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AMERICAN POLITICS FOR THE EURO ZONE
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Scares the SHIT out of me. Her especially. The idea that these two might actually be elected is enough to make me REALLY REALLY QUESTION our decision to move to SF. PLEASE, SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. PLEASE. I get this powerless feeling of dread every four years, much as I expect other Europeans do. All you can do is just sit and watch while your jaw drops onto the floor at the fact that FUCKING FRIGHTENING gun-toting, fundamentalist, freaky deaky WEIRDOES like this even have a VOICE in that big ole country over there, let alone can stand as candidates for the most powerful job in the world.
Listen, I know loads of Americans, and they're all decent, intelligent, hard-working, perfectly normal people. I lived there. People were normal. And nice. And sane. Those two up there? Their very existence? It's what makes us Europeans look at your country and assume you're all trigger-happy, pro-life, religious zealout, war mongering HICKS who haven't got a brain cell between you. And all we can do is sit here once every four years and shout at you and say PLEASE DON'T ELECT THESE PEOPLE. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? See all those caps up there, I'm trying to express frustration here, because I really, honestly don't know what else to do. The idea that these two even stand a TINY CHANCE of becoming the two most powerful people in the world, not only does it scare me to death, but it's just a fact that I cannot, intellectually, get my head around. It doesn't compute.
Please tell me this isn't happening. Help a non-citizen out here.
Scares the SHIT out of me. Her especially. The idea that these two might actually be elected is enough to make me REALLY REALLY QUESTION our decision to move to SF. PLEASE, SOMEONE TELL ME THAT THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. PLEASE. I get this powerless feeling of dread every four years, much as I expect other Europeans do. All you can do is just sit and watch while your jaw drops onto the floor at the fact that FUCKING FRIGHTENING gun-toting, fundamentalist, freaky deaky WEIRDOES like this even have a VOICE in that big ole country over there, let alone can stand as candidates for the most powerful job in the world.
Listen, I know loads of Americans, and they're all decent, intelligent, hard-working, perfectly normal people. I lived there. People were normal. And nice. And sane. Those two up there? Their very existence? It's what makes us Europeans look at your country and assume you're all trigger-happy, pro-life, religious zealout, war mongering HICKS who haven't got a brain cell between you. And all we can do is sit here once every four years and shout at you and say PLEASE DON'T ELECT THESE PEOPLE. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? See all those caps up there, I'm trying to express frustration here, because I really, honestly don't know what else to do. The idea that these two even stand a TINY CHANCE of becoming the two most powerful people in the world, not only does it scare me to death, but it's just a fact that I cannot, intellectually, get my head around. It doesn't compute.
Please tell me this isn't happening. Help a non-citizen out here.
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Is there a good chance he'll win, though? That's really my question. It's impossible to tell from here. You all just look mental and obsessed with total non-issues.
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no, we didn't - we elected him once. the first time his brother and the supreme court elected him, so you could almost give the american people a pass. it was when we as a country decided that a lying moron was the best man to lead us into a second term that i gave up and decided we were all doomed as a nation.
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Fair enough.
so you could almost give the american people a pass.
He still had a shockingly high number of supporters for the election to be so close that it came down to that, which was the gist of what I so inarticulately was attempting to get at. They are real and could quite possibly win. Alas.
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also, icon love. :)
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The icon is actually of an organization that was something like "Soldiers Living Against Sin and H....something" during an evangelical parade. I had no choice but to take a photo, naturally.
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Now that I know what S.L.A.S.H it's even funnier.
Don't they know that killing people is also a sin? Or is that 'soldiers' as in a metaphor?
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Ah, I see.
'...a slashy get-together during the Toronto Film Festival...'
How was it?
'It was bizarre and makes for a good icon.'
You're so right, on both counts.
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I go every year (but won't be there next week, alas). I *think* this was 2005. Yeah. The year Brokeback Mountain was screened there. I love going to the fest, it's awesome.
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It does sound awesome. I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun.
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I feel this alone makes her the devil incarnate. Ianto's cock should be a public treasure. A national icon!
Why ban such a thing? Share it with the world, I say! Cock for all!
Is there a good chance he'll win, though? That's really my question. It's impossible to tell from here. You all just look mental and obsessed with total non-issues.
I believe there's a good chance. The polls have it split down the middle, basically, and anything can happen between here and election day.
I think Sarah Palin will end up hurting McCain's cause. I think if Obama puts on his A-game, he can surge ahead and win.
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Nope.
And yes, in 2000, Al Gore actually won the presidential election by OVER HALF A MILLION popular votes. But the electoral votes are what counts, not the ACTUAL vote count. He also appeared to win by electoral votes at first but then the Republican did a recount (led by Republicans). And most of us in this country believe they fixed it and made Bush the winner even though they deny that. Of course.
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I for one, have always believed that.
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You know, if you can make that into some sort of Internet banner, you just might tip the election the other way.