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

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"but part of me feels like he does the national debt on purpose"

wonderful

Trump is totally like one of those people in history. Like an Amelia Earhart or a Ghandi or a Judas or a William Bell or a Button Gwinnett. He's a Button Gwinnett in our lifetime.

man, a guy just came in from one of the vermont hill towns and he only comes into town here once a month to drink and he was PISSED that i didn't have the david allen coe album that his mom wanted. i didn't ask him who he's voting for...

The most amazing thing about that @dick_nixon article was the photos of him with Kasich. Nixon's head was enormous. Like twice the size of a human head.

okay another drunk hillbilly just came in to tell me the story about the time their dog ate their best AC/DC album and i realize i'm being punished by a christian god for laughing too hard at that ny magazine article...

about the time their dog ate their best AC/DC album

Their dog...or OBAMA?

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Democracy is a ridiculous form of government, and so is whatever this shit we have is.

so what's the answer then, answer man?

I'm starting a punk band called Economic Hitler, who's with me?

since the question is which republican candidate we would vote for, there is no answer.

I can see where eight years of having our collective annihilation delayed would be pretty galling to self-loathing people who are trying to maintain a passive-but-steady suicide spiral by denying climate change and voting for Bushes and Trumps and shit like that. "Thanks, Obama!" indeed.

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people always say be more like finland or whatever but the examples they use are always places as big as brooklyn in size with five people in them. which just seem easier to manage then this messy monster here. but maybe i'm wrong. maybe we could all be finnish with a minimum of fuss and muss. maybe the scale doesn't matter.

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scowler!

the non-presidential election background at the state level--

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/opinion/campaign-stops/the-republican-partys-50-state-solution.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthomas-b-edsall&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection&_r=0

Seven years ago, Democrats had a commanding lead in state legislatures, controlling both legislative chambers in 27 states, nearly double the 14 controlled by Republicans. They held 4082 state senate and house seats, compared to the Republicans’ 3223.

Sweeping Republican victories at the state level in 2010 and 2014 transformed the political landscape.

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By 2015, there were Republican majorities in 70 percent — 68 of 98 — of the nation’s partisan state houses and senates, the highest number in the party’s history. (Nebraska isn’t counted in because it has a non-partisan, unicameral legislature.) Republicans controlled the legislature and governorship in 23 states, more than triple the seven under full Democratic control.

What’s changed seems to be the result of the relatively recent nationalization of state campaign financing,” Morgan Kousser, a professor of history at Caltech (and, as it happens, Thad Kousser’s father), wrote in an email:

The Koch brothers understand the importance of controlling state legislatures; George Soros doesn’t. I’m not sure why this should be the case, but since we’re really talking about a relatively small number of mega-donors who have caused this, it’s a rather restricted question.

someone was just fishing for a trump opinion from me. i offered that, 'he reminds me of reagan' and left it at that. felt good

I'd suggest that we just hook all of Trump's supporters up to VR headgear and feed them four years of nightmares but these people live in a delusional dreamworld where W didn't take an eight-year steaming dump on the US so who even knows how awful things would have to get before they'd complain about the smell.

Keeping thinking about some half-remembered quote from Churchill about meeting the average voter

He reminds me of Regan. From The Exorcist.

saw some tweet today that Trump is a comments section come to life

yr thinking of america

more like a tweet come to life xp

Kasich shoring up #2 in NH, sez Pierce

It appears that more than a few attendees are a bit puzzled when Kasich asks for a show of hands. "Anybody here know who David Bowie was?" It really doesn't matter, though, because "one of my favorite songs, I've been told we can't play it here because we haven't [been granted] permission." Kasich launches into a complicated story about Eric Clapton and George Harrison and a command that Clapton wake up before sunrise. (This last part seems more probable if Clapton was told he had to stay up until sunrise. Sadly, Pattie Boyd appears to have played no role in this story.) Things became only slightly clearer when a man wearing road kill on his head and a blue rubber band in his beard steps forward and begins singing "Here Come the Sun."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41693/kasich-new-hampshire/

a compelling platform

"I'd suggest that we just hook all of Trump's supporters up to VR headgear and feed them four years of nightmares"

just read them an endless legal litany of Trump's bankruptcies, lawsuits, nebulous campaign contributions, and "alleged" mob activity. that oughta do the trick.

Nixon's head was enormous. Like twice the size of a human head.

Perfect head for a movie star, wanting only the charm and good looks.

@dick_nixon
In two years they will have Christie on to promote his book about a diet or Jesus. One of those.

Will he be on the morning chat shows to compare weight-loss surgery notes with Al Roker?

this is a WSJ reporter:

https://twitter.com/bkesling/status/694254763316158464

Donald Trump said as long as US troop vehicles are armored, when they get hit by IEDs troops just "go for a little ride."

#NoProblem

man, memories are short in this country

Yeah, that quote and attendant responses from military personnel need to be widely disseminated.

Greenwald on the "Bernie Bros" horseshit (i'd rather he hadn't bannered a big Susan Sarandon pic tho).

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/

lol, this thread is en fuego today

So the entire cable TV industry is dependent on ratings for the Iowa caucuses, right? I don't ever in my life remember such hysteria. "Mika" Brzezinski, up for about 46 hours, looks like she's taken several hits from an aluminum foil-covered pipe.

I kinda like the standing around in groups thing because it makes the whole enterprise sound less like a political process for grownup citizens and more like a fun activity you would see thrown into the mix of a larger fund-raiser, like a cakewalk or a game of Red Rover to keep the kids busy. You almost wish each state had their own unique, quirky variant voting method, going back to my original hope that the clown car would be resolved by having all the candidates stand on poles in the water while Jeff Probst tries to seduce them with hamburgers and french fries. Hands On A Hard Body would also be a good model IMHO.

I would not like to vote in a group - I'll take being hunched over a computer screen in a dark room, triple-checking the touchscreen and keeping a jaded eye upon the other silent voters in the room who are all probably out to cancel my vote.

GOP should just have a knife fight and the last one standing gets to pick the nominee

Greenwald on the "Bernie Bros" horseshit (i'd rather he hadn't bannered a big Susan Sarandon pic tho).

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 1, 2016 9:14 PM (47 minutes ago)

it's painful to even pay attention to this stuff but glad GG does, he knocked this one out of the park

Those gay-bashing tweets directed at GG at the end... manoman.

Hands On A Hard Body would also be a good model IMHO.

You are a genius, and i mean that sincerely.

that cruz failed kiss is a campaign destroyer for real, it's so horrific

eh it's more appalling if you don't know it's his daughter

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really a beautifully composed frame

ouch

unbearable