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

yeah, that's bs

they had Clint Eastwood talk to an empty chair rather than invite him to the last RNC

Bush was unpopular from January 2009 to February 2009.

he transferred it to his brother Jeb after taking up painting / ironic lolz

the Dems sure rubberstamped a lot of W's shit, imagine if he'd been popular!

My barber went into a massive RAGE yesterday about how much he hates Clinton and Obama, and Trump is the only one he can stand. Among other things, he said something like "There is no way in hell I would give that lying snake the pleasure of being the first woman president," and "Obama is a fucking asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else." Sanders, meanwhile is just "out there," which is relatively kind. He's basically the perfect trump voter -- an angry, white, probably not college-educated, moderately conservative guy from non-gentrified Brooklyn who feels like elites are shitting on him. He cuts the hair of smug midtown professionals like myself all day, and I think on top of that his business is slow and he's stressed about it. I didn't really argue with him about it except to say that I didn't like Clinton but would take her over Trump, which is true, and that Trump changed his story every time he spoke, which is also true. I wasn't about to go further -- the guy was visibly enraged and was holding a razor.

http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/21pwk9puek6vwwozznquqa.gif

bush was pretty popular in his first term. it seemed to some of us that the wars had been going a long time by 2004, but haha

http://36.media.tumblr.com/d18a600a99966c11aad0f8d5c6b0c31c/tumblr_nyopb4o2lU1qkvpsmo4_500.png

http://drawblr.tumblr.com/post/134343132263/harveyjames-robert-crumb-taking-on-donald-trump

I wonder if native NYC-metro area people respond to Trump differently than most other Americans. I still identify Trump as a sort of 80's tabloid clown on par with Geraldo Rivera, Cutis Sliwa, George Steinbrenner etc. Clearly a dick but also an obviously pretend ideologue, posing no threat except in his own sphere, played for laffs.

The David Duke analogy wld work if maybe Ted Cruz or somebody was hosting.

― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 10:28 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From SNL thread. Maybe a good idea w/ these to have a dedicated shaming/mea culpa thread.

I definitely think there is a shock-jock, Howard Stern-esque appeal of Trump for some NYers though. Actually maybe no moreso than for anyone else in the country who listens to conservative talk radio. That's actually what Trump sounds like more than anything else imo, a shock jock.

Lots of manly bluster about how much it sucks to be oversocialized and have to live in civilization.

You need a new barber dude. There are so many chill young barbers in NY.

I agree though about trump and "shock jock" culture. That's part of why I am so repulsed by him, in a pre-rational sort of way.

"King of All Media" schtick aside, though, Howard didn't trade in self-aggrandizement. He openly gushed over and envied his guest's lives, and when it came to dick talk he only lamented his poor endowment etc.

He also resembles the rude and rambling weirdos that come into stores that employees are told to ignore until they go away, or at least he probably appeals to that demo.

You need a new barber dude. There are so many chill young barbers in NY.

― Treeship, Friday, March 18, 2016 10:10 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's a great barber though.

Although TBQH this visit made me question whether I want to keep going back - he also seemed upset about the fact that I cancelled last minute the other day.

He was pretending not to be but I could see he was. He's an angry and frustrated man.

How can a barber of all people possibly stand trump?

professional curiosity?

the 2nd post in this thread is more or less Trump barber POV

lol

he also seemed upset about the fact that I cancelled last minute the other day.

tbf every business gets upset about this

so it seems like bernie actually believes he can win this thing by convincing superdelegates that he's more electable. i guess he can't just say "i know our campaign can't win but i'm going to continue anyway to put pressure on hillary" but it seems like maybe his campaign team is lying to him about his chances.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sanders-hopes-lure-superdelegates-electability-argument

appointments for haircuts lol

all Sanders cares about is *a* chance, fine with me

it is kinda funny that after months of calling superdelegates undemocratic he is staying in out of the home that he can convince enough superdelegates to overturn the pledged delegate majority

out of the hope*

as i've said my personal preference is that he uses all that money + activist energy to focus on winnable down ticket races. the longer he runs without actually making an effort to spearhead the revolution he says is necessary taking donations for a quixotic campaign, the less i respect him tbh. he seems like an honest guy who talks a lot but doesn't really have the will or energy to do anything that could make a difference (except for the hard to measure "changing the discourse" part)

It's good that he gets out of the home ever so often. It's good to keep stimulated and feel part of society at that age.

xp

I have been going to the same two or three barbershops since childhood (and mostly gotten the same haircut), but have never once made an appointment, fwiw.

he also seemed upset about the fact that I cancelled last minute the other day.

tbf every business gets upset about this

― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, March 18, 2016 10:39 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not my fault he's not getting enough walk-in traffic!

It's not like he lost business because of me.

I walked out of my barber shop of ten years a few months ago, never to return. I just couldn't take the hot ignorant political takes anymore.

So now I'm looking for a new barber. Dammit.

i'm just growing out a natural. fuck the barbers and fuck the system mannnnnnnnnn
#feelthesidebern

I may be looking for one, the dude's rage as much as the political content was hard to take

lol @ #feelthesidebern

http://imgur.com/ofgVtDz

it is kinda funny that after months of calling superdelegates undemocratic he is staying in out of the home that he can convince enough superdelegates to overturn the pledged delegate majority

― Mordy, Friday, March 18, 2016 11:42 AM (43 minutes ago)

i don't recall sanders calling super delegates undemocratic

i mean they are, everyone both for and against them realizes this, but i don't remember bernie himself complaining about them

i really have to go round up these mordy disingenuous concern troll posts about bernie and his supporters that begin with "so it seems" or "i guess" and poll them at the end of the season, one of my favorite things

it seemed like that argument was coming out of his campaign but i'll admit that it might've just been omnipresent among his supporters

gee whiz, i really hope bernie supporters will divert their energies to other races once bernie's out...but i bet they won't, *wink-wink*

yeah i'm a huge concern troll you got me. there are no legitimate critiques of bernie's campaign, just secret hillary supporters trying to sow discontent.

it seemed like that argument was coming out of his campaign but i'll admit that it might've just been omnipresent among his supporters

― Mordy,

should've started that sentence with "I guess" imo

i bet he won't even get out. he has displayed very little skill to building a voting base outside of college students and very little savvy about what is required to have a democratic revolution (hint: it involves getting other ppl besides himself elected). i actually registered Dem so i could vote for him in PA but i've since switched back to Hill.

i feel like you're expecting a bit much of a presidential candidate, honestly

he said that changing this country is going to require a political revolution to flip congress. i don't think it's asking too much for him to lead the revolution he's running on.