I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

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when Trump said "waste, fraud, and abuse" I thought he meant those were the pillars of his strategy

VP pick for reanimated Eddie Guerrero would be a pretty sharp move, tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-72voOYqFo

trying to understand why they would be against it from a policy POV misses the point - they don't care about policy, this is just a game

No, there's a pretty solid policy reason too - once people forget they hate the name, it may become another 'third rail' of politics like Medicare.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 09:22 (eight years ago) link

"Selling watches" has the specific semantics of "impressive looking cheap shit to dazzle rubes", yeah?

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link

calling israel america's child?

you need to go on, because those two words are literally true.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link

knew someone was going to say that

carly rae jetson (thomp), Friday, 26 February 2016 12:17 (eight years ago) link

Perhaps it's time for it to move out of our basement and get its own apartment.

rock me, I'm a deist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 February 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link

It's like one of those old K-Tel commercials.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/02/26/cnn-debate-insults-origwx-allee.cnn

clemenza, Friday, 26 February 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link

i love this, all of it, everybody looks terrible

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 February 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link

Hillary versus Trump is going to be like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOGWbzUM-y8

I'm not sure which player is which.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 February 2016 12:51 (eight years ago) link

only Bernie can save us from Punch-and-Judy

almost everything Trump and Clinton would say about each other would be true, tho.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link

(it's their best respective hope)

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link

Not exactly an earth-shattering revelation, but it occurred to me this morning that Trump is the psychotic end result of the GOP convincing generations of people to vote against their own interests. They did a great job of training the republican hoi polloi to pay more attention to a candidate's position on god and family and guns and scary people from other countries rather than their actual policies and actions, and they ultimately wound up with a wildly-popular presidential candidate who serves no one's interests but his own and over whom they have no control.

Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link

trump's position on god and family is pretty shaky though - he's the least convincing evangelical ever, he's been married three times and accused of rape, too

isn't his appeal that wingnuts finally have a candidate who's saying out loud all the moronic shit that others have had rely on dogwhistling to get across in the past?

BEEFSQUEAK (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link

the final crack-up of the southern strategy

global tetrahedron, Friday, 26 February 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link

"He speaks his mind!"

how's life, Friday, 26 February 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link

My emphasis was more on training people to ignore anything substantive to the point where they rally around a completely substance-free candidate. Who, yes, also indulges their basest impulses (which is just like a big bonus prize for them).

Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:33 (eight years ago) link

I like "bigly."

― clemenza, Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think it was "big league" tbh

― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was definitely "bigly"

― crüt, Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24240

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link

That's great. Listening to it again, along with all the other clips, I'd say it's clearly "big league."

clemenza, Friday, 26 February 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link

Still, watching (some) of these things, I am beginning to believe that Trump could hurt Clinton in a debate more than she can hurt him. He doesn't even really "debate," as such, just immaturely deflect, insult, dismiss, etc.. ("I know you are but what am I?") There are often no logical responses to his outbursts, just retorts, and that would only work to her disadvantage. I'm not even sure what she would attack him on - his lack of political experience? Which opens her up to attacks on her past statements, mis-votes, allegiance to moneyed interests, et al. Don't know if Sanders would win, but I'm starting to think he'd do better, rhetorically, against Trump than Clinton. Who can obviously still win, mathematically, but I have a bad feeling strategically she and her campaign are ill-suited for a non-intellectual street brawl, and it would show.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 February 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link

I'm relatively confident it would look awful for Trump to condescend to a woman; the attacks on Fiorina were the only things that halted his climb last fall.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link

Yeah Clinton doesn't have to do much except appear to be the adult in the room. I don't think Trump's antics play as well outside the Fox New/Rush set.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link

My gut says Clinton does better against Trump than Bernie does, because the gender dynamics would be so stark. So easy to cast Trump as everybody's worst blowhard boss/ex/father-in-law/whatever. (I also think any Democrat will walk all over Trump electorally, no matter what the polls say right now, but obviously predictions this year are pretty worthless.)

A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link

When they debate, Hillary should hire Rosie O'Donnell to occasionally peek out from behind a curtain and wave at Donald to get him fired up.

Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link

Laughter would be a good response to Trump in a one-on-one debate. Hillary should just laugh and laugh every time he opens his mouth, and then begin each of her responses with, "Listen, you stupid fuck..." or "Holy shit, did you really just say that out loud? OK..."

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link

another overlooked moment was when Trump, at the very end of an exchange with Cruz, yelled "he's a zealot!" Cruz just kind of stuck his hands out and opened his mouth as if to respond but couldn't think of anything in time, and then wolf asked another question and it was over. the crowd didn't even respond. it was kind of amazing.

Karl Malone, Friday, 26 February 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link

Hard to imagine him arguing...

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link

Mr Trump says he will save $300 billion from Medicare (the government health-care scheme for the elderly) by buying drugs more cheaply. Alas, total Medicare spending on drugs is likely to average $111 billion annually over the next decade. Aggregate American spending on drugs (public and private) is around $300 billion a year, says the CRFB. Perhaps Mr Trump thinks he can persuade the pharmaceutical companies to give their product away: the “art of the deal” in action.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:47 (eight years ago) link

it's weird how much more shameless he is than every other shameless politician

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link

I caught a few minutes of the debate last night before my fiancé made me turn it off.

"Mr. Trump, how do you feel about this Telemundo poll saying Hispanics don't like you."

"I don't believe Telemundo." *audience seems to chuckle* "I employ lots of Hispanics."

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link

I don't know what people here don't understand about modern Republicans (not *wingnuts*) that makes that a perfectly good answer to them

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link

Cruz is running an ad in Texas featuring testimonial from Governor Greg "Wheels" Abbott and boasting the tag TrusTED.

"Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link

of course followed by, "I love Telemundo," or something

x-post

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

trump only has 6.39 million twitter followers. maybe people are right about his slice of the electorate being smaller than it seems

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

for a point of comparison, katy perry has 83 million followers on twitter.

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

xxp Wait, you mean that we think that is, or isn't, a good answer?

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link

i mean a good answer to modern (non *wingnut*) Republicans.

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link

it's a "dogwhistle" type way to say that the opinions of hispanics don't matter

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link

xp

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link

republicans will turn out for trump due to their actual ideology, when all is said and done: the government can and should be run like a business

― rap is dad (it's a boy!)

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link

I hope Katy Perry is our first female president.

how's life, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link

trump only has 6.39 million twitter followers. maybe people are right about his slice of the electorate being smaller than it seems

― spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, February 26, 2016 9:58 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a point of comparison, katy perry has 83 million followers on twitter.

not sure what this says about anything, but:

trump: 6.39m
clinton: 5.49m
sanders: 1.52m
rubio: 1.23m
carson: 1.15m (!!!)
cruz: 849k (he also has another verified account for his senatorial stuff with 700k or so, probably mostly the same people)
jeb!: 489k (also he needs to update his profile description to let people know he's back to just making money again)
kasich: 191k

Karl Malone, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link

Jim Gilmore?

clemenza, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link

4,480.

crüt, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

in the past few hours, trump has posted two tweets describing marco rubio as a "chocker"

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

he tried to get his account verified but can't get twitter to respond to his messages

nah, just kidding. he has 4,480 followers

xpost

Karl Malone, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chockers&defid=3880404

crüt, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link

he also mentioned that he won the debate according to "every poll" and it's a "great honer"

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link

lol curtis

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link

So what I don't really get is this. Is the National Review crowd so fervently anti-Trump because a) they think he would be a bad President, or b) they think his nomination would mean the Democrats would win up and down the ticket? Or is it both?

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 February 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link

Clinton is so (seemingly) phony and (definitely) calculating that I really do think trying to out maneuver Trump on stage would be like trying to fight a rabid dog. He's got nothing to lose and steamrolls right over any facts/arguments. His strategy is to just shut things down, either via insult or by stonewalling. Meanwhile, her amped laugh is, shall we say, not her strongest suit - does Trump ever laugh? just that grimace, right? - and when Clinton gets tough she both ends up over-exaggerating for effect and hurting some of her lefty support. Plus, they've travelled in similar social/economic circles for some time, which makes her look worse than it does Trump. And Trump I don't thing will pull punches because he's debating a woman, especially since it hasn't really hurt him so far.

As has seemed likely from the start but definitely the last few months, Dem turnout will be key to Clinton's victory, not anything she says or doesn't say to counter Trump. They're both known quantities, in a sense, at different ends of the DGAF spectrum. And further to that point, getting back the senate is essential. I wish there was more noise on that front.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link

(Like, how does she counter Trump and not come off like Gore in that first debate v. Bush?)

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 February 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link


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