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swampland: Oct 16, 2007; Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

Post ridiculous moments in politics that make you laugh!

Here's a few to get it started:

Mike Gravel's strange experimental ad campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

Mitt Romney awkwardly reaching for some kind of pop culture thing blacks like and landing on Who Let the Dogs Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4

Rob Ford angrily waddles over to a councilor and knocks her over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1dJeMtb08

Rob Ford eats pussy at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4siKr6qY8w

A couple from my country:

Prime Minister Robert Muldoon announces a snap election drunk as gently caress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDve40cxlk

An incredibly smug and dumb Young Act (NZ libertarian party) member explains why we need Edison Hour instead of Earth Hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9MqNzQuuk

# ? Mar 1, 2015 03:38

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 02:33

Celery Face: Feb 18, 2012

John Boehner making kissy faces at a reporter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbee5yefI5A

This John Oliver segment is basically a bunch of clips of Tony Abbott being an idiot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk

Someone calls into a radio station passionately defending Rob Ford (whom he suspiciously sounds a lot like). As soon as someone asks "Is this Rob Ford," he hangs up.
http://globalnews.ca/news/939756/audio-did-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-call-a-local-radio-station-to-defend-himself/

Celery Face has a new favorite as of 04:50 on Mar 1, 2015

# ? Mar 1, 2015 04:35

Bible Ian Black: Jul 16, 2009; I'M THE GUY
WHO SUCKS

PLUS I GOT
DEPRESSION

Howard Dean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q

# ? Mar 1, 2015 04:51

Riders of Brohan: Mar 31, 2011

Michelle Bachmann serves water for male republican candidates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My538atyCVY

# ? Mar 1, 2015 05:05

Jetfire: Apr 29, 2008

Jean Chr�tien, bad rear end mother fucker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMBJp0yJvsY

# ? Mar 1, 2015 05:13

Bible Ian Black: Jul 16, 2009; I'M THE GUY
WHO SUCKS

PLUS I GOT
DEPRESSION

Riders of Brohan posted:

Michelle Bachmann serves water for male republican candidates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My538atyCVY

Haha woah this is hosed up.

Joe Biden falls asleep that one time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdF_ALg5I_o

# ? Mar 1, 2015 05:21

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Posting Muldoon in 1984 in the OP is instantly setting the bar too high for the rest of the thread to possibly match from the get-go.

Apparently at the end of one of his televised debates he turned to Lange as the lights were going down and said "I love you, David". The mics were still on.

This was also pretty good:

http://youtu.be/fQUXqnkce84

# ? Mar 2, 2015 11:42

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-xxoQwOo4
Most unparliamentary language in Ireland

# ? Mar 2, 2015 12:11

Sponge Baathist: Jan 30, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

Just another day at the races:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYyv-iLmRY

# ? Mar 2, 2015 12:27

Elfface: Nov 14, 2010; Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH

Then Deputy PM John Prescott getting in touch with the electorate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc

Or Godfrey Bloom showing that UKIP is most certainly not a recist or sexist party, they're totally reasonable folks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPBn5SLcxE

# ? Mar 2, 2015 15:11

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

The current leader of the opposition in Australia should really quit politics and get into standup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cAyfsd67_I

Senator Jacqui Lambie, on the other hand, demands to be taken seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63FGy3mPWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoEogerj_9o

Tiggum has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Mar 3, 2015

# ? Mar 3, 2015 06:57

Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Joe Biden being sexy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy07yHAgM4E

# ? Mar 3, 2015 13:54

reality_groove: Dec 27, 2007

The Mayor of London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRwnXmdRCo

Michael Howard repeatedly evading Jeremy Paxman's question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KHMO14KuJk

# ? Mar 5, 2015 01:40

swampland: Oct 16, 2007; Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

A news station tries to manufacture controversy out of the Mayor of Minneapolis pointing in a photo by saying she was making gang signs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwb8z0A5nM

Real life lazy comedy writer's caricature of an idiot makes a public forum proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc

DMX finding out Barack Obama is in the running to be the democratic candidate

swampland has a new favorite as of 10:30 on Mar 5, 2015

# ? Mar 5, 2015 10:23

Concatenation: Jul 23, 2005; Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

Tony Abbott OS BSOD & restart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT9XS_TvzQ

and who could forget AEROFALLOSOV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYe4yXN9EU

# ? Mar 5, 2015 10:43

Whybird: Aug 2, 2009; Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar; Nap Ghost

Surprise we haven't seen this yet:

# ? Mar 5, 2015 19:23

BooLoo: Oct 18, 2010; SLAM TIME

This thread needs some Boris Yeltsin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5S-_RLddQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4

# ? Mar 5, 2015 20:00

the future is WOW: Sep 9, 2005; I QUIT!

Garry Kasparov's rally being interrupted Second Life style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0&t=20s

# ? Mar 5, 2015 20:20

princecoo: Sep 3, 2009

I'm Australian. This video makes me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5t0OcYnGc

Then it makes me cry.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 03:13

Stick Figure Mafia: Dec 11, 2004

This man's speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsCe2LIYkNo

# ? Mar 6, 2015 04:11

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Joe Biden laying a sick burn on Rudy Giuliani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPOAKXBi9Pw

# ? Mar 6, 2015 04:47

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Herman Cain drops out using a quote from a Pokemon movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc

# ? Mar 6, 2015 10:54

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Because there's literally only three funny moments in NZ political history, here's the third.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0

# ? Mar 6, 2015 11:00

blunt for century: Jul 4, 2008; I've got a bone to pick.

When Mitt Romney got all spray tanned for his appearance on Telemundo

When Michele Bachmann decided to hide in the bushes to spy on a gay rights event

# ? Mar 6, 2015 18:17

Semi-Protato: Sep 11, 2001

Carly Fiorina's educational video about sheep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKWlOxhSIKk

# ? Mar 6, 2015 18:40

Shrecknet: Jan 2, 2005

Rick Perry has a firm grasp of scope of the US bureaucracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uvmKnFY4uk

# ? Mar 6, 2015 18:50

SurreptitiousMuffin: Mar 21, 2010

If people aren't watching those Muldoon videos, they really should. Motherfucker looks he's about to abandon a cabinet meeting at any second to start firing sludge-bombs at Captain Planet.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:46

swampland: Oct 16, 2007; Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

WickedHate posted:

Herman Cain drops out using a quote from a Pokemon movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc

Any questions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdpN5C1_flQ

# ? Mar 7, 2015 02:49

Zore: Sep 21, 2010; willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d�etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

I maintain this is still the greatest political ad of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt35BYEOlEw

# ? Mar 8, 2015 11:17

Thinky Whale: Aug 2, 2012; All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Fry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q--5WhmCoyQ

George W. Bush uses the 2006 State of the Union Address to warn against the creation of chimera monsters.

# ? Mar 8, 2015 11:57

Wheat Loaf: Feb 13, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Shown to me on another forum; you need to look very carefully at this one:

Look at how much you can save compared to the recommended retail price.

# ? Mar 21, 2015 12:43

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

Wheat Loaf posted:

Shown to me on another forum; you need to look very carefully at this one:

Look at how much you can save compared to the recommended retail price.

I see it, I did the math, I don't get it?

# ? Mar 21, 2015 12:59

atal: Aug 13, 2006; burning down the house

It's a bit obscure unless you are a politics nerd. The referendum failed because 'only' 45% voted for independence - 50pc was required, I believe.

# ? Mar 21, 2015 14:26

swampland: Oct 16, 2007; Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

I suddenly felt a deep need to revive this thread after I heard Donald Trump announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JsiGQMMoe4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJpWOY3r18

# ? Jun 19, 2015 02:25

Grifter: Jul 24, 2003; I do this technique called a suplex. You probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty obscure.

Not a youtube, but The Long History of Musicians Telling Republicans to Stop Playing Their Music.

# ? Jun 19, 2015 02:37

swampland: Oct 16, 2007; Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

Grifter posted:

Not a youtube, but The Long History of Musicians Telling Republicans to Stop Playing Their Music.

Paul Ryan and Tom Morello was pretty funny

Tom Morello posted:

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Ryan claims that he likes Rage's sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "gently caress the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!

Don't mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

You see, the super rich must rationalize having more than they could ever spend while millions of children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night. So, when they look themselves in the mirror, they convince themselves that "Those people are undeserving. They're . . . lesser." Some of these guys on the extreme right are more cynical than Paul Ryan, but he seems to really believe in this stuff. This unbridled rage against those who have the least is a cornerstone of the Romney-Ryan ticket.

But Rage's music affects people in different ways. Some tune out what the band stands for and concentrate on the moshing and throwing elbows in the pit. For others, Rage has changed their minds and their lives. Many activists around the world, including organizers of the global occupy movement, were radicalized by Rage Against the Machine and work tirelessly for a more humane and just planet. Perhaps Paul Ryan was moshing when he should have been listening.

My hope is that maybe Paul Ryan is a mole. Maybe Rage did plant some sensible ideas in this extreme fringe right wing nut job. Maybe if elected, he'll pardon Leonard Peltier. Maybe he'll throw U.S. military support behind the Zapatistas. Maybe he'll fill Guantanamo Bay with the corporate criminals that are funding his campaign � and then torture them with Rage music 24/7. That's one possibility. But I'm not betting on it.