Il Douché and His Discontents: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 4

Great run of posts itt hi 5 all

Promised to get poor underclass into his father's housing if they followed him

One more prophetic Jew:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/LifeStinks.jpg

no way this is so otm.

this election's gonna be ugly enough w/out posters using questionable racial yardsticks to measure the "actual" ethnicity of candidates/past presidents

fwiw I've yet to see any Jew claim Trump as "one of ours" the way Toni Morrison did with Bubba

toni morrison wasn't "claiming" clinton as black btw

like imagine what would happen if beyonce ran for governor or something

i’m imagining beyonce running for, like, country comptroller

er, *county

was gonna say! That Morrison quote has been contorted into fascinating shapes.

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Drumpf has like zero jewish appeal / identification imo

What is he anyway, a German?

half Scottish, half German I believe

A while ago I saw someone say that "when Sanders speaks, bagels fall out of his mouth."

all asshole iirc

Trump later acknowledged his German ancestry and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City.

^ one for nakh's thread

toni morrison wasn't "claiming" clinton as black btw

I know, but she was making an equivalency based on unfair treatment + stereotype. No one's treating Trump unfairly because he projects "NY Jew". He does not project "NY Jew" imo.

was gonna say! That Morrison quote has been contorted into fascinating shapes.

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― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 29, 2016 5:55 PM (8 minutes ago)

so few people understand what she was saying that i sometimes wonder if it partially explains the clinton's popularity with the black electorate

my pt stands that Clinton:Blackness::Trump:Jewishness is not correct

In Salon, Virginia Vitzthum suggested Clinton was also the first woman president:

http://www.salon.com/1998/10/08/newsb_24/

There was a teenage-girlishness to his love-play — the hours on the phone, memorizing her phone number, wearing her ties on special days. He played hard to get; he wouldn’t go all the way. And every time he needed to turn ruthless, he nurtured instead, comforting and flattering Monica instead of sending her packing.... In his affair, Clinton played the old girl game of Technical Virginity — staying good by doing “everything but.”

Weird comment at the Trump rally going on: "Someone just said 'Keep the wall going, keep the wall going'--believe me, we're going to keep the wall going.'"

He spoke in the present tense--has construction already started?

Love this Yogi-ism, too (talking about the media): "20% of them good, 80% of them are bad, 40% of them are disgusting." If the disgusting ones are a subset of the bad ones, I guess that works.

Clinton first commie president according to a stupid article, somewhere

More than his debate debacle, more than his earnest Jimmy Olsen-like pleading, Rubio's embarrassing himself right now. One of his handlers just explained that they have no choice, they have to draw a sharp contrast with Trump. So Rubio goes out now and becomes Donald Trump.

Big surprise: the ex-Arizona governor who had the tarmac skirmish with Obama a few years ago endorses Trump.

Scott Desjarlais, MD - pro life Christian conservative U.S. Rep for TN, who's had multiple affairs, including at least one with a patient whom he pressured to have an abortion, is endorsing Trump.

Trump has the old angry desert white vote locked up

there were questions about this last week

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/29/468253626/a-history-of-super-tuesday

The Clintons' plan to combat Trump.

the "Drumpf" meme is so fucking stupid, the family name was changed in the 17th century

“Hope and change, not so much,” said David Plouffe, who managed Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign, referring to the slogan that defined that race. “More like hate and castrate.”

wtf

xp yeah, i was expecting something so much more devastating based on the reactions today all over the internet. Whole thing was so so stupid. John Oliver remains insufferable.

Not surprised to see Jan Brewer endorse Trump, the AZ Republican Party is basically the harbinger of the national party. Clean election laws here in AZ disempowered the GOP establishment as gatekeepers, and as a result, all manner of noxious crazies run my state's government. Meanwhile liberals in central Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson pray that demographic changes eventually politically transform the state into Colorado or New Mexico.

I guess Cruz is being written off at this point, but I just saw this video and I have to say there is something impressive about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi5IZ9StVUI&ebc=ANyPxKpXKNnxcbJdckV-z6-uH6cg4MVLYW9IQzCZaXtP5iCip3_63vZjP0VuxuHRSCubidgl-vD2B3c321nqFSXIwf10gzZw1g

I had kind of only known him as (1) hyperconservative ideologue and (2) creepy guy, but damn he knows his shit, and you have to think if he has a range of subjects he can speak about with this depth he could win over a lot of GOP voters.

and yet

total snake, I know

I mean I guess it manages to explain why he's done as well as he has in spite of basically being disgusting

Cruz: "I'd be happy to answer your question if you would stop yelling."

The man wasn't yelling. He was being emphatic, but the level of his voice was exactly as loud as Cruz's voice. This was just a way to put the guy at a disadvantage and disconcert him.

Cruz being this super-smart idiot who everyone hates is definitely the only fun part of the GOP campaign. I mean, this guy was a national debate champion, but when he told his Princeton teammates he planned to run for president of the debate society, they held a secret "anyone-but-Cruz" meeting. That's basically Cruz in a nutshell

cruz was condescending af in that exchange, i mean he knows his policy he's just a huge dick even when trying to play nice guy

nahh fuck cruz but he was nothing if not extremely patient and gracious there

I think there was a subtle way that it came off like he was following a manual on how to win people over instead of being genuine, but he followed the manual very well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-supremacists.html

This "earpiece" excuse for the kkk coyness is such weak bullshit. One of the most disturbing things about this race is the normality of brazen, shameless lies

One of my favourite things this whole cycle was Sanders' Sunday-morning reaction to South Carolina: "We got decimated, George, we got decimated." No creative math or anything.

Bernie's a real human being. Pulling for him tomorrow.

Watching that video I'm trying to recall a GOP nominee as policy wonkish as Cruz. Pat Buchanan? Here's one place Trump clearly benefited from such a pileup of candidates, running major interference. Cruz never had a chance to flex his knowledge. It's hard to imagine that in a protracted debate among just two or three candidates he wouldn't have scored more points for his smarts, dickface notwithstanding.

Cruz was really patient there, but he also very patiently redirecting that farmer to talk to someone else. HIs weakness as a candidate isn't related to his wonk-nerd knowledge but more from his extreme culture war views, which have no basis in fact or logic, which in turn undercuts his knowledge. He's a fundamentalist prig, and no one likes them.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Ned_Flanders.png
"Let me tell you, there is no one who respects farmers more than I do, neighbor."

Get ready for this line to come up:

Huckabee also dismissed Trump's comments in a Monday morning interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." When asked about Trump refusing to distance himself from Duke on Sunday, Huckabee balked and instead brought up the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV).

"Look, I know it's an incredible overwhelming fascination — I've been watching this morning. But, look, let me ask you this, do you think Hillary Clinton is going to have to answer for her relationship with Sen. Robert Byrd who was an actual member of the KKK?" Huckabee asked.

one line is all it takes

I've been in and I like the look of it already, good work imo I've not felt this optimistic about a change in US politics since Bernie sanders ran for the Dems in 2016