I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

TS: "Humans seem not to want to vote for robots, why are they so foolish and puny?"

kinda can't believe Jeb! did well enough to soldier on

Jeb Bush can't take a shit without Barbara's permission.

first i was amused when TPM described rubio's 3 or 4 point drop in the NH polls following Dispelgate with screaming headlines of RUBIO COLLAPSES IN NH!!!11!

then there was the little note late last night suggesting that rubio's campaign for president is effectively over.

now, it turns out that http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-s-whole-career-probably-ended-last-night

I want to repost RubioDrinksWater.mov again because it's not clear to me that his political career had anywhere to go after that.

Jeb!'s campaign has prompted me to consider whether his parents more or less coerced him through his entire political career. Like, did he maybe just dream of opening a baseball card store or something and have the misfortune of being born a Bush?

poor, fabulously wealthy jeb bush

it still boggles my mind that this primary season has made me at times feel sorry for the architect of the Terry Schiavo fiasco

“They are not just gangs of kids anymore,” she said. “They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”

maybe by using evidence, eephus, i dunno

it still boggles my mind that this primary season has made me at times feel sorry for the architect of the Terry Schiavo fiasco

OTM

first i was amused when TPM described rubio's 3 or 4 point drop in the NH polls following Dispelgate with screaming headlines of RUBIO COLLAPSES IN NH!!!11!

then there was the little note late last night suggesting that rubio's campaign for president is effectively over.

now, it turns out that http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-s-whole-career-probably-ended-last-night

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

KM i can no longer read TPM without thinking of that josh marshall-style post you did on one of these threads

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/has-anyone-seen-Rubio-I-found-his-wallet-on-this-bridge

me and josh marshall are in a fight (that he doesn't even acknowledge!) because i've sent in like 8-10 reader tips/comments over the years, and i've never received a response despite making many excellent points

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/rubio-tombstone-personally-engraved-by-christie

me and josh marshall are in a fight (that he doesn't even acknowledge!) because i've sent in like 8-10 reader tips/comments over the years, and i've never received a response despite making many excellent points

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh let's dispel with this notion that your answers are important

http://i.imgur.com/8kxt0dG.png

btw the Coates transcript is up at Democracy Now, if you can't listen.

"Yes, I will vote for Senator Sanders. My son influenced me."

Douthat needs no help.

xpost

A friend and I walked past Douthat in a particularly gay part of Dupont Circle in 2009 #suspicions

reparations debate is the bulk of it xxp

http://i.imgur.com/S4PKFQk.jpg

isnt douthat the dude who wrote that watching porn and masturbating is akin to adultery?

yes, which is why he's gay

http://i.imgur.com/tEN7rOh.jpg

oh – I didn't know that Christie had officially suspended his campaign.

looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets

if he liked the food at the diner my friend and I tried, I can believe it.

the food at that diner attached to the bookstore is OK, or used to be

The Ta-nehisi Coates interview is awesome.

isnt douthat the dude who wrote that watching porn and masturbating is akin to adultery?

uh hello doesn't that just make it hotter

^^^ Agreed. The Michelle Alexander piece, also.

isnt douthat the dude who wrote that watching porn and masturbating is akin to adultery?

uh hello doesn't that just make it hotter

― j., Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ Agreed. The Michelle Alexander piece, also.

― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea that piece was super hot

loool

i worked at a dupont circle bookstore for a few years. leon wieseltier and charles krauthammer were regulars

sold a lot of copies of Foreign Policy for Dummies eh

he can't hang out in Politics and Prose b/c he understands neither.

it's amazing to me that christie's only material achievement in this race as been to cut marco rubio's hamstrings and hand trump and even bigger margin in NH.

ahaha lol, was definitely responding to freddy b there. though i would agree that michelle alexander was on fire.

I know a bunch of zionist jews who think hilary is vehemently anti-israel so not sure that appeal is going to go very far.

(I think they are wrong but whatever)

reminds me of hedge funders who think Obama is anticapitalist

(also by ' a bunch' I mean two)

i don't think hillary is vehemently anti-israel, but i'm not sure she has a strong case for being better* for israel than bernie. *whatever that means

wtf more do they want out of her, to take a pied a terre in a West Bank settlement?

and i can attest that in my world of left-centrist orthodox jewry there is a lot of consternation over who to vote for and i know at least 3 or 4 ppl who were staunch clinton/gore/kerry/obama voters and now claim (possibly trolling) that they'll vote republican this election.

left-centrist orthodox jewry voting for Donald Trump does not compute

republicans and netanyahu have really skewed perceptions I think; as israel has gotten bolder and more invasive in it's move into the west bank, anything short of welcoming that on the part of the US is being portrayed in some circles as "anti-Israel".

small portions of twitter appeared perturbed that bernie described himself as the child of 'polish immigrants'

something that comes up a lot is concern over what some ppl have characterized as "hostile" emails re israel that have been disclosed in recent email dumps. idk, i think that case is overstated but i've looked at the evidence and there is something there - it's not just a fantasy. you may not be surprised to learn that just like other americans, zionist american jews don't know if they can trust hillary.

(my two aren't supporting Trump. they just don't know what to do if Clinton is the nominee because they think she and Obama are anti-Israel. It's perverse).

what pols think in their correspondence shouldn't concern anybody. I'm sure many craven neo-Likud US reps think in their heart of hearts that "God said this was my house 5000 years ago" is lunacy.