No! Cruz for Vice President! Imagine him as president of an organization where everybody hates him. It’d be like Fiorino at HP, except every employee/“reliable source” has dozens of press contacts hungry for a scoop.
Well, Trump has said he would choose a politician as Veep to advise him. My working theory is that Trump (illegally, btw) promised Christie the Veep spot so that’s why Christie endorsed and has (seemingly reluctantly) worked with Trump.
Trump can easily fuck him over on it too. Name someone else. What is Christie going to do? Admit committing a felony and commit career suicide only to have Trump laugh it off as ‘unbelievable’?
Trump should nominate Paul LePage. He’s even crazier than Trump OR Cruz.
LePage was actually Trump 1.0, the successful businessman without a filter who said what he wanted (a lot of it horrific) and since he was elected, he has managed to even piss off Republicans in the state.
Another thing which should shed light on a Trump presidency is how LePage really doesn’t know how this governing stuff works. For example, he let a bunch of things he wanted to veto lapse and as a result become law because he didn’t know how that whole thing worked. The Maine Supreme Court eventually ruled against him for that very reason.
In a Trump presidency, expect him making a lot of similar procedural errors because he simply doesn’t understand these things and doesn’t much care to be bothered to learn.
ETA: He also is a perfect example for those who are critical of the two-party system that a third party doesn’t guarantee a better outcome.
Space gnomes?
And it appears that John Boehner would agree.
Why illegally? Especially in the current Citizen’s United world of it ain’t bribery unless actual cash is exchanged for explicit favors, what law says you can’t tell someone that you’ll make them VP if they agree to support you?
This one:
Apparently not to you though, despite repeated explanations. I even linked to a very clear video setting it all out for you.
Most comedians don’t make fun of Islam not because it’s dangerous but because it’s not funny. Knowledge of the life of Christ and other significant Bible stories is so intrinsic to Western society that you don’t remotely have to be Christian to understand what is being mocked or parodied. But the life of Muhammed, or stories from the Qu’ran? I doubt most non-Muslims know anything at all about either. And where Islam is mocked, it’s often in contexts where the reader or viewer is simulataneously educated about the subject on which the comedy is based (as is, for example, the case for the webcomic Jesus and Mo). That’s not really an approach suited to SNL.
What most Westerners are familiar with is modern extremist Islam, and as a result that does come in for a lot of mockery. Usually this is fairly crude (see Team America: World Police for a clear example) but one of the better and more nuanced versions of this is the movie Four Lions which not only lampoons terrorists, it lampoons their beliefs. I recommend it to all.
It’s the same reason we don’t see a lot of hilarious send-ups of Hinduism, Buddhism or Shintoism. Comedians are not obligated to give equal time to all topics; their job is to go in, get the funny and get out. If you think there’s comic potential in lampooning mainstream Islam then by all means get writing; there’s clearly an unfilled niche there. But stop whining just because someone else isn’t doing it for you.
When there’s a mainstream Muslim movie out and it doesn’t get lampooned, you might have a point. Until then, please learn the difference between an apple and an orange.
Great googly moogly! I couldn’t make it through the end of that, it was so cringy. It was like watching a comedian bomb onstage or watching a play where someone forgets their lines. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? If someone scripted that, they should be fired, if Fiorina ad-libbed that, it tells you everything you need to know about her judgement
It’s absolutely precious that you think God’s Not Dead 2 is a depiction of “mainstream Christianity”.
Way too ambiguous. The TN legislature was also juggling bills to keep transgendered people out of bathrooms, make the Bible the official state book, and force universities and all public spaces and parks to permit firearms. “Pandering to Stupid Asshole Republican Voters Bill” would have caused total confusion!
Thank you.
He’s not really appointing him to the VP spot, though.
No, thye made fun of a really dumb mainstream movie and a really dumb law that happened to be Christian. If there was a really dumb mainstream Muslim movie that their audience would be familiar with, and if a state was actually trying to pass Sharia Law, then I bet Saturday night live would have at it.
However, fortunately or unfortunately, Christianity hugely outnumbers other religions in the US, so the only mockable pop culture references to religion that you are likely to find in the US are the Christian ones, with the occasional Jewish joke.
I would also note that they seem to be giving Zoroastrianism a pass, and have more skits making fun of rock stars than they do Tuvan Throat singers. What gives? They must really hate Rock and Roll or perhaps they are scared of the Mongolian Monks and treat them with kid gloves.
Republicans in the House voted to block a new Department of Labor rule that would require financial planners to make sure that they put the interests of their clients above their own interests. This after eight financial industry groups sent the House a letter begging them to oppose the new rule.
Color me edumacated. Although I’d think that pretty much every presidential candidate ever would probably be jail from a strict application of that statute.
Yeah, I think there’s a difference between appointing someone to an office (ie, putting him on the government payroll in exchange for his support) and allowing him the opportunity to run for office.
Gotta wonder how many people heard about this and thought “Da fuq?! They are already legally obligated to put their clients interests first, aren’t they?”
If they have to, and can’t figure a way round it, then they are going to make less money. I’m guessing a lot less money. Payroll decisions ensue. Lot of yuppie scum, kind of guys who cheered at screenings of Wolf of Wall Street…oh, dear, oh my.
I’m pretty humanist, my principles demand empathy for misfortune. I will try.
Can you run for VP? I mean, independently? Can I just say, “My name is Zakalwe and I don’t care who you vote for to be POTUS, I want the veep spot and that sweet-ass house.”