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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#116651: Mar 18th 2016 at 12:52:06 PM

Someone send them Quaaludes. I want to see them crawl to their cars.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#116652: Mar 18th 2016 at 12:55:37 PM

[up]

Someone send them Québécois. I want to see them crawl to their cars.

Corrected! smilewink

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#116653: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:20:55 PM

Je ne comprends pas. What does French Canada have to do with this?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#116655: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:35:47 PM

Yeah, vraiment, je n'ai aucune idee porquoi le Quebec est pertinent a ce discussion.

Really I'm quite curious.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#116656: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:40:14 PM

I'm good at confusing people. smile

I thought that Québécois have a reputation for being rather obnoxious.

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LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#116657: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:42:26 PM

Well there are obnoxious people everywhere, and I can say that the percentage of assholes in Quebec is about the same as it is everywhere, having lived there.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#116658: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:43:59 PM

Of course the (untrue) stereotype is that Quebec is so French that even France can't stand them.tongue

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#116659: Mar 18th 2016 at 1:44:09 PM

But Quaaludes aren't obnoxious. They just make you lose all motor control. Which is hilarious.

edited 18th Mar '16 1:46:13 PM by TheHandle

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#116660: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:09:34 PM

Anonymous has set its sights on trumping the Trump.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#116661: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:11:28 PM

Please go Mr Robot on him.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#116662: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:21:21 PM

I think we've been over this before, there's not much Anon could really do to hurt Trump. They can't really find out anything that isn't worse than what he's already said. Trump's supporters don't like him despite his flaws, they like him because of them.

Unless Trump turns out to be a Dirty Communist or something.

edited 18th Mar '16 2:21:50 PM by Protagonist506

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#116663: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:34:16 PM

The objective might not be to turn Trump's supporters off him, but to prevent him from gaining more support. As is, Trump has a relatively small but very loyal fanbase who are not in and of themselves enough to carry him to the White House — those are the people who are just fine with his flaws and couldn't care less about the jerk he is. But if Trump can't soften his image a bit in order to win over additional support from minorities and moderates in time for the november election, he's doomed to lose. That's where Anon could hurt him.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#116664: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:41:38 PM

In my experience, French-Canadians are even more arrogant about speaking only French than the French are. They're all bilingual, but they pretend otherwise.

Go to Quebec and try to get along speaking only English. Try it, I dare you. They'll look at you like you're some dumb American tourist.tongue

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#116665: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:43:20 PM

[up][up] If there are still moderates who aren't alienated by him yet, they have no business calling themselves moderates.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#116666: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:45:23 PM

It's not moderates that we need to play keep away with, it's non-crazy Republicans.

Oh and just to note, I come to TV Tropes to debate politics specifically, when I first came here I never left the Arab Spring thread.

edited 18th Mar '16 2:46:24 PM by Silasw

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#116667: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:47:18 PM

[up][up][up] Funny, I've usually had the opposite experience in France and Belgium. The inhabitants are all too eager to switch to English the moment they notice my foreign accent, even when I really want to practice speaking French.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#116668: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:48:34 PM

Fucking disappointment that turned out to be. Thanks, Obama!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#116670: Mar 18th 2016 at 2:51:05 PM

The French thing is a stereotype that I belive is based on Parisians, who apparently are that arrogant.

[up] "thanks Obama" is a meme thing, best to ignore it.

edited 18th Mar '16 2:51:36 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#116671: Mar 18th 2016 at 3:13:33 PM

Another Gop Senator has spoken in favor of a hearing, telling his party they need to "man up and vote".

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Friday that his party needs to “just man up and cast a vote” on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee — a break from GOP leaders’ position that there will be no votes or even hearings until there’s a new president.

Kirk made his comments on “The Big John Howell Show” on WLS, an Illinois radio station. He went on to say, in essence, what Senate Democrats have been saying all along about voting on Merrick Garland: It’s our job.

“The tough thing about these Senatorial jobs is you get yes or no votes,” he said. “Your whole job is to either say yes or no, and explain why.”

The Illinois Republican is in a tight race with Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D), who is trying to unseat him in November. He’s been trying to cast himself as above politics, and in recent days has been distancing himself from his party leaders’ firm stance on denying Garland hearings.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell (R-Ky.) declined to comment.

And in related politics news, we need to unite behind Saruman, not Gandalf, to stop Sauron. Emphasis all his.

I’ve been on Team Gandalf ever since he first visited the Shire. It was so nice to see a wizard who was truly a wizard of the people. The kind of wizard who wouldn’t even throw you in a dungeon for smoking a little Longbottom Leaf or Old Toby. Here was a wizard who didn’t have a big fancy tower. His staff and cloak were rather plain and grey. And he had quite a dream, didn’t he?

Gandalf had the crazy idea that some little hobbits could stand up to and defy the power of the billionaire class Dark Lord Sauron. But I guess that was a pipe dream after all.

Gandalf failed. He got his ass locked up atop Saruman’s tower when he foolishly defied the head of the Democratic Party council of wizards. And now that he’s locked up it’s not like some eagle is going to magically appear and rescue him. It’s over. And now Saruman is our only hope against Sauron.

We need to stop saying nasty things about Saruman or it will be difficult to rally the people of Middle Earth to his side. Here are some things we should no longer mention, or if we do, we should put a positive spin on them so people will still see Saruman is our only hope.

  • Saruman’s Environmental Record: While it is true that Saruman has supported clear cutting huge ancient forests, and while an old hippie tree hugger like Treebeard might tell you lots of those trees were his friends, we ARE talking about trees here. And sure, Gandalf has a much better record on the environment but he’s done now. It’s time to focus on how much worse Sauron’s environmental record is. I mean, have you seen Mordor?
  • Saruman’s Being in League With the Dark Lord: Okay, okay. It’s true. Saruman did go to Sauron’s wedding. But that was a LONG time ago when Sauron still had both eyes. And fake hair. It’s also true that Saruman may have promised to do the dark lord’s bidding and to find the ring of power and give it to Sauron. But c’mon! You know Saruman was just doing that because he plans to ultimately betray Sauron after he’s done betraying us!
  • Saruman Actively Seeks Out the Ring of Power, and the Ring of Power Has Only One Master and Is Evil. Gandalf says that is evidence you have to refuse to have anything at all to do with the Super Pr A Cious at all. His biggest criticism of Saruman is that Saruman plans to try and use the ring. But that’s just an artful smear on Gandalf’s part, implying that Saruman doesn’t have the integrity to be totally uninfluenced by the speaking fees one ring once he accepts it!
  • Saruman Has Instigated Pre-Emptive War That Has Killed Thousands: Look, he only did that to prove his loyalty and toughness to Sauron so he could get some of that sweet, sweet ring of power. You know, the power we can totally trust him to use AGAINST Sauron later. Sometimes you have to burn a few villages in Rohan to save the world. Besides, it was all a misunderstanding. Saruman glimpsed in the palantir and thought he saw a spear of mass destruction being constructed at Helm’s Deep. Cause you can totally trust what Sauron chooses to show you in the palantir.

So now you all have your talking points. Let’s get out there and whip up support for Saruman! Saruman is the wisest and most powerful of the wizards and has the most experience! Saruman will not be influenced at all by the Super Pr A Cious ring of power and will instead use its might to betray the one who made it. He totally is going to betray Sauron and not us.

So forget about Gandalf and his ridiculous plan involving little hobbits and actually giving up Wall Street money the ring of power. Only a fool would take on the power of Wall Street Mordor without it.

So it’s time to say #I’mWithSar because Saruman isn’t after the ring for himself, he’s always been fighting for us. Thank you, Saruman, for bearing the heavy burden of all that Wall Street money the ring of power to save us from a fate even worse than you

It then ends with a pic of Sauron's eye wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. And one guy in the comments has a photoshop of Bernie as Gandalf, with Trump as the Balrog instead.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#116672: Mar 18th 2016 at 3:16:09 PM

[up]Once again, the lack of an eyeroll emoticon on this forum keeps me from expressing my opinion properly. Damn you, TV Tropes!

edited 18th Mar '16 3:16:36 PM by NativeJovian

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#116673: Mar 18th 2016 at 3:16:25 PM

It was so nice to see a wizard who was truly a wizard of the people.

Except, evidently, the people who vote in Democratic primaries.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#116674: Mar 18th 2016 at 3:19:10 PM

And, if I remember correctly, JRR Tolkien ended up more of an Anarcho-Monarchist then anything else...

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#116675: Mar 18th 2016 at 3:20:31 PM

Kirk is a Republican running for reelection in this year in Illinois. No wonder he's getting cold feet on the Supreme Court nomination blockage, Illinois is too blue for such a thing to fly in an election.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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