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Mr. Morden
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« on: July 26, 2014, 12:03:22 AM »
Greatest infographic to ever appear on the Washington Post website:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/23/darth-vader-is-polling-higher-than-all-potential-2016-presidential-candidates/



Yes, the entire congressional leadership is more unpopular than Jar Jar Binks.
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 12:06:13 AM »
lol, I'm surprised that Rubio is more popular than Palpatine...
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM »
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 04:39:19 PM »
I see that Joe Lieberman is slightly more popular than Paul Ryan.
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 05:55:42 PM »
Quote from: Simfan34 on July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?

Because people enjoy secretly rooting for the Empire?
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« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2014, 06:05:26 PM »
Quote from: Simfan34 on July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?

Palpatine was a strong leader who made the starships run on time.
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« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2014, 07:06:07 PM »
Quote from: Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do on July 26, 2014, 06:05:26 PM
Quote from: Simfan34 on July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?

Palpatine was a strong leader who made the starships run on time.

But he unfortunately made the wealth gap on Coruscant explode during his time as emperor.


...wow. What am I doing with my life.
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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2014, 07:28:34 PM »
Quote from: Simfan34 on July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?

They don't approve of him.  They have a favorable opinion of him.  The job approval / favorability confusion here extends to fictional characters I guess?
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« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2014, 09:39:01 PM »
There's a certain panache in Palpatine being more popular than Ryan...
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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2014, 09:45:25 PM »
What was Emp. Palpatine's positions on Blaster Control and Drone Marriage?
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2014, 09:57:52 PM »
Why is Boba Fett popular? All he did was fall in that sand-pit thing.
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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2014, 10:05:19 PM »
Yeah. But he was a bounty hunter and he had an interesting back story in the prequel trilogy.
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« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2014, 10:22:09 PM »
Quote from: Small L on July 26, 2014, 10:16:27 PM
Besides, the guy who fell in the sarlacc pit wasn't really Boba Fett.#wakeupthesheeple

Yeah, it was one of the passengers on MH370, who'd been pushed in there by the Ukrainian government to frame Putin.

This was back in 1983, before Ukrainian independence, so the conspiracy runs rather deep.
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« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2014, 11:11:47 PM »
« Edited: July 27, 2014, 12:24:35 AM by badgate »
Quote from: Simfan34 on July 26, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
Why do people approve of Emperor Palpatine?

lightning fingers are cool, even if they're a sith power
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« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2014, 12:03:35 AM »
« Edited: July 27, 2014, 12:07:51 AM by ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ »
Quote from: Mr. Morden on July 26, 2014, 10:22:09 PM
Quote from: Small L on July 26, 2014, 10:16:27 PM
Besides, the guy who fell in the sarlacc pit wasn't really Boba Fett.#wakeupthesheeple

Yeah, it was one of the passengers on MH370, who'd been pushed in there by the Ukrainian government to frame Putin.

This was back in 1983, before Ukrainian independence, so the conspiracy runs rather deep.


The Ukraine also tried to frame Putin by telling them them that in the future Larry McDonald would cause the Soviet Union to cease to exist, so Putin's pal, Anatoly Kornukov ordered Korean Airlines 007  shot down.

Then they killed 2 years until they could catch a ride with Doc Brown back to October 21, 2015.
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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2014, 12:41:22 AM »
Palpatine was extremely pro-human and vehemently anti-alien. So I guess he'd fit pretty well within today's politics. Tongue
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« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2014, 04:32:40 AM »
Quote from: Joshua on July 26, 2014, 07:06:07 PM
Quote from: Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do on July 26, 2014, 06:05:26 PM
Palpatine was a strong leader who made the starships run on time.

But he unfortunately made the wealth gap on Coruscant explode during his time as emperor.

That's only because you don't believe in trickle-down economics. Tongue
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« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2014, 04:42:10 AM »
ROFL
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« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2014, 08:43:24 PM »

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« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2014, 06:49:54 AM »
The respondents who disapprove of Darth Vader must be assuming that the pollsters were referring to this guy:
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