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Red vs Blue: [Republican Primary] Edition
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The government shutdown definitely caused a "negative effect" or two. That said, debating whether the Republican party is sane is like debating whether religion is good: a hopeless quagmire of poorly defined terms in which the various parties will shout their tribalism at each other forever.
But I would like to point out that Ben Carson and Donald Trump together not only have an absolute majority of Republican primary voters but most of those voters list the other guy as their number two choice. In other words, what I thought would never happen is now looking like a really good possibility: one of those two will be the Republican nominee. For president. Of these here United States.
Not that that means Republicans are crazy, or anything.
This is not the place to discuss whether the GOP are literal cartoon villains or just figurative cartoon villains.
yeah, that kinda thing needs to be discussed at an actual GOP debate!
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Voldemort...?
Probably.
Whatever you do now, though, don't go outside.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
I think the genuine answer is Karl Marx or the Prophet Muhammed.
And I'm not kidding.
The "sane" Republicans, aka the moderates, are not as moderate or sane as they bill themselves as. W.'s administration was a shining example of how crazy and extreme they were. Imagine my surprise when today the biggest extremist faction, the Tea Party, makes them look like saints. I think you need to take a closer look at least at the current Republican party, specifically the Tea Party faction. The people you represent in the GOP, the moderates, have been losing ground for years and ironically it's the own fault for creating this monster via talk radio/Fox News as gullible fools to manipulate to vote for them. Moderates like you are becoming extinct, Boehner's retiring was another step in that direction, and your boy Trump is leading that charge. I suggest you pay closer attention to news about the GOP, because you don't seem that knowledgable about what's going in that party.
edit: The moderates in this race are Jeb!, Rubio (?), Cruz (?) and Kasich and right now they're losing to the extremists like Trump and Carson. If this is a continuing trend the GOP should just give up on the presidential race because those guys are not winning the general.
Things are really heating up
in this contest between a crazy person who says awful things and an awful person who says crazy things
which one will be guaranteed 45% of the vote in the general, I wonder
I don't know that the popular vote would swing quite that far in their favor. If the crazypants was deep enough, more moderates could pull the lever for Hillary or just stay home.
Which wouldn't change the electoral map all that much, i'm just thinking we would see a map more like 2008 if it gets bad enough, with NC, IN, and MO going blue and Georgia on the brink again.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/refugees-christians-215991
Indeed. I was waiting for the caveat that we should accept christian refugees, but it never came!
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Should have just stopped there, Yang. I'll still take it though.
I would honestly prefer one of the candidates coming out with a for real literal anti-magic policy than what they are doing now.
Am sure Honest Ben Carson will announce just such a policy any day now.
Ben Carson's been working an anti-magic taskforce in secret for decades.
I mean, haven't had any magic attacks on US soil, now have we?
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I can't trust Ben Carson to protect America from magic. His "anti big-government" attitude makes it so that he'll never approve the creation of a government repository to gather & store mandatory phylacteries for all magic users as should rightfully be done.
EDIT: When it comes to protecting us from evil wizards and sorcerers, there's only one candidate I trust to get the job done.
That pretty much lets him pick up the Freedom Caucus vote without commiting to their positions, in particular their foreign policy. The pro-Trump base isn't excited for more dumb wars, but sure loved watching Cruz "putting the liberal media on their place".
The Onion nails it again.
It's a sad world in which I can't tell what is satire anymore by the content, only by the provider.
Good satire is supposed to give you that "wait, is this real?" moment. I mean, there were people who took "A Modest Proposal" seriously.
Yeah, but the Onion has always been over the top. The world has changed to make the Onion seem plausible, not the Onion becoming more subtle.
It's the Onion that has shifted the Overton window
That is adorable. And of course has nothing to do with how he was a rounding error for the entire race thus far or how even his kids couldn't fathom why he would run.
Poeverton Window
This map is from the Carson campaign. The color code is based on which states' Governors want to deny Syrian refugees.
But check out the northeast.
Are we sure Ben Carson's campaign staff isn't just trolling him?
Are pokemon speeches next?
I don't know. Getting 0.3% of the vote sounds just about right this season if you're pandering to intellectuals
Find an intellectual who supported Jindal. I'll wait. Until the heat death of the universe.
Man, all those folks up in the Green Mountains just got some ocean front views. WOO HOO
"Focusing too much on policy" was not the reason why Jindal's campaign failed though.
~puts on P'shop glasses~
It appears that they took a normal US map and used a basic fill tool to color the states with a really high tolerance, which ate away the border pixels of the more complicated borders. Then they deliberately edited the New England Area (for reasons unknown). Then, to make things more confusing, they lowered the fill to allow some of the background to show through.