Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

So glad we have sarcastic polling

maybe we SHOULD bomb Agrabah

the results of that poll in general are really weird - guys with the highest favorability ratings are Huckabee and Carson (!) yet Trump still takes a plurality and the evangelical/non-evangelical split is 50/50?! ok

it's to go with our sarcastic punditry and sarcastic pants xxp

All I can think of is "Luke, you must go to the Agrabah system"...seem to have Star Wars on my mind for some inexplicable reason

(Never saw "Alladin")

Maybe we'd be better off if we waged war on fake Disney empires instead what we've been doing #bombagrabah

send all pundits to the cave of wonders

The way NPR reported the Sanders/DNC situation this afternoon made it sound exactly like the JW!ll!ams/ILX thing from back when.

JW/Sanders Campaign to DNC: hey, your website has this big vulnerability -- look at the data we were able to access.
DNC: BANHAMMER

lol, but iirc jw did a bit more than that

lol sanders campaign already caught in a lie over the data breach - http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files

fwiw i don't think this is an example of corruption as incompetence ie where i eventually ended up on the hillary emails. i'm willing to give bernie more of an initial benefit of the doubt than i gave hillary. or maybe i was willing to give hillary an initial benefit of the doubt than i'm giving bernie depending on yr perspective i guess. i can't imagine this hurts him really, skeptical anyone can buy sanders having a hardboiled, down and dirty campaign team and while the lack of access to dnc data theoretically could hurt him there's nothing to indicate that his campaign would know what to do w/ it. maybe he can meet w/ another rapper, should help put him over the top in iowa.

Some of the Trump numbers in that PPP poll again make me question where his ceiling is in a smaller field. 34% picked him but 10% more pick him as their second choice. He gets up into the low forties in three and four-way match-ups. 54% would actually cast a vote for him over Rubio.

I was surprised that Mark Shields AND David Brooks said on the PBS News Hour just now that they thought this was a misstep by HRC and DSW, looks like the DNC is bullying the underdog. Hadnt occurred to me. Looking forward to tomorrow night

more on 'datagate' - http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-better-get-to-the-bottom-of-datagate-and-soon/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

come on we can't waste 'datagate' on this scandal, we need to reserve that one for a much better future gate

nobody will remember this by the next scandal

let's call all scandals datagate

can scandals have sequels yet?

more on 'datagate' - http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-better-get-to-the-bottom-of-datagate-and-soon/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow🔗

Ew. St Joan Walsh of Hillaryland. No thanks.

This is almost some LA Confidential shit:

NIXON: Look into this Agrabah area. I think we need to bomb it too.

LAIRD: ...

Affixing "-gate" to everything is played out like a 8-track.

I recall some commentator somewhere expressing the wish that given how often "-gate" gets used, one wishes the break-in had been at the WaterTits Hotel.

Personally I like "-palooza," with "-mageddon" as an alternative.

-ghazi

Ha well the DNC didn't take too long to cave

Waterghazi
Travelghazi
Fileghazi

Flint, MI should be called Watergate

FUghazi

http://i.imgur.com/sQNP2IT.png

FUghazi Bear

ghazimodo

femighazi

re: Agrabah:

Arendelle, Narnia, the Shire, Pixie Hollow, and Neverland better look out.

narnia's okay. calormen, tho

lol

what in the fuck did they put in martin o'malley's coffee

Most boring debate ever

even local npr isn't covering this

i admit i never thought i'd hear "mossadegh" in a US presidential debate in my lifetime but yeah this is a real slog, i'll read the rest of the highlights tomorrow

Hilary seemed to commit to regime change for Assad just now.

While also commenting to "no boots on the ground". This will be fun to remember in a few years.

She also drew laughs when asked: “Should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?”

She replied with a smile: “Everybody should.”

OR ELSE

o cruel, needless misunderstanding

Chuck Todd (who I liked in 2008, when he was over at his delegate board; very hard to take now) asked a bunch of people about their first concert. Trump: the Beatles ("terrific"). Sanders: Pete Seeger. Bush: James Brown ("say it loud, I'm black and proud"--that was a little cringe-worthy). Kasich: probably a country show--you see him groping around for the most helpful answer--but says he's more a Linkin Park kind of guy. Cruz: Men at Work.

I believe Cruz.

At least Cruz has good taste in music. Did he talk about how Cargo was their secret masterpiece?

Kasich: probably a country show--you see him groping around for the most helpful answer--but says he's more a Linkin Park kind of guy.

lol

Bush: James Brown ("say it loud, I'm black and proud"

Imagining Jeb! in a blue oxford, khakis, and wingtips doing a chapelle-as-white-person dance

https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/611257485995995136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/611259934337040384

https://twitter.com/johnkasich/status/412006851350261760

"well I like Linkin Park and I'm not talking about Chicago,"

I'd like to think Kasich was still talking about two bands there.

New CBS/YouGov Iowa poll: HRC 50-Sanders 45 (margin of error 8.3)

pplains OTM