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

latest Wisconsin poll has Cruz ahead

"By endorsing Cruz, Romney, Lindsey Graham and now Bush are giving definition to the “anyone” in “Anyone But Trump” movement"

(Not entirely clear this was intended as a sick burn?)

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/ted-cruz-republican-establishment-elites-221174

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/24/bernie_sanders_supporters_in_la_say_they_ll_back_clinton.html

The one Sanders supporter who adamantly said she would not support Clinton was 23-year-old Evergreen State College student Hallie Sills, who traveled from Washington to attend the Los Angeles event. Sills, who described herself as “neo-Marxist,” was carrying a sign that read “I DIDNT BEAT UP A TRUMP SUPPORTER 4 BERNIE,” and spoke of Sanders’ other “tour” dates as if they were rock shows. (“I tried to go see him in Seattle. I tried to see him in Vancouver this weekend. I tried to see him in San Diego yesterday, and then my friend sent me tickets for this today last night. I live in Olympia, Washington, so the day I left to come down here was the day of his tour of Washington, and I missed it, and I was really, really mad yesterday about missing the San Diego one because I couldn’t find a ride.”)

“This is a tough question,” she said when asked what she would do if Sanders lost. “I think I would—I’ve said in a few different conversations and out of a little bit of rage and excitement that I would honestly vote for Trump so that I could witness a presidential assassination. But that’s a little intense, so I would rather look into an independent party.”

yep sounds like a 23 year old Evergreen State College student, nothing wrong with that.

She seems chill idk what the problem is

bernie supporters have gotten me paranoid enough that i considered the slate article was just secret oppo cynical writing to convince bernie supporters to vote for hillary and make the one refusal look like an irresponsible phishhead but i love her touring description too much.

last night at the purim party i went to there were a few trump supporter costumes. a russian couple friend were dressed in like american flag + fatigues w/ trump signs that was obv meant to be satirical but there was a guy at the party just wearing the red trump hat and when i asked him he said that he also supported trump so it wasn't really a costume at all. luckily he's canadian tho and does not get a vote. i asked him why he'd vote for trump since he has a wife and child and job and his life is pretty good and he said bc he finds chaos exciting so i guess trump has sewn up the chaotic evil vote.

bernie = chaotic good?
cruz = lawful evil, obvs
hilary = true neutral?

I think this election is revealing that there is at least a small contingent of people -- enough to be a notable voting bloc -- who don't think the world is real or something, that it's all just a game.

Hillary voted for the Iraq War and Patriot Act, that's a hell of a neutral

Speaking to trump supporters the atlantic also found a good amount of folks who said they liked him bc they wanted to watch the world burn or whatever

bernie's not chaotic, i mean he's very predictable in terms of his message.

Oh yeah i dont think he is chaotic at all, but i think that evergreen state student has a different perspective. Trump is authentically a wild card though

Sorry thought u were talking to me km

latest Wisconsin poll has Cruz ahead

The numbers on this are kinda fascinating actually. In the Republican stronghold of the state, the rich white-flight suburbs of Milwaukee (aka Scott Walker country) Trump's negatives are basically as bad as they are among Democrats. But Trump is well-liked in the rural parts of the state (which can be GOP-leaning or Dem leaning, loosely depending on how close you are to Minnesota.) I have no idea whether the movement Republicans in Waukesha will vote Trump in a general election or stay home (hard to imagine them pulling the lever for either HRC or Sanders under any circumstance.)

I said a while back that a vote for Trump is the electoral equivalent of suicide by cop. I just wish, if people hate themselves/the world that much, that they could avoid dragging the rest of the world into whatever it is they need to do to find peace.

i asked him why he'd vote for trump since he has a wife and child and job and his life is pretty good and he said bc he finds chaos exciting so i guess trump has sewn up the chaotic evil vote. ― Mordy

Speaking to trump supporters the atlantic also found a good amount of folks who said they liked him bc they wanted to watch the world burn or whatever ― Treeship

There are plenty of people who are attracted to Trump, who are secretly thrilled by the current of nihilism he is riding and the specter of destruction he embodies, but are keeping their mouths shut. ― Greil Marcus

Yeah i am more disgusted with those people than i am in the xenophobes who support him because they think expelling immigrants will "make america great again"

Hillary voted for the Iraq War and Patriot Act

This is mindblowing new information that you definitely haven't previously written multiple times on this thread

Yeah i am more disgusted with those people than i am in the xenophobes who support him because they think expelling immigrants will "make america great again"

You can find enough disgust in your heart for both, treesh, I believe in you

What's wrong with being a patriot?

Their tight ends murder

http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/7714a05b-515f-4ad3-bdaa-e72a6e5f8e61.pdf

Looking at these results by candidate support in the ongoing nomination process shows that not all partisan voters are ready to get behind the current frontrunners, although this is more pronounced on the Republican side. Among Democrats who support Bernie Sanders for their party’s nomination, 78% say they would vote for Clinton over Trump in November, while 12% would actually vote for Trump and 7% would not vote at all. In the Republican contest, two-thirds (68%) of voters who back Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination say they would vote for Trump in November, while 13% would vote for Clinton and 10% would not vote. Among Republicans who back John Kasich, just 50% would vote for Trump and 19% would vote for Clinton, with 22% saying they would sit out the general election.

Can't believe, btw, that Trump is actually internet bullying Cruz's (fragile?) wife like a vindictive tween girl. What a fucker he is. I hope he gets hit by a bus.

"As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," he said.

he means Canada amirite?

I hope he gets hit by a bus.

What a terrible thing to wish on a bus driver.

wonder how man of those sanders voters who claim they'd vote for trump are neo-chaos campus dadaists and how many are aggravated white union types to whom trump has been appealing all along. and of course how many would actually pull the lever (see: moving to canada).

The phrase "no-go zones" back in everyday vernacular despite them not bring a thing

Heartened and amused by the petition making the rounds calling for open carry at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

Voting is a battle of attrition

This the A+ trolling: https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2

Yes, let's all make the area a few blocks from my office into a free-fire zone, ha ha ha ha ha, hilarious.

I think this is a real photo:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeR8-IMWsAEV9Wm.jpg

LOL

xpost

reading trump's tweets just makes me think about my 95-year-old great-aunt who told me, in a phone call during the 2008 presidential election season, that "every time i see that palin woman on the TV, i want to slit her throat"

xpost I really don't think it's a serious call for guns there, just underscoring GOP hypocrisy by hosting their convention in a place that forbids guns.

I have a cartoon angel on one shoulder decrying gun-fetishism, and a cartoon devil on the other shoulder, slyly asking whether adding actual firearms into the "GOP civil war" might potentially be a good thing for the country and for humankind after all.

Not so much "lol they'll shoot each other and there will be fewer of them ha ha," but rather that of a bunch of faux-macho cowboys walking around ostentatiously open-carrying will look sublimely ridiculous. I mean, you're inside a heavily secured convention hall that is overwhelmingly full of like-minded old white guys. They pretty much all love them some sweet sweet firearms. There are TV cameras everywhere. What the actual fuck are you afraid of, if you think you need an assault rifle propped next to the chair in which you're eating bad catered food and talking about which candidate does a better job of loving guns and hating brown people?

Pierce on Ryan forked tongue

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43297/paul-ryan-cynical/

By the time Ryan had entered Congress in 1999 at the age of 28 and filed his first disclosure statement, he reported assets between $167,000 and $1.3 million, owned a home and had three rental units.

hey when you're a maker it's hard to keep track

He hides money in his copy of The Fountainhead iirc.

https://i.imgur.com/JS7I5e6.png

Tay is TAYking over ILX

godwins law personified

well that was a totally gross post caek thx
xp

er wait that was meant for the NRO thread

no you should post that everywhere

let it be known

i didn't realize caek had such strong opinions about slovenia

http://ktar.com/story/979602/phoenix-mayor-requests-federal-investigation-into-long-voter-wait-times/

what a mess

Panic:

Even without a controversial presidential candidate to contend with, Senate Republicans face a challenging map. Fresh off reclaiming the majority for the first time in eight years, the GOP now faces the daunting prospect of defending 24 of the 34 Senate seats that are up for grabs this November, largely because the six-year terms for the many Republicans who swept into office in the 2010 elections have come due.

The party can afford to lose only three seats to stay in the majority, and at least two incumbents are already facing difficulties: Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), whose state is seen as a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who is struggling in the polls. Five more GOP seats are up for grabs in states that President Obama won twice, including some, like Pennsylvania, by comfortable margins.

Loud foot­steps up­stairs in the pres­id­en­tial race could eas­ily shake the Sen­ate races be­low,” veteran analyst Charlie Cook wrote this week, adding that if the GOP loses the White House by a larger margin than it did in 2008 or 2012, “hanging onto the Sen­ate would be a long shot at best.”

If Trump is the nominee, Democrats have already signaled that they plan to try to link him to every Republican running this fall. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has rolled out a “Party of Trump” campaign dubbing GOP candidates as “Retrumplicans.

if the Dems aren't outspent

lol @ Retrumplicans