7 Insane Campaign Ads that Prove We Were Always Crazy - The Spit Take 

Strangest election you've ever been conscious for, you say you are a junkie, probably slept through the others.

Fuuz Gaming Ross Perot at his most eccentric was a less strange than Trump on his most constrained day.

+BrotherAlpha You obviously don't remember why Perot dropped out of the election, which by the way ensured Clinton's election. He CLAIMED his family was threatened. After the election, Perot's company was awarded a multimillion $ payroll contract by the Federal government.

+BrotherAlpha Omfg, I forgot about Perot!

I've followed politics avidly since 1960. I've never been this concerned. I only voted for one Republican candidate for president (he lost) but other than a general worry about electing Dick Cheney-sorry, Dubya-I never felt any of the candidates were dangerous. Yes, Sarah Palin was scary as hell, but no one, even in his own party thought McCain could win. Now I listen to Donald Trump and cringe at his racism. misogyny and insane ideas, but most of all at his tiny little vocabulary and inability to articulate beyond me=great, them=bad. He can't match the soaring oratory of an average. kind hearted six year old. Lord the man is a total head case.

is it weird i just realized they have the same last name. r they related or was it just random?

+The Demon Curupira Dan said in some video before that they have no relation. Either he's lying or they just like hiring Irishmen

To my knowledge, they are brothers. Dan was pulled into Cracked when Jack became chief editor.

+Tuning3434 they look nothing alike. how do you know this? considering it is true

+The Demon Curupira when mentioning family on the podcast they bring up entirely different parents. really, no relation.

don't worry after whoever is elected president The Apocalypse will follow shortly

+Jordan Ceasar Fallout would be worth it. (only if one is a main character of course)

Imagine Hoover Dam, only it's called Trump Wall.

+Jordan Ceasar I'll eat one of you

• Tensakuma "Tendro" Kadro Fool, you can't eat me if I eat myself! NOMNOMNOM.

Ah ha

Except when it isn't Russia, as I'm pretty sure Russia is real and the ad keeps suggesting the bear isn't real.

No, the ad is giving credence to critics and 'doves' who said Russian militarism wasn't a threat.

Thank you, I couldn't believe they couldn't figure that out. I guess it's a lack or lived experience like being around during the cold war. Also it's easy to mock in hindsight and criticism is lazy.

это расизм *ding*

Wait. The bear isn't Reagan?

In Soviet Russia bear is you.

+JayMoney1987 ha that was great

I was think the same thing. there is so much libral bias today that the Reagan as is ridiculed by idiots who don't understand history.

Yeah, how ignorant can they be?

He is secretly Ponder Stibbons.

no wonder the world is like a sitcom.

tigerhunter77 and a bad one, for that matter

thats why a good portion of serious candadates are 68 plus time

+Alistair Shaw The original Roman Senate was so called because it was the tribal elders that made up its membership. It was their wisdom that was deemed best to lead the people. Unfortunately the same word element also appears in senile.

Catubrannos LOL didn't know that makes sense

Governor of California, still interesting though.

If anyone was suited to navigating the jungle of American politics...

Sherbot Holmes is 1000% their comic relief sidekick.

I agree- when he says "because metaphor", he's acknowledging that the bear represents something. It's the vaguery of the narration he seems to find amusing.

The Flibnit Are there a lot of Americans these days who have no idea that the bear is supposed to have been Russia in those days? Oh, well. Once again we realize that a lot of Americans don't know terribly much. (After all, look at the current president...)

If you have google chrome, get ad block pro. It works and no more ads and thus no more boycotting videos because of it

Adblock much? I guess not.

I use it everywhere and I have not watched one ad on youtube in a month. Your vague comment is perplexing

+Drudley I don't want to use adblock, because I want the content creators to get money from ads, yet I'm not willing to watch 2 minutes of an ad.

believe me bud, they get money

if i've learned anything from 90'-early00' action movies is that cool guys wear long coats

moshe gruber Yeah, thats too right.

You call the Columbine High School cafeteria footage an "action movie"? How sick. (JK)

+Coolidge Dollar (JK)

Coolidge Dollar the humor is dark with this one they would have get away with it if they just said "its just a prank bro!"

He says the ad is a metaphor.

+celticwolff Shhhh, the conservatives are too busy being triggered that someone dared say something satirical about St. Reagan.

Oh, I thought they were talking about the bear market, since Reagan was known for economics. You're interpretation makes much more sense

Yet here you are, as the Cracked executive laugh at your discontent, while they have money fights provided by your sour viewership. Amazing how they extract money from your life's sadness.

i legitimatly did not connect that bear to being russia.

Fuck that, fat man beats all.

+Adrian lyacon ignoring the Deliverer, of course

+Patrick Harrison all legendary weapons excluded.

Adrian lyacon fatmans (fatmen?) are relatively easy to dodge if you see it coming. Guass Rifle is the ultimate in rail gun technology, creating the perfect sniper weapon you won't hear until it's too late. ... Unless this is 4 where the Gauss has to be charged and any old fat man can be equipped with a MIRV, then Fat man does trump.

+tolfan ftw that's not how the speed of sound works.

That's Vicar O'Brien to you.

It was, and pretty transparently so. Cracked just chose not to tell any of its viewers who don't get the idea of a metaphor.

Yea, but for something most people know/ heard of/ have an idea of, theres not much point to say that. Plus, in hindsight, it STILL sounds like its just rambling

USSR was dead. They still needed something to scare people with so they get votes, so they made an invisible bear.

The USSR was not dead in 84.

Doth questions framed in the negative not defy nonsensical counter answers?

Wow, it's a little sad to see that you guys didn't understand that the bear ad was about foreign policy/domestic problems concerning communism and the Soviet Union. The bear is supposed to represent the various problems that America has and the looming threat of Russia. Those who don't see the bear think that America is fine or that the problem(s) is minimal or unthreatening. It's Cold War lingo 101

Yes, the bear represents Russia the main opponent of the time and the potential return of economic problems, a bear market.

yeahhhhh, but cracked does this little thing called sarcasm.