finally the elites will get to just pick who they want.
Sorry but LOL this has been the way it's been for a long long long time.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
sure but now they are abandoning even the pretense of requiring the approval of the masses
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
jeb will be the nominee
― marcos, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
People are always making the pretense accusation, though; I wouldn't be surprised if it's been around for centuries. I mean, the whole Electoral College thing is a deliberate obstacle before the masses.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
something called the Three-Fifths Clause too iirc
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I can't imagine they would nominate Walker; he might be their fantasy candidate but he has no chance in hell of wining the general election (just like Bernie Sanders doesn't have a chance).
― akm, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
finding more than a handful of presidential elections that weren't picked and more or less decided by elites might be kind of challenging
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
they may have all been picked and decided by elites, but usually there's some rabble-rousing involved. neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
walker seems very not ready for primetime from what ive seen, hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him as far as navigating the actual campaign
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.
IDK, Hillary seems to have a strong following among the Tumblr set.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Also the PUMAs from 2008 are probably still around.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
http://luckovich.blog.ajc.com/2015/03/10/311-luckovich-hillarys-pen-pal/
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him
may i introduce you to a coupla presidents named Bush
plz plz 'shop a photo of Thrillary in a NASCAR jacket with all her corp pimps' logos on it.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Hillary's email circus is actually making me excited about the election. This issue won't take her down.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 12 March 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i trick myself into thinking that lots of people are disappointed with the way the democratic side of this is shaping up, but then i see polls like this:
http://i.imgur.com/hLr7KvD.jpg
http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/15110_nbc-wsj_march_poll_3-9-15_release.pdf
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
i guess it's more accurate to say that lots of people ARE disappointed (21% of likely democratic voters is a large number), but not enough to make a difference.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
I'd be surprised to hear that a majority of Republicans would favour their past (and future) Clown Car Season to a nice smooth coronation.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
"disappointment" is a helluva drug
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
The week before the email story broke Hillary pocketed $300,000 for a Silicon Valley speech she gave to “women in technology.” Her campaign—no matter what the pundits say, and however she may pay for it, she has one—spun it as a preview of her 2016 ‘message.’ If so, she has a mountain of work to do. A month after the president struck a new and widely applauded populist chord in his State of the Union, Clinton managed to sound like the old consensus-seeking Obama. She actually vowed to restore bipartisanship in words so corny it hurt to hear them: “I’d like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, get them into a nice warm purple space where everybody is talking and where we’re actually trying to solve problems.”
She recited the usual Democratic economic litany but took care not to offend the odd technology billionaire who might be listening. Given the venue, one might expect as much, but weeks later she offered up the same riff, worse actually, at an Emily’s List gala where she called for a “new participation age” and for America to “help more people start small businesses and invest in the…entrepreneurs that will create the new jobs of tomorrow.” Also, Hillary said she’d cut “red tape.”
The Emily’s List audience was worshipful and Hillary tried her hardest to be more spontaneous and “real.” That meant two lame pantsuit jokes, another about her hair and one about the color of that Internet dress. Talking about Sen. Barbara Mikulski she said, “We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues … for hardworking families they’re one and the same.” Listening to it all a second time, I felt bad for her.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/15/hillarys_meritocracy_problem_the_gop_will_paint_her_as_an_elitist_and_the_right_can_make_that_charge_stick/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
“We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues.
- Abraham Lincoln
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
The uniting color she's thinking of is not purple it's green.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
hillary clinton is the fucking worst and this campaign is going to be terrible
― marcos, Monday, 16 March 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
no, the fucking worst is going to be all your friends who don't really follow politics and are #ReadyForHillary
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
No doubt about it, this is gonna be a grim campaign, akin to bush v. Dukakis
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Yoo-hoo! Hillary!
Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html
― Aimless, Monday, 16 March 2015 04:06 (nine years ago) link
i'm so #readyforhillary
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
figures, it's been awhile since she hugged Mrs Arafat
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
they kissed, bro
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
suha isn't so bad tho, she was just married to a monster
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
i just think that it's about time the US has a female president and all the better that she's the better half of the US's greatest POTUS administration since 1969
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
I don't think michelle Obama is gonna run tho
― brosario nawson (m bison), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
do u really feel like michelle is heavily involved in the obama wh?
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
not more than Valerie Jarrett.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
"Millions of Americans are realizing this isn't working," Cruz said to supporters in New Hampshire. "The Obama economy is a disaster. Obamacare is a train wreck and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind -- the whole world's on fire.""The world is on fire?" a young girl, whom the Washington Post identified as 3-year-old Julie Trant, said to chuckles from the audience."The world is on fire, yes. Your world is on fire," Cruz said as he turned to the girl, who was sitting on her mother's lap."But you know what? Your mommy's here and everyone's here to make sure the world you grow up in is even better," he added to applause.
"The world is on fire?" a young girl, whom the Washington Post identified as 3-year-old Julie Trant, said to chuckles from the audience.
"The world is on fire, yes. Your world is on fire," Cruz said as he turned to the girl, who was sitting on her mother's lap.
"But you know what? Your mommy's here and everyone's here to make sure the world you grow up in is even better," he added to applause.
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
"My Little Pony? The Backyardigans? They all live in a world that is on FIRE."
― pplains, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
i just think that it's about time the US has a female president
where were you for Cynthia McKinney and Jill Stein, tho
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
hillarys career is kinda funny, like shes only won one election ever and that was at least in part due to her fame, she might just not be a natural vote getter
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
nepotist AND corporatist icon
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah, how come i didn't vote for POS Dieudonné-supporting Cynthia McKinney? oh, maybe bc i'm not quite as big a fan of anti-semites as u are.
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
So crazy that the world is on fire i wonder if that has anything to do with our defense budget in any way.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
I'll bet Mordy voted for Geraldine Ferraro if he was old enough (but I don't think he was -- I wasn't)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
the first election i was old enough to vote in was Bush/Kerry
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
you are a fan of anyone who will bomb the shit out of Likud's least fav nations tho
I'm unsurprised that 63% of Dems are satisfied with their "choices," that's why I don't like toi be around large numbers of Democrats at pointless shit like that climate march last fall.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
lol that's your defense for supporting a pseudo holocaust denier, "but u wah wah wah."
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Gerry was the last Dem I voted for for Veep. I'm rather ashamed, mobbed up as she and her foul husband were.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't know much about Dieudonné. I see that story is from this month; time-machine your way back to 2008 and I'll consider staying home instead.
HRC is a full-on imperial murderer, so i don't quite see your moral high ground.
also, bye thread
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
There it is.
― pplains, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
bye board is next. and never been closer.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
a full-on imperial murderer:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Terrain_Armored_Transport_in_Star_Wars.JPG
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/All_Terrain_Armored_Transport_in_Star_Wars.JPG
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link