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

Just occurred to me that Trump comports himself like a some cartoon Russian oligarch turned strongman, this weird sort of cross between tacky nouveau riche boasting and dictatorial threats. Regardless, he's a lot funnier with a must kill moose and squirrel accent.

I also get Smoove B. vibes. Read this in Trump bluster-voice:

When you have had your fill of dancing, I will take you by the hand and lead you to the most romantic corner of the entire club and sit you down on one of the plush, red-velvet couches. While you rest, I will go the bar and purchase a drink for you. Before I bring it back to you, I will taste it, demanding finer gin should it fall short of my expectations for you. Also, I will ask for less ice so that your gin and tonic is not diluted.

While you sip your drink, I will stroke your hair and tell you such complimentary things as "You are like a fine statue carved out of brown marble," and "Your eyes are like pools of creamy Italian butter," and "You have beautiful shoes." You will know that I mean these things because they come from the heart, and the heart is always true.

Man, wouldn't it be great if Trump showed up to the debate after all, just to heckle from the audience?

why the fuck is huckabee going to trumpstock instead of the fox debate? or is he kids table anyway so who cares? I guess his 'campgaign' is basically in full on grift mode now.

Just came to post about Huckabee too--don't know if I've seen such a pathetic case of sucking up.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-attending-trump-rival-iowa-event

i have:

Santorum, who is also competing in the undercard debate, told CNN he was open to attending Trump's event if invited.

"As of now, the senator has not been invited to take part in Mr. Trump's event," a Santorum spokesman told the network. "The senator respects that this is Mr. Trump's event and he's not going to go and crash (it)."

he'll no doubt get more attention by doing trumpfest than being an also-ran at the regular show, so

reports are huckabee and santorum are going to trumpfest

i kind of thought that by fighting with bob vander plaats trump was telling evangelical iowans to get bent but now who knows

xps huh

they muted the audio on the Huckabee Hello parody

so now it is a completely silent montage of Huckabee wandering through desolate Iowa with occasional captions that say "gangrene" and "frostbite"

there really is so much beauty in this world

― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, January 28, 2016 11:26 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so fucking wonderful

i'm trying it with sigur ros in the background, it's good but not quite right. maybe if the video were slowed down. love the slow-mo of someone throwing their cell phone into the snow, maybe a hook allusion? deep.

 I did something in France I don’t often do at home: I came out of the closet as a full-fledged Hillary Clinton supporter.

so tired of straights using this fucking metaphor to define the most banal garbage. Also wtf does it mean? She doesn't often come out of the closet as an HRC supporter at home?

what is even happening in that huckabee video

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-01-28%20at%2010.50.10%20AM_zps5dvth2ef.png

if bernie wins
i'm gonna die

Fiorina is willing to pay $1.5 million (to charity) in order to have the honor of joining the hypothetical trump/cruz debate

huckabee adele parody video suicidal drinking game: drink every time he looks at his phone

That Huckabee screen grab looks like he's been using a tanning bed.

"There will also be bread."

man weiner was ok sometimes

Progressive braying of the Likudnik sexter on C-SPAN was often a sop to those of his NYC constituents who found his Schumer Junior essence annoying...

Weiner succeeded in convincing then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote on a single-payer system, but agreed in November 2009 not to force the vote after all, citing a desire to help move forward legislation that retained a role for private insurance companies but would also have established a government-run "public option" insurance system to compete with private plans. (The Senate ultimately stripped the public option from the Affordable Care Act.)

http://mic.com/articles/132646/anthony-weiner-champion-of-single-payer-healthcare-says-bernie-sanders-is-wrong#.sHmU0uWHd

 I did something in France I don’t often do at home: I came out of the closet as a full-fledged Hillary Clinton supporter.

I don't think anyone who reads Walsh would be confused about Hillary Clinton leanings.

What everyone seems to miss when they say that single-payer is politically impossible and shouldn't even be debated is that, if Sanders were to win the election, then effectively the nation will have held a referendum on single-payer and it will have won. That would necessarily change the political equation and force our representatives to recalculate their positions.

The real difficulty would be the vehemence with which the opposition would refuse to accede to the election results. It would catalyze a massive test of strength between the power of democracy versus the power of the oligarchy. A revolution, indeed. Viewed in that light, it is all a pretty high stakes game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-fiction-filled-campaign/2016/01/27/cd1b2866-c478-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html?postshare=6711454004765700&tid=ss_tw

i honestly prefer this to the concern-trolling and the thinly-guised undermining of the chait/yglesias crowd

gotta love the washington post editorial board tho. here's a previous editorial - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanders-isnt-as-progressive-as-you-think/2015/09/15/a0e8917c-5b26-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?tid=a_inl

SEN. BERNIE Sanders (I-Vt.) delivered a forceful message in a speech at Liberty University on Monday: Inequality is too high, the wealth gap is immoral and rich people have rigged the economy.

Though hyperbolic,

Fred Hiatt should be covered tarred and newspapered.

thinly-guised undermining of the chait/yglesias crowd

chait has been so shitty lately. it drives me nuts

chait has been so shitty lately.

(i don't read him on a regular basis so i don't know, but someone's going to do the strikethrough move so i might as well just go ahead and save someone the trouble)

Bernie shipshape, has been treated for gout (like Ben fuckin' Franklin)

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-medical-records-218330

fyi the Huck video got its audio back

Republican poll leader Donald Trump released his records last month. Trump would “be the healthiest individual elected to the presidency,” his doctor asserted.

Trump vs. zombie Teddy Roosevelt FITE

what is trump's (golf) handicap

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ16ejJUcAIQ8o8.jpg

Chait shit get Berned

what is trump's (golf) handicap

― mookieproof, Thursday, January 28, 2016 5:56 PM (8 minutes ago

i'm almost positive there's a trump chapter in the rick reilly caddy book

That Huckabee screen grab looks like he's been using a tanning bed.

It looks more like he's doing a poo on a tanning bed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-01-28%20at%2010.50.10%20AM_zps5dvth2ef.png

yeah the trump chapter in reilly's book is hilarious, you can preview some pages here (starting at page 57):

https://books.google.com/books?id=zwpNvd1RBmIC&q=trump#v=snippet&q=trump&f=false

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html

hahaha t-mobile

A podium in the Oval Office
PRESIDENTIAL LECTERN
“looks odd”“not good”

bringing a vote to the floor = making a move

like what else do you think the Speaker of the House does

Shakey 2018: Ready for a safe seat in the House

Okay, some of these are pretty good:

https://medium.com/@JCathan/hillary-clinton-just-went-in-on-bernie-sanders-in-an-epic-tweetstorm-cca3bc3b91fa#.i69l04cl4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA0NM5RAY0

dunno if the hilarity of this translates for americans - but maybe. it just looks so right.

two GOP freakshows last night, neither liveblogged on this thread? were you all in the ER?

did all the liveblogging last night and all I got was contact lens freeze

Was busy mulling over with my team whether or not I should also run for president. We did some informal polling and came up with "maybe." Gotta make a billion dollars first, but I have a few strong leads. Give you a hint: I'm putting a lot of money into Mexican wall bricks.

i was cleaning my butthole

These freakshows are pretty boring by now tbh. I didn't watch.

Xp

w/out Trump they look like mere deranged sadists

A podium in the Oval Office
PRESIDENTIAL LECTERN
“looks odd”“not good”

― nomar, Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just about to post this exact thing

All these candidates are like
http://www.kellysdogtraining.com/dogtalk/uploaded_images/3dogs_waiting_for_food-764392.jpg

i don't follow things too closely and today on the radio was the first time in forever that i heard rick santorum's name and i had forgotten that he was even a part of this thing! poor fella...

I've had the same realization about Huckabee, Paul, Carson and Fiorina in the past few days

https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/693136756682559488

NEWS: Cruz shifting negative ads from Trump to RUBIO entirely for final 3 days to halt Marco 'mo, deny him "win" >

"'mo"? What?