Offical: Colbert for President

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Originally Posted by Melf

So just grant statehood to DC. :p

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Fuck that. I'd rather have PR. If we kicked California out, I'd let both in though.

I don't agree with money being the answer to voting.

We need testing. Before each election they should give tests about the issues and the candidates. Prove that you actually know enough to make an informed vote, then you can vote.

The problem with the US is 90% of the fucktards voting don't know shit about anything and just vote because that's what their minister/tv talking head/parents/severed pinky told them to vote for.

I vote for Jesus Christ in every election.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Fuck that. I'd rather have PR. If we kicked California out, I'd let both in though.

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The only way to cleanse it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim,
See you down in Arizona Bay.

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
THESE WOUNDS THEY NEVER HEAL

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Originally Posted by bbobb

We need testing. Before each election they should give tests about the issues and the candidates. Prove that you actually know enough to make an informed vote, then you can vote.

The problem with the US is 90% of the fucktards voting don't know shit about anything and just vote because that's what their minister/tv talking head/parents/severed pinky told them to vote for.

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Problem is: we've tried literacy tests and such and they're always used to promote local biases in race/party. We would need a hard and fast standard which would not discriminate along political/racial/gender/whatever lines.

As for top down corruption cleansing, the problem is always humans, we make bad choices. If we knock off everyone who's ever made a choice on corrupt or self interest motives we'd have no one left to govern.

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Originally Posted by Pineapple

The only way to cleanse it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim,
See you down in Arizona Bay.

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:tu:

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Originally Posted by arjue

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
THESE WOUNDS THEY NEVER HEAL

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

Wow I forgot about that.

That is so fucking great.

Everyone should rewatch that.

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He makes the whole point of everyone coming together to save lives in the aftermath, and when you now look at all the problems the rescue workers are going through and the lack of support they're getting you really have to wonder.

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Originally Posted by Jon Stewart

The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center, and now it's gone. They attacked it, this symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce, and it is gone, but you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that.

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Jon Stewart couldn't be president because he's a jew. A dag nabbed jew.

I've thought about making people take tests in order to get the right to vote, and have actually ranted about it before (largely based on people making decisions based on party lines or for dumb reasons). But like Mars said, it's just a trap for those in power to those out of power. Who would issue the tests anyway? It couldn't be the federal government, that's inviting "THE REPUBS/DEMS RIGGED THE TESTS TO BE CONFUSING TO POOR PEOPLE/OLD PEOPLE" argument after *every. election.*

So that idea is a no.

The other problem i have with all candidates (and admittedly bill mahar brought this up today) is that no one really speaks like an adult when talking about politics anymore. The front runners are the ones who talk in sound bites and don't discuss anything, they've decided what their stance is way before anyone else got there outside of a think tank.