Il Douché and His Discontents: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 4

that salon piece's pretty otm

trump's stem-winding complaining is part of his whole schtick though. like he's a regular common-sense guy who built a great company, facing down the bad-faith wheelers and dealers of politics. he speaks for exasperated americans, common-sense people. fantastic people. terrific people. you get into politics - lemme tell you. it's a disaster. it's a disaster. you've never seen such dishonest people. they are outta control. these people - he could straighten them right out. politicians, the press... we're gonna get rid of that, we're gonna make america great again.

he's struggled

like lemme tell you, who WOULDN'T be complaining dealing with these jokers? you wouldn't believe it. it's a mess. and anybody with any sense could just clean that right up, and trump, he can do it. he sees through them because he built a great company. he's come back to report on what pushovers all these fat-cats and media parasites really are.

yeah but why again

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Doctor Cashon xpost

xxxxxpost he's not as teflon these days though. people didn't notice as much at first that people were starting to get sick of him because it only moved the needle a small amount and not enough to knock him out of victory lane, but the last two sets of primaries showed him losing a few states he had previously lead in, and thinning the gap in states he was previously supposed to win in blowout fashion.

Stuff still impacts him less negatively than other candidates, as I think Silver's theory of a 30% floor seems pretty accurate, but I think he's past the point of being able to say anything, and is going to have to be a little more careful now, something I dunno that he's very good at.

think this is the beginning of the wheels starting to come off, even though he's still obv the frontrunner. I am not sure I think the multi-headed dragon approach to beating him is the right one anymore, either. Perhaps it's too soon for Cruz to beat him one on one, but I think at least one more candidate needs to drop.

Not sure which one it needs to be though - Kasich maybe? I'm just not convinced all of Rubio's votes would go to Cruz if he was the one to leave.

the oppressed and aggrieved billionaire

too many words

he's not actually a billionaire

also another interesting piece of info going around twitteronia is that he definitely can't afford to self fund a general election campaign and has not raised hardly any money

I think he's past the point of being able to say anything, and is going to have to be a little more careful now, something I dunno that he's very good at.

my impression was that he'd already started The Pivot, cf what daria posted (way) earlier about sandersish rhetoric and the evaporation of any remaining gop loyalty

i guess that doesn't necessarily mean he's gonna stop saying, like, he's gonna dismantle the first amendment, or whatever

god knows it's a disillusioned era but i had thought the first amendment remained popular

if reality is an illusion then money is an illusion. i can't think of any way around it

sorry it was collardio not daria xxp.

yeah, the salon article hit a stride halfway through, thanks for posting

Trump calling for Rubio to drop out means either a) he sincerely despises Rubio, or b) he's actually not a very good strategist (surely Rubio splitting the vote helps him). Or both.

i like the thing louie ck write

― flopson, Saturday, March 5, 2016 9:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wanting a republican president "for balance" because we just had 8 years of obama is probably the dumbest mom-take I can imagine, so i stopped reading after that

that post wasn't rly pitched at ilx

Fuck that Louis CK thing, vote for Kaisch "he seems alright" what a fucking idiot

Yeah I love Louie but sheesh STFU.

i haven't heard or read the thing but if it involves any sort of nice opinion of Kasich come the fuck on

The First Amendment thing should have had more traction, since he was basically trying to appeal to average Janes'n'Joes by implying things would be better for them if famous people were able to get the "Media" to stop saying bad stuff about famous people by making it easier for famous people to sue and get money out of the "Media", which apparently is only slightly behind ISIS as a threat to the American Way of Life.

LCK p much admits he doesnt know anything

comedians dont have to

I am getting a little tired of the "Trump = Hitler" comparisons from the left, but then you get these moments like the raising the right arm at the rally today and you're like "dude, are you courting the comparison?"

he was basically trying to appeal to average Janes'n'Joes by implying things would be better for them if famous people were able to get the "Media" to stop saying bad stuff about famous people

it's the rare trump position that has the ring of political passion

i haven't considered myself a Democrat since the moment Mondale crowed that he wouldnt share anti-missile weaponry with the Soviets, but i'll have my bayonet ready for the civil war.

the moment Mondale crowed that he wouldnt share anti-missile weaponry with the Soviets

haha i never heard this, was he trying to score off reagan?

always found reagan's batshit beatitude on that front really likable

yes, Mondale's last tactic was TO MOVE TO REAGAN'S RIGHT on the Cold War. Genius.

suggest that caek

a) stop with the markets already
b) have 8 beers with me

Markets moved from 56% mookieproof getting drunk this morning to 72% at poll close

i've been cleaning up lately shorting will i get high derivatives

i will have 12 beers with mookie AND caek AND eat the markets already, i guarantee it

the markets is all i got, i'm not allowed to vote

when'd they add that to the pledge of allegiance again

i beat every level in SMB3 today in 250 minutes, that's all i got

boom

Someone on CNN pointed out something I missed with Trump--by calling on Rubio to drop out, he's really just trying to goad him into staying in.

Markets moved from 56% mookieproof getting drunk this morning to 72% at poll close

always a bull market

https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2016/elections/primary-pres-results-map/v/1457208641448/files/cruz.gif https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2016/elections/primary-pres-results-map/v/1457208641448/files/sanders.gif

back in things that actually happened, Sanders wins Kansas and Nebraska, Clinton Louisiana

Still <200 pledged delegates separating them

good morning! Has the civil war started?

Morbz stuck me w his bayonet, leaned in and whispered "tell Mondale I'll see him in hell"

https://vladimirdavidiuk.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/ronald-reagan-laughing-and-pointing1.jpg

I start drinking again next Saturday btw

that louis ck thing was stupid trash imo, of course my FB feed is already filled with "Louis CK Sends Out Epic Email Annihilating Donald Trump"

Michael Tracey
‏@mtracey
Trump carries Clay Co., KY -- the most economically immiserated county in America -- by 35%

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/706276419484164096

Hilarious that cruz is emerging as the establishment alternate to Trump. Ideal outcome really.

rally around the most conservative candidate since Goldwater. good night, and good luck.

FB friend's post:

How to correctly interpret the Nebraska and Kansas Democratic primaries:

Senator Sanders won these states decisively because they were tailor made for him which means that these two states as everyone has always known are filled with very liberal, very affluent, very white, very young, very blue-collar, very rural, very caucus-y kinds of voters who usually don't turn out to vote but did this time for a democratic socialist because they are for all these reasons unrepresentative of the American people and in fact all five journalists and the hot dog vendor who attended Senator Sanders's press conference announcing his candidacy last May confidently predicted that he would win Kansas and Nebraska for all these reasons plus they are caucus states which everyone also knew from the beginning would go for the Senator because it has been predicted so often in his long career as a Democratic socialist that he would be very competitive in Red states that had caucuses which require in-state organization and familiarity and even though Senator Sanders may have never once set foot in either state in his long career until a month ago this is exactly why those voters who did vote for him are unrepresentative of the American people plus if you look at a map it is clear that Kansas and Nebraska are separated from Vermont by only 7 state boundaries which gave Senator Sanders a built-in advantage over his opponent since it has also always been known from the beginning of this campaign that the very liberal, very affluent, very white, very young, very blue-collar, very rural, very caucus-y very unrepresentative sort of voters in Kansas and Nebraska (plus Oklahoma) have always known everything about Senator Sanders and surveys have always shown that they could name him as one of the Senators from Vermont even when they could not name both Senators from their own states or the states on either side of their States which again makes them entirely unrepresentative of American voters and so the results from these states were entirely predictable especially since it snows a lot in both of these states just like Vermont

..and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

lol