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

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?

Marcomentum!

Rubio had the charisma of a pepper mill.

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.

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!

Rubio also talked shit about George W. Bush ftr

anyone made a "Marco? Poll 'mo" pun yet? well i just did

xpost When Elvis Costello reunited with the Attractions back in 1994, he called it the "Lock Up Your Mothers" tour.

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.

(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.

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.

reagan too! as far as the shitty lasting effects go...