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

!!!!!

I thought Cruz was going to say he was the son of god.

i've had a lot of elections

There are pills that help with that.

Where is this God I was promised!?

God, this sucks.

Dear God, why does this suck so much?

Fuck all this so much.

What about ... the veterans?

John Kasich's father

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/23053/mpaa_23053.jpg

Ted Cruz's father

http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nightofthehunter2.jpg

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1350723/images/o-IN-GOD-WE-TRUST-facebook.jpg

What about the veterans?

Let God sort 'em out

I keep waiting for someone to stick their neck out by saying something reasonable

are they talking about their dads so much because Trump's dad was rich

These guys are all pro dad.

Rand has been to Chicago.

I would admire Trump a little if he talked about how awesome his dad was because he was so rich

hahahahhahahahah Ted Cruz

Cruz is a loooooon.

Cruz is gonna go after Boss Jim Gettys

I thought he was going to say he wanted to move the US capitol to Jerusalem.

ewwww his laugh

I bet Cruz or Huckabee has separated a Siamese twin or two.

Yeah, laugh now, chumps.

I bet Mitt wishes he was in this.

Legendary Debate Star Ted Cruz accidentally says he wants to persecute religious liberty

Really, though, how many of these debates are th eyy... oh wait, Trump!

Trump in it to win it.

Trump is basically https://thescript.thetake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/glengarry_glen_ross.jpg

Mom, is Pop president yet?

This debate sets a bad president.

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/santorum.gif

can't stop watching this even though it's just making me more and more tense

You need some relief.

i'm assuming everyone passed out long ago

good lord, this night

lol, remember the god question when everyone had to demonstrate the degree to which they loved the lord?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLxx94RUkAA7Ftu.png:large

I've been watching clips on CNN--looked pretty wild. What does the chart above mean, time speaking? What does the color code mean?

oh, forgot the image wouldn't include the text from the tweet, sorry. it says:

Every time candidates spoke in the #GOPDebate (darker sections were longer than 60 seconds) http://nyti.ms/1W4PpRg

kind of interesting because the two candidates who spoke the least were also the ones who were too polite to go over. also, antichrist huckabee wasn't actually given that many opportunities to speak, he just went run-on sentence style nearly every time he was given the opportunity to do so, fox news style.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/trump-vs-the-republican-party-now-its-war.html

It is hard to say whether his bombastic persona won or lost him support among Republicans. Trump’s self-presentation appears to be obvious parody, indistinguishable from a comedian lampooning him. He makes goofy faces and body gestures. He does not act like a regular politician, or a politician who is trying to come off as authentic, or a strongman, or even the goofballs who are running for jobs as talk-show hosts in the guise of a campaign. He’s just a weird asshole who seems to have wandered onto the stage with little preparation.

that is an accurate description

(xpost) Doing the same kind of comparison, red to peach. Just guessing: Trump tried, after a fashion, and as much as he's capable of doing, to rein himself in. He spoke the most, but had fewer 60-second segments that most everyone else.

On the other hand, that answer about women...

Read the Jonathan Chait link. Maybe he didn't rein himself in after all.

many weird moments where this felt like Wrestlemania. the total set-up gotcha thing fox did with trump at the beginning, deliberately phrasing the question in an awkward way which would result in only trump raising his hand (more iconic than 9 raised hands and having to search for his absence). the insertion of the crowd as an element, cheering and jeering at the archetypes. trump as THE villain archetype. i don't remember the exact quote, but there was a moment when rand paul broke the 4th wall by saying something about how everything was turning into a reality show contest. and then a few minutes ago i saw these pictures from earlier today:

http://i.imgur.com/FCYq3DT.png
http://i.imgur.com/lIqdM3e.png

which i get, but the timing is just super weird and i'm having a PKD moment

PKD is a good lens to view this election through

where in Trump do we have to punch holes in order to make ducks fly through the room?

didn't watch, but this Trump thing is great:

Because of his donations, he said, "when I need something they are there for me." He added "most of the people on this stage I have given to," which the other candidates leapt to deny.

i read Trump was the only candidate to denounce the Iraq war.

Paul did too, albeit obliquely.

Paul was the only one to remind people that there's this thing called the Bill of Rights too.