is there a Dickhead party he could run for? Can't see anyone else having him on their books
Is John McAfee running for US president? 'My campaign manager told me not to comment'
Move over, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It appears paranoid wild man of computer security John McAfee is running for US President. The website McAfee2016.com popped up on Tuesday, as well as a Twitter account for McAfee For President. The site was linked to from McAfee's official social media accounts before the posts …
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 00:03 GMT TitterYeNot
"is there a Dickhead party he could run for"
Pray he finds one this time round. Otherwise, if he waits till 2020 it'll be John McAfee vs. Kanye West, the zenith of human accomplishment will be achieved, and in 3.5 million years the dominant intelligent insect species will be asking their archaeologists "So, this evolved ape extinction stuff, erm, was it an asteroid or what?"
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 12:23 GMT LucreLout
Re: I hope he wins
@FozzyBear
It would make the nightly news the most entertaining thing to watch on TV.
It would indeed, but my only reservation about that, and you'll have to forgive me for raising such a dull trivilaity, is that they have metric fucktonnes of nuclear weapons. McAfee would be deeply funny as President, right up until he wasn't....
Even commies buy iPhones, so if we're going watch America elect the joker, I'd rather said joker was Trump. He'd be averse to nuking his customers for shits & giggles. Frankly, the world has earned a rest from the Bushes and the Clintons playing at Hatfields & McCoys.
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Tuesday 8th September 2015 22:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
Thank you!
We in the US deeply appreciate all the great Britcom shows you've sent over the past 40 years: Python, Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, and all the rest.
We'd like to reciprocate, but we are crap at making funny TV shows. Our only skill nowadays seems to be "reality" shows, which are about as real as the silicone attachments you see on many of our "actresses".
However, this year, we present the most outrageous comedy of them all, a presidential campaign. Never before has there been such a cast of " characters". It may not be as dramatic as Game of Thrones or House of Cards (or as funny as Yes, Minister), but we think it should keep you giggling for a while.
Between the campaign and the new "religious conscience" excuse for not doing your job, we as Americans are proud to give the rest of the world some much needed laughs.
And hey, it beats dropping bombs on you.
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 07:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Three schools of thought on this,
1. The American people really are dumb schmucks otherwise how did Ronald Reagan and George W Bush get in power? The two dumbest people I've ever seen in positions of power.
2. It doesn't matter you don't really have a democracy anyway and your current president's real name is Token.
3. You'll either vote John Jackson or Jack Johnson.
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 08:19 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
My heart is for Bush, but my bush is for Hart
Every 4 years gives me an opportunity to dust off this quote from the 1988 US Presidential Election, by a female Republican supporter:
Monkey Business was the yacht in which Gary Hart was pictured with Donna Rice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donna_Rice_and_Gary_Hart.jpg
Bush being George H.W. Bush
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 09:52 GMT Uncle Slacky
Not possible legally...
...as he doesn't meet the residency requirement - to be eligible to run, you have to have lived in the US for the previous 14 years at least:
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
Not that Ted Cruz is worried about the "natural born citizen" part, of course.
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 10:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Not possible legally...
Taking the literal interpretation of the quoted phrase it doesn't actually say that those fourteen years have to have been the most recent fourteen, just that the person should have had fourteen years of residency, but perhaps there is some legal precedent that has tested this argument?
As a natural born resident limey it's not really my place to comment upon the political situation of our cousins across the pond (although that probably won't stop many of my fellow countrymen from doing so), however, if JMcA were to head up a political party over here I'd vote for 'em just for the lulz.
All settled democracies have unelected (and often unaccountable) mechanisms in place to stop the comedic procession of figureheads that the electorate votes for from doing any real long term damage to the future prospects of the ruling class.
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