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

yeah it's not like the left is known for sitting out off-year elections. that's a completely unfair generalization.

there is no fucking Left in America, shut up and vote for Bernie because pot.

i really don't understand voters who are self-styled experts on winning elec -- oh, sportsfans

btw Trump was 26 not 16 when Chinatown was released but no i don't think he inspired Noah Cross

I'm just wondering how many lefties you think there are in Kentucky... But if you mean that the Democratic Party's GOTV efforts seem to be pretty week during non-pres years it's hard to argue with that. Not that I think GOP efforts are necessarily better but their constituents seem more likely to vote naturally so...

The Kentucky House of Representatives is composed of 100 members. The Democrats hold the majority with 59 members. The Democratic Party in the House is led by the House Speaker Greg Stumbo, Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, Majority Caucus Chairman is Robert Damron, and Majority Whip is Tommy Thompson.[8]

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all LEFTIES clearly, that's why the KY House shuts down on Emma Goldman's birthday

Lol

Was gonna say, up until two months ago Kim Davis was an office-holding Kentucky Democrat, which would be a real strong of how much a part of "the Left" they are to anyone who has thought this through.

"the american left is not as left wing as in other countries" holy fuck what a trite observation to feel so smug about making repeatedly over + over + over

piss off bitch

Alfred stop putting irrelevant political news in the Neverending Presidential Auction thread

bye again

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The American left is plenty left-wing it's just super fucking small.

i don't have the passion to argue about this but i find this rhetoric of "there is such thing as The Left and it is very small in the US and really all the ppl who vote for left-wing US causes primarily in the Democratic party are actually centrist or even right-wingers and not really The Left" to be really fucking dumb

That's cool I don't think much of people who conflate the Left and the Democratic Party so we're even.

Alfred stop putting irrelevant political news in the Neverending Presidential Auction thread

b/c the prospect of Kentuckians losing insurance is irrelevant?

The governor elect has promised he won't touch existing policies, but, you know, Scott Walker.

poor kentucky. i hope the stakeholders in the existing health infrastructure can fight off the attack. but yeah, scott walker.

i don't have the passion to argue about this

lies

there's no fighting in here, this is the war room!

tbh it's probably smart to distinguish mainstream american liberalism from "the left."

imho all we gain from said conflation is the further marginalization and pretend-it-doesn't-exist-ing of the actual left, which is very very small if not super fucking small. will certainly not get bigger by everybody insisting it is only a fringe, only has ever been a fringe, and only can ever be a fringe. it is obviously fringier, indeed closer to nonexistent, in kentucky than other places, but so what? to suggest that what happened in kentucky is that the american left somehow failed to GOTV is very strange; to say that the kentucky democratic party and its candidates failed to GOTV seems totally reasonable and permits a conversation about specifics (tactics, structural disadvantages, etc.) which could actually be useful.

this is a separate point from "american liberals are not as 'left' as the mainstream 'left' parties in other countries" though. that would indeed be a trite observation to make in this company but i don't think that was the point anybody was making. i also agree that this should be on 2015 politics, not clown car.

we all belong in the clown car

we are all clown of cars

buzzfeed dug up a video of carson talking about the pyramids in 1998

it's not fun-crazy, just boring and insane, because he's boring and insane

“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Carson said. “Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”

i don't even understand what he's trying to say.

that's fairly fun-crazy but about as much as i need of it, probably.

But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it.
*stops and thinks about it* what is "it"? the pyramids? the amount of effort to build them? neither of which are disputed at all?

And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.

what?

don't the graves inside them provide pretty strong evidence for the grave theory

if he's actually running for president and stays in, he'll be this year's huckabee or santorum. he got my dad's vote a couple years ago when he connected taxes to tithing. my dad is a BIG tither. he's all about it.

he's dismissing the fun-crazy theory that the aliens built the pyramids

think he's referring to the grain related infrastructure which he assumes must have been significant enough to weather thousands of yrs of decay and thus must be the pyramids qed

so i guess the ancient Egyptians emptied the grain then put dead bodies in there

maybe the bodies are the people who built the pyramids and then had grain dumped on them while they were still inside

prob not advisable to eat grain that has dead dudes in it silly ancient peoples

appreciate his working in some nixonoid contempt for elites ("Now all the archeologists think...") for this pop-biblical loopiness

im just a simple brain surgeon, so i don't always see eye to eye with the big city archeologists, so let me tell u about the pyramids. you see,

Is he saying that the Ancient Hebrews built the pyramids to store their grain and then the Egyptians were like "That looks like a nice place to dump bodies"?

If you think about it it makes sense

i'm telling you, given the rates of worker injuries/deaths during the ancient era, it's likely the bodies are just the tragic remains of the workers who built the 3D Grain Triangles

It's kind of like when Al Capone built that vault to store his grain too bad it was eaten by cockroaches

didn't you hear, apparently they weren't even slaves

and ate meat

if you believe the archaeologists

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Hmmm, you all sure he was talking about "grains"?

so i guess the ancient Egyptians emptied the grain then put dead bodies in there

― INTOXICATING LIQUORS (art), Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:24 PM (17 minutes ago)

nah it was probably those highfalutin' archaeologists trying to trick us

Gawd, I hate the Internet. Have I mentioned that recently?

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Not having much luck finding Carson quotes about dinosaurs.

pls recall that the dinos never actually existed, their bones were simply hidden by satan in the proper geological strata all over the world

You know, if someone ever finds dinosaur bones inside a pyramid, I'm going to be the one needing brain surgery!

that's what i call the real pyramid scheme

pls recall that the dinos never actually existed, their bones were simply hidden by satan in the proper geological strata all over the world

― INTOXICATING LIQUORS (art)

how can I be sure you're not a scientist trying to fool me?