Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

if the first pope abdicates, and he's infallible, then i'd think his abdication is infallible as well? just guessing since i'm not a catholic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope

Yeah there have been two popes before. Lots of Evangelicals are into pope conspiracies tho, and this guy is socially liberal, making for a healthy market for pope Birtherism.

Pope Palpatine vs Pope Obi-wan

i know 3 of you just went to work on lightsaber duel jpgs

really gonna get no traction with "Clinton sucks" articles here, right?

What makes you think no one's read them?

Most of us have been posting "HRC sucks" articles since Teapot Dome.

i'm always interested in seeing the brave new frontiers plumbed by a particularly groundbreaking 'clinton sucks' article

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=2008

Unless things change drastically I think it's pretty safe to assume she will remain a pro-banking corporate democrat and most "HRC sucks" articles will just be nit-picking.

morbius, plenty of us hate HRC and we've made it clear! but if it continues to fuel your sense of superiority to think we're all her shills, by all means, continue...

he thinks this place is an extension of the DNC and the DLC, which can happen with the wrong bifocals.

i love HRC but it's not bc i'm ignorant of left-wing complaints about her so no need to keep posting the same screed on my behalf.

maybe we can get you two your own secret borad to talk past each other on

he thinks this place is an extension of the DNC

I don't, goddamn you, but I don't understand the endless teeheeing at the GOP clowncar, who I find about as funny as actual clowns.

amateurist i know from your film predilections that your sense of superiority lies elsewhere.

btw if you hate HilRod, but are voting for her in Nov 2016, both she and Mordy thank you and invite you to the inauguration.

oh I don't really care if anyone else votes for her I'm not that enthusiastic I just like her

mordy can I be yr date to the inaugural I want to listen to fleetwood mac

so '92, yesterday's gone

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2013/01/fleetwood-mac_clinton_header.jpg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

I saw Mac during the last tour they're still great

^

btw if you hate HilRod, but are voting for her in Nov 2016, both she and Mordy thank you and invite you to the inauguration.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 21:32 (38 minutes ago) Permalink

i have no idea what i'll do in november 2016... because it's 17 months away! i doubt i'll vote for HRC in the primary, but if i'm still in a swing state you bet i'll vote for her over scott walker or rick santorum.

but in any event i don't subscribe to your particular political calculus, which seems designed to achieve nothing but a sense of self-satisfaction, may the world rot.

i've been experiencing for the past five years the effect of republicans controlling every branch of government, and it's far uglier than anything you've experienced in NY, believe me.

Barney Frank: "Never let the other side think you’re satisfied; you should always be asking for more; and you best maximize gains in fact by minimizing them in characterization, until and unless you are a hundred percent successful."

Once upon a time I considered myself one of those people who, to quote Charles Pierce, claim independence as “a way to buff up your intellect by staying above the hurly-burly of ordinary politics.” But when you live in a red state that's going to sink in five feet of water you do what you can.

i have never been remotely interested in buffing up my intellect through voting for the most overrated office in the unfree world; don't ascribe balsa-wood motives to everyone.

it's not as though i'm ascribing them in ignorance!

i've never met anyone who has such scorn for pretty much any political view or even taste profile that is not completely his own (indeed it often seems you will shift your position so as not to achieve any congruence); on the basis on your posts here you seem absolutely consumed by a narcissism of small differences (which you no doubt would characterize as a gaping chasm).

i can't pretend to understand your deeper motives but just based on what i read here i imagine you must find casting smug disdain upon others' opinions rewarding on some level (perhaps only in the short term), because you do it over and over and over etc. again.

i can't think of any other poster on ILX--since i started "contributing," so to speak, in 2002--whose "persona" is so devoted to, and nearly completely identified with, casting scorn on others and greeting every earnest contribution with absolute cynicism.

and i'm guilty of the same thing! but, i hope, not to the same persistent degree, and not to the exclusion of other things.

i mean there's no doubt that from a certain point of view, the world is a hopeless and deeply fucked place, as is american politics at most levels, in many places. but you'd think those facts would lend you a bit of empathy rather than the presumption that you're the last honest man.

this is not worth arguing about for the millionth time guys

there are still LAFFS to be had!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bushs-recipe-for-a-better-society-shame/2015/06/10/9c28ecd4-0f92-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html

the gop '16 field has decided to adopt a platform of slut shaming and man-splaining

a cavalcade of failures: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n12/chris-lehmann/the-candidates

yeah, you're right. sorry all.

oh man, that LRB piece is great, although frankly they are too kind to scott walker.

for example it fails to mention how many people working for walker (as both governor and in his previous role as milwaukee county executive) have been indicted/convicted of various abuses of their positions.

otoh it has hipped me to the wonderful descriptor "lying crapweasel"

the jeb bush parts are big lols @ the concept of board of directors

bush is floundering i guess http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-jeb-bushs-campaign-ran-off-course-before-it-even-began/2015/06/10/386331e6-0eb6-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html

fuckthread byethread

let me know when the "big guy" has a coronary

see you in 24 hours!

it's not as though i'm ascribing them in ignorance!

i was addressing Soto, you stool.

The thing I find mystifying about these chucklefuck campaigns is they are like 100% of the time dominated by infighting in the inner circle of managers, confidantes, and cousins on payroll. Maybe it's all this campaigning starting a year and a half out from the election keeping people from actually preparing.

Fighting over crumbs from oligarchs ennit

really really wish i liked hillary more

a lot of my issues aren’t from left or right

but like clinton foundation; email thing; etc :/

well, all politicians are slime i guess

& oughtn't let perfect be enemy of the good (but)

not all politicians are slime

but i agree w/ last statement, although to rephrase "don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"

"don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"

yes i think this is more accurate

Robert Costa ‏@costareports 1m1 minute ago
Why did Bush tap Diaz? Friends say they grew chummy on road, both intense night owls and non-stop e-mailers

e-mailing!