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

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

goole I answered your question in my own copy-pasting of that very sentence upthread!

in other news:

https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/708120011039068160

tracer this thread is for posting the same clip half a dozen times w/o reading, have you learned nothing this season

be sure to re-post it on next month's thread

holy shit at that tweet video shakey just posted.
cruz's pastor is a straight up psychopathic zealot

I thought we'd all seen Cruz's pastor by now; footage of him has certainly circulated through the news cycle.

this guy is literally calling for the death of homosexuals and then saying he's not afraid to die for his beliefs only moments before introducing ted cruz and ppl were worried about reverend wright???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pLobWHDdVw
"IT'S NOT A GAY TIME! This is, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WITH THE SORES, THE GAPING SORES! THE SORES THAT ARE PUS-SY AND GROSS! AND PEOPLE ARE COMING IN AND CARVING HAPPY FACES ON THE SORES! That's not a nice thing to do! DON'T YOU DARE CARVE HAPPY FACES ON OPEN, PUS-SY SORES! DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT, DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT, I TELL YOU DON'T DO IT! Sackcloth and ashes, this is what America needs. America needs to hear the message... we are messed up."

I thought we'd all seen Cruz's pastor by now

this is a different guy from the one who converted his dad, afaict

i've never seen this guy before; he's a piece of work.

ts: "they eat the poopoo" vs "the people with the sores that are pus-sy and gross"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html?_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-leandro/arrest-pastor-kevin-swans_b_8534488.html
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ted-cruz-boasts-about-endorsement-from-anti-gay-pastor-and-convicted-stalker/
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cruz-huckabee-and-jindal-will-join-pastor-who-wants-gays-put-death

I think I saw this mentioned on Inside Edition?

hm, so a little reading suggests this is not "Cruz's pastor" but some fuckhead that Cruz happily cosigned and this is old news
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html

beat me to it.

it bears repeating that Cruz is an amoral bastard tho, especially in the face of #anybodybuttrump

Anybody Butt Rump

a movement we can all get behind

Yet a quick web search will turn up Mr. Swanson’s references to the demonic power of “the homosexual Borg,” the unmitigated evil of Harry Potter and the Disney character Princess Elsa’s lesbian agenda.

wait what's this about the borg, my star trek fandom is not strong but

it's a tennis diss

wtf is that pastor even talking about, "carving happy faces on the sores"?

it bears repeating that Cruz is an amoral bastard tho, especially in the face of #anybodybuttrump

― ulysses, Friday, March 11, 2016 12:59 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He does have a weird face, after all.

I want to walk that joke back, I should have thought more than 5 seconds before posting it

lol