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Remember when The Onion predicted the 2016 GOP race?

http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of--30284

I thought that with Dubya. Twice.

Satire is good because it has some basis in reality.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ryanair-s-michael-o-leary-says-cyclists-should-be-shot-1.2634793

Michael O'Leary in I've-not-been-in-the-news-enough-recently-so-I'll-say-something-inflammatory shocker...

'Obnoxious publicity-craving man makes obnoxious comment' shocker.

Although I guess it's ambiguous whether I mean the airline guy or the hotel guy.

How's it shown this?

Comparative turn out numbers for primaries against previous elections.

I wish I was still young and poor so I could boycott RyanAir.

Mother Fucking Boast Post

#feelthebern

Dublin traffic is horrendous. Perhaps he likes traffic jams...

Okay. Show your work. I'm skeptical, but interested.

I ask the man at the late night petrol station if he has any newspapers, and he tells me "no, sorry, we have sold out". So I ask him if he can tell me what happened today, in case there was anything important, and he says "Well, today lots of people came, and they bought all the newspapers".

Jokes du jour?
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I normally come here to post what I've read about in the papers, this is what I had instead. It actually happened. /csb

Tory candidate has tory donors shocker?

Trump is just a fog of bluster and shifting sands

As is Clinton, unfortunately. Her ideology shifts according to whatever she needs to say to win, and is influenced only by corporate interests.

It would be a choice between two equally awful candidates.

It would be nice to think that Sanders could either still get the Democrat nomination, or even run as an independent.

It would be nice to think that Sanders could either still get the Democrat nomination, or even run as an independent.

The danger of this scenario is that it would split the Democratic vote and make a Trump win more likely.

We have to reconcile the fact that we're going to get Trump or Clinton as the next president. Time to book a one way trip to Mars.

Yes and yes ^&^^

That is the sad reality at the moment.

Clinton will carry on reinforcing austerity, Tump who knows.. the crazy fuck might produce a disaster of vast scale.. So, the latter have more chances to do something good, in my prevision.

What I think is, considering the reality of this time, what I can't stop I rather prefer to accelerate it until it crashes by itself. It's a gambling due to no better choice.

This expenses stuff is pretty interesting, not sure why other parties aren't making more of it, or is it bad form or something?

http://www.channel4.com/news/conservative-election-expenses-the-timeline

All media is basically ignoring it apart from Channel 4.

Yeah but why? And why are labour/greens/ukip etc ignoring it?

Because it's too much detail and not enough sound bite for modern media. Ideal for C4 and their tendency to go in depth on stories. I would expect the others are just bellyaching to the electoral commission and will sound bite the outcome. Also, I can't believe the others are without guilt. The whole expensing in a safe seat when you are campaigning in a nearby marginal most be common.

Because they're #allinittogether

Also, I can't believe the others are without guilt

This is what I suspected too.

I remember the 'hanging chads' election in the US, and wondering why people didn't make more of it, but it seems like as soon as an election is won then questioning part of it is seen like sour grapes, so nobody says anything (or very little).