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Last night, New York’s candidates in the 2010 gubernatorial election participated in a televised debate. On the one hand, you had attorney general and democratic party machine candidate Andrew Cuomo. On the other hand, you had Crypt Keeper and guardian of the anti-homo flame, Carl Paladino. And on the THIRD hand, you had candidate Jimmy McMillan. Whoa. Hello, Jimmy McMillan. As he will tell you himself in the clip (after the jump), he represents the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, whose primary political platform is that the rent is too damn high. AGREED! The rent IS too damn high! At some point, Andrew Cuomo says, “I agree with Jimmy, the rent is too damn high.” Uh, yeah, it is. We all agree, dude. While the Rent Is Too Damn High Party is mostly focused on the issue of rent being too damn high, they do have a couple of other political positions outlined to deal with today’s complicated world. Those political positions are: have fancy moustaches, be karate experts, wear gloves inside, allow people to marry shoes, and finally, that doesn’t mean you can forget that the rent is too damn high.
The party’s official netsite is pretty great and Jimmy McMillan’s “personal” netsite is also pretty great.
Seriously, though, you guys VOTE OR DIE OR WHATEVER on Tuesday, November 2nd. (Thanks for the tip, Matt, Daniel, and Baby Friday.)
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Provide a roof over your head, food on the table, money in your pocket, and balls on your chin
“A chicken in every pot, and a pair of balls on every chin.”
- Henry IV
I think the balls on the chin were Falstaff’s idea.
And gentlemen in New York now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their mustache cheap whiles any speaks
That paid their rent upon McMillan’s day.
And he to-day that comments a-blog with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile
hey R2D2,E, look at this thing I just saw:
http://happyfew.tumblr.com/
Awesome. Thanks for the link.
Is it wrong that I kind of dig what this guy is saying?
I will agree with whatever that mustache says.
What? That is a damn fine mustache.
The mustache is hypnotic.
Can we all just agree that what this guy is saying is not that out there? Rent too high? Check. Kids need food? Double-check. It’s common (mustache) sense.
Sam Elliot should do a testimonial.
Did someone say mustache?
Jason mustaches are my favorite kinds.
This is the mustache I was thinking of!
This Guy is My Shit
No, he’s passionate, speaks from the heart, and makes perfect sense; which is why he’ll never make it as a politician.
If they stopped having all these parties, they wouldn’t have to pay such high security deposits.
He’s got this guy’s vote.
10 bucks says this is Samuel L. Jackson’s “I’m Not Here.”
Ack. Meant “I’m Still Here.” But then again, with copyrights and whatever, he might have to go with the “Not.” Food (the people don’t have!!) for thought.
“I’m sick of these moth f**king rents in these mother f**king apartments!”
Gabe sure watched a lot of C-SPAN this weekend.
That happens when you reach a certain age. Mostly so you can grumble about how much better things were “back in your day.”
I think our children can’t afford to live anywhere because they only get like $3 a week in allowance.
What about the trust fund babies?
They spend all of their money on cool hipster baby haircuts and gold pacifiers and blow?
That baby is listening to a band you probably haven’t heard of.
…eating Gerber Blue Ribbon.
Listening to Raffi on vinyl.
She only sucks that pacifier ironically, though.
I just upvoted every single one of you. Good job, guys!
So I was actually there, backstage, as a member of the Howie Hawkins campaign (Green Party).
So the weirdest part of the night, really, was prior to the debate. Carl Paladino came up to Jimmy McMillan and gave him a huge hug.
So where the hell is he from, anyway? I was watching this last night, and that accent isn’t from any part of New York that I know.
Howie’s from San Francisco, but he grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of workers who had moved there from the south to work in the factories, so he has sort of a weird accent.
Was it even more incredible in person? I think I’d just be totally flabbergasted.
Yea, I mean politics is what I do but, it was amazing and frustrating for a few reasons
- as much of a freak show as McMillan and Kristen Davis were, at least all candidates were invited to participate, ’cause, you know, that’s what should happen in a democracy.
- the media was not interested in substantive topics at all… Hawkins (Green Party) and Redlich (the Libertarian) had substantive issues to discuss but before and after the media was only interested in talking to the big “personality” candidates like McMillan, Davis, and Charles Barron.
- Carl Paladino looks even more like a dead guy in person than on TV – strange but true.
- Paladino was so lost, people backstage were commenting on it. Plus he got up during the middle of closing statements ’cause he had to pee!
- Davis’ entourage was all male… unsure if they were her clients or not.
Cuomo didn’t even appear backstage except immediately before and after the debate. King Cuomo is apparently afraid of any unwanted attention.
- I have pics I will try to post!
Does this work? It’s a pic of McMillan in the media room after the debate (he was surrounded by reporters):
This is so cool! I feel so backstage right now. I am totally going to work this info into random conversations:
Friend: “Did you see Inception? That shit was bananas!”
Me: “Yeah, but not as bananas as the New york gubernatorial race, Broseph Stalin. You know, the media was not interested in substantive topics at all… Hawkins (Green Party) and Redlich (the Libertarian) had substantive issues to discuss but before and after the media was only interested in talking to the big “personality” candidates like McMillan, Davis, and Charles Barron. Also, Carl Paladino looks even more like a dead guy in person than on TV – strange but true.
Friend: “Wow, you know a lot about the New York gubernatorial race!”
Me: “I know a guy on the inside. WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!”
This is the media with Kristen Davis, the madame who got Eliot Spitzer his prostitute. They’re either talking to her about the debate or about her availability afterwards.
Teacherman, how do you do an extended wink? I just practiced a couple of times and it just looks like I have Bell’s palsy.
@Frank Lloyd Wrong
Good looking out, CoD.
CoD just almost got me kicked out of the law library for laughing.
As an expert in karate, I will chop rents to a more damn reasonable level.
As a karate expert, I will use a machete to shape my beard.
What do you think about gay marriage?
The rent is too damn high
So you think they should get married for tax breaks?
he said He’d Marry a Person and a Shoe if they wanted, he ain’t care.
Oops. Great campaign strategy a few weeks away from the election.
Yeah was just gonna say, I got some Hot New Blogs to Download
guess the rent was too damn high.
The whole debate was a Three.Ring.Circus. Paladino walked off stage before it was over because he had to find a bathroom, and there was like 5 other candidates that had no business being on stage. Cuomo even agreed that “the rent is too damn high” at one point! So basically it was awesome…but sad. Do we need any more proof that politics and government has become a joke? NO! Therefore, I propose everyone vote for Jimmy McMillan.
I’ve been waiting for you to weigh in on the solidness of his mustache!
Mustache Politics are so 2009
Wink ; )
To bad New York can’t keep it classy like the Kentucky Senate race:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DItTNM8fBq8
“No more Senators for you Kentucky, not until you learn how to behave.” –God
Rand Paul makes me ashamed of living in Kentucky. Actually, living in Kentucky make me ashamed of living in Kentucky. Fucking hate this place.
Where you at, shakes? Lexington’s not so bad. We love art, the gays and good music! (also drinking, horses and basketball!)
I’ve always wondered what would happen when you cross pollinate Colonel Sanders with a Dolemite movie.
Support for human/shoe marriage is definitely a great way to say/not say that you support gay marriage. That’s what he meant, right?
Probably, but I’m really interested in his stance on people with two left feet.
At 1:03, you’ll see my boyfriend is, once again, in drag.
I thought gabe made all that stuff up about karate and marrying shoes. I thought it was the funniest list of random shit off the top of anyone’s head I’d seen in a while.
I was actually a little disappointed when they came up in the video.
it’s more fun just to guess what this political party is about (aka what this dude is into).
best new party game – other political positions of the rent is too damn high party:
read upsidedown
underwater jog for 1/2 an hour everyday
bananas are the best fruit ever
The national anthem should be changed to “Yakkety Sax”
Liver Mush for lunch in our state’s public elementary schools
drink your soup in a cup
Eat pie from a cup (I just did this!)
Then you know what I’m talkin’ about!
Pie gets an upvote every single time. Cup or no.
Pet salamanders for everyone
The pledge of allegiance should always be recited in pig latin.
Always Be Cookin’!
More water bottles per person on stage, please.
So, I know rent is too damn high, but did The Walrus have any suggestions on how to lower it? Did he also think mortgages are too damn expensive? Because I certainly feel that mine is.
Does anyone have footage of the end of the debate? I’m looking for the part where Mr. McMillan goes off on a tangent about how he and Mr. Paladino used to date.
The official website has a song playing in the background that is GREAT. It is the sickest groove I’ve ever heard since Bob Dole’s “My Arm Ain’t The Only Thing That’s Stiff”.
A chicken in every pot and a mustache in every garage!
I wonder if the apartment above his dojo is available…
Seriousgum for a second. I am so in favor of non-Democran/Republicrat parties being taken seriously, because democracy. And yet, I am terrified (terrified, I say) that while I’m voting for Howie Hawkins and Gabe is voting for Jimmy McMillan, nobody’s going to be voting for Andrew Cuomo and BLAM! Paladino-tine gets the governor’s mansion just in time for the pre-2012 festivities to begin. What I mean to say is, where’s all the wacky RIGHT WING candidates to split THAT guy’s base?
Paladino’s boyfriend (you) rocks this kind of stache….
Thank you, goodnight!
If you turn this upside down it’s a pretty good reproduction of the uterus+ovaries diagram.
★★★★★
If you turn this upside-down, it’s a pretty good reproduction of the uterus + ovaries diagram.
(I only sort of know why that happened)
I think Samuel Jackson is pulling an “I’m Still Here”-style trick on us all.
If the Rent is Too Damn High Party Mascot is a cool animal, I’m in. Donkeys…lame! Elephants…not from America! A Mountain Lion would be cool. I could get behind that. I would like a cool red, white, and blue Mountain Lion button.
I love this guy. I say we draft him to run for President, get that “Pants on the Ground” guy to run as his VP…and we’ve got a winning ticket.