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

I just can't see the GOP being at all sanguine with one of their frontrunners loudly and proudly advocating for turning the US into a blatantly fascist state.

The pro class, no, but, damn, read NRO comments today.

I will not be doing that

feel free to summarize for laffs tho!

xp: Why would I ever do that, though? NRO commenters have already shown that they despise my very existence through their commentary and I don't feel the need to satisfy their petulant desire for attention at the expense of my mental well-being.

like at this point you might as well say "check out the comments on St*rmfr*nt" and I'd have the same reaction

That's how you would write if if you tried to pronounce it with a mouthful of marshmallows.

Write it, sorry. Strmfrnt fluffy bunny.

I need to somehow find a way to block any mention of the inevitable polls following this shit.

I only mentioned it because a large chunk of the conservative base does agree with Trump; I'm not advocating injecting your system with a speedball made of heroin and cockroach spray.

Enh, 33% at last look. It's still a ridiculous number, but that means 2/3 of Republicans want someone else.

33% + the ~12-15% who still support Carson for some reason + ~3% who like Fiorina (who is just fucking insane) +, arguably, the ~15% or so that like Ted Cruz. Does anyone think Cruz is going to come out against Trump on banning Muslims from entering the country? Hell, I'm sure Cruz was just waiting for Trump to do it so he can follow his lead.

Point is, there's a lot more people than Trump's crew that are ALSO terrible fucking assholes, on both the candidate and voter side of the equation.

actually, the more i think about it, maybe this is a way for trump to attract more evangelical christians? it's a dog whistle. he says he's a christian and tries to mention the bible when he can, but i think his faith isn't convincing to midwestern evangelicals. but he can try to step around concerns about the sincerity of his christianity by, i don't know, doing things that increase the chances of the apocalypse. there was this poll where 23% of americans said Jesus Christ will "definitely" return to earth by the year 2050, while another 18% said he "probably" will. i feel like those kind of apocalyptic believers are more common than people realize, and that they would be receptive to Trump's awful islamophobia.

the idiot caucus really doing well in the primary season

does trump have any advisers with like, experience in a presidential campaign? this seems like a furious response to one poll showing him behind cruz in iowa rather than an astute political strategy

i'm not sure whether possibly being a ~loser~ or merely losing everyone's attention is worse to him, but with eight weeks till voting starts, he's at risk of running out of crazy gestures

not sure i buy into the notion that trump has an exhaustible supply of crazy

He should host a TV competition to run his campaign.

i read today a third of republicans in Iowa believe Islam should be outlawed in the US

turns out that poll is from September, wonder how much higher the number is today

why would you care about elections at all if Jesus is on the way?

he checks how you voted, kind of like santa

I'm not sure an advisor got anywhere near that statement, the sentence structure is pure "get outta the way, let me at the keyboard <puts on poker visor>".

So I guess some motherfuckers just won't be satisfied until there's a Christian analogue of ISIS? These (essentially un-American, dare I say?) people sure are eager to wipe their asses with the Constitution as long as their precious 2nd remains unsullied.

how do you determine if someone is a muslim?

Maybe get them to sew a cloth crescent onto their clothes?

"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet. And we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them and maybe, in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways," Trump said at a campaign rally in South Carolina on Monday.

send dogs in search of those missing Internet people.

I guess this is all for the greater good if we're waiting until Trump reaches max popularity so that we can fill his most well-attended rally with a flood of molten steel.

bill gates doesn't understqnd the fucking internet!

hi, mr. gates? i'm here to ask you about the internet, and what's going on with it. as you know, we're losing a lot of people because of the internet. in certain areas, maybe we can close up the internet in some ways? we have to do something. what do you think?

.. I mean, it's only until we figure out what the internet is, yeah?

mr gates?
mr gaaaaaaaaaaaaaates

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

I think this whole notion that we can just say no more Muslims, and just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in. Religious freedom has been a very important part of our history and where we came from. ... It's a mistaken notion.

— Dick Cheney, former vice president, speaking with radio host Hugh Hewitt.

watch for this meme: rise of trump is all liberals' fault

https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/670993442290315265
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/670995704186277888

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/08/welcome-to-barack-obamas-america/

convenient

dick out here doing damage control for his party talking about "everything we stand for and believe in"

The GOP seems to have decided that enough is enough at this point. Though of course, gopers are also talking in my tm about how Trump is actually Southern Dem mk II. Which is kinda true (it's at least mk iii after Nixon silent majority or Reaganistas or whatever) but still just dodges the point of why on earth he can be the GOP frontrunner. Also in states not in the south.

trump really missed a laugh line by not mentioning al gore, inventor of the internet

a "frontrunner" whose share is around 30% is a LOSER, amirite?

not in a field with like 40 people

man this argument is everywhere! lol this isn't going to work fellas

http://www.dailywire.com/news/1683/7-ways-barack-obama-created-donald-trump-ben-shapiro

i've heard the 'Obama created Trump' talking point for at least a couple months now irl, never bothered to try and figure out what they were talking about

L/R: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMS2GYVMiiU/VYYZVXDw-gI/AAAAAAAAMFw/E9lNA8zJH28/s1600/the-manchurian-candidate.png

They mean "Thanks, Obama".

If he hadn't already been around for decades previously, I could totally buy Trump as some janky, malfunctioning robot someone built in their garage.

I love the notion that Obama created the "celebrity presidency," from people who still worship the actual movie star they elected president.

cannot abide listening to the lout, but apparently speech included "some of my best friends are Muslims"

but Reagan actually did stuff they like as governor, like allowing open-carry via 'inspiration' from the Black Panthers
xp

tispy otm

fiorina in iowa last night:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVqZ2B7UsAI19IR.jpg

Many of the more extreme conservatives are nothing if not cognitively dissonant to an extent that the presence of actual cognition is way arguable.

Feel the Fury-orina

That photo is just a notch or two below Jeb!'s "whoop 'er!" clip on the schadenfreude scale.