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

wow someone named Dixie AND they have Celtic tattoos? hopefully they don't own any incriminating Lynyrd Skynyrd albums.

Hopefully nobody does.

weird, I'm seeing all sorts of pagan Celtic symbols popping up everywhere today.

ha, Happy White Pride Day everyone. Jump around! Jump around!

I like Skynyrd. Hopefully my lack of white power tattoos will help be avoid getting confusing for a white supremacist!

This was her defense in the comments:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--0DkIywuB--/tjpruyrx4xoqt6pigeyx.png

She doesn't defend, as far as I can tell, the 88 on her other hand. Or all those other direct connections to white power groups/beliefs.

Maybe she's a pianist!

keeps to the white keys..

Big fan of Hubert Humphrey?

“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things."

There's a reason why Tim Heidecker sites Trump as his direct inspiration for the mannerisms, expressions, and speech of his character Decker.

point taken btw that given the outlandish depths that Trump is willing to plumb, citations to show quotes are true and not hyperbole are likely appropriate from here on out.
"I have a good brain and I've said lots of things"! On live television! He's the front-runner! And it's already forgotten!

Clearly a big fan of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Junior:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3172/2337700430_99040abf20_z.jpg

Charles Blow:

Clinton’s coverage on television has dwarfed Sanders’s. As a New York Times Upshot report this week pointed out, Clinton has received more than twice the “news and commentary” about her campaign “on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on social media” as Sanders has....

There appear to be two parallel universes of Democratic voters this season — one disproportionately older, the other disproportionately younger — whose habits make them almost invisible to each other.

Clinton’s voters may be less likely to show up to rallies, or post on social media or be serial commenters who commandeer comments sections, but they do show up to vote. But these are the same voters who are less likely to hear much news about Sanders.

In a February Pew Research Center survey, a plurality of people 18 to 29 years old said that the social media was their most helpful source for learning about the 2016 presidential election. A plurality of those 30 and over cited cable news as the primary source. Network news was the second most popular source for those 65 and older.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/opinion/campaign-stops/a-bernie-blackout.html

apparently last night none of the networks showed his speech but instead focused on an empty shot of Donald Trump's stage

There's a reason why Tim Heidecker sites Trump as his direct inspiration for the mannerisms, expressions, and speech of his character Decker.

holy shit, now I have to watch every episode of Decker again

https://www.boombox.com/c/quiz/189680/who-said-it-a-donald-trump-staffer-or-a-manson-family-member

wow someone named Dixie AND they have Celtic tattoos? hopefully they don't own any incriminating Lynyrd Skynyrd albums.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau)

FP feels so good

i saw someone w a Chinese symbol earlier today, do you think he could secretly be a communist?

Are you joking?

reading through first thread, doctor casino with the first otm prognostication. although not sure if 'hilarious' ended up being the right word

trump beating j.e. bush maybe the most interesting thing long term. would be hilarious if he became the horse to beat and the whole primary process becomes an "anyone but trump" saga.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 3:41 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so glad Adam is here to defend the good names of white nationalist Trumplers

a simpler time

Surprised to see Trump implode so quickly--so immediately. I was looking forward to him gumming up all the debates, but--and maybe I'm completely wrong here--I don't think he'll get anywhere near them after the last few days. In any event, enjoying his ordeal thoroughly.
― clemenza, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:57 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a board of Bill Kristols

btw i offered a bet to rim anyone in the Apple Store if either Trump or Sanders was nominated, and no one ... bit

I'm not sure I'd read into that anything about Trump or Sanders.

btw i offered a bet to rim anyone in the Apple Store if either Trump or Sanders was nominated, and no one ... bit

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius),

you might try a cornhole at NRO

global tetrahedron: Glad you dug that up--I was completely, spectacularly wrong about Trump's chances. I actually don't mind, though (notwithstanding Trump himself); I generally hate smug proclamations of certainty when it comes to politics, and was dumb enough to fall into that trap with Trump.

not trying to call anyone out here either, it's just jarring to see a lot of these comments and reflect a bit on what a shit show this has been

Hell, I was predicting he'd walk away rather than release his finances. I never imagined he'd just give out the equivalent of a piece of paper with "I AM REALLY REALLY RICH FUCK YOU" written on it in crayon, and the press and everyone else would basically chuckle, "Oh, that Donald!"

(xpost) Keep going! I might even go back and round up all the times I said Trump couldn't possibly win.

i won't have time for awhile but there was also a prediction that trump would either end up broke or in jail by the end. there's still hope for that i guess

kudos to Casino for that prophecy; please let me know if you have any thoughts on powerball

global tetrahedron: Glad you dug that up--I was completely, spectacularly wrong about Trump's chances. I actually don't mind, though (notwithstanding Trump himself); I generally hate smug proclamations of certainty when it comes to politics, and was dumb enough to fall into that trap with Trump.

don't feel too bad, iirc almost everyone in the world was totally and spectacularly wrong about trump and expressed certainty about it. s

the first incident where I thought conventional wisdom re: Trump's chances were wrong was when he suffered zero fallout from dissing McCain. After that I viewed his campaign differently.

Three things I like about Trump (no need for a lecture Treeship, I'm mostly horrified by him too):

1) A few of his insults at the debates were perfect (telling Cruz no one in the Senate liked him, telling Bush his mother should have ran instead).

2) When he openly mocks the media for playing along (thinking of the time Chuck Todd was excoriating him over something and Trump calmly said "It got you to pay attention, didn't it?").

3) That he made everybody who said he couldn't win the nomination (me included)--who knowingly pointed to the establishment and the fact it's a rigged game--look stupid.*

*(Seeing as he hasn't actually won yet, I'll attach an asterisk to that one.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rabbis-call-for-boycott-of-trumps-speech-to-pro-israel-group/2016/03/17/8e2f2ea6-ea14-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

apologies if this was already posted
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/1794660_10156572280435304_6895432259658976137_n.jpg?oh=606a41b4ea9c0b5c7d5267f7dbf03c67&oe=57544136

calling dibs on the dn btw

wtf

Human Life Won't Become a Cat

can you bold a dn?

I'm honestly not understanding what that means. Is it against stem cell research or something? I'm sensing it's about abortion but

notably, that tweet seems confused not only about biology, but about what petitions are for

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Mb7c40319e98d82ee20bbea408e8be831H0%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

yeah. like you know how people think nothing of getting abortions for their cats and do it all the time. he's saying with people it's not like that.

xp yeah the *argument* is that "Human life begins at conception because you know it's a human once it's conceived." P sure human sperm won't become a cat either though.

rip xp

Just about a quarter notch above "Evolution isn't real because I've never opened a jar of peanut butter and found a spontaneously generated organism" in sophistication.

Human Life Won't Become a Cat

i would swear i read this on clickhole

ghoul game i can't help playing: my only success iirc besides staying unconfidently quiet early on has been jumping wholeheartedly aboard the this-is-fascism, it's-not-about-trump's-motives-it's-about-the-movement train back when people (ilx people -- the larger world of course is notoriously trigger-happy w hitler comparisons) were still arguing that this was ahistorical teenage hysteria, not that i haven't indulged in teenage hysteria since. (but ahistorical's a fighting word.) also i correctly predicted the outcome of the hawaii republican primary, which i could have done w even more certainty by polling the eight people planning to vote in it.

no ilx evidence of this but my personal oh-fuck moment was when trump started bragging about everyone else onstage (+ hrc) being bought and paid for and none of them had any idea how to respond, not just because it was true but because they had thought that was just how it worked. i'm sure that e.g. ross perot said that kind of thing too (idk?) but this was the year for it.