Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

The Randy Riverbeast · 25-08-2015 4:47pm

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

If either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump become president, the next Mad Max will not be a film but reality! Mad Ted and Mad Donald more than Max in fact! Cruz and Trump seem to be mentally unstable and the world already has had enough deranged individuals in charge of governments and religions already. But a deranged individual in charge of a superpower would be a whole different matter.

I mentioned this in another thread, any time I am reminded of Trump all I can think about is the episode of The Simpsons when Homer becomes in charge of waste collection by making loads of stupid promises and then everything goes to ****.

PopePalpatine · 25-08-2015 5:09pm

The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »

I mentioned this in another thread, any time I am reminded of Trump all I can think about is the episode of The Simpsons when Homer becomes in charge of waste collection by making loads of stupid promises and then everything goes to ****.

At least Homer had a better environmental policy than Trump. :pac:

oscarBravo · 25-08-2015 11:10pm

I feel obliged to mention Greg Stillson's campaign promise to clean up pollution by gathering it all up in Hefty bags and launching it into space.

BlaasForRafa · 26-08-2015 4:16am

PopePalpatine wrote: »

At least Homer had a better environmental policy than Trump. :pac:

And better hair.

robindch · 28-08-2015 11:49pm

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have plans for later on?

If so, cancel them, for Sarah Palin will be interviewing Donald Trump:

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10153596970878588

Sarah Palin's Facebyuke Payge wrote:

WTH, LAMESTREAM MEDIA! STAY OUT OF MY BIBLE

WTH? Lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual "gotchas" that they'd NEVER ask Hillary, or they'd feed the question to her and/or liberal cohorts before they asked it on-air (we know how these things work, lapdog media... the public's on to you), so good on Trump for screwing with the reporter. By the way, even with my reading scripture everyday I wouldn't want to answer the guy's question either... it's none of his business; it IS personal; what the heck does it have to do with serving as commander-in-chief; and these reporters trying to trip up conservatives can go pound sand until they ask the same things of their favored liberal pals. I'll cover this in my interview with Donald Trump and other candidates tonight on the One America News Network show "On Point." The more the media does this, the more they empower America to reject them and their bias as voters run to the anti-status quo candidates daring to Go Rogue.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frenchrevolution/2015/08/27/dear-media-donald-trump-does-not-care-about-your-bible-gotcha-questions/

MrPudding · 29-08-2015 8:36am

robindch wrote: »

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have plans for later on?

If so, cancel them, for Sarah Palin will be interviewing Donald Trump:

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10153596970878588

Ok, so it [religion] is personal when she wants it to be, or when nasty people are asking difficult questions, but it is not personal when she is pandering to the religious voting block or trying to impose her religiously derived system of 'morality' on everyone, including those that don't share her particular religious viewpoint. Got it.

MrP

robindch · 29-08-2015 9:31am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P5PmtIVWMM

Mr. CooL ICE · 29-08-2015 1:04pm

Hotblack Desiato · 29-08-2015 8:53pm

"Is that you? Dad??"

BlaasForRafa · 01-09-2015 1:08am

Trump is probably one of the major causal factors for the depletion of the ozone layer because only the industrial application of hairspray could make that ridiculous comb-forward stay in place.

Without the hairspray his hairstyle would be more like that of Bill Bailey

robindch · 02-09-2015 9:54am

The New Yorker spends a day inside Glenn Beck’s America - it's a dark, lonely place.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-day-inside-glenn-becks-america

Custardpi · 02-09-2015 3:29pm

robindch wrote: »

The New Yorker spends a day inside Glenn Beck’s America - it's a dark, lonely place.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-day-inside-glenn-becks-america

If Beck raises ten million dollars by Christmas, he says, he will rescue four hundred families—a number pulled from the “four hundred years of silence” that separate the Old Testament and the New—from ISIS, by bringing them to the United States, or, failing State Department approval, to Mexico, in which case he will personally march them across the border into the United States (“a new Selma”).

I don't agree with Beck's politics, nor his bible thumping. I especially dislike his constant godwinning of the various debates on which he has loudly weighed in. However, if he is sincere in the above & if he manages to achieve even a fraction of it & is able to alleviate in some way the plight of those currently suffering because of ISIS then he will deserve some credit. He certainly strikes me as being a more decent & humanitarian person than some others in the American conservative camp such as Donald Trump, although admittedly that's setting the bar pretty low.

legspin · 03-09-2015 2:43pm

Post 1000! It's only taken me almost 11 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQWqc87Yuk

Not Presidential nuttiness but same DNA.

All you can say is "What a Cock"!

endacl · 04-09-2015 2:45am

1000 posts? Is that even still a thing?

:pac:

oscarBravo · 04-09-2015 9:37am

robindch · 07-09-2015 4:57pm

Everybody's favorite soccer mom announces that immigrants should "speak American":

TheJournal wrote:

On the other hand, you know, I think we can send a message and say: ‘You want to be in America? A: You better be here legally, or you’re out of here. B: When you’re here, let’s speak American.’

http://www.thejournal.ie/sarah-palin-immigrants-speak-american-2316420-Sep2015/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1aS2tSU5Us

08-09-2015 9:26am

Is Palin a Poe? What a long game if so.

robindch · 09-09-2015 11:59am

A little late in with this one, but last year, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Republican from Texas, reminds everybody that "God wrote the Constitution":

http://www.rawstory.com/2014/02/tom-delay-people-keep-forgetting-that-god-wrote-the-constitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxFp0TRgN7w

robindch · 11-09-2015 12:56am

robindch wrote: »

Then, there was Todd Courser who invented a gay affair in order to cover up for a hetero affair. Mr Courser is member of the Tea Party.

Follow-up - well, yes, it seems that there are just some things that a Tea Partier just shouldn't do:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34211837

Nodin · 11-09-2015 12:18pm

robindch wrote: »

Follow-up - well, yes, it seems that there are just some things that a Tea Partier just shouldn't do:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34211837

That's just odd, tbh.

oscarBravo · 16-09-2015 10:00am

Jon Rosenberg's coverage continues:

You really need to be a regular reader to understand why his debate opponent is a deer in a business suit with a dead owl in tow, but given the current state of the Republican race, I'd say he's in with a decent shot.

Custardpi · 16-09-2015 10:19am

Trump has completely wrongfooted the Washington commentariot. Every time he says something outrageous they predict the demise of his campaign yet he keeps on going. Conventional wisdom about what a candidate should & shouldn't do is being turned on its head. In other news Sanders is catching up on Clinton in Democratic polls & has actually gone ahead of her in a couple of state polls. Could we see Trump vs Sanders in the end? That would be an interesting (if potentially mental) debate to watch.

joseph brand · 19-09-2015 2:26am

Rick Perry has left the race and it has something to do with 'god'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSX71a7zNoc

Nodin · 21-09-2015 7:00pm

"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Brain surgeons, long burdened with the onerous reputation of being among the smartest people in the world, are expressing relief that the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson is shattering that stereotype once and for all.
In interviews with brain surgeons across the country, the doctors revealed the enormous pressure they felt to live up to their profession’s inflated renown for intelligence before Carson entered the race."
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-shattering-stereotype-about-brain-surgeons-being-smart?mbid=social_facebook

robindch · 22-09-2015 12:17am

And then there were fifteen.

Rick Perry - http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rick-perry-end-2016-bid-n426106

Rick Perry, channelling Jesus wrote:

When I gave my life to Christ, I said, 'Your ways are greater than my ways. Your will is superior to mine.' Today I submit to you His will remains a mystery, but some things have become, and become very clear to me. That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.

Scott Walker- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34317758

Scott Walker, channelling god wrote:

Today I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field

Bets on who's next?

Pherekydes · 22-09-2015 12:42am

robindch wrote: »

Bets on who's next?

The idiot?

robindch · 22-09-2015 12:45am

Pherekydes wrote: »

The idiot?

Which one?

Pherekydes · 22-09-2015 12:57am

Hang on, I'm trying to narrow it down...

Absolam · 22-09-2015 1:02am

Well... which one isn't?

Nodin · 22-09-2015 10:38am

Friend of Jesus Rick Perry wrote:

When I gave my life to Christ, I said, 'Your ways are greater than my ways.
Your will is superior to mine.' Today I submit to you His will remains a
mystery, but some things have become, and become very clear to me. That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.

For some reason the Universal Translator reads that as "She has a copy of the video".....

robindch · 25-09-2015 10:19pm

Boehner's pulling out.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34355043

BBC wrote:

The man John Boehner once called a "jackass" took the stage at the Values Voter Summit just about an hour after news that the House speaker was resigning from office. Although Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz may have been inclined to dance on the speaker's political grave, he made reference to the surprising news only in passing.

"You want to know how much each of you terrify Washington?" Mr Cruz asked the audience of grassroots evangelical conservative at this annual conference. "Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House. Y'all come to town and somehow that changes. My only request," he quipped, "is, can you come more often?"

Mr Cruz has clashed repeatedly with his party's congressional leadership over the past several years, as he's advocated a more confrontational approach to negotiations with Democrats over budget matters, healthcare reform and, most recently, terminating funding for Planned Parenthood. After his speech today, Mr Cruz expressed concern that Mr Boehner may be ending his tenure with one more effort at negotiation with Democrats.

"If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal - and then, presumably, to land in a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behaviour one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House," he said.

Two years ago the Texas senator broke with congressional tradition and angered his party's leadership when he led members of the House of Representatives in a backbench revolt that shut down the federal government over Obamacare funding. When asked about Mr Cruz's presidential candidacy, Mr Boehner replied with an obscene gesture.

"If you're looking for someone to go to Washington to go along to get along - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists of special interests, then I ain't your guy," Mr Cruz said during the first Republican presidential debate in August. Now Boehner is gone, and it seems Mr Cruz's brand of high-stakes brinkmanship is gaining favour in the US capital. While the senator himself didn't take credit for the change, Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine - who introduced Cruz at the Washington event - wasn't so demur.

"We're going to get new leadership in the House of Representative," he said. "It's happening because there's a newly elected senator that showed up and started articulating principles that were consistent with the Republican platform." He added that the Boehner-led establishment fought the Texas senator for his perceived transgressions. It seems, however, that there's going to be a new sheriff in town.

robindch · 28-09-2015 2:37pm

A Jerry Brown of California (D-CA) pwns a Dr Carson (Republican Presidential Fruitcake):

https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/642097377898135552

Nodin · 28-09-2015 3:11pm

robindch wrote: »

Boehner's pulling out.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34355043

....as a good catholic, tis his duty

robindch · 28-09-2015 7:56pm

The Beeb takes a religious look at the Republican lineup. Has a nice scorecard at the end of the page for use from now until the RNC next year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34365974

robindch · 01-10-2015 11:05pm

Judson "Jud" McMillin, a prominent member of the Indiana House of Representatives has resigned in disgrace after a video of him emerged in which he was engaged in practices generlly understood to be incompatible with his status as a married man. Right up to the point of his resignation anyway, Mr McMillin was a well-known "family values" campaigner.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/30/indiana-rep-jud-mcmillin-resigns-after-sex-video-emerges/73070300/
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/29/state-rep-jud-mcmillin-resigns/73040942/

In hsi resignation note, he said that he had "decided the time is right for me to pass the torch and spend more time with my family".

Mr McMillin, it hardly needs to be said, is a member of the Republican party.

joseph brand · 03-10-2015 11:47am

Slightly off topic, but I feel that there's always room to squeeze in some of the GOP's Lord and Saviour (Ronald Reagan).

Nancy Does Crack.

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

Taken from here:

In 1988, teacher and filmmaker Cliff Roth got his hands on the famous “Just Say No” anti-drugs speech by the Reagans, dating back to September 1986, courtesy of a student who worked at ABC News. He then spent almost two years painstakingly matching the film up to an audio reel that his students had created.

This short 16mm film was originally released on VHS in 1988, just before the presidential election, and in the early 1990s it was screened on cable-TV and at many festivals in the U.S. and around the world.

robindch · 05-10-2015 8:57pm

And then there was the US Senate candidate who admitted that he sacrificed a goat and drank its blood.

Mr Augustus Sol Invictus is running for the Libertarian Party.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34450057

robindch · 05-10-2015 8:59pm

And The Donald was prayed at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ18exdhR6I

BlaasForRafa · 06-10-2015 2:05am

robindch wrote: »

And The Donald was prayed at.

And lo his wig rose from the dead and laid waste to all who beheld it's lacquered gaze

pauldla · 08-10-2015 9:01am

Saw on Lamebook: 'Donald Trump looks like the villain in a movie where the hero is a dog'.

BlaasForRafa · 09-10-2015 9:25pm

Just in case anyone thought that the Donald was the only insane candidate Ben Carson suggested that gun control was partly to blame for the holocaust.

Hotblack Desiato · 09-10-2015 10:47pm

Which Republicans are not insane?

Custardpi · 09-10-2015 10:55pm

robindch wrote: »

And then there was the US Senate candidate who admitted that he sacrificed a goat and drank its blood.

Mr Augustus Sol Invictus is running for the Libertarian Party.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34450057

I hate to engage in whataboutery but don't understand why the guy is getting so much crap over this (especially considering his other far more scary right wing ideas - look it up!). Is it really that much worse than what devout Catholics believe happens during the Eucharist? So long as the goat was killed humanely I'd have no major issues with it, despite the nuttiness of the beliefs surrounding the act.

Hotblack Desiato · 09-10-2015 11:34pm

They 'believe' it happens, but at the same time they know it's not real...

Custardpi · 09-10-2015 11:39pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

They 'believe' it happens, but at the same time they know it's not real...

Have you patented the mind-reading technology you've invented? Could be worth a few bob. Alternatively have you ever considered the possibility that despite us being in 2015 a lot of people, including Catholics do genuinely believe in pretty far out stuff? Sure some people play along with it just for a nice excuse to wear a snazzy hat on Sundays but not all of them.

Hotblack Desiato · 09-10-2015 11:58pm

If they really do believe in the demonstrably false and physically impossible, they're either more credulous or more stupid than I'm willing to give them credit for.

I am going for the more plausible explanation, but if you can demonstrate a less plausible one be my guest

Custardpi · 10-10-2015 12:28am

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

If they really do believe in the demonstrably false and physically impossible, they're either more credulous or more stupid than I'm willing to give them credit for.

I am going for the more plausible explanation, but if you can demonstrate a less plausible one be my guest

If you're using plausibility as your yardstick then you really don't understand the draw of religion for many people. Sadly it is quite plausible that millions of people subscribe to irrational beliefs, which they have managed to convince themselves are plausible too. It may be comforting to believe that everyone in the world secretly shares your framework of understanding & simply goes along with older beliefs out of a sense of social decorum, community cohesion or whatever but such pressures can only go so far. In some Catholic communities for instance people nail (yes actual nails!) themselves to crosses to commemorate Good Friday. At another extreme people have been convinced that strapping explosives to themselves will instantly give them access to 72 virgins. Such acts go beyond what mere playing along would accomplish. The reality is that the human mind has the capacity to convince itself of all manner of irrational nonsense & we dismiss/ignore this capability at our peril.

robindch · 14-10-2015 10:46am

From an analysis of Facebook postings, it seems that Trump's supporters, and Republican supporters in general, are significantly less able to write English than Democrat supporters:

http://distractify.com/news/2015/10/07/deborahgross-please-proofread-before-you-post-1393020901

Custardpi · 14-10-2015 5:12pm

To be fair, Ben Carson (currently doing quite well in polls) isn't too far behind the Democrat field, while Carly Fiorina's (who many commentators reckoned was one of the best performers in the Fox Republican televised debate) supporters are on a par with the frontrunner Hillary. Also interesting to see how much better educated (in a narrow sense admittedly) Bernie's followers are than her's.

Nodin · 14-10-2015 5:40pm

Can't say I relish the idea of Hillary as Prez. Liberal on social policy but there's a certain glint in her eye I don't like the look of, nor do I like her tone on US foreign policy.

Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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