the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

It's the silver sideburns mostly.

Governor Mittbeam

Romney-Lady Gaga romance imminent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/always-remember-were-not-normal/2012/04/20/gIQAXxEkVT_blog.html

I found out about “Cookiegate” this morning. I was about eight hours late on the dog stuff and, when I asked someone who tweeted about it to explain what they were talking about, they literally didn’t believe that I could possibly be ignorant of such a consequential topic. After I learned the story, I felt a little worse about myself for being in any way involved in the tornado of idiocy that is American politics.

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never realized plato's cave had a roadway...learn something every day

plato's increasingly fucke-up cave

Was faffing about on Kickstarter tonight and found this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1339254269/ron-paul-road-to-revolution

what the living fuck: some dude is making an NES-style platformer Ron Paul game, and got $8K+ from Kickstarter to make it.

http://ronpaulswag.com/media/ron_poster.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydrfs8bpBY

It looks like it might be an interesting game, but if there is a revolution, then anyone who says "*WINK*" then follows that up with an actual wink will be first against the wall.

Accurate assessment, I think:

http://politics.salon.com/2012/04/20/mitt%E2%80%99s_one_undeniable_advantage/singleton/

yeah, sadly

Isn't there thousands of people that Obama can wheel out to say "I'd have a job now, if it wasn't for Mitt Romney"? Or have they all been used up by the GOP candidates' brief foray into socialism?

I'm sure there are plenty of such people, but somebody in a (paid) TV ad saying "I'd have a job now, if it wasn't for Mitt Romney" won't likely do much to offset the dissatisfaction of people feeling the pinch who see Obama as having failed them.

Sure, but you're not voting for a time machine, you're voting for one guy vs another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO84_lpMfsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fW8PoC3-5s

expect to see a lot, lot, lot more of this

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/dog_soldiers_ri.php

what the

Jesus, why are Republicans _so bad_ at jokes?

Obama's mother "was not only a Communist fellow-traveler," he wrote, "but the sort of 1960s woman who (as we used to say) 'put her body on the line,' first by marrying two Third World men, and then by spending her career in the Third World."

"as we used to say"

so apparently if you say J1m Tr34ch3r's name three times he'll appear (or so i've learnt from the Village Voice comments thread). anyone feel like summoning him?

ah, spengler.

got to love the reasoning that goes from obama praising the social arrangements of poor indonesia as being at least more stable than those of poor chicago, to spengler using it as proof of preferring traditional pre-capitalism to "creative destruction." like, are you really going to argue that a '70s american ghetto is the best billboard for capital?

yes, Jim Treacher should come here. he seems a treat

Jim Treacher

jim treacher wears a diaper

also the comments on that voice article - in particular at jim treacher the diaper wearer's expense - are a traet

lol

The story of eating dog food in an impoverished third world country vs. tying your pet to the roof of your car. Yes, they both have dogs in them, but they really have nothing to do with each other. As much as I love dogs, the issue of their attitudes towards dogs aren't really important to me and secondary to these narratives. To me, Obama's is about someone who came from poverty and Romney's is about a robot dangerously out of touch with human behavior.

um, it's not dog food, guy

dog as food, more like

it's ok to eat pussy but not dog?

I went to the National Association of Broadcasters convention last week in Vegas -- had never been before -- mainly a tech and gear festival for all things broadcasted, even though the definiton of 'broadcasting' keeps shifting. But this article published in the wednesday daily really leapt out at me. Basically a cheerleading conversation about how great Twitter & Facebook has been for political news because there is now no shortage of content or stories; the 24 hour news cycle is no longer starving, there's always something to write about, so hooray. Then, in the last few paragraphs, a few tiny mentions about how accuracy is still important, and the challenge of making sure that unvetted twitter commentary can be verified before broadcast. The tiny stuff, you know.

The Las Vegas airport with a view of the main strip's skyline = perfect place to have my mind blown by this article

http://www.nabshowdaily.com/2012/Article/128458

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, would you listen to yourself.

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l/r: Jim Treacher, ILX

i see no diaper. jim wears a diaper.

hey guys sorry I haven't been around but I hear that guy who wears diapers might stop by so I thought I'd say hey. You guys know about this guy? Big diaper dude, Jim something. Trecher maybe - Treacher? think so. Really into the whole diaper scene, if you see him give him my best

aero i think you mean jim treacher. i know he wears a diaper anyway.

And at Pajamas Media, David P. Goldman went for historical perspective: Obama's mother "was not only a Communist fellow-traveler," he wrote, "but the sort of 1960s woman who (as we used to say) 'put her body on the line,' first by marrying two Third World men, and then by spending her career in the Third World."

"Third World men"

American Politics: Yo Mama edition

pretty sure there was something else commie-hating right-wingers in the 60s used to call a white woman marrying a black man

"lucky"

Hey, did I hear that Jim Treacher might start posting here?

Can i smell diaper?

ahahahaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS1x5RnZZQ&feature=youtube_gdata

btw david p. goldman = "spengler", who's had this theme of obama's mom being a race-crazy whore for a while now

nu-spengler is ed anger of the blog ra

I don't even know who or what jerry treecler is, but I don't think his diapers should be near this thread.

trust me you don't want jerry without his diaper