Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

i suppose Frum has to rationalize his inevitable endorsement of this clown somehow, but this little imaginary puppet show of his is some real rmde bullshit

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/opinion/frum-real-vision-obama-romney/index.html?hpt=op_t1

the president's call for higher taxes on the rich will only stifle and slow consumer progress

surely he realizes that taxes have been significantly higher (and regulations in many regards stricter) than they are now, right? even back when America was so hella awesome 94/7?

(for white men, obv)

Akin and Gingrich will host a joint press conference today at 12:30 PM.

their platform: no abortions on the moon

^^^ HA!!! A+

even back when America was so hella awesome 94/7?

I first read this as a hyperbolic version of 24/7.

That is correct.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/24/obama-aide-bumps-comment-concerned-mideast-unrest/70001016/1

dissecting Obama's 60 Minutes responses. This above one plus reading in a criticism of Israel with his reference to blocking out "noise" concerning how to deal with Iran.

Man, Paul Ryan is the gift that keeps on giving. This'll turn the polls around!

"Today, if we want to send an astronaut to the space station, we have to pay the Russians to take him there," Ryan said to boos from the crowd. "China may someday be looking down on us from the Moon. That's unacceptable. Mitt Romney and I believe that America must lead in space. Mitt Romney and I believe we need a mission for NASA, a mission for a space program, and we also believe that this is an integral part of our national security."

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/#ixzz27Q5ycY1z

China may someday be looking down on us from the Moon. That's unacceptable.

testify!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/China_moon.jpg/220px-China_moon.jpg

cut the budget and put a guard on the moon!

I am all for an aggressive non-militarized US space program.

come on what good is agression w/o weapons

Fuck those Lunarians. I say we nuke'em

can we please have an ad with chinese on the moon laughing at us

maybe they're taking down old glory!

that would be so funny

if i were china i would go to the moon just to steal the flag, then id put it in a museum

'a flag we found... on the moon'

Is Ryan going to get booed everywhere he goes?

'a flag we found... on the moon'

"nobody knows who put it there... or what it means"

I meant aggressive in the sense of just, y'know, having one that's like well-funded, with goals and science and shit

and nukes tho too right

they've got goals and science a-plenty despite the lack of fundedness. Didn't you hear about the new mars robot? there was a sky crane! xp

Neil deGrasse Tyson said recently that without any kind of militarized element or a space race foe, it will take well over ten years to develop the technology to get humans to Mars. However, if Russia said they were ready to go, we'd be launching a manned flight in a year.

WHERE IS MY SPACE ELEVATOR

the surface of the moon. ominous breathing and distant radio communication in chinese on soundtrack. camera slowly moves forward pov-style as american flag slowly comes into focus. hands reach into frame, grab flag and uproot it from soil.

"Target removed."

"Proceed."

hands place chinese flag in the dirt, as internationale begins to rise on soundtrack.

"Mission accomplished."

camera slowly turns around to reveal chinese soldier smirking in space suit.

"Thank you, President Obama."

Camera zooms out dramatically to reveal Chinese space station as music reaches terrifying crescendo. Cut to shot of Mitt Romney looking at clouds.

Narrator: "He sees it coming. Obama doesn't."

haha

Hey I got video of that Ryan speech:

http://puppsfreestuff.com/files/DspicableMeGruMoon12fLG.gif

'a flag we found... on the moon'

"nobody knows who put it there... or what it means"

Hahah.

If the Russians said they were ready to send a manned mission to Mars, I'm not sure the USA would shift into panic overdrive to get humans there first. If they sent up some kick ass space-based weapons into earth orbit, the USA would def go into panic overdrive.

"nobody knows who put it there... or what it means"

I was jst reading the other day that if the flag's still up there, it likely bleached completely white.

George Hamilton should do a PSA for Romney, co-starring Zonker Harris.

i'm all for another space race to the moon, this time with china. we can even use all the same old speeches and vehicle names and everything!

My health care's up,
my paycheck down,
Now that China's On The Moon.

The MacBook fried
My iPod died
Now that China's On The Moon

Flew to Orlando
Some man busted a window
Now that China's On The Moon

Hmmmm
Maybe I should just outsource my job…

To China On The Moon.

if Russia announced a plan to put a man on Mars the entire rest of the world would be michaeljacksonpopcorn.gif

without any kind of militarized element or a space race foe, it will take well over ten years to develop the technology to get humans to Mars.

There's a JFK tape out where he tells the head of NASA "I don't care about space," just beating the Russians.

mitt romney as lucille bluth

http://lucilleandmitt.tumblr.com/

The perfect Republican candidate:

http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/223524.jpg

Charles Pierce on Sully's slash fic:

Oh, Christ, no, there isn't. There wasn't in 2006, or in 2008. Hell, in 1998, the country overwhelmingly told Republicans in the House through the election returns to knock off the impeachment kabuki. They impeached Clinton in the lame-duck session. If the Republican Party were capable of the logical thought you are relying on here, Richard Mourdock wouldn't be a candidate for the Senate and Jim DeMint wouldn't be a power there. The president "they cannot beat again" is also a president they never saw as legitimate — and you know why as well as I do — and who, once re-elected, has a career termination clock ticking almost immediately. The president they cannot defeat again is also the one they can safely ignore.

I really admire your loyalty, Andrew. You took a big gamble among your peers climbing aboard the Obama train in 2008. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is more insane than it was four years ago, and it is possessed of so many centers of independent power that even a historic electoral thrashing would be little more than a speed bump. And, oh, not for nothing, but Reagan really was a pretty terrible president, all things considered. He implanted in our politics crackpot economics from which the Republicans cannot free themselves, and which directly led to the Bush deficits and the pillaging of the national wealth in 2008. He began the endless process by which every Republican president runs up deficits that subsequent Democratic presidents have to spend most of their time in office fixing. If Reagan's lasting legacy is a universe of acceptable policy options that runs from Jim DeMint on the right to Barack Obama on the left, and if it is accepted as axiomatic that "the far left" — Jimmy Carter? Andrew, please — was something from which the Democratic Party needed to be disenthralled by Ronald Reagan, then our range of solutions to the country's many real problems is almost hopelessly inadequate, and Reagan did even more damage than even I thought he did.

[Reagan] began the endless process by which every Republican president runs up deficits that subsequent Democratic presidents have to spend most of their time in office fixing.

if i believe in any conspiracy theory, it's this one. this is the grand plan.

why does Sullivan have a job

he has the ability to apprehend real issues then be wrong about half of them?

he has the ability to make one hundred blog posts every day

I miss the palin conspiracy era, that was fun

i'm more of a morbsian "they're all in thrall of corporations who pull more strings than you can imagine" guy myself, but yeah that feels right

if i believe in any conspiracy theory, it's this one. this is the grand plan.

― goole, Monday, September 24, 2012

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