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

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.

Mordy and his Troupe of Strawmen, Sunday night on The Ed Sullivan Show

say revolution one more time and Berniejuice appears

bernie has no reason to get out. generally when people fall behind in primary races they need to drop out because they start to run out of money. bernie doesn't have that problem

Riotously stupid article in the NY Times about how Hillary may be in trouble because she's 'losing white men':

She also performed poorly on Tuesday with independents, who have never been her core supporters. But white men were, at least when Mrs. Clinton was running against a black opponent

THIS IS COMPLETELY INEXPLICABLE.

Say "revolution" one more time. I dare you--I double dare you.

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/P1bFv6KVp0tl.jpg

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.

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Friday, March 18, 2016 11:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

May i suggest tomcats barber shop. Once they gave me free metal tickets. Just chill times with chill guys.

"She's talking to minorities now, not really to white people, and that's a mistake," said Dennis Bertko, 66, a construction project manager in Youngstown, Ohio, as he sipped a draft beer at the Golden Dawn Restaurant in a downtrodden part of town. "She could have a broader message. We would have listened."

But white men were, at least when Mrs. Clinton was running against a black opponent

THIS IS COMPLETELY INEXPLICABLE.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, March 18, 2016 12:36 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Are nyt trolling hil supporters, white men, internet lefties, all of the above with that?

"She's talking to minorities now, not really to white people, and that's a mistake," said Dennis Bertko, 66, a construction project manager in Youngstown, Ohio, as he sipped a draft beer at the Golden Dawn Restaurant in a downtrodden part of town. "She could have a broader message. We would have listened."

I can imagine Chris Matthews masturbating in the corner as this conversation took place.

trolling the idea of an informed populace more like

"She's talking to minorities now, not really to white people, and that's a mistake," said Dennis Bertko, 66, a construction project manager in Youngstown, Ohio, as he sipped a draft beer at the Golden Dawn Restaurant in a downtrodden part of town. "She could have a broader message. We would have listened."

I can imagine Chris Matthews masturbating in the corner as this conversation took place.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, March 18, 2016

beside portraits of Ronnie 'n' Tip

meanwhile former McCain lickspittle and Jeb! super PAC guy Mike Murphy has a few things to get off his chest:

Trump, if you haven't gathered, irritates Murphy. And no matter how much Trump surges, Murphy's in no danger of "learning German" and pulling a Chris "von Papen" Christie: "I'd rather cut my arm off than vote for that jerk." But what especially irks him are critics ("the bumper sticker glue" crowd he calls them, as in outsiders who second-guess your campaign right down to the kind of glue used on the bumper stickers) acting as though it were Right to Rise's duty to take out Trump.

Cruz:

"I think he's cynical, totally cynical. .  .  . I don't think he could win a general election, so he'll be wiped out. It's a choice between Trump, who is terrible for the country, and Cruz, who is terrible for the party. He's too smart for his act .  .  . and he's probably pissed that a bigger con man showed up."

Rubio:

It especially enrages Murphy that the Beltway crowd has been so protective of Rubio, "having a breakdown as their precious helicopter-mom dreams are evaporating."

sad man thinkin about things on Super Tuesday at a hotel bar:

Murphy himself isn't much of a drinker anymore, but when he orders a Blue Moon, DJ looks as though Murphy had just tried on a pair of lady-boots. "Marco beer," DJ grimaces. "Lots of f

http://www.weeklystandard.com/debriefing-mike-murphy/article/2001632#.Vuu5YFzn0bJ.twitter

lots of foam

helicopter-mom dreams

i don't remember bernie himself complaining about (superdelegates)

And I don't remember Hillary herself claiming her nomination was "inevitable" or that she expected/deserved a "coronation," but nevertheless one hears those accusations leveled against her all the goldurn time.

you must have missed yesterday's NYT lovefest where Obama levels those accusations "against her"

big difference between random people on Facebook hyping themselves up vs. the New York Times

OK here

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/17/1503088/-It-s-Over-Gandalf-We-Need-to-Unite-Behind-Saruman-to-Save-Middle-Earth-from-Sauron

what the hell are you even talking about

must have missed when Dailykos was a respected institution that led the nation to invade Iraq under false pretenses

champagne wishes and helicopter mom dreams

he has displayed very little skill to building a voting base outside of college students

mordy, this just isn't true and i think you can do better. sanders may not have built a winning coalition, and he may have dramatically failed to win over some super-major, important groups as much as he needed to... as i'd be the first to acknowledge! but he has not won nine states just on college kids, c'mon.

just took a business call with a client who, when I used the phrase "trump card" in reference to a late addition to our deliverable, said "DON'T SAY THAT NAME!"

people be nervous

just took a business call with a client who, when I used the phrase "trump card" in reference to a late addition to our deliverable, said "DON'T SAY THAT NAME!"

Time for a freedom fries style name change.

well that's the drumpf thing isn't it?

freedom card

i involuntarily flinched the other day when a co-worker said that something "trumps" something else, i think that word is poisoned now

From now on, I'll be blowing my own drumpfet.

I did that last week when I opened my mailbox and saw my electricity "bill"

you blew bill?

taking 90's nostalgia a bit too far there imo

Burning myself is totally ruined too.

Fortunately the thread has moved on but, argh, sorry, just to explain my impressions / thoughts in order:

1. The charge is made that Bernie (or rather Bernie's supporters) claimed that superdelegates are undemocratic.

2. The countercharge is made, hey, Bernie HIMSELF didn't say that, despite what some Bernie supporters may have said (or what some non-Bern-feelers perceive Bernie supporters to have said).

3. I think, hey, Hillary has gotten plentiful flak itt (and in its predecessors) for things she hasn't said, but that Hillary opponents believe she thinks, or believe her supporters think. For EXAMPLE the inevitability/coronation narrative - which I am not aware of her or any campaign person saying like ever. But which people are happy to accuse her and her supporters of thinking (here and elsewhere).

4. Abandoning this line of argument because what is the point anyways (not gonna change any minds), I thought "OK whatevs," and for entertainment's sake linked in a parody/satire that I thought was actually kinda funny, despite a mean-ish edge if one were to take it too seriously.

I don't know if that helps but that is what I was talking about. Absolutely have no trouble conceding that Facebook randos, NYT, and the sitting president speak with differing levels of authority if that makes things any better.

BUT I think it's worth saying that if pro-Sanders folks can ask us to distinguish the thoughts of Joe Sanders Supporter from the thoughts of the candidate himself, then surely Clinton deserves at least some of the same courtesy? No?

Joe Plumber Sanders