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

california primary is three months away so god only knows, but 538 polling average (of, basically, two polls) has it as:

Trump 30.7
Cruz 20.6
Kasich 16.8
Rubio 13.6

a detached third-party observer might say "this is basically meaningless and it could look totally different by june" but kasich or a kasich sycophant would be saying, rubio plus kasich effectively ties with trump. you put in the legwork and boost those numbers just a bit and who knows...! better stay in this thing! (it's also winner-take-all on a district-by-district basis, so it's not actually the 172-delegate plum it may appear to be. still....)

i don't know anyone who went to farflung beaches for spring break, i thought that was only something that happened in movies

Ha, I used to wonder if American schools were really like that.

idk i definitely knew a lot of kids in college that booked trips to florida for spring break, varied from budget road trips to cheap motels to richer kids flying down to pricey oceanfront condos

i went to ft lauderdale once during spring break with my brother and my dad, but i was in junior high so it didn't really count and it wasn't a spring break!! trip, just visiting some friends. i just remember driving around listening to boyz II men on my headphones and marveling at all the teal cars with purple neon under the chassis. my memory is that it was a hellish place and time.

Student spring break trips are not a thing on the west coast ime

i hung out w/ a bunch of activist kids though so of course we did "alternative spring breaks" to places like chiapas, mexico or cuba which were obv just as expensive

i don't know a single person who did this in the early 90's.

(I went to berkeley). maybe kids in SoCal go to tijuana

my only college spring break trip was to Burlington VT so i went in the opposite direction. drank a lot of beer and jammed some tunes and listened to a bunch of phish and widespread with my high school homies. hempiest week of my life.

I went to college in texas so we went to South Padre one year for spring break, wasn't super far, but there were a bazillion college kids there from all over the midwest, and it was pretty much as wild as the movies suggest. needless to say I don't remember a whole lot. was in 1994 I think?

i went to Tampa/St Pete in senior year to go to spring training ballgames with my 66-year-old uncle. I haven't returned to Florida, partly bcz i saw Kissinger in the Salvador Dali Museum.

I did choir tours during spring break, which meant partying in places like scenic Wichita.

Imagine how pissed I was that the group did a SoCal tour the year before I joined and a Florida tour the year after I graduated.

Ft Lauderdale banned spring break more than 25 years ago iirc. Rich gays prefer their twinks a little quieter.

I haven't returned to Florida, partly bcz i saw Kissinger in the Salvador Dali Museum.

surrealism is dead

i think you just saw Dali's "face of war" painting, morbs

http://webneel.com/daily/sites/default/files/images/daily/09-2013/18-the-face-of-war-paintings-by-salvador-dali.jpg

that Dali museum is world class imo

(All of my complaints are nullified by three international summer tours, though)

Kriston Capps
‏@kristoncapps
Cleveland prepares for possibly unprecedented violence at the Republican National Convention in July: http://bit.ly/1U21dVB

@pareene
again, given America's actual political history, it seems like they're preparing for very very precedented violence

(Cops also have been preparing for conventions exactly in this manner since 2004)

lol that's an amazing story.

intercoastal Florida is def the kind of weird place where i would imagine randomly seeing Kissinger

or nude wrestling with a croc in Gatorland

a friend texted me last year to swear kissinger was in a neighboring toilet stall

btw from a Yelp review:

What made me love the park was the surprises of the staff. Unlike many parks, where they are super reserved and concerned about getting sued, I saw a few different times when the staff would see a couple kids looking at a giant gator and they would actually let the kids inside the exhibits to feed them or take pictures. It was entertaining for everyone as well because we thought we might see a child get eaten alive.

from that convention-violence story:

A group of Trump supporters calling itself “The Lion’s Guard” aims to serve as a militia-style security force for attendees at Trump rallies.

welp

yea i'm terrified for cleveland

hmmm, maybe instead of Trump merely offering to pay the legal fees of the Lion's Guard after they beat the shit out of a protester, he can just go ahead and pay them all a decent salary as well, maybe even get them a uniform!

it's going to be amazing how much Trump gets sued after all of this ends

Henry no doubt thought it was the Salvador Allende Museum and wanted to see the corpse xxxxxxp

Karl otm, i'm thinking maybe we start with something in a brown shade for starters and move to a more classy black after awhile

their twitter account was apparently only up for four hours but they did have a logo

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far left alligators

what's insane is that i think that many of the same old white men who watch endless History Channel specials on Hitler are also big Trump fans

Marianas have clinched Trump's eligibility for the nomination

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/15/donald-trump-just-hit-a-critical-threshold-for-the-gop-nomination-one-that-his-opponents-might-not/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_fix-trump-2pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

this is what comes of having possessions n' such

meanwhile there are 2 kinds of 'bros' in this world...

@DougHenwood
Posh kids don't like Bernie: Sanders does well in towns hosting public universities; poorly in those with private.

https://newrepublic.com/article/131536/arent-college-towns-feeling-bern

Nothing fascist here, nope: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/trump-militia-forms-to-forcefully-protect-rally-goers-against-far-left-agitators/

Gah sorry i walk away for 10 minutes...

i don't think there's much ~~yet~~ to this "lion's guard" business. we'll find out soon enough.

Gah sorry i walk away for 10 minutes...

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 2:55 PM

and when you return to the office brownshirts await you

They're afraid of that 50% tax rate and want to get rid of that pesky estate tax

what's insane is that i think that many of the same old white men who watch endless History Channel specials on Hitler are also big Trump fans

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somebody check the DSM V for symptoms that include 'inability to recognize patterns' and 'wall fetishization'.

don't look now guys but i think some of these people may be young

so what's winner-take-all vs proportional today?

He's started a Youth wing already?

when will primary returns/projections start to be announced, anybody have an estimate?

i checked the huffington post super bowl page but it didn't help

6 or 7 p.m. depending on time zone

I'll know while watching a Troell movie and hearing the howls of doom around my neighborhood as the results are announced.

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― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:39 (27 minutes ago) Permalink

far left alligators

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:41 (25 minutes ago) Permalink

My favorite Raffi song.

Cleveland poll worker pulls out gun during argument at polling station