2014 Election Megathread

[Syt]

So did America win last night?

Did it ever?

[Eddie Teach]

So did America win last night?

Did it ever?

London 2012, for one.

[Admiral Yi]

I think it's similar in many countries; one Britain is doing very well, the elites and the surrounding metropolitan bubble, the other Britain/s not so well.
Just asked the 2,600 Rolls-Royce engineers given marching orders yesterday.

Did you ask the one by one, or as a group?

[mongers]

If the elites are doing so well, why aren't they buying more Rolls Royces? 

Aero engines, two entirely separate companies.

[mongers]

I think it's similar in many countries; one Britain is doing very well, the elites and the surrounding metropolitan bubble, the other Britain/s not so well.
Just asked the 2,600 Rolls-Royce engineers given marching orders yesterday.

Did you ask the one by one, or as a group?

You must find your literalism a bit of a handicap going through life.

[CountDeMoney]

You must find your literalism a bit of a handicap going through life.

Yi doesn't see layoffs as human beings.  They don't fit into the spreadsheet boxes, what with having limbs and children and all.

[Eddie Teach]

Funny how Mongers using the wrong verb form turns into another opportunity to accuse Yi of being Gordon Gekko. 

[Admiral Yi]

Seedy doesn't syntax as an English.

[MadImmortalMan]

There is now a gay Republican in Congress. 

[Eddie Teach]

There is now a gay Republican in Congress. 

Remember the foot tapping incident.

[CountDeMoney]

There is now a gay Republican in Congress. 

And now there's a(nother) Republican who hates gays in Congress.  And all sorts of other things.   

It's official: in January, Jody Hice will be sworn in as the next Congressman from Georgia's 10th District. This is a man who has called Islam, the second-largest religion in the world, "a totalitarian way of life with a religious component" that "does not deserve First Amendment protection." In his book he calls legal abortion "worse than Hitler's six million Jews or Mussolini's three hundred thousand," adding that "the genocide in America is inexcusable!" In 2004, he told the Athens Banner-Herald that he doesn't "see a problem" with women running for office "if the woman's within the authority of her husband." On his radio show he blamed Sandy Hook and other school shootings on "kicking God out of the schools, and... kicking God out of the public square." He once misquoted a satirical essay by a gay writer as evidence that homosexuals preying on children was  "part of the 'gay manifesto'" and part of the "radical agenda that is currently threatening our nation."

As Matthew Pulver of the Flagpole writes, Jody Hice believes a lot of things that make him sound insane. Last night, he won a seat in Congress.

[Berkut]

Why didn't we just let the South secede?

[MadImmortalMan]

There is now a gay Republican in Congress. 

Remember the foot tapping incident.

Oh, I'm sure there are several foot tappers who haven't been outed yet. 

You usually don't see a guy running in the GOP as a gay man though.

[CountDeMoney]

Why didn't we just let the South secede?

But wait, there's more!

Then there is Mr. Hice. Having once called evolution a lie from "the pit of hell," Mr. Broun, the departing representative from Georgia, would be hard to beat on the inflammatory front. But Mr. Hice has a record. He once said of women in politics, "If the woman's within the authority of her husband, I don't see a problem. "

He compared the recent appearance of red "blood moons" to prophecies that preceded the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Israeli statehood and the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. In a satirical book, he claimed he had found a homosexual agenda to "sodomize your sons" by seducing them "in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/us/politics/midterm-elections-house-republicans.html?_r=0

I put him as the odds-on favorite to be the next Congressman to be caught with a dick in his mouth.

[Caliga]

Why didn't we just let the South secede?