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

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

― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

also please note that stewart did not change his name and trump went on (wrongly) to deny he had ever said he had

Anyone mocking Trump's hair clearly doesn't remember the fundamentals of Bernoulli's principle. To quote Trump himself, "In a world full of people, only some want to fly, isn't that crazy?"

Little Donald Needs to Fly

the john oliver thing will be so irrelevant. it exists in an echo chamber for people who already hate trump and want to feel better/smarter than other people

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lol sorry everybody i didn't mean to do that

I feel like carefully studying any extant videos of Trump's parents could yield abundant psych warfare ammo in the general. Replicating a dressing down from his mom for telling lies might be just the thing to poke an unpatchable hole in that thin skin.

she was a saint

yeah i think some of those segments oliver and stewart and whoever else has done them exist merely so people can smugshare them on facebook

xxxxxp so otm. I can't stand John Oliver.

p.s. a lot of European family names have changed since the 17th century, when less than 50% of people could sign their own names

also please note that stewart did not change his name and trump went on (wrongly) to deny he had ever said he had

― ulysses, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 1:18 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what do you mean by did not change his name?

giving john oliver a platform is a greater embarrassment to the united states and than nominating trump

let's keep things in perspective here

I agree Oliver's yelling into an echo chamber but eh it doesn't bother me much

less embarrassing than Piers Morgan probably

no john oliver is definitely worse for american discourse than trump

aw i like John Oliver

no john oliver is definitely worse for american discourse than trump

I can't tell if you're being serious - for one thing way more people know who Trump is/listen to Trump; just setting aside who's more obnoxious Trump is unquestionably the bigger, more impactful figure.

geez i haven't seen his show but i had no idea there was a backlash