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

"a dynamic public speaker

By "dynamic" he presumably meant "thirsty."

I loved when Trump literally made Rubio sweat during the debate

I didn't really want to think this hard about Rubio's fluid input/output.

http://www.theonion.com/article/voters-look-horror-3-new-republican-candidates-app-51366

hillary waits until moment pope's plane touches down in U.S., then announces her weird sort of for it sort of against it opposition to keystone xl.

she is a courageous leader

I think we should petition Webster to replace the definition of "chagrin" with a photocollage of Jeb campaign shots

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-multicultural-iowa

“We should not have a multicultural society,” Bush said. “When you create pockets of isolation, and in some cases, the assimilation process has been retarded, it’s wrong. It limits people’s aspirations.”

re: Keystone

I've been thinking about this and sort of fantasizing about Obama leaving it to the last minute of his presidency to kill it. Is that feasible? cuz it would be p sneaky.

what is bush even saying there? join the white american monoculture or leave?

Thought the Frank Rich piece was excellent. His fictional precedents for Trump, especially The Magic Christian (which I'm sorry to say I've neither read nor seen), are perfect.

trump and roy cohn:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/trump-s-mobbed-up-mccarthyite-mentor.html

The Magic Christian (which I'm sorry to say I've neither read nor seen)

good things in both, tho neither are great. the "getting people to dive in a pool of shit for money" is def inspired tho

wow, is jeb! ever bad at this. like figure out if you're going to be the sensible, 'compassionate' candidate or not. this was supposed to be the year the GOP were going to really work on their appeal to minority voters, wasn't it?

nice chairs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPiW6jgWwAEkyWT.png

nice manspreading

we have a pocket of isolation in Iowa, it's called Sioux City

i would settle for any number of culture(s) in America, on a day when ppl are hailing the 20th anniversary of Showgirls

When did Trump say that?

"I think it is imperative that we look at Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is, a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change," Clinton said. "And unfortunately, from my perspective, one that interferes with our ability to move forward to deal with the other issues. Therefore I oppose it. I oppose it."

works for me

should provoke some paroxysms from the clown car

^it's where her base is, and it took her this long to say it

Chomsky otm

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/22/noam_chomsky_on_trump_we_should

i would settle for any number of culture(s) in America, on a day when ppl are hailing the 20th anniversary of Showgirls

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 22, 2015 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most people celebrating Showgirls' 20th are doing it in a tongue in cheek way.

It's a great movie.

Let's discuss this some more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/23/on-twitter-bernie-sanderss-supporters-are-becoming-one-of-his-biggest-problems/?tid=sm_tw

The friend of my friend is my enemy?

Sorta related, but yesterday jacobinmag posted Chomsky talking the posibilities of making movements today without mentioning #BlackLivesMatters even once. The biggest and most important movement in the US today, should be a case/study in what can and cannot work today, and not a single word. It's really quite remarkable.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-greece-tsipras-grexit-austerity-neoliberalism-protest/

A lot of white people hate even the implication that they should have been doing more for social equality, Sanders supporters included. Maybe Sanders.

Wish I could find it now but I just read a really good article about that, about the resentment of even having to have the conversation.

white people are the guy who keeps telling you what a great friend he is when he's not a very good friend but you have to invite him to things anyway

Hey, we bring beer! And cigarettes! And snacks high in sugar, fat and sodium. And gentrification. And sometimes smallpox, but that's just Andy; he's weird like that.

some of you may have questions regarding donald trump's opinions on climate change. luckily, in his interview with Hugh Hewitt the other day he cleared things up:

Well, first of all, I’m not a believer in global warming. And I’m not a believer in man-made global warming. It could be warming, and it’s going to start to cool at some point. And you know, in the early, in the 1920s, people talked about global cooling. I don’t know if you know that or not. They thought the Earth was cooling. Now, it’s global warming. And actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out, so they changed it to extreme weather, and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill. But the problem we have, and if you look at our energy costs, and all of the things that we’re doing to solve a problem that I don’t think in any major fashion exists. I mean, Obama thinks it’s the number one problem of the world today. And I think it’s very low on the list. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again. And it changes depending on years and centuries, but I am not a believer, and we have much bigger problems.

You know, I talk about global warming. You know, to me, the worst global warming, and I mentioned this to you once before, is nuclear warming. That’s our global warming. That’s what I see, because we have incompetent people, and we have these rogue nations, and not even rogue nations anymore. You know, we had a case where Vladimir Putin about three months ago threw out the nuke word. And I never thought I’d hear that from a Russia. But he said they’d better, essentially, they’d better be careful, because you know, we are a nuclear nation. That was a hell of a statement for him to make. And that’s a statement that’s made because of a lack of respect.

I too believe there's weather

look there's some now!

he's like a smart person

You know, I talk about global warming. You know, to me, the worst global warming, and I mentioned this to you once before, is nuclear warming.

worst political mix tape transition ever

He does have a point we should find the country that has previously used nuclear bombs on the world stage and get them to completely disarm before they do any more harm.

Before the coming of the nuclear summer.

You can't hug your children with nuclear warming.

a Russia

it's hard keeping track of all the Russias

they're like the weather you know

I get a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.

hahahahaaaaaa

http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Marco-Rubio-s-Yom-Kippur-fundraiser-held-at-Nazi-6524117.php

pretty clumsy (surprise) on Debbie's part but Crow seems like a total loon so it's a wash

Tickets to Rubio's event cost between $1,000 and $10,800, the Morning News reported.

i mean virtually everyone's guilty of that but fuck the fact that there's a signed copy of mein kampf on the premises, i'm more offended that yahoos pay 10 grand to see this schmuck live

pretty clumsy (surprise) on Debbie's part but Crow seems like a total loon so it's a wash

For a second I thought I was in the wrong thread, because I saw "Crow" and "Debbie" and all I could think of was

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

i'm more offended that yahoos pay 10 grand to see this schmuck live

dude have you seen this guy drink a glass of water, shit is off the chain

most people celebrating Showgirls' 20th are doing it in a tongue in cheek way.

It's a great movie.

contradictory thoughts, and yet possibly both false

thread has gotten particularly stupid in the last 24 hrs

prepare for it to get stupider

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/483319727343665152

xps to nazi accident - this was particularly confusing/alarming because there's a free museum in dallas dedicated to Asian art and which is attributed to the crow family. apparently Harlan crow is the son of trammel crow, the dude who endowed the art museum. glad to know that i have been enjoying the art collected by a nazi fetishist's FATHER and not a nazi fetishist himself