer is a hologramatic projection of a dead guy yet still comes across as more human than Mittens.
Before I go to bed, something generally meaningless for the campaign. But it's a lolRomney moment as he offhandedly reminds everyone he's so rich he has no idea what it's like looking at things from those seats everyone paid to sit in:
Romney was at Daytona last year and said he also has been to the track in New Hampshire. Does he follow the sport?
"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans,'' he said. "But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.''
I don't follow your sport, but I'm friends with the people who own your sport. That makes me relatable, right? Guys??
I'm almost wondering at this point if he's possibly autistic. He knows these people have a connection to NASCAR and he knows he has a connection to NASCAR, but his brain is utterly incapable of grasping the difference in tone between them.
Certainly possible. It's also possible he's simply been living to much of a bubble all his life that he fails to make these connections because he has no understanding of their conditions. Nothing that can't be solved, but he's not going to want to do that any time soon.
Do these people not understand that gas prices tanked because no one in the developed world had any goddamn money for a two years and they're only returning to pre-recession levels now?!
There are two explanations. Either he's lying or never understood what occurred. Neither would surprise me.
We're still close enough to 2008 for people (in general) to remember that it was the banks and the mortgage crisis, right? So if a candidate were to try to make a concerted effort to claim it was something else they would look dumb, right? Please be too soon for revisionism.
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Do these people not understand that gas prices tanked because no one in the developed world had any goddamn money for a two years and they're only returning to pre-recession levels now?!
There are two explanations. Either he's lying or never understood what occurred. Neither would surprise me.
There's a fantastic Simpsons clip for this, but I can't find it.
It appears that Mitt Romney might be capable of traveling in time. Last week, Romney gave a speech in Michigan that this cynical politics watcher actually found rather moving. In it, Romney recalled as a child attending the Golden Jubilee, an event that celebrated the 50th year of the automobile. Romney’s father was the Grandmaster of Ceremonies.
As it turns out, though, it didn’t happen. Mitch Potter reports that the Golden Jubilee took place on June 1, 1946, which is about 9 months before Mitt Romney was born. Here’s the kicker though – I’m willing to bet quite a bit that Romney wasn’t lying about this story at all.
No, I’m not suggesting that Mitt Romney can travel through time. However, it’s quite possible that Romney not only believes that he attended the event, he may well actually have memories of the event. This is because people, especially children, are perfectly capable of forming false memories. This can even happen in the lab. Experimenters have convinced people that they’ve done a number of things that they didn’t do, even including rides on hot air balloons or trips to the hospital. Not only will the subjects think they’ve done those things, they’ll actually have vivid memories of the events.
Even more chilling, there are a large number of cases in which someone will, under the pressure of a police interrogation, actually confess to a crime they didn’t commit. Depending on the stresses of the situation, many of those who falsely confess not only come to believe they’re guilty, but also actually have vivid memories of committing the crime.
So while it’s unlikely that Mitt Romney has traveled back in time to witness the Golden Jubilee with his own eyes, when he tells the stories of the memories, it’s quite likely that he isn’t lying. Indeed, he may remember the events quite vividly – even though he wasn’t there.
If he becomes President, I hope he takes this lesson to heart when he’s reviewing pardons. Because when he sees the request of someone who confessed to a crime now claiming innocence, Romney can think back to this issue and realize that the confession might well have been a false memory. Just like Romney’s own memories of the Golden Jubilee.
We're still close enough to 2008 for people (in general) to remember that it was the banks and the mortgage crisis, right? So if a candidate were to try to make a concerted effort to claim it was something else they would look dumb, right? Please be too soon for revisionism.
Are you kidding? We've already revised everything after July of 2009. Did you know that 2001-2008 was a golden age for America? Free internet abounded, healthcare was cheap, insurance companies were honorable, and oil flowed like the venomous blood of terrorists.
We're still close enough to 2008 for people (in general) to remember that it was the banks and the mortgage crisis, right? So if a candidate were to try to make a concerted effort to claim it was something else they would look dumb, right? Please be too soon for revisionism.
Sadly, in the digital age revisionism can begin immediately after the event in question. Plus, gas prices are an easy, tangible scapegoat, compared to wading the through the complex causes of the mortgage bubble and eventual debt crisis when the bubble imploded. I mean, Rick's chasing the same people who when told over and over again how more oil drilling in the US would do almost nothing to the price at pump, still chant "Drill Baby Drill" like it's a bible verse.
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I would've liked that Forbes article better if it suggested Romney had those memories implanted by the Jedi Council or some shit. Bringing up something like a child forming false memories and that shit taking root in the psyche... that's way, way, WAY above the level of most people's thinking, let alone belief, and injecting it into politics is more or less like setting up a gigantic bomb of a trap.
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Romney has put the Tennis Ball of Stupid back on Santorum's side of the court. How will Santorum respond?
Thank god there is no such thing as too much of something.
Best retort?
"Hamburger is people food, but if I bury you in it you will die."
Or just... water.
Water works too. Hamburger was just what popped into my head first cause that was what I had for dinner. Any food really, except coconut. Because coconut is gross.
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Plants can manage pretty great increases in CO2 before getting unhappy. Strong, fast changes in humidity, temperature, soil conditions, seasons, insect population size and other circumstances, not so much.
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The Santorum campaign is so ill prepared that they don't have time to send in an advance team with some poles that lights could be placed on. So all lighting must come up from underneath like a scary camp fire story.
This is at least his 2nd speech i've seen lit like this.
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We're still close enough to 2008 for people (in general) to remember that it was the banks and the mortgage crisis, right? So if a candidate were to try to make a concerted effort to claim it was something else they would look dumb, right? Please be too soon for revisionism.
Unfortunately, for people who desperately want to believe that a person, party, or belief is always right, it is never too soon for revisionism.
This is kind of how the Tea Party got started. An astute observer might notice that they were making claims about Obama and his policies he had enacted before he had even been sworn in yet.
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Well, you know, Romney isn't perfect. He says so himself.
Literally, when asked if he's worried about how he comes across to voters his answer was "I'm not perfect."
It's uncanny how much more and more he reminds me of Kerry as this primary goes on.
I want it to happen. Half of my interest is actually watching a brokered convention. It sounds awesome when it happens to the other side.
The chances of it go up depending on the results out of Arizona and Michigan, but recent polling suggests that they're both probably going Romney.
I would love it to happen, but I'm skeptical.
It's definitely a long shot. But damn it sounds fucking awesome.
Literally.
I remember! I thought Than was being ri
The sad part is, Rimmer is a hologramatic projection of a dead guy yet still comes across as more human than Mittens.
I'm almost wondering at this point if he's possibly autistic. He knows these people have a connection to NASCAR and he knows he has a connection to NASCAR, but his brain is utterly incapable of grasping the difference in tone between them.
"All that work on Citizens United... for nothing!"
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Ah, new polls came out.
I really really want Romney to lose Michigan. More than I wanted him to lose Florida. I just cannot stand that smug corporatomaton.
538 has Romney's lead as potentially tenuous.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/michigan-forecast-update-romneys-lead-looks-more-tenuous/
Damn you gasoline.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Certainly possible. It's also possible he's simply been living to much of a bubble all his life that he fails to make these connections because he has no understanding of their conditions. Nothing that can't be solved, but he's not going to want to do that any time soon.
There are two explanations. Either he's lying or never understood what occurred. Neither would surprise me.
There's a fantastic Simpsons clip for this, but I can't find it.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1136834--mitt-romney-couldn-t-have-remembered-detroit-milestone-he-wasn-t-born
Romney is so goddamn terrible at this.
Are you kidding? We've already revised everything after July of 2009. Did you know that 2001-2008 was a golden age for America? Free internet abounded, healthcare was cheap, insurance companies were honorable, and oil flowed like the venomous blood of terrorists.
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Sadly, in the digital age revisionism can begin immediately after the event in question. Plus, gas prices are an easy, tangible scapegoat, compared to wading the through the complex causes of the mortgage bubble and eventual debt crisis when the bubble imploded. I mean, Rick's chasing the same people who when told over and over again how more oil drilling in the US would do almost nothing to the price at pump, still chant "Drill Baby Drill" like it's a bible verse.
"C02 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants."
OVERHAND SMASH
The only drawback is that they're not sourced.
Oh for fuck's sake, that fact that this will no doubt be a convincing argument to some people is depressing.
Thank god there is no such thing as too much of something.
Plants are not people... right?
Best retort?
"Hamburger is people food, but if I bury you in it you will die."
Or just... water.
What is up with that picture?
Water works too. Hamburger was just what popped into my head first cause that was what I had for dinner. Any food really, except coconut. Because coconut is gross.
According to that first one they're from the Energy Information Administration.
The Santorum campaign is so ill prepared that they don't have time to send in an advance team with some poles that lights could be placed on. So all lighting must come up from underneath like a scary camp fire story.
This is at least his 2nd speech i've seen lit like this.
Unfortunately, for people who desperately want to believe that a person, party, or belief is always right, it is never too soon for revisionism.
This is kind of how the Tea Party got started. An astute observer might notice that they were making claims about Obama and his policies he had enacted before he had even been sworn in yet.