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

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‏@samsteinhp
George HW Bush showed up at the debate last night. He probably didn’t recognize the GOP he saw

@ggreenwald
Please. His campaign manager was Lee Atwater and he won with Willie Horton ads.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link

mocking trump seems like the right tact since hes a buffoon

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link

Cooke asks you to consider your loins, Agincourt, and Churchill.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431982/donald-trump-republican-debate-its-not-too-little-too-late

Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link

rubes goin in https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/703257334588514305

― lag∞n, Friday, February 26, 2016 11:42 AM (2 minutes ago)

hahaha yesss more of this

k3vin k., Friday, 26 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link

weird to me that they dont just refer to him as "reality tv star the donald"

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link

tv business man donald trump

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link

repeatedly bankrupt rich kid donald trump

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link

the orange mad boy

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

Yeah but he took out Rubio and then dropped out. So unless he backed Kasich or Jeb it makes little sense from any broader strategic point of view. Unless he really still thought he had a shot, and I doubt it.

Sure, but there was a primary inbetween - so his train of thought* would have gone "Take my shot, see if they still see a little of the loud bully that they loved a year ago" - then they don't - so he goes. I don't imagine he was thinking "This will be the end of my run" when he went for Rubio.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

* I agree it might have been instinctive - no matter.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

Poppy was at the debate? Was he booed?

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

i liked the post debate interview with trump where he suggested his christian faith might be the reason he is a target of frequent auditing

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link

The illiterate part of bullshit filler like this column is how "It wasn't George H.W. Bush's party" in 1980 either.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-debate-george-hw-bush_us_56cfe02ce4b0bf0dab31a658?q3ahsemi=

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link

i liked when trump said he wasnt going to leave people to die in the street and cruz started repeating whos gonna pay for it as if he had come up w the best own

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKaUVfUufOg

salthigh, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link

xp, lol that was also classic

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link

when hw came on screen one of my roommate's friends who was in the room was appalled at how fat he'd gotten. i think she might have confused him with w

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link

Wait wait hold up, from that Rubio video: "'He is a chocker, and once a chocker always a..' choker? I guess that's what he meant to say. He spells 'choker' c-h-o-k-e-r, chocker"

Dude, that's how you spell it!

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link

chockgate

sean gramophone, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link

i liked when trump said he wasnt going to leave people to die in the street and cruz started repeating whos gonna pay for it as if he had come up w the best own

yeah trump really realized he was in a good spot here..."so you *do* want people to die in the street?" (repeats 10 times to highlight where cruz decided to take this conversation)

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link

I think everyone who lives/lived in a northern state owned that sweater at one time or another

Yup. I think mine was green. Had it by the mid/late 80s

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link

the only thing is a decent % of gop primary voters are genuinely pro-people-dying so it was a little less effective than it would be in another forum

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link

yeah, i kept expecting trump to say something like "Ted Cruz wants people to die in the streets. I don't. I won't debate him on that" or whatever, but maybe he thinks it's more useful to keep Cruz around

Karl Malone, Friday, 26 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link

the fact that ted cruz was some high school and college debate champion seems mystifying considering his actual performance at these things, maybe they were all rigged or something

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link

"donald trump doesn't want people to die in the streets" (check...mate)

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link

because "debate" is for tryhard weirdos

goole, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link

yeah competitive debate is just a very strange formal thing that no normal person wld recognize as debate

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link

a talking fast sport m/l

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link

I am less mystified by Cruz being a college debate champ than I am by him apparently/allegedly being attractive to the women involved college debate. Like, even adjusting for the tryhard weirdo threshold of the debate world, you'd still think that being a repellent shitstain would be a turnoff...?

its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link

"nasty guy"

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link

debate club prepares you for many things but not being a dogged, alienating weirdo who rings deep subconscious alarm bells in audiences of normal people isn't rly one of them xps oh good covered

denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link

it's hard to hate trump during those 10 seconds where he's saying "you're a liar and nobody likes you" to ted cruz's face in front of millions of people

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link

punches shd be thrown at the next debate imo

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link

ben carson shd attempt to inject trump w something

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link

"can someone please attack me?"

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

he should inject him with ted cruz, like in innerspace

denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

I am less mystified by Cruz being a college debate champ than I am by him apparently/allegedly being attractive to the women involved college debate. Like, even adjusting for the tryhard weirdo threshold of the debate world, you'd still think that being a repellent shitstain would be a turnoff...?

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, February 26, 2016 12:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe the women involved in college debate are not more normal and well-adjusted than the men?

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

or maybe when trumps going on about how much he likes the good doctor and how mean ted cruz was to him then carson just says "youre a gigantic human turd donald" this is my republican fanfic

lag∞n, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

"these guys are fighting so much it's almost like they're twins...separated at the head"

iatee, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

you'd still think that being a repellent shitstain would be a turnoff...?

Wait, I thought he was considered hella crepey by coeds at that time. Wasn't that one of things Craig Mazin has been busting him on Twitter for? That dude severely squicked out fellow students even back then?

Or are undergrad debate types that damaged such that his particular stat build came across as alpha male?

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link

Every man or woman I've known who was in debate functions differently from the rest of us. Some of these people are my friends.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link

i can def see a leaner, more energetic cruz being appealing to a certain type of humorless young conservative woman

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link

he has the righteousness of the Lord on his side

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link

oh i thought he was just happy to see me

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link

according to ted, his mom prays for him several hours each day. I suspect she prays that he will magically transform into a human being.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link

Lord Voldemort stuck in the toaster oven for a few hours too long, maybe

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link

they thought he wld just go away and didnt realize until it was prob too late that they had to make him go away, if republicans had spent the last three months talking about what a piece of shit he is i suspect the race wld look different now

yup

a (waterface), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link

he's such a trapezoid mouth

spirited ai weiwei (Treeship), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link

if republicans had spent the last three months talking about what a piece of shit he is i suspect the race wld look different now

Narrator (sounding sad, but sympathetic): We understand you're frustrated with the politicians in Washington DC.

(Photos of angry voters intercut with smug politicians)

Narrator: You don't trust them. You think they're bought and sold like so many prize hogs. And you think Donald Trump is different.

(Ominous music. Unflattering photos of Trump.)

Narrator (voice acquires a harder edge): But you're wrong. He's a creepy, lying piece of shit like all the rest of them and he's playing you for chumps.

(remainder of political ad writes itself...)

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link


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