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

Connecticut you mean.

I am deeply and genuinely interested in the process involved in fucking up that map. It makes no sense if it was intentional but I have no idea how it could've possibly been accidental.

Intentional sabotage by an insider?

Or as I'm starting to suspect, Carson's entire campaign is a prank that he keeps making more and more outrageous because he can't believe people are falling for it.

xpost sorry connecticut!

i wonder how carson is polling Armpitticut

That's what the northeast looks like now AFTER BEN STABBED IT IN THE BELT

How do you even generate a map like that? It's like a staffer who had never been to New England failed one of those "put the states in the right places" Facebook quizzes and screenshot it because they couldn't think of another way to find a map of the US.

if ben carson freehand drew that, I would be very very impressed but still ask why he didn't just GIS, cut, paste

that map is hilarious. also i personally wouldn't actually be able to draw New England without a map for reference.

hey if any of you geniuses know a better way to present information on a U.S. map other than individually creating each state border from scratch and then meticulously arranging 50 elements so that it all fits together into the shape of the United States, I'm all ears

Colorforms.

i suppose i would honestly be somewhat pressed to just NAME all 50 states on a map but then i am not a brain surgeon who is running for president

Is there a Cake Wrecks for politics?

PS if anyone knows a way to write sentences that doesn't involve tediously copying and pasting individual letters that i find from Googling (e.g., for this message I googled for "P" and then copied the first result I found that included one. Luckily google is pretty good so it didn't take long), I'm all ears for that as well. Putting together that last sentence took me 45 minutes (I started working on it before my last post)

I keep trying to write a coherent response but none of the letters I'm typing look right. Like, isn't a 'T' supposed to have two hoops and a little flame at the top? I wonder if one of my interns can hook me up with a non-broken keyboard.

I so want 'Ben Carson' to be a dadaist performance piece.

Until I hear otherwise, I've chosen to believe that Carson sat up all night personally Photoshopping that map. He's that dedicated to rewriting reality according to his whims.

Carson's around the same age as Andy Kaufman, isn't he? I mean I'm not saying but, you know, I'm just SAYING.

powerful

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

http://i.imgur.com/J025Q9a.gif

The Obama-Cruz series of posts above really made me laugh at work earlier today.

hey guys:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ben-carson-my-plan-to-defeat-the-islamic-state/2015/11/17/46b9e254-8d45-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

To lead this fight, the United States must dramatically increase its efforts to appeal directly to the moderate Kurds, Syrians and Iraqis. We must convince them that the Islamic State poses a fundamental threat to their existence.

hmmm I sort of think they may have figured this out already. have their been any signs of this, like maybe thousands of people fleeing the area? let me call my trusted ex-CIA advisors...

carson's advisors in the NYT remind me of an apologetic parent talking to a teacher on parent-teacher day. "yes, we know little susie is struggling with math. we're trying really hard at home, but she just has a real problem listening. also, we're really sorry if she's acting up in class."

this silent muslim majority of people who dont exist or dont give a fuck about us or our interests

Carson should have gotten a sideways dig in at Trump: "Believe me, my plans to defeat the Islamic State are effective."

"I've defeated the Islamic State before..."

"... and not just in a green room"

The five Radical Islams that I'm going to eliminate during my presidency are ISIS, Daesh, ISIL, the Islamic State, and ISIL.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/chris-christie-cant-believe-that-the-paris-attackers-werent-syrian-refugees/

ugh no

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/19/amid-republican-calls-for-force-hillary-clinton-will-present-her-plan-to-battle-isis/?_r=0

huh weird the link header said she was calling for ground troops, yet she is not actually quoted saying such

way to go NYT

sounds like carsonsplainin' to Muslims up there

hillsplainin' to come

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/19/bernie-sanders-to-invoke-roosevelt-in-speech-defining-his-vision-of-democratic-socialism/

lol: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-paris-we-should-look-to-chris-christie/2015/11/18/9077dbea-8d58-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

Lennon as ISIS supporter is classick (is his wife advising Christie?)

Lennon, as bad a political thinker as he was a grammarian, never learned this: Countries, meaning nation-states, are, for all their shortcoming and dangers, indispensable for making self-government possible and secure.

shit, he's right, why didn't John learn this in school

Sanders RS interview

Clearly, one of the factors that influenced my life was the knowledge, as a kid, that my dad's family – and probably my mother's as well, but I knew more about my dad – that many members of his family were killed by Hitler. So what you learn, not intellectually when you're seven years of age, but it goes into your emotional, instinctual base, is that politics makes a difference. Hitler and the Nazis were elected to office in Germany. And 50 million people died in that war, including 6 million Jews.

That's why many African-Americans pay attention to politics in a different way. Politics meant that segregation and lynching existed in this country. And that's why African-Americans are very sensitive to what goes on in politics. And the same thing with Jewish people. That is how, instinctually, if you like, or emotionally, I gravitated into politics.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-20151118

george will is such a colossal dipshit

I read that column as Georgie-boy fishing for a job for his wife

^^ yep

For an example of pluperfect unseriousness, consider this Trump claim

"pluperfect unseriousness" eat my butt nerd

no candidate in the Republican field can match Christie’s combination of a prosecutor’s bearing and a governor’s executive temperament.

lmao

unreal, the fuck is he kidding.

who else but Chris Christie can combine the assholishness of a New Jersey prosecutor with the corruption of a New Jersey governor???

actually probably more than half the field but the point stands

lol

his whole brand, even to people who like him, is a redfaced prick. bearing? what

Will's belief that it strengthens his critique of Lennon to take a dig at the grammar in his lyrics is both touching and pathetic.

lol UMS

Aimless are you not familiar with the lyrical heights attained by Will's deep catalog of pop hits

his whole brand, even to people who like him, is a redfaced prick.

― goole, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:31 PM

Christie's too!