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[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

This reminds me of the Kitzbühel municipal by-election in 1973. The leading candidate (Turks Out Party) was controversially imprisoned for expressing his freedom of speech by protesting against sharia patrols, but his allies secretly recruited a stand-in candidate running on an alternative ticket (Hang The Turk Party, Liberal Faction) - when this was found out it caused a lot of trouble and the left-wing opposition (Deport Turks Party) actually won the seat in an upset. Soon the Muslims took over the city and made all the hot babes wear burqas to school.

[Stuart98]

This thread, in which nearly everyone forgot how to read.

[°Leprechaun]

This thread, in which nearly everyone forgot how to read.

Yes I'm so surprised that no one got a rinse out of the mandatory vacations thread.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

This thread, in which nearly everyone forgot how to read.

Well I got my fair share of giggles out of it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This thread, in which nearly everyone forgot how to read.

Yes I'm so surprised that no one got a rinse out of the mandatory vacations thread.

We do have a lot of dyed-in-the-wool curmudgeons.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I would never use a sock, they know your thoughts

I always walk around barefoot because I'm afraid of my socks reading my mind, and then trying to blackmail me or something.

[MATTROSE94]

Mongolia. Because of their supply of horses, and considering they're the only ones who successfully subjugated Russia, they're going to have to be on standby if a conflict ever arises.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

As a staunch supporter of gay rights, this is just as bad as gay supporters harassing an anti gay boat with the pro gay boat blowing up and neading to be rescued by an anti gay boat.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

THE CONSERVATIVE DILEMMA

Banning athletes like this from competing against cisgender women:	Forcing athletes like this to compete against cisgender women:

[MATTROSE94]

I don't have a car, and even if I did, I wouldn't want BRTD in it.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Most of the replies in this thread; there are too many good ones to quote individually.

[President Johnson]

This is pretty funny:

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=450837.25

[Donerail]

This new guy actually rocks

If you think these "audits" will actually help the GOP in 2022, I would like to know what drug you are on.

I do not take any drug type pills but I do take vitamin D, multivitamin, zinc, Magnesium, L Theanine, Inositol as supplements if you are curious but I do not think they contribute to my political views.

[Battista Minola 1616]

For a good bit of possibly unintentional surreal humour:

Well, for fun I decided to take the UK 2019 results (minus Northern Ireland) and try and shoehorn them into the US House of Representatives constituencies.

There result is a bit dumb but it's not like the premise of this thread can ever be simulated accurately so here it goes



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Believe it or not, there is actually a concrete methodology I used for this. Whether it was the best methodology or not is up for debate of course:

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1. Take the 3 most Hispanic Districts in California, give them to the Plaid Cymru equivalent

2. Take 3 random "border" districts in Texas, give them to the Conservative Party

3. Take the wealthiest district in Texas, and the El Paso district (to try and simulate the LD strentgh in the "highlands"). Give them to the Lib Dems

4. Give the SNP equivalent every other district in Texas

5. Order the remaining US Congressional districts by household income. Give any Dem-held districts that are among the 218 poorest districts in the US to the Labour Party

6. The Labour party is still 73 seats short of what they "should" have. Give the Labour Party the 36 poorest Republican held seats, and the 37 next poorest Democratic held seats (even if these Dem seats are richer than the US average)

7. Give every remaining district to the Conservative Party

[beesley]

I've missed branston pickle since I've left London and I believe one of the more tragic episodes of Brexit is the fact that we will not have much branston pickle left on the continent. Other condiments exist of course but if you have a Leerdamer cheese sandwich it misses a certain je ne sais quoi to bring the sandwich together. Butter won't do because butter and Leerdamer and butter don't really go well together.

I sometimes wonder if Brexit is going to impact the branston pickle industry in places like Belgium. When I was 4 I was taken to the British shop and we would pick up some some cream crackers and Branston Pickle. THe cheddar was missing but I guess we had to get that from the regular supermarket. I think Delhaize have their own brand of cheddar these days but I prefer Leerdamer as it has a less stronger taste and so the branston pickle can do the work.

Anyway I didn't know it had actively disapeared from the market so thanks for informing me about this development. All the best to those who have been put into an unemployment scheme. I find watching a back to back saga of Glen Garry Glenn Ross and 99 homes helps you understand how capitalism works.

Genuinely good comedy.

[MATTROSE94]

Didn't know that Biden has a button on his desk that makes the price of gas go up.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I also believe Hash is acting on basis of a grudge and is letting his feelings about people themselves unduely impact their modding. Look at how he treated my April Fools thread!

Exactly, TimTurner, and there's ample evidence from his comments on The Other Place, as well as his Discord messages, that he mods according to his grudges. tsk tsk, not good.

The silliest thing about it all is that the thread actually generated good discussion. ffs, "Topic Locked for Trolling". Does Hash know what April Fools Day is?

I don't think he does, Tim, he's a very serious man. And when his teeth grind at our idiocy, I can hear it all the way across the Atlantic.

[beesley]

[Geoffrey Howe]

Splendid people who understand the need to properly distinguish between the political and ceremonial functions of the state. Constitutional monarchies maintain a far better balance of power than any republic could. And, of course, they are aesthetically superior. By comparison, republics are frightfully tacky and vulgar. God save the Queen.

Frightfully tacky and vulgar? I can think of nothing more tacky than the vainglorious self-promotion of monarchical art and architecture, and nothing more vulgar than the idle fops and foolish rakes that grow like a cancer upon royalty, always competing to outdo one another in the contest of absurd flatteries. Likewise, I can think of nothing more tasteful than the sober craftsmanship of republican artistry, and nothing more worthy of honor than the civic virtue exercised by citizens in a republic. I also don't see what any of this has to do with the balance of power, but if you'd like to go there, I should remind you that when England was a Commmonwealth she was much higher esteemed at home and abroad than when she wasted away under Stuart frivolity and irreverence.

I challenge you to argue in all honesty that Rubens' painted ceiling of the Banqueting House is anything less than a sublime testament to the glory of monarchy. It is hardly tacky. Republican art, of the sort one finds in Washington for instance, is almost nouveau riche by comparison. The Apotheosis of Washington in the Capitol rotunda is nothing more than a cheap copy of Rubens' Apotheosis of James I in the Banqueting House and rather a tragic admission by America that they can only feebly try to emulate the glories of the British monarchy.

Of course it would take quite an eccentric to argue that absolute monarchy is an advisable system for governing a state. The monarchy which I recommend is of course a modern, constitutional one of the sort one finds in the United Kingdom or Scandinavia (a region known for its hatred of equality). As regards the balance of power, Britain is a good example: parliamentary sovereignty emerged directly from conflict with the monarchy and created a perfectly natural balance between the executive and legislative which has developed and matured over many centuries. Alas, I would much rather that the ultimate say rested with HM The Queen than a fat, orange New Yorker who has a rather disturbing fondness for gold furniture. The comparison also stands to highlight the fact that it is unlikely that HM will be raising an army of baseball-capped yobs to storm the Palace of Westminster; the equivalent cannot be said of Mr Trump.

The English Commonwealth was a total disaster, which is why it only lasted for as long as it did. It was a dictatorship in which Oliver Cromwell effectively ignored parliament and established a regime which was terrible in almost every way. They banned theatre-going and Christmas - an arrogation of liberty not repeated until it was by Boris Johnson last year. Cromwell also permanently ruined England's relationship with Ireland. The regime was extremely unstable, as demonstrated by its collapse following Cromwell's death and the subsequent Restoration. The Civil War was probably necessary to reign in Charles I's excesses, but the Commonwealth was abysmal. Since the Restoration, England has prospered greatly under a monarchy. The Stuarts were rather fun, albeit Scottish; Charles II in particular was an affable character. Especially in comparison to the repulsive, dour and warty Cromwell.

[beesley]

Splendid people who understand the need to properly distinguish between the political and ceremonial functions of the state. Constitutional monarchies maintain a far better balance of power than any republic could. And, of course, they are aesthetically superior. By comparison, republics are frightfully tacky and vulgar. God save the Queen.

Frightfully tacky and vulgar? I can think of nothing more tacky than the vainglorious self-promotion of monarchical art and architecture, and nothing more vulgar than the idle fops and foolish rakes that grow like a cancer upon royalty, always competing to outdo one another in the contest of absurd flatteries. Likewise, I can think of nothing more tasteful than the sober craftsmanship of republican artistry, and nothing more worthy of honor than the civic virtue exercised by citizens in a republic. I also don't see what any of this has to do with the balance of power, but if you'd like to go there, I should remind you that when England was a Commmonwealth she was much higher esteemed at home and abroad than when she wasted away under Stuart frivolity and irreverence.

I challenge you to argue in all honesty that Rubens' painted ceiling of the Banqueting House is anything less than a sublime testament to the glory of monarchy. It is hardly tacky. Republican art, of the sort one finds in Washington for instance, is almost nouveau riche by comparison. The Apotheosis of Washington in the Capitol rotunda is nothing more than a cheap copy of Rubens' Apotheosis of James I in the Banqueting House and rather a tragic admission by America that they can only feebly try to emulate the glories of the British monarchy.

Of course it would take quite an eccentric to argue that absolute monarchy is an advisable system for governing a state. The monarchy which I recommend is of course a modern, constitutional one of the sort one finds in the United Kingdom or Scandinavia (a region known for its hatred of equality). As regards the balance of power, Britain is a good example: parliamentary sovereignty emerged directly from conflict with the monarchy and created a perfectly natural balance between the executive and legislative which has developed and matured over many centuries. Alas, I would much rather that the ultimate say rested with HM The Queen than a fat, orange New Yorker who has a rather disturbing fondness for gold furniture. The comparison also stands to highlight the fact that it is unlikely that HM will be raising an army of baseball-capped yobs to storm the Palace of Westminster; the equivalent cannot be said of Mr Trump.

The English Commonwealth was a total disaster, which is why it only lasted for as long as it did. It was a dictatorship in which Oliver Cromwell effectively ignored parliament and established a regime which was terrible in almost every way. They banned theatre-going and Christmas - an arrogation of liberty not repeated until it was by Boris Johnson last year. Cromwell also permanently ruined England's relationship with Ireland. The regime was extremely unstable, as demonstrated by its collapse following Cromwell's death and the subsequent Restoration. The Civil War was probably necessary to reign in Charles I's excesses, but the Commonwealth was abysmal. Since the Restoration, England has prospered greatly under a monarchy. The Stuarts were rather fun, albeit Scottish; Charles II in particular was an affable character. Especially in comparison to the repulsive, dour and warty Cromwell.

I hope he is real. Impressive how someone can come off as such a twat in the most charming way. I agree with his paragraph on the Stuarts though. The whole interregnum was awful and completely misguided and the Humble Petition and Advice proves it.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Nailed it

Big Abraham needs to realize that white voters in places like Staten Island, Wood-Bridge, Ozone Park, don't care about the Texas Revolution...they care about public safety, safe schools, and safe streets...pro-cop NJ/NY Republicans won't care about the Texas Revolution...

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Assuming we mean gender identity, obviously more than 4 (sane, normal, not a bigoted homophobe)

That’s only 3 though

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Context:

NJ: Wherever Bronz is at any given time of day.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Hmmmmmm......