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

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I mean... a) it's still super early so on some level no one is a threat, including Clinton herself, and b) the Sanders campaign at this point is continuing to gain traction. It would be stupid of them to NOT consider him to be a threat considering he's the only other person in the Democratic field who is currently doing well.

/I raised an eyebrow when he absolved her of the emails/

This fits his self-image as a serious, issues-oriented candidate, who refuses to be sidetracked into trivialities. It also shows off his poorly developed instincts for winning a national campaign.
--Blind Lemon Extract (Aimless)

C'mon, he wouldn't have done that without thinking it through. It was calculated for whatever reason. I think he thinks it helps him, and he might just be right.

he is doing so well partly because he is not an actual threat.

that makes zero sense

In my experience, nobody wants to hear someone over the age of 70 talk about e-mail.

while coming out of the subway in park slope yesterday, i overheard two white girls of about fourteen engaged in the following conversation

"my mom likes him"
"he's so old though. and i think it's more important a woman is president"
"i know. and he is really old"
"i think he's probably good though"

so there you have it.

^ probably as good a representation as any of the current thinking of millions of young voters

probably as good a representation as any of the current thinking of millions of young voters Park Slope

and other enclaves and college towns, where lotsa organically sourced Dems vote

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/561fad1f1400006f003c850a.jpeg

breaking gossip: a friend of mine says that a relative of hers was in the secret service in the white house during the 2000s, and - get this - hillary clinton was MEAN! the same verified source says that the obamas were "really nice"

lol @ WePo editorial board warning Hillz not to veer too far to the left

WaPo

"i know. and he is really old"

Sanders is only two years older than Joe Biden btw.

say what you want about uncle joe but he carries his age well

really old + two years

biden is hella old. all these people are old.

not that there's anything wrong with that

I never hear anyone bringing up Biden's age or Kerry's age as a disqualifier like they do for Sanders though

Trump and GWB are both 69 lol

i think in terms of documented health issues biden might be in worse shape? so strange that this vaguely royalist "the body natural" shit has to be considered

God, Jeb doesn't want to do this.

is he doing it cuz Mom said he shouldn't?

btw i still think there's a 5% chance Sanders is working for Clinton.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:39 PM (5 hours ago)

also a 1 percent chance he was the grassy knoll shooter

i'm not nec speaking of an overt agreement, but his knowing the 'test' role he is playing.

breaking gossip: a friend of mine says that a relative of hers was in the secret service in the white house during the 2000s, and - get this - hillary clinton was MEAN! the same verified source says that the obamas were "really nice"
--1998 ball boy (Karl Malone)

Uncle Joe has quite the rep for being mean, rude, and arrogant. Who would've thunk it?

Trump is a nightmare from which Jeb! cannot awake.

Would be funny if Sanders dyed his hair bronze.

xp - Jeb! is Xhosa for sadness

Classic Hillary (except it's from 2010).

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Every speech I've seen of his sounded like a concession speech.

"Great speech, Gov!"

"Thanks. Say, you think we could take a short-cut through the kitchen?"

"What? It hasn't been cleared and the parking garage is right over –"

"Parking garage. You think we could put a rally at a parking lot on the calendar for next week?"

@JebBush
How pathetic for @realDonaldTrump to criticize the president for 9/11. We were attacked & my brother kept us safe.

jeb! can't even seem to pick a decent big lie

Trump should just start claiming that he kept us safe. And that no one took down one of his towers on his watch.

he kept US safe but not so much the people in the pentagon and the towers and the planes and the detention center
trump should run on the suggestion that it is the bush family's fault you have to take off your belt when you get on a plane

it's true neither Jeb nor his brother were harmed on 9/11

"My brother kept us safe. Now it's my turn, to keep his legacy safe, from big bully's like Donald Trump. And if you mention 9/11 again I'll tell my Dad."

"We were attacked & my brother kept us safe."

does he not get that he sounds like he's 11 years old here

like the GOP base

looooool clay

@ggreenwald
Second sentence: The first claim negates the second.
Also continues to be bizarre how the anthrax attack - depicted as a huge crisis at the time - has been disappeared

haha yeah no one ever mentions the anthrax stuff

(probably because it was an inside job)

yeah if you work in bio the anthrax stuff is mentioned all the time because it made things an incredible pain in the ass. like i know an undergrad that wanted to work on a bacteria that causes dental caries and just needed an attenuated form of this streptococcus and it was virtually impossible cuz the lab he worked in didn't have a high enough biosafety level and he didn't have high enough security clearance or whatever. and again this was for a nonpathogenic form of a bacteria that in its pathogenic form only causes cavities ie a bacteria you probably already have in yr mouth. obv this has had an impact on research and in turn an impact on medicine. now admittedly illness and death might not represent nearly as grave a concern as the ongoing threat to civil liberties that 'you will be inconvenienced at the airport' does but it would be nice if a journalist (this is what glenn greenwald is supposedly right?) would say instead of just continuously taking comfort in regurgitating their assumptions maybe every now and then show some curiosity and act on it. it's funny i was talking w/ a microbiologist the other day about the anthrax attacks and the lingering effects and arguing whether bioterror is even that effective a means of terrorism, that there's a degree of effort involved and materials needed and difficulty in releasing it that makes it an unfavorable option but he thought the general scientific ignorance in the larger population would make it esp effective (i mean this is a society where a significant % of the wealthy, educated demo is skeptical of vaccines). idk, i think it would probably play out like the tylenol scare squared, and the long term effects would be hidden and relegated to specific industries targeted (food, medicine, water), and the attack would eventually be forgotten because the american ppl can forget anything ie it would play out like a grander version of the anthrax attacks only w/o the benefit of occurring in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. whereas something like some suicide bombers on black friday and then a couple of times afterward during the xmas shopping season would be incredibly easy to pull off and repeat and would have a much larger effect on the economy, society, and any lasting preventative measures would be visible and annoying ergo the type of civil liberties violations that gets yr greenwalds and becks hot and bothered.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRcvYzPXAAEw8ec.jpg

That's what my money's doing but I'm not starting with as much, check w me in 40 years.

i don't understand how his finger-paintings are so fucking valuable

anything written by Wayne Barrett over the years on der Donald is... instructive.

that balls post is kinda fascinating