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

haha yeah idk what that is there

looks like a time marker, ie 5:30 pm and 42 seconds

"God these burritos are making me gassy" - 18:49:12

Bubba 17:30-42

And thus the Angel Gabriel came before him, and asked Bubba if he saw the ass on that one

Anyway, heard someone on the radio today, a former super delegate talking about ... super delegatry. She and the host were talking about how the Republicans probably wish they had super delegates, to stop Trump, but she basically said that would only lead to chaos, and that the time to stop Trump was months ago, or weeks ago, and that now it's probably too late for the GOP to stop him. I'd say the same goes for mainstream Democrats finally waking up and criticizing him for the same shit he's been doing for 6 months. What took her so long? What took anyone so long? Years ago it was the birther bullshit, and then the shithead basically started his campaign of terror by calling John McCain a coward for getting shot down. It's been all downhill from there.

cos it's the primary! the arrows are usually pointed inward at that time, and when you're trying to secure your own party's nom, you might be paying less attention to the simpering, bowlegged buffoon in the other race

Trump always seems so childish and silly at these rallies, bright orange, doing that prissy circular finger-waving thing

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lxk2_gYVwTI/hqdefault.jpg

would explain why he told protesters to shut their mouths

to be insulted etc

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vjpe9e.jpg

The dems probably even wanted Trump or Cruz to win the primary. The standard wisdom is to hope for the most radical and divisive candidate to win. Of course, when the moderates are Rubio and Jeb! then standard wisdom might not apply.

I assume the GOP didn't want to go after Trump early because they saw him getting serious traction and wanted to co-opt his supporters.

somehow missed this gem from sarah palin:

We don't have time for all that petty, punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on with these quote unquote protesters, who are doing nothing but wasting your time and trying to take away your First Amendment rights, your rights to assemble peacefully. And the media being on the thugs' side -- what the heck are you guys thinking, media? It doesn't make sense!

i know i overuse this reference but this is really bordering on "get in the ring" material imho

Trump--He's One In A Million!

It'd be hilarious of Axl's rant was spoken in Palin's accent.

Gah, Trump really is "One in a Million" made manifest, isn't he? Except he probably has no problem with the police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8daClN2TzJM

we have official campaign pranksters!

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/campaign-trail-trolls-dupe-fox-reporter-and-others-into-thinking-trump-supporters-wear-armbands/

lol Settle For Hillary shirts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/03/14/robot-rubio-sounded-very-human-in-this-forceful-takedown-of-trumps-leadership-style/

dead man walking rubio comes off so much better here than he has in any debate.

they're all on 'well not entirely sure I would support trump' now that it's too late, but I think one of them shoulda taken a gamble and been willing to say "hell I'd vote for hillary clinton ahead of this guy" on stage. it mighta paid off.

ha i seriously doubt it would pay off

rubio in that interview shows flashes of what everyone saw as an inevitable future president. shame about the last several months, huh?

A bit later, he said "leadership has never been taking people’s anger and using it to get them to vote for you" -- the very definition of demagoguery, by the way. "If it is, it's a dangerous style of leadership," he said. "Leadership is about acknowledging people's anger, but as a leader, trying to address why it is they're angry instead of manipulating their anger so they become your voter, your donor, your supporter."

Leadership is about acknowledging no fly zones over Syria and rescinding the Iran deal, you sententious dirtbag.

Sorry, but this moron is a charlatan who's about to lose.

ha i seriously doubt it would pay off

maybe, but whatever else they did didn't pay off either. I think giving him enough credibility to say 'yes I would support him' was a mistake and it made them look pathetic even to the republican voters out there who hate trump.

most recent polls show bernie with a lot of momentum in every state but florida tomorrow btw

i received a very strange notice from the NYC Board of Elections today. It says "DATE CORRECTION" on the front, and on the back, this:

http://i.imgur.com/TxarrMr.jpg

"Primary Election". September 13, 2016.

It's referring to the state/local primary, but this was confusing as hell to receive. It never specified that it's referring to the state/local primary, and hmmmm i wonder what other prominent "primary election" could be taking place before that?

wtf

Headline from the WaPo:

Tuesday Could Shore Up Front-Liners -- Or Give Their Challengers New Life

kthx

Front-Runners rather

(tired, ok?)

KM, you should share that with DailyKos, et al.

one for morbs is this hasn't made the thread already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI

so am i the only one miffed at clinton spouting this "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" bullshit? or do most meme warriors not care?

Re: "Tuesday Could Shore up Front-Runners - Or Give Their Challengers New Life"

Turning to weather, it might rain, or it might not.

In sports, sources say one team will win the game, but maybe the other team will win. Who the heck knows?

Of course it's a lazy-ass headline that probably sits above a lazy-ass content-free speculation story. But as the primaries drag on, with no end in sight, I am also kind of sympathetic to the reporters and copyeditors who have to come up with something fresh five or six times a day. Conventional wisdom no longer applies, and normally reliable polls have been dramatically wrong at times, so what else is there to say? Hence stories that say, effectively, "Somebody's going to win, or maybe a different person will."

In the old days, the newspaper came out once a day and you could file your story then go get drunk. Now the story line changes slightly on an hourly basis and you need a brand and you need a social media presence so you do Twitface all the goldurn time and zzzz. I know I could not hack this environment, not least because it would cut into my drinking time.

Karl send that notice to Gawker, who the hell reads DailyKos

so in NY, Dems are trying... to stop white lefties from voting?

Real white lefties too guilty to flaunt voting privs

it looks like they're trying to stop Spanish and Mandarin speakers from voting

so what could be the agenda then?

the simplest explanation could be it's just dumb NY weirdly timed mailings, but hmmmmmm

ben carson's ringing endorsement:

"The way I look at it, even if Donald Trump turns out not to be such a great president — which I don't think is the case, I think he's going to surround himself with really good people — but even if he didn't, we're only looking at four years, as opposed to multiple generations and perhaps the loss of the American dream forever," Carson said.

i didn't realize the other candidates were up for 'multiple generation' terms. that's probably going to affect my vote

layers upon layers of equivocation in those 62 words

Has this Yglesias piece been linked already? It seems like a very good distillation of all the negatives. http://www.vox.com/2016/3/15/11225128/donald-trump-gullible-internet

Ben Carson endorsing Trump with the same argument my parents used to try to get me to consider getting braces.

I thought the thrust of Rubio's speech was pretty good overall, in terms of his argument against freewheeling angry speech by candidates. He had his share of clunkers but it was about as good as I could expect from
a Republican and also the first time I've ever seen him actually connect with the words coming from his mouth.

He also looked genuinely, deeply concerned in a way I don't remember seeing a presidential candidate look. Maybe he was just fatigued.

It's as though someone found Trump's butler at the local bar, bought him drinks, and let him talk.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/us/politics/donald-trump-butler-mar-a-lago.html

Losing can clarify the midn.