Election 2016

[Brantly B.]

A normal person would have fired Cohen on the spot. An insane person would agree with him. With Trump, I can't even tell if he's feeding his lawyer all this sensationalist nonsense, or what.

[Romosome]

Was it Sun Tsu that said something like "The only strategy with no counter is the absence of strategy"?

[Kazz]

Trump/Sandler 2016

"Because entropy demands it."

[Friday]

Kazz we can bend our society/civilization toward justice/order so long as suns and shit elsewhere in the universe explode

[Kazz]

p-promise??

[Brantly B.]

Better start blowing up suns.

[Mongrel]

Romo's current avatar already clearly depicts a sun exploding, you guys.

[Mazian]

And now we have our 17th wannabe GOP candidate, former Virginia governor James Gilmore.

This isn't really news in any meaningful sense, since his chances of getting anywhere are somewhere well below Pataki's. But I did enjoy the implicit snark in these adjacent paragraphs in the brief NYT article mentioning it:

“I don’t think we’re addressing the threat to the country,” Mr. Gilmore told the newspaper. “I bring to the table experience that others don’t have.”

Mr. Gilmore was governor from 1998 to 2002. He also ran for president in 2007 before dropping out of the race amid a lack of fund-raising. The following year, Mr. Gilmore ran unsuccessfully in Virginia for an open Senate seat.

All that experience!

[Thad]

Well, if your bar is Donald Trump...

[zaratustra]

Ted Cruz's favorite superheroes: yeah, yeah, yeah... RORSHACH?

http://www.themarysue.com/ted-cruz-list ... wait-what/

well of course rorshach was designed to be the ultimate republican superhero but dude

[Classic]

He's ugly as sin though. Aren't Republicans supposed to at least be pretty?

[Bal]

Rorshach is an Objectivist.

[Kazz]

oh yeah well Bernie Sanders is batman also superman

[Friday]

Well I mean, one of my favorite superheroes is good ole Dogs get put down. Not because I agree with him or admire him or think he's "super cool badass man who punch bad guys" but because I like him as a character.

I mean, if someone asked you who your favorite supervillain was and you said "The Joker" I don't think you're supposed to think it's because you agree with his philosophy?

So, I guess Ted Cruz read Watchmen and didn’t understand that you’re not actually supposed to like anybody in it? This is like saying your favorite economist is Jonathan Swift. I mean, come on, Rorschach is a notorious jerk-hole:

yeah no, the person who wrote this is a fucking idiot. I can like every single fucking character in Watchmen and it doesn't mean anything other than I think they're well written.

[Friday]

1. Spider-Man

Odd choice from Cruz, given the common interpretation of Spidey as a 99-percenter who grew up in Queens and currently works a probably-underpaid contract photography gig at a local newspaper, and whose powers came not from hard work but from luck and happenstance. What exactly does Cruz like about Spider-Man? It can’t be the politics.

Ok, remember the Chipotle story about Hillary? How we made fun of the repubs for that insane shit?

This is our version of the Chipotle story.

[Mongrel]

Man, I wanna know what he would think if Jonathan Swift was my favourite economist.

I mean, I don't think I personally have a "favourite economist" (lol), but if I did, he's totally a legit choice you could make.



(Well okay, maybe it's a little trolly. But still legit.)

[Thad]

1. Spider-Man

Odd choice from Cruz, given the common interpretation of Spidey as a 99-percenter who grew up in Queens and currently works a probably-underpaid contract photography gig at a local newspaper, and whose powers came not from hard work but from luck and happenstance. What exactly does Cruz like about Spider-Man? It can’t be the politics.

Ok, remember the Chipotle story about Hillary? How we made fun of the repubs for that insane shit?

This is our version of the Chipotle story.

Never mind that the co-creator of Spider-Man was the guy every character in Watchmen is based on.

[pacobird]

Curiously absent from Cruz's list: comic book heroes that are actually heroic (Cap, Superman, Daredevil, or maybe my personal favorite: Nightcrawler)

[Blossom]

Agreed. The biggest worry about Cruz naming Rorschach as one of his top five superheroes is this means he thinks Rorschach is somehow a hero.

[François]

They dig him because he's the poster child for refusing to compromise. He's the moral certitude where thought ends or never begins. He's the zealot's zealot. Close-mindedness is a virtue to them, and greater good is anathema. That they would see him as a role model is not unexpected.