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

Now that is a Jesus quote, right?

You can’t punish him, you didn’t have jurisdiction to do the search.

Gonna use this.

"Have a blessed day," sure, I've never heard that out loud, except at, like, Ren Fairs or whatever.

I think I've mostly heard it from older black men & women tbh

http://magickalgraphics.com/Graphics/Occult/BlessedBe/blessed138.gif

so many things to quote here

We have a war on everything — war on gender, war on police, war on race, you name it.

war on iowa wites

In Cuban homes we say "Jesus" when someone sneezes.

That's what we say when someone is having a sneezing fit. "Jesus! Will you stop sneezing?!"

otm

I hear "Have a blessed day" at the drive-thru all the time at Chick Fil-A, pretty sure it's either corporate policy or at least SOP at the ones I frequent.

"Jesús" is also the sound of someone sneezing fwiw

if you go to Chik Fil-A you're gonna get what you asked for: earnest Christians and cows pleading not to be murdered & eaten

decent lemonade too. My last meal though made me vomit, no doubt thanks to the midi-christlorians interacting with my gay blood.

jeezus cow blood is poison to gayz. read that somewhere.

film critic otm:

Michael Sicinski ‏@msicism
Voting for Hillary reminds me of nights my family would argue for 45 mins about where to go to dinner and then give up and order pizza.

also, GOP ignores Nixon at their peril:

Because it will take a strong man. Oh, yes. Make no mistake. Naturally it could be a woman — I’m aware of that; send your letters elsewhere — but when the likely candidate from the Democrat side is either a grandmother who takes polls on her favorite color, or a guy with the manner and politics of the Rosenbergs, who will stand up?

Trump? My God, the moment he’s nominated every broker on Wall Street will lock himself in the toilet with a bottle of rye and a pistol. Stocks will drop through the floor, pension funds will dry up, and what the hell will Trump do? Flex his muscles at a blonde?

http://mashable.com/2016/01/31/dick-nixon-sizes-up-campaign-trump-cruz/#V30scqvIhmq2

xpost more like deciding to heat up leftovers in fridge

Not enough bad sports analogies or complaints about how his ideas and tactics aren't used xpost

yeah kinda weak sauce but this: "when [Cruz] lies his expression is like a child with a full diaper" is otm

that nymag voter spread is some grim shit

Timothy van Deest, 64, airline agent

^ sir i am not getting on any airplane to which you are associated

sample size of 100, so I'm not sure why they bothered presenting the results. the little voter profile things are insane, though. it's depressing to read so many terrible things from so many different people.

i loved how one of them, in supporting the idea of states' rights, described Missouri as a "different planet" than...Iowa.

i lol'ed at the dick nixon article several times i will admit

he ain't lying

xp

there's a joke i heard growing up: the bottom row of counties defected from iowa to missouri and the average iq jumped 10pts in both states.

later on i learned MN tells it about IA, MO tells it about AR. i don't think arkansans tell it about louisiana though

i feel bad when i read that new york mag thing because it immediately reminds me of that *republican brains are different* thing and then i actually start to look at the shape of those people's skulls in the pictures and try to figure out what is wrong with their brains. which is just gonna make them more fearful and paranoid if they think people are dissecting their weird brains. they just need some time in the government re-education cent.......oops...not supposed to mention those....

‏@ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald Retweeted David Sirota
The main divide among Iowa Dems on Clinton/Sanders - by far - is not gender but age...

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/694162002051100672

( i mostly start fixating on their prominent foreheads and notice that most of the men have big foreheads and are bald or going bald. like even their hair didn't want to be up there anymore.)

it's almost like ppl generally become more conservative as they become older

i feel bad when i read that new york mag thing because it immediately reminds me of that *republican brains are different* thing

Same!! It's really all about fear and safety. Extremely narrowly defined, of course. Whose safety? Just us persecuted white Christians natch.

Mmmmm, persecuted white Christians natch.

Sorry...

https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/694189328751316992

somehow i believe in my heart of hearts that if actual politicians read @dick_nixon they can't shake the nagging shameful feeling that it was the real nixon burning them

lol scott

Thought that nymag thing was pretty good, certainly not the slightest bit surprised that the immediate ilx reaction is to collapse everything in there into 'lol at these fukken aliens'

it's almost like ppl generally become more conservative as they become older

yeah v nice, but 74-23%, that's quite a gap for the under-45s.

it's almost like ppl generally become more conservative as they become older

― Mordy, Monday, February 1, 2016 10:42 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's almost more like people have found it increasingly easy to 'other' other people as the modern world has made it increasingly easy for them to avoid ever engaging with anyone who isn't exactly like them.

Ms. Andersen, citizen of Earth:

Trump reminds me of Reagan. Reagan really lived what he believed. We have a president now that doesn’t believe what he lives. He made promises and gave us great hope. Now we’re getting that hope back. We’re trying to get that change back to the way this country should’ve been, where we can say “Merry Christmas” and “God bless America.” I’m tired of political ­correctness all the time. We have contract workers that work with us, and a lot of them are Muslim. We have to honor their rituals. If they need to pray during the day, we have to allow that. There’s something wrong. It’s harder to be a Christian now in America. We’re now the minority, and I’m hoping Donald can bring us back to being the majority again.

Donald gettin ready for some mass baptisms

It's almost more like people have found it increasingly easy to 'other' other people as the modern world has made it increasingly easy for them to avoid ever engaging with anyone who isn't exactly like them.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the joys of posting on ilx

did they do party-politics phrenology the first time around, i wonder, or is that a 21c liberal innovation

hey, i have to talk to "real american" people all the time thanks to my store. everyone has a cross to bear. don't think they are aliens really. i think they just need some hugs. don't think they got hugged enough.

there's a joke i heard growing up: the bottom row of counties defected from iowa to missouri and the average iq jumped 10pts in both states.

later on i learned MN tells it about IA, MO tells it about AR. i don't think arkansans tell it about louisiana though

Well of course Arkansas can't trade counties with Louisiana. They have parishes!

i think i might adopt Ms. Anderson's opinion that Trump reminds her of Reagan because sure why not

I'll vote for the candidate that promises to cage anyone and everyone who self-identifies as a persecuted Christian. These fucking people.

I dunno. People on ilx are constantly reminding me that I am not exactly like them.

after the cruz hug fail i had to check if bernie had a kid. he does!

https://www.facebook.com/sanders.levi

oh wait he has step-kids too. they kinda count.

I hear the fearfulness from ppl I talk to as well. When I ask what they think is going to happen if trans people get to be who they want, and gays can get married, and so on, they don't really know and usu go into word salad at that point. The times I've asked them point blank "What are you so afraid of?" they've vehemently objected to being accused of feeling fear. I guess it's too unmanly.

I dunno, I just don't want people to be allowed to do the things I'm allowed to do because that will make me less special.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/trump-reagan-shake.jpg