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The Candidates (based on a true country)

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The Candidates (based on a true country)	comment	The race for the US Presidency is on, and both candidates are as unqualified as they are hypocritical, as selfish as they are arrogant. Running for the Democrats is Harry Pinko, a lazy stoner who's never held a real job in his life and whose only real political goal is to Troll rich people. His worthy opposition among the Republicans is Skip LaDouche, an alchoholic Corrupt Corporate Executive who enjoys shooting things. So pretty much like every election year, really.However, unexpected complications arise as both men turn out to have had an affair with media personality Kimmy Faimwhorre, who threatens to go public with the details (and a sex tape) in order to fuel her own career. Suddenly, the liberal and the conservative have at least one thing in common - they absolutely need to silence everyone who knows about the potential scandal, including each other.What follows is many failed assassination attempts and comedy that's of a shade of black rarely seen outside of theoretical physics experiments.The Candidates (based on a true country) is a novel by Matthew S Hiley.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Skip and Harry seem to be strongly based on George W. Bush and Al Gore, respectively.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Both the candidates are selfish, amoral, incompetent and pretty much entirely lacking in any redeeming features.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: Hatchet descends into this when he finds out that Kimmy, despite just taking a bribe to keep her relationship to Skip under wraps, has already hinted pretty strongly about it on public television.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_2064626a	type	Villains Act, Heroes React
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_2064626a	comment	Villains Act, Heroes React: Harry and Moondog fully believe in this trope and repeatedly comment proudly on the Democratic tradition of never taking any initiative but just attacking whatever the Republicans do. Subverted in that not only is this implied to be a really bad idea, but Harry and Moondog only think that they are in any way heroic.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: So very, very black.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Luther is this for the Republican campaign and very nearly for the entire novel, being a genuinely decent and reasonable man in a world that is neither of those things.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: It's hard to imagine how it could be any more cynical.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We know that Skip and Harry will end up wheelchair-bound and Driven to Suicide. The only question is how it happened.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Ling-Ling genuinely believes in the Democratic cause, enough to agree to sacrifice a limb for its success.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Ling-Ling speaks in broken English and is notably naive.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Ling-Ling is a sweet, soft-spoken Wide-Eyed Idealist. So of course she's the one who gets bullied into having one of her arms amputated. And then loses the other arm in an accident. And then gets treated like crap by her boss and his toady, who do things like duct-tape her mouth shut because she can't defend herself anymore. And then dies. Really, is it any wonder that she gets progressively less sweet and soft-spoken as the story goes on?
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Very nearly every single character is a caricature of some undesirable political or cultural trait.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_7390323c	comment	Skip being sure that Luther has Sticky Fingers.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Luther for the Republicans, and Ling-Ling for the Democrats. They both get treated like crap by the rest of the team, of course.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_9245d989	comment	Brother Manlove heads up the Christians Love Of Sinners Eager to Tithe network, or CLOSET.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Subverted. Hatchet tries to buy Kimmy's silence with $200. She is very offended - and declares that she won't stay quiet for anything less than $500. note He haggles her down to $460 in the end.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To American politics, celebrity, people in general... Hardly anyone is spared. Except Ellen Degeneres, everyone respects her.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Luther (a half-black, half-Mexican war veteran with one leg) is specifically selected as Skip's running mate to be this for the Republican side. The Democrats one-ups them by selecting Ling-Ling: a half-Thai, half-Lebanese lesbian with no legs.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: So much of it, starting with the Republicans throwing a Kill the Abortionists pro-life rally, and the Democrats responding with a counter-rally where they fire oil-drenched birds out of T-shirt launchers to protest Skip's environmental record. Oh, and when they find themselves short on ammo, they quickly raid a nearby zoo for endangered birds, drench them in oil and fire them out of the T-shirt launchers.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Moondog has one. Unusually, he's not the least bit self-conscious of it.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Kimmy, to a downright terrifying extent. The forensics team going over her apartment keeps running out of containers to store the sperm samples in.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Kimmy's upcoming television show is set to air on the Family Understanding Children and Knowledge channel, or FUC&K. Brother Manlove heads up the Christians Love Of Sinners Eager to Tithe network, or CLOSET.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_c3fbac64	comment	Every time someone mentions the time Kimmy had sex with a whole baseball team, someone else will helpfully remind them that she also had sex with the mascot.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_cf16cfa9	type	Golden Mean Fallacy
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: Downplayed. Both extremes are shown to be equally bad and said to not represent the American people, but there's only the faintest hint of what a candidate who did would even look like. Since the specific political flaws Judge Judy accuses the candidates of are attacking gays (especially ones in the military) and pandering to large corporations for Skip, and attacking employers and pandering to lazy welfare queens for Harry, the "correct" policy might be assumed to be some form of pro-tolerance, small-government, patriotic libertarianism, but if so the novel doesn't spend much time dwelling on it.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Hatchet is very short, and does not like to be reminded of it. He's resolved that once he's ridden Skip's coat tails to power, everyone who's made fun of him will pay.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_d2ddb362	comment	"Reason You Suck" Speech: Judge Judy gets to deliver one to Skip and Harry in the end. It's noted that the worst part of their punishment is that for once in their lives, they actually have to listen instead of talk.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Anyone who isn't a Jerkass is likely to be an idiot. Most people are both.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Luther feels, with some justification, that he damn well deserves some as a decorated war veteran and community leader. Sadly, he's surrounded by outrageous racists who assume that he's a shiftless, thieving thug.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Every time someone mentions the time Kimmy had sex with a whole baseball team, someone else will helpfully remind them that she also had sex with the mascot. People keep showing more concern for wounded or dead animals than for dito humans. Skip being sure that Luther has Sticky Fingers.
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The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
The Candidates (based on a true country) / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Hatchet is this to Skip, and Moondog is this to Harry. Each might be considered a Hypercompetent Sidekick, but only in comparison to the extreme incompetence of their respective bosses.
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