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

the transparency of cruz's hairline increases with each of these debates

whenever trump gets criticized for exploitation and he responds that he's simply exploiting the existing laws and pivots to talking about what a great businessman he is, i have nightmare flash forwards to him somehow selling out the entire U.S. in exchange for $ 2 trillion to some group of rich dudes

the New Jersey Nets owner guy?

sure, and scott boras maybe.

"oh, how could we have known that he would just consider his options and then do whatever was most financially beneficial for himself? he never gave us any clues!!"

kasich defying gabbneb in facing the crucial issue of his croatian-american background head-on

meanwhile huckabee and cruz's dad would be claiming that trump was the actual antichrist

//metalchugging

did he just say he's grown over "four hundred private-sector jobs in ohio"? wow!

does rubio shave his hairline up to give himself a bigger forehead? the only one of these four with natural-looking hair is kasich

i watched the bad lip reading version of cruz' campaign video and his little teeth and weird face freaked me out so much I can't even look at him now

this is boring :(

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf1q1FxPs1qhtpoqo1_500.gif

(xpost) Is there still a guiding party structure? It does feel like there was a missive from above to behave tonight.

Trump is bored.

maybe some kind of scheme for the convention was set up at the secret meeting rubio, cruz and kasich had with jeb bush today

yeah they all seem to be just going through the motions

china

i dunno this whole section on islam is pretty fucking terrifying. it's not an "exciting" debate like the others but don't get it twisted, these are still psychos. social security segment may also have been eye-opening for some viewers.

like, these guys being sober and dour is way more frightening because they get time to really unroll their nasty little spiels, act 'presidential' about it, and not waste time in the crosstalk.

what i don't get is why the debate moderators don't ever ask trump point of information type questions, such as, can you tell us what the iran deal was about? because he doesn't know. he really doesn't know much of anything about policy and doesn't care to learn

the Palestinian people don't exist in these debates. only Palestinian terrorists.

agreed dc, this segment is blood-curdling

and yes the moderators are absolutely complicit

this is the most supine panel of moderators I can recall

these guys (and dana) worship wealth, and drumpf reminds them all of their bosses, whom they better not challenge too much, or else

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Praise for Sanders--disorienting.

really only half-watching but seems like rubio's having a good night

i've taken to challoping my parents by calling it "sports for sophisticated people"

Surely more sport that confirms all your prejudices about sportspeople, thus making a nonsportsperson feel smug

Not an accusation, btw, i hate sport and sportspeople

trump doesn't know what the cuba 'deal' or iran deal are about at all, he has no clue

xxp yeah, I'm about a quarter watching at this point, but Rubio's easily having his best debate yet

audience was even starting to laugh every time trump said 'deal'

any crotch grab in any sport is more sophisticated than this shit

this is the marionette portion of tonight's entertainment

http://www.czechmarionettes.com/images/loutky/slide/Czech-Marionettes-czech-marionettes_schoolmates.1be3.jpg

I still wear my Worldwide Apology Tour '08 T-shirt all the time.

Cruz did the Reagan and the Iran hostages thing again.

Kasich wants shock and awe.

heh, how emo of you clem.

you know, I've listened to a lot of these GOP fuckers, but their worldview never ceases to astound me. it's such a dead-end ideology. like, no wonder "white middle America" is in a state of despair: there's no curiosity about, never mind connection with, the foreign Other in this particular stew brewed by the right.

...

:O at these answers re the sucker punch

Gerald Ford put America first by pardoning Nixon

Trump always refers to 1,237 as a "random number." Huh? Isn't it half + one of the available delegates?

I generally liked Rubio tonight until that ridiculous story.

trump repeats continually that he's ahead of clinton in the polls and is going to beat her by even more.. what poll? this is the last i saw and is pretty much where we're at

PRESIDENT
Hillary Clinton (D) 51%
Donald Trump (R) 38%
(NBC/WSJ Poll, RV, 3/3-6)

Kasich mentioned Jack Kemp a few debates ago, tonight he mentions Pete Domenici. I think he may be out of sync with his party.

i didn't watch this but daria so otm about the deals

this morning Dylan what'shername from MSNBC casually mentioned, as if embarrassed, that Clinton and Sanders would defeat Trump 'by double digit numbers.' No one asked a followup. Horse race. We need one.

i'm sure some video editors can put together a nice ad making pretty clear how clueless trump is by splicing together all the hopelessly vague "we're gonna do a deal, it's going to be a good deal, not a bad deal," soundbites + maybe some of his goofy faces.. i mean maybe you start off the whole thing with a serious question affecting people w/r/t the economy onscreen, then cut to trump being the fool he is

i'm sure some video editors can put together a nice ad making pretty clear how clueless trump is by splicing together all the hopelessly vague "we're gonna do a deal, it's going to be a good deal, not a bad deal," soundbites + maybe some of his goofy faces.. i mean maybe you start off the whole thing with a serious question affecting people w/r/t the economy onscreen, then cut to trump being the fool he is

they should do a "fake job interview" ad which began "would you hire this man?" and his answer to every question is something like "it's gonna be big, it's gonna be great, i don't know what it's gonna be, but we're gonna get the best people, we're gonna make a deal, it's gonna be beautiful" -- he would look utterly ridiculous.

also

Paglia angling for that VP spot
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/10/i_was_wrong_about_donald_trump_camille_paglia_on_the_gop_front_runners_refreshing_candor_and_his_impetuousness_too/
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:52 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who knew camille paglia was competing to be the american robert brasillach?

p sure there's no actual endorsement in there?

paglia supports sanders, but her contrarianism and lifelong fetishization of boorish working class men dictated she say nice things about trump

she and trump would be a fun team to watch though

CNN's in the middle of an orgy of self-congratulation over their Civil and Substantive Debate. Even if you accept the premise, I doubt they had much to do with it--if those guys had wanted to go off on each other, they'd have done so.

paglia is completely intellectually bankrupt

weird how she has such a hard-on for trump in that article and yet she still manages to sound like a prude when discussion bill clinton