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

Trump having a field day with a series of protesters being removed from his Alabama rally. I'm guessing a third at least are plants.

"the lobbyists"

http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2Ftrumpclinton.jpg

so going to happen

part of me wonders if Trump didn't expect to get this far and is going to panic in a G.E.

I mean he's not a guy with confidence issues so "panic" would be a relative term, but I'm a bit excited for the first "NUH UH" retort in a GE debate

Bill so wants to fuck Donald in that pic

would be funny if he's actually trying to self-sabotage now with all the KKK & Mussolini stuff but the base is so batshit that it only make shim stronger.

(i don't actually think that's the case, but it would be funny)

"funny"

"I WILL KILL YOUR GOD!"

(hesistation from crowd)

'Yeah, fuck our God anyway!!!!!!!!11!!!'

Anyone ever seen You've Been Trumped by the way?

jeff sessions endorses trump

i like how this ad is meant to be slanderous but it almost makes me like him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE&feature=youtu.be

i saw you've been trumped, it ran on ESPN for awhile. he comes off as a jackass.
i just remembered that i went to a trump event fifteen years ago when i worked as a realtor(!); it was some sort of condo sale. i think i shook his hand in a hallway?

And this guy calls himself a Linkin Park fan.

http://i.imgur.com/s1QfPdR.jpg

It would be hilarious if that Trump ad is insufficient to stop his momentum to the Republican nom and then gets him the support of moderate swing voters and wins him the election.

Hilarious!

http://donaldjdrumpf.com/

https://camo-feedbin.herokuapp.com/3d6c6679db1e593fb90e22475e76da57c2479681/687474703a2f2f34392e6d656469612e74756d626c722e636f6d2f35663038393764636638363563663363393933313065613464306162343163372f74756d626c725f6f33377169616d4d655a31717a763361326f315f3430302e676966

xpost I thought that was Garry Shandling.

stay classy, gents:

Roger Stone, a Republican consultant and longtime Trump associate who does not work for the campaign, said Sunday that he has been reaching out to fellow alumni of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign about volunteering on Trump’s behalf at the convention.

“We’re looking at pulling together people with deep knowledge and experience at Republican conventions going back to Barry Goldwater in ’64 or Reagan in ’76,” Stone said of his efforts, which have been taking place by telephone. “If they try to change the rules to steal it from Trump, he’ll need friends who understand the rules.”

Some party leaders are openly wondering how Rubio, after labeling Trump a “con man,” could show up at the convention in Cleveland and endorse him.

“I’m not sure that he can — or that he’d be invited, for that matter,” said Trent Lott, a former Senate Republican leader from Mississippi who is backing ­Kasich. “It won’t be easy to get all the forces back together.”

But Lott added: “I don’t think people have any idea what Trump would do. He might wind up being the most magnanimous, inviting and generous person you could imagine. Who knows?”

CNN national poll:

Trump: 49%
Rubio: 16%
Cruz: 15%

fair

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/704148954083012608

yeah but was that before the buzzfeed Howard stern bombshell or after?

xxp

At first I was all Wha?

http://i.imgur.com/MsfrM5X.jpg

But then I realized he was a Cornhusker guy.

The Drumpf filter has been very helpful this morning.

What buzzfeed bombshell?

i think he's making fun of the negligible effect of Trump's incendiary statements on Stern years ago that came up yesterday

mhn

“It’s scary,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has endorsed Rubio, said on ABC’s “This Week.” She added: “I think what he’ll do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we’re about. And that’s something we don’t want to see happen.”

lol suck it up

I think the Republican Party is long overdue for some self-assessment, not seeing at all how this is pejorative.

like hey you got this other really shitty candidate not too far away in Cruz

Yeah I'm not really shedding tears for who are Republicans being all like, "Yeah we wanted rowdy but not quite THIS rowdy."

erm, "for Republicans who are being all like"

like ffs you had a politician that talked about "legitimate" rape not that long ago - no TRUMP is a line too far?

hey guys BOB BARR

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42523/why-is-trump-successful/

like ffs you had a politician that talked about "legitimate" rape not that long ago - no TRUMP is a line too far?

― you are no man. take the balls. (Neanderthal), Monday, February 29, 2016 11:42 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trump isn't too far because of incendiary comments, he's too far because he shed half the party's platform and won regardless

trump and trumpism is a mix of things that conservatives have stoked and enflamed over the years (anti-PC aggrieved tough talk, "MBA president") and a lot of things that the professional conservatism has tried to keep buried (explicit anti-immigrant stuff, isolationism, anti-semitism)

In a way, Trump is the personification of global warming: the unintended, catastrophic consequence for the many of bad faith short-term gains for the few.

He also blows a lot of hot air.

I think the Republican Party is long overdue for some self-assessment,

Didn't they explicitly do this after the Obama route? And then they ignored their own advice and went even further batshit, as if that were the problem. Though I guess to be fair, it's the batshit republicans who are the loudest problem, and they dragged the party to the right with them.

their self-assessment was way too circular though - like here was all this feedback from voters about what they hated about conservatism in 2012 and they kinda said "well how can we continue to offer the same shit but in a more palatable package" instead of saying 'y'know maybe we have to adapt a little'.

this is good http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-assume-conservatives-will-rally-behind-trump/

this is not http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-liberals-should-vote-for-marco-rubio/471444

that fucking magazine

first PA politician (a county commissioner) comes out for Trump:

“100%, I am a Trump guy, I tell it like it is, just like Trump. I am a little different though, you know, different hair smaller wallet. But people are frustrated…and they are in desperate need for somebody who is a voice for the people.

Just as I did during my election in 2015 and continue to do as public servant, Donald Trump embraces the title of ‘Outsider’ and ‘Common Sense Conservative.

The last thing we need is another Washington insider, Trump is refreshing. Like me, he is beholden to no one except the people. I am proud to support Donald Trump and look forward to helping him achieve victory in Pennsylvania."

Just watched the John Oliver bit, and I sort of want to write him a check out of relief.

I still haven't decided if I'm voting in the Democratic primary or the Republican primary. If I vote Republican, I'm voting Carson because he has zero chance of winning but getting enough votes could entice him to stay in the primary and both deplete his own resources and possibly suck a tiny bit of time away from Trump/Rubio/Cruz. If I vote in the Democratic primary, I am literally going to flip a coin.

enticing him to stay in for the lols?

as far as i can tell trump has 3 main sources of support, on the level of ideas/motivations:

1. relatively non-ideological (and irreligious) republicans & right-leaners: people who like a tough guy businessman, like him from his tv-shows, thing prez needs to "get things done," know washington is a black hole and think things need to be shaken up (kind of the dark inverse of obama's 08 "change" slogan, which revealed and concealed a lot). a lot of the party's "moderates" fall here

2. revenge: get back for 8 years of obama -- and make good on the insanity of right-wing media under obama. the anti-PC stuff, continual fears about islam, the other -- generalized need to have someone ~finally~ kick some liberal pansy ass, and the normal republicans on offer won't do it. "he's an asshole but he's our asshole," etc. they want to beat up the enemy, foreign and domestic. you see a lot of the louder conservative types starting to fall in line along these lines. pure backlash.

3. return of the repressed: immigration restriction has been kept off the table by the management end of the GOP, the Kochs, the "donor class". it was always waiting for someone to pick it up and run with it. this is the window through which the alt-right, white supremacist and other excluded far-right and old-right weirdos have come rushing back (his shit-talking of bush and the iraq war is crucial here - anti-neoconservatism)

trump is quick enough on his feet and untethered enough to reality, with a huge amount of fame to start with, to tie these all together pretty effectively