the trillest of the trill

Ha, yes.

The best part is local police immediately refuted the story, saying they had no such records of that Popeyes being robbed, which means he MADE UP A STORY WHERE HE WAS AN OPPORTUNISTIC COWARD

Maybe he's an alien. He gives me "Dick from Third Rock from the Sun" vibes.

Democrats who hope for a gibbering moron opponent are fucking stupid. We already went that route in 2000, and we got Dubya as president for 8 years.

Count me as one of those people praying for a comedy candidate.

The fact that Trump, Carson, or Fiorina will never, ever, ever be President has nothing to do with trust or undying faith in the greatness of democracy. It's basic electoral math. The GOP's base has shrank to virtually nothing but angry old white people that hate the party itself as much as they hate the Democrats. It's a self-loathing, self-destructive ball of unsustainable rage that can barely hold itself together--just look at the fiasco following Boehner's resignation and McCarthy withdrawing his name.

That's not a winning coalition. Angry old white people are nowhere near a sufficient voting bloc to singlehandedly win an election, especially when they lack motivation to vote due to sheer distrust of their own party. Romney got his ass handed to him for gaffes that, compared to Trump or Carson, were positively mild.


Do you really think a man who said he'd deport 11 million immigrants is going to win? Or a dude who calls everything the Holocaust and fabricates stories about turning gunmen on cashiers? Or a former CEO that makes Romney look like Che Guevara? The only real threat is Rubio and Hillary's own incompetence.

I know "Everyone is stupid but me" is a very popular opinion on the Internet, but most voters are more informed and poltically engaged than you think .Dumb rednecks may be a powerful voting bloc in the primaries, but they don't carry you to the White House.

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" most voters are more informed and poltically engaged than you think"

No. Just no. We live in a country where Dubya won the presidency not once, but twice. There's ample proof demonstrating that most votes are exactly as informed and politically engaged as I think.

Bush lost the first election and only won the second due to John Kerry being a virtually nonexistant candidate. Besides, in 2004 much of the country was swept up in a narionalistic fervor that was easy to exploit. Hell, at the time, even intellectuals like Sullivan and Hitchens were cheerleading the Iraq war.

Honestly, the whole "everyone but me is ignorant" angle is a shallow, intellectually lazy argument. If I talked to any number of Republicans, I promise they'd say the same about you. Politics is so, so much more complicated than "manipulate rednecks."

A couple things:

1) You're kind of right about Bush's first election, except that he didn't "lose" that election... we have no idea if he won or lost, thanks to the Supreme Court's decision. But point taken.

2) Kerry was a perfectly fine candidate. He got his messaging out there, he made his policies known, he campaigned hard. I didn't care for the dude, but he was an OK candidate. The blame for that election lies squarely at the feet of the American people.

3) I don't follow the "everyone but me" is ignorant angle. But it is a fact that the right wing consists disproportionately of "low-information voters". That's born out by study after study. Add to the low-information voters the selfish, self-interested voters and those who have radical different moral values from me, and voila! You have the right wing of this country.

It's not intellectually lazy to state that roughly half of this country is shit. It's just a reflection of what we've been seeing.

Wow did those turn out to be terrible predications.

And yes, the voting public turned out to be dumb as shit.

I can't believe it. A Holy Grail reference that was actually fresh, unexpected, and funny? Stop the presses!