# GOP Presidential Candidates Demand Debate Ponies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies/736715>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies/736715 "2015-11-05T14:58:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies/736715/1 "2015-11-05T14:58:59Z")

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This is obviously satire, but good satire can sometimes be the best way to express the truth.  
[http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/11/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies.html](http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/11/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies.html)

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> WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Today, staffers representing most of the Republican presidential candidates met to discuss the demands they will make of all future debates, but the meeting quickly focused on ponies. Staffers agreed every candidate should have a debate animal to sit on, and a majority of the presidential campaigns voted for debate ponies.
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> Bush added, “It is true that Donald Trump did not send any representatives, and that representatives of both Ted Cruz and that kooky brain doctor Ben Carson stormed out of the room after being told unicorns did not exist.”
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> “There was a unicorn in my backyard yesterday, but it was too fast for me to take a picture of and flew away,” stated Ben Carson, who claimed the meeting was “unfair” and “full of unicorn deniers and bigots.”
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> Donald Trump threatened to show up “on the most wonderful and great dragon” at the next debate, while limitations on debate pony weight, color, and height were being hammered out.

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**Author:** ![AlexVosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@AlexVosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlexVosh)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies/736715/2 "2015-11-05T23:15:47Z")

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Funny stuff. Shows how ridiculous the Republican presidential babies are being.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-demand-debate-ponies/736715/3 "2015-11-05T23:20:49Z")

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> [@AlexVosh](#):
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> Funny stuff. Shows how ridiculous the Republican presidential babies are being.

Are you kidding? If they don’t get what they want they’ll say the mainstream media is trying to suppress their views. The constituents eat that kind of stuff up.