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

Not that I'm a good poster on climate change, but I figure that human civilization is irrevocably fubared, so just withdraw into your own insular world and enjoy it while it lasts.

those of us in Miami would like to thank all y'all's concern.

/vanity

intriguing

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/bernie-sanders-would-now-outraise-clinton-almost-2-to-1-with-small-donor-matching-funds/

great post, karl.

the sad thing is that anything short of a bill pullman independence day attitude, that fighting climate change is basically the existential threat of our age and needs to be treated like the biggest most important 'war' ever, damn the consequences and damn whoever disagrees, will likely leave the planet wrecked. sanders too falls short of this but i do think he gets it. at this point in a sane world we would basically be nationalizing all energy companies and forcing them to do what's necessary. i mean in world war ii we could basically take over detroit and even the walt disney company in order to see to it that hitler was defeated and soldiers had helpful cartoons explaining VD or whatever. we need that spirit here.

i'm becoming resigned to the idea that if most Americans can't see the enemy in human form, or it doesn't threaten them RIGHT NOW, it doesn't exist.

amanda marcotte is the same idiot who was attacking sanders for "propping up the sandinistas" in the 80s

i guess total ignorance of foreign policy is an asset if you want to feel good about supporting clinton

I don't usually catch up on the day's news till I get home. "Bruises," "lawyers," "incident"--thought maybe Trump and Cruz finally went at it, but I see it's something else.

gouge away

"It doesn’t matter who Susan Sarandon or Rosario Dawson or Killer Mike vote for, unless any of them also own homes in Miami and decide to register there (they have until 29 days before the election to do so).

"The most aggravating part of the entire aggravating conversation is that nearly every professional commentator pillorying Sarandon today is in the same boat as she—their votes in November will be purely performative. For a New Yorker or Washingtonian to march into the voting booth and pull the lever for the Democratic nominee is to engage in a symbolic gesture of political self-identification, not to participate in any meaningful way in the political process. Staying home is equally valid and equally consequential."

http://gawker.com/it-couldnt-possibly-matter-less-if-susan-sarandon-doesn-1767810152

sarandon: doesn't matter
lewandowski: really should matter but probably won't

the gross thing about Lewandowski is we'll be treated to him making it about *his* struggle and persecution and the ex-Breitbart reporter will probably get 3x the misogyny tossed her way.

trump has already said, out loud, if it was a big deal she would have screamed

if you want to know how the day is going in the life the republic

anyway, chew on this y'all:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/hillary-clinton-honest-transparency-jill-abramson

I would be “dead rich”, to adapt an infamous Clinton phrase, if I could bill for all the hours I’ve spent covering just about every “scandal” that has enveloped the Clintons. As an editor I’ve launched investigations into her business dealings, her fundraising, her foundation and her marriage. As a reporter my stories stretch back to Whitewater. I’m not a favorite in Hillaryland. That makes what I want to say next surprising.

Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest and trustworthy.

Jill Abramson? LOL

"honesty" is not the problem i have with HRC, personally...

Live press conference on Air Force Trump rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b340UaWj_Bw

The guy is such an asshole it's almost impossible to put into words. It's like he's operating on an entirely new level of asshole. Just one thing after another.

Like every single day.

If you've somehow combed those 26 minutes already, please share any highlights...

At 26:12 the video ends

He's campaigning hard for the MRA vote

he coulda done that by just walking on stage and going "Bitches, man...", then dropping the mic

congenital heart failure gods, please do your bidding

Just looking at a 538 discussion on Trump and women. Excellent analogy:

harry: Again, I call on the Simpsons for discussing Trump’s strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmBj8r1-fDo

lol i just read that.

xpost High/lowlight includes doubling down on his defense of his campaign guy, claiming the reporter, had she been hurt, would have screamed, that she grabbed at him (Trump) first, that her bruises may have been there before, that his campaign guy is a good guy, a family man with four kids, and his life should not be destroyed because of this nothing ... just keeps going on and on. The constant threats of revealing secret information, on Cruz, on Walker, on whomever, like Trump is privy to all this shit that no one else has. Like in the Times piece, where he says North Korea's number one trading partner is Iran, and they correct him and tell him it's China, and he's all "well, that's not what my sources tell me." Fuck you, Trump. You're like some idiot relative who forwards crazy urban legends but refuses to read Snopes or whatever. "Well, you say that bigfoot doesn't exist, and I say he does, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that."

iirc it is because Bigfoot devalued the currency, that's why Trump clothing isn't made in America and why he doesn't hire American workers. Would if he could, of course, but he's a businessman and therefore must cut costs to the bone in order to survive in the rough-and-tumble business of making yet more ties (ties that are interchangeable with other ties).

CNN's got Town Hall #67 & 68 just coming on...Trump will be addressing, among other topics, bruises, Bigfoot, and Lyin' Pope Francis.

"What's your greatest weakness, and what have you learned from it?"

Cruz begins by, correctly, making fun of how silly such questions are, at least in terms of generating an honest answer--he cites the guy who says in a job interview that his biggest weakness is that he works too hard. He then goes on to basically give the exact same answer: his biggest weakness is that he's too driven.

better than what Trump would say, which is "my dick's too big"

Great!

be interesting to see what Trump's handling of the assault sitch does to his polling in Wisconsin. not a major mover, probably, but given that Cruz's odds are rising there and he's the favorite in 538's eyes, and that women hate him, it probably won't help.

granted though I'm sure he's more focused on the fact that he's so far ahead in NYC, but Cali is gonna be a big play too.

Cruz the first candidate I've ever seen quote Sonny Bono, politician. Weird, but, um, I think I like it.

Trump seems coked up tonight, more than normal.

Love the old man behind trump staring daggers at him.

That last answer was some kind of legerdemain, and he actually (or at least I thought) managed to make it sound credible: he no longer promises to support the nominee, and neither does he want Cruz's support if he wins, because he saw how agonizing it was for Cruz to have to say that, and he doesn't want Cruz to feel compelled to do something that he doesn't feel in his heart of hearts.

(He didn't actually say "heart of hearts," that was my flourish.)

Very very
Many many

It's funny how obvious it is that Ivanka's his favorite kid

"Hey, Don. Put it on a t-shirt and then shut the fuck up. Ok?"

"Put it on a t-shirt? Saayyyyy....."

http://i.imgur.com/ZTdHoJc.jpg

Totally a guy named Don

so glad he was immediately able to partake in the festivities after his 30 year cryofreeze

wow this townhall w/trump is a 100% complete trainwreck

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CexAfu2WsAALz5B.jpg

COOPER:
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/c0/17/fec017a47e1763fa802a827f072f5d0a.jpg

TRUMP:
https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/diane_arbus_child_toy_hand.jpg

Wait is that real (the transcript) am I dumb did that happen

I don't put anything past or below Drumpf but how did I miss this

amazed that this seems to be real

Rience Priebus in empty suit shocker.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/30/donald-trump-revokes-pledge-to-support-republican-nominee

The headline's a little inaccurate, it's closer to "everyone revokes pledge...."

Do you people who say Drumpf genuinely think it's amusing?

They have robo-butlers to say Drumpf for them.