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

Now wait a minute. Take that Jeb! logo

http://i.imgur.com/3Gx8wyN.jpg

Let's flip it over...

http://i.imgur.com/s3wVY3w.jpg

rearrange the letters, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/RY0BfvW.jpg

iraq ... !

damn

gop campaigns come up with draft of joint demands for the next debate after their big whinefest at CNBC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-to-negotiate-directly-with-tv-networks-on-debate-formats/2015/11/02/5fdec85e-8191-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

trump just says nah fuck that at the last second

Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to work directly with television executives and take a lead role in negotiating the format and content of primary debates, which have become highly watched and crucial events in the 2016 race, according to Republicans familiar with their plans.

Trump plans to reject a joint letter to television network hosts regarding upcoming primary debates drafted Sunday at a private gathering of operatives from at least 11 presidential campaigns, the Republicans said.

The move by Trump, coming just hours after more than a dozen Republican strategists huddled in the Washington suburbs to craft a list of possible demands, effectively throttles an effort by the campaigns and the letter’s drafter, longtime GOP attorney Ben Ginsberg, to find consensus and work collectively to negotiate terms.

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/republicans-demands-upcoming-debates-51775

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/tumblr_m5kpgfzvCa1qa13pro1_500.jpg

http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/image/upload/c_fill,h_360,w_640/t_mp_quality/alternate-ending-for-star-wars-episode-iii-fb5cded5-07c0-4382-830a-b5a569bb5631-jpeg-292832.jpg

Help us, George P. Bushobi, you're our only hope. You fought with my father in the clone wars. Etc.

http://images.latinpost.com/data/images/full/3966/george-p-bush.jpg

yum

burn:

"They say, 'Obama's weak.' ... They say, 'When I talk to Putin, he's going to straighten out,'" Obama said.

"And then it turns out they can't handle a bunch of CNBC moderators," the president added. "If you can't handle those guys, then I don't think the Chinese and the Russians are going to be too worried about you."

http://media.giphy.com/media/nLqbQnaI6LoOs/giphy.gif

lol Christie said almost exactly the same thing, which means he's really doomed

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/in-speech-ben-carson-says-many-americans-are-stupid

We’d be Cuba if there were no Fox News.

he never had a chance because he kinda hugged obama once

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Zombie candidate, or zombie HUNTER?
http://www.amazon.com/Donald-Trump-Zombie-Jon-Davidson-ebook/dp/B01528UCVG

https://twitter.com/GovWalker/status/661607570587652096

damn, pie eating LARPer

lol @ wheat bread is for beta cuckservatives

rachel millman never stops going in, as they say

Jeb!fail

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-case-for-bernie-sanders-20151103

This seems pretty OTM

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-case-for-bernie-sanders-20151103

This seems pretty OTM
--a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten)

Last line made me tear up

basically a litany of complaints about media coverage and next to nothing about the mechanics of winning elections

just beneath the article

http://i.imgur.com/9yUgk22.png

Shakey it is possible that you may have missed the point

yes Noah Cross, inspired by 16yo Donald Trump

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Wait is that too long for a screenname? It would save a bunch of us a lot of time. Xpost

if the point was to complain about how the system our electoral system is hopelessly broken/corrupt/exclusively appealing to lowest common denominator etc. yeah welcome to electoral politics, which have always more or less been that way, this is not news and it doesn't really have anything to do with Bernie.

you are v strange

Shakey, you are like a walking facepalm

One way in which that article is not OTM is there is no way on earth that Ron Paul could ever be considered a palatable Presidential option to a majority of Americans

One way in which that article is not OTM is there is no way on earth that Ron Paul could ever be considered a palatable Presidential option to a majority of Americans
--I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP)

Taibbi has a soft spot for libertarianism that is disappointing

I'm glad Taibbi mentioned last weekend's bullshit NYT article on Sanders growling at babies so that we wouldn't have to.

I mean, do you want to growl at babies?

Fuck yes, it's awesome when they growl back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI34XzlRAyE

idk shakey otm here imo

if the point was to complain about how the system our electoral system is hopelessly broken/corrupt/exclusively appealing to lowest common denominator etc. yeah welcome to electoral politics, which have always more or less been that way, this is not news

Taibbi is just doing his job, which is somewhat different than reporting the news. He's supposed to provide commentary on the news. You commented on the electoral system in much the same terms he did. So, you seem to me to be in violent agreement with him.

Taibbi has a long road to walk between now and next November. I'm pretty sure he'll get around to writing about "the mechanics of winning elections" some time or other, along with a lot of stuff you'll consider borderline irrelevant or plain stupid. They can't all be miracles of insight and concision.

Matt Bevin beats Jack Conway in Kentucky.

well shit

Ugh that suuuuuucks

I don't live there

So I refuse to vomit all my happiness out because of it

Basically means the end of obamacare in a state that had been a big success story for it

a big success story

Only if you measure success in terms of greatly increased numbers of people acquiring insurance coverage & getting necessary medical care. But if you think Obamacare is a disaster by definition, then Obamacare's very success must be viewed as a monumental failure.

we lol about how dumb the gop candidates are but sadly they're no match to the people who vote for them

^^^ Ultimate American truthbomb, sadly.

And we're prisoners to the 20% of the population who is totally batshit because they actually vote :(

... does that make us the 20% on the other side?

it's hard to take the left seriously when they can't get their asses to the polls on off-years

"The left".