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

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Trump definitely sabotaging himself in Arkansas tonight:

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

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

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link

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.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link

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

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link

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

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link

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

like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link

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.

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link

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

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:03 (eight years ago) link

Those memes are literally never funny

Except the poop vs pee one

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link

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?

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 February 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link

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

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 11:59 (eight years ago) link

haha I almost admire the effrontery

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link

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.

please won't you be my enabler (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link

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

please won't you be my enabler (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link

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

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link

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

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link

squamptuous

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link

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

― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), T

omg may I use this

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link

By all means.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link

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

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link

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.

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link

like Lou Reed on the Magic & Loss cover

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

Thx for the hard lolz, pplains.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link

like a flan that someone dropped in the dirt

qft

ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link

Thx for the hard lolz, pplains.

Anytime!

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

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

aaaaaaahhhh

Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

there we go

Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

humanizing the vacuum

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link

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/

scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link

like, really? she gonna kick the guy?

scott seward, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link

she's got people

j., Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link

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

example (crüt), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link

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

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link

the democrats should be voting for phil collins then

a (waterface), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link

But he did not lend a hand!

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

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

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link

Love turn thread has taken

broderik f (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link

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

sure, after killing their own dog

mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link

TS: Susan Collins vs. Phil Collins

please won't you be my enabler (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

No, it was the Huckabees who killed the dog. Romney just drove across the country with a dog on his roof.

pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link

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

sure, after killing their own dog

― mookieproof, Thursday, February 4, 2016 12:08 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was this the aforementioned "REAL gutsy call"? Do mormons practice sacrifice?

Evan, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link

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

― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, February 4, 2016 8:44 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just the reagan democrats

denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link

Courteous as ever, he took me to see something framed on the far wall... a pleasant riverside watercolor study presented itself. I recognized every curve of the oak trees and the long grassy slope of the meadow. "This," Dutch breathed, "is where I was a lifeguard for seven (sic) summers. I saved 77 lives. And you know, none of 'em ever thanked me!"

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link

when an old addled Reagan refers to the book as "trees" I went awww

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link


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