@kimbers post in the US election thread has me thinking where do the Republicans go from here?
Reagan - ex-actor, slightly loopy, seemed to think Star Wars was real.
Bush One - Bit loopier, had a sinister smile.
Bush Two - Dropped on his head as a child? A Texas village is definitely missing an idiot.
Trump - Man child thing with random hair placement.
Clearly the first criteria is having a forename even your grandad would think was a bit old fashioned. Hit me with your next candidates STW.
Half of the population of that country is slightly to very off kilter when compared with Western European standards of normalcy.
The Republican Party represent those people.
Trump has a world of legal pain ahead if he can't hide behind being the POTUS. It will almost be open season on him then.
They'll probably find Nigel Farage suddenly qualifies
Giuliani, isn't it?
Scary artificially rigid hair, plastic nose, Barbie makeup and called Louise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart is how the gun crazies think they are and he can act. Plus suitable first name. A shoo in.
Giuliani, isn’t it?
That's a very interesting/scary prospect and a worryingly likely one too.
Trump Jr?
Wasn't BoJo born in America?
Do they want him back?
Perplexed Viking?
Dropped on his head as a child? A Texas village is definitely missing an idiot.
Bush Jnr wasn't an idiot, he was poor at giving public speeches but if you listen to man speak outside of those - he's not a village idiot. Perhaps not the sharpest tool in the box but was Clinton? He seems to have become a better man since the presidency as well - or it was just that the shhitwaks like Rumsfeld held too much influence.
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Plus he's a mountain biker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASxHUnnmQF0
Hmmm, I was talking to a colleague in the US over the teams meeting thing the other day. I happened to ask him about the election and how could the American peoples be so coned with Trump (not withstanding our own issues with being coned, that's in another thread). Anyway I digress. America has always been partisan it seems and yes it's gotten worse recently.
We were talking about the welfare state. He went on tirade about all of these people on the welfare state high on pot and not working and having no intension of ever working. Needless to say, I won't ask again.
So what do I take from this encounter? Americans are taught at an early age if they work hard they can have a slice of the American dream. whatever that is.. They are also taught that capitalism is great and anything else is no good at all. So they bust themselves working into an early grave believing that they can reach some sort of utopia, even if they never get there they will kill themselves trying, and blame someone else for their failure.
Got to be trump's favourite golf partner- kid rock
I don't think bush junior was that bad.
In hindsight compared to trump he was brilliant
Back then according to friends in the SAS he was known as "The Package", that had been sold to the american people. However give him his due; he was really concerned about the probability of a future pandemic.
kanye2024
Judging by the voter breakdown during this election I'd suggest the next candidate might be Hispanic.
LEEROY JENKINS!!!!!!!
Has a nice ring to it, a name you could imagine being shouted aloud as a heroic president rushes in to a school to face down a dangerous gunman.
Kanye or Kid Rock are my favourites so far. Anybody posting serious things in this thread will be reported as fun sponges. The known knowns speech is enough to paint Bush two with the idiot brush all day long. Not been good at public speaking and being a bit better than Clinton hardly makes for top Leader of the free world materiel. Obama appears to have been the only sane US president in my lifetime.
One of trump's despicable children probably.
Peter from family guy seems the obvious choice
Why not Axl Rose eh?
I like the Aaron Eckhart one, we've already seen him as president in the documentary Olympus Has Fallen, and it went really really badly
trump and his family are in the shitter; the old man won't have his bully pulpit when he's doing time and his progeny will only appeal to the outer fringes so they're all irrelevant.
Pity John Oliver wasn't born in the US.
Having looked into the abyss, if the GOP liked what they saw I give you...marjorie taylor green the freshly minted QAnon believing representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/04/marjorie-greene-qanon-georgia-congress-election/
Mr Burns?
LEEROY JENKINS!!!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣
The known knowns speech is enough to paint Bush two with the idiot brush
That was Rumsfeld. He's bad, but not stupid.
I still use "unknown unknowns" myself, it's a useful concept.
Surely that mad evangelical woman who has been remixed.
I'm liking the idea of making letting them have Boris back
They do have an embarrassment of nutbags to pick from, to be fair.
I've been looking at the Fox News website for a bit of balance in my election updates, the opinion pieces on there make the Daily Mail look like Socialist Worker.
Edit - But Giuliani? Nah, even before the Borat thing he came over like an anamatronic waxwork sex offender.
But Giuliani
You have to watch his hands
Jay Pritchett.
Any random choice from the local nut house.
Probably be an improvement.
funkmasterp
Full MemberThe known knowns speech is enough to paint Bush two with the idiot brush all day long.
That was Rumsfeld. And tbh, it actually did make perfect sense
Bush Jnr wasn’t an idiot, he was poor at giving public speeches but if you listen to man speak outside of those – he’s not a village idiot. Perhaps not the sharpest tool in the box but was Clinton?
George W Bush was famously the lowest IQ president to have served the US at the time he became President, with a known IQ score of 91...
Bill Clinton is a member of MENSA!
ENOUGH of this Post-Truth Bullshit please... Trump is going/gone, can we stick to the ****ing facts from now on please! 🤨
Edit – But Giuliani? Nah, even before the Borat thing he came over like an anamatronic waxwork sex offender.
Even forgetting the Borat film, the bloke is 76 already, he's 2 years older than Trump... He'll be 80 when the next election takes place!
But not forgetting the Borat film... There's a very real chance he's going to be as destitute as his chum(p) Trump any time soon, let alone the potential fallout from Sacha Baron Cohen that is inevitably due over the coming months (barely any Americans will have seen the film already, but it will gather momentum over the next 6-12 months for sure)... He might be lucky to stay out of jail!
Does anyone seriously think Donald Trump is going to go to prison?! I'm in no doubt that he should, but I'd suggest that he's more likely to win THIS election than to wind up in prison. It's probably be better for Biden that he's not locked up anyway......get him wrapped up in a myriad of 'lawsuits' and ban him off all mainstream media platforms (surely he's gone from Twitter as soon as he's not president) then let him be the 'crazy uncle' rambling to other mentalists on the nut job sections of the internet....far better than having him plastered over the news for the next four years giving him more mainstream airtime.
LEEROY JENKINS!!!!!!!
Thanks for that.
I just snorted so hard I now have half a salt & vinegar Ringo embedded up my left sinus cavity.
Ow.
with a known IQ score of 91
Keep in mind you need about 50 to be able to breathe unassisted 😆
Does anyone seriously think Donald Trump is going to go to prison?!
There's no doubt that he should... Will he though? You have a point there...
Sadly, I think the very real possibility is that the 46th President of the US won't be Joe Biden, but will in fact be Mike Pence... Trump isn't likely to stick around for 9-10 weeks to preside over whatever is left, he might just **** off as soon as he has resigned himself to defeat, and leave Pence to preside over the next few weeks. This in itself, would create a strange situation, where the outgoing President is afforded one last pardon... It's very possible that Pence could pardon Trump as Gerald Ford did Richard Nixon! 🤔
Can you pardon someone before they are charged?
Wasnt Johnson born in NYC?
Hes soon to be out of a job & his ideology can be whatever you want it to be
