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

that a man with his name could have been taken seriously as a chief executive. It's Bush's point too.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/opinions/jindal-debate-donald-trump/index.html?sr=tw091515jindaltrump0535pgalphotostory

Trump is a madman who must be stopped

By Bobby Jindal

Wow. That's like Canibus-level trolling.

figure someone is paying jindal to dive on top of the hand grenade

haha he is the worst

President Trump today announced that the first season of "The Apprentice: White House Edition" will air on CBS this fall. Contestants, including Gary Busey, Ted Cruz and Kanye West, will vie for Cabinet positions. The announcement came as the newly renamed "Hair Force One" touched down in South Dakota for the unveiling of President Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. Meanwhile, first lady Melania had reason to celebrate as her White House-branded perfume, Trump, by Trump, hit Macy's shelves ...

Illustrating again the problem that what sounds horrifying to the GOP establishment sounds kind of awesome to everyone else.

Trump on Rushmore sounds super amazing and I am totally down to see this happen

And yet this is a moment of great opportunity for America. This is a time when we can make dramatic changes and turn our country around. Americans are ready for a politically incorrect conservative revolution. People want to resurrect the spirit of Reagan and Make America Great Again...I like the idea of a Donald Trump. I love the idea of an outsider who doesn't care about political correctness and who says things you're not supposed to...According to him, his plans will be "fabulous" and "something terrific."...Trump is a great entertainer...We do need to Make America Great Again. We do need to burn down Washington. We do need to eradicate political correctness....It's time we rally behind a serious candidate...vote for Trump.

i don't know, read between the lines, or even better just selected words on every other line, and it sounds like jindal admires him

Americans are ready for a politically incorrect conservative revolution.

it is almost charming to imagine he's convinced himself of this

Trump on Rushmore sounds super amazing and I am totally down to see this happen

i have no doubt in my mind that america is finally ready for a supervillain president

Mechanixon or gtfo

When Trump becomes the GOP nominee and starts getting those official CIA briefings, that's when it'll get really exciting.

Trump has 4.1 million Twitter followers, but he only follows 42 other Twitter accounts. They are exactly what you would think: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/following.

i would think they are porn stars

I clicked the link and I don't think you were proven wrong.

So brave of these people to rail against political correctness. If there is one thing that shows a strong character it is whining about the language other people use.

You would think the first line of the Constitution is the right to be an asshole and not get called out for it.

That's just life in the socialist abyss that is America.

The amazing thing to me is that in an election between Trump and Hillary, I'd guarantee that Donald Trump would get over 40% of the popular vote.

Nah

Not even close

Tomorrow should be something. Nine people going after one--or eight; Cruz will back off--without, it seems, the slightest clue how to go about doing it.

I also think Trump would get 40%+ against Hillary.

Dudes the latino vote alone is 20%

as i said to j0rdan last week, i don't think many Trump supporters know how to unlock and open their doors, let alone find the polling place.

one space left for a supervillain president!

http://seveninchesofyourtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rushmore.png

20%? It was 8% in 2004, 9% in 2008, 10% in 2012--has it really doubled?

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/07/latino-voters-in-the-2012-election/

Romney got 27% of it last time. I know Trump would do even worse, but if he were to drop another 10-15% and it's 12% of the total, would that be a huge difference in the overall vote?

Trump's going to get 0 of the latino vote.

in Iowa.

Sorry 20% of the population w a projected 60% turnout rate so yeah i was overestimating. Still if trump was the candidate i think that percentage would spike.

Add in asian/black vote and hardcore dem centrists in full panic mode plus gop people that hate trump and you're on yr way to a sizeable majority, way more than 60% imo.

I just dont find this trump panic entertaining or useful, its p stupid.

hence it fits in well with this bullshit circus that goes on for 2 FUCKING YEARS.

dr m serious question, one m to another, what do you get out of this exercise?

America, or the thread?

i think we should outsource our POTUS election to Canada. clemenza could become a network TV reporter.

(xpost) I don't think either of us is panicking by trying to guess what Trump would get in general; 40% would be a huge landslide. (Far from panicked, I want Trump to stay in as long as possible.) You might be right, I just think it'd be hard right now to draw less than 40% of the popular vote. Mondale was slightly above 40%, Goldwater and McGovern around 38%. I'm not sure that can happen anymore...Trump would put that to the test, for sure.

ilx politics threads generally

sidebar:
i teach HS government at a school that is 98% xicanx. trump is not a joke to them. there is a lot of fear and anger about the prospect that he could be president. i've been pretty steadily reassuring them that he has no shot at being president but that the real worry is that he'll rub off on the "legit" candidates.

oh i hate myself -- HATE MYSELF -- for not staying off here, dude. But I must remind some of you that Trump is not gonna be motherfucking nominated.

(As Ken Freedman said on WFMU when McCain lost, "We're a pretty stupid country, but we have limits." He was wrong, but it almost applies here.)

Guy who takes my temp and pressure at the chemo clinic was talking up DT to another nurse today. And he's a first-gen immigrant.

Article on Latinos for Trump - says his numbers are 20% of the Latino vote.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/who-the-hell-are-latinos-for-trump.html

RDP don't see him hitting under 40% (though polls are polls)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

Eric Trump has been vat-grown as vessel for the old man's brain, Y/Y?

https://twitter.com/EricTrump

(marriage to sister to follow shortly after)

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lex luthor once had his brain transplanted into a cloned body and pretended he was his own son (complete with shoulder-length red mane and abe lincoln-style beard), so yeah, it'd fit the supervillain-president narrative perfectly

psyched for the first showdown between mechanixon and donald trump's brain in eric trump's body wearing a green-and-purple battlesuit

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/16/1421659/-An-Evangelical-responds-to-Sanders-speech-at-Liberty-U?detail=facebook#

If this is the beginning of a trend, Hillary should be legitimately terrified. (I understand the magnitude of that "if" and I don't expect that this is a trend, but if it is... Sanders will walk to the Presidency if he can pull evangelicals out of the Republican camp.)

I thought it a cynical move at first, an attempt to steal headlines from Trump. But Ed Kilgore's take closely matches mne.

*mine

is it still an evangelical dogwhistle if they say "JEW" seventeen times

Those words echoed in my heart as I listened to that crazy, hoarse-voiced, wild-haired Jew standing in front of the religious leaders of the Evangelical Movement, calling us to account, as a Jew once did before, telling us that he intends to care for the least of these, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, to care for the sick, to set the prisoners free.

Jesus...

Sanders: That Crazy, Hoarse-Voiced, Wild-Haired Jew in 2016

are you being deliberately obtuse here