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

there's no racist but new deal friendly equivalent

RIP southern Democrats

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The CEO of United Airlines resigned today, along with two other executives, because of the Bridgegate scandal. This thing is gonna wind up fucking Christie really hard, I think. Not just in the sense of dooming his campaign (which is already dead, it just hasn't quite stopped twitching yet), but in the my-governor-might-go-to-jail sense.

governors going to jail is always a fun ride

definitely

lol jeb! looks so bad on colbert

wow, colbert just yelled jeb! a few times (three times!) and then jeb(!) yelled it too!

(edit: 4 times!)

lol shakey you left out the best part of that trump letter

Richard M. Nixon
‏@dick_nixon

They are doing this to fuck us.

richard nixon tweets now??! this shit goes even deeper than i thought..

who would win: Trump v. Sanders?

trump :-/

who would win: Trump or superintelligent AI with advanced nanotech capabilities?

who would win: Trump vs Spiderman?

Trump or rump?

Trump or Grump?

Trump or Lump?

Trump lingered last in the line for brains, and the one he got was kind of rotten and insane

Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot

lol at the headline. but also lol at the story, which is that cruz got the sads because he didn't get to be in the Bigot of the Year photo op

hahahaha

so wish there was a photo of this

oh, but there is

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/641325502289059841/photo/1

Chris Geidner
‏@chrisgeidner
A very sad Ted Cruz, not on stage.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COZx7y_WgAETgyD.png

no I mean of him being blocked by Chuckles' manservant

http://www.towleroad.com/2015/09/rachel-maddow-explains-how-mike-huckabee-beat-ted-cruz-in-exploiting-kim-davis-video/

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These might genuinely be the most pathetic people on earth. Oops, there I go persecuting them again.

haha yes

xp

the saddest photobomber

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Guy in the middle to be played by Hank Azaria in the inevitable HBO movie.

https://twitter.com/MADmagazine/status/641658002437615617/photo/1

let's try that again

http://media.dcentertainment.com/sites/default/files/imce/2015/09-SEP/MAD-Magazine-Kim-Davis_55f063e29d3bb2.80516764.jpg

is that her husband dressed up like a irl foghorn leghorn

That's relatively toothless parody but refreshingly progressive given that it's from MAD.

Clinton is on "Ellen" tomorrow, basking in her celeb-worshipping mom base

tbf you've described every person who's ever appeared on Ellen

http://mcafee16.com/

Well well well...of course they're coming clean now. Mission Accomplished, Dean Baquet < Carlos Slim < ?
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/has-the-times-dismissed-bernie-sanders/?comments#permid=16037625:16038714

What kind of elitist bastard buckles both of his overall straps? What is the Queen of England coming for dinner or something?

Michael Stipe swearing (on Mike Mills' Twitter) about Donald Trump using one of their songs is one of those Madlib stories that comes around with different names every few years, but I do like that the song Trump was walking out to was "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

@DennisThePerrin Sep 4
We miss you, Dean Martin. You'd be the perfect moderator for the #GOP debates.

feel the bern!

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/09/10/quinnipiac-poll-bernie-sanders-thunders-into--lead--iowa/71992926/

bernie vs. the donald in the general would be epic

so not gonna happen

Younger caucusgoers are choosing Sanders in a landslide – 66 percent of those ages 18 to 34 pick him, versus 19 percent who choose Clinton.

how does all this compare with howard dean in 2004? of course, dean was among a larger field of democratic candidates.

yeah, as I mentioned somewhere above, Hillary's trying to shut out the field has driven all the Not Hillary voters into Bernie's arms.

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Donald Trump really appreciates his daughter Ivanka's good looks – probably a little too much.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Trump delivered a more-than-vaguely-sexual response when the magazine's reporter praised Ivanka Trump, a prominent businesswoman in her own right.

"Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father ..." he said.

It's hardly the first time Trump, the Republican Party's 2016 frontrunner, has gone a shade too far complimenting his daughter.

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her," Trump cracked in a now-infamous 2006 interview with "The View."

Three years earlier, the billionaire real estate mogul described Ivanka as "6 feet tall" with "the best body" during an appearance on Howard Stern's shock jock radio show.

Trump also used the occasion of the Rolling Stone interview to take shots at fellow GOP candidate Carly Fiorina's appearance, reportedly saying "Look at that face!"

lol ivanka is pretty hot

biden apparently sounded like he's not running on colbert tonight

well, yeah, it was always long odds he'd jump in. he had his flings at running for president a while ago and never got any traction.

Carson still the only other candidate climbing, everyone else seems to be level or in free fall (how are there still 17 of them?) - has anyone other written anything about him other than that Digby piece last week?