I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

That isn't electoral fraud.

Garden variety clown car dishonesty.

Maybe I've been on ILX too long but the memes I saw felt like they were clowning themselves, with both Hillary and Bernie being assigned absurd words you would never actually see coming out of their mouth, like views on Radiohead. If there's a punch, it's that Bernie has elaborate nerdy positions on things and Hillary tries to say what's popular, which is, idk, kinda fair game for a political cartoon? Would 100% believe that some sharers are totally buying it in part b/c of sexism though, where it aligns with rock vs pop, masculine vs feminine, serious vs superficial.

This was how I read them too but I may have been reading too far in.

Maybe I've been on ILX too long but the memes I saw felt like they were clowning themselves, with both Hillary and Bernie being assigned absurd words you would never actually see coming out of their mouth, like views on Radiohead. If there's a punch, it's that Bernie has elaborate nerdy positions on things and Hillary tries to say what's popular, which is, idk, kinda fair game for a political cartoon? Would 100% believe that some sharers are totally buying it in part b/c of sexism though, where it aligns with rock vs pop, masculine vs feminine, serious vs superficial.

But I also get a lot of 'Anarchists For Bernie Sanders' content so I'm used to seeing words put in his mouth where the gag is that he wouldn't say them (in that instance, to demonstrate that Bernie's not really radical because a real radical would say X).

― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 22:38 (Yesterday) Permalink

I've been wrestling with the idea of writing a think piece along these lines but I just feel like it'd be splitting hairs and inviting arguments I'm sick of even though I've mostly avoided them so far

Anytime you (and I don't just mean you, RC, I mean "all of humanity") have an idea for a think piece, write it down on a piece of paper, burn it, and move on with your life.

Trump stage-managing his exit is literally the most foreseeable thing about this entire shitshow.

(with the possible exception of the Clinton machine/MSNBC Deanscreaming Bernie for as long as it takes)

Trump definitely sabotaging himself in Arkansas tonight:

http://i.imgur.com/HKfOC1A.png

http://i.imgur.com/B4WR4MK.png

Whenever friends tout Clinton's experience, I bring up dubious past Clinton positions/votes/statements, and those same friends who support her brush the criticisms aside, saying, oh, the times have changed and she's changed with them. When I point out that like him or not Sanders hasn't been swaying in the public opinion breeze that way she has, they really have nothing to say.

By the way, I was a little surprised (but not really) to learn that Clinton is still pro death penalty. Because of course she is.

I love this clip, a real guilty pleasure. This sassy insouciant side we rarely see except in private board rooms with Goldman Sachs investors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWbYF4460g

next debate question: "Would ya kill Snowden, Hil?"

Not very ethical. Starting to suspect Morbius isn't a real doctor.

Did anyone watch the NH "town hall" thing tonight? I caught just the last five minutes of Sanders's, with the charming-personal-question stuff. I thought he came off very nicely in that. I wonder how much of the impression of him as a grumpy grouch is his policies, and how much of it is that he does not mix in the stock private-family and/or "I met a recently laid-off grandmother last week in Poughkeepsie..." feel-your-pain stuff into his stump speech. I don't want him to do the latter, to be clear - I think a lot of his power comes from how clearly he feels his critique is too urgent to waste precious television minutes on fluff. Plus man would it be weird to be on stage unfurling family anecdotes day in and day out to tens of thousands of strangers. No thanks.

Lena Dunham used this "real results" shitphrase on behalf of Christine Quinn in the last NY mayoralty scrum. It must be in the HillChip that was implanted in 2012.

http://gawker.com/clinton-and-sanders-stand-side-by-side-screaming-into-1756952240

Those memes are literally never funny

Except the poop vs pee one

I know I'm soft, but I kind of feel bad for Bush in that clip (and I agree it's intentional humour) - he knows the game is up, no-one could watch him walk around that stage for 5 seconds and think he would ever be president.

He's half wondering, as he walks, whether it's a sin to pray that his father dies before finding out that his sons average a one-term president. He'd quite like to choke Marco Rubio to death, out in front of all the cameras.

But he always hates this part of the speech, he doesn't want to be the commander in chief any more than he wants to be Miss World. And Jesus, they can't even give him a decent last line: "to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world" - what the hell is that?

$675,000? "That's what they offered."

http://gawker.com/hillary-clinton-s-awful-explanation-for-why-she-took-go-1757015538

"I wasn't committed to running." bye Felicia

haha I almost admire the effrontery

While Trump's Cruz-related hissyfit was executed in a juvenile way, I have also read that there's actually some shrewd calculus behind it.

Viz., Carson's evangelical supporters are indeed likely shift to Cruz, as the next godliest choice. But they may NOT shit to Cruz if they're shown that Cruz is a dishonest, scheming asshole who stabbed Saint Ben in the back. Trump (the theory goes) doesn't necessarily hope to win over evangelicals himself, but he sure as hell doesn't want them all coalescing around Cruz. If that's the kind of 3D chess the Donald is playing, it's clever.

But personally I don't think he sees in any dimensions other than "is this about me, or is it about something other than me?" Anything that is not about Trump is anathema, and must be shifted so that it becomes about Trump.

um, "may NOT shift to Cruz." Unfortunate typo.

an election full of Nixons

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41785/ted-cruz-richard-nixon/

He looks so clammy. Nixon may have broke a sweat, but he never looked like he needed a bypass two days from now.

I find that my brain always wants to construct a portmanteau of 'squamous' and 'unctuous' as a descriptor of Cruz.

He's like a flan that someone dropped in the dirt.

squamptuous

He's like a flan that someone dropped in the dirt.

― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), T

omg may I use this

By all means.

A cake left out in the raaaaaiiiiinnnnnnn.....

Nixon may have broke a sweat, but he never looked like he needed a bypass two days from now.

http://www.studiobriefing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Nixon-debate.jpg

That doesn't look so much like he needs a bypass as much as it looks like he needs a tube sock or a wash cloth.

like Lou Reed on the Magic & Loss cover

Thx for the hard lolz, pplains.

like a flan that someone dropped in the dirt

Thx for the hard lolz, pplains.

Anytime!

http://i.imgur.com/kXiP3RD.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3e/51/14/3e5114734d6a9d0ecd1538647acfaa2a.jpg

wait, stop! you're humanizing nixon! we have to go back! we have to g-

http://www.studiobriefing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Nixon-debate.jpg

aaah, there we go

aaaaaaahhhh

there we go

humanizing the vacuum

speaking of that meme thing, there are already people on youtube saying stuff like do you think HILLARY CLINTON would rush to the aid of a fainting man? not on your life!!

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/02/04/bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-faint-sot.cnn/video/playlists/bernie-sanders-2016/

like, really? she gonna kick the guy?

she's got people

idk if her rushing away from the podium like that would fly with the Secret Service

iirc romney saved a guy from drowning, so really the democrats should be voting for him

the democrats should be voting for phil collins then

But he did not lend a hand!

6) Mitt Romney and his sons saved a family and their dog from drowning: Mitt Romney saw people in trouble and he didn't wait for the government to save them, he made a REAL gutsy call, and did what he had to do to save their lives.

He made a REAL gutsy call to not watching a family drown from the back porch of his lake house.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 07:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

suck it phil collins!

― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 07:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

Future NFL Hall of Famer Ray Lewis of the Ravens, listens to Phil Collins to get "psyched up".

Love turn thread has taken

6) Mitt Romney and his sons saved a family and their dog from drowning

sure, after killing their own dog