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    matt.maraHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 2:32am

    As I have said whenever Piyush Jindal’s name comes up:

    We are really sorry for inflicting this guy on you. The 55% who voted for him in 2007 and the 66% who re-elected him in 2011 were probably not really aware what a massive fuck-up he was going to be and what a nightmare he’d be for the entire nation. We swear—we’re really, really sorry. Please don’t hate us.

    I mean, c’mon, we aren’t Florida for fuck’s sake. We have Mardi Gras. And Southern Decadence.

    With love,
    The Sane Parts of Louisiana (aka, all of Louisiana south of I-10)

    P.S.: Yes, we realize that we’re home to those Duck Dynasty fuckers. But they live so far north they’re really part of Arkansas anyway.

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      JRumatt.mara
      6/03/15 2:43am

      Have you read the new history book on slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward Baptist? Louisiana looks like the worst place on Earth after US independence up to the Civil War. And he hints at how that slavery legacy continues up to today in the South.

      What’s shocking is that stupid historians had never told us this story, apparently, until only quite recently. I can’t believe that what Baptist tells us is supposed to be new.

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      CCmatt.mara
      6/03/15 2:51am

      Hey, I’m from Shreveport and I like to think I helped turn Caddo Parish blue in 2012.

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    burlivesleftnutHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 5:49am

    Jindal has the unique distinction of being even less popular in his home state than crypto-Marxist-in-chief Barack Obama.
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    Not really. See New Jersey.

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      flamingolingoburlivesleftnut
      6/03/15 9:22am

      Ditto Wisconsin. Walker’s approval rating has recently slipped below Obama’s. The same may be the case with Jeb too.

      This is a weird era of politics. It used to be that governors were considered promising presidential candidates because they could their states’ electoral votes to the table. Nowadays, that doesn’t seem to be part of the calculus for Republicans. They only seem to care about appealing to a tiny, fanatical national ‘base’.

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      burlivesleftnutflamingolingo
      6/03/15 9:33am

      I didn’t know that about Walker. I thought somehow he still polled well considering he was elected three fucking times. I hate that idiot. And Jeb was governor of Florida a while ago, I’m not sure what people’s opinions of him there matter at this point. Besides, Florida will probably vote for him anyway.

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    to-know-javaleHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 1:51am

    I just learned today he goes by “bobby” because he was about the same age as the brady bunch character. That is the least vague thing i know about this person.

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      IggyT2to-know-javale
      6/03/15 2:03am

      He likely goes by Bobby because his birth name is Piyush Jindal and he is well aware how ‘foreign’ that sounds to his target audience.

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      BlergIggyT2
      6/03/15 2:29am

      He definitely has racial issues he should deal with.

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    DarthPumpkinHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 1:49am

    Just think, Fox News is going to have to launch a whole extra network to give all these guys their own shows after the primaries.

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      Open RhoadesDarthPumpkin
      6/03/15 1:59am

      This is/was the point the whole time, the $peaking engagement. For all of them.

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      wcleaverkgbDarthPumpkin
      6/03/15 3:57am

      After Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show, who’s going to compile the hilarious cuts of all of these nightmares devouring one another. Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal in a debate? That’s comedy gold, with the added bonus that it will further expose the greedy, unethical frauds that are the GOP.

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    Denzel WashyourtongueHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 1:51am

    In a perfect world he would not be insane and would be on our side. The guy is smart as hell and would make an excellent progressive president. But since he’s a republican piece of dog doo-doo he shall remain “Bobby Jindal-Boy Governor” and nothing more.

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      Open RhoadesDenzel Washyourtongue
      6/03/15 2:05am

      This guy stuck a wet finger in the wind, and will come up snake eyes. Assimilation was his siren, and he’s dashed upon the rocks. Much shame...many millions, no doubt! but much shame...

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      Denzel WashyourtongueOpen Rhoades
      6/03/15 2:19am

      Him. Naw. I don’t think these guys are capable of feeling/being shamed. He’s running for president after it came out that he went to the unluckiest college ever and had to force some demons out of some fellow students. Not that exorcisms are shameful acts, no sir. But I would much rather save my vote for Van Helsing, when it’s time to elect our first demon-catcher in chief.

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    oh-indeed_cleared_his_cache_and_cookies_oopsHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 1:53am

    I really would like to know what the GOP plan for 2016 is. I mean, this is a weak field even by already weak standards. Herman Cain would be a solid middle-of-the-pack in this race. Like, are Republican party strategists just going, “Oh, shit, shit, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit,” or is there excitement about any of these candidates, or what?

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      qualifiedkiwioh-indeed_cleared_his_cache_and_cookies_oops
      6/03/15 2:06am

      It’s really, really depressing. Super lefty here and I should be excited at the prospect of the right-wing being blown out of the field but like, America can do better, you know?

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      Lannister Handjoboh-indeed_cleared_his_cache_and_cookies_oops
      6/03/15 9:17am

      The plan is to put the crazies out front, let them duel and pander to the extreme right, pull them slowly toward center so that they can drop Bush in as the moderate to clean up in the middle.

      By then he will be the only republican, so the righties will vote for him (a few will toss their chips toward the Liberarian, Paul mebbe?) happily when faced with Hillary as an opponent.

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    Jerry-NetherlandHudson Hongo
    6/03/15 1:59am

    Having choked the economy of Louisiana with the stroke of a pen last week - just to prove he’s the most homophobic of all the candidates - what was left for him to do?

    What a hideous, soulless excuse for a man.

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      McCoy's MistressHudson Hongo
      6/03/15 6:55am

      They look damn silly running 15 people in a primary. Are these people serious?

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        mwittierMcCoy's Mistress
        6/03/15 8:22am

        And yet, please, please, please let Michele Bachman announce. She is the ideal rancid cherry to top the shit sundae.

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        McCoy's Mistressmwittier
        6/03/15 8:34am

        Don’t you dare speak that way about Rick Perry!

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      NOLAgirlHudson Hongo
      6/03/15 2:07am

      In New Orleans, we can’t stand him. He’s actually an intelligent, well educated Rhodes Scholar who CHOSE to turn his brain off so as to pander to the people who he thought most likely to elect him. And so far, it has worked. But that’s only because we have the most screwed up state politics in the country. On the national level, he’s a joke (as he should be).

      Anyway, I’ll leave you with his portraits. This is who he imagines himself to be...

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        RagingBulldogNOLAgirl
        6/03/15 2:15am

        As a Louisiana native I mostly agree, but to be fair he rejected both of those paintings as an official portrait. But that is definitely what some stupid white conservatives (stupid because they can’t accept his Indian heritage) want him to look like.

        We actually had high hopes for him after the Blanco Katrina fiasco, and I actually convinced my very conservative grandparents to vote for him even though they thought he was Arab.

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        run, lillian!NOLAgirl
        6/03/15 2:23am

        o.O

        The one on the right is like... Prince Charles and Marc Almond had a baby.

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      nopunin10didHudson Hongo
      6/03/15 7:38am

      Well, does he count as the GOP’s token candidate-of-color this year? Like Herman Cain was last time?

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        TeenageMutantKinjanopunin10did
        6/03/15 9:10am

        I thought Ben Carson had already been declared ?

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        BillyColeSlawnopunin10did
        6/03/15 10:40am

        Ben Carson does not approve this message.

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