fedex  - 2015-08-22
I just love hearing all the TV talking heads referring to him as Mr. Nutz
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il fiore bel - 2015-08-22
I can't believe 'deez nuts' isn't a tag.
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jangbones - 2015-08-22
NC's politics are wacky, a state rep was elected multiple times simply because she has a funny name
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Cena_mark - 2015-08-22
As of now Mr. Nuts is my #2 pick behind Bernie Sanders.
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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2015-08-23 Do you think if Bernie Sanders gets elected and makes a serious balls-out effort to lessen the influence of the various "complexes"* the US has on its government, he will just be assassinated like JFK, or smeared or something?
*Ye guys must be *farming* those complexes!
First military-industrial, now prison-indistrial + big pharma, big this big that etc.
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cognitivedissonance - 2015-08-22
Oh, democracy.
The enlightened governance of self-interested peers, that just so happens to put all of the weight entirely upon the theory that education and leisure is sufficient to make them make rational choices.
Except now there are nuclear bombs and fracking and stockpiles of communicable diseases and world economies and intellectual copyright and shit to play for. Democracy worked REALLY GREAT when the worst thing that could happen to your society was another tribe developing a sufficiently pointier form of stick to throw toward you when it wasn't the growing season.
We want so badly to believe that we're capable of autonomy... perhaps ISIS and Islam in general is right. Maybe we are at the mercy of an impersonal, implacable god, who takes delight in throwing away human lives, the suffering of women and children and infidels are just part of the way things are. Perhaps absolute monarchism was right. No matter how low things got, at least there was a single person to blame, a single person you can point to, THAT ISN'T YOURSELF, and say "Gee, that guy sure fucked it all up." Maybe the Communists are right. Maybe we don't deserve to have any say about our lives except as tiny, exchangeable cells of achievement that might have some sort of mechanical value on a large enough scale.
If anything, win or lose, Donald Trump is the most vile of politicians: the kind that reminds us that we have no say in the matter whatsoever. There will always be some Great White Hairpiece that will stroll onto the scene and be at any given moment six seconds from absolute nuclear apocolypse.
And supposing you say "I suppose you could do better, Mr. Smarty Pants"? I can't. I honestly couldn't. That's the great hideous gag at the end of democracy... I am the absolute minimum atomic particle of governance. I only get the one vote.
I am to blame for it all, and yet, I am to blame for nothing.
Everything shrinks and becomes this black hole when faced with the reality that you are Caligula's Senate.
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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2015-08-23 Dude! you dont need to invoke god! Just the phenomenon that the more humans you get together the less willfully the group can act, once you get to millions and billions the giant blob of humans seem to act on pure instinct like a mindless colony of bacteria.
I was actually wondering recently have any serious studies been done on this..
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2015-08-22
I'm writing in DAT ASS.
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gravelstudios - 2015-08-23
I had to explain to my mom that this is a joke from the internet. She really didn't understand what was going on.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-23 Ha that's cute. But "deez nuts" has been around way before the Internet, or at least the Internet as we know it.. us kids were saying it back in the 90s but it's probably older than that.
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gravelstudios - 2015-08-23 Well, regardless, she thought that was a candidate's real name. My mom is completely computer illiterate. She hasn't touched a computer since the 80's, and has never browsed the internet or used e-mail. She really doesn't understand the concept of what 'viral' means, and the idea that somebody would do something like this is completely outside her realm of experience. it's cute in an old person kind of way.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-24 My mom's the same way. She got me a summer job at the VA about 10 years ago where she'd worked since the 80s, and while there was internet it was strictly "intra-".. anyway I could usually get everything done by about 11:30 and smoke weed with the vets the rest of the day. But in all fairness she knows how to use her iPad pretty well now, and probably types at around 30 WPM which is pretty fast on one of those things. I don't think I can get over 10. I should be expecting another Pug video in the mail shortly.
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Nikon - 2015-08-23
http://www.cnet.com/news/more-searches-for-deez-nuts-than-hillary- clinton-google-says/
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MurgatroidMendelbaum - 2015-08-23
I hope the polling margin becomes so close that the actual candidates start appealing to swing voters.
"I implore you to drop Deez Nuts."
"What can Deez Nuts actually do for you?"
"Please, for the sake of Democracy, let go of Deez Nuts."
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