Holy cow

This is bad.  Really, really bad.  Elder Gods bad.

Damnitall, we need some Common Sense satellite control, right quick.

Why Hillary Clinton is in trouble

This seems pretty spot on:

Trump and Sanders, each in his own way, have shown too many people that it’s possible to hope for something other than an intolerable state of business as usual.  In the wake of their candidacies, a great many voters have decided that they’re no longer willing to vote for the lesser of two evils. 

That’s a point of some importance.  To my mind, it’s far from accidental that for the last few decades, every presidential election here in the US has been enlivened by bumper stickers calling on voters to support the presidential ambitions of Cthulhu, the tentacled primeval horror out of H.P. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic dread. I’m sorry to say that the Elder God’s campaign faces a serious constitutional challenge, as he was spawned on the world of Vhoorl in the twenty-third nebula and currently resides in the drowned corpse-city of R’lyeh, and as far as I know neither of these are US territory. Still, his bid for the White House has gotten further than most other imaginary candidacies, and I’ve long thought that the secret behind that success is Cthulhu’s campaign slogan: “Why settle for the lesser evil?”

In an election where most of the electorate is restless and looking for a change, not just more of the same, she represents more of the same.

The reason that this slogan reliably elicits laughter, in turn, is that the entire rhetoric of presidential politics in the United States for decades now has fixated on the claim that one party’s pet stooge won’t do anything quite as appalling as the other side’s will, even though they all support the same policies and are bought and sold by the same corrupt interests. Over and over again, we’ve been told that we have to vote for whatever candidate this or that party has retched up, because otherwise the other side will get to nominate a Supreme Court justice or two, or get us into another war, or do something else bad.  Any suggestion that a candidate might be expected to do something positive—that he or she might, for example, reject the bipartisan policies that have crashed the standard of living for most Americans, consigned the nation’s infrastructure to malign neglect, and pursued gargantuan corporate welfare programs, such as the worthless F-35 fighter, at the expense of anything more useful or necessary—is dismissed out of hand as “unrealistic.”

So why is this so bad for Hillary?  Because while we don't know that Trump will make changes here, it's a dead certainty that Hillary won't.  And people are looking for change.

The question is not whether there will be a Bradley Effect, the question is how big the Bradley Effect will be.  In the UK, all of the "you're a racist if you don't vote the way we want you to" led to the polls being off by about 8%.  Will the effect here be the same size?  More?  Less?

We'll see.  But with people wanting change and being told that they're racist to want change, this effect will be real.

Cthulhu 2016

OK, here's a candidate I might be able to get behind.

The web site is an absolute hoot - it has that "real candidate" smell to it - you know, the one that comes in a can with the K Street Lobbyist.  And there's a platform that I can whole heartedly endorse:

There is no special interest or issue too small for Cthulhu to fix. If puppies are being abused, Cthulhu will ensure puppy abusers will meet their end. If vegans are protesting your rendered meat product, vegans will become rendered meat product.

Mmmmm, vegans!

And like another front running candidate, he had a Reality Show, too:

Good Night, Cthluhu

Cthluhu for children.  It's actually pretty faithful to the original story.

Vote Elder God ticket

Get devoured first!

You think that we can vote ourselves out of this?  O RL'YEH?

The perfect gift for Mother's Day

Assuming you have a rather strange Mom ...

A T-shirt as a reminder of all the powdered, colored, sweetened drinks she used to make for you.

How to make Aquaman less useless

All my peeps dig Cthulhu

But it seems that not all my peeps dig spell check.