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

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.

Bob Dole doesn't like it

Really feel like the only way to knock Trump out at this point is convince his voters he's secretly black

I don't know if I can make it through this John Oliver thing

"There's nobody that's done so much for equality as I have," Trump said, before bringing up his club. "You take a look at Palm Beach, Florida. I built the Mar-a-Lago Club, totally open to everybody. A club that, frankly, set a new standard in clubs and a new standard in Palm Beach and I've gotten great credit for it."

a billy club?

"There's nobody that's done so much for equality as I have," Trump said, before bringing up his club. "I'm gonna build a wall so high, Mexico will pay for it." He nodded. "It'll be so high, so equal, and you're gonna love it!"

Lol that following discrimination laws = being an equality pioneer

This feels like one of those early 00s Fox reality shows at this point

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.

Is there any confirmation that it was USSS?

it's not funny anymore. we are in kafka territory.

Good can't wait til he turns into a bug

based on my voting experience this morning i can tell you that people who live on streets starting in N-Z are turning out in record numbers, A-M not so much

Is there any confirmation that it was USSS?

http://time.com/4241899/donald-trump-rally-time-photographer-chris-morris/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

Clearly the GOTV operations should be focusing on that critical "streets that are earlier in the alphabet" demographic in ciderpress's area.

(In Va. they used to have lines divided that way but for last names; because there are so many more names beginning N-Z it was always a longer line. There was always some crank grumbling about how they should divide it at a different point, like S. Nowadays, the whole list is on a tablet so you can stand in any line you wish.)

is drumpf a wildly uncommon and weird german name? the end joke is 'haha a foreign sounding name' from a british guy on a premium cable network

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/01/how-breitbart-unleashes-hate-mobs-to-threaten-dox-and-troll-trump-critics.html

funny when the legbreakers start to worry. ("funny")

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/704710156463030273

The anonymous online Trump army is racist, anti-semitic, vile, and despicable. The actual Trump supporters I've met are nothing like that.

like, are you suuuure, sean?

it's not funny anymore. we are in kafka territory.

carve his crimes into his flesh

is drumpf a wildly uncommon and weird german name? the end joke is 'haha a foreign sounding name' from a british guy on a premium cable network

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it's sorta that but it's also trying to undermine the power of his name, which is sort of an iconic brand in itself signalling wealth and success. also it literally means winning -- the "trump card" -- and these kinds of word associations might be influential to stupid people

I can't see any Drumpfs in Das Telefonbuch, but plenty of Trumpfs.

fighting xenophobia with...xenophobia

i think he was trying to make a connection to his family changing his name (hundreds of years ago?) to trump's criticism of jon stewart for changing his name, which he mentioned earlier in the segment

it wasn't one of his better segments, although it was relatively find until the drumpf part at the end. i guess at this point he feels the need to end every single episode with some sort of stupid loud thing that takes up the whole stage and causes confetti to fly down with a hashtag displayed at the bottom of the screen.

i just spent a few minutes trying to do a parody of oliver's thing where he constantly makes metaphors, but just thinking about it left me feeling ill and a bit exhausted

the end joke is 'haha a foreign sounding name'

this is not the joke btw

the joke is to subvert his brand

Hey it was better than the shitty Donald Dump garbage pail kid card going around in January I'll give it that

anonymous online

Drumpf definitely a step up from the name it was before it was Drumpf, Zapf Dingbat.

In the UK, 'trump' is what small children and old people say when they mean 'fart'. Best friend's old English dad used yell WHO TRUMPED?!? whenever The Donald came on '80s TV, much to the amusement of teenage me and best friend.

I think the idea is just to annoy/provoke/ridicule him. I guess the thinking is that for someone who talks so tough, he's got a really thin skin and he can't take ridicule.

Perhaps there's also the hope that it will attract his notice and he'll lash out in some suitably trumpian fashion, which will bring equal parts publicity and lolz.

If someone could let me know a light hearted Trump joke I could use for my bridge class it would be appreciated, thanks. Bear in mind some of them might be Trump supporters.

"I hear if he gets to the White House he's gonna have it bronzed. It'll be classy, you won't believe how classy."

How about "In the UK, 'trump' is what small children and old people say when they mean 'fart'."

and that's okay.

"Ever wonder what it would look like if a geriatric shaved his pubes while standing over a half-melted dreamcicle?"

i had not

trump's hair from the side really does look like a piece of salmon sushi hastily placed atop rice. the beady eyes are a couple of stray sesame seeds. you'll probably find a trump double sitting on a plate, rotating around the conveyer belt at a Kaiten-zushi place.

Trumplings

Thank for that horrifying piece of classical conditioning

it's sorta that but it's also trying to undermine the power of his name, which is sort of an iconic brand in itself signalling wealth and success. also it literally means winning -- the "trump card" -- and these kinds of word associations might be influential to stupid people

i think he was trying to make a connection to his family changing his name (hundreds of years ago?) to trump's criticism of jon stewart for changing his name, which he mentioned earlier in the segment

I think the idea is just to annoy/provoke/ridicule him. I guess the thinking is that for someone who talks so tough, he's got a really thin skin and he can't take ridicule.