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

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

El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 November 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link

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

way to go NYT

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link

sounds like carsonsplainin' to Muslims up there

hillsplainin' to come

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link

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?)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link

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

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link

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

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link

george will is such a colossal dipshit

Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link

^^ yep

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link

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

Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link

unreal, the fuck is he kidding.

goole, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link

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

Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link

lol

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link

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

goole, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link

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.

Aimless, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link

lol UMS

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link

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

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

Christie's too!

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link

Children are not working in factories and they're not working in the fields, but you have millions of families today who do not know how they're gonna feed their kids tonight. That's a fact. So many of these problems remain, maybe not as severe. But his vision is a vision that I share.

Including an "overthrow of the capitalist system"?

No, no, no. Now you're being provocative. If you follow my campaign, have you heard me talk about overthrowing the capitalist economic system?

No, I haven't.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

little known fact: when composing his mellifluous prose, George Will listens exclusively to the grammatically correct song stylings of Orrin Hatch

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link

He used to dig Springsteen:

In the course of a clumsy encomium, Will managed to contort the experience beyond recognition, ending in a burst of free market bluster: "If all Americans--in labor and management, who make steel or cars or shoes or textiles--made their products with as much energy and confidence as Springsteen and his merry band make music, there would be no need for Congress to be thinking about protectionism." In other words, if you find slapping bumpers onto compact cars less fulfilling than singing rock and roll songs in front of adoring masses, fuck off.

http://www.rockrap.com/archive/archiv17.html

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link

cover shot for Will's debut album "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link

Will to Power

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link

looool

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link

I Will

Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link

that one's only funny if you read it with a silly voice, sorry

Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link

Springsteen and his merry band

Just wanted to see that again.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link

well done

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link

Beautiful.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link

A+

sleeve, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link

I've Got My Own Column To Do

a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link

Skipping 7686 messages at this point....

surely we need a new thread?

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

good idea

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link

keep thinking about that, then checking the number of candidates still in the field and going "nah, we're still on board the clown car." i guess eventually it might get down to more a beverly hillbillies car? i really didn't think anybody else was going to pack it in until iowa, but then jindal dropped and who knows, maybe graham, pataki and all-star gilmore will shortly decide it's "not their time."

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link

Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link

surely the clown car has taken a beating and needs to be traded in for a slightly newer model?

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link

xpost

:)

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link

was gonna go with busload but buttload seemed more appropriate somehow

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link


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