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

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shout out to the 7200 people in massachusetts who took time out of their day to go and vote for "no preference" instead of like, making a sandwich or something

well they probably voted in other elections, too

also xps kevin, by "fucked up" i mean "the best for me and mines"

I love the fact that tons of pundits were somehow convinced that MN was ever in play wrt Hillary vs Bernie.

Also what up my caucus is famous y'all

http://www.nytimes.com/live/super-tuesday-2016-elections/in-st-paul-suburb-a-shortage-of-ballots-leads-to/

So Ben Carson gave a 15 minute speech about the Pledge of Allegiance

collardio, I was watching the news about that crash with escalating horror; glad you're okay

i'm going to go to sleep. can you guys just alert everyone when this national nightmare is over?

Def feeling a mix of deep fatigue and horror right now.

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sorry, i posted that before i saw DJP's post. didn't mean to seem insensitive. i know where that pizzeria is. horrifying.

glad you and your niece are okay collardio. please all ilxors continue safe, things are frightening enough.

There are rumors floating around that at least one GOP senator is planning to endorse Clinton if Trump wins the nomination.

Mitch McConnell looks like an oyster

guys thanks so much for your nice words. what was hard for me was that I dearly wanted to go back into the pizza shop to help people out until ambulances etc could arrive, but i had my niece with me, and i just couldn't bring her any closer to the scene of a caved-in building with massive ovens. it was the right decision, but painful nonetheless.

but anyhow, "enough about me," as they say

damn Treeship you've just killed oysters as aphrodisiacs for me

Looks like Sanders will have won more states than Cruz/Rubio/Kasich/Carson combined tonight. I don't know, I think I'll lull myself to sleep with that thought tonight.

"There are rumors floating around that at least one GOP senator is planning to endorse Clinton if Trump wins the nomination."

lindsey graham basically already did

mcconnell and ryan seem to have decided to speak about against "bigotry" but also support trump should he win the nomination

a decision that will probably haunt their old age

Any chance Sanders will get a Clinton cabinet appointment? Probably not, right?

pretty sure he'd prefer his senate seat

if any election was made for vine, it's this one.

https://vine.co/v/igH3wW1Khe9

https://vine.co/v/ig6X7WZOnhw

https://twitter.com/feistyfrank/status/704874838230491137

https://vine.co/v/i60YubamjY5

also

https://twitter.com/Reince/status/704864814280151040

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NED RAGGETT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NED RAGGETT

Why thank you. If elected etc

Found this pretty riveting last night:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/02/cnn-analysts-heated-exchange-trump-race-divide-sot.cnn

CNN just let them go, too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NED RAGGETT

Hold up there, don't you want to wait for all the votes to come in first before you jump to conclusions?

Donald Trump comports himself with the misplaced arrogance of a Waffle House manager whose branch got its seventh 4-star review in a row.

has everyone heard HRC's "America has always been great" act, and if so can she stfu

Yeah, it's bullshit and you can practically hear her triangulating.

And we know we’ve got work to do. But, that work, that work is not to make America great again. America never stopped being great. We need …

We have to make America whole. We have to fill in what’s been hollowed out.

good lord this is stupid.

Next four and a half years are going to be super painful.

The massive support behind her likely opponent in the GE is a pretty decent argument against America's greatness.

The "America sucks" platform did not test well with focus groups though.

Not in America anyway.

Ha

The massive support of war merchants and neocons behind her in the GE is a pretty decent argument against America's greatness.

any rumblings from bloomberg in the last couple of weeks?

yes, he had some bad borscht.

is "America sucks" as the only alternative to that slop she's been spouting a corollary to "Obama's not perfect, but..."?

Is there anybody in the country outside of the tri-state area who would care one way or the other if Bloomberg dropped into the race? He'd go over about as well as Lawrence Lessig did, imo.

Point to Oliver - "Donald Drumpf" currently a more popular search than "Ted Cruz", "Marco Rubio"

the "laugh at the funny foreign name" approach might be the least funny of a generally unfunny line of attack

And we know we’ve got work to do. But, that work, that work is not to make America great again. America never stopped being great. We need …

We have to make America whole. We have to fill in what’s been hollowed out.

good lord this is stupid.

― micro brewbio (crüt), Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Now, now...NPR analysts liked this response to Trump, along with that other corny one where Hillary says, 'I'm sorry, I don't want to build any walls, I want to build ladders of opportunity"

If you build a 10 foot wall, someone will build an 11 foot ladder of opportunity.

i put the Drumpf extension on my work computer and I gotta say it hasn't stopped being entertaining yet, esp. seeing it in like 48 pt font on CNN

Politico published an extensive “insider” look at the Sanders campaign on the morning of Super Tuesday that concludes with this fascinating tidbit:

They’re already prepping the fallback plan: 10 areas, including killing Obama’s trade deals and changing the super-delegate process that they’re going to organize around and try forcing into the Democratic platform.

“Worst case, we’re going to Philadelphia with 1,500 delegates. Best case, we’re going to win,” [Sanders senior advisor Larry] Cohen said. “Either way, we’re going to change things.”

Miles Davis was a famous drumpfet player.

Holy shit, that Trump weasel in that CNN link. It's just .... insane! I wish I could punch him for being a fucking asshole.

does he really believe this nonsense or is he just saying it to deflect attention?

"The KKK were 50 years ago connected to the Democratic party - the current Democratic party talks about race a lot - Check.... mate!"

Like, if you're going to lie and misdirect and go that big, why not just go bigger? "The moon is a racist invention of the democratic party." "Jews have killed more people than the rest of the world combined." "Poor people cause hurricanes." "The KKK was founded to make sure all Americans could safely vote."

The last makes sense, that has been a frequent focus of leftist groups.