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

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that is in fact who she is

sorry. those may be facts, but they do not constitute a whole.

Aimless, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:14 (ten years ago)

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― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Monday, October 5, 2015 9:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hillary clinton church
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it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:17 (ten years ago)

but what if people vote on the issues, what then

― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Monday, October 5, 2015 9:09 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean what if kansas will be healed?

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:20 (ten years ago)

who lived for nearly two decades in appalachia?

I can't tell, are you talking about DC?

http://i.imgur.com/z3KnYCE.gif

pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:25 (ten years ago)

not buying mississippi tho

mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:28 (ten years ago)

Well neither is Ole Miss apparently.

Those two counties in Tennessee look nothing at all like a penis together, btw. Why would you even bring this up benn?

pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:37 (ten years ago)

It is inconceivable to me that any of the current Republicans left will get the nomination, even the most boring/most likely candidate. But of course one of them has to make it through. Who's it going to be? I have no idea. Most of them vs. Clinton or even Sanders ... I don't even know what that would look like.

Anyway, what's going on in Republican land, since one of these morons has to make it?

Also, my wife pointed out that we are still so far out we haven't even hit the point at which Obama entered the race. So, are there any other potential Dems out there besides the usual suspects (like Biden or Gore)? I suppose there's still a minimal chance that Warren could do it - shit happens - but are there any other potentials waiting in the wings? Can't think of many (any?) with any real national exposure, but I'll be the first to admit I haven't thought about this much at all.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:17 (ten years ago)

Reagan.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)

Gabbneb benbbag must have confused the Ozarks for the Appalachians. It could happen to anyone not familiar with US geography.

Aimless, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:27 (ten years ago)

At this point I'm not even sure what pull hologram Reagan would have.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:30 (ten years ago)

http://www.worldsworsttourist.com/holograms/Reagan1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:30 (ten years ago)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e9/90/56/e990561b5c6dbe812976f4cb782b8351.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:31 (ten years ago)

I know on a gabbneb thread it's easy pretend that everything is silliness, but in fact Obama had declared his candidacy quite a long time before October of 2007.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:35 (ten years ago)

Yeah, my bad. I'm pretty tired. It was Feb. 2007, which for some reason ... yeah, never mind.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:50 (ten years ago)

February is the October of the fiscal year that starts on December 1 and there's no July

pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:52 (ten years ago)

or something

pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:52 (ten years ago)

"I can't tell, are you talking about DC?"

no. i'm not. nor was i using a geographic term.

http://www.colinwoodard.com/files/ColinWoodard_AmericanNations_map.pdf

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:53 (ten years ago)

oh of course

usic ally (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 02:55 (ten years ago)

if only you'd said "Greater Appalachia, you know, just east of Tidelands and south of Midlands", we all would have nodded our heads knowingly...

Aimless, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:00 (ten years ago)

Bill Clinton declared in October 1991, but that may as well have been back during the times candidates sat on their front porches and shot the shit.

pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:01 (ten years ago)

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a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:01 (ten years ago)

yes, it's much easier for you not to confront the reality that you were wrong. it's not like i've previously referenced the book that produced that map - the book that comes closest to defining the frame i apply to the nation as a whole - at least once explicitly and many many times implicitly, including in reference to german-american identity/culture, throughout my posting in this thread or anything.

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:02 (ten years ago)

not that the description is purely cultural, of course...

"These rocks closely match deformed strata found today in the Marathon Mountains of Texas and the southern Appalachians—strong evidence that the Ouachita-Ozark Highlands were once part of a mighty folded, uplifted mountain range that stretched from the Appalachians Highlands to the northeast through Texas to the southwest.

...

By 200 million years ago (Jurassic), Pangea was breaking up in a big way. South America tore away from North America and headed southward. The ocean flooded into the opening between the two continents, forming the Gulf of Mexico. A record of this rifting event remains as an indelible mark on the landscape called Mississippi Embayment. It is this embayment that ripped the dramatic gap between the southern Appalachians and the Ouachita-Ozark Highlands."

http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/province/inthigh.html

but i won't wallowa on such fossil beds

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:03 (ten years ago)

Dude, when someone says "lived in Appalachia," the first reaction of anyone is going to be the geographical area recognized by that name, not some weird map.

Was she a senator from New Netherland or Yankeedom?

pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:06 (ten years ago)

interesting that pew got posted upthread. here's another excellent frame from them.

http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/the-political-typology-beyond-red-vs-blue/

compare and contrast within that frame: hillary clinton and bernie sanders (and jeb bush and donald trump)

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:08 (ten years ago)

he's just amusingly backpedaling, hoping we'll all be impressed by the fluidity and grace of his retrograde motility

Aimless, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:10 (ten years ago)

Dude, "appalachia" is well-recognized to be a cultural descriptor and appalachian culture is well-recognized to be relatively descriptive of ozarkiana.

"Was she a senator from New Netherland or Yankeedom?"

Both, of course, though more popular in the former. She grew up in the Yankee Northern suburbs of a Midlands border city. And Little Rock looks like it's at the edge of the Deep South.

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:11 (ten years ago)

Actually I'm pedaling forward at a high rate of speed, faster than anything in my path

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:12 (ten years ago)

Going off a cliff will do that to a bicyclist.

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:19 (ten years ago)

btw, I took the pew typology quiz in benbbag's link and, typically for me, was quite irritated by the phrasing of most of the choices, which frequently used loaded words and were hopelessly stripped of any kind of nuance. the result, predictably, placed me as a solid liberal, which is fair enough stereotyping in my case, but the quiz itself accurately reflects the poverty and oversimplification of political discourse in the USA and left me quite dissatisfied.

Aimless, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:24 (ten years ago)

Dude, "appalachia" is well-recognized to be a cultural descriptor and appalachian culture is well-recognized to be relatively descriptive of ozarkiana.

huh? no, appalachia is the region of the country in or near the appalachian mountain range. i know lots of people from tennessee, kentucky, and arkansas and i'm fairly certain 99% of them would agree w/ me on this.

the word you may be looking for is "hillbilly."

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:16 (ten years ago)

i mean "new yorker" obviously has some cultural connotations but you wouldn't say that a guy from pennsylvania was a "new yorker" because he liked pizza and the yankees.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:17 (ten years ago)

but yeah somebody wrong on internet, not important obv

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:17 (ten years ago)

Just imagining HRC backpacking through appalachia and lol no, i don't think so, lol

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:25 (ten years ago)

Maybe decades ago when every cell in her body was different and she was literally a different person.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:26 (ten years ago)

Wait is Arkansas in the appalachians? This is the first I've heard of that. Alabama is the furthest west for that my friend.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:29 (ten years ago)

i mean "new yorker" obviously has some cultural connotations but you wouldn't say that a guy from pennsylvania was a "new yorker" because he liked pizza and the yankees.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ffs "new yorker" refers to people who live in states where york peppermint patties only became available in 1945 or later. i linked this upthread but apparently you imbeciles can't read. hillary is doing very well among these voters btw.

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:31 (ten years ago)

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/images/9780252073359.jpg

hunangarage, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:35 (ten years ago)

not that it matters but amateurist otm, vote no Appalachians west of the river imo

all my friends are vampires (art), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:36 (ten years ago)

if it's any help that colin woodard book is pretty good and beanbag's grasp of it is about as strong as you'd expect

balls, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:42 (ten years ago)

if it's any help that colin woodard book is pretty good and beanbag's grasp of it is about as strong as you'd expect

― balls, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:42 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell of a lot stronger than the ahistorical ballshit you've posted all over this thread

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:46 (ten years ago)

oh sorry "counterfactual"

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:49 (ten years ago)

"btw, I took the pew typology quiz in benbbag's link and, typically for me, was quite irritated by the phrasing of most of the choices, which frequently used loaded words and were hopelessly stripped of any kind of nuance. the result, predictably, placed me as a solid liberal, which is fair enough stereotyping in my case, but the quiz itself accurately reflects the poverty and oversimplification of political discourse in the USA and left me quite dissatisfied."

agreed. i find the quiz (which i'm not sure isn't a short form) untakeable, but they've been doing this for 30 years - i read the contemporaneous version in the mid-80s - and if it's an impoverished political culture, the typology fits.

the vast majority of us here, myself included, are "solid liberals", my obvious implication being that that may not be enough to win a democratic primary let alone a national election

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:52 (ten years ago)

huh? no, appalachia is the region of the country in or near the appalachian mountain range. i know lots of people from tennessee, kentucky, and arkansas and i'm fairly certain 99% of them would agree w/ me on this.

the word you may be looking for is "hillbilly."

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:16 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we aren't talking about music. i could post two dozen links but i'm not going to waste more time than i am already.

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:53 (ten years ago)

(let's all pretend that the link doesn't include the word "greater" or put minnesota and maine, e.g., in the same category)

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:55 (ten years ago)

Going off a cliff will do that to a bicyclist.

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, October 5, 2015 11:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zings beat thinking

it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:56 (ten years ago)

could you hurry up and do another weird public sex thing or whatever to get yrself banned again?

balls, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 05:07 (ten years ago)

whatever it was you did last time, i can't remember i just know it was something creepy as fuck, some dark weird shit, just go ahead and cut to the chase and do that again already and then you can get yrself banned and climax or whatever and we can be rid of you until the cycle begins again and you come in to twist yr nads and feel like daddy's big boy or whatever cuz you read some barnes and noble pop history

balls, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 05:10 (ten years ago)

if we fused the two of you into a new poster, would it be "ballbag?" or "benballs"?

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 05:12 (ten years ago)

ballbo baggins

balls, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 05:14 (ten years ago)


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