There MUST be some place besides prison where people can avoid the political craziness. Any decent deserted islands out there that aren’t in the path of hurricanes?
Sadly the prisons have shared TV, and a surprising number of felons like to watch the presidential debates with an almost schadenfreudic glee: “It’s like they don’t even know how the institutions they create operate.”
“Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoonGoing to the candidates’ debateLaugh about it, shout about itWhen you’ve got to chooseEvery way you look at it you lose”
Wait, it could be a HYUGE dinosaur, T. Rump…..Although there is probably a more precise word than rump to describe it….I know, I know, this is from 2011…. He could probably run this once every election year and it would always ring true….BTW, how did those guys cut through that pipe in N.Y.? Did they have a cutting torch, a chisel? Saw? Fingernail file? And how far did they have to crawl through that nasty 2 ft wide pipe? A hundred feet? Man. I couldn’t do it……
John Oliver put the early hyping of the presidential race in perspective, he said, there are children that will be born before the election whose parents haven’t met yet.
Thank God there still IS real politics. there wasn’t in Soviet Russia, and not in Cuba. It’s people who pay no attention to politics who are the reason we’re in the trouble we’re in, now
What puzzles me about American politics is why there are only two parties? What if you don’t like either candidate? There don’t seem to be any alternatives except an ’independent" who has either no chance or no power if elected. Here we have three main parties which gives a real choice on voting day.
@ argythree, there’s one forming in the North Atlantic off SE Iceland. I don’t believe there is any of US diatribe there. However, one can’t rule out radio or internet via satellite . . .
And they laughed at the people who built underground shelters in their back yards when the fight against the Commies was with a foreign enemy.Well… who’s laughing now?
argythreeSome of the smaller ones in the Spitzbergen group would qualify – if you like cold and isolation.
MiserichordOne or more of your list might do better if the corporate media would cover them. In 2010, I ran for Texas State Board of Education on the Green Party. The only mass media coverage I got was the Dalla Snooze saying only Republicans and Libertarians were running in that district. A request for correction brought only a verbatim repeat of the lie. LWV at least covered it in their candidate survey, but most only knew about it when they read the ballot – if then. And this is the body that de facto selects the textbooks for the whole country.
@Diat60As opposed as the two main American political parties are to each other, they will see a credible third party as a mortal threat to the System That Is (I.e. them) and will join forces to prevent the upset to the incumbent (I almost said “inbred”) power system. Common enemy, you know.
You can’t get away from it. Not voting is also a choice, but to hear people talk, you are committing a sin.I feel that the sin is single issue voters and those that vote as they are told from work, union, or pulpit.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 9 years ago
Isn’t it about time for another installment of “Homer the Reluctant Soul”?
Superfrog over 9 years ago
The show never ends.
Argythree over 9 years ago
There MUST be some place besides prison where people can avoid the political craziness. Any decent deserted islands out there that aren’t in the path of hurricanes?
Darsan54 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Yep, I understand the feelings.
Can't Sleep over 9 years ago
The problem is that most of the candidates are the ones who need to be locked up – and sedated.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 9 years ago
Sadly the prisons have shared TV, and a surprising number of felons like to watch the presidential debates with an almost schadenfreudic glee: “It’s like they don’t even know how the institutions they create operate.”
phylum over 9 years ago
for whom the bell polls…..i mean tolls….lt polls….i mean tolls for thee…
Reppr Premium Member over 9 years ago
“Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoonGoing to the candidates’ debateLaugh about it, shout about itWhen you’ve got to chooseEvery way you look at it you lose”
Varnes over 9 years ago
But wait! This year we have a special guest star for you viewing pleasure……
Varnes over 9 years ago
Wait, it could be a HYUGE dinosaur, T. Rump…..Although there is probably a more precise word than rump to describe it….I know, I know, this is from 2011…. He could probably run this once every election year and it would always ring true….BTW, how did those guys cut through that pipe in N.Y.? Did they have a cutting torch, a chisel? Saw? Fingernail file? And how far did they have to crawl through that nasty 2 ft wide pipe? A hundred feet? Man. I couldn’t do it……
whiteheron over 9 years ago
The road goes on foreverAnd the party never ends….
johndifool over 9 years ago
Our so-called leaders speakWith words they try to jail youThey subjugate the meekBut it’s the rhetoric of failure
JudyAz over 9 years ago
Ahhh, nothing like a good political joke…. except when he or she gets elected!
Duncan Idaho over 9 years ago
14 More months of Wiley pretending he’s not a political cartoonist.
feverjr Premium Member over 9 years ago
John Oliver put the early hyping of the presidential race in perspective, he said, there are children that will be born before the election whose parents haven’t met yet.
dabugger over 9 years ago
Yes, very appropriate, back to isolation; until one of those self seeking fools decides to campaign for votes in the ‘unwashed’ free inhabitants.
tripwire45 over 9 years ago
He might as well stay there forever. Even after the elections, some moron will be in the White House, regardless of political affiliation.
jahoody over 9 years ago
The British do it best…..30 days prior is all the pols get!!!
RayThomas101 over 9 years ago
Thank God there still IS real politics. there wasn’t in Soviet Russia, and not in Cuba. It’s people who pay no attention to politics who are the reason we’re in the trouble we’re in, now
Fido (aka Felix Rex) over 9 years ago
And just 16 more months until the rhetoric for Campaign 2020 gets under way.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member over 9 years ago
You can run and hide, but this sludge is everywhere.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Is there room for me? Please?
Diat60 over 9 years ago
What puzzles me about American politics is why there are only two parties? What if you don’t like either candidate? There don’t seem to be any alternatives except an ’independent" who has either no chance or no power if elected. Here we have three main parties which gives a real choice on voting day.
mggreen over 9 years ago
@ argythree, there’s one forming in the North Atlantic off SE Iceland. I don’t believe there is any of US diatribe there. However, one can’t rule out radio or internet via satellite . . .
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago
And they laughed at the people who built underground shelters in their back yards when the fight against the Commies was with a foreign enemy.Well… who’s laughing now?
spaced man spliff over 9 years ago
Nice thing about satellite radio: no politixx. I’m all about the music. Oh, and no ads, either. Well worth the subscription fees.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
argythreeSome of the smaller ones in the Spitzbergen group would qualify – if you like cold and isolation.
MiserichordOne or more of your list might do better if the corporate media would cover them. In 2010, I ran for Texas State Board of Education on the Green Party. The only mass media coverage I got was the Dalla Snooze saying only Republicans and Libertarians were running in that district. A request for correction brought only a verbatim repeat of the lie. LWV at least covered it in their candidate survey, but most only knew about it when they read the ballot – if then. And this is the body that de facto selects the textbooks for the whole country.
HowieL over 9 years ago
@Diat60As opposed as the two main American political parties are to each other, they will see a credible third party as a mortal threat to the System That Is (I.e. them) and will join forces to prevent the upset to the incumbent (I almost said “inbred”) power system. Common enemy, you know.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 9 years ago
My sentiments, exactly…except that it doesn’t help…the new campaign starts the day after the election.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 9 years ago
The TV networks would never allow it…they are raking in the cash for the nonstop politics.
Victor the Crab over 9 years ago
If that escaped convict knew Donald Trump was leading the Republican primaries, he’d head back to prison demanding the death penalty.
route66paul over 9 years ago
You can’t get away from it. Not voting is also a choice, but to hear people talk, you are committing a sin.I feel that the sin is single issue voters and those that vote as they are told from work, union, or pulpit.
TAZFAN over 9 years ago
I’m ready for some more Gravesytes. Did I spell it right?
dawnsfire about 9 years ago
I refuse to consider ANYTHING about the elections until January 2016 at the earliest. Half of it’s rigged anyway…