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

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

this is boring :(

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(xpost) Is there still a guiding party structure? It does feel like there was a missive from above to behave tonight.

Trump is bored.

maybe some kind of scheme for the convention was set up at the secret meeting rubio, cruz and kasich had with jeb bush today

yeah they all seem to be just going through the motions

china

i dunno this whole section on islam is pretty fucking terrifying. it's not an "exciting" debate like the others but don't get it twisted, these are still psychos. social security segment may also have been eye-opening for some viewers.