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

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"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

The Robert Byrd analogy came up on CNN last night, brought up by one of Trump's higher-ups (as Alfred suggests, sounds like a coordinated response). I know everyone here hates David Gergen, but the way he called the woman on that--his visible disgust--was pretty compelling.

I saw the clip this morning. I'd never known Gergen was capable of contempt.

It must be interesting to go through life without being able to make meaningful distinctions between anything. This seems to be a common quality among Trump defenders.

"What about Robert Byrd?" has been the favorite tu quoque comeback from the GOP re: racism for at least a decade now.

Yeah, that and "southern democrats formed the KKK."

"party of lincoln"

lbj on the phone a week after dallas btw: "look, yer either the party of lincoln or you ain't!"

lol @ people itt last nite calling out cruz for tone policing

i love the KKK = Dems claim and the inference that NOTHING has happened in the intervening 150 years that might suggest a ideological evolution/ migration. yeah jackohole everyone in the KKK voted for Obama in '08 and '12

not so long of a timeline, maybe, when many of these people are still stuck on the founding fathers

and i used to think it was just profoundly stupid/ ignorant people on the internet who stood by this, but it looks like it's becoming a sanctioned talking point for the right.

another PA politician coming out for Trump was questioned about his refusal to denounce David Duke:

"Trump’s daughter, who converted to Judaism in 2009,” M@rin0 began. “I don’t think Trump has any feeling and concerns about the KKK, other than he doesn’t like them. He renounces them and given the fact that he supported his daughter in that move shows that.”

some of my best friends are

Retaliatory deep dipping for tenuous ties between Clinton and anyone with a racist past is just fucking sad. Don't pretend that this is in any way equivalent to Trump's "KK-what now? David who?" bullshit. I knew who David Duke was and what he was about when I was ten and pretty much only interested in Garfield and the WWF.

Hey, now Trump's got David Duke and Louis Farrakhan on his side! What a winner, right?

Black students ejected from Trump rally in Ga

the drumpf thing has an element of the mythic to it- you assert power over a thing by calling it by its True Name. see also, of course, "schicklgruber".

http://theweek.com/speedreads/609311/time-reporter-choked-slammed-ground-donald-trump-rally

xpost Huh, this might be the first time I've seen Farrakhan in the news for years. Has he totally sat out the Black Lives Matter stuff?

too busy secretly running Obama admin

The notion that Trump and Sanders are pulling different ends of the same troubled American heartstring is not new, but over the disparate strains of Muse tunes and “Mustang Sally” at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City on Sunday, Paul and Sherelle Bowermann were living proof of this theory. They, along with over 4,000 other Oklahomans, had come to hear Sanders speak at an event that included Native American dancing and the obligatory rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” (Woody Guthrie was from Oklahoma, after all). The Bowermanns were supporting the Vermont senator, but “believe it or not, our second choice is Trump,” said Sherelle, 73. In a general election, given the choice between the Manhattan businessman and Clinton, they would vote for Trump. Paul, 68, who characterized his political outlook as “eclectic,” liked that Sanders seemed “more compassionate to people who are down and out” and that Trump seemed to be “protesting the powers that be, the billionaires that run the country.”

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-you-want-to-understand-whats-roiling-the-2016-election-go-to-oklahoma/

Trump is like that SNL skit where the Broadway hypnotist hypnotizes all of his audiences into saying his show was much better than "Cats."

He renounces them and given the fact that he supported his daughter in that move shows that.”

ban use of "that"

OMG, I forgot all about people Trumping their cats!
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The stupidity of Peter Beinart.

To fight Mr. Trump’s ability to sway the news cycle, Mr. Clinton would not hold back on the stump, and President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office.

looking forward to both of these tbh

they are so going to bungle this

who is "they"?

"they" is "we"

we have met the enemy and they is we

hoping at least for some more of this face

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where'd he find a tangerine slice big enough to fit his head?

Holy fucking shit at the footage of the reporter being slammed.

dipshit meathead cop in recognizes no boundaries shocka

To fight Mr. Trump’s ability to sway the news cycle, Mr. Clinton would not hold back on the stump, and President Obama has told allies he would gleefully portray Mr. Trump as incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office.

looking forward to both of these tbh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:28 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they are so going to bungle this

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:30 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who is "they"?

― WilliamC, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:31 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm

Although, yes, much of the television news media upon which it's focused is inarguable garbage, Trump's ire towards the media in general is a huge red flag that cannot be waved enough. Look forward to many more chokeslams and worse under President Trump's reign.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I was still pretty shocked that it was a secret service officer, not a Trump goon, who was doing the chokeslamming. Especially since the reporter who was nowhere near the candidate.

Democrats are masters at fucking things up at the moment of victory.

it's almost as if they do it on purpose...

eh, republicans say the same thing about their own, pretty sure both parties look upon their apparatus as ineffectual losers at all times regardless of the circumstances

i know this is petty but does bernie sanders referring to himself in the third person annoy anyone else?

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders began “Super Tuesday” by casting a ballot at his polling station in Vermont around 7:30 a.m., saying he is “feeling great” about his prospects.

Mr. Sanders, dressed in a black winter jacket and accompanied by his wife, Jane, came to the Robert Miller Community and Recreation Center, checked in with the station’s staff members, then voted for himself.

“After a lot of deliberation I know that Bernie Sanders here in Vermont got at least one vote,” Mr. Sanders joked. “I was working on my wife. So I probably got two. So we are feeling pretty good.”

no...

nope

ugh, he does it all the time and it drives me crazy

It doesn't annoy Tarfumes.

yeah I don't see evidence there that he's crossed over to Jimmy-on-Seinfeld territory.

i think you get a pass if you're running for president and you refer to yourself in the third person as long as you don't do it in one-on-one interviews.