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

Great misspeak by Mary Matlin 10 seconds ago: "Tomb of the Unknown Shoulder." Bound to a big story.

Unless he's being stubborn on the tax returns because he did pay an average amount, and wants the dems to focus on that for the next few months instead of turning up the real skeletons.

^^^5th dimensional chess

"I...I...just didn't want to flaunt my charitable donations. But the dems, they're forcing me..."

'if mr. romney says he paid taxes, then i take him at his word'

and both believe deeply in a corrupt technocratic establishment.

need to think of a term for this. what is it when something is so true as to be meaningless?

― goole, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:14 PM (47 minutes ago)

trusim?

That infamous Poppy Bush "wimp" story.

only way you can tell how important an election is is if youve got a time machine or a crystal ball or some sort of device like that

Sure, even I didn't know Obama would be worse on civil liberties than W.

Mittens is not a wimp, he's a violent bully. Fully qualified.

most bullies are cowards

doesn't match the classic definiton of wimp, tho, esp smooth imperial killers like the incumbent

poppy bush was more of a ninny really

i do think being the cooler guy is important in elections tho, poppy was just lucky to run against dukakis

was Nixon cooler than Humphrey and McGovern? damn fine hairsplitting.

max should run then xp

although lag∞n you are mad cool

president milquetoast

im not saying its the only or even most important factor, or that politicians are not as a group hopelessly uncool, theres just a sense of like their relative social charisma, im trying to avoid reductive 'a-dog' talk cause theres more to it than just dominance i think, its also like who is most comfortable in their skin

although lag∞n you are mad cool

― mookieproof, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:59 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*hi5* B-)

but also def dominance, thats why they like to zing each other so much, most deadly tho is when you try a zing and the other guy just laughs its off, zinging is a dangerous game

too true

totally

particularly if the other guy is taller

although i'm not convinced that obama is any better going to his left than mitt

despite his left-handedness!

iirc his goto move is one dribble left pull up j at the elbow

do we know anyone with pull?

you, me, kk, hurting and lebron against obama and the fucking pentagon

ITS SO ON

that guy from duke doesnt work for him anymore so we should be good

also we have lebron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP58AcoRIFs

interesting how obama is making raising taxes on the rich a campaign issue

although i'm not convinced that obama is any better going to his left than mitt

Obama "goes to his left" about as well as Derek Jeter #stolenjoke

y'all, Morbs just used a funny hashtag.

Now, Romney seems to be stepping up his efforts. In a new ad, he is shown driving an SUV, talking to voters like they’re a companion in the passenger seat.

“I know what it’s like to hire people and to wonder whether you’re going to be able to make ends meet down the road,” the candidate says.

this guyu

er GUY

just a regular guy, out hiring people

Some tactical follow-up to yesterday's no-taxes dare (funny headline):

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/let-the-goads-begin.html

Romney's plan = lower taxes for the rich, higher taxes for everybody else

sounds great, no idea how that could fail

“It is not mathematically possible to design a revenue-neutral plan that preserves current incentives for savings and investment and that does not result in a net tax cut for high-income taxpayers and a net tax increase for lower- and/or middle-income taxpayers,” the study concludes.

Guns, Jews, and Steel: Mitt Romney’s Theory of Everything

By Jonathan Chait

lol good one

in the TV ad at :09 what's goin on in Romney's temples? weird effect of psyops or something idk

everybody be cool

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/romney-photo-facebook-turpin.html

A 40-year-old Tennessee man who looks like the offspring of Don Corleone and Jabba the Hut became irate last Sunday, smashing his girlfriend's laptop and hitting her once in the face, after he spotted a photo of a handsome man on her Facebook page. The man in the photo was Mitt Romney.

Romney now a blogger at the Corner

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/romney_clarifies_by_culture_he_meant_everything_else/

Will listen when he learns how to clarify butter

Any of you live in the suburbs? Head for the hills.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz

Didn't know iatee had the president's ear.

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/page_2012_200_kurtz_square.jpg

Step two is to move the poor out of cities by imposing low-income-housing quotas on development in middle-class suburbs.

If anybody's able to locate the actual document where Obama has all of this written down, that could really shake up the election.

there is no time for your pious requests for evidence when the new world order looms in a radical socialist second term

Adam Cadre:

When I was a kid I obsessively played this game called President Elect. One of the things you could do was send your candidate on a foreign trip; if it went poorly, the game would report that your candidate went overseas "and received several rude rebuffs," adding that "Campaign officials here are shocked and disturbed at the outcome of the trip, and are scrambling to regroup in its aftermath." In light of Mitt Romney's disastrous trip to Britain, I thought it might be amusing to plug him into the game, generate that screen, and post it on Twitter. But as it turned out, the process of generating a President Elect sim of the current election was actually pretty interesting. Some observations:

While much of the initial questionnaire was obsolete (e.g., does the candidate support or oppose sanctions against South Africa?), it was interesting to discover that by 1980s standards Barack Obama rated as a moderate — not a moderate Democrat, but a moderate period — while Mitt Romney scored as "arch-capitalist, plutocratic." Note that the top marginal tax rate when the game was programmed was 69.13%. Obama is pushing for 39.6%, which by Fox News standards makes him a wild-eyed Marxist.

The game predicts an Obama landslide, with Romney able to win only Utah and maybe Oklahoma. The reasons? First of all, the economy. At the time the game was programmed, 8% unemployment seemed decent, while 2% inflation meant partying in the streets. Secondly, the game had no way to account for identity politics. It simply did not compute that a moderate from Illinois known for his communication skills, up against a gaffe-prone plutocrat from Massachusetts, might nevertheless lose white male Southerners by margins of 80% or more. For some reason.

well the game probably doesn't have an option 'black candidate'