Garcetti's got at least one "hang out with a politician who definitely doesn't have larger aspirations -- at a bar!" appointment in Iowa coming up following a speaking gig, seems suspicious
― mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
He is right in this instance, though. How does the funny candidate hypothesis explain Clinton and Gore winning the popular vote?― Frederik B, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:14 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkthe electoral lollege― Simon H., Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:18 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Frederik B, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:14 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the electoral lollege
― Simon H., Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:18 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thank you, Simon
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that was pretty good.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
Trump's "humor" is the kind of thing that gets that cruel, grunting laugh people do when they're expressing disdain or mocking someone. There's no catharsis in it, just a really insecure sense of superiority
― mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
Dole was good for an acerbic putdown or two, so he was sometimes funny, but never was Dole "personable."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
At the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an event in Washington, DC largely devoted to political humor, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole told a story about a recent event when he saw former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon standing together on the podium. Dole claimed that he told people to “Look! Hear no evil, see no evil, and evil (Nixon).”
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
maybe this is an unpopular opinion but idk trump isn't funny
he's not but he was at least funnier than Hillary "Pokemon Go to the polls" Clinton. the way he destroyed and humiliated Jeb is still hilarious. and in retrospect clearly the peak of his political career.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
when you realizing his dissing of anyone and everyone isn't outright hostility but his incredibly poor attempt at banter, it makes more sense
― mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
he's not but he was at least funnier than Hillary "Pokemon Go to the polls" Clinton
ok why are you doing this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
howard stern lives in his brain iirc
― mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Explains the rest of his post
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
ok iirc howard stern lives inside of flappy bird's brain let's not get it twisted
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
Trump not funny ever. Hillary so cringey and awkward, no wit. Biden funny like my pervy uncle. I would imagine WJ Clinton to be pretty funny--I'm sure someone can weigh in on that.
Reagan had pretty good wit, if you're into that sort of thing. Gore's always seemed forced in public.
― Milking the Soft Power Dividend (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
Al Gore never quite 'belonged' as a seminary student, but he came mighty close.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I think the candidate who has the best vision for America always wins
― had (crüt), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:19 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Got it, you think Trump had the best vision for America
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:29 PM (one hour ago)
did you seriously just post this right after saying "Gore beat Bush FYI"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Yes. Had the vote been properly counted, Gore would have "won the electoral college" as well as the popular vote.
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
Moo, I flagged your posts for blabbing incessantly about an argument we all established was "incredibly dumb"
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
But if you want to hang the response on those ties, crut can feel free to defend Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
"we all" - sorry, you don't get to decide that, but I can flag you in kind if you'd like
i thought Moo Vaughn was a reference to moveon.org in the first place
― had (crüt), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought it was a cow-based pun on the former mets first baseman
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It definitely can't be both
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
And speaking of dumb arguments - Clinton can be funny, but I don't understand the notion that funny is one of his generally recognized characteristics. Hillary reportedly can be quite funny and almost scarily broadly-informed behind the scenes.
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
speaking of unfunny pedantic nerds
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Maybe instead of writing nine long-winded paragraph, you could've just written an Animaniacs-style song about how old each president was.
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
I will never ever tire of seeing this.
― Milking the Soft Power Dividend (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i keep him on the porch now
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 March 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
lots of things are going to come into play in 2020 that will be different, i think most obvious being that I can't imagine many Dem candidates if any having the same baggage via reputation and years of whispers about fake crimes that Hillary did
― omar little, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"years of whispers" (i.e. bullshit), ok, but otherwise this is potentially naive - some anticipate that something will be trumped up against any prospective nominee, quite possibly with falsified evidence.
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 5:52 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/what-we-can-learn-about-the-ludicrous-kirsten-gill.html
See what I mean?
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 30 March 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
ah yes, paste magazine, beloved political commentary journal
― mh, Friday, 30 March 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
I didn't realize paste was doing non music until earlier this week when I read them getting slammed for not paying writers. fuck a paste.
― akm, Friday, 30 March 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
paste has been a lesser jacobin for a few years now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 30 March 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
That’s the joint where Imani Gandy took a huge personal beefshit on Walker Bragman for writing for and I couldn’t figure out which one of them was punching down
― El Tomboto, Friday, 30 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
I see. No right-wingers have started a whisper campaign about Kirsten Gillibrand (as was obviously inevitable), because one of the many responses pointing out that it was bullshit (and one of the two or three most prominent among google-pushed news search results for Gillibrand today, which also include beloved political commentary journal WaPo - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/03/29/fake-kirsten-gillibrand-flap-reveals-double-standard-in-our-politics/) was published by a source I've previously called out, got it.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 30 March 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
stfu
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, March 30, 2018 7:18 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 March 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
thanks for the update, Brad. I had no idea, I still think of it as a paper magazine that seemed to sell middling rock/indie/folk acts to white dudes in their 30s
― mh, Friday, 30 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
I still think of it as a paper magazine that seemed to sell middling rock/indie/folk acts to white dudes in their 30s
Get u a mag who can do both
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/eric-holder-2020-decision-next-year/index.html?sr=twCNN033018eric-holder-2020-decision-next-year0823PMStory
when was the last competitive mustachioed candidate
― j., Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential nominee, 1944 and 1948.
As for elected national politicians, Charles Curtis, VP from 1929-1933 and Thomas R. Marshall, VP from 1913-1921
The last fully bearded presidential nominee was Charles E. Hughes, GOP nominee in 1916.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1988/1101880411_400.jpg
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
Jesse!
https://i.imgur.com/rKyfpla.jpg
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdXSrM0m9w
― Moo Vaughn, Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
2012 was such a good GOP primary. Everybody had the lead for two weeks.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link
i remember newt being like "oh i'm going to be the no-minee" and he kept repeating that and emphasizing the first syllable of "nominee" for some reason
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
I was pumping gas last night and a guy at an adjacent pump asked me "so who ya voting for? newt?" I was kind of dumbstruck as to why anyone would ask a complete stranger who they're voting for in the GOP primaries.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, March 2, 2012 10:11 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this guy might have been Newt in a wig fwiw
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, March 2, 2012 10:12 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― had (crüt), Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
lmao
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
Is this supposed to be reassuring? She loves wealth derived from uncompensated labor? https://t.co/WdJ93Gklmk— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 17, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
she is the most left-wing senator in the country, apparently (ignore the tweeter, the data is neutral)
DW-NOMINATE scores say Elizabeth Warren is the most left-wing senator. pic.twitter.com/kZf3FoUxDp— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 17, 2018
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
i'll investigate their methodology and get back to you
(j/k)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
yeah the cory booker thing made me look twice
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
Cory Booker can eat a hill of butts. But Warren’s capitalism is hardly a surprise — she’s written three books about it.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link