Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

having to stop myself from buying 'keep calm and carson on' shirts as joke xmas presents

The media is covering people polling with 1% or less.. they have trump on all fucking day because its ratings. he's not going anywhere until the media stops caring. he'll run third party because his 15% of rump racist awful america will always be there for him.

http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/53/grillary-clinton-apron.jpg

i think it's very possible he'll run third party but cruz has generally played nice and he doesn't seem to have a hardon for rubio so they could appease him w/ some nice words and a prime convention speaking spot. if jeb looked like the eventual nominee i'd have no doubt trump would run third party.

A CNN guy just talked about a Trump event where people were shaking their fists at reporters (having to do with Trump's recent New Jersey-9/11 comments). Shades of the Goldwater convention! (I've read about that countless times, but there doesn't seem to be any images online.)

i have my doubts, he's all about WINNING xp

Quarter pound of lean rump racist plz

@DougHenwood 1h1 hour ago
The @realDonaldTrump's goddamn hats are made by Latino workers.

...The red-and-white caps are emblazoned with the real estate mogul's oft-repeated slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

But look around the factory floor where these hats are being made by the thousands, and you’ll find faces that don’t seem to fit into Trump’s America.

Yolanda Melendrez is one of them. Melendrez, an immigrant from Mexico who was brought to the United States by her parents when she was a baby, has worked at the Carson-based Cali-Fame headwear company since 1991.

“When we first got the order [for the Trump hats], I said to myself, ‘Just wait until he sees who’s making his hats. We’re Latinos, we’re Mexicans, Salvadoreños.’”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trump-hats-cali-fame-carson-20151124-story.html

I think Trump has said he wouldn't run third party and maybe even signed some pledge, not that that means anything.

Those fucking chillary/grillary things make me want to die

"Killer Mike is a great rapper" – Bernie Sanders

~~killer mike moment~~

he signed reince's pledge a few months ago. this past weekend he said a third party run was still on the table.

Yeah no way is that pledge legally binding. If anything it was a capitulation to trump.

To 5 million followers:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/669672417774694400

@mtaibbi Nov 24
Not sure why Mitt Romney isn't running. He'd look like a cross of Lincoln and William the Conqueror in this group:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/23/the-republican-polling-best-in-new-hampshire-mitt-romney/

and Pierce says bevare, bevare of Ted Cruz.

I find the Tailgunner approximately as unlikable as three-quarters of the political world does. But there's no denying that he has built himself some political advantages that none of his rivals have. However, I'm sure that the "moderate GOP establishment" will get behind moderate John Kasich, or moderate Chris Christie, any day now and capsize the entire race.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39989/ted-cruz-dangerous-candidate/

Neither Trump nor Carson feel like they have a clue about organizing a national presidential campaign, but that Cruz definitely understands that winning the nomination requires sewing up delegates, not just voters in primary states.

Cruz's major problem atm is that the ordinary voters who've attached themselves to Trump and Carson will be extremely hard to dislodge, even if Trump or Carson drop out of the race, because defiance of all reason, sense, or logic is just how they roll. I think he may be looking for a brokered convention now as a fallback strategy when neither Trump or Carson arrives at the convention with more than 25% of the delegates.

Or everything could turn completely upside down three times before next August. Who the fuck knows at this point?

Probably belongs more in that Real Stories You Thought Were from the Onion thread (i.e., what kind of Trump piece would the Onion write if they were Trump supporters who wanted to make a point):

http://globalnews.ca/news/2363403/donald-trump-criticized-for-mocking-reporter-with-a-disability/?hootPostID=47b8eb3ffd18a53e758e2e80fdaae421

I'm just waiting for Trump to make fun of veterans. Fingers crossed.

You mean besides John McCain?

he already called mccain a loser for getting captured in action, so...

lol xp

Future Trump rally:

"You're stupid. You're all a bunch of losers. Worthless, stupid trash."

(crowd goes wild)

so you're predicting a move from Lonesome Rhodes to Howard Beale

Michael B Dougherty ‏
Imagine a fascist Trump POTUS! USA might start unprovoked wars, keep a kill list, weaken Constitutional rights...

Future Trump rally:

"You're stupid. You're all a bunch of losers. Worthless, stupid trash."

(crowd goes wild)

― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch),

his numbers went up in iowa after his 'how stupid are the ppl in iowa?' rant

Yeah but it's tough to tell if his numbers rose in response to that comment or his racism. Democracy!

my trump popularity theory is that ppl are cynical enough about politics that as they no longer think it matters who they vote for they might as well vote for someone entertaining; at least they can laugh while everything falls a part

The reality show/pro wrestling/entertainment thing is probably half, and then the other half are people that would have votes for Wallace

voted.

iPhone. Fuck

Aaaaaaannnnnnd, it's been 12 hours since the Planned Parenthood shootings and not one GOP candidate has released a statement about it. Hard for them to wash their hands and talk, I guess

They could hardly make the usual recommendation of arming all PP employees and patrons to the teeth. It would seem as if they were siding with the enemy.

seriously what the hell style sheet do you people use that post to ilx from your iphone. they all look like unreadable butt to me.

Zing app

It might have been released during your time away, but it is what pro ilx posters use when they're on the go

does it look different?? on OLDASS.CSS every post looks the same

I'm still on iPhone.css, which has the weird thing now where YouTube links no longer function

“He’s not a bought-and-paid for politician. He knows all the ins and outs of negotiating,” said Clearwater resident Bob Priest, standing in line near a live elephant painted with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. “He’s got some guts and he tells it like it is.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article46970250.html#storylink=cpy

A little disappointed, frankly...

http://i.imgur.com/70Y8DZB.jpg

poor elephant :(

by rights that pic should include the elephant taking a dump

So the media is being p stupid about his chances eh

They're doing all they can to report Trump's bombast and idiocy, which does at least put some sand in the gears and slow down the bandwagon effect.

there was a thing about how his numbers had dipped some after this whole 'mocking a disabled person's disability' thing but it was only to thirtysomething percent among republicans, previously it was in the mid-forties. that's like hillary territory. i think the media is probably swinging too hard the other way after treating him as an consequence free amusement for so long, they've gone from 'this guy isn't actually a candidate' to 'this guy is THE candidate'. plus when he doesn't when it won't be (or at least won't primarily be) for the narrative reasons the media pretends shape the race and instead will be for his inexperience and probably unwilllingness to do the on the ground politicking that wins races. ie how the legend is that the scream sank dean but in reality the dean campaign had already kinda imploded, the scream coming after his finishing crazy low in iowa after looking like he'd sown up the nomination a month or so prior. media hyping up christie getting the union-leader endorsement; who knows if that really means shit but i guess it's indicative that christie is doing the legwork there. if he somehow won new hampshire now i guess i'd know how it happened.

CC is ROLLIN' NOW

“Mr. Christie is right for these dangerous times,” Joseph W. McQuaid, the publisher, wrote in the endorsement editorial. “As a U.S. attorney and then a big-state governor, he is the one candidate who has the range and type of experience the nation desperately needs.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/chasing-endorsements-christie-showers-new-hampshire-with-calls-and-texts.html

DESPERATELY

@sahilkapur Nov 28
.@UnionLeader endorsements:

2016: Christie
2012: Newt
2008: McCain
2000: Steve Forbes
1996: Buchanan
1992: Buchanan
1988: Pierre du Pont

The flawed premise of the alternate earth suggested by that list is the assumption that humanity would have survived long enough to vote Christie into office.

ted cruz suffered a big loss this morning as the 13-year-old chairman for Teens for Ted who became internet famous for asking why Obama invited the "Muslim kid" to the White House remembered that he is a 13-year-old kid and gave up his position and conservatism

uh

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cj-pearson-renounces-conservatism

oh man, i haven't seen the name pierre dupont... probably since 1988.

"Quit callin' yourself 'Pete'...."

I hadn't even heard of him until I read Richard Ben Cramer's book.