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

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Includes footage of morroccan border

@realDonaldTrump
"@Lucky5713 @NewDay What's wrong with showing Morocco? Nothing! It illustrates a Point! Duh! Love the video!"

@mtaibbi
Trump would be tough to play poker with. He represents aces every time. Doesn't matter what he's holding.

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link

I wish I understood the demographics well enough to understand why unlimited access to guns is a winning position for the gop. I guess lol geography?

carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link

Lightly populated rural states are highly over-represented both in congress and in the electoral college.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link

you give up your guns then you're definitely giving up in the 'war'

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link

also how can you give up your weapons when so many bad guys also have them. like isis

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link

I think Trump is finally in over his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGeMApnBQQ

clemenza, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link

is there a thread where we're discussing Obama's executive decision yesterday?

Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 08:13 (eight years ago) link

Don't see anything, but these would seem to be the most relevant threads:

The Great ILX Gun Control Debate
Gun Control

clemenza, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link

Thanks Clem

Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link

Coulter going after Cruz is lol

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link

Funniest thing I saw on that yesterday was a Trump surrogate on CNN who said that Trump was actually looking out for Cruz, because once the citizenship issue was out there, some irresponsible Democrat will twist the truth and cravenly make a big issue out of it for political gain. If he was even dimly aware of any irony there, he kept it well hidden.

clemenza, Thursday, 7 January 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link

Gary Johnson (L) jumping in.

ineluctable modality of the chewable (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 January 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link

one of the reasons i supported obama over clinton was that shit

goole, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link

both the possiblity that it is true and, admittedly, not wanting to relive the 90s. here we go, i guess.

goole, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link

anyway, who is this man kidding

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYIc-huWsAA0k_v.png:large

goole, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link

one of the reasons i supported obama over clinton was that shit
― goole, Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also this:

http://harpers.org/blog/2015/11/shaky-foundations/

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link

That's not how people do walking, Marco.

Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link

The Beatles called, they want their boots back.

nickn, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link

Wardrobe by Starfleet

it takes the village people (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link

Boots of 100% Anti-Immigrant American Leather

Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link

Someone needs to photoshop some marionette strings into that photo.

Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link

so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends

totally not what a non-profit institution is supposed to do !!! oh man Harpers is on to something here

El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link

I mean not to defend the countless NGOs and "charities" which exist for exactly those two reasons, but really, that is pretty much all of Rich N' Famous Philanthropy in a nutshell. Those two reasons and pure vanity.

El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link

thank you for your insightful feedback

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link

thank you for being thankful

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link

there it is

you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link

thank the gods

speaking of golden girls, i was on the ground in SE iowa this week, hanging out with a bunch of my grandma's friends at her nursing home. they are all crazy for trump. he did some sort of campaign event recently that none of them could stop talking about. they speak of him like he is jesus. no joke. like their hands start clapping together at the memory of when he finally showed up and they saw him. one of them even got to ask a question/statement, which was something like "i think what we're going through now is just as bad as the depression. it's the same as the depression, only with inflation." trump reportedly nodded and said "you have a point there". as the man retold the story the other residents gasped and smiled at the memory.

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link

They know election day is on a Wednesday this year, right?

schwantz, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link

dorothy: hillary
blanche: trump
rose: cruz
sophia: bernie

big Mahats (mattresslessness), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link

"i think what we're going through now is just as bad as the depression. it's the same as the depression, only with inflation."

Even if the person who said that were 90 years old today, he would have been 15 years old in 1940. So, obviously, his memories of how bad the Great Depression were would be, at best, the memories of a child who never had to deal with the adult reality of that time.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

looool matt

Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

that all seems correct except for rose. cruz is not innocent or naive in any way whatsoever. chafee is rose.

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link

and mitt romney is the guy from empty nest who occasionally appears in crossover episodes

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link

rose loves mitt, thinks it's 2012

big Mahats (mattresslessness), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link

Broaddrick struck me then as the most credible of the accusers, which is to say her story has enough ambiguities for me to believe he might have done what she said. But I had a dim memory of her during the height of the Jones-Lewinsky farrago of her filing an affidavit denying the charges, and I was right. Plus, imagining HRC as Lucrezia Borgia thanking Broaddrick for staying quiet is beyond Oliver Stone's talent.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link

the MSM generally portrays the Billary Foundation as a vehicle for them to travel the world, curing disease

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link

Bill Clinton is probably a rapist (#ilx #woodyallen), but we already know he's a war criminal, so wtf

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link

xxpost I think she filed that affidavit back when she didn't want any publicity and was intimidated by Clinton. I don't see it as disqualifying the way Sid Blumenthal does

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link

At this point in the American presidential race it's really a matter of picking the war criminal you can best live with.

nickn, Thursday, 7 January 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link

Potential war criminal. It's a difficult feat for, say, a governor to pull off.

Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 January 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link

I dunno, turning away war refugees has to be a misdemeanor somewhere.

pplains, Thursday, 7 January 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link

Creep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdK7a8EuUPc

schwantz, Thursday, 7 January 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link

I meant once they're in the seat they'll be war criminals; no one is going to immediately cease the Middle East drone strike campaign. (not even Bernie, I fear)

nickn, Friday, 8 January 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link

A robust majority of Americans support President Obama's plan to conduct airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, according to an ABC News/ Washington Post poll out Wednesday. In the survey, 70 percent of adults say they support the airstrikes, while 26 percent say they do not.

v unlikely to have a mainstream candidate represent a policy this one-sided. curious whether there have been candidates who supported something supported by only 26% of americans

Mordy, Friday, 8 January 2016 00:28 (eight years ago) link

Bernie's record re the Middle East is kinda awful; hence i am not really a supporter.

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 January 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link

the criticism is fair but given that an outright non-interventionist (or pacifist) is unlikely to get the nomination in this or any other year, and given that no president is going to be able to dismantle the military-industrial complex overnight (or even in eight years), i'm willing to overlook my quibbles with some of bernie's past stances b/c HRC's foreign policy is so much worse.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 January 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link

Dream team: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wade-norris/bernie-sanders-hints-eliz_b_8928406.html

schwantz, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link

that would be... pretty cool?


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