2016 elections - because it's never too early

[The Brain]

Doesn't matter. Rubio and Cruz aren't brothers of Bill Clinton either - Game of Thrones is about four powerful families, so you sorta have to ignore that if you want to make a good analogy.

[celedhring]

Languish hot topics of the day: muscular actors and GoT election analogies.

[Martinus]

Ok, this must be the weirdest line of this campaign yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KijuDhqaLs

[celedhring]

Ok, this must be the weirdest line of this campaign yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KijuDhqaLs

Does this mean he regularly copulates with rats? 

[Martinus]

Ok, this must be the weirdest line of this campaign yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KijuDhqaLs

Does this mean he regularly copulates with rats? 

Precisely. Also the fact that he prefaces this wtf statement with "let me be clear" is hilarious.

[celedhring]

I really must know the context of that. Either Cruz doesn't know the actual meaning of the word "copulate" or it's one of the most hilarious Freudian slips ever.

Or he really likes rodents.

[Malicious Intent]

Seems that "ratfucker" is actually a term in US politics. 

"Ratfucking" was a term used by Richard Nixon's campaign insiders to describe electoral fraud and dirty tricks they used against their opponents. The term was coined by political operative Don Segretti, who claimed it had come from his college days when he stuffed ballot boxes for student government candidates. Segretti was hired by the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) to work his ratfucking magic for Nixon in the 1972 elections and funded by laundered money coming in through CREEP slush funds. Segretti and a number of other ratfuckers worked from CREEP to destroy the campaigns of Democratic opponents. Their methods included distributing faked letter and press releases, astroturfing "activists" and "protestors," disrupting political conferences using the old "order a hundred pizzas in someone else's name" trick, vote contracting (literally paying people for votes), espionage tactics, and general dickery. One of the ratfuckers happened to be Karl Rove, who was the head of the College Republicans at the time (they teach 'em early).

The most infamous incident related to the ratfucking techniques, besides the Watergate break-in itself, was the release of the "Muskie letters." CREEP members had gotten hold of Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead and started "leaking" letters ostensibly addressed to other Democrats insulting various other Congressmen. One of the Muskie letters, called the "Canuck letter," implied that Muskie was bigoted toward Americans of French-Canadian descent (Muskie was from Maine). This FUD campaign reached its heights right in the middle of the 1972 primaries and Muskie's campaign imploded after his speech denying his authorship of the letters. The Muskie letters were ultimately the starting point that led Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to begin to unravel the Nixon campaign's ratfucking methods and uncover the Watergate break-in.

[Eddie Teach]

The jury is out on Trump / Tyrion connection, as Tyrion is obviously the beloved character on the show and people will not see eye to eye on him being Trump, as Trump is highly polarising.

Doesn't help that the guy who wrote it got basic things wrong, like claiming Tyrion and Cersei had once been close.

[Martinus]

Seems that "ratfucker" is actually a term in US politics. 

"Ratfucking" was a term used by Richard Nixon's campaign insiders to describe electoral fraud and dirty tricks they used against their opponents. The term was coined by political operative Don Segretti, who claimed it had come from his college days when he stuffed ballot boxes for student government candidates. Segretti was hired by the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) to work his ratfucking magic for Nixon in the 1972 elections and funded by laundered money coming in through CREEP slush funds. Segretti and a number of other ratfuckers worked from CREEP to destroy the campaigns of Democratic opponents. Their methods included distributing faked letter and press releases, astroturfing "activists" and "protestors," disrupting political conferences using the old "order a hundred pizzas in someone else's name" trick, vote contracting (literally paying people for votes), espionage tactics, and general dickery. One of the ratfuckers happened to be Karl Rove, who was the head of the College Republicans at the time (they teach 'em early).

The most infamous incident related to the ratfucking techniques, besides the Watergate break-in itself, was the release of the "Muskie letters." CREEP members had gotten hold of Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead and started "leaking" letters ostensibly addressed to other Democrats insulting various other Congressmen. One of the Muskie letters, called the "Canuck letter," implied that Muskie was bigoted toward Americans of French-Canadian descent (Muskie was from Maine). This FUD campaign reached its heights right in the middle of the 1972 primaries and Muskie's campaign imploded after his speech denying his authorship of the letters. The Muskie letters were ultimately the starting point that led Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to begin to unravel the Nixon campaign's ratfucking methods and uncover the Watergate break-in.

Yeah, possibly but then you either use the term straight or don't touch it - because "mixed metaphors" in such cases can be lethal.

[Fireblade]

Ok, this must be the weirdest line of this campaign yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KijuDhqaLs

#RATLIVESMATTER

[celedhring]

Seems that "ratfucker" is actually a term in US politics. 

Ah, that would make sense. Cruz's campaign has been accused of playing dirty

[Martinus]

Booking odds for the April Republican primaries:

[Grinning_Colossus]

Damn. With all this noise about Wisconsin, I forgot that Trump is set to clean up in the others.

[Tonitrus]

Trump is getting pummeled so hard from the press, from every angle, that for me, it is almost hard to not be sympathetic for him.

There is even a very condescending, absurd New York Times article that essentially likens his supporters to the main character from American Psycho.

The final line being:

Alive today, Bateman would also probably stand at the back of a Trump rally and — if he could find a designer version — pull on a red cap that reads: "Make America Great Again."

More of the over-the-top media onslaught against Trump...   

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/22/i-cthulhu-endorse-donald-trump/

And we don't win anymore. Specifically, Cthulhu doesn't win anymore. Eldritch creatures capable of reducing the whole world to insensate horror no longer run rampant from continent to continent. It's sad. We Elder Gods don't win. We are asleep on the job, literally.

[Savonarola]

Trump is getting pummeled so hard from the press, from every angle, that for me, it is almost hard to not be sympathetic for him.

There is even a very condescending, absurd New York Times article that essentially likens his supporters to the main character from American Psycho.

The final line being:

Alive today, Bateman would also probably stand at the back of a Trump rally and — if he could find a designer version — pull on a red cap that reads: "Make America Great Again."

While the media obviously holds Trump supporters in contempt; there's absolutely no reason to liken them to Huey Lewis and the News fans.  That's a line you simply shouldn't cross.   

Even though Trump is Patrick Bateman's idol in the book; he doesn't at all fit the media stereotype of a Trump supporter (middle aged, lower middle class, poorly educated); he's more like a stereotypical Sanders supporter (affluent, well educated, young, from the east coast) or a Hil supporter (banker.)

More of the over-the-top media onslaught against Trump...   

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/22/i-cthulhu-endorse-donald-trump/

And we don't win anymore. Specifically, Cthulhu doesn't win anymore. Eldritch creatures capable of reducing the whole world to insensate horror no longer run rampant from continent to continent. It's sad. We Elder Gods don't win. We are asleep on the job, literally.

Thus far this is the most compelling reason I've seen to vote for Trump.