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

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

he's definitely being serious

I think it's a Brit thing, Morbs. We wouldn't understand.

my tennessean father, who has recently discovered email, just sent me the following:

We're rooting for the Donald today. He's promising to do what the Iraq War catastrophe, the '08 financial crisis, and $4 a gallon gasoline couldn't do: send the muthafuckin' Republican party up in flames. The way things are setting, today could be a major landmark for progressivism.Who'd a thunk Drumpf could accomplished all that? What a guy. And talk about "mysterious ways!"

There were a couple of funny lines in that Oliver thing, but twenty fucking minutes?

lol dads

btw we need cruz to win texas tonight so that he stays in the race

I think that's pretty likely

https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/704729755547865089

Trump just said he’s “never heard” the insult that he has small hands. The guy lies about the WEIRDEST things.

xp yeah he's ahead by 7 or 8 points in the RCP average

xpost

That’s the first John Oliver I’ve seen but it looks like more of the same old (John Stewart) shit. I guess these people can claim that they are comedians, but their really a bunch of irresponsible newscasters just like the rest of them IMO

i think i read something debunking the dong size/hand size thing

i misposted this:

this is pretty good

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11135756/donald-trump-nationalism

― goole, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ymmv with yglesias explainer mode but the first two paras are like duuuuh of course

the anti-trump right trying to pin this all on obama or liberalism generally has been hilarious. so acrobatic, these guys

― goole, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah but did anyone do a dong/hand check on the author, seems suspicious

i didn't even get that and had never heard dick size = hand size. Feet yes, hands no.
i just thought it was funny he was uptight about having pudgy hands.

i thought it was short fingers not small hands

SHORT FINGERED VULGARIAN

i enjoy gawker's various descriptions of trump, i'd poll them except they're too numerous to track down

That’s the first John Oliver I’ve seen but it looks like more of the same old (John Stewart) shit.

John Oliver has one schtick that he uses over and over again. Every bit has the exact same rhythm and uses the same "it's like (non-sequitur cultural reference)!" joke construction

if cruz wins tx and rubio loses fl will rubio drop out?

oh for pete's sake

John Oliver has one schtick that he uses over and over again. Every bit has the exact same rhythm and uses the same "it's like (non-sequitur cultural reference)!" joke construction

also stuff like "Go to bed Anthony! No one likes you and you've been crabby for 3 hours, you are ruining this evening Anthony! Go to bed!"

if cruz wins tx and rubio loses fl will rubio drop out?

seems like a possibility, but who knows.

FL isn't voting today

i know