a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

http://media.giphy.com/media/lGkUyj3IrEcvu/giphy.gif

lol

Note how they aren't actually moving anywhere, just giving the appearance of movement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-long-campaign-wont-commit-to-backing-gop-nominee/2015/07/09/8f75a5b8-264e-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html

Trump said the call from Priebus “was meant, in my opinion, to be a congratulatory call . . . It wasn’t a lecturing-type call. He’s going to lecture me? Give me a break.”

Hypothetical GOP nominee breathes sigh of relief.

looking forward to his financial disclosures

god, this guy. just a quote machine.

“I have a huge staff — I have a big staff in Iowa, New Hampshire, all over,” Trump said. “I absolutely stay in. If for some reason I think it’s not going to happen, I’m not a masochist. You understand that, right? . . . I’m like a smart person. I went to the Wharton School of finance. I built a great company.”

he's like a smart person

“My life has not been losing, you understand that,” Trump said. “They used to say, ‘clown.’ I’m not a person that loses. I don’t lose.”

"There goes Donald Trump, that winning clown", that's what they used to say.

He's sounding a bit like Fredo in Godfather II there.

"I can handle things, I'm smart--not like everyone says--not dumb, smart, and I want respect. I went to the Wharton School of finance..."

feel like hill v. trump could be a 1984 style landslide

http://fusion.net/story/162656/we-made-a-chrome-extension-to-add-real-ridiculous-donald-trump-quotes-to-every-mention-of-his-name/

There is no head of the GOP. There is no GOP.

only Zul

otm

Like Gandalf, I have a huge staff

feel like hill v. trump could be a 1984 style landslide

yeah so wd Hil vs Jose Canseco, what is your point?

you guys really define 'easily amused'

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/07/trump-leads-gop-field-in-north-carolina.html

I won't consider myself amused until someone hits Trump in the groin w a football

You guys gotta install that extension.

Everyone should vote for Zoltan imo

http://www.businessinsider.com/futurist-presidential-candidate-zoltan-istvan-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-across-america-to-defeat-death-and-win-the-white-house-2015-7

Zoltan is one of my favorite Hungarian names (after Csuba)

The platform has three pieces:

• Funding: Get people to spend resources on overcoming biological aging and death.

• Culture: Spread a pro-science culture that organizes around increasing the quality of human life.

• Existential risk: Raise awareness that an asteroid could hit the planet, and recognize that artificial intelligence could have negative consequences.

doing my part

written by zoltan:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/mind-uploading-will-replace-god

But mind uploading is generally considered possible by experts. After all, humans are just material machines, striving to create other machines that mirror ourselves and desires.

LOL ok man

holy fuck that dude is a moron

People of the planet's major religions can't do this with their spirit worlds. They can only make leaps of faith, and elaborately describe it to you. One either agrees or disagrees with them. Amazingly, proof is not necessary to them.

In the coming digital world, we may be perfect, or very close to it. Expect a much more utopian society for whatever social structures end up existing in virtual reality and cyberspace. But also expect the real world to radically improve. Expect the drug user to have their addictions corrected or overcome. Expect the domestic abuser to have their violence and drive for power diminished. Expect the mentally depressed to become happy.

Wait what was he saying about proofs and leaps of faith?

expect...an asteroid to hit the planet

a perfect asteroid

yeah so wd Hil vs Jose Canseco, what is your point?

the point is to set up Trump vs. Canseco for 2020, please try to keep up

Expect the drug user to have their addictions corrected or overcome. Expect the domestic abuser to have their violence and drive for power diminished. Expect the mentally depressed to become happy.

one vast and ecumenical holding company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE5L3WVIGW8

Campaign video.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/07/ny-times-keeps-cruz-off-bestseller-list-210254.html

Murphy emailed late Thursday night to further clarify the reasoning behind the Times decision.

"In the case of this book, the overwhelming preponderance of evidence was that sales were limited to strategic bulk purchases," she wrote.

looooooooooooooool

XD

'were limited to' is interesting language - like, no-one else was buying it?

an unexpected instance of Hillary's leftward turn that I find believable and positive

Cruz's "A Time For Truth," published on June 30, sold 11,854 copies in its first week

A number of that sort implies someone purchased it at retail, not in bulk, but if let's say 10,000 of those sales were to a PAC or other political organizations as a means of promoting the Cruz candidacy, then the NYT would be justified in its decision, imo.

the precise strategy I've been advocating:

“I think she has no illusion that even if she didn’t say a word about guns, the NRA would be out there blasting her to say she had a conspiratorial plan to work with the U.N. to take everybody’s guns away, so why not go head-on on an issue that will improve safety,” Kaine said.

xp

the NRA blasting her, eh

Cruz's "A Time For Truth," published on June 30, sold 11,854 copies in its first week
A number of that sort implies someone purchased it at retail, not in bulk, but if let's say 10,000 of those sales were to a PAC or other political organizations as a means of promoting the Cruz candidacy, then the NYT would be justified in its decision, imo.

yeah this is like dianetics being on the best seller lists for forever because the sci ti's buy 1000000s of copies for themselves

http://gawker.com/barack-obama-uses-too-many-big-words-for-baby-man-jeb-b-1717196925

fancy conferences

for everyone who knows who the nominees will be next year

FUTURE THREAD: It's September 2008. Explain to me why I should vote for Hillary instead of Giuliani.

also, Walker is IN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdPJc1Xrogk

as a resident of Wisconsin, I hope this somehow ruins his political career for good

I remember November 2008 and my indecision about whether to vote for Giuliani or Hillary.