by Shrillland » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:49 pm
by Nobel Hobos 2 » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:53 pm
Farnhamia wrote:"Candidate" is a derivative of the Latin "candidus" (shining white). In Ancient Rome, people running for political office would usually wear togas chalked and bleached to be bright white at speeches, debates, conventions, and other public functions. Curiously, campaigning for office in Rome was considered somewhat déclassé, and candidates were described as being ambitious, from the Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“I go around, solicit votes”).
by Rojava Free State » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:55 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Farnhamia » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:55 pm
Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Farnhamia wrote:"Candidate" is a derivative of the Latin "candidus" (shining white). In Ancient Rome, people running for political office would usually wear togas chalked and bleached to be bright white at speeches, debates, conventions, and other public functions. Curiously, campaigning for office in Rome was considered somewhat déclassé, and candidates were described as being ambitious, from the Latin ambitiō (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambiō (“I go around, solicit votes”).
You mean all those candied dates I've been eating, aren't actually helping get me elected?
by Kargintina the Third » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:57 pm
by Giovenith » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:00 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Imagine if Trump appeared in a white toga with olive leaves around his head and said "happy 2020 election everybody! It's gonna be a great year!"
by Shrillland » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:00 pm
by The Sherpa Empire » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:09 pm
by Rojava Free State » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:12 pm
Giovenith wrote:Rojava Free State wrote:Imagine if Trump appeared in a white toga with olive leaves around his head and said "happy 2020 election everybody! It's gonna be a great year!"
You know the sad thing is that I can definitely see him unironically doing that and people unironically appreciating it.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:12 pm
by The Sherpa Empire » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:13 pm
by Shrillland » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:14 pm
Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana wrote:Puerto Rico’s governor might actually be voted out
by Aureumterra » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:14 pm
Kargintina the Third wrote:Trump 2020
by Post War America » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:16 pm
Gravlen wrote:The famous Bowling Green Massacre is yesterday's news. Today it's all about the Cricket Blue Carnage. Tomorrow it'll be about the Curling Yellow Annihilation.
by Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:17 pm
Shrillland wrote:Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana wrote:Puerto Rico’s governor might actually be voted out
So I've noticed, but Vazquez's tenure was doomed from the start. I think it'll be Pierluisi vs. Yulin Cruz in November unless the PDP rejects her intent to shift them towards independence with free association.
by Nobel Hobos 2 » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:17 pm
by The Sherpa Empire » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:17 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Giovenith wrote:
You know the sad thing is that I can definitely see him unironically doing that and people unironically appreciating it.
I made a joke that trump would try to claim he has done the greatest thing in history by becoming president. Literally today a trump campaign ad preceded the video I was watching and he said "we've launched the greatest, largest movement in American history, possibly in world history." This is just like when I joked about him leaking state secrets and he leaked that photo of a drone over Iran or when I joked about him saying his opponents were in hell and then he suggested that john dingell went to hell. The jokes keep coming true, and the scary thing is one of my most recent jokes was about a more unhinged, unchecked trump drone striking a CNN news van in Yemen after having someone give false info to a pilot that the van was a terrorist vehicle. I can imagine him making dark jokes at a rally the next night like "where do CNN reporters go when they die? In every direction," and "they say rest in peace but those journalists and camera men were in too many pieces for me to count!" God, he might just do everything
by Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:17 pm
by The Sherpa Empire » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:19 pm
Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Referenda on the Primary election day? That seems a bit dodgy, as four times as many people vote on Election day.
by Rojava Free State » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:19 pm
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Farnhamia » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:19 pm
by Shrillland » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:20 pm
Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Referenda on the Primary election day? That seems a bit dodgy, as four times as many people vote on Election day.
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