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

Gerald Ford put America first by pardoning Nixon

Trump always refers to 1,237 as a "random number." Huh? Isn't it half + one of the available delegates?

I generally liked Rubio tonight until that ridiculous story.

trump repeats continually that he's ahead of clinton in the polls and is going to beat her by even more.. what poll? this is the last i saw and is pretty much where we're at

PRESIDENT
Hillary Clinton (D) 51%
Donald Trump (R) 38%
(NBC/WSJ Poll, RV, 3/3-6)

Kasich mentioned Jack Kemp a few debates ago, tonight he mentions Pete Domenici. I think he may be out of sync with his party.

i didn't watch this but daria so otm about the deals

this morning Dylan what'shername from MSNBC casually mentioned, as if embarrassed, that Clinton and Sanders would defeat Trump 'by double digit numbers.' No one asked a followup. Horse race. We need one.

i'm sure some video editors can put together a nice ad making pretty clear how clueless trump is by splicing together all the hopelessly vague "we're gonna do a deal, it's going to be a good deal, not a bad deal," soundbites + maybe some of his goofy faces.. i mean maybe you start off the whole thing with a serious question affecting people w/r/t the economy onscreen, then cut to trump being the fool he is

i'm sure some video editors can put together a nice ad making pretty clear how clueless trump is by splicing together all the hopelessly vague "we're gonna do a deal, it's going to be a good deal, not a bad deal," soundbites + maybe some of his goofy faces.. i mean maybe you start off the whole thing with a serious question affecting people w/r/t the economy onscreen, then cut to trump being the fool he is

they should do a "fake job interview" ad which began "would you hire this man?" and his answer to every question is something like "it's gonna be big, it's gonna be great, i don't know what it's gonna be, but we're gonna get the best people, we're gonna make a deal, it's gonna be beautiful" -- he would look utterly ridiculous.

also

Paglia angling for that VP spot
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/10/i_was_wrong_about_donald_trump_camille_paglia_on_the_gop_front_runners_refreshing_candor_and_his_impetuousness_too/
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:52 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who knew camille paglia was competing to be the american robert brasillach?

p sure there's no actual endorsement in there?

paglia supports sanders, but her contrarianism and lifelong fetishization of boorish working class men dictated she say nice things about trump

she and trump would be a fun team to watch though

CNN's in the middle of an orgy of self-congratulation over their Civil and Substantive Debate. Even if you accept the premise, I doubt they had much to do with it--if those guys had wanted to go off on each other, they'd have done so.

paglia is completely intellectually bankrupt

weird how she has such a hard-on for trump in that article and yet she still manages to sound like a prude when discussion bill clinton

"substantive" xp

idk why i keep watching these things

sayin what we all think

http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/10/mac-miller-donald-trump-racist/

still wonder if something's up & they plan to rewrite the rules at the convention to stop from nominating trump even if he has enough delegates

They (whoever "they" is) can either do that, and sacrifice the remaining shreds of legitimacy of the Republican Party, or nominate Trump, and sacrifice the remaining shreds of legitimacy of the Republican Party.

xpost idk, granted a significant portion of Trump's base comes from outside the Republican party, but telling the Republicans that did vote for him "hey we're going to shit all over your right to pick our candidate" would have some pretty long-lasting damaging effects.

Maybe they would have the balls, I dunno, but I really think they're gonna go all-in with the multi-headed dragon trying to siphon away delegates so they can broker the convention.

the Repub party is basically a deformed, bleeding dick either way tho

they are totally going to be down nominating trump, watch 70% of the GOP leadership fall in line. are you kidding?

they might become the first party to assassinate their own candidate

the $$$ people have to be thinking about the downballot candidates esp keeping the senate.. i mean, they have no good option, it may be a question of nominating someone else who will upset a lot of their base vs nominating trump who is gonna be radioactive.. whatever oppo research the democrats & associated PACs have dug up on trump from decades of material hasn't even been used yet..

yeah, i am sort of mystified how no major scandals from trump's past have caught on. he seems like a sleazy person who has led a dishonest life filled with double-dealing/underhanded shennanigans at the very least

they should do a "fake job interview" ad which began "would you hire this man?" and his answer to every question is something like "it's gonna be big, it's gonna be great, i don't know what it's gonna be, but we're gonna get the best people, we're gonna make a deal, it's gonna be beautiful" -- he would look utterly ridiculous.

Yeah, I dunno if I'm confident on the numbers regarding "have you ever interviewed a bullshitter?" vs "have you ever tried to bullshit your way into a job?"

yeah, i am sort of mystified how no major scandals from trump's past have caught on. he seems like a sleazy person who has led a dishonest life filled with double-dealing/underhanded shennanigans at the very least

hi dere likely next british prime minister.

Seriously, it's amazing how much this sort of thing just isn't a problem for those with sufficient brass neck. If Nixon had been like 'yeah, I'm a crook, I illegally spy on my opponents, so what, they're bad people' he'd probably still be president now.

the Repub party is basically a deformed, bleeding dick either way tho

― Neanderthal, Friday, March 11, 201

should I post a gif

the Repub party is basically a deformed, bleeding dick either way tho

..in charge of about 37 states.

If Nixon had been like 'yeah, I'm a crook, I illegally spy on my opponents, so what, they're bad people' he'd probably still be president now.

You really didn't hear "They all 'do it'" re Dick a lot until the late '70s; maybe that's when the US lost its cherry for the last time. So Nixon took that approach to become a Respected Elder Statesman ("When the president does it, that means it is not illegal").

paglia supports sanders, but her contrarianism and lifelong fetishization of boorish working class men dictated she say nice things about trump

There's not actually anything remotely working class about Donald Trump, is there?

He's just a humble steak salesman made good. Sure he's got some other irons in the fire, but he's truly happiest while tending his herds, or skillfully butchering an Angus.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/the-wieners-circle-welcomes-donald-trump-with-3-inch-chicago-hot-dog-031016

https://twitter.com/DOGSnSHAKES/status/708028576461922304

There's not actually anything remotely working class about Donald Trump, is there?

As Greenwald has pointed out, he (like Sanders) has challenged the bipartisan orthodoxy on globalist trade.

Yeah, I was referring to that and also his supporters, who skew older, white, male, and less educated iirc

NY Daily News:

Former Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson didn't endorse Trump but told The News earlier this week "he's fun and I think he's got a big heart."

Mr. October added that he believes a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is not the right decision, and he made a cringeworthy joke to explain his rationale.

"We need to control it and we need to do something about it, but we can't do it like that," Jackson said. "We need to be concerned about more jobs here and people coming in here that we really don't want, but if it's not for the Latin American community, we don't have any cooks in our Italian restaurants. We don't have any cooks at the steakhouses.

"We don't have anyone to do that kind of work, so be careful."

Reginald Martinez Jackson, ladies & gents

Older, white, male, less educated, more likely to coldcock a POC and gleefully muse about killing him on-camera.

lol, that's such a perfect overfed retired sports celebrity statement: "If we don't allow in the Mexican, who will fix up my steaks?"

WE MUST NOT ALLOW AN ITALIAN CHEF GAP

I'm envisioning the Pasta Riots of the 2020s. Blocks-long lines to get into (even) Olive Garden, like during the gas crisis. People on street corners holding signs that read, "will work for rigatoni."

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/172404730876792832

man has a point

already past anyone's interest in this breakneck news cycle but fwiw a 78yo guy cold cocking someone and then saying that 'he could be ISIS' has frontotemporal dementia written all over it

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/172404730876792832

man has a point

― mookieproof, Friday, March 11, 2016 9:42 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like this is an issue we could build bipartisan consensus around

Manolia Charlotin, a Haitian journalist based in New York, said Clinton’s actions should draw questions as to how Clinton would act should she become president: “What does that mean as to her approach to foreign policy? To have a secretary of state visit a country, to make a stop, and as a result of that meeting, you have an illegal selection of leaders? How does that decision promote the American views of democracy?”

In both Honduras and Haiti, Clinton chose to shy away from letting each country’s voters choose their leaders when the going got tough. American voters, the people of Honduras, the people of Haiti and anyone who cares about democracy and human rights should know whether Clinton as president would be a promoter of such values.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-needs-to-answer-for-her-actions-in-honduras-and-haiti/

Meantime

http://gawker.com/conservative-reporter-files-criminal-complaint-against-1764288589

rubio campaign: please vote for kasich in ohio to stop trump

kasich campaign: "We were going to win in OH without his help, just as he's going to lose in FL w/o ours"

of everything in her customarily stupid column, this infuriated me the most:

"If Trump wins the White House, that no-holds-barred video will go down in history as “the shot heard round the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s phrase for the first salvo of the American Revolution by rural insurgents at Concord."

WHY WOULD EXPLAIN THIS REFERENCE. WHY.

Oh hey Ben Carson's quest to counsel Christian voters and continue to rake in money has lead him to the conclusion that endorsing Donald Trump is the way forward.

now envisioning Putin paying Carson to stab President Trump to death following some policy dispute