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

The surge worked!

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Stuart Stevens, Romney's guy in 2012, is actually funny--just got off two great lines on CNN. 1) "I take back what I said about Donald Trump not bringing people together: with Graham supporting Cruz, the Rapture must be at hand." 2) (After a couple of minutes of the usual arguments over Trump) "I've been in a lot of delegate-hunting meetings, and that's the first time I've ever heard the word 'moral' come up."

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Senator Rubio says he won't be anyone's VP, not running for Gov in Florida..and will be private citizen in January

i'm picturing rubio just sitting in a recliner staring at a wall for hours on end

they'll take his batteries out and put him in a closet, to be found years later on Storage Wars

i know he's young but is rubio basically saying "fuck politics" right here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1GWB2AMnY

impossible to unsee http://gawker.com/after-this-video-you-will-never-be-able-to-watch-ted-cr-1765312656

http://lionsoftrump.net/2016/03/15/lion-guard-is-born/

lots of people design lots of websites that probably they don't mean

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MARCH 17, 2016 AT 8:57 PM
I’m forming a chapter of Lion Guard in Riverside county. Visit my web site ca1iforniaf0rtrump.com. We are having a rally Saturday, March 26, 12:00 noon in Temecula at the duck pond. Trump must win in California!

Lion Guard
MARCH 17, 2016 AT 10:09 PM
YES! Thank you! Together we can Make America Great Again!

I have a hard time believing that's not parody? Though perhaps the the commenters.

The writing style seems wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/X1rJXE4.jpg?1

Perhaps "not" the commenters xpost

lions guard logo/branding looks weirdly well developed

fasces gratia fascis

Kinda bizarre statements by Bernie on Rachel Maddow tonight about how he could conceivably be making his case to superdelegates at the convention even if behind on pledged delegates.

"There are other factors, and the other factors will be the strength of each of us in taking on the Republican candidate. What I think is most important to all of the delegates, including the superdelegates, is that we have a candidate who will win."

Only scenario where that has any integrity I can see would be if he was ahead in total popular vote but through delegate proportioning was behind in pledged delegates. I think that's possible in the same way a similar thing is possible with the electoral college.

didn't watch that segment but he's probably also referring to polls showing him beating trump and cruz head-to-head by a larger margin than hillary is. i doubt the meaningfulness of those polls, but if you're in his position you're certainly going to play them up

Amazing the stuff you forget. CNN was just playing 2008 debate clips, and Clinton was going after Obama over Tony Rezko. Don't think I heard that name even once in 2012.

But that would be a weaselly reason for why you should be the nominee when you didn't actually win.

xp

It all sounds vaguely familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVHq-SLrah4

so what do we think about this wild scenario? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-nicholas-phillips/doomsday-savior-how-paul-ryan_b_9474788.html

Flopson - that Cruz video was nauseating!

amateurist: well, y'all laughed at me last time i brought up the corrupt bargain of 1824...

that said paul ryan is no henry clay.

Wasn't that the premise of the Veep season 4 finale?

This harebrained theory was co-conceived and written with Chris LaTondresse, VP of Communications and Strategy at The Expectations Project and former advisor at USAID’s Center for Faith Based and Community Initiatives.

re Rubio "he's young" - I guess. It pains me to say that he and I were born four days apart (May '71). Cruz is only slightly older (December '70).

This year we may elect the last insufferable Boomer, for good or for ill. The president after next could well be younger than everyone here, and that will be a strange cultural moment. Figuring out how to mock them will be an interesting process.

I'm older than one of my current U.S. Senators. I look forward to boxing his big jug ears one day.

Glad i'll be dead for the first insufferable millennial prez, if things go that long

"The president after next could well be younger than everyone here, "

Lol speak for yrself gramps

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/us/politics/as-hillary-clinton-sweeps-states-one-group-resists-white-men.html

it's amazing how many of these pro-Hillary pieces i have read that include zero reference to her voting for the Iraq War and Patriot Act, hiding them instead in the adviser-approved language of "national security experience". as much as the Times would like us to forget it's important to remember she voted for The Iraq War, The Patriot Act, and the bank bailout which were three of the biggest biggest reasons why W was the worst president of all time. everyone hated W, even his own party. yet none of those get brought up in your standard NYTimes think-piece about why people don't like her. instead we get identity politic and easy cherry-picked targets like Bengazi. what do you expect coming from a paper that was also one of "Dubya's war" biggest cheerleaders. you can't have a large chunk of the population spend more than a decade hating W for his injust war, surveillance state, normalizing of torture, etc. and then just have them ignore all that now and be cool with The Patriot Act now that someone has a D by their name.

Drawing by comic book legend Bill Sienkiewicz:

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that's never the perspective of such stories tho; it's about how white men like those in the Times story see Obama-Clinton as the standard bearers of "pro-minority" liberalism.

The yutzes interviewed in that piece are OK with Endless War, i'd wager

xp

the headline "One Group Resists Clinton: White Men" is misleading cos it focuses on a very specific and easily ignorable group that "resists" her.

btw, "resists" her? that is kind of gross language imo. shame on me for resisting something.

Resistance is futile!

http://www.moonofalabama.org/images4/hillaryclinton-s.jpg

everyone hated W, even his own party.

this is not how I remember 2001-2009

yeah, that's bs

they had Clint Eastwood talk to an empty chair rather than invite him to the last RNC

Bush was unpopular from January 2009 to February 2009.

he transferred it to his brother Jeb after taking up painting / ironic lolz

the Dems sure rubberstamped a lot of W's shit, imagine if he'd been popular!

My barber went into a massive RAGE yesterday about how much he hates Clinton and Obama, and Trump is the only one he can stand. Among other things, he said something like "There is no way in hell I would give that lying snake the pleasure of being the first woman president," and "Obama is a fucking asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else." Sanders, meanwhile is just "out there," which is relatively kind. He's basically the perfect trump voter -- an angry, white, probably not college-educated, moderately conservative guy from non-gentrified Brooklyn who feels like elites are shitting on him. He cuts the hair of smug midtown professionals like myself all day, and I think on top of that his business is slow and he's stressed about it. I didn't really argue with him about it except to say that I didn't like Clinton but would take her over Trump, which is true, and that Trump changed his story every time he spoke, which is also true. I wasn't about to go further -- the guy was visibly enraged and was holding a razor.

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bush was pretty popular in his first term. it seemed to some of us that the wars had been going a long time by 2004, but haha

http://36.media.tumblr.com/d18a600a99966c11aad0f8d5c6b0c31c/tumblr_nyopb4o2lU1qkvpsmo4_500.png

http://drawblr.tumblr.com/post/134343132263/harveyjames-robert-crumb-taking-on-donald-trump

I wonder if native NYC-metro area people respond to Trump differently than most other Americans. I still identify Trump as a sort of 80's tabloid clown on par with Geraldo Rivera, Cutis Sliwa, George Steinbrenner etc. Clearly a dick but also an obviously pretend ideologue, posing no threat except in his own sphere, played for laffs.

The David Duke analogy wld work if maybe Ted Cruz or somebody was hosting.

― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 10:28 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From SNL thread. Maybe a good idea w/ these to have a dedicated shaming/mea culpa thread.