Poll: Would you vote for Cthulhu for president 2012?

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

Azathoth as his running mate?

I was thinking Nytharlotep.

Only Nytharlotep would just pretend to be Cthulhu's mate, and then violently usurp the throne after his victory to force us all to worship azathoth and the Outer Gods. Oh, and anyone with a sanity level of more than zero gets shot instantaneously.

 

[timmytom1]

Depends on who would be his second in command

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

While I do appreciate the inherent comedy in this thread, a better time to deliver it would have been when all the only threads on American politics die down. Then I'd actually be able to laugh at this instead of forcing a chuckle.

EDIT: Actually, if your aim was to defuse all the tension going on in the community, I salute you.

And Sauron is cooler, so I'd vote for him. That, and he also is an avid fan of volcanoes, Hawaii's natural resource. he could totally tap us into untold reserves of geothermal power.

I was trying to defuse some of the tension. I saw lots of political threads and I wanted lighten things up a little.

 

[ScarlettRage]

Ehhrr.. Cthulhu for president in 2012!!
Are you seing the same signs that I am?

The world, as we know it, is coming to an end.


I would have to think about it. Why not?

as soon as i saw 2012 i started to think about that

 

[Vimbert]

While I do appreciate the inherent comedy in this thread, a better time to deliver it would have been when all the only threads on American politics die down. Then I'd actually be able to laugh at this instead of forcing a chuckle.

EDIT: Actually, if your aim was to defuse all the tension going on in the community, I salute you.

And Sauron is cooler, so I'd vote for him. That, and he also is an avid fan of volcanoes, Hawaii's natural resource. he could totally tap us into untold reserves of geothermal power.

I was trying to defuse some of the tension. I saw lots of political threads and I wanted lighten things up a little.

Well done. And I would honestly have to think about it before ALL HAIL CTHULHU

 

[TaborMallory]

The Thing That Should Not Be should be his campaign song.

They actually had Cthulu in mind when they wrote that song. Just a little fun fact.

Is there space in the poll to add the Leviathan?

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

OH GOD! this thread gave me an idea. Get some posters saying cthulu 2012 with a picture of him and put them up around town. It would be hilarious.

 

[Deef]

Would he appoint Zalgo as his VP?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Can't be any worse than Bush.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

The Thing That Should Not Be should be his campaign song.

They actually had Cthulu in mind when they wrote that song. Just a little fun fact.

Is there space in the poll to add the Leviathan?

Unfortunately I am out of space. Ill check if I can add it by removing something. I knew it was a song about Cthulhu which is why I choose that song.
Edit: I can add a new option. Any requests? I currently have the Leviathan, Slaneesh and Morgoth for president.

OH GOD! this thread gave me an idea. Get some posters saying cthulu 2012 with a picture of him and put them up around town. It would be hilarious.

That is a great idea. Ill keep that in mind next class president election.

 

[jboking]

Wait, wouldn't I go insane from his very existence on our plain? I wouldn't be voting, I would be running around screaming gibberish in the streets. So really, nothing to different from what I do now.

 

[scotth266]

I was trying to defuse some of the tension. I saw lots of political threads and I wanted lighten things up a little.

Then I salute you, with a thousand American flags fluttering in the wind behind me.

Rock on.

 

[Abedeus]

Wait, wouldn't I go insane from his very existence on our plain? I wouldn't be voting, I would be running around screaming gibberish in the streets. So really, nothing to different from what I do now.

And this is different from normal voters in America... how?

 

[Therumancer]

Actually people wearing buttons and putting up Cthulhu posters is ancient, it's been done for decades now. Sort of like the old "thought police" jokes and alleged organizations like "Students for an Orwellian Future".

This is why I say "no" it's just too trite and overdone.

The original joke was a slogan on posters and buttons saying "Cthulhu for President! Why vote for the lesser of two evils?". During BOTH elections before Obama there was also a "Bushthulhu" campaign joke being run off the Palladium boards by left wingers which was basically a satire of the now-ancient Cthulhu for president satire.

Truthfully I've always wanted to promote Warren Ellis' version of a left wing cantidate: "The Smiler", as a joke cantidate. Alas there aren't enough people interested in that one to actually spread it around.

The point being in his "Transmetropolitan" books that Spider goes to town on the current president he calls "The Beast" who is a huge right winger and has even done things like condemn segements of the population to toxic housing. Of course Spider is all over the guy, and criticisms of him make him famous. However in the end after doing his part to destroy the guy's campaign he realizes he was wrong, and a totally insane left winger comes into power with exagerrated policies based on real world leftist issues "to protect us from outdated and dangerous language and concepts in the costitution, like free speech". One of the reasons why I give Ellis so many points as a writer, he's a leftist IRL but slammed both sides more or less equally. Besides the final speech by The Beast to "Spider" that makes Spider realize how bad he F@cked up in that story kind of stuck in my mind "Don't say I don't believe in anything. I don't believe in anything YOU agree with, but that's not the same thing" and pointing out that with such a F@cked up world if he even makes 51% of the population happy and better off than they would be without him, in the end it's a win. Totally psycho guy too, but it was a powerful point taken in the context of a very disturbing portrayal of the future.

 

[timmytom1]

I was surprised that somebody said "hell no" in the poll though.

It`s a jesus lookalike ,seriously if you`re listening cut the holier than thou crap it ain`t going to win you any votes with the modern voteing public and if you don`t like it go fuck off to your daddy /joke

 

[theshadowiscast]

At least you know what you'll get if you voted for Cthulhu.

 

[spuddyt]

No. I play doubles chess with him - he has no grasp of tactics!
He's a nice...horrific abomination, though.

This thread has caught the attention of MaxTheReaper. I am honored.

Do you think he somehow paradoxically obtained his horrifically huge post count WITHOUT posting in just about every thread to pass through the alimentary canal that is the escapist's forum?

 

[jboking]

Wait, wouldn't I go insane from his very existence on our plain? I wouldn't be voting, I would be running around screaming gibberish in the streets. So really, nothing to different from what I do now.

And this is different from normal voters in America... how?

Well typically I keep my pants on(feels fun to insult myself, as a voter).

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

No. I play doubles chess with him - he has no grasp of tactics!
He's a nice...horrific abomination, though.

This thread has caught the attention of MaxTheReaper. I am honored.

Do you think he somehow paradoxically obtained his horrifically huge post count WITHOUT posting in just about every thread to pass through the alimentary canal that is the escapist's forum?

First time he's posted in one of mine. Plus I was not expecting to have any replies at all.