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

Voters still gonna think you're the Subway guy, Jareb.

http://prospect.org/article/no-cost-extremism

I think that the notion that all that needs to happen for a return to political / electoral sanity ("return") is ultimately fanciful: that the GOP merely needs to reveals its racist core and the people (those who matter, i.e. voters) will be automatically / magically repulsed, without any further effort from anyone else. That's not how political change comes about, of course, at least not in the US.

Or to put it another way, when a country is forged in racism and abets it for (more than) a century, it'll take more than 8 years to undo its effects.

I love something a friend posted yesterday:

Halperin: What’s you third favourite book?
Trump: Third favourite? [Brief pause.] Finnegans Wake. Just incredible that book. I love Joyce. She’s a terrific writer. I will be great for women, by the way.

ha!

Oh yes Rick Perry carries; I recall a story a while back about him going jogging with his gun and his dog (as one does) and shooting a coyote or possibly a bear or rattler or hobo that was threatening the dog (as one does).

Ah yes here we go

Perry said he carries his .380 Ruger -- loaded with hollow-point bullets -- when jogging on trails because he is afraid of snakes. But when a coyote came out of the brush toward his daughter's Labrador retriever....

'MURICA!

your gun enthusiasts would consider a .380 womanish, i think perry is trying to be self-effacing there

but the ambition required to assume you can bullseye a snake with a handgun (which sounds like a feat to someone who has never shot a gun before) makes up some of that ground imo

i was kidding (kind of)

wtf snakes don't attack you

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/WhackingDay.jpg

shooting snakes with hollow point bullets is some fucking overkill imo

how else can you pierce their tough snake armor?

I figured he was just pistol whipping snakes.

@RickSantorum
Every net new job created since 2000 for people between 18 and 65 is held by someone who wasn’t born in this country. This needs to change.

#thisneedstochange

I think judging by recent headlines you would need hollow points to murder an armadillo

A lonely East Texas highway at 3 a.m., a man with a gun, an armadillo.

What could go wrong?

Only a head wound -- to the gunman, KLTV reports.

The Cass County Sheriff said the motorist told deputies he was shooting at the armored little mammal in the wee hours Thursday on state Highway 77, near Marietta, south of Texarkana. A bullet ricocheted off the creature, striking him in the head.

hollow points are less effective against armor, duh. fuckin liberals

https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina/status/637318075617005568

o wow i had forgotten about "Assume deer dead"

i literally mean this: never 4get

that tweet is the most genius to come out of iowa since arthur russell, arguably meredith wilson

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385

I mean seriously

Maybe Bill Clinton sent Trump into action as a Trojan horse designed to sow turmoil in the opposition. It's as if Palin's id were given a billion dollars and a bad toupee.

Not really, because if Palin's id were given a billion dollars it would be too busy diving into it Scrooge McDuck-style to run for President

matt breunig found a live one:

https://twitter.com/DebndanfarrDeb/status/637337197495123968

i mean as long as we're wasting time on a friday

oh Deb

Deb!

I hate to ask, but is there also a Twitter account called "DebndanfarrDan?" Because it seems like they may be missing the point.

I started scrolling through Deb's timeline to see when her Trump obsession started.

Please, don't make the same mistake I did.

hmmmm she tweets a lot huh

Wait, did I see that Trump is being interviewed by Palin? Is this Pay Per View?

Maybe Bill Clinton sent Trump into action as a Trojan horse designed to sow turmoil in the opposition. It's as if Palin's id were given a billion dollars and a bad toupee.

― Aimless, Friday, August 28, 2015 2:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really, because if Palin's id were given a billion dollars it would be too busy diving into it Scrooge McDuck-style to run for President

― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, August 28, 2015 2:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

that just makes me wish scrooge mcduck were running for president

That wouldn't work he's a duck.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m261/disbister/Scrooge.jpg

LIke THAT duck would ever bother running for office.

http://cdn3-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/02/file_204287_1_MAD-Magazine-Worst-Cart628.jpg

From the folks at MAD Magazine.

Trump could really use some Jr. Woodchucks to keep him in line

He once declared himself king of his money bin. It did not go well:
http://neamar.fr/Res/DUCK/DUCK/His%20Majesty%20McDuck_cover.jpg

Those Beagle Boys. Or Los Beagles, as they're called where they're from.

Imagine entering a rally while "Ducktails" plays on the loudspeakers. That's probably what it's like to be inside Trump's head. ha!

that should be cheaper

is king scrooge wearing fur trim spats?

They got the "rewrite history" part down.

http://home4.swipnet.se/%7Ew-47991/DonRosa/pics/hmmcd.gif

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-28/clinton-camp-saying-it-already-secured-one-fifth-the-delegates-needed-for-nomination

fuckin superdelegates

took this link from a friend of a facebook friend who prefaced it with 'ok fine this is why i'm voting sanders and not clinton'

^deMOCKracy