Hash presents: Recent International Electoral History as Told by GIFs

[Hash]

UK 2010
note: my memory of this is a bit rusty and I don't do research for these, so it might not be as complete as some of the others

Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 2007, he was ecstatic


Would he call an early election?


Finally he didn't and he waited until the end in 2010 to call one. At first the campaign was like


Gordon Brown was boring:


David Cameron was like:


but then OMG we found Nick Clegg and we were like all OMG


OMG Nick Clegg I love you so much I want your babies right now


Then there was that debate and OMG we loved Nick Clegg so much 4 EVA


The reaction to the debate was Cleggmania


OK, Cleggmania kind of died down when he let us down in the last two debates but we didn't really care since he was still the greatest


A few stranglers were still hating but


Meanwhile David Cameron was like


And Gordon Brown was all


Election day came and we were all excited. Cleggmania was gonna win! (well not really but the maniacs were crazy)


But it was not to be


The LibDems only won like 23% and crappy third place and even lost seats


The Tories won, but only a plurality in a hung parliament


Yet, Nick Clegg, who we still loved so much, was the kingmaker. Gordon Brown and Labour were like


Hell, everybody was like


Ultimately, our hero accepted a coalition with the Tories. The only condition was a referendum on some weird thing called 'AV'




The Cleggmaniacs were pissed since most of them were lefties who only liked Clegg because Labour CCTVs Iraq police state omg.


3 years later, remember the Cleggmaniacs?

[Smid]

I was looking forward to your bigotted woman GIF, but it was still an excellent story (as have been all your posts in this thread).

[Antonio the Sixth]

(obviously, I was a cleggmaniac... )

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Great work! Considering the 2013 election in Australia isn't until September, can you please do Australia 2010 in the meantime?

[Niemeyerite]

My dad was a Cleggmaniac, too. I wasn't (I'm still a Brownmaniac, which is worse).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I am so going to enjoy explaining 'cleggmania' to people in the future!

[Velasco]

Venezuela 2013
But then Chavez returned:

but then OMG we found Nick Clegg and we were like all OMG

We need that they appear to address us from time to time, even as spectres or mystical presences, because politics is too boring without them and we feel like orphans if they are not among us. Clegg is right now a spectre, although some people think that he's still alive. That's false. I'm cleggmaniac, of course

[You kip if you want to...]

2008 Democratic primary!

Greece's 2012 election clusterf**k!

[Antonio the Sixth]

2008 Democratic primary!

Greece's 2012 election clusterf**k!

^^^^^ Excellent ideas!

[Tayya]

This is the best thing.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Best thread ever.

Could you do Baden-Württemberg 2011 maybe? Or if not, then Netherlands 2012.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Mexico 2012?

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Greece 2012

Before 2009 or something, Greece was like this:


Greeks were chill and stuff:


Politics were simple. You had ND and PASOK (of which I am the sole legitimate leader, see HERE). The differences between both were HUGE. Earth shattering.
ND:
PASOK:

Then the economy went like:


Greeks were like


And the rest of the world said:


Austerity was a great success. Oh wait.


Unfortunately it was time for another election. ND and PASOK's campaign was awful. Summarized:


Everybody started loving old parties run by cranks or crazies or new parties run by cranks or crazies. This included the old KKE (Stalinist crazies)...


... SYRIZA, which quickly became the True Leftist party of choice because ZOMGZ MERKEL NAZIS or ZOMGZ AUSTERITY or ZOMGZ TSIPRAS IS LIKE NICK CLEGG XCEPT ACTUALLY LEFT-WING or ZOMGZ THE BANKSTERS or ZOMGZ THE NEOLIBERALS!!1111


... ANEL, which quickly became the Paultard/right-wing conspiratards party of choice because ZOMGZ NEW WORLD ORDER


... or, more scarily, 'Golden Dawn' (their actual name being Golden Shower), which were actually Nazis. Like actually facking Nazis. Like people who actually jacked off to Hitler


Everybody was like


Except that the election turned out as a massive clusterfark of epic proportions. As for ND and PASOK, the result was clear:


Every other party did well...


even the Nazis.


It was impossible to form a government. Like actually impossible. Merkel and everybody else was like


So... guess what? NEW ELECTION!


This was serious business now though. Basically, according to the austerity masturbators, if ND won the whole world would be saved for nuclear armageddon and we could kill as many poor people as necessary; if SYRIZA won, we were doomed and we might as well commit mass suicide since it was all over. ND wanted everyone who didn't want the whole planet to blow up to join them


... and SYRIZA told us not to worry because if you just raised spending, restore to everything to the good old days and yell a bit at Merkel it would all be fine and you wouldn't have to default or leave the Eurozone. Amirite?!
 

As for the other parties, we stopped caring by now since it was VRY SRS BIZNESS


Except Golden Shower, which, despite being facking Nazis, just keep doing well...


Merkel was planning to do this if SYRIZA won


Election day came and we were all anxious


Finally ND won and got the lolworthy majority bonus. The majority bonus can be explained easily:


PHEW.


We were saved, but all this sh**t still meant that you still needed austerity and that it would require killing poor people again


In the meantime, Golden Shower had done very well again and all this sh**t meant that it will keep doing better as time goes by...


So we got some ND-PASOK-DIMAR (useless Moderate Hero thing) government.


I wish to use this platform to reiterate that I am the sole legitimate leader of PASOK, and that what is rightfully mine was taken from me by George Papandreou and some fat dude who should lay off the KFC because seriously.


--PASOK Leader Hashemite

[Antonio the Sixth]

This is epic.

[Sol]

Best. Thread. Ever.

[Hash]

Hey, guess who's back?

Mexico 2012

So, Mexico was gonna elect a new President. From a long way out, the favourite was one man named 'EPN'


A lot of people were gushing about him


But he was from the PRI, which had ruled Mexico between 1929 and 2000, often screwing sh**t up in the process. And also being corrupt, incompetent and most likely in bed with drug lords. So, a lot of other people said EPN was like this


I mean, there's the good chance that he killed his first wife...


Most people thought he was dumb as a doorknob, never having read a book in his life


For example, he was once unable to name any one book that had influenced him besides "teh Bible!!11"


After that, his oldest daughter, PauPen, called those who criticized her dad "prole assholes" who were "jealous"


But for some reason, no matter how dumb he came off as, he was a real teflon.


In general, EPN's campaign consisted of bullsh**t


He had three opponents, two of them relevant. The first one was AMLO, a leftist firebrand who was perpetually pissed off and angry


He had lost the 2006 election by a hair and got angry


The other was a nice lady called JVM, who was nice and probably a good person but really boring so nobody gave a crap


Nobody cared about her


And there was some dude named Quadri who wanted to LEGALIZE POT, so the Paultards started gushing...


but guys he was the idiotic tool of some corrupt union boss


Then EPN won the election


AMLO was like OH HELL NO


Everybody else stopped caring

[Antonio the Sixth]

It's back!

France 1997 might be worth it, if it's not too far ago for you.

[Peter the Lefty]

This is hilarious, Hash!  I realize you're being flooded with recommendations, but may I suggest Italy 2013 for your next episode?

[Hash]

Already done, and probably my best one yet:

Italy 2013

Berlusconi's policies, platform, goals, vision etc since 1994:


Berlusconi's record since 1994:


The delirious crowds at Bersani rallies:


Meanwhile, Mario Monti's speeches:


And Grillo's speeches


Bersani's platform summarized:


A few months before, when Berlusconi was below 20%:


When Berlusconi started closing in in the polls:


When the exit polls came out:


Our reaction to the results showing Berlusconi ahead:


Our reaction to the results showing the left barely ahead:


What we were like all day/night watching results:


What the Berlusconi fans were like:


Phew, the left eeked out a win. The 'victory' speech:


The PD campaign summarized


No, this is more accurate:


Matteo Renzi meeting Bersani the next day:


When we realized what the hell just happened:


Bersani: "damn I kind of screwed this thing up no?"


Also, the Grillists did really well. Grillo was like:


We were like:


Angela Merkel was like:


Our reaction to the whole damn thing:


What everybody else thought of Italy the next day:


Bersani to the Grillists after the election:


But the Grillists were like:


When we asked Bersani about a grand coalition with Silvio:


But then the PD formed a government with Berlusconi. We were like:


What we thought when Enrico Letta announced his government:


And Berlusconi was like:


Further requests?

[Peter the Lefty]

Ah, sorry.  Didn't see that one.  Love it, though.  I guess after it happens, Australia 2013 will be fun. 

[RogueBeaver]

Canada 2011?

[Franknburger]

Germany 2002 or 2005 - you might even include actual footage, such as Schroder half-drunk declaring himself as a winner in 2005, and ruling out any grand coalition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYs4CjWMkIM

Goes well together with this classic one:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3628911/Hol_mir_ma_ne_Flasche_bier

Also good: 90 seconds "please don't interrupt me" (2:15-3:45)
http://tvtotal.prosieben.de/tvtotal/videos/player/?contentId=16123

A few other classics from Germany might at least yield good pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX5ms5XdL3I
Check out minutes 6:30 - 7:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QLziJftAE

[Hash]

Back!

Czech Republic 2013

In 2010, a right-wing coalition of three parties formed government. They promised 3 things: fiscal responsibility, rule of law and reducing corruption


One of those parties, "Public Affairs" (wtf) was run by an INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST (so kewl!) and was ANTI-CORRUPTION!!1111... Best party ever?


Unfortunately, the government failed epically on all counts. Douple dip recession... corruption...


Public Affairs, as it turned out, was actually run by a businessman who bribed his own MPs to remain loyal. He was forced to resign as minister less than a year later. He later got sentenced to jail (but never went of course) but didn't feel like leaving politics


Obviously the government became as popular as the plague


The government's record:


Then in June 2013, the police arrested a bunch of people including the PM's chief of staff/mistress, accused of bribing three MPs and spying on the PM's then-wife to get him to divorce her


The PM was forced to resign. Meanwhile, the new President, Milos Zeman, elected directly in January, was a crazy man who wants to become dictator. Obviously these developments pleased him


Instead of naming who the right-wing parties wanted him to pick as PM, he took matters into his own hands and named a friend of his


Obviously the right was pissed off and his friend of his didn't get the confidence of the house


Eventually they just called new elections. The big favourites were the opposition Social Democrats whose ideology is being useless at everything they do


Also everybody in the party hates one another


The main right-wing party (ODS) didn't even try, since they were polling f-ing single digits


Some new populist ANTI-CORRUPTION party came on, ran by some really rich businessman


Then another populist party ran by some crackpot Japanese dude who is racist, probably a fascist.


Then the election came and it was a sh**tfest. The Social Democrats lived up to their ideology and did terribly


The populists did very well


The ODS collapsed basically


Everybody's reaction was basically


Nobody knows who will form the government so I guess everybody will be whoring themselves to one another

[RogueBeaver]

Awesome as usual. I missed this thread.

[Antonio the Sixth]

This thread is the best thing ever. Glad to see it's back!