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PoliGAF 2016 |OT7| Notorious R.B.G. Plans NZ Tour

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Youporn and similar sites are more dangerous than an AR-15 according to GOP logic. Their priorities are so ass-backwards.

Can I just leave the US omg

Bad news; idiots exist pretty much everywhere on Earth. Fortunately the "ban all Internet porn" initiative has slightly less support than the "let's just start dropping puppies out of airplanes" initiative, so I think you're safe.
 

kess

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Uh huh.

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That shit right there?

That shit is GOAT. Delicious. I love them so much. But you gotta let em sit out and get a little bit stale first.

Also, when we say gummy candy....do we mean gummy bears/gummy worms? Peach rings? Gushers? Fruit snacks? Cause I love all of those.
 

fauxtrot

Banned
That shit right there?

That shit is GOAT. Delicious. I love them so much. But you gotta let em sit out and get a little bit stale first.

I used to do this with Peeps and it was soooo gooood... but they must have put something new in them some time back because this year I tried it out and after over a week, the Peeps were still squishy like I had just opened them. It was pretty heartbreaking, tbh.
 
Candy corn has the taste of processed sugar and the texture of wax. An abomination.

I bet some of you that like candy corn were in that chocolate thread bashing dark chocolate . . .
 

Sibylus

Banned
That shit right there?

That shit is GOAT. Delicious. I love them so much. But you gotta let em sit out and get a little bit stale first.

Also, when we say gummy candy....do we mean gummy bears/gummy worms? Peach rings? Gushers? Fruit snacks? Cause I love all of those.
All of the above. Sour, sweet, gummies for the gummy goddess.
 

Magni

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How does Abe keep winning if the Japanese are so anti-war?

Others have touched on the general levels of political apathy, the de facto one-party state (people are still pissed at the Democratic Party for not doing anything when they were in power after Abe's first stint), and the fact that there are so many old people. Something else I'd like to bring up is - for the latest elections anyways - the voting system:

For the House of Councillors elections (this past Sunday), voters got two votes: one for a prefectural candidate, and one for a national party.

The national party vote is your standard party list proportional representation - roughly 40% of the elected councillors are elected in this manner, so if the Democratic Party gets 50% of that vote nationally, they get to appoint 50% of the 40% of councillors.

The other 60% of councillors are elected through single non-transferable vote. Thus in Tokyo Prefecture, there were 31 candidates, the top six vote getters got elected, and you had only one vote. Parties can put any number of candidates, so how do you know which one to vote for, when there is basically no prefectural level polling? It's a shit show.

My wife ended up voting for the only guy who was both pro-TPP and progressive on social issues, he ended up getting 11k votes... in all of Tokyo. At least her party vote was successful in getting some seats.
 
I used to do this with Peeps and it was soooo gooood... but they must have put something new in them some time back because this year I tried it out and after over a week, the Peeps were still squishy like I had just opened them. It was pretty heartbreaking, tbh.

I don't like Peeps, but my mom loves them when they're stale. She was able to get em to dry out pretty well.

I can't tell what's you having terrible taste and what's you trolling that you have terrible taste anymore.

I'm not trolling. Legit 100% serious.

All of the above. Sour, sweet, gummies for the gummy goddess.

Then I'm good with all that.

You all owe it to yourself to find a way to watch the Channel 4 series Power Monkeys. This shit is HILARIOUS. It manages to poke fun at British, Russian and American politics all at once. So good.
 

kess

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I used to do this with Peeps and it was soooo gooood... but they must have put something new in them some time back because this year I tried it out and after over a week, the Peeps were still squishy like I had just opened them. It was pretty heartbreaking, tbh.

Pretty much everybody used to eat those things like that.

Whoever decided to mold those goddamned marshmallows into little birds was a freaking genius because Just Born would be considered Necco-tier garbage otherwise. I still don't think I can forgive them for taking Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, softening the texture, sweetening the chocolate, and putting 7 (instead of 8) of them in a single package.

There are some truly terrible people out there.
 

Teggy

Member
I like candy corn. I like necco wafers. I like pizza. I like my steak medium.

I am the alpha. I am the omega. Come at me.
 

Emarv

Member
I've been gone from PoliGAF for 3 days and still no GOP speaker list! Going on vacation this week, gonna be anxiously awaiting this list (and browsing PoliGAF when i should be spending time with friends and family).
 

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
Also will the media want us to think bernie dropped out tomorrow after bernie actaully drops out? or is that a fraud
 
That shit right there?

That shit is GOAT. Delicious. I love them so much. But you gotta let em sit out and get a little bit stale first.

Also, when we say gummy candy....do we mean gummy bears/gummy worms? Peach rings? Gushers? Fruit snacks? Cause I love all of those.
I'm done
 
I don't get it

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Hillary is ArticUNO
Trump is ZapDOS
Bernie is MolTRES

So I guess Hillary is going to win with Trump in second.

Or maybe they mean that Hillary has a OHK campaign Move (Sheer Cold) that works great on low level people like trump?

Or maybe they mean that Trump can be found in a building full of people mistaken for objects, Bernie can be found in a northern mountain, and Hillary can be found in the most convoluted system anywhere?

Or maybe they mean that Trump, Hillary, and Bernie will combine to summon the Almighty Barack Lugia Obama?

Or maybe they mean that Politics has no room for a plant bird (Green Party)?

Fuck it, I'm going to edit this post with a bunch more analogies in a bit.


Edit: Okay I got some more ideas:

Hillary, Trump, and Bernie are all old (First Gen)?

People will waste their master ball (Benghazi) on Mewtwo (Barack Obama?) not realizing they should have saved it Articuno (Hillary)?

Eevees (Electoral Votes) were determined from the start to only be in favor of those three types?

Trump was thought to be weak to water types (Marco Rubio) but turned out to be weak to ice types (Hillary Clinton)?

Bernie Sanders was thought to be just some guy by himself (on the Seafoam Islands) but turned out to be on the way to challenge the elite 4?

People thought that the president (legendary birds) were the most important thing and the way to make change but you need to win down ticket races (Non Legendary Pokemon) just as much?

Man that image just makes me think of way too many ideas.
 

Grief.exe

Member
I guess Newt is good at dancing with the punches that will be thrown at Trump, but I don't know what the pick brings to the ticket.

Trump already has the uneducated white base vote locked up, what does Newt do to pull in a swing state or independents? Even his unfavorables are terrible.
 

sphagnum

Banned
The Democratic National Committee's voter expansion data director was fatally shot on Sunday morning in Washington, D.C.

Seth Rich was shot several times near his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, according to local reports, which stated that there were no witnesses to the shooting.

“Our hearts are broken with the loss of one of our DNC family members over the weekend. Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans – the right to vote," DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement mourning the loss of 27-year-old staffer.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-seth-rich-killed-225373

Sad to see, wonder what happened. Robbery gone wrong?
 

olympia

Member
Candy corn has the taste of processed sugar and the texture of wax. An abomination.

I bet some of you that like candy corn were in that chocolate thread bashing dark chocolate . . .

i like both dark chocolate and candy corn which are things that normal people hate

anybody who hates on dark chocolate hasn't had it with a good red imo

i also like anchovies on my pizza and vegemite on my breakfast toast (i'm american)
 
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thepotatoman

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Speaking of Florida, I had no idea Obama's margin of victory was so tiny in 2012. It was only by 75k votes. I mean, it wouldn't have mattered even if he lost that year, but I figured his lead was more comfortable than that.

They didn't announce the results until friday too.

I was lucky enough to be too young to care about 2000 very much, but I can't imagine having to go through that in 2016, with the republican party the way they are right now and the supreme court very directly in the balance.
 
i like both dark chocolate and candy corn which are things that normal people hate

anybody who hates on dark chocolate hasn't had it with a good red imo

i also like anchovies on my pizza and vegemite on my breakfast toast (i'm american)
uh what, normal people like dark chocolate
 

mackaveli

Member
How does everyone think tomorrow will go at the Clinton - Sanders events? You think any crazy sander supports will try and disrupt it? I hope it goes smoothly and the optics look good.
 
i like both dark chocolate and candy corn which are things that normal people hate

anybody who hates on dark chocolate hasn't had it with a good red imo

i also like anchovies on my pizza and vegemite on my breakfast toast (i'm american)

Only weirdos with the palate of a four-year-old don't like dark chocolate.
 
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