You won’t like where I got this from but it is funny (here):
“First of all, I don’t even know what SimCity is. Okay? I don’t even know what it is. Secondly, it’s a lie. That’s all I can say. I don’t even know what SimCity is.” — Herman Cain, responding to accusations that his 9-9-9 tax plan was inspired by the video game SimCity 4.
Update. I think Donna Summers is a poet too. Also.
JPL
You know what else is a lie, he never said he trade gitmo prisoners a soldier.
edit ..just saying
AA+ Bonds
I’d like to point out how weird and cool it is to see the Teamsters use the phrase “Merry Pranksters” as a compliment. The Teamsters!
It’s like OWS went Superman II and traveled back in time to fix 1968.
Schad
He has yet to deny, however, that his favourite rhetorical device was inspired by that time that he zoned out in the produce section for a good five minutes.
AA+ Bonds
Herman Cain’s approval rating is directly proportional to the amount of Pokemon he has collected
Mark B.
9-9-9 was his second choice, but five dollar foot longs was already taken.
Mark B.
Free crazy bread with every vote. Just sayin’. It’s a deal that’s hard to beat.
Martin
Can’t wait for him to unleash the Godzilla urban renewal plan.
r€nato
I’m surprised that conservatives haven’t come up with “ConservaCity”, as an answer to the liberal-biased SimCity (which treats global warming as a fact, among other heresies). In ConservaCity, you can zone industrial right next to residential and it has no effect on growth. Economic activity increases in exponential inverse proportion to the tax rate. The game’s default state is to start with a number of laws against pollution, which dampen economic activity. The more anti-pollution laws are repealed, the more economic activity grows with no impact whatsoever from increased pollution.
And so on.
AA+ Bonds
To be pedantic, the 9%-9%-9% taxes in SimCity 4 are different municipal property taxes by zone (residential, industrial, commercial). Which isn’t nearly as stupid as a 9% tax on every sales transaction during an economic downturn.
In other words, SimCity 4’s designers are a lot smarter, a lot smarter, than Herman Cain.
But yeah, his little Paris-Hilton-wealth-manager probably got the idea for his whole “economic plan” from a video game. Between that and all those speeches Cain gave quoting the theme to the 2000 Pokemon movie as the words of “a poet”, I’m guessing that his advisory staff is at least 25% GRADE-A TROLL LOL LOL LOL
Warren Terra
@AA+ Bonds:
You’re losing your Nerd Cred here. Time travel was the solution in Superman I. Superman II was the one with “Kneel Before Zod”.
AA+ Bonds
@Warren Terra:
It’s both films. In the director’s cut of the second one he does the trick to put Zod and company back in the Phantom Zone.
Honestly I fuckin hate those movies except for the cast. It took Grant Morrison to fix the stories and that was like thirty years later
soonergrunt
@AA+ Bonds:
If you have a link for this, I’d kick a nun in the crotch if you wanted me to.
arguingwithsignposts
New Slogan Time
Herman Cain: Apples and Oranges, bitchez!
A-P-P-L-E-S O-R-A-N-G-E-S
AA+ Bonds
I’ve been trying to make a YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS! but I’m having trouble replacing the picture of the nerdy transportation adviser with the entire American electorate.
Frapalinger
We all know the inspiration for the 9-9-9 plan was a coupon for a large pie and a two liter for $9.99.
AA+ Bonds
@soonergrunt:
Doug’s actually referencing it with the YouTube he put in the update. It was a Donna Summers track, but not an old favorite – instead it was the track she cut for Pokemon: The Movie.
Here you go but don’t kick anyone :/
Morzer
Herman Cain – from nine, nine, nine to whine whine,whine. He really does have a plan for every occasion.
Ken
I sometimes think we would get a better class of politicians if they had to first win a few games of SimCity, Civilization, and Diplomacy.
Oh, and AA+ Bonds @9: It’s not every transaction; purchases of stock, index funds, and so forth would not be subject to the sales tax. It’s the usual logic that says a 0.05% Tobin tax on market transactions would destroy the economy, but 9% on every other effing transaction will be fine.
AA+ Bonds
@Ken:
Yeah but the way I said it is the way you should say it when you’re talking to people so they don’t fall asleep in front of you
Cliff in NH
@Ken:
dividends are also at 0%, don’t forget that, not just cap gains!
that alone destroys the market for tax free bonds.
khead
Confession from a gaming junkie:
If you leave the tax rates at the 9-9-9 default level on SimCity4, then everyone pretty much exits the city if the difficulty level is set at medium or high.
eemom
I went from Phoenix Arizona all the way to Tacoma Philadelphia Atlanta LA….
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@eemom: Another famous Clash song… (I’m hiding from Steve Miller right now)
Arclite
Start with Steve Miller, but end up with Donna Summer singing a Pokemon song. That’s sad…
Dougerhead
@eemom:
Different song.
Fun fact: mine was written by the guy the movie “Genghis Blues” was about.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Dougerhead: But at least it’s the right band; that’s progress!
MikeJ
@Dougerhead: Speaking of songs, you need to go do the new Name That Tune over at cleekland.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Is it? Is it really?
master c
I just heard this on my local 70’s radio today. I really like it.
Cat Lady
Herman Cain is channeling the Republican id through 20 year old post modern cultural and commercial iconography and may end up being our first dadaist performance artist president with a plan to sell
pizzasbookstaxes with three digits and a couple of fruits. Good luck future historians mining the meaning of these days. The Wingularity event horizon has distorted the field of perception so that we can no longer see the magnitude of the fucked-up-edness that is this election cycle. We Are All Mayans Now.On The Radio is Donna Summers’ best song, BTW.
Dougerhead
@master c:
I love this song. @Cat Lady:
Good too, but I like this one the best. I can’t get into Last Dance or Hot Stuff.
Pamoya
@khead:
Ha!
ChrisB
@Cat Lady:
Really? Better than Bad Girls?
Toot toot. Beep beep.
And, actually, Dim All the Lights is my favorite too.
slag
Apparently, our national sense of humor should be reserved only for discussing fences that kill people and not for selling video games that mock presidential candidates. Well, at least we have our priorities straight.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
i think we should be propping up the herman cain campaign, and i mean not just those of us who are guilty and white either. lets be honest, how much fun will it be to make gop primary voters have to choose between semi-viable cain, mormon romney, and insertachristian for ballance, their heads will assplode in a brocade of peak wingnuttyness.
cain is the perfect spoiler, he makes them argue amongst themselves, because economically he makes the most sense to them, but they can’t pull that lever….they just can’t, but he will stir them up, at the same time, he poses no threat to the left or in a general.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@r€nato: Awesome. And that doesn’t get into the recreational activities which involve guns and liberals.
Agreed to the 1st, you’re mad to the second.
eemom
re Donna Summer: Enough is Enough with Barbra Streisand. Nuff said.
humbert dinglepencker
Naw. Donna Summer’s best song was the one that brought her fame, fortune, and following: Love to Love You Baby. Sex in song, sex in song…