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

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.

dedicated to protecting safety and security from far-left agitators

― 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZwhNFOn4ik

538 has Bern up to a 12% shot in Illinois, so that's in the bag

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 2:41 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Realize any memory of that programming is pushed out of their skulls in favor of hours and hours of Duck Dynasty reruns and Ancient Aliens, Ax Men, Pawn Stars, etc. for the last 10 years or so.

One thing I find odd in watching election results on TV/online is the way people speak as though the election is still happening and the candidates are personally causing the votes to turn toward their favor.

8 PM: "With 7% of the vote in, Smith is holding steady with 54%. Jones is going to need to make up that deficit in the downstate counties where his support is strongest."

9 PM: "Now, with 20% counted, we're seeing Jones surging ahead! Smith is really going to have to do well in urban areas as well as in Burp County, where I'm just now being told there is a glitch with the vote-counting because the precinct captain experienced some traffic."

10 PM: "It's neck and neck between Smith and Jones, currently just separated by 11 votes, with 45% of precincts reporting. We're getting word that some of the votes still to be counted are from Smorb County, which has a big student population. That could bode well for Smith, who's been campaigning heavily to get out the youth vote. But Jones could still pull ahead, given his strong support in Glop County."

11 PM: "Smith has opened up a ten-point lead now. It's going to be very hard for Jones to make up the difference. Jones needs to do really well in these outer suburbs, like in Hupp and Reep Counties."

DUDES. Chill. It has all already HAPPENED. No one is surging ahead, falling behind, or making up the difference. Everybody's already voted and gone home. All we're doing now is just counting. Yeah I KNOW they have to say something to fill the air, and over the last 30 years of watching election returns I've sometimes fallen into that same Karl-Rovian trap - "Hey! Schmoop County hasn't come in yet; maybe there's still hope!"

These days, I prefer to go to bed early, or watch a movie and drink, then set an alarm to wake up around midnight so that I am more likely to get actual tangible results, rather than do the emotional rollercoaster of hitting refresh all evening only to see that it's still inconclusive.

It's good that Kasich's speaking up, but it's laughable watching him pretend, in an interview he just did with CNN, that he "didn't know the extent" of what Trump's been out there saying the past few months.

Have the open carry crazies ever made their presence known at a polling station, or debate, or convention, etc?

538 has Bern up to a 12% shot in Illinois, so that's in the bag

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:29 (48 minutes ago) Permalink

aka the CYA threshold

Have the open carry crazies ever made their presence known at a polling station, or debate, or convention, etc?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 4:14 PM (4 minutes ago)

uh you mean, historically? or this year

This year.

give trump's people a little more time