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My Feelings About the Candidates in GIFs
I haven’t posted much these past couple of weeks on Ricochet, partly due to some personal matters and a big workload. It’s also due to the not-uncommon experience of reading other Ricochetti’s thoughts and feeling I’ve got nothing really to add to the insightful, eloquent, and often hilariously witty comments they’ve already made.
But this weekend, I felt inspired to share my own reactions to the idea of voting for, or seeing as President, some of the most prominent candidates. Having neither Majestyk’s wit nor the depth of political knowledge of Ricochet’s morning editors, I shall instead resort to a method favored by my generation — the Millennials — and express my emotions about the candidates in GIFs.
Marco Rubio:
Ted Cruz:
Donald Trump:
(If it comes to that, I’ll do it, but I’m not gonna like it.)
Jeb Bush:
(Not a snowball’s chance in hell he’s getting the nomination or the presidency, but if he wants to keep wasting people’s time and money by staying in this race, he deserves all the ridicule he can get.)
Hillary Clinton:
(If she wins, I’ll seriously consider following Luke’s example and casting myself down some bottomless shaft.)
Bernie Sanders:
Feel free to post your own GIFs or pictures to share your opinions about the candidates.
Published in Elections, General
Rick Santorum
Jim Gilmore
Chris Christie
Excellent.
Fantastic!
I wake on Tuesday to discover that it was all a dream, Scott Walker won Iowa, and has a clear shot at the nomination:
Sort of like that last part of Inception where he knows there’s a good chance it’s a dream, but would prefer it to reality.
What happened to my creeping fungus?
Official gif for when Rand Paul catches fire:
Closer to actual reaction:
You and Garett made my day.
These are excellent! I think these should be a running theme.
This is fantastic! I am going to bookmark this so I can always find it. I feel like I may need the humour in the next 9 months or so.
These are great, Knotwise. You’ve perfectly captured my sentiments too.
Well done. Although I imagine a better Rubio gif would show Santa Anna’s army storming the Alamo. Save that one for if he’s elected president.
If you like the current Congress, you’re gonna love a Rubio presidency.
Thanks for the memories.
Hilarious idea
Oh man, if that were to happen, I’d be like:
Knotwise, this is simply brilliant. You’ve invented an entirely new art form.
Ricochet, embellishing western civilization!
Actually, he wasn’t kidding about it being a favored mode of self-expression among millennials–about 40% of the internet now looks like this, and frankly I’m not a little concerned about what we’ve wrought here today…
Trump
The entire country
Loved it.
We need some Mild Dismay gifs for those not entirely pleased by Monday’s results.
Except we don’t have airbags and seat belts to save us. :-(
I retract the compliment, Knotwise. Anything that encourages James Lileks represents a setback for western civilization, not an advance. (To make matters worse, I lost that pretty nice necktie.)
Hey, James, can you make us some Thomas Sowell GIFs. That could come in handy in the future.
What? No Carly?
I tried, but he’s so composed it’s hard to get anything good.
True. But I think I recall one interview though where Peter played some clips of Obama and you could see Sowell chuckling at the inanities.
Just use the circular googly eyes. Those fix any stalled PS project.
please accept my apologies for the mess I’ve made here with my posts. My computer is on its last legs and working against me these days. After several attempts at trying to write something moderately cleaver, I’ve given up.
Have it at it (The Obama clip starts at about 10:05):