Fiorina is willing to pay $1.5 million (to charity) in order to have the honor of joining the hypothetical trump/cruz debate
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
"There will also be bread."
― kylo stimpy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
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
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
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,
Though hyperbolic,
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 January 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Fred Hiatt should be covered tarred and newspapered.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
thinly-guised undermining of the chait/yglesias crowd
chait has been so shitty lately. it drives me nuts
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
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)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
Bernie shipshape, has been treated for gout (like Ben fuckin' Franklin)
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-medical-records-218330
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
fyi the Huck video got its audio back
― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Republican poll leader Donald Trump released his records last month. Trump would “be the healthiest individual elected to the presidency,” his doctor asserted.
― j., Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Trump vs. zombie Teddy Roosevelt FITE
― It takes the village people (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
what is trump's (golf) handicap
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ16ejJUcAIQ8o8.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Chait shit get Berned
― broderik f (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
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
― nomar, Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
hahaha t-mobile
― j., Friday, 29 January 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
A podium in the Oval OfficePRESIDENTIAL LECTERN“looks odd”“not good”
― nomar, Friday, 29 January 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2016 06:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 29 January 2016 07:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA0NM5RAY0
dunno if the hilarity of this translates for americans - but maybe. it just looks so right.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
two GOP freakshows last night, neither liveblogged on this thread? were you all in the ER?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
did all the liveblogging last night and all I got was contact lens freeze
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
i was cleaning my butthole
― a (waterface), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
These freakshows are pretty boring by now tbh. I didn't watch.
Xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
w/out Trump they look like mere deranged sadists
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
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― nomar, Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was just about to post this exact thing
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
All these candidates are likehttp://www.kellysdogtraining.com/dogtalk/uploaded_images/3dogs_waiting_for_food-764392.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
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...
― scott seward, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
I've had the same realization about Huckabee, Paul, Carson and Fiorina in the past few days
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
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?
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Marcomentum!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Rubio had the charisma of a pepper mill.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
I heard Rubio declare that President Obama had 'systematically destroyed everything that made this country great'. I would have appreciated more details, especially regarding the greatness of the USA under George W. Bush.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
i do kinda like watching the mirror image of trump and bizarro-trump sanders. both fueled by indignation. so hard to keep that up for an entire race. people have the energy for it early on and then it's like eating too many hateburgers. indignation turns into indigestion. clinton needs to ignore it all. keep talking like a monument. bill clinton as first lady...whoduh thunk it!? he's gonna be roaming the country on a goodwill feelgood mission! lock up yer daughters, amerikkka!
― scott seward, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Rubio also talked shit about George W. Bush ftr
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
anyone made a "Marco? Poll 'mo" pun yet? well i just did
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
xpost When Elvis Costello reunited with the Attractions back in 1994, he called it the "Lock Up Your Mothers" tour.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
yeah i don't care how bad u think obama was (and i think history will bear out that he was a great POTUS) GWB presided over the greatest terrorist attack on American soil in history, the Great Recession, and at least one catastrophic + useless war.
― Mordy, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
(preaching to the choir i know)
My daughter asked me the other day about various presidents, and whether they were good or bad. Nixon, it was sort of hard (thinking retrospectively) to convey that he was a psycho criminal kicked out of office who nonetheless achieved some great, lasting things. But when I got to GWB, I started listing all the shitty, shitty, destructive things he did or oversaw, with lasting ill effects, and it still blows me away.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Rumsfeld/Cheney, Heckuva Job Brown, Iraq, Katrina, 9/11, the Supreme Court, Harriet Myers, Karl Rove, lowering taxes on rich ... just goes on and on.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link