Bernghazi! (somebody's probably already said this)
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
it's funny how he can be remarkably cogent and perceptive about historical trends one moment and then offer totally idiotic campaign prescriptions the next
Descriptive beats out the prescriptive, then?
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
in his case, yes. Part of my surprise is due to reading a right-wing pundit/prez candidate who can accurately cite historical precedent, draw a clear line of argument, and marshal facts in support of a point of view. Kind of anomaly these days. Much as I vehemently disagree with a lot of what he says.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
hey, Chelsea wielding the family lying hatchet on Sanders already. She's her parents' daughter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chelsea-clinton-bernie-sanders-single-payer_56956c06e4b05b3245dad15a?lth85mi=
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
odds are in at Bovada.
Just dems:
•Hillary Clinton -900•Bernie Sanders +450
Just Goppers:
•Marco Rubio +160•Donald Trump +200•Ted Cruz +290•Jeb Bush +800•Chris Christie +1400•Ben Carson +5000•John Kasich +5000•Carly Fiorina +7500
and overall:
•Hillary Clinton -110•Donald Trump +300•Bernie Sanders +500•Marco Rubio +800•Ted Cruz +1000•Jeb Bush +3300•Chris Christie +3300•Ben Carson +10000•John Kasich +15000•Carly Fiorina +15000
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
weird, wonder why rubio drops against trump overall but leads in just gop category
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
this is excitinghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
was wondering that myself, I think it has something to do with the fact that these odds are based on what they think the public will bet, not what they see the actual odds as. apparently they think Trump to win it all is going to get a lot of action even at unfavorable odds
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
why is that exciting mordy
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
NYTimes report: GOP candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose loan from Goldman Sachs in campaign finance reports
kinda doubt this would effect his support tho
― Clay, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
did his wife hook it up for him?
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
trump could exploit the shit out of this tho.. 'my opponent is literally bought and paid for by goldman sachs. dude tried to cover it up. I cant be bought because Im richer than god blah blah blah'
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
that seems like a foregone conclusion
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah I guess there's a "he's just like these establishment LOSERS" angle here I hadn't considered
― Clay, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
"As far as I'm concerned, anger is OK," Trump said on CNN. "Anger and energy is what this country needs."
Seconds later: "One more thing--may the road rise with you."
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:06 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
Listening to Trump talk about Cruz's eligibility, or Hillary as Bill's enabler--which in both cases amounts to an almost sorrowful "I don't want to talk about this, you brought it up"--he's practically a genius on the order of Cecil B. DeMille: all that sin and licentiousness, it's just awful--let's take a look. He just talked rings around Erin Burnett a couple of minutes ago. I think he's lethal when he dials it back and slips into his soft-spoken gee-whiz persona.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
I think he would flounder terribly in a GE debate.
― timellison, Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
good morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRfP_TEQ-g
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Didn't realize Trump was into PiL.
― it takes the village people (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
omg
― welltris (crüt), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
part of the fun is trying to figure out which person in the audience is you
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
honestly don't know if that's satirical or serious
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
That's an unbelievable number of USA cliches in 2:15.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
at first i thought it was fake, like they took b-roll footage of an audience waiting for Trump to show up and then greenscreened the dance squad in, but then the audience starts clapping in time and it's too real
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Comments are also a very confusing jumble of satire/serious.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
DEAL FROM STRENGTH OR GET CRUSHED EVERY TIME
― goole, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
my mind has ground to a complete halt
Yeah, I would suggest polling it, but no way this wouldn't win.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
as true today as it was when our forefathers wrote it in the constitution
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
t/f: this is child abuse
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
probably but I feel that way about most professional kids' stuff (modeling, beauty pageants, etc.)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
when i was a badass prepubescent teenager, i talked a bunch of trash on a dance squad at our school during a performance. i didn't realize one of the moms near us was a mother of one of the performers, and she started crying. i definitely felt really cool as i reminisced about the moment later that night while flipping through an issue of cosmopolitan i took from my sister's room
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
in fairness, one of the primary responsibilities of teenagers is to make mothers cry
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
:) now i can finally move on!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
I had that Trump speech on in the background (curiosity is a terrible thing) and it's not news, but he's very good at what he does, and he is fantastically shameless in an "oh no, he's not going to..!?!" way. Here's the transcript only of the last minute:
"And we're going to win so much - and I say it - and I mean it! We're going to win so much, we're going to win with all of those things - Healthcare, everything! We're going to win at everything we do, and other countries are going to respect us, because we're winners, we're not losers. And we're not going to be kissing ass when 10 wonderful people get captured. We're going to win at every single level, we're going to win so much you're going to beg me, you're going to say 'Mr President, we're so tired of winning, we can't take it any more, please - don't win any more, Mr President, please, have one or two losses!', and I'll say 'No, I won't do that! I won't do that, because we are going to make America so great again!' We are going to make America great again. The American Dream is dead, but we're going to make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and I love you, thank you very much."
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
James Brown could not be reached for comment.
lying to the american public has never been quite so un-nuanced and obvious; he's the purloined letter of politics
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
who knew Charlie Sheen would have such an amazing second career as a speechwriter
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
The American Dream is dead, but we're going to make it bigger
This is called bloating.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
"bloasting"
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Registered bloater.
Wait, hold on. I gotta call Mark Russell with that one.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
As I was reading that I was picturing him falling to his knees with an aide walking out with a cape
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
this rhetoric actually speaks to some people
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
some people wanna win so bad
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
"The American Dream is dead, but we're going to make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before"
so.... like a zombie with super strength?
― sleeve, Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
They're called 'eight-year-olds'. Or 'adults operating at the cognitive level of an eight-year-old'.
― Professor Bworlph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
can't watch the video but reading these comments and all I hear is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, 14 January 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
I'm impressed that America's first substance free campaign has done so well. This will be a model for future campaigns for sure.
=(
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 January 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
lol first
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 January 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link