I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

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scott seward, Friday, 5 February 2016 20:32 (ten years ago)

u're both right

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 20:34 (ten years ago)

EV-RY-BO-DY (please) CLAP YOUR HANDS

ulysses, Friday, 5 February 2016 20:39 (ten years ago)

the How of relentlessness is what i suspect will continue to be elusive until the terror of The Encroaching Extinction Event makes it yesterday's apocalypse.

(ie the 'Sandinista' mayor of NYC wants to build a trolley line to serve condos that will be on flooded territory by 2050)

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 20:51 (ten years ago)

YOU GOTTA JEB! CREWNECK PUT YOUR HANDS UP (please)
YOU GOTTA JEB! GUACA BOWLE PUT YOUR HANDS UP (please)

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 5 February 2016 20:52 (ten years ago)

i don't think either clinton or sanders is going to radically reform the US military.

― Mordy, Friday, February 5, 2016 8:26 PM (30 minutes ago)

only one of these candidates voted to give the worst president in history a free hand to invade iraq, holds neocon-approved views on america's "role" in the world, stood well to the right of obama on basically every foreign policy crisis since 2008, and currently favors a no-fly zone in syria. i suppose this doesn't bother centrist liberals like joan walsh who've managed to turn a blind eye to drones et al for the past seven years, but i'm concerned enough about it that i would have serious qualms about voting for clinton. it's not surprising that a former secretary of state has far more foreign policy experience and can speak about it with more authority than a senator, but i'd like to hear a better defense of clinton's foreign policy than the constant assertion that her "experience" automatically trumps all.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:15 (ten years ago)

i suppose this doesn't bother centrist liberals like joan walsh who've managed to turn a blind eye to drones et al for the past seven years

bernie says he wouldn't end the drone program

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:20 (ten years ago)

http://patriotretort.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Hillary-Clinton-Experience.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:20 (ten years ago)

every president is going to relish being assassin-in-chief

xp

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:21 (ten years ago)

Ugh, sorry for photo from conservative site. Just googled "Hillary Clinton Experience."

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:21 (ten years ago)

the fact that no president will give up the option of being able to murder people with impunity was *precisely* the reason it should never have been legalized in the first place

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:22 (ten years ago)

bernie says he wouldn't end the drone program

yeah, it's why i won't send him $ or volunteer. (plus guns, Palestine, doing a bit w/ Larry David on SNL tomorrow, etc)

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:31 (ten years ago)

u are so holy

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:32 (ten years ago)

just tired and bored with bright shiny offices that don't mean much by themselves

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:33 (ten years ago)

not sure sanders saying he might use drones sparingly is quite on the same level as clinton's kissinger-approved warmongering, but i'll keep working on raising bob la follette from the dead to run in 2020

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:38 (ten years ago)

lol do u think when he got into office obama was like "use the drones casually"

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:41 (ten years ago)

i need to dig into what sanders was asked and meant by his drones answer -- not that any socialist would ever agree to weaken the people's arsenal. he's not going to get rid of the unmanned planes? or he's not going to stop making rocket attacks on pakistan, yemen, syria, lybia etc

a drone is just a plane y'all, i don't really get the fixation on them tbh. a president can illegally bomb a place w/o the robots

goole, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:43 (ten years ago)

jewish media v excited today bc haaretz discovered the name of bernie's kibbutz

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:43 (ten years ago)

"use the drones casually"

surely there's a sign posted somewhere in the WH that says this

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:44 (ten years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71YGvAZJNnL._SY355_.jpg

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:45 (ten years ago)

It made the WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/05/the-kibbutz-bernie-sanders-stayed-in-may-have-been-revealed/

xp

btw Angela Davis turned 72 last week, i think she'd make a fine running mate for Sanders

OR resurrected La Follette

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:45 (ten years ago)

a drone is just a plane y'all, i don't really get the fixation on them tbh. a president can illegally bomb a place w/o the robots

bc we're just like, so disconnected from each other man

j., Friday, 5 February 2016 21:49 (ten years ago)

i'd be down with the whole both-gendered Selective Service thing as a step to the end of American wars, if it wasn't Endtimes.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 21:53 (ten years ago)

"use the drones casually"

surely there's a sign posted somewhere in the WH that says this

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 5, 2016 4:44 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speech writing department?

Evan, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:53 (ten years ago)

In an effort to solve the mystery of why Ted Cruz‘s face “revolts” him, Dr. Richard E. Cytowic, a professor of neurology at George Washington University published an analysis of the Texas senator’s facial expressions in Psychology Today on Jan. 1.

http://www.mediaite.com/weird/neurologist-analyzes-why-cruzs-strange-smile-disturbs-and-unsettles

mookieproof, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:53 (ten years ago)

v interesting interview here: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/06/154443665/how-the-president-decides-to-make-drone-strikes

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:57 (ten years ago)

i love that *his face just doesn't do what its supposed to do* is the medical analysis of ted cruz's face!

scott seward, Friday, 5 February 2016 21:59 (ten years ago)

"use the drones casually"

surely there's a sign posted somewhere in the WH that says this

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 5, 2016 4:44 PM (7 minutes ago)

Speech writing department?

― Evan, Friday, February 5, 2016 1:53 PM (6 minutes ago)

In the planning room for his set at Big Ears?

nickn, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:03 (ten years ago)

No need for cheap name calling

Evan, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:04 (ten years ago)

https://49.media.tumblr.com/73ee637ba36791450a0da9f02f642776/tumblr_n5hd1zPUXE1qbjynwo1_500.gif

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:09 (ten years ago)

that should be Hil's line after Sanders' next "revolution" parry

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:13 (ten years ago)

lol

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:15 (ten years ago)

in a fur of course

$125 MILLLLLLION in speeches to the Arkansas Borgias

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:16 (ten years ago)

btw where does clinton's reputation as an effective deal-maker and "get-things-done" person come from? does she really have that long a list of achievements? or is it just some vague sense that having in been in politics so long (albeit unelected most of that time), she just kind of knows how it works?

to be fair, i have a ton of doubts about bernie sanders's effectiveness as a manager/leader. his politics are nearly impeccable, but he hasn't been a notably productive legislator.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:17 (ten years ago)

whenever clinton is actually asked to name her achievements she lapses into incoherence and does unspeakable things to the english language. so color me skeptical of what appears to be her main "narrative" right now, which is that while bernie is the idealist, she's the one who can work with a republican legislature and get stuff done.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:18 (ten years ago)

neither of their records in the senate is particularly noteworthy, hers just happens to be shorter.

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:19 (ten years ago)

and nobody's going to get anything done with Speaker Ryan's caucus, it's kind of a moot point.

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:19 (ten years ago)

i feel like 90% of the narrative of clinton's supposed effectiveness, seriousness, whatever is just a bunch of horseshit that has managed to hornswoggle even people who are repping for sanders (to differing degrees). i've been an adult, paying attention to national politics, since the second bill clinton term, and clinton is pointedly /not/ a particularly effective or achieved politician.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:23 (ten years ago)

i mean hillary clinton.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:24 (ten years ago)

unless you can conflate her husband's achievements (and "achievements") with her own

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:24 (ten years ago)

Bill's achievements are actually a laundry list of disasters

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:25 (ten years ago)

well, many of them, yes, hence the scare quotes.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:25 (ten years ago)

Barney Frank's criticism stems from irritation that Sanders, in his view, didn't help with Dodd-Frank in 2009 or 2010, and according to Act of Congress, the best book I've read on the subject, he wasn't around much.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:29 (ten years ago)

sanders' entire career is basically one long protest vote

Οὖτις, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:30 (ten years ago)

yeah, my position is that we actually have /two/ uninspiring choices for the nomination, but i feel kind of lonely in that.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:34 (ten years ago)

no i agree w/ that

Mordy, Friday, 5 February 2016 22:34 (ten years ago)

at least i get to vote for feingold

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:35 (ten years ago)

I'm sorry!

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:36 (ten years ago)

??

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:37 (ten years ago)

Sorry -- read that as Feinstein! lol

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:43 (ten years ago)


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