Break out the gingerbread.

Fags must die.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0acdaee3cc4156fd4/topics/so-spartan-companies/b5b6f06e-4fe0-4927-9440-550b5608623d/posts?page=1#post13

Well then.

This Shit is Soap Opera-Tier Drama

Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process — and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican National Committee.

Not invited to the meeting: Anyone from the RNC, which many candidates have openly criticized in the hours since Wednesday’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado — a chaotic, disorganized affair that was widely panned by political observers.

On Thursday, many of the campaigns told POLITICO that the RNC, which has taken a greater role in the 2016 debate process than in previous election cycles, had failed to take their concerns into account. It was time, top aides to at least half a dozen of the candidates agreed, to begin discussing among themselves how the next debates should be structured and not leave it up to the RNC and television networks.

The gathering is being organized by advisers to the campaigns of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham, according to multiple sources involved in the planning. Others who are expected to attend, organizers say, are representatives for Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Rick Santorum. The planners are also reaching out to other Republican candidates.

Spokespersons for the RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“I think the campaigns have a number of concerns and they have a right to talk about that amongst themselves,” said Christian Ferry, Graham’s campaign manager. The objective, Ferry said, was to “find out what works best for us as a group.”

Figuring that out could be contentious as each campaign has a number of different complaints about the process. Some — such as Bush and Paul — have griped about unequal speaking time. Others have complained bitterly about how polling is used to determine who qualifies for the prime-time and undercard debates. Some have insisted on giving opening and closing statements, despite the networks' desire to have the candidates spend as much time as possible clashing with each other on stage.

Jindal, who polls better in Iowa than he does nationally, has argued that criteria for determining who qualifies for debates should be based on early state polling, not just national surveys.

“Our continuous complaint is candidate exclusion and the delusional debate polling criteria. It's unacceptable,” said Gail Gitcho, a Jindal spokeswoman. “Maybe this meeting will change that, maybe it won't. But we aren't going to shut up about it.”

Graham’s campaign has argued that there should be two debates — with two groups of seven or eight candidates selected randomly.

Carson said on Thursday that he had asked his staff to contact other campaigns to propose format changes, without sharing specifically what he thinks those changes should be.

“It’s not about me and gotcha questions. It’s about the American people and whether they have the right to hear what we think,” Carson said before an event at Colorado Christian University. “The whole format was just craziness … You got to be really bad for the whole crowd to boo you."

"I think the families need to get together here, because these debates as structured by the RNC are not helping the party," Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett told the Washington Examiner. "There's not enough time to talk about your plans, there's no presentation. It's just a slugfest. All we do is change moderators. And the trendline is horrific. So I think there needs to be wholesale change here."

Rubio, largely considered the standout of Wednesday's debate, said the questions from CNBC's moderators "became irritating" as the night wore on.

"I think the bigger frustration you saw is that all those candidates onstage had prepared for a substantive debate. Everyone was ready to talk about trade policy and the debt and tax policies," Rubio said on Fox News. "And we're ready for that, everybody was. And then, you got questions that everyone got, which were clearly designed to get us to fight against each other or get us to say something embarrassing about us and then get us to react."

"The campaigns are not going to allow the networks to control this process," Huckabee told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Thursday night.

Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly demanded that the debates last no longer than two hours. On Wednesday night, he even boasted of muscling CNBC into changing the format for the third debate. "Everybody said it was going to be three hours, three-and-a-half, including them, and in about two minutes, I renegotiated it so we can get the hell out of here," he said. "Not bad."

Sources at Fox Business Network, the hosts of the next GOP debate on Nov. 10, said that as of Thursday afternoon, they hadn't heard from any campaigns or the RNC about their debate format, but that they weren't concerned. They pointed to positive reviews of the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News, and noted that though it's Fox Business' first debate, viewers and the candidates can expect the same results next month with moderators Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto.

Quote from: SpartanT on October 29, 2015, 08:54:53 PM

Good thing the Librarian seems to be hooking us up with a new plot thread to give us ships, otherwise we'd really be fucked

Spoiler

So the plan was for AIs to rebel, and for humanity to earn the Mantle by defeating them?

I feel like the whole 'million year plan' concept is totally needless.

"Ha, I planned it to happen" is such a cop out for shitty stories.

The sources in this thread make me sad.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on October 29, 2015, 12:57:11 PM

Quote from: Fruitcake on October 29, 2015, 12:56:11 PM

Can I resign too?

you could have my job if you want

Can I have your job and then resign?

You get a special place in a special thread if you do

Just add color manually.

bout time

i guess its time for me to be mod again

I'd be fine with this tbh

Ban Yutaka and I'll give you 100£

Quote from: spewky bewgie on October 28, 2015, 10:54:17 PM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on October 28, 2015, 10:51:28 PM

Quote from: Luciana on October 28, 2015, 10:45:02 PM

On another note, why are people voting Rand? I know you like him, but he won't see a bump anywhere.

He's the only one that didn't spew retarded shit

The sad fact is, I don't foresee him dropping til Iowa.

Keep in mind, he started off this race leading in the polls. He's not going to call it quits until he knows he can't gain it back.

Well, none of them will. Not even the undercard tier candidates.

You can partially thank Carson and Trump for that. These establishment candidates are all biding as much time as possible to see when (and if) those two will implode as almost all non-politician candidates have in the past (Cain from 2012 is a good example). Assuming neither do before Iowa's Caucus, and we'll see a large majority drop like flies.

Rubio did everything he had to do for this debate.

He won.

I thought this was a debate about the economy.

Now I'm not watching, but why the fuck is homosexuals being brought up

Gunplay takes a bit of getting used to