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

Mike Lee endorses Cruz!!!!!!!

ermm

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you got one, ted! and he's ALSO a fucking asshole!

Its hilarious that lee held out this long

nice to see 3 of 4 non-negative leaders stand with Snowden that NSA needing corporate help unlocking a phone is "bullshit".

anticommunist Goldwater Girl not doin too good

Why does America have such a disproportionate number of citizens who live their entire lives inside infantile fantasies?

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:41 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

individualism is kind of the american dream. it's also an infantile fantasy.

for a while I wondered if the FBI using reverse engineering or a number of the proposed techniques to break into a phone would violate the DMCA, but there is a DMCA exemption for

a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer accesses a work in the course of a lawful investigation;

the phone thing is still a red herring, it's a work-provided cell phone and the phones the attackers used to communicate with each other were destroyed. it's just a token case law enforcement is trying to use to test Apple and other security proponents

this was posted to FB recently as well: (long, sorry):

Lauren Underwood
March 4 at 8:56am · Garden City, MI ·
Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and share my experience at Donald Trump's rally in Warren, MI today. We'll start with why I went. I am a firm believer in being educated on ALL candidates, not just the one you're rooting for, so Stephanie and I decided to attend. If you know me, it's no surprise that I am not a fan of Trump due to his racist, misogynist, and popularity-searching "campaign". But I try to keep an open mind, understanding that people have different views and everyone is entitled to their own. I wore a shirt bashing Trump, and Stephanie wore a pro-Bernie Sanders baseball hat. We had no intentions of causing a scene, starting any fights, or even speaking negatively towards any Trump-supporters. We stood in the crowd with everyone else, even made small talk with a few different people, asking back and forth about each other's views. A women supporting Trump even complimented our hat and shirt. This is not a post to bash all Trump-supporters. Most of the people we spoke to were very kind to us, as we were to them. Trump came out and started his speech. As hard as it was, we ignored the screams and chants of building walls and exporting citizens. We stood quietly and listened to the man speak. Every 15 or so minutes, a scene would happen where the crowd would yell about protestors and Trump would scream, "Get them out, send them out of here!" and the crowd would scream "USA, USA, USA" until the attendees who were asked to leave were escorted out. So, about 45 minutes to an hour into his speech, a group of teenage boys (who had been harassing us the entire time while we ignored their comments) screamed and pointed at us, yelling for us to be kicked out. At first we laughed it off, of course we couldn't be kicked out, we were just standing here silently. Wrong. A secret service member and a police officer were there within the minute, grabbed Stephanie and I by our arms, and started to lead us out. One of the Trump supporters we were chatting with even stood up for us, explaining that we weren't doing anything and weren't being disruptive. By now the crowd was chanting their USA run and a large portion was also booing us out. The walk through the crowd was very upsetting, being screamed at and filmed, even one man said "Go to China if you like communism so much!" (Communism?? Don't you mean democratic socialism??). But also, along the walk out, some attendees would high five us or shake our hands, and thank us for coming and supporting Bernie. It felt weird to be thanked, due to us not doing anything besides standing quietly. As the two men walked us out, one explained that if we returned we would be arrested. Stephanie quickly asked why that was. The man replied with "They don't want you here," to which she said "Isn't it a constitutional right to silently protest?" The officer replied "Not here." The rude remarks and yells didn't stop at the door, for Trump-supporters who didn't get in greeted us with just as much hatred. The walk back to my truck even included a man yelling from his car about how this was for Trump people and that we didn't belong here and shouldn't have come. This kind of hatred is what is ruining this country. To think that my right to protest was taken from me AT A RALLY, scares the hell out of me for if Trump actually became president and got that power. What else would he take away from us if he can't even stand two teenage girls standing silently at a FREE, PUBLIC, OPEN-TO-EVERYONE event? If you're thinking of voting Trump this year, please rethink your stance. This much hate belongs nowhere near the presidency.

discussed upthread, I believe

bah

edgy stance: fuck donald trump

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thanks all

why would you go to a rally wearing a shirt/hat w a candidate from the other party on it?

to check if they're fascists?

idk u guys, I think donald trump is maybe g-<looks around room anxiously>-oo-bad, bad, definitely bad.

yeah i guess if someone wore a Trump shirt to a Sanders rally they would just think they were being funny/ironic

i can't believe they're having another debate tnite

haha what they are?

Gop is yeah

And there's another on March 21 in Salt Lake City.

yeah i guess if someone wore a Trump shirt to a Sanders rally they would just think they were being funny/ironic

well they might yell at you and tell you to leave, but idk if they would alert bernie sanders to your presence so that bernie sanders could dispatch private security to force you out while the crowd chanted the name of their nation

(maybe it's not private security; i've been a little unclear on who exactly is policing trump rallies)

Its a bit of both afaict

the "trump as wrestling heel" thing just keeps holding, it's amazing. i have great memories of attending matches put on by extreme championship wrestling, the philly franchise, and the loyal crowds there launching maniacally into "ecw! ecw! ecw!" chants the moment that something really untoward happened, usually involving a wrestler getting thrown into the crowd or through a table

yes i chanted too, ok. it felt good

wrestling is kind of cool cuz it takes all that shit and channels it into a ridiculous fantasy world; it even makes meaningless postmodern hash out of "real" sports' fixation on the objective values of Competition and Dominance. too bad about the labor relations. also too bad about the kind of politics a population raised on ridiculous fantasy worlds will eventually get into i guess.

"ecw! ecw! ecw!"

isn't that ec-dub?

funny u should say that xp

Do you watch the PGA Tour, college football, or NASCAR? Then according to a new survey, you're most likely a Republican.

But if you'd rather settle in for a Lakers-Celtics game -- or some WWE pro wrestling action -- then there's a good chance that you vote Democrat.

isn't that ec-dub?

yes :)

xp oh that's interesting mordy and i guess not too surprising. i don't rly watch it but gf's a big fan and i've taken to challoping my parents by calling it "sports for sophisticated people"

culture of entertainment in general not partic politically healthy? or maybe it is, or maybe it doesn't matter, idk.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/these-are-the-phrases-each-gop-candidate-repeats-most/

serious poll-bait here

lol @ "i would note"

Best line and highest score: Rubio's "When I'm President."

that line just always reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOINdsjJsDg

https://twitter.com/lowviolet/status/707109509534076928

oh look, people born to advantaged positions dominate our discourse, whether political, academic, critical, or journalistic. go "meritocracy" and "realism"

cruz got endorsed by a colleague

yeah, but cruz promised to pay him $100 if he'd be his friend

lol the moment of silence for nancy reagan and the national anthem, never change debates

the transparency of cruz's hairline increases with each of these debates

whenever trump gets criticized for exploitation and he responds that he's simply exploiting the existing laws and pivots to talking about what a great businessman he is, i have nightmare flash forwards to him somehow selling out the entire U.S. in exchange for $ 2 trillion to some group of rich dudes

the New Jersey Nets owner guy?

sure, and scott boras maybe.

"oh, how could we have known that he would just consider his options and then do whatever was most financially beneficial for himself? he never gave us any clues!!"

kasich defying gabbneb in facing the crucial issue of his croatian-american background head-on

meanwhile huckabee and cruz's dad would be claiming that trump was the actual antichrist

//metalchugging

did he just say he's grown over "four hundred private-sector jobs in ohio"? wow!

does rubio shave his hairline up to give himself a bigger forehead? the only one of these four with natural-looking hair is kasich

i watched the bad lip reading version of cruz' campaign video and his little teeth and weird face freaked me out so much I can't even look at him now