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

(granted she wasn't running for a judgeship)

He's right, you know.

lol

He’s even succeed wildly in the private sector as a businessman — something Republicans can’t help but praise.

haha waht

(I would totally vote for Gore btw, now that the PMRC doesn't matter anymore)

Yeah, that's positively shaken there.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html

The Republican one looks very amusing though.

what the hell has Hillary been spending $19 million on over the past 3 months

paying graphic designers to mask her logo onto different things

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/drunkhilz3.jpg

is it wrong of me to wonder what that guy behind her is doing, exactly

lol

actually I think this 2008 pic is endearing

i think Hil is groping for that glass ceiling

i think she's just feelin good abt a new scarf, who wouldn't

i would vote Hil in the primary if she made a commitment to spend the entire presidency totally blitzed, seems much more likable that way. dunno if i could have a beer with her but throwing back shots, sure

I love the near-nonsensical contradictory claptrap here:

The next president, he said, “needs to fix local and state laws” to address such issues “if we’re going to grow our economy at a far faster rate.”

In preparation for his visit to the company, Bush posted his first entry on LinkedIn, praising the firm as one that is helping to create “a new marketplace,” while also causing “mental dissonance for people who think they can plan the future of the economy from Washington, D.C. — people like Hillary Clinton.

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/37/56/65/8318279/15/920x920.jpg

put Jeb in a Uber car and send him into the Atlantic

would be cool if the next president would start solving local municipal issues by fiat. it could be a little segment every morning, with jeb pulling a random municipal referendum from a bingo cage and making his pronouncement. on monday, waukegan is considering a bond issue for new energy standards in the schools. on tuesday, north haverbrook has to decide whether to extend the monorail. today: a statewide raise for south dakota's dog catchers? tune in and find out! J. E. Bush is... The Decider.

lol

isnt the whole uber business model based on flouting any and all regulation and making money hand over fist because of it?

mostly

oh wait, was jeb praising uber? i thought from the quoted snippet that he was buzzing about LinkedIn, which is maybe even more lame and pathetic

he was riding in an uber, to get to a meeting at Thumbtack, after which he made his first post on Linkedin

er before which

before he hooked up with a dude thru Grindr

which will be written about tomorrow on Gawker

Jeb Bush walked out of the offices of a tech firm here Thursday surrounded by a crush of TV cameras and reporters, handed his iPhone 6 to the young aide who travels with him, Raul Henriquez, and asked him to call an Uber.

“You wanna turn this on and get our next car before it’s illegal?” Bush said to Henriquez, a wry smirk on his face.

keep it in your pants, Romeo

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/huckabee-us-military-should-be-able-to-defeat-isis-iran-al-q?utm_term=4ldqpia&bftw=pol#.bheJ0DwBXx

Huckabee said the ultimate solution is for America’s military to be the strongest “in the history of mankind” with the ability to defeat threats like “ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranians, whatever it is” in “a 10-day exercise.”

“And here is what we have to do: America has to have the most formidable, fierce, military in the history of mankind,” stated Huckabee.

“So when we have a threat, whether it is ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranians, whatever it is, we make it very clear that we plan to push back and destroy that threat to us. And we won’t take 10 years doing it, we hopefully won’t even take 10 months, it will be like a 10 day exercise, because the fierceness of our forces would mean that we can absolutely guarantee the outcome of this film. That’s how America needs to operate in the world of foreign affairs, and foreign policy.”

also, americans should get free pizza every day in the lunchroom. we just should. that's how america needs to operate.

would love to know where hucks thinks the US military currently ranks among all militaries in the history of mankind.

like, who's beating us exactly? "now, sweden during the thirty years war, there was a military that could have shown ISIS who's boss!"

Well, back when US used nuclear bombs, now THAT was a military that new how to win wars!

give the people what they want

(a Transformers movie)

I saw a car on the Bayshore Freeway in SF sporting a Ben Carson bumper sticker. As I predicted in passing the driver looked to be about 100 years old.

Hey Huck we do have the most insane military on the planet, and its not enough. I suppose once we gut the EPA, Dept of Education, foreign aid, welfare, social security and medicare like he and his overlords want, we could afford it

I believe our military should consist of sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.

was just reading about how the Chinese used to strap explosives to monkeys and hurl them at British ships during the opium wars, we should bring that back

we can absolutely guarantee the outcome of this film

At least he's admitting he thinks life is an 80s action movie (with Ted Nugent on the soundtrack).

America: The Movie based on an idea by Ronald Reagan

At least he's admitting he thinks life is an 80s action movie (with Ted Nugent on the soundtrack)

don't forget the *bass solo*

And a Mick Jagger solo trqck

pretty sure this is the movie

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

guys I think JE's found his campaign slogan:

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/37/57/61/8322157/4/920x1240.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/17/jeb-bush-wants-to-be-the-uber-candidate-heres-the-problem-with-that/

Aaaaaaaaand Trump is done

Officially?

I get a story about him going after McCain, but nothing about dropping out.

Probably wrong about this, but I still don't think he's running, although maybe stick it out for some debate action? I always envision him saying something controversial enough at the right time where he could bow out....again, prob wrong. My mom just said she hopes El Chapo gets off a good, clean shot at him--which is why she is the best.

No not officially

Xp

The McCain thing is completely inexplicable to me. Even knowing that he'll say anything at anytime, his pronouncements do serve a purpose for the fringe part of his party that loves him. Same old story. But didn't it occur to him that even a good part of the converted he's preaching to will turn on him over this? (Not everyone, mind you--clearly there was part of the party who hated McCain in 2008.) There couldn't have possibly been any calculation here; I just don't see what he gains by this, other than the certainty he won't be in the debates and maybe (who knows) a quick exit.

I clicked on the trending story facebook link and saw the Rush Limbaugh thread as I scrolled down, so I clicked it out of morbid curiosity, and the comments I read are 100% pro-Trump, with some pretty nasty anti-McCain stuff. He does have his fans.