Donald Trump appears all but assured to secure the GOP nomination for president and carry the banner for any voters out there hankering to elect an unabashed media-hound spouting a paranoid, ill-founded worldview. Meanwhile, the Democrats are putting up an attorney trying to take the country back to the 1990s. If that’s a difficult choice for some voters, what if I told you that you could have both!
Enter Andrew Basiago, a lawyer in the Pacific Northwest (many sites report Basiago as a “Seattle” lawyer, but Avvo tags him in Vancouver, WA, which is a suburb of Portland, OR) who claims in radio interviews that he spent his formative years — from age 7 to 12 — participating in a secret government time travel program and that his work teleporting to Mars (with Barack Obama in the 80s, mind you) uniquely qualifies him for the nation’s highest office.
The sad thing is he’s got some rational policy proposals that outstrip anything coming out of the frontrunners. For example, his homelessness strategy:
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That’s eminently reasonable, and it’s based on a real-world program to solve a liberal issue in a deep red state that works extremely well — chronic homelessness in Utah is down 91 percent. This guy may be unorthodox but he knows a winning proposal when he sees it. All right, tell me more!
Hm… the wheels are coming off pretty quickly here. Far from a scientific effort — apparently spearheaded by the father of the hydrogen bomb because… reasons — the trails following an airplane are just water vapor. But hey, Basiago has noted intellectual gadfly Kylie Jenner on his side, and if I’m pretty sure these days that if an idea secures the support of a Kardashian it becomes true.
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“You don’t actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?” — Julius Levinson
Teddy Roosevelt did not, in fact, publicly declare seeing a Sasquatch. Even die-hard Bigfoot believers will only admit that Roosevelt wrote that he heard of the beasts from a grizzled old trapper that he generally trusted and that he once heard scary noises at night, but that’s the end of his Sasquatchery. On the other hand…
And consider that even with all this, Andrew Basiago is still probably going to get more real votes for president in the general election than Ted Cruz. The system works, people!
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